Chapter 931, They’re Just Going to Leave Hope to Others
When soldiers were captured, they would definitely be searched for all available weapons, which meant that these Fire Spark soldiers were truly unarmed.
The enemy they were facing, on the other hand, was the troops of the Expeditionary Corps who might not be able to beat them even with their guns.
At first, these soldiers were captured and did not resist desperately, in the order of the Fire Seed, being captured is not shameful, preserving their strength to look for opportunities in the future is what they should do.
Preserving the Fire Seed for the Central Plains is not about letting every one of them charge forward without fear of death, if the Expeditionary Corps uses them as laborers in the future, then they will have every chance to create value again.
However, after Wang’s people informed them of what the Expeditionary Corps was going to do, these Spark soldiers realized that they had no chance, continuing to live would only cause confusion and casualties to the friendly forces, and the 3,000 or so would also consume a large amount of ammunition from Zuo Yunshan.
Instead of becoming a drag on others, it would be better to choose to die with emotion.
Therefore, these more than three thousand soldiers found the opportunity to resist that night, no one tried to escape, if they scattered to escape they would only be effortlessly killed by the expeditionary corps after catching up.
They coalesced together, with a 3rd Division battalion commander as their highest officer, and sought only to kill as many barbarians as possible.
If one man couldn’t win a single battle with the barbarians, then four or five would do it together.
Although they had no more firearms, they could still snatch some of the barbarians’ weapons, and if they couldn’t snatch them, they would bite them with their teeth.
This battle did not have any tragic colors in Wang Run’s brief description, it was just a sentence of ‘all died in battle’.
But everyone realized what power lay behind that simple sentence.
In a war, there are always people who want to become new heroes, but these people didn’t want to be heroes before they died, they were just doing their part.
P5092 After a long silence, he asked, “Their number ……”
Wang Run shook his head, “There are too many people, it is impossible to remember everyone’s number.”
P5092 looked a bit grim, yes, these people couldn’t even leave their numbers behind and died.
At this time Wang Run said, “But that battalion commander’s number is known to us, P31831, he seems to know that you have joined the Northwest Force, so he wants our people to help bring a message to you.”
“What did he say?” P5092 asked.
“He said that he didn’t have a chance to be a soldier under you anymore, but he didn’t disgrace you,” Wang Run said.
“I still remember very well when P31831 entered the Third Division,” P5092 smiled, “He had just graduated from the non-commissioned officer school at that time, and became the platoon leader directly after he came, as a result, he was the youngest in their platoon, and in turn, he was always teased by the soldiers below him, and was called the little platoon leader. ”
“Later on, he slowly grew up, I had asked him why he joined Fireseed, and he said that he wanted to be a commander like me, to fight for the survival of the human race in the Middle Kingdom,” P5092 continued, “At that time, I even laughed and patted him on the shoulder, and said that he was still young, and that the world wasn’t that simple. But at least now it seems that he accomplished his ideals.”
P5092 was smiling, but everyone could detect the bitterness beneath the other’s smile.
P5092 said, “Either way this is total good news, it means that we have over three thousand fewer stragglers that we’ll be facing in Zuo Yunshan, and we’ll be able to have a lot of ammunition left over.”
“More than that,” Wang Run said, “When they stormed the Expeditionary Corps, they created an opportunity for other stragglers to escape, according to our people’s feedback, there are more than three thousand stragglers who fled to the wilderness tonight, the Expeditionary Corps sent out their troops to capture them, but they surely won’t be able to get them all back. ”
“So that means that by the time the Expeditionary Corps arrives at Zuoyun Mountain, the stragglers we need to face may only be around three to four thousand,” P5092 said, “What about your people, did they escape?”
Wang Run shook his head, “He didn’t want to run because he still had to feed back information back in the ranks, we had also told him to retreat, but he insisted on staying.”
Everyone in the command tent was silent, this intelligence officer continued to stay in the ranks, that meant that he would be driven by the Expeditionary Corps to the battlefield of Zuoyun Mountain, at that time, the 6th Combat Brigade firing would not recognize him at all, so the other party would only die under the indiscriminate gunfire.
If he wants to run away, then tonight is the last chance, if he doesn’t run away tonight, then it’s certain death.
This intelligence officer should also be well aware of this outcome, but the other party still remained in that team in order to pass information back at any time.
P5092 said, “Wang also has such dead soldiers, admirable.”
Wang Run said with a straight face, “Although my Wang Clan is on a different path from your Fire Seed and is also a bit unscrupulous, but all of you should not underestimate our Wang Clan. This Central Plains will eventually be unified by my Wang Clan, and only then will you all understand the importance of unification.”
“I have never understood the importance of unification, I just think that you guys are not doing it the right way,” P5092 shook his head, “Well, don’t discuss such things at the moment of the great war, whether Wang Clan can unify the Central Plains or not, that will have to be argued after this battle is over, and what we have to do now is to live up to those dead Now, what we have to do is to live up to the lives of those who have died. Now that the situation has taken a turn for the better, we can have better countermeasures to choose from.”
“How?” Ren Xiaosu asked.
“Before, I thought about planting explosives in advance to directly blow up the 10,000 or so stragglers, but that would actually be a huge waste of explosives, after all, automatic rifle bullets sometimes can’t threaten the Expeditionary Corps, but planted explosives can, so I wanted to prioritize the use of rifle bullets to take care of the stragglers so that the explosives could be saved to deal with the barbarians.”
“But it’s different now, with the number of stragglers not being that high, planting a small amount of explosives is the best option so that the grassroots soldiers don’t have to deal with internal struggles, I prefer to keep the soldiers’ morale high enough,” P5092 said, “And they’ll survive this war afterward, and don’t have to live with a bad conscience for the rest of their lives.”
That way, only the one who pressed the detonation button would have to carry all the guilt alone.
By the looks of it, P5092 wanted to be that person himself.
Ren Xiaosu cheerfully laughed, “I’m skilled in this matter of detonating bombs, I’ll do it.”
P5092 looked at Ren Xiaosu seriously, “Are you sure, Major.”
Ren Xiaosu took a deep breath and continued to laugh, “I’ve killed more people than you’ve ever led, don’t worry, it’s fine.”
That night, Ren Xiaosu stood at the edge of the defense position looking out at the starry sky above the firmament, in fact, this kind of decision, if it is just a mouthful, or from the paper to see other people’s stories, and will not personally experience that kind of entanglement of having to kill thousands of innocent lives with their own hands.
At this time, Zero walked to Ren Xiaosu’s side and suddenly asked, “Senior, I kind of don’t quite understand tonight, why those soldiers suddenly attacked the Expeditionary Corps as if they were committing suicide.”
Ren Xiaosu turned his head and smiled at Zero and said, “It’s because they have no hope for themselves, so they want to leave it to others.”