Bandage finally sat down, but he didn't eat. He just stared blankly at the bonfire in front of him. Jiang Yan Hai began to slowly eat the dried meat in his mouth again. The dried meat was very hard and had to be bitten little by little.
The others were silent for a moment, and then they all took out their own dry food, and then each took a big bite, and the cave returned to silence.
After a few minutes of this, Jiang Yan Hai suddenly spoke again, "I'm just like you, I've also come through this step."
Jiang Yan Hai's words brought everyone back to their senses. Everyone glanced at Jiang Yan Hai, including the bandage, but no one spoke, and Jiang Yan Hai continued speaking calmly.
"Hamen evacuated overseas Chinese a few years ago. I participated in the evacuation operation as a special operations team of Marine Corps." Jiang Yan Hai's tone was calm. Evacuations also occurred in this world's red star, but the country was called Hamen.
"At that time, the capital of Hamen had been occupied by the Rebel Army, and Rebel Army was besieged. The ambassador of our embassy, including more than 20 civilians, led the evacuation, but when they passed the edge of the war zone, they were forced into the war zone by the Rebel Army."
"Then the government forces and Rebel Army started a fierce battle in that urban area. The Hamen government forces were no longer able to protect our expatriates and the embassy convoy from evacuating, but they allowed us to send our own troops for rescue. We were ordered to go in to save our compatriots when they were in danger."
"A total of 16 of us entered the battlefield... When we rescued the expatriates and retreated, those Rebel Army used car bombs in order to break through the government's defense lines."
"Putting a pistol to the head of a civilian child, forcing a civilian to drive, and tying explosives to the civilian's neck. The explosives were packed with at least thousands of steel balls, and then the civilian drove the car directly into the position of the government troops."
"The government forces shot at the vehicle without hesitation, but they did not have the ability to kill the civilians in the driver's seat. Our snipers had that ability, but the snipers hesitated, and then the first car crashed directly in front of the government forces' position."
"The terrorists who remotely controlled the car bomb detonated the bomb. The car bomb exploded. The huge power leveled everything within a 20-meter radius. At least more than 30 government soldiers were directly killed. Naturally, the civilian could not survive. At the same time, the corpses of more than 30 government soldiers were spread all over the area for dozens of meters."
"Intestines, brains, internal organs, broken legs, broken arms, no one is complete, they are all like tattered pork, covering everything around them."
"If we shot and killed the civilian, we killed the civilian and became the executioner who killed the civilian, but more than 30 government soldiers did not need to die. We did not kill him, we did not become the executioner, but the civilian's body was not preserved, and by the way, more than 30 government soldiers became corpses on the ground."
Jiang Yan Hai's words were extremely calm, without any emotional fluctuations, as if he were telling a fairy tale, but the content of the story was extremely heavy. Everyone at Sharp Blade Team's mood became depressed, and everyone looked at Jiang Yan Hai.
The first time they heard this, it was like what Jiang Yan Hai just said. Isn't this a choice... but what should I choose?! Whichever one you choose is extremely difficult.
"... Even so, because we helped defend the position and in order to protect our residents, Rebel Army still couldn't attack, so they chose a second car bomb. This time our snipers found the enemy's remote-controlled car bomb Rebel Army, and then killed the enemy's remote-controlled car bomb Rebel Army."
"This time the car bomb did not explode. Our people also successfully defused the bomb and rescued the civilian in the driver's seat. But when he dragged the civilian down to safety, the civilian kept saying in the local language: Save his child, save his child."
"But there was nothing we could do, and Rebel Army in the distance, after seeing us rescuing the civilian, they shot the civilian's child, a 5-year-old boy, without hesitation, and threw the body directly out, like a rag doll, onto the war-torn road."
"The civilian saw it, we all saw it."
"At that moment, everything in that civilian's eyes was dead and lifeless. At this point, I have to say that the civilian who rushed over with a car and detonated the bomb to kill himself, his children, those Rebel Army, let his children go!"
"Yes, they released the child because they knew that only by releasing the child would they be able to force more civilians to die for them later."
"So, we saved the civilian, but his child died because of us, and we became the executioners."
"If we didn't save him, we shot him and the car bomb exploded. Maybe he would have killed others with him, but his child would have survived and we would have been the executioners."
"How should we choose?" Jiang Yan Hai asked softly.
Silence, the seven people around him were silent for a long time. No one could answer this question. Because they don't know how to answer, let them choose, how should they choose?
"... We rescued people..." Jiang Yan Hai ignored them and continued to talk.
Jiang Yan Hai is actually talking about the content of the Operation Red Sea, but it is talking about the content of the Operation Red Sea without his participation, Shitou, Zhuang Yu, and the content of the Operation Red Sea that they all sacrificed.
When the story came to an end, Jiang Yan Hai's tone became softer, as if he had really participated, "... We covered our comrades with the national flag on the warship. They died on the battlefield in a foreign country, but their souls will live on forever."
"They sacrificed their young lives to protect countless ordinary people who lived in peace and tranquility in the country, who were free to go to work, love freely, and even quarrel freely. They did not flinch, and they did not regret it."
"So, I believe that Old Cat will not regret it, nor will he be angry or blame it. So, on the battlefield, how should we choose?"
How to choose? This is an extremely heavy topic, just like in this long incident described by Jiang Yan Hai, how should they choose after everything they have experienced?
Saving a citizen means sacrificing two of their brave warriors. Is it worth it or not?
How to make such a choice? Life and faith are not cold mathematical formulas, nor are they sitting there doing simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Every warrior, how should they choose? Countless rebels, they have made many choices that they think are worthwhile, perhaps standing in front of a calm third party, in front of countless people who have the benefit of hindsight, they should not sacrifice, because the lives they sacrificed are not equivalent to what they saved.