Arsenal Military Academy | 烈火军校

Chapter 10 Military Exercise

[Ji Jin]

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As you all know, I can't actually read Chinese and so, use Google translate and websites to help me. Well, my copy-paste thing in Chrome is broken, just for that page where I get the raws. If I had been an actual translator it wouldn't be much of a problem, but I'm not there yet QWQ. So from this chapter, until my Chrome is fixed, I'll definitely miss a lot of idioms and stuff. But the grammar will be okay ＞_＜

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　　"Young Master, the banquet downstairs is about to end. Master is looking for you everywhere."
　　"Got it." Gu Yanzheng said unhurriedly, with a lazy face, he glanced at the feasting not far away, the scene he had just seen was still in his mind, and his smile at the corner of his mouth expanded little by little.
　　"Young Master, let me say something more. Your temper should be changed. The last time you entered the police station has annoyed the Master. Now the Japanese are increasing their troops in Feng'an. The Master is the provincial governor of Feng'an in name. Asking for money, no money, no one, no one. From Zhang Zhongxun to Bai Peiyong, everyone has ghosts, not to mention the above. The military is also a mess, and the students are not peaceful, and they have paraded and petitioned for three days. The Master has not slept for a few days with a good night's sleep. If you come back once in a while, don't make Master angry anymore." The driver, Zhao Yu, said seriously.
　　Gu Yanzheng his head and didn't look back at him. He didn't take Zhao's words to heart at all. After a long time, he recovered and patted him on the shoulder: "I know it in my heart. By the way, Uncle Zhao, help me check on Shen's family tonight. Is there a lady surnamed Xie among the families' young misses at the feast, about 18 or 19 years old?"
　　As the night fell, Gu Yanzheng looked slightly in a daze at the gloriously illuminated hall of the mansion, and hummed in a low voice, "Xie Liangchen, you are really interesting."
　　Xie Xiang, who ran away early, knew nothing about what happened in the Mid-level Mansion. After sending Xie Zhipei onto the train the next day, Xie Xiang was relieved and just wanted to take a good rest, but received a notice of a military exercise from Arsenal Military Academy. This news, had to rush back to school in a hurry.
　　A total of three military trucks were dispatched in this exercise. The trucks were driving on rugged mountain roads. The students in the trucks were all in field uniforms.
　　As soon as she returned to school, she caught up with the exercise. Xie Xiang sat in the corner, holding her submachine gun, thinking about the content of the military exercise. Because this was Xie Xiang's first formal exercise at Arsenal Military Academy, she couldn't help but feel a little worried. In the past, the opponents trained were either students of the same level or familiar lecturers, but this time they were soldiers who had actually gone to the battlefield and experienced gunfire.
　　She has never seen a real war. All the knowledge about war comes from her brother's dictation. Xie Liangchen often tells her some stories on the battlefield, such as the battlefield with many bones, and the displaced war refugees. But what impressed Xie Xiang most was the mornings that emerged from those long and long words—when the sharp blade of light pierced the dark haze, a pair of hopeful eyes that were fortunate enough to see the dawn.
　　Xie Xiang thought, the mission of soldiers should be to protect this hope.
　　Huang Song's snoring sounded in her ears, Xie Xiang raised her head and looked ahead. The sky had become gloomy. The dark clouds above her head were intertwined and weaved as if they were about to fall. The last bit of fragrance of dew falling into the soil was also disappearing in the sultry air.
　　The car came to a halt slowly, and there was a dense jungle in front. Looking around, dark brown and dark green mixed together, which was as pleasing to the eye as a freely traced oil painting. The trees here are tall and dense, and there have been no visits for many years. The long war at the foot of the mountain will eventually burn out the green hope on the mountain. She took a deep breath, and the fresh and awe-inspiring scent rushed into her head, and she immediately relaxed a lot.
　　"Liangchen." She didn't know when Huang Song woke up, and pushed her with a serious expression, "I'm going to leave."
　　The mission of this military exercise is very simple, avoid the attack of the enemy hidden in the woods, go through, and reach the assembly point.
　　When the whistle sounded, the students rushed into the forest as how birds and beasts scattered. The dark green field suit merged with the endless forest. It was not really true from a distance, and it was hard to tell which one was a tree and which one was a person.
　　Xie Xiang followed Huang Song and the two of them acted together. The two of them were also considered to have honed a tacit understanding, and repeatedly surprised , and easily subdued the enemy.
　　At this moment, Huang Song's legs are hanging on the branch, watching the enemy coming here vigilantly. The right hand pointed forward like a spear, and then hung upside down. With a light stroke of the unbladed dagger, a clear blue mark appeared on the neck of an enemy soldier. The fallen legs jumped up again, the dagger against the vest of the other enemy, Xie Xiang, who received the gesture on the other side, sprang out of the grass, took out a pistol and pointed it directly at the forehead of the third enemy.
　　The two moved quickly, without any muddle, and captured three enemy troops in just a few seconds. Huang Song ignored the eyes of the three enemy soldiers and smiled and tore off the blue cloth strips from the arms of the three of them. Once the cloth strips are removed, it means sacrifice, and it also means the failure of this blocking mission, and the three enemy troops headed towards the death point in despair.
　　A fierce gunshot sounded in the front, and at the same time, a signal flare from the rear flashed into the sky extremely quick, and finally turned into red smoke and dissipated.
　　Xie Xiang frowned slightly, seeing that something was wrong, and listening to the gunshots, it was not in front of her at all.
　　She greeted Huang Song quickly, Huang Song said, "I'll go ahead and see what's going on. Go back and find the place where the signal bounced. There should be our people there."
　　"No, it's too dangerous for you to go alone."
　　Huang Song is not willing to let Xie Xiang take risks with him, and smiled, "Don't worry, I will act on the spot."
　　Xie Xiang couldn't persuade him, so she had to say, "Be careful!"
　　"Okay." Huang Song rushed out following the gunshots and ran all the way through the forest. Before reaching the place, he ran into the trio of Shen Junshan, Ji Jin and Gu Yanzheng who were squatting in the grass.
　　The gunfire stopped abruptly, and several people lost their way and stopped in the forest.
　　"The gunfire disappeared, what shall we do?" Ji Jin asked.
　　"We used empty bullets for practice. The sound was wrong and there were a lot of them. It should be two groups of people firing." Shen Junshan analyzed it methodically.
　　"Sorry." Huang Song slapped his head fiercely, "I have to go to Liangchen. Just now someone sent a distress signal, Liangchen went to save people, if he hit those people, it would be dangerous."
　　Gu Yanzheng's face changed, and he hurriedly turned in the direction Huang Song directed at and left.
　　Shen Junshan was also a little anxious, and told Ji Jin: "You go to the headquarters to report the situation, Huang Song and I will continue to find Xie Liangchen."
　　The sky was getting dark, the dark clouds were completely suppressed, and the cold raindrops slowly fell.
　　Xie Xiang opened her eyes, struggling to get up, and found that the pain in her ankle was unbearable. She lifted my trousers and saw that an ankle was cut by a stone. At this time, it was bleeding slowly.
　　She tore off a piece of cloth and hastily wrapped the wound, she began to look at the situation in front of her, she should have fallen into a trap for hunting, and the trap was covered with a layer of weeds again. First, they used the flare as a bait to lure her to come, and then pushed her into the trap while she was not prepared, and then covered it with weeds, obviously not wanting people to find Xie Xiang at the bottom of the pit.
　　Who wants to harm me?
　　Lightning flashed in the sky, and thunder violently sounded. A familiar face appeared in Xie Xiang's mind between the lightning and flint.
　　Li Wenzhong, it must be him!
　　Xie Xiang gritted her teeth, stood up reluctantly, and began to climb upwards. The raindrops became denser and denser, violently washing the shaky ground, and the soil around the trap became muddy. Xie Xiang grabbed it hard but grabbed a handful. With the mud in her hands, losing strength, she saw that she was about to fall to the bottom of the pit again.
　　A figure suddenly appeared in her sight, and his handsome face was a bit urgent, and he stretched out his hand towards her through the heavy rain.
　　"Shen Junshan?"
　　She raised her head and screamed, and then the big hand with thin calluses gripped her hand tightly and pulled her up with all his strength.
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　　In the torrential rain, Gu Yanzheng was traveling through the forest for a long time, but Xie Xiang was still missing, and he couldn't help but become irritable. In his anxiety, he vaguely saw a figure shrinking under the tree, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly ran over to straighten the person.
　　"Xie Liangchen?"
　　"Dang!" A stick hit Gu Yanzheng's head fiercely, followed by Qu Manting's sharp scream, Gu Yanzheng's eyes went black, and large patches of red replaced the dark night.
　　He covered his head and saw who was in front of him. This time he was still in a mood for wrangling, "Why are you... forget it, now we two are even."
　　Qu Manting was dressed in messy clothes. For some reason, she was all alone in the wilderness. Seeing this posture, she must be companions with the people who exchanged fire just now.
　　Qu Manting hurt someone by mistake and panicked. She looked at the bloody Gu Yanzheng and felt a sense of guilt in her heart, but it was soon replaced by fear. She curled her lips and shed tears aggrieved, "You are...are you here to save me?"
　　As if she couldn't stand it anymore, Qu Manting immediately cried out, and opened her arms to pounce on Gu Yanzheng's body.
　　Gu Yanzheng stayed still, closed his eyes before she jumped over, and fainted neatly.
　　When he woke up, Gu Yanzheng found himself lying in a clean and tidy bedroom. Although the bedroom is not large, the decoration is extraordinarily exquisite. There are many bottles and jars on the dressing table, which seems to be a woman's boudoir.
　　Where is this?
　　Gu Yanzheng frowned, desperately recalling what happened after being beaten, but accidentally pulled the wound, reached out and touched it, what started with the soft touch of the gauze. It's just that this bandaging technique is too unfamiliar. It is scribbled and irritating. The gauze was torn off with a little effort.
　　There was a clanging sound from downstairs, and Gu Yanzheng got up and staggered out of the bedroom to look downstairs. Just walking downstairs, Qu Manting screamed from the kitchen, and Gu Yanzheng walked over, leaning against the kitchen door. Looking at the place and the mess, he asked, "What are you doing?"
　　"You're awake!" Qu Manting turned around happily to look at Gu Yanzheng, all in a mess, no worse than just being in the wild.
　　Under the bright light, Qu Manting's face was black and gray. She was holding a kitchen knife in her left hand, and the lid of the pot she held in her right hand fell to the ground with a bang, and the pot was blazing outwards.
　　"Hey! Your pot."
　　Qu Manting hurriedly turned around: "Ah! It's on fire!" Anxiously, she scooped up a scoop of water and poured it in. The fire got bigger and bigger. She threw away the kitchen knife and hurried back, "What should I do?"
　　Gu Yanzheng sighed helplessly, walked over to pick up the pot lid that had fallen on the ground and snapped it onto the pot, and coldly said: "Get out!"
　　Two bowls of noodles are placed on the carved red lacquered wood dining table. The golden poached egg is fried in heat, and the egg yolk will flow out slowly after lightly picking it up with chopsticks, which makes people's appetite excited.
　　Gu Yanzheng looked up at Qu Manting who was burying her face in the bowl for dinner, and sighed very heavily, "Okay, now you tell me, where is this?"
　　Qu Manting ate the noodles without looking up, "My aunt's villa was cleaned by someone a few days ago. I planned to stay for a few days. Who would have thought that I would be chased by the Japanese as soon as I left the house. Fortunately I fought and escaped."
　　"So the sound of firefighting in the forest just now is you. But why is the Japanese chasing you? I think you sing badly." He had asked, but he already had an idea in his heart, which was they were catching Qu Manting. Nothing more than to threaten Shen Tingbai. It's just that this action failed, and the method that will be used next time is unknown.
　　Qu Manting glared at him, originally wanting to complain, but her eyes fell on the remaining half of his noodles, and finally asked unconvincingly: "Can I eat the rest?"
　　She actually cleaned the bowl of noodles in front of her in such a short time. Gu Yanzheng stared at her eyes and looked at the bowl in front of her in surprise. Qu Manting was uncomfortable when he saw her, she coughed, and pretended to explain calmly: "You are so heavy, I am carrying you away. Of course I'm hungry for such a long way."
　　Gu Yanzheng waved his hand, pursing his lips several times, and finally closed his eyes helplessly.
　　"Eat, eat."
　　Qu Manting brought the bowl over and quickly took care of the remaining food.
　　Qu Manting was still drinking soup, the lights outside the door flashed, and several cars stopped in front of the villa. The two hurriedly stood up, leaned on the door cautiously, secretly observing the movement outside. The dark night outlines Shen Tingbai's steady figure, Qu Manting was overjoyed, opened the door and ran out happily, Shen Tingbai tightly hugged her in his arms, his tone stagnant: "I'm sorry, I'm coming late, don't be frightened."
　　"Small matter, I not only escaped by myself, but also saved people." Qu Manting was calm and regained her spirits by now, and said with a smug look on her face.
　　As soon as she finished speaking, Gu Yanzheng opened the door very cooperatively and walked out.
　　Shen Tingbai was stunned for a moment, and then put on a decent smile: "It turned out to be Young Master Gu, so let's go back together." He saw that Qu Manting's clothes were dirty with dirt, and there were still a few torn places. Without any thoughts, he put his coat over Qu Manting's shoulders and got into the car with his arms around her.
　　Gu Yanzheng raised his heels and looked at the pair of people in front of him. He immediately gave up his ridicule, and sat behind with a dull expression.
　　The dark night gradually swallowed the small villa in the forest. Gu Yanzheng looked at the trees flying past the window with a little worry in his heart.
　　Xie Liangchen, she[1] should be safe.

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[1] IT'S CONFIRMED, HE USED 她 not 他, HE KNOWS SHE'S A GIRL o(｀ω' )o