Chapter 550
Chapter 550 Episode 086 The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, Unaware of the Oriole Behind (4)
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Stuart Weston nodded without hesitation, as if he would fly to the sky without hesitation, even if Flossie Wright asked him to pluck the stars.
Her expression faltered slightly, Flossie Wright narrowed her eyes slightly, her tone unexpectedly getting a bit colder —
"You can’t have any doubts about me."
Her gentle and clear words, accompanied by the breeze in the woods, leisurely fell into peoples’ hearts, abruptly stirring the calm pond in their hearts.
The three of them looked at each other, all somewhat taken aback.
Two days into the exercise, the naval warfare was in a stalemate. The strength of both the red and blue sides was not far apart, and with head-on battles likely to cause extensive casualties, both sides adopted roundabout tactics. There was no progress for the time being. In comparison, the land warfare was truly intense.
Land battles are not entirely reliant on heavy weapon suppression, they test soldiers’ military skills and strategy tactics even more, and head-on encounters are quite common.
However, in many battles large and small, there are quite a few inexplicable battle scenarios that are gradually attracting a lot of attention.
Red team, command camp.
"In just two days, almost half of these little bastards have dropped."
In the tent, Nathan Foster pointed angrily at the dropping red points on the notebook, as if he had anger but nowhere to direct it, he could only sulk as if everyone owed him hundreds of thousands.
Austin Shepherd sat cross-legged in front of the notebook, holding a cup of hot tea, with a refreshing smile. "Don’t worry, they are still new soldiers who have only recently begun training, and haven’t even stepped into the threshold of the Marine Corps. Losing half of them is actually pretty good."
"You think that’s good!"
Nathan Foster glared at him, unfairly venting his anger on him.
These are the soldiers he had brought up. At the time, Bard Walker specifically sent so many people to find new soldiers, and this batch of new soldiers was several times better than the previous ones. Now, the exercise had just begun, and they had already lost nearly half, and this ratio was just too high! If this continues, all these new soldiers will be gone before the exercise is over. Where will he put his face then?!
"Cheer up," Austin Shepherd’s eyes moved slightly, hiding a bit of mystery. He calmly sipped his hot tea and watched Nathan Foster pacing back and forth in the tent, then waved to him helplessly. "Come here."
"What are you up to again?!"
Frowning annoyedly, Nathan Foster walked towards him, a livid expression on his face.
"According to unconfirmed reports," Austin Shepherd smiled at him, his eyes filled with amusement, "These two days, the blue team’s assault forces have suffered many losses."
"What difference does that make? It’s not like those little bastards did it..." Just as he finished denying it, Nathan Foster stopped immediately, looking uncertainly at Austin Shepherd. "No...really?"
"I went to check with the ’dead’ on the blue side this morning. About twenty people were preparing to launch an assault near the red’s stronghold, but were eliminated by an ’assassin’ hidden in the shadows. In the end, they didn’t even know what the enemy looked like."
"Well," Nathan Foster frowned, "What does that have to do with those little bastards?"
"The strange thing is, I checked their time and location and compared it to the new soldiers. The times and locations for a group of four soldiers matched perfectly." Austin Shepherd’s fingers danced across the keyboard, pulling up his compiled data. He pointed to the screen, "Look, the data aligns so perfectly, so it’s 100% possible that the ones who played this ’waiting for an opportunity’ tactic were a group of new soldiers."
After truly seeing the data and the comparison images, Nathan Foster’s jaw nearly dropped. His eyes bulged, unable to believe what he was seeing.
The number of people on the blue side was much less than the red side, basically less than half. But each of them was drafted from special units, each one of them was the elite of the elite, and they all excelled in jungle combat. If one or two of them were not very strong and were ambushed, this might still be possible, but Austin said there were nearly twenty of them...
This....
𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
"No, it’s impossible," Nathan Foster shook his head resolutely, "I know their abilities and they simply don’t have this capability."
This batch of new soldiers did have good abilities, but even his most promising Calvin Ramos... No, even if there were four teams of Calvin Ramos, they could not achieve this level of efficiency.
This kind of silent ambush is not something that ordinary new soldiers could do.
Even they would struggle to perform so many ambushes without being detected.’
Suddenly, Austin Shepherd tilted his head, a mysterious smile playing on his lips, "Don’t you want to find out?"
With that, he pointed to a location along the coast, "Those four people are here now."
— End of Chapter 550 —