Soldiers Sortie

Soldiers Sortie

Soldiers Sortie is a story about a young man named Xu San Duo who comes from the rural area and joined the PLA when he was a teenager with his father's hope to live a better life.

Xu San Duo is a young, timid, sky boy who knows nothing about army and soldier but curious about the outside world. He joined PLA with a squad leader’s promise which is to make xu sanduo a true soldier within a year. Due to xu’s bad performances in the recruits training he was sent to a remote place to guard oil equipment which is a job without hope, dignity and honour. However xu built a road all by himself while with the encouragement from Lao Ma who was xu’s first squad leader. Since then five soldiers in the squad became united with each other after their learning of xu’s spirit of “Make life meaningful”but at the same time xu was ordered to return to the regiment.

After entering the seventh company because of xu's unconfidence and bad show Shi Jin's squad lagged behind.For helping xu Shi Jin injured his arm thus his score slid and his military career in PLA became gloomy.In an important military maneuver Shi Jin was “KIA”at the very begining while Xu Sanduo captured the Captain of the special force.Shi Jin lost his last chance to get promotion thus he had to leave although he he had so much love to PLA.

Shi Jin's leaving made Xu Sanduo steadier,maturer and stronger.Due to a new military reform was coming the seventh company was rearranged and most of the soliders were arranged in other companies but only Xu was left in the empty building for more than half a year.Xu and many other outstanding soliders were invited to entered a competition through which only three have the opportunities to enter the “A” Brigade（specil force).In this competition Xu and Cheng Cai stood the test of Yuan Lang(the captain of special force) but his friend Wu Liuyi lost because Wu injured his leg in the competition while Wu accepted xu to be his friend.

Xu and Cheng Cai took pride in being members of “A” Brigade but they were soon upset by the treatment in the test period.They got to know a young major whose name is Wu Zhe and they three helped and encouraged each other to get through the tough test period.They succeeded,but their treatment was still bad.Sooner, in another plausible action they accepted the last test in which Cheng Cai was eliminated.Xu and Wu Zhe became true menbers of the “A” brigade while Cheng Cai had to back the five squad to keep the oil equipment.

When he was 21 years old he lost squad leder Shi Jin

When he was 22 years old he lost the seventh company

When he was 23 years old he lost his naivete

Xu was deeply hurt in his heart for killing a drug dealer so that he lost himself even made the decision of leaving army,fortunatly with the help of Gao Cheng and Cheng Cai and after a series of experiences Xu refound the meaning of life but at the same time Xu's family encountered a terrible disaster for the explosion of explosive which was stored by Xu's farther.Xu stood another test of life and returned to his company to join another challenging action...He has been mature and strong to be a true solider to continue faighting...