Chapter 39: Battle with the Dragon at Sea (Part 2)

Of the twenty-six soldiers, excluding Captain Sun Jing, who died with the submarine, and one who died instantly from a brain hemorrhage during ejection, when Zhanxiage struggled to surface, he saw twenty-three familiar faces. Huang Zhipeng let out a wild cry of mixed surprise and swam over, hugging Zhanxiage tightly.
Facing everyone's questioning gazes, Zhanxiage whispered, "Let's go. Brother Sun won't come out!" ”
Suddenly, everyone was in tears. Zhanxiage shouted sternly, "No crying! We must swim twenty-five kilometers of sea with our own hands. If you want to cry, save your tears until we climb to shore, when we hand over the materials to our superiors, and when we complete our tasks and missions, then cry!" ”
Zhan Xiagage pointed at the endless sea before them, involuntarily stirring a sense of weakness that made it impossible to reach the other shore. He roared hoarsely, "Look closely, this is our enemy. I want each of you to muster all your courage and potential, to force your last breath out of your bodies, and join me in defeating him!" Before we win, every bit of strength, every tear, every drop of water, every breath in your bodies is your weapon, your hope and motivation to survive. You absolutely have no right to waste this life now! Did you hear that?! ”
Stunned, everyone was stunned! They had never seen such a war hero song before!
Huang Peng, however, stared wide-eyed, looking at the war hero song with a look of emotion, almost admiration. He could clearly feel that the most flamboyant, domineering, and fierce battle hero song had returned! At this moment, Zhan Xia Ge's entire body was filled with an invisible flame of battle, a sense of overwhelming pressure, a madness that had awakened all his fighting potential and indomitable passion in the face of battle, making you involuntarily obey and rely on him!
If you had to draw a definitive conclusion about his aura, it would be the most unstoppable...... Leadership charisma! The charm of the strong! Warrior charm!
The remaining twenty-three exchanged glances and followed the war hero song toward the distant coastline twenty-five thousand meters away.
A soldier whose left arm was injured when ejecting the torpedo tube quickly became unable to swing his arm anymore. Panting, he said, "You all go, don't worry about me!" ”
Two soldiers grabbed his arms on either side and shouted hoarsely, "What are you stupid? We're down to twenty-four of us! Our brothers can't die any further—we will never give up on you!" ”
Before the injured soldier could speak, they heard a cold, icy voice: "Let him go!" ”
Zhanxiage was about twenty meters ahead of them. His voice was as cold as ice water dug out of the Arctic Ocean—devoid of warmth or emotion. He said in a deep voice, "Let him go. The rest of you keep moving forward!" ”
The two soldiers glared angrily, one of them shouting wildly, "War Hero, what are you talking about?" I can't give up my brother in this situation! ”
"I misread it. Zhanxiage, although you don't like to talk, I've always seen you as a man who dares to take responsibility. But it was only now that I realized that when facing danger, you're just a damn coward, a woman!"
"Remember, you are a soldier, and you have your own mission now!" Now all of us can die, we can sacrifice ourselves. Facing the sea, all of us are just a worthless life! But don't forget, we need to send the materials back! ”
Zhanxiage roared, "If you have forgotten what a soldier is, then let me tell you: a soldier is willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill his mission, including his own and his brothers' lives!" Because by doing this, although excessive and ruthless, we saved more brothers! We have no regrets! If Huang Zhipeng dies, someone will take over his work. Even if only one of us survives and returns the materials, we still succeed. The fifty-six brothers who died and those thirteen experts and scholars were worth it! ”
"I'm just a low-ranking soldier. I have no authority to order you. How you choose is up to you!"
After saying these words, Zhanxiage turned around and continued fighting the sea and waves.
The soldier with an injured arm shouted, "Zhanxiage is right. I know you are my good brothers, but if I were to be exhausted, none of our twenty-four people could have survived to swim all twenty-five kilometers of the sea!" For soldiers with missions, their lives are no longer theirs. Don't worry about me anymore! ”
Seeing the two soldiers still hesitating, the injured soldier suddenly drew his self-defense knife and aimed it at his throat, shouting hoarsely, "You run, don't even look back!" You choose: will you leave me here and give me a chance to survive, or let me die before you and let it all end in one go? ”
Both soldiers turned around, not daring to turn their heads. They shouted hoarsely, "Brother, take care! You must survive!" ”
Burning tears rolled down the wounded sailor's eyes; he no longer needed to conserve energy or moisture! He gazed at his comrades swimming farther and farther away, at that warrior who, blessed by a goddess of war, with unstoppable sharpness and courage, broke through layer after layer of water, pushing men's persistence and soldiers' fighting spirit to the limit. He murmured, "Song of War Heroes, you are a true soldier; none of us are as good as you!" Please, you must bring the brothers back to the base alive, to our home! ”
Under the vast sky, in the vast sea, a lonely sailor silently uses his injured arm to row forward, rowing, rowing, rowing......
At twenty-five kilometers, only eighteen people remained to follow the hero's song to the shore!
They could already see rows of coconut trees along the long coastline, and the fine, golden grains of sand and small pebbles on the beach.
They all looked at Zhan Xia Ge, hating his coldness and ruthlessness. But everyone here had to admit that without Zhan Xia Ge's frenzied shout, facing the suddenly surging waves, without his wild laughter and near-mad shouting that disregarded life and death, they would never have had the courage to conquer this mysterious and unfathomable land. Sometimes gentle and charming, sometimes turbulent and turbulent sea!
A war hero song is the kind that, in absolute adversity, can ignite the fire of one's own life and light the way home for everyone...... Leader!
Zhan Xiageu suddenly stopped. He turned around and waved to everyone, but his voice was hoarse from shouting. When they finally understood what he was shouting, they were all delighted to find themselves stepping onto land. Their legs gave out, and they struggled slightly, just like Zhanxiage, sinking into the mud just a few dozen meters from the shore. The exhausted sailors no longer had the strength to force their way out of the mud.
Eighteen people stood in small groups in the mud, gasping for breath. They tore their uniforms into strips of cloth, added belts, and connected them into a rope, finally pulling each of them together bit by bit.
"Damn it, they're really in the depths!" Huang Zhipeng said helplessly, "Even when we have the most stamina, it probably takes quite some time just to struggle out." ”
Zhan Xiaoge's expression was calm as water. He slowly drew the military knife from his body and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, prepare for battle!" ”
Huang Zhipeng asked in confusion, "Fight? Fight? Fight? Fight? What fight?" ”
Zhanxiage said in a deep voice, "Open your eyes wide and see clearly!" ”
The other sixteen had already drawn their self-defense knives. Everyone instinctively formed a circle, surrounding Huang Zhipeng, who carried an important data storage device, in the center. Through the gaps in the man-wall protected by the sailors' bodies, Huang Zhipeng's eyes widened in shock, because less than twenty meters in front of them, a massive crocodile, five or six meters long, was quietly approaching, half-submerged, half-floating.
This crocodile clearly treats them as delicious food!
Looking at the sailor's multifunctional self-defense saber only twenty centimeters long, and then at the massive crocodile clad in thick armor—probably nearly a thousand layers deep—Huang Zhipeng felt for the first time how insignificant human power is in nature!