At dawn, the Blue Army launched another surprise assault.
This time, however, Seventh Company had fully learned its lesson. They only fired back wildly from inside their cover. Only the perimeter sentries and those who had not hidden carefully enough were hit and began smoking when the attack came suddenly—just over a dozen men. But the losses could not be called insignificant, because Seventh Company had fewer than thirty men left.
The clash lasted quite a while. The special operations unit tried to push in, only to run into Seventh Company's stubborn resistance.
Wang Yan did as he always did, breaking away from the group and running to the flank to inflict casualties. When the special operations unit noticed that too many of their people were smoking and tried to withdraw, he chased after them from behind, dealing as much damage as possible and eliminating more of their men.
This time, though, he chased them a little too far. Gao Cheng had told him to pursue them for a kilometer, so the special operations unit had a rough time of it.
Wang Yan did not know that the opposing side had already switched to a new team and sent them over to practice shooting against him. Even if he had known, it would not have mattered. He would still chase them down and beat them up all the same.
But even after this newly arrived unit suffered losses, they did not stop attacking Seventh Company.
After the dawn operation, they launched a surprise attack on Eighth Company, which was stationed next to Seventh Company. Both companies belonged to the same battalion and were jointly defending the area.
After ambushing Eighth Company, they turned back to harass Seventh Company. Unlike their previous large-scale offensive, this time they sent in snipers for