Ever since the shooting of civilians in Istanbul by U.S. and Turkish soldiers, Nathan Lim has been suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder, appearing somewhat distracted and often waking up from nightmares while sleeping. There are many other U.S. soldiers who suffer from this kind of problem like him, so that it is difficult for the U.S. military psychiatrist to take care of so many soldiers, and Nathan has not received proper counseling and treatment.

As a Chinese-American soldier, Nathan has an inexplicable hatred for China, and stubbornly believes that China is an extremely evil country, while the United States is a free, democratic, righteous and bright country. And if you can contribute to this, you will also realize the value of your heroic life.

However, Nathan's series of beliefs are based on the foundation that China is bad and America is good. From the outbreak of the war to the present, there is little problem in arguing that China is bad, and he was able to find many arguments, such as the invasion of India, such as provoking Babylon to become independent and destroy Iraq, such as indiscriminate attacks regardless of the lives of civilians, all of which are solid reasons for Nathan's belief that China is shameful and hateful.

And the arguments that support Nathan's belief that the United States is holy and righteous mostly come from the more false and brainwashed propaganda of the United States, as well as his psychological hints over and over again, but when it comes to things, the United States is no better than the extremely vicious China. Although Nathan understood that the reason for doing this was to ensure that the logistics were smooth and the war could continue, it was difficult for him to accept that it should be done in this way. The deaths and injuries of thousands of civilians may become the conscience condemnation of many American and Turkish soldiers for the rest of their lives.

After the collapse of this pillar that supported Nathan's fighting, Nathan became a mess, and soldiers who lost the purpose of fighting were simply unable to fight, and people often divided soldiers into several types, one fought for pay and treatment, one fought for his own life, one fought to protect others, and then fought for a certain belief. Normally, the latter type of soldier has a higher combat effectiveness than the former, or a stronger will to fight.

A soldier who has lost the will to fight is like a tiger that draws his spine, and it is no longer of much use.

Compared to Nathan, Isuzu is more able to see, he seems to be more detached from the beginning, and he can see things clearly.

Nathan asked Isuzu, "Brother, why are you involved in the army?" What you have said has been verified, there is no difference between the United States and China, they are both the same hill, you understand this, why do you want to become a soldier? ”

Isuzu smiled, and he said, "Isn't it not for some great slogan that you joined the U.S. military, but for those tens of thousands of dollars in grants." Most of the people who volunteered to join the army before the war, how many had great intentions? I'm afraid there isn't a hundredth, it's not for this or that, everyone has to live after all. ”

Nathan asked again, "So what are you for?" ”

"Family, my family moved from Japan to the United States, but I didn't lose the tradition of the ancestral samurai family (samurai family), and all men had to undergo militarized training, otherwise they couldn't be called men. As for all this mess in the army, hehe, I've seen it all. Isuzu smoked a cigarette and said, in fact, he didn't smoke before, smoking is a habit that he has only acquired in the last few days, it can be seen that he is not as calm as he seems, and there must be a struggling and painful side in his heart.

Nathan sighed, "I don't know when this damn war will end, I want to go home, the army is not where I should be." ”

Isuzu opened her mouth and wanted to say something like "you don't want to be a war hero" to squeeze Nathan Lin, but remembering that this guy was still suffering from PTSD, he still didn't say anything too much. "Instead of thinking about this, let's think about whether we can survive this battle," he said. The SCO coalition is already determined to win Istanbul, and even if Turkey and NATO continue to send reinforcements here, the SCO will break it with more superior forces. What was probably the worst battle since the beginning of the war was about to take place in the city, and the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks was a bloody battle in which I have reason to believe that tens of thousands of people would be bloodied. ”

Nathan shuddered, even more confused about his future.

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The U.S. military also tried to launch intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Italy to attack the strongholds of the SCO coalition forces, but after the missile was launched, it was intercepted outside the atmosphere by the Hongqi-19 system deployed in Europe by China.

The assault on Istanbul began at this time, when the SCO forces carried out several days of artillery and air raids on Istanbul, which had turned the city into a scorched earth, and then the ground forces of the SCO forces began to march to Istanbul, and the Bulgarian corps launched an attack on the second line of defense on the periphery of Istanbul.

The Bulgarian Legion's attack was met with fierce resistance from the Turkish army, and even though the Bulgarian army had the advantage in weapons and tactics, the Turks were stunned and ruthless, blocking the movement of the Bulgarian Legion, which made the battle of Istanbul unfavorable to the SCO.

However, this failure only lasted for six hours, and in the other direction where the Bulgarian army's attack was frustrated, Qi Yiming dispatched a red police unit to take advantage of the fact that the Turkish army had transferred a large number of troops to the direction of the defending army for defense, and quickly defeated the American troops in front of them, and broke through the second line of defense. Taking advantage of this breakthrough, the SCO coalition forces marched in a big way, and copied the back path of the Turkish army, completely sealing up to 80,000 Turkish soldiers in their own pockets.

Although the Turkish army resisted to the death, the Turkish army was still defeated by a large margin, with more than 33,800 killed, more than 26,000 captured, and less than 10,000 stragglers who were able to flee back to Istanbul.

The second line of defense was broken by the SCO coalition forces, which means that there is only the last line of defense left outside Istanbul, and the symbolic meaning of this line of defense is actually greater than the actual meaning, because the defense line has been repaired on the periphery, and if this line of defense is broken, it is basically equivalent to Istanbul is about to be declared finished.

Although the third line of defense was not as strong as the first, the American and Turkish forces also deployed a lot of soldiers and heavy weapons here to cope with the SCO attack. In particular, the US military placed a large number of anti-armor missiles here, and the density was beyond imagination, and the armored forces of the SCO coalition forces that were attacking were "welcomed" by a large number of anti-armor missiles, and many tanks were destroyed.

When the third line of defense was also broken by the SCO coalition forces, Istanbul was completely plunged into chaos, and the streets and alleys that had been almost destroyed were filled with dense gunfire, and the NATO command demanded that Istanbul become the Stalingrad of the Chinese, as long as the street fighting could be held, then the continuous arrival of reinforcements could turn the tide for NATO.

However, it was clear that the SCO coalition forces lacked the necessary interest in street fighting, and the rich and capricious artillery of the Chinese 21st Army, under the guidance of friendly forces in front, began to fire small cloud bursts, stun grenades and other weapons at those buildings where soldiers were stationed, directly destroying the enemy's ability to resist, and any building in the city that could become a threat would be swept away by artillery fire until it became a pile of bricks and rubble, unable to hide people.

This way of fighting street battles really made the Americans jaw-dropping, because China and the SCO did not care how much the city of Istanbul was preserved, so they were also unscrupulous about the destruction of the city, and they did not hesitate to destroy the city to avoid a large number of casualties in the street fighting.

It was at this time that another bad news also came, the Turkish southern front battlefield that had been stable for a while came from the sound of gunfire again, the Kurdish army after some reconstruction, re-launched an attack on the Turkish army, although this offensive, has been far less ferocious than the previous offensive, but Turkey's focus has been placed on Istanbul in the north, the defense of the southern front is relatively light, which was also seized by the Kurdish army to conquer a number of Kurdish inhabited towns in a row, The local Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) forces were also co-opted.

Turkey has finally tasted the end of the day, and the United States and other NATO countries will have a hard time sending reinforcements to Turkey even if they want to. A Type 003 aircraft carrier, a general-class battleship, a dreadnought second-generation arsenal ship of the Chinese Navy, carrying a ship formation, crossed the Suez Canal and arrived in the Mediterranean.

The U.S. military does not have a large fleet in the Mediterranean, because China does not directly send a large fleet to threaten the region, and France has deployed two reactivated Clemenceau-class aircraft carriers, the Clemenceau and the Foch, here.

It's just that these two aircraft carriers are only more than 30,000 tons, and the number of carrier-based aircraft they carry is also very limited. The US military has also specially dispatched a group of F-14 and F-18 pilots to the French aircraft carriers to carry out coordinated operations, and the French military originally equipped the two aircraft carriers with F-8 Crusader and Super Flag attack planes.

Although China has only sent one aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean, the displacement of the Type 003 aircraft carrier is the top three Clemenceau-class aircraft carriers, plus the Chinese battleships and Chinese arsenal ships that have been in the limelight in the waters of the Solomon Islands, such a naval fleet can be regarded as a peak lineup, which is terrifying.

By sending this fleet into the Mediterranean, China is effectively blockading the Aegean Sea, making it difficult for NATO ships to transport troops and supplies to Turkey, completely isolating Turkey, and finally capitulating the country to the SCO in despair.