Chapter 187 - Assignment (3) (1/2)

Kajo stopped the personnel division's staff from finishing her speech. Then, he looked back at the senior sergeant's face and asked, ”You said before that you could win if you got more soldiers. If you didn't get more soldiers, you could still win but with a huge casualty, right?”

”Right. And, I believe you cannot imagine how huge those casualties are. So, I suggest you to either ask for more soldiers or abort this suicide operation.” The senior sergeant answered annoyingly. He knew that if Lieutenant Kajo decided to ask for more soldiers, which was impossible to get, the higher-ups would reduce his value in their eyes. And, if he chose to abort this operation, his reputation would be damaged more severe.

If he chose to continue this operation and if the action was failed or produce massive casualties, the senior sergeant would have a reason to blame all of this to the Lieutenant Kajo. On the other hand, if he chose to continue this operation and resulted in a success, the senior sergeant could have fabricated the truth like how they supposed to fail, but because of his superb command ability, he could overcome all of that and complete the operation.

The senior sergeant had thought of all the scenarios he could consider. And, all of it would lead to Lieutenant Kajo's reputation smeared. Out of all the possible scenarios, he would prefer Lieutenant Kajo to abort the operation since this way would result in the most severe damage out of all the possible scenarios he had thought.

Lieutenant Kajo looked back at all of them, ”So if I could give each of you some private squads, how many do you need to achieve victory?”

Hearing the question, all of the sergeant began to think deeply. In truth, they didn't need more soldiers. They just wanted to give the Lieutenant a difficult time. However, from the flow of conversation, it looked like the lieutenant was very confident in providing them some private squads.

They didn't need it, but if the lieutenant decided to gift them, then they would take the gifts. With that in mind, one of the intermediate sergeant shouted out, ”I can take five more private squads.”

”I need four more squads.”

”I need 5.”

”I just need 3.”

”2 more squads enough for me.”

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With one of the sergeants taking the lead in answering, the others followed suit. They began to shout their numbers. Some didn't dare to ask too many, while some didn't care and requested more. When all of the sergeants, except the senior sergeant, finished saying their number. The amount totaled to 40 private squads with the highest from them asked five.

Meanwhile, the senior sergeant felt odd about this progress. He began to think hard about what the lieutenant's plan was. However, he could not find what it was, so he could only comply with it. ”I want ten more,” The senior sergeant shouted. He didn't forget his goal here, to make things difficult for the lieutenant.