Hammer 40k: Far East Storm

What Old Marlborough said was absolutely right. They do have people above them. As the leader of an army, especially an official at the level of the regiment commander or deputy regiment commander, they need to realize this even more. (）

After all, the regiment commander is not a big official. Many times, it is beyond the ability of the regiment commander to really solve the problem. However, officials at this level are not small either. They manage thousands of people anyway. Therefore, it is precisely because of this small management that they need to deeply realize that there are people above them.

With this understanding, they will not blindly act recklessly. Problems that can be solved will be solved, and those that cannot be solved will be reported. Anyway, there are leaders at all levels above the regiment commander, and above the leaders at all levels there are military district commanders. Above the orbit above the military district commander, there is the Silver Wing quietly suspended in the orbit. In the huge fortress-like warship, there is the master of the entire Reach Galaxy, the master of the Knights Templar, Archon Li.

The fact is just as old Marlborough expected. The development of the situation soon exceeded the scope of their regiment commander's control. After receiving the request for assistance from Regiment Commander Rayleigh, the military district headquarters quickly made adjustments. A total of five regiments simultaneously abandoned the established marching plan and quickly moved closer to the Rayleigh Regiment. One of them was an armored regiment that had just been organized half a year ago.

But the result was beyond people's expectation. It was not a big deal for Rayleigh's regiment to be surrounded on Hill 503. In the first few days, the orcs pretended to launch several large-scale attacks on Rayleigh's regiment. But after two days of fighting, Rayleigh felt that something was wrong. The attacks of the orcs were mostly thunder and thunder with little rain. Each attack was very loud, but the casualties were quite small. In the following days, Rayleigh, who realized that something was wrong, quickly organized a trial breakout, but was fiercely attacked by the orcs. Because it was a trial breakout, he decisively withdrew after being attacked fiercely. As a result, when he returned to the barracks, he found that the exchange of fire between the two armies was not long, but in this short fifteen minutes of exchange of fire, Rayleigh's loss of manpower was almost catching up with the total loss of manpower he had lost during the days of encountering the orc army until he was surrounded.

"These guys don't really want to eat us," Marlborough frowned and said, "We are really used as bait this time. It's incredible. These greenskins actually know how to surround a point and attack reinforcements?"

No matter how incredible it is, this news was immediately sent to the theater headquarters of Autumn Star in the form of a secret telegram, but the staff and the commander's meaning were very clear. No matter what the orcs' intentions were, their troops couldn't just stand by and watch them die because of this news. No matter what the orcs were thinking, (even if they still had some thoughts in their minds.) Just think that the orcs really showed amazing and extraordinary tactical thinking this time, and the army didn't need to change the order. At most, they sent a telegram to the front few regiments to be careful of ambush.

The result surprised the headquarters. The five regiments that were close to the Rayleigh Regiment were all blocked by the orc army without exception. Even the armored troops of the armored regiment encountered the enemy. They were blocked by the orc armored troops. At the same time, the orcs also surrounded an infantry regiment. This infantry regiment enjoyed the same treatment as the Rayleigh Regiment. They were surrounded, but the orcs watched these humans build fortifications in front of them. At most, they would occasionally launch a few decent attacks to harass them, but they never dared to fight them seriously, not once, as if these humans surrounded by themselves were like eggs, and they were cautious, fearing that they would be accidentally broken.

At this moment, the commander of the military region also discovered the strange atmosphere on the battlefield. It tasted wrong. How did these orcs learn this set? Instead of attacking the people who surrounded them, they played the tactical routine of besieging points and attacking reinforcements in a decent manner. Although this was not a very profound tactical idea, it seemed particularly strange when used in the hands of the orcs.

After noticing the orcs' intentions, the military commander also made full use of the advantage of "I have someone above me" and handed the report to the superiors, so that the superiors would have a headache!

As a result, the report was placed in front of Li.

Li read the report carefully and handed it to Jacob, who was sitting next to him drinking tea. The think tank director carefully flipped through the report and looked at the military map several times before smiling and saying, "This reminds me of a joke."

Li was relieved. Jacob was not in a hurry for the war at all. At this time, he was still in the mood to tell jokes, so it seemed that the matter was not a big deal.

To be honest, Li had no experience in commanding large-scale legion operations. Whether he was in the last peaceful world or in this war-torn world, he had never had the opportunity to command a battle-level war.

In the era of the God Emperor, Li's predecessor was a mentor who led a team to sneak behind the enemy to sabotage, assassinate, fight guerrilla warfare, create terror, and take the heads of enemy generals on the battlefield among millions of enemy troops. These were all common things, and Li was naturally familiar with them and had rich experience. But he had never sat in the back and played military flag deduction seriously.

Besides, when the God Emperor was still on earth, the human side really lacked a stage for wise generals to show their abilities. Almost all the battles were fought by the God Emperor with a single move, and the powerful warbands under his command rushed forward like wolves and tigers to wipe out all the enemies. That era was the most powerful era for the Space Marines and the most glorious era for humans. The God Emperor led his knights to walk sideways in the universe, and almost all diplomatic issues were solved by fists, leaving little stage for everyone to show wisdom.

Moreover, Li was very self-aware. He understood that he lacked the ability to command a large army. Just think about a palm-sized piece of land on the military map, which was worth the two armies fighting each other. A small chess piece could represent a legion, and a number with several zeros on a chapter table represented countless lives. But when the war came, just because of a telegram, a chess piece could be easily removed from the chessboard, and a note handed over from below could easily draw out a number with many zeros. He couldn't accept it when he thought of these. Life and death became like child's play in the command room of the battle. The commander just calculated the gains and losses indifferently, and considered using his own chess pieces to exchange for more enemy chess pieces.

In fact, this is the mentality that the superiors should have. Kindness cannot lead soldiers, and righteousness cannot raise wealth. There are pairs in chess, and there is a word "fighting" in Go. Once you become a chess piece, it can't be considered a life. There are only benefits and exchanges. But Li, who has been fighting on the front line for a long time, couldn't learn these, so in many cases he would rather indulge the military's strength in his hands and keep expanding, while he didn't care. But Li is not stupid. He will not raise a monster that he can't control, so he put a lot of power in the staff department and gave more power to middle-level officers.

So Li simply didn't think about the crisscrossing arrows and the green and red areas on the military map. He just asked, "What's the joke?"

"It's about an orc, an Astarte monk and an Eldar walking on the road. They saw a chaos portal with a sign saying 'Those who don't tell the truth will be sucked in.'"

"The Astarte monk said, 'I think I'm the bravest.' Then he walked away safely."

"The Eldar said, 'I think I'm the most agile.' Then he walked away safely."

"The orc said, 'I was thinking...' and was sucked in."

As soon as Jacob finished speaking, Li laughed out loud. The meaning of the joke was obvious. How could orcs have intelligence? They shouldn't even think.

But when he thought about it carefully, Li's face darkened again.

"Does everyone think so?"

Jacob nodded and replied, "Yes, everyone thinks so."

"Alas," Li sighed and said, "It's no wonder they think so. Even I can't help but think so. Although I have repeatedly stated that the enemy should not be underestimated, it is inevitable that I will make the same mistake. The orcs are not stupid people without intelligence. They also understand tactics, but they rarely show them."

Generally speaking, the orc bosses will not calm down and think carefully about the problem in critical moments when bullets whiz by their heads. The greenskins prefer to solve the problem directly and violently. "Why think so much? Just rush up and beat him up!" This is the behavior of the orcs. But this is only generally speaking. Orcs rarely use their brains. This does not mean that they have no brains. After all, orcs also have heads, although most of the time, that thing is used for yelling and eating.

"So it seems that we have encountered a rare, intelligent orc this time." After saying this, Li couldn't help laughing again. Intelligent orc, what a funny word, it's like the word innocent rapist, which gives people a clear sense of disharmony.

"Yes, it can only be explained in this way, otherwise we can't explain the situation on the battlefield. It's obvious that the enemy deliberately arranged such a situation," Yabug sighed and said, "In the past three years, we have only been concerned about accumulating our own strength, but we didn't care much about the mentality of these orcs. Looking back, the orcs haven't had a chance to fight us for such a long time. This time they will definitely not let us go."