Born from the Fires of War: Chapter 27 Now We Are Comrades

Time, what Xiaoya lacks now is time.

The Red Army's artillery company is expected to be expanded by four by the end of the month. The discipline committee's infantry... these can be expanded to 5,000 people by the end of the month, but forget about the training level.

However, there is also good news. Thanks to Xiaoya and her colleagues' strong implementation of the eight-hour work system and the implementation of the community self-governance system, the citizens who have gained political rights for the first time and the students who can rest for four more hours are more supportive of the Gehenna Soviet. In addition, the rule of the Gehenna Council has indeed been much better than that of the Pandemonium in the past month. Now the people of the fifth campus are supporting the front line to resist the Pandemonium's attack. The people do not want the rights and interests they have worked so hard to obtain to be taken away by the Pandemonium again.

Therefore, under mobilization, more and more citizens went to factories to liberate student workers to join the Red Army or the Disciplinary Committee. However, among the more than 200,000 people in the Fifth Campus, students accounted for only one-fifth.

Even with an extreme mobilization, the troops that can be assembled in the end are only a little over 40,000. Including the hot spring development department troops of the third campus and the fourth campus, the entire Anti-Makoto Alliance can only assemble a force of 160,000. Now, the Pandemonium already has as many as 120,000 armed forces, and 80,000 of them are participating in the Eastern Expedition, which is four times the current number of the Anti-Makoto Alliance.

In fact, if Xiaoya and the others lifted the restrictions and recruited citizens to join the army, at least in terms of quantity, the Alliance could quickly catch up with Pandemonium. However, everyone knew that this was meaningless. Unlike students with auras, the number of mysteries contained in citizens was too small. Most citizens could only withstand a few more bullets than teachers. If they died, they were really dead, unlike students who just fainted.

Therefore, the option of conscripting citizens was rejected by everyone at the previous Spartacus Corps meeting. Doing so would only increase the number of heads for the Pandemonium Guards and would also cause population losses in Gehenna, which was unacceptable to everyone.

Of course, it is not without advantages for the army to be composed purely of students. At least for now, although the fighting on the front lines is fierce, there are actually no casualties on both sides. The reports of casualties are just people who fainted from taking too much damage. Now the most seriously injured patient in the front-line field hospital is just the unlucky disciplinary committee member who fainted after being hit on the head by a 105mm howitzer.

The anti-Makoto coalition also has the support of the Emergency Medicine Department. Under the leadership of Sena, these professional medical students can restore unconscious students to consciousness and join the battle faster than the Pandemonium Guards.

Thanks to this, the coalition forces, which did not lose much manpower, were able to use their own advantages of mobility and flexibility without heavy weapons to release Iroha's armored vanguard and then use guerrilla warfare to block the attack of the Pandemonium Guards under the command of the joint command composed of Eri, Iori and Kasumi.

Iroha did not dare to lead the armored troops to attack the Fourth Campus directly without the cover of infantry. After all, who knew if there would be anti-tank guns waiting for them inside?

Now the Pandemonium guards can neither advance nor retreat, so they have to hold the front line there to prevent the supply line from being stretched too long and cut off by the coalition forces.

In short, no matter what, the front line has bought precious time for the rear. As long as Xiaoya and the others are fully mobilized and establish a real corps with heavy weapons, the coalition forces can consider a counterattack.

But time... Xiaoya stood up, holding a report about the cram school in her hand. Hifumi and the others were not idle after coming to Gehena. Azusa was training the infantry squad of the Red Army. It can be seen that Azusa's military quality is indeed very high, at least much better than the one-week intensive training that Xiaoya had received. Now the Red Army squad being trained by Azusa is showing a tendency to transform into a special forces team.

Hifumi joined the Spartacus Corps' propaganda and mobilization work. She did not have any obvious Trinity characteristics and had a gentle personality. Many new members of the Red Army were mobilized by Hifumi.

And Hanako, the student who always liked to say bad things, was hanging out in the library, reading the theoretical books that came from Hongdong. She was really smart. When she attended the theoretical lecture the night before, she was able to point out the mistakes of the cadres who were giving the theoretical lectures. She could even discover the mistakes of the intelligence department members who were observing her.

Therefore, Xiaoya had an idea about their performance.

......

"Let's go back to Trinity and create an organization? Suzuki-san, your idea is very bold. If it's exposed, we will all be the evil 'Gehina spies'."

Knowing the purpose of Xiaoya's visit, Hanako smiled and placed the book in her hand on the table.

"This is not just my opinion, Urawa-san. You are also interested in our theory of communitarianism, right?" Xiaoya asked. The decision to let the cram school return to Trinity to create an organization was collectively passed by the executive committee. And Hanako happened to show interest in communitarianism. The executive committee members thought this was a good opportunity to export revolution to Trinity.

Hanako didn't answer directly. She simply asked Xiaomei, "According to the book, communitarianism is indeed our future. But Suzuki-san, don't forget that both Hifumi and I are from wealthy families. We are your class enemies. How can you be so sure that our cram school can establish an organization that pursues communitarianism?"

Hearing this, Xiaoya smiled. She and the Executive Committee were not the kind of people who would blindly appoint people without considering objective conditions. Hanako and Azusa did not drive away the protest after discovering the existence of the Intelligence Department, and the Intelligence Department was able to collect information about their performance.

As Hanako said, she and Hifumi are both from wealthy families. However, based on their observations over the past few days, the comrades in the intelligence department believe that Hanako and Hifumi are actually very sympathetic to the lower classes. After experiencing the black market adventure, Hifumi expressed her concern for the lives of those bad girls and lower-class citizens in the black market, rather than simply hating them like ordinary rich girls.

As for Hanako, she studied theory in depth and actively participated in activities. As for Azusa, no one knew much about her past life, but she didn't have the mannerisms of a rich girl, but rather acted like a seasoned veteran. Therefore, during the Executive Committee discussion, Koya argued that Hanako and the others could betray their class and stand with the oppressed.

"Urawa-san, your performance won't lie. We believe in you."

In any case, this is also an attempt by the Spartacus Corps. Even if it fails, it doesn't matter. There is no revolutionary force within Trinity at all. Even if Hanako and the others are pretending, the situation will not be worse.

"Then we are comrades now, Suzuki... no, Comrade Xiaoya."

Hanako became serious and reached out to hold Xiaomei's hand tightly.

Born from the Fires of War: Chapter 28 The captain shouted: Stand against the wall!

"Rumble"

This was the sound of artillery fire from the 105mm howitzers of the Pandemonium Guards. They were targeting the position of the Discipline Committee.

However, there are no discipline committee members in the position now. They had abandoned the position and moved away long before the shelling.

Half a month has passed since Makoto announced the Eastern Expedition, and it is now a hot summer.

The Red Army artillery company formed in the rear also joined the battle. Because the 76mm field gun was more mobile than the 105mm howitzer, the coalition command did not change the established tactics. They continued to harass the Pandemonium guards with guerrilla tactics, which at one point made it difficult to supply puddings on the Pandemonium front line, and the Pandemonium guards were helpless about it.

The Pandemonium Guards were relatively large, with a total of 80,000 men deployed on the eastern front forming four infantry divisions and one independent armored division. As for the armored division led by Iroha, the coalition's strategy was to avoid them. In any case, they didn't dare to advance too deep, let alone attack the Fourth Campus alone.

As for the infantry division of the Pantheon Guards, the coalition forces fully implemented the sixteen-character policy of "when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy stays, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue", and firmly trapped the Pantheon Guards on the border between the fourth and third campuses.

The ability to achieve such results with such a low level of training was also due to the stimulation of war and the fact that the Discipline Committee, following the Red Army's example, inserted members of the Spartacus Regiment into the troops as political commissars. The political commissars generally had good relationships with the lesser commissars, which resulted in an improvement in organizational level. While it wasn't as good as the Discipline Committee before the expansion, it was sufficient for now. After all, how long had the political commissars been there? As everyone got familiar with each other, organizational level could continue to improve.

However, what followed was that these political committees organized study sessions for the miscellaneous members when there were no combat missions. Although Hina acquiesced to such actions of the Spartacus members, the officers of the Disciplinary Committee still had some resentment about this.

In their opinion, the Disciplinary Committee is holding the front line, and the Spartacus Regiment is poaching from the back?

Of course, this is only the view of some extreme people. In fact, the Spartacus Group did not poach members of the Disciplinary Committee. Moreover, while the Disciplinary Committee was fighting, the Red Army was also fighting. For the survival of the Gehenna Soviet, the Red Army's fighting will can be said to be the highest in the coalition forces. After all, the Red Army was mostly composed of students and workers, and they were the first to enjoy the benefits brought by the Gehenna Soviet.

The tense battle situation made Makoto feel very annoyed. According to her idea, the Pandemonium Guards should be able to wipe out this group of "rebels" within a month, but looking at the current situation, if there is no new breakthrough, the two sides may be deadlocked for half a year.

What made Makoto even more uneasy was that the Black Service stopped supplying the pills. When Makoto went to question the Black Service, the black-salted egg simply replied that the experiment had been completed and they would not invest more resources in the completed experiment.

Makoto didn't remember what she was thinking at the time. Anyway, she just let Heifu go in a daze and didn't pursue the matter further. But... she seemed to have been knocked unconscious by Heifu at that time?

[No, no, no, that's not true. The Shumi Society is a partner of Pandemonium. Black servers won't attack their allies.]

Makoto shook her head and suppressed her headache a little. The Pandemonium guards on the border with Trinity were also constantly reporting on the movements of Trinity on the border. No matter how much the Digital Secret Society guaranteed that Trinity would not interfere in Gehenna's affairs, Makoto had to be on guard against them.

For example, now she was about to sign a document to organize the "hostile elements who sabotaged production" and "Spartacus spies" in the correctional facility into a disciplinary force to strengthen the defense force on the border with Trinity.

In addition, in order to resolve the war on the Eastern Front more quickly, she also needs to deploy more troops to fight, but this time, she will not go directly to the front line, but will open up a new front.

After all, the rebels' military strength is limited. Once they are caught in a two-front war...

[Then, the winner will only be Pandemonium.]

Makoto couldn't help but wonder, what is Gehenna? The one under her, Pandemonium's iron-fisted rule, is Gehenna!

......

"Number 1005, come out!"

After Huizi heard the number called out by Zayujiang, who was from the disciplinary committee, she slowly got up with her hands on the ground.

It hurts a little. I guess the injury from last night hasn't healed yet.

"Number 1005!"

Zayujiang reported it again impatiently, and Huizi endured the pain and shouted loudly: "Sir, sir, here!"

Hearing the sound, Zaojiang looked at Keiko and waved the baton in his hand.

Huizi took a deep breath, then trotted to the iron fence. Zayujiang opened the door with the key on his waist, then waved to Huizi to go out.

"Number 1006, come out!"

When Huizi saw the baton in the hand of Zayujiang, she subconsciously shrank her neck, but in the end Zayujiang ignored her and instead reported the next number. This made Huizi a little confused, but seeing Zayujiang's impatient look, Huizi immediately walked outside.

Who knows what they are going to do, even if it is some new method of torture. Only by obeying their orders now can you avoid being beaten immediately.

Life in the correctional facility is not easy. The so-called "Reorganized Discipline Committee" is now completely a yes-man of the Pandemonium. Whatever the Pandemonium says is the truth. Those officers who did not obey the management of the Pandemonium were transferred to idle positions. Among them, Chinatsu holds the highest position.

But these high-level struggles have nothing to do with Huizi for the time being. She only knows that the Zayujiangs guarding the disciplinary committee headquarters are the most brutal and hateful people in the reorganized disciplinary committee. They take pleasure in torturing prisoners, especially those like Huizi who are labeled as "hostile elements that sabotage production."

Huizi followed the direction pointed by Zayujiang and came to the outside of the correctional facility. To her surprise, outside the correctional facility was a team of Pandemonium guards distributing uniforms to prisoners like her.

[what's the situation? ]

Huizi was completely confused. She had been locked up in the correctional facility ever since the last chaos in the factory cafeteria. She had no idea what had happened outside, so she naturally had no idea that the Pandemonium Guards were currently engaged in a tense battle on the eastern front.

"come here!"

A member of the Pandemonium guard pointed at her and gave an order. Huizi ran over obediently, and then a uniform and an ID card were stuffed into her hands.

"Alright, now you're a member of the First Punishment Battalion. Go over there and wait."

Just like that, Huizi, with a confused look on her face, became a member of the Ten Thousand Demons Palace Guard.

Born from the Flames of War: Chapter 29: Still the Mastermind of the Punishment Battalion

The punitive battalion composed of "production saboteurs" and "Spartacus spies" would naturally not be sent to the Eastern Front to be minced with the rebels. Makoto herself knew how much influence the Spartacus Group had among the students and workers, not to mention that these problem students were originally radicals among the students and workers.

If they are really sent to the Eastern Front, they will surely be able to escape in no time, and then the Ten Thousand Demons Palace will be working hard to provide manpower for the rebels.

But if they can't be sent to the east front, they can be sent to the west. Even if Makoto is a fool, he knows that he has to be on guard against the unusual movements of the Holy Trinity. And if he sends the Punishment Battalion there, won't he be able to free up more guards?

Makoto is also a little overwhelmed now. Although the Pandemonium guards have been mobilizing students, the actual effect is very limited. On the one hand, Makoto does not think that those animal and robot citizens have the same rights as students, so the important positions in various factories in the area controlled by Pandemonium are now held by student workers. In extreme cases, like the Gehenna Mineral Water Factory, all the front-line production staff are student workers.

This resulted in a waste of manpower. On the other hand, ever since the Discipline Committee became the Reorganized Discipline Committee, public security in the Pandemonium-controlled area has not only flourished, but has also been thriving. The Pandemonium guards will need to allocate manpower to suppress the situation... As for the Reorganized Discipline Committee? Forget it. They're barely enough to guard the correctional facility. If they were sent into battle, the enemy would likely flee at the first charge. In more serious cases, they might even be persuaded to revolt by the opposing Discipline Committee.

Based on this, Pandemonium's mobilization work so far has been terrible. Makoto can only capture troublesome bad girls and stuff them into the Pandemonium Guard, which inevitably reduces the quality of the Pandemonium Guard...

Therefore, among the offensive forces on the front line, apart from Iroha's independent armored division, the other Pandemonium infantry divisions and the rapidly expanded discipline committee troops of the Gehenna Soviet are actually players of the same level...

No, the Pandemonium Guards were stuffed with bad girls and the original guard members were too lazy to curb the bad military discipline, which resulted in the Pandemonium Guards' military discipline being much worse than the Discipline Committee which was still barely maintaining it.

Not to mention the fourth campus, even the citizens of the third campus who were unable to bear the torture by the Hot Spring Development Department were robbed by the Ten Thousand Demons Palace guards to support the Hot Spring Development Department in fighting against the Ten Thousand Demons Palace.

Iroha himself also sent back reports many times asking Makoto to rectify the military discipline of the Pandemonium Guard, but Makoto ignored them. First, she couldn't do it at all, and second, the people they robbed were just citizens of small villages and towns, and we noble Gehenna students robbed you because we think highly of you.

Of course, Makoto didn't directly announce these troubles on the front line to the public. She knew that there were nearly one million citizens in the Central District, but she could have "beautified" the news a little.

With just a little photo-editing technology, it can be turned into reports such as "The brave and fearless soldiers of the Pandemonium Guard defeated the rebels" and "The evil rebels brutally looted innocent citizens."

Huizi scoffed at the overwhelming news. She had been in the correctional facility for a long time but she was not stupid.

If the Eastern Front was going so smoothly, why would they pull these prisoners out of the correctional facility?

"Hurry up! Don't waste time! Six? The guide is one 2 玐IV four b)a Yue Yi《%"

Zayujiang, a member of the Pandemonium Guard of the Supervisory Team, tapped Huizi, who was lagging behind the team, with the butt of his gun. Huizi hurriedly pulled her still painful legs to catch up with the team.

They also received equipment, but they were all rifles. The Pantheon was reluctant to give these prisoners good weapons. There were about 300 people in their battalion, and all of them only had one rifle. The bullets had not been distributed yet. All the bullets were in the hands of the supervision team. It was estimated that they would not be distributed until they received information about the enemy.

As for heavy weapons, forget about it, as they can only be used by the female soldiers of the guard. According to the supervision team, these prisoners only need to fill the line, while the supervision team has a lot more to consider, such as when to distribute ammunition and when to escape.

Wearing a relatively new uniform, Huizi glanced at the prisoner armband tied to her left arm and sighed. Fortunately, the Pandemonium had grouped them by number, so her fellow battalion members were mostly acquaintances from the Gehenna Mineral Water Factory. A small number were "Spartacus spies" captured by the Pandemonium. As for how many of them were genuine Spartacus members, that was unknown. At least the student workers who had previously organized a secret union in her workshop were still there. Perhaps they could organize an uprising when the Spartacus arrived?

Huizi was full of confidence in the Spartacus Regiment. Although she had never seen what the Gehenna Soviet looked like, she believed that with the current state of Pandemonium, it would definitely not be able to defeat the Spartacus Regiment, which seemed much more reliable than them.

......

The Spartacus Group that Huizi had high hopes for was actually just a makeshift group. In the past two months, the Spartacus Group had expanded rapidly even with the stringent conditions for joining the group. However, the quality of the new members during this period was hard to say. Moreover, although no one had been found, Xiaoya guessed that there might be speculators among them. There was nothing they could do about it, and Xiaoya and the others could only try to overcome it.

For example, now Xiaoya has left the office. Although she has a lot of work to do as the administrator of the Gehenna Council, with the help of a complete administrative system and developed network communications, she can complete these paperwork on her mobile phone.

Moreover, in Xiaoya's opinion, clerical work is important, but going to the grassroots level and experiencing the lives and needs of the masses firsthand is more important. She can't stay in the office all day. If that's the case, what's the difference between her and Makoto?

So Xiaoya ran out. She planned to visit the fifth campus and its surrounding areas to fully understand the progress of the mobilization work and, by the way, correct some mistakes made by grassroots staff in their work.

The first stop is naturally the military factory. The military factory is currently the focus of the Gehenna Soviet's work. They need to produce enough weapons to arm the Red Army and resist the attacks of the Pandemonium Guards.

"Hello, comrade. Please show me your ID."

The people guarding the factory gate were members of the workers' pickets, which were organized by the workers themselves. This was also the result of the Spartacus League's propaganda.

At present, the Gehenna Soviet has not yet fully nationalized these enterprises like the Red Winter, and the shortage of cadres has forced them to temporarily coexist with the former oppressive classes.

The members of the workers' picket team did not recognize Xiaoya, after all, Xiaoya rarely showed up in public. But Xiaoya was very happy, at least the members of the workers' picket team did not call her chairman.

Born from the Fire of War: Chapter 30: The Big One is Caught

There is not enough time for the Spartacus Group to develop slowly, but the masses will not wait for the Spartacus Group.

The conditions in Kivotos are different from what is described in ancient texts, which talk about literacy, but in Kivotos, there is no such thing at all.

There is no illiteracy in Kivotos, and everyone has received an education. There is even a primary school in the fishing village that Xiaoya and her teacher Fangling visited before.

The high-quality population can make it easy for Xiaoya and her team to pull out artillery units, easily recruit workers, and easily make the masses understand the Spartacus Corps' propaganda.

However, the high-quality population also means that once the masses understand the ideas of the Spartacus League, they will quickly become radicalized. Now in the Gehenna Soviet area, it is not the Spartacus League that is leading the masses, but the masses who are pushing the Spartacus League!

Workers' pickets like these were completely organized spontaneously by the workers. However, the cadres of the Spartacus League were worried that this might be too radical. After all, the Spartacus League did not have the ability to completely eliminate the oppressive classes, and they were still worried that the oppressive classes would counterattack if they were forced into a corner.

But the masses refused to accept this. They wanted to take control of the factory immediately. It was only after the cadres of the Spartacus League persuaded them that they organized pickets to monitor the oppressive classes.

This is different from when the Spartacus Group just took control of the Fifth Campus, and it is also different from Hongdong's situation. He Xiang recorded a lot of information and sent it back to the headquarters of the Third International.

However, at present, the masses are still able to maintain restraint and have not mentioned abandoning the Spartacus League and engaging in a fierce struggle directly with the oppressive class.

But Xiaoya knew that if it dragged on, the masses would sooner or later become dissatisfied with the Spartacus Corps.

After all, what does it mean for a revolutionary organization that claims to support the oppressed class in overthrowing the oppressor class to keep dragging its feet and suppressing the masses when faced with the demands of the revolutionary masses?

"Hello, comrade." Xiaoya nodded in response, then took out her ID from her pocket. "I'm from the Spartacus Regiment. I came here to see what the current situation is like at our factory."

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