Forged in the Sand: from Recruit to Shadow Vanguard

Passionate blood forges the soul of the army, and ordinary people create legends. This is a passionate military novel about an ordinary young man named Lin Rui who joins the army and makes his mark through hard training. However, he does not know that he has been selected into a top-secret talent program that revolves around the energy lifeline of the Middle East and the secret war between great powers. As a result, he is simultaneously involved in international espionage and battlefield wars as he grows up as a recruit company, a scout, and a special force, and eventually grows into a top "King of Soldiers" who is proficient in special operations and crisscrosses the shadows of the sand and sea. This is not a fairy tale of extraordinary talent, but the true journey of an ordinary young man who, with his absolute hard work, tenacity, extraordinary courage and sincerity to his comrades, in the furnace of the modern army, forged a sharp blade of the nation from a piece of stubborn iron.