Cannon Fire Arc

Chapter 943: Chapter 4 Testing the Waters_3

Suddenly, from afar came the strains of Beethoven’s Fate Symphony.

The old man stopped his struggle with the cow’s fascia and looked up in the direction of the music.

She saw the Anteans’ skirmish line appear.

The three-year-old grandson stood up, using the stick smeared with feces in his hand as a gun, and “fired” at the distant Antean skirmish line.

The old man snatched the stick, broke it, and threw it aside, then pulled the child behind her.

The child burst into loud tears.

The old lady shouted, “Do you see those people in the distance? That’s Rocossov’s army!”

The child immediately shut his mouth, clenched his teeth, and tears flowed profusely, but he didn’t dare to make a sound.

The Fate Symphony grew louder and louder, as Ante soldiers passed by the cow’s corpse, all eyes on the half-cut cow fascia.

Suddenly, an Ante soldier pulled a can from his pocket, opened it with a bayonet, and placed it at the old lady’s feet.

The old lady hurriedly thanked them in Prosenese, “Thank you… thank you!”

At this moment, a jeep stopped in front of the old lady, and a high-ranking Ante officer asked in Prosenese, “Madam, are there any Prosenese regular troops left in town?”

The old lady replied, “Yes! At the mayor’s mansion and the town government office, maybe a little at the post office too.”

The officer curiously asked, “Is it okay to guide us like this? Aren’t we the enemy?”

The old lady said, “Look at my grandson, he’s starving. I have another younger grandson, still nursing, and they took his mother to join the People’s Self-defense Team.

“I couldn’t find any milk or formula, and my little grandson starved to death just like that. When you fight them, could you be kind enough to let my daughter-in-law come back so she can at least nurse other people’s children…”

The officer nodded and pulled a sausage from his pocket, placing it in the old lady’s hand, “Don’t eat that dead cow. Once we liberate this place, the Church will quickly follow, distributing food to you.”

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After Vasily returned to the jeep, Filippov asked, “Is it true the Church will follow up with food distribution?”

“Yes, it’s part of the appeasement plan to end the war swiftly. Fortunately, our country just had a bumper crop, and sausage production is at a new high.”

Filippov asked again, “Are you really planning to find the old lady’s daughter-in-law?”

Vasily said, “I don’t know, maybe she resisted and was killed by us.”

At that moment, machine gun fire echoed from the town.

Immediately followed by the sound of explosions, the machine gun became silent. There were sporadic rifle shots, but no return fire.

This was likely because Filippov’s group was equipped with Thread Cutters, making little noise when returning fire.

Filippov commanded, “Enter the town and see what’s happening!”

The driver hit the gas, and the jeep sped into the city with the infantry running behind.

The town wasn’t big, and the jeep quickly arrived at the central square.

Vasily noted, “Well, it looks like there’s the town government, the mayor’s house, and the post office here.”

He took the DShK anti-aircraft machine gun mounted on the jeep and swept a burst across the second floor of the town government where resistance was occurring, silencing the battlefield instantly.

Soon, a fat Prosenese clerk holding a white flag opened the town government’s door and cautiously walked out.

“We surrender!” he said in broken Antenese.

Vasily responded, “Alright, have them put down their weapons, come out with their hands up, and no tricks. If anyone tries any tricks, we’ll kill them all.

“This is Marshal Rocossov’s order.”

The Prosenese clerk turned his head and shouted into the room, and members of the Self-defense Army and the Prosenese National Defense Army walked out one by one with their hands raised.

Vasily asked the clerk, “Who are the ones forcing children and women into the Self-defense Army?”

The clerk replied, “I’ll identify them one by one! Leave it to me!”

He didn’t even ask Vasily what would happen to these people.

Soon, the clerk pointed to a Prosenese colonel who had just walked out: “Him! He led people to take my wife and father!”

Vasily commanded, “Seize him! Yes, that colonel!”

Two Imperial Guard soldiers immediately pulled the colonel out of the line of surrendering people, taking him to the open space in front of the post office.

The clerk then shouted, “And him! He’s the head of the Constitutional Guards! He organized the scouts!”

This time, Vasily only snapped his fingers, and the head of the Constitutional Guards was pulled out to stand with the colonel.

Like this, six or seven more people were pulled out and lined up in front of the post office.

The clerk said, “These are the ones!”

Vasily declared, “You are guilty of crimes against humanity, I sentence you—death, to be carried out immediately.”

The Imperial Guard soldiers, who were already prepared, opened fire, turning those bastards into Swiss cheese.

Vasily then picked up the radio unit, shouting into it, “White Wolf, White Wolf, the sausage-slicing tactic went smoothly, I repeat, everything went smoothly!”

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