Volume 1: The Starting Chapter 33: Defense

  "Is it the seventh group ahead? We are the eleventh group, and the current situation is very unfavorable to us. We must either join hands or be defeated one by one." Shao Bing shouted loudly towards the front.

  The opposite side was still silent.

  "If you don't speak up now, we'll have to leave. This area has been exposed and other teams will be attacking soon." Shao Bing was still shouting as if talking to himself.

  Just as Yao Jia and others thought he was talking nonsense, a voice came from the other side. "Is the speaker Shao Bing?"

  Wow! There's actually someone! Yao Jia and others were shocked at the same time.

  "Who am I? Shaobing, who are you?"

  "Seven groups of high jumpers. Your eleventh group really wants to cooperate with us?"

  "Of course! We are the strongest of the two groups and have the highest points, so the other groups plan to take us down first before deciding their own victory or defeat."

  "......" The person opposite fell silent for a while, then Gao Yue spoke up: "Alright, Shao Bing, we believe you. Now, take your team members and walk out with us, if you still trust us."

  Everyone walks out, which is equivalent to everyone being exposed under the opponent's gun. Shao Bing didn't dare to make a private decision. He turned his head back and looked at Tang Xin first, then glanced at other team members and asked: "What should we do?"

  Everyone's eyes finally fell on Tang Xiang, after all she was the team leader and had the final say.

  After a moment of contemplation, Tang Xiang took a deep breath and said with determination: "Let's go! Since we're the ones who came to unite with the Ren family, we should show our sincerity in trusting them."

  Shao Bing nodded in agreement and said, "I agree."

  Yao Jia muttered and mumbled without knowing what she was saying, finally nodding in agreement: "Agreed."

  "Agreed." Zhang Zhao Yang and Xu Jie Hui also nodded in succession.

  In the end, only Xia Wenjie had not spoken. In his view, putting the life and death of this small group in someone else's hands was too risky, and what he hated most was risk.

  "Wenjie, hurry up and make a statement."

  "I abstain." He couldn't agree with doing so, but at the same time he couldn't think of a better idea, and could only choose to abstain, making no statement.

  "Five votes for and one abstention, it's passed." Tang Xiang nodded to everyone.

  Shao Bing didn't hesitate, and was the first to walk out from behind the bunker, followed closely by Tang Xin, Yao Jia, Zhang Zhao Yang, Xu Jie Hui, and Xia Wen Jie who was the last one to come out.

  Across from them were indeed the Seventh Group. Fortunately, the Seventh Group did not have too much hostility towards them and was willing to join forces with them to deal with other small groups.

  The seventh group's choice of defense location was very clever, as the ninth district was already located in a corner, and their defensive position happened to be at the farthest corner of the ninth district. The rear, left rear, and right rear were all dead ends, so they only needed to defend the front, left front, and right front.

  Such terrain would undoubtedly greatly reduce the pressure on the defending side, of course, there are also disadvantages, while eliminating the enemy from behind, they themselves also lost their way back.

  The two groups of the seventh and eleventh teams shook hands after gathering together. Both groups were full with six people, now combined into one group, the number suddenly increased to twelve people.

  To know that there are only fifty students left now, twelve people can be considered a very strong force. The total number of people in the first, fifth, sixth, eighth and sixteenth groups is only eleven.

  Everyone gathered together to discuss how to fight next.

  Shao Bing proposed that this place was suitable for defense, and they had more people, so they stayed here to wait for the labor, waiting for other groups to attack, even if all the small groups were united together, they were not afraid.

  His opinion was widely accepted by everyone, and then both sides began to discuss how to deploy their troops.

  According to the terrain here, everyone set up a three-tier defense line. The first tier of defense is at the outermost, with few people deployed, mainly for reconnaissance and pinning down enemy firepower. The second tier of defense is the main force defense line, where most of the personnel are concentrated. The third tier of defense is the last line of defense, choosing high ground, deploying snipers from both groups, which can kill enemies at a distance while also coordinating with the first and second tiers to reduce pressure on the front lines.

  If it were done by one group, there would be loopholes no matter how perfect the defensive system is, but now with two groups working together to complete such an arrangement, it seems seamless.

  Xia Wenjie, Yao Jia and Guo Shuai are the three worst shooters in two groups. They were also "lucky" enough to be placed on the first line of defense.

  To put it bluntly, the first line of defense formed by these three people is a moving target. The people behind them don't expect them to eliminate many enemies, as long as they can hold and attract the enemy's firepower, creating conditions for safe shooting in the rear, that would be considered a complete success.

  Xia Wenjie hid behind a triangular iron block, while Yao Jia and Guo Shuai hid behind a sedan.

  "It's so unlucky that we're arranged to be in the front, if enemies come, we'll be the first ones to get shot." Yao Jia muttered.

  "It's definitely because our three people have the best marksmanship." Guo Shuai said with a smile.

  "If you think that's all, then it's not just your marksmanship that's poor..." Your brain is also poor! Yao Jia added in her heart.

  "Just kidding, everyone relax."

  "Shut up, someone's coming." Xia Wenjie, behind the triangular iron, hastily said a sentence to the two of them, then raised his Type 95 rifle, his eyes staring straight ahead through the sight without blinking.

  Upon hearing his words, Yao Jia and Guo Shuai immediately became tense. One of them placed his gun at the front of the car, while the other placed his gun at the back, both being extremely vigilant as they gazed forward.

  One second, two seconds... ten seconds, twenty seconds, time is slowly passing by, but there is still no sign of the enemy in front.

  Just as Yao Jiazheng was about to ask Xia Wenjie if he had misheard, a round grenade suddenly rolled out from the front corner and came all the way to their feet.

  "Flash bomb." Xia Wenjie's position was in the front, and he could see the most clearly. He shouted loudly, hastily retracted his gun, sat behind the triangle iron, and closed his eyes tightly.

  Yao Jia and Guo Shuai reacted quickly as well, almost at the same time, both fell to the ground.

  Boom! Buzz.

  After a flash-bang grenade explodes, it can produce not only an intense blinding light but also a deafening sound wave that can cause temporary tinnitus.

  In an instant, Xia Wenjie, Yao Jia and Guo Shuai couldn't hear anything. After a while, they vaguely heard the dense sound of gunfire in their ears.

  Bullets flew from the front, hitting the triangular iron, crackling and spitting fire sparks, hitting the sedan, shattering the glass windows, and pockmarking the outer side of the car body with small dents.

  Yao Jia cowered on the ground, his hands clutching his head, unable to get up. He yelled: "How many enemies are there?! This firepower is too damn strong! What are those guys in the back doing? Why aren't they returning fire? Do we just watch them get killed?"

  Xia Wenjie didn't bother with him and didn't have the time to, he gasped for a bit, feeling that his ears had more or less recovered. Taking advantage of the brief moment when the opponent's attack paused, he suddenly poked his head out, counterattacking the enemy outside while also quickly scanning from left to right with his eyes, observing the enemy's situation.

  After scanning more than a dozen bullets, he immediately retracted his head and sat on the ground again, leaning against the triangular iron, making several gestures towards the second defense line, indicating that he only saw three people and pointing out their approximate positions.

  The members of the second line of defense still did not open fire, people were still watching and waiting, they needed to know as much as possible about the enemy's situation, including specific numbers, what kind of firearms they carried, firepower, etc., striving to achieve a one-shot kill, maximizing damage to the enemy.

  The enemy firepower ahead was indeed fierce, with bullets that seemed to never run out, crazily sweeping towards Xia Wanjie and the other two, completely suppressing them from showing their heads.

  "Wenjie, you've got the most evil ideas! What are we going to do now?" Yao Jia yelled loudly at Xia Wenjie while lying on the ground.

  Xia Wenjie wasn't afraid. If the other side was just randomly shooting like this, there's nothing to be afraid of and they wouldn't even hit them. He replied: "Wait."

  "This word 'wait' should be Xia Wenjie's most frequently spoken word." Yao Jia rolled her eyes and shouted, "Wait again? How long do we have to wait this time?"

  "Wait until they run out of bullets." Xia Wenjie shouted back from behind the triangular iron, no matter how many people the other side had, the magazine was always limited and couldn't be fired indefinitely. When the other side's bullets were exhausted, it would be their turn to counterattack.

  Xia Wenjie wanted to wait for the other side to exhaust all their bullets, but the other side was not stupid either. Their crazy sweep was not intended to hurt Xia Wenjie and his two companions, but to suppress them. In secret, they divided into two people, one on each side, flanking from left and right.

  This is something Xia Wenjie did not expect, and it's also something Yao Jia and Guo Shuai did not expect.

  Just as they were waiting for each other's bullets to run out, an enemy appeared on Yao Jia and Guo Shuai's side first.

  Without warning, a burst of gunfire suddenly erupted from beneath a pile of scattered boxes. Yao Jia and Guo Shuai were completely unguarded on that side, and were hit squarely by the bullets coming in from the flank.

  The two of them cried out in unison and looked at each other, only to find that they both had an extra row of small white dots on their bodies, which were the marks left by the airburst bomb.

  "There are enemies here..." Although they were "dead", the two of them still shouted out loud before dying, reminding Xia Wenjie and his companions behind him.

  Xia Wenjie, who was not far from them, was shocked and, without thinking, picked up his rifle and fired continuously at the pile of boxes.

  Just as he was shooting at the enemy behind the cardboard box, someone crept up silently from behind him.

  This man was originally more than ten meters away from Xia Wenjie, and he only needed one shot to end Xia Wenjie. However, seeing that the other party's attention was all attracted by his companion on the other side, he was fully focused on shooting at that pile of empty cardboard boxes, his mouth slowly raised, and a smile appeared on his face.

  He put the rifle in his hand behind him, then drew a dagger from his waist and quietly approached Xia Wenjie's back.

  On the battlefield, killing enemies with guns is too common, using a dagger to take down an enemy can show off his exceptional skills.