Chapter 98, Comrades, follow me and charge!
"Faster, faster! Faster!" Cody shouted loudly.
Beside him, two infantry platoons were moving quickly. These soldiers, still wearing the uniforms of the Union Army, were now reliable troops.
Although they were not as reliable as Cody's old troops, he believed that with his efforts over the past few days, they would be willing to fight for the Governor.
What's more, today's mission is to revive the city.
Caudee was from the Feidong Society and was one of the first soldiers to be recruited to join the Governor's army. Perbov was his old leader.
When Perbov was ordered to form the 2nd Battalion, Cody was promoted and became a squad leader. After the battle to capture Fuxing City, he was elected as a political commissar, wearing a black coat, a red military cap and epaulettes, looking handsome and domineering, which was completely different from the general soldiers' attire.
It is hard to say how much role this suit played in Cody's willingness to take on the job of political commissar.
Of course, he understands his responsibilities better.
To be honest, even after half a day of lessons from the Sisters of Holy Lily on loyalty to the Empire and loyalty to the Emperor, and the Governor-General's subsequent half-day heart-to-heart talk with them, he still wasn't quite clear about how the duties of a political commissar should be performed.
This is what is called forcing someone to do something.
When he first arrived at the company, facing more than a hundred unfamiliar faces, Cody was nervous.
However, his neat clothes, bright red military cap and epaulettes forced him to straighten his chest and force himself to quickly get into the role.
During these days, he had come into contact with every soldier. He now knew everyone's name, their past, and the reason why they joined the army.
In his opinion, he has no special method. He just talks to people, understands what they are thinking, and then tells them what he thinks.
Why do you want to join the army? Because you want to change the world. No one wants to live in this chaotic wasteland full of death and hunger. Now a savior, the Governor, has descended from the sky. We must seize this opportunity. This is the only chance to change our own destiny and the destiny of the whole world.
Why do you say that? Caudy used his hometown, Feidongshe, as an example.
The people of Feidong Society used to live a much worse life than the residents of Fuxing City and the Alliance soldiers. But now, Feidong Society is well fed and well clothed. Everyone lives in solid cement houses, has jobs and industries, and rumbles heavy industrial machines, producing hope in batches.
Those plastic-steel alloys, machines, engines, car shells...when there are more and more of these things, it means that people's lives are getting better and better.
Feidong Society has undergone tremendous changes. Why did these people come to Fuxing City? That's because they want to help the Governor-General bring these earth-shaking changes to Fuxing City.
These words, Coady said to almost every soldier in the company during these days.
He never tires of talking, and his words are sincere.
Then, he set up a soldiers' committee and let everyone express their ideas. He either organized discussions or answered them. Then he selected a dozen of the most suitable soldiers with the most progressive and firm ideas and asked them to assist the squad leaders in their work in various teams.
So, there was a special harvest at that time. A soldier said that there was an underground passage from the inner city to the outer city where he lived before he joined the army. He discovered it by accident and someone was using it for smuggling. He didn't dare to reveal more before because the person who discovered it with him disappeared two days later because he was a big mouth.
And now, he dared to say it out loud.
Then Coady told his old boss the news. Perbov actually made some gains there, and it was said that he had captured a senior official of the Alliance.
Of course, this was just a minor incident, and Coady did not take it too seriously. Instead, he continued to focus on his ongoing conversations and exchanges with the soldiers.
He didn't think he was doing any ideological work. He just conveyed his thoughts and ideas to every soldier sincerely and earnestly through various methods.
Then, he was commended by Captain Yan Fangxu for no apparent reason. Captain Yan Fangxu said that he and his company were the best in ideological work and presented them with a banner.
When he brought back the banner, he was greeted with cheers from the entire company.
This might be the sense of team honor that the Governor had told them about during training.
When Captain Yan Fangxu said that he wanted to select a company to be responsible for the task of distributing food, he immediately communicated with the company commander and enthusiastically signed up to participate in the operation.
During the mobilization, he made it clear to all the soldiers.
It was just a good thing, distributing food to the whole city, so that no one would go hungry; there were rebels and cult members in the city, they were very bad, and they were likely to create chaos with the aim of using the hunger and death of countless innocent civilians to oppose the governor's rule.
What we need to do is to protect food, protect the results, and smash the conspiracy of those traitors and cultists.
The soldiers fully understood the goal of this battle and their morale was high.
This gave Cody another realization: the Governor had said that the soldiers should know why they were fighting.
And just now, they received a new instruction: the convoy responsible for transporting food was attacked when it was transporting food to the No. 2 distribution point under their responsibility, and their support was needed.
Without saying anything, he communicated with the company commander, who then led a platoon to continue the security work at the distribution points where people were already queuing up. He led two platoons, about sixty soldiers, to support the transport convoy.
When he arrived at the scene, he found that there was still gunfire going on ahead.
The people who ambushed the convoy have not succeeded yet.
The soldiers guarding the grain trucks wore different uniforms from them. They should be a platoon of the 3rd Battalion of the Infantry Regiment. They used the vehicles and two houses they had captured as cover to fight the enemy.
They are under a lot of pressure now. There are many mobs dressed in various clothes, holding all kinds of weapons, some simple and some sophisticated, besieging them. There are at least hundreds of them.
Seeing this scene, Cody felt much more relieved.
Fortunately, things did not develop to the point where they were out of control.
He could see that although the comrades of the 3rd Battalion lacked heavy firepower and had to consider the safety of the grain transporters, they could not break through the gap, but at least they had no problem holding on. The rioters could not break through either.
But when he got closer, he found that his previous judgment seemed to be wrong.
Comrades from the 3rd Battalion, the casualties were unusually heavy.
At this time, he saw that among the mob, there were a few guys who were obviously different from the others. They had no weapons in their hands, but there was white wind and mist condensing in their hands.
After these white wind mists are thrown out, they will cause a compressed air explosion, and the impact force is almost equivalent to that of a grenade explosion; the scattered wind blades are also very similar to shrapnel damage.
That should be the so-called cultist.
Coady did not hesitate any longer. He shouted, "Support our comrades! Comrades, follow me and charge!"
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Comrades, go, go, go! Monthly tickets!
(End of this chapter)
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