Mercenary's War

Chapter 2459: Chapter 2435: What Can a Infantryman Do?

What can an infantryman do?

Modern infantry, every individual is just a small unit within the combat system, it takes a group of infantry working together to be most effective. If you want to be a lone hero, don’t even think about if you can do it—first of all, the thinking is wrong.

So, what a single infantryman can do is really very limited. If you really take a rifle and go against a large group of enemies alone, it’ll definitely be a dead end.

Liang Dong is an infantryman, but he’s very unusual because he has participated in three selection processes. Even if he wasn’t selected, it was not his fault in combat, so Liang Dong surely isn’t just an ordinary person.

Good at cooking, equally adept in combat, as long as it is infantry work, Liang Dong truly isn’t unfamiliar with it. Even tasks requiring a higher level than common infantry, Liang Dong still handles them with ease.

The three selections Liang Dong participated in were all different, ranging from reconnaissance to special forces selection, with differing requirements and naturally differing skills. Even if Liang Dong was not chosen, each time he underwent targeted training—the selection process itself is a form of training.

So Liang Dong isn’t the most outstanding in any single aspect among Huaxia infantrymen, but he’s certainly the soldier with the most varied skills. Even if none of the skills has been trained deeply, being versatile is talent.

Following the reconnaissance path to avoid enemy sight and continuously closing in on the enemy, although it looks like he’s running not fast, in actual combat the speed is rapid. Using ten minutes, Liang Dong covered a distance of one thousand meters, with the direct distance to the visible enemy being less than five hundred meters.

The two armed helicopters in the sky didn’t spot Liang Dong, and the enemies besieging the Dagger Assault Team didn’t see him either.

Five hundred meters is still too far to shoot; it’s too distant. Liang Dong checked his surroundings, then he started jogging again, using three minutes to detour and reach a spot behind a person-high rock.

This time, the enemy was within shooting range.

Liang Dong extended the muzzle to aim, then took down the gun mounted on the rock. Afterward, he lay down beside the rock, then placed his headscarf on the ground in front, and put the gun muzzle on top of it before aiming again.

The rock didn’t have much dust, but it’s too high and easy to be spotted. It’s more convenient to avoid firing while in a prone position next to the rock, but the muzzle flash during shooting would stir up dust, making it easy to be spotted if someone is observing. However, laying down his headscarf makes the dust less noticeable.

Finally, it was time to shoot. Hearing the gunshots were still dense, knowing that the Dagger Assault Team members weren’t all dead and his restraint was still working, Liang Dong finally fired the first shot.

Liang Dong aimed at an enemy who was standing straight and firing from behind a rock, pulled the trigger for a three-shot burst.

Without a sight, it was unclear where the enemy was hit. But seeing the enemy fall immediately, Liang Dong, who aimed at the upper body, felt the enemy should be dead.

After just one shot, Liang Dong immediately retreated behind the rock. After waiting a moment, he found that there was no dust kicked up by bullets or stones from nearby, he felt he hadn’t been discovered, so he extended his head slightly again.

Two people went to drag the one he just hit, but no one looked towards Liang Dong’s location. Liang Dong exhaled, spared the targets dragging their comrade, and aimed at a target in the distance instead.

Aiming at a new target, Liang Dong was suddenly enlightened. Although he didn’t have a binocular or sight, judging from the opponent’s posture and weapon, the target should be a sniper.

A sniper is certainly a valuable target. But just as Liang Dong was about to fire, he spotted a guy with a pistol beside the sniper.

Holding a pistol is even more valuable, at least he’s an officer.

Unfortunately, the officer only exposed his shoulder and above. Liang Dong felt his gunmanship was a bit dicey; even at just over three hundred meters, peering through the sight only showed a tiny black dot, not easy to aim.

But seeing and not shooting isn’t right, what if he’s the commander? Liang Dong hesitated no more, aimed at the target occasionally raising a pistol while mostly waving, and fired a shot.

The gun fired, the aimed target immediately fell, Liang Dong was elated inside.

Murmuring about luck, Liang Dong swiftly aimed at the sniper he had just spotted, and quickly fired.

Another burst, but the sniper was unharmed, instead turned his head to look at the rock beside him.

The previous burst hit the rock. That sniper heard the commotion, Liang Dong dared not wait and promptly fired another burst, but missed again.

Seeing the sniper turning towards his direction, likely noticing the fallen officer, Liang Dong fired a third burst. This time he finally hit the sniper.

Finally hitting the opponent, Liang Dong grabbed his headscarf and rolled back behind the rock. After panting heavily for a few breaths, Liang Dong felt his heart was racing fast.

Being a soldier for so many years, this was truly the first real battle, catching such a major scene. Yet Liang Dong had no other thoughts, only thinking his lifetime of skills had finally been put to use.

Finally started.

Panting a few breaths while hiding behind the rock, calming his overly excited mood, Liang Dong put his headscarf back on, crawled quickly to the other side of the rock, then went to observe where he had just hit.

Someone was checking the situation at the sniper location, unable to see the officer due to a covering rock, but surely discovered by now. However, Liang Dong was puzzled because even by judging the trajectory from the hit location, someone in this direction should have noticed. Yet, how come not?

The helicopter above hadn’t moved, high in position, the pilot’s view from the helicopter is considerably expansive. As long as a pilot or weapon operator glances this way, it could spot him. But since the helicopter hasn’t moved, it means it hasn’t spotted him.

"No rear coverage, this bunch of dumb turtles are rookie!"

Liang Dong felt he discovered the truth, so he gleefully left the hiding rock, quickly ran dozens of meters to the right side, then concealed himself among a patch of chaotic rocks, and mounted the gun on a relatively lower rock mountain.

Choosing a location involves considerations: firstly, facilitate concealment, and secondly, ease of relocation. Can’t hide behind a lone rock with flat surroundings, as being discovered leaves no route to escape and one ends up being a turtle in a jar.

Having changed places, Liang Dong also switched targets. The enemies were besieging Vorvitsky’s group, meaning he could surely find targets to shoot at.

Carefully aimed at a target, Liang Dong fired again. But this time, he surprisingly found he missed again, and the target immediately turned and looked towards him.

Though Liang Dong quickly retreated behind the rock, he still felt extremely annoyed, muttering to himself: "Damn it! Got spotted!"