Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

"Living like a mole."

And what is life like for most Ursus?Between stone walls or wooden fences, facing the permafrost and back to the sky, desperately dig out the barely subsistence crops or ore from the ground, and then wait for natural disasters and man-made disasters to take your life, and end your life hastily, mostly in the In my 30s.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, there is only one opportunity to leave their hometown or even the country in their lifetime - to join the army and fight.Even if your grandson has never seen you buried in the ground, he must know that you have been to Gaul, Sami, Victoria and Casimir during the war.During the War of the Four Emperors, Ursus soldiers shouted "Long live the world" when they crossed the border!And the Cossacks who are always wandering around are entrusted with a lot of romantic imaginations, which is the reason.

Now, the situation is no different.I was wandering around the northwest tundra as a traveling merchant. When recruiting people, the most effective words to say were not "new clothes if you join," "enough bread and beef," or "Let's see if this submachine gun is cool." cool".Rather

"Do you think this will be the case for the rest of your life?"

They don't want to!

Poor peasants and slave laborers, they don’t want to live their whole lives in bondage, food requisition, natural disasters, ignorance, poverty, bitterness, and all kinds of resistance in life, just like their ancestors in the past thousands of years. —Days like a mole!

It was as if endless suffering had squeezed them to the limit, and it was these sufferings that pressed the spring to the bottom.Then, with the passion for liberation and the power of a nuclear reactor, they devoted themselves to our cause.

Listen to the singing and music around you.Don't they know what they are going to face?They knew they were going to fight, to shed blood, and to die!

Don't they know what death is?Frozen, starved, exhausted, tortured to death by pickets or overseers.They see a lot.

But they are still so optimistic, joyful and even excited, because they are experiencing the first long journey in their lives!Probably comparable to tomorrow you can suddenly leave this land and enter the starry sky.

They have astonishing enthusiasm, pursuit and hope for the new world, and persistence in their own beliefs;

They are sincere and believe that the revolution they are involved in is part of countless just causes throughout the ages, and they firmly believe that they are just;

They are young, fighting bravely for their cause, full of youthful vigor and revolutionary passion.

You can think that they live a miserable life. After all, no matter how the living standards of the people in the base area improve, it is impossible to compare with the Ursus nobles who are of a slightly higher level.But at this time, spiritually, you are poor, and they are full.

They feel that they are very happy to live, they believe that they are just, and they are as happy as anyone else, although many of them will live very briefly.Without understanding this, there is no way to understand them, no way to understand the integration movement, and no way to understand all that we are able to do.

Of course they will sacrifice, but when they sacrifice, they understand the significance of the war for which they sacrificed, and they know that their sacrifice is worthwhile, so they dare to sacrifice.Although time will pass and times will change, although even their descendants may not understand, they did fight and live so truly and noblely.

Yes, they will die, in droves in that "turbulent distance."The Integration Movement will liberate the entire Ursus, and their remains will be filled in the valley of the northwest tundra. Their blood will dye the waves of the Dnieper River red. They will be sacrificed under the walls of the Holy Castle. They may be injured and no longer needed. They can only talk nonsense in the medical tent. They will spill their blood on every piece of land in the motherland.

But for them, compared with the endless rent collection in the past, the ghost place where apprentices worked hard, and the dark mines that could drive people crazy and to death——

Isn't it worth it?

It's no big deal that you a disobedient being here, because everyone here is disobedient.Their choice to join this revolution is the greatest disobedience to their past life!

The energy and optimism of these people is celebrated.They celebrate that they are finally allowed to live a meaningful and active life in this world, and they yearn for a better future that is different from the past.The way to fight for this future is to fight in a bloody battle, and even leave your own blood and even life in this vast world.

Once the human spirit is aroused, its power is endless, just like the soaring arrogance displayed by the Long March and Shangganling.

Who dares to say that their life is more fulfilling and meaningful than theirs?

You dare?

**

The singing is still faintly heard from all around, and the young people are repeating the lyrics happily, and the golden youth is overflowing here: "Listen to the noise of the wind and snow, watch the shooting stars fly;

"My heart calls to me: To the troubled distance..."

Comand slashed heavily with his right hand raised in mid-air, and Andre, who was so excited, suspected that this knife could split the shield of the patriots, so much so that he forgot to ask what the "Long March" and "Shangganling" were.

Comand even unconsciously paced around these people several times during his speech.Now that he came back to his senses, he met straight eyes.But he didn't care, just raised his finger to Andre: "Let's talk about you again, and people like you."

Berkonsky was taken aback: "Huh?"

"Our revolution will affect everyone on this land. If we said that the "liberation of the body" was mainly about the "liberation of the body", it was based on the masses at the bottom; then the "liberation of the spirit" is about For those of you who know better."

Berkonski shuddered, Tallulah shuddered, and even the Patriots responded.

"It's actually simpler. Ursus intellectuals, 'superfluous people'. They can never leave their studies, salons, attics, basements or whatever they know they are useless for, and Victorian political economy , Gaul politics, Leitanian classical philosophy, etc. Along with industrial development and social progress, advanced countries have exploded with great ideological achievements, injecting surging energy into you. The reality has gone to the other extreme, You can't use this energy at all-there are too many 'resistances' within the empire."

The noble children and war heroes of Ursus who chose to betray their own class remained silent.Berkonsky nodded slowly - why else would he choose to defect?

"You love your Ursus mother, and you know that she has fallen into internal and external difficulties. You feel that it is absolutely impossible to go on like this, but there is no way to change it, so you would rather abandon a comfortable and comfortable life and even a beautiful future like a flower, You also have to come to this snow field. Therefore, you have embarked on the road of 'disobedience' and betrayed your own class.

"I promise you that on this tundra, in this revolution, your ideals will be answered, your karma will be realized, and your abilities will be displayed. You will witness countless challenges on the way to the new world. Legendary. You will get a brand new world that will allow you to sway to your heart's content!—Here, you can defeat that damned cage, you will never be redundant, and you will have a place to use!"

Command lowered his clenched fists and looked at the pretty girl's face, Belkonsky, who was turning red, Tallulah, who was clutching the outer skirt of her coat, and Bodrócasti, who was breathing heavily, knowing that he had grasped their biggest pain point. :

"Comrades, the future is ours! And you, what are you going to do for tomorrow?"

Andrei Berkonsky raised his hand in salute: "Comrade General Political Commissar, please rest assured that all commanders and fighters of the cavalry regiment promise to resolutely complete the task at all costs!"

He put down his hand, turned around, and was stopped by Commander: "Slow down."

Belkonsky turned back, and Commander stretched out his hand: "I know that you need to fire at the military flag that you have sworn allegiance to, and even at your own relatives. This must be painful, but there is nothing I can do about it. This can only be done by You get over it yourself. Now, I ask you to do your duty."

Belkonsky shook Commander's hand vigorously: "I will do my duty!"

The figure of Berkonsky finally disappeared into the darkness, which was the direction of his position.

Commande turned around and looked at the people with different expressions: "What's wrong?"

"...It's nothing." Talula, who had regained her composure, replied quietly, "It's just a feeling that even if I'm an idol, I can't compare to you."

"It's okay. At worst, you can still be used as a napalm bomb."

**

At the same time, on the south side of the South Ridge in the Kursk Valley five kilometers away, under the same night, the Ursus officers who had just climbed up to the observation post on the top of the mountain to observe the enemy's situation returned to the tents on the snowfield in twos and threes. .

The bonfire spread from here to the end of the sight, and the tall silhouette of the land speeder in the distance was like a mountain in the darkness.And during the daytime march, even standing on the watchtower of the land carrier bridge, the lookout with the best eyesight could only see the black and gray of Ursus' uniform forming an infinitely long winding river, starting from the horizon. Spread from one end to the other.

But this is not enough to give the officers of the Sixth Army of the Ursas Empire much confidence.

"The security level is very good, very tight... Hell, the scale is far beyond our expectations. There are at least 5000 people on the opposite mountain!"

"How can there be such a level of discipline? They should be stragglers."

"So what? We are an entire army, fully manned and well-trained. We have an overwhelming advantage in strength and firepower."

"Our land cruiser can barely climb up."

The colleague next to Valery Berkonsky asked: "Hey, big thinker, what do you think?"

Valery remained silent for a long time, until the other party thought that he was not going to answer this question, before answering: "I feel...something is watching us in the dark, always ready to give us a fatal blow."

PS:

My regular readers have read these contents three times, ah, three times.But I still wrote it, using this to add a new chapter because yesterday I encountered a private message that really broke my defense and lived in Bengbu:

"You kneel down and lick the grand narrative."

What happened to me reminded me of Tocqueville's famous sentence in "The Old Regime and the Great Revolution": "Because once a great revolution succeeds, the cause of the revolution disappears, and the revolution itself becomes impossible because of its own success." Understood."

In fact, I just admire the things I describe, and I dare not claim to understand them.On the contrary, it is this private message, which I can understand.In contemporary society, grand narratives are dispelled.Of course it will be resolved, because in this society, the development of productivity has greatly reduced the difficulty of "survival".Even if you're not interested in any grand narrative, it's not hard to get the calories your body needs to function properly.

The Northwest Tundra in Kewen is different.The citizens of the Northwest Tundra base must of course actively embrace grand narratives.Because as soon as they opened the door, they were greeted with severe cold, hunger and bayonets—this is the Northwest Tundra in this book, as well as the cold truth of our modern history, where the call of the grand narrative is the only way out. The only possibility of survival.And those followers of the "grand narrative" have also received extremely precious rewards: such as the chance to live.

Whereas our grandparents faced existential pressures, ours are developmental and social.Of course we have the right to complain, vent and pursue hard. After all, personal feelings are very subjective, and our mental pressure is not necessarily less than that of our ancestors.But a better and more comfortable life is not something that "should be". Even the life that you think is usually trivial, or even very unsatisfactory and very sad, has already been paid for by others.

With every breath you take now, you praise and sing praises to the many living and dead.When you feel "there is no one more unlucky than me", but this is already the result of someone paying the price for you, and there is a high probability that you will not be able to repay the debt.

Now, it's our turn to prepare something for future generations in our own way.

Of course, with regard to this, people can vent their emotions, be weird, be filial, be filial, be happy and be happy, and there is nothing that can force you to give money to future generations.But people should at least remember that you are carrying such a debt.In any case, if someone really sends you something more important than money, please don't be so frivolous towards these people.

Whatever some people say, I am only grateful to the 28 million people who left their names and did not leave their names in those 2000 years, and those who later made the same choice as them. When words express my respect So pale.

Having said all of this, some people are reluctant to leave.

PS1: Jiageng still owes two chapters, and will officially take over the fire tomorrow

Chapter 33 "The Sun of Austerlitz!"

"Let me write an inscription for you: "The Sun of Austerlitz"!"

——Emperor of the First French Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte

As a round of morning sun gushed out from the distant horizon, Comand woke up to the sound of the electronic alarm clock on the tablet computer.He got up from the camp bed, and looked suspiciously at the chair he had fallen asleep on it three and a half hours ago.Tallulah, who was half asleep and half awake, was sitting there now.

Sensing the movement, Tallulah opened her eyes and nodded to him.Comand nodded, said "Thank you", put on the coat that was originally covering his body, and looked at his tablet: "February 2."

Tallul jumped in place as she pulled herself up, moving her aching body from hours of sleeping in the chair.Frost Star opened the curtain at this moment and rushed into the tent. Talulah, who was jumping, made her show a subtle expression of embarrassment, and she handed over a stack of documents: "The observation report of the enemy situation in the past three hours."

Comand turned over one by one, and patted the documents on the table with satisfaction: "Very well, they really didn't divide their troops...it's convenient for us to destroy them in one go!"

At the same time, next to the giant track warehouse of the first detachment of the land-ship task force of the Fourth Army of the Ursus Empire, Earl Wrangel was pointing at the morning sun at the long dining table covered with embroidered white cloth, loudly Said: "That is the sun of Austerlitz!"

——In the history of this land, the "Battle of the Four Emperors" ended with the failure of the Gallic Emperor Corsica I.And "the sun of Austerlitz" has also changed from the auspicious omen of France to the auspicious omen of Victoria, Leitania and Ursus.

The reason for such a forcible connection is that Lieutenant General Wrangel found that his commanders lacked confidence: long-distance marches, enemy raids, and long-term alerts made the troops generally accumulate some fatigue; the enemy was different from what was expected A small force that can only be used to harass, or even a large force that can be organized to establish a strong defensive position.

So the army commander chose to have a breakfast meeting next to the land fleet: the majestic and heroic posture of the Ursas land fleet did play a role, and the officers regained some confidence.But the strong smell of earth and lubricating oil put everyone's appetite down.

Subtly, Earl Wrangel is still working hard to boost morale: "Don't worry, everyone, victory must belong to us! Those troops made up of mud-legged peasants, mine slaves, and infected people stand in front of us. No more than two hours. You'll have no trouble killing them than eating breakfast on a plate. You'll need bigger napkins by afternoon!"

After being encouraged, Chief of Staff Koperov began to analyze the deployment of enemy troops and the terrain of the battlefield:

"The enemy and we have respectively occupied the northern and southern mountains of the Kursk Valley. Their defenses are spread out along the northern ridges along the mountains, running roughly east-west. The entire line of defense is flanked by steeper slopes. , and has a dense arbor forest, which does not have the conditions to launch a large-scale attack. Unless we continue to march for a week, there is no possible route to attack the flank. Therefore, the width of our battlefield is the east-west length of this valley: Six kilometers. We estimate that the enemy has deployed two infantry regiments on these six kilometers.

"We can imagine the North Ridge as a wall. On the west side of the valley, that is, our left flank and the enemy's right flank, there is a cattle ranch. That is the enemy's defense line on the west side. Once a double-headed The eagle flag, then our army can use this as a basis to launch a large-scale offensive. The terrain on the right flank of the enemy's defense line is relatively flat, and the "wall" is relatively low. As long as we occupy the livestock farm, the enemy will not be able to resist our army's offensive.

"But the enemy also understands this matter. They will definitely deploy their most elite troops there and will use all their strength to defend the key point of the livestock farm. Therefore, the Earl believes that the offensive here should be just a feint attack. Once the enemy uses the hillside If the defenders or reserves are sent to support the livestock farm, then our army will break through from the center and penetrate the enemy's defense lines to tear them apart."

Koperov backed away, handing over the speech to Count Wrangel.

The lieutenant general stood up and began to assign tasks to the various units under his command:

"The first detachment of the land-ship task force, please drive your two cruisers, two destroyers, and three frigates to the top of the South Ridge and park them at the top of the South Ridge to form a battle line, prepare for artillery fire with naval gun fire, and destroy the enemy's defenses The fortifications and obstacles of the position, destroy the counterattack enemy artillery. Cover the deployment of ground field artillery.

"Similarly, the artillery of the army and the artillery of each division immediately established artillery positions on the top of the Nanling slope and on the front slope according to the predetermined plan after the land ship started firing.

"The Seventh Infantry Division is in charge of attacking the livestock farm. Remember, your task is to feign an attack. After making fire contact with the enemy troops in the livestock farm, you will turn to defense on the spot and establish an attack starting position close to the livestock farm;

"Eighth Infantry Division, after the Seventh Division's feint attack pulled the enemy's line of defense, you immediately launched an attack on the enemy's center—the left flank.

"The Ninth Infantry Division is on standby as a combat reserve."

The division commanders, brigade commanders, and regimental leaders of the Ninth Division all showed unhappy expressions.

"Now, everyone, take your places," said Wrangel. "I'll hear the artillery ready in an hour."

**

Drone, it’s a nifty gadget.

Although the painting style is still holding a single-handed black powder rifle or even a top helmet, but thanks to the "Origin Stone Skill!", the Ursus Empire Army is able to use the quadrotor hand-throwing drone as a reconnaissance And artillery calibration.

Therefore, it is difficult to say the effect of North Ridge's shielding of the sight line on the south side.