The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 254 - 249 Treatment of Prisoners of War

Chapter 254: Chapter 249 Treatment of Prisoners of War

Gao Yuan dumped the unconscious officer into the machine gun nest and then slapped him twice with a loud smack.

It seemed his grip had been too strong earlier, as two slaps didn’t manage to wake the man up.

Gao Yuan lifted his head and yelled at Li Jingang, who was still firing: "What’s wrong with the guns, what’s wrong with them!"

Zhao Qiang said this, and so did Li Yang, although Panxin and Li Jingang hadn’t seen what happened just now, they still said the same after arriving.

Li Jingang fired off a long burst, then shouted loudly: "These people are using AKMs, not Type 56 assault rifles. This is the first anomaly because the Pakistani primarily use our Type 56, and the second anomaly is, the Pakistani Army has already switched to the CZ806, and it’s a complete transition. Look at the camouflage and combat boots on these corpses, they aren’t from local garrison forces, so they should be using the CA806, not AKMs."

Li Jingang fired another burst of bullets, and then during the break in shooting, he continued: "Boss Zhao and his team have been providing security for a long time, such details to them are as visible as glaring flaws."

Gao Yuan looked at the rifles in the hands of the corpses and asked, "What is the difference between the AKM and Type 56?"

"The stock and the front sight post, the AK has a half-surround front sight, the Type 56 has a full-surround one."

Gao Yuan didn’t know the difference between a half-surround and a full-surround front sight, but he thought that for Zhao Qiang and Li Jingang, perhaps these subtle distinctions were as clear as the difference between black and white.

If there’s an anomaly, something is wrong, and if something is wrong, it must be clarified why. Zhao Qiang had spotted the anomaly and wasn’t quite sure these people were Indians, so he decided to clear it up. To let Gao Yuan also understand what was happening, he had no choice but to use Mandarin, and it was in clear speech.

Zhao Qiang and Li Yang must have some unique coded language for communication, but it would be unintelligible to Gao Yuan.

Therefore, Zhao Qiang chose to use clear speech to alert Li Yang and Gao Yuan, but the officer that Gao Yuan had apprehended could actually understand it.

"This guy speaks Mandarin!"

Li Jingang didn’t turn his head, but he paused for a moment, then said: "An intelligence officer, otherwise, you won’t find anyone in the Indian army who can speak Mandarin!"

Just then, Song Qian jumped into the bunker, coming to Gao Yuan’s side, while Liu Chunxiao tumbled and scrambled into Panxin’s machine gun nest.

Liu Chunxiao dragged the upper half of the machine gunner’s corpse out of the machine gun bunker and then shouted: "Wang Ning says he needs time, buy him time, at least ten minutes!"

Ten minutes wasn’t too long, but it was hard to secure that much time right now.

The Indian camp was about five hundred meters away from the position, where there was a relatively gentle slope, large enough to accommodate a battalion to camp there without worrying about permits.

This was a valley in Kashmir, bounded by high mountains on both sides, with open visibility. However, it was really troublesome to set up a camp along the road.

This machine gun position was at the bend of the road; with two machine guns set up in tandem, they could block the entire road. And if you retreated a bit further back, you could also have a good cover from the mountain that extended down.

It wasn’t that the Indians didn’t want to set up the camp and the frontline checkpoint together, but the terrain limited the positioning of the position. Nevertheless, five hundred meters wasn’t considered far, and it was entirely acceptable.

The soldiers in the camp had already started a counterattack, with bullets often hitting the sandbags and making a light popping sound.

A whistling sound increased from far to near, from soft to loud. Li Jingang shouted, "Mortar! Get down!"

With a boom, the shell landed about six or seven meters to the right of where Gao Yuan and the others were, and Li Jingang bellowed: "60mm mortar, no worries!"

Five hundred meters was nothing for a heavy machine gun, but for the soldiers hastily engaging from the camp, the 12.7mm caliber machine gun bullets were really frightening.

The problem was the coverage was too wide, and no matter what, the two machine guns couldn’t provide comprehensive coverage, and the firing rate of the M2 heavy machine gun was indeed slow.

Gao Yuan suddenly realized a problem: why hadn’t Yu Shunzhou and the others come yet?

"Where’s Yu Shunzhou?"

Song Qian waved his hand forward twice and said: "Mr. Cao has led them in a tactical flanking maneuver!"

"What?"

"We can’t all squeeze in here, so Mr. Cao took Yu Shunzhou and Er Long to flank, putting pressure on the enemy from the side."

Gao Yuan angrily said: "There’re only fucking nine of us, and he’s still splitting up the forces?"

"Mr. Cao said we have to divide our forces. Huddling together here with no heavy firepower, if the enemy charges, we won’t be able to hold them back. How are we going to buy ten minutes? That’s what he said," Song Qian replied.

Gao Yuan looked back, then to the side, but saw no one.

"The Taoist and Liu Deguang are helping Wang Ning; they can’t make it over here. Li Yang’s situation is dire; he probably can’t be saved."

Song Qian grabbed Gao Yuan’s arm and said, "Li Yang wants you to go back. That’s all he kept saying!"

Gao Yuan shook off Song Qian’s arm, saying: "Nonsense!"

Song Qian grabbed Gao Yuan’s arm again, raising his voice: "You’re useless staying here, can you consider our guards’ feelings? One shell and you’re gone. What are you staying here for, to watch the spectacle?"

Out of fourteen men, Zhao Qiang was dead, Li Yang was injured, leaving twelve people.

Lizhizi couldn’t fight, and Xinghe would be fine as long as she stayed put; Wang Ning was a military doctor, so that meant three more people were gone.

Only nine people were left who could fight, and they had to withstand at least a battalion of enemies. Even though Liu Deguang was a mechanic, at least he had some fighting capability, but he too had to go and help Wang Ning, so there went another person.

That left eight. Was Cao Zhenjiang actually going to divide his forces further?

Gao Yuan felt Cao Zhenjiang was being absolutely unreasonable.

Song Qian spoke to Gao Yuan again, "Can you take this prisoner for interrogation or not? I’m just asking if you can handle it. Four of us here are more than enough, your staying isn’t going to make a difference anyway!"

Li Jingang stopped firing, and he shouted, "The enemy’s counterattack isn’t strong, it’s just a few machine guns firing back."

As he spoke, Li Jingang picked up a spare gun barrel from the side and said to Song Qian, "Help me switch this out."

Gao Yuan considered leaving, realizing that Song Qian was truly in a dire hurry, so he decided to empathize with the guard’s predicament.

But just then, Gao Yuan noticed that the officer beneath his feet had woken up.

Gao Yuan immediately squatted down, then drew his axe.

First, he would chop off one of his fingers; if he didn’t talk, he would chop off another.

To Gao Yuan, the interrogation techniques he knew were all from movies and TV shows; naturally, the simplest method was to chop off fingers.

As Gao Yuan squatted down with the axe, the officer who spoke Chinese immediately shouted, "What are you doing? What do you want? I am a prisoner of war! I am a prisoner of war! Under the Geneva Convention, you can’t harm me. I demand to be treated as a prisoner of war deserves, aren’t you supposed to be treating prisoners of war well? You can’t hurt me!"

For a moment, Gao Yuan actually hesitated.

Song Qian didn’t squat down; during the moment he helped change the ammo belt, he shouted, "To be recognized as a prisoner of war from a distance, you must wear a fixed sign of distinction, do you have one? You’re disguised as a spy, you can’t enjoy the treatment of a prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention."

Were they going to have a legal dispute now?

Gao Yuan raised the axe again, but at that moment, the officer whom he was stepping on shouted, "You can’t hurt me, I’m a Sanitation Worker! I request leniency in exchange for providing information! Only we can save humanity, you can’t hurt me!"

Gao Yuan was stunned once more, and then he put the axe down again.

"You... you... state your identity!"

"My name is Abina Valta, thirty-seven years old, former Indian Investigation and Analysis Bureau Investigator, but my real identity is a member of the Sanitation Workers. I am currently under orders to lead a part of the Sanitation Workers’ Special Border Force to establish a forward position here, in defense against the possible arrival of Shenzhou reinforcements."

The reply was quick and precise, of course, whether it was fake or not was still unclear, but Gao Yuan was in no position to clarify the truth at the moment.

"You are a Sanitation Worker? Then why are you here, and why did you wage war against Pakistan?"

"Yes!"

Abina nodded and said, "I demand to be allowed to sit up, you can’t keep me under your foot, I am not a lowly person."

Gao Yuan brandished the axe again, and Abina quickly said, "Aliens have attacked all the countries of the world, but we’ve known for a long time that an alien attack would happen, so we’ve also been preparing for an alien invasion for a long time. Now! We’re working hard to save humanity, and we discovered that the Kashmir region wasn’t affected by the virus, so we need this region and therefore... we decided to launch an immediate attack."

Gao Yuan couldn’t believe his ears; he was extremely astonished and said, "You launched an attack at a time like this?"

"Yes."

Li Jingang stopped firing, then he shouted loudly, "The Sanitation Workers, aren’t they the secret organization we were talking about back at the base, the Sanitation Workers?"

Gao Yuan let out a breath and said, "Yes, they are our main adversary. Continue, how far has the war progressed?"

"We have almost completely occupied the entire Kashmir; Iborg City was destroyed by the aliens, but under the leadership of the Sanitation Workers, we have maintained our combat effectiveness intact. We’ve taken control of the Indian army, so this is not India, no! This is the army of the Sanitation Workers, you’re fighting against the only saviors, you’re fighting against the Sanitation Workers!"

Li Jingang hastily asked, "How did you take control of this military force?"

Without waiting for Gao Yuan to speak, Abina immediately said, "We began infiltrating a long time ago, and after the aliens launched their attack, the Indian government was completely thrown into chaos, so the Sanitation Workers took over most of the military. Now, there’s an enhanced infantry battalion here, affiliated with the 28th Mountain Division, eight hundred strong, plus an infantry battalion, reinforced with a mortar company and an engineer company. Originally, there was also an artillery regiment deployed in the rear, but after it became apparent that Shenzhou was unlikely to send reinforcements, the artillery regiment has been redeployed towards Gilgit to join the attack."

An enhanced battalion, Gao Yuan looked to the side; just then Abina spoke with a serious tone, "Of course, there’s also the special operations squadron I’m leading from the Special Border Force, a total of eighty people, and they are the finest special forces! Now, your best option is to surrender; I can guarantee you will enjoy all the proper treatment of prisoners of war!"

The best special forces?

Gao Yuan looked at Li Jingang; Li Jingang nodded and said, "In any respect, the Special Border Force are considered among the best special forces in India; of course, now they’re the Sanitation Workers’ special forces."

Gao Yuan asked Abina, "Which armies have you taken control of? How many people?"

Abina laughed and said, "Many, many; almost the entire military, because right now, we’re the only ones who have the vaccine! Do you get it? We have the vaccine! If you want to survive, your best option is to surrender to the Sanitation Workers, then you’ll have the vaccine!"

Glancing to the side, as he wanted to find Yu Shunzhou and the others, but didn’t see them, Gao Yuan spoke in a low, nearly tearful voice, "On the other side, there’s an enhanced battalion, plus a special forces squad, and yet we proceed with tactical interdiction? This is tactical suicide, damn it!"