Soldiers' Assault: Veteran Special Agents and New Recruits

Gui Pingyuan is very good at playing tricks and likes to do things indirectly.

Therefore, before making a fuss about Lu Shaohong, he deliberately avoided Lu Shaohong and first used his father as a prelude, speaking at length about him.

"Political Commissar Lu is a rare and outstanding political cadre. In order to establish the First Division, he voluntarily gave up the opportunity to be promoted."

He has been involved in the team building work while ill, which has completely ruined his health. He is currently undergoing a physical examination at the hospital, and I heard that his stomach problem is very serious.

If Political Commissar Lu had a three-in-one position…

Gui Pingyuan deliberately exaggerated the matter, and intentionally avoided revealing the final layer of secrecy, making the situation even more complicated by his cover-up.

Then, changing the subject, he said, "Of course, I try to think positively. This point undoubtedly has a strong guiding and exemplary role in the current great debate on whether to be an official or to pursue a career."

Officer Liu was only a captain, but after being lectured by Lieutenant Colonel Gui Pingyuan, he immediately felt that he was about to be entrusted with an important task.

He said with great enthusiasm, "I understand. This story is very typical. I'll go back and finish the article right away. Maybe it can even make the headlines."

After saying that, he prepared to run back to write the article, every cell in his body was already impatient.

"You don't understand anything."

Gui Pingyuan had a high opinion of his subordinates and would immediately start scolding them. He said irritably, "I'm telling you, you've been in the First Division for so long, haven't you ever bothered to study Political Commissar Lu's character and personality?"

"Study the leaders? Oh dear, how could I dare to do that?" Officer Liu said with an embarrassed smile.

"Alright, alright, whether you study it or not, Political Commissar Lu will absolutely not let you report to him," Gui Pingyuan continued, keeping everyone in suspense.

"Section Chief Gui, if you can't even report this, then why did you call me here to roast a turkey?" Officer Liu was confused.

"Commissar Lu's deeds are very touching, but we can't report them. We can try a different approach: his son Lu Shaohong's deeds are equally touching," Gui Pingyuan said, feigning sadness.

What are Lu Shaohong's deeds?

Officer Liu was unaware of the accident that had occurred during the special operations training, so he couldn't understand what Gui Pingyuan meant at all.

"He gloriously disappeared while saving his comrades."

Gui Pingyuan really racked his brains to please Political Commissar Lu and to increase the emotional impact of the documentary, even coming up with the phrase "glorious disappearance."

"Really? Is that so?" Officer Liu became interested.

"I've looked into the situation."

Gui Pingyuan was clearly present at the time, but now he pretended to be talking on the sidelines: "At that time, Lu Shaohong was flying behind Xiao Dagong. Xiao Dagong was blown to the top of the mountain by the mountain wind. When Lu Shaohong saw that things were not good, he followed him up."

He knew that there was a large canyon behind the mountain, and it would be very dangerous if Xiao Dagong were swept into the canyon by the mountain wind.

To save his comrade from danger, Lu Shaohong disregarded the risk of being swept into the canyon by the mountain wind and still chased after his comrade.

To this day, Lu Shaohong's whereabouts are still unknown. If Political Commissar Lu finds out about his son, sigh...

Gui Pingyuan spoke only half a sentence, his face filled with sadness.

Yu Guang glanced at Liu, who was writing furiously and taking notes as he dictated, and waited until Liu finished writing before continuing, "Commander Wu has sent helicopters to search for and rescue them. Hopefully, the rescue will be successful."

In fact, heroes are sometimes right beside us; it just depends on whether we have the eyes to discover beauty, the ability to uncover role models, and the mindset to promote advanced ideas.

Does it possess the skill to organize seemingly insignificant details into a newsworthy story?

Gui Pingyuan thought he was speaking with great emotion, almost moving himself to tears, but in reality, his explanatory skills were very poor and he had no appeal whatsoever.

Officer Liu even asked in surprise, "Isn't this a typical training accident?"

A training accident, after being passed through Gui Pingyuan's mouth, was transformed into an earth-shattering heroic feat. Even Liu, a clerk who had spent half his life playing with pens, was astonished by this imaginative idea.

"What? An accident? Who said it was an accident? You absolutely cannot say it was an accident."

Gui Pingyuan immediately rebuked Officer Liu, saying, "This is extremely damaging to the image of a hero. You absolutely cannot make things up. This is a rare heroic deed."

……

Gui Pingyuan was only focused on his fabricated story, while the on-site rescue work made great progress.

Liang Hang, who was personally piloting the search and rescue helicopter, found Xiao Dagong and Lu Shaohong on the other side of the valley and immediately reported the situation.

A rapid and intensive rescue operation was then launched in the canyon.

After the helicopter landed on a flat area, Xiao Dagong carried the unconscious Lu Shaohong over, and together they took the helicopter directly to the hospital.

Wu Yiwen personally went to the hospital and waited anxiously for half an hour.

Fortunately, Lu Shaohong did not fall from the sky, but lost control of his powered paraglider and crashed into a hillside upon landing.

Strictly speaking, he wasn't knocked unconscious from the fall, but rather from hitting the earthen slope.

So after emergency treatment at the hospital, Lu Shaohong, who had only been knocked unconscious, quickly woke up from his coma.

When Wu Yiwen rushed back from the hospital, the truth about Lu Shaohong had been completely distorted.

Gui Pingyuan not only found Officer Liu from the military newspaper to write a vivid account of the hero's deeds, but also published it in the military newspaper so that all officers and soldiers would know about it.

They even hired a bunch of local reporters to promote the story he fabricated.

So when Wu Yiwen got off the car at the division headquarters, a bunch of reporters immediately swarmed around him, all pointing their long lenses and cameras at him.

Seeing this scene, Wu Yiwen was completely confused and couldn't figure out what they were here for.

The reporter then held out the microphone and asked, "Commander Wu, could you please tell us about the current condition of Lu Shaohong, the hero who bravely rescued his comrades?"

"Heroic rescuer? Hero?"

Wu Yiwen was just scratching his head before, but this time he was completely stumped by the question.

He impatiently pushed the microphone away and said, "What are you talking about? What heroes are there?"

Wu Yiwen was well aware that this was a training accident caused by Lu Shaohong's lack of flying experience and an unexpected operational error.

There was no rescue, and there were no heroes.

Gui Pingyuan had been waiting nearby. Seeing his subordinates in such a mess, he immediately ran over to smooth things over, saying, "Everyone, don't worry. Commander Wu has been busy all afternoon searching for Lu Shaohong."

"How about this: let him go in first, have a few sips of water, rest for a while to catch his breath, and then come out to meet everyone and be interviewed, okay?"

Upon hearing Gui Pingyuan's explanation, and recalling Gui Pingyuan's penchant for showing off, Wu Yiwen realized...

I immediately understood what had happened!

With a cold face, he said loudly, "Gui Pingyuan, wait for me."

After saying that, he walked quickly into the division headquarters with a cold face, completely ignoring the reporters frantically asking questions behind him.

Back in his office, Wu Yiwen put down his briefcase and immediately asked with a dark face, "Pingyuan, who said Lu Shaohong is a hero? He just woke up from a coma, and we haven't even figured out what happened yet. How can you say such things?"

This was only to save face for Gui Pingyuan; otherwise, Wu Yiwen would have started cursing.

"I was on the scene filming at the time, and I saw it very clearly. Moreover, Officer Liu verified it and wrote an article to publish it. Lu Shaohong fell into the canyon while trying to save someone. This matter has been clarified."

Gui Pingyuan is truly shameless and insidious. He dictated an article to Officer Liu, but in his mouth, it became that Officer Liu conducted an investigation and verification.

He was the one who fabricated the lies, yet he was turned into an outsider.

In this way, even if something goes wrong later and the truth is exposed, Gui Pingyuan can easily get away with it and shift all the blame to Officer Liu who is verifying the facts.

"Putting aside whether this is true or not, even if it were true, would this person be considered a hero?"

Wu Yiwen was so angry that his mouth was dry, so he picked up a cup and drank several mouthfuls of water.

"There are too many examples of heroes who sacrifice themselves while trying to save others in real life. At that time, Officer Liu and several other comrades did a lot of analysis and all believed that Lu Shaohong had the motive to save people at that moment, and it cannot be said that it was not a heroic act."

Gui Pingyuan still used Officer Liu as a shield, and even brought up a few hypocritical comrades.

This ability to lie is simply unparalleled.

"What you're saying doesn't hold water at all. This training accident could have been easily resolved by making a big deal out of it and then letting it go. As long as no one dies, it'll be over. But you've made such a fuss. How are we going to clean up this mess?" Wu Yiwen pounded on the table in anger.

"I wasn't worried about Lu Shaohong... what if he didn't survive..."

"Alright, alright, alright."

Wu Yiwen impatiently interrupted Gui Pingyuan, saying angrily, "I'm telling you, don't be too clever for your own good and cause yourself a lot of trouble."

Seeing that he couldn't reason with Wu Yiwen, Gui Pingyuan got up, went over, closed the office door, and locked it.

He changed to a "I'm doing this for your own good" expression and said, "Commander, actually, there's something I'm not sure if I should say, but it's very important to you."

"Tsk, can you be serious for once? Stop being so secretive," Wu Yiwen said impatiently.

"I think you lack a sufficient understanding of the current situation," Gui Pingyuan said seriously.

"What do you mean?" Wu Yiwen frowned.

Why did Jackie Chan step down? He failed because he was too hasty. Why did you take his place? Because you succeeded because you were stable.

Gui Pingyuan began his most proficient, yet completely baseless, analysis once again.

"Look how much Deputy Commander Zhong trusts you now, the division commander. He didn't dare to go abroad before, but now he's been abroad for such a long time."

It is clear that you are the most ideal candidate for division commander in Deputy Commander Zhong's mind.

According to my analysis, the day Deputy Commander Zhong returns from his overseas trip will be the day your acting term as commander of the First Division ends.

Gui Pingyuan's analysis sounds reasonable, but it's actually complete nonsense.

That's completely wishful thinking!

"Oh dear, tell me what we should do about this situation first?"

Wu Yiwen was happy to be able to remove the "Dai" character, but now he had a bigger problem weighing on his mind, so he had no time to be happy.

"It's very simple. We can analyze what Deputy Commander Zhong wants to see."

Gui Pingyuan became radiant again, stood up and gesticulated wildly, saying, "The greatest pressure in forming the First Division is not on us, but on the leaders. The leaders absolutely do not want to see any problems with the First Division."

If the commander returns in a couple of days and hears that there was an accident at the First Division, you'll be in trouble.

If what we see is a hero emerging from the First Division, wouldn't that be like handing him a golden goose? Not only would they not cause you trouble, they'd even think highly of you—wouldn't that be a win-win situation?

Gui Pingyuan was very good at spouting twisted logic, and Wu Yiwen actually believed him after hearing what he said.

He stood up thoughtfully and said, "What you said makes sense, but this whole thing is ultimately fake. Is it really a good idea to portray him as a hero?"

"Commander, you don't need to think about it."

Emperor Guiping was not in a hurry, but the eunuch said anxiously: "Political Commissar Lu is away at home to see a doctor, and Jackie Chan has not officially returned to the division headquarters yet. If there is an accident, who should be punished?"

Similarly, if the First Division produces a hero or a role model, who should receive the prize?

This is a huge difference, like heaven and earth to you. Which one to choose depends on which end you grab.

Wu Yiwen was indeed tempted and sat back down in his seat, saying, "Alright, I'll call Political Commissar Lu later to discuss it."

"Oh dear, my comrade, you can't discuss this with him! How can he possibly give an opinion? This concerns his son's future; how could he not understand? Wouldn't it be better to get his opinion afterward?"

Gui Pingyuan himself was a selfish and petty person who was greedy for quick success and instant benefits, and he thought that others were just like him.

The main problem is that Wu Yiwen actually believed it!

"So... is this really going to work?" Wu Yiwen was basically tempted, but he still had a little bit of concern and a little bit of fear.

After all, this was his first time faking something!

"I'll handle this. You don't need to worry about it. Just pretend you know nothing and wait for the commander to come back so you can receive the prize."

Gui Pingyuan spoke with great confidence, which dispelled Wu Yiwen's last concerns.

With the approval of Wu Yiwen, the division commander, Gui Pingyuan's last concerns were also dispelled, and now he could go all out and make a big splash.

He first went to the hospital to find Lu Shaohong and brainwashed him into believing that the accident happened while he was trying to save someone.

Lu Shaohong was so nervous at the time that he suffered a memory lapse and couldn't remember what happened.

He only remembers losing control when the wind blew, and then he has no memory of the rest.

Gui Pingyuan felt much more at ease now!

He then began his brainwashing tactics, seemingly casually recounting the fabricated stories to Lu Shaohong multiple times.

The purpose was to create a preconceived notion, making Lu Shaohong mistake the falsehood for the truth.

Before leaving, he specifically told me that if there was anything I couldn't figure out or couldn't remember, I could call him anytime.

I don't know.

Political Commissar Lu, who was hospitalized in a city hospital, had a habit of reading the military newspaper every day.

The article written by Officer Liu was published in the military newspaper, and Political Commissar Lu saw it in the newspaper that same day, reporting on his son Lu Shaohong's heroic rescue of his comrade.

He didn't even bother with hospitalization anymore; he took off his hospital gown, changed into regular clothes, and ran out. (End of Chapter)