Chapter 35: Faster
"But don't you wonder how they appeared? Now those people have not even been able to break through the defense of our town, how can anyone be able to touch behind us. John said, pointing out the window.
"Hey, how else can we come, it can only be the defenders who hid when we attacked here before, and now we see that the reinforcements are coming, so we ran out to attack us, ready to cooperate with the reinforcements outside, and can touch us This is probably from the sound of gunfire, after all, our guns are equipped with flame suppressors instead of silencers." Licorice blinked and said easily, This kind of question is too simple, with my average IQ of ordinary people, I can casually analyze a complete fact for you.
"Well, you wait a while, I'll go down and deal with the follow-up troubles, and I'll carry you to the medical soldier later, but then you haven't done any anti-attack training, it's really unbelievable." John said after relieving himself, stood up and rubbed his wound, picked up his gun, and said.
"The instructor thinks I've trained in the boot camp, and when I was in the boot camp, everyone thought that I wouldn't have a chance to fight the enemy in close combat, so there was very little training in this area, and the first place in shooting was so confident, you want to kill them?" They are naturally referring to the civilians downstairs, these enemies can hide for so long, there must be someone to help, and to be able to touch it so quickly, naturally there are also people to show the way, otherwise so many German soldiers are holding on here, how can they be sure that the snipers are here? You know, snipers use 98K rifles like ordinary infantrymen, and the sound of gunfire is exactly the same.
"That's right, everyone has to pay for their choices." John nodded, and went downstairs with his gun. Licorice blinked, didn't persuade anything, didn't feel angry, because all this is very common, they are invaders, invaded other people's homes, although he didn't do anything to those civilians, but burning the flames of war here is already the biggest harm to them, and you invaded other people's homes and want people to be kind to you? Stop dreaming, so why kill them now? It's very simple, because it's the enemy, it's war.
A few minutes later, John walked back.
"Let's go, it's all settled, how do you feel now?" John asked with a calm face.
"It's much better than just now, the vomiting has been reduced, but I'm still dizzy, it seems that my injury is not very serious, I should be able to recover after going back to rest for a month, but the place we chose is good, and there has been no enemy for so long." Licorice said with a smile on his face.
"You've been saying it for so long, our follow-up troops are already fighting outside, and the battle here should end soon, delaying us a lot of time, and after the battle is over, it is estimated that other armored battalions should be sent to continue the breakthrough operation immediately." John shrugged his shoulders and said lightly.
John then carried Licorice to the field hospital.
"It's not a big problem, it's just a slight concussion and some skin trauma, just take some medicine and rest for two months." An experienced field medic said after examining Licorice's injuries.
"Two months off!" Licorice winked at John and said mischievously when she heard the medic's words.
"That's just you, I don't have such a good treatment, I should continue to go to the front after a few days of rest." John said, spreading his hands.
"Hey! How can this be, you are my deputy, how can they let you go alone? Licorice said dissatisfied.
"The war is urgent." John patted Licorice on the shoulder and said urgently.
"Don't hang up before I'm healed! A qualified deputy is hard to find! Licorice said helplessly.
"Elite-level snipers are so easy to die, what I'm more worried about now is actually this war, after coming here, when I saw all this with my own eyes, I realized how strong the enemy we are facing, and how vast and boundless their land is." John said something confidently and turned into a concern for the future.
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"So, we need to be faster!" In the conference room, Chen Hao said indifferently, surrounded by crowds of people, and noisy discussions continued.
"The enemy we are going to face this time has an incomparably vast land, which gives them excellent strategic depth, and their population is also a potentially large number of soldiers, and their industrial strength is not inferior to ours, which gives our armored forces no advantage, although we are far superior to them in the quality of our soldiers, after they have undergone a purge, I dare say, they may not be as educated as our privates even as a platoon commander, but they are also a hot-blooded and thirsty people, If we are not fast enough, we will be drawn into a protracted war, a war of attrition, which is very bad for us, because our enemies are not only them. Of course, if you are willing to adopt my other suggestion, set up a defensive line on the Don River, and enter a state of full defense, so that we can free up enough strength to deal with several other enemies, while the Eastern Front exchanges battle losses for battle losses, uses our quality to fight against the enemy's quantity, takes advantage of the geographical advantages, the quality of the soldiers, and the advantage in equipment, and spends a few years fighting the battle loss ratio, depleting a large amount of the enemy's vital strength and follow-up potential, and finally fighting a beautiful defensive counterattack to achieve victory, I am also very much in agreement. Looking at the generals and staff officers around him, Chen Hao said his thoughts and opinions unhurriedly, but completely handed over the right to choose, he was not a professional after all, so he only said the best plan that could be analyzed from the perspective of God of "Future Vision", and never mentioned things related to operational command and plan revision, because there were many people present who were stronger than him in this aspect, and he had to be self-aware, Chen Hao knew this very well.
"Before the war, we never imagined that this enemy of ours would have such a vast land! Although the siege was a great victory, our soldiers were exhausted! The depth of the enemy was so great that I was even thinking that our tanks would need to change tracks several times if they were to run outside their capital. Don't think that the German staff officers and generals are fools, they have already seen all this, so there are so many strategic deployments that hit the point, but internal instability is one of the sources of their failure.
"Every one of our soldiers is incomparably precious! Germany can't afford to lose again, we have squeezed out the potential of this country, and the death of every soldier is something we can't bear, so we have been pursuing faster and faster to destroy the enemy, to end the battle faster, to win this war faster, not only to obtain the resources that the enemy has not had time to transfer, but also to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, what we are consuming is the future of the motherland! A middle-aged general with gray temples said in a deep voice.
The others who were talking fell silent when they heard the general's words.
"Although the strategy of defending and counterattacking is very stable, and the chance of victory is very high, we cannot bear to use the lives of nearly 10 million soldiers as consumables, and talk about your other plan for a quick victory." One of the generals stood up and said.
"It's simple, but it's a risky idea, and it requires some elite sacrifices."
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