Chapter 5: Battle Heroes

The Fifth Special Forces Elite Training School is actually hidden within the military factory system, which is indeed a very good choice. This military factory was within a radius of 320 li and oversaw the Twenty-Seven Ordnance Arsenal and the Military Industry Research Institute. These twenty-seven branches were capable of manufacturing anti-aircraft machine guns, double-barreled artillery, automatic rifles, sniper rifles, bulletproof vests, shells, grenades, individual rocket launchers, landmines, tanks, tank bridge vehicles, and military jeeps. It also had a technical school that looked shabby on the outside but had faculty and equipment comparable to the Technical School of the Military Industry Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Here, young elites from all over the country can learn the most detailed theoretical and practical knowledge of various conventional ground weapons, becoming true weapons experts. Within this military factory system, there is also a military region general hospital and an affiliated medical school. Every trainee from the Fifth Special Forces must enter the medical school for three months of study. After a one-month internship, soldiers who pass the review are experts in human physiology. They can not only target physiological weaknesses for special sniping but also perform simple surgical procedures.

It is said that some exceptionally outstanding students, after intensive training, can even help others reconnect limbs severed by shell fragments on the battlefield.

Zhanxiage must admit that the Fifth Special Forces do have reason to be proud!

These twenty-seven arsenals, along with technical schools and the Military Medical General Hospital, formed a super training school covering more than 500 square kilometers. Long-term elites gathered here from all over the country, after fifteen years of assembly-line training at these twenty-seven arsenals, hospitals, and schools, will become proficient in various combat skills and able to master any weapon in the shortest time! Except for him, an outlier who enlisted beyond his age, others enlisted between six and ten. After fifteen years of special training, between twenty-one and twenty-five, they reached the peak of human physical fitness. Combined with their nearly astronomical military expertise, and after repeated training by the instructors, they were bound to become absolutely loyal, the most terrifying fighting machines!

The tour van finally entered the Arsenal Headquarters Affiliated Middle School. At the school gate, more than a dozen cars were parked, and over a hundred teenagers gathered from all over the country were carefully watching the school before them.

This is a school that integrates full-course education from elementary, middle, and high school, recruiting only students from within military factories. From the outside, this school looked quite ordinary. Even girls could easily climb over the campus walls. On the playground, there were only a few horizontal and parallel bars for students to play during breaks. A narrow, small sandpit hadn't been used for ages, and the yellow sand inside had already formed hard blocks. If anyone tried to perform a triple jump on it, they would definitely hurt their thigh.

Unlike typical military district-affiliated schools, this one was a bit larger and had a cleaner campus.

Standing at the school gate stood a middle-aged man with graying hair and a kind smile. Even someone as audacious as Zhan Xiagege couldn't help but feel a chill rise in her heart when she saw his smile. Zhanxiage could hardly imagine a person losing an eye, an arm, and a thigh, with half their face torn apart, looking neither human nor ghost, yet still able to smile so sincerely and brilliantly.

"Don't look at him like that!"

Standing behind Zhanxiage, Yajie'er said softly, "His name is Yang Huanhong. He was one of the first trainees of the Fifth Special Forces. He fought in the Vietnam War and earned a special-grade military merit. Don't be fooled by his half-body loss, but if you two fought to the death, being able to hold out for ten seconds against him would already be a miracle!" And in future studies, he will be your tutor for one of your courses. ”

Zhanxiage stared at Yang Huanhong and replied, "I'm just curious—what kind of weapon could leave such a scar on him? Could he have been a prisoner of the enemy?" ”

Yang Huanhong lost his left arm but his right leg. The left half of his face was torn apart by something unknown, but his blindness was his right eye. Whether he was hit by a shell or stepped on a landmine, such injuries could not have been caused by such injuries.

Yang Huanhong had excellent hearing; he actually overheard the conversation between Zhanxiage and Yajie'er. Holding a cane, he walked over casually and said, "I have never been a prisoner before; I only encountered a few military dogs on the battlefield, and it just so happened that my magazine was empty!" ”

Noticing the confusion in Zhan Xiaoge's eyes, Yang Huanhong said, "Don't worry, military dogs don't have sharp mouths and teeth. My thighs are thick and thick. They couldn't possibly bite through my thighs at the same time. But at the time, I really couldn't handle six well-trained military dogs at once, so I had to roll onto an infantry landmine. In the end, I blew up two military dogs at the cost of one leg and ended up saving my own life. Worth it!" ”

Yajie'er looked at the special-grade combat hero before her with the most respectful eyes and said, "Instructor Yang Huanhong, severely injured and unarmed, fought four military dogs for a full twenty-five minutes. When the medics found him, he was almost reduced to a pile of flesh. One of his eyeballs was ripped out by the dogs' paws, one of his arms was bitten off by the dogs, half of his face was caught in the dog's mouth, and his own teeth bit through the dog's neck's artery!" It was in this state of severe injury and severe blood loss that he managed to endure forty-eight hours of surgery and struggled out of death's grasp! ”

"How could I die!"

"When I ran out of bullets and grenades, even lost my bayonet on the battlefield, and had to fight barehanded against a few military dogs, I suddenly thought of a question. At the Fifth Special Forces Elite Training School, we learned how to use firearms to shoot military dogs and how to use bayonets to stab fierce beasts, including bears, but we never learned how to face attacks from more than one military dog with our own hands! This is a vacancy in our professional field. I can die, but I absolutely cannot let my brothers repeat my old mistakes! ”

Yang Huanhong said, "So I let myself survive. I used the most valuable combat experience I gained in those twenty-five minutes, combined with the physiological weaknesses of canines, to devise a combat technique for killing military dogs barehanded. My task now is to teach this combat technique to every member of the Fifth Special Forces!" ”

Patting Zhan Xiage's shoulder, Yang Huanhong said, "Young man, do your best!" ”

Zhanxiage stared blankly at the special-grade combat hero before him. Though he had lost an arm and a leg, he still stood tall like a javelin. For the first time, he understood the meaning of being a soldier! For the first time, he understood what a real man really is!

It is precisely because of such heroes that the Chinese army can dominate the world!