CHAPTER 24 CHAPTER 24
Lao Jiang's body was carried to the place where he should go. What he needed to do next was a series of funerals and awaiting his family. As for whether the ashes were placed in the Martyrs' Cemetery or were taken home by his relatives, I don't know yet.
He died to save people, and the title of martyr will be approved soon. But everyone is dead, what's the use of asking for a martyr?
Long Xiaoqi, hiding in the company's warehouse, cried silently, grabbed his head hard, and fell into deep self-blame. Lao Jiang was killed by him. If he didn't run around and followed the other party closely, the squad leader would not die!
But what's the use of blaming yourself? Lao Jiang is dead and turned into a cold corpse.
"Squad leader, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Long Xiaoqi's face was full of tears, like an abandoned wild cat, crying and apologizing to a battle flag in front of him.
The battle flag is Lao Jiang's battle flag, with spots of blood on it, and small holes that were broken by landmines.
What's the use of sorry? Lao Jiang is dead and falls asleep forever.
No one came to comfort Long Xiaoqi, and everyone in the entire Battle Banner knew the specific situation. They knew that Lao Jiang died to save Long Xiaoqi... and even more knew that Lao Jiang was killed by Long Xiaoqi.
No one gave him a good face, and no one even talked to him. Although these old squad leaders were not flag guards, they had a very good relationship with Lao Jiang. In their eyes, Lao Jiang was just a straightforward old man. How could he like the person who killed Lao Jiang after this good man died because of him, Long Xiaoqi?
Long Xiaoqi became a sinner, a sinner of the Battle Banner Company.
Late at night, an off-road vehicle drove into the Zhanqi Company without alarming anyone. The regiment commander Lang Lang walked out of the car, stood in front of the dormitory building of the Zhanqi Company, and stopped for a while, and walked straight towards the warehouse where the Zhanqi Company was storing the Zhanqi Company.
When he walked to the door of the warehouse, he clearly heard a depressed cry from inside. Hearing the crying, Lang Lang sighed deeply, pushed open the door and walked in.
"Who?" In the darkness, Long Xiaoqi made a sound alert and reached out to wipe his tears.
"I, Lang Lang." Lang Lang said his name.
"Hello leader!" Long Xiaoqi immediately stood up and faced the figure of Lang Lang in the dark.
Lao Jiang died, and Long Xiaoqi became a sinner. No one was willing to pay attention to him, but the leader of the group came in person and found him personally.
"It's not your fault." Lang Lang gently closed the warehouse door and said to Long Xiaoqi: "You don't have to blame yourself, because this matter is not your problem."
He did not turn on the lights, keeping the warehouse absolutely dark. Perhaps the darkness would make each other more adaptable. One was the regiment commander and the other was the private. But they had a common identity: they were all Lao Jiang's soldiers, and they were all called Lao Jiang's squad leader.
"It's my problem." Long Xiaoqi took a deep breath and said, "If I didn't run around, I wouldn't step on the landmine, and the squad leader wouldn't have to die."
"No one can control his emotions in that environment. Do you think you are the only one running around?" Lang Langsha took two steps forward, stood in front of Long Xiaoqi and said seriously: "Do you think if there is no approval from me, the squad leader will take you to the ammunition destruction base for training? If there is responsibility, then my responsibility will be great."
"No, it's my responsibility, it's my problem!" Long Xiaoqi bit his lips hard and said in a hoarse voice: "Captain, you don't need to comfort me. I know this is my problem. Really, I know, I understand."
Self-blame, guilt, regret... This is impossible to get rid of. Long Xiaoqi believes that it was Lao Jiang who he killed. This is something that no one can deny, and cannot be erased from the bottom of his heart, no matter when.
"I have been running around there too," Lang Lang said in a deep voice: "Because I was afraid, because I was just a recruit at that time. When I heard the shells fall and explode, I wet my pants, and then ran around like a headless fly."
"you……"
"Yes, I have received that kind of training, but fortunately I didn't step on the landmine." The commander said regretfully: "Because I was running back, I was afraid, really scared. I was afraid of death. At that moment, I originally said that I would not be afraid of death, but I was more afraid of death than anyone else. So I didn't step on the landmine and I couldn't become a qualified flag guard."
After saying that, Lang Lang sighed long and reached out to touch the battle flag that belonged to Lao Jiang.
"I killed the squad leader." Long Xiaoqi said again.
"Is it meaningful?" Lang Lang stared at Long Xiaoqi's eyes and said in a deep voice: "The squad leader is for the inheritance of the Battle Flag Company and the inheritance of the Flag Guard. If his death can be exchanged for the continuation of the Flag Guard, then he is willing! Long Xiaoqi, do you know what the squad leader wants you to do? He wants you to do not just a Flag Guard, he wants you to become the King of the Single Soldiers! When you become the King of the Single Soldiers, he will look at you and smile in heaven; when you become the King of the Single Soldiers, everyone knows that the Battle Flag Company has not fallen at all. It is still the immortal Battle Flag Company, and it is still the legendary special company!"
Long Xiaoqi didn't say anything, and bit his lips tightly and listened. Because the leader was talking about the squad leader's last wish, he wanted Long Xiaoqi to realize his last wish.
"When you have experienced a lot, after you have experienced a lot of life and death, when you become the king of individual soldiers, you will understand that this is not your problem at all. You are just a recruit, and you still don't understand that the greatest honor of a squad leader is not how many merits or how many awards he has received, but what he has left for the army and what he has left for his own soldiers. The spirit, the spirit we have passed on to the army and the soldiers under his command is the greatest honor."
Long Xiaoqi was still silent and still bit his lip. He didn't understand what the team leader said to him, but he knew clearly how he should move forward step by step in the future.
"Long Xiaoqi, I'm not here to comfort you. When you can become a qualified flag guard, your inner strength is far greater than me." Lang Lang let go of the battle flag, turned around and walked outside and said, "Remember, the death of the squad leader is only his destination; the death of the squad leader can make your heart stronger. Be a qualified flag guard, be a single soldier king, the battle flag company... it depends on you!"
Lang Lang walked out of the warehouse and got in the car and left.
He was indeed not here to comfort Long Xiaoqi, he was here to tell Lao Jiang’s last wish - the King of Soldiers!
Only the Battle Banner Company has a single-soldier king, and only the Battle Banner Company has the ability to cultivate a single-soldier king. Decades have passed, and there is no single-soldier king anymore, and the Battle Banner Company without a single-soldier king is declining.
Chapter completed!