An 80s female translator was spoiled rotten by a rough and jealous man.

Chapter 252 Pulling the "Nail" (Part 2)
Meng Youyou stepped forward to support the man, and made to remove her gas mask, but Xiao Bai stopped her. The man coughed and said, "Don't delay, let's go!"

The sounds of gunfire grew closer and closer, and there was no time to lose. Sergeant Liu anxiously supported Xiao Bai's right elbow and rushed towards the emergency passage.

Meng Youyou hurriedly followed.

As is customary, considering the need for secrecy, most high-altitude observation posts are staffed with less than a squad of guards, in addition to technical personnel.

Generally speaking, the average survival time of an observation post of our army is less than 48 hours. After experiencing two attacks, it will most likely need to be relocated and reorganized. It is rare for a post to remain undiscovered and unattacked by the enemy for more than a week.

However, the A-zone observation post here is of great strategic importance, and we are unwilling to give it up. Moreover, the enemy attacks are too frequent, so we have doubled the armed force.

However, at this moment, faced with the enemy's all-out attack, they could only put up a stubborn resistance.

Squad Leader Liu led Meng and Xiao to retreat, while the rest of the soldiers, including the scouts, were trapped in the battle.

On the front lines of L Mountain, there was an unwritten rule: in the event of an enemy ambush or breakout, priority should be given to protecting the evacuation of key technical personnel. Even in the case of a translator who was killed in an attack, priority should be given to recovering their body and the codebook and equipment they were carrying.

This time, the enemy was clearly prepared to win, with fierce and concentrated firepower, aiming for a quick victory.

When Meng Youyou and the others reached the middle of the secret passage, they could no longer hear the sounds of gunfire from above. At the time, Meng Youyou thought it was because the distance was far enough that the sound was weaker.

But Squad Leader Liu knew in his heart that the battle was over, so he quickened his pace.

Xiao Bai had lost consciousness and relied almost entirely on Squad Leader Liu to carry him.

The latter half of the tunnel was a cableway. Squad Leader Liu stopped in front of the cableway anchor, rolled the steel cable with one hand, and then took out the handle of his bayonet and tapped the cable lightly, looking troubled.

Meng Youyou sensed something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"

“The cableway had been damaged by artillery fire, and cracks had appeared inside the steel wires. In some severely damaged areas, a single strand of the wire had broken, significantly reducing its load-bearing capacity. In addition, the recent rains and high humidity have made the auxiliary ropes prone to breaking. If I were to bring Xiao, the weight would be too great, and he might fall to his death midway.”

Meng Youyou's heart sank. Without thinking too much, she suggested, "Then I'll take him? I'm much lighter, and the risk will be lower if we add up the weight."

Squad Leader Liu glanced at her in surprise, his face showing hesitation.

Then Meng Youyou's urgent voice was heard again: "There is no better way now. If the weight is reduced by one pound, the risk of the steel cable breaking will be reduced by one point. This is the most cost-effective arrangement at present."

Squad Leader Liu met the bright eyes of the young girl in front of him and thought to himself, but she let slip a sentence: if the steel cable breaks in the middle, the probability of falling to one's death is the same—one hundred percent.

A drop of water dripped from the cave wall and landed right on Squad Leader Liu's forehead. He stopped hesitating and made up his mind: "Okay, let's do it this way."

Squad Leader Liu untied the leg wraps from his feet and instructed, "You go to the main cable, Translator Xiao go to the secondary cable. I'll tie you two together; that's safer. The secondary cable can share some of the weight."

Meng Youyou obeyed the order without hesitation and quickly put on the rope surrender uniform. Squad Leader Liu used an auxiliary rope to tie the two together with a figure-eight knot, and then tied them a second time with leg wrappings.

Meng Youyou was suspended on a steel cable about the thickness of her little finger. The moment the shoulder straps snapped into the main cable, she instinctively tugged at it with her hand. Then she looked towards the landing point on the opposite bank. The rainy night was thick, so dark that she couldn't see her hand in front of her face; she couldn't see anything on the other side.

She let out a heavy breath, turned to Sergeant Liu, and said, "I'm ready."

"Whoosh—", a sudden feeling of weightlessness overwhelmed her body, and Meng Youyou's eardrums ached from the strong wind. Xiao Bai was suspended two inches behind her to the right, sliding down at high speed in sync with her, the auxiliary rope connecting their bodies taut and straight.

Meng Youyou forced herself to open her eyes to see the situation clearly.

Suddenly, with a "clang," the secondary cable on the right snapped in an instant. The broken steel cable lashed across Meng Youyou's face like an iron whip, sparking a string of sparks as it struck the main cable.

Xiao Bai's body detached from the auxiliary cable and plummeted. The enormous force seemed to break free of the rope between them. In that moment of violent swinging, Meng Youyou instinctively wrapped her legs tightly around Xiao Bai's body and tightened her right hand around his collar.

She was jolted by the force, feeling a distinct tearing sensation throughout her body, as if a surging power was about to rip her in two. She felt as if she were trapped in a giant, high-powered spin dryer, about to transform into a tiny, drifting drop of water on an umbrella, completely out of control and scattered haphazardly.

Especially Xiao Bai, she felt several times that she was about to lose control of him.

They could only rely on their left hand to grip the steel cable tightly, trying to stabilize the two of them as they swung in the air, but it was clearly like throwing an egg against a rock.

The skin on her palms was almost instantly rubbed raw by the steel cable, and the rubbing only worsened, but Meng Youyou gripped it tighter and tighter.

Fortunately, the locking mechanism connecting the steel cable to her body was of good quality, and although she was spinning around, she was fortunately not thrown out in mid-air.

……

Huo Qingshan led his troops back to their camp in the cave under cover of darkness. By the time they reached the high ground where the observation post was located that evening, the battle was already over.

This time, the enemy used a "lightning strike" tactic, deploying overwhelming forces, along with 82mm recoilless rifles, flamethrowers, and some other "things," to wage a rapid war, completing the entire process of raid, annihilation, and occupation within twenty minutes, leaving no window for our artillery support to react.

Out of caution, after contacting the commanding officer, Huo Qingshan received instructions to lead his troops back along the original route. The high ground was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he should not launch a rash attack.

On the way down the mountain, the soldiers basically knew that with that density of fire, the main observation post in Area A was probably completely wiped out.

……

After reporting the battle situation to the regimental commander and operations staff, Huo Qingshan came out of the main command room.

It is said that two translators and one guard escaped from the observation post, and two of them showed symptoms resembling those caused by the enemy's use of special weapons.

Huo Qingshan planned to visit the medical team to get a better understanding of the situation so he could gather information for their upcoming counterattack.