After retreating to the divisional headquarters in the rear, Licorice, who had just rested for a day, received a new order, and this time, the order was issued by Vincent.

"Linus, long time no see." Vincent said in a low voice, his spirit did not seem to be very good, and his mood was a little sluggish, and there were thick dark circles on his eyes, and he didn't know how long he hadn't had a good rest.

"Why are you in the division?" Licorice asked with some doubts, according to the current situation, Vincent should take his soldiers to stick to the defensive line, and Licorice also believes that Vincent is not the kind of person who will run away in the event of defeat, he will definitely choose to fight to the end, so if the two can meet, it must be that Licorice received an order to support him, or when the war is over, either see him promoted, or see his dog tag.

"Henry is dead, Sebastian is dead, their whole battalion, it's all over." Vincent was silent for a moment, as if considering what to say, and he hesitated, and instead of answering Licorice's question, he said this sentence that made Licorice stand on the spot.

"Really? When was this? After a moment of silence, Licorice came back from shock and asked in a tone that still tinged with a hint of disbelief.

"About five days ago, their entire armored battalion was wiped out with the enemy, right next to my line, and when I received the order to go to support, it was too late, and they resisted the enemy several times their size, and inflicted heavy damage on the enemy, and in the end none of their battalion survived, and I found Henry when I cleaned the battlefield." Vincent slowly took out a bloodstained charred dog tag from his bosom and put it back into his bosom as the licorice gradually moistened his eyes.

"I haven't cleaned it, this is probably the last thing Henry has left, and I can't break it." Vincent said lightly, it seemed that because of the reunion of old friends, his originally low mood had reversed.

"Tick~~" A few tears fell on the ground, wetting the ground, licorice rubbed his eyes with his hands sadly, he felt a little tight, breathless, but his mind recalled the scene when everyone met for the first time, and Henry silently ran with him at the end, and then everyone trained together, and there were many, many more, especially after the war, because they belonged to the armored forces and they were snipers, so everyone had no chance to meet, but I didn't expect to meet now, but this is the case. Although I have seen too many deaths and sacrifices before, when I really met my good friend who also died in battle, Licorice couldn't help but shed tears.

"Put away your hypocritical expression, we don't need tears, as early as the beginning of entering the military academy, we were ready to die, do you remember the suicide note we wrote before leaving?" Vincent straightened his face and said with a serious face, his eyes full of determination at the moment.

"I see." Licorice took a deep breath and tried to control his emotions, the suicide note before departure naturally said that it was written before they carried out this operation, when they were still stationed in the defense line near the capital of the Soviet army, and after receiving the order for this operation, they were also asked to write a suicide note for the whole army, at that time, many people felt very puzzled, their current advantage was obviously so huge, why did they suddenly have to do this, as if they wanted hundreds of thousands of them to go to death, for which there was a lot of turmoil, and even the leaders of the Soviet army knew about it, Also laughed at the Germans' readiness to launch a suicidal assault on their capital. Licorice was also asked to write this thing at that time, but Licorice, who was completely unconcerned, didn't know what he should write, so he directly wrote that if he died in battle, he would divide all his property among his good friends, and the property refers to everything that the main god arranged for him when he first came to this world, as well as the various rewards he received later for his military exploits.

In this way, in fact, it was clearly told to them at that time, it will be difficult for you to come back if you go this time, and it is more likely that all the troops will die in battle, so they are required to write a copy, and no one, including the Soviet army, believes that the German army will send its most elite hundreds of thousands of troops to die.

"Now let's talk about the mission you've been given this time." After Licorice's mood gradually stabilized, Vincent said seriously.

"Now you are ordered to lead the other snipers to the mountains and continue to complete the defensive mission in the same way that a sniper should be, so as to ensure that the enemy cannot reopen the road to the oil area, and to prevent the enemy from flanking the mountain troops that are constantly attacking from both sides." Vincent said in a sonorous voice.

"What about you?" Licorice asked in some surprise when she heard this order.

In the slightly dimly lit barracks, Vincent's face was hidden in the shadow of the backlight, and it was blurred.

"We're not good at mountain combat, so we're going to fight outside until the very end, and every day we hold out, the more victory comes to us." Looking at the friend in front of him, Vincent's serious face showed a rare smile, as for letting the infantry go into the mountains to fight guerrillas, don't joke, don't look at the current situation, lack of food and medicine, and lack of ammunition, the infantry without any experience in mountain combat into the mountains is not to mention whether they can hold back the enemy, whether they can survive in the mountains before the enemy enters the mountains is a problem, it is better to contribute the last strength outside.

"Good! If you can't hold it in the end, I'll try to delay the enemy's offensive in the mountains. Licorice gritted his teeth and nodded clearly in his heart, he already understood, this army may become history, and this separation, may also be goodbye, Vincent has decided to fight to the death, Daniel and Robin needless to say, they must also follow Vincent, in the end, only run to the mountains to hide? But this was the duty of being a sniper, and it was also Vincent's last request.

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The next day, Licorice and John took away all the equipment that had been stored in the logistics, and at the same time brought nearly fifty snipers to the mountains to prepare for the final resistance, originally this army group had more than four hundred snipers, but the mountain troops took a large number of snipers to help, so only this few people remained, and then after three months of tragic defensive losses, all that was left was masters, and each sniper here killed at least a hundred enemies, By the lowest standards, more than fifty people here have already caused at least five thousand deaths of the enemy.

Along the way, the snipers kept laying mines in the mountains and forests, and it didn't matter if they would accidentally hurt the friendly soldiers, because the commander made it clear before they set off that they would fight until the last moment, except for your group, all the other people who entered here were "enemies!" ”

"What? Still thinking about those friends who stayed behind? John said suddenly.

"Huh? Yes, I don't think I'll ever see them again, our troops have suffered heavy casualties, and there is not one in ten, you know? How shocked I was when I saw the war damage report! In these three months, we suffered nearly 400,000 casualties, and the Great German Division, which was close to the strength of the first army, was left with only the last two regiments, and with this kind of combat strength, they could not hold it. Licorice said sadly.

"This is our mission and our honor." John said solemnly.

Licorice stopped when he heard this, and in the dense forest, the light spots formed by the sunlight passing through the gaps between the leaves, Licorice turned his head to look at John and said wistfully:

"Vincent once told me that the honor of a soldier is to live, to win, to defend the motherland, but they are about to lose the first one, and they will not be able to see the results of the other two, to be honest, I don't know much about honor and the like, I came to join the army just because I followed the advice of others, but I didn't expect that in the end, I would see my friends die one after another." Licorice was a little confused, and said abruptly.

"I guess you just haven't found your target yet."

"Target?"

"You know what? I was also so lost when I was a child, because of the defeat of the Motherland, because of our miserable life, I didn't even know what the point of my father going to the front to die for the Motherland was, I often looked at the only medal he left behind. Until that day, looking at the numb eyes of the people around me, as well as the desperate look of my mother, I understood that the motherland must be strong, only in this way can we achieve happiness under the shroud of the motherland, I have my own goal, that is, to make the motherland strong, for this I am not afraid of any difficulties, nor are I afraid of any sacrifice. When you don't have a goal, you don't know what you should do, you don't have motivation, but as long as you find your goal, then you will understand that in order to achieve your goal, all difficulties and sacrifices are nothing, and you will feel that you are full of strength, and the power of hope is so strong. John said with a faint look of remembrance.

"It sounds very reasonable, I really didn't expect you to be able to say such philosophical things." Licorice said with a smile.

"So my usual image in your mind is like this?" John asked, a little embarrassed.

"It's not counting, it's just that I've never heard anything from you, but none of this has anything to do with me now, as for the goal? That can only be found by what I can find, the current focus is on how to drag the enemy firmly here, I promised Vincent, if they can't hold it, then I'll come! Licorice clenched his fists and said firmly.