This is the heaviest loss Nicholas has suffered since he led the team.
A six-person reconnaissance team sent in advance, two four-man reconnaissance teams, and one team member who was killed this morning.
As soon as they reached the outskirts of Rama City, fifteen team members were already dead.
There were no minor injuries, no serious injuries, all were killed in action.
Nicholas now needs to think calmly and make an extremely important judgment: whether to continue moving forward or to retreat.
This is the time when a commander is most tested.
It takes courage to keep moving forward and fight bravely; at the same time, it is also a kind of courage to retreat when faced with difficulties and stop losses in time.
Anyone who likes to play games knows that safe evacuation is another kind of blow to the enemy. At least it is much better than blindly exploring the way with your face and then losing your head in vain.
This is what the Thirty-six Stratagems of taking the best approach mean.
Among them, breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, fighting bravely are the hits; surrendering is the hit.
However, if you are scared off by the bluff and waste an extremely important and critical opportunity, not only will you be stupid and incompetent, but the team members who sacrificed for this operation will also die in vain.
Very few people can encounter such a complicated situation and need to make their own decisions, and most people who do encounter it simply close their eyes, focus on it, and just find a direction to wander.
Nicholas also wanted to play around like this, but he still had hundreds of people with him.
Nicholas's bottom line is that even if he can risk his own life, he must not be irresponsible for the lives of others.
Bill's team is back, but Bill can't help at all in this regard.
Bill has not even completed K-12, and his intelligence is not enough to support such difficult thinking.
It's really strange to say that although they are biological brothers, Egger did not inherit the family's excellent physical genes, but instead "mutated" his thinking ability.
By the way, if it were Egg, what would he think?
Nicholas imitated Egger's way of thinking. Sometimes when he was at a loss, he would think about how he would think if Egger was here.
Egger often said: "When thinking reaches a dead end, it is better to turn it over and think about it."
By the way, instead of just thinking about what "we" should do, it's better to think about what the "enemy" should do.
Egger said that, not to mention the heart of blood plague, special infected people are special beings with the same intelligence as ordinary people.
If I were the captain of a special infected person and led a team of special infected people to resist a human army of hundreds of people, what should I do?
First of all, the biggest disadvantage now is that the tens of thousands of infected people who are the biggest reliance and barrier on weekdays have all been mobilized.
The intelligence information reported by the reconnaissance team after returning showed that the entire Rama city was deserted and no trace of the infected was found.
Now, all the infected people in Rama City are crossing the Pars Mountains and rushing towards Jixi Town. At this time, Rama City is the most empty.
Second, my advantage.
My biggest advantage is that I have the final say as to where and when the enemy will launch an attack. This kind of one-way transparency of information is purely cheating on the battlefield. With this advantage, I am not afraid of being attacked.
not good.
The second advantage is that although my soldiers are not large in number, they are all extremely capable elites. In local battles, as long as there is not a big disparity in the number of individuals, they can rely on their super abilities to crush human troops.
The third advantage is that my soldiers are tireless and do not need rest or sleep. They can keep an eye on the human army 24 hours a day. As long as they reveal any flaws, my soldiers can take the opportunity to kill the human soldiers.
It doesn't necessarily have to kill many people at once. The main thing is to use the psychology of panic spreading to disintegrate the morale of the human army.
Third, my disadvantage.
Although the quality of the human army is not high, they are all equipped with weapons with powerful firepower. Once they adopt the turtle tactics, it will be difficult to crack this bone.
Of course, there is a problem facing the human army. They need to search for the Blood Plague Heart in the urban forest with highly complex terrain. Since it is a search, they must disperse the army. At this time, I can send out elite teams to conduct one by one.
Hunt.
When the casualties of the human army reach a certain level, their morale will naturally plummet and they will retreat.
But now I have a fatal problem. I must protect the Heart of Blood Plague. The best strategy is to prevent the Heart of Blood Plague from being discovered by the human army, and the second is to prevent the Heart of Blood Plague from being destroyed after being discovered.
In this case, I first have to hunt down the human troops who may discover the Blood Plague Heart.
Thinking of this, Nicholas had a flash of inspiration, and he really used reverse thinking to find a breakthrough point.
Nicholas took out his mobile phone, took a screenshot of the offline map marked with two small red dots, then opened the picture and selected the editing function that came with the mobile phone.
Nicholas used the editing function to draw three circles on the mobile phone picture, and all three circles happened to pass through the two red dots.
There is a small circle whose diameter is the upper and lower ends of the two red dots. Because this circle is too small, Nicholas thinks that the reference value is not great.
Most of one circle is in the open space outside Rama City, while the other circle just frames the civilian area with the most densely built buildings in Rama City.
Of course, it is possible that the two points are not on the same circle, but the result will not cause too much deviation, because after the circle is drawn, it needs to be analyzed based on the topography of Rama City.
Judging from the current area enclosed by the circle, Nicholas analyzed that there is a 90% probability that the Heart of the Blood Plague is in a civilian area, and a 10% probability in the commercial area where the reconnaissance team was attacked.
The most important piece of information has been analyzed, and now comes the second step, decision-making.
Should we enter civilian areas with more complex terrain to search for the Heart of Blood Plague?
According to Bill's report, the culprit responsible for the total destruction of the third and fourth teams today was a mixed formation of both powerful and agile special infected individuals.
Bill used his body as bait and took advantage of the misjudgment of the specially infected people to kill four agile hunters in one go. However, no one could tell how many special infected people were hidden in Rama City.
Forming a turtle formation can greatly enhance the team's ability to counterattack when attacked, but there is also a certain possibility of falling into a heavy siege, resulting in the entire army being annihilated.
That time in Puduo City, if Ige hadn't led the rescue team to come to the rescue, the entire field brigade would have been buried there. But this time, Ige is leading the team to fight against the wave of infected people in Rama City in Pars Mountain Ridge.
, the entire gospel team no longer has anyone to send. Once it is trapped again, only God can save itself.
It can be said that the risk of fighting is very high.
However, in the outflank plan formulated by Egg this time, although it mentioned that there are abundant supplies in Rama City that can be picked up, it was all for ordinary members. In fact, Egg's strategic intention is very clear, which is to take the opportunity to kill Rama City.
The heart of blood plague.
Egger's attitude has been very clear since the outbreak of the blood plague. Blindly escaping is just a slow wait for death. If you want to survive, you must fight against the infected.
No matter what kind of infected person it is, if you kill one less infected person, the safety of the survivors will increase by one point.
The most important one is the central nervous system of the infected person, the heart of the blood epidemic.
From the perspective of obtaining supplies, there is also an evaluation system to calculate whether the risk is worth it. However, for an important strategic task such as killing the Heart of Blood Plague, the first consideration is not the level of risk, but how to complete it.
As a commander-in-chief and commander, his purpose is not entirely consistent with the interests of the soldiers. The interests of the soldiers are very simple: ease, safety, and money.
As for the commander, many times what he needs to consider is how to complete the task and how to complete the task perfectly.
Nicholas wanted to give it a try, but his subordinates might not be willing to take the risk with him. He weighed it up and decided to hold a pre-war meeting to listen to his subordinates' opinions.
On the outskirts of Rama City, Nicholas summoned a group of people above the captain level, including himself and Bill, a total of 10 people. Nicholas mainly wanted to hear the opinions of these captains on this battle.
To Nicholas's surprise, after Nicholas described the current situation, all the captains agreed that they must continue to move forward.
"There are so many of us, how could we be afraid of them!"
"Have we missed such a good opportunity in vain?"
"Exactly! Are our guns no match for those sharp teeth?"
No one proposed to retreat or anything, everyone was surrounding Nicholas asking when to order the attack. They all stopped outside the city and waited for the boss for a long time.
Nicholas was dumbfounded when he heard his men talking.
What is this situation? Is there really the kind of thing in the world that Iger said, where when encountering a tough battle, all the soldiers are desperately trying to apply for the first army?
Nicholas asked the captains who seemed to him to be overly excited: "What do the team members think?"
"Do you have any other ideas? Everyone is cleaning their guns and reloading, waiting for instructions."
"The crowd was excited, and they were all shouting to avenge their companions."
"Captain, I'm just waiting for your order!"
These captains are not commanders, they are to lead the team on the front line, and no one will risk their lives to lie.
The whole team's opinion is that whoever is a coward is a bastard.
Well, since the team members are so brave, it is impossible for Nicholas to be really timid.
The proportion of specially infected people is one in 10,000, and the total number in Rama City is about 30.
Youdao is to defeat ten groups with one force,
There are hundreds of people here, and they all have spears in their hands. Don't think about detachment at this time, gather everyone together, and go directly.
Before making a decision, Nicholas fully considered the soldiers' concerns about their own interests, but he did not consider that the soldiers not only pursued interests in a narrow sense, but also pursued interests in a broad sense.
Human needs are divided into 5 levels.
After the blood epidemic broke out, the entire social structure was broken, people's original lives fell into chaos and darkness, and everyone's needs returned to the lowest level, the need for survival.
Simply put, as long as you have food and drink, you can survive.
Therefore, in the early stages of the blood epidemic, it was very easy to recruit people. Lots of frightened people came with just a piece of bread.
The Evans Brotherhood takes advantage of people's lowest needs and squeezes them to the limit.
There are a large number of coolies in the camp of the Evans Brotherhood. Those coolies, regardless of gender, old or young, can only meet the minimum survival needs. Although this is the case, in the camp, people can get the most basic living conditions.
At least you can still be alive.
That is just living.
In the Evans Brotherhood camp, for a little bit of water and food, people gave up their dignity and lived lower than dogs.
The second level of requirements is security requirements.
At present, security needs are also extremely urgent. It and the first-level survival needs basically constitute all the needs of the vast majority of people.
However, humans are not animals. After the two most basic needs are met, humans will develop higher-level needs: needs for affection and belonging, needs for respect, and needs for self-realization.
Although the vast majority of the members of the Reclamation Corps are inconspicuous, just like all living beings before the blood epidemic, they can only exist as a background in the great era.
However, even with such existence, what they think about all day long is not only eating and drinking, but also their own safety.
Under Egger's guidance day after day, at least the people in the gospel team understood that this was a war of genocide between humans and the infected. One of the two races must disappear from the earth.
This does not involve any interests, it is simply life and death.
When ideological awareness reaches this level, even the most ordinary members will understand what they should do for humanity, their families, and themselves.
Everyone knows that as long as Rama City is captured, a large amount of supplies can be obtained.
But if there is no material supplies, why not fight?
If Ige hadn't led the field team to burn Puduo City to ashes, once the tens of thousands of infected people in Puduo City overflowed, would there still be a green safety zone in Puduo County?
Don’t even think about it!
In this life, people don't just think about trying to survive. They just think about escaping, and the road to escape becomes narrower and narrower.
When a blood plague breaks out, the ratio of survivors to infected people is 1:9.
Ten months after the blood plague broke out, the ratio of survivors to infected people in Puduo County is now 1:300.
If we continue to escape like this, what will be the ratio of survivors to infected people in another 10 months?
Is it 1:3000?
Or 1:30000?
Leaving aside whether the survivors will be able to organize such an attack by then, I don't even know if I can survive until then.
The high morale built up in daily life inspires everyone, and every member hopes to have a fight with the infected.
Even if humanity were to perish, it would not happen today.
Nicholas climbed onto the roof of a pickup truck. He looked down at his team members and loudly ordered: "Target Rama City, all attack!"
After hearing the order, all the members of the regiment burst into cheers and applause. The regiments moved forward in groups and marched straight into civilian areas.
When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins.
Sometimes morale and confidence can really work wonders.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
Let me give you a preview, the final chapter has been written, it’s less than 1 million words, but it’s not important anymore.
You may find the ending a bit abrupt. In fact, there have been countless foreshadowings and hints before, but I won’t spoil it here.
After finishing this book, prepare to recharge your batteries (sleep), enrich your knowledge (watch movies), and expand your sources of inspiration (play games).
