Chapter 146: The Truth Surfaces

Wu Sixun looked down, his eyes wide with utter disbelief. His hand was smeared with fresh blood.

Turning his head back, he discovered that the dozen or so martial artists he had arranged to rush forward and slaughter Lin Feng had all had their right arms severed by a single sword strike, lying on the ground and wailing in agony.

"Family Head! Such a fast sword! We didn't even see the blade's shadow before we were... before we were..."

A martial arts retainer of the Wu family knelt near Wu Sixun's feet, his left hand clutching the spurting wound on his right arm. He collapsed on the ground, covered in cold sweat, his face the color of parchment.

How could this be?

At this sight, Wu Sixun couldn't help but swallow hard. These people were the elite of the Wu family! The strongest among them even possessed the peak strength of the Transformation Realm, and a dozen of them had attacked together.

Even a newly advanced Grandmaster would have suffered a crushing defeat, yet this man Lin Feng did not care in the least, severing the arms of over a dozen people in a single, instantaneous stroke!

Wu Sixun felt a chill run down his spine. Daring not say another word, he looked around. Clearly, he had brought men to surround Lin Feng, but now it felt as though Lin Feng had pinned all of them firmly in place!

Just as Wu Sixun was breaking out in cold sweat, not knowing what to do, a hearty and rough laugh suddenly echoed from behind.

"Hahaha! Today I want to see who dares to touch our men of the Fierce Tiger Regiment! I, Wang Yinhu, will never let them off!"

Emerging with the voice was Wang Yinhu, the commander of the Fierce Tiger Regiment, an elite force of the Jinling Military Region!

With a leopard-like head and round eyes, and a fierce expression, he wore a camouflage military uniform with a pistol tucked at his waist. Followed by the elite soldiers of the Fierce Tiger Regiment, he strode right up in front of Lin Feng.

"Hahaha! You must be Lin Feng, the new instructor that kid Wang Zexi talked about! Indeed a fine officer who fiercely protects his subordinates. As the saying goes, a weak soldier makes a weak soldier, and a weak general makes a weak army. In my opinion, the Azure Dragon Squad was lacking a fine officer like Instructor Lin, which is why such unhealthy tendencies were allowed to grow!"

"Wu Sixun, it's not that this lord looks down on you, but so what if you are a martial artist? When you truly reach the battlefield, what matters most is iron blood and weaponry! Come on, Second Battalion Commander, wheel out my Italian artillery!"

"Yes, Commander!"

At Wang Yinhu's order, a non-commissioned officer beside him straightened up smartly, gave a standard military salute, and called out to the soldiers around him. Together, they brought out large-caliber PF-98 120mm anti-tank rockets.

Slung over their shoulders, with sights adjusted, over two hundred soldiers under his command each held one.

One must know that the Chinese military has always suffered from "firepower insufficiency phobia." This squad-level individual anti-tank rocket was the domestically produced standard anti-tank weapon with the greatest destructive power.

It boasted advantages such as large caliber, immense firepower, light weight, and the ability to fire and leave immediately. It enjoyed a lofty reputation internationally and was truly a heavy cannon carried upon the shoulder!

It could well be called the ultimate choice for serving the country and annihilating foreign enemies!

And that was not all. Atop the Mengshi military jeeps not far away, two or three squads had mounted eight sets of the latest LG5 sniper grenade launchers, taking aim at the entire area around the entrance of the training ground with high-powered thermobaric rounds from a distance.

These hundreds of soldiers were all elites of the Fierce Tiger Regiment. Although the equipment in their hands consisted entirely of light weapons, in the hands of well-trained and tacitly coordinated soldiers, they were absolute, heavy-duty weapons of mass destruction.

Furthermore, all of them deployed large-caliber light weapons with wide-area lethality. Unless you were a master of the Grandmaster Realm, wanting to take them head-on?

That was sheer daydreaming!

Before Wu Sixun could recover from Lin Feng's terrifying sword strike, a new adversary had appeared, and this one was none other than the renowned Fierce Tiger Regiment.

This was the darling of the Nanjing Military Region, a decorated and meritorious unit.

Always renowned for their bravery in combat, they were the elite of the elites!

"Commander! Why are you here?"

Led by Gu Feng, the reserve team members arrived at the entrance of the training ground. Wang Zexi immediately spotted his old superior and cried out in pleasant surprise.

"Humph, you kid has grown up! The Military God specifically reached out and asked me to bring my comrades today to back you up. I wanted to see just who has the nerve to touch the soldiers of my Fierce Tiger Regiment!"

The Military God?

Wu Sixun suddenly seemed to realize something, crying out in his heart that he had fallen into a trap!

Cold sweat poured down his forehead like water that cost nothing.

"Heh, Wang Yinhu, do you think you're the only hot shot? I haven't even spoken yet, and though we lose the battle, we won't lose our bearing. Xu Peng, I, Xu Peng, have come too!"

At that moment, a convoy of Mengshi military jeeps drove directly through the gates of the training ground. The doors flew open, and nearly a hundred soldiers disembarked.

Fully equipped, they carried Type 95-1 assault rifles, Type 81 squad machine guns, general-purpose machine guns, and large-caliber heavy machine guns, all shifting their muzzle directions to point straight at Wu Sixun and his party.

Under the black muzzles of those guns, let alone a mortal body of flesh and blood, even reinforced steel would be blasted into dust.

"Commander, why did you come too? I've missed you to death!"

Xu Peng, a burly man from the Northeast, gave a bear hug to the rugged man stepping down from the command vehicle.

Gu Feng was practically dumbfounded looking at everything before him. These were all elites of meritorious units, equipped to the teeth, and they had all come to back Lin Feng up?

"Wu Sixun, didn't you say no one would come to save me? Aren't they precisely here to reinforce yours truly?" Lin Feng said with a faint smile.

Wu Sixun retreated step by step, his spine entirely soaked in cold sweat. He had never imagined that after so much planning, he had still been outwitted.

Were these military elites gathered here for the sole purpose of wiping out all martial arts families attempting to infiltrate the military?

"Lin Feng, don't celebrate too early! Let me ask you, do you dare to make a move? I am standing right here, completely unmoving. Do you dare to fire? I am a citizen of China, and you are the people's army. Surely you wouldn't turn your guns to attack the people!"

As if clutching at a straw, Wu Sixun wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and forced a tough stance.

Indeed, even when surrounded by numerous troops, Wu Sixun had found a loophole: the Chinese military's strict discipline.

Let alone harming the people, they could not take even a single thread or needle from the public.

Wu Sixun's words struck directly at the fatal weakness, emboldening him to confront Lin Feng head-on, gambling entirely on the discipline of the people's army.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Wu Sixun, I have to admit, you really do have a bit of petty cleverness. You're right, the people's army is loyal to the people and cannot casually harm Chinese citizens, but traitors do not count among them, right?"

The corners of Lin Feng's mouth curled up slightly. He clapped his hands, and several men in SWAT uniforms were seen escorting Wu Sansi as they walked over.

When Wu Sixun saw Wu Sansi, he finally guessed the full extent of Lin Feng's scheme. His legs went weak, and he slumped directly to the ground.

"It's over! It's all over!"

"Wu Sansi, now right in front of everyone, tell the whole story from beginning to end—how you betrayed the intelligence of the Azure Dragon Squad's mission, causing the mission to fail and resulting in heavy losses for the Azure Dragon Squad in the Southern Frontier!"

Lin Feng looked down at the collapsed Wu Sixun with a gentle smile, every single word feeling like a dagger plunging straight into Wu Sixun's heart.