"Don't believe it?" Yang Chen snorted coldly, throwing Gao Hong to the ground and said coldly, "You think the Snake organization is simple? The entire Asuna Continent, even involving the Southern Federation, has traces of the Snake! I fought from Flame Country to the Southeast Continent and killed a total of 1,479 people! But do you know how many members of the Snake our Wolf Fang Team has killed?"
Gao Hong was already stunned by what Yang Chen said, shaking his head repeatedly.
Yang Chen said contemptuously, "We destroyed a total of 237 Snake bases and killed 3,625 members!"
Gao Hong felt as if his mind exploded; he couldn't understand what Yang Chen was saying, only feeling that maybe he had done something wrong.
Yang Chen asked again, "I ask you, Gao Hong, how many people are in our Wolf Fang Team?"
"Forty, forty-five people!" Gao Hong slumped on the ground, his voice hoarse.
"That's right!" Yang Chen nodded, "Wolf Fang Team initially selected the nation's elite, 299 people, the first batch eliminated 200, leaving 99. After intensive training, 45 remained."
"Forty-five people, divided into three squads, 15 per squad, and further divided into nine groups, five per group. Among every five people, it's like a team, a whole unit. Through countless trainings, we have become brothers, have shielded bullets and knives for each other! I believe, among these forty-five people, you remember many of them, right?"
Gao Hong nodded slowly, saying deeply, "I remember all of them, Mingliang, Xiaoqing, Saizi, Shisan, Ma Liu, Chen Bosen..."
Hearing these names, Yang Chen's mouth twitched.
"But!" Yang Chen raised his voice eight octaves, even trembling, as he spoke with some quavering in his tone.
Gao Hong looked at Yang Chen in surprise, noticed that Yang Chen's eyes were red, tears welling up but not falling, and Yang Chen was trying his best to keep them at bay, "But! Do you know? Mingliang sacrificed himself! Xiaoqing also sacrificed! Saizi was shot into a sieve on the battlefield, when we cleared the battlefield, his body parts were gathered like broken pieces that couldn't fit back together!"
Saying this, Yang Chen gritted his teeth, took deep breaths, trying to control his emotions, and then continued, "Ma Liu was sniped at sea, his entire head exploded, when we held the farewell ceremony for his body, we couldn't even tell if that head, like a smashed watermelon, was indeed Ma Liu."
Gao Hong was stunned, looking at Yang Chen in disbelief.
"This...how...how could this be? How did this happen? You... how could you..."
"Do you know how many are left in our Wolf Fang now?" Yang Chen stared at Gao Hong and asked.
Gao Hong shook his head.
"Wolf Fang Team, with forty-five members, three died in the battle against Snake, five left afterward, seven died in the East Continent, eighteen died in the Lijia Continent, one was repatriated, leaving twelve!" Yang Chen shouted loudly.
Upon hearing these numbers, Gao Hong couldn't believe it, stared at Yang Chen, and said, "No, that's impossible! It can't be true! Boss, you must be joking with me, right?"
Wolf Fang is different from other Guards, they are a fifth class Guard, also known as the real professional guards, lifelong guards! The brotherhood between them is much thicker than that of ordinary Guards.
This is the difference between having been on the battlefield and those who haven't.
On the battlefield, the feeling of mutual protection, of you covering for me, and I guarding your back, is so intense like blood, those who haven't experienced it wouldn't fully understand!
Hearing that the brothers who went to the battlefield together, through water and fire, ate raw meat together, had all died in battle, Gao Hong found it hard to accept such reality.
"Joking?" Yang Chen sneered, staring at Gao Hong, "I really wish it were all a joke! Those were all my brothers! My mates! My close brothers! Do you think I'd joke about their lives?"
Gao Hong's eyes turned red.
Yang Chen stared at him and said, "That's why I say, anyone else can say those things, but you five can't! Do you know why? Huh? Do you know why?"
Gao Hong remained silent.
"Because!" Yang Chen took a deep breath, "Because I didn't want you to go to the military court, because I didn't want you to be held accountable, because someone has to bear it all, because revenge must be taken! If everyone left, if we washed our hands of it, where would you leave Wolf Fang? Where would the Snake organization go, still at large? So, I took these brothers, bearing the blood debt, and rushed to the battlefield! Watching comrades fall one by one, watching brothers die, Gao Hong, I think you'll never understand! Do you know why after you five, no one retaliated against anyone else's family? It's because of us, we cleared all the surrounding Snake members! Do you think if we hadn't been fighting with guns in hand, you could peacefully stand here and argue with me?"
The last sentence completely broke Gao Hong.
A man of iron will, whose body was all muscle with hardly any fat, crumbled, crying aloud.
He didn't know why he was crying, perhaps for having done wrong, perhaps for his murdered family, maybe for those fallen comrades...he wasn't sure, he was just feeling miserable, just wanted to release, maybe because these words, these emotions had been pent up for five years... maybe because, at this very moment, he realized everything he had done was wrong.
Watching Gao Hong cry for a while, Yang Chen frowned and scolded, "Alright! Stop crying like a woman!"
Gao Hong wiped his tears, stood up, and said to Yang Chen, "Boss! I was wrong, I'm sorry! You can punish me however you want! Beat me, scold me! Even if you execute me, I won't object!"
"Execute you?" Yang Chen sneered, glaring at Gao Hong, "Do you also want me to sit in a cell just like you?"
"No! You are my instructor, you have the right to execute a deserter, come on! I won't regret it!" Saying this, Gao Hong knelt on the ground with a thud.
Seeing this scene, Yang Chen, his teeth itching with anger, kicked Gao Hong to the ground.
He knows very well the temperament of each of his men.
Besides being sly, Gao Hong is also a single-minded, mule-headed person who doesn't know how to yield.
Otherwise, Yang Chen wouldn't have bothered telling him this much, he would have just beaten him up and put him away directly.
Yang Chen took a deep breath and said to Gao Hong, "I'm no longer the instructor of Wolf Fang, I've retired!"
"What?" Gao Hong got up from the ground, looking at Yang Chen in disbelief, "Why? Why did you retire? Aren't we professional guards? Even if retired, we could join local guards!"
Yang Chen glared at him and scolded, "Retired means retired, there's no why! I'll give you two choices, one is I knock you out and carry you down, the second is you go down and surrender by yourself and let them take you back! You choose!"
Hearing this, Gao Hong quickly said, "I'll go by myself! I'll go by myself, heh heh!"
He dared not fight with Yang Chen again, fighting Yang Chen was like an ant fighting an elephant, utterly powerless, overestimating oneself.