Chapter 44: The Last Chance
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Everything that happened was developing according to Captain Cao's vision, just like a script that had been fixed a long time ago. Jack and his gang of Rex soldiers only showed up at this point in time, and then went through the motions.
"General, these raiders, I don't think we know anything about them. Jack gave such an assessment after a bloody statement. You can feel it completely, Jack has been beaten stupid and has lost his heart.
"No way! how could they be separated?" and our General Fisher, as soon as he heard this, immediately rejected it. Fisher didn't believe that the raiders had split up their forces to attack their rear army the previous night, not to mention what a tangled entanglement had already been between them. It is said that after occupying this high ground, Fisher's carefully arranged sentry is enough to ensure that all the movements of the opposite raiding group towards the Moissangols can be monitored.
And all last night, the raiders were very peaceful. Fisher even put the whistle a long distance away to make sure nothing went wrong. If the raiders wanted to divide their forces to attack the rear army without alarming the enemy on this high ground, they would have to take at least a long detour, and once they were far away, how could they have the energy to attack Jack's team after running for such a long distance?
Of course, Captain Cao didn't know how to do the doppelganger, and this attack was a path he had already designed. When ambushing Fisher and Horry in the Moissanite hills, Captain Cao kept a hand of hole cards, or a reserve team, and they watched the excitement from beginning to end, and never appeared. Even if they appeared on the stage to muddy the water at that time, Captain Cao never used them, and kept them watching from the sidelines, this is the Bay Crocodile warriors led by O'Neill. There are many swamps in the Moissanite hills, and it is too easy for them to hide. It wasn't until the rear army led by Jack showed up that they broke out, which is why Jack would say that these unknown people were covered in mud. This lore head Cao has been carefully brewing for a long time, so naturally it is impossible to fail. After Jack arrived on the high ground in embarrassment, the Bay Crocodile warriors also began to make a detour to return to the large army, which was also planned by Commander Cao early in the morning.
The bay crocodile warriors knew where they should go even with their eyes closed in this complex terrain, and the reason why Commander Cao set up the camp in front of the high ground was to wait for these bay crocodile warriors who had completed their tasks to return. If Fisher can now make a sand table out the terrain of the Moissanite hills, and then mark out the deeds and all the small actions of the raiding group in the hilly terrain from beginning to end, even if the two sides are in hostile forces, but in the face of the complex and flexible interspersed curves, Fisher can only look up to the sky and sigh: What a fucking beauty!
?“ General, we have no logistical support, and our current rations can only last for two or three days at most. Next, what should we do?" At this time, even Horry, who has always only used his muscles to think, rarely showed a solemn face, and the truth that people are iron rice and steel is still very clear. If you can't even fill your stomach, what kind of battle is there to fight? And Horry especially knows how big the appetite of the hoplites under his command is, no matter which human country it is, if the hoplites are used in the battle, then all logistics must give priority to them. It is true that they are the final word on the battlefield, but correspondingly, they are also notoriously big stomachs, and their consumption is much greater than that of ordinary warriors.
?“ What can I do? What can I do?" Fisher's face was dead, he had never met such an opponent, and he had never tried such frustration. After so many years, Fisher has always been conscientious, always hoping that he will one day be able to get ahead and lead an elite army on behalf of the empire to fight for the country. finally looked forward to such an opportunity, and finally became the number one leader, but he didn't expect it to evolve to this point, and now Fisher even has the heart to kill himself. If it was to lose to the Celtic Empire, the biggest enemy of the empire, it would be okay to say, but it was played by a mountain organization that was just over a thousand people, which was already doomed to Fisher to be ruined even if he returned to the empire alive.
"They're just waiting for us to make a big mess now, aren't they? It's very likely that they're waiting down there for us to attack them, and the news that the rearguard is all gone, because Jack has arrived, and so many brothers have seen it, and they can't hide it. The little confidence and morale that had been built up with great difficulty was now almost gone. Tell me, how is this battle fought? Shall we rush down and fight desperately? Isn't this playing into their hands?" Fisher regained his spirits, but he was still depressed, and now in his eyes, the more he looked at the raiders, the more dangerous it became. Even if the camp of the raiding group was still so calm, in Fisher's eyes, it was like a giant beast with its open mouth!
Indecision is a taboo on the battlefield. Fisher and Horry had been completely beaten by the raiding group, and it was understandable for them to think that Captain Cao had already set a trap waiting for them. They did not dare to act rashly, and they did not dare to retreat rashly. Once they retreated, the raiders would inevitably chase after them. They have already seen the powerful mobility of the raiding group, as long as they bite to the death and do not let go, then the remaining Rex people are simply not enough for them to cut. They can do a cat-and-mouse kill, one day and the next, until they cannibalize Fisher's troops. But Fisher and Horry don't take the initiative to attack and it doesn't seem like the right plan, Captain Cao is much more patient than they imagined, Captain Cao can be said to be well versed in the essence of the enemy not moving and I don't move, the Rex people do nothing, Captain Cao is also happy to be idle, every day with a group of younger brothers in the open field in front of the camp to open a gambling game, what baccarat, what ********, there are at least dozens of ways to play. The Rex people were dumbfounded just by looking at it from the high ground.
For two days, the two sides spent such a confrontation without any action. The only difference is that the Rex people are tense and nervous every day, and they even sleep with one eye open. The plundering group is a song and dance, and every day it is drunk and does not return. The group of crocodile warriors led by O'Neill made great achievements in the regular battle of the raiding regiment for the first time, and the head of the Cao regiment only wanted them to destroy the heavy grain and grass of the Rex people. As a result, Ao Fat Man overfulfilled this task, not only did he take his own people to easily wipe out the entire rear army of the Rex, but also took a detour to move all the grain and grass of the Rex people back to his own home, they seemed to have the highest quality to become a warrior of the raiding group, that is, no matter when, they would find a way to move the good things back to their homes.
After counting the grain and grass of the Rex people, Captain Cao was so happy that he didn't close his mouth for two or three days, and it could only be said that the Rex Empire looked up to Captain Cao too much. First of all, it is necessary to supply 20,000 people with grain and grass, which is very exaggerated. Secondly, the Rex Empire obviously didn't think that it would be able to wipe out the raiding group in two or three days, and it was also ready to fight a protracted war, at least four or five months of food and grass were prepared, and even those sponsorship materials with the seal of the human family, these Rex people didn't have to worry about food for half a year here. If it weren't for O'Neill and a group of bay crocodile warriors who were all men with outstanding size and strength, so many supplies would really not be able to be dragged back. In this way, Captain Cao didn't have anything to worry about at all, and he didn't even have to save the time to go to the surrounding indigenous tribes to fight the autumn wind, and he only needed to pay attention to the Rex people on the highlands every day.
"Along the ups and downs of the rivers and mountains, the gentle curves of the Fu, the wilderness that the horses love, the Saibei and the Senan. In the face of the passionate companionship of ice blades, snow swords, wind and rain, cherish the golden years given to me by the sky. To be a man is a place of liver and gall, to be a man who is not afraid of hardships and dangers, and his pride remains unchanged year after year. Being a man has bitter and sweet, good and evil are separated from each other, and they are all for the tomorrow of dreams! Watching the iron hooves trampling across thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, I stand on the cusp of the storm and hold the sun and the moon spinning. May the world be peaceful and happy, and I really want to live for another 500 years!"
Once they are happy, the people of the raiding group always like to express their feelings with songs, such as at this time. Their loud singing resounded throughout the wasteland, and even from a distance of several miles, the singing was still clear to the Rex people in the highlands. This majestic and high-pitched song is completely different from the warbler and swallow language sought after by the human world, and what the Rex people hear is a wind of golden iron horses coming towards them, which makes people unconsciously moved. This kind of melody was also unheard of before, but it deeply shook their souls, and for a moment, the heads of the people on the high ground were moving, and the Rex people were confused.
"General, I can't wait!" Horry had to find Fisher again, they knew each other well now, and Horry didn't want to give Fisher a problem, but it was really over like this. Horry scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry, "It's been two days since we hesitated like this! Look at those damn hillbillies, they don't have the slightest intention of attacking us." The longer this drags on, the worse it will be for us. If we really wait until the brothers are so hungry that their chests and backs are close to their backs, it will be a problem to even run away. Anyway, they have no intention of leaving, and they must want to compete with us. In my opinion, it's either to fight with them happily. Or, let's travel lightly and run directly, and how many people can run away. The brothers watch those bastards show off their power every day, and the hearts of the people have been scattered!"
Fisher could only smile wryly. Hillbilly? Does he still dare to think of the raiders as hillbillies? The team in front of them has a clever plan, quick action, and tacit cooperation, and they are different from ordinary teams, and they have a kind of paranoid and almost cold-blooded persistence. If time could be turned back, Fisher would not take on this damn combat mission even if he died, at least the reputation he had worked hard for half his life would not be ruined, and he could spend the rest of his life peacefully and steadily by finding a visiting professor at a military academy. And now, his old fish is almost equivalent to a dead fish, completely dried up in this barren land!
"I'm just thinking, if these guys have gone to such great lengths to push us to this point, what shady plot will they have next? Fisher seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant, and he hadn't closed his eyes and rested in the past few days. After a long time, Fisher asked Horry again: "General Horry, do you think that in our current situation, we can still afford to lose?"
This is obviously a question that doesn't need to be answered by Horry, even the idiots know that they are in a desperate situation. From the commander to the soldiers below, all of them are like ashes. In this case, there has not been a single deserter, and this team is already worthy of the title of Rex Elite, but all this is useless.
"We have no choice now, whether we fight or retreat, we have to make a decision right away. It seems to me that these bastards haven't done anything for the past few days, and I think they're waiting to see what happens to us when we're running out of food, and then they'll come back to us. As for the intrigues, I don't think they can play any tricks in this open field. Horry scratched his head, which was already a circle of size, and finally said with a fierce expression: "I don't believe that such a strong team of ours would be able to defeat these damn hillbillies head-on! They just thought about how we would be down, and I think they probably didn't think that when we were going to break the net, they wouldn't be able to eat it in one bite!"
"So, do you still want to gamble again?" Horry's words made Fisher raise his head slightly, Horry was not wrong at all, in the past few days, almost every move of the raiding group was under their noses. Horry said this, and Fisher himself felt that he had a serious psychological shadow. And now that the situation has deteriorated to such an extent that there is any other option left for Fisher? Even Fisher himself does not believe that there is any other turning point.
After receiving Horry's affirmative reply, Fisher finally stood up slowly, and said, "In that case, let's go and gamble together! )