Chapter 43 Hell Level Difficulty

In all battles on different terrains, jungle warfare is the most difficult, without a doubt.

Note that jungle warfare is the most difficult, not the most dangerous, because street fighting, especially indoor fighting, is more dangerous than jungle fighting, and the casualties are also greater.

However, whether it is street fighting or indoor fighting, as long as one of the two warring parties has an absolute advantage, the terrain will not be the main factor in determining the outcome.

Firepower advantage can greatly or even completely eliminate the terrain advantage. A simple example is that one party occupies a solid fortress during a battle, but the other party can use artillery to directly raze the fortress to the ground. If one shell is not enough, use ten shells, and if ten shells are not enough, use a hundred shells. If the artillery can't solve the problem, then use earth-penetrating bombs, thermobaric bombs, and if that doesn't work, use nuclear bombs, which can always completely push the fortress down.

The battlefield of urban warfare is destined not to be too large. The two warring parties fight in a city, and no matter how big the city is, it always has boundaries, so each separated battlefield in urban warfare is small, which infinitely increases the intensity and severity of the battle.

But jungle warfare is different.

Among all terrains, the jungle is the most advantageous terrain for the weak, because the characteristics of the rainforest make almost all high-tech weapons and equipment lose their effectiveness.

The jungle makes aerial reconnaissance almost ineffective. Reconnaissance satellites cannot penetrate the dense tree canopy, and reconnaissance aircraft cannot do so either. Night vision goggles can turn night into day, and thermal imaging cannot penetrate dense vegetation for detection.

Without reconnaissance, there is no way to play the firepower advantage. Carpet bombing can destroy a city, but it cannot destroy the vast rainforest. Artillery coverage has no clear target, and it is a waste of artillery shells no matter how many shells are fired.

It is impossible to use heavy combat equipment on a large scale in the rainforest. No one would be stupid enough to use tanks and armored vehicles in the rainforest for a blitzkrieg. It is impossible to carry out large-scale airborne operations in the rainforest. Even helicopter landing operations, the fastest and most flexible air assault method today, are greatly restricted in the rainforest.

Giving up all advantages, using the most basic infantry in the rainforest, using the most basic firepower, and fighting the most basic low-intensity and low-intensity guerrilla warfare, is basically the final form of jungle warfare.

Therefore, the rainforest is the natural ally of the weaker party, and can even be said to be a natural protector.

In Colombia, the guerrillas are the weaker party, and the Colombian government is the stronger party. However, the government army has been suppressing the guerrillas for decades, and has not been able to eliminate the FARC guerrillas under the premise of absolute advantage.

Compared with the guerrillas, Gao Guang and his team are the absolutely weaker party, so the good news is that from now on, the rainforest has become a shelter for Gao Guang and his team.

No matter how long the guerrillas have lived here, no matter how familiar they are with the terrain here, as long as the line of sight in the rainforest cannot exceed 30 meters, there is no home advantage.

As long as you can't beat them and go into the rainforest, it is impossible to find them out. The rainforest can swallow intruders by itself, but humans are not allowed to intervene.

Gao Guang understands the various characteristics of this jungle warfare. As a military fan, if he doesn't know these basic knowledge, he can't be called a qualified hardcore military fan, but he knows the difficulty and characteristics of jungle warfare, but he really doesn't know how jungle warfare is fought.

He knew the result but not the reason. His theoretical knowledge even surpassed Frank and his friends. However, when he really entered the rain forest, not to mention the battle, Gao Guang was exhausted just searching and advancing in the rain forest.

He was so ashamed that he even began to sympathize with Rubber.

There were only five people in total, and one of them was captured. Now there are only four people left.

Then one of these four people is a rookie who has never entered the rain forest and never fought a war.

Excluding the rookie, there is a commander who has already collapsed mentally among the three veterans.

Excluding the commander who has collapsed mentally, there are only two people left who can still fight.

But this is not the end.

Relying on the two people who can still fight, they have to carry out the most difficult hostage rescue operation in all combat missions in the most difficult jungle.

If this is a game, there is no doubt that this is a nightmare-level copy that needs to be completed at the difficulty of hell.

So Gao Guang really sympathizes with Rubber infinitely.

Rubber is indeed following the captain's footsteps. He is already on the verge of a mental breakdown.

After only a few dozen meters, Rubber knew how lazy the mess he had taken over was. He stopped moving forward, raised his right fist and made a stop gesture, then stretched out three fingers, pointed diagonally to the right front, and then retracted his right hand to point to his eyes...

Searching and moving forward to the three o'clock position, two people guarded both sides, one person observed behind, stopped moving at any time, and prepared for battle.

Sign language cannot be used for particularly complex communication, only simple communication, so Rubber used sign language to quickly and simply express a few messages, but he soon found that Gao Guang looked confused, and the captain was absent-minded.

Yes, Gao Guang couldn't understand sign language.

Gao Guang is a military fan, he has studied sign language, but the problem is that sign language does not belong to the category that military fans can study.

Sign language is most used in special forces, but sign language, a means of simple communication on the battlefield, cannot be unified. Just for confidentiality, sign language cannot unify all gestures. Only after joining a unit and becoming familiar with this unit, it is possible to know what the sign language exclusive to this unit means.

So where Rubber is signing, how can Gao Guang know what it means.

Fortunately, he looked back and saw that Rubber's hand that was making seals suddenly stopped. He looked helplessly at Gao Guang and the captain, but the captain seemed to be waking up from a dream. He stared at Rubber after a start, and then He made a gesture, meaning what you just said.

Rubber didn't want to make a sound, because in the rain forest, he almost relied on sound to detect the enemy, but now, he couldn't stop talking.

"Captain, could you please cheer up?"

Signaling George to be alert, Rubber retreated to the captain's side. He grabbed the captain's collar. He was extremely angry and helpless, but he could only keep his voice very low, which made him feel unable to show his anger.

"Bottle Cap is not dead yet. How can we save him like this? Kung Fu Boy doesn't know anything. You have to at least protect our backs! Fake, do you listen to what I'm saying? Don't act like that You want to die, don’t you?”

If you don't dare to speak loudly, you can only use force with your hands. The rubber shakes the captain hard, and the captain is so shaken that he can only wave his hands and push the rubber away.

"I know, I didn't want to die!"

The captain's voice was a little loud, and his rubber eyes widened. The captain immediately lowered his voice and said, "I know what to do, you don't have to worry about me."

"I'm worried about ourselves!"

Rubber grabbed the captain again, and he said viciously: "It's not enough for you to kill Bottle Cap, you want to kill all of us! The four hundred million dollars are gone, but I don't want to lose my life here, bastard! You Stop hurting us, okay?”

Hearing the 400 million US dollars, the captain suddenly trembled. His face was full of unwillingness and anger, but soon, he sighed softly and whispered: "I'm sorry, I...I'm fine now, don't worry about me."

Rubber let go of the captain with a look of helplessness. He approached Gao Guang, grabbed the collar of Gao Guang's clothes, and said sternly: "Put your ears up now, listen carefully to all the sounds nearby, and follow me. Don’t get too close, but you must keep a distance where you can see me, understand?”

"Understand."

Rubber shook his head and sighed softly: "Keep going."

Gao Guang was ashamed, but all he could do was follow Eraser's instructions, follow Eraser obediently, and move forward bit by bit.

It's very hot in the rainforest, because this is not a plateau, so it's extremely hot and stuffy.

Sweating like rain, Gao Guang felt that he couldn't bear it anymore, but he wouldn't say that he couldn't bear it, he would just move bit by bit.

After traveling for two hours, Gao Guang had already made no distinction between north, south, east, and west. It wasn't until Rubber took out the GPS to confirm the direction and checked the recorded movement track that Gao Guang discovered that they had advanced 900 meters in a straight line, but the actual distance traveled was not the same. Four thousand two hundred meters.

The 4.2 kilometers in the rain forest is different from the 4.2 kilometers on the plains, and it is even more different from the 4 kilometers on the road.

Eraser once again gestured to stop and must rest now.

It was impossible to chat during the rest. The four of them drank water and ate the food they carried to replenish their strength. After resting in place for half an hour, Rubber stood up again and made a gesture to continue moving forward.

Just as Rubber made the gesture, he heard a faint voice not far away.

The words were not loud, almost inaudible, but when the voice came, several people were shocked at the same time.

Rubber immediately made a concealing gesture. It didn't matter even if Gao Guang couldn't understand it. After seeing all three people squatting down and hiding, Gao Guang would of course hide accordingly.

This hiding place lasted for ten minutes, and no sound was heard within ten minutes. Finally, Rubber pointed at Gaoguang and told him not to move. He pointed at the captain again and asked him to be more vigilant. Then Rubber and George slowly He moved around, trying to find the source of the sound.

This wait lasted another half hour.

Half an hour later, Rubber and George came back.

The four got together for the first time to discuss.

"The enemy's camp was discovered."

Rubber's face was solemn and desperate. He waved his hand and whispered: "It's less than 200 meters away from us. We are on the edge of the enemy's camp, but no one has noticed us."

A camp in the rain forest cannot be protected by a circle of sentries, unless there are thousands of sentries in the camp.

Frank said a little confused: "Is the camp big?"

"It's very big and spread out, and we could only see part of it, but there's no doubt that this camp has been around for a long time because the houses are very old, so it's a complete large camp."

A complete camp that lasts a long time is not the kind of camp that just stays for a short time, deals with it casually for a few days and then abandons it, because it is really difficult to build a camp in the rain forest and no one can abandon it easily.

Frank sighed softly, and said feebly: "I'll go and observe. If it's a permanent camp, then... maybe we can negotiate."