Hello, Mr. Major General (1)

Chapter 78: Mr. Shukla's Decision (5)

At the same time, the Big Circle Boy inside left wing, Warrior No. 2 hollered again, “See our firepower?! Don’t even think about getting backup! I told you, you only had an hour! Only 45 minutes left now! If we don’t see the plane and cash in 45 minutes, we’re gonna blow this place up! The Managing Director and 20 something university students
here will be buried with us, it ain’t our loss!” This sentence was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Neither the garrison troops nor the police had time to deploy a large team over.

“Everyone! Get in formation, port arms, get ready to take them down full force!” The garrison troops’ commanding officer promptly turned around and issued the order to his troops. A soldier’s duty was to protect the nation and be willing to sacrifice their lives for civilians at any time.

The commanding officer held back his tears, he was ready to go in battle with his troops. He was completely opposite of Deputy Commissioner Daya–this young commanding officer defied the meaning of “you make the sacrifice, I take the glory.” The garrison troops began to assemble and prepared to charge.

“You all retreat, the army will take it from here. They will protect everyone’s safety.” Deputy Commissioner Daya was secretly elated and quickly directed his men to retreat.

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Sidharth sat in the Humvee and silently listened to the conversation between the Deputy Commissioner Daya and the garrison troop’s commanding officer over the PA. He
couldn’t take it anymore.

“Who is in charge of the garrison troops?”

“Reporting to Chief, it’s Sher Jang Thapa, Company Commander.” Deepak had no problem digging up Deputy Commissioner Daya, so an officer in the military was a piece of
cake.

Sidharth nodded and commanded Deepak, “Seize Daya and have Sher Jang Thapa come here, I have something to ask him.”

“Roger!” Deepak promptly put on his bulletproof helmet and opened the car door to get out.

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Deputy Commissioner had barely walked a few steps with his men before a tall and handsome man stood behind them. His unyielding attitude almost made them forget his age, “Daya Singhal, you’ve become stripped of your command, await disciplinary action by your superiors. –Wait on the side!” Deepak waved his hand to signal and Harsh immediately stormed up to seize Deputy Commissioner Daya.

Deputy Commissioner Daya’s face was white with fear, his eyes bulged at Deepak as he stuttered, “Who… Who…
Who are you?! You have some gall, why don’t you go arrest the criminals?! Why are you giving me trouble! –You… You… You dare attack a police officer?! This is a serious offence!”

“You are not a court martial, you have no right to convict me.” Deepak coldly stated and tilted his head, “Take him away.”

Deputy Commissioner Daya’s confidantes backed away, too afraid to stand up against a soldier. Any policeman with a conscience had long been resentful of Deputy Commander
Daya, they also wouldn’t stand up against a soldier. The two of them, Harsh and Deepak were enough to take care of Deputy Commissioner Daya. It could be said that every one
of Sidharth’s men were brave and intelligent warriors, but Sidharth’s dominating aura blotted out everyone
else. But as soon as he wasn’t in the picture, every single one of them were brilliant beyond imagine!

“Sher Jang Thapa, you come with me.” Deepak’s gaze shifted to the young commanding officer. Sher looked at Deepak cautiously and did not move until he displayed his military ID. Sher was shocked. He looked at Deepak, who was younger than him, “You’re a Lieutenant Colonel?! And a member of the 6th Military Region?!”

Deepak smiled warmly, he had a good impression of Sher. He checked his CV earlier and knew this young commanding officer was a newlywed of one year, and his wife just gave birth to their daughter–but he had made the decision to join his troops in the same fate.

“The Chief wants to see you, come with me.”

“Chief?! Then you…?” Sher was dumbfounded, in his eyes, Deepak was already worthy of being addressed
as “Chief.”

“I’m his subordinate.” Deepak said as he turned and walked away.

Sher immediately jogged after him to Sidharth’s Humvee and and stood at attention, “Hello Chief!”

Sidharth sat in the car and didn’t reveal his face, His deep and rich voice traveled from the dark vehicle interior,
“Do you know what kind of firearms the criminals are using?”

Sher quickly said, “Reporting to Chief! I believe it’s a mini rotary machine gun!”

Sidharth nodded, “Not bad, if that’s the case, why are the soldiers charging? You should know that having them
charge under these circumstances make them lambs to slaughter.”

“Yes, but we are soldiers! Sacrificing ourselves to save the elite university students, it’s worth it! Their lives are more important than ours!”

Sidharth’s eyes flashed in the darkness, he glanced at Sher and his gaze traveled through the tinted glass to the opposite bank of Little Mirror Lake behind left wing. His voice seemed to carry the same dimness as the lake water, “You can sacrifice your own and the soldiers’ lives to save others, but don’t see yourself as a lower class.”

“In my eyes, your lives are as precious as the others’.”

“Chief!” Sher choked, “I… Please don’t worry, I’ll lead the soldiers to charge!”

“No need. The lives of every one of our soldiers are precious, they are not meant to feed the criminals’ bullets.”

Sidharth shook his head and ordered Deepak, who was standing outside the car in military stance, “Have Rohit come here.”

Deepak immediately called Rohit through his Bluetooth headset. Rohit was at the opposite side of Little Mirror Lake, guarding the straw hut Shehnaaz and her classmates were in.

After listening to Deepak relay Sidharth’s words, he quickly said, “I’ll come over right now.” Then he added,
“What about Sana?”

Deepak looked at Sidharth in the car, “Chief, Rohit is asking about the other side?”

Sidharth understood what he meant, he sat in the darkness and his voice remained deep and rich, carrying a raspy magnetism that tugged at heartstrings, “That side is only safe when the battle on this side ends.” He finished speaking and the image Rohit just sent over flashed in his mind. In the photo, Shehnaaz’s gaze was watery and he was the only one who could sense the terror and anxiety of
a small animal in her eyes… Sidharth closed his eyes and it seemed like only then that he didn’t have to see Shehnaaz’s silent stare.

Deepak waited momentarily and saw that Sidharth didn’t speak again, then relayed his words to Rohit.

15 minutes later, Rohit quickly ran over and asked, “Chief, Rohit reporting!”

Sidharth remained inside and sat in the dark military vehicle, and commanded Rohit through his Bluetooth headset, “Go with Sher, eliminate the criminals’ American Minigun. Can you do it?”

“No problem!” Rohit’s eyes lit up, his expression a mirror of Harsh’s earlier. Harsh’s specialty was showering enemies with bullets using assault rifles, while Rohit excelled at sniping. His sniping skills were nearly perfect and he had already placed as the ace sniper of the entireImperial Army three times in a row. As long as
Sidharth didn’t participate, Rohit was always in first place.

Sher gaped as he scratched the back of his head and asked dubiously, “…How would you shoot? They’re hiding in the room and there are many hostages, they can easily be injured.” He couldn’t expect to live up to the joke and holler at left wing, “We’ve killed all the hostages inside, we can take down the criminals now!” This would disgrace the military and he wouldn’t be able to answer to the
consequences, he might as well perish in battle…

“No way?! –Young man, it’s your lucky day, we’ll have you witness the methods of the 6th Military Region!” Rohit left with Sher and casually picked out a sniper the garrison’s Special Taskforce had brought.

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