redvbooks Chapter 13 Taking a Risky Move! You call this theoretical warfare?
Chapter 13 Taking a Risky Move! You call this theoretical warfare?
"Just because you're full of enthusiasm?!"
Qin Chuan's roar lowered the air pressure in the entire command center to freezing point.
Everyone present felt that Qi Tongwei's fate was sealed.
Openly defying orders and contradicting the chief of staff, even if he has made great contributions in the past, he will definitely be stripped of his police uniform today.
Liu Jianguo's heart sank to the bottom, and his face turned deathly pale.
However, facing Qin Chuan, who was like a furious lion, Qi Tongwei showed no fear whatsoever.
He didn't even change his expression in the slightest.
Under everyone's horrified gaze, he turned around and strode to the huge electronic map.
This action itself is a silent provocation.
"you!"
Qin Chuan was so angry that his temples throbbed, and he was about to explode.
Qi Tongwei, however, had already reached out and pointed to the hastily drawn sketch that all intelligence experts had deemed "worthless."
"Commander, please give me three minutes."
His voice was devoid of any emotion, yet it possessed an irresistible magic.
Qin Chuan swallowed back the angry curse that was on the tip of his tongue.
All eyes, filled with confusion, doubt, and mockery, were fixed on the whiteboard.
They wanted to see what this madman could glean from these scribbles.
"These symbols are coded messages, representing 'mountain,' 'water,' and 'pagoda.' The intelligence team's analysis is correct."
Qi Tongwei spoke up.
The arrogant, buzz-cut vice-captain revealed a disdainful sneer at the corner of his mouth.
Is not this nonsensical?
"But they overlooked the most important thing—the details."
Qi Tongwei's finger touched the symbol that represented "mountain".
"【Conan-level perfect crime scene reconstruction】Activated." He silently chanted in his mind.
In that instant, every movement of the undercover agent as he wrote the symbol, every tremor of the pen tip, was magnified infinitely in his mind.
"The last stroke of this character 'mountain' has an extremely subtle downward hook."
His voice could be heard clearly in the silent command center.
"This writing habit is an unconscious muscle memory, which only mountain people who grew up in the eastern mountainous areas of Kachin State and are accustomed to carving words on damp banana leaves will possess."
"The scope can be narrowed down from hundreds to seventeen in eastern Kachin State."
What?!
A collective gasp came from the intelligence analysis team.
An elderly expert with gray hair suddenly pushed up his reading glasses and stared intently at the symbol, as if trying to see through it.
How...how is this possible?
How did he notice such a difference, which is even finer than a strand of hair?
Qi Tongwei ignored their shock and moved his finger to the second symbol, "Buddha Tower".
"Now look at this 'pagoda'."
"The way the top of the pagoda is drawn has an extra, inconspicuous little circle compared to all the known coded symbols for pagodas in northern Myanmar that we have in our database."
"This circle is not a superfluous stroke."
"It represents that the top of that stupa is inlaid with gemstones, which are regarded as a 'sacred site' by the local believers."
"Only three places meet both the criteria of being located in the eastern mountainous region of Kachin State and possessing a 'sacred' pagoda."
The command center was completely silent.
If the first analysis could be a coincidence, then the second one is completely beyond their comprehension!
Even the arrogant, short-haired vice-captain's sneer froze.
He opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't utter a single word.
Because Qi Tongwei's analysis was frighteningly clear in its logical chain, and every argument was undeniably accurate!
Qi Tongwei's finger landed on the last character, "water".
Finally, consider the time frame.
His "eagle-eye vision" had already etched all the weather cloud maps and geological and hydrological data from the past week into his mind.
"The information sent back by the undercover agent was three days ago. During those days, the entire border area was experiencing torrential rain, frequent flash floods, and many rivers changed course."
He pointed to his finger and crossed out two of the three alternative locations on the map.
"Only in this area, due to its special geological structure, flash floods do not directly flow into the river channel. Instead, they converge from both sides of the mountain and carve out a temporary shallow beach that only appears during the rainy season in the lower reaches of the river channel."
His finger finally landed heavily on a red dot on the map that almost everyone had overlooked!
"The writing habits of the mountain people, the sacred stupas with gemstones, and the temporary shallows that only appear during the rainy season."
"A location that meets all three conditions simultaneously."
There's only one.
"One hundred and twenty kilometers away from us, there's the Savage Mountain, the Ghostly Sorrow Valley!"
The moment the words were spoken, the entire command center fell silent.
You could hear a pin drop.
Everyone seemed to be frozen in place, completely still.
As they watched the young man standing in front of the map, talking eloquently, they felt their worldview being crushed inch by inch.
This is fucking... what do you call armchair strategizing?
This is simply divine insight!
The intelligence experts were all blushing, looking at Qi Tongwei as if he were a monster that had fallen from the sky.
Their prized expertise was utterly crushed in front of this young man.
The arrogant, buzz-cut vice-captain opened and closed his mouth repeatedly, his expression shifting from disbelief to shock, before finally going completely blank.
He wanted to refute it, but found that he couldn't even refute a single punctuation mark.
Qi Tongwei gave them no time to process the shock.
He turned around and looked directly at Qin Chuan.
"That concludes my analysis. Now, I request that a battle plan be formulated!"
He didn't use a question, but rather a declarative sentence that was almost imperative.
"I suggest we split into two groups."
"Commander Qin, you will personally lead the main force in a feint attack from the front to create a disturbance and attract the attention of the 'Scorpion's' main force."
"Feint to the east while attacking in the west."
"At the same time, I will lead a five-man elite team, equipped with the best gear, to infiltrate the cliffs on the back of Ghost Sorrow Gorge."
"Blooming in the center!"
"While they were all drawn to the main battlefront, we struck at the heart of the enemy, carrying out a decapitation strike! We rescued the hostages and killed 'Scorpion'!"
The moment this plan was announced, the command center was in an uproar once again.
"No! That's too risky!"
"Infiltrate through the cliff? There's no way out there! It's suicide!"
"Five people? The other side is a drug lord with warlord connections, with at least a hundred men! Isn't this playing with our brothers' lives?"
Opposition voices rose and fell.
To all the veteran police officers with extensive practical experience, this plan was almost certainly doomed to failure, with no chance of success whatsoever.
Just then.
"Ring ring ring—!"
The red encrypted phone on Qin Chuan's desk emitted a sharp, piercing ring once again!
A communications officer rushed over to answer the call, listened for a couple of sentences, and his face turned deathly pale.
He put down the phone, his voice trembling.
"Headquarters...yes, it was Secretary Zhao's secretary from the Provincial Party Committee calling..."
"Secretary Zhao has given us a strict order: we must solve the case within 24 hours!"
"Otherwise...or you'll be dismissed on the spot!"
The immense pressure, like Mount Tai pressing down, slammed heavily onto Qin Chuan's back.
His eyes instantly became bloodshot.
He looked at the red dot on the map that read "Ghost Sorrow Valley," and then at the young man in front of him with eyes as firm as iron and logic as meticulous as a demon.
Qi Tongwei met his gaze without backing down and said in a deep voice.
"When a general is in the field, he may disobey some of the emperor's orders."
"Captain, let's take a gamble."
"We won. We are all heroes."
"We lost, and I, Qi Tongwei, will take full responsibility!"
That last sentence, like the loudest war drum, struck Qin Chuan's heart hard!
He looked at Qi Tongwei, that young face filled with arrogance, and it was as if he saw himself decades ago, the one who was fearless and dared to rush into the drug dealers' den alone!
A surge of bloodlust, suppressed for many years, suddenly rushed to the top of his head!
He gritted his teeth so hard that blood seeped from his gums!
"good!"
Qin Chuan let out a deafening roar.
"I'll take the bet!"
He grabbed the pistol from his waist and slammed it hard on the table in front of Qi Tongwei with a "bang".
"I authorize you to immediately lead the 'Sharp Sword' commando team as the first echelon to infiltrate!"
"I'm handing you the sharpest knife in the entire brigade!"
Qin Chuan pointed at the arrogant, short-haired deputy captain and gave an unquestionable order.
"Wang Meng! From this moment on, you and your squad are under the command of Comrade Qi Tongwei! His orders are my orders!"
He stared intently at Qi Tongwei, speaking slowly and deliberately.
"If you fail, I, Qin Chuan, will go to a military court with you!"
Although the deputy captain named Wang Meng had a thousand reasons to disagree, the phrase "military orders are like mountains" was ingrained in his very being.
"yes!"
He responded loudly and then walked up to Qi Tongwei.
The team began an emergency assembly.
As they passed each other, Wang Meng lowered his voice and whispered in Qi Tongwei's ear, using a volume that only the two of them could hear, saying each word carefully.
"Kid, I don't care who you are."
"If you dare let my brothers die out there in vain..."
"I'll be the first to kill you with my own hands!"