Volume VIII 1319 The Road to Escape

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Nicholas scratched his head, "I didn't think much about it, I just think that the duty of a soldier is to fight, and other things are not something we should think about!"

"Gold is good, but is it the duty of a soldier to make money? No, isn't it the duty of merchants and tax collectors to make money? Farmers and craftsmen can also make money......

"This person, just do your job well, my brain is stupid and can't hold too many things, I am a soldier, then my heart is a thought to fight! Winning the enemy is my ......."

"Fighting with 10 kilograms of gold on your back? Isn't this a joke! Let's not talk about fighting, even if you can't get tired and lose your breath even if you carry such a heavy thing through mountains and mountains, will you still have the body to fight once you meet the enemy? Not to mention that everyone is already tired all night......

This is a phrase that Ackerson heard from the mouth of a teacher in his family, a famous quote from an ancient Chinese philosopher, and now Nicholas's words make a vivid footnote to this sentence.

The real truth is actually simple, not complicated at all, the right choice is often in front of people's eyes, Nicholas is emotionally simple and does not have too much **, he can grasp the core of the problem.

Shouldn't a soldier just fight a war? It is enough to fight your war, but you have to worry about other things? You have to worry about diplomacy, imperial finances, and the geopolitical affairs and distribution of interests among East Asian countries.

You're all worried, what do you want diplomats for, why do you want the Chancellor of the Exchequer, why do you want the Imperial Bank?

Exxon let out a long sigh, he finally understood what they had done wrong this time, in fact, the fault was the mispositioning caused by greed.

Since the information of the Golden Treasure Island was transmitted to the ears of the generals of the expeditionary force, everyone's hearts were in turmoil, and once the door of ** was opened, people would be lost.

The soldiers forgot their duty, and the 30,000 troops up and down actually began to worry about other thoughts, and they had to worry about the financial crisis of the empire, so the army wanted to sneak attack Bai Layi and attack Amami Island, and the tsar wanted to show his muscles in Asia, so the fleet had to rush to the mouth of the Min River to show off his might.

Exxon can't wait to give himself two slaps in the face, does it have anything to do with the military when the empire's finances are in crisis? Who gave you the order to let you solve the empire's finances?

If His Majesty wants to show his influence in Asia, naturally there are diplomats to negotiate and communicate, and can he use the entire fleet to rub the coastline of the Great Qing Kingdom to show his muscles?

These are good, show their muscles to the mouth of the Min River and let the Zhiyuan and the Janissaries beat them up, and they wanted to get rich, but the entire army fell into the trap of the Chinese.

The root of a qiē is actually in the extremely simple words of Nicholas: "Do your job well, think less and don't need it!"

The road is simple, this is the golden key to solving all problems, but an ordinary low-level officer understands, while these high-ranking noble generals are confused.

If there is a regret medicine in the world, Aikesen is willing to go bankrupt and eat one, but there is one for sale there!

"Nicholas...... If we can successfully break through this time, you can do it with me in the future! I will transfer you to my command, are you willing?"

Nicholas scratched his head again, "Oops...... Ah...... I'm still saying that I'm just a soldier, just do my job well, isn't the duty of a soldier to obey? You say that you have a military order to transfer me, what can I say?"

Looking at Nicholas's honest appearance, Aikesen couldn't wait to slap himself, and sighed in his heart, "My heart is messed up, my heart is completely messed up, why do you always talk nonsense, why do you always say things that are not level!"

The mountain road was rugged, and under the escort of the soldiers of the guard company, Exxon soon came to the first ring of the initial attack, and in the original minefield, a regiment of troops was ready to go, waiting for Exxon to set off as soon as he arrived.

At this moment, the sound of artillery and shouts of killing in the east was getting closer and closer, and people could see the smoke of the explosion coming from the direction of Setouchi without binoculars close to the naked eye.

"The whole army set off! Hurry to march to Setouchi! Raid the enemy's artillery camp to withstand the Chinese's attack and buy time for the retreat of the large army...... Let's go!"

At the sound of the order, the whole army began to run wildly, and the soldiers' heavy backpacks contained ammunition and supplies, as well as the ten-kilogram gold ingot, which smashed on their backs with a muffled sound as they ran.

The mountain road was rugged and difficult to navigate, and after just running for more than 20 minutes, some soldiers retreated to the side of the road because of their stumbling feet, and there were no medical guards to take care of them at this time, and these outdated soldiers could only wait to gather with the next wave of troops to go down the mountain.

After a night of bloody fighting, the soldiers' bodies have been exhausted All the soldiers who are tired from this difficult march stick out their tongues like dogs, and the war bears in the north, no matter how strong they are, are still living people and not machines, and they also have times when they are exhausted, and they also know that they are tired.

What's more, these people are still carrying a burden of ten kilograms, which exacerbates the consumption of the body.

Foot-depleted, dehydrated, comatose...... A regiment of 1,500 people fell behind in a large area after only 40 minutes of running.

"What can I do? What can I do here? Nicholas ......" Exson yelled and called Nicholas to his side, "You take the guard company and quickly search around, Amami Oshima is the most important sugar and rum producing area in the Ryukyus, it would be nice if you could find some sugar or wine......"

"It's really impossible to find a few sugar cane fields, and we must let the soldiers replenish a little bit of body, otherwise I'm afraid they will all die of exhaustion......"

"Yes, sir...... Half of the guard company is divided into two parts, and I will search the neighborhood......"

Nicholas led more than fifty soldiers to search through the dense forest, and now Exxon could only rely on Nicholas, because they were the only ones in the army who could advance lightly.

However, Ikesen underestimated the vicious Cheng of Xiao Letian's strategy, how could these Chinese soldiers let go of these tired soldiers, when Nicholas had just entered the dense forest, he heard a sudden crackling burst of gunfire like fried beans in the mountains and forests, which was also mixed with the sound of a roaring grenade explosion.

After a while, Nicholas retreated in disgrace, "There is an ambush! There are wandering Chinese sharpshooters in the dense forest! They are as haunted as ghosts, and we can't rush over......

As he spoke, a gun suddenly rang out, and the four soldiers in front of Aikesen were suddenly shot in the head, the Tianling cover was overturned, and the white ** sprayed everywhere.

"Counterattack! Counterattack quickly...... panicked soldiers blindly opened fire into the dense forest, but the enemy's counterattack was useless in the dark.

A chill from the back to the top of his head, "Hurry up...... Assault the whole army, don't get entangled with the enemy! They just want to drag us to death while we are tired!"