Major-General Bertrand, who had gathered his thoughts a little, grabbed the phone on his desk and began to call Songaia. Then the phone rang out, and Major General Bertrand said in a soothing tone, "Pick me up from Sir James, the Governor." ”

Soon a voice came from the other end of the phone: "I'm James, is there anything wrong with Major General Bertrand?" ”

"Report to the Governor, the rebels we are now facing are a group of professional soldiers with extremely high combat and military qualities, not guerrillas, let alone mud-legged peasants with rifles, and all the affiliated towns of the city of Tonduru where I am now located have been lost. Although our army resisted desperately, the casualties were extremely high. Major General Bertrand said:

After hearing this, James in Songaia was very displeased and said: "Major General Bertrand, I don't care if the other party is a professional soldier or not. In World War I, our British Empire, was able to defeat the Germans. Showing that our soldiers of the British Empire are very good soldiers, do you think that the combat qualities of these mud-legged chimpanzees are even better than those of the Wehrmacht? ”

After listening to James's words, Major General Bertrand secretly scolded in his heart: Peaty, our British Imperial Army is the second-rate army among many powers. It was the Royal Navy that held up the glory of the British Empire, and our army could not even defeat the French army, and the French army could only be beaten when it met the German army. Our soldiers and Germans are delivering food, and in your mouth, we soldiers of the British Imperial Army can actually beat the Germans, and you don't blush. But he immediately replied slowly: "Report to the governor, of course their soldiers cannot be compared with the soldiers of the German army." ”

James heard Major General Bertrand's words and reprimanded: "Major General Bertrand, I know that everyone likes to call you a mushroom, but now is the time of war, it is the time when it is related to the position of the British Empire in this land, I don't want you to take out your mushroom character, I will only give you five days, after five days, you have not eliminated those chimpanzee rebels, you just wait for the court-martial." ”

After listening to James's words, Major General Bertrand replied again and again: "Yes! Be! Rest assured Governor, I will do my best to complete the task. If you don't succeed, you will succeed. ”

Then James hung up the phone, and the angry Major General Bertrand slammed the phone on the table and scolded: "James, you **** raiser, you are asking me to take the blood heads of tens of thousands of soldiers to you as a ladder to advance to official positions." ”

Just when Major General Bertrand roared and scolded James for raising ****, there was a sudden violent explosion and accompanied by a series of shaking and shaking violently, and the water cup made of exquisite Chinese porcelain on Major General Bertrand's table fell to the ground and fell to pieces. Finally feeling weak, Major General Bertrand sat on the table and muttered to himself: "Today is the sixth time that the other side has shelled it, and how can our British Empire have suffered this crime in the past few centuries. ”

At this moment a major came in and said: "Report that Major General Bertrand has suffered thousands of casualties in our army since the morning shelling, and a large number of black servants have taken off their uniforms and become deserters for morale reasons. Several division commanders are waiting for you to come up with ideas in the barracks. ”

Then Major General Bertrand said, "Okay, you go down first, and I'll go later." ”

The major said yes and left the office of Major General Bertrand, who had taken up his military cap from a clothes rack and put it on his head shortly after the major left his office. He walked out of the office.

Major General Bertrand, who was walking on the street, saw the wounded soldiers walking towards the field hospital not far away with the support of the soldiers, and they saw Major General Bertrand saluting in unison, and Major General Bertrand returned a military salute without saying anything, and the city was severely damaged by the heavy artillery of the African People's Army at this time. A large number of remnants of the broken walls, and a lot of materials were scattered all over the place.

Later, when he reached a fork in the road, he found that the bodies of the fallen soldiers were piled up all around, and some anti-chemical soldiers sprinkled quicklime on the corpses of the dead to prevent the plague.

Seeing this, Major General Bertrand shook his head helplessly, and then walked into the barracks. I found that the dozen brigadier colonels in my hands were already waiting for me here.

When Major General Bertrand saw this, he said, "Let's have a meeting," and then everyone followed Major General Bertrand into the conference room in the barracks.

After entering the conference room, Major General Bertrand said straight to the point: "Here I will reveal to you a piece of news, that is, before I came, I called Governor James to ask for a retreat, but he sternly refused. It also allowed us to recapture the four lost cities within five days, and if we could not complete the task, military law would do us. ”

After hearing this, the people below were taken aback and discussed. It was a brigadier general who stood up and said, "How is this possible, General Bertrand?" The opponent is less outnumbered than us, but the opponent has hundreds of large-caliber guns of more than 12 pounds and hundreds of tanks. Let's recover four cities. Isn't that not good for daydreaming? ”

"Yes, although we have 150,000 troops, and the other side is about 50,000 according to the size, but the heavy weapons are several times more than ours, our 12-pounder artillery is only 58, and the tanks are only 55 big nomad tanks. Both tanks are not at the same level at all. Not to mention recapturing the four cities, even if you can hold this Tongdulu City, it is a problem. Another brigadier general said:

At this time, another brigadier general said: "I'm afraid that the other party's 50,000 horses are just the early troops, and there will definitely be reinforcements rushing here in the future." There is little hope of holding on to Tonduru. Our fighters don't have a lot of anti-tank weapons. Fighting the other side is basically the same as delivering food, and those servant armies can fight with the wind. Fighting such a terrible battle is basically equal to zero. ”

Major General Bertrand frowned after hearing the words of the three brigadier generals and said: "Hey, I know what you are saying, but Governor James gave us a death order that we must recover the four cities in five days, otherwise military law will take care of us." Now we belong to Qihoo and are in trouble. ”

It was a colonel who stood up and said, "General Bertrand, with all due respect, Governor James is sitting in his office with the illusion that he is the first in the world in the British Empire, but I don't know whether this first is supported by the navy or the army. This is pushing tens of thousands of our Royal Army soldiers to their deaths. We don't have to go to court-martials to do what he did, and we'll be eaten clean by the other side here. ”

When Major General Bertrand heard the colonel's words, he said: "So, what should our army do now? ”

The colonel said, "There are two paths, but the results are the same?" One way is to open the gates of the city now and surrender, our team can be saved, and we will see you in the collective military court, and the other is to fight to the end, and finally the invincible people surrender, and the military court cannot point out our crimes, and James bears all the blame. ”

After hearing this, Major General Bertrand nodded and said: "At present, James is taking us to exonerate himself, since he is unkind, we are unjust." I decided to hold on to Tundulu for three days and surrender after three days. What about your opinions. ”

Then everyone expressed their support, and as for the lives of those ordinary soldiers, it was not on their mind. This is the ugliness of human nature.