Chapter 117: Absolute

"According to the usual procedures, we first called with a tweeter, and then swept the street with tear gas. The other party seemed to be ready, his face was covered with wet towels, and he threw bricks at us. We had to fight back with rubber bullets. In the chaos, someone fired at us, and someone fired rockets and threw explosives bags. A riot-proof armored vehicle fell out. The captain was annoyed and ordered a live ammunition to fight back. I received the order, whoever held something in his hand would 'fire' and kill anyone. That day I pulled the trigger seven times and confirmed that I killed six."

"This is a last resort..."

"Later, I walked over and pulled off the wet towels from several people's faces. They were all young people in their teens and 20s. Later I also learned that many of the people who were beaten to death were middle school students..."

Liu Bailiang put down the steamed buns.

"That's your mission."

"I know."

"Do you have pity for them?"

Wang Zhi lowered his head, and tightly rubbed and pinched the index finger of his right hand - the finger that pulled the trigger.

"…I just kept asking myself why they did this? Why did they fight us so fiercely? What exactly made them so unrespecting their lives and futures? Why… Why… Why…”

Liu Bailiang reached out and pressed Wang Zhi's slightly trembling right index finger, and brought it back into the protection of his palm.

"Later I thought that they might be completely desperate, and desperate people will not cherish anything."

Wang Zhi said that his right hand was pinched into a tight fist.

"In our time and space, in terms of information, there is no protest or chaos against the "government" in our country, and of course there will be no such thing as suppression. Not only that, all news that is unfavorable to the rulers cannot appear in legal public opinion... The state's control of information permeates every corner. Domestic radio stations must be guided by the Central Propaganda Department. Foreign radio stations will be interfered with by screening, and telephone communication will be screened and eavesdropped by computer systems. It turns out that the interconnection of the free information world has been implemented after establishing its own independent network center system. Even emails and chats will be screened and checked by computer systems..."

"I think there must be a reason for people to lose their minds. Perhaps the people there have been oppressed and invaded by all kinds of oppression and abuse that we do not know. However, except for themselves and their parents, no more people will know or believe this. In other words, even if someone knows or believes, there is no way, because the relevant information cannot be spread through legal means... The accusation to the superior may be useless because the officials protect each other and are forced to do so, so they want to use their own extreme actions to attract the attention of the outside world."

Liu Bailiang analyzed and glanced at Wang Zhi, but there was no sense of agreement on the other party's face.

Wang Zhi shook his head: "If they still believe that someone will help them, they should find someone to negotiate. Why shoot us? I think that is probably a desperate vent - anyway, the status quo cannot be changed no matter what, so let's destroy it together..."

"A world of despair... I think you can probably understand the thoughts of those middle school students: they are trying hard to get into college, but they can't afford the increasingly high tuition fees. Even if they borrow money and pay tuition fees everywhere, they have more than 70% chance of joining the unemployed army after graduation and returning home to eat their parents with heavy debts. What's the significance of such a future..."

Near and far away, the dense sound of cannons vibrated the dry eardrums of humans.

"That is indeed a world that makes countless people desperate..."

"Are you desperate? You should live better than many people, and so am I. The education we have received has always required us to stand on the side of the ruler. From an economic perspective, we take it for granted."

Wang Zhi pointed at Liu Bailiang with chopsticks: "But you betrayed them."

“I am only loyal to myself.”

"I remember it was Zhong Xiahuo who pulled you in. Zhong Xiahuo thought so too?"

"He is only loyal to Liu Yun."

Wang Zhi put down his chopsticks, poured some Erguotou into Baici's small wine glass, and swallowed it with a bitter face.

"Liu Bailiang, do you know who pulled me in?"

"have no idea."

"It's Liu Yun. I failed in the 2024 K129 operation and actually lost my target under favorable circumstances. He went to talk to me and saw through me at a glance. He said that I was passive and lazy, and there was no fundamental difference between rebellion. Indeed, at that time I had already begun to doubt and think, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt meaningless, the riot still did not exist, and the suppression still did not exist. We and those young people were doing things that did not exist, and were injured and died because of things that did not exist... We had no choice. It was a huge trap, surrounded us, and if we stepped in any direction, we could only fall..."

Liu Bailiang took the palm-sized glass wine bottle containing Erguotou from Wang Zhi, ordered two or three drops into the wine glass, and swallowed it.

"Ding Jieyun and the others want to build a world that makes countless people desperate, and exchange the despair of countless people for the infinite** of a few people, including them."

"Do you think Liu Yun wants this too?"

"I hope not, but I feel more and more that he might want to build a machine and smash the existing world's machines..."

Wang Zhi shook his head with a wry smile: "Forgive me for being dull, I can't see it, but I feel that I am definitely not a part of a machine. If we come here just to build a country that has no essential difference from the original time and space, then what is the point of everything we have done before?"

"I understand, so let's stop this topic."

After Liu Bailiang finished speaking, he chewed the steamed buns in big mouthfuls.

Wang Zhi shrugged and smiled: "Liu Bailiang, do you want me to get to know you again?"

"Um...I want to get to know you again..."

"It's useless. Like Zhong Xiahuo, I am only loyal to Lord Liu of Wuwei."

"Well... nonsense, Zhong Xiahuo is loyal to his Captain Liu."

"You're such a fool."

“Yeah…eah…eah.”

"So why are you here?"

“Yeah…because I’m bored there.”

"shit."

"Really, if you don't believe me, go and ask Zhong Xiahuo."

"Tsk, believe you are a fool..."

...

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the coalition artillery fire extended into the depth of the e-army position and the attack began.

"I can't count ants."

Liu Bailiang said that the telescope was filled with people's heads gathered on the hillside.

"I think it will definitely succeed this time."

Wang Zhi said that the telescope was filled with rolling black smoke rising from the hill.

Behind them was a map of the war zone, and the contour lines of "Hori" like a ball of contours formed a mountain, with red and blue jagged defense marks irregularly embedded in it. The ball of "Hori" line located in the center of the blue 'nail' defense zone, with four small black characters "Kimir Mountain" marked near the top.

The symbol of a fortress is marked north of the main peak of the mountain, with "d" next to it. To the east of the top of the mountain, along the ridge to the foot of the mountain, there are fortress "e" and fortress "f" in turn, and to the slightly lower west of the top of the mountain, there are fortress "c" in turn. From west to east, fortress No. 3, 4 and 5 are set on the ridge in turn.

Four fortresses and three forts cover each other, plus a large number of trenches, sheltering fortifications, castles, small multi-faceted fortresses, one-way glasses fortresses, and live wires, minefields, deep trenches, and artificial cliffs, forming the defense area of ​​Mount Kimir. The defenders in the entire defense area are estimated to be around 10,000 to 15,000.

Among the four forts, the d fortress near the main peak of Mount Kimier is the most important. The e Army began to build it in 1898 and completed it in four years. It is a pentagonal shape with a circumference of nearly 1,000 meters and an area of ​​about 50,000 square meters. It is the largest fortress in the fortress. There is an armored watchtower that other fortresses do not have. The tower is two points high and four meters in diameter, zero point eight meters in diameter, and the top is semicircular. The entire tower is made of steel plates 19 to 35 mm thick, which can resist large-diameter shells and shrapnel.

It is specifically used to observe the coalition's attack on the fortress, and to make the 254mm heavy artillery and 152mm cannons on the next 4th fortress. The e-army attaches great importance to the defense of the fortress. There are strong fortifications around the fortress, and the secret passages of the fortress are crisscrossed. Usually, a team of more than 2,000 people is deployed, equipped with 4 152mm cannons, 3 100mm cannons, 5 47mm cannons, 14 37mm cannons and 7 machine guns.

In the second general attack launched by the coalition last month, the 37th Brigade of the 13th Division of the Chinese Army directly attacked the fortress, with more than 4,000 casualties in two days. Three brigade commanders were replaced, and none of them were found. Later, the 33rd Brigade of the 11th Division attacked in two routes. After paying the price of nearly 3,000 casualties, it finally occupied a section of ditch only 300 meters away from the fortress chest wall. Using this as a basis, it started soil work, digging parallel trenches and traffic trenches, and digging blasting tunnels under the fortress chest wall. However, due to the continuous obstruction of hard and protruding rocks in the soil layer, the operation progress was very slow. By the day of the attack, the thunderway had not yet extended to the enemy fortress.

On that day, the 31st Brigade of the 11th Infantry Division was responsible for attacking the fortress, which was under the jurisdiction of the 91st, 92nd and 93rd Infantry Regiments, and strengthened a military engineer battalion and a heavy mortar battalion equipped with eighteen 100 mm mortars.

Before leaving, Brigade Commander Brigadier General Fang Shensi made an order in front of General Liu Bailiang: This battle may lead to victory in the fortress or to be destroyed together with the entire brigade, and there is no other possibility.

Now, Fang Shensi has led the officers and soldiers of the thirty-one brigade, braved the fiery artillery fire of the e-army, and advanced along the undulating traffic trenches to the parallel trenches and shelter behind the trenches, which are only two or three hundred meters closest to the chest wall of the enemy fortress.

The sound of charge trumpet blew.
Chapter completed!