Lakewood's Asian-American group is unique in its ability to survive around its strong neighbors.

While the fact that the Jewish community in Denver had not yet begun to expand was the main reason for the survival of other nearby separatist forces, it was definitely not the most important reason. Over the past few months, Denver's Jewish bloc has defeated several separatist forces that are within its sphere of influence and on the same scale as Lakewood's, such as Greeley's black clique and Colorado Springs' Latin American clique.

Essentially, Lakewood's importance lies below other cities near Denver.

Lakewood was devastated, with two-thirds of the houses collapsing and the remaining buildings badly damaged. Before the invasion began, Lakewood was an empty city, and all the surviving residents were moved to temporary settlements on the outskirts.

What's more, Lakewood has fewer than 100,000 survivors.

Before the cataclysm, Lakewood had more than half a million residents, many of whom worked in Denver and only lived in Lakewood.

After the invaders withdrew, fewer than 50,000 civilians returned to Lakewood, mainly women, and children.

Although tens of thousands of more people came to Lakewood in the following months, according to information provided by Zhang Xiaogang, the total number of residents in Lakewood is less than 100,000, which is only one-fifteenth of Denver's size, and it is the city with the smallest number of residents near Denver.

Apparently, Lakewood has not yet attracted the attention of the Jewish community in Denver.

Several other cities near Denver have more than 200,000 residents, and Fort Collins has more than 500,000 residents.

In addition to being sparsely populated, Lakewood is also a quintessential "dependent city".

Before the Great Catastrophe, Lakewood was one of Denver's satellite cities, with predominantly middle-class residents and most residents working in Denver. In other words, Lakewood is a residential city, and the large warehouses in the Denver jurisdiction are concentrated in Aurora in the southeast.

Without the necessary supplies to sustain the inhabitants, Lakewood was left attached to Denver.

Lakewood does not have a foundation for independent development compared to other cities near Denver, so Lakewood's Asian-American group is woefully lacking in independence.

In Zhang's words, the Jewish community in Denver does not need to attack Lakewood at all, as long as it no longer provides food, fuel and electricity to Lakewood, tens of thousands of residents living in Lakewood will flee to Denver, and the Asian American group in Lakewood will naturally fall apart.

As such, Lakewood's Asian-American group is the most closely associated with Denver's Jewish group of all the small secessionist forces in the neighborhood.

According to information provided by Zhang Xiaogang, Lakewood's Asian-American group is actually attached to the Jewish group in Denver.

While trading for essential resources such as food, fuel, and electricity, Lakewood's Asian-American group did something shady for the Jewish community in Denver.

The most important of these is human trade.

In the United States, the most prevalent and important is human trade.

Interestingly, with the exception of a few secessionist forces, most of them, including all white groups, declare the human trade illegal, but they are secretly engaged in the human trade. The key point is that population is the most valuable resource, and it is also the number one factor affecting the overall strength of various separatist forces. The blatant trade of human beings is tantamount to taking out many civilians who are free from the separatist forces, and it also cuts off the possibility of recruiting people from other separatist forces. It is difficult to grow in the short term without human trade. As a result, the less powerful separatist forces mainly engaged in the trade of people in secret, and the powerful separatist forces such as the Jewish group in Denver mainly relied on the small separatist forces to engage in the trade of people, in order to increase the number of people as quickly as possible.

In addition to aiding the Jewish group in Denver in the human trade, the Asian-American group in Lakewood occasionally raided caravans.

For the small secession forces such as Lakewood's Asian group, in addition to helping the large separatist forces do some shady things, the main business is to raid caravans, especially for the small secession forces located on the main transportation routes or near the central city.

It can be said that raiding caravans is a typical high-risk and high-reward business.

Almost every caravan has its own caravan, and the powerful separatist forces will arrange escorts for the caravans, some large caravans have thousands of escorts, and most of the guards have been soldiers before, and they also have various centers of gravity equipment, and some even have main battle tanks and self-propelled guns. Even small caravans with strong presences will concentrate their actions or hire mercenaries. In the United States, caravans without the protection of guards would not dare to leave the city's trade reserves, let alone go to the wilderness outside the city.

Raiding a caravan means that there is a risk of failure, but it also means that there will be great rewards after success.

For a small divisive force like Lakewood's Asian-American group, successfully plundering a large caravan was equivalent to a few months, if not a year's worth of provisions.

According to information provided by Zhang Xiaogang, two months ago, a large caravan was hijacked in the lower reaches of the Mississippi River, losing 50,000 tons of food enough for 100,000 people to consume a year, as well as about 10,000 tons of fuel, hundreds of tons of medicine, and enough weapons and equipment to arm 1,000 people.

However, most of the raids ended in failure.

In addition, plundering caravans will also cause death.

In the vicinity of Denver, for example, no one dared to plunder a caravan that had been guaranteed security by the Jewish group, because it would mean that the Jewish group would retaliate frantically. Greeley's black group was destroyed by the Jewish group because it looted a caravan that paid a large amount of protection money to the Jewish group, killed most of the caravan, and sent the survivors to Salt Lake City to be sold.

If you accidentally find the wrong target and plunder the caravan of a powerful opera group nearby, you will be killing yourself.

For example, the Latin American group in Colorado Springs attacked a caravan organized by the Jewish group to Phoenix because of misinformation, and as a result, the legions of the Jewish group attacked its lair that night, and more than 1,000 core members of the Latin American group were killed, and the remaining more than 5,000 members, as well as more than 40,000 civilians under its protection, were all sent to Salt Lake City and sold to slave traders.

The problem is that for the vast majority of small secessionist forces, raiding caravans is the main means of survival.

To put it bluntly, small-scale separatist forces generally do not have the resources to maintain their survival and development, nor do they have enough living space, and the reports obtained for large-scale separatist forces are mainly security guarantees, and at most they can obtain some basic resources, and it is absolutely difficult to develop and grow on this basis. The only way for a small secession force to grow and become a large secession force is to obtain resources by raiding caravans.

Clearly, in the Denver neighborhood, the Asian-American group is the luckiest and cleanest.

According to information provided by Zhang Xiaogang, Lakewood's Asian-American group has attacked at least seven caravans passing nearby in the past few months, and all of them have been successful.

Although none of the seven caravans were very large in size and the escort was not very strong, the fact that they were able to attack with such a high frequency and all of them was successful was enough to prove that Lakewood's Asian group had something special that other small caravans did not have.

The first is that Lakewood's Asian-American group has good relations with the Jewish community in Denver.

According to the information provided by Zhang Xiaogang, the information on the seven attacks came from the Jewish group in Denver, and none of the seven caravans paid protection money to the Jewish group, so the Jewish group did not provide security guarantees for the activities of these caravans within their sphere of power.

In a sense, all seven attacks were carried out at the behest of the Jewish community.

To put it bluntly, allowing the Asian group to attack these caravans without paying protection money is tantamount to warning other caravans, so that other caravans will "voluntarily" pay huge protection fees.

In order to obtain accurate information, the Asian American group paid a great price.

According to the information provided by Zhang Xiaogang, every time a raid carried out under the instruction of the Jewish group, regardless of whether it was successful or not, the Asian American group had to pay 20% of the looting materials in advance in exchange for intelligence, and after the looting was successful, it had to hand over 60% of the harvest, so the Asian American group actually only received 20% of the looting harvest, but it had to bear all the risks, as well as the casualties and losses suffered in the raiding operation.

While accurate intelligence is inherently valuable, it is, in Zhang's words, the main reason for the Asian-American group's serious resentment against the Jewish community. Before the agents sent by Zhang Xiaogang found the big boss of the Asian group, the Asian group had already proposed to the Jewish group three times to change the share ratio, hoping to get 40% of the looting harvest, but the Jewish group refused.

If it weren't for the extreme dissatisfaction with the Jewish group, the Asian American group would not have cooperated with Zhang.

It is important to know that Zhang Xiaogang did not show his cards, that is, he did not tell the other party the true purpose of cooperation, so there is no reason for the big bosses of the Asian American group to expect a person on the other side of the world to help them fight against the Jewish group, even if this person has the power to mobilize the armed forces of a country.

It is precisely because of this, Zhang Xiaogang clearly mentioned in the information that after arriving in the United States, the first thing Chu Tianjiang had to do was to convince the big bosses of the Asian American group of his strength and strive for the absolute trust of the big bosses of the Asian American group, and then he could rely on the Asian group to find a source of energy.

Lakewood's Asian-American group survived because of its big bosses.

This big boss, who is called "Wild Rose" by the members of the group and "Soul Hooking Grass" by the enemies outside the group, is not only a woman, but also a woman who is not simple.