The day Fu Han enlisted as a defense-track student from Qingzhou University, everyone thought he was crazy. He was giving up a perfectly good future to go eat sand on the harsh western border.
It took him ten whole years to rise from private to lieutenant, and from a remote border outpost to the command post of a combined-arms battalion. His hands cracked from frostbite at a high-altitude post, he fell into a hidden ice crevasse at an unnamed mountain pass, chased armed smugglers through the mines of Yanbeibao, and witnessed the steel tide of a joint military exercise. Every promotion was earned inch by inch amid snowstorms and gunpowder smoke, never simply by waiting out the years.
Here are the towering, snow-covered peaks of the Karakoram, the freezing cold of posts where temperatures plunge to minus forty, and canyon winds strong enough to flip an armored vehicle. There are hoarse shouts on the training ground, desperate clashes between the Red and Blue forces during exercises, and charges shoulder to shoulder with allied troops in multinational drills.
Most of all, there are comrades who are closer than family. Han Zheng, a sports student from a martial arts school, went from a hotheaded kid who couldn’t wring out his basketball jersey in the university washroom to a battle-hardened company commander capable of leading a whole company. Ji Zheng, a raw recruit who nearly fell into an ice crevasse, learned what it meant to “tough it out” under Fu Han’s strict hand. Old Qiu, a gunsmith who lost part of his index finger, used laser communication devices he had modified at the cost of sleep and meals to repeatedly suppress enemy jamming during electronic warfare. And then there are Gu Chao, Zhang Chuang, Song Yichen... Their names are carved into the frozen soil of Cangya Mountain, harder than the border markers.
And then there is Shen Yin, the girl who lived next door when they were children. She is a doctor at the military district’s general hospital, while he is the acting company commander of a border defense unit. After years of serving at their respective posts, they meet again on a joint task force investigating a smuggling case. From that child who fell over in the Qingzhou military housing compound
This book is written close to reality. My high school classmate is a national defense student. When we occasionally chatted, he talked about his work and life at the border, so this book was written. I am not a full-time author, I just use my spare time to write books. I also hope that readers who like it can give me good reviews and free power generation for love. I also wish all readers good health and all their wishes come true. From the writing of this book to the present, Fu Han spent countless windy and snowy nights at the sentry post in Cangya Mountain, and I accompanied him through countless late nights coding at the sentry post. Fu Han went from a national defense student at Qingzhou University to a border guard company commander, from a private to a corporal. I have just begun this journey of writing nearly 600,000 words. Some people say that military novels are difficult to write because they cannot just rely on passion and excitement to support the scene, but must be rooted in reality - what to do if supplies are cut off when the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, how to write encryption algorithms when communications are interfered with, and the weight of each sentence when confronting the opposite officer at the boundary stake. There is no room for fiction in these details. I had to look up information, read regulations, watch documentaries, and listen to classmates' descriptions. Sometimes I had to stay in technical forums for several days just to write a plot about communication encryption. But it was these details that turned Fu Han from a name on paper into a flesh-and-blood person. During the creation process, the image of Fu Han became clearer and clearer in my mind - he was taciturn, but filled with fire in his heart; he never expressed his feelings easily, but his care for his comrades, brothers, and family were all reflected in his actions. Han Zheng's enthusiasm, Song Yichen's calmness, Qin Mu's uprightness, Cao Meng's roughness but subtlety, and Shen Yuan's delicate tenacity. These characters and the relationships between them give this book warmth. Every time I write about the scene of brothers holding hands, I will think of a sentence - the friendship between soldiers is not in the words, but in the hands, shoulders, and in those moments when each other does not need to say it but understands it. Thank you to every reader who has continued to read. Your reminders and book reviews allowed me to hold on even when my eyelids were fighting in the middle of the night. This book is still very long, and Fu Han's journey has just begun. More stories of passion, more love, and more stories of protecting his family and country are yet to come. I hope to complete this journey with you all.
It is an excellent book. The author writes it in great detail. It is relatively true about the series of things that national defense students went through when they enlisted in the army, went to the border defense force, and experienced on the border. The author's writing style is also very good, and it also highlights the greatness of our people's soldiers. It has detailed life of border guards, which can better reflect their difficulties and hardships. Come on, author.
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