It's been nearly four years since the children came to this place.

During this period, the border was still not calm, and the old mountain was still hot. The Sino-Vietnamese War of '79 awakened the decision-makers of the party and the army, and at the sound of an order, the major military regions took turns to send troops to the front line to receive the baptism of war, and almost all the troops participating in the war set up their own special reconnaissance brigades, and they explored the road of reform of the troops in the midst of a rain of bullets and bullets, and the rudiments of China's special forces began to appear.

During this period, the construction of the wolf's den has not been interrupted, and all the latest science and technology, top-level weapons and equipment and advanced training methods that can be collected will appear here at the first time.

During this period, everyone here is in a race against time, they don't want to be left behind by the brother forces outside, and in a few years, they have to hand in a perfect answer, and their advantage is that it brings together top experts and various professionals, and many of the latest scientific research results are the first to be applied here.

Perfect medical security, supplemented by adequate food supply and scientific nutrition, can allow the students' bodies to recover quickly from the fatigue of high-intensity training, and at the same time, make these children significantly taller and stronger than their peers outside.

Except for some free time at their own disposal after eight o'clock in the evening, the daily training and study are fully arranged, and eating is only a big recess, as Xue Ming said, the children's adaptability is amazing, and they have long been accustomed to life here.

Compared with training close to the limit, cultural classes interspersed with daily activities give them a rest time to recover their strength, and it is also the most relaxing time. Their curriculum is completely detached from ordinary programmatic education, these experts have specially created a whole-brain rapid memory and forced memory combination learning method for these children, so that they can quickly master a large amount of knowledge and information in a short period of time, this method is particularly effective in the study of some liberal arts, even some abstract science knowledge, but also in the training ground and laboratory through personal practice to be understood and absorbed, for them, although the grades are also good and bad, but learning is never a burden, They are always ready to apply what they have learned to work their miracles. This advantageous education enabled them to complete almost all the courses of junior high school in ordinary schools in just over two years.

The wilderness survival training has taught them how to use everything in nature to serve themselves, mastered the skills of using the stars, plants, and water currents to distinguish directions, learned how to find water sources and food, and learned how to camouflage and conceal themselves.

At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, even if it was not yet dark, it was dark and dark in the depths of the dense primeval forest.

Zhang Quanle, who was relatively thin in stature, walked at the front of the group, carefully discerning the direction of progress by the little light that barely penetrated between the canopies. Next to him was Bagan from Mongolia, who, like his name, was a tall and muscular man, a head taller than the children. He wielded a machete and was vigorously clearing some branches and vines that stood in the way.

Liang Qing followed not far behind them, while referring to the coordinate map in his hand, while discerning the direction, it had been almost three hours since he came out of the wolf's den, if they could not reach the vicinity of the predetermined creek before the early hours of tomorrow morning, then they would probably not be able to catch up with the prescribed assembly area. Liang Qing believed that his judgment and feelings would not be wrong, but he underestimated the difficulties encountered, which affected the speed of their travel.

Liang Qing stopped, looked at the moss on the trees and some exposed stones around him, observed the canopy of tall shrubs in the distance, compared the map in his hand, and estimated the distance in his heart.

Qin Han, who was walking at the end of the line, took two steps and came over: "Captain, how is it?" Right? ”

"That's right, we only walked five or six kilometers from the wolf's den here, and we should be near the creek a short distance after going around this mountain beam, there should be more than ten kilometers, it will be dark in a while, you should keep an eye on the back, don't have an accident."

Liang Qing said very surely, without the slightest hesitation, she didn't want to shake everyone's confidence because of her hesitation.

At this time, on the other side of the mountain, Shen Yifei and his team were in trouble no better than Liang Qing's here.

After a brief moment of relief at the beginning, they descended into the valley, flanked by cliffs that went straight up and down, and looked up with nothing but a glimmer of the sky. They have been walking through the valley floor, thinking that they can avoid the hard work of climbing the mountain, but they did not expect that the dead branches and leaves accumulated in the valley for many years have made them suffer. I don't know how thick these branches and leaves are, they slowly squirm forward one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the strong musty smell rises from time to time with their steps.

Yifei sharpened a pathfinder stick with a machete and walked at the front of the line, while Xiaoyan followed him to point the way, and the two discussed the route from time to time.

After this afternoon's cultural class, according to the normal arrangement, it should be combat training, when they came to the training ground, Geng Zhijun and Zhang Dan two instructors were already waiting there, as the training squad leader Yifei after tidying up the team, turned around and ran to the two instructors: "Report to the instructor, the 062 youth training class has been assembled, request training." "It's not a loud report.

"Homecoming!" Geng Zhijun took two steps forward and ordered.

Seeing that Yifei returned to the team, Geng Zhijun continued: "Students, it has been four years since you arrived here, and all the basic training and physical reserves are basically over. In the previous training, each of you has performed well, how to apply the knowledge and skills you have learned to actual combat, you still have a long way to go, and you have to go through a more rigorous test, do you all have confidence? ”

"Yes!" Loud shouts echoed in the sky above the training ground, and the children, who had been circled in the training ground and classroom for four years, were obviously stimulated, and they were eager to try one by one, and the boys were especially excited.

"Looks like you're all ready and want to show off your skills, and I'd love to see how capable you baby soldiers are that don't know the height of the sky. Today's first training is a field march, and now it is divided into two teams in the order of odd and even numbers, Shen Yifei leads the odd A team, and Liang Qing leads the even B team, requiring them to arrive at the same training camp within the specified time. Each of you is only allowed to choose three kinds of field tools to carry, what to bring your team members to negotiate by themselves, in addition to the uniform distribution of a marching map for each team, note, must strictly follow the route marked on the map; A flare gun for use when calling for help and exiting missions. ”

As he spoke, Geng Zhijun took out two backpacks from his back like a trick and handed them to Shen Yifei and Liang Qing, and then arranged.

"All personnel are not allowed to bring any food and drinking water, the time is 24 hours, that is, this time tomorrow, you must arrive at the assembly area marked on the map before three o'clock tomorrow afternoon, now each of your squads has twenty minutes to prepare, and the timer will start in twenty minutes, do you understand?"

"Hear me." The answers were scattered and disorderly.

"What's wrong? Soft, chaotic, haven't you eaten? If you're afraid, you can quit now, and if anyone quits and stands up now, is there any? Geng Zhijun roared viciously.

"Nope!" The children's answers were uniform.

"Did you hear the layout clearly?" Geng Zhijun asked loudly.

"I heard you all!" The still-immature voice of the child echoed over the training ground.

"Good! Balls! I'd like to see how many of you can get through this level, now start preparing for each other, and after the preparation is completed, you can go straight away, no need to report, and the timer will start in twenty minutes, and disband. ”

Geng Zhijun turned around and walked without looking back.

The moment of silence was interrupted by Yi Fei: "All Team A, target No. 1 armory, run forward." Without finishing speaking, the first one ran briskly towards the armory not far away, and the other children fanned out towards the first armory.

There were only members of Liang Qing's B team left in the venue, everyone looked at Liang Qing, and Zhang Quanle urged on the side: "Captain, hurry up, Team A will leave in a while." ”

Liang Qing looked at everyone, took out the map from his schoolbag, glanced at it, and said quickly: "Lezi, Bagen, plus a few of you will go with me to the No. 2 armory to select equipment, Qin Han and the others rushed to the No. 3 exit to gather, hurry up." ”

Details determine success or failure, and Liang Qing's finesse outperformed Yifei's speed at the beginning of the moment.

Nor did he soon suffer for his decision.

When a group of them arrived at the No. 1 armory, the team members took the same, and I took the same, and they were noisy and chaotic. After all, he reacted quickly, and immediately said: "Gao Jian, Zhai Mingyi, Shen Dapeng, the three of you stay, Xiaoyan, you take everyone to gather outside the door and stand by, quickly." "After a long period of training, these children have already developed a good habit of obeying orders, and when they hear Yifei's deployment, no one raises objections, and orders are quickly turned into action.

Unlike Liang Qing, he didn't ask for the opinions of others, and after reading the road map, he said directly: "Most of our roads are through the valley, and it is easy to get lost, so we need to bring more machetes, fires, and a few compasses." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Jian, Zhai Mingyi, and Shen Dapeng had already found all their things, and quickly rushed out of the door, joined Xiaoyan and them outside, and ran to Exit 3 together.

At this time, Gu Changhui, Xue Ming, Geng Zhijun, Zhang Yi and many other instructors and teachers gathered in a large monitoring room to carefully observe the children's every move, Geng Zhijun raised his hand and glanced at his watch: "It's not bad, less than ten minutes." ”

Gu Changhui and Xue Ming glanced at each other and nodded, this was the first time they had arranged field training that the students had completed independently, and it was also to test the results of the training over the years.

Gu Changhui exhaled a long breath: "It's really a bit beyond my expectation that these children can persist until now, especially since there are really a lot of good seedlings among them, which is very gratifying." ”

Xue Ming nodded approvingly: "The next step of training will not be so easy, they have grown up slowly, and they have all adapted to this kind of life, but after all, what they have learned in the past few years is a basic thing, and those professional and targeted training in the future will not be so easy, I think the elimination rate will come up at that time, and we will also arrange follow-up learning for those children who come down, and we can't leave it alone, it will be a waste of these precious resources." ”

Gu Changhui glanced at Xue Ming: "Do you think you cherish these children, each of them is our treasure, it is impossible to throw them away, I have already greeted several relevant military academies at the headquarters, and when they complete the initial training of these six years, they will let those children who come down enter the academies to further their studies, we can't just let those who stay charge in the future, they need to have their own bases, logistics support, battlefield support and other related support departments, think about it, these people are far from enough, who dares to waste it?" ”

Xue Ming smiled: "It's still the chief's foresight, and I admire it." ”

Gu Changhui glared at Xue Ming: "Don't be idle, don't be idle, hurry up." ”

"Yes." Xue Ming and the other instructors responded, turned around and walked out of the observation room.

"I'm still a little worried, can these children handle it, but don't be in any danger." Zhang Yi on the side said worriedly. Over the years, she has been getting along with the children she has taught more like brothers and sisters, like good friends, and many girls even call her Sister Zhang Yi directly, and she is also happy to accept this title.

"Don't worry, we should trust them, these years of training will not be for nothing."

Gu Changhui seemed to say to Zhang Yi and to himself.

When Yifei and his team rushed to Exit 3, Liang Qing and the others had already left and entered the depths of the dense forest.

Nor did he glance at the direction they were leaving, and smiled slightly, he already had a general understanding of the terrain here, nor did he know what kind of difficulties Liang Qing would face, and he knew that the road ahead of him would not be easy either. Yifei took a machete from Zhai Mingyi's hand and said to his teammates beside him: "Xiaoyan and I are exploring the way in front, after Gao Jian broke off, Zhai Mingyi and Dapeng are interspersed in the middle of the team, everyone takes care of each other, we must arrive at the assembly place before Team B and set off." ”