Nighttime heavy-weapons warfare was thirty percent luck and seventy percent cover. Under the moonlight, visibility was too poor; anything beyond fifty meters was pitch-black.
A sniper rifle equipped with night vision was practically a ghost on the nighttime battlefield.
"Commander, it's 11:21."
The Little Assistant leaned close to Su Xiao's ear, her breath warming his face. Just now, a shell had landed twenty meters away, and the Little Assistant had nearly vomited from the shockwave.
"That was too close."
Su Xiao hadn't been affected by the shockwave. The Little Assistant blinked her bright, spirited eyes, clearly indicating that she hadn't heard what Su Xiao had said at all.
As it turned out, a chatterbox wasn't frightening under normal circumstances. But when a chatterbox was half-deaf, she assumed everyone else was half-deaf too.
Su Xiao didn't actually dislike the Little Assistant. She was excellent at measuring distances and could pinpoint an enemy's position to within ten meters with nothing but her eyes.
Besides, Su Xiao's original partner, Hai Dong, had also been a chatterbox. Compared to Hai Dong, the Little Assistant barely qualified.
"Commander, it's already 11:22."
The Little Assistant leaned over again. Unlike ninety-nine percent of girls, this one didn't have the legendary feminine fragrance. She reeked of gunpowder instead.
Su Xiao raised his voice. "I know."
"Then what do we do?"
"Wait."
The reason the Little Assistant was so anxious was that orders had come down from above. At 11:30, the Twelfth Regiment would begin a combined infantry-tank assault and drive back the enemy's tank division. If they couldn't capture this position before midnight, there would be serious trouble.
Therefore, before 11:30, Su Xiao had to cover three members of the Slaughter Squad as they slipped into the forest diagonally to the side. At 11:30, their side would launch