Chapter 56: Yajie’er. Eagle soars

A veteran social commentator offered a very insightful analysis of the current situation of Zhanxiage and Zhao Haiping. Facing the public media, he directly declared: "I am certain that the Chinese military will not interfere in this war!" ”
Although the Chinese military does not want to see its soldiers die, and even less willing to be slapped hard by terrorists on the international stage, But China is now vigorously promoting a 'peaceful rise' to counter the growing 'Chinese military threat theory' from neighboring countries. At such a sensitive moment, they cannot, and politically, it would never allow them to send armed forces to Russia for aid just for two soldiers! ”
"As Russia, which has already established a strategic partnership with China, on one hand, they must fully suppress Chechen anti-government armed forces, but on the other, they absolutely do not want Chinese soldiers to make a big splash on their own turf. So they simply hid aside and pretended to be silent. The most likely thing they did was to appear as the ultimate victors after the terrorists had successfully hunted down two Chinese soldiers, then suddenly appear as the final victors, delivering a deadly blow to the Chechen insurgents, their rivals, the Afghan guerrillas, and the 'assassin organization' terrorists, generously placing all the glory and victory garlands around their own necks. ”
This senior social commentator's analysis was meticulous, and his final words completely silenced all opponents: "Chechen anti-partisan helicopters swaggered over Russian territory for dozens of days, with heavy machine gun fire and live broadcasts by reporters. So far, the Chechen air force has not shot them down, and the airfield built by the Chechen partisans deep in the mountains has not been bombed. Doesn't this show everyone the essence of the problem?" Please don't tell me that the Russian Air Force is dead, nor that everyone in the Russian intelligence service is a complete fool, and definitely don't tell me that Russia's military spy satellites have turned into scrap metal due to years of disrepair! ”
According to this veteran social commentator, the hope that Zhanxiage and Zhao Haiping might receive support from Chinese or Russian forces has been completely blocked!
That night, thirteen people broke into the underground weapons depot of the Fifth Special Forces Elite Training School. After looting through the armory, they were stuffed with bullets and grenades, carrying the weapons they knew best, and walked out the gate. Suddenly, they were stunned.
Instructor Zhang Xiangshang stood quietly in the narrow, hollow corridor of the underground base. He coldly looked at the intruders who had already been terrified and said, "What are you trying to do?!" ”
Everyone remained silent. Zhang Xiangshang pointed to the person walking at the front, who had already become the leader, and said, "Yan Jun, you speak!" ”
Yan Jun opened his mouth, but when facing Colonel Zhang Xiangshang, who was the strictest and most serious at the Fifth Special Forces Elite School, and the most authoritative among the trainees, Yan Jun kept his mouth open for a long time but couldn't utter a single word. In this situation, he truly didn't know what to say.
"Hmph, as soldiers, you actually left all your student certificates, which represent your duty and responsibility, in the dormitory!"
With a wave of Zhang Xiangshang's hand, thirteen student IDs fluttered and scattered at his feet and those of the children. Zhang Xiangshang said coldly, "You are the first batch of deserters in the history of the Fifth Special Forces!" You are the Fifth Special Forces, and the greatest shame of my life! ”
"And you deserters actually dare to use the military skills you learned from the Fifth Special Forces to break into the armory and steal firearms. Such behavior is a betrayal that soldiers must never forgive!" Zhang Xiangshang pointed at the thirteen trainees before him and shouted sternly, "Immediately put back everything you took from the armory, not missing a single one, and then report to the military court yourselves!" ”
"Bang!"
Yan Jun's knees suddenly buckled, and he knelt heavily on the hard cement floor. Listening to the muffled sound between his knees and the concrete, seeing the tears in his eyes, the despair he could no longer hide, the wounds on his body that hadn't fully healed burst open again, seeping out streams of blood, even Zhang Xiangshang couldn't help but shudder inwardly.
The one kneeling before him was a man who had been hit by the T80 tank's main gun on the battlefield, with thirty-seven shrapnel pieces embedded all over his body, hit by four bullets, yet still fought relentlessly, killing at least fifty enemies...... Heroes!
Yan Jun raised his head, wiping away the tears that welled up in his eyes. He glared at Zhang Xiangshang and hoarsely shouted, "Instructor, please allow me, a deserter and traitor, to call you 'Instructor' one more time!" Instructor, you know us! You know we are not deserters, nor will we betray our own army or our country! Instructor, you know why we did this, you know why we broke into the arsenal despite a military tribunal! Zhanxiage is a student you personally conscripted into the army. Zhanxiage is our brother, a lifesaver who gave his life on the battlefield to earn us a chance to survive! Instructor, can you really bear to see your students die one by one on the battlefield? Can you really bear to see the third fang of the Fifth Special Forces die in a meaningless battle?! ”
"Bang!" Bang! Bang......"
Amid a series of heavy sounds, thirteen soldiers of the Fifth Special Unit, who had fought shoulder to shoulder with Zhanxiage on the battlefield, knelt heavily before Zhang Xiangshang.
"Instructor, on our first day at the Fifth Special Forces Elite Training School, we already knew that obeying orders is the duty of soldiers! But please, this time, let us choose our own path for the future! Being able to die on the battlefield alongside the squad leader is our good fortune. To be able to save him alive, even if executed by military law, we will have no complaints or regrets again! ”
"Instructor, we beg you!"
Yan Jun and the twelve brothers behind him slammed their heads hard against the hard concrete floor in front of Zhang Xiangshang, thirteen bright streams of blood simultaneously blossomed on their foreheads and the floor.
Staring at the tears in the eyes of the children before him and the blood on their foreheads, Zhang Xiangshang raised his head. He had to admit he was moved. In this world, the strongest soldiers like him could still move the most sincere feelings between soldiers and men, without any reservations!
Yan Jun suddenly drew his self-defense pistol and pressed it directly against his own forehead. He hoarsely shouted, "My life was carried back by the class monitor. Without the war hero song, I wouldn't know where I'd be lying by now. If I had to watch my brother fight the battlefield and watch my brother fight the battlefield, my brother would have to stay obediently at school. I can't do that!" Instructor, if you insist that we hand over our weapons and walk into the military law office's isolation room ourselves, I'd rather shoot myself here and return my life to the squad leader! ”
Zhang Xiangshang took a gentle breath, staring at the big boy before him, whose face was filled with despair and madness. He truly wanted to close his eyes and let these children leave; If soldiers could truly act as they wished and did as they pleased, he would truly be like Zhu Jianjun, personally leading these children to the battlefield to bring back the war heroic songs!
But...... A soldier is a soldier!
Zhang Xiangshang clenched his teeth fiercely, his voice trembling slightly, and said, "No!" ”
"Smack!"
Yan Jun actually pulled the trigger of his self-defense pistol without hesitation!
But the pistol, loaded with bullets, still hadn't fired. Yan Jun pulled the safety, and a shiny bullet jumped out of the chamber. He picked up the pistol bullet with a clear mark on the primer, then removed the automatic rifle magazine, took out a few bullets, and stared at the bullets in his palm. A trace of despair appeared on Yan Jun's face.
Zhang Xiangshang took a few steps forward and snatched Yan Jun's pistol. He swung his large hand, and with the crackling sounds, Zhang repeatedly slapped Yan Jun across the face more than a dozen times, making stars flash before his eyes. Zhang Xiangshang whipped fiercely while shouting, "Yan Jun, remember this! When you were at the Fifth Special Forces Elite Training School, when you put on this uniform, your life would no longer be yours!" Stand up! Get lost and get to the military justice office. Even if you die, you will die at the execution grounds of the military justice office! ”
"I can't stand up!" Yan Jun's face was covered in tears and blood. He cried out hoarsely, "I don't understand politics, and I don't understand why we can't save our own soldiers. All I can do is watch as Zhanxiage fights the enemy alone." That was the war hero song, that was our class monitor, that was the big brother who saved all our lives! We bastards on the battlefield saved our lives by abandoning our squad leader. We've even lost our dignity as men—how can we possibly stand up? ”
Yan Jun pounded the floor desperately with his fists, shouting hoarsely, "Instructor, I'm finished, I'm really finished!" I, this bastard, this deserter, can't stand up anymore. The blood of the squad leader who flowed above me will forever weigh on me, and above my head, the squad leader's spirit will always float with his unwilling death. He will surely keep asking us, why, despite having the ability to support him, we watch helplessly as he is hunted by the enemy for thousands of miles. He will keep asking why we can face his life with such indifference! With the class monitor in front of me, I'll never be able to stand up again in my life! ”