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Chapter 1621 The Prince's Frontline (First Update, Please Subscribe)
The coldness of iron and the boundlessness of bloodthirstiness!
This was the day when the war machine was truly put into motion for the first time.

Although Jakarta began to express its desire for dialogue and seek help from the international community through various channels since May 5, the Soviet Union's attempt to break through the blockade failed.

The whole world was silent.

Even though people of justice are shouting and showing support there, their support is meaningless.

After all, as we all know, talk is just talk.

For Jakarta, every day is the end of the world. Or rather, they are wandering in the hope of the end of the world every day.
But only God knows when the heavy blow will fall.

In fact, everyone knows that the iron fist will definitely fall because the SEA is mobilizing, from the navy to the air force, and from the air force to the army.

Even the strategic bombers in the Indian Ocean have entered combat readiness duty, awaiting orders.

At the same time, the recruits arrived at the military camps one after another, and many of them even came back from faraway foreign countries.

"No one backs down from war!"

In the TV news in Europe and the United States, people can always see a group of SEA young people singing in foreign airports. They face the call-up calmly. No matter where they are, as long as they belong to the mobilization wave, they will take the initiative to return to their country.

This is true for young people living abroad, and it is also true for young people in China.

Everyone is equal in the face of military mobilization.

Even the general's son would be mobilized. There were no exceptions or special cases.

At the age of 21, for Li Yixuan, who just turned 21, he is no exception.

On this day, with the issuance of the mobilization order, he, as a reserve officer, no longer lingered in the secular world, but was ready to die. Like many people who stepped out of the campus, he never thought that his first contact with the world would be war.

As a reserve officer, he has been traveling between school and military camp in the past few years. He read books during school and came to the military camp during holidays. He put down the works of Zhang Henshui, Shakespeare and others, picked up the "Group Tactics Manual", walked out of the campus and entered the military camp.

Now, like many young reserve officers, he is also mobilized. He will put theory into practice in the rice fields and jungles of Java, and write the chapter of their generation with his blood and life.

"Hey, it's me!"

Before being called up, like many others, Li Yixuan called Zhang Jiazhen.

Like many people, after hearing His Excellency's TV speech, Zhang Jiazhen stayed by the phone in her dormitory until he called.

"Are you one of them too?" As a descendant of a soldier, Zhang Jiazhen knew what this call meant.

It means goodbye.
"Yes, we are going to the front line."

Li Yixuan seemed very calm, neither nervous nor excited.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Jiazhen said:

"Then you must come back safely!"

"Ok, I know."

"It's not that I know, but I am certain that I..."

Zhang Jiazhen took a deep breath and said:
"I will wait for you to come back and marry me, no matter how long it takes."

"Okay, I will come back. I will definitely come back! Then... I will marry you."

After hanging up the phone, Li Yixuan soon arrived at the military camp like everyone else. At this time, the military camp was full of soldiers armed with live ammunition. They changed into camouflage uniforms, put on bulletproof tactical vests, and wore helmets.

The war has come, and they, as soldiers, are about to go to the battlefield.

Soon, Li Yixuan was given a position that matched his military rank - platoon leader.

As we all know, this is the military rank of warrant officer, the lowest-level officer position, but at the same time, this position is the most dangerous, because the platoon leader is the officer at the forefront and of course the most dangerous!

In the next few days, half of Li Yixuan and his comrades' training courses were field training and exercises in the rain forest, which more or less satisfied their heroic dreams. Field exercises were designed to simulate real battlefields, allowing them to put theory into practice and develop an "offensive spirit."

The SEA Armed Forces highly values ​​aggressiveness and courage. Offensiveness is the only quality worth commending.

The training content covers every small detail of the offensive battle, and hardly mentions the method of retreat. Even if it does, it is expressed in a contemptuous tone.

We haven't learned to retreat yet!

This is the pride of the SEA armed forces - they have never retreated, even in Bastogne, even with an absolute disadvantage in terms of force, facing the encirclement and attack of five elite German divisions, they never took a step back.

It was because they never retreated that the entire European battlefield was saved.

We will not retreat!

It is for this reason that SEA highly values ​​offense, because this army was born from offense!

The core of the attack is to charge forward: "Forward, forward, forward courageously."

This is the critical moment of the infantry battle. There is no covert flank attack, no siege from all sides, only rows of soldiers who are ready to die. They face the enemy, their steps are firm, they are desperate, and they fight hand to hand.

Although there was no real fighting and bloodshed during the exercise, everyone was very serious in the training. The soldiers were all diligent and hardworking, and they carefully studied the ten-page attack order.

The soldiers huddled in the musty rainforest, immersing themselves in the training - the platoon leaders and squad leaders spread the maps flat on the ground and made plans to attack the imaginary enemy.

Every day, their offensive never stopped. They besieged the enemy, charged in small groups, and attacked head-on. The soldiers' shouts during the battle shook the world and made the gods and ghosts weep. They braved the hail of bullets, but of course, they had bullets without warheads.

Just like that, after five days of adaptive training, the troops finally boarded the plane - in the past five days, the military not only requisitioned a large number of civil aircraft, but also hired hundreds of passenger planes from foreign airlines. These jets replaced transport ships and airlifted the troops to the war zone - from Surabaya to Aceh.

The Fifth Mobile Brigade, where Li Yixuan was located, was deployed in Surabaya. When they flew to Surabaya, the brigade's heavy weapons had already been transported to Surabaya using roll-on/roll-off ships and fast container ships.

War is a carefully calculated project. In the general staff, hundreds of staff officers are making careful calculations. They need to deploy ships, planes and other means of transportation to transport troops to the war zone, especially the army's heavy equipment. They must ensure that the weapons of each unit are transported to their areas, as well as the transportation of logistical supplies, which include not only traditional military supplies.

Even water needs to be transported - the military cleared out all the bottled water and small packages of paper towels in SEA overnight. This was prepared based on previous war experience. In tropical warfare, although water is everywhere, clean water is precious. Soldiers cannot drink muddy water to fight. Although the military has set up bottled water factories in Surabaya and Aceh, the mobilization of a large number of troops always requires a lot of logistics. Apart from other things, the problem of toilet paper for hundreds of thousands of troops can drive the logistics supervisor crazy. The factory can provide it, but it needs to be transported to the front line. In short, after the war machine is started, strong logistics capabilities are not about how much materials are produced, but about distributing the materials to where they are needed.

In this regard, SEA's logistics department is still very outstanding. These officers with experience in corporate management can always ensure that materials are distributed to where they are needed by following the methods of managing corporate production.

After Li Yixuan and his comrades arrived in Surabaya by plane, the troops' vehicles were already parked outside the airport. They only needed to find their own vehicles and take them to the military camp.

The military camp is made up of rows of containers. Once you enter, however, unlike the barracks, these containers do not have air conditioning.

The soldiers have long been accustomed to air-conditioned rooms, but they know that the battlefield is the battlefield, and it is not a place to enjoy.

"Squad Leader Wang, you are responsible for allocating barracks and settling everyone in."

"Sergeant Zhang, when you go to collect the ammunition, you must collect at least ten base quantities. I don't want us to be waiting to collect the ammunition when the order is issued."

As the platoon leader, Li Yixuan was giving orders to his subordinates. At this moment, he was no different from an ordinary soldier, wearing a camouflage uniform and bulletproof gear, with an AR15 carbine slung across his waist. If one had to point out something different, it would be that the pistol in the gear on the side of his right leg was not the standard Type pistol.

Finally, after completing the deployment, Li Yixuan turned around and asked:
"Sergeant, is there anything else I need to add?"

Zhang Yixing standing next to him is his assistant and the squad leader of the first squad. He is a professional soldier who has fought in wars in Malaysia and Siam. There are such living fossils in every grassroots combat company of the SEA armed forces.

"Sir, you did a great job."

Zhang Yixing was as frugal with words as he had been in the past, and almost never said anything unnecessary.

"Well, Sergeant, I hope you can help me complete the mission we are about to complete and bring them home safely!"

"Yes, sir."

Zhang Yixing didn't say much, but Li Yixuan knew that he was definitely reliable. Such veterans were the most important assets of the army.

A few hours later, like many others, Li Yixuan suffered from insomnia, because this was his first night on the battlefield. Although the war had not yet started, this was still a battlefield and they were about to go to the battlefield.

In the following nights, those who suffered from insomnia included not only the soldiers but also their parents. Even Li Yian himself suffered from insomnia after learning that his son was sent to the front line with the 5th Mobile Brigade.

After all, he is a father no matter what.

At midnight, the door was pushed open. Listening to the footsteps, Li Yian said:
"You know, I've wanted to call the Ministry of Defense several times."

It was Margaret, who also suffered from insomnia.

"I know."

She came over, sat on Li Yian's lap, looked at him and said:
"I couldn't sleep either. I kept thinking about Yixuan and the way he stumbled when he first learned to walk..."

Holding his wife, Li Yian silently listened to her recalling the interesting things about his son's childhood.

"...Do you know why nobles learn riding and swordsmanship?"

"Because of the war,"

Li Yian replied that some so-called second generations in later generations learned horse riding and swordsmanship, thinking that they would be aristocrats, but they did not know why those European aristocrats learned horse riding and swordsmanship in the past.

Those people thought that they had learned to ride a horse and use a sword, and thus became nobles. This was simply a joke. They had no idea what nobility meant!
"The only values ​​of those people are to make money by any means necessary, and to rely on wealth to support their inner insecurity. They have no values ​​that people admire, no noble responsibility, and no integrity. Their only pleasure and dignity is: I am richer than you, and you are more miserable than me!
Therefore, they will show off their wealth in various ways, such as driving luxury cars on the streets. What's even more amazing is that this kind of luxury car display is actually considered by people to be a way to avoid losing face in front of foreigners.

Sometimes things are truly magical.

“Yes, in tradition, nobles, like knights, are protectors of the people. They learn riding and swordsmanship to protect the king and the people, and the king does the same.

Going to the battlefield was the duty of the king and the nobles. Sacrificing on the battlefield was also the most glorious thing for them, and even the pursuit of many nobles, at least that was the case in that era. "

Leaning her body in her husband's arms, Margaret, as a top aristocrat, of course stands on the side of the aristocracy to a certain extent, and this is indeed the case, at least to a certain extent.

The mortality rate for British soldiers in World War I was about 12%, while the mortality rate for officers was about 17%. The mortality rate for Eton College graduates during the war was about 20%.

From some perspectives, those nobles were indeed not worth mentioning, but they did not retreat during the war.

This is true whether in the UK or Germany.

Leaning on her husband's arms, Margaret said:

"As a mother, I am worried about his safety, but as a queen, I know that this is his responsibility and mission."

Margaret was indeed the queen. She was the queen of Sarawak. In fact, her marriage to Li Yian was that she was a British princess marrying the king of Sarawak, so there was nothing wrong with her saying that.

Nodding, Li Yian held his wife in his arms and said:

"Just because you become a king doesn't mean you can rule the kingdom. You have to save the people first, and then you can be a king... Yes, this is his responsibility!"

There are some responsibilities that can never be avoided. If you want to get something, you must first fulfill your responsibilities. This is exactly the reason.

With her head resting on her husband's shoulder, Margaret asked:
"When will the war start? It's been so long, and according to past experience, it should have already started."

The reason I ask this is that in the past wars here have always been fought quickly and decisively, and many times the war was over before anyone could react.

But this time seems to be different from the past. The army has been preparing, which is why she feels a little curious.

"About a month later. Right now the troops are still mobilizing and deploying. They must be prepared."

Fighting a war is not something that can be started with a single word. After all, Jakarta is an enemy with an army of hundreds of thousands!
Li Yi'an said:
"Either don't fight, or if you do fight, you must go all out and deliver a fatal blow to the enemy with a thunderous force..."

After the voice fell, Li Yian thought for a while and said:

"And it's the only way we can protect our children, all children."

(End of this chapter)