Chapter 259 The Battle for Commander! The one chosen as commander, Yuan Bao, stood up arrogantly. He looked around at the dejected students of Battalion No. 3, and finally his gaze fell on Gao Kai in the crowd. He grinned, revealing a set of white teeth.
"Hey, isn't this our firearms expert?" he called out sarcastically. "Comrade Gao Kai, who did your battalion choose as commander? Please don't let it be you, I'm afraid that if you keep giving orders, your soldiers' guns will explode, and that would be a laughing stock!"
"Hahahaha!" A deafening roar of laughter erupted from Battalion Two, piercing the hearts of everyone in Battalion Three.
Gao Kai's face instantly lost all color and turned deathly pale.
He clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug deep into the flesh of his palms, and his body trembled uncontrollably from the extreme humiliation.
The image of being doused with cold water in the washroom yesterday, crawling on the floor like a dog to pick up the soap, was still burning in his mind. Today, this bloody scar was cruelly reopened by Yuan Bao in front of everyone, in front of the top military leaders, and salt was rubbed into it once again.
"You!" The male soldiers around him were so angry that their eyes turned red, their blood boiled, and they raised their feet to rush forward to argue.
But Lei Kuan stopped him with a stern look.
"Shut up, all of you! Aren't you embarrassed enough already?!" Lei Kuan roared.
Those impulsive male soldiers clenched their fists so tightly they cracked, but in the end they retreated in humiliation.
Standing at the front of the group, Deputy Minister Zheng Hongyi frowned, somewhat displeased with Han Feng's almost provocative boasting, but ultimately said nothing more.
Soldiers are meant to be spirited and courageous. Let's put them to the test. The battlefield is where true skill is revealed; nothing else matters.
“Comrade Han Feng,” Zheng Hongyi said calmly, “since you are so confident, then I will watch from here.”
After he finished speaking, he turned to the 140 soldiers in the two battalions, and his voice suddenly rose.
"I don't care what methods you use, in three days I only want one result! The winner gets all the resources! The loser, the camp is disbanded, and you go back to where you came from!"
"Now, you have ten minutes to organize your squad leaders and commanders! Start the timer!"
Losers, camp disbanded!
These seven words, like eight towering mountains, weighed heavily on the hearts of the seventy trainees in Battalion No. 3.
Disbanding means that all their hard work over the past few months has been for nothing, that they will be branded as "losers" and slink back to their original units like stray dogs.
Fear and panic spread like a plague through the ranks of Battalion Three.
"What should we do? Who should be the commander?"
"It's over... The other side has grenade launchers with a range 200 meters longer than ours. How are we supposed to fight this? It's just a one-sided massacre!"
"Commander? Who would command? My specialty is signalmanship, all I know is fiddling with radios. Asking me to command an attack? Are you kidding me?"
"I...I can't do it. I...I'm good at hand-to-hand combat, but this is war. It requires command and thinking! My brain doesn't work well..."
Amidst the murmurs, a buzzing murmur filled the air, and bewilderment and resistance were etched on every face. No one dared to step forward, not even to meet the gaze of those around them, for fear of being pushed into that inescapable pit of fire.
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