Have Pity on us Soldiers PBEM

[wulfir]

The PLA forces under Colonel Mao-wulfir moves out for the Great Adventure; war with Japan - the enemy of old..., morale is high, the troops know the Japanese have more modern gear but they do not have the numbers, the sher mass, of the Peoples Liberation Army...

...and in numbers there is confidence...

Only the quiet Chief of Staff of Mao-wulfirs command is reserved about the coming war, remembering a verse from the classical age...

Which plant is not brown?
Which man is not sad?
Have pity on us soldiers.
Treated as though we were not men.

- Shi Jing (Book of Songs)

Indeed, the Chief of Staff thinks to himself; Cannon-fodder forward march!