"Come on! Start with a drink. Lieutenant General Cohen poured Qin Hao a glass of red wine, after all, it was during the war, even if he had the privilege, he didn't order strong alcohol.

"Hmm!" Qin Hao picked up the wine glass, and then drank it all......

"......" After drinking this glass of red wine, Qin Hao frowned, to be honest, the taste of this dry red was far from as good as he imagined, he didn't taste the mellow aroma, but the sour taste made it difficult for him to swallow.

"Haha, silly boy, haven't you ever drunk red wine?" Lieutenant General Cohen immediately laughed when he saw Qin Hao drinking like this.

"I've never drunk alcohol...... Qin Hao said embarrassedly, in the past, his grandfather was strict and didn't have a chance to drink, but after his grandfather left, he entered a tense high school life, and he didn't have a chance to try, and after graduating from high school, he enlisted in the army, and a big soldier in the army couldn't touch alcohol, so Qin Hao really hadn't tried this drink.

"If this red wine is drunk to you like this, then even the best wine will smell like horse urine!" Lieutenant General Cohen poured himself a glass as he spoke, and then he shook the wine glass, so that the vermilion wine was fully in contact with the air, and the aroma of the wine diffused, and then he took a slight sip, and then said to Qin Hao: "Try it." ”

"Oh!" Qin Hao poured himself a little like Lieutenant General Cohen, and then shook his wine glass and tasted it again.

After the liquor is fully fused and oxidized with the air, the taste is indeed better than before, and the mellow aroma and sweetness can indeed be felt after tasting in small sips, but Qin Hao still doesn't like this taste, and the astringency of the dry red in the mouth makes him not like this drink.

"Alright, let's talk about your confusion." Lieutenant General Cohen asked after refilling Qin Hao with two more glasses, and with a few sips of wine, the topic between men was better developed.

"General, I may not be suitable for the role of commander, if I could have been more cautious, those soldiers would not have died, I killed them......" Qin Hao told Lieutenant General Cohen about his confusion.

"Hey! Silly boy, this is a process that a commander must go through! Lieutenant General Cohen sighed, and he couldn't help but think back to the first time he was in command.

"Were you confused about that at the beginning?" Qin Hao asked.

"Of course! That's how I came back in the first place......" Lieutenant General Cohen sighed, and then began to tell Qin Hao the story of the first time he commanded the battle.

It was not a very big battle, Lieutenant General Cohen's enemy was a group of rebels, and when organizing the attack, Lieutenant General Cohen did not know enough about the enemy, so one of his legions fell into the enemy's encirclement, although the enemy army was completely annihilated when the siege was finally closed, but the besieged corps suffered heavy losses.

Lieutenant General Cohen was depressed for a long time, and he also felt that the soldiers had been killed by him.

Almost every commander with a conscience faces this problem, and Lieutenant General Cohen is no exception, and perhaps only a madman of the kind of Gangmen Bizuo would not care about the casualties of the soldiers, and in his eyes there is only merit, only himself.

"And how did you get out of that state?" Qin Hao asked.

"Relief? I've never been free! I don't want to be free! Lieutenant General Cohen said with a serious face.

"Huh?" Qin Hao's face was dazed.

"Ever since that fight, I've been stuck in self-blame, and at first I was looking for a way out like you, and my old boss at the time had enlightened me, but then I figured out, why should I get rid of this self-blame? It is this kind of self-blame that makes me cherish the lives of my soldiers even more, and it is this self-blame that makes me think carefully before giving every order, I need to win, yes, but under this premise, I also need to reduce casualties as much as possible! Lieutenant General Cohen paused here before saying to Qin Hao: "If I really see it and don't blame myself for the death of a soldier, then what's the difference between me and the guy who is biased in the Gangmen?" ”

"For the sake of victory, there will inevitably be sacrifices, that's right, we really can't dare to fight because we are afraid of sacrifice, but as a commander, what we have to do is to reduce casualties as much as possible on the premise of ensuring victory, after all, behind every soldier there is a family, the death of soldiers is just a number for us superiors, but for their families, it is an irreparable disaster, this is not a certificate of honor, a pension can make up for it!" Lieutenant General Cohen said that he was already in tears here, he had fought countless battles in his life, even if he loved soldiers like children, but the number of soldiers who died in battle was already astronomical, so after every victory, when others were cheering, he would go alone with wine to pay tribute to his dead comrades......

"This ......" Qin Hao listened to Lieutenant General Cohen's words, as if he had been empowered, he suddenly figured out a lot of things, those dozens of soldiers did die because of the landing battle he directed, he killed these soldiers, Qin Hao's conscience was indeed condemned because of this, but he understood at this time, even if his heart might be tormented by this, he couldn't stop acting because he was afraid of this torment.

Qin Hao is actually no stranger to death, he had also commanded battles before, but he personally led the charge on the front line at that time, although the soldiers around him also suffered casualties, but he also took the same risk, and he had no time to take care of everyone, so he had a clear conscience; But this time, Qin Hao was safely commanding the battle in the rear, so he was tormented.

Although the field commander on the front line and the strategic commander in the rear are both commanders, they have completely different feelings when facing the death of soldiers, because the field commander on the front line charges with the soldiers, and when their comrades die, although they will feel heartache, after all, as one of them, he has personally experienced the same danger, so he does not feel that the sacrificed soldier was killed by himself.

And because the strategic commander in the rear is in a safe place to direct the battle, they only need to wave their hands and move their mouths, and a large number of soldiers will charge for them, and when these soldiers are killed, because they have not experienced the same danger, and that danger is caused by their orders, so they will have the feeling that "the soldiers were killed by themselves" in their hearts.

At this time, after Qin Hao talked with Lieutenant General Cohen, he also gave up seeking relief, he wanted to be like Lieutenant General Cohen, let this kind of condemnation from the heart spur himself, let himself think about the soldiers at the grassroots level before giving every order, although the war will inevitably have sacrifices, and what he has to do is to reduce this sacrifice as much as possible.

(End of chapter)