On the fifth day of the march, in the dense primitive forest.
The infiltration troops led by Fei Pingsheng had to maintain a marching speed of nearly 80 kilometers a day in extremely harsh conditions, and relied on their own feet to carve out a way for the army of hundreds of thousands.
The physical strength and mental state of all soldiers have reached their limits.
It was a little after four in the morning and the sky was slightly glowing.
Fei Pingsheng looked at the sky, then looked at the soldiers who were covered in mud and exhausted, and ordered the troops to rest.
The soldiers unloaded their heavy military supplies and, as usual, looked for a relatively safe place to rest.
There was no life in the eyes of many people. They were all lying on the ground in a daze, covered with anti-heat detection cloth, motionless, like corpses.
Fei Pingsheng was lying in the grass, feeling dizzy and about to take a nap.
At this moment, the captain of his guard company came over with his back bent and whispered, "Chief of the General Staff... there is something..."
Fei Pingsheng sat up straight again, looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"
The guard captain continued, "Twelve members of Xing Yao's unit left the team without permission and appeared to be trying to escape, but were held down by our guards."
Fei Pingsheng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and immediately asked: "Did you exchange fire?"
The guard captain waved his hand and said, "No, they surrendered as soon as we raised our guns... Now they have been brought back."
Fei Pingsheng frowned, stood up and said, "Let's go and take a look!"
"yes!"
"chief of staff!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xing Yao looked anxious, hunched over, limped over quickly, and called out to him.
Fei Pingsheng stopped and turned to look at him.
Xing Yao's mouth was a little rotten, and he said hurriedly: "I just heard about the deserter! Damn, these guys don't give me face! Chief of Staff, hand the man over to me, I will deal with it."
Fei Pingsheng looked at him and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Xing Yao immediately said: "I'll give them all the sacks and let them carry the big bags in the back!"
After hearing this, Fei Pingsheng flatly refused: "No!"
Xing Yao was startled. He understood what Fei Pingsheng meant. He couldn't help but clenched his fists and said with a pleading look on his face, "Chief of General Staff, it's normal for the brothers to be unable to bear it in this situation. Don't be too harsh. I'll do some work to keep this news secret..."
Fei Pingsheng looked at him, pointed his finger at the ground, and said word by word: "Have you ever thought that this kind of thing could be suppressed? One person tells one, ten people tell a hundred, and in less than an hour, all the soldiers in the army will know about it! If we don't deal with them today, if someone escapes and is captured by the enemy in advance, our combat intentions will be exposed! Do you understand? There were a total of 18,000 people when we came here. How many died on the way here? Can we take this risk? Can we open this loophole? By then, it will not only be us who will die, but the entire Lao Mo and Longcheng will be doomed!"
Xing Yao gritted his teeth and said, "Soldiers are also human beings. Some people just can't bear it anymore. What can we do? Are we going to kill our own people because of these things?"
Fei Pingsheng looked him in the eye and said, "This is a war! In war, we must abide by military law and obey military orders! These people must be dealt with according to military law!"
Xing Yao's eyes were red, and he stood up suddenly and said, "These people have been my brothers for many years! I just said one word, and they got on the car without any mental preparation! Under military law, do we also have to consider the issue of people?"
Fei Pingsheng looked at him, took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions and said slowly: "I don't want to argue with you... Although you don't want to accept it, you know that what I said is right. If you open this door, you will hurt more people! Those who are still holding on, understand?"
Xing Yao stood there, his arms were shaking and his teeth were about to break.
The two looked at each other in silence for a long time. Fei Pingsheng ignored him and turned to leave.
"chief of staff!"
Xing Yao's eyes were red, and he squeezed out a sentence from his throat: "You don't have to go, I'll take care of my people!"
…
Ten minutes later, they arrived at a secretly placed guard post.
Xing Yao lowered his head and looked at the twelve people squatting on the ground.
They were all dirty, their faces were covered in mud, and half of them had red faces, high fevers, and were extremely depressed.
Xing Yao looked at these people carefully, feeling both distressed and angry!
He walked over and kicked the leading soldier.
"Gudong!"
The soldier sat down in the mud but said nothing.
Xing Yao pointed at him and cursed, "Old Jiang! We've survived for so many days, and you're just two days short? What the hell are you thinking?!"
"Commander, we really can't hold on any longer..." Lao Jiang sat in the mud, his eyes dull as he said, "I've been with you for so long, you know this well. When have I ever been afraid on the battlefield? I didn't run away even when a cannon was pointed at my head... Really, I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid of living a life worse than death..."
At this point, Lao Jiang suddenly broke down, lying on the ground, tears streaming down his face. "My brother had a high fever two days ago, and he died when he woke up... And the brothers around me, look at them, do they still look like human beings? Can they continue to fight? I don't know why it happened to us, but I really can't take it anymore!"
The other soldiers around him also began to shed tears silently.
Xing Yao looked at them, gritting his teeth, his chest heaving violently.
Fei Pingsheng stood by and watched them, feeling the same as Xing Yao. But... he had to do it!
This loophole must not be opened. Once the desertion sentiment spreads, it cannot be stopped in this environment. Once someone escapes and is captured, everyone will be doomed!
Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at his guard captain and ordered: "Call all the officers over."
The guard captain nodded and walked away.
After a while, all the commanders around, including those at the battalion level and above, came over. They didn't dare to stand up, so they could only squat on the ground, wearing anti-heat detection cloth, and staring at the twelve people with dull eyes.
Xing Yao looked at Lao Jiang and the others, and after thinking for a long time, he bent down, took off the wine jug with only half of the wine left, handed it to Lao Jiang, and said with tears in his eyes: "Come... have a drink..."
"Okay!" Lao Jiang got up from the ground, wiped his nose with his hand, took the wine jug, and took a gulp.
"Come on, second brother, have a sip too." Xing Yao handed the wine jug to the next person.
The second brother looked up at him, took the wine jug tremblingly, and took a sip.
Lao Jiang looked at them, gritted his teeth, and suddenly pulled out the silenced pistol from Xing Yao's waist. His face flushed as he said, "Xing, the wine is finished! Lao Xing, I've been with you for so long, we are brothers, I won't make things difficult for you!"
Without waiting for anyone to react, he aimed the gun at his own chin and pulled the trigger.
"puff!"
With a dull gunshot, a bloody hole was shot in Lao Jiang's head and he fell into a pool of blood.
Blood splattered on Xing Yao's face. He couldn't help but stand there, staring blankly at Lao Jiang's body.
All the officers who came to watch were staring at the scene in a daze, without making a sound.
…
After a while, all twelve deserters drank and refused to let Xing Yao take action. They all committed suicide on the land.
Afterwards, the soldiers of the guard company covered their bodies with anti-heat detection cloth and placed them deep in the mountains.
Xing Yao knelt on the ground, head lowered, hands shaking constantly, trying hard to adjust his emotions.
The officers all knew that the higher-ups wanted to execute these people, so after watching the video, they turned around and left.
"Wait a moment."
At this moment, Fei Pingsheng suddenly spoke and stopped them.
Everyone stopped and turned to look at him.
Fei Pingsheng was also looking at them, his voice trembling, and he also said with tears in his eyes: "We have been together these days! I have also experienced how difficult it is for you! I know that each of you has reached the limit, and so have I! But what I want to say is that since we have received the order and come here, we should complete this journey! Because we cannot fail! This war in the Laomo area cannot be lost! Look back at the road we have walked, how many comrades have fallen there! Think about the relatives and friends around you who have left one after another since the war began. Are you convinced? Can you accept it?"
The officers present looked at him with flickering eyes.
Fei Pingsheng clenched his fist, pointed in the direction of Longcheng, and said forcefully: "Brothers, we are not fighting for ourselves, but for tens of millions of overseas Chinese! If Longcheng loses the war, the backbones of these tens of millions of overseas Chinese will be broken with one punch, and they will never have a foothold again! Go back and look at history. Do the people of those defeated countries have human rights? At this moment, our relatives are all in Bana City. Once we lose the war, they will also be displaced, and their lives will be a hundred times more miserable than ours now. Are you willing to live like this?"
When the officers heard this, they all had tears in their eyes and clenched their fists.
Fei Pingsheng took a deep breath and looked towards the finish line: "We must fight for our life and finish this journey! Grit our teeth and we will definitely get there! Even if we die, we must die on Tianshen Mountain!! This is what a soldier should do!!"
When everyone heard this, they slowly stood up straight, their eyes brightened again, they saluted Fei Pingsheng with trembling arms, and shouted in unison: "Yes! We have reached the target location and completed the mission!"
…
Three days later, Fei Pingsheng led the group and, with the loss of nearly 800 people, they waded through the gates of hell and finally walked out of the dense forest.
They walked nearly 80 kilometers a day in eight days, covering more than 600 kilometers and arriving near their destination.
This troop movement was a breakthrough in the history of military warfare in the South. Throughout the South, no troop had ever marched like this before.
They measured the land of Lao Mo with their feet and their lives.
They quickly set up a communication network near the target location and reported the current location of the troops to Su Tianyu using extremely primitive code.
…
At the same time, the Mexican-Lao coalition forces took up their combat positions.
Su Tianyu was sitting in the command room. A staff officer hurriedly walked up to him and said, "Commander-in-chief, Fei Pingsheng's team has sent a message that they have arrived near the target location! At the same time, other teams have also sent the same message! Currently, there are nearly 10,000 people gathered near the target location!"
Hearing this news, Su Tianyu closed his eyes and asked in a trembling voice: "What about Fei Pingsheng's troops... How many troops are there around him?"
The staff officer paused and whispered, "About two thousand people."
Su Tianyu was silent for a long time after hearing this number, and he was grateful. He knew how many people Fei Pingsheng had sacrificed along the way.
For ordinary people, three thousand and two thousand were just cold data of departure and arrival. But only Su Tianyu knew what the one thousand people who disappeared experienced during the journey.
After a long silence, Su Tianyu turned his back to the crowd, his voice trembling, and said through gritted teeth: "Notify Longcheng to launch a general attack! Use the sound of gunfire to send off those soldiers sleeping in the southern jungle!"
"yes!"
…
In the Longcheng battlefield, Xin Xiaodong used his terminal to connect to the military channel and spoke to everyone in a sonorous and powerful voice: "Everyone, pick up your guns! The final battle has begun! I have only one request for you. If the military flag is not in our territory, everyone must fire their guns within an hour!!"