Chapter 143: Rescue (13)
I called the guides and Spanish interpreters who had come with me from the village.
Needless to say, what to do when called up, of course, it was to communicate with the Argentines who stopped in front of us on the other side.
However, this kind of communication is very laborious, because there is a process of converting Chinese to English, and English to Spanish before shouting out.
But fortunately, we don't lack any translations in between, so it's not very difficult to do.
"Let the guide shout to the Argentine!" After a few translations were ready, I said to Lin Xia: "Sue them, we have broken through their defensive line, and now that the sea, land, and air forces have completely surrounded Port Stanley, there is no point in fighting any further, let them surrender, the British army has no intention of letting them suffer more casualties, and at the same time, they will abide by the Geneva Convention to ensure that the prisoners are treated fairly!" ”
"What?" Hearing this, Lin Xia couldn't help but be stunned.
"If you say it, you can say it!" I glared at Lin Xia impatiently.
"Yes!" Lin Xia answered, and immediately translated my words into English and said them as such.
"What?" Now it was Major Will and Major Hill's turn to be dumbfounded.
"Colonel, did I mishear or did I have a problem with the translation?" Major Will asked, "Our decision just now was to surrender to the Afghan army, but you mean to let the Afghan army surrender?!" ”
"You heard it right!" I nodded affirmatively: "Let the Afghan army surrender!" ”
"Colonel, do you think this is possible?" Major Will had an incredible expression on his face: "We didn't break through their lines, we didn't encircle Port Stanley, we even had only more than four hundred people and helicopters that couldn't hold out for long......"
"That's true!" I interrupted Major Weir and said, "But the Argentines don't know!" ”
I'll say so. Everyone around was stunned.
It was a long time. Major Hill nodded and said, "Maybe the colonel is right." From the very beginning, we were creating the illusion of encircling Port Stanley and launching a general attack, so we might be able to deceive the Argentines. What's more, there is no loss to us in giving it a try. ”
"Yes!" I nodded and said, "Try it and say, if the Argentines don't surrender, we surrender!" ”
"Poof", Lin Xia couldn't help laughing.
"it!" Liang Lianbing sniffled beside him: "Look at our battle, we have surrendered before anyone in this battle!" ”
"Coax!" The other warriors laughed as well.
In fact, don't look at Liang Lianbing and others, you have to be relaxed. If I do want to surrender, I think I'll have to press them with orders.
In the end, Major Will also nodded in agreement: "Colonel, I have to say that you have been surprising me all along, all the time!" ”
So the guide soon began to shout to the Afghan army who was waiting on the opposite side, and the content of the shouting was of course what I said. To my little ecstatic, after the guide finished shouting, the Afghan army on the other side was silent, and even the sound of digging foxholes in the snow stopped.
Everyone knows what this means...... Obviously, if the Afghan army hadn't let us scare us, then they should have immediately heard a burst of laughter or answered directly with gunshots.
If they don't do that, it means that they are conflicting. Or rather, it takes time to study and discuss.
Major Will and Major Hill immediately came to their senses, they weren't fools. Of course, I know what this silence means.
"I'm Lieutenant Colonel Will, Battalion A of the 3rd Brigade!" I struck with a hot iron and continued: "Port Stanley is finished, Argentines, give up useless resistance, we have no intention of making enemies of you, and at the same time we can assure you that the struggle between Britain and Argentina will only be on the Falklands, which we have repeatedly emphasized. In fact, as you know, we have always wanted a peaceful solution to the Falklands issue, and we don't want more casualties! ”
"Lay down your arms, and then you can go back alive to Argentina to be with your family and friends, think about them, they don't want your lives for this war, do they?"
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First of all, I lied that I was Lieutenant Colonel Will, the commander of Battalion A of the 3rd Brigade, which made Major Will look at me with a strange face. 、
Of course, this is not true, but one message is revealed to the Argentines that it is ...... The commanders of Battalion A have all hit here, so will the 3rd Brigade of the British Army be far away?
So this fake identity is actually more lethal than SAS Major.
I also mentioned their family and friends in passing, and reiterated the British Government's position on the war...... Having come from the battlefield, I know that these things are the most important concern of a soldier.
I want to tell those Argentine soldiers that surrender means safety, and it means that they can go home to reunite with their relatives and friends, which is undoubtedly the psychology of several bombshells that bombarded the opposite Argentine soldiers.
After shouting for a while, I saw that the effect was almost the same...... I know very well that you can't be too anxious at this time, especially for those who are struggling in a state of inner conflict, and the persuasion of such people should also be stopped, because saying too much in a hurry may be counterproductive by their resistance.
So I looked at my watch and said, "Give you five minutes to think about it, I'm very sorry, we can only give you so much time due to the orders of your superiors!" After five minutes there was no reply, and we had no choice but to attack! ”
Actually, I was worried that if I gave them too much time, they would find a flaw, after all, the British bombardment of Port Stanley was much less intense at this time, and even the bombardment of the third layer of defense by Lieutenant Colonel Barker's troops had slowed down.
Of course, in this dark night, it will take time for Ah Jun to completely figure out what is happening in the outside world.
All I could do was look at my watch and wait, as anxiously as I did the other British soldiers, including Major Will and Hill.
The Chinese soldiers were much more calm about this, and they seemed to think that I could just worry about these things, and they just had to obey orders.
From a personal point of view, I still have great hopes for the possibility of the Afghan army surrendering, for the simple reason that historically, the Afghan army in the Falklands surrendered in large numbers without much resistance. This is enough to show that the Afghan army has a big problem in terms of morale and will to resist.
What I can't say for sure is whether the Afghan army in front of me will be different from the Afghan army described in history, like the artillery we just encountered. (To be continued......)