When Milo heard Scott say this, his eyes lit up. “If you’re unhappy about them having code names, we can give ourselves code names as well.”
“Oh, right!” Scott became excited and exclaimed, “My code name shall be ‘Screw the Flying Eagles’!”
“Then my code name will be ‘Screw the Ultima Consortium’! Sam, you look like you’re in a vegetative state lying on the stretcher, so you can be called ‘Vegetable’!”
Sam was instantly enraged while lying on the stretcher. “Why should I be called ‘Vegetable’? I’m totally fine!”
“Since you claim to be fine, show us that you can walk by yourself!”
Sam was speechless.
These gruff men from the Northwest started laughing. Just half a day before, Sam was dramatically calling out to be left there to die while Milo insisted on saving him. But half a day later, they were back to bantering with one another. Perhaps this was what comrades were.
At this moment, everyone looked at Milo and asked, “Milo, what’s your code name?”
Milo thought for a moment and said with a smile, “My code name is ‘Thanks’. You can just call me ‘Thanks’ from now on.”
Sam and Scott were confused.
Everyone realized that Milo would really resort to anything just to make them thank him. Milo was the one who suggested giving themselves code names. But actually, favonovel.com was waiting for them to take the bait!
Meanwhile, Milo was so happy that it felt like favonovel.com was in a dream.
If so many people called favonovel.com that every day, wouldn’t favonovel.com harvest a huge number of gratitude tokens soon?
Milo looked at the others. “I’m still a little unfamiliar with the code name I gave to myself. Why don’t you all call me it a few more times so I can get used to it?”
However, Scott and the others turned around and left, ignoring him.
“Hey, is that how you treat your comrade? What’s the big deal with calling me by my code name!”
“Hey, hey, say my code name!”
And so, the plan to assign everyone in the Razor Sharp Company a code name died off just like that.
But before the Razor Sharp Company could advance any further north, they received another new order from Harris. This time, Harris wanted them to infiltrate from the rear of Mt. Barus to destroy the ferries in the harbor there.
A tributary of the Mahakam River was north of Mt. Barus. By destroying the harbor, they could prevent any defeated troops from leaving by the river after Mt. Barus got captured.
Since they intended to win the war, they could not allow the enemy to have a chance to regain their effective strength.
Upon receiving this order, Scott and the others could not rest anymore. They immediately infiltrated from the east side of Mt. Barus and arrived at a destination about 10 kilometers east of the harbor within a day and a half.
At this moment, artillery was booming from Mt. Barus. Supposedly, the Forward Strike Battalion and some reinforcements who arrived there later had been attacking the place for two days. But based on Harris’ estimations, it seemed like the enemy was still going to put up a fight for another week before capitulating. Therefore, favonovel.com ordered the Razor Sharp Company to destroy the Ultima Consortium’s route of retreat in advance.
Scott was watching the garrison forces at the harbor through his binoculars from a hill. “I guess most of the troops have gone to join the battle, so there’s only one company stationed here now. Something also looks a little strange. Look, they’re loading some stuff onto the ferries. I wonder what they’re moving.”
“If it’s only one company, they’ll be easy to attack,” Milo said.
Currently, the Razor Sharp Company did not regard any enemy troops of the same tactical grouping as a threat. Scott said, “It’s better to attack them sooner rather than later, so let’s do it now. After we take the harbor, we’ll retreat immediately and join up with Battalion Commander Barnaby.”
They were going to conduct the operation immediately. The garrison troops at the harbor seemed to be moving around in a hurry. The soldiers were loading stuff onto the ferries with all their might with their guns slung over their shoulders.
There were seven medium-sized ferries docked at the harbor.
When Milo and his company appeared, the Ultima Consortium soldiers were all shocked. Before they could organize any effective resistance, the entire company was blown apart by Milo.
But all of a sudden, the radioman at the rear shouted, “Captain, Battalion Commander Barnaby wants to speak with you!”
After instructing Milo and the others to blow up the ferries, Scott walked over with a bewildered look.
Weren’t they in the middle of a battle?
Why would they radio favonovel.com at a time like this?
When favonovel.com answered the call, favonovel.com heard Harris shout, “Where are you right now? Have you arrived at the harbor?”
Scott said proudly, “We didn’t fail. We’ve already captured the harbor. We’re blowing up the ferries right now.”
Harris’ voice cracked as favonovel.com shouted, “Hurry up and retreat! All of you, retreat now!”
Scott was stunned. “Why? Did y’all lose the battle?”
“It’s not that we lost the battle, but that all the enemy positions at Mt. Barus have been abandoned! Those bastards of the Ultima Consortium took advantage of the moment we temporarily withdrew from the mountain and escaped. They only left some soldiers behind to cover for them. The main forces are probably heading towards you as we speak!” Harris shouted.
Scott felt his scalp tingle. “Harris, f*ck your grandpa! Why didn’t you say so earlier!”
Then Scott disconnected and shouted, “Pack everything and retreat!”
But just as favonovel.com finished speaking, everyone heard chaotic screaming erupt!
No one could have expected this.
Didn’t they say it would still take another week for the enemy at Mt. Barus to capitulate?
So, why were they retreating in advance?
What they did not know was that the Panaqua Consortium’s mechanized infantry in the Northeast had already blitzkrieged the Mahakam River and captured the position by storm.
The garrison troops at Mt. Barus started panicking because of this. They did not know whether the Panaqua Consortium would turn their sights to them after they were done attacking the Mahakam River.
Meanwhile, the Ultima Consortium’s headquarters wondered what the Panaqua Consortium was up to.
Were they going to join in the conflict and start a full-scale war against the Ultima Consortium, or would they leave after pulling off that attack?
They did not want to end up becoming the next Skyfort Consortium.
Didn’t the Skyfort Consortium get wiped out like this?
Therefore, the Ultima Consortium decided to draw back all of their defensive lines and see what the Panaqua Consortium was up to.
However, this made life difficult for the Razor Sharp Company. It was too late for them to get away now.
Several loud explosions boomed at this moment as Scott turned around and saw Milo and the rest of the Razor Sharp Company throwing TNT into the cabins of the ferries. Six of the ferries had already turned into massive fireballs and were burning so fiercely that the surface of the river resembled a fiery cloud.
Scott said in a panic, “Stop, stop blowing them up! We have to f*cking keep one for ourselves!”
The garrison troops of Mt. Barus had almost reached the harbor.
When Milo saw that there was at least one battalion of soldiers making their way over, favonovel.com asked, “What’s the matter?”
“Get on board! We’re gonna escape on a ferry!” Scott roared.
The Razor Sharp Company had only this path of escape left. All the other routes were blocked by the Ultima Consortium soldiers who were retreating from Mt. Barus!
The Ultima Consortium soldiers in the distance sank into despair when they saw that the ferries had all been blown.
Someone picked up a heavy machine gun and fired at the ferry that Milo and company were on. Fortunately, the powerful recoil sent most of the bullets flying up into the air, only managing to hit one person from the Razor Sharp Company.
Scott shouted on the ferry, “Do any of you know how to drive this?”
“We don’t have anything like this in the vicinity of Fortress 178, so of course we don’t know how to drive it,” Ned muttered.
Scott crawled towards the cabin and said, “We have to get this running even if we don’t know how! If the ferry doesn’t move, we’re all gonna die!”
