Chapter 416: Battlefield of Blood and Fire

After being physically and verbally blocked, Diana knew that she couldn't take action today; she didn't want to continue watching Sir Morgan mislead the troops, saying things like "The Boers don't understand polite words, only blood and fire can make them sober", which was disgusting to hear.

The Amazon princess turned and left, not caring at all that her actions were seriously inconsistent with her disguised identity.

Lin Youduo paused for a moment, and deliberately found a suitable angle to capture the passionate speaker and the soldiers enthusiastically shouting victory slogans in the frame, taking a visually impactful photo that was worthy of being put on the front page.

After the filming, Lin You did not leave in a hurry, but stood there for a while, looking up at the cloudy sky, as if thinking about something.

Although the British soldiers were encouraged to fight, the high-level combat deployment was still in order. As Lin You said, the lower-level soldiers and the people could be deceived and incited, but the high-level elites mostly remained rational.

A hard-line senator was not powerful enough to directly change the command and deployment of the expeditionary force.

Although the British reinforcements from afar quickly reached the front line, they did not rush to fight the Boers. They set up camp and rested for nearly a month; it was not until December when more and more reinforcements arrived and they had an absolute advantage in manpower that they began to implement the plan to relieve Ladysmith.

Starting from December 12, the British and Boer armies launched the second large-scale field battle; after a week of fierce fighting, the British army's operations in the three main attack directions all failed.

In one week, the British army lost more than 4,000 people, more than half of whom were killed or missing.

As corpses covered the attacking positions and the wounded lay wailing in the field hospitals, the British army's high morale at the beginning of the war plummeted. As for Sir Patrick Morgan? He had already returned to London with the House of Representatives' investigation team.

The British defeat seemed normal to the "war correspondents"; this batch of reinforcements were summoned from nearby colonies, including those in Africa and the large Indian colony. Just think about what kind of opponents they usually deal with?
The native soldiers under the command of Indian princes were already the most "powerful", most organized and disciplined potential opponents of the British army.

What's the logic? If you bully noobs too much, you won't be able to play high-level games; if you play with bad chess players too much, you will become a bad chess player yourself.

The British were used to fighting against the scattered natives, and when they suddenly encountered a white army that was equally organized, disciplined, and proficient in using modern weapons and tactics, they were stunned on the spot.

The dense formations, intensive firepower, and group charges that had always been effective against the natives turned into collective death in the face of the Boers' carefully arranged defensive positions and artillery firepower. On the three fronts, the largest difference in casualties was as high as 1 to 36.

The Boers, who were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of manpower and firepower, with only 1 troops to face British troops, were the "".

When I heard this result, I vaguely remembered an online rumor I heard in my previous life; it said that when the civil war just broke out in Ermao's family, a "retired officer" from the United States was invited by the Ermao government forces to serve as a military adviser with his more than ten years of experience in public security warfare.

Then, while the armored troops were marching, the military adviser directed the engineers to repeatedly search for roadside bombs at a railway bridge; however, no bombs were found, and the armored troops stopped on the road were covered by long-range artillery fire from the anti-government forces in eastern Ukraine, which almost destroyed the troops...

History has proven that humans always do the same stupid things over and over again. While the "war correspondent" sighed, the "reporter assistant" was unhappy.

"This is not a glorious battle, this is murder." The corpses that filled the attack road gave Wonder Woman a great psychological stimulation; especially when the British soldiers followed the commander's stupid orders and were finally knocked down in batches by the plowing artillery fire, her patience was almost at its limit.

"But we can't do anything." Lin You also saw that the girl was on the verge of an emotional outburst. But no matter from which position, he could only continue to pour cold water on her; only in this way could Diana correctly understand the rules of human society.

Wonder Woman must eventually integrate into this society, rather than overturning it and reshaping it. Not only can she not do it alone, the entire Justice League cannot do it. The result of forcibly reversing the laws of social operation is to create a monster that no one recognizes, which will eventually collapse on its own or be destroyed by others, leaving behind a complete mess.

"You can stop this war, make them lay down their weapons, and end the war; we can do it." Diana was furious. If she was the only one here, she might not be so angry; but when there was Lin You by her side, who obviously had the power of a god, but was indifferent when thousands of lives were lost, Wonder Woman felt particularly uncomfortable.

In the era of ancient Greek mythology, didn’t heroes, demigods, and people with great powers all carry special missions and have a natural responsibility to the world?
Lin You's indifference made Diana both confused and angry.

"We stop them from fighting, then what?" Lin You did not try to resolve his anger, and he even planned to confuse Diana a little more. "What should we do with the gold mines that Britain and the Boers are fighting over?"

"Since it is on Boer land, it certainly belongs to the Boers." Diana answered confidently.

"Whoever's land it is on, it belongs to him?" Lin You deliberately asked.

"Of course!" Diana was unaware of the trap.

Lin You nodded slightly, and then he officially started to work hard: "But the Boers are not the original owners of this land; this land originally belonged to the African black natives, and the Boers expelled them, occupied their land, and made many blacks slaves. You said that the land should belong to the original owner. If those black natives also come to you and ask you to help them take back the lost land, what will you do? Fight the British and then fight the Boers? If you don't fight, isn't that treating them differently?"

“…” Diana was silent; for her, African colonial history was a complete blind spot in her knowledge.

Lin You was not willing to give up at this time and continued to ask: "The black natives themselves have no ability to protect their own land. After you help them take back the land, you must stay here and help them fight against all possible invaders in the future. After all, gold is attractive! Are you ready to become the Queen of South Africa?"

One problem after another gave Wonder Woman a splitting headache. She found that these problems were beyond her ability to handle, so she simply asked the writer for help: "Then what do you think I should do?"

"There is no way." Lin You's answer was disappointing. "The struggle for interests runs through the development of human civilization, from small quarrels and fights between individuals to large cold wars and hot wars between countries. As long as there is a struggle for interests, wars will never end."

The more he tried to explain to Diana, the more confused Lin You felt; comparing his statements with those of the God of Truth in the movie, there was actually no essential difference.

Am I really a villain?
(End of this chapter)