Chapter Seventy-Four: The Siege Five
Commander Fang and Nighthawk stood in the infantry chariot, holding a telescope and looking at the city of Dihua, which was covered with smoke and dust! Almost half of the city was covered by fire. The artillery fire had been stopped for about three hours, but the damage caused by the artillery fire continued! The houses that were not blown up were lit under the cheers of the wind, and the raging fires were instantly spreading!
Nighthawk put down his telescope and said with a worried expression: "Commander Fang, we bombard the city like this! The senior management won't blame it, right? What a huge loss? It's all the hard work of the people there!"
Commander Fang turned his head and looked at Nighthawk with a funny face: "Comrade Nighthawk, how do you say this? Money is important or the lives of our soldiers are important! If the city is gone, we can rebuild it, and the lives of the soldiers are gone! What's the use of accompanying a city? What can win back the hearts of those injured mothers?"
Nighthawk's face looked a little embarrassed! Commander Fang's words were very correct. He still resented the death of Black Bear and could not forgive himself! But they existed to protect the property of the country and the people, and Commander Fang's words were a bit contradictory!
Commander Fang looked at Nighthawk's face and laughed, patted Nighthawk's shoulder and said, "Comrade Nighthawk, I know what you are thinking! Yes, it's right, protecting the interests of the people is above everything else! But before that, we have to think about the feelings of the countless soldiers and parents behind us! We have more than 10,000 grief families, and I don't want to have them anymore!"
Commander Fang sighed with emotion, and then said: "And this is also something recognized by the state! The senior management has decided that even if we blow up the entire Western Xinjiang, we will eliminate these invading terrorists! The country will build a better home for the people here!"
Nighthawk nodded heavily! Looking at the city still burning in the distance, he seemed to see a huge phoenix reborn from the fire! That would be the restart of all hope!
Ten days later! Starting at 10 a.m. every day, the unmovable artillery bombardment will begin! The artillery fire has not been delayed anymore, it is two hours every day! It is not too much or too much, as if the people in the artillery army like this art very much, and they have calculated accurately by checking the watch!
Dihua City has become a ruin, with tens of thousands of shells of different caliber and different standards bombs hitting the city from all directions every day! Until now, there is no intact building in the city!
The whole city was turned into rubble, and the soldiers didn't even want to hide! Because the Chinese artillery fire seemed to have eyes, it could blow up those who had just dug trenches in the ruins to pieces!
But no matter how difficult it is, it must be avoided. The endless artillery bombardment of the Chinese people has made the soldiers guarding here numb. They are mechanically looking for various places to hide! Just to be able to survive more when the artillery bombardment comes!
On the dark night, many hungry soldiers with green eyes and skinny feet left with only skinny and bone-like soldiers running out of the city like walking corpses! They wanted to use the cover of the night to find an exit from the Chinese encirclement like iron barrels!
But this naive idea can only be a joke under the strict defense of Chinese soldiers! How could the defense line that even special forces could not pass smoothly is something that these hungry deserters were about to fall head-on!
The most pleasant thing for these deserters is to make the best tools for the soldiers on duty on the defense line! The deserters became moving targets one by one, and without exception, they all died on the way to escape!
But even though the reality is so cruel, there is only one dead end to escape from the city, countless soldiers will still rush out of the city one after another! They have had enough of the hell on earth in Dihua City! They don’t want to be divided into pieces in the artillery fire like their companions, and in the end they can’t even find the corpse!
The number of deserters is increasing, and the surrounding Chinese soldiers have also received orders! If the other party does not threaten after disarming, they can accept the other party's request for surrender!
So, in just three days, the Chinese army captured nearly 5,000 people who were not much different from skeletons! When they met the Chinese soldiers, they only asked them to give them some food, and then they wanted to kill and cut them into pieces!
Bajer stood alone in a trench with a man high! His office and the original government building have turned into ruins! Everything was buried in the rubble all over the ground!
He looked quietly at the trenches that people jumped out from time to time in the faint moonlight! Those ghostly figures ran towards freedom and liberation! That was what he longed for!
"Report to the commander, and caught ten more guys who were about to escape!" A major, who was tall and tall but now thin, was as thin as a pole, led a team of soldiers and led a few panicked deserters to come over!
As soon as he arrived in front of Bajer, the team of soldiers in charge of escorting all rushed to the joints of the deserters! The sound of the buttstock and bones colliding echoed very clearly in the night sky, making people feel terrifying when they listened!
Bajer didn't even look back, and his eyes were still attracted by those figures that kept jumping out of the trenches! What a persistent person they were! Those were life making the final struggle against the unfair world!
"Why do you want to escape?" Bajer still did not look back. His calm voice seemed to be talking to himself! The deserters were still a little bit hunched, but the guards behind them were already smashed with a gun!
The sound of bones being smashed came again, making people feel a little sore! A guy who was probably the leader of the deserter hurriedly fell down and said, "Sir, please spare me, please spare me! We all heard from the escaped people that we had something to eat and could leave a way to live when we got to the Chinese, so the brothers thought about running away! We don't want to die!"
The deserters kneeling beside him immediately whimpered together! The tall and powerful major was furious. He pushed his pistol on the deserter's head and said viciously: "I can kill you now, see what you can run away?"
The deserter was so scared that he didn't dare to move, and he just shouted to spare his life like a pig! Bajer heard the deserter's pitiful wail and waved his hand to stop the major's actions! The major threw the deserter to the ground hatefully and turned his head to the side!
"Yes! There is food to eat there, and there is no gunshot on the Chinese positions, which means that all those who escaped have saved their lives! Even if they are not good, it will not be a problem to stay in prison for the next life. At least it is better than dying here like a wild dog!" Bajer said in a low voice, watching more and more deserters running out from various places in the ruins, he felt extremely uncomfortable!
The gunshots sounded, not on the Chinese people's positions! On the contrary, they were heard from their own positions! The commander of the army had already shot and killed the escaped soldiers! But no matter how fierce the gunshots were, there would still be people joining the deserter's troops desperately! No matter how angry the chase behind them was, the deserters who were only breathing in the pool of blood were still stretching their hands forward!
Bajer didn't want to see these anymore! He waved his hand lazily to the deserter kneeling on the ground and said, "Go! Let's go! Go wherever you want! This war that is not your business is over!"
The deserter leader was stunned on the spot. He looked at Bajel's back incredible way, thinking that he had heard it wrong! The major who stood aside also came over and asked in disbelief: "Your Excellency Commander, what did you say?"
"Aren't I clear enough about what I said? Or are you already hungry and deaf?" Bajer turned his head angrily, his eyes were deeply trapped in his eyes because of hunger!
Bajer repeated to the deserter on the ground: "Go away! No one will stop you! Go wherever you want. This damn war is over. Go find your freedom!"
The deserters trembled and got up from the ground, knelt down together and kowtowed to Bajel. After a long time, they helped them climb out of the trench and walked slowly towards the Chinese positions!
Looking at the backs of the deserters, Badger said happily: "I ordered all troops to leave, no one is allowed to stop them! The soldiers have the right to live!"
The major stomped his feet hard and turned around and left! There were not many people in the trenches, only Badger's personal bodyguard and a few of his confidants! Jinsha and Zorge are also here!
Bajer looked at the sky that was about to brighten and said lightly: "Send the signal, let's leave here! This place is no longer what we are staying!"
Zorge had been waiting for Bajer's words for a long time, and he shouted that the soldiers used red signal flares to form a large circle on the ground! Soon, under the dark curtain, the roar of the helicopter began to slowly come!
Ten minutes later, four weapons-loaded helicopters stopped beside the trenches of Bajer! Bajer took a last look at the city of Dihua, which was shrouded by the monster of the night, and stepped onto the helicopter with a deep sigh! This was the most brilliant battle in his life and his most failed battle! When the helicopter flew away from Dihua, he silently swore that he would definitely return here again!
The sky gradually became brighter! Almost all the defenders of Dihua City, which had less than 10,000 people left, surrendered! Some religious fanatics chose to be loyal to their faith the moment before the failure came, and raised their guns to commit suicide! They sprinkled the blood of their sins on this once hot land!
The Chinese army, without any effort, rolled into the ruined city of Dihua! Nighthawk and Commander Fang stood in a high rubble at the same time, and looked at the dejected prisoners walking towards trucks under the escort of the army! They will be sent to a secret prison, and may never see freedom outside the high wall again in their lifetime!
"The battle here is over, and here are some final work! Do you want to go with me?" Commander Fang asked Nighthawk with some expectations!
Chapter completed!