Volume III Kuroshio 76 Dead Land
War is like a game in a way, a game where we can die but some people don't have to, and some people lose and change their identities.
But we can't, we are pawns, the lowest chess pieces that can be discarded first. When playing chess, the first to die must not be the king and the bishop, nor the chariot and the queen, but the soldiers, the soldiers who rush to the front.
What is this to complain, since we can only take this road if we choose this path, do we have any other choice? Soldiers don't have a backward play on all the boards, so the fastest to die is the most dead. But that doesn't mean it's deserved.
You're lucky, and so am I.
But someone isn't.
None of the dead are not.
When I was sent to Nanhai Town as the commander of the Rapid Reaction Support Company, I had a ...... The feeling of being abandoned.
Maybe I was thinking too much, and I could only comfort myself like this at the time. I'd rather tell myself that they sent me because they trusted me, or that I'm going to make up for my mistake in not rescuing the dragon in Southsea Town.
Two infantry regiments, one of which was a regiment of the Gilnethians and the other an Alterac regiment. Gilneth's commander was Aalto Nandus, a name that I always felt familiar to me, but I couldn't remember hearing it before. The commander of Alterac was called Marduk Blackpole, a man I don't remember at all, and I don't think I'd ever met him before. But it is said that he is from the Barov family, huh...... This guy's shelf isn't small. And the commander-in-chief was Colonel Kafdan of Alterac.
After breaking away from the large army, we did not immediately kill Nanhai Town, and directly pounced on Nanhai Town, the most likely result was that the orcs would immediately return to help before they had gone far. So we marched southwest, and it was said that the orcs had occupied the mines over there, and we could go there first. There may be a windfall.
When the scouts came back to report, they found that there was not a single orc in the mine, so it was good that at least we wouldn't be afraid of enemies coming out behind us when we attacked Nanhai Town.
After walking around, we're now going to attack Nanhai Town. But Nandus said that the soldiers were tired and needed to rest after tossing for dozens of kilometers, and he asked for a night's rest. At this time, we were less than ten kilometers from the town of Nanhai. It was expected that Colonel Kafdan would be like Lothar or learn to send more outposts, but he sent more outposts.
I led my men and my men to lurk behind them on the flank, more than three hundred meters away. As a rapid reaction force, the 100 men under my command are not very selective, but I don't want my men to mix with those guys. At least in the unlikely event of a sneak attack, I hope my people will survive well.
I was not involved in the planning of their operations, and the Colonel Kafdan was there when I tossed around at the MIP. I guess that's the reason, and those uncles don't bother to discuss anything with me.
Sean squatted next to me, at least I still had such a friend.
Watching them make a fire and cook, some people in my team were puzzled, and one person asked why we didn't make a fire. I really didn't want to pay attention to him at the time, and if he asked me again, I would call him two big mouths.
But after I was silent for a while, I still steadied my mind and told him that we came out this time to carry out a sneak attack, we can see the fire from such a distance from them, if the orcs send out scouts, do you think their eyes will suddenly go blind and not see the fire? Then I asked him if he was attacked, did you say who was attacked first or us?
Then the guy stopped talking.
But this guy was alive after the first round of attacks, and survived the second round of charges.
When I was woken up, it was almost midnight, and the moon was not round but it was already very good, and the surroundings were illuminated. The front army has already set out, and we are close behind.
Nanhai Town had been burned for two days, but there were still embers in the town at this time, and black smoke was still rising from the moonlight. We called the Rapid Reaction Force, but Kafdan ordered us to go into the town as the vanguard.
It's a birdman!
Once again, we chose to slip into town from the cliff last time, and the town was filled with the smell of burning, urine,, and burnt. This town is not small, and I divided my one hundred and twenty men into six squads, each of which was divided into two groups, one on the roof and one under the house.
The rest of the squad is slowly advancing towards the north of the town, and we have to find the place where the town enters the north of the town and help the large army open the gate to storm the town.
The orcs did not abandon the town, and a large number of orcs were stationed at the sentry post north of the town. And this time I found out that the orcs have also learned to behave, and in addition to the sentry, they have also set up some secret sentry in the town. So after we found out about it, we moved forward very slowly.
Because of this, I was later accused of delaying the fighter plane by fighting passively.
But there came a time when we couldn't calculate it, and one of our teams was discovered, and the sentry sounded the alarm.
At that moment, my heart was really tight, and I didn't know what I was going to face next. Whether it's a flying rocket or a flood of orc troops that suddenly come out.
The alarm from the town also made the commanders of the two legions outside the town sit still.
Later, they said that when they heard the alarm, they knew that we had missed, and they also knew that the fighter plane was disrupted by us. What the hell!
But they still launched a charge that looked like death.
These guys are not soldiers I brought out, they are not a rabble, but the cooperation is not so tacit. It was also through this sneak attack that I really learned a lesson, but unfortunately I haven't led them to fight in the street since then.
I crouched on the roof and watched in which direction the orcs were coming, originally the orcs were coming towards us, but the army from the north of the town immediately attracted the attention of the orcs.
The place out of the town was fenced, and the soldiers broke through the fence in the rain of arrows and slashed with the orcs.
Seeing this, I hurriedly gathered my men to copy to the back of the orc's flank, ready to disrupt the orc's defense. But I really didn't expect that after a few volleys as soon as we were in position, there would be an orc force behind us. Arrows flew from behind us and shot off many of us.
I really don't know where these guys came from behind me, if it weren't for our people partly on the rooftops and partly in the alley, we would probably have served a pot.
We are one hundred and ten people, and the orcs killed behind us are not less than us, and we can't take advantage of it at this time. But our people on the other side are fighting, and I'm not sure if our support behind the enemy is useful, but now that the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, we have become praying mantises. This makes it difficult for me.
I thought I'd just retreat...... No...... It's not a retreat, it's a hasty transfer of places. But looking at the orcs rushing in, I suddenly felt that there was no good place for us to shoot arrows in peace.
I did not give the order to retreat, but continued to fire arrows. Our people sacrificed a lot.
Did our sacrifice make a difference? Tut...... I think there is, but the orc's defensive armor is really too thick, and it's very devastating to get a few arrows in the body and not fall.
The last person to survive...... It's true...... In addition to seeing better and having a brighter brain, luck is really important. Why did the arrows fall on you? You don't get angry about it.
Seeing that our army was about to break through the orc defenses, I drew my hammer and led them into the melee.
When I looked back, I saw that less than two-thirds of the original 120 men were estimated to have followed me in the end.
When we rushed up and clamped the orc defense, which was about to be overwhelmed, it was estimated that within two minutes, their defense line completely collapsed. But...... And so the nightmare began.
I really didn't expect the orcs to leave those things behind before they left!
Our people poured into the town, and it was a spectacular sight, and the shouts of slaughter were overwhelming, especially when I broke through the orc defenses, and I felt as if this was victory, or victory was just around the corner!
But suddenly there was an orc army formation in front of me, in fact, the spear was nothing, but the artillery that appeared behind the spear instantly made my hair stand on end. I was really scared.
The spear is still slightly useful against the cavalry, but we are infantry, we have shields, we can sideways, we can dodge, and we are not very fast in charge. And as soon as we get close, the spear will immediately become the most wasteful Wu Ke. But the cannon is not, and when the cannon goes off, it is not one or two who die!
The grinning green-skinned monster stood behind the cannon, the flaming torch signaling that it would extinguish many lives in an instant. I yelled for everyone to disperse, but it was too late, it was so loud that my roar was drowned out by everyone's roar.
But the roar of the cannon and the flames that erupted instantly suppressed everyone's roar, and there was really no movement in an instant. The roar of the charge turned into a strange cry out of tune.
The main road in the center of Nanhai Town is only a dozen meters wide. Thousands of people crowded into the streets...... Yes...... The moment the cannon fired, I saw the flames and shells coming out. And, of course, splatters of flesh, bones, and organs.
It is impossible to count how many people were killed by this shelling. Can only imagine......
And that's not a cannon. It's a lot of doors. Removed from the warships of the Kurtilas.
In an instant, our formation was not in any formation, and everyone drilled into the surrounding streets. But the orc shield wall that appeared in the alley blocked the human soldiers who rushed in.
Have you ever experienced the feeling of being surrounded, the feeling of being like a mouse falling into a rice tank?
Fear, despair. I don't have any other thoughts, I just know I'm done. Not possible...... There is no doubt here, sure, it's over.