Chapter 47: The Last Request
As the middle-aged sniper said, it took the German army nearly half a year to finally successfully capture this area, and with the mentality that maybe this army group with itself as bait, deeply surrounded by the enemy, maybe there are survivors sent a large number of personnel to search, and such a big action was naturally discovered by the only few snipers who still have a certain combat effectiveness here, and they usually need to go out hunting to ensure food, water and firewood, They were overjoyed when they found out that it was the German troops who had come to search, but they cautiously made contact with each other, and after confirming their identities, the fifteen remaining survivors in the cave finally waited for rescue.
Licorice's gaze was still so numb, he stared blankly at the ceilinged roof, which was no longer the cave where he had been, but the military hospital in the capital, where the last fifteen survivors had been brought back, and the remains of the soldiers who had died in the previous battle had been transported back to the country for burial, including John, the only question Licorice had ever asked during his time.
"Click~" The door of the ward suddenly opened, and three neat-looking officers walked in, standing by the licorice bed and watching him quietly.
"I'm sorry, General Felix, he's been like this since we got him back, the doctors say he's fine except for his left leg, but he seems to be very sluggish." One of the officers standing on the far right said apologetically to the elderly general standing in the middle.
"It doesn't matter, I understand his current situation very well, I think I was like this back then, and I saw my old comrades-in-arms die in front of me one by one, my heart is like a knife." General Felix, with gray temples, said in a deep voice.
"Major Linus Huber, I'm sorry to bother you in such a situation, but now the Motherland needs your strength, and the war is not over." General Felix said slowly.
"War? Need my strength? The strength of our 700,000 men, the strength of the entire Great German Division, has done its last for you, shed the last drop of blood, and now, what else can you need for a crippled person like me? Licorice said lightly in a hoarse voice without the slightest emotion.
"This ...... I'm sorry that there was a slight mistake in the plan, we originally planned that it would be enough for you to stick to it for two months, but we never expected it to drag on for six months. General Felix and another officer looked ashamed.
"Oh, a little mistake, it turns out that the most elite and loyal soldiers of the German Empire are only worth so many words." Licorice sneered disdainfully.
"Both, could you please go out and wait for the time being, I would like to speak with Major Linus Huber alone, as you know, I recommended him to the sniper school in the first place, and I feel that I need to be responsible for him." At this moment, the officer who had been standing on the left without saying a word suddenly spoke.
"Okay, let's go out and wait for you." General Felix nodded and left.
"What else do you want to say to me? I'm no longer useful. When the two men had gone and closed the door, Licorice said lightly, he could already tell who it was from the voice.
"I apologize to you first, I'm really sorry, I didn't expect that there would be such an accident, as General Felix said, our original plan was only to let 700,000 people, including the Great German Division, be a bait, as long as you hold on for two months, we can break through the blockade and rescue you, and according to our calculations, it is no problem for you to hold on in that situation for three months, but I am just a mortal after all, and it is impossible to deal with all the problems cleanly, Accidents are inevitable. After confirming that no one was listening outside, Chen Hao said apologetically.
"Everything is an established fact, and it is useless to apologize." Licorice said with a calm expression.
"Now that it is true, it is useless to grieve, just like you, who are constantly depressed and useless every day." Chen Hao retorted softly.
"But I don't know what I'm supposed to do, I seem to have lost my meaning, it shouldn't have ended like this, haven't we changed history, changed all this? Why can't the Great German Division avoid the end of the total annihilation, and my friends still die one after another! Licorice said confused and unwillingly, and the more he talked about it, the more excited he became.
"Changing history? No, on the contrary, I think this is the best ending for the Great German Division and your friends, from now on, the Great German Division will become a myth, eternal immortal, no matter how the German will fall from now on, the Great German Division will also be an unshakable existence, and your friends will die full of hope. Chen Hao retorted, and before Licorice could understand what he had just said, he suddenly said:
"Do you know why those generals made this choice?"
"Why?" Licorice was puzzled, knowing that his side had such a big advantage, why would the above agree to sacrifice the empire's most elite 700,000 soldiers.
"Because of the death of these 700,000 people, Germany can have at least seven million fewer deaths, and between one and ten, they chose the latter, because victory is at hand, and they need to keep more fire for the country." Chen Hao said this cruel truth in a cold tone.
"Is the sacrifice of the few in exchange for the victory of the many?" Faced with this cruel truth, Licorice mourned.
"As long as the war continues, the Großdeutsche Division will always be on the front line, and your friends will die sooner or later, but now it's just a little earlier, but they have the best ending, have you heard that saying?" Chen Hao continued.
"Huh?" Licorice shook his head.
"If you don't surrender in May, you will suffer in August."
"I can't understand it." Licorice shook her head in confusion.
The meaning of this sentence is a nuclear bomb, the Manhattan Project across the ocean has been launched, but Germany's related research has not progressed, hehe, those scientists are really interesting, they actually tricked the mustache into researching energy projects, and wanted to fool the mustache to build nuclear tanks, nuclear warships, and nuclear planes, although all this is correct, but they forcibly concealed the power of the nuclear explosion and the difficulty of the research. And I, although I clearly remember the relevant formulas and some information, but I am a mechanical engineering major, and I don't study these, even if I know those formulas clearly, but I can't understand them at all, and I can't give these things to those scientists, so it is almost a foregone conclusion that Germany will not be able to build a nuclear bomb. Chen Haole shrugged his shoulders and said, his expression was full of ridicule and mockery, and it could be seen that he was also extremely disappointed in that group of scientists.
"You mean ......? Isn't it meaningless for the Great German division to fight like this, and the final result still can't escape the ruin of the country and the family! My friends sacrificed worthlessly! Licorice was stunned for a moment, then yelled angrily with red eyes.
"No, you are wrong again, as long as the Soviet army is defeated, even if Germany will inevitably lose in the end, at least the mainland will not be captured, no matter how humiliating the treaty is when it finally surrenders, but its people will no longer be exiled, and your friends have sacrificed their own sacrifices to give their motherland an acceptable ending." Chen Hao said lightly.
"An acceptable ending? I thought we could win! Licorice clutched the bedding on her body with both hands, and roared in a low voice unwillingly, the strength in her hands continued to increase, and green tendons appeared on the back of her hands.
"Win? If we had come here two years earlier, we might have been able to win, but at the end of the day, you're too weak, otherwise you'll have to choose the outcome you want. Chen Hao said indifferently.
"Yes, is that really the case? So what do you want me to do when you come to me now? If I heard me correctly, it seems that my left leg is crippled, and even if it is not amputated, it is completely lame. As if he had lost the strength of his whole body, he let go of the hands that had just been holding the futon, and said in a depressed mood.
"Didn't you notice? It's been so long now, and even you've been holding out in the Caucasus for six or seven months, and you've attracted almost all of the elite troops of the Soviet army and most of the attention, and even in the process of holding out, you've killed three times as many elite of the Soviet army, the real elite, and by the way, you've also killed a large number of recruits, even all the Soviet armored forces in the surrounding area, and the troops outside have launched a full-front offensive when you're surrounded, And after such a fierce battle, the Soviet army now has no strength to counterattack at all, so why hasn't the Lord God judged that our second stage of the mission has been completed? Chen Hao analyzed slowly.
"Do you want one of them to perish or surrender?" Having paid so much, licorice is also strange to the end result.
"Surrender is likely to be a condition for completing the mission, it's too difficult to perish, it's just a novice task now, and it's very likely that destroying the enemy is a hidden difficulty, and if you complete it, you may get unexpected benefits, but that's not what we should think. And if you want the Soviets to surrender, this is actually a very difficult thing, according to my inference, even if we force all the Soviets to flee into Siberia to fight with us guerrillas, they will not surrender, so the Soviet-German war will continue forever, and the completion of the task seems to be forever far away, so I think that the request of the Lord God is actually just a temporary truce between the two sides. Chen Hao touched his chin and said.
"So, what the hell are you going to make me do?" Licorice asked confusedly.
"It's simple, you go kill someone, and it's all over." Chen Hao said without any emotion, and his voice echoed in this small ward, like a devil's whisper.
"Who?" Licorice asked, he really couldn't imagine who could have so much influence, and his life and death could determine whether the war between two already bloody and defeated powers would continue.
"You don't need to know who the target is, I'll arrange all this, you just need to make sure that you can't take the mission, and whether your sniping skills can snipe him." Chen Hao said lightly, without any intention of answering the licorice question.
"Killing him can give the two sides a temporary truce? I understood, I took the task, as for my sniping skills, I have absolute confidence in it, and now in Germany, no one can surpass me in this regard! Licorice muttered and said confidently.
"You have a month to prepare, a month after the spring, I will send you to the mission location, and then there will be my people to tell you all the information you need, if you fail, you will definitely die, and if you succeed, you will live, before the task was completed, I observed the scene of the return of the two main god apostles, they chose to return and waited in place for three seconds and then disappeared, I asked the others, and confirmed that when the apostles returned, it was equivalent to disappearing, and the main god will not eliminate your original sense of existence in this world, For those who don't know, you who disappeared may be dead or missing. Chen Hao nodded and said, then turned around and prepared to leave.
"Wait!" Licorice suddenly shouted.
"Any questions?" Chen Hao stopped and asked.
"Can you keep those friends and family members of mine safe? You know what I mean. Licorice looked at Chen Hao's back firmly and said.
"I promise!" Chen Hao nodded with his back to the licorice, and then left directly. The safety here naturally refers to what happens after they leave this world, and since Germany's defeat is irreparable, Licorice must do one last thing for his friends.
After Chen Hao walked out of the ward with an indifferent face, the general and the officer just now walked up.
"He agreed?" General Felix asked.
"Yes." Chen Hao nodded.
"I see, I'll get everything in place as soon as possible." After General Felix finished speaking, he turned and left.
"Advisor Fox, this is the information you asked for, and besides, the Soviet prisoner has been held by us in a nearby prison, you seem to have been paying close attention to him before, do you need to meet him now?" The officer said after handing over a document with both hands.
The destruction of nearly 700,000 elite troops, including the Great German Division, no one shifted the responsibility to Chen Hao, as he said before, to understand his own ability, don't do what you can't do.
He just put forward this strategic reference to the staff and guided them to accept it, the specific battle plan and implementation were all planned by the military people, and it had nothing to do with him, and besides, the results that everyone wanted had already been obtained, right? It's just that the price to pay is a bit big.
"I don't have time to go see him right now, handcuff him and bring him to my apartment." Chen Hao said indifferently after taking the document.
"Yes! I understand. The officer saluted.