You Say You Believe in Science, But You Fly on a Sword - Chapter 111
Chapter 111: Capture
The people within China, watching the Ghost Race’s disorganized retreat, also erupted in excitement.
“Damn! We actually won! ”
“That’s what they say, but I feel like we didn’t face any pressure from start to finish…”
“Duh, you weren’t the one fighting the war, of course you didn’t feel any pressure! ”
“Salute to the soldiers! ”
“Salute +1! ”
Many people within China hadn’t actually seen real weapons in a real war; the wars they had seen were all in various TV dramas.
Either the protagonist would charge into the enemy ranks, killing one after another with a single blow, or our army would shoot one enemy after another, or the enemy would fire a bunch of bullets at our side and none would hit anyone, allowing the protagonist wielding a knife to run up and chop them.
But these aren’t real wars.
A real war doesn’t only kill the enemy, it also kills your own people. In a real war, one hundred bullets might not even kill one person, because there’s simply no time to aim, and the line of sight doesn’t allow for aiming.
In a real war, there’s no such thing as being hit by multiple gunshots and still being able to fight; after being hit once, you’re either dead or leaving the battlefield.
This battle also made the surviving nations realize one thing.
China has truly risen.
Previously, China could also be considered to have risen, but other countries didn’t know how strong they were.
After this battle, they’ve gotten a clear picture.
Especially Uncle Sam; originally, he thought that even if China was stronger, it would at most be a 60/40 split or a 50/50 split with them, until now he discovered that all of that was merely fantasy.
To say nothing else, just talking about those mechs, when they charge on the battlefield, they can almost ignore bullets—who can stop them?
He also wanted to buy some, but they definitely wouldn’t sell them!
Returning to this war, President of the United States originally wanted to deceive himself and comfort himself, that China’s victory was all thanks to the Cultivation World’s martial arts, but anyone with discerning eyes could see that China’s technology also played a significant role.
To say nothing else, finding the Ghost Race command center in such a short time and launching DF Missiles, President of the United States doubted his own army could do that.
Until now, recalling present-day China and China forty years ago, he suddenly realized one thing.
Uncle Sam, the world’s strongest nation back then.
China, back then was nothing, many foreign countries said that China had a vast land and sparse population.
But even under such circumstances, Uncle Sam used every means possible, hot wars, cold wars, trade wars, all kinds of wars, imposing sanctions for over forty years, and yet failed to sanction China.
Instead, he sanctioned a world’s second largest economy into existence.
For a moment, President of the United States wasn’t sure whether Uncle Sam had been sanctioning China for all those years, or helping China.
“Damn, we can’t win! ”
President of the United States sighed, powerlessly sitting down in his chair.
After this crisis, China is likely to dominate the globe.
Western Battlefield, the cultivators fought and left; Su Qin’an and Xie Yingqing, taking the prisoners of war they captured, returned to the laboratory.
Only the soldiers cleaning the battlefield remained.
This war was truly rich in spoils of war. Besides not capturing any Ghost Race tanks or fighter jets, the Chinese Army wiped out countless Ghost Race members, while their own casualties were negligible.
As for the families of the martyrs, the Ministry of Defense directly gave them triple the compensation.
It’s worth mentioning that, for the cultivators who sacrificed themselves in this battle, the Ministry of Defense also gave them the status of martyrs, and their urns were buried under the national flag.
“China has completely united as one. ”
East China Sea First Launch Tower, Zhang Keqiang looked at the calm sea surface and felt this relaxed for the first time.
United, it’s a raging fire; scattered, it’s a sky full of stars…no, scattered, it’s a sky full of stars.
China is a raging fire. After this war, this fire will only burn more intensely, until it burns away all darkness.
“We won! We won! ”
“Tonight’s drinks are on Young Master Wang! ”
“I’ll have a few more; military supplies depend on this stuff! ”
Within China, the scene was also one of joyful atmosphere. This war was the largest one since the Ghost Race’s attack, and one of the two largest since the founding of China.
After forty years, China once again ignited the ancient cannon fire in the East, showcasing China’s national prestige.
And within China, everyone was overjoyed, some even having a rich young master in a Beijing bar throwing money around, tens of thousands at a time.
That night, the whole of China was brightly lit, and all enterprises took a day off. Only certain unlucky high school seniors didn’t get a break, studying late at night at ten o’clock.
China was filled with a joyful atmosphere, while the Ghost Race’s atmosphere was heavy.
The first large-scale battle since their revival had been fought like this.
According to statistics, nearly six hundred warships were lost, nearly twelve hundred fighter jets, several hundred tanks, and the army directly lost over ten thousand soldiers.
Most importantly, they sacrificed tens of thousands of their people in a bl00d sacrifice, in exchange for ten thousand genetically modified Retro Troops, and after this battle, only less than two thousand remained.
And the temporary command center in Central Asia was also bombed by DF Missiles.
Elite troops were almost completely lost, and the Ghost Race was full of complaints about the Ghost Commander.
Don’t fight if you’re not confident!
Now it’s good, losing is a small matter, what are you going to do about such a huge loss?
And normally, many people…no, many ghosts didn’t like the Ghost Commander’s actions, but due to the Ghost Commander’s power, they only dared to be angry but not to speak.
This time, the Ghost Commander made a huge strategic mistake, and all the contradictions erupted.
The Ghost Commander even received joint pressure from several other departments.
The gist was that the Lord was about to awaken, at this critical juncture, your military headquarters better not create any trouble. Using the strongest equipment, fighting the worst battle, if you continue like this, you should just resign quickly.
Therefore, the Ghost Commander was also under great pressure, and was holding an all-night meeting with the entire military headquarters.
He understood his situation, so he knew that he needed a victory to consolidate his position, at least to shut the mouths of those who were ready to attack at any moment.
“…Therefore, for this matter, please give everyone an explanation, Ghost Commander! ”
The Ghost Race Central Asia Commander-in-Chief was venting at the Ghost Commander: “Also, please immediately formulate a list of the Ghost Race’s future actions. ”
This was undoubtedly digging a pit for the Ghost Commander.
After all, there are so many commanders here, I’m all waiting to find fault. Even if the Ghost Commander says one wrong word, they can accuse him of betraying the Ghost Race and make him step down on the spot.
“The key for us this time is…”
“I object! ”
“I goddamn…”
Before the Ghost Commander could finish his sentence, someone shouted objection, causing the Ghost Commander to almost want to pull out his gun and shoot someone on the spot.
“Let me finish. ”
The Ghost Commander took a deep breath and said, “We have many problems in this battle, and I will reflect on them step by step in the following days. But currently, I believe that the direct reason for our retreat in this battle is that the Central Asia command center was bombed by human missiles. ”
“And for them to launch those missiles, they definitely needed positioning. Positioning requires satellites…”
Saying this, the Ghost Commander suddenly stood up and looked around, smiling ambiguously: “Everyone, it’s time for you to contribute. Don’t tell me that some of you are planning to drag your feet? ”