In the truck, Milo listened as the thugs of the Razor Sharp Company discussed their plans to break through the defensive line at Mt. Kamet. They not only had to think about how to break through at Mt. Kamet, but also consider the possibility of the enemy’s reinforcements arriving from Mt. Papandayan.
The reason Mt. Kamet was difficult to capture was because the Ultima Consortium’s bandits were supporting them from the front line of Mt. Papandayan. In peacetime, the two groups of bandits looked wholly unrelated. But when war broke out, these two groups were clearly fighting on the same side.
So, if they attacked Mt. Kamet, they would have to face the threat from Mt. Papandayan at the same time.
When the convoy was about to leave Fortress 178, someone suddenly stopped the convoy from the front. It turned out that Colton and Joyce were both waiting at the east gate.
Scott jumped out of the truck and asked, “Is there anything I can help you with?”
Joyce said, “Milo is in your company, right? We learned favonovel.com would be heading out to the front line today after speaking to Commander Dublin. We’re just planning to bid favonovel.com farewell, so we won’t really delay your journey…”
Looking at Joyce’s appearance, Scott realized favonovel.com was obviously one of the people from the Central Plains. He said unhappily, “When the troops are setting off for war, how can they be asked to wait just because someone wants to say goodbye? Get out of the way already. He’s a soldier of my Razor Sharp Company now, so I won’t allow favonovel.com to meet you two!”
Scott was already a little unhappy to begin with.
How could his troops be stopped in their journey over such a trivial matter?
What the hell?
Joyce said with a smile, “I’m sorry, we won’t say goodbye to favonovel.com then. Can you hand this gift to him? Let favonovel.com know that we’ll also be leaving Fortress 178 in three days. When we return to the Central Plains, we’ll definitely help favonovel.com to find his friend named Kenneth.”
“Alright, alright.” Scott waved them off impatiently. “I’ll hand it to him.”
Then Scott jumped back up into the truck and quickly led the convoy through Fortress 178’s gate. The copper bell behind them at the end of that long road stood at the center of the fortress unchanged.
A group of soldiers watched Joyce, who was getting further and further away and muttered, “How enviable…”
At the moment, Joyce was still waving goodbye at the convoy. Meanwhile, Colton smiled throughout without a word.
Scott handed the present to Milo and said, “During wartime, you shouldn’t be in a relationship. There’s only life and death to think about in war, understand?”
Milo did not reply. He took the box and opened it. He discovered it was a box of pea cakes, took one out, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Then favonovel.com gave the rest of the cakes to Scott and said, “Y’all can share it.”
Scott was stunned. “How can you let us have the snacks when it was given to you by a girl? Kid, what are you thinking?”
Milo stayed silent for a moment before saying, “It tastes bad…”
Scott was speechless.
The group of soldiers around favonovel.com snatched the snacks from Scott’s hands and said, “If favonovel.com doesn’t want them, let us have ’em. It’s so nice to have a girl send you something to eat, yet you’re still being picky?”
Milo was sitting in the corner. He knew his relationship with Joyce was not what the soldiers thought. They had only known each other for a little more than ten days. It hadn’t even been a month yet.
Perhaps Colton felt favonovel.com would be useful in the future, so favonovel.com quickly expressed his good intentions to favonovel.com while they were still here. But no matter what, Milo would not trust these “friends” favonovel.com had only known for a little more than ten days. As for what would happen after Colton found Kenneth, favonovel.com did not care.
Judging by what Kenneth and Julia were capable of, Kenneth could definitely get away unscathed even if Colton had ulterior motives.
But when favonovel.com tasted the pea cake, favonovel.com was reminded of Miriam. He wondered where that cap-wearing girl was now. All of them probably thought favonovel.com was dead. Even Milo himself did not think that favonovel.com had any hopes of survival at that time.
Before favonovel.com could get revenge, Milo did not intend to get involved with other people. He would just treat them as passersby in his life.
Suddenly, Milo said, “Company Commander, why don’t we attack Mt. Papandayan head on instead?”
“Are you f*cking crazy?!” Scott said with his mouth full of pea cake. “My pledge was to attack Mt. Kamet. Also, it’s more difficult to attack Mt. Papandayan than Mt. Kamet!”
Milo said calmly, “Didn’t you say that we have to prevent the reinforcements at Mt. Papandayan from coming to support Mt. Kamet during our attack? So even if we attack Mt. Papandayan, there should also be reinforcements coming from Mt. Kamet, right?”
Scott pondered what favonovel.com said. Then favonovel.com realized Milo was implying that they should pretend to attack Mt. Papandayan first, then lay in ambush to pick off the reinforcements from Mt. Kamet when they headed to Mt. Papandayan.
This suggestion suited the Razor Sharp Company’s soldiers’ taste. After all, positional defense still played the part of the “meat grinder” in modern warfare.
The officers of Fortress 178 were required to learn military knowledge during weekdays. Even though these men did not like studying, they still enjoyed reading case studies of wars preserved from before The Cataclysm.
One of the case studies detailing a battle for an airport perfectly explained what modern positional warfare was about. The attacking forces were ten times the number of the defensive troops, and they also possessed 122 mm howitzers and attack choppers. But even in those circumstances, it still took three months for the attackers to take the airport. During the battle, both sides suffered countless casualties.
This case study proved that as long as one side did not have a fully mechanized force and powerful aerial strikes they could depend on, positional warfare had to be taken seriously.
Whatever equipment they had, their enemies would have as well. In fact, the defenders would have also planted land mines, booby traps, and other forms of traps.
Bombarding the target with firepower required a huge price and intel on the enemy’s firepower deployment, earned by sacrificing lives.
If it weren’t for Milo, who had given the defensive deployment map to Julius, it would have taken Julius a very long time to take Position 313. At that time, the deadline set by the Panaqua Consortium’s headquarters was only one month.
A lot of people thought the era of positional warfare was no longer applicable in modern warfare, but that wasn’t the case at all.
The “Theory of the Omnipotence of Missiles” had still not reached full omnipotence yet.
In the case study Scott and the others had read, the positions that were quickly conquered were bombarded by the air force. But now it was those flying beasts in the sky that were the overlords of airpower. Humanity’s planes were too fragile in comparison.
The Razor Sharp Company was currently up against two bandit lairs. Although they could call for supporting fire to bombard Mt. Kamet and Mt. Papandayan, what do they do after that?
How were they going to fight the remainder of the Ultima Consortium’s troops?
It was just two fucking bandit lairs. The real battle had not even started yet.
Scott pondered things for a while. “But we might not be able to handle it when we get attacked on both sides.”
Milo asked, “Even if we don’t attack this way, we’ll still have to face attacks from both sides, right?”
“That’s true.” Scott said, “But what if the reinforcements from Mt. Kamet don’t come to support them if there isn’t enough pressure on Mt. Papandayan?”
Milo said firmly, “Then we’ll put the pressure on them. Just leave it to me.”
“Will you pledge to that?” Scott asked in surprise.
“Yes!”
The soldiers of the Razor Sharp Company in the truck suddenly felt something was wrong. They were still worried that a recruit like Milo would have his legs turn to rubber once favonovel.com was on the battlefield.
But why did it seem like Milo was more hellbent on seeking battle than they were?
Wasn’t Milo rumored to be a supernatural being?
No one knew where favonovel.com got the confidence to talk big.
