At this moment, Li Heng suddenly remembered some of the history books he had read about something that happened during a certain war in the era of Earth's nations.
A certain country invaded another country and built a large number of strongholds in the invaded country.
When the invaders gain the upper hand, these strongholds can control large areas around the stronghold. But with the desperate resistance of the invaded country, the invaders gradually no longer have the upper hand. But the superiors were still frantic and ordered to hold on to the stronghold.
If the soldiers in the stronghold abandon the stronghold and escape, they will die. If you continue to hold on to the stronghold, you will not be able to resist the resistance at all. Besides, your own logistics has already collapsed, and you will be short of food and clothing, and you will die sooner or later.
In this case, something incredible happened.
The soldiers in the stronghold began to trade with the resistance forces, trading their own arms for the resistance forces' food in order to survive. What's more, the intruders in the stronghold even began to pay "protection fees" to the invaded in order to keep themselves here.
The most incredible thing is that some invader soldiers actually went to work as tenant farmers in the homes of landlords in the invaded country, working desperately for nothing more than a bite to eat.
It was as if the identities of the intruder and the invaded were reversed, it was strange and incredible.
Now, Li Heng certainly knows that this is because the wills of the upper and lower levels of a force are no longer unified, so this strange thing happens.
So...now, is the will of the upper echelons of the expeditionary force no longer unified with the will of the lower echelons fighting on the front line?
Are these big metal boxes they threw out... money to buy lives?
At this moment, after throwing out those big metal boxes, the enemy ship started maneuvering again, trying to escape. Just because the engine was damaged, the speed was extremely slow.
Weisang gritted his teeth and looked at the external observation screen, but he was praying eagerly in his heart.
"I just want to live, just want to live! I know that your logistics supplies have been very tight, especially water - I know that your intelligent life also needs water. These metal boxes are full of pure water ice, and I will give it to you! It’s all for you! As long as you let me go!”
In this long-term battle, it is not that the expeditionary force has never obtained the corpses of the enemy. Through dissection, etc., we have also roughly understood the enemy's body structure.
He didn't dare to really send what he was thinking through communication equipment, because it would leave traces. The only thing he could pray for was that the enemy would understand what he meant and agree to his transaction request to "use these supplies to buy his own life."
This is the only way he can think of to survive!
As if there was some kind of spiritual tacit understanding, after seeing these metal boxes, the other two friendly warships also stopped attacking the enemy ship.
Li Heng had countless thoughts running through his mind like lightning, and finally gritted his teeth: "Salvage these metal boxes and see what's inside!"
Vice Captain Zhang Ruofei said solemnly: "It may be a conspiracy."
Li Heng said decisively: "Salvage it first! Before confirming what it is, we just don't let it get close to us!"
In order to cope with the ever-changing battlefield situation, each combat spacecraft is equipped with small space vehicles and robots. It comes in handy now.
As a result, an "escape boat" was released, carrying a multi-functional robot and rushed towards the metal boxes. However, these boxes seemed to be designed for easy access. Without any effort, the robot had opened the three metal boxes that flew towards it.
Three metal boxes, all filled with water ice!
Extremely pure water ice! Spectral analysis shows that it contains almost no impurities!
"bring back!"
Li Heng issued the order. The escape boat and robot returned immediately.
At this moment, Li Heng was extremely sure that this must be the enemy's life-paying money!
You know, for two strange civilizations, in this place far away from any stars, if they want to give each other a gift, then there is nothing wrong with sending water ice.
Weapons and anti-matter energy are too dangerous and too easy to trick. The other party will definitely worry about whether there is any conspiracy involved and will most likely not dare to accept them. The rest of the parts and so on, because of different specifications, there is a high probability that they cannot be used universally, let alone cultural supplies and the like.
Only water is both safe and highly likely to be needed by any civilization. Moreover, water can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, and hydrogen can be directly used as energy. Although the efficiency is not as good as antimatter, it is safer than it.
Now, the enemy has sent three boxes, about 25 tons of water, to himself! In fact, the spacecraft Li Heng was on was indeed short of water, and the soldiers hadn't even had a good wash for a long time!
Li Heng knew that not only himself, but also the rest of the friendly spacecraft had a high probability of being like this.
At this moment, the enemy warship was still slowly escaping. A soldier thought for a while and said to Li Heng: "Captain, do you want...?"
Li Heng knew what he meant.
No one stipulates that if you accept the money to buy your life, you must leave the enemy's life. Why can't you collect money and kill people at the same time?
Do we need to talk about integrity when it comes to our enemies?
Our side has not been open for more than a month. Now we have finally caught a sure-fire spaceship. If we don't kill him, what are we waiting for?
Gu Xing
Li Heng's heart was full of contradictions at this moment. He thought for a moment and finally gritted his teeth.
"Let him go!"
"Why!"
Several soldiers exclaimed together.
"I'm not talking about integrity. There is no integrity with the enemy." Li Heng said in a deep voice: "I was thinking that if we took the money to buy his life but still killed him, then... there will be enemies in the future. Do you want to pay us for your life?"
The soldiers were startled.
That's right...if the money to buy a life can't buy a life, the enemy will naturally not pay anymore. And if the rule of "you can keep your life if you pay for it" quietly spreads among the enemy's front-line warriors, then how many other warriors will be able to fight when facing our own side? thought?
This can not only replenish one's own scarce water resources, but also greatly undermine the enemy's will to fight! Moreover, within the enemy system at this moment, there must have been a disunity of will between the upper and lower levels - otherwise, how could such a thing as paying for one's life be possible? ——At this time, this kind of behavior can further aggravate this phenomenon!
If you think about it carefully, the benefits are endless!
Under Li Heng's explanation, all the soldiers figured this out.
Now, the only thing that needs to be worried about is whether the two friendly warships hidden in the dark can understand this and whether they can also make the decision to "take money and let people go".
If the two spacecraft continue to attack, the enemy ship still cannot escape.
"My qualifications can only be considered average among the captains of the Space Force, not outstanding. Even I can think of this, and my comrades should also be able to think of it... Even if the captain can't think of it, there is also the deputy captain , and the soldiers, there will always be someone who thinks of it."
At this moment, very strangely, Li Heng began to worry about the fate of his enemy, and began to hope that his enemy could escape smoothly.
Perhaps his expectations played a role. Sure enough, the two friendly warships hidden in the dark also made no offensive moves. So this enemy ship that was within easy reach escaped from under Li Heng's nose.
"call……"
He let out a long breath.
"Random maneuver, transfer, concealment!"
"yes!"
Li Heng knew that at this moment, some changes within the enemy had reached the critical point from quantitative change to qualitative change, just like those weird and incredible things that happened in a certain invaded country in the era of the earth. .
And all this is because of our tenacity and our will! It's all because we fought tenaciously under extremely unfavorable conditions and finally forced the enemy to this point!
At this moment, Li Heng's heart was full of pride.
At this moment, Li Heng no longer had any doubt in his heart that his side would win in the future.
Weisang nervously stared at the external observation equipment in the spacecraft until he confirmed that the spacecraft he was on was already millions of kilometers away from the location where it was attacked, and during this process, his own side was never attacked. He finally let out a long breath and finally had time to relax.
This whole process was like walking on the edge of hell.
"Surprisingly, he actually survived..."
Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something and became nervous again. He suddenly stood up straight in the weightless cabin, staring fiercely at the sub-human warriors in front of him.
The soldiers were worried and didn't know what was happening.
"If anyone dares to tell what happened today, he or she will die! If we can keep the secret, not only will we have no fault, but we will make merit! You lowly people like insects can also get some rewards!"
Dozens of people lowered their heads together, their voices full of fear and urgency: "Commander, we will listen to you no matter what you do!"
"I will combine the records in our spaceship and write a combat report, saying that we were besieged, fought hard, and finally escaped with the battleship intact, avoiding the loss of the expeditionary force! We can all get awards!"
Dozens of people looked at each other in confusion at this moment, and then became excited the next moment.
"Also...is there such an operation?"
"Sir Commander, your wisdom is indeed indescribably high!"
"Commander, we obey you in everything. If anyone dares to leak the secret, we will kill him without you taking action!"
"Hmph, it's good to know how powerful it is."
Weisang snorted coldly and immediately began to think about how to write this combat report, which characters needed to be dealt with, what he would pay and what he would get.
But no matter what, it was a profit this time. And it made a lot of money.
