After traveling around South America, I finally returned to China, walked for a month, returned to my parents' house and ate three bowls of fragrant white rice Li Qingyuan finally felt that he had returned to normal, and his living habits were really a terrible thing.

After playing for nearly a month, the production progress of the spider silk in the research base was delayed for a month, and he sent Gu Tianli to the base, and the matter of flowers and trees should be implemented.

In November, during the retirement period of Chinese soldiers, the security company began to recruit talents, and now it is different from the past, Helium Star Security Company has a reputation for its generous welfare benefits, and has long become the first choice for retired soldiers in the Yangtze River Delta region.

The Lin'an Veterans Affairs Bureau found Shen Shenghan in order to arrange jobs for more veterans, and Shen Shenghan, who was also a soldier, was also considered to have given enough face, and the 1,500 places made the director of the bureau smile.

In order to select outstanding personnel, Shen Shenghan conducted a comprehensive training of up to 3,000 recruiters for a month, and finally left half of the personnel.

Originally, Yue Hao was in charge of elite training, but now that Yue Hao has gone to the Middle East with his manpower, Shen Shenghan is also powerless, and Li Qingyuan has no choice but to send Li Daokun out to take over the vacancy after Yue Hao leaves.

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After attending Li Qingyuan's wedding on National Day, Sophie came to Iraq to become a war correspondent despite her family's opposition.

At least 30 people were killed and 65 injured in a car bomb attack on a funeral near Maidan Square in central Najaf at noon on December 19, when a group of Iraqis gathered to watch an ongoing funeral in Najaf, a city in central Iraq, one of the holiest sites for Shia Islam.

When Sophie arrived in Najaf, it was the early morning of the 20th, and the US military had already cordoned off the entire city and was searching some suspicious locations in the city.

At the same time, a car bomb attack in Karbala, another Islamic Shiite holy site, 70 kilometres northwest of Najaf, killed 10 people and injured more than 40.

Sophie can be said to be so busy that she didn't touch the ground, going back and forth between the two places to report on the attack.

After doing news reporting in both places, Sophie and her accompanying photographer returned to Baghdad, as the capital of Iraq, Baghdad is relatively safe, and the two of them have been staying in a local five-star hotel, although it is a five-star hotel, but the rooms are very small, and many facilities have not been replaced for many years, which is only equivalent to the level of some township guest houses in China.

At present, there is a shortage of living materials in Iraq, Sophie's dinner is only carrots and potatoes, and the chef's skills in the hotel are really not complimentary, but she is willing to do it, there is her dream here, no matter how hard and tired she is, she has no regrets.

The hotel's electricity supply is still guaranteed, but the fresh water supply has stopped, and after a long day of running, Sophie is covered in dirt and ash and can't wash it, so she can only change into clean clothes, drag her tired body to sit at the shabby desk, and write down the day's harvest in the not-so-bright orange-red light.

U.S. forces base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on December 21

Hit by rockets.

Sophie who received the news was in an unusually complicated mood, almost all the major cities in Iraq were smashed into ruins, of course, the main responsibility should be borne by Saddam, but the hegemony of the United States is a real executioner, it overthrew Saddam's regime and destroyed the whole of Iraq, and in the end it was the ordinary people who suffered.

Mosul is an important city in northern Iraq, the industrial, agricultural, financial center and the political center of the Kurdish autonomous region, with the largest oil field and the largest oil refining facility in northern Iraq, which was once one of the important targets of the US military bombing Iraq.

The Kurdish population of Mosul, 500 kilometers from Baghdad, is extremely dangerous to traverse, and terrorist groups often plant bombs on both sides of the main roads to attack vehicles, especially US off-road vehicles or armored vehicles. Nevertheless, Sophie decided to make a trip to Mosul to broaden her horizons and develop local informants who would provide the necessary information for her journalism.

When Sophie took nearly ten hours to reach Mosul, the Iraqi armed group "Ansar Sunni Army" issued a statement on the Internet claiming responsibility for the incident.

The day after the bombing, the Ansar Sunni Army disclosed details of the attack online, saying that they were provided with information by a 24-year-old Mosul man who had been working at the U.S. military base in Mosul for two months.

As soon as this news was revealed, the US military base in Mosul exploded, and the US GIs began to check the external staff inside the base and searched the families of the foreign recruits to ensure their own safety.

Sophie began to follow and report on the search operations of the US military, and she drove a pickup truck far behind the US military, with photographer Li Shaodong in the passenger seat.

The American GIs in reality are definitely not the same as in film and television works that are dedicated to saving the world, rude and barbaric is their true portrayal, kicking open the door, rushing into the house and pulling people out of the room roughly, holding guns to the heads of ordinary people are the norm, Sophie has seen this scene more than once.

The camera is a faithful record of what is happening here.

The U.S. military searched for three days to nothing, and on Christmas Day, the absent-minded GIs exchanged fire during the search, gunshots rang out in the sky, and the GIs who entered the house fell out, struggled a few times and stopped moving.

In the camera footage, half a human head poked out from the second floor of the house, a typical Arab dressed in a white turban, and observed it for less than 2 seconds, and then a rocket was launched, blowing up the Humvee military off-road vehicle parked in the middle of the road into a pile of scrap metal, and the two GIs hiding behind the off-road vehicle to support were overturned to the ground.

The American soldiers outside the house threw a grenade into the door and dragged the robe back to the ground in front of the door.

The exchange of fire did not take more than ten minutes, the US military support arrived at the scene, the roar of the rotors of the two gunships came overhead, Sophie stretched out half of his head to look at the sky above the pickup truck, if he was not mistaken, this was an Apache gunship, only to see two rockets fired from the rocket launch slot under the wings, with flames and white smoke, straight towards the two-story house.

Seeing that the reinforcements arrived, Sophie launched the pickup, and there was no suspense in the head-on firefight, and she was ready to make a detour to the back of the house.

Continue to track the follow-up of the U.S. military.

Sophie drove the pickup truck for three minutes to the back of the house, through the gap between the surrounding houses, she saw several Arab men with guns shooting towards the way, she was brave enough to drive up, this is the first hand of this firefight, miss this opportunity, the next time I don't know when to wait, although she is afraid, she does not want to regret it.

Separated by two houses, Sophie pulled up the pickup truck, the target of the car was too big to be spotted, and she was ready to touch it.

"Brother Dong can't take any pictures here, so we got out of the car and touched it. ”

"Xiao Su is too dangerous, the bullets don't have long eyes, these militants won't be polite to us!"

Li Shaodong's dissuasion failed to dispel Sophie's thoughts, "Brother Dong, we have been running around for the past two months but we have never gotten first-hand information, and we will never miss such a rare opportunity today." ”

Sophie opened the car door and jumped down, Li Shaodong gritted his teeth and followed with the camera, he couldn't let a woman compare.

In the corner of the first house, Sophie poked half of her head into the retreating militants who were moving towards them.

Directly opposite Sophie was a two-storey house, and to the right of the house was a dry grassy area with two pickup trucks parked on the grass, which the militants began to board as they fired back.

As soon as the pickup truck had completed its U-turn and had no time to enter the road, the armed helicopter in the sky launched two "Haierfa" semi-active laser-guided anti-tank missiles, sending the pickup truck to the western sky.

The militants on the grass who had not had time to get into the car were the lucky ones, but even then, the blast wave of the missiles shook the three militants into a state of resistance.

The pursuing GIs quickly took control of the situation, the three surviving militants were tied up, and the brief exchange of fire ended, and Sophie and Li Shaodong quietly evacuated to rest under a big tree across the road.

In just ten minutes of firefighting, Sophie completely felt the cruelty of the battlefield, more than ten fresh lives were lost in front of her, fragmented, stumps flying, blood all over the ground, all of which impacted Sophie's nerves.

When she came to the tree, she supported the trunk with one hand and "vomited", vomited up the food that was not much in her stomach, and sweat gushed out on her pale face, and her short hair stuck to her cheeks.

Li Shaodong's face was pale but much better than Sophie, standing beside her comfortingly and patting her on the back.

There is no stock in her stomach, Sophie can only bend down and retch, her left hand along her thigh and pinch the slightly trembling calf, this is the baptism of the battlefield, if she can hold it up, she will become a real elite, if she can't hold it up, it will be a shadow that follows her for a lifetime.

Sweat dripped down the tip of her nose and fell onto her upper, and she looked at the round droplets on the upper to distract herself, but at that moment, a "bang" gunfire startled her again.

Straightening up, Sophie withdrew her right hand propped up on the trunk of the tree, bent her arm to rub the sweat on her face, abandoned the distractions in her heart, and quickly ran towards the place where the gunshots rang out.