Chapter 1528 The transformation of the soul (first update, please subscribe)
For those who have never experienced war, the smell of gunpowder smoke is always so tempting!
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Because he is young, he always has various fantasies about the world. Like many young people, Wang Zijiang also has his own fantasies about the world.
"I was born by the Yangtze River...so I'm called Zijiang. This name has no cultural significance, because my father only attended junior high school..."
At the university recruitment fair, Wang Zijiang introduced himself like many others: Like many of his peers, he was born in a foreign country and grew up in SEA. His father came to this land as a laborer, which was different from the hunger and war in his hometown. , life here is full of applications: the new city , on this land, towns have been built one after another. In the towns, there are newly built modern schools, you can smell the smell of newly painted walls, and supermarkets are filled with various products. , rows of two-story wooden buildings are located on both sides of the clean streets, and it is peaceful and peaceful.
Everything is so pleasant. For our parents, this is the life they dream of.
But as his boyhood came to an end, Wang Zijiang, like many people, could no longer stand this boring life - everyone ate barbecue on weekends and the electric lawn mower made sleepy noises. The men drank beer and ate barbecue.
He lives on the edge of a construction zone, with a dense tropical rainforest on the other side. On weekends, he has gone hunting in the tropical rainforest, paddled a small boat on the river, and found something on the muddy river bank. bullet casing.
Looking at the bullet casings left over from the war, like many young people, he also had sweet dreams about that era and hoped to live in that era,
This is what Wang Zijiang yearns for, to find an opportunity to live a heroic life in an ordinary world. In addition to safety, comfort and peace, there is also an extreme desire for danger and challenge.
How can this deviant ambition be realized?
Wang Zijiang did not have a clear idea. Until that day.
Until the day of the school meeting, the Marine Corps set up a recruiting point at the university student union. They were looking for an officer, and hung up a poster showing a capable lieutenant with a handsome appearance and a slightly cold expression. He was a typical handsome man.
He looked like a cross between a football team captain and a tank commander. His eyes were clear and firm, as if he was looking at the person looking at him with a challenging look.
The poster read the slogan:
"Join the Marine Corps and become the best version of yourself."
That day, Wang Zijiang flipped through the propaganda materials and picked up a booklet. The cover listed all the battles the army participated in, from Bastogne to Mindanao, from Mindanao to Borneo, and from Malaysia to Siam. , from Egypt to Iraq.
After reading the flyer, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind: the heroic experience he was looking for was war.
War is the ultimate adventure, and war is the most convenient way for ordinary people to escape from the ordinary.
Although it was a time of peace, there were frequent tensions and crises; if a military conflict did occur, the Marines would be in the fight, and I would be right there, literally in the middle of it. It’s not something you see on a movie or TV screen, nor something you read in a book, nor is it a fantasy or dream, it’s something you’re living in!
At that moment, Wang Zijiang had already seen himself rushing towards someone in the distance, just like Liang Shan in the movie "Bloody Battle of Borneo", and finally became a warrior, wearing countless medals on his chest, and returned to his hometown in honor.
There is no need for any persuasion from the recruitment staff.
Wang Zijiang decided to join the army.
In fact, military service in SEA is a hurdle that cannot be avoided.
No one will hide. In SEA, joining the military is a kind of honor in itself. However, most people only serve in the army when the draft is issued,
However, Wang Zijiang voluntarily enlisted in the army as a college student - originally he could wait until he graduated from college to serve. He had another motive, one that has kept young men in the military since its inception: I had something to prove—my courage, strength, and manliness.
It was on that day that Wang Zijiang, who was just in his third year of college, finally got rid of the boring life and the shackles of family.
At the age of 19, Wang Zijiang put on a military uniform and became a soldier.
Wang Zijiang wanted to use this to prove his courage and prove that he had grown up, but more importantly, he wanted to make a difference and prove to his parents and himself that he was an upright man, just like recruiting soldiers. Like the man with firm eyes on the poster, they are equally matched.
Another popular slogan in today's society is - "The army forges men of steel!"
On November 22 last year, Wang Zijiang joined this shaping project.
He joined the Army as a college student and immediately joined Platoon Leader's Training Course, the Marine Corps' version of Reserve Officer Training Camp. He then participated in six weeks of basic training, and then participated in the summer before graduating from college. Take an advanced course. After completing the training of the Reserve Officer School and obtaining a bachelor's degree, he can enjoy the officer's allowance, but this also means that he must serve for three years.
In fact, Wang Zijiang does not have the ambition and desire that only an officer can have. However, his choice made his father quite dissatisfied. The future blueprint he outlined for his son did not include military uniforms and military drums.
According to his father, who is a farm worker, after Wang Zijiang graduates from university, he can get a decent job, find a good girl to marry, and then have children.
This is who he is!
But Wang Zijiang chose another path - becoming a soldier!
In the past six months, even in the Reserve Officer School, he had to walk 50 kilometers under the scorching sun, carrying a 20kg backpack.
Whether in training camp or school, his life is a life of combat training in a world of ice and fire.
The rolling waves of the Pacific Ocean during the day made the comrades dizzy, and the red wine and green streets at night made people drunk. Then they returned to the base to receive indoor combat and night attack training, and simulated battles under flickering lights.
Week after week, month after month.
In this kind of training, Wang Zijiang mastered fighting and fighting skills like others, and gradually bid farewell to his civilian status and transformed into a qualified warrior.
Wang Zijiang, who has now completed half a year of training and has become a platoon leader, finally joined the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade. The following days followed the traditions of station life: getting up on the morning call, checking people by name, morning gymnastics, queuing for breakfast, and group training , queuing for lunch, queuing training, group training, midday gymnastics, queuing for dinner, free activities for those who have asked for leave, patrolling for those who have not asked for leave, evening activities, running water for bathing, and sleeping with lights out. This day was extremely boring. It was very different from the romantic dream in Wang Zijiang's heart. It was not at all what he expected the Marine Corps to be like.
In the bar in the base, several soldiers with skulls on their armbands were surrounded by a group of Japanese and Korean girls. The soldiers laughed wantonly there, and they would hug the women amidst the cheers of the waitresses. In his arms. ,
"See, Seawolf Commando..."
Heydrich pointed at them and said to Wang Zijiang:
"They have been on a mission in Jakarta."
Heydrich was in the base staff room, so he was naturally better informed. There was almost nothing in this base that he didn't know.
"Is it a combat mission?"
"Yes, real combat missions, not tactical training."
“I really envy them!”
Wang Zijiang looked at them with envy flashing in his eyes. This was exactly the life he longed to live after joining the army.
"Don't envy them, we..."
Heydrich lowered his voice and said:
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"We are about to go to the battlefield!"
Wang Zijiang said in surprise:
"Really?"
"I just heard, who knows?"
When he received the order, Wang Zijiang was drinking beer and enjoying the beautiful scenery on the balcony of the officers' club. The sea shines in the sun, and the sea where sky and water are connected is bright and vast.
They were lying lazily on the deck chairs, holding cold beers in their hands, and their faces were bathed in the warm sunshine.
Just as they were enjoying this pleasant time, the phone rang, and the club manager ran and jumped to the balcony. He was out of breath and said loudly:
"Officers of the Seventh Expeditionary Regiment, call the officers on duty immediately."
Soon, they learned the news from the phone:
"It's Heydrich. He is the officer on duty today. He just received the news that we are going to Java!"
"What?"
"We are going into battle to kill the enemy."
Xu Feiyang shouted loudly that for soldiers, the battlefield is the greatest joy in life. Then, they immediately left the club and rushed back to their respective units.
The news is accurate!
The next morning, they were heading to Surabaya - landing in Surabaya tomorrow morning!
Upon hearing the news, Wang Zijiang felt that his whole body was in a state of extreme excitement, his hands were shaking uncontrollably, and there was a strong sense of hunger and thirst in his stomach, like a person who had been hungry for a long time and wanted to be filled immediately. Like a full stomach.
After finally calming down, Wang Zijiang began to pack his luggage.
At this time, the camp was in chaos, as if a war had suddenly struck. The soldiers shuttled back and forth between the various detachment areas, and everyone behaved differently.
Some people were wearing military uniforms, some were wearing civilian clothes, and some were only wearing a pair of underwear, with all kinds of equipment hanging on their bare shoulders.
The people from the logistics department threw the boxes from the supply room on the road and piled them up into a mountain.
Like other areas, the company is now like an open-air extra arms store, with mortar barrels, base plates, piles of rifles, canvas tents, bulletproof carriers, helmets and various communications scattered everywhere. equipment.
The operator was testing the radio, and there were strange noises. For the next few hours, the camp was buzzing with a kind of orderly chaos, with officers giving orders to sergeants, and sergeants giving orders to corporals. Orders, the corporal gave orders to the lance corporal, and the private gave orders to the first class. The soldiers had no choice but to give orders to anyone, so they had to do all the work.
Although chaotic, this chain of command operates smoothly. This orderly chaos is the norm when the army enters a war, even though the Marine Corps' creed is - be the first to arrive.
But as we all know, when war breaks out, there's always a bit of chaos.
There was not only one person who was looking forward to war. When Wang Zijiang was packing his luggage, a soldier in his platoon, fully armed, screamed with joy:
"Haha, we are going to the war! We are going to the war..."
After packing all the luggage, Wang Zijiang put the backpack on the table. When he was about to pick it up, he took out his pistol, gently pulled the upper receiver, and looked at the 9 mm lying in the chamber. caliber bullet, his mood was complicated, full of worry and expectation.
Facing the tension in his heart, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then said to himself:
"Isn't this what you expected? What's there to be nervous about?"
(End of chapter)