Chapter 29: Another Year of New Recruits Arrives

  This was also the first time they lost comrades in battle, the whole class stood silently there without a word, Yeyang Jian lit three cigarettes and placed them on the ground, looking up at the gray sky.

  "...In the name of our motherland, dear comrades! Farewell!..." The year-end snow has finally fallen...

  "...Collect all the weapons used by the enemy and bring them back!" Yeyang Jian gave orders to the heavily armed Big Bear and Tank...

  Kashgar Daily's headline on the second day: "Kashgar shocked by boiler explosion last night, casualties unknown!" "According to reliable sources from this newspaper, a boiler exploded at a bathhouse in Kashgar city last night, injuring multiple staff members. Public security, armed police, and fire departments have sealed off the scene. The cause of the accident is under investigation..."

  The next morning, Ye Yangjian was bored to flip through the newspaper. This was what he had expected all along. The order from the headquarters came down, and the 10th Battalion continued to stay in Kashgar to assist the local authorities in eliminating the rebel armed forces. The wounded of the 3rd Battalion were transferred back to their unit, and the remaining personnel of the 3rd Battalion were combined with the 10th Battalion as one team, temporarily led by Ye Yangjian... until the task was completed.

  Time flies quickly, and before he knew it, Ye Yangjian had already spent three years in the army...

  He is now a twenty-one-year-old young man, with the soft whiskers at the corners of his mouth becoming prickly. The baptism of blood and fire over the years has made him one of the best wild warriors. In three years, the Wolf Pack squad led by him has carried out countless tasks, including combat readiness, suppressing riots in Dongtur, strangling drug traffickers on the Sino-Vietnamese border, secretly infiltrating Taiwan, confronting small enemy forces, destroying enemy radar stations, and many other dangerous missions.

  The 10th Squad, relying on their excellent tactical awareness, perfect coordination, command and the blessing of the goddess of luck, although all members were more or less injured, miraculously no one was sacrificed. The 10th Squad has become a truly ace team with 177 names.

  The tenth class had just returned from a combat readiness exercise outside and coincided with the new year's new recruit training led by Captain Shi Yunbin.

  As usual, Shi Yunbin was yelling at the new recruits. The old soldiers on the training ground were beating up these new recruits.

  "...I'm telling you! My old man is in the prosecutor's office! Damn it! You'll be sorry, none of you will have a good ending!" Another new recruit also started cursing along.

  "...I came here to be a soldier, not to sit in prison! Prisons don't even allow beatings!..."

  The tenth squad had just returned from an external mission, the members of the wolf pack team were wearing jungle combat uniforms, holding various weapons and equipment, with live ammunition. Behind them, a double-edged dragon bone tactical knife was uniformly inserted. Marching in neat and powerful strides. They were passing through the training ground. Hearing the curses of the new recruits on the training ground, their eyebrows suddenly stood up!

  "...Click...click..." The sound of several guns being cocked. Under the leadership of Deputy Squad Leader Veterinarian, all the weapons of Wolf Pack Team 10 were immediately loaded! Taking aim at the new recruits who were still in a state of frenzy.

  "Shut up! Be honest for once!..." The veterinarian's loud roar! The new recruits on the training ground immediately quieted down. The new recruits had just arrived at the troops, not to mention real guns with live ammunition, they hadn't even touched wooden guns before. At that time, they were all subdued by the intimidating aura of the tenth squad.

  "...Listen up, all of you! If I hear one more complaint, it's considered mutiny in the military! You'll be shot on the spot! We have a quota for accidental deaths during training every year anyway!!" The veterinarian said with a dark face. His voice wasn't loud, but it was powerful and pierced through each new recruit's eardrum. Looking at him, it seemed like he really would open fire.

  The veterinarian over there is scaring people, and Ye Yangjian pretends not to see it, without any intention of stopping the veterinarian. Otherwise, if he were to take action, he would definitely fire a few shots into the sky first, scaring these new recruits so much that they'd wet their pants before anything else happens. It's simple and convenient. Scanning his eyes, he sees Shi Yunbin is nearby, immediately puts on a smile and walks over to greet him.

  "Long time no see, Third Squad Leader! Got a promotion and didn't even treat us to dinner?" At this point, Shi Yunbin had already been promoted to Squad Leader. But since he was close with Ye Yangjian, there was no need for such formalities.

  "Ha! Look who's back, Ye Yangjian, you've gotten even more robust!" Shi Yunbin punched Ye Yangjian with a smile on his face. Smiling as he said this, brothers who had been through life and death together were especially affectionate when talking to each other.

  "...It's okay, I suppose. If you want to talk about being strong, the guys under Night Iron Fist are truly powerful." Night Yang Jian glanced at a row of long iron fists on the training field and said to Shi Yunbin.

  "Hehe, little wolf cub has learned to be humble. How was this mission?" Shi Yunbin said with a smile.

  "...same old, encountered some small-time toxic dealers, all of whom were taken down by us. AK was injured in the leg during combat, fortunately not seriously, and the veterinarian handled it well." Unit 177 is a unit with high casualties every year, with soldiers sacrificing themselves while executing tasks. The record of zero casualties for three years in the tenth squad has always been a myth, and everyone carefully maintains this honor.

  "Ah!... I've always envied your team's veterinarian, if my team had a professional doctor, Po Tou and the others wouldn't have died." Shi Yunbin said with a sigh. For some reason, he thought of those sacrificed brothers.

  "... wasn't the medical soldier plan already arranged a long time ago? How come it still hasn't been implemented?" Night Yang Jian furrowed his brow and asked, A3 had planned to assign a battlefield doctor to each combat squad to reduce casualties, this plan was proposed early on, but he didn't know why it hadn't been implemented from 177 until now.

  "Ah! Look at these new recruits, they're getting worse and worse every year, all spoiled since childhood! How many can meet the requirements to stay? Plans are plans, but there's no suitable candidate, even the company commander can't do anything about it. The company commander brought a few medical students this time, especially for this purpose, but I reckon not one of them will be able to stay. Your deputy platoon leader, Veterinary Strong, is an exception, you have no idea how envious I am." Shi Yunbin said with a helpless gesture.

  Ye Yangjian knew he was telling the truth. As a member of A3's elite squad, 177, the training was extremely tough, especially when they were new recruits. If you weren't a real man, you wouldn't be able to withstand it. The quality of soldiers in recent years has clearly declined. As a medical school graduate, he might have been qualified for an ordinary unit, but in A3...the mortality rate from training accidents alone was as high as 0.6%.

  He pulled out a box of special cigarettes and handed one to Shi Yunbin. The rest were thrown to the veterinarian, asking him to distribute them to other team members.

  "Wow, another special supply, you really have goods!" Shi Yunbin greedily put the cigarette under his nose and took a sniff. Soldiers all like good tobacco and liquor, special supply cigarettes in 177 are an honor, only after completing the task will they get this kind of special reward from above.

  "...sneakily taken from my uncle, doesn't count, hehe, treating brothers, yeah" Ye Yangjian chuckled and smiled. He indeed didn't go to Ye Wen Tian's place often.

  "Alright, alright! I still don't know you... Ye Yang! Honestly, I quite admire you, you're at least half a tiger's son! You don't have to be so desperate all the time, in the future you'll also have a good way out. But every time there's a dangerous mission, it's always you guys who take the lead, just for this point alone, you deserve my respect, you're a real man!" Shi Yunbin said solemnly.

  “…Ha! What's that, the weather is great today! Clear sky for thousands of miles, white clouds floating by~~~” Ye Yang Jian was laughing and smiling, his usual serious face nowhere to be seen, not looking like a frontline combat team leader from an elite unit at all...

  "...this stinky kid, every time he's not in a good shape!" Shi Yunbin also chuckled, Ye Yangjian this kid is quite capable. Loves to joke around, leading troops is also very skilled, and has good relationships with people, his tenth squad, a group of little wolf cubs, are always being led by him to shout loudly, demanding to go into battle, complete missions.

  It's said that Ye Yangjian is now a number one figure in A3 and 177. Not many people don't know him. The most sensational time was the Nanjing Military Region's all-army competition, where 177 won several championships, and the 10th class also achieved good results. However, as the team leader, Ye Yangjian did not participate in any military project competitions, but instead participated in the entertainment-oriented snooker table tennis competition and karaoke competition. In the end, he surprisingly took away two championships. During the final, he shouted a song by Shin Band's "Tian Gao Di Hou", and almost fooled a beautiful female soldier from the art troupe who was a judge into thinking he was a professional singer. The person who asked about the weather scolded him, saying Ye Yangjian was not doing his job properly. Long Jianghai laughed so hard that his stomach hurt. From then on, Ye Yangjian's name shook A3, because although they had other honors, A3 had never won awards in table tennis and karaoke competitions before, and Ye Yangjian opened up a precedent for the special forces soldiers of A3 being both literary and martial...

  "What's with these eggs?" Night Yang Jian asked, looking at the new recruits who were beaten and couldn't get up on the training ground.

  "...Out of a hundred or so people, I estimate that it's hard for three to stay." Shi Yunbin was also speaking the truth. Every year, the most ruthless elimination is the first three months of the new recruits' company.

  "...I think there's a problem with the training method, you're just thinking of beating people up and not giving them any guidance. This is a bit too difficult for people! Every day, whether there's something going on or not, they get beaten up and can't see any hope." Yèyáng Jiàn said thoughtfully.

  "...I also know, but benevolence does not control the army! Haven't we all been through this? You were beaten by Liu Yong back then, didn't you dare to hum a tune for days on end? Killing off the arrogance of new recruits is a tradition of 177." Shi Yunbin recalled the scene of Ye Yangjian's training years ago. Three years later, that unremarkable new recruit had become a mainstay of 177.

  "...times are changing, I was beaten at the time, but my teammates and I knew what the way out was. So we were able to hold on because we saw the benefits of staying, that is, we saw hope. But looking back, it can also be said that I took advantage once!" Yeyang Jian did not hide his own cleverness back then.

  "...So what's your good idea? Try it out?" Shi Yunbin said with interest. He knew that Ye Yangjian had a lot of ideas.

  "...Let's give it a try." Yè Yáng Jiàn agreed, actually he had always had his own ideas about leading troops, but hadn't had the chance to put them into practice. Now that he finally had an opportunity, of course he wanted to test whether his methods were feasible.

  "...Is there a spotter available? I want one." Night Sun Jian asked again, he wanted to add another observer for the 10th class, the current sniper team of the Wolf Pack squad has three people, Venomous Snake, Glasses Snake and Sharp Knife, among them Glasses Snake is an observer. If they can add one more person to pair with Sharp Knife, it would be able to form two sniper teams, which will be very helpful for future missions.

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