Chapter 262 The Helplessness of Frontline Soldiers
Major General Bartland slumped down in his seat. He had lost the only trump card in his hand. He was a little annoyed. He didn't understand why his superiors were willing to put the nuclear bomb in the Bagan Fortress but not in the Barcelona Fortress Base. When the time came, he could Press to activate the nuclear explosion and die together with the enemy.
However, Major General Bartland thought so, but he did not have the courage to press the button to activate the nuclear explosion.
Major General Bartland looked at the status screen, listened to the reporter in the command room, etc., reporting on the current battle situation.
The MS troops of the Tianyi Mercenary Group have been advancing step by step, and the ground troops have also begun to invade the Barcelona Fortress base under the cover of the MS troops.
The adjutant behind Major General Bartland reminded him that there was a regiment-level fleet on standby behind the fortress base, and he could lead this friendly fleet to escape the scene.
Major General Bartland nodded, and then immediately continued to dispatch troops so that when these troops could resist, they would cover his retreat.
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Lieutenant Britney looked at her hands being handcuffed and looked up at Warrior Gundam H.
Angelica looked at Lieutenant Britney at the bottom of the screen, and then controlled Warrior Gundam H to return to the scene.
"Stop looking, let's go." Britney was pushed from behind. Under the leadership of the Tianyi mercenaries, she walked into a prisoner tent. She saw many captured colleagues, some with their wounds bandaged, some with their heads down. Everyone squatted together.
Britney saw her comrades who had once formed a team with her, squatted down next to him and asked, "Besides you, is there anyone else?"
"Many of them are in other prisoner tents."
At this time, another male prisoner with handcuffs came in.
Britney recognized him: "Rand, are you still alive?" Britney couldn't believe that a fellow adjuster was still alive.
"Britney, you can live, why can't I live?"
"No, when I returned to the fortress base, General Bartland told me that you were all killed."
"Actually, I pressed the escape button earlier before the machine exploded. As a result, I was caught by the Tianyi mercenaries not long after I escaped."
Rand plopped down next to Britney.
Some prisoners were talking in the tent.
"I really don't know how the Tianyi Mercenary Group will deal with us?"
"I just hope we are not handed over to the guerrillas."
"If that's the case, I'd rather die."
"Those are a group of barbarians. They are simply devils born of an evil regime."
Brittney and Rand listened to the conversation of these soldiers, and Rand whispered in Brittney's ear: "I heard some conversations of the Sky Wing mercenaries before, and the Bagan Fortress was taken down by another fleet of theirs."
Britney looked at Rand in surprise.
"Don't look at me like this. If it were another army, I really wouldn't believe it. But look at the Tianyi Mercenary Group. In just a few hours, the troops outside the Barcelona Fortress Base and their defense systems were almost completely destroyed by them. It collapsed. In the end, almost all the troops from the fortress base were dispatched. After several hours of fighting, we were also defeated. We were beaten back by them and the Bagan Fortress was captured by them. It is probably not fake."
"Rand, how long do you think the fortress base can last?"
"If he can last for 24 hours, even if Major General Bartland is very capable, I'm afraid this guy will be ready to escape now."
On the other side, Major General Bartland led the escape fleet to escape from the north of the Barcelona Fortress base.
While Major General Bartland was still able to command, he mobilized some troops to continue the resistance.
After the escape fleet had moved away from the Barcelona Fortress base, Major General Bartland had given up.
After the Barcelona Fortress base lost the mobilization of its commander and fell into a leaderless state, it was not clear whether to continue to resist or surrender.
Several Jie Gang were on the wide walkway, shooting at the enemy MS in front of them.
Several electromagnetic gun tanks from the ground forces of the Tianyi Mercenary Regiment fired several electromagnetic bombs that penetrated the body of the Flying Cat MS, causing the Flying Cat MS to fall backwards.
As soon as the pilot escaped from the cockpit, a Tianyi mercenary pointed a rifle at his head, and he could only raise his hands in surrender.
Many Tianyi mercenary ground individual combat teams have begun to control many facilities and consoles in the Barcelona Fortress base.
Many defenders in fortress bases began to surrender one after another.
When the combat team was in the control room, they found that the commander, Major General Bartland, had already fled, and used the broadcaster and communication line to inform the American troops who were still fighting.
"The command room is already under our control. Your commander, Major General Bartland, has already escaped from the Barcelona Fortress Base. You have been abandoned. There is no need to fight anymore. Surrender. Those who surrender will not be killed, and those who do not surrender will die. 5 Those who give up resistance within five minutes will be treated in accordance with international law. Those who are still resisting after five minutes will be killed without mercy."
In less than five minutes, the American troops gave up resistance and announced their surrender.
Commodore Andre, the commander of Yue Yangchun's fleet, was making arrangements to take over the Barcelona Fortress base, dispatching subordinates to deal with the surrendered prisoners, and watching the battle reports being uploaded.
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Britney and all her colleagues sat in a military truck and were sent to the Barcelo Fortress base. They were either held in a detention camp within the base or placed in a temporary prisoner camp.
Britney learned from her surrendered colleagues that the general had already fled with his cronies.
The military truck drove into the Barcelona Fortress base, and Britney, like everyone else, got out of the car with handcuffs and shackles on her legs.
Britney and many of her colleagues arranged to wait on the grass.
At this time, Britney and many of her colleagues exclaimed when they saw the Tianyi mercenaries, saying they saw children.
Britney saw Angelica and the older little boy next to her.
Rand, who was next to Britney, said: "I can't believe that the Tianyi mercenary group would put children on the battlefield."
"That little girl is the pilot of Gundam."
"What!" Rand exclaimed, looking at Britney with a shocked expression as if she was saying, are you kidding me?
Britney glanced at Rand and explained a little.
"The slightly older boy next to the little girl is probably also a Gundam pilot."
"Britney, I really can't believe that we were defeated by children. Are the new humans you mentioned the same as us..." Rand looked at his colleagues nearby and found that he had not noticed them.
Whispering next to Britney: "Are they really adjusted differently from the rest of us?"
"It should be different. The biggest difference is that we are human-made products, and they are natural products."
At this time, a mercenary major held a radio and said to the prisoners: "We will temporarily detain you and then hand you over to the guerrilla forces to deal with you."
The prisoners were very restless at this time.
"Leave us to them, why don't you kill us now."
"I don't want to be tortured by these barbarians."
The mercenary major made a gesture, and the mercenaries fired directly into the air to silence the protesting prisoners.
"Why do those guerrilla troops torture you and treat you badly? You will know after watching these clips."
There were many three-dimensional projection screens on site.
The image on the screen shows how the American troops massacred local villagers in South America or local citizens in some towns. The methods were so cruel that even children were not spared.
"We didn't do this."
"Every wrong has its owner, and every debt has its owner. If we want to settle accounts, we have to go to those people to settle the accounts. What does this have to do with us?"
"Why do bad things happen when they do it and we bear the consequences?"
Another round of shots fired into the air to silence the prisoners.
The mercenary major continued: "No matter what the reason is, in the hearts of normal-minded South American mainlanders, you are the invaders."
Although Britney and Rand are mediators, their minds are broader and clearer than others. War is always started by those above. No matter which side it is, it is always the common people who suffer. Those who come down are the ones who fight.
The sacrifices of the soldiers on the front line are only to achieve the achievements and interests of the people above.
These soldiers fighting on the front line, no matter what, have to bear the anger of the local people who are suffering. The local guerrillas are composed of local people. Resentment and anger towards them are inevitable, and they are just shields for their superiors.
Rand said: "We, the frontline soldiers, are the only ones who can bear the wrath of the local people."
"This is just the helplessness of our frontline soldiers." Britney said helplessly.