Chapter 11: My Name is Battle Soul

  It's been over a month since Qin Yang arrived at Ma Zhan Ting's place.

  In this more than a month, after Qin Yang's careful observation, it was determined that Ma Zhan Ting Yue Hai Jiao Ming and others were still somewhat trustworthy, although they had acquired some bad habits in the old warlord troops. So he decided to tell them his plan.

  "What, Special Forces?" Ma Zhanting stretched out his lone arm and scratched his hair.

  "What is a special warfare team?" Han Xueming also asked in confusion, and the others all looked at Qin Yang.

  The term "special forces" was almost unknown in China at that time, and even in the world, only Germany and Japan had established a few special forces with limited personnel, which were not valued.

  The special forces are troops in some countries' military forces that undertake missions to disrupt, destroy or sabotage important enemy political, economic and military targets, as well as conduct other special tasks. They have the characteristics of flexible organization, elite personnel, advanced equipment, rapid mobility, rigorous training, and strong combat effectiveness. Their main tasks include: harassment and destruction, assassination and abduction, reconnaissance behind enemy lines, stealing intelligence, psychological warfare propaganda, and special guard duties. The quality requirements for team members are high, generally selecting physically fit, intelligent and brave individuals with a spirit of sacrifice and some combat experience. Equipment is lightweight, advanced and efficient, mainly consisting of light weapons such as pistols, daggers, rifles, submachine guns, light machine guns, hand grenades and grenade launchers, as well as high-level assassination equipment and drugs, communication equipment, special explosive devices and underwater operation equipment. They are required to be proficient in driving various vehicles and using various reconnaissance equipment, lightweight engineering equipment, etc. Training is rigorous, with the main content and requirements including: conducting multiple intense physical training sessions to enhance physical fitness, endurance and willpower; conducting psychological quality training under harsh and terrifying conditions to cultivate calmness, composure and adaptability; conducting assassination, hand-to-hand combat, infiltration, explosion, assassination, abduction, driving, communication, disguise and other training to master various skills; conducting tactical training such as raids and ambushes, learning relevant tactical theories, and improving independent combat and coordinated action and command capabilities. Generally, through multi-channel, multi-level special training, the overall special warfare capability is comprehensively improved!

  Han Xueming listened and stuck out his tongue, "My goodness, that's simply semi-immortal! Compared to them, flying eaves and walking on walls are nothing!"

  Ma Zhanting listened and his eyes lit up, when Qin Yang finished speaking, he patted his thigh and stood up excitedly, saying "Great, this is what I'm talking about! Brother Qin, you tell me, what should we do?"

  Qin Yang looked at Ma Zhan Ting and the others' expectant eyes, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Alright, I've recently made a training outline; you guys are in charge of finding those familiar warriors we used to know, expanding our team, but remember first and foremost they must be trustworthy, otherwise the trained ones will become traitors, which would be a disaster for us!"

  Ma Zhanting nodded repeatedly, patted his chest and guaranteed that he would definitely find a reliable person. Qin Yang saw that he was a rough but meticulous person, so he didn't say much more and turned back to the stone room to compile the training outline.

  Military training is a serious matter, it must maximize the potential of soldiers while arranging scientifically and not causing harm to the body. This requires a detailed and reasonable training outline. Although Qin Yang has a complete set of special forces training plans, they are from the previous era, many projects are no longer applicable to the current period, such as parachute landing, precision instrument operation, underwater operations, helicopter driving, etc., which need to be removed, and other projects also need to be adjusted and modified to conform to the current reality.

  Qin Yang wrote non-stop and thought non-stop, a whole week passed by, he never left the stone room, even meals were sent in by Han Xueming.

  In his intense contemplation, he had forgotten time, forgotten everything, forgotten to eat and sleep, only remembering that he was a soldier.

  Ten days later, when Qin Yang walked out of the stone room, everyone stared at Qin Yang in a daze, and then burst into loud laughter. Han Xueming even laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his waist.

  Qin Yang was laughed at inexplicably and asked: "What are you laughing at? Is there something funny?"

  Han Xueming bent over, one hand covering his stomach and the other holding a mirror which he handed to Qin Yang, saying with a smile: "Qin big brother, take a look at yourself!"

  Qin Yang in the mirror looked haggard, with a thick stubble on his chin and dark circles under his eyes, looking like a panda with a beard.

  Qin Yang was stunned for a moment, then laughed too.

  Ma Zhanting walked over from behind the crowd, patted Qin Yang's shoulder with his hand and solemnly reminded him: "Brother Qin, things are important, but your body is also important, there are still many days ahead!"

  Qin Yang patted the big hand that Ma Zhan Ting had placed on his shoulder and nodded.

  This is the care between comrades and brothers.

  Ma Zhan Ting stepped aside, revealing a group of shabbily dressed people behind him. He then turned to Qin Yang and said: "Brother Qin, these are all our former comrades from the Northeast Army. After the Anti-Japanese Righteous and Brave Army was defeated, they wandered around and fought bravely everywhere. I've brought them back for you!"

  Qin Yang looked at these tattered soldiers, and saw in their eyes an unyielding spirit. Perhaps these people didn't even understand what it meant to be a soldier, but they had a passion for defending their country that was enough.

  In Qin Yang's heart, these people were like untempered cast iron, and as long as they were tempered, they could become high-quality steel. He was full of confidence in forging an invincible Steel Army.

  In Qin Yang's stone room, Ma Zhan Ting and Qin Yang sat opposite each other, with Ma Zhan Ting carefully reading the training outline written by Qin Yang.

  Putting down the training outline written by Qin Yang, Ma Zhan-ting seemed to be hesitant, as if there was something he wanted to say but didn't.

  Qin Yang saw his expression and said: "Brother Ma, what can't we brothers say? Just say it!"

  Ma Zhanting thought for a moment and then spoke up: "Qin brothers, this training outline seems to be a bit too strict, I'm afraid the brothers won't be able to take it."

  "What's wrong?" Qin Yang felt a little surprised.

  Ma Zhan-ting put the training plan in front of Qin Yang, pointing to the contents and said: "Look at these few items specified in the political ideology outline: all actions listen to commands, do not take a single needle or thread from the masses, all spoils must be turned over to the public, speak politely, buy and sell fairly, borrow things must be returned, damaged things must be compensated for, do not beat people or scold them, do not damage crops, do not flirt with women, do not abuse prisoners of war. Doesn't this seem too strict?"

  Qin Yang said seriously: "Ma Ge, for a troop to have strong combat effectiveness, apart from military capabilities, it must also have high centripetal force. Otherwise, if we randomly harm the common people, how will they look at us? They will say that we are bandits, and that we are mountain kings. In that case, who will support us? We will be like fish out of water, and soon we will wither away!"

  "Well, can't we drop the clauses about compensation for damaged goods and not hitting or scolding people?" Ma Zhan-ting haggled, after all these terms were a bit too strict for them!

  These terms were formulated by Qin Yang in reference to the Red Army's regulations. He wanted to build a disciplined, rigorous and well-behaved army, so he did it entirely according to his original unit's ideological requirements. Naturally, he could not allow anything that would harm the interests of the masses to happen, so his attitude was very resolute.

  He did not want this team to one day go against the Chinese revolution, because he was too aware of how terrible such a team would be. So he wanted to firmly grasp it in his hands.

  After discussing for half a day, Ma Zhanting was finally persuaded by Qin Yang and decided to implement this outline first. The training time was set for tomorrow morning.

  Before the sun rises from the east, the valley is already filled with people, who spontaneously form a queue, waiting for that exciting moment.

  At last, Qin Yang walked out wearing a special warfare uniform and stood proudly in front of everyone.

  "Today," Qin Yang's loud voice rang out, "we gather in this place for a common dream, that is we are all children of the Chinese nation, and descendants of the Yan Huang Xia!"

  "Now our motherland is being bullied by Japanese invaders, how can we as her children just stand by and do nothing!"

  Everyone is looking at Qin Yang!

  "Most of you have families in the Northeast, so you should know what kind of atrocities Japanese soldiers committed on that land. Perhaps some of your relatives or friends were even victims of their brutality!" Qin Yang's voice dropped down.

  A silence fell over the crowd, with most people bowing their heads, and even a low sobbing sound could be heard.

  "It was not long ago, in a small mountain village, Japanese soldiers slaughtered over 100 people. These beasts didn't even spare the elderly who were unable to tie their shoelaces and infants who were still waiting to be fed. Over 100 lives disappeared in the bloodbath."

  "We soldiers are here to protect our own families, to protect these unarmed people. If we can't even do that, then we don't deserve to wear this uniform and the title of soldier!"

  Qin Yang's voice rose, he clenched his right fist and raised it high above his head, his voice ringing out with determination: "I swear, I will defend the rivers and mountains to the death, exhausting every last drop of blood, never regretting!"

  People raised their right fists together, "I swear, I will defend the rivers and mountains to the death, fight with every last drop of blood, and never regret it!"

  "Invincible in a hundred battles, let my battle spirit soar!"

  "Invincible in a hundred battles, let my battle spirit soar!"

  The sound is like thunder, echoing in the valley!

  Qin Yang turned around and took a large flag from Han Xueming's hand. With a swoosh, he unfolded it, revealing two big blood-red characters on the flag face:

  "Fighting Spirit!"

  Qin Yang drew his military sword from his waist, made a cut on his wrist, and placed it on the flag. Fresh blood dripped down, dyeing the battle flag red.

  The first batch of 47 members of the special warfare team came forward one by one, took the military knife from Qin Yang's hand, cut their wrists, and dripped fresh blood onto the battle flag. After everyone had dripped their blood, Qin Yang raised the military flag high with both hands and shouted to the sky: "The Special Warfare Team is established today, I am Zhanhun!"

  People looked up at the sky and let out a loud roar.

  "My name is War Soul!"

  The bloody battle flag is waving in the wind, witnessing the establishment of a hundred-battle mighty army!