Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 427 The sudden appearance of a helicopter
Jiang Feng's worries were not without reason. While they were brushing their teeth and chatting happily at the school construction site, Anthony encountered a problem in the jungle more than a hundred kilometers away.

He realized that he and his teammates had been walking all night, and they had taken the wrong path!

"Something's wrong!"

He took the map in his hand and compared it with the surrounding terrain. The more he looked, the more something seemed wrong.

They had been walking for more than ten hours since last night, and they thought they could walk at least ten or twenty kilometers. However, when they looked at the map in the morning, they found that the place they marked on the map did not match the actual terrain at all.

"Stop! Stop!"

Anthony shouted, running to the front of the team and calling out to Godwin, the leader.

Godwin was a lieutenant who was born into a hunter family in the jungles of the Tbilisi Mountains. He had been a member of the ELN for ten years and was an old guerrilla.

So last night everyone elected him as the guide, and he used the map to mark the route and direction and lead the team.

The team finally came to a slow stop.

Everyone looked at Captain Anthony with surprise, who looked nervous.

"What is it, Captain?"

Godwin turned around and looked at Anthony in confusion.

"It seems like we've taken the wrong path!" said Anthony.

"Impossible!" Godwin denied firmly.

He took out a map, placed the compass on it, and after aligning himself, pointed around and said, "This is east, this is west, this is south, and this is north!"

Then he pointed to last night's starting point on the map.

"We set out from here last night. The school is to our north. Look now. The sun is over there. That's east, right? Look, are we heading north now?"

Anthony checked.

Godwin was right.

The team was indeed heading north.

The direction is ok.

But he felt something was wrong.

"No, I think it must be wrong!"

Anthony stood his ground.

Godwin said, "It can't be wrong. I've lived in the jungle for so many years, I can't be wrong in identifying the direction and moving in that direction, at least not seriously!"

Anthony said, "Come with me!"

After saying that, he pulled Godwin back.

The two of them walked around the team, passed through a grove of trees, and came to a relatively open area.

Anthony pointed to a mountain ahead and said, "Before we set out last night, we located ourselves and marked the route on the map. Now let me ask you, look at the route marked on the map. Is there a mountain to our right?"

Godwin was stunned for a moment, then immediately spread out the map to check.

After checking for a while, he scratched his head and said, "It seems not..."

"That's right! No!" Anthony suddenly became angry: "You're going the wrong way! How did you lead the way?"

Godwin's face suddenly became hot.

In fact, he was quite proud when everyone recommended him to be the guide last night.

After all, this is an honor recognized by everyone.

These "elites" placed their hopes of slapping Song Heping in the face on him, waiting for Godwin to bring everyone to the camp and publicly ridicule the instructor for using such a childish trick to embarrass them, the "elites."

It was under this pressure that Godwin made a subjective judgment based on his own experience when he encountered a situation where he felt something was wrong and could not determine the route.

Looking back now, perhaps it was that crucial hesitation that led to the current deviation from the route?

"This is a jungle, anything can happen..."

He mumbled, trying to explain himself.

Anthony didn't buy it and immediately confronted him: "Don't talk nonsense in front of me! Did you realize you were going the wrong way and still keep going?!"

"I don't!"

Godwin retorted gruffly, then lowered his voice: "There was a time when I couldn't judge the direction. I couldn't even see the stars in the sky, so I made a judgment based on my own experience..."

"Experience?! What experience!?"

Anthony suddenly felt something was wrong and quickly questioned Godwin.

Godwin stammered, "It's just that... when you can't determine the specific path, you can follow the traces and follow the route first, because where there are traces, it proves that someone has walked..."

"Oh! God! You idiot!"

Anthony nearly exploded. He understood now.

This is the first empirical model for Colombian jungle hunters.

When you are lost in the jungle and cannot determine the direction and route based on the terrain, stars, sun and moon, you can find traces of people walking nearby and follow them to find a way out.

There is nothing wrong with this experience when applied to hunters.

Because hunters only need to walk out of the jungle and not get lost in it, follow the traces left by people, and they will eventually return to the human settlement, so they will definitely survive.

But this kind of experience can be fatal in military applications.

Military topography requires not only escaping from the jungle to survive, but also reaching a designated location at a designated time.

It's completely different from the hunter's jungle escape.

Godwin clearly adopted the wrong criteria, which led to the cheap route.

Although it was just a one-time mistake, it was already a huge mistake.

One step wrong, step by step wrong.

Now the entire team has gone astray and no one knows where it has gone.

What worried Anthony even more was that these 50 people did not bring any rations with them. They had no idea that they would be forced into the wilderness to survive from the very beginning.

Besides, as the Chinese instructor warned last night, these people had all smuggled in, had illegal identities, and were carrying guns...

If we are discovered by the border troops, the consequences will be...

Anthony felt a chill run down his spine when he thought of this.

"go away!"

He grabbed the map and squatted down to work in the open ground, constantly comparing the terrain and finding the corresponding places on the map to determine his position.

The entire route is completely wrong, which leads to the current location being wrong as well.

Because repositioning takes a lot of time without GPS.

Anthony is one of these people who has received some topographical training.

He had served in the Colombian government army and had studied military topography at the Army Officer School, but he was a novice, otherwise he would not have let Godwin lead the way last night.

It is true that you only regret not having learned enough when you need it.

Anthony now regrets dozing off during a topography class at the NCO academy.

Even if I had been a little more serious back then, I wouldn't be in such a mess now.

Finding the corresponding terrain on the map inch by inch is also hard work.

Finally, after more than half an hour of thinking, Anthony finally roughly determined the location of himself and his students.

"We have to cross this river, reach the other side, then walk five kilometers west, and then circle north! Only then can we get back on the right track!"

Under the leadership of Captain Anthony, the highest-ranking officer, although everyone had a lot of complaints and some even poked Godwin's nose and cursed him, they still immediately organized to cross the river.

It was not the rainy season, so the river was not very deep. The riverbed was about 20 to 30 meters wide, the deepest part was only up to the chest, and the shallowest part was only up to the knees. It was not difficult at all.

Just as they were crossing the river in a single column, a dull sound of propeller air suddenly came from the sky.

"There's a helicopter!"

The team member walking in front spotted a black spot flying in the distance, pointed at it and shouted.

"Run!"

Anthony was a little panicked.

Helicopter? !

It must be a helicopter of the Venezuelan military.

At this moment, the most correct approach is to let the front of the team run to the other side of the river, while the back half retreats.

This is the fastest way.

It can also divide troops to confuse the enemy.

In such a panic, he only shouted "Run".

All the students on the entire river surface fled in all directions like rats in a bomb swarm.

　I started quitting smoking today and haven't smoked for almost 24 hours.

　　It’s time to test your willpower and see if you can quit smoking right away.

　　I won’t go out and crowd around during this National Day holiday, I’ll just stay at home and write.

　　Asking for a monthly ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)