Chapter 938, Tunnel Warfare

Nowadays, the sanitary conditions in the defense positions were a big problem, not that people didn’t love cleanliness, it was really that there wasn’t enough water.

In fact, P5092 had already taken the issue of water source into consideration when choosing their positions, the spring water from the mountain springs was absolutely sufficient for more than 6,000 people to drink.

As for bathing, this really wasn’t the primary consideration of the war.

If it was a long year of marching and fighting, P5092 would definitely make everyone wash their hands diligently and pay attention to hygiene, but this battle was destined to end within a month, and no matter if the Expeditionary Corps was victorious or their Sixth Combat Brigade was victorious, they wouldn’t be here for too long in the end.

The time was already the afternoon of the first day of the opening of the frontal war, two groups of garrison troops alone had been changed on the position, and the troops of the Expeditionary Corps outside were constantly rotating, as long as the troops appeared to be fatigued, a new one would be filled in.

“How many wounded and killed in action do they appear to rotate their troops?” P5092 looked at Wang Yun.

Wang Yun said, “There have been four batches of troops changed during that time, there are those who lasted up to two hours and those who withdrew when they had 23% casualties, this condition should be uncertain.”

“What about their casualties?” P5092 continued to ask.

During the war, P5092 asked Wang Yun to record what was happening throughout the battlefield from the best position of vision so that they could summarize and analyze.

A battle was not just reckless, extremely accurate data had to be used to support every decision.

Wang Yun recalled the images in his mind and summarized, “The Expeditionary Corps had a combined total of 2,169 casualties in eight hours, of which 1,891 were direct deaths, the rest were deaths after bleeding excessively and going into shock on the battlefield, these barbarians should have had a criterion, if they were certain that their comrades couldn’t be saved even if they were rescued back, they would have simply not been rescued, it was very decisive. There are a few of them that I think could have been saved, but his comrades didn’t save him, probably because the medical level of the Expeditionary Corps is not up to par.”

“What about the wounded?” P5092 asked.

“There are 1,769 people who were carried off with minor injuries, the injuries these people sustained will be healed quickly I reckon, there are still 312 people who are seriously injured, I confirmed that they have had their bones broken by machine guns, they shouldn’t be able to go back into the battlefield in a short period of time,” Wang Yun said.

However, just then, Wang Yun actually let out two lines of nosebleed.

P5092 froze for a moment, “Take a rest first, don’t overwork yourself, there are still a lot of battles we have to fight, and further down the line, you only need to memorize the number of deaths and wounded, you don’t need to memorize how they were wounded.”

It looked like it was a bit overwhelming for Wang Yun to analyze such huge data in the entire battlefield, after all, all of this data was happening in real time, constantly changing every minute and every second.

This was an extremely heavy burden on Wang Yun’s brain, so much so that his body couldn’t take it anymore to ooze out a nosebleed.

P5092 said, “However, it’s not that I have to treat you harshly, here’s still hoping that you can memorize the face of each of their wounded, can this be done?”

Wang Yun briefly wiped his nosebleed, then said with certainty, “It can be done!”

“Well,” P5092 nodded, “Once any of the wounded come back up to the battlefield, be sure to inform me as soon as possible. In principle, the Expeditionary Corps is extremely well-staffed, seventy thousand men against my six thousand, no matter how you think about it, you shouldn’t send the wounded back onto the battlefield, if at a certain moment you see them reintroducing the wounded into the battlefield in large quantities, it must be that there has been a change in their strategic deployment or a change of heart in their Expeditionary Corps.”

“Understood,” Wang Yun said, “Don’t worry, I’ll pay attention.”

P5092 sighed in his heart, at least not a single person in this defense position was redundant, everyone was working hard for the final victory.

At this moment, P5092 turned his head to look at the others, “It’s still just the beginning stage of defense, I personally believe that we can’t keep guarding here and getting beaten, we need to seek change as well!”

Ren Xiaosu heard the other party say this, and immediately realized that P5092 had a sense of crisis, which was why he was seeking a new strategy.

P5092 explained to Ren Xiaosu, “At first, we didn’t know that Fire Seed would collapse so quickly, so I thought that 6,000 people would be enough to drag the Expeditionary Corps to their deaths here. But the problem now is that we wanted to exchange one for ten in the beginning, and now we can’t even exchange one for ten, so we can only think of another way.”

“Tell us what you think, we’ll cooperate fully,” Ren Xiaosu said.

P5092 nodded, “Right now, relying on our own strength, I’m afraid that it’s difficult to make any more significant changes to the overall battlefield situation, so we need to think of a way to help Wang alleviate the pressure, so that if they win early on in the frontal battlefield, we’ll be relieved one day sooner. Ji Zion, on your side, can you make a tunnel leading out of Zuoyun Mountain? The kind for two or three people to pass through at the same time.”

Ji Ziang looked at Wang Yun, “How far is it from here to the outside of the mountain?”

Wang Yun said, “6 kilometers.”

Ji Zi Ang shook his head after thinking about it, “I’m afraid it can’t be done, it’s indeed easy for me to make tunnels with this ability, but six kilometers is too long a distance, moreover, this mountain field is filled with hard rocks everywhere, the amount of mental power I use in changing the hard surface of the ground increases exponentially and I’m afraid that I don’t have enough mental power to do that. It’s not a problem to open this passageway, but I’m afraid that if I work while recovering my spiritual power, I’m afraid that fighting my way out will be fifteen days from now.”

P5092 frowned, but as a result, at this time, Mo Fei, who was on the side, suddenly spoke up and said, “Then, if I can lead you around all the hard rocks and calculate the most efficient route, I think six days will be enough.”

Everyone froze for a moment, Ren Xiaosu knew that Mo Fei’s identity was Zero, as if analyzing solid mountains didn’t seem to be a difficult task for an AI like Zero.

It was just that every time Zero opened his mouth to offer help, it seemed to be very crucial.

Before this Ren Xiaosu always felt that Zero was still a bit unreliable, as its judgment was not completely accurate for things with insufficient data.

But now it seemed that at least letting the other party analyze the known data was still quite reliable.

Ren Xiaosu looked at P5092: “What do you want to do by hitting this passage?”

“I want to send troops to attack the Expeditionary Corps’ transportation units outside,” P5092 explained, “Now that the Expeditionary Corps has Zuo Yunshan surrounded, they must think that the transportation line is already safe, but if this is the time to strike a painful blow to their strategic supplies, it will definitely give them a huge surprise. And there must be a lot of supplies needed for such a huge force, just destroying it once or twice would be enough for Wang to find victory in the war!”

Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and suddenly said to Ji Ziang, “If it’s a passage for only one person to pass through, how long will it take?”

Ji Zi’ang froze for a moment, “Then two days would be enough!”

Ren Xiaosu looked to P5092, “I’ll be fine going alone, there’s no need to dig such a wide passage.”