High School Soldier
71. Good side brutal squad

4 September 2321, 19:12 WIB/1914 Luan Empire, at night.

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As the troops that had been desperate would fight harder than before, it was also true for the bandits who were fighting with Squad 1. Until before this happened, the bandits could move freely.

The entire army descended from the vehicle and knelt on the ground to shoot at dozens of bandits. Their shoulders absorb the recoil in order to be able to casually open fire. Some of the soldiers had worn their night vision before the battle, some had not had time to wear it because the battle was faster.

After all, the illumination from the vehicle was enough to see the movements of the entire bandits fighting in groups and working together. The 1st Squad also conducted combat using cooperation and group, but they did not use close combat.

That's why otherworlders assume that TNI troops are witches. With ‘long black steel stick’, this green army could kill troops with strong iron armor without touching it. Especially with weapons that have large explosive power, such as mortars and anti-tank grenades.

The first thing the bandits saw from this squad was ‘black’ and ‘burst’. But the combat uniform that the TNI wears is not black, although black is found in the uniform stripes, but it is not the basic color.

The bandits' camp had now smelled of charred hair and charred flesh as a dead bandit fell right into the campfire they were using. He was naked because he had just raped his victims, so he had not had time to wear his equipment.

While Sheyn's forces were not far from the battle, the entire army looked pale-faced as explosions continued to sound. The sound of the gunfire was enough to make their hearts tremble, and preferred to return to the capital due to encountering otherworldly forces.

Papua province is a location that is rarely attacked by other world forces. The last time another world army attacked the region, as many as 5,000 troops landed there and were defeated within a week by troops in the Sorong Garrison.

That was why Liben looked so happy while doing the umpteenth battle this time.

Among the surviving bandits and putting up a fight, one of them managed to shout with much greater courage than the explosive sound produced by the assault rifle. He deserves praise even in these circumstances. But a few bullets released from the submachine gun smashed his head.

In front of the troops of Squad 1, the bandits scattered like chickens about to be captured. They left their friends with all their might, but the bullets released could reach the bandits who were about to escape.

“It's not that easy you run, ferguso..!” the soldier who chose to shoot the blurred bandits looks happy to be able to show the results of his training so far.

Hundreds of bullets continued to chase dozens of bandits who were trying to escape from what they were making. However it seems that this is not the luck of Team 1 troops. All this time, the soldiers who joined this unit had never seen magic.

But this time, there was a bandit standing on a hill saying something quickly. Although he used to be part of the army of military magicians, but after the battle to capture the Gate he chose to join the bandit group.

The wand that the bandit magician was holding gave off a blood red glow after he finished chanting the spell. He prepared to cast a spell to unleash an attack. Squad 1 understands that magic is an attack for them.But the bandit magician does not realize that the grenade launcher threw five grenades at him. Instantly, his body was crushed by the nearly simultaneous explosion of a grenade.

The female warrior held her breath after the explosion of the grenade that destroyed the body of the bandit magician. Then they gulped because of the male soldiers who fought without mercy at all.

‘We killed a witch who became a bandit with five grenade’, that's the content of the report that Nio will write later after his duty while grinning.

This group of bandits wore the iron armor they used when the battle captured the Gate. However they removed attributes related to their origin. So that they really become evil runaway warriors.

Since they chose to become runaway soldiers and coincidentally met the forces of Squad 1, when hit by bullets they had to shout for facing doom and suffering. Being struck by the saber was not a problem for them, but the small arrows piercing through their bodies were a nightmare. In this world, there was no surgical technique to remove bullets from the body.

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The battle was completed within fifteen minutes, much faster than the five-hour battle at Karanganyar.

The male soldiers had to work to lift and stack the corpses of the bandits in one place. They would bury them if they finished collecting the entire corpses of bandits that could be found. Death is the ultimate goal of man, no man can avoid it.

This place was actually not a market, but Squad 1 found very many items in this bandit place before they were slaughtered. The screams of the bandits were still heard even though they were mostly dead.

“Sial, shit!” a bandit ran as hard as he could from the pursuit of the five green-clad warriors.

Nio ordered the five of them to chase, but did not allow to kill him because the bandit likely had some information.

There was no place for him to hide, for the place he was running right now was a field of stone hills that formed pillars. The bandit occasionally stumbled, his body covered with sweat and the blood of his dead bandit fellow with his head crushed in front of him.

A small part of the TNI forces has shown it a nightmare and the brutality of the war in fact.

The body of the bandit slid on the ground after tripping over a rock, its head hitting the ground violently.

“Damn it, why is my luck so bad!” but five soldiers soon caught his body not to run away again.

He desperately walked over while being held tightly by the two green-clothed warriors. He was actually unable to walk, so the two soldiers had to drag him.

“Ots eis anmus uicxe hadhah? (are you sad to be left by your own friend?)” Nio asked with another world language with clear language, and a gaze filled with threats.

The man did not expect that if the warrior who asked him could use the language of this world, that was what made him even more terrified.

The man shook his head in despair. There was no certainty for him now, as the entire army of Squad 1 looked at him hatefully. However Nio took off his sword from its sheath on his back, and stuck it between the man's legs. Instantly the ground around the man's feet became wet, and made the entire members of Squad 1 laugh out loud.

“I, I've never killed anyone!” the entire army wondered about what this man had said.

“Really?” Nio whipped out his sword that was stuck in and aimed its tip at the tip of the man's nose.

The man simply replied with a nod.

“Hmmmmmm...?” Nio thought briefly before asking anything else.

“That gate, appeared in what country?” the man's eyebrows instantly descended sharply. While the other members of Team 1 did not understand what Nio said because they had not fully learned the language of this world.

“Luan Empire,” Nio then recorded the name of the country that the man mentioned.

“Then, now what will we do to him?” all the members of Team 1 only looked at each other because it was not athu what would be done after this.

They all want to find a river and mendi there, or at least set up camp so they can rest.

Nio then looked at the two women who looked motionless, Nio then asked the man, “Who do you like between the child and the mother there?”

Nio stood beside the naked woman beside him who looked motionless, with his hands tied with ropes. Their eyes remained open by showing blank stares about what they had gone through earlier. None of them were breathing, they had been raped to death.

Nio then closed the eyes of the two of them and sat his head, then he ordered the female members to take care of the two women.

The bandit man said to beg for forgiveness and kept saying that he had not touched the two women. He prostrated himself on the ground, as if he were worshiping. His face was covered in tears and snot, hoping that if the troops who finished off his comrade gave him mercy.

He had no choice but to become a bandit to survive. After this, he said in his heart he would not become a bandit anymore and look for a better job.

Some members sighed as they looked at the man's pitiful appearance. They still could not forgive this man who became a bandit just to cover up his poverty. Those who do not have the ability to simply fill the stomach, they can choose life to be a beggar. It was better than being a bandit who robbed everything from a person who was helpless against them.

“You should bury them both,” the man was surprised by Nio's orders.

Some of the members who were confused by Nio's words, they looked for it in the dictionary. After discovering the meaning, they looked relieved when Nio did not order to kill the man.

There were two graves for the boy and the mother, and a mass grave for the bandit's male friends.

The man replied that he did not have the tools to dig the ground, but Nio replied that he had a pair of hands. Then the man started digging the ground for the grave in this place.

Unlike sand or fertile and soft soil, digging up the soil around a rock hill is not easy. The man's fingernails came off and his skin was bleeding, occasionally the man stopped because he felt pain. But he still wants to live.

Disregarding the look of terror, the man forgot the pain and dug out with all his might the ground that was almost as hard as a rock.

A few hours later, he buried his mother, then his son. When he used his numb hand to cover the grave with his quarry, one member said it was now midnight.

The man did all this, for this was a condition for him to be released. He looked at Nio with a face that started to pale, limp, thirst, hunger and pain in his hands.

The man then knelt down on one knee, he clasped his hand as he said something before the members of Squad 1.

Nio who had already taken pity on him, took out a roll of bandages and treated the man's wounds without a second thought. He also ordered his members to take some rations for these men to give.

The man's lips that were starting to pale, started to tremble and shed tears profusely. It turned out that the troops who fought brutally, still had a good side and actually gave him mercy.

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Funfact: another world language that I use is a combination of several countries that I stacked upside down.