Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Art of Fighting with Death as a Teacher

This sniper, who still uses a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle on the battlefield in the 21st century, is already beyond the golden age of a professional soldier on the battlefield. His sun-tanned face was covered with wrinkles that had been slowly carved by the harshness of his existence. I don't know why, he looks like a piece of rock that has been quietly in the desert since Pangu opened the world, with the wind and rain, the surface has long been mottled, but it is still so quiet that there is no trace of waves, quietly looking at the rocks of sunrise and sunset.

Maybe it's because it's too much in tune with everything around him, he is obviously lying there, but it's easy for people to involuntarily ignore his existence.

He has long been accustomed to surviving in the world of wind and sand, no matter what time it is, he always habitually squints his eyes slightly, but when he opens his eyes for some reason, his eyes as sharp as an eagle will be like a bayonet in an instant, as sharp as hell, and even colder.

His name is Wadud, and there are many people who call him in Afghanistan, which translates to "the one who loves everyone".

Vadud once traveled far away from Russia, assisting the Chechen armed forces to resist the encirclement and suppression of the Russian army. After returning home from the Second Chechen War, he became a sniper instructor in the advanced course group in the Al-Qaida training camp established by Mr. Ben.**.

In the following two years, Wadod's life fell into the lowest point, no matter how hard he tried, he did not train a qualified sniper, although everyone in al-Qaeda is the closest brother and comrade-in-arms under the leadership of Mr. Ben**, no one sneered at him, but everyone around him unconsciously showed suspicion to Wadod, still made Wadod, who has a high pride and self-esteem, feel hurt.

Time goes by in 2001, because of the 911 incident, the United States launched a war on terrorism against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and al-Qaeda, which can be recorded in history forever, al-Qaeda has been hit harder than ever, more than half of the training camps were wiped out in the high-intensity and continuous air raids of the US military, and the training camp where Vadod was not spared, and was continuously bombed by the US army's AC-130 ghost gunboat aircraft on a certain night, and the entire camp with instructors was full of more than 150 people, and only Wadod survived the air raid.

Wadud, who had lost contact with the Order, wandered alone in the desert of northern Afghanistan, where he witnessed a horrific massacre that was not revealed until seven years later and reported through the British newspaper The Times...... Nearly 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war, who had laid down their arms, were arrested in November 2001 by Abdullah Abdullah, who had been loyal to the Uzbek warlords. Rashid. Dostum instructed the armed men to shoot him.

At that time, General Dostum cooperated with U.S. special forces in the desert of northern Afghanistan, launching frequent onslaught attacks on al-Qaeda and Taliban armed forces, and his men captured a large number of Taliban soldiers who had laid down their arms, and at the general's behest, they held a large number of prisoners in sealed containers, and many Taliban soldiers suffocated to death. Other prisoners of war were shot dead by Dostum with machine guns set up and then burned along with the boxes after being locked in wooden boxes and incapacitated.

A just war aimed at counter-terrorism, its followers are not necessarily the vanguard of justice, and the stories made are not necessarily justice, and General Dostum has vividly interpreted this philosophy with his bloody massacre. In the aftermath, the U.S. government also admitted that General Dostum had acted aggressively and released data on the massacre...... There were dozens of victims.

But in 2002, a copy of the data provided by the U.S. State Department's intelligence agencies on November 23, which has now been officially declassified with the fall and exile of General Dostum, clearly states that about 2,000 prisoners of war died in the massacre.

Having witnessed the dehumanizing massacre but unable to rescue his own people, Wadud stopped his wanderings and launched a one-man war of revenge in the desert of northern Afghanistan. During the Chechen War, Vadud, who survived the all-round attack of the modernly equipped Russian army from the sky to the ground, used his brilliant sniper tactics to constantly snipe any member of General Dostum's faction who dared to appear in his field of vision.

Until February 2002, when the anti-terrorist guns in Afghanistan had subsided, Wadud was still like a ghost, wandering alone in the desert, getting food and water from the corpses of his enemies, and when night came, he could only wrap a thin blanket and burrow into a burrow to escape the desert night, which could freeze to the bone marrow. In only five or six hours of sleep a day, he didn't know how many times he would be woken up by freezing, how many times he would wake up from pain, and he didn't know how many times he would be suddenly awakened by the wind and grass, and subconsciously clenched the gun in his hand again.

When Mentan led a small team through the blockade of American special forces and British snipers, avoided the defense line under General Dostum, and finally found Vadud who had come back to replenish the ammunition of the Type 5 or 6 rifle at an underground secret ammunition supply depot of Al Qaeda, even Mentan, a combat hero who had experienced nine years of the Anti-Soviet War and was accustomed to seeing life and death, was stunned by the compatriot in front of him.

Three months, a full ninety days!

Normal people may not be able to imagine how much pressure a person must have been under after fighting alone for so long in the desert in northern Afghanistan, where the temperature exceeds minus 30 degrees Celsius at night and the water is absolutely dripping into ice.

After three months of fighting, no matter how good a sniper is, it is impossible to remain unscathed, and Vadud is already scarred all over his body, most of which are abrasions left by his mortar bombardment, as well as frostbite caused by his long lying in the snow. If there is any part of Vadod's body that he has carefully protected and is still flexible and powerful, it is his hands, a pair of sniper hands that have killed countless enemies on the battlefield and are still as stable as rocks to this day, and even his fingernails have been neatly sharpened by his saber!

In this alone but three-month war, even Wadud could not remember how many enemies he had sniped with his own hands, and on the butt of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in his hand, there were 127 scar marks that could no longer be found in the half-trace, and behind each one of them represented a real life that had disappeared in Vadud's hands. And the three particularly obvious star symbols are the medals he left for himself when he met snipers from England while wandering in the desert, met them in a narrow way, and finally left the battlefield alive!

Looking at the man in front of him who was already too thin to look human, his clothes were in tatters, because he had endured pain and cold for a long time, he was seriously deprived of sleep, his eyes were as red as blood, but his movements were still flexible, and his eyes revealed a man who was extremely confident and sharp to the extreme, Meng Tan slowly opened his arms, "Child, the war is over, Mr. Ben ** has successfully broken through, come home with us." ”

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