Chapter 216 Spurs

"Come! Have a drink first. Pinshu.com" Cohen will pour Qin Hao a glass of red wine. After all, it was during the war, so he had the privilege and didn't order strong alcohol.

"Yeah!" Qin Hao picked up the glass and drank it all in one go...

"..." After drinking this glass of red wine, Qin Hao frowned. To be honest, the taste of this dry red wine is far from what he imagined. .

"Haha, silly boy, have you ever drunk red wine?" Cohen would laugh out loud when he saw Qin Hao drinking like this.

"I've never drank..." Qin Hao said embarrassedly. In the past, his grandfather had strict control and never had the chance to drink. After his grandfather left, he entered a stressful high life, and he had no chance to try until he graduated from high school. After he enlisted in the army, a big soldier in the army couldn't touch alcohol, so Qin Hao had never tried this drink.

"If you drink this red wine like this, no matter how good it is, it will smell like horse urine!" Cohen will pour himself a glass as he speaks, and then he shakes the glass so that the vermilion wine can fully flow with the air Contact, the aroma of the wine diffused, and then he took a slight sip, and then said to Qin Hao, "Try it."

"Oh!" Qin Hao poured himself a little like Cohen did, then shook the glass and took another sip.

After the wine is fully fused and oxidized with the air, the taste is indeed better than before. After a small sip, you can really feel the mellow aroma and sweetness, but Qin Hao still doesn't like this kind of taste. The astringency of the dry red makes him feel I don't like this drink.

"Okay, let's talk about your confusion." Cohen asked Qin Hao after refilling two more drinks. After a few sips of wine, the conversation between the men became better.

"General, I may not be suitable for the role of commander. If I could be more cautious, those soldiers would not die. I killed them..." Qin Hao reiterated his confusion to General Cohen.

"Hey! Silly boy, this is a process that a commander must go through!" Cohen will sigh, and he can't help but recall the first time he was in command.

"Are you also confused about this at the beginning?" Qin Hao asked.

"Of course! That's how I came here..." Cohen Jiang sighed, and then began to tell Qin Hao the story of his first command of the battle.

It was not a big battle. The enemy of General Cohen was a group of rebels. When organizing the attack, Cohen would not know enough about the enemy, so a legion he commanded was surrounded by the enemy, although in the end During the encirclement, the enemy was completely wiped out, but the besieged legion suffered heavy losses.

Cohen would be depressed for a long time because of this, and he also felt that the soldiers were killed by him.

Almost every commander with a conscience will face this problem, and General Cohen is no exception. Perhaps only a madman like Gangmen Pianzhu would not care about the casualties of soldiers. In his eyes, only merits, only himself.

"Then how did you get out of that state?" Qin Hao asked.

"Relief? I've never been free! I don't want to be free!" Cohen said with a serious face.

"Ah?" Qin Hao looked blank.

"Since that fight, I've fallen into self-blame. At first, I was looking for a way to get rid of it like you did. My old boss at the time also enlightened me, but then I figured out why I should get rid of this What about self-blame? It’s this kind of self-blame that makes me cherish the lives of the soldiers more, and it’s this kind of self-blame that makes me think carefully before giving every order. It’s true that I need victory, but under this premise, I also need to reduce casualties as much as possible!" Cohen paused for a while before saying to Qin Hao: "If I really look at it and stop blaming myself for the death of a soldier, then I will talk to Qin Hao. What's the difference between a guy like Gangmen's side assistant?"

"In order to win, there must be sacrifices. That's right. We really can't dare to fight because we are afraid of sacrifice.

But as a commander, what we have to do is to reduce casualties as much as possible on the premise of ensuring victory. After all, behind every soldier is a family, and the death of a soldier is just a number to us. , but for their family, it is an irreversible disaster, this is not a certificate of honor, a pension can make up for it! "Cohen will say that there are already tears here. He has fought countless times in his life. He loves soldiers like a son, but the number of soldiers who die in battles is already a lot, so after every victory, others are cheering. At times, he would bring wine alone to pay homage to his dead comrades in arms...

"This..." Qin Hao listened to General Cohen's words, as if he had been empowered by Daigo. He suddenly wanted to understand a lot of things. Those dozens of soldiers were indeed killed because of the landing battle he directed. He was the one who killed them. Qin Hao's conscience was indeed condemned because of these soldiers, but he understood at this time that his heart might be tormented because of this, but he couldn't stop taking action because he was afraid of such torment.

Qin Hao is actually no stranger to death. He also commanded battles before, but he personally led the charge on the front line at that time. Although the soldiers around him also suffered casualties, he also took the same risk. He has no time to take care of everyone, so he has a clear conscience; but this time, Qin Hao was commanding the battle safely from the rear, so he was suffering.

Although the field commander in the front line and the strategic commander in the rear are both commanders, they feel completely different when facing the death of a soldier. The field commander on the front line charges with the soldiers and is in the midst of the death of his comrades. At times, although they will feel heartache, but after all, as one of them, he has experienced the same danger personally, so he does not feel that the sacrificed soldier was killed by himself.

And the strategic commanders in the rear are commanding the battle because they are in a safe place. They only need to wave their hands and move their mouths. There are a large number of soldiers charging for them. When these soldiers are killed, they do not have to experience the same kind of danger, and that This kind of danger is caused by their orders, so there is a feeling in the heart that "the soldier was killed by himself".

At this time, after talking with General Cohen, Qin Hao also gave up the method of seeking liberation. He wanted to be like General Cohen, let this kind of condemnation from the heart spur him, and let himself be the same before giving every order. Think about it for the soldiers at the grassroots level. Although there will inevitably be sacrifices in war, what he has to do is to reduce this sacrifice as much as possible.