The Markelov brothers both had square faces, with deep eye sockets, big noses, and three-dimensional facial features common to Slavs. The difference was that the elder Markelov had a thick beard under his chin.
The two brothers joined the army after graduating from high school. They used to be residents of western Ukraine and followed their father to hunt wolves and foxes in the Carpathian Mountains of Govila Mountain to practice marksmanship.
Army training was hard and tiring, but the two were like fish in water.
Most of the training was carried out in the barracks on the plains. For the two brothers who had followed their father's generation to climb mountains since childhood, there was no physical obstacle and all the skills were at their fingertips.
With outstanding physical fitness, strong learning ability, and excellent marksmanship, the two brothers were later selected by the Ukrainian Special Forces.
It was reasonable to say that the two brothers should have a bright future in the army. Unfortunately, they did not live in a good era. The country's political scene was turbulent, and the army was almost a decoration and not valued at all.
In addition, the Ukrainian army was highly corrupt. Soldiers had to go through the back door to get promoted, or they had a high level of education and the army would choose to rely on their diplomas to support their reputation.
The Markelov brothers were unlucky. They had good skills but could not show them in the war. They were uneducated and had no money, so it was difficult to get promoted in the army.
The two brothers were very simple at first. They trained hard and performed hard to gain merit. As a result, they gradually found that it was useless!
Hard training only gave them better physical fitness and learned more military skills. Hard work on missions only gave them more scars. At most, they could get a few words of praise from their superiors.
But they did not get promoted, and they could not see any hope of promotion.
What they saw was that their colleagues who were the second generation of officials, the second generation of rich men, and the second generation of soldiers did not train but were quickly promoted. These people not only did not perform any missions, but they did not even know basic military skills.
This was a blow to their beliefs. They were confident that they were a hundred times better than these cowardly colleagues, but in the end, it was these cowardly colleagues who became their superiors and controlled them.
What hit them the most was that as special forces, they needed to go on missions, but as the ability of the superiors got worse, the risks of the missions increased.
Once, they went on an international mission. Unfortunately, because of a tactical error by the upper echelons, their comrades died tragically abroad.
Originally, this was a very serious matter, and those scoundrels were supposed to be held accountable. Just as the two of them were looking forward to it, the scoundrels' superiors covered up for each other, and with the help of the family's power, they actually managed to avoid punishment. Instead, the soldiers who had risked their lives were dragged into the mess and pushed out as scapegoats.
The two brothers were very strong, so it was inevitable that they would be a little arrogant. Moreover, the two of them were very hot-tempered, and they would definitely take revenge for the smallest grievance.
Encountering such a thing, the two brothers naturally could not tolerate it. In a fit of rage, they joined hands to destroy the camp's command center and even beat up a few incompetent superiors.
This matter was very big, and they were supposed to be sent to the military court.
However, their superiors had sh * t in their pants, so they didn't dare to make this matter public. Coincidentally, their troops had received a new mission at that time.
This mission was still an international mission, and it was still very dangerous, so their superiors came up with a bad idea. In the name of atoning for their crimes, they stuffed the two brothers into the mission execution team.
They had originally planned to torture the two brothers to death during the mission, but the two brothers were not wooden-headed fools. The two brothers made the first move, and after going abroad, they directly left the team and ran away!
The two brothers ran to the United States. Because of their identities, they could not live a normal life, so they could only live in some deserts, deep mountains, and other inaccessible places.
Fortunately, although life was a little hard and tiring, they no longer had to endure the incompetent superiors' stupidity, nor did they have to bleed and sweat for nothing.
However, they could not expose themselves. Once they were discovered by the United States police, they would definitely be repatriated, and the only thing that awaited them was death.
The two brothers had been in the United States for four or five years, and it was inevitable that their identities would be exposed. In such a situation, they had no choice but to escape into the mountains.
After all, the United States was not their root. This was not their hometown. They were like stray dogs, living aimlessly in the mountains, living day by day. As long as they could make money, they were willing to do anything, whether it was stealing timber or poaching rare animals. As long as they could survive, as long as they were not caught and sent back to Ukraine.
When the two brothers were blocked in the cave, they really thought they were unlucky enough to run into the police, so they desperately ran away. After they escaped, they investigated and found that they had been tricked. They had been killed by a few mountain climbers.
How could the two brothers, who were violent, stand this? The poachers gave a lot of wrong information about the two of them, but their characters were not wrong. They were indeed ruthless people who would seek revenge for the smallest grievance. In addition, both of their daily necessities had been taken away in the cave. If they wanted to live in the forest, they would not be able to rely on just two hands. Hence, they turned their attention to Li Du and wanted to rob him of his things.
However, Big Markelov was very cautious. He did not rely on his two brothers' special forces to fight them head-on, but carefully followed the other side.
After some observation, the two brothers were glad that they did not act impulsively.
The strength shown by the other side surprised them. As military experts, they could see from the style of Brother Wolf and Firecracker that these two men were also elite special forces, and their ability was probably above that of the two brothers.
Moreover, there were pets such as wolves and ocelots in the other side's team. The two brothers were puzzled. They did not understand how the other side tamed wolves and ocelots, and even tamed them so well.
The other side was strong, but the two brothers were not afraid. They had dealt with too many opponents in their lives who were stronger than them.
They patiently followed the other side, and then found that the other side was always shuttling through some caves.
The two brothers wanted to ambush at the entrance of the cave and play the trick of catching a turtle in a jar. Later, they found that the other side entered the cave at both ends, and it was useless for them to block one end!
They followed all the way, and then found that the other side began to return, which made them very happy. They quickly made a plan and decided to block both ends of the first cave on the way back, which was also the last cave on the way back, and continue to catch a turtle in a jar.
The reason they chose this cave was not because the two entrances were small as Li Du had guessed, but because the two of them had studied psychology. They knew that people who entered a dark cave would definitely be nervous and alert, and as the last cave on the way back, the other party would be relieved when they entered because this was the last cave.
According to the plan, the two brothers would each guard a cave entrance. Young Markelov, who was better at hiding, would guard the entrance. He found a bush in the woods across the cave entrance and dug a hole under it to hide. No one would be able to find him.
In this way, as soon as the other side entered the cave, he would immediately rush out with a gun to block the entrance, and then give his brother a signal, and the two of them would block the cave.
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