Chapter 952, Barbarian’s Jedi Counterattack

After a great victory, the soldiers could take a short rest, but not the officers.

Before everyone could digest the food in their stomachs, P5092 convened an urgent impromptu combat meeting.

The not-so-big command tent was crowded with officers of all ranks, as well as combat staff.

Everyone was not sure what P5092 was doing by gathering everyone at this moment, hadn’t he just won a big battle?

However, P5092 looked at the officers at all levels in front of him and said: ”Although we have just won a victory, you all have to understand that we are going to face even more brutal battles next. Time is running out, so I won’t discuss anything further with all of you, instead, I will directly arrange for defense deployment.”

Everyone looked at each other, suddenly everyone felt a sense of urgency, as if P5092 felt that this defense position was going to be a big disaster, which made them even more puzzled.

P5092 looked at the 1st Regiment and said, “The 1st Regiment has been used as a maneuver unit before and had an easier task of rotating the defense, but from tonight onwards it will be different, from 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., I demand that the 1st Regiment must be put into a state of first level combat readiness, and give me the top of the 3rd defense line.”

The commander of the 1st Regiment, Qian Yiwen, froze for a moment, “Sir, for so long the barbarians never attacked during the early morning hours.”

P5092 glanced at him, “It is precisely because they never attacked during this time before that this pattern is too easy to summarize, which is why it is all the more important to be vigilant. Moreover, make sure you do a good job of thinking with the soldiers, from today onwards you will assume the most important task on the entire defense position.”

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief, according to P5092, if the barbarians launched their fiercest attack, surely they would choose this time of dawn?

P5092 said, “The Central Plains people need vision for their hot weapons shooting, but the barbarians require relatively less vision for their raids, even if we only consider it from the advantages of both sides, the Expeditionary Corps should have chosen to run at night instead of specifically avoiding this time period, so that’s where the problem lies. I’ll only explain this matter once, next, Second Regiment, your side should prepare what I asked you to prepare.”

Second Regiment Commander Kong Sheng stood up straight and said, “Understood.”

“If I’m not mistaken,” P5092 said, “The Expeditionary Corps’ general attack will begin tonight, tomorrow night at the latest. Gentlemen, it’s up to you to hold the defense position, maybe you and I will be buried here in a few days, the barbarians have more troops than us, even if they just won a great victory, they still have ten times as many troops as we do.”

“You also understand that in my battle plan it’s to trade one for ten with the expeditionary corps, so the most optimistic scenario would be that we and the barbarians die together here, you may not even have time to sleep in the next few days, some of you will be injured, some of you will be exhausted, but I hope that you will always understand why you’re standing here before that moment arrives. Alright, meeting adjourned.”

After saying that, all the various officers walked out of the command tent, and Wang Yun asked from the side, “You purposely made the situation sound so bad, aren’t you afraid of affecting morale?”

“If I don’t say it, won’t they think of it?” P5092 said calmly, “In fact, everyone understands what we are going to face now, putting to death is what we should do, I want them to remember clearly when they are fighting, killing ten barbarians is only counted as getting back to the capital, if they kill one more, their own comrades may be able to survive one more. This is the courage to break through, the strength to be filled with despair in the face of adversity.”

“Then why would you speculate that the barbarians will launch a strong attack?” Wang Yun was puzzled.

But this question was not answered by P5092.

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In the thick night, the Zuoyun Mountain Range was plastered on the wilderness, and amongst the strange range of peaks, the defense position looked exceptionally small and powerless.

However, in fact, the defensive position was crisscrossed with hundreds of defensive line bunkers, and when the soldiers passed through them, the bunkers were as high as their chests.

This is still the Expeditionary Corps do not use hot weapons, if they use, then they have to dig out a trench and air raid shelters, the height of the trench have to use a ladder to climb up, look at the situation outside the trench, have to use a special periscope erected in the trench, just like being in a submarine.

On the position, these interlocking bunkers are like rows of houses, and P5092 also specially named each main channel, such as Revitalization Road, Killing Barbarians Road, and so on.

This was not for the sake of morale, but for the convenience of sometimes chaotic combat, orders can be quickly conveyed.

In fact, this was a very common and ancient method in war, since humans had other means of communication, some people started to gradually abandon this method, but now that the 6th Combat Brigade’s communication equipment had been deactivated, P5092 had picked up this method.

At this moment, a veteran soldier in the Revitalization Road was leaning against the bunker beside him, and was using the discarded shell casings in his hand to carve words on the bunker, and the new recruit went over to take a look, and it was clearly the three words Revitalization Road.

Just as the recruit was about to say something, the veteran suddenly stood up straight and looked towards the outside of the bunker, and picked up the military binoculars at his side.

In the distance, there were black silhouettes running rapidly, densely packed like a tidal wave of people, looking at the veteran for a while his scalp was numb: ”Enemy attack! Quickly, inform the command, the barbarians are coming!”

Before this, everyone was curious, obviously barbarians never launch an attack in this time period, was Officer P5092’s order right or not?

Now, everyone had the answer, P5092 was correct.

The news of the enemy attack had just been received over at the command tent, Wang Yun turned his head to look at P5092: “How on earth did you guess that the expeditionary corps was coming? You didn’t answer me before.”

“Because I checked the supplies that the Major brought back,” P5092 said, “There are a lot of supplies, but a quarter of them are black bread, you’ve tasted those black breads as well, they are sour, astringent, and bitter, I’m afraid that even barbarians don’t like to eat this kind of stuff, right? ”

“Yes,” said Wang Yun, “I feel that none of that is something that people eat.”

“This shows that their supplies themselves are in a very tight situation, perhaps the northern environment is so harsh that they themselves don’t have enough to eat that’s why they went south,” P5092 analyzed, “And now, they’ve just broken through the Fire Seed defense line and found a new source of supplies only to have the Major General give a a large portion of it. Along with their own supplies, as well as those of the Fire Seed, the Major is not sparing any of them.”

“So, their plan to raise a war with a war was interrupted by the Major General,” Wang Yun said in a daze.

“That’s right,” said P5092, “Now that the supplies have been wiped out in one pot, if they don’t throw their weight around and launch a general attack, they’re afraid that they’ll starve before they can win against the Central Plains people. Although it’s a bit awkward to say, but now it’s no longer the barbarians who are holding the initiative, you may not believe it, but they may think that they are fighting back from the Jedi ……”

To be honest, Ren Xiaosu hadn’t even thought that he had just robbed a couple of supply units, and that it would have such a big impact on the whole situation ……