Chapter 65 and 66: The Great Retreat
Before the battle of the 3rd Panzer Division began, another group of more than 2,000 people, following Grefarman's instructions, began to guide the residents of the space station to the designated area. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoDue to the mass dismissal of the Empire from important positions of Solar System people, the space station is filled with a large number of non-combatants who have lost their jobs and their families, with a total population of more than 200,000. They were generally anxious about the future, and the recent purge of the Imperial Army had exacerbated the tension among the crowds.
The first people to be considered for rescue were the more than 200,000 people.
The Resistance had not been prepared for the evacuation of such a large number of people, and Grefarman and his subordinates could only devise a plan with a lot of ill-conceived intentions, hoping to take everyone as much away as possible with the cooperation of the 3rd Panzer Division.
The work of personnel facilitation is more complicated than imagined.
Hundreds of thousands of people, and their belongings, even with the sheer size of the Serenity, could not be loaded in a moment or a half, let alone carry out such a difficult task under the watchful eye of the Imperial Army.
As a last resort, Grefaman ordered everyone to abandon all personal belongings except their belongings and board the ship lightly. His orders were met with strong resistance from the residents, and many decided not to follow Grayfaman in troubled waters. Under the rule of the Imperial Army, there is always a way to survive.
The result of the discussion at the top of the Serenity was that it was okay not to evacuate with the group, and it was necessary to keep it a secret. The group is to be monitored until the brigade is safely departed before the evacuation operation begins. This policy of the Tranquility soon faced adjustments, because in the self-destruction plan of the space station proposed by Fang Hushan, those who did not leave would be buried together, and after several struggles, the bald head ordered that everyone should be brought on the Tranquility with the strong.
At the beginning of the offensive of the 3rd Panzer Division, 2,000 personnel were already in place. In contrast to the plan, nearly 300 armed men joined the evacuation team, whose main target was those who refused to leave.
From the central monitor of the space station 9, it can be seen that starting at 12:05 local time (spaceport time), a rolling stream of people poured into the main passage of the space station, extending in the direction of the dock. Most of the people are dressed in civilian clothes and carry hand luggage, and there are people of all ages, including adults, the elderly and children.
Half of the evacuation team infiltrated the residential area to work. Nearly 1,000 people set up temporary checkpoints on the main passage, allowing people with large luggage in the crowd to either drop their luggage or leave the main passage.
Hull is a member of the Outer Space Walking Team. His main job is to put on a spacesuit and go to the shells of space stations, docks, array antennas and other facilities to complete overhaul and cleanup. Walking in outer space is one of the most tiring and dangerous of all the jobs in the spaceport. Every year, there are a dozen team members who are killed by space garbage alone. The reason why he chose this position is that in addition to his low education and inability to find a suitable position, the high salary and high benefits are the main reasons. The reason why a person like him, who has no skills to defend himself and whose education is not good, is able to settle his family in the spaceport and live a decent life is because he is fighting for his life.
Hull took his wife and two children, and pulled a simple maglev trailer with a large number of household items stacked inside. These are all things he has earned with his hard work, and he is reluctant to leave them behind.
"People can go over, trailers and what's on it is left behind."
"Everything is mine, and where I am, they have to follow there." Hull propped up his burly body and pressed in front of the groomer at oppressive close-range, looking down at the opponent who was half a head shorter.
"Please cooperate, the situation is urgent, and you can't affect others because of your family. You see the line in the back of the block is out of the block, drop the stuff, and get out of the way. The guide was under tremendous pressure, and he didn't have time to talk to him, and motioned for him to pass quickly.
Hull looked back, and in just a few tens of seconds, the inspection channel he was in was black, and the queue lasted for hundreds of meters.
"Good! We passed it right away. After that, he took his family and pulled the trailer and wanted to break in.
"Wait! Cars can't pass. ”
Seeing that the situation was not right, the groomer quickly stopped Hull, and at the same time, a group of 3 armed guards rushed from not far away. Hull is usually a rough man, and likes to fight with people at every turn. Seeing that there are many people on the other side, there is no too much consideration, and the first strike is stronger. He slammed his shoulder into the groomer, sending him almost flying.
"Let's go!" After urging his family, he pulled the trailer and, like a runaway bull, knocked down several pedestrians in a row in an attempt to escape from the guards.
His considerations were justified, hundreds of thousands of people crowded the main passage, and as long as he managed to avoid the guards, given the lack of manpower, they could only let him go and still keep his property.
Only a few paces away, the pain knocked him to the ground, and Hull convulsed and couldn't stand up amid the screams of his wife and children. Immediately, the strong guards stepped forward and tied up Hull, who had been knocked unconscious by the stun gun.
The small commotion was quickly quelled, and the evacuation team did not have the manpower to deal with people like Hull, and eventually he lost his trailer and joined the crowd again with the support of his wife and children.
Something like the Hull family happens from time to time in the crowd, slowing down the crowd a lot.
At the same time, in residential areas, the forced relocation of armed guards is even more difficult. For reasons of secrecy, no one knew that Natalie Commando was about to implement the space station self-destruction plan. Clashes broke out between the armed guards and the residents, and the fighting gradually escalated into confrontation.
"Listen to me, Commander Grefaman has given orders, and you cannot be left to die. What are the people of the Empire, they are all a group of demons who kill people without blinking. They won't allow us people to live, they're going to kill everyone. Kicking us out of our jobs the other day is the first step, there will be a mass slaughter below, wake up, the commander has not abandoned you, everyone go together. ”
Hoarse shouts were met with indifference and hostility.
"You are a bunch of robbers." , the young man took the lead in throwing homemade ******, and in the flames and explosions, the situation was in chaos.
At 17:46 spaceport time, the 3rd Panzer Division, which was fighting on the front line, could not withstand the offensive of the Imperial Guards Brigade and moved back. The rumbling artillery fire, the flying lines of fire, and the vibration up and down the space station caused panic among the residents, and the flow of people on the main passage spontaneously began to move rapidly, and the checkpoints set up by the groomers were impacted, and if they didn't want to be trampled to death, they could only run in the direction of the dock with the flow of people.
This is the end of the confrontation in the residential area, and the proximity of the real war quickly robs the inhabitants of their courage and overwhelms the armed guards, who do not know whether to stay or send reinforcements to the front.
Lao Yu was a member of the armed guards, an Army veteran, who lost his left leg in the war. He often showed off his prosthetic leg and boasted of his bravery.
From the approaching artillery fire, he found signs of unfavorable fighting on the front line. Lao Yu walked up to the captain, told him his opinion, and advised the captain to decisively stop the operation in the residential area.
"The guards need to retreat to a safer place, which can become an area of artillery fire at any time."
Lao Yu usually loves to brag, and habitually relies on the old to sell the old, and the captain is very annoying to him. Although the artillery was rumbling from the outside, he did not think that the situation was so serious, considering that the 3rd Panzer Division was on the front line and the opponent was only an army brigade.
"Lao Yu, people say that the older you get, the more timid you are, and this is especially outstanding in you. You're still a veteran, why can't you be brave, you see that even the rookie Schneider is not afraid. The matter of retreat is judged by our officers, and you just need to do your job. ”
When he touched the captain's nose, he didn't care. In fact, the artillery fire that was getting closer and closer made him feel like he was back in the past. He had participated in many army campaigns and understood very well that the artillery fire extended to this point, and in fact there was no difference between being on the front line.
"It's too late, I don't have time to do a lot of things with you, a rookie chief, retreat quickly!" , Lao Yu was really anxious, he reached out and grabbed the captain and ran back, ignoring the obstruction of others. Their panicked appearance here was mistaken for fear and fled by the residents who were holding it, and they laughed at it. The whole team was angry at Lao Yu's unobtrusive timidity.
The white light, the explosions, the scattered fragments, and the screams of the people testify to Lao Yu's foresight. Because of him, the defensive line of the armed guards retreated about fifty meters. The howitzers of the Imperial Army hit the crowd of the residents who followed, and in an instant, corpses were scattered all over the ground.
At this time, without Lao Yu's persuasion, people spontaneously began to flee in the direction of the dock, and even the residents who had been firmly left behind also fled.
Lao Yu and they became the first to speed up their escape. They crossed the usual evacuation of residents in droves and walked at the end, succeeding in causing even more panic, and more and more people joined the frenzy. The flow of people, which had become difficult to control because of the panic, became more and more dangerous in such a frantic escape operation. There have been elderly people and children who have been trampled under their feet after falling, wailing and screaming.
Gradually, the footsteps of the people drowned out the artillery fire, and the violent tremors made the dock position of the space station tremble. No one can stop, no one dares to stop, and anyone who falls or is knocked down by someone is turned into flesh under the surging trampling.
With a loud clang, the flow of people crashed head-on into the checkpoint that had been reassembled with great difficulty. Including hundreds of evacuators who did not have time to escape, as well as thousands of people, were killed in the impact, and for a time there were wails in the main passage of the space station, and the number of injured people was close to 10,000.
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Forty-eight hours after the battle began, the soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division in the retreat, the residents who had time to evacuate in the future, and the soldiers in the front of the Empire were mixed together. The sound of gunfire, the screams of the people, the unformed corpses on the ground, and the thick smell of blood turned the dock area into purgatory.
The 10-kilometre-long Tranquility has only the bow of the ship that can reach into the barge's opening, and Jasmine has opened two regular lanes and two emergency lanes for large groups of people to board the ship.
The battle lasted two days, and the boarding took place for two days. Until the self-explosion alarm of the space station sounded far and near, and when Chen Wen's 3rd Armored Division retreated, nearly 10,000 people rushed to the dock, ready to board the ship.
The panic of the explosion instantly ignited the crowd. Residents, troops, and even the intruding Imperial Army flocked to the boarding lane, where stampede, ramming, and slaughter were once again inevitable at the barge's mouth.
"Liao Fan! Can't you just think of a way? Outside, there was already a river of blood. Everybody's crazy! In Jasmine's call with a trill, in the command room, the tragic situation at the interface was clearly displayed through the stereoscopic projector.
An adult father with his child in his arms and his wife trying to get to the evacuation route. Originally, people would have made a shortcut to such a combination, but in the panic, all moral constraints were no longer there. The crowd was powerless to make way for the family to survive. First, in the screams, the wife was hit by the crowd, fell and was drowned in the black crowd, and then the father couldn't support it, he tried his last strength to throw the child over his head and disappear into the crowd. The child was fortunate that he was caught in mid-air by a passing hoplite and was given the right to live, but unfortunately he was orphaned in just a few minutes.
Facing the crowded and immovable human wall, the soldiers of the third armored division after the break finally couldn't stand it.
"Damn guys, I'm buying you time, but you're in the way of Lao Tzu's life."
A soldier raised his assault rifle and opened fire on the crowd, and then the scene spiraled out of control, some people angrily scolded the soldiers who fired at their own people, but more often than not, the soldiers who had lost their minds because of fear. With the roar of small arms, the crowd fell in rows, limbs, corpses, and blood making the boarding passage slippery. Then the cannibalism began, and the killing of soldiers against residents, soldiers against soldiers, made the scene completely out of control. Except for those with heavy equipment with all-terrain mobility and can be boarded through special channels, most of the light infantry, residents who have not boarded the ship are crowded in one place, and brutal killings are constantly staged.
The chaos gradually spread to the broken forces, and the Imperial Army joined in. The Empire's all-terrain chariots and heavy infantry became meat grinders, and everywhere they went, the frenzied crowds turned to blood. At this point, Chen Wen had lost control of the situation, and could not let the imperial army take advantage of the situation, and most of the heavy armed forces that had completed boarding began to launch fire suppression on the connection area. Under the firepower of murder, the flesh of human beings is as cheap as ants.
Around the electronic sand table, the stereoscopic images were shocking, and a group of people were silent.
"Don't you all have a good idea? A big set of strategy and tactics or something, it's dumb at this time! Find a way! ”
Amid Jasmine's hysterical rebuke, no one answered.
Liao Fan looked at the human tragedy that was happening with an indifferent look. This kind of scene is unavoidable, and after many battles, when people are cornered, everything is done. Shooting at civilians and shooting at comrades abounds. He also knows that if this happens, it can only end in the worst. The worst nature of human beings is the decisive factor that leads to tragedy. As long as the people involved are still human beings, the end is doomed.
He suddenly envied Jasmine, who was yelling at herself. Her angry shouting means that she still believes that there is a solution, and from the bottom of her bones, she believes that human nature is good. She lives in a different world from him, there is still light and hope in her world, while his world is only indifference and death.
The countdown to the self-detonation of the space station was completed, and the bald head gave the order for the Tranquility to evacuate.
People who are still alive desperately climb up to the boarding tunnel that has not yet been retracted. Soon the ship separated from the passage, and a string of people were sucked into the vacuum of the dock area. A hard and terrifying corpse, densely floating on the bow of the Tranquility, made people's scalp tingle.
The Tranquility retreated lightly, countless attitude control vents, like pale blue blinking stars, and with their efforts, the giant ship slowly turned around. The bright main engine light spot echoes the orange-red glow produced by the explosion of the space station.
A 100-kilometer-level man-made celestial body, from the bottom up, the flames of death gradually engulfed everything.
The pale blue streamer streaked across half of the sky, leaving behind the torch in the void, illuminating a corner of the dark and deep space.