Chapter 65: The Choice
With his first stroke, the fat man drew a circle in the Talganlin district, five kilometers west of the town of Seluda. Looking at this circle, Calvin and Ron both looked strange, and the officers present were even more shocked.www.biquge.info
"We must transfer the large forces of the division headquarters to this place!" The fat man was a little heavier in this circle, "The terrain here is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and large armored vehicles and mechs are not suitable for fighting in this kind of terrain. If we stick to this place, as long as there are enough weapons and ammunition, we won't have to worry about guarding him for ten days and half a month. ”
The officers sitting there listened to what the fat man said, and the more they listened, the more shocked they became, and the expressions on their faces were no longer as natural as before, but the fat man did not notice this. Calvin nodded, motioning for the fat man to continue.
The fat man licked the corners of his somewhat dry mouth and continued, "As long as we enter the Targan Forest Area, the enemy will have nothing to do with us, so the difficulty is how to let our large army break through the enemy's defense line and enter Targan. ”
"Well, that's exactly what we're talking about, we still have a whole mech regiment to fight, oh, this is Lieutenant Colonel Herbert, the regiment leader." Hearing Calvin's introduction, the bald officer from before stood up and nodded at the fat man.
"Hello Mr. Lieutenant Colonel." The fat man also responded, and then turned to Calvin and said, "We can't break through with all our might, and if the enemy captures Seluda while we are going out with all our might, if anything happens, we will not be in a dilemma." ”
After listening to the fat man's words, everyone present was silent for a while.
Yes, if it fails to break through the enemy's defenses, and instead loses the town of Seluda, the 2nd Division, which has nowhere to hide, will have to disarm and surrender.
"And what do you pay attention to?" Ron asked the fat man instead of Calvin.
The fat man took out his pen and drew an important mark on the town of Seluda, "We need to leave at least a thousand troops here, not only to hold Seluda while the large force is attacking the enemy's defense, but also to attract enemy fire and increase the opportunity for the withdrawal of the large army." ”
"Isn't this thousand-strong force that remained in Seluda a death squad?" Calvin said in a deep voice, "How many people in this army will survive in the end?" ”
The fat man shook his head, "I don't know, maybe...... There won't be one. There was silence in the war room, but the fat man then said firmly, "But this way, at least we can save a large army of five thousand people." ”
The crowd did not speak, and the atmosphere in the war room became oppressive.
At present, the total number of men of the Second Division is only 7,000, and if this 1,000 men were sacrificed and the remaining 5,000 were rescued, it would undoubtedly be a successful plan in terms of results. However, to pick out a thousand-strong 'death squad', even Calvin was unwilling to do a hundred or a thousand in his heart.
"How high do you think the success rate is according to your method?"
"In my calculations, I am 80 to 90 percent sure." The fat man said affirmatively, "Commander, all the choices are tonight, after tonight, everything will be late!" ”
Calvin's hands were already clenched into fists, did he really want to bury his troops with his own hands? Calvin was struggling and making choices in his mind. He and Ron had already thought of the way the fat man said, but when it came time to make a choice, they couldn't do it.
At this moment, as a real iron-blooded general, Calvin slapped the table and ordered loudly, "Pass my order, all units of the division are ready for battle!" ”
"Yes!" All the officers immediately stood up and saluted Calvin.
The officers immediately returned to their respective units to prepare, and they needed to pick out those soldiers from their units who were willing to stay. Because staying in Seluda was already a dead end, Calvin didn't want to force any of the soldiers to stay. But what people didn't expect was that almost all the soldiers rushed to stay after hearing the news.
The quota of the 1,000 men was soon decided, and Calvin was to leave all the heavy firepower weapons that were inconvenient to carry in Seluda for the use of the 1,000 defenders.
The Fat Man has also been tasked with Calvin, who will follow Herbert's mech regiment to storm the Imperial base. It was a breach in the Imperial Line, on the outskirts of the Talgan Forest. The base is garrisoned by a regiment of enemy mechs, a total of fifty Imperial mechs and hundreds of Imperial soldiers. Herbert and Fatty's mission is to lead all the Federation mechs to defeat this Imperial mech regiment without any artillery support, so as not to expose the large Federation forces to the Imperial mechs.
If the Mechs successfully complete the task of covering the retreat of the large force, all the Federation Mechs will return to the town of Seluda, and Calvin will let the fat man make his own choice, whether to follow the large force into Talgan or return to Seluda?
The fat man left the division headquarters and followed Herbert, the commander of the mecha regiment of the second division, to a huge warehouse. This warehouse is not the same arsenal that the fat man picked out to equip during his last mission, this warehouse is heavily protected by federal soldiers, and the strength of this protection can even be described harshly.
Herbert led the fat man through layers of checks, and finally came to the door of the warehouse, patted the fat man on the shoulder and said, "I heard Captain Eden say that your mecha piloting skills are very strong, and now any mecha here can be selected for you." As he spoke, the door slowly opened, and the fat man saw a scene that he could not describe.
More than fifty Federation mechs were neatly arranged in the warehouse, a scale far more than he had seen on the training ground at the Institute. [War Tiger] and [Thunder Leopard] sixth-generation beast-shaped mechas, [Liberation] and [Liberty] two support-type mechas, and seventh-generation heavy firepower mecha [Red Wind].....
The fat man was already dazzled, with so many Federation mechas, he really felt like he had fallen into a treasure. The fat man looked at Herbert uncertainly, and Herbert reached forward in a gesture of please, and then he rushed into the warehouse.
The fat man still likes a beast-shaped mecha as strong as [Black Dragon], and the fat man can't put it down because of his strong melee ability, but the design of the energy claw makes him unable to complain.
The fat man decided to start with his melee ability and choose a beast-shaped mecha that suits him best.
The fat man walked towards the depths of the warehouse step by step, most of the more than fifty mecha in the entire warehouse were sixth-generation mechas, and the seventh-generation mecha were all heavy-fire mechas.
Standing still, the fat man's eyes were staring straight at a tall mecha in front of him, the huge fuselage more than ten meters high and the perfect streamlined design made the fat man deeply attracted to it when he saw it.