Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 439: Dawn in the Mind

Chapter 439: Dawn in the Mind
Ten million dollars...

This is indeed a big business.

Until lunch time, Jiang Feng didn't see Song Heping come out of his room.

He locked himself in his room for the entire morning.

Finally, Jiang Feng brought lunch to his room. When he pushed the door open, he saw Song Heping sitting in a chair staring at the map on the wall. The laptop on the table was open, with another map on it.

"Old squad leader, it's time to eat."

After calling twice, Song Heping finally came to his senses.

"Oh……"

After turning his head and seeing that it was Jiang Feng, Song Heping turned around, took the lunch handed to him, put it on the table and began to eat it voraciously.

Jiang Feng looked at the various symbols on the map and asked curiously, "Old squad leader, are you planning an attack?"

"It's not as simple as just attacking," Song Heping said. "That night we intercepted so much AUC munitions. Intelligence showed they were actually provided by government forces. This piqued my curiosity, so I asked the company's intelligence department to investigate. We discovered that things were probably getting worse..."

As he said this, he stuffed a mouthful of braised pork into his mouth and pointed at the map on the wall with his chopsticks.

"Look, the blue arrows are all the directions of the AUC attack, the green ones are the government forces' attack, and the blue-green dots are where their forces are currently concentrated. Judging from the current situation, they're estimated to launch a joint attack on the ELN within two weeks. This has disrupted my original plan. Now it's not us who want to attack others, it's them who want to destroy Morins and his men."

Jiang Feng walked over to the map, took a closer look, and then exclaimed, "Fuck! The government and AUC have over 30,000 troops, and the ELN only has over 6,000... How can we defeat them?"

"Originally, there were fewer than 6,000," Song Heping said. "The ELN pushed themselves to the limit, even including the usual village self-defense forces, to reach this number."

Finally, he asked, "Jiang Feng, if you were the commander of the ELN armed forces, how would you fight this battle?"

Jiang Feng looked at it for a long time and scratched his head several times but still couldn't come up with a good solution.

This battle is lost.

Unless the AUC and government forces mismanage their command.

But that is almost impossible.

Because both the government forces and the AUC armed forces are military organizations that have been tempered by years of actual combat.

It’s not that they are very smart, but it’s a dream to think that you can win by relying on their blind command that leads to mistakes.

“I can’t fight…”

Jiang Feng pointed at the ELN's defense zone and said, "Especially in this narrow, long terrain, with its long, straight line formation, it's easiest to be divided, surrounded, and defeated piecemeal. If I were the commander of the government forces or the AUC, I would simply split up the attack teams and conduct a segmented penetration. If three or four of them succeed, we can slice the ELN's defense zone into several sections. This would inevitably cause the ELN to lose morale and either flee or die."

Song Heping nodded slightly.

He knew that it would be difficult to get any wise response from Jiang Feng.

It's a pity that Ferrari is in Irigo, otherwise he might be able to provide some useful ideas.

"but……"

Jiang Feng suddenly remembered something.

"Captain Li and the others might understand."

"Captain Li?"

Song Heping's chopsticks stopped.

His mind was confused for a moment, and it took him a moment to remember.

"You mean Li Sheng?"

Li Sheng is currently the captain of the school.

The organizational structure and staffing settings implemented by Song Heping in the school are the PLA's teaching brigade model.

The sequence is battalion - squadron - district team - squad.

The battalion has a battalion headquarters, which includes a teaching department. The teaching department is divided into teaching groups of different professions, such as shooting teaching group, tactical teaching and research group, artillery teaching group, etc.

Li Sheng is the current team leader.

Before he retired, he was the deputy battalion commander of a mountain troop. He had carried out missions and made meritorious contributions. He was a cadre who was directly promoted. His military level was first-class, but his cultural level was average, so he could not be promoted to the rank of deputy battalion commander.

After choosing his own job, he returned to his hometown and wanted to start a career.

But I found that the grand blueprint I had envisioned in the army was far from reality.

He closed down due to losses in business, and was too straightforward to work and offended people. He was the head of a company, but in the end he was unemployed and at home.

Although he received a pension every month, the days of living off others made him feel increasingly insignificant. He always felt inferior to others, and his temper became increasingly bad, causing him to have many unpleasant conflicts with his wife.

When Jiang Feng contacted him through his comradeship, Li Sheng agreed without hesitation.

The reason is very simple. Li Sheng figured it out. He realized that he was not good at anything else in his life except military affairs.

And Song Heping gave too much.

The domestic salary level is generally around one or two thousand yuan, or RMB, but Song Heping directly offered a monthly base salary of four thousand yuan, or US dollars. Subsidies and bonuses will be calculated separately for deployment to war zones or performing special tasks. He will receive double salary plus a red envelope at the end of the year, personal insurance, and two months of vacation every year.

Who wouldn’t be tempted by such treatment?
After hearing what Jiang Feng said, Song Heping nodded.

After all, Li Sheng is a retired deputy battalion commander, and he must have his own unique way of military command.

What's more, they originally came from a mountain force, and the area they are fighting in this time happens to be jungle and mountains, which is also their specialty.

So he said, "Okay, call those instructors and Captain Li over and see if they can come up with any good ideas."

"Okay, I'll go call them right away!"

Jiang Feng left excitedly, while Song Heping was holding the rice bowl and eating while looking at the map.

If I were to be the commander of the ELN armed forces, I would have the means to deal with it, but now Morins has imposed too many restrictions.

The war had to be fought to maintain the status quo, which meant that there was no flexibility in tactics.

In this case, how can we fight?
Li Sheng and several tactical instructors from the instructor group were quickly summoned by Jiang Feng to Song Heping's room. As soon as they entered, Jiang Feng pointed to the map on the wall and said, "Captain Li, look at this situation map. If you were the commander of the ELN armed forces, how would you fight?"

Captain Li greeted Song Heping and went straight to the map. Several instructors gathered together and looked at it for a while before coming up with an idea.

Li Sheng said, "This is easy to solve. There are vast jungles and mountains in both the north and south. They're clearly aiming to strike us in the middle. We just need to gather our troops and concentrate them in one area, using companies as units, to drag them into the jungle and mountains for battle. This will disable their high-powered weapons and make their mechanized forces lose their mobility. We can then engage in a war of attrition, and we have the home-field advantage, so we can win."

Song Heping shoveled the last bite of rice into his mouth and pointed at the map. "Now there is a premise. We can't move the existing troops. We can only fight in the current defense area. How do we fight?"

Li Sheng was stunned and said, "You mean we can't compress the defense area and withdraw the troops?"
Song Heping nodded and said, "Yes, this is what the employer requires. Now I must design a battle plan for them to win. You are all retired officers, so let's see how to fight."

Li Sheng and his companions could only return to the front of the map, watch and discuss for a long time, and finally come to the final conclusion.

"We can't win. If we insist on setting this framework to fight a war, it will be a stupid fight. It's impossible to win and we are bound to lose."

Song Heping asked: "Is there really no way?"

Li Sheng said without hesitation, "Of course! The enemy already has superior forces, and yet they still deploy this long snake formation, isn't that just courting death?"

Song Heping tacitly agreed that Li Sheng's analysis was correct.

After thinking for a moment, he nodded and said, "I understand. You guys go ahead and do your work. I'll think of a solution."

After everyone left, Song Heping fell into deep thought.

He felt anxious.

too little time.

Too many restrictions.

how to spell?
give up?

This is not my style.

How to do?
How to do?
These words kept circling in Song Heping's mind.

Even a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice.

Molins gave himself a fatal question.

He continued to click on the information in the laptop with the mouse, looking through the intelligence collected by Henry for the umpteenth time.