The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 291 - 284: Turning the Tide

Chapter 291: Chapter 284: Turning the Tide

The enemy had cover, making direct fire ineffective. Gao Yuan had grenades, but he didn’t know where the enemy was hiding.

However, Panxin directed the target, and Gao Yuan conducted precise bombing, which was a good way to break the stalemate.

Panxin moved his gun barrel, then suddenly fired a three-round burst. After seeing the dust kicked up by the bullets, Gao Yuan immediately crawled up from the ground and threw the grenade.

The grenade described an arc, flew about two hundred meters, and landed on the ground. Gao Yuan absolutely threw the grenade accurately to the location Panxin hit with his bullets.

A moment later, following an explosion, a piece of black cloth was suddenly thrown into the air from the ground.

Success.

Gao Yuan immediately took to his heels and ran. Meanwhile, Panxin shifted his gun barrel, firing at another position.

But Gao Yuan didn’t see where the bullet hit, so he quickly said, "Again, I didn’t see it."

This time the distance was much longer, at least four hundred meters, because this time Panxin shot at the other side of the road.

Gao Yuan saw the location, and he immediately threw the grenade.

But the distance was too far, and Gao Yuan’s throw was slightly off, perhaps by no more than two meters, but it was no longer able to harm the enemy hiding in the pit.

The grenade exploded on the flat ground, and regardless of whether he hit the target or not, Gao Yuan immediately picked up speed to the maximum, running crazily to one side.

A series of bullets, from two directions, hit the ground where Gao Yuan had just stood, and at the same time, the sniper rifle in Li Yang’s hands also fired.

"Target hit! Seven hundred meters, at the eleven o’clock position!"

Li Yang worked the bolt, quickly turning the sniper rifle in another direction, but he also immediately said, "Crossfire, but I don’t see the second machine gunner."

Reliant on his strong individual skills, Li yang achieved a hit with his first shot.

Gao Yuan reached a stone and vaulted over it, completely hiding himself behind the stone.

It was too much of a close call, too thrilling. The sensation of bullets chasing his heels made Gao Yuan immediately feel what real combat was like.

If it hadn’t been for his quick running, he would likely have been hit by the crossfire of the two machine guns just now.

The pride and arrogance born from fighting the Indians were dissolving quickly, as fast as ice on Hurd’s furnace mountain.

However, regardless, Gao Yuan had opened up the situation relying on his two ultimate skills.

"I have one grenade left, and I’m going after the enemy at the four o’clock position to take them out," he said.

After speaking, Gao Yuan felt it wasn’t safe enough, as he only had one grenade left, so he continued, "Prepare two grenades for me, I will pick them up when I pass by you."

Now, everyone was lying on the ground, only Gao Yuan dared to stand up and move quickly. Most importantly, Spark Squad was from the Expeditionary Army, they had no backup, no strongholds, the supplies in those two trucks were their lifelines, whether it was food or medicine, without these supplies, the road ahead was impossible to travel.

So there was simply no way to retreat.

Li Jingang said in a low voice, "I’ll cover."

Gao Yuan pulled the pin out of the grenade, then suddenly rose from behind the stone and sprinted toward the enemy’s hiding spot behind the right rear of the convoy.

They don’t dare to run in a straight line anymore.

Gao Yuan circled to the left and then darted forward, occasionally stopping behind some cover, but he didn’t find it bothersome because his mindset was completely different from when he was fighting the Indians.

Gao Yuan had closed to within two hundred meters, but he felt it was still too far because he couldn’t see any holes or stones that could serve as shelter.

As he got closer, Gao Yuan spotted a piece of ground clearly a different color behind a not-so-large rock.

They were actually hiding underground, no wonder the blast didn’t reach them earlier.

Gao Yuan kept sprinting forward, then suddenly stopped, ran back over ten meters, and gently lobbed a grenade diagonally, just after completing this action, a series of bullets hit the ground thirty meters ahead, stirring up clouds of dust.

Within fifty meters, Gao Yuan’s grenades were thrown with extreme precision. The grenade landed on the distinct patch of ground, exploded with a roar, and as the earth collapsed, revealing a pit, a person struggled to rise from it, and Gao Yuan’s second grenade was already on its way.

The grenade fell into the hole precisely where the person, already injured in the previous explosion, got hit directly. Amid the smoke and dust, it appeared that limbs were sent flying.

Then Gao Yuan turned and ran again, as Li Yang’s sniper rifle rang out once more. Then he shouted loudly, "Target hit!"

A machine gunner tried to rescue his comrade, but before he could fire, he was killed by Li Yang.

In a battle where the engagement distance exceeded six hundred meters, the rifles used by Panxin and Li Jingang were almost ineffective, and Cao Zhenjiang’s machine gun wasn’t of much use either. Only Li Yang’s sniper rifle could carry out all the long-distance killing.

Li Yang did an excellent job, perfect level.

With no suitable hiding spots around, Gao Yuan changed direction and quickly ran toward the target, the pit where the enemy had been hiding.

Gao Yuan jumped into the hole, stepping on the body of the enemy, then immediately crouched down.

With a diameter of about one meter and a depth of one and a half meters, once Gao Yuan jumped in and crouched, he found shattered sticks and branches beside him.

It all made sense now. The person had hidden in the hole, covering it with a board nailed with branches, then placing a cloth over the board before scattering sand and soil on top; if one didn’t get close, it was impossible to detect the hiding spot.

The corpse lay curled up in the hole, pressed closely against Gao Yuan, its face smeared with blood and wounds everywhere. Other than a thick beard, Gao Yuan couldn’t make out, nor did he want to know, any other details like the corpse’s age.

He grabbed the body and threw it out, then whispered, "Nemesis safe."

Once again, the battlefield fell silent. Gao Yuan let out a breath, then spoke softly, "I plan to run up the hill and deal with the enemy’s machine gunners at close range. Cover me."

Pansin whispered back, "No need, the enemy is retreating. They have to retreat."

The enemy is retreating? That was good news. Gao Yuan asked excitedly, "You saw them?"

"No, but the enemy has lost the capacity to continue attacking us so they must retreat. Since that’s the case, they will definitely pull back."

Gao Yuan peered out but still couldn’t see anything, neither in the wasteland nor on the hills, not a single human figure.

Pansin spoke urgently, "Wang Ning, now you can check on the wounded. Everyone else, stay away from the vehicles, find suitable cover, and we’ll wait until dark to withdraw."

Gao Yuan’s first thought was that waiting until dark was even more dangerous, but he quickly realized—they had night vision goggles, while those ambushing them did not.

Indeed, Panxin continued softly, "The Afghans have been fighting against enemies with night vision for many years. They understand that night is no longer safe, so they won’t attack at night. We can’t pull out now or we might still be ambushed by the enemy, so we can only wait for darkness!"