Conference room.

Captain Squadron Leader Liu Haiying sat in the main seat, constantly looking through the training files of the recruits, and the twelve sergeant squad leaders of the Fourth Squadron sat on both sides of the squad one by one, and the needles could be heard in the huge conference room.

After a while, Liu Haiying raised his head and said, "The team members who have completed the training are enough to divide into two groups, now start grouping, Jiang Li, how about your soldiers?" ”

Jiang Li swiped his fingers, and Ye Fei's three-dimensional avatar was immediately displayed above the conference table: "Ye Fei, a young man with great potential, belongs to him with the best grades." ”

"Oh?" Liu Haiying was full of interest, "The one who fought with you?" ”

Jiang Li also smiled: "It's him, this kid is solid enough, bold and bold, his brain is very lively, like a monkey, he doesn't have a good life, he can make a little mess after a while, and he will be a trump card if he is cultivated." It's just not very positive, always thinking about how to change the light place. I don't know how Ye Fei would feel when he heard Jiang Li's words.

"Ha, after entering the commando, his grandmother still wants to be brisk?" Liu Haiying laughed, "What about the others?" ”

"Zhao Yan has a lively personality and strong affinity, and he is a team leader, so it's a pity to be a sniper; Li Xiang...... It's still under observation, and I'm personally not optimistic about him. ”

Liu Haiying drew a circle on Ye Fei's avatar: "This kid is still a racing driver, and Lao Fei has looked for me several times and wants to get him over to drive the shuttle." Fuck it, it's nice for such a good soldier to send it to play that thing, and how good it would be to stay and drive the landing craft. In this way, Ye Fei was temporarily set as a group of snipers, and he did not have the trouble to lead him to the simulator to familiarize himself with the landing craft. Zhao Yan was in the second group, and Li wanted to observe for a while. ”

"Good!" Jiang Li nodded, "This is more reasonable, if Li wants to be the sniper of the second group, I will let Zhao Yan be my deputy."

"A good soldier can't let you take it all alone." Liu Haiying smiled: "Who has a suitable observer there, recommend two, damn people can't pick a few more people for a long time?" ”

If there are enough snipers, you can organize two snipers into a sniper team, but this year there are only three seedlings, which is not enough at all, so you can only pick a few of the remaining recruits who have shooting talents.

Liu Haiying complained a lot about Jiang Li behind his back, can't he relax the conditions?

Jiang Li's head turned and gave Liu Haiying a back of his head: "I'll have the final say on this matter!" Everyone laughed, and they didn't mean to give the squadron leader face at all.

It is true that the army pays attention to class, but it depends on what kind of army it is, they are all brothers who fight together in blood and fire, and they are used to fighting, who would take such a to heart?

More than a dozen squad leaders quickly organized the recruits who had completed their training into two combat groups, and they would be one step ahead and the first to enter the next stage of training.

Ye Fei and the others were divided up without knowing it, and then each class was adjusted on a large scale, and the first class was finally full of people again, but Zhao Yan and Li Xiang, who had just become familiar with each other, were all separated.

Jiang Li is still the squad leader, but the squad was renamed a detachment, and the whole class was divided into positions, Ye Fei is undoubtedly the sniper who is determined, what are the names of the others Ye Fei can't remember for the time being, but he remembers their different positions.

However, everyone is not used to what to call a team, whether it is the captain or the team members, they are called in groups and groups.

Except for the snipers, who are fire support and medics, the others in the group are basically assaulters. and his observer, Yu Jie, who always cries with a sad face, because he likes to eat very much, everyone calls him a cook.

After the formal establishment of the combat group, the training program began to become more and more combat-oriented, often taking the team to any place, and then issuing an order for irregular confrontation, and then the first and second groups began to rack their brains and sweat, and began to fight to the death at all costs, often to the end of the battle The result is that one side is completely annihilated, and the other side can only win with a slight advantage of one or two survivors.

I don't know who came up with the bad idea, the losing group must wash the veteran's socks for three days, and they must be washed by hand!

With such a large amount of training, who can not sweat? Even if you change it once a day, the socks will inevitably taste the same as salted fish.

The recruit company deliberately made nothing, specifically tossing recruits. The base is different, there are perfect life service facilities here, the recruits only need to pay attention to how to complete the training, at most a little care about the attitude and mood of the squad leader, and all the rest do not have to bother.

In Jiang Li's words, it doesn't matter if you can't wash your socks, no matter how dirty the work is, you can't afford to lose this person!

Ye Fei, who had a good face, riveted his strength and vowed that he would never lose, not even once.

Originally, Ye Fei was very happy that Jiang Yufei, who was still haunted, was assigned to other groups, but the good times didn't last long, and soon he found Jiang Yufei's figure in the second group, and he was also Zhao Yan's observer!

The confrontation between the snipers has become more and more fierce since then, Jiang Yufei has long held back his strength, why can Ye Fei be a sniper, he can only be an observer?

He tried his best to find trouble with Ye Fei, but before he came, Ye Fei occasionally released water, so that Zhao Yan didn't have to wash so many socks, after Jiang Yufei came, the sniper team of the second detachment had unwashed socks every day, and every time the veteran's socks would have a few more holes that should not have appeared.

Most of the time, it ended with Ye Fei "killing" the sniper team of the second group, and in order to kill Jiang Yufei, Ye Fei was even willing to be killed by the others in the second group!

Jiang Yufei was indignant in his heart - am I really not as good as this little gangster?

In the blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed, and the combat team has completed most of the training, during which they have also returned to Earth twice to learn how to skydive. There were also unqualified team members who left, supplementing the members selected by other groups, and gradually formed a fixed team of twelve people.

Until this time, these temporary team members with only code names were training at the legendary orbital commando training base at the Lunar Base, and their identities were the latest training team members, not even reserve members. All eliminated team members will become official marines and assigned to various fleets and bases as guards.

And the squadron leaders Liu Haiying and Jiang Li and others are the commandos who are right.

Ye Fei suddenly realized, no wonder they all wanted to raise their faces to the sky, it turned out to be an orbital commando!

After such a long time, he had already forgotten all the volunteers he had filled in, but he didn't expect that he had unconsciously taken the most important step, and he was just one step away from completing his original volunteers.

What's going on? Why didn't you hear a little wind before?

The name of the orbital commando team is dazzling enough, the equipment is cool enough, and the combat effectiveness is strong enough, but the commandos are by no means so easy to be, and the reason why the team revealed a little wind to the training team members is because the next training of the team members will be orbital airborne, and the results of the training will determine whether the team members will go or stay.

The orbital commando, which is influenced by literature and film and television works in the West, is the most elite combat unit of the Heavenly Army, and even the most elite combat unit of the whole army.

There is a famous saying among orbital commandos: not everyone can be a commando, but as long as you have the courage to sit in the airborne capsule, you are half qualified!

Of course, the Celestial Army will never absorb stupid audacity into the commando.

The most important reason for this situation is the high cost of training and combat for commandos.

The key to raising soldiers for a thousand days is not to use them, but to raise them!

Taking the training that Ye Fei has experienced as an example, the recruit training base needs to provide a series of hardware facilities such as accommodation, food, medical care, etc., in addition to clothing, clothing, salary, insurance and provident fund.

And that's just the most basic treatment, the bullets, shells, fuel, wear and tear of the vehicles consumed in training, etc., are everywhere money, in other words, the army is piled up with money.

This is just an ordinary army soldier, for a soldier of the space army, it will take a spaceship into space, it will require a lot of expenses, space training needs the cooperation of warships, it is another expenditure, and the equipment cost of each sky army soldier is much higher than the army - the army only needs to wear military uniforms, while the basic equipment of the space army is expensive space suits!

The high cost is destined to be a high-end professional army with well-equipped and well-armed personnel, and it can be said that every soldier of the Heavenly Army is piled up with money.

The cost of training for pilots is converted into gold, and the weight will be higher than the weight of pilots, and the members of the Celestial Force are worth as much as pilots.

Take the airborne capsule used by the commando team as an example, the cost of each airborne capsule is hundreds of thousands, but it is a one-time consumable, regardless of training or combat, it will be scrapped after one use.

So the commandos will never waste taxpayers' money by casually sending irrelevant people into the airborne capsule, and only absorb trained elite fighters - this money cannot be saved anyway, good steel must be used on the blade, as for the blade or something, just get by.

Commandos are treated no less than pilots, but they are by no means as good as imagined, simply put, orbital airborne is to sit in the airborne capsule fully armed, and then launched by the spacecraft from space, the airborne capsule flies from the universe into the atmosphere, and finally parachutes to the surface of the planet and completes the established combat mission.

Anxious, apprehensive, and anxious to wait, I continued to learn the process and precautions of the airborne, until everyone memorized it backwards, and the team notified the accurate airborne time.

Ye Fei and his teammates quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

A paratrooper is a dangerous job, and orbital airborne is even more dangerous than a paratrooper, but how can it be called an orbital commando at this level?

After the airborne landing was completed on the morning, they directly brought everyone onto the assault ship, which was a small warship specially designed for sending commandos, and after leaving the lunar base, the battleship sailed to the earth, and soon stopped in an outer space orbit at an altitude of 180 kilometers.

Liu Haiying, the captain of the squadron who rarely appeared, entered a short mobilization: "Soldiers, next, it will be the moment that will decide your fate, don't think I'm alarmist, remember the essentials of training, I don't want any of you to lose your life because of stupidity." Old wave, notify the bridge, equip the airborne! ”

"Yes!" Jiang Li ran out of the queue and stood in seven steps, "All of them, turn to the right, all the way to the left, forward!" "The queue in weightlessness is different from the ground, it needs to be assisted by propulsion equipment, and there is no such funny password as walking in unison...... How do you walk in mid-air?

One group entered the projection capsule first, followed by the second group, all of them standing on both sides of the dropping module one by one, and beside each of them, there was a coffin-like iron guy.

Liu Haiying walked into the dropping cabin at the least, looked around and said, "Are you ready?" ”

"That's it!" The soldiers' answers are still so powerful, but no matter how you listen to them, they make people feel that they lack confidence.

"Does anyone want to quit?" Liu Haiying asked again.

All of them were silent.

"Good." Liu Haiying's expression was heavy, "In the whole world, there are paratroopers and orbital commandos who die in training accidents every year, you are very lucky, in the previous training, there was not a single casualty accident, but today, no one dares to guarantee your absolute safety...... Failure is death. He was silent for a moment, reading the expressions of all the recruits in his eyes one by one, "I'll give you another minute to think about it, does anyone want to quit?" ”

Ye Fei has always felt that he is not afraid of heaven and earth, but when he is really facing the threat of death, his face has lost its blood color uncontrollably, and his heart seems to be pressed against a mountain, and he can no longer breathe smoothly.

Quit? Or a bet?

He couldn't help but look at his comrades-in-arms, and found that everyone's expressions were not very good, anxious, anxious, and uneasy...... All kinds of negative emotions were mixed together, making everyone's expressions different, he didn't know if his face was the same ugly, looking at the squadron leader and the detachment leader who were as calm as ever, Ye Fei suddenly plucked up his courage: "Report!" ”

"Get out of the ranks, pack your things, and go back." Liu Haiying is full of voice, the commando team only needs brave soldiers, and the sooner the cowards who escape from the battle, the better.

"I'm not quitting, I want to go to the toilet." Ye Fei gave an answer that no one guessed at all, and Liu Haiying was so angry by the huge gap that his cheeks twitched: "Go, hurry up." ”

"Report, I want to ...... too" More than 20 people raised more than ten hands, and Liu Haiying waved his hand, "Hurry up!" ”

Everyone left the projection pod in a mess, and the rest of the people looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally a fighter stood up: "Captain, I, I'm going to quit." ”

"Zhao Yan?" Jiang Li was disappointed, "For what?" ”

Zhao Yan bit his lip tightly: "I, I am the only son in the family......"

Jiang Li twisted his face away, refusing to look at him again, Liu Haiying roared with a dark face: "Get out!" ”

Zhao Yan left the projection capsule like a lost dog as if he had been pardoned.

Liu Haiying patted Jiang Li on the shoulder and sighed: "Everyone has to pay for their choices, maybe it is more appropriate for him to give up." ”

Even if it is a paratrooper, every year I don't know how many recruits refuse to jump from the plane, let alone an orbital airborne that is much more dangerous than parachuting?

Jiang Li smiled bitterly: "I didn't have anything to do, but my mother didn't expect that this kid was cowardly at this juncture." "It takes him so much effort to train a sniper, just give up, and give up.

The earliest rules of the commando team, anyone who did not dare to enter the airborne cabin, kicked in, but the strong twisted melon is not sweet, after an airborne accident, the superior explicitly forbade the forced soldiers to be airborne, and from then on, the commando only accepted volunteers.

If Ye Fei knew the news, he didn't know how he would cry - as long as he submitted a written report to the team, he would be able to leave the training base and return to the ground.

What did he rack his brains for? was also beaten by Jiang Li in vain.

The team also deliberately concealed that the commando training was so hard, if these cowards who were afraid of hardship and tiredness knew that they could still take the initiative to give up, they wouldn't jump to the heights to write an application?

The education of the army is inseparable from the brainwashing of honor indoctrination, but the time that these recruits have been in the army is too short, how much sense of honor can they have?

With the lead, two more soldiers who gave up stood up, and Liu Haiying was all allowed to go, and he was not embarrassed at all.

Soon, the relieved soldiers returned to the projection cabin one by one, and Ye Fei was stunned after standing in his position, why were there a few people missing? Obviously, he is the last person to come back!

Liu Haiying saw that everyone was back, and he didn't give everyone time to think about it at all, and yelled: "Enter the cabin!" ”

Ye Fei turned around and stepped into the airborne cabin, the hatch was immediately closed, and then rotated and fixed, covering layers of protective materials.

Ye Fei, who was locked in the airborne capsule, was dark in front of him, and he turned on the tactical light to give himself a little light. Lights illuminated the situation in the cabin. There wasn't a lot of space inside, but it was enough for him to stretch his arms and legs.

Today's airborne is only dressed in armor and does not carry weapons, and those extra spaces are reserved for the weapons carried when airborne.

The airborne capsule spun around one by one, and suddenly he saw the liquid rising from the bottom flooding his chest, and he lifted his arm, and the viscous liquid slowly flowed down his fingers.

Ye Fei recalled carefully, but he didn't remember that this kind of thing similar to egg white was mentioned in the theory class.

Liu Haiying looked at the time and turned on the radio: "Bridge, the projection capsule is ready, it's time to start." ”

"Projection pod, the bridge understands. Good luck guys, guys. "The bridge sent a blessing that didn't hurt or itch," ready to launch, three, two, one, launch! ”

There was a muffled sound of "tom", which was the sound of compressed air ejecting the airborne capsule from the battleship, and Liu Haiying and Jiang Li suddenly heard a miserable scream on the radio.

However, the others didn't hear anything, because the experienced Liu Haiying knew that this would happen in the road, and cut off the soldiers' communications in advance.

Observed from the outside of the battleship, one giant egg after another was constantly projected under the belly of the ship, as if it was not a battleship flying there, but a huge hen.

Ye Fei waited nervously, continuous tomming sounds kept coming, and suddenly there was a shock in the cabin, and the super-fast acceleration suddenly pressed him to the side of the airborne capsule - in order to ensure that the commandos were not injured due to the huge overload, the speed of the airborne cabin was not particularly fast, and it was not to launch the elliptical drop module vertically, but to lie down and eject the battleship.

The liquid filled with the airborne capsule effectively alleviated the impact, and the twenty-one airborne capsules lined up with wild goose wings rushed into the ionosphere with flames all over their bodies, and gradually disappeared.

The airborne capsule at this time is about a hundred kilometers from the surface.

The soldiers in the airborne cabin couldn't see the situation outside, Ye Fei counted the time nervously, but the time stretched infinitely in anxious waiting, and every second of reading was so slow.

If you look at it from the outside, the thermal insulation layer on the surface of the airborne cabin vaporizes rapidly in the violent friction, thinning at a speed visible to the naked eye, until it breaks through the middle layer, and only a thin layer of thermal insulation material is left on the surface of the airborne cabin.

Upon entering the stratosphere, the outermost layer of the capsule suddenly cracked with a faint popping sound, and then parted like petals, like peeling off a layer of eggshell, except that inside the shell was still another intact shell.

Due to the change in shape, the concave surface of the petal-like shell rushed down to trap the air, but because the atmosphere was still very thin, the speed of the airborne capsule decreased very slowly.

The deceleration lasted for a short time, and after the airborne capsule ceased to burn against air friction, the "petals" broke away from the airborne cabin.

At this time, the airborne capsule is about fifty kilometers above the ground, and the speed of descent is still fast - time is victory, how can there be extra time to waste on the way to the airborne? On the premise of ensuring safety, it is natural that the sooner you arrive at the battlefield, the better.

After the outer layer is separated, a small umbrella pops out at one end of the airborne cabin, so that the speed of descent is not too fast, when the airborne cabin is 20,000 meters altitude, the small umbrella is detached, and the airborne cabin accelerates the descent again, until it is one kilometer away from the ground, the braking rocket begins to work, and the speed is reduced in a very short time, and then all the internal and external protection is exploded at one time, the buffer volatilizes in a very short time, and the parachute on the commando automatically opens and enters the most parachute process.

Before the main parachute is fired, all the processes are uncontrollable, and it is not until the last that the commando can control the parachute to choose the landing site.

The landing point of the team members was selected in a col in the mountains, Ye Fei dragged left and right, and when he landed, he stepped into the ring dangerously.

Of the twenty-one people, only three failed to land, and one of them floated to the other side of the mountain and hung on a tree.

Overall, the landing went smoothly without any incidents.

After staying in a low-gravity environment for a long time and suddenly returning to the surface, everyone was more or less uncomfortable, with a rapid heartbeat and increased blood pressure, and it took a while to get used to it.

The spacecraft that had been waiting nearby for a long time immediately gathered its personnel and sent them back to the assault ship that had already circled the Earth.

After returning to the lunar base, the training team held a small award ceremony, twenty-one soldiers who had completed airborne training lined up, and a major general of the Celestial Army stood in front of the queue, held up the orbital commando badge with the earth and the airborne capsule as the background, and said: "Congratulations, from now on, you are an orbital commando reserve member and are eligible to wear this umbrella badge." With over 400 recruits coming out of the crowd, I'm sure each and every one of you is the best! I don't want to say more, there are more and more hard training waiting for you in the future. Come, one per person! "The Major General's speech was short and concise, without any dragging words.

The major general personally handed over the umbrella badge to each team member, and shook hands with the team members one by one, Ye Fei saluted in a daze, took the umbrella badge, and then shook hands with the major general, the whole person is like a dream, this is a commando?

The two groups of people were carefully selected elites from the more than 400 people in the entire training team, and the training progress far exceeded others, and it was expected that they would be qualified as reserve members in advance.

After returning to the dormitory, Ye Fei looked at his umbrella badge over and over again, and suddenly asked, "Why are you still a reserver?"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Want to be formal? I'm still ready, you're far behind. "After everyone became a reserve player, his attitude took a 180-degree turn, and he almost became a different person.

Ye Fei turned over and sat up: "Then who is official?" ”

Jiang Li smiled: "You've seen it, it's just the squadron leader!" ”

"How so?" Ye Fei exclaimed.

"What's so strange," Jiang Li disagreed, "If I'm official, I can still wear this?" He Nunu mouthed and gestured to the rank of corporal on his shoulder, "The official team members are all officers, how can they be so good?" ”

"Damn, no!" Everyone was stunned by the news.

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, and who doesn't want to be a soldier and become an officer? Suddenly, everyone seemed to have a rush in their hearts.

After the two combat groups were qualified as reserve members, the training site also went out of the moon, and the base sent an assault ship to leave the base with the two combat groups, led by squadron leader Liu Haiying, first escorting the Martian route with the ship, and then cruising along the commercial route.

The two battle groups floating in the solar system could not return to the moon once for most of the year, and even ran to Saturn with the fleet, took a rest at the Saturn base, and continued to sail to a remote star region outside the solar system after filling up supplies.

At present, the airspace that the military can effectively control is concentrated within the asteroid belt, which is a rich star area coveted but prohibited by pirates; After leaving Jupiter's orbit, the airspace is vast, and the military can effectively control only various large mining areas and a limited number of commercial shipping routes.

The two battle groups boarded an assault ship named "Qinghe", which was specially equipped to carry the warship that transported commandos. Nominally, it is to conduct adaptive training in unfamiliar airspace, but in fact it is to find pirates who threaten commercial routes, and to train troops in real combat.