"The Beaten Soldier" is a hard-core military novel focusing on the growth of contemporary soldiers. It takes the transformation of rural youth Lin Rui as the main line, panoramicly showing the tempering path from an ordinary recruit to a top "soldier king", and the words are soaked in the sweat, smoke and blood of the military camp.
The story begins in the autumn of 1998, when Lin Rui, a young man from Linjiazhuang, entered the military camp with a simple desire to "become stronger". The first time he touched a gun on the green leather train, the embarrassment of being scolded by the squad leader in the recruit company, the tremor of the first live ammunition shooting... This taciturn rural child took root in the training ground like a weed, honing his patience in the edges and corners of folded quilts, practicing resilience in the dust of the five-kilometer cross-country, and finding his accuracy in the smoke of live ammunition shooting.
From the exclusion and breakout of the sharp knife company of the Tigers, to the extreme challenges of the scout training - survival in the wilderness at minus 20 degrees, armed cross-country with a fifty kilogram load, and a head-on collision with the "devil instructor"; from the hardening of the special forces into steel - the life and death moment of tearing the parachute rope when parachuting, the three-second decision of holding your breath behind the sniper scope, and the psychology of facing the blood in actual anti-terrorism combat Breaking through; then fighting side by side in cross-border missions, leading the charge in earthquake relief... In Lin Rui's growth trajectory, there is the brotherhood with his comrade Wang Meng from competition to trust, the respect for "black-faced squad leader" Zhang Biao, who is also a teacher and father, the tacit understanding with his archrival Chen Feng from tit-for-tat to life-and-death support, and the soldier's toughness engraved in his bones when facing pain and fear.
The novel does not deliberately deify the aura of the "King of Soldiers", but tears apart the flesh and blood of his growth: he will cry bitterly late at night because he missed the opportunity to shoot and injured his comrades;
