12dz Chapter 1401 Despair at Dawn
Chapter 1401 Despair at Dawn
what happened?
What the hell is going on?!
How did their 2nd Division's troop deployment map end up here?!
And it's so precise! So complete!
Even those secret reserve points known only to the core division-level personnel were marked out one by one!
After barely calming down, Li Guangzhong's first thought was that there was a traitor!
There's a traitor within the division! And it must be someone at the highest level! Otherwise, it would be impossible to have such comprehensive deployment information!
Upon considering this possibility, Li Guangzhong's mind raced, and faces flashed through his mind.
Division Commander Nguyen Van Hung? Impossible. If he wanted to surrender or betray us, he could have simply led his troops to join us; there was no need for him to send himself.
Chen Mingde? Impossible. He's one of the deputy division commanders?
But each of them was at the division headquarters at that moment, sharing with him the immense pressure from the north.
What reason would they have to betray us?
Moreover, even if it were a betrayal, the other party could never have obtained the information with such precision in such a short time!
This requires extensive verification and may even necessitate the use of aerial reconnaissance for confirmation.
wrong……
Li Guangzhong's pupils suddenly contracted.
He suddenly remembered the city gate he had seen outside the command center, the patrolling soldiers, and the parked equipment...
Now think about this massive command center, which is incredibly sophisticated in terms of information technology.
The enemy's reconnaissance methods are perhaps... no! They are definitely far beyond what they can understand or defend against.
Maybe……
Perhaps there is no need for traitors at all.
Perhaps the other side obtained this intelligence themselves.
Just as his mind was in turmoil, the image on the screen suddenly moved.
Someone is operating it.
Li Guangzhong's eyes followed the mouse cursor moving on the screen.
The cursor moved slowly across the map and finally stopped on one of the red dots—a small red dot marked on the periphery of the division headquarters, belonging to the defensive position of a company of the Second Regiment.
Double-click with the left mouse button.
A separate secondary screen window pops up instantly in the bottom right corner of the screen!
A nine-grid video feed!
Li Guangzhong's eyes widened. There were nine real-time monitoring images from different angles!
The image resolution is extremely high, so clear that it feels like you're right there on the scene.
The first image appears to be an aerial view taken by a high-altitude drone, showing the entire position in its entirety.
The second image, taken from a lower angle, clearly shows the makeshift bunkers and trenches at the front of the position.
The third picture is even closer, so close that you can see inside the trenches...
There's a person there!
Li Guangzhong's breathing stopped completely as he stared intently at the image.
In the video, three people dressed in Vietnamese army uniforms are lying in a trench.
Yes, lying down.
Instead of being on guard or observing, they lay sprawled at the bottom of the trench, with several empty cans lying beside them. One of them even had his helmet off and was sleeping soundly under his head.
The fourth image shifts to another corner.
A sentry, if you can even call him a sentry, was leaning against the bunker, rifle slung over his shoulder, head drooping, clearly dozing off.
The fifth picture—
Li Guangzhong subconsciously held his breath.
In the video, a Vietnamese soldier is standing on the edge of a trench, with his back to the camera, one hand reaching behind him, scratching his butt.
The image was so clear that you could see him pull his hand back after scratching his butt, put it in front of his nose, and sniff it.
Then, he casually shook his hand and continued to stare blankly against the trench.
Seeing this scene, Li Guangzhong felt a rush of blood to his head!
shame!
A naked, inescapable shame!
The gesture of scratching his butt and then smelling it, the nonchalant waving of his hand and continuing to daydream, was like a resounding slap across the face of this 2nd Division Major Staff Officer!
But this slap wasn't delivered by the colonel on the other side, nor by any of the technical officers.
It was his own soldiers who fought in front of the enemy!
And the enemy... the enemy is using the clearest lens to record this farce in its entirety, perhaps even archived it, perhaps they've analyzed it countless times, perhaps... in their eyes, this is just the daily life of a bunch of chickens and dogs.
Li Guangzhong's face turned red from his forehead to the base of his neck.
He wanted to shout, to yell, to rush into that scene and grab all those bastards lying down, sleeping, and scratching their butts, and kick them hard a few times!
Do you fucking realize?! Your every move is under the enemy's watchful eye!!
You're sleeping so soundly, lying so comfortably, do you even realize that if someone wants to, the next thing falling from the sky won't be a drone, but a cannonball!
But he couldn't shout it out.
He could only stand there, his body stiff, his clenched fists trembling slightly from the force of his grip.
Because a deeper fear, like ice water, was pouring down on him, completely extinguishing the fighting spirit fueled by that bit of shame.
One-way transparency of the battlefield...
Suddenly, a concept popped into Li Guangzhong's mind—a concept he had read countless times in military academy textbooks but had never truly understood.
The book says that in the era of information warfare, one-way transparency on the battlefield is the biggest nightmare.
The book also says that when one side knows everything about the other side's actions, while the other side is like a blind man touching an elephant, the outcome of the war is already predetermined.
He used to think that was a luxury concept for great power confrontation, and had nothing to do with border guards like them.
But now, he understands.
He understood completely!
It's not a gap in weaponry—that is indeed a gap, but it's only a "visible" gap.
The command center in front of him, that huge screen, those real-time monitoring images, those data streams he couldn't understand... this was an "invisible" gap!
The latter is a hundred times more deadly than the former!
Because it meant—their 2nd Division, under Commander Nguyen Van Hung, all their supposedly concealed deployments, all their proud mountain defenses, all their defensive systems built upon complex terrain—
It has been transparent from the very beginning!
It's like a person who has taken off all their clothes and is standing under a blinding spotlight, surrounded by spectators in the dark with binoculars.
He thought he had hidden himself well, and was still tidying his clothes, planning how to negotiate, how to maneuver, and how to survive in the cracks.
But they already knew exactly how many moles and scars he had!
Li Guangzhong's back was instantly soaked with cold sweat.
His mind began to race, trying to find even the slightest comfort, the slightest chance of "winning".
"Rely on the will of the soldiers!"
He recalled a mainstream view within the domestic military that Yue soldiers were hardworking, resilient, and tenacious; one of them could be worth three of Zhou Bang's soldiers in the mountainous jungles.
will?
Looking at the "model soldiers of will" on the screen who were still spacing out, scratching their butts, and dozing off, Li Guangzhong forced a bitter smile that was more like a grimace.
What use is willpower in the face of such all-knowing and all-seeing "eyes"?
Just as you're about to lie in ambush, something in the sky silently watches you, transmitting your position to the artillery behind you; just as you're about to charge, enemy shells have already been calculated to lead, waiting to tear you apart; just when you think you're in the shadows, you've actually been in the open from beginning to end—
Can willpower give you a few more seconds of life? Or can it make a cannonball change direction?
"It's still because Zhou Bang is too busy taking care of his own internal affairs!"
Division Commander Ruan Wenxiong and the other division leaders had seriously discussed this: Although Zhou Bang was powerful, their country was also in complete chaos.
Zombies, mutated beasts, and local warlords are enough to give them headaches; they can't possibly invest their precious resources in the south.
"Hitting us is not cost-effective! It doesn't serve their interests!"
This is the biggest premise that allowed the 2nd Division to survive in a precarious situation and dance like an egg!
But all of this...
Li Guangzhong's gaze swept over the massive, brightly lit command center once again.
Those busy yet composed technical officers, those rows of smoothly operating equipment, those incredibly clear real-time images…
Is this what you call being too busy to take care of yourself?
Is this what you call resource scarcity?
Is it possible to allocate a large amount of resources to the south?
Here, in this small border town, they built such a... such a war machine that he could never have dreamed of!
And how many more "Pingxiang" like them are there in China, in the north, and on a wider land?
How many more units like this are there?
How many more "command centers" like this... that make him feel powerless and desperate?
Thinking of all this, Li Guangzhong felt dizzy and his legs went weak, almost unable to stand.
Despair, an unprecedented despair!!
He couldn't believe that his 2nd Division, or even the entire northern Vietnam region, might resist!