Chapter 499 Blood Debt
Prosen's Sixth Army Headquarters, an hour after the attack.
A military police lieutenant colonel led three military policemen into the headquarters and came to General Frederick: "General, we found this at the site of the air raid."
The lieutenant colonel snapped his fingers, and a military policeman immediately came forward with the box in hand, opened it in front of General Frederick, and showed the completely charred remains in the box.
Admiral Frederick: "What is this?"
Lieutenant Colonel: "Our demolition experts believe that this is the timing device of the bomb. This is not a simple air strike. Before the enemy plane arrived, the time bomb exploded and created fire and smoke, indicating the target to the enemy plane."
Admiral Frederick let out a sigh of relief.
The military police lieutenant colonel looked puzzled: "General? Why do you look so relieved?"
General Frederick: "There are many legends about Rokossov, including one: he can determine the position of our army through special induction.
"Actually, there are records of some people possessing such abilities in Ant, Carolingian and the United Kingdom, but they are all ambiguous. I originally thought I had encountered the real thing.
"Now these time bombs show that there are guerrillas guiding the enemy's air force. The guerrillas got the intelligence, and then last night a large aircraft flew over our occupied area at night. It should have dropped explosives and timers on the guerrillas.
"In this way, this matter suddenly changed from the category of strange power and chaos to a scientific and logical category."
As soon as the admiral finished speaking, the chief of staff said with an ugly expression: "But now Rokossov's affairs have become ambiguous, closer to those rumors."
Frederick: "Don't scare yourself. Now that you know it was done by the guerrillas, the rest is very simple. Fellow military police, your task is to clean up the guerrillas! Find a way to get those Ant employees in the logistics system to confess , who behaved abnormally last night, it would be better if they could directly confess who is the guerrilla! "
The military police lieutenant colonel saluted General Frederick: "Yes! Guaranteed to complete the mission."
After the military police left, Frederick turned to the chief of staff: "In order to avoid this situation, we asked each unit to stock up on ammunition. Are these ammunition and fuel okay?"
"It's okay." The chief of staff lowered his head and looked at the report in his hand. "Strange to say, all the sites that were attacked this time were all on the same line. It was as if someone was flying through these sites and found them all. Same."
Frederick: "Really? This is indeed a bit strange. If it is a guerrilla report, it cannot be reported only on this line."
"Yes, the same is true for the traitor's report. He can't only report the location of the station on this line." The chief of staff touched his chin with a thoughtful expression, "It's too weird, really weird. I should ask the Air Force, Have any of Ant’s planes flown this route in recent days?”
General Frederick nodded: "You really should ask. Even if you worry too much, it's still good to confirm. Where is the Air Force liaison officer?"
"I'm here, General." The Air Force Colonel seemed to appear out of nowhere and stood beside the two of them.
Admiral Frederick: "I need the activity records of Ant Air Force these days. It's best to get them all and we can send staff to sort them out ourselves."
Air Force Colonel: "I'm afraid this is a bit difficult. We will sort it out and give you the results."
"No, no need, we can just sort it out ourselves."
"Well, I'll try to convince the Air Force Commander."
General Frederick suddenly changed his mind and raised a hand to stop the colonel who was about to make a call: "No! No need, I'll call the commander of Army Group B, and he will talk to the commander of the aviation force. "
Chief of Staff: "It makes no sense. We are not allowed to directly command the air force. Instead, we adopt the liaison officer system. This is His Majesty's way of checking and balancing us. Even looking for the Army Group Headquarters will not change this.
"I heard that the commander of the Ante Front can directly command the air force under his command. This is so enviable."
Frederick nodded in agreement, and then brought the topic back to the original direction: "Since the ammunition and fuel we hoarded are fine, let's use these to launch an attack.
"Rokossov's attack on our logistics is just to make us stop. It shows that he is weak now. We must seize the time and go all out to attack!"
Chief of Staff: "It makes sense. But the artillery shells we reserve are only enough to maintain heavy artillery firepower for about two days. After all, we have just advanced here and don't have much time to accumulate heavy artillery shells."
Frederick waved his hand: "Two days will be enough. Maybe in two days we can pierce through it and see the beach of the inland sea. The person opposite is Rokosov. I watched him the whole time when he was guarding Yeisk. How did we get reinforcements? There was a steady stream of troops.
"It is said that he is the godbrother of the Tsar and is very favored by the Tsar. Any troops he wants will be given by the Ant Command. The railway on the east bank of the river must have been crowded with trains transporting troops.
"There's no telling how many troops we will face in two days!"
The chief of staff hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed with General Frederick: “You are right, no one knows what we will face in two days.
"I will now order the troops to launch an attack with the ammunition and fuel accumulated in their hands! Our original attack plan also included feints in secondary directions. Now we can concentrate the fuel and ammunition used in the feints. The original feints The mobile troops only carry basic ammunition and are stationed in place.”
Admiral Frederick: "Yes, that's it! We must use a swift attack to accomplish our goal, and at least expose Rokosov's flaws, so that when our logistics recovers, we can give him a fatal blow!"
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On October 19, at 1930 hours in the evening, the Ploson Integrated Supply Station "Odin" (radio call sign).
Under the bloody sunset, 1,000 Ant employees who were employed by Prosen and worked here lined up in five rows and looked silently at the fat military police colonel on the "lectern".
The lecture platform was actually a Panzer IV tank. Because it only had a short-barreled gun, it was handed over to the rear security forces and military police, and then became the Fat Colonel's vehicle.
When the Desert Fox became famous, some young officers in Prosen began to use tanks as their own vehicles. After Ant's Rokosov became famous, the trend of using tanks as vehicles really became popular.
And the more senior officers with poor military standards and the less popular they are with the troops, the more they like to do this, as if they are qualified officers as long as they sit on a tank.
The fat military police colonel was one of them.
He stood on the tank and shouted in broken Antese: "I want to know who installed the explosives in the supply depot! We have found the remains of the detonator and know that it was one of you who did it!"
"If you take responsibility for your actions and stand up straight away, I can let other innocent people go!
"If you don't stand up! I will use the eleven-to-one killing method, and kill one of every eleven people! Now, the first one!"
The military police immediately pulled out the eleventh person in the first row. He was a child who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old.
When he was caught by the military police, the child shouted: "Don't come out! Uncle of the guerrillas, don't come out! My brother is also in the guerrillas! Tell him for me..."
Gunfire rang out.
The fat military police colonel blew the muzzle of the Luger pistol with satisfaction and said to the military police: "Throw the body into the pig pen, the pigs are eating meat today."
Two gendarmes dragged the child's body away, leaving a scarlet trail of blood.
Colonel: "The courage is commendable! But such a brave boy died in vain and became pig food just because you guerrillas were greedy for life! He died because of you, because of you!"
One thousand - 999 Ant employees were silent, looking at the domineering military police colonel with cold eyes.
Colonel: "Humph, your greed for life and fear of death are surprising! Then the next one!"
Immediately, a middle-aged man with half-white hair was pulled out.
"Do you have anything to say? Old man? You must be more sensible than a hot-blooded child."
The old man looked at the colonel: "Yes, I'm sensible. My grandson had a fever, so that's why I didn't retreat. In such a cold weather, I was afraid that he would die on the road.
"I joined your mercenary team just to support him. I have betrayed my neighbors, my neighbors, and the whole city. Do you think the guerrillas will stand up for me? No, Colonel, they won't. They'll just watch me die."
As soon as he finished speaking, the colonel pulled the trigger.
"Keep it going," he said irritably, "Everyone is always like this! Why don't you cry and beg for mercy? Which of you will cry and beg for mercy?"
The 998 Ant people were silent, but the silence was thunderous.
"Then let me ask another question," the colonel gritted his teeth and said, "Let me ask you, who saw someone acting abnormally last night? As long as you speak out, the Prosen Empire will not treat you badly!"
No one answered.
The colonel paced back and forth and continued to question: "Who saw it? Even if it was just to catch a glimpse of something!"
Suddenly, someone said: "Give up. After today's bombing, we can all see that you are about to fail. It's going to rain soon, and then winter is coming."
"You will fail in the winter!"
"Who said that?" The fat colonel was overjoyed, "Catch him!"
Soon, a man in his late thirties was brought to the tank.
Fat Colonel: "Your mobilization method is very good! You are the guerrilla!"
The male laughed loudly: "How I wish I was! I'm not afraid to tell you that I have been working hard these days, and I used clothes hanging to dry in the dormitory to write words. Today they finally saw my words! Hahahahaha!"
"It's you!" The fat colonel raised his hand and pulled the trigger, but the gun jammed.
"Damn it!" He was furious and pulled the slide of the Ruger pistol wildly, finally pulling out the unfired bullet and loading it again.
He raised the gun a second time and pulled the trigger.
But the gun still didn't go off!
The fat colonel pulled the slide frantically for the third time. After troubleshooting, he raised his hand and pulled the trigger. However, the hammer clicked and the bullet did not go off. This time it seemed that the primer had failed.
"Damn it!" The colonel cleared the obstacle for the fourth time——
The men were still laughing: "guerrillas! Are you watching? Let's laugh at the enemy's incompetence together! Ah guerrillas! Take me away quickly!"