Chapter 42: The Shadow of War
Time is spent in training that is almost perverted and torturous, day after day.
In the desert training camp, Wan Likai received "water training" that required the horses to run and not to eat grass. Drinking less than ten gallons of water a day, that's only one-half of the amount of fresh water a normal person would have to draw in a day to survive in the desert. In this case, they are a group of soldiers who voluntarily accept "water training", but they have to complete the most rigorous physical training.
Wan Likai fainted on the training ground several times because of extreme lack of water. There was no mercy, no connivance, and no help from medical staff, it was the other students around Wan Likai who used their own precious water and even urine to wake Wan Likai up. It was in this training camp that Wan Likai finally understood what an army is and what a group is! Without the mutual help of their comrades-in-arms, none of them would have been able to read through such training!
"Water training" is the only training in the Fifth Special Unit that allows students to voluntarily take it, and at the same time, it is the training with the highest "normal" attrition of personnel. Trainees who receive this kind of training, which can only be described as harsh, can only do anything to survive in order to survive. In the desert training camp, Wan Likai, together with other students, learned how to use his eyes, nose, hands, and even the ethereal sixth sense to find water veins in a dry and desolate desert.
They learned how to tell if a humble plant on the surface had a fat rhizome. They learned to grab a handful of sand with a little moisture, like a dog, and stuff it into their mouths and suck it non-stop, relying on this method to sustain their already weak but still resilient lives.
When Wan Likai walked out of the desert training camp, the man who thought he was too strong to cry anymore stood in front of the gate of the desert training camp, his head held high, his mouth constantly twitching. Although Wan Likai's tears did not roll out in the end, Wan Likai knew that he had cried.
A soldier who has been "trained in water" will not shed tears even when he cries, because his body already understands better than his master the role of water in sustaining life!
Gradually, I don't know when it began, Wan Likai can already use the sniper scope to quickly find and lock on the target in any situation, and quickly calculate the impact of temperature, air humidity, wind speed and the movement speed of both sides on the sniper; His mental arithmetic ability, even Zhao Jianping, the senior brother, is ashamed of himself, but now that Wan Likai clearly knows that if he and Zhao Jianping meet on the battlefield, the two sides must use sniper rifles to fight to the death, then the person who died must be him!
"Don't say it's a senior brother, even if I meet the one who confiscated my 'wife', I'm not his opponent!"
With this understanding, Wan Likai has practiced more diligently, he is now the apprentice of Zhan Xia Ge, and he must not lose his master's face!
Even Wan Likai didn't know how many bullets he had fired so far, he only knew that in his right shoulder blade, there was a rifle butt that hit his shoulder blade due to recoil, and it was said that it was slowly left behind. There is such an imprint on Zhao Jianping's body, and there is also such an imprint on the body of Zhan Xia Ge, and the soldiers who can be selected by Zhan Xia Ge to enter the mobile unit have such an imprint on everyone's shoulder blades. Wan Likai knew that in the mouths of those veterans who had been through a hundred battles, this imprint had a resounding name...... Red flags that don't see blood!
In addition to the senior brother Zhao Jianping, those soldiers with unique skills in the mobile unit took turns to become Wan Likai's assistant instructors, just like car [***] battles. The arrival of each new assistant instructor can bring a new kind of training to Wan Likai, and when every assistant instructor waves goodbye to Wan Likai, Wan Likai can clearly feel that he is in a certain field, and he is a little stronger.
It's definitely an offbeat that contains too much pampering and harsh training! For no other reason, Zhan Xia Ge likes Wan Likai, he thinks that Wan Likai is already qualified to become a qualified soldier, and he wants to make Wan Likai stronger! Some people are even secretly speculating that Zhan Xia Ge, the future successor of the Fifth Special Force, has begun to cultivate his next generation of successors.
If you want to become a qualified soldier, you can't do it quickly, and there is no moving legend in the novel that you can achieve martial arts in a short time by eating a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum and picking up a book of secrets. In this world, no matter what you do, there is absolutely no shortcut to success. If you want to complete the path that others have walked in the shortest time, there is only one way, and that is to ...... No pain, no gain!
Another point, that is, industry is proficient!
The trainees of the other Fifth Special Forces have to learn the principles and knowledge of weapons in the exclusive technical school of the Fifth Special Forces, and through their own hands, they can truly understand and assemble this kind of firearms. By the time they graduated, the talented cadets with excellent grades even joined forces in school to create a light armored car on their own. After graduation, every student will be able to fly most of the world's fighter jets, helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles.
Of course, these skills can improve a soldier's survivability on the battlefield, but Zhan Xia Ge swiped his pen and cut all these training items from Wan Likai's training tutorial, "Since he chose to become a ghost sniper, then he will definitely not fly any fighter jet or helicopter when he is alone." I think even if he is under siege, he would rather rely on his sniping and stealth skills and slowly break away from the enemy's encirclement, rather than become a target for the enemy's artillery and drive a car or plane or other toys to risk breaking through! As for assembling the guns yourself and polishing the parts you want on the lathe, this kind of work should be left to real technicians! What Wan Likai has to do now is to really learn to understand the gun in his hand, to be able to maintain his own weapons, and to learn to integrate into the surrounding environment, it is enough! ”
Whether it is a soldier who has been trained in a few years or an all-round soldier who has been trained in 15 years, the only way to test their ability and improve them again is to ...... Actual combat!
I have never experienced the spiritual baptism of seeing my comrades-in-arms around me fall in a pool of blood, the kind of anger, hatred, and madness; I haven't really experienced the thrill of a heavy machine gun bullet flying past my scalp and directly breaking the big tree behind me, and my heart instantly contracts and slowly relaxes; There is no bloody battle with a special operations master of the same level, who meets on the battlefield in a narrow way, and stimulates all his wisdom and knowledge in order to survive...... No matter how much training there is, no matter how good the results of live ammunition target shooting are, and how complete the theoretical knowledge is, the soldiers are just scouts!
When Wan Likai followed his senior brother into the last training camp, Zhao Jianping handed him a high-power military satellite phone.
"Wan Likai."
As soon as he heard this familiar and unfamiliar voice, Wan Likai suddenly straightened his body and shouted, "Here!" ”
The call was from Zhan Xia Ge, and he asked in a deep voice: "Tell me, what have you learned in the past two years?" ”
was trained by Zhao Jianping and them, and Wan Likai, who had already forgotten the spring, summer, autumn and winter in the southeast and northwest, did not know until now that two years had passed in a blink of an eye.
Wan Likai glanced at Zhao Jianping, who was standing on the side and silent, with grateful eyes, it was his senior brother who used his unique silence and loyalty to silently accompany him in these training camps for a long but not boring two years! He selflessly taught Wan Likai the sniper knowledge and training skills he learned on the battlefield with the warrior song.
Wan Likai only said that he was lucky to have a master like Zhan Xia Ge who spoiled him too much, and a senior brother like Zhao Jianping who seemed to be strict, but actually had no reservations about him!
In the past two years, Wan Likai has learned a lot from Zhao Jianping, the senior brother, and other members of the mobile force, and it seems that he can say a lot of things when he opens his mouth. But after thinking about it for a while, Wan Li Kai replied loudly: "Report, in the past two years, I have learned basic sniping, simple lurking, and rough survival techniques. ”
Listening to Wan Likai's report and looking at Wan Likai's achievements in various training camps, Zhan Xia Ge smiled, he really smiled.
Wan Likai has matured, not only in terms of military technology, but also in terms of soul, he has the mind and vision of a mature man. If Wan Likai is not his apprentice of the Battle Hero Song, and he has received "open a small stove" type of training, with his achievements, even if he is not qualified enough, to become the fourth fang of the Fifth Special Force, he should be able to win the two medals of honor in the mountains and the jungle, right?!
Zhan Xia Ge suddenly asked again, "Are you afraid of death?" ”
"I'm afraid!" Wan Likai replied without thinking: "Of course I'm afraid of death, and I'm so scared!" ”
Except for Senior Brother Zhao Jianping, the other people in the training camp who heard these words all cast strange glances at Wan Likai, but Wan Likai answered confidently. What's wrong with the fifth special unit, as long as they are still human and not tired of living, which one can pat their chests and say that they are not afraid of death at all? I believe that even the two heroes, Huang Jiguang and Dong Cunrui, if they can find other ways to solve the problem, they will not use their bodies and lives to exchange for the final victory, right?
Zhan Xia Ge continued to ask, "Do you dare to kill?" ”
"Dare!"
"Why dare?"
Wan Likai replied neatly: "Because I'm afraid of death!" ”
Zhan Xia Ge smiled again, he stretched out his hand and flicked the table lightly, and after a slight groan, he said, "Give the phone to Zhao Jianping." ”
Zhao Jianping listened to the order of Zhan Xia Ge with a flat face, and after putting away the high-power military satellite phone on his body, Zhao Jianping turned his head and said to Wan Likai, who was observing the entire snow-capped mountain training camp and had a strong interest in a snow-capped mountain frozen all year round in the distance: "Your training plan is temporarily shelved, and you will arrive in fifteen minutes after picking up our helicopter!" ”
Seeing Wan Likai's mouth open wide because of absolute accident, Zhao Jianping said in a deep voice: "We have received a combat mission, and you, who have just passed the commander's review, participated in this operation as a trainee!" ”
Fighting?!
As soon as this idea came out of his mind, Wan Likai's head, which had read too many novels and Hollywood military blockbusters, surged in an instant, such as "soldiers are approaching the city", the invasion of strong enemies, the tracks of tanks have begun to be on the territory of China, reckless rolling, fighter jets whistling by, some Chinese civilian buildings, in the violent explosion, turned into rubble and rubble, the earth is crying, the north wind is howling, China's heroic sons and daughters, singing loud and tragic war songs, waving goodbye to relatives and lovers, A steady stream of images to the front line and the like.
Wan Likai followed Zhao Jianping, and when he returned to the city after a long absence, Wan Likai was like a dirt bun who had just entered the city, looking east and west. In the past two years, the city has become a little more crowded with skyscrapers, the streets are a little more crowded, the summer temperature is a little higher, the advertising screens composed of video walls are a little more brilliant, and the girls are dressed up a little more revealing, and there seems to be not much change. At least on the faces of those pedestrians who walked too lazily, Wan Likai could not find the slightest tension formed by the arrival of war.
When Wan Likai returned to the headquarters of the mobile unit, he received an unprecedented warm welcome, and acquaintances on both the first and second floors patted Wan Likai's shoulders affectionately.
"Good boy, I haven't seen you for two years, but I've grown a lot."
"Hehe, I guess no one will call me Black Charcoal anymore, because finally someone who is tanned than me has come!"
"Welcome back, when, you, the life skills supervision instructor, find dozens of assistant instructors and give us a few more education lessons!"
Listening to these welcoming words, Wan Likai couldn't help grinning. Hey...... It seems that his efforts are not in vain, these guys on the first floor who have been trained to become killing machines have sprouted the seeds of affection for different surnames!
The number of people who welcome him is obviously more than that of two and a half years, and it seems that Zhan Xia Ge has absorbed a large number of outstanding talents from the Fifth Special Force and society. Wan Likai's eyes rolled around, but among these people, there were also some people he was familiar with, and even used to be his assistant instructor, who made him dead and alive, but when he left, he had a kind and brotherly face.
Wan Likai finally couldn't help but ask, "Bullets, blue shirts, and sabers...... What about a few of them, these guys also said that when I come back, they will treat me to a good drink, and they won't see that the situation is bad, so they want to hide and settle the bill, right? ”
There was a sudden silence all around.
After a while, Yan Yan replied in a low voice, "They're home." ”
Looking at the grim left hand that was still wrapped in bandages, Wan Likai was also silent, he understood that during the time when he returned to the Fifth Special Unit and received training, the brothers of these mobile units had already experienced wars that would not surface, but did exist.
Those brothers and teachers who have taught Wan Likai with their hearts and agreed with him to go to the sea to eat and drink wildly, but now they have missed the appointment, some may have the opportunity to meet again in the future, and some will never come back.
When the Song of War appeared, everyone gathered in the multi-functional conference room where the mobile force headquarters set up multiple protections, and the protection system was so tight that even FBI agents shook their heads and smiled bitterly when they saw it. When the Song of Warriors pressed the switch of the remote control, in the flickering of the laser light, the photos taken by the precise positioning of the satellite began to convert on the screen. Looking at the satellite photographs, the exotic mountain village, everyone knows that it may not be a certain area of Chinese soil.
"I believe everyone has understood that this is an overseas battle!"
Zhan Xia Ge looked around the audience and said in a deep voice: "In recent years, we in China have always adhered to the strategic principle of peaceful rise, and on the international stage, our scientific and technological and economic strength has been thousands of miles. Doing so will only allow some people who are targeting China everywhere on the international stage and shouting the 'China threat theory' every day to give them a handle and a pretext. ”
Everyone remained silent, and anyone present clearly knew that some countries, their own spy satellites, were flying all over the world, aircraft carriers were running around the world, and the so-called frogman troops were everywhere, and the ghosts knew how many of their missiles loaded with nuclear attack warheads were on standby, and how many laser satellites built in the "Star Wars" program were eyeing the military and civilian satellites of other countries.
By doing this themselves, these people can still squeeze out a fair and fair face, pointing fingers at China, shouting long live friendship today and sanctions tomorrow. The situation that China is facing now, even if we conduct military exercises in our own territory, there will be people who make irresponsible remarks, and there are still some people who make a big fuss there every day about the issue of China's expenditure, not to mention sending special forces to fight across the border?
"In this battle, we have no choice." Zhan Xia Ge said in a deep voice: "Forty-seven hours and fifteen minutes ago, a cult organization that had once been unbridled on the land of China made a big move again. They made use of the world's first-class advanced satellite joint control equipment and some program-controlled equipment that had been set aside in advance to forcibly cut into the channels of China's civilian satellites, and after successfully snatching the broadcasting rights of the television stations, they played their so-called 'call for truth' film to the audience. Although it is only a short fifteen minutes, it has already created an extremely bad impact in China! ”
In front of everyone sitting in the multi-purpose conference room, there is a small LCD monitor, which can be directly called up and played on the TV station for 15 minutes as long as you wish. Wan Likai only watched it for less than three minutes, and shook his head again and again, where is this "call to truth", which is the same as the consistent style of this cult, they are purely fooling the audience!
In this film, they talk about how they were persecuted by the state, and how they did anything to persecute them. In order to prove their "innocence", they even listed the so-called "ten doubts." "To prove that you have been hit is a strange injustice through the ages.
They don't talk about how they deceived innocent people, and they ran to China's face on the world stage [***] square and set fire to [***], which is a slap in the face of the whole of China; How foolish and shameless they are not to talk about this method; Not to mention how much this approach tramples on the human rights they preach; They don't talk about it, under the five-star red flag that is raised every day, in the [***] square, which represents a holy place in China, they set fire to their dreams, what an impact they have on society. What they are talking about is, how can it be that in just two minutes, those public security officers and other things can have prepared fire extinguishers and fire blankets as if they knew in advance?
It is precisely because of this that the people in this cult have made the following judgment: This is a premeditated political persecution against their holy cult!
Seeing this, Wan Likai casually turned off the LCD monitor, and there was really no need for him to look at it anymore. Anyone who has been to Yanjing [***] Square, or who has been to Yanjing, should understand that in an important area of [***] Square, not to mention the standing police and fire department, even if it is a small store with a size of only six or seven square meters, it is necessary to prepare dry powder fire extinguishers that can be used at any time in accordance with the regulations. Once a fire breaks out, what is so difficult about a normal man carrying a fire extinguisher and rushing into [***] square in two minutes?!
To put it bluntly, this is confusing the public, and to be honest, this is creating civil strife under the banner of "truth"!
"They are not in China, but their actions are already declaring war on China's sovereignty! If they are allowed to broadcast through satellites in this way, attack our television stations and radio stations, or even directly and forcibly insert them into mobile phone communications to disseminate their reactionary information, even if our society does not cause much turmoil, our reputation in China will suffer a serious blow in the international arena! ”
"I'm a military man, I'm not politically savvy. I still don't understand why so many people in China are still thinking about subverting our social system and creating unnecessary chaos every day. What do they want to do? Do you want China to disintegrate like the Soviet Union, and let a growing China become a pile of scattered scum with collapsed economic chains and ineffective national defense systems, and can only be fished for? ! Or are they really worried about the country and the people, and want to transplant the real Ming Cook of the West to China, which has gone through more than 2,000 years of feudal society, and still has the shadow of the feudal era, and the national quality has yet to be improved through education, and has become a moral criterion constraint without the national recognition of Christianity? Or, are they just a bunch of bastards who want to mess up the water, and then take the opportunity to make a profit, and if they can get some political status, they will be more ideal bastards?! ”
Zhan Xia Ge slammed his fist on the rostrum, and he shouted: "I only know that China's future will definitely not be created by these great gods and immortals who only know how to fool the people's wisdom and promote ghosts and gods!" If anyone wants to destroy our homeland, who wants to destroy the stability and prosperity that we have so hard to gain, I don't care where he is hiding, the iron fist of the [***] among us will smash him to pieces! ”
There was a solemnity in the conference room, and a thick murderous aura flowed through everyone's body.
"I must admit that they have excellent people, they have advanced equipment and are even able to capture our TV satellite relay channels. But it doesn't matter, if they want to attack, they attack it, and once they attack our TV satellite channel, we will surprise them with real ammunition. I'd like to see if they can put our social order in order first, or if we can take out all their bezoar dog treasures first! ”
Speaking of this, a trace of absolute coldness suddenly appeared on Zhan Xia Ge's face, "The instrument is broken, as long as someone supports it behind the scenes, those international arms dealers who have milk are mothers, aren't they running around with them, and they can rebuild a workshop for them in the blink of an eye?" But the genius who can indulge these instruments and break through the satellite defense system can't be mass-produced wholesale, and if one dies, there will be one less, right? Therefore, everyone remembered to me that the instrument must be burned, smashed and fried, but these people who indulge in the instrument, including the aunt who sweeps the floor and cooks for them, cannot let go of it. ”
The battle hero song is tantamount to giving an order to everyone present.
"They think that if they hide thousands of miles away, a country that has not established diplomatic relations with China, they can sit back and relax, and they can let go of attacking our Chinese media and make a lot of nonsense there? The Americans once said that they have the most powerful air force in the world that can parachute paratroopers to any corner of the world. And what I want to say is that China also has the largest number of submarine troops in the world, and we have always taken the protection of the country as the main purpose, but we have been forced to be anxious, and our nuclear submarines can also send the world's most elite military personnel to any coastline! It's a big deal that we have painted all the symbols, characters, and signs on the submarine that can represent China, and even if something happens, we can only look innocent and helpless. ran to the international stage and pretended to be stupid, and then squeezed out a righteous and stern face, and shouted a few words, 'Who, who, who did this?' Hey, it won't be your kid who did it, don't pretend, look at you like this, you're just a thief'...... Who the fuck wouldn't know this little trick of fishing in troubled waters?! ”
A chuckle sounded all around, but Wan Likai's eyes lit up suddenly. In the battle hero song, Wan Likai saw what it means to be arrogant and outstanding, and what is arrogant to take for granted. It was not until this time that Wan Likai finally understood why the name of the Battle Hero Song could resound all over the land in the field of special operations.
Sniffing the smell of gunpowder in the multi-purpose conference room, which had reached the edge of the explosion, Wan Likai let out a long breath, and after a long time, he finally managed to suppress the excitement and uneasiness in his heart.
The first war in the military world of Wan Likai is finally coming!
(To be continued)