Chapter Twenty-Three: Children
The tremors kept the rubble falling from the top of the little fort, and I said, "It doesn't look that safe here." ”
One of the soldiers who was eating said, "Don't worry, the battle is quite small at this time." The Rosha people just wanted to wake me up and doze off, three days ago when they attacked the artillery fire was several times more fierce than now, they tried to strengthen the Gamba River four times in one night, but we all beat it back. ”
Listening to what they say, then these veterans should have been troops withdrawn from the outskirts of the Kara Mountains, who had previously been fighters of the Third Army Group. No wonder they are so calm.
The sleeper muttered, "They were beaten back at night, and they kept bombing during the day, and then they came back the next night, and over and over again, and I didn't sleep much for more than 70 hours, and now I can't stand it." ”
I found that I enjoyed hiding in this nest and chatting and bragging with such a group of veterans, but the evil Feng Qiu remembered his captain's identity, and he interrupted us: "We can't delay here too long, we have to go to get the ammunition to the peninsula." ”
When an old soldier heard about the peninsula, he raised his head and looked at us, as if he were looking at a group of warriors who were about to die in glory, and he said: "You go out from us and go to the left, and the peninsula is full of fanatics who do not want to die, and they are always the priority of the Rosha people, and I heard that they even fought the Rosha people hand-to-hand that night. ”
Our railguns fell silent, not knowing whether they were transferred or destroyed. But the shells of the Rosha never stopped, and then the two soldiers who were smoking outside returned, covered in dirt, and looked like they were having a miserable life outside.
They came in and said to the other two, "It's your turn, thank God I lived another two hours, and now I'm going to get some sleep too." ”
The two soldiers who had changed the guard went out dejectedly, and their faces were no different from those on the execution ground.
Ojet asked the two soldiers who came in: "What is the situation outside, has our artillery position been blown up?" ”
One of the soldiers said impatiently, "We rely on them to hold this place, and if they are gone, we should retreat." ”
Another soldier added: "They are only front-line fire, what can really threaten the Rosha people is the large railguns in the rear and the space-based particle cannon of the space fleet, we call for their support more than eighty times a day, and they can probably support once or twice in time." But the Rosa never seemed to run out of missiles. ”
Odjet nodded, not knowing if he understood.
"Children, you can send supplies to the peninsula now, the Rosa people have not attacked for so long since they bombed, then they will not cross the river today." A soldier said.
The term "children" is actually very apt, in front of these veterans who live in hell every day, our group of recruits are indeed like children, the daily salvo of the Rosha can make us nervous, and these veterans can even count the explosions and fall asleep.
It's ridiculous to think about when we trained at the Mars base, when we were full of honor and discipline, and now we are embarrassed like crying noses and looking for mom's children.
Speaking of Mars, I suddenly remembered what Colonel Weiss said to me: "Don't be nervous, young man, there are not so many rules when you go to the front in the future, and survival is the biggest rule." ”
Now it seems like it's like something happened to my predecessor, but he was right.
We set off on all fours like dogs again, each carrying an ammunition box or supplies, and I found that after getting used to the explosions, it seemed that everything was not so terrible.
But the danger was definitely there, there were many soldiers in the trenches along the way, half of them were killed, and the other half was trying to find a way to bury their comrades.
Suddenly, a thick blue light streaked across the sky, like an ice sword of a giant god stabbing down from the sky. The soldiers on the position all stopped to look at the blue light, and then cheered loudly, this blue light was our space-based particle cannon, which exploded far behind the other side of the river, and must have destroyed a large area of the Rosha missile position.
Our army especially admires and trusts the Aerospace Forces, our starfleet has always been our strongest backing, maybe we are losing on the surface, but in the space battlefield, the comrades on the starship have not let us down, and space is always ours, which means that we will always have a way out.
We continued to advance in the trenches, where there were more dead and wounded, and in some places several soldiers who were holding out together were wounded, looking at each other and wailing on the ground, but no one could help anyone, and we even helped two painful and dying soldiers to their final relief.
Finally, not far ahead is the peninsula, and we can already see the rolling river, which also means that we are only a few dozen meters from the front line. This time it was the absolute front, the frontline in the whole war.
I felt very strange, how the hell did I do it, starting from home on Earth, step by step to Kuixing, thousands of miles away, and then here, standing in front of all human beings.
The comrades on the peninsula were even worse than in the trenches, most of the people here were injured and killed, and we sent life-saving medical gel and high-powered infantry missiles.
So far, this batch of supplies has departed from Pluto and finally arrived at its destination accompanied by us, and finally delivered to the soldiers accurately, and in the process we have grown into real warriors.
With the blow of our space-based particle cannons, the bombardment of the Rosa finally stopped, and now the position was quiet, tired on both sides, and we received an order to replenish the soldiers here on the spot.
It was almost nightmarish news, and Roy looked around and asked, "Where can I sleep tonight?" ”
One of the soldiers here quipped, "Wait, I'll find you if there's a hotel nearby." Everyone burst out laughing.
At this time, Odjet was curiously lying on the edge of the trench to see something, and he beckoned to us: "Come here, you stand on these boxes, you can just see the Gamba River." ”
We cautiously leaned down to the edge of the trench and looked out, both sides of the river were blown up, and in the distance there was a bright light, where the Rosa were located, and I looked at the not too wide and raging Gamba River, and wondered how long it would last.