Northwest Illinois, 15 kilometers south of Bara Town, unnamed highland beside the highway.
The temperature has dropped to three degrees Celsius.
Jiang Feng slowly lowered the AN/PVS-15 binocular night vision device mounted on the edge of the periscope pit, using his right hand, clad in tactical gloves, to vigorously rub the stiff and aching muscles around his eyes due to maintaining a fixed observation posture for several hours.
Beside him, lying close to the ground, are Samir, the leader of the Liberation Forces, and front-line liaison officer sent by Abu You Brigade, Abu You himself.
The three form the highest command group of this mixed unit.
Behind them, and within the shadows of the hills stretching nearly two kilometers in an inverted "L" shape, over eight thousand soldiers silently lurk.
This is virtually all the mobile forces the Liberation Forces militia organization and Abu You Brigade can muster, a full-scale mobilization.
