Chapter 24 Fiery Gold

The two soldiers, who were soaked in sea water, stood on the beach with their bodies trembling slightly.

Both of them were carrying a bunch of props strung together with coconut shells and bamboo tubes. These were the primitive floating objects most commonly used by professional soldiers when they were swimming at sea. They had already used these props with a strong shell and a hollow interior.

Small holes are drilled into the object and then tightened with cork. When swimming at sea, if they encounter a blockade, they can pull out the cork, pour seawater in, and then go underwater with these tools. Make sure you swim through it.

After sealing off the zone, as long as the water inside is poured out, these bamboo tubes and coconut shells will naturally provide them with sufficient buoyancy again.

Looking at the two soldiers who had been soaked by the sea water and were trembling slightly in the night wind, the people present had different expressions, but they all kept their mouths shut. Those who are qualified to participate in this internal selection competition,

They are all the best talents selected from the millions of soldiers in China. Who can't see that after learning about the current crisis from the captain's mouth, these two soldiers actually planned to escape from this possible place overnight.

By tomorrow, the superiors will send bombers to completely wipe out the island?!

If their captain hadn't had a strong sense of responsibility, discovered that something was wrong, immediately chased them out, and brought back two subordinates who had jumped into the sea, then the thing that the three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were most worried about would probably have happened right before their eyes.

These two soldiers became a reality!

More and more people crawled out of the barracks and walked to the beach. No one wanted to speak, or no one knew what to say at this time. They just stood there quietly. Facing the scene slowly in front of them

The crowd gathered together, feeling the pressure of being looked down upon by thousands of people and dying in vain. The two soldiers who were carried back from the sea by the captain finally understood that it turns out that cold and repulsive eyes can really kill people!

The captain who personally captured the two team members had a calm voice, but anyone could hear that deep in his heart, he was on the verge of exploding anger, "Blood Wolf, Tank, you two did a really good job!

"

The two soldiers lowered their heads, not daring to meet the captain's eyes.

"You are all my best students. I personally taught you how to survive in the wild and how to use the simplest tools to cross the enemy's blockade on the sea."

At this point, the captain raised his arm, pointed in the direction of the Chinese fleet in the distance, and shouted sternly: "But I really didn't expect that in this first actual battle where you really risk your lives, the 'enemy' you have to face is actually

Our Chinese army! I never thought that you would become the most shameful deserter in the first actual battle!"

Various emotions of guilt, grievance, and reluctance flashed alternately on the faces of the two soldiers, "Tank" and "Blood Wolf." Finally, one soldier's knees weakened and he knelt down in front of the captain.

But another soldier hissed: "Tank, don't kneel down, we are not wrong!"

"oh?!"

Hearing these words, the captain laughed angrily. He glared at his subordinates who were still holding their heads high and said, "Well, you are indeed my favorite blood wolf. If you dare to do what you do, no matter what time you are, you will do it."

With the ferocity of a wolf! So, can you please tell me that you are not wrong, so who is wrong?"

Xue Lang's eyes swept across the crowd. He suddenly raised his hand, pointed at Li Xiangshang who had just separated from the crowd and walked over with Fengying Tower, and shouted: "That's him!"

Before Li Xiangshang could react, Xue Lang shook off the string of floating objects made of bamboo tubes and coconut shells, took off his military uniform, and exposed his left arm to everyone.

At this time, almost everyone on the entire island gathered on the beach, and there were more than a dozen people holding homemade torches, which barely illuminated the beach. Although the firelight flickered under the blowing of the sea breeze, but in the end

Li Xiangshang could still clearly see the scar the size of a soybean on Xuelang's left arm at a glance.

Blood Wolf, who was born in 1982 and is now only 25 years old, actually has smallpox vaccine in his body!

"Don't think that I also helped change the household registration information with money from my family!" Xue Lang pointed at Tank kneeling on the ground and shouted: "He was born in 1983, and he is one year younger than me.

Years old, but he has also been vaccinated against smallpox! My superior Major General, you don’t want to say that we all lied about our ages when we joined the army, right?!"

Li Xiangshang frowned slightly. It was only then that he suddenly realized that he was wrong.

Li Xiangshang was anxious when he found out that Fengying Tower and the others were in absolute danger; after listening to the words of the three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he learned that their attitude actually wanted to wipe out the people on the entire island along with the smallpox virus, which made Li Xiangshang angry;

His junior brother Jin Zexi stood on the opposite side of the motherland and the army, showing abilities that even surpassed his own. Li Xiangshang was sad; when he arrived on the island, he suddenly heard Xue Ningbo's declaration of love, and suddenly discovered that he was not lonely in this life.

Those two kisses allowed Li Xiangshang to finally taste the ups and downs of love. In just a few dozen hours, Li Xiangshang experienced so many great sorrows and joys, and tasted all the flavors of life. No matter how calm he was,

No matter how wise he was, even though his mood swings were too big, he still made a not-so-small mistake!

In the early 1980s, the World Red Cross Society announced that the smallpox virus had been completely eliminated. From then on, humans no longer needed to inject smallpox vaccines into newborns. This was of course something that the whole world should cheer and encourage, but at that time, China

The country has just opened its doors and has just begun to re-establish communication channels with the world stage. From the information being transmitted to China to the fact that the entire country has accepted this fact and stopped all smallpox vaccinations, how can it be accomplished overnight?

In some areas, smallpox vaccinations were stopped directly in the early 1980s; in some areas, it took a full seven or eight years before they finally stopped this useless practice that was no longer necessary.

"Don't look at me like that! I know that there are seventy of you among you. You could have left on the landing ship today, but you chose to stay. You are all heroes, and you can all look disdainful with confidence! But are there any of you?

Dare you pat your chest and tell me that after knowing the whole story, you can really have no regrets and if you are given another chance, you will still make the same choice without hesitation?!"

Having spoken to this point, Xue Lang no longer had any scruples. He pointed at the person in front of him and hissed: "I, Xue Lang, are not afraid of death! If on the battlefield, no matter how strong or ruthless the enemy is, even if he knows that he will definitely die.

, I dare to fight them to the death! Isn’t it just a corpse wrapped in horse leather? What’s so great about it? Not to mention being able to sleep in the martyrs cemetery, twenty years later, I am still a good man! I can bleed for this country, but I don’t want to do it for

This country sheds tears before it bleeds!!!”

It was quiet all around.

Xue Lang's words undoubtedly represent the aspirations of a considerable number of people. The job of professional soldiers is to face death. When they join the special forces, they are already mentally prepared to die on the battlefield and be shrouded in horse leather. However, who wants to die in this way?

A way to end one's life?!

"It seems that you have given everyone a chance to choose, but in fact, what you have prepared for us is only a dead end!"

Xue Lang pointed at Li Xiangshang's nose and shouted: "You didn't say anything at first, but you just shouted in a big way, "People over twenty-seven years old should come out," and then told everyone that the island is very dangerous.

The people you personally selected can leave first. You are a major general. You have been taking care of soldiers like me all your life. Of course you understand that the army is a whole. In the face of danger, our captain will never leave most of his team members to escape.

, the captain chooses to stay, and the others, even if they feel unwilling to do so, will obey the collective and stay together! Comrade Major General, who is above me, I want to ask you, if you change the order, first explain clearly the current situation we are facing,

If we give everyone the opportunity to choose freely, will the final result be completely different?!"

"Shut up!"

The captain's eyes turned red, and he yelled: "Xuelang, do you know what you are talking about? Don't forget, you are a party member, and you are a soldier in our special brigade!"

"What happened to the special forces? The special forces are also sons and daughters!"

Xue Lang took off his military uniform and asked, "Have you become a special soldier or a party member? Even if you know that the country will send bombers soon, you still have to stay here like an idiot until you are burned to the point where there is no residue left."

.At that time, who will we be? Will anyone say that we are Dong Cunrui or Qiu Shaoyun? Will anyone say that we are a group of heroes who sacrificed their lives to protect the country?!"

"They will only say that we died accidentally during training. They will cremate our 'remains' on their own initiative, and then use a box of pig, dog, or horse ashes, in a sunny gaze.

, hand it to our family in front of everyone!”

Having said this, Xue Lang threw the military uniform in his hand, which represented the glory and dignity of the military, to the beach. He gasped for breath and screamed: "If you bleed, sweat, and shed tears, you will be a

The obligations that special forces must fulfill, even if they are abandoned by their superiors, they still have to smile. I would rather not have such an honor!"

Li Xiangshang did not explain or scold him, he just listened quietly. He entered the military camp when he was seven years old and has been in the army for forty years now. He has been with soldiers all his life, so what do you think?

If you don't come out, the twenty-five-year-old soldier in front of you, no matter how reasonable he is, no matter how loud his voice is, he still can't hide the weakness and emptiness deep in his heart caused by cowardice?!

Fire and gold, life and death, are indeed the best touchstones of human nature.

A person who is usually timid and cautious and seems to be submissive may step forward when facing death and use his actual actions to save the lives of most people and become a hero admired by everyone; some people may appear to be ordinary people.

They are impassioned, willing to risk their own lives in the face of danger, and are more willing to help others, but when death is finally inevitable and there is no room for maneuver, they will become the most shameful deserters!

And Blood Wolf undoubtedly belongs to the latter! He also knows that it is shameful to be a deserter. Regardless of whether he can survive or not, his behavior is destined to be criticized by thousands of people. It is because of this that he will try every means to encourage the people around him.

Drag Tank into the ranks of deserters. In this way, at least there will be one person who will accompany him to accept the condemnation in the future.

Li Xiangshang slowly picked up the military uniform with the armband of a certain Chinese special forces brigade. He gently dusted off the sand on it and saw that there was also a wooden chip inserted somewhere in the uniform.

"Glory Bomb", Li Xiangshang took it off calmly, threw it at his feet like garbage, and finally handed the military uniform back to the captain beside him with great care.

Looking at the "glory bomb" thrown to the ground by Li Xiangshang, Xue Lang's Adam's apple kept surging up and down, but he didn't say anything in the end. What qualifications did he have to say anything now?

"From this moment on, you have been dismissed from the army. Congratulations, you are now a civilian and no longer need to fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of a soldier. Tomorrow I will find a way to contact the command center again and ask them to

Send a landing ship to take you back."

Li Xiangshang turned his attention to Tank, who was still kneeling on the ground and did not get up. "You can take off your military uniform now and leave with the Blood Wolf tomorrow."

After saying these words, and ignoring the blood wolf whose face was turning green and white, and Tank who had been kneeling on the ground and not getting up, Li Xiangshang turned his head, looked at the other people gathered on the beach, and said in a deep voice: "If you

Anyone who regrets it and is qualified to leave this island can go directly to the landing ship tomorrow without reporting to anyone. Facing a battle with almost no chance of winning, there is no shame in choosing to retreat!"

No one could have imagined that the first person to react would be Xu Tingting next to Fengyinglou. She looked at the blood wolf and the tank, not hiding the disdain on her face at all. She spit out a mouthful of saliva with an unladylike move.

When they reached their feet, following Xu Tingting's example, everyone spat in the direction of the blood wolf and the tank.

Although no one intentionally spat on them, no one threw stones, and no one even pointed at them and shouted loudly, but after watching those who spat on the beach, they walked towards their respective campsites without looking back.

The bodies of the soldiers, blood wolves and tanks were trembling like dead leaves in the autumn wind. They were completely rejected, and the silent disdain and contempt stabbed their hearts in waves. From today on
Chapter completed!