Chapter 493 Shortcomings

The mountain is bare, with little vegetation, but because of the high altitude, the temperature is not particularly high, only about 35 or 36 degrees.

If it weren't for the altitude of about 2,000 meters, it would have been 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon, otherwise the temperature would not be so low.

Gao Guang has never been a soldier. He has received relatively complete military training, but he has only completed basic recruit training. However, he is not good at exercise and physical reserve.

It is really hard to imagine what kind of people are good at running a five-kilometer armed cross-country race in 26 minutes and 23 minutes. Anyway, Gao Guang now knows where the gap is.

The gap is that Gao Guang will lie down after a five-kilometer full-load forced march. He doesn't need to run, and there is no time limit. He can't stand walking because he is too thin and too weak.

The battle plan is to cross the ridge during the day, hide in a position that cannot be observed by the camera, approach secretly, ambush until dark, and after dealing with the sentry sent to the fortress, launch an attack on the fortress as quickly as possible.

To summarize it in a more complicated way, it is to approach stealthily, hide, remove the eyes, continue to approach, enter with the cooperation of someone in the fortress, release the dogs, and let the convoy come to move after the battle.

To summarize it in a simpler way, it is three steps: approach, open the door, and kill them all.

This is the battle plan. As for why we have to walk and move under the scorching sun, it is because with the current technical means, it is easier to approach during the day than at night.

With low-light night vision and thermal imaging, it will be more difficult for Gao Guang and his team to approach the fortress at night, while during the day, as long as there are no drones monitoring the entire mountain area, Gao Guang and his team will be easier to approach.

It is just a little hotter, a little harder, and a little more tired, but for special forces all over the world, this is nothing.

At present, it seems that only Gao Guang can't stand it.

Gao Guang's forward speed is not even as fast as David.

But David has a limp in one leg!

Gao Guang has really tried his best. He wanted to stick out his tongue to dissipate heat. He just wanted to throw away the rifle on his back to reduce the weight. As for the heavy bulletproof vest weighing 16 kilograms, he would definitely not wear it, so he wanted to throw away the bulletproof vest to reduce weight.

It was really too tiring.

Gao Guang began to envy David beside him.

David only had an M21 sniper rifle, a low-light thermal imaging two-in-one scope that could only be used at night, 200 rounds of bullets, a tool pliers, a helmet and a bulletproof vest. The total weight was about 20 kilograms. Relatively speaking, his load was the lightest.

So David carried the gun on his back, and although he limped with his legs, his speed was stable, and there was no sign of collapse at all.

As for Gao Guang, he had two pistols, each with three spare magazines, a rifle with six magazines, a helmet and a bulletproof vest, a water bag and a large bucket of water, a telescope, a walkie-talkie, a satellite phone, a helmet night vision goggles, a flashlight, a saber, three grenades, and a pack of compressed biscuits. The total weight was just under 40 kilograms.

Therefore, although the mountain cross-country march launched at 10 a.m. was only about 10 kilometers in total, it successfully killed more than 90% of Gao Guang's combat power.

Professional is professional, unprofessional is unprofessional, and it is hard to tell when shooting. Civilian shooters and military shooters seem to be the same, but when they are compared in extreme environments, the difference is obvious.

"You can't do it?"

David had seen Gao Guang's embarrassed appearance a long time ago, but when they were marching, David would not chat with Gao Guang, so he never said anything. But now seeing that Gao Guang really couldn't walk anymore, he had fallen from the front of the team to the end, and was about to fall behind David who was finishing, David had to ask.

How can a man say no?

"I can't do it anymore."

Gao Guang wanted to say it was okay, but what he blurted out came from his heart.

"Stop moving forward and rest for fifteen minutes."

David said in the intercom, and the team that stretched for 500 meters stopped immediately.

Hearing that he could rest, Gao Guang sat down on the stone. After waiting for two seconds, he couldn't stand the heat brought by the hot stone, so he jumped up again with difficulty, then took off his backpack and sat on it.

Someone was looking back in front of the team.

A long-distance armed mountain cross-country can well reflect the level of this team, but the overall performance of the King's Defense is very good, except for Gao Guang, there is no one who is lame.

At least Patrick carried a machine gun and the heaviest bullets, and he didn't show that he couldn't hold on.

Carlos was not a professional, but he had no problem either. Even the expedition brought several drones and wore bulletproof vests, and he followed the team down.

And Mike, who is also a non-professional, has it even easier. However, his physical reserve is not comparable to Gao Guang, but how can he withstand the expedition?

"What's wrong? Can't do it?"

John walked back from the front, he looked at Gao Guang, and said with a look of disgust: "I didn't expect that the biggest problem is your physical fitness."

Gao Guang's explosive power is good, and his sprint speed is already very fast, but his endurance is really a bit bad. Usually, you can't see the difference, but now it has finally exposed its shortcomings.

No matter where he went or what battle he fought, Gao Guang basically took a car. The car had air conditioning and he could get to the destination directly after getting off. He had never suffered such a hardship before.

John continued: "Give me your burden and I'll help you share some of it."

David suddenly said: "You can't do it."

After saying that John couldn't do it, David said on the intercom: "Lobster, Beast, you two come here."

I don't know if it was because his brain was deprived of oxygen or something, Gao Guang couldn't react to who Lobster and Beast were. He had to think about it to remember that Lobster was Paul and Beast was Mike.

The main reason was that they were always called by their names every day, not nicknames. If you rashly say nicknames, you have to think about who it is, so your reaction is slow.

But David is different. He doesn't remember names, but nicknames.

Mike and Paul came over. David looked at them and said, "Beast helps Mad Dog carry his backpack, Lobster helps Mad Dog carry his gun, and Bottle Cap helps Mad Dog carry the weight of his combat vest."

In order to facilitate the use of heavy bulletproof vests, Gao Guang and his team used split combat vests, which were very convenient to take off.

David only left Gao Guang a bulletproof vest, which basically disarmed Gao Guang and left him only with life-saving things.

Gao Guang waved his hand and said, "No, I can do it."

"If you can do it, you won't slow down the team's progress."

David bluntly pierced Gao Guang's self-esteem, and then he said lightly, "Hurry up, we still have two and a half hours to reach the designated ambush site."

John was quite convinced, because he found that although David was unfamiliar with the King's Defense, his eyes were really poisonous. He didn't need to ask or communicate at all. He could see the physical strengths and weaknesses of several members of the King's Defense with his eyes.

Just relying on this skill, just relying on this eyesight, to be honest, there are really few people who can do it.

This is a communication between experts. Outsiders don't understand the tricks at all, let alone how difficult it is.

"Listen to Scythe."

John said to Gao Guang anxiously: "Hurry up and unload the things for us."

Gao Guang's weight was reduced by half, leaving only a bulletproof vest, and David said to him: "Put it on."

"It's too hot."

"When your movements are obviously slow, you should put on the bulletproof vest first, put on the bulletproof vest, and follow me."

After talking about Gao Guang, David said to the other people: "Keep moving forward."

The team resumed the slow crawling rhythm, Gao Guang went into battle lightly, and this time he was able to follow David without being left behind.

David couldn't help but look at Gao Guang and said: "I can't understand what the point of you carrying two pistols is."

Before the war, you must understand each other's combat characteristics, but David knows that Gao Guang is an assaulter and is good at close-range combat, but the problem is that everyone is definitely better at close-range shooting than long-range shooting, so in David's view, Gao Guang's advantage is not valid, at least not obvious.

So David really couldn't understand why an assaulter brought two pistols. In his opinion, it was better to bring two more rifle magazines than one more pistol.

"My main weapon is a pistol, so I must bring one more."

David couldn't help but turn his head and look at Gao Guang.

Gao Guang panted and said: "You don't know me well enough. My pistol is the most powerful. I'm different from you. I... I..."

After taking two breaths, Gao Guang said helplessly: "It's better not to talk, let's hurry up."

The mountain is much steeper and there is no road to speak of. Fortunately, there is no vegetation, which is actually much easier to walk than the rainforest.

It is true that the distance is inevitably increased a lot just to bypass the cliffs that cannot be walked together. Although the last section is not very far, it is the most difficult to walk.

This armed mountain cross-country with a total length of about 15 kilometers has a great impact on Gao Guang, but it is not the most difficult part for others.

As a special forces soldier, parachuting and airdropping are no problem, and taking a helicopter to directly rappel is also good, but if you can only walk on your feet, then just walk, no problem.

Gao Guang's advantage must be demonstrated at close range, so he comforted himself by telling himself not to be afraid or panic, and to wait until he rushed into the fortress before letting David open his eyes.

Anyway, he had to regain his lost face.

Finally, after crossing the pass and going down the valley, avoiding the cameras in the fortress all the way, Gao Guang and his team arrived at the predetermined hiding place after many twists and turns.

It was four minutes later than expected, but it was no problem, as it was 26 minutes earlier than the time when the sentry was sent out in the fortress.

There were not many places to hide, so everyone gathered behind a huge rock. Once they got here, everything was ready.

The attack would not be launched until two o'clock in the night, so Gao Guang had enough time to recover his strength, so this battle finally gave him a chance to regain his face.