Chapter 285: Freeloaders
Lin Wen was very angry, but he didn't argue with him.
When he kills people, he mainly considers whether it is right or wrong, and secondly whether it is useful to him. It has little to do with whether the person has offended him.
"Forget it. We've already secured our victory this time. If Shizhou doesn't get any evidence of Changshan County's invasion in three days, they can go to hell."
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There was a busy scene in Quzuo Town. More than 40,000 people were moving flour in the warehouse. One truck after another loaded with flour drove out of the town, and a 50-kilometer-long flour road soon appeared.
Fang Dashan specially formed more than ten patrol teams to ensure safety on the road. Qin Luoshuang deployed a large number of sentries and spies along the way to guard against sudden attacks.
At this time, the news that Shizhou was attacked by a powerful army of unknown forces had spread.
Eyes of all forces, large and small, near Shizhou have arrived one after another, and even some forces outside the empire came to spy, but they did not dare to get close, otherwise they would be discovered by the scouts or agents densely distributed on the periphery.
Half a day later, Qin Luoshuang's agents caught a strange spy who was sneaking around nearby. When he was caught, he stammered and couldn't explain his origins. He only said that he had important information to tell the commander of the army.
So, he was brought before Qin Luoshuang.
The spy was shocked that the commander of the army was such a young and beautiful woman, and only came to his senses after being hit by the butt of a gun by the agent behind him.
"Just tell me if you have something to say."
Qin Luoshuang didn't care either. She was arranging the sabotage work of various special agent teams in Shizhou.
These agents will attack major cities in Shizhou under the guise of the Golan Renaissance Party. The targets of the attacks are all official government offices. During the attacks, they will shout the slogan of the Golan Renaissance Party: "Death to Heaven, Rise of Golan, Charge for the New Land!"
By pretending to be a particularly fanatical believer, he could attract Shizhou's attention and thus serve as a cover for Changshan County.
The spy stuttered for a long time before finally speaking, "Hello, Commander. I am a messenger from the Second Imperial Guards. Our commander does not want to fight you, but the Governor is pressing us. We have no choice but to fire a few blank shots at the front. Please don't misunderstand me."
Qin Luoshuang thought for a while and felt that what he said was highly credible.
He nodded and said, "I understand. We will also organize people to fire blanks at the front of the battle, but we won't fight. Please take this message back to the Legion Commander."
The spy bowed respectfully.
"Thank you, it's a pleasure working with you."
Just one hour after the spy left, the intelligence officer detected a large group approaching, and the atmosphere in Quzuo Town became tense.
Although he had received intelligence long ago, Fang Dashan did not take it lightly. He led the First Army to line up outside Quzuo Town to meet the enemy. The Second Army and the human security forces continued to transport flour, but were ready to join the battle at any time.
The enemy did not get too close, they stopped more than ten kilometers away.
Fang Dashan estimated that there were about 90,000 people on the opposite side. If they were to fight, it would be a tough battle.
Twenty thousand of the ninety thousand men were separated and marched forward a few kilometers. Suddenly they started shouting and firing into the air.
"It's just as the Chief of Staff said."
Fang Dashan thought to himself that as soon as he saw the opponent's formation, he knew they had no intention of attacking.
"The army of Seokju has no sense of honor."
He asked most of the soldiers of the First Army to go back and move flour, and a small number of soldiers followed them in front of the battle and fired blanks.
In order to appear to have a large number of people, he made a lot of scarecrows, put some clothes on them, and mixed in with the soldiers to make up the numbers.
The other side fought for a while and then went back.
Wang Jing immediately sent a telegram to the Governor-General's Office: "Our army has engaged the enemy and achieved a great victory in the first battle."
The Governor-General's Office replied: "Keep up your efforts and eliminate the invading enemy as soon as possible. Be sure to preserve videos, photos, and other evidence."
When the officers saw this call, they were furious.
"The Governor's Office really doesn't treat us as human beings, but as tools."
"Yes, they asked us to suppress the bandits without even asking about our casualties."
Wang Jing said coldly, "This trip has cost us a lot of manpower and resources, and we've lost three mechanized divisions. We absolutely cannot do this in vain."
"We can't rely on the Governor's Office anymore. We can only rely on ourselves."
"People would shoot guns along the way, then rob towns along the way and say it was done by bandits."
The officers then smiled happily: "The commander is wise!"
"Also," Wang Jing continued, "you should film their looting and their flags. It's best to record their patterns of action and slogans on audio or video. This is both the evidence the Governor wants and proof of our participation in the war. This will prevent anyone from accusing us of faking it. It was obvious that we all fought for real. Remember that?"
The officers answered in unison: "Remember!"
"Go ahead."
The officers rushed out in a swarm. It was rare to be able to rob openly.
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Quzuo Town.
The operation went much more smoothly than expected.
All the difficulties that were expected were not encountered. The main force of the enemy was stationed more than ten kilometers away. The two sides had a tacit understanding and only fired blanks, and lived in peace.
Fang Dashan didn't even want to waste bullets, so he stopped firing his gun and only took a whip with him every time he went into battle.
But they were protested by the other party, who believed that they were not serious at all and their acting was too fake.
Lin Wen almost laughed out loud when he heard the report. He gave Fang Dashan an idea to put the firecrackers in an iron barrel so that the sound would sound like machine gun fire.
Fang Dashan tried it and found that it was true.
From then on, whenever the two sides went into battle, the Changshan County side only brought firecrackers and iron barrels. However, the other side praised them for their realistic performance. They even specially sent several large boxes of firecrackers when the firecrackers seized in Quzuo Town were used up.
Later, due to the shortage of manpower, all the soldiers going into battle became puppet masters. They carried a scarecrow on a shoulder pole and a basket of bandit flags on their backs. When they went into battle, they first filled the basket with flags and then picked up bamboo sticks.
Dozens of scarecrows dressed in bandit clothes are carried on bamboo sticks. With two bamboo sticks in each hand, there are dozens of scarecrows.
In this way, one person becomes dozens of people, and under the flags all over the ground, it feels like an army of thousands.
Accompanied by the majestic sound of firecrackers, a battle of the century began.
They fought fiercely for three days. Wang Jing received frequent reports of victory, having killed a million enemies, but the bandits remained standing and instead robbed more than a dozen villages and towns along the way.
Gu Xuanli finally couldn't sit still anymore. He put aside the front-line anti-bandit battle and personally came to the Second Imperial Army Corps to supervise the battle.
Now it was Wang Jing's turn to be unable to sit still. He immediately called a meeting of all the officers to discuss countermeasures.
Everyone looked at each other, unable to think of any good solution.
But if a real fight came to this, they were unwilling to do so. The enemy could easily wipe out three mechanics, so they were definitely not easy to deal with. If they had to chew on such a hard bone, at least half of their men would die.
They won't do anything that will cause them to lose a lot of money.
The usual behavior pattern of the Second Imperial Army Corps is to get things for free and take advantage without suffering any loss.
However, the governor was going to the front line to supervise the battle, and the play could not go on.
What should I do?
In the end, it was their freeloader leader who came up with a solution.
"How about this," Wang Jing said, "Send someone to contact the enemy and have them attack us with all their might. We'll feign defeat and flee."
The officers' eyes lit up and they all praised: "The commander is wise!"
"We've won so many battles, it's okay to lose once in a while, right?"
"That's right, we can still choose an escape route. Those poor, broken townspeople really don't have much meat. We can choose the most lucrative escape route. This time, we must have a good robbing and make up for all the losses!"
All the officers burst into laughter.
However, the messenger returned and the other side rejected their proposal.
"What?"
Wang Jing slammed the table and stood up.
"Why would they refuse? Don't they know this is a great victory? With just a little manipulation and packaging, wouldn't it be a great achievement to bring it back? Wouldn't the governor of Changshan County reward them handsomely for this?"
The signalman said tremblingly, "Commander, they said they were short-handed. Their cooperation with us in the exercise delayed their flour transportation. They haven't finished moving the flour in three days."
Wang Jingcai sat down and said with a smile, "So you want some benefits. Tell them that we will leave our guns and ammunition behind when we escape, and we promise not to treat them unfairly."
This time the other party agreed to their plan.
The two sides agreed to start the battle in two hours, and the officers immediately went back to make preparations.
Their belief is that the freeloaders must not be freeloaders.
(End of this chapter)
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