When the system's self-check bar reached 100%, the four blades of the camouflage painted "Qin Crossbow" in 035's hand instantly increased in strength. After it finished raising, it flew in the southwest direction.
The growth rate of vegetation in humid and humid areas was very fast. If a small path was opened, it would be covered by the wild growth of shrubs and weeds in a few days. If there was a drizzle in the middle, the growth rate would become even faster.
Faced with such a situation, unless an ordinary person had a lot of experience in the jungle, even if they were in the middle of it, they would not be able to find traces of the small path.
However, if one looked down from a low altitude and observed carefully, they would find that the density of the newly grown branches was slightly different from the areas that had not been destroyed by humans.
In addition, there were people and horses passing by every few days, so there would be a lot of dead branches and moldy leaves on the small path.
Based on the subtle traces, Qu Sen quickly confirmed the specific direction of the mule and horse path in the forest marked on the electronic map. After the "Qin Crossbow" rose higher, it followed the traces of the path between the branches and quickly traveled for about 2.9 kilometers. The connection signal began to weaken.
Controlling the drone in a complex space environment required sensitive control feedback, so Qu Sen did not continue to move forward. After hovering, he called, "001, we have detected a position of 2.9 kilometers in front of us. We have reached the edge of effective control. No target found. Please give instructions."
"Investigate in place. Report when you find the target. Pay attention to hiding," replied An Jingzhe.
"Roger that!" While Qu Sen replied, he quickly confirmed the surrounding location through the two cameras of the "Qin Crossbow." After quickly choosing a relatively flat high branch, he began to control the climb.
After turning off the gyroscope, the "Qin Crossbow" constantly tilted left and right among the dense branches and leaves. After ten seconds, it finally reached the top of the branch.
After moving along the branch a few times and adjusting the viewing angle, Qu Sen slightly adjusted the joystick and steadily stopped the "Qin Crossbow" on the branch.
He did not immediately turn off the engine. Instead, he lowered the speed of the engine and began to adjust the angle of the surveillance camera.
As the surveillance camera moved, the center of gravity of the body changed. Qu Sen adjusted the center of gravity according to the tilt angle of the body and finally stopped the "Qin Crossbow" on the branch.
As the four motors of the "Qin Crossbow" stopped, the whole machine entered silent monitoring mode. 035, who had been staring at the control screen, could not help but praise in a low voice, "Awesome!"
"You can do it too if you play with it too much," whispered Qu Sen.
"Hey, Instructor Qu, I heard that the names of the drones Nightingale, Swift, and Big Grasshopper were all originally you were the names?" Qu Qu Sen and since there were only Qu Sen and 035 around, he did not call them code..
"No, I don't know who named Big Brother. Nightingale and Swift were named by two of my friends. Only Qin Nu was named by me." Qu Sen stared at the monitor and said in a low voice.
"That's why Big Brother's name doesn't match the other three names." 035's interest was piqued. He moved closer to Qu Sen and whispered, "These drones were all designed by you and your friends?"
"How is that possible? We designed the earliest primitive model. At that time …" Qu Sen was about to tell 035 about the birth of the three drones when he suddenly saw movement on the screen. He quickly stopped talking and carefully observed.
In the surveillance screen, the bushes in the distance shook. Then, a short middle-aged man could be vaguely seen. He was waving a machete in his hand and chopping the branches and leaves that blocked his way.
After a few branches that blocked his view were chopped down, a horse's head was exposed not far behind the middle-aged man.
As the workhorse moved forward, they could see a wooden load on the horse's back. Tied to the shelf were four stacked packages wrapped in tattered oilcloth.
"Old 56 …" Following 035's low voice, a dark and thin man appeared behind the workhorse. A Type-56 semi-automatic rifle was strapped across his shoulder.
Hanging from his tattered clothes was an old-fashioned magazine with a hole in it. Two magazines and the wooden handle of a grenade could be seen sticking out of the magazine.
"001, the target has appeared." Even though he knew the other party was coming, he still needed to go around the foot of the mountain in front. But when Qu Sen pressed the call button, he subconsciously lowered his voice.
"Confirm details." An Jingzhe's voice sounded.
In the surveillance screen, two people and a horse passed by. Behind them were workhorses and unidentified armed personnel. After checking and confirming, there were a total of seven workhorses and thirteen armed personnel.
The goods carried by the workhorses were unknown. Among the thirteen armed personnel, except for the middle-aged man who was leading the way with a short gun, the rest of the personnel were equipped with long guns. The long gun models were not uniform. There were Type-56 rifles, SKS rifles, and several models that Qu Sen did not recognize at all.
But these firearms all had one thing in common, which was that they were old. Not only were the wooden components incomplete, but the steel components were also severely worn out.
"001, a total of seven workhorses and thirteen armed personnel passed. One of them is armed with a machete and a short gun, while the other twelve are armed with long guns.
Most of them are semi-automatic rifles with reloaded magazines. Five of them are carrying wooden grenades. "
"Roger. Drones, be careful to hide. These people have lived in the mountains since they were young. They are very sensitive to environmental sounds and are very vigilant."
"Roger!"
The branches of the "Qin Crossbow" were very thin. As long as the center of gravity shifted, it would easily lose its balance and fall.
Therefore, after the workhorses and armed personnel passed through the surveillance area, Qu Sen did not dare to adjust the surveillance camera to follow. After receiving An Jingzhe's reminder, he did not dare to activate the drone to follow.
Although the "Qin Crossbow"'s working noise was not as obvious as the larger "Swift," it was far less quiet than the "Nightingale." Who knew how good the ears of the fugitives who were not far away were.
Once the machine was activated, it would make a sound that did not belong to the jungle. It was very likely that it would directly startle them.
"Team two, press forward for three hundred meters. Hide on both sides and cut off the retreat. Team one, in an ambush formation. Spread out according to the combat teams and find positions. "
With An Jingzhe's order, Team two, who had set up the ambush line with Team One, quickly moved forward. Several combat teams of Team One also quickly rearranged the ambush position and fan-shaped to block the approaching workhorses.
"Team two, in position!" About four minutes later, the leader of Team Two reported through the headset.
"Once a battle breaks out, prioritize sealing the escape routes on both sides. They must be trapped in the ambush range. Remember, even if the other party clearly surrenders, do not relax your vigilance and expose the target.
Drone teams, pay attention to the battlefield. If someone leaves the range, send out a guidance message immediately. "
After the teams responded, An Jingzhe spoke into the microphone and said in a calm voice, "Comrades, today is the first time you are facing an actual battle. Don't say anything unnecessary. Listen to orders and deal with it calmly!"
"Roger ~"
With the sound of response, the combat teams began to check their weapons and equipment and prepared for battle. The "Qin Crossbow" did not dare to move for the time being. 035 took out his controller from the backpack. When doing the wake-up operation, Qu Sen prepared the "Nightingale". A few seconds later, the "Nightingale" completed its self-check and quickly rose into the air.
035 had already "hung" several drones before. At this time, he was holding the joystick very nervously. When passing through the branches, there were several scratches. Fortunately, the scratches were not serious. The intelligent error correction of the gyroscope stabilized the balance in time.
"Steady, don't predict the evasive action too much in advance." Qu Sen looked at 035's operation and reminded him in a low voice.
"I'm always afraid it's too late." 035 said nervously.
The drone passed through the canopy, and the vision of the forward direction was greatly affected. Often, after bypassing a branch that appeared horizontally or diagonally, a new obstacle suddenly appeared in front of it.
At this time, the drone operator would usually subconsciously rush to make emergency evasive actions, but the image captured by the lens had a large blind spot after all.
Even if the obstacles in the surrounding direction were captured, these environmental information would flash by the edge of the screen as the drone moved forward.
The drone operator's main attention was focused on the front, so when the emergency evasive action was done, one careless mistake would directly hit an obstacle or cause a scratch.
To avoid this situation, the operator needed to have a very accurate judgment of the short-distance steering angle of different models at different speeds.
This required a lot of flight training to be able to do, and different people's speed of mastery was very different. Some people needed thousands of hours to master something, some people could do it in a few hundred hours or even less.
"Unless necessary, try not to evade in an arc, try to complete the turn in one push and pull …" Qu Sen saw that 035's basic operation was actually very proficient and began to correct some of his bad habits one by one.
035 had just seen how Qu Sen operated the larger "Qin Crossbow" smoothly through the forest. He was very impressed with his skills.
Listening to Qu Sen's whisper in his ear, he tried to follow his instructions as much as possible. At the same time, he carefully experienced the details of Qu Sen's operation and the way of prediction.
Although the power of the control antenna was the same, the power of the "Nightingale" airborne antenna was weaker than that of the "Qin Crossbow". After flying for about two kilometers, the connection signal began to fade.
"Find a place …"
Qu Sen was just about to let 035 find a place to hide the surveillance like he did before, when he saw a faint bright reflection between the branches and leaves below in the surveillance screen. Then the branches and leaves covering the packhorse path fell, and then the face of the middle-aged man in charge of clearing the path for the packhorse team was revealed.
"Raise the right side higher, avoid their direct line of sight." Qu Sen immediately ordered 035.
"Roger ~" 035 responded in a low voice while moving the joystick. The "Nightingale" silently flew to the top of a tall tree on the upper right.
Qu Sen's and 035's hearts relaxed a little as the distance between them and the workhorse team increased. 035 quickly selected a relatively flat branch on the top of the tree, turned off the gyroscope and prepared to follow Qu Sen's previous method of lowering the "Nightingale".
Just as the "Nightingale" turned around the obstacles and was about to reach the top of the tree trunk, a huge gray shadow suddenly appeared on the screen. At the same time, a burst of "Caw ~ Caw ~" bird calls sounded.
The startled big bird made 035 subconsciously stop and evade. The fuselage instantly tilted. Without the help of the gyroscope to correct, 035 could only manually restore the balance.
The two motors below the fuselage's horizontal line suddenly spun, and a downward growing branch instantly inserted into the motor's blade.
After a slight "click" sound, the fuselage's sensor sounded an alarm, indicating that one of the motors had malfunctioned and stopped.
Just as the "Nightingale" began to uncontrollably spin down, the middle-aged man in charge of clearing the path for the packhorse team suddenly raised the machete in his hand and shouted: "D?
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