Chapter 36: Afterglow

Instructor Fuman's plan was successful, and although there were no hot scenes such as bombing and bombing and plane chasing and killing in this rescue operation, they went deep into the enemy's base camp and did it cleanly and neatly, which can be said to be the essence of special raid warfare.

But looking at these compatriots standing in front of him, Kovman frowned slightly. These people had survived for ten years in the worst conditions, and before the American invasion of Afghanistan, they might have had the possibility of letting off steam, through the caves on the top of the mountains, and the possibility of exposure to sunlight, but now they were forced to shrink into this world that did not see the light of day, their faces were so pale that there was no trace of blood, and their clothes were already in tatters, revealing their skinny and scars left everywhere from the torture. Faced with such a large number of captives, Kovman had to seriously consider whether they could withstand the strenuous physical exertion of crossing mountains and withdrawing from the mountains overnight, given their current state of health.

Kovman was still frowning and thinking when there was a sudden small commotion behind him.

After several captives reported it, the panther and the scorpion teamed up to remove a stone slab with ventilation holes, and in the cellar below this slab, the thirty-third captives squatted.

When the panther and the scorpion pulled the thirty-third captive out of the cellar, and looked at his face, which was stained with snot and tears, and was still twitching because of fear or cold, the hands of both of them suddenly trembled together.

They know this, they are brothers who walked into the Soviet Cadet Military Academy together thirty years ago, received military training together, peeked at girls taking a shower and received punishment together! But looking at this brother, who was captured by mistake with Andrew's father Inar twelve years ago, and was put on the list of "killed" by the Russian authorities since four years ago, the scorpion and the panther suddenly turned their heads together, because they couldn't bear to see each other's faces again, and the sadness that could no longer be concealed.

This brother is finished!

The cellar where their brother was held was only more than a meter deep and more than 90 centimeters wide, and in such a small space, an adult could not even sit down, so he could only squat in it with his hands and knees in the most uncomfortable movements. When the guards in the concentration camp pressed hundreds of pounds of stone slabs on the cellar, what he had to face every day was that he was completely cut off from a single light, could not hear a sound, could not walk or jump, and could not even stretch his waist and relax his legs. All he has is absolute loneliness, plus darkness that seems to have become nothing.

There is no humanity for how long he has been "punished" in this environment, but the long and desperate darkness has completely collapsed him, and his eyes are no longer the sharpness and perseverance of a soldier, and what remains is the most primitive dazedness, not even a trace of brilliance, the black panther and the scorpion teamed up to rescue, it is simply a walking corpse that no matter how much time passes and how many methods are used, it will never be able to return to normal again!

No!

The panther and scorpion soon discovered. This former brother. I can't even walk.

I have been locked up in that small space for many years. The ligaments throughout his body were atrophied from lack of activity. It was the panther and the scorpion, who were holding his arms on the left and right. Wanted to help him get back on his feet. His legs were still crouching in the cellar. Honestly shrunk into a ball. Let the scorpion and the panther be two. Pulled him into the air. Still dangling there. From a bystander's perspective. He was like a monkey playing on a swing. It looks really funny and funny.

But see this scene. Who can laugh?!

Look at this twelve years ago and himself was captured by a mistake. There are no more apprentices like humans. Even the corners of Andrew's father, Inar, twitched slightly. He crouched down in front of his apprentice. Took a handkerchief from the panther's hand. In the way that I treat a child. Gently wipe this off and then on your own. Men on their feet again. The thick snot and tears on his face.

In the beginning. Visibly frightened man. Still subconsciously struggling. But rubbing and rubbing. He slowly fell silent. Although the cellar has worn out his thoughts. devoured the soul of the earth. But I am familiar with it physically. with an instinctively sense of security. There is also a heartfelt respect for the man in front of him. Still made him give up struggling.

He tilted his head. Stupidly looked at Andrew's father, Inar. That one was horribly thin. But he still has a face of pride and dignity that people dare not ignore. He laughed foolishly. He put the index finger of his left hand in his mouth and sucked the ground. But even he didn't understand why. But his right hand was a little bit. A little bit. Follow one in his life. The trajectory has been repeated thousands of times. Slowly paddled to his forehead. to this man. Honored in his life. The least standard. It looks the most ridiculous. And the last ...... Salute?!

Then his movements, including the primitive smile on his face that had no meaning, froze at the same time. Under the silent gaze of everyone, Andrew's father, Inar, left a kiss on the apprentice's forehead, and then slowly, pulled out the dagger that pierced the other person's heart.

The blazing blood sprayed fiercely along the wound on Andrew's father Inar's hand, and when the other party's right hand was put down little by little, a striking word in his palm suddenly jumped into Inar's eyes......!

The man who died in Inar's arms was sent to the cellar because he had made some kind of mistake, and before he lost consciousness and had a complete mental breakdown, he knocked out a tooth with his fist, and then used this tooth as a pen to repeatedly engrave the key to waking up Inar's instructor in the palm of his hand...... Vodka!

Before this man had a nervous breakdown and became a complete idiot, he knocked out a tooth with his fist, and he could use this tooth as a blade to cut the major artery to commit suicide, and in the face of this irreversible desperate situation, I believe that the vast majority of people will make a similar choice. But he didn't do it, but used this tooth to carve the same word over and over again on the palm of his hand, until the scars accumulated over and over again, and became a mark that would never be erased unless he died.

It is his last choice to slowly collapse and slowly become an idiot, but also to use his own way to protect his most respected instructors and superiors. Sitting on the ground, quietly feeling this child

It was a little cold in his arms, but there was not much on Inar's face that neither Kazekage nor Kofman could see what was going on in his heart.

Looking at such an old soldier who was not shocked by honor and disgrace, and was really a general's demeanor, Fengyinglou suddenly thought of a word...... There is thunder in the chest, and the face is like a peaceful lake!

Inar said suddenly: "Xiao Man."

Kovman quickly responded, "Here! ”

Inar's gaze swept over the faces of his compatriots who had just been freed and were far from being out of danger, and he said in a deep voice: "How many people can you take with you?" ”

Faced with this question, Fuman was silent and had to admit that the number of prisoners in the concentration camp was much larger than he expected, and the comparison between the success rate of the operation and the number of rescuers had rushed to his throat in his mind, but in the face of the faces full of longing and begging, Kovman could not speak.

What he faced was all the former Soviet Union soldiers, and they were all brothers who fought side by side in Afghanistan, a foreign land! In the eyes of the world public, their military operation 20 years ago was a naked aggression, and no matter how miserable their fate is, even if someone will sigh, they will not jump out to cry out for them...... Because they deserve it, and even more because they are soldiers of the former Soviet Union!

The soldiers took it as their duty to order the people, and the state ordered them to attack, and they had no choice but to do their best to win the war, and as a result, they lost, they were captured, and they spent twelve long years in the enemy's concentration camps, during which I don't know how many people, because of their disability and disease, died in a humiliating state, and they could not even wrap their bodies in horse leather, nor could they leave their names on the martyrs' monuments.

Now, when they finally came to see again, and their eyes were shining again, Kovman really couldn't bear to say that number that was too cruel.

"I'm Colonel Inar, and I think this place should be the highest rank in my army."

Inar put down the corpse in his arms, he stood up again, looked at the thirty-one captives in front of him, and said categorically: "If you are over forty-five years old, take a step back!" ”

A group of people looked at each other, but greeted Yi

"This is the Bolatos Mountains in northern Afghanistan, and you should know that there are all rolling hills nearby, and in such an environment, we have no helicopters, no armored vehicles, not even ox carts, and if we want to survive, we have to march 25 kilometers in the mountains in four and a half hours on our own legs. Once you fall behind, you won't get any help, and the only end is to be executed on the spot! ”

Inar looked at the audience, and his words were really loud: "So how many people Komman can take out is not up to him, but up to you, on your physical health and your personal willpower, whether you can defeat this mountain!" Those who are able to complete this task, take a step forward! ”

It is not easy for even a strong young man to march twenty-five kilometers in the mountains in four and a half hours, let alone a group of captives who have spent ten years in a concentration camp, scrawny and carefully chewing biscuits?!

Although one step forward represents the hope of survival, the road ahead is too long, and only eight of the nineteen still young captives finally come out. Inar's gaze fell on the twelve soldiers who were over forty-five years old again, and he stretched out his hand to point at one of them, and said, "I remember, you are an expert in code-breaking and have an innate sensitivity to digital passwords, and you are even called a digital magician by the people around you, right?" ”

The soldier nodded subconsciously, and Inar had already walked over at this time, carefully examined his body, and finally nodded slightly, and said, "Take two steps forward and stand with them." ”

Inar walked up to another soldier who was over forty-five years old, "Your name is Hillaf, a geologist, and you have been active in the mountains of northern Afghanistan because you have determined that there are 3.65 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 3.6 billion barrels of crude oil reserves here, and you have written several proposals in succession, hoping that the state can fund the establishment of an energy extraction base in northern Afghanistan?" ”

The man named Shiraf nodded repeatedly, and his face couldn't help but show a trace of consternation, he really didn't know that Inar, who had never spoken to him in twelve years, knew him well.

"By the way," Inar continued, "in the six years that you have been in Afghanistan with the army, you have also found a world-class iron ore with a total reserve of 2 billion tons, two mines, a chrome mine, and a mine at latitude 3 north and longitude 63 east, and there are nearly 100 other small deposits, right?" ”

Hillaf's eyes widened, and he nodded again and again, the sixty-year-old soldier who had a layer of gray on the tips of his hair and was as tall as a gun, even said the latitude and longitude of the mineral deposits he had found!

Inar pointed to the nine people standing in a row in front of him and said, "Go over." ”

Faced with the sudden arrival of hope for survival, Hillaf's eyes suddenly rose to heat, but he was soon late, "My health is not very good, when I was caught, they smashed a few ribs with the butt of a gun, and now I am often panting, I am afraid of ......"

If you can't hold out to the end, you will be executed on the spot, such a strict iron-blooded policy has indeed scared off many people, knowing that it is impossible to complete the task and die 100% in the hands of their own people, it is better to choose to stay, at least take a few more breaths.

"Kovman!"

Hearing the instructor's call, Kovman trotted all the way to Inar, "Here!" ”

"If he can't walk, you will carry it, and if one person can't carry it, two people will carry it! In any case, even if you crawl on the ground like a dog at the end, you will drag him back to me alive! Inar stared into Komman's eyes and said, "Tell me, can you complete this task?!" ”

Kovman puffed up his chest, and he replied cleanly: "Yes!" ”

"Very good," Inar patted Hillaf on the shoulder and said gently, "I heard it, even if you can't walk, you won't be shot, go over!" ”

When the tenth man joined the ranks of survival, Inar also turned

, he didn't pick anyone else. Terrorists have been trained at the base

"It's unfair, it's unfair, it's so unfair!"

At this moment, there was a sudden angry roar behind Inar, and Inar turned around, and with the blue light emitted by the glowing rod, he saw a face that was already skinny and skinny, but now it had become a little distorted. The man pointed at Shinar and shouted: "Why do we have to stay here honestly and wait for death, and those who can't walk halfway will be shot on the spot, and he, a guy who is not a soldier, obviously admits that he can't walk, can still get exceptional preferential treatment?" ”

Inar stared at the man in front of him who was still holding a compressed biscuit in his left hand, and his right hand was there dangling in the air in order to increase the momentum of the language, and the spittle was still mixed with biscuit residues, and he suddenly asked, "Is it a party member?" ”

"What about party members, now that the Soviet Union has collapsed......"

"Smack!"

Before the other party's words were finished, Inar slapped him heavily in the face.

"That's right, I heard that the Soviet Union is gone, and the Communist Party has stopped its activities throughout the Soviet Union, but I am still a soldier of the Soviet Union!" Inar stretched out his hand and pointed to the location of his heart, and said: "Without the Communist Party, I, an orphan in World War II, would have long ago not known where I died, and finally was buried like a wild dog in a random place." No matter what changes have taken place outside, I was a member of the Soviet Union, I am and will still be! ”

"Now I'll talk about it, why save him, not you."

Inar stared at the man in front of him who was slapped by him, his face quickly became red and swollen, but he dared not speak angrily, and said: "Tell me, if you are really saved, what can you do after returning home?" ”

"Return to your ancestors as a 'hero', and then find a bunch of reporters to publicize how you serve the country, and how the country abandoned you, and finally ask the country to apologize and compensate, and live a worry-free life from now on, if you can still stand up with that plaything below, you will find a few more eighteen-year-old chicks to carnival night and night, to make up for your losses in the past ten years?!"

Inar's words made the man's face turn red, and it was obvious that his mind was shattered by one word.

"I can't say that your idea is wrong, but, please tell me that the quota is limited, should I send back a national treasure-level expert who can continue to shine for the country and make outstanding contributions, or should I send back a person who is full of resentment and turns the world upside down, and then send back to the motherland as a parasite and let you be a clown there?!"

After saying these words, Nar suddenly took another step forward and whispered in the man's ear: "Actually, you and I both know that our country went astray before it disintegrated. By the late eighties, the whole country, with the exception of military products and oil deposits, in the year of the international market, had practically few products that could be put their hands on, and I believe that this situation, even today, ten years later, will not be much better for what the Russian Federation has changed.

Therefore, an expert like Shinal, who can maximize the amount of money squeezed out of the land, is the hope that our country will accumulate enough strength in the ruins to get back on its feet. From this moment on, if you can keep your mouth shut and honestly stand aside, I can still treat you as a comrade, otherwise, I will execute you on the spot for treason! ”

No one dared to ignore Inar's threat or ultimatum, and the man finally gave a military salute to Inar and honestly closed his mouth.

Using thunderous means to quickly suppress all voices of resistance, Inar selected ten people from the thirty-two captives. His gaze finally fell on the Wind Shadow Building, "You come here." ”

Without any hesitation, Fengyinglou trotted all the way to the front of this former Soviet veteran with the same movements as Kofman.

"You are a Chinese soldier who suddenly appeared in Afghanistan, you must have your own special mission, right?"

Fengyinglou didn't hesitate, "Yes! ”

"Do you know the possible consequences of carrying out special tasks outside the country, without receiving orders from superiors, mixing with the special forces of other countries, or even directly participating in military operations?"

Wind Shadow House nodded, "Know! ”

"No, you don't!"

Inar stared at Kazekagelou's face and said in a deep voice, "Do you think your current behavior is just as simple as being criticized and writing and checking?" You are so young, you can carry out cross-border missions alone, you must be the elite of the elite of your army, even if you make a small mistake, the school will tolerate it, even conniving. But you and Kovman walked together, and even with my daughter, and the nature is absolutely different for your country, and for the army in which you serve. ”

Feng Ying Lou finally knew why the old soldier in front of him, whose face was full of sternness, would allow Kofman and his more than twenty apprentices to reunite together to save each other even if they left the army.

In him, he retains the most simple and selfless characteristics of the communists of the Soviet Union a few decades ago. At that time, the Soviet Union was facing an unprecedented predicament, and the members of the Commissariat of the Commissariat could easily mobilize billions of tons of grain, but when they attended the meeting, they fainted with hunger. At that time, the Communists of the Soviet Union were enthusiastic and firm in their beliefs, and they were like the hottest luminous bodies, firmly attracting everyone around them.

And this old soldier in front of him is the former Soviet Communists, the noblest and most simple afterglow!

In fact, the veteran soldier of the former Soviet Union in front of him suddenly said this, didn't he also hope that Fengying Lou would retreat from the difficulties and leave their group of people who were destined to face many dangers?

So Feng Yinglou didn't say anything, he just listened quietly.

"If you die with us in Afghanistan, your country will never recognize your identity, and even if you die, you won't even have a tombstone. And if you leave alive, once this operation comes to light, no matter how many instructors in your field look at you differently, you will be subject to at least three years of strict political scrutiny, you must

All the privacy includes the bits and pieces of your daily contact with Andrew, and you are left to a group of strangers to point fingers at your feelings and life experiences, and try to pick out all kinds of evidence against you. ”

"Your biggest trouble is that you have a relationship with Andrew, and it may seem natural to you and Andrew, but in the eyes of a group of conspiracy theorists, there are hundreds of different explanations. You have to figure out that for a soldier, a love affair in a foreign country, especially between two elite professional soldiers from different countries with too many secrets, is a taboo within a taboo! If you don't get it right, you'll even be asked out of the unit you're currently serving in! ”

Inar is not intimidating, he is just saying a fact. Any country in the world would choose a similar approach when dealing with something similar to this. Take the United States, which claims to be the most democratic and free country, for example, if their plane is shot down, if the pilot is captured by the enemy, even if he is finally rescued, or if he escapes and successfully returns to the army, he will be repeatedly investigated by the CIA. Even if it is finally determined that there is no treason with the enemy and anything detrimental to the motherland, within three months, the pilot will be forced to leave the army.

This is the reality that professional soldiers must face, the closer they are to the core secrets, the more intense the pressure they will face once they step through the minefield in this regard!

"If you turn back now, it's still too late!" Inar said indifferently: "I hope you think about it, for a love that is destined to have no results, is it worth betting on your professional fate!" ”

"I'm not helping you for love."

Wind Shadow House finally spoke, why did he risk his life to help Kovman and them rescue the hostages, Wind Shadow House had also thought about it for a long time. He likes Andrew, and he made a choice, of course, there are factors in this regard, but the more important reason is: "Even if the rabbit dies and the fox is sad!" ”

"We are all professional soldiers, we must serve the orders of the public as our duty, whether it is to resist foreign humiliation or aggression, as long as the superior gives an order, even if we have our own ideas in our hearts, we must do our best."

Feng Yinglou looked at his hands and said in a low voice: "A soldier died on the battlefield, that is the consciousness that must be had before entering the barracks and putting on a military uniform. But I never think that a soldier who has shed blood for the country should shed tears again! ”

Hearing this, a hint of appreciation suddenly flashed in Inaar's eyes, and he suddenly took Andrew's hand and walked to a certain corner of this dungeon, he attached it to Andrew's ear, and whispered: "Girl, this time you have found a treasure." Humble, honest, merciful, heroic, just, honorable and sacrificial, this boy is more like a knight of the Middle Ages than a professional soldier! Believe in Dad's words, from the perspective of identity, your chances are infinitely close to zero, but as long as you follow your feelings, hold on to him, never let go no matter what kind of predicament you face, and face him with your sincerity, sooner or later he will become the man who will put on a wedding dress for you in the future. ”

Inar made the last break to the Wind Shadow Building: "With that kid guarding you, I can rest assured." ”

Andrew's face turned red in an instant, and it was when she finally tasted the meaning of Inar's last words, Andrew's face turned pale as soon as she raised it, and her hands gripped her father's arm with all her might.

"The Soviet Union has collapsed, and the party I have believed in all my life has also been shattered, do you really want me, a bad old man who knows nothing but killing, to return to Russia, in a nursing home or something, to be a crazy old man who punches caregivers?"

Inar reached out and gently rubbed her daughter's hair, which was not too long, but was as smooth as silk like her mother, and said in a low voice: "There are more than thirty people here, and they can only take ten at most with Komman, and I have the highest military rank here, and I am their supreme commander, do you really want me to throw away all these subordinates and flee for my life?" Such a coward, even if you save it, what's the point? ”

In the darkness, Inar actually smiled.

"If I stay here, if I can use these tunnels and caves to support me to the end and lead everyone to escape, it will of course be a good fortune, and if we die on the battlefield, it will be a hundred times better than staying in a concentration camp that does not see the light of day and being tortured to death as a captive. The most important thing is that in my lifetime, I was able to see my Andrew, touch my Andrew, and even see the boy Andrew liked, and found that he can really be trusted......"

Inar exhaled a long breath lightly and smiled: "Heaven is really not thin on me Inar...... Hmmm......"

Before the final sigh was finished, Inar's body shook suddenly, and then the invincible darkness swallowed him, before losing consciousness, Inar also subconsciously reached out and touched his neck that was hit by a non-fatal blow, and the last thought in his heart was: "Black Panther...... It seems that I cleaned you up before, but I still cleaned up less! ”

With the help of the cover of darkness, the guy who sneaked up and succeeded in one blow was the black panther who was the best at infiltration and assassination techniques!

Holding Inar's limp falling body, the panther reached out and wiped a bead of sweat oozing from his forehead. If it weren't for the fact that Instructor Inar's consciousness had just recovered, and his body's reflexes and alertness had dropped to an all-time low, he would never have dared to make a move against his instructor.

"If you don't knock out the instructor, there will be absolutely no way to take him away today!"

Kovman's judgment was not wrong at all.

Zhen put the person he respected the most into the hands of Kovman, and the smile on the panther's face was still that philistine, "I knocked the instructor unconscious, if we leave like this today, the first thing the instructor did when he woke up was 100% to destroy me with one shot!" I will never do this kind of business that is stable and unprofitable, but if I stay, use my understanding of the terrain here, and take the rest of the people to drill mouse holes every day, wait for Lao Mei to take down this place, and then take the opportunity to slip away, I may be able to turn losses into profits and take the opportunity to make a lot of money.

After saying these words, the black panther suddenly winked at Feng Ying Lou, "Mr. Feng, you look at my character, it's quite good, it's trustworthy, right?" If you can't get along in the army in the future and want to do a small business or something, don't forget to find me as a reliable partner! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, there are more chapters, support the author, support UC e-book!) )