The Hert Red Army suffered a major setback and they were forced to withdraw from Moldis and move to the south of BelHert. A Hertenan who couldn't remember his name got the "traitor" from the military court. His company (literally translated as Fight Unity, a small-scale combat unit whose equipment and numbers can be adjusted according to tactical needs, ranging from 100 to 200.) needs to be supplemented. And Du's military training at Nai-Aera can be regarded as "excellent", at least he does not miss the target.
For a long time, Humankind has deduced in various ways what a full-scale war in a non-nuclear state of Cold War technology is. In Du's eyes, all total wars are the same: there is no life, only dust.
In the process of retreating to the south, only the roar of the aircraft and the artillery fire that could not keep up with the people. The comrades in arms changed batch after batch. Every rest, the people lying next to him are faces he have never seen before.
After nearly two weeks of rapid march, whether on foot or by car, I finally reached the south of BelHert. Then right here, a mortar shell landed directly on the chest of the good man who took him away. Unpreparedly, the shells peeled off the body armor on his chest, ripped off his clothes, and finally blasted his upper body to pieces. Those pieces of meat fell in front of Du and hadn't lost their functions, and they were still shrinking for the last few times due to nerve pain.
War numbs people, which is a kind of self-protection. But if such cruel things happen to a person every day in just four months, he will collapse sooner or later, especially when he can escape here.
He was found by Inecty social. Unfortunately, when he left Moldis, he did not bring back any proof of the embassy staff. He could only say: "Except for me, all are dead, and none of them survived."
At this moment, he just wanted to go home. When he heard that many people on the earth cared about him, the feeling of wanting to go home was beyond words. "I will go home soon, go home."
Here, he met his classmate Guo Ji, an Eraussn.
After six days, the incident of going home went into nothing. Unic unity succeeded in instigating the government's navy, and all major ports were blocked for the first time. Unic unity's army approached little by little, and Du took up the weapon again in extreme disappointment. However, he has never registered in Inecty social, he is still just a sojourner.
"In all-out war, to live is the punishment for being alive, and death is what people desire most. The most difficult thing is to ask for death."
Within a month, he changed from a soldier to a squad leader, and from a squad leader to a platoon leader. The comrade-in-arms around him often took less than two days from getting acquainted to being buried. There is no offensive baseline, no defensive positions. Where they are, they will attack; where they are, they will be ready to guard. For Du's experience, people often say that he was too lucky to be unscathed. But only he knew that if he was hit by a bullet or shock wave once, then after five minutes, this person would turn into a pile of flesh.
"After another battle, we were unharmed even the living people, let alone serious injuries, not even bandaged people. But we all know that as long as we can't keep up with the company's movement, they can only sit there and wait for death."
Now, Du had no idea why he was fighting. In Moldis, he still has some "legitimate" reasons, but in the South, he can no longer understand what he is doing. He collapsed when he fired at civilian guerrillas opposed to the Hert Red Army.
"Am I for myself? No. Am I for others? The same is not true. I don't have any reason to participate in the war. They can naturally be said to eliminate their so-called class enemies, but what about me?Those who are alive, look no different from me, and even some cute faces. What does it have to do with me? "
After another month, "Nai-Continent" announced the evidence of "Onan-Continent" directly participating in the war, and Unic unity's offensive slowed down. At this moment, Unityer died and a foreigner became the new Unityer.
In the matter of becoming an alternate captain, the sacrificed captain wrote in his recommendation letter: "...For this glorious company, there is nothing more representative of him than a brave and agile fighter.His tactical literacy and training ability are reliable. My only concern is that he does not approve of our cause, always treats himself as an outsider, disgusts and even opposes our ideals and measures... If it is not a last resort and there is no need to promote him. "
Followed by the order came Inecty social fighters, the new company instructor Guo Ji. Du will not leave anymore. When he walked out of the camp with the order book, when more than a hundred Hert men and women looked at him with piercing eyes, he said silently in his heart: "This is forcing me to die."
"Death is not an easy task. When you are convinced that death is your only ending, besides that kind of inner liberation, there is a mysterious power urging you and demanding that you die worthy."
That year, 24-year-old Du Guangyuan and 21-year-old Guo Ji became the highest commanders of the company. Like them, two million Hert youths of the same age have become middle-level backbones in the military. In the first two months of this war, all professional soldiers were thrown into the abyss. The young and reckless military system was swallowed up time and time again by post-Cold War technology.
In our opinion, Du's war experience can only be described as "miracles", but according to post-war statistics, there are hundreds of thousands, millions of miraculous experiences like him. "If I were to be an international student from the earth, such an identity tag, and put it under the background of a man who was living in Hert at the time, I would only be one of the tens of millions of survivors."
For Hertenan, his experience is just a microcosm of the survivors of the total war, but for us it is an unimaginable legend.
He comfortably picked up the gun and killed the dissident Hertenan. "I started trying to think like Hertenan, and I realized there was no room for compromise."
Hert is not the earth. Here is a highly developed but long-staying civilization in the post-industrial era. Even the most remote rural residents came to the countryside after receiving political education in the industrial era. Their kind of stubbornness is determined by the joint physiological structure and social education.
The Siege of the South is over, he can go back, but he can't give up those who fight with him. "I live for them, live for those who fight together, and live for those who died in battle. If I choose to stay alive, I won't live anymore."
Those who appeal for death have passed by death time and time again. In every battle, he was at the forefront of the queue, and the command was in Guo Ji's hands. It is difficult to say whether it was Guo's proper command or Du's bravery that made the enemy's tactics useless. Perhaps it was also because the sixth month of the war, the youth armies of both sides were ignorant of military affairs. The 197th Company created battle myths one after another. It captured the target after a bloody battle forty minutes in advance, and after repelling a mechanized infantry battalion, it counterattacked and wiped out the enemy. The content of the myth is: Since the seventh month, no one has been killed in the 197th company.
In the Battle of Stalingrad, a recruit can only survive for 24 hours, but in BelHert, such a tragic war has been unfolding on the entire front.
Du has never been a reckless person, all his tactics are sure to be able to effectively kill the most enemies, and the price of these tactics is death. Of course, he has not thought about suicide attacks. This is a simple economic calculation. Compound interest or one-time gain is definitely the former is more beneficial to us. He didn't mind giving himself the most dangerous task, so much so that Guo Ji protested to him: "Every time it seems I want you to die."
"Onan" announced to "Nai" the "general warfare mobilization" against "Nai", and "Nai" also adopted the same policy to counteract it. So the intensity of the BelHert Civil War reached the peak of post-Cold War technology. Even in the case of discovery and destruction, the 197th Company has not been killed in battle.
Although the indifference to death is far greater than that of Humankind, any living entity has one reason or another to live. One by one, the severely wounded men brought the legend of the 197th company to the battlefield hospital, and then passed it back to the frontline from the hospital. The recruits hope to join this magical company, and the veterans hope to survive in the Land of Glory.
Mass survivor bias like the 197th company has a total of 17 companies, but only because the company commander of the 197th company is a foreigner who came across the ocean, it became the only legend.
In the second Battle of Moldis, the two sides began a month-long attack of ground meat. Maybe the Red Army launched an attack on Tuesday, then on Wednesday or Thursday, Unic unity will launch another attack. Thousands of tons of ammunition vented on the opponent's trench, and then watched the tanks rushing out of the trenches and the infantry who climbed up from the trenches. Both sides are like marching ants, tens of thousands of them emerge from the ground when they die.
赫特红军遭遇了一次重大挫折,他们被迫撤出梅杜斯,向贝尔赫特南部转移.一个记不清名字的赫特人从军事法庭要到了这个"叛国者",他的连队(直译为Fight Unity战斗连,一种可以根据战术需要调整装备和人数的小规模战斗部队,人数在100-200人不等.)需要补充兵员,而杜广圆在南域的军事训练已经算得上是"精锐"了,至少他打枪不脱靶.
很久以来,地球智人都以各种各样的方式推演非核状态下的冷战技术的全面战争是怎样一回事.在杜广圆眼里,所有的全面战争都是一个样子:没有生命,只有尘埃.
撤向南方的进程中,只有飞机的轰鸣和跟不上人的炮火.战友换了一批又一批.每天休息,旁边躺下的人都是从未见过的面孔.
在经过近两周的急行军,徒步也好,坐车也好,终于到达了贝尔赫特的南部.然后就在这,一枚迫击炮弹径直落在这位带自己离开的好人胸前,猝不及防地剥开他胸前的防弹衣,撕开他的衣服,最后将他的上半身炸成了碎片.那些肉块落在杜广圆跟前还没有失去机能,还在因为神经的痛楚收缩了最后几下.
战争使人麻木,这是一种自我保护.可如果这样残酷的事情在短短四个月的时间里,每天都发生在一个人面前,他迟早会崩溃,尤其是当他可以逃离这里的时候.
他被国际社找到,可惜离开梅杜斯的时候,没有带回来任何关于使馆人员的证明,只能说:"除了我,都死了,没有一个活下来."
此刻,他只想回家,当他听说地球上有很多人关心他的时候,那种想要回家的心情溢于言表."我马上就要回家了,回家了."
在这,他见到了同学郭霁,一个俄尔森人.
回家这件事在六天之后就化为泡影,团结联成功策反政府军海军,所有主要港口都被第一时间封锁.团结联的军队一点一点地逼近,杜广圆在极度失望中再次拿起了武器.不过他是始终没有在国际社报名,他依然只是一个旅居者.
"在全面战争中,活着就是活着的惩罚,死亡才是人们最渴望的.最困难的事情是求死不能."
一个月的时间里,他从列兵变成班长,又从班长变成排长.身边的战友从相识到埋葬往往不到两天.没有进攻基线,没有防御阵地,他们在哪,就在哪里发动进攻;他们在哪,就在哪里准备守卫.对于杜广圆的经历,人们往往都会说,不幸中的万幸啊,出生入死却毫发无伤.可只有他自己知道,被子弹或者冲击波击中一次,那么五分钟之后,这个人就要变成一堆肉泥.
"又是一场战斗之后,我们连活着的人毫发无伤,别说重伤,连绑绷带的人都没有.可我们都知道,只要跟不上连队移动的脚步,他们只能在那里坐等死亡."
参战到现在,杜广圆已经不知道自己到底为何而战了.在梅杜斯,他多少还有一些"正当"的理由,可在南方,他已经无法理解自己到底在做什么.在一次朝着反对赫特红军的平民游击队开枪的时候,他彻底崩溃了.
"我是为了自己吗?不是.那我是为了别人吗?同样不是.我没有任何参加战争的理由.他们自然可以说是为了消灭他们的所谓的'阶级'敌人,可是我呢?那些活生生的人,看起来和我没有什么区别,甚至有些可爱的面庞,跟我又有什么关系呢?"
又过了一个月,"奈"公布了"阿纳"直接参战的证据,团结联的攻势变缓了.就在这时,连长死了,一个外国人成了新连长.
成为候补连长的事情,已经牺牲的团长在他的推荐信中写道:"...对于这支光荣的连队来说,没有什么比一个勇猛而机敏的战士更能代表他了.他的战术素养和训练能力可靠.我唯一担心的是,他并不认可我们的事业,始终把自己当作一个局外人,厌恶甚至反对我们的理想和措施...不到迫不得已,不需要提拔他."
跟着任命书一同到来的,还有国际社战士,新的连队指导员郭霁.杜广圆不会再离开了,当他拿着任命书走出营帐,当一百多个赫特男女兵目光炯炯地看向自己,他在心里默默说道:"这是在逼着我去死啊."
"死亡不是一件容易的事,当你笃定死亡是你的唯一结局的时候,那种内心的解脱之余,有种神秘的力量在催促着你,要求你死得其所."
那年,二十四岁的杜广圆和二十一岁的郭霁成了这个连队的最高指挥.和他们一样的是,已经有两百万名年龄相仿的赫特青年人成为了军队中层骨干.这场战争在前两个月就将职业军人全部扔进了深渊,青涩而莽撞的青年军事体系一次又一次地被后冷战战争技术吞噬.
在我们看来,像杜广圆的战争经历只能用"神迹"来形容了,然而跟据战后的数据统计,像他这样神奇的经历有几十万,几百万."如果拿掉我是一个地球留学生,这样一个身份标签,放到一个当时生活在赫特的智人的背景下,我只是数百万幸存者之一."
对于赫特人来说,他的经历只是全面战争中幸存者的缩影,但对我们来说是无法想象的传奇.
他心安理得地拿起枪杀死那些持不同政见的赫特人."我开始试着像赫特人一样思考,我才意识到没有任何妥协的余地."
赫特不是地球,这里是一个后工业时代高度发达却长期原地踏步的文明,哪怕是最偏僻的乡村居民都是接受了工业时代的政治教育之后才来到乡村的.他们的那种固执是生理结构和社会教育共同决定的.
南方之围结束了,他可以回去了,但他放不下和自己在一起战斗的人."我为他们活着,为战斗在一起的人活着,为战死的人活着.如果我选择苟且偷生,我就不再活着了."
诉求死的人却一次又一次和死亡擦肩而过.每一次战斗,他都是站在队列最前沿的人,指挥权落在了郭霁手里.很难说清楚到底是郭霁的指挥得当,还是杜广圆的勇猛让敌人的战术失效.也许也因为战争到了第六个月,双方的青年军对军事懵懵懂懂.197连创造了一个又一个战斗神话,提前四十分钟在血战后拿下目标,在打退一个机械化步兵营后反冲击全歼敌军.而神话的内容是:从第七个月之后,197连无一人阵亡.
斯大林格勒战役中,一个新兵只能存活24个小时,而在贝尔赫特,如此惨烈的战争在整条战线上一直上演着.
杜广圆从来不是一个莽撞的人,他所有的战术都是一定能够有效杀伤最多数的敌人,而这些战术的代价是死亡.当然他没有想过自杀式袭击,这是一个简单的经济学计算,复利和一次收益,自然是前者更加吃香.他毫不介意将最危险的任务交给自己,以至于郭霁向他抗议:"每次都好像是我要你死."
"阿纳"向全球做战争公布针对"奈"的"局部战争全面动员","奈"也以相同的政策进行反制.于是贝尔赫特内战的烈度达到了后冷战技术的顶峰.即使是在发现即毁灭的情况下,197连没有出现过一例阵亡.
尽管对于死亡的漠视远超于地球智人,可任何一个生命体对于活下去都有这样那样的理由.一个个重伤员把197连的传奇带到了战地医院,再从医院再次传回到前线.新兵们希望能够加入这个神奇的连队,老兵们希望能够在荣耀之地苟且偷生.
像197连这样的群体性幸存者偏差有17个连队,但只因为197连的连长是一位飘洋过海而来的外国人,外来的和尚会念经,这在哪里都适用.
第二次梅杜斯战役,双方开始了长达一个月的绞肉对攻.也许周二是红军发起冲击,那么周三或者周四,团结联就要发起另一次冲击.几千吨的弹药宣泄在对方战壕上,然后再眼睁睁地看着战壕背后冲出的坦克和从战壕里爬起地的步兵.双方都像是行军蚁,死了一个就有数万个从地下冒了出来.