The two soldiers, who were soaked in seawater, stood on the beach trembling slightly.

Both of them carried a string of props made of coconut shells and bamboo tubes. This is the primitive float most often used by professional soldiers when swimming at sea, and they have drilled small holes in these objects with sturdy shells and hollow interiors, and then plugged them tightly with cork. When swimming at sea, if they encounter a blockade, they can pull out the cork, fill it with seawater, and then take these tools for underwater swimming. After making sure to swim through the blockade, as long as the water inside is poured out, these bamboo tubes and coconut shells can naturally provide them with enough floating power again.

Looking at the bodies of the two soldiers who had been soaked in seawater and were trembling gently against the night wind, the expressions of the people present were different, but they all closed their mouths. The people who are qualified to participate in this internal selection competition are the best talents selected from the millions of army forces in China, and who can't see that these two soldiers from the mouth of the captain, after knowing the current crisis, actually plan to escape overnight from this island that may be completely wiped out by bombers sent by their superiors tomorrow?!

If it weren't for their captain's strong sense of responsibility, who found out that something was wrong, immediately chased them out, and forcibly brought back the two subordinates who had jumped into the sea, the three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were most worried about would probably have become a reality because of the two soldiers in front of them!

More and more people climbed out of the barracks and onto the beach. No one wants to speak, or no one knows what to say at this time, they just stand there quietly. Facing the flow of people slowly gathering in front of him, and feeling the pressure of this kind of indifference and self-defeat, the two soldiers who were brought back from the sea by the captain finally understood that it turned out that the indifferent and repulsive gaze could really kill!

The captain who captured the two team members with his own hands had a calm voice, but anyone could hear that deep down in his heart, he was already on the verge of exploding anger, "Blood wolf, tank, you two, what a good job!" ”

Both soldiers bowed their heads, they did not dare to make eye contact with the captain's gaze.

"You are all my best students, and I have personally taught you how to survive in the wilderness, how to use the simplest tools on the sea, to cross the enemy blockade line."

Speaking of this, the captain raised his arm, pointed to the direction where the Chinese fleet was anchored in the distance, and shouted: "But I really didn't expect that the 'enemy' you have to face for the first time in a real battle that you really gambled your lives on is our Chinese army!" I didn't even expect that you would become the most shameful deserter in the first actual battle! ”

Apologies, grievances, and unwillingness flashed alternately on the faces of the two soldiers, "Tank" and "Blood Wolf", and finally one soldier, with weak knees, knelt down in front of the captain.

But another soldier hissed: "Tank, don't kneel, we're not wrong!" ”

"Oh?!"

Hearing this, the captain laughed angrily, he glared at his subordinates who were still holding their heads high, and said: "Okay, it is worthy of the blood wolf that I am usually most optimistic about, dare to do it, no matter when, with the same ruthlessness as a wolf!" So, can you please tell me that you are not wrong, but who is wrong? ”

The blood wolf's gaze swept through the crowd, and he raised his hand and pointed at Li Xiangshang, who had just separated the crowd and walked over with Fengying Building, and shouted, "It's him!" ”

Without waiting for Li Xiangshang to react, the blood wolf shook off the string of floating objects made of bamboo tubes and coconut shells on his body, took off his military uniform, and exposed his left arm in front of everyone.

At this time, almost everyone on the island gathered on the beach, and there were more than a dozen people with homemade torches in their hands, barely illuminating the beach. Although the firelight flickered and dimmed under the blowing of the sea breeze, Li Xiangshang could still see the scar the size of a soybean on the blood wolf's left arm at a glance.

Born in 1982, the blood wolf, who is only 25 years old now, also has smallpox vaccine on his body!

"Don't think that my family also paid for it and helped change the household registration information!" The blood wolf stretched out his hand and pointed to the tank kneeling on the ground, and shouted: "He was born in 1983, a year younger than me, but he has also been vaccinated against smallpox!" My high-ranking Major General, you don't want to say that when we joined the army, we all falsely reported our age, right?! ”

Li Xiangshang frowned slightly, and it was only at this time that he suddenly realized that he was wrong.

Finding that they were in absolute danger in Fengying Building, Li Xiangshang was anxious; After listening to the words of the three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, knowing that their attitude was to wipe out the entire people on the island along with the smallpox virus, Li Xiangshang was angry; His younger brother Jin Zexi stood on the opposite side of the motherland and the army, showing that he had even surpassed his own ability, and Li Xiangshang was sad; When I arrived on the island, I suddenly heard Xue Ningbo's declaration of love, and suddenly found that I was not lonely in my life, and those two light kisses made Li Xiangshang finally taste the ups and downs of love. In just a few dozen hours, Li Xiangshang has experienced so many joys and sorrows, tasted all the flavors of life, no matter how calm and wise he is, and when his mood fluctuates too much, he still made a not small mistake!

In the early 80s, the World Red Cross Society announced that the smallpox virus had been completely eradicated, and there was no need to vaccinate newborns against smallpox. Of course, this is something that the whole world should cheer about, but at that time, China had just opened its doors and had just begun to re-establish communication channels with the world stage.

In some areas, in the early eighties, smallpox vaccination was simply stopped; In some areas, it took seven or eight years for this kind of useless work that was no longer necessary.

"Don't look at me like that! I know that there are seventy of you who chose to stay when they could have left on a landing ship today, and you are all heroes, and you can all be justifiably disdainful! But do any of you dare to pat yourself on the chest and tell me that after knowing what happened, you can really have no regrets, and if you were given another chance, you would still make the same choice without hesitation?! ”

The words have reached this point, the blood wolf has no scruples, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the person in front of him, and hissed: "My blood wolf is not afraid of death!" If on the battlefield, no matter how strong and ruthless the enemy is, even if I know that it is certain death, I dare to fight them to the end! Isn't it just a horse leather shroud, what's the big deal, not to mention being able to sleep in the martyr's cemetery, twenty years later, Lao Tzu is still a good man! I can shed blood for this country, but I don't want to shed tears after shedding blood for this country!! ”

Around, quietly.

The words of the blood wolf undoubtedly represent the voice of a considerable number of people. The job of professional soldiers is to face death, and when they join the special forces, they are mentally prepared to die in battle, but who wants to end their lives in this way?!

"It seems that you have given everyone a chance to choose, but in fact, what you have prepared for us is only a dead end!"

The blood wolf pointed at Li Xiangshang's nose and shouted: "You didn't say anything at first, just shouted in such a big way, people over twenty-seven years old came out of the ranks, and then told everyone that the island is very dangerous, and those selected by you can leave first." You are a major general, you have been managing soldiers like me all your life, of course you understand that the army is a whole, in the face of danger, our captain will never leave most of the team members to escape, the captain chooses to stay, even if others are unwilling, they will obey the collective and stay together! Comrade Major General, I would like to ask you, if you had reversed the order, first explained the current situation we are facing, and then gave everyone the opportunity to choose freely, would the final result be completely different?! ”

"Shut up!"

The captain's eyes were red, and he shouted violently: "Blood wolf, do you know what you're talking about, don't forget, you are a party member, and you are a soldier in our special brigade!" ”

"What's wrong with the special forces? Special forces are also raised by their fathers! ”

The blood wolf took off his military uniform, "Is it a special soldier, a party member, even if you know that the country is about to send bombers, you still have to stay here like an idiot until you are burned to the point that there is not even a little scum left." At that point, what are we? Will some people say that we are Dong Cunrui, is it Qiu Shaoyun? Will someone say that we are a group of heroes who sacrificed their lives to protect the country?! ”

"They will only say that we died unexpectedly in training. They will cremate our 'remains' on their own initiative, and then hand over to our families with a box of pigs, dogs, and horse ashes in a sunny gaze in front of everyone! ”

Speaking of this, the blood wolf threw the military uniform that represented the glory and dignity of the soldier in his hand onto the beach, he panted fiercely, and hissed: "If you shed blood, sweat and tears, it is the obligation that a special soldier must fulfill, even if it is abandoned by his superiors, he must have a smile on his face, such glory, I would rather not!" ”

Li Xiangshang didn't explain, didn't scold, he just listened quietly. He entered the barracks at the age of seven, and has been in the army for forty years now, he has been with soldiers all his life, how can he not see that this soldier in front of him, who is only twenty-five years old, no matter how reasonable he says, no matter how loud his voice is, he still can't hide the weakness and emptiness that appear in his heart because of cowardice?!

Fire is real gold, life and death, is indeed the best touchstone for a person's surname.

A person who is usually timid and cautious and seems to be submissive, in the face of death, he may stand up and save most people's lives with his practical actions, becoming a hero admired by everyone; Some people seem to be usually impassioned, willing to fight in the face of danger, and more helpful, but when death is finally unavoidable and there is no room for maneuver, they will become the most shameful deserters!

And the blood wolf undoubtedly belongs to the latter! He also knows that it is shameful to be a deserter, no matter whether he can survive or not, his behavior is destined to be criticized by thousands of people, and it is because of this that he will try his best to encourage the people around him and drag the tank into the ranks of deserters. So that at least, there will be one more person in the future who will accompany him to accept the condemnation.

Li Xiangshang slowly picked up the military uniform with the armband of a certain special brigade in China, he gently patted off the sand grains on it, and saw that there was also a "glorious bullet" cut from wood in a certain position of this military uniform, Li Xiangshang quietly took it off, threw it like garbage, and threw it at his feet at will, and finally cherished this military uniform and handed it back to the captain beside him.

Looking at the "glorious bullet" thrown to the ground by Li Xiangshang, the blood wolf's throat was constantly surging up and down, but he didn't say anything in the end, what qualifications does he have to say anything now?

"From this moment on, you are removed from the army. Congratulations, you are now a civilian, and you no longer need to fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of a soldier, tomorrow I will find a way to get in touch with the command center again, and ask them to send a landing ship to pick you up. ”

Li Xiangshang turned his gaze to the tank that was still kneeling on the ground and did not get up, "You can take off your military uniform now and leave with the blood wolf tomorrow." ”

After saying these words, ignoring the blood wolf whose face turned pale and the tank that had been kneeling on the ground and not getting up, Li Xiangshang turned his head, looked at the others gathered on the beach, and said in a deep voice: "If any of you regret it and have the qualifications to leave this island, you can go directly to the landing ship tomorrow without reporting to anyone." In the face of a battle with almost no chance of winning, there is no shame in choosing to retreat! ”

No one could have imagined that the first person to react was Xu Tingting beside Fengyinglou. She looked at the blood wolf and the tank, and did not hide the disdain on her face in the slightest, and she spit a mouthful of saliva to her feet with a non-ladylike motion. is to take Xu Tingting as an example, and everyone's is spitting in the direction of the blood wolf and the tank.

Although no one deliberately spat on them, no one threw stones, and no one even pointed at them and scolded loudly, but looking at the soldiers who spit on the beach without looking back, walking towards their respective camps, the bodies of the blood wolf and the tank were trembling like dead leaves in the autumn wind. They were completely rejected, that kind of wordless disdain and contempt, a ** stab to their hearts, from today on, they have forever lost contact with the profession of soldiers, and it is no longer possible to work hard, work hard, laugh together, and grieve together with a group of like-minded brothers.

(To be continued)