Original subtitles

(Glory of Special Forces)

(This series is Shanghai's major literary and artistic project)

(Episode 13)

I'm begging you!

I'll do anything as long as you don't suspend my training.

You're back. Is everything okay?

Where are the others?

Political science class.

You haven't eaten, right?

You must be starving.

I've saved you dinner.

It's all your favourite dishes.

It'll cheer you up.

Gao Zhun and Zhou Zi Jian

think it's too dangerous to live with us.

Actually, they are

just afraid that we would beat them up.

So, they requested to change room.

This is great.

Now that they're gone. It's peaceful.

They're out of sight, we won't be bothered anymore.

Here. Dig in.

Xiao,

I'm fine, right?

What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

Of course you are fine.

Look at you, you are as strong as an ox.

Listen up!

In accordance to the regiment's order,

I will now announce

the list of participants for the special forces selection.

There are four soldiers from our company.

-Zhang Tian Yang. -Here!

Xiao Yun Jie.

Here!

Zhou Zi Jian.

Here!

Gao Zhun.

Here!

The four of you

will represent Special Service in the special forces selection.

I hope you will carry forward the spirit of the tiger.

Make your company proud, make your regiment proud.

Report!

Speak.

Why am I not included?

Yan Po Yue.

Step out of the line.

Come with me.

Instructor,

I came first in all my training.

I'm perfectly healthy!

Why won't you let me go?

Sit down first, have a glass of water.

I don't want water! And I don't want to sit!

I just want to participate in the selection!

It's just a selection.

Don't take it too seriously.

I joined the army

just to achieve this goal!

People can have many goals in life.

When you think it through,

you can set another goal.

Going to the selection is one path,

being a correspondent for Regiment Commander

is a better path to go.

I'm not going!

This is an order.

Being a correspondent for Regiment Commander is a great job.

Other people don't even have this chance.

This is Regiment Commander's order?

You think anyone can be Regiment Commander's correspondent?

Go back and pack your things.

I'll take you to his office tomorrow.

Yan Po Yue...

Instructor,

please,

let someone else go.

Yan Po Yue,

with your current medical condition,

this is the best possible arrangement the regiment can get for you.

To tell you the truth,

soldiers who have the same condition you have

are arranged for early discharge.

At least this way,

you can stay in the army.

Yan? Yan?

I need to use the toilet now.

Can you open the door?

Yan?

Open the door, Yan.

Yan?

Yan?

Get out of the way.

Yan Po Yue?

Yan Po Yue?

This is insubordination, you know?

This is a disgrace to our company,

to Special Service.

-Yan, open the door. -Come out.

-What's going on? -Open the door.

Company Commander.

-Company Commander. -Company Commander.

Company Commander,

he's been in there after dark.

He locked the door from the inside and wouldn't come out.

Yan Po Yue,

you're too old to be acting like a child.

Come out now!

It's useless, sir. We've called for him a long time.

Yan Po Yue,

do you have any idea what the situation is?

Regiment Commander is waiting for you in the office.

Why are you standing there? Push open the door.

Yes, sir.

Push harder!

Instructor, the door is locked from inside. It's impossible.

Let me try it!

Zi Jian, hurry.

Vice Squad Leader!

Are you okay?

Instructor, this door is too sturdy.

-Po Yue. -Too sturdy.

Zi Jian failed to break down the door,

I'll be the next to try.

If I get hurt,

you'll have to take me to the hospital later.

Get some tools to pry the door open.

-Wait! -Yan Po Yue.

Those who want to use the toilet,

go to the next building.

The rest, back to your room!

Let's go.

You two, go back.

Company Commander.

Open the door.

Yan Po Yue...

Go back.

Just go.

Just go.

Go.

(Toilet)

Yan Po Yue,

there is only me now.

Tell me

why.

It's unfair.

Remember the blood that was thrown at you?

No matter how hard you trained,

if you get killed with a single shot on the battlefield

before you get a chance to play hero,

do you think

that is fair?

If that's my fate,

I'll accept it.

What you want to do, you have to get it done.

And if you can't get it done, you'll die.

If that's the case, how many times you will have to die then?

The attack on the post didn't kill you.

The pursuit at the border didn't kill you.

But being a correspondent

will kill you?

You even locked yourself up.

Let the people outside

see your dignity.

This door is your dignity.

I can't let it go.

When the veterans called me Psycho King, I couldn't let it go too.

But

I came around,

and I was even a little proud of it.

How did you come around?

The stricter they think I am,

the happier I am.

Because that's the only way

I can train a group of fine soldiers.

If your company commander is a softy,

will you still put your life at risk and follow his order?

Do you really think

this door can stop me?

But today,

I don't want to open this door.

Because you see it

as your dignity.

I can't bring myself to do it.

In front of the boundary pillar,

you told me to stand up straight and never bend down,

to guard the border of our land.

I won't be able to do it anymore.

But you remembered it.

And I believe that

you will remember it

forever.

I'm leaving too,

just like you.

You have a whole life ahead of you.

We leave this battlefield,

and go to the next one.

We all have to get used to it.

Remember,

Secret Service is a gun,

you are a bullet.

All along the road are scenery.

You have to fly all the way to the target.

The 10th ring.

I want you to hit the 10th ring.

Can you do it?

One, two, one.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

(I've walked this road countless times.)

(It has now become a string.)

(A string that connects me to Special Service).

(I'm on one end,)

(Special Service is on the other.)

Faster!

Pick up the pace!

Keep going! Why did you stop?

You can't practice alone?

I'm taking a break.

You see Yan Po Yue as your friend.

Has he even given you a call after he went to the office?

Zhou Zi Jian!

That's right!

When I ran into him in the commissary the other day,

he turned around to avoid me when he saw me.

Our squad leader got hurt

trying to save him.

Xiao Yun Jie, you're a smart guy.

All the participants in our company are here.

You should know better

from now on.

Are you done?

Little Buddy, let's have a 5km race.

-The loser will wash the winner's shoe. -You're on. Don't cheat!

Pick it up!

Come with me.

Help me massage my legs.

Down, further down.

That's it.

Press harder.

Stop massaging like a girl.

Harder.

Lie back down.

Sir,

you can stop.

It's bad if anybody sees this.

You're my soldier.

Who else but me can do this?

This brat here?

He doesn't know how to do this.

He may hurt your muscle.

Sir, I know what I'm doing.

Of course you do.

You won't be my soldier if you don't.

Zhang Tian Yang,

tell me,

you've just recovered,

won't intense training affect your body?

Sir, I'm really fine.

You're fine?

How much longer can you push yourself just by relying on will?

Let me tell you,

always remember that

body is the foundation of everything.

This chance didn't come easily.

And the places are limited.

I came from a village.

I'm going to be discharged next year.

If I don't give my all this time,

there will be no next time.

There may be no next time,

but there is still the rest of life.

How will you feel

if you end up having disability?

I don't want to embarrass you

and our company.

Xiao Yun Jie.

Yes, sir.

Take him to the medical unit for infrared therapy.

Yes, sir.

It's fine, sir.

It's good for you!

Go!

Hold on.

Did Yan Po Yue

contact you?

No.

Staff Officer Ai.

How are you adjusting?

Everything is good.

Now that there is no more training,

I'm quite at my leisure.

Big boy, you're eating so little.

It's enough for me, sir.

I don't need to train anymore.

I don't need to eat much.

(Regiment Commander is a busy man.)

(He needs to inspect the post,)

(watch the place everyday.)

(I'm busy too.)

(Sweeping and mopping the floor,)

(sending and receiving mail, sorting newspapers,)

(the only thing that is missing is training.)

(Many soldiers envy me.)

(But I'm nothing)

(after I leave the battlefield.)

Young man, you've been here for almost a month, right?

Yes, sir.

How do you feel?

Do you want the truth or the lie, sir?

What's the lie?

The lie is I feel bad.

What's the truth?

I feel really terrible.

Do you know what it means

to be my correspondent?

Yes.

Your previous two correspondents

got into military school.

They'll be cadres in the future.

I pick only the best soldier

to be my correspondent.

I just want to be the best soldier.

I don't want to be a correspondent.

I know.

You came from a military family

and you were groomed to be soldier.

If you wanted to be a cadre,

you wouldn't have joined our regiment.

How about this?

I'll give you another option.

I can recommend you to the guard unit in the division headquarters.

Would you like that?

Sir,

the pattern of human warfare

from ancient times to the present

is categorized into four major stages.

The first stage, cold weapon era.

Second, hot weapon era.

Third, nuclear weapon era.

And fourth, information warfare era.

You brat, are you testing me?

I wouldn't dare to.

I just want to elaborate on

the significance of the work of guards in these four stages.

Okay. Lay it on me.

In the cold weapon era,

in order to protect the commander-in-chief,

the guards used their physical strength.

In the hot weapon era,

the guards needed to engage in fierce battles with enemy forces

and protect the command post from the siege.

In nuclear weapon era and information warfare era,

with the help of internet communications,

command post no longer needs to be on the frontline.

And the guards' job

is just to set up a perimeter

around the command post,

keeping outsiders out.

Once the command post is exposed,

the enemy's missiles will attack.

Guards don't play much of a role at all.

Sir, I want to be on the attacking team,

not on the passive team,

and I don't want to be away from the battlefield.

So you're just trying to say that

you still want to participate in the special forces selection.

I want to join the special forces!

Fine.

Let's say you go to the selection

and pass,

do you know what awaits you?

-Yes. -No, you don't!

There you will receive the most brutal training.

You'll face the highest elimination,

fatality and disability rates during training.

I know that.

Okay.

Even if you try your best and pass,

you will continue to train hard

day and night in a little-known place,

always stand ready to carry out the most difficult tasks,

face the most powerful opponents

and the test of life and death.

-I can handle it. -You can?

If you die,

except the troops, no one will know your name,

no one will know what you've done.

Brat,

there is a fork in the road ahead of you.

If you choose to stay,

you will become a promising cadre in Rapid Deployment Brigade.

If you choose to leave,

it means that you will always remain in

an offensive stance in the first half of your life.

You will have to keep the mentality of advance or die.

Everyday, you'll train as hard as you can,

run faster than the people around you!

Always keep yourself at the peak!

If you aren't ready for that,

I hope you won't make this decision easily!

Sir, I know that...

Also, the army needs the best soldier,

not a killing machine.

Take a half-day off.

Ai Qian Xue will take you to a place.

She went through a lot of trouble

to help you.

No matter what you see later,

(Mental Ward) don't be surprised.

It's the cannon ball! It's the cannon ball!

Get down! It's the cannon ball!

It's the cannon ball! Get down!

Down! It's the cannon ball!

Get down! Down!

Why did you have to watch TV while he was around?

The volume was already very low.

I didn't know he would barge in.

-Down! It's the cannon ball! -It's okay, it's okay.

Let's go back to the bomb shelter. It's okay.

-Alright now. -It's okay.

Let's go back to the bomb shelter.

It's okay.

The enemies are gone.

Look up.

Those old men just now

are veterans who survived several wars

of the Republic.

They came back from an ocean of blood and corpses.

They won the wars for us,

with the price of losing themselves forever.

PTSD.

Combat stress reaction.

Thirty percent of soldiers

experience these symptoms,

but it may occur

early or late on different people.

I don't have it!

The bayonet practice last time,

it was Zhou Zi Jian who went hard at me first.

He pushed me to the edge!

I'm not sick. I really am not!

Why won't you trust me?

Listen to me.

There are really a lot of soldiers who have conditions like this.

It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Besides, even if you admit it,

it doesn't mean you're a weak.

I am not sick!

I'm healthy.

Why won't you let me participate in the selection?

Comrade Qin Ge,

why aren't you resting in the dorm?

Report, Chief!

My name is Qin Ge!

Communication soldier, Company One, Battalion One, 384th Regiment.

I'm ordered to hold Hill 309

to the last man!

Fire at me! Fire at me!

Comrade Qin Ge!

Yes, ma'am.

Comrade Qin Ge,

your comrade from 384th Regiment

has been ordered to relieve you.

Comrade Qin Ge!

Your company has fulfilled its duty.

Now I command you

run back to your company!

Yes, sir!

One, one, one, two, one.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, one. One, two, one.

One, two, one.

Seeing others help you see yourself clearly.

Only by seeing yourself clearly

can you really move on.

Can I come visit them more often?

Yes.

Whenever you want to come,

I'll ask Regiment Commander to grant you leave.

Have some fruit.

One, two, one.

One, two, one.

One, two, one.

Halt!

Comrades, your paces are neat.

Let's try it again.

About face!

Quick march!

One, two, one.

Here comes Mapo tofu!

Let's eat!

Is it nice?

It's nice!

It's delicious.

(By spending time with the seniors,)

(my mind starts to become steady and calm.)

(At the same time, I deeply realised the cruelty of war,)

(and understood that peace did not come easily.)

(But it depends on us to)

(defend this hard-fought peace.)

(And this has strengthened my ambition.)

I feel great.

How is it?

How's what?

Being the regiment commander's correspondent.

Future military school candidate. How are you doing?

What do you expect?

It's about the same as retirement.

Save it.

It's so nice to be able to enjoy the air-conditioning.

Do you have to act like this?

I do.

If it was for you, would you go?

I would. Of course I would.

I can get into the military school and be an officer.

I will bring honour to my family.

Do you think I'll believe it?

You and I don't care about keeping face.

So, you do know that.

Then, why didn't you call me after you left?

I even thought you're retired.

Zhou Zi Jian said you avoided him when you saw him the other day.

It really pissed me off.

It wasn't about saving face.

I just didn't want to give him a chance to show off.

Look at you.

You're doing this again.

That's enough. Stop, stop.

Get up, come on.

Get up now.

You're just too tense.

Do you want to relax?

Once you slow down,

other people will surpass you.

I want to surpass others,

especially now.

You still want to participate in the selection?

If I can't participate this time, I'll try again next time.

If I still can't get in next time, I'll just keep trying.

I'll keep practising

until I can participate in the selection.

Yan,

tell me,

have you got over it?

Don't hold back, be honest with me.

Okay.

We're having combat training tomorrow morning.

You will come and prove to everyone that

Yan Po Yue

is back.

Is the office leader here to inspect our training?

Company Commander.

What are you doing here?

I took a day off with Regiment Commander.

I applied to come observe and learn

What's there to learn?

It's not like you've never done this before.

I would also like to

be their sparring partner.

Why are you really here?

I want to prove that

I've recovered.

Sir,

I really got over it.

Who

is willing to go a few rounds with Yan Po Yue?

We are to shed our blood on the battlefield,

not on the training ground.

Sir!

I will do it.

Don't go easy on him!

Yes, sir!

Ready to combat!

He's getting serious again.

Are you alright?

I'm fine.

-Report! -Enter.

Regiment Commander.

Have you bought your ticket?

The morning after tomorrow.

It's good that you're leaving now.

I heard that

our regiment is the first reform unit.

Division headquarters has received the order.

The announcement will be made in the next few days.

What are the changes?

You are demobilized.

Why do you still want to know?

I've been in our regiment since I joined the army.

It's been over 10 years.

Diverse some parts, retain some parts.

Political Commissar is already working on it.

He has been talking to the cadres separately.

That's all?

What do you mean that's all?

We'll be relieved.

Relieved?

Our instructor's wife

just got transferred here from the provincial capital.

They can finally get together now.

And Vice Company Commander,

he has just got himself a local girlfriend.

Oh, right,

isn't your daughter going to take her high school entrance exam this year?

Where are they moving us to?

Honestly, I don't know either.

Then...

Will we keep the designation?

No.

It'll all be merged into a new unit.

Li Xiang.

Come. Sit. Sit.

By the way,

I'd like your opinion

about something.

Is it about Yan Po Yue?

Yes.

Our home is gone,

and you're still worrying about one soldier.

Didn't you come to me to talk about him?

He has recovered from PTSD.

The whole company witnessed it today.

I sent him there.