As the su below the horizon, the vibrant red dusk faded away, giving way to the arrival of the night.

  Uhe cover of darkness, the German forces on the frontlines tiheir peaceful retreat, just as they had done in the previous days. However, ihe temporary Ameri base, a quiet buzz of activity began to stir.

  Hundreds of young Ameri soldiers dressed in battle suits stood in formation, holding their Ameri rifles and carrying military green backpacks filled with ammunition and supplies.

  Due to the fact that the five targeted German camps were scattered in different locations, the assembly times for the five units were staggered. Otherwise, the temporary base would have been overrun with thousands of soldiers.

  Fury had already gathered his hundred-man unit early on and was now expining the importaails of tonight's assault.

  "I know that some of you are fresh recruits who have just arrived from training bases. So, pay attention and memorize the instrus I just gave. Don't slow us down tonight!"

  "Otlefield, anyone who hesitates or disobeys orders will not be warhrough a military court. Instead, I'll simply put a hole in their forehead!" Fury's voied as he stood alo the front of the unit.

  He had shed his gentle demeanor from the and post, and now his dark face appeared stern and menag, with his remaining right eye resembling a fierd dominant wolf.

  The soldiers remained silent, not daring to make a sound. Among them, a young soldier positio the rear of the unit gnced around subtly while maintaining his military stance, as if searg for someone.

  A nearby recruit noticed this and whispered, "Gee, this isn't a training base. Don't get distracted."

  "I know," Gee replied in a hushed voice. "Have you seen Kyle? He was sent to the front lines a few days ago, but it's possible he's also in this temporary base."

  The recruit murmured, "Kyle? He might have already been killed. No matter how exceptional his skills are, the training base and the battlefield are pletely different."

  "I hope he proves himself and survives," Gee ched his fist. He ra the top among the recruits in terms of physical fitness and skills but was always overshadowed by Kyle's prese the training base.

  "Who is it?!"

  Fury's voice suddenly boomed, startling Gee. He quickly regained his posure and looked in the dire indicated, only to realize that the sergeant was not referring to him.

  "It's me."

  Emerging from the darkness of the night beyond the illuminated assembly area, a well-built individual approached the unit. As the young man's handsome face became visible uhe lights, many of the new recruits couldn't help but gasp, struggling to maintain their military posure.

  Could it be… Kyle?

  Gee's eyes widened in disbelief. With his strong sense of pride, he could never fet the young man standing before them at this moment.

  Within just a week, Kyle had impressed various specialized training instructors, breaking records in all individual bat exercises at the training base and surpassing the target scores for pistols, rifles, sniper rifles, and rocket unchers.

  Even though Kyle had been deployed to the front lines ahead of time, rumors about him still circuted withiraining base. His legendary feats seemed to grow in exaggeration.

  Everictest training instructors often used Kyle as an example to admonish the new recruits.

  "Attention!" Fury raised his voice, and his sharp eye sed the unit, sileng any remaining murmurs.

  Kyle had chosen not to carry a military backpack but instead had a rifle slung over his shoulder. He also wore a sheath for a military knife on his waist and had two small pistols holstered on each side of his legs, making him the lightest-equipped soldier on the field.

  He walked directly beside Fury, coldly meeting the gaze of the assembled soldiers.

  As the new recruits in the unit puzzled over the situation, Fury introduced him in a serious tohis is Corporal Kyle, one of tonight's anding officers. For tonight's assault mission, you must follow our ands without question. Uood?"

  "Uood!" The soldiers responded in unison. Even if they were given a huimes the ce, they wouldn't dare to utter a single word of dissent.

  "Kyle…Corporal?" When Gee saw Kyle, he was dumbfounded. Hearing Kyle's rank as a Corporal, he couldn't help but lower his head in shame, afraid that Kyle would reize him.

  The recruit who had just spoken with Gee felt a sense of being spped in the fad muttered to himself, "I was wrong. He is a monster, indeed a monster no matter where he goes."

  "Is it time to depart?" Kyle asked Fury, as he had spent a siderable amount of time mastering the newly drawn cards and arrived at the desigime.

  "Yes, it's time to depart," Fury replied, looking down at the time dispyed on his device. He waved his hand to the hundred-man unit and anded, "All soldiers, follow the military vehicles and proceed to the mission location at a jog!"

  As soon as Fury finished speaking, he and Kyle boarded one of the idle military vehicles. The highly maneuverable vehicle quickly braked ahe way toward the wilderness outside the camp.

  The objective was to assault a camp but instead of directly crossing the defensive lihey took a roundabout route to avoid enemy reaissand headed toward the mountains and forests adjat to the wilderness.

  Ohey reached the designated location, Fury and Kyle abahe military vehicle ahe hundred-man unit to start climbing the mountain, navigating through the dense jungle in darkness.

  Without accurate information about the exact location of the German camps, such a fnking maneuver would have been futile. However, armed with intelligehey could infiltrate deep into the enemy camp.

  "After crossing this hill, we'll be very close to the small transit camp mentioned iel. Pass on the orders to the soldiers: Everyoers a state of readiness, and if you spot eroops, don't arm them. Maintain silend await further instrus," Kyle anded in a cold and authoritative tone. Although it was his first time leading troops, he exuded fidend dominan his very being.

  Fury, standing beside him, suddenly frowned and said, "Kyle, something doesn't feel right."

  "Hmm?" Kyle looked at him in surprise.

  Fury illumihe mission map with the weak light of a small fshlight and said gravely, "Take a look at the map. After crossing this mountain, the distao the bat zone is not far, but it's too far from the German rear headquarters. This locatio seem suitable as a transit station for resource transport."

  "Do you think the information message we received is false?" Kyle furrowed his brow.

  "It's hard to say. Let's keep moving forward and see. Even if it's false, we safely retreat," Fury analyzed the situation before they tinued leading the soldiers to climb over the mountaintop.

  Over hills and mountains, they went.

  When Kyle and Fury, at the forefront of the unit, cleared the obstrug bushes and saw the se below, their bodies froze simultaneously.

  Below the slope, a circur iron fenclosed a hundred meters of barren nd. Every teers, there were fortress-like gun empts serving as outer walls. Within the iron fence, lights were scattered everywhere, and numerous German soldiers could be vaguely seen patrolling bad forth.

  "Oh my God, is this the small transit camp mentioned iel?" Fury's mouth gaped in astonishment and he was rendered speechless.

  "It seems that the location iel is correct, but the target assault camp is not what we imagined," Kyle remained calm, but he also felt the urge to curse someo this time.

  This was no longer a camp; it was a full-fledged enemy base!

  (End of Chapter)