The Female General Dominates All After Transmigration-Chapter 276 - 274: Two Key Points

Ling Chengyan left Li Ming to stay and look after the still-unconscious Geng Wei, while she led the others back to camp.

Without resting, Ling Chengyan just washed her hands and rushed to the command center to report the situation urgently.

The Huicheng Special Service Company team was among the first to return, but Ling Chengyan was nearly the last to report. Several others had already found excuses to linger in the command center, waiting to see Ling Chengyan make a fool of herself, especially Qian Xiangjun and Han Daqing.

In the last mission, they were all overshadowed by Ling Chengyan, a woman. Qian Xiangjun and Han Daqing were just the vocal ones, but others also held grudges in their hearts.

Well, she managed to shine once, but she lost face this time.

The mighty Captain Ling also lost a soldier this time, and it wasn’t battle damage, but a snake bite!

As soon as Ling Chengyan arrived, she was ’welcomed’ by several people, each greeting her with a smirk.

Ling Chengyan kept a stern face but still nodded in acknowledgment. She then quickly walked into the command center to report to the leaders, and before reporting, she specifically requested to report ’privately’ with the leadership.

The leader’s expression turned solemn, leaving only the commissar and chief of staff, while sending everyone else out and instructing the guard to stand watch at the door. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"Go ahead," the leader signaled.

Ling Chengyan took a jug of water handed over by the chief of staff, drank it in gulps, wiped her mouth, and began, "This time, we managed to infiltrate the enemy area quite smoothly; however, just as we were about to reach the target location, the enemy launched flares..."

She recounted the situation in detail and then pointedly reported, "Based on this mission, I believe two points need to be emphasized with the leadership: First, as far as I know, although the enemy’s position occasionally launches flares, it never lasts that long, at most three or four shots, and they are launched intermittently, never continuously like this time. Second, I believe there are many doubts concerning the intelligence about the small village. Firstly, if the small village were to be set as a front-line command post and warehouse, there wouldn’t be so many densely arranged minefields. Moreover, from the manner of the mine-laying, this person must be an expert, far surpassing the level of mines we’ve previously dealt with... Under these circumstances, I suspect the intelligence about the small village is erroneous."

She didn’t state it outright, but her meaning was clear: she believed there was a traitor inside, their operation had been leaked, so there was interference and intimidation en route from the flares. In the back, the village acted as a trap, luring friendly personnel in, followed by a deadly minefield ambush.

The chief of staff gasped, "The other team..."

Ling Chengyan apologized, "I do not know the route of the fellow company, and couldn’t notify them, but I left warning signs outside the village."

The leader frowned, forming a deep crease.

He waved off the worried-looking commissar and chief of staff, saying to Ling Chengyan, "Although you didn’t complete the mission as required this time, the intelligence you brought back is very valuable. I will arrange for timely deployment. You should go back and rest."

Ling Chengyan stood up, saluted, "Yes, sir."

Exiting the command post, Ling Chengyan closed the door, letting out a soft sigh, thinking: Each team is carrying portable communication devices; perhaps the command center can still contact the team heading to the small village at the other target location.

Inside, the commissar frowned, saying, "Isn’t Huicheng Special Service Company a bit... They should’ve found a way to notify the fellow company."

But the leader waved his hand, "Each team is commanded to complete their missions independently, without orders for mutual assistance."

The chief of staff chimed in, "Don’t forget, during previous maneuvers in Yu Bei, Ling Chengyan’s team once sacrificed a very competent and promising platoon leader to save someone. And what was the result?"

Look at Han Daqing’s attitude, did he show any gratitude? It’s completely ungrateful, repaying kindness with enmity! Who wouldn’t feel disheartened?

The commissar was silent for a moment, nodding, "Indeed, and every time Ling Chengyan comes back, she shares all the experiences and insights with the fellow company, doing the best she can."

Did other companies ever encounter mines during missions? No felt battlefield experience or insight to share, yet who among them shared any knowledge?

In this, perhaps some individuals lack the same level of conduct as Ling Chengyan, but it cannot be ruled out that some people are narrow-minded, hoarding their meager experiences, fearful of being surpassed, or overshadowed.

After returning to her barracks, Ling Chengyan simply washed and didn’t rest, instead sitting down to organize a detailed report on the mission. Apart from the experience of dealing with the flares, she gave a meticulous description of the two sets of trip mines encountered outside the village, supplemented with diagrams.

When this report reached the command center, several leaders gasped in unison at the intricate, spider-web-like wiring in the diagrams of the trip mines.

Setting such a trip minefield goes beyond what Ling Chengyan described as exceptional. Anyone capable of setting up this kind of minefield is a national treasure, and even in a populous nation with millions in its military, people who can create such minefields are countable on two hands.

Much less in that small country with only a few million people.

Initially, a few questioned Ling Chengyan’s speculation about the village, but after seeing these extraordinary trip minefields, they nearly fully believed Ling Chengyan’s hypothesis. Because besides her speculation, there was no more plausible explanation.

A frontline command post that isn’t particularly critical, coupled with a not-so-large storage depot, given the opposite side’s situation, couldn’t warrant such a lavish arrangement, employing a national-level mine layer.

If it was, set as a trap to lure the enemy deep within, then it was much more reasonable.

Our personnel have always had strong combat capabilities, yet in the beginning stages of the war, they were repeatedly fooled and suffered casualties when the enemy used the elderly and children to entrap them.

After several years of warfare, our personnel have wised up, no longer deceived by the old and weak used by the enemy, so they devised new sinister schemes.

After confirming Ling Chengyan’s hypothesis, what concerned the three more wasn’t the minefield itself but a deeper suspicion: their operation was exposed.

In other words, a traitor had emerged within their own ranks.

The reason they hadn’t considered the possibility of an accidental leak was due to the random nature of the mission assignments, testing the teams’ aptitude for impromptu combat, but this also eliminated the possibility of an accidental leak from any team.

"Could it be..." the chief of staff suddenly began, but didn’t finish his sentence.