Chapter 1535: New Director (First update, please subscribe)
A new life often begins in an unexpected way.
When it begins, its force is often irresistible.
On the first day of arriving at the front line, Li Hongan felt death.
A shell that came from nowhere landed directly on the road, blowing up several comrades on the spot. Although he weighed more than 90 kilograms, Li Hongan was still knocked to the ground by the shock wave of the explosion.
Half of a head fell heavily on his face from the sky, and red and white liquid splashed all over his face. Seeing his head being hit, Li Hongan screamed loudly in fear.
"ah……"
At this time, a figure walked over. It was the squad leader.
"Why are you yelling like a woman..."
"Pa pa" were two loud slaps. Although Li Hongan's eyes were full of stars after being slapped twice, he finally stopped screaming like a woman.
After finally calming down, Li Hongan shook his buzzing head and looked around with his eyes open: Although he could not hear anything, he could see his comrades shouting there and shooting at the distance with rifles and submachine guns.
But he could only hear his own heartbeat and tinnitus. At this time, his comrades launched an attack in the distance, and he rushed over too. His mind was blank, and he only focused on running. He didn't even know if he had fired a shot. Of course, he didn't see the US troops.
Soon, the attack of this group of fleeing American soldiers was defeated.
After the battle was over, he sat on a fallen tree trunk, and with trembling hands, he lit a cigarette. After taking a puff of the cigarette, as the nicotine moistened his alveoli, he felt much more relaxed.
It was not until then that Li Hongan noticed the blood on his hands. After a moment's pause, he remembered where the blood came from. Smelling the blood on his face, he suddenly felt like vomiting. Before he finished smoking a cigarette, he ran to a nearby stream. Just as he was desperately washing his hands and face, trying to wash the blood off his body, he looked up and saw a corpse in the stream.
It was the body of an American, floating in the stream, and even though the body was lying there, it was clear that the deceased was a young man. Most of the people who died in the war were young people.
Looking at him, Li Hongan suddenly thought of himself. Would he die silently in an unknown stream like him one day?
Just as this thought came to my mind, I heard the platoon leader's voice behind me.
"Director."
"have."
"Director" is Li Hongan's nickname. Although it sounds a bit ironic, everyone in the army has their own nickname.
Kang Mingwei said as he walked to the stream and took a look at the corpse in the stream.
"Captain, you don't have a pistol yet."
"Reporting to the platoon leader, no, I didn't know we had to use pistols as well."
"It doesn't matter if you don't use it."
Kang Mingwei stuffed the Colt revolver that had just been seized into his hands and said.
"When you go to war, you should be prepared,"
"Thank you very much, Platoon Leader."
When Li Hongan took the pistol, his heart warmed. Although all his brothers in the army knew that he was the "License Plate Chief" and would occasionally target him, most of the time they were still very caring towards him.
Only when you are in the military can you feel this kind of brotherhood.
"Okay, let's disband."
After Li Hongan dismissed, Kang Mingwei sat by the stream and smoked a cigarette. While enjoying a moment of peace, he took out the combat diary from his pocket and the photos of his wife and children from the diary. Looking at his wife and chubby children in the photos, his face was filled with the smile of being a father for the first time.
"After the war, Dad will be able to go home..."
When will the war be over?
No one knew, but the fighting would never stop. After conquering Fort Grant, hundreds of thousands of imperial troops rushed into the Central Valley like a tiger descending from the mountain, and one town after another was conquered.
Under the shade of a big tree on the hillside, Captain Andekai was smoking a lit hibiscus cigarette, leaning over to gaze at the burning city in front of him. He was now smoking his last remaining cigarette in the battle to capture the city that he had never heard of before the war - because the troops were attacking too fast and supplies could not be delivered.
The cigarette is almost gone...
Behind him, in a long row of brown-green tents, the divisional command post had been set up. In the main tent, more than 2,300 sets of identification tags were packed in several wooden boxes, waiting to be sent to the Empire's territory and eventually to the relatives of those who died in the battle.
Andekai looked up at the snow-covered hills in the distance, then turned back and stared down in the direction of Penspel. Looking at the burning city, he knew that there were still many tough battles to fight. The Americans would not give up their defense line easily, and there were many tough guys waiting for them ahead.
"Well, Captain,"
A voice behind him said,
"You said you wanted to see me?"
"It should be said that it is an order,"
Captain Andekai said.
"But let's not be so formal."
Captain Andekai turned around and looked at Sergeant Kang Mingwei, who stood at attention in front of him, saluting. Andekai waved his hand and told him to stand at ease.
"As far as I know, in yesterday's battle on Condin Street, you not only saved three comrades, but also destroyed the American machine gun position."
"I just want to get home, Captain."
Kang Mingwei said directly, half a year ago, he was a corporal, three months ago, he was a sergeant, and now? He is a sergeant platoon leader.
“We all want to go home.”
Andekai said as he looked at his subordinates.
"But we have to finish the war before we can go home. By the way, what are you going to do after the war?"
"I think I should work as an engineer in a factory!"
Taking off his helmet, Kang Mingwei wiped the sweat off his forehead with the sleeve of his military uniform. He graduated from a junior college. Before the war, he was a sophomore student majoring in mechanical manufacturing at Qingzhou Mechanical Engineering School. If the war had not broken out, he would have entered a certain enterprise. If nothing unexpected happened, he would have worked there for the rest of his life until retirement. When he retires, he will definitely become an engineer, perhaps a member of the Qingzhou Engineers Association.
However, the war changed everything. Now he is a soldier of the Imperial Legion. He is nearly 1.8 meters tall and has become more sturdy. He has been fighting for ten months. From the beginning of the battlefield, he has become a veteran. In every battle, he will strive forward, from one blood-soaked battlefield to another, always the first to rush to the front, always the first to open fire. He has the fighting and survival instincts of a soldier. In Andekai's opinion, he is the best candidate to complete the task at hand.
"Being an engineer is great. Actually, I also want to be an engineer. What happened? I studied law. After the war is over, I will become a lawyer. Like you, I also want to go home. However, in order to go home as soon as possible, we must fight harder."
Andekai said directly.
"Our division is resting here now, but this is only temporary. We will attack soon. Maybe there will be some defeated American soldiers hiding in front of us, or maybe they have become guerrillas. Who knows! But we must find out, so you and your platoon will serve as the vanguard..."
(End of this chapter)
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