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"What about the casualties on both sides?"

"Ah? Of course not, our army isn't fighting!"

——This is against civilians, what harm can it do?

"I mean both sides?" said Andrew.

"They should have all been evacuated, but there may be some injured," Da Costa said.

Strictly speaking, ZAFT is actually a "militia", so there will be soldiers who kill non-combatants.

—Don’t you agree, Yitzhak?

But Andrew will avoid non-combat casualties when he can.

Since burning down a city can serve as a warning to the other side, there is no need to kill people.

But if burning down the city doesn't deter...

"Then let's retreat." Andrew continued to stretch.

Da Costa was stunned: "Aren't we going to attack?"

"Hey, hey, hey, that's really mean, isn't it? Brother DaCosta, do you think I set the fire to drive them out of the city?"

——Isn’t it?

Da Costa was a little confused: In war, this can't be considered despicable, right?

"The goal of this operation has been achieved! Return to the team!"

Andrew gave the order directly, and Da Costa had no choice but to pass the order to each machine.

ZAFT retreated.

But the city is still burning.

The city was in ruins, and nothing moved on the streets.

Aslan originally wanted everyone to continue evacuating.

But ZAFT came and left quickly, and they didn't attack, so Aslan didn't continue to care.

There were cries of despair everywhere, and some people just stood there staring at the flames in the city.

——Is this the Commander's kindness?

Aslan was a little confused.

This is probably some kind of kindness. After all, everyone is still alive.

It was not until this time that the jeep from the dawn desert finally arrived.

The soldiers jumped out of the car and ran away when they saw the family members.

Although Aslan could understand these people's actions, if ZAFT was still there, Dawn Desert's actions would probably have serious consequences.

"Dad! Mom! Are you okay?"

"Husband! Our family...!"

"Sarah—! Sarah—!"

Some hugged their wives and children to thank the gods; some grabbed their husbands and cried to the ground; some were anxiously looking for their families.

"Carry the injured over here! Anyone who can move, come and help!"

Seb carried the wounded out of the city and then commanded the Dawn Desert to start the operation.

The soldiers immediately took action, but the scene seemed to be even more chaotic.

Looking at this messy scene, Aslan couldn't bear it anymore.

"Mr. Ashman!" Aslan quickly came to Seb's side. "First, organize the personnel to restore order. Have everyone evacuate to a safe area away from smoke and dust and easy to hide. Have specialized personnel take care of the wounded. The elderly, the weak, women, and children should be evacuated first!"

This is the edge of the city, but it is not safe here. The most toxic thing in a fire is the smoke.

In the animation world, those who can stay in the flames for a long time are all gods.

The truth is that once a fire occurs, most people are directly killed by the poisonous smoke, and the number of people who are actually burned to death is actually far less than the number of people who are suffocated to death.

“Ah…good…!”

Seb was so worried that he was panicking just now, but now he has finally regained his composure.

"Mr. Makabe, please help me direct the disaster relief!"

"……Um!"

Although Dawn Desert is an organization that opposes ZAFT, these civilians are innocent.

Under Aslan's command, the entire city began disaster relief with amazing efficiency.

Miraculously, no one was killed in the attack, only a few unlucky people were injured.

"Playing tricks like that! Damn tiger!"

Seb clenched his fists.

"But at least no one died." Someone nearby also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Indeed, no one died this way. That's what we see right now... But they burned everything down. How are we going to survive tomorrow..."

But some people covered their faces.

"I'm afraid that tiger doesn't want to fight you seriously."

Aslan also breathed a sigh of relief.

"What do you mean?"

"Makabe Ikki" had a good impression, but the others were very unhappy with this man who appeared out of nowhere and made sarcastic remarks.

"——Are you saying that the tiger was being kind?!"

"It's probably the other party's kindness," said Aslan.

But the next moment, an excited young man rushed up and grabbed Aslan by the collar: "How can this be considered kindness?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not very good at talking," Aslan said without getting angry. "But they are a regular army. If they really want to fight, it won't be just this level. It would be easy to completely massacre the whole city in two or three hours."

By then, how could they reunite with their families here or even think about their livelihood tomorrow?

The others were also silent.

"...But," Aslan spoke again, "this is just the other party's self-righteous charity."

The other party might have good intentions. I probably thought so too in the past.

But I am different now.

Aslan could understand.

Such actions cannot ease the conflict, but will only exacerbate it. The current momentary kindness will only intensify hatred.

Driving people around like animals is definitely not true kindness.

Chapter 397: France did not make us surrender, and neither can ZAFT

[Fuck, I said Tiger was a good guy]

[Tiger is indeed a good person]

[He's probably the type who has good intentions but hasn't awakened yet.]

[It was also clear earlier that Tiger himself was actually in denial about his role as an adjuster.]

[In modern terms, Tiger is one of those people from the old times who had good intentions but were still confused by the social morality of the feudal system.]

[This is obvious. Tiger obviously didn't think about Qi Mei's previous conclusion. He doesn't even understand the relationship between productivity and production relations.]

[He may have really good intentions, but his subjective good intentions do not change the greater difficulties he actually caused]

[This is actually more like reality. It takes two people to care for a wounded person. Killing one person will reduce the enemy's number by one. But crippling one person can reduce the enemy's number by three.]

[Fuck, tigers are really cruel!]

[So this is the meaning of Desert Tiger?]

[Qi Mei, please fix the issue of just using your mouth to attack the tiger!]

The audience even began to hope that Yui Inori would correct the tiger.

But Yui also had things to do at this time.

With the arrival of Team Cruze, the strategic balance between Archangel and Desert Tiger will also change.

She needed to complete the transformation of the assault backpack before Isaac and the others came.

Kira didn't have any requirements for the firepower of the new backpack. She just hoped that the new backpack would not affect the mobility of the assault.

Qiang Xi has performed many extraordinary moves, which would not have been possible without sufficient mobility.

Of course, the consequence of doing this is that the ground crew and maintenance staff are almost going crazy. Inspecting the stress distortion of the MS is already dizzying, not to mention repairing the overloaded engine.

But in order to win, some things must be done.

Of course, although Assault's super-standard moves were not designed, as long as the PS armor is turned on, most of the damage can be immune. If it were Jinn and Heretic, they would most likely fall apart.

“What on earth am I doing…”

"These people are ZAFT's enemies..."

Aslan sighed.

At this time, Aslan had followed the Dawn Desert to their base.

The city had been destroyed, but people still needed food and medicine.

The Dawn Desert Outpost has not been exposed yet, so Aslan suggested that the wounded be transferred here for treatment first, and some of the food here be taken to the other side, at least to help the residents of the city solve the food problem for the next two days.

Fortunately, the "city" here is not big and the population is limited, so disaster relief is easy.

If such disaster relief were to be carried out in a city with a population of one or two million, it would be absolutely catastrophic.

With Aslan's deployment, the entire disaster relief work is progressing in an orderly manner.

"That Desert Tiger may have good intentions, but his kindness has brought even greater harm to the desert..."

The people of the desert are not members of the Earth Union.

But for strategic reasons, ZAFT chose to occupy this place.

A year ago, the people in this place also had a rich nightlife, and no shortage of food and energy...

When Aslan thought about this, he felt a little depressed.

"Well, what is this?"

And just after all this was done, Aslan saw Seb organizing people to transport some wreckage over.

"This is the wreckage of the Baku," said Seb. "We received intelligence earlier that two newly assigned Bakus were to be transported to Tiger, so we made a plan..."

Seb sighed.

"We originally thought that if we could take out the pilot first, we would be able to capture the Baku, but we didn't expect them to blow it up anyway, leaving only this little wreckage."

After hearing what Seb said, Aslan finally understood what was going on.

“…You guys are going too far.”

Aslan sighed.

"W-What do you mean?!"

Seb was puzzled.

"The Desert Tigers don't want to fight you, so they weren't serious before. Otherwise, your jeeps and clearing firepower wouldn't be able to fight against the enemy's large army. However, if you really take Baku, ZAFT headquarters won't sit idly by. Then the Tigers will have to wipe you out... So, this is a warning."

Aslan was a ZAFT himself, so he knew what would happen once these people captured Baku.

That's definitely not good news.

Initially, these people were just minor problems. The Dawn Desert was weak enough that ZAFT would not take them seriously.

But if they own Baku, it's hard to say.

"We need strength!" said Seb.