Chapter 5: Encounter with the Rebels
Fate is like a big roulette, as long as it is still spinning, no one knows where it will stop, at that time I always thought that my life would be frozen at the age of 18, but the wheel of fate moved slightly, so my life has since embarked on a road of unpeace.
βTerry's Autobiography, Vol. 2.
Terry, who returned to the camp, was sentenced directly, and although he tried his best to defend himself, it was clear that the words of the private were more convincing to the military judge.
Terry is very wronged, but this is in the barracks, and the words of the military judge are holy decrees, not to mention that Terry is just an ordinary soldier, without any inferior soldiers in the background.
Of course, Terry also figured out why he was arrested, because Major General Oprah had escaped.
On the way back to the camp for the two despicable fellows, an unknown group of men attacked them, and the senior soldier was killed on the spot.
Private was lucky, as he escaped and was blown into a ditch by a grenade, and although he was wounded in the head, his life was saved.
There shouldn't have been anything wrong with Terry, but the surviving privates wanted to evade accountability and get credit, so this incident turned into Terry's betrayal and led the remnants of the rebels to rescue the major general.
Terry is indeed hard to argue, because Major General Oprah's military badge is in the hands of a private. As a result, Private Private was rewarded for his military exploits for desperately "resisting the enemy", but Terry was sent to a rear military prison for "treason and defection to the enemy" to wait for the verdict of the military court.
In the Puntlands Mountains, a potholed improvised road winds its way through the mountains.
A Migalo two-stroke gas truck walks slowly, the season is the time of the least rain in the Puntlands, and although the truck is slow, it still carries a rolling yellow dragon.
In the back of the truck, Terry was tied up and thrown in a corner of the truck, surrounded by six heavily armed gendarmes with rifles.
As the truck swayed, the gendarme closest to Terry looked Terry up and down, as if to see a flower in his face.
"Speaking of which, you are really powerful, a small inferior soldier dared to commit such a big thing, even the headquarters of the group army was alarmed by you, and you were escorted back by name."
Terry didn't answer when he was asked, because he was in despair at the moment.
Terry hated, hated the meanness of the privates, hated the favoritism of the military judges.
But Terry doesn't regret it, even though if he shot the major general and took away the military card, now he is not only fine, but he may also get a promotion and bonus for it, but Terry still doesn't regret it, because this is his nature.
"Squeak!"
The shaking truck suddenly braked suddenly, and a car of people crashed together by inertia.
"MD, do you know how to drive?"
It is estimated that these gendarmes are old soldiers who have never been on the battlefield and have no vigilance at all, so they did not pick up their weapons and quickly jumped out of the car to check the situation, but scolded and crowded together.
"Bang ......"
The rough gunfire of Miller's rifle rang out densely around the truck?
"Tweet Tweet ......"
A 7.92 mm rifle bullet smashed the truck's canvas into a sieve.
"Puff ......"
The old soldiers who were huddled together, with flowers of blood blooming on their bodies, staggered under the inertia of powerful bullets.
Although Terry is a rookie, after all, he has been on the battlefield several times, and he has already been vigilant when the truck brakes suddenly, and his back does not lean on the car again, but tilts his body, and the whole person falls into the car.
The rapid volley of gunfire soon stopped, but there was no one in the truck compartment to breathe except for Terry.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry up, drag people down, change their epaulettes."
After a few seconds of silence outside, a rush of footsteps approached the truck, and a loud voice began to command.
"Sir, there's still a living one here."
Soon several people came up from the back of the car, and first threw the beaten gendarmes off the truck, and when they came to the bottom of the car, they saw Terry unscathed.
"Just kill it, what's the nonsense?"
The commander, who was directing his men to pick up the corpses outside the carriage, replied impatiently.
"No, it's not! Sir! The man was tied and did not have epaulettes on his body, probably our captured soldier. β
The only difference between the Imperial soldiers and the rebels was the color of the epaulettes, and Terry's epaulettes had long since been stripped off by the gendarmes.
"Oh!"
When the commander heard his men say this, he jumped into the carriage curiously.
"Boy, you're still alive, what kind of person are you, say your name."
Terry had already closed his eyes in fear when the men were dragging the corpses, and only then did he open his eyes nervously when he heard the commander's question.
In front of him was a 40-year-old second lieutenant officer, under the bridge of his tall nose, two beautiful mustaches looked so elegant, if it wasn't for the rough voice of the commander just now, Terry would have thought that he had seen a noble lord.
"I ...... My name is Terry and I'm... I was a private in the Imperial 108th Division, but I was convicted of treason. β
At this time, facing the rebels, his unlucky charge became a life-saving straw.
"Oh!"
At first, the commander's face changed when he heard Terry say that he was a soldier of the Empire, but when Terry said that he had been convicted of treason, the commander with a beautiful beard also became interested, wading in blood all over the ground, and came to Terry's face, looking at his face curiously.
"Then can you tell me why you were convicted of treason?"
"They said I saved Major General Opral."
At this time, Terry did not dare to say that he was wronged, although he was honest and upright, he was not a fool.
"What, what do you say? Then do you know where the Major General is now? β
Terry's words made the commander's face change drastically, and the curiosity on his face turned into anxiety, and he grabbed Terry's collar with both hands and questioned loudly.
"Yes... I'm sorry! I was captured by the Imperial Gendarmes, and I don't know where Major General Oprah is now? β
This time, Terry was telling the truth, but the ensign's face became very disappointed with the expectant face.
Although he did not get any news of the Major General from Terry, the second lieutenant did not embarrass Terry. Have your men untie Terry, then hand her own kettle to Terry.
"Private, take a sip of water first, and then let's see how you saved Major General Oprah."
"Hmmm! It's like this......"
The Captain's questioning did not surprise Terry, and he recounted his meeting with Major General Oprah, of course, what should be said and what should not be said.
"In this way, it is true that you saved the major general, but according to what you said, the major general was taken away by your two comrades-in-arms, and they don't know that you saved the major general, why you were also convicted of treason."
"Because ......"
Terry was about to tell the story of the Major General's robbery halfway through, when the sound of pulling the bolt outside interrupted the conversation between the two.
"What's the matter?"
The rebel lieutenant didn't care to dig deeper, and quickly poked his head out of the carriage and asked.
"Sir, the sentry reports in flag, and an unknown team is approaching in the rear."
Hearing the second lieutenant's question, a senior soldier with a telescope on his chest immediately reported.
"All of them, get ready for battle, Liu Yiming, you take two soldiers up to see what the situation is?"