Chapter 1786 - 1174: Side by Side

Chapter 1786: Chapter 1174: Side by Side

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"Boom boom boom..."

"Rat-a-tat-tat..."

The intense battle has erupted. With the end of this campaign, this self-defense counterattack will finally come to a complete conclusion. However, what was originally self-defense turned into an occupation.

Compared to the past smaller scale casualties or zero casualties, this time, the situation is much harsher. War is like this, it can’t always go as you wish.

Everything is different now, completely different.

This was Chuxia’s greatest feeling. In the era she was in, when they counterattacked into the heart of Country Y, the higher-ups issued a recall order and it was General Elder Xu who led the team at the time.

Elder Xu’s intention was to strike at the enemy’s lair directly, making them quiet down, but the higher-ups had to consider a more comprehensive perspective. They couldn’t just indulge themselves only to become the target of everyone in the future. After all, we don’t yet have enough capability to resist so many external invasions.

Furthermore, our country has endured countless disasters over the past century. The ordinary people have always been living in hardship and suffering. It’s impossible to drive their lives into even deeper misery just for an eye for an eye.

As such, whether willing or not, we must make a decision to concede. As long as the opposing side promises never to invade again, our side will withdraw troops, and all captured territories will be returned.

This kind of compromise is hard to accept for upright soldiers bursting with zeal. The return journey was inevitably unpleasant, and all of this Chuxia heard from her grandfather.

This grandfather was naturally Chuxia’s own grandfather by blood. The old man loved most to tell stories of the past to his granddaughter, and though Chuxia was close to her grandfather, even if she wasn’t particularly interested in these things, she always listened attentively. Although sometimes what went in one ear came out the other...

The past torment unexpectedly became her greatest wealth to establish herself. If not for this, she wouldn’t even be able to help Zhou Mikang, only now, it’s completely different from her previous understanding, and the path has significantly diverged.

While this made her feel unsure, it also filled her heart with an overwhelming sense of pride. The feeling of an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, was really invigorating!!!

And she has truly integrated into the life of this era, into this significantly important battle.

After standing for a day, she felt that all she saw was blood, and her heart was heavy with burden. Some team members sacrificed themselves while rescuing the wounded.

Although they were not people she was familiar with, her heart was still weighed down unbearably.

The cruelty of war starkly presented before her!

She also asked Zhou Mikang, whether they could stop once they rendered the enemy powerless to retaliate. Why must they keep advancing? Do they really plan to expand our territory?

Zhou Mikang looked at her helplessly at the time, tapped her forehead with his fingers, indicating that she was indeed a bit foolish. How could our country do such things?

If Country Y could genuinely guarantee and show sincerity, we would naturally withdraw. Who covets their barren land? If we really took it back, it would become our burden. This kind of thankless task, who wants it?

But the problem is, what the other side is showing is essentially a desperate struggle on the brink of defeat. Unless we truly frighten him, there will never be peace in the future, so now what we need to do is frighten the other side so that they never again harbor thoughts of invading us!

The cost is somewhat significant, but if we don’t do this, one day we will pay an even larger price. We choose the lesser of two evils, and this is the reason why it must be done this way.

Chuxia also mentioned that her past memory is different from the present.

Zhou Mikang said, he didn’t know about the past, but it feels like they were indeed in two parallel spaces, and due to the influence of external forces, the development trajectory has veered, which is very normal.

"The so-called external force is me, right? Because of my arrival, everything has changed?" Chuxia asked in this way.

Zhou Mikang, after seriously thinking for a long time, expressed that she was one of the external forces, and there are also some fundamental differences, such as they once tried hard to find Chuxia’s real grandfather, real grandmother, real father, and real mother, but in fact, those people do not exist.

So that also suggests that these two spaces are really not entirely the same. Otherwise, how can this be explained? Calculating by age, Chuxia’s grandparents should be not much younger than Zhou Jingping and Lin Yanqiu now, and Chuxia’s parents would be only a few years younger than her now. They were quite easy to locate, and she memorized her old home address particularly clearly, yet it turned out that living there was an elderly couple they didn’t recognize, an elderly couple without children...