Chapter 936, Fault Tolerance Mechanism
The Expeditionary Corps had driven the stragglers so far, and as a result, it hadn’t helped at all, not only that, but in turn, it had inspired the anger of the soldiers of the 6th Combat Brigade.
They knew that on the way these stragglers were driven over, it was the brazen suicide attacks of the Fire Seed Soldiers that created an opportunity for some of the stragglers.
Now that those Spark Soldiers had left their hope to themselves, the Northwest soldiers would naturally cherish it.
As soon as the battle started, Ji Zi’ang and the others still expected the explosion to scare the Expeditionary Corps back like last time, but it turned out to be different this time, those Expeditionary Corps soldiers did not retreat at all, and insisted on taking their lives to fill the hole hard.
P5092 said: “This is the worst possible outcome, the generals of the expeditionary corps have realized that it is impossible to take Zuo Yunshan by any trickery, and that they have to take human lives in exchange. The other side has accepted this fact openly, which means that we will have to fight the hardest battle.”
Ji Zion looked at the barbarians who rushed up with their shields raised, he said to P5092, “I can still destroy 7 peaks on my side, why don’t I bury them alive now?”
“No way,” P5092 shook his head and said, “There are too many Expeditionary Corps this time, there are still troops stationed outside the mountains, ready to replace the other troops to attack, even if you kill a batch of them, they’ll be able to pass another batch up right away outside. So, it’s better to keep these killers, every time there’s a crisis in the defense position, you push down a mountain peak, so that even if some barbarians break through the defense position, you’re still considered to have cut off their subsequent attacking troops, and the defense position won’t be too badly damaged.”
According to P5092’s meaning, Ji Zion’s means of disintegrating mountain peaks was the defense position’s fault tolerance mechanism.
Ji Zion muttered, “Then leaving seven is too much, why don’t we push down two to kill their momentum now?”
“No,” P5092 denied, “Instead, I think seven seats is too little.”
Everyone present was stunned, so P5092’s prediction of the situation was so pessimistic.
P5092 explained, “Maybe you all don’t have the concept of a defensive battle, especially one against ten. For the next ten or so days, dozens of days, or even months, we will be facing endless legions of expeditionary armies every day, and at some point you will have self-doubt, doubt the world, and wonder if these barbarians will never be killed. During that time, everyone will be in deep water, the warriors will start to rest poorly, catch fire, get constipated, our ammunition will start to be stretched thin, our food will start to be distributed on a schedule in order to make it through longer, and then the Expeditionary Corps breaks through the defensive positions more and more often until we can’t hold this place any longer.”
Everyone was silent, because it was the beginning of the defensive war, so they would feel that the Expeditionary Corps was nothing more than that as they watched the barbarians fall one by one to the heavy machine guns.
But P5092 told them that the scales of war would not always tip in their favor.
The Expeditionary Corps was ready to replace this place with tens of thousands of men, then they were going to face the most grueling battle in the world.
It would get more grueling by the day.
“Alright everyone, everything is under my command,” P5092 said, “The Major promised me that on the battlefield, I am the supreme will of this unit.”
Everyone looked to Ren Xiaosu, who nodded, “Everyone must obey the command.”
P5092 looked at Ji Zi’an, “Everyone else can die, but you can’t die before I let you disintegrate the seven peaks, those seven peaks are our last cards. You have to live, you have to live for the entire defense position.”
With these words, everyone suddenly had a feeling that the meaning of existence for everyone present was for the final victory of this war, and they had to abandon their own wills to obey the collective will.
At this moment, the expeditionary regiment that rushed up was rapidly advancing on the mountain road, still in the same old combat style, they were covered by the barbarians holding shields in front of them, protecting the main force in the rear as they advanced.
Only now the shields were different again, part of the original leather shields were actually replaced with armor that they had removed from the armored vehicles, even the bullets from the heavy machine guns hitting them could only rub out sporadic sparks.
These armors were so thick and heavy that it required the combined efforts of several people to lift a piece of it.
However, when the expeditionary regiment was only two hundred meters away from the defense position, the soldiers on the position were firing according to the usual rhythm, but a barbarian at the forefront of the expeditionary regiment raised a shield alone and suddenly launched a rapid charge!
The speed of this barbarian’s sudden outburst was extremely astonishing, the other party held up a shield alone and was able to move forward quickly on the bumpy mountain road, and when the soldiers on the defense position reacted and were ready to switch to rockets and grenades to intercept, they saw that the other party had suddenly thrown the shield horizontally.
The huge shield whirled and flew in the air, whistling, while this instantly breaking out barbarian was right behind him!
When he withdrew his shield, everyone realized that this barbarian was clad in a full set of heavy armor, and even bullets hitting it couldn’t penetrate the heavy armor.
Before this, the Expeditionary Corps had never worn such heavy armor before, so everyone didn’t know that the barbarian had this kind of single soldier defensive armor.
By the looks of it, this was specially prepared for the experts among the barbarians to break through the position, a powerful individual was terrifying when he possessed unparalleled defensive capabilities.
Just like Ren Xiaosu’s outer covering armor back then, ordinary firearms could naturally be ignored.
The heavy shield flew to the position, heading straight for the machine gunner!
Seeing that the shield was about to smash the machine gunner into pieces, a figure with a white mask suddenly flashed out from the side, and actually used both of his hands to catch this surprisingly powerful shield!
In an instant, the white mask’s arms were futilely powerful, and it was hard to throw the shield back.
That barbarian seemed to have not expected that someone would be able to catch the flying shield, so when the shield flew back, he was already too late to dodge, as the inertia of his forward rush was too great.
The next moment he laughed coldly under his heavy face armor, the Middlelander was just playing the same tricks he had played.
Thinking of this, he raised his hands and caught at the shield that flew back, ready to continue to raise his shield to assault.
But when his palms and shield contact moment, this barbarian suddenly stunned, because the shield’s momentum, far more than he threw out most of the force!
Thus, the stunned soldiers on the defense position saw that the arrogant barbarian was actually smashed back by the flying shield!
By this time, P5092 had already arrived at this position, and the soldiers here hesitated, “Sir, we didn’t expect this barbarian to be so fast, and wearing heavy armor, we almost let him charge up ……”
The soldiers were ashamed, if they were rushed up to the position by the barbarian on the first day, how could they fight next?
As a result, P5092 smiled and comforted, “It’s fine, today is the testing phase, we and the barbarians are seeing what other means each other have, and now on the first day we know that they still have such things as heavy armor, it’s a good thing. In the middle of the battlefield there are instantaneous changes, no one can guarantee that they won’t make mistakes, just pay attention next time.”
After saying that, P5092 was in a rather good mood as he looked towards Ren Xiaosu who had arrived, “How did you arrange the white masks here in advance? Did you know that they would be the first to break through here?”
Ren Xiaosu replied, “Guess.”
P5092 nodded unconcernedly, the precision of Ren Xiaosu’s prediction of the brutes could simply be categorized into the category of metaphysics.
He said to Ren Xiaosu, “You heard what I said to Ji Zion just now, and I’ll say this to you again, everyone else can die, but not you, you must live until the end. Not because you are the Major General, but because with you around, this defense position can continue to be supported, if when you are gone, this defense position will also be gone. Just now I said that those 7 peaks are our fault tolerance mechanism, but you have to understand that you are more important than those 7 peaks.”