Gao Guang had experienced plenty of moments of glory in combat, but this was his first time seeing a real war.
The war in Ethiopia didn't count, and Afghanistan couldn't even be considered a war. But what was happening now—dogfights between fighter jets in the sky, a large strategic transport plane hit and spiraling down with thick smoke, intense artillery fire on the ground—this was war. Looking down, you could even see the rippling airwaves from explosions.
Only when everything you see and hear symbolizes death can you truly understand what real war means.
True war isn't just two groups of people firing guns at each other. In a real war, rifles and grenades never take center stage, and rocket launchers can't even be called heavy weapons.
Very few people ever parachute into the middle of a battlefield being fiercely contested. For Gao Guang, everything he was seeing during this descent would be a once-in-a-lifetime perspective.
