, wonderful and free of pop-ups! "The one who draws short pine needles will have bad luck for you. Follow my orders later and rush forward wherever I tell you to kill. We will cover you and rush forward to fight in close quarters. You can fight with grenades, sabers, or bare hands as you like. I only need Just use your life to delay the enemy!"
Cruel enough! Although there will definitely be casualties in war, it is rare to determine the casualty rate in advance and then select those who will die.
To put it bluntly, this means using the life of a mortal man to place him where he should die in advance. This is completely defining himself as a beast. They have no regard for human nature at all. On the battlefield, everything is about victory.
During the interrogation of the prisoners after the war, Xiao Letian heard this story. At that moment, he couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart, "They are indeed a fighting nation! Everything described in the movies and TV series back then was actually true..."
In Xiao Letian's mind, there was a scene in the opening scene of a movie called "The Enemy" that he remembered very clearly. During the Great Patriotic War, Moscow was heavily surrounded by enemies, and even more than 80% of the entire city was controlled by the German army.
The protagonist takes a train and is sent to the front line with a group of recruits. There is no formal training at all. These recruits, who are like cannon fodder, are used to stop bullets.
As soon as the iron truck door opened, what he saw was the entire burning main city of Moscow. A few hundred meters ahead was the German forward offensive line.
The rookie-like soldier was pulled out of the carriage by the officer and rushed forward stupidly. Not far from the front line, there was an officer distributing weapons.
In groups of two, they lined up to receive weapons. What was interesting was that the first soldier received a rifle without bullets, while the other soldier only received five, which was a row of bullets.
Those with guns have no bullets, and those with bullets have no guns. The protagonist is assigned five bullets. When he asks where the rifle is, he is greeted with a curse and told to look for the rifle on the dead body.
What effect can such an attack have? Failure was naturally doomed, and hundreds of new recruits who had just gotten off the train became victims of German machine gun fire.
What? You ask, doesn’t the Soviet Union have machine guns? Of course there is, but that machine gun is not used to shoot at the German troops, but at the new recruits who fled after being defeated.
There are guns but no bullets, there are bullets but no guns. This actually only shows one thing. From the beginning, the commander has been prepared to sacrifice half of the people. Of course, this is theoretical. In reality, the entire army should be annihilated.
But at least these hundreds of lives blocked the German attack and consumed the German bullets. This tactic of using lives to delay the enemy is also a correct but cruel strategy.
Nazi Germany has millions of bullets, and I have the lives of millions of recruits to consume with you. In war, population is actually a resource and a series of numbers in the commander's notebook.
"An enemy division came up from the left wing, carrying ten thousand artillery shells and one million bullets..."
"Well, simple! Send 30,000 ordinary people to charge forward, consume their shells and bullets first... keep statistics at any time, when the enemy's supplies have been consumed by half, and then let our elite attack!"
"What are you talking about? Thirty thousand is not enough! Trash, if thirty thousand is not enough you won't give me one hundred thousand... Wait, you send my illegitimate son to the rear first, and send a reinforced company to escort him..."
Is this war? Xiao Letian shook his head and said to himself with a smile, "I'm thinking wildly, I'm really cranky!" But no matter how wildly I think, this kind of thing is too common in wars. Aren't there real-life examples of refugees attacking cities in Chinese history? To put it bluntly, those cannon fodders are just using human lives to consume the enemy's war supplies.
Art is based on life. Xiao Letian really realized this this time. After the war, he learned that the Cossacks actually played this kind of life-threatening choice game before the war. This proved the authenticity of the movie "At the Gate". Then Everything is not artistic processing, everything is real.
They are indeed a group of desperadoes! The squad leader held in his hand the three pine needles that would determine the fate of the soldiers, but the soldiers did not hesitate at all and walked up to them in groups of three to draw them.
"Well! It seems that God doesn't want to see me so soon. I'd better continue killing enemies...I have a long one!"
"Shit life! Hahaha, it seems that this is the last time we get together today, and I got the shortest draw... Damn, who has a drink for me, I'm ready to hit the road!"
The squad leader took out his treasured liquor and threw it over, "It's an advantage for you. You still have wine to drink before you die! We don't know what we will drink when we die. Maybe we will only have blood for us to drink..."
The life-betting game continues in this unit, and the atmosphere is getting worse and worse. On the opposite side, Shimazu Asuka and Mori Yigen clearly feel that this wave of enemies has a stronger aura.
If the strength of the battalion in the first wave could be described as crazy, then the enemy troops in the second wave were not crazy but cold-blooded.
The Fuso warriors and the indigenous soldiers tightened their weapons and looked nervously at the enemies who were making weird preparations for the battle. The enemies in the telescope seemed to be performing some kind of mysterious ritual, and after each ritual, something would explode. There were bursts of crazy Ula roars.
"The enemy is preparing for the charge! Let's all concentrate, don't be chaotic, and remember the experience and lessons just gained with blood..."
"Only shoot at the nearest target. Your marksmanship is not good enough to hit a moving target easily... Use grenades sparingly and only deal with enemies gathered together... Don't expect to engage in one-on-one melee combat with the enemy. Charge up. The Rakshasa ghosts are at least two against one..."
The nervous voices of the officers came and went, and the nervousness of the battle came again. At this moment, the cavalry on the opposite side started to move, and it was very aggressive.
With the rumble of horse hooves, this group of cavalry actually whipped the spare Mongolian horses crazily, causing the empty horse group to start charging into the formation! Each of the thousand cavalry is equipped with two horses or even three horses.
There are now more than 1,500 free war horses. Although they are all exhausted after a long march, their masters have dismounted. Naturally, they can charge for a while with the reduced load. The cavalry are hidden behind the horses. Rush towards the position.
"The enemy attacks! Requesting artillery support..." Before they could finish shouting, three flames suddenly exploded in the rear area. The artillery shells rumbled like steam locomotives speeding past people's heads, and then an explosion broke out in front of the two armies. Three clouds of smoke.
At this time, only three of the field artillery that had been supported from the city had set up shooting positions, and the rest of the artillery were still being dragged under the artillery ropes.
The artillery was unlucky in this battle. It was dragged from outside the city to the inside of the city, and then from inside the city to outside the city. All of them were urgent tasks, which made people unprepared at all.
Some squads and platoons even failed to find the horse, so the artillery had to be pulled forward by the soldiers themselves by pulling the rope on their shoulders. When encountering rugged road sections, the artillerymen blushed and could not move it.
Not to mention that there are still two hundred damn Cossacks harassing them. From time to time, a row of stray bullets will hit them, and the artillerymen with no protection can only stand by.
At this moment, it was already a huge effort to send up three cannons that could support them.
