C1169 Life and Death
Walking up a hill, we stopped and looked at the interior of the Golden Triangle.
A season of billowing beacons of smoke, the hot air of Golden Triangle filled with the dryness of the earth and the fragrance of wild hibiscus flowers, the poppy flowers had withered and the pot of fruit was quietly growing on the stalks, the harvest season was coming. The climbing flower, known as the Hero Tree, was like a giant, holding up the burning crown like a torch, and the sun seemed especially bright, its pale, continuous hills full of passion.
I seem to see General Lee Shun, nicknamed Large Smoke Gun by Xia Yu, and the suspended official Yi Ke Vice Commander-in-chief, about to enter a bloody battlefield in such a magnificent setting.
We may live, we may die.
When I think of death, I don't think it's scary at all.
It seems that the war that I am about to start is a just and sacred cause. I am fighting for the health of mankind.
The action of this red storm was obviously a bandit, but I insisted on thinking about it.
"Are you afraid of death?" Lee Shun asked me.
"What about you?" I asked Lee Shun.
"If he says he's not afraid, then he's pretending. But if he says he's not afraid, then he's a coward." Lee Shun answered.
I didn't say anything.
"Before a person dies, do you think that there will be any regrets?" Lee Shun said.
"I don't know." "Never thought of it." "No," I said.
"I've thought about it." Lee Shun said.
"What do you think?" I'm curious.
"I've experienced many life and death situations. Every time I'm about to die, I'll think of something and regret it." Lee Shun said.
"What do you regret?" "No," I said.
"What I regret the most is that I wished I had the courage to live the life that I really wanted, not the life that others wanted me to live," Lee Shun said.
"Oh." My heart skipped a beat.
"Compared to what I have done, what I regret most is what I have not done. So when I look back at the end of my life, I often find that there are a lot of dreams that should be realized, but not realized. My way of life, my career, my feelings, my partner, I know how many people live what others want of them, not what they really want.
Or maybe I've always thought of the life I was expected to lead as the life I wanted to live. When I was about to die, I realized that I should and could put aside a lot of misgivings and pursue the life I wanted, but it seemed a little late. "
I looked at Lee Shun.
Lee Shun continued, "I hope I didn't put so much effort into my career. Because of my career, I missed the joy of watching my children grow up, missed the warm company of my family, this is my deepest regret and guilt. In fact, if I were to make my life easier, I might find myself doing a lot of things that I thought I needed to do but didn't need to do. Make room for those things, and maybe I'll have a good time. "
"Are you unhappy?" "No," I said.
"What do you think?"
I won't say.
"I think about this every time I'm on the verge of death, but when I come back to life and find that I still can't change myself, I have to continue along the same path. Sigh, it's always difficult for people to defeat themselves. " Lee Shun sighed.
I was silent.
"Do you regret coming to Golden Triangle this time?" Lee Shun said.
"Whether you regret it or not, is that important?" "No," I said.
Lee Shun looked at me and smiled bitterly.
Then, we all looked at the pair of soldiers who were practicing on the field and fell silent for a moment.
"Qin is a real professional soldier. Although I am the commander in chief, I am not a soldier, nor are you. " Lee Shun suddenly said.
I agree with Lee Shun.
"I am their spiritual leader. Do you understand? The spiritual leader! " Lee Shun said.
"I don't understand!" "No," I said.
"In addition to the small number of people I brought with me, most of them were local Shan children. To them, I was like Khomeini to the Iranians. They believe in me and love me. " Lee Shun said.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"As for Qin, he is the executor and the executor of my Spirit Will." Lee Shun then said: "Look at these soldiers, they are well-trained and have high morale. They are simply a high-quality regular army. However, when Qin and I first came here to take over this team, it wasn't like this. "
Then, Lee Shun told me about the scene when they just came here to take over this team.
Lee Shun, who had just become the King of the Mountain, held a parade at that time. Soldiers lined up for the review of the new boss.
Qin saw that most of these barefooted and uncultured Shan soldiers couldn't even tell the left and right sides. With a command from the official on duty, everyone started spinning around like a top. Soldiers marched in formation, shouldering their guns and throwing off their arms, only to kick their rear legs in front of them and step on their front feet. Some of them fell, some fell behind, and the scene was so chaotic that it was hard to laugh or cry.
Lee Shun was a bit discouraged at the time and said to Qin, "Chief of Staff, don't think that these people are just as ambitious as us. In my opinion, these people are all lazy wild dogs. It seems impossible to turn them into real soldiers."
Qin firmly and seriously replied to Lee Shun: "Commander, my duty is to train the army, and then let you lead them to win the war. Please believe me, no matter who it is, as long as they come to me, I will turn them into qualified soldiers."
After the review, Qin said to the soldiers, "Soldiers, I will train you to become the best and most loyal soldiers of Shan State. You must be loyal to the Shan State Revolution, and loyal to Commander Li."
Then Lee Shun began to recruit Shan State soldiers on a large scale.
Then, Qin started the strict discipline of Revolutionary Army.
Qin made a detailed plan for training Revolutionary Army. He clearly knew that training soldiers was like having a child, it was extremely difficult to be pregnant in October, and it was even harder to train uneducated soldiers.
Qin first trained the group of people he brought from the mainland. These people were good at training, and soon, they became masters of the art. Afterwards, they all became instructors for Revolutionary Army. They trained their Revolutionary Army in the regular army way, starting from the moment they took a break, stood at attention, looked to the right, lined up horizontally, lined up in rows, and walked in unison. The instructor held a whip in his hand.
Under Lee Shun's suggestion, Qin brought in the army's political work system into the Revolutionary Army. Every company had instructors, battalion had instructors, and branch had political committees. They took the company as their unit, studied military regulations at night, reported on their ideological work, and were summarized and taught by instructors.
Discipline was the soul of Revolutionary Army. Qin had ordered not to wander around freely, not to flirt with girls in the stronghold, not to smoke or drink alcohol, all the soldiers had to be ordered not to do anything. A soldier was a soldier, he could not be left to his own devices.
The clean-up had been fruitful. Over the past few months, the normally undisciplined Shan soldiers had become like frightened birds. Hearing the password was like hearing the crack of a whip, and the concept of military discipline was like a binding spell that tightly wrapped around their heads. Thus, for the first time ever, a neat Shan troop appeared in Golden Triangle, along with an earth-shattering neat slogan. This was something that none of the armed forces in the Golden Triangle could achieve.
And then there was the salutation. The original Revolutionary Army had followed the example of the government army, performing the English military salute, raising one's legs high, halting, raising one's arms, palms turned outwards, like in the western movies. Qin really hated this, so he changed it to a Chinese military salute.
Thus, for the first time ever, the Golden Triangle was filled with armed men performing Chinese military ceremonies.
Due to the poverty of the Golden Triangle, most of the Shan soldiers were short and thin. Qin moved the military academy's equipment teaching method into the Revolutionary Army Team. He sent people to do many pictures of the horizontal bars, parallel bars, wooden horses, balance logs and sandbags, and personally give the soldiers a demonstration to strengthen their physique.
He also built Shan State's first ever basketball court, teaching people to play basketball and exercise. At first the clumsy dusts were like ducks caught in a trap, and many were badly battered on the parallel bars, but soon their small, thin bodies became superior, and many became as dexterous as monkeys, able to perform all sorts of superb acrobatics on the instruments.
There were also shooting, assassinations, attacks, covert movements, crawling, and strict training. The Shan soldiers had mastered a lot of military knowledge that they didn't know about before, plus Lee Shun had invested a lot of money into improving the logistics food so that these soldiers could eat meat at every moment.
Qin led his team out for exercises, training, and drills day after day without slacking off in the slightest. He was fulfilling his promise to train these ancestors who had never stepped out of the mountains to become the most outstanding soldiers in Golden Triangle.
"Soldiers are not born to be soldiers. People are still civilians when they wear military uniforms. Real soldiers have to go through the process of war." Lee Shun sighed and said to me: "Currently, under the training of Qin, all of our Revolutionary Army warriors are all elite warriors of the jungle. The recent battles have been the best proof. "
After hearing Lee Shun's introduction, I couldn't help but feel more respect for Qin.
It seems, I feel, Qin is not only a loyal person, but also a person of faith.0
As for what his faith was, I do not know, nor can I think of it.
Within two days, a report was sent over: Dauntless Self-defense Force's ice poison delivery team had finally made their move!
Sure enough, there were 60 mules and more than 100 armed men escorting them.
After a discussion with Qin and Lee Shun, we decided to temporarily stay put and send out scouting teams to closely monitor the movements of this team.
At the same time, we decided that the fight between me stealing the drugs and Qin attacking the base camp of Dauntless Self-defense Force would start at the same time. This way, we could beat them all and prevent them from caring about each other.
While closely monitoring the movements of this group of people, Kunming and Hsinghai were also closely watching the movements of Wu De's subordinates.
The news that came that day was not optimistic. They had actually taken the eastern side road.
This was out of our expectations.
"Are they really not afraid of death? Are they going to smash their guns?" Lee Shun muttered to himself.
Qin said calmly: "No hurry, let's wait and see."
Seeing Qin's calm expression, I couldn't help but feel at ease and Lee Shun also felt slightly at ease.
There seems to be no purpose in the Dauntless Self-defense Force's drug trafficking gang, nor is there any sense of urgency. As long as they do what they want, they can do whatever they want. This type of commoner type of casual trip made us schemers extremely anxious. After two days of waiting in silence, the scout team finally sent back a report that the Horse Gang had left the east bank and was crossing the Mekong River to the western forest road.
This meant that the prey was finally about to arrive.
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