Chapter 18: The Gambler's Legacy
I am convinced that great achievements often come from serendipitous coincidences and the courage to take a big gamble. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info If the shells fired by the French artillery on the Western Front in World War I had not hit the German powder magazine, the winner of the Battle of Verdun would have been Germany; In 1942 (New World War II), Guderian would never have been one of the second people in the Soviet Union to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union four times if he had not gambled that France did not dare to attack the Ruhr and ordered a blitzkrieg against Italy and Austria; If Prime Minister Lomanov had not had the courage to go single-handedly to fight the Allied hawks in Berlin with the face of "moderate humane communism" and bet at the last minute on the then disadvantaged candidate, former Maine Governor Dugan, who would have paid heavily to help him get elected on the condition that he withdraw troops from the Soviet Union and return to normalcy, and today the Soviets have been wiped off the face of the earth; Villadimo also played a gamble in Hawaii, ignoring the fact that the Japanese navy still existed, gathered the not powerful Pacific Fleet and sailed 7,000 nautical miles, and finally completely annihilated the combined U.S.-Canada fleet, which was five times more powerful than itself, and then wiped out the Japanese fleet that rushed to support without knowing the truth, turning the sharp knife pointed at the back of the Soviet Union into a long knife cut on the ass of the United States; In fact, Marshal Mosvenk the Elder, the second and four-time famous general to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, became famous because by chance Lomanov could not find a candidate who could parachute into Washington to raid Washington, and under the purpose of being a dead horse as a live horse doctor, he actually found a rare general talent from the reserve forces......
Looking out the window at the rain of bombs, I drank my coffee calmly. Explosions rang out one after another, and from time to time the turret roof and steel helmets could be seen flying in the air.
"Don't be in a hurry, Comrade Major General, come and have some Cuban coffee to calm down? Bornot mineral water brews, it tastes good. "I handed him a cup of coffee, and he drank it down." Thank you, comrade. It's a pity that I can't calm down," he complained, "and we must have suffered a lot of losses in this battle......
"In fact, all the losses were inflicted in the Allied attacks that preceded the bombing. After the teleportation, the first thing the Allied forces do is to destroy the enemy units around them to ensure that there are no enemies in the positions around them. As for the interspersed encirclement and other things that you are worried about, Comrade Major General, it is even more unlikely that it will happen. They don't know what kind of layout they are around, and they are killing themselves by rushing into the encirclement. β
"How do you know that they've just cleaned up the surrounding units of our army now, and not that they're still cleaning up? This may result in casualties among your comrades! β
"Listen to the explosion. At first, the explosions came from all directions, and one after another seemed to be exploding everywhere, but when I came in just now, the sound of the explosions became unified, indicating that the attackers must have completed the liquidation of our military units within themselves and began to deploy and fight in a unified manner. It is impossible for such a scientific research base to have too many troops, and listening to your description, the appearance of so many enemy troops is more like the Allied devils mobilizing all the surrounding troops and teleporting them to fight a decisive battle with us. It seems that this Einstein is not an idiot genius scientist, and he is also very good at military command. β
Speaking of this, I suddenly had a bad premonition in my heart. There were only three premonitions of such a terrible degree, one in the family upheaval 10 years ago, one in the Moscow coup d'Γ©tat in Moscow for Prime Minister Lomanov, and the near-total annihilation of the mission in which the teacher, Cherdenko, was wounded by Tanya.
This is the fourth time that we have gone head-to-head with Albert Einstein and Tanya Adams. "Words ......," Major General Jiang's question interrupted my thoughts. I looked back and saw that he had a cautious look in his eyes, and several staff officers were also pointing, as if I were the supreme commander here. "Ulayanov ......"
"Just call me Mark." I really wanted to yell at him, "My name is Duanmu", but I held back. No one will accept the surname Duanmu, neither TASS nor the Coalition Command.
"Well, Lieutenant Colonel Mark, I'm curious why you didn't come to this front line instead of being a senior staff officer at the General Headquarters? With your brain, I'm afraid you're already a general by now. β
"Do you know why the Chinese communist revolution in 1949 was successful? The most important point, at least, is that the excellent commanders of the White Army were all transferred back from the front to contribute to the general staff in Nanjing, while the excellent staff officers of the Red Army were transferred from the general staff in Xi'an to the front and sent the officers who were not in good command back to the general staff to learn to lead the troops to fight. What is the difference between the opportunity for an excellent talent to get away from the actual investigation of the front line and teach a recruit who has not fought a war how to command a large army by fiddling with wargames on a map and discarding it? β
Not really. I cursed myself in my heart.
"Okay. But how do you know so many ways to deal with the Teleportation Force? Fought with them? β
"Why, don't you know that the textbook mentions a specific way to deal with and judge the teleportation force?" I asked suspiciously, "Are you a graduate of the military academy?"
As soon as I opened my mouth, I remembered again, this is the unique secret book of "Cherdenko cram school"! Just to prevent getting to the bottom of things, I grabbed my helmet and left. "Mark, where are you going? It's ...... outside now."
"It's not safe. Yes, but it is necessary for me to confirm our and the enemy's, this is actually what you should do, Comrade Major General, isn't it? Look at the situation outside" - I mean the barracks under the scorched earth - "I am afraid that even the completion of the mission will be affected." β
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Stand in a scorched earth camp. Kirov's sheer strength was staggering, not a single Allied vehicle was intact, not even stumps and severed arms were rare, because they were all scorched. "We're not in a good situation either," someone complained worriedly, "and the Allied devils have ruined too much of our supplies." β
A member of the storm team shouted "Lieutenant Colonel Makyebuka" and as soon as he came to me, he shouted: "Comrade Commander, Bao ...... Boris ......"
I left behind the staff officers who were assessing the casualties and the comrades of the major general, who had not reacted, and rushed madly towards the medical tent.