Volume 3: The Struggle of the Last Days Chapter 117 To the Granary
The wind in the early morning, with the wetness of the dewdrops and the coldness of the night frost, blows on people, and it feels very depressing. Wei Yilin walked up to the watchtower alone, a few days ago, the five of them, here, looking at the Lijiang City in the distance, now, come here again and look into the distance, the Lijiang River is still quiet and beautiful, but the people are, the blue yellow spring, two places are difficult to find. In the distance, the two small black dots were amplifying little by little, and the sound of the engine was getting louder and louder, Wei Yilin raised his head and looked at the two helicopters, they were like two black-necked swans, snuggling up to each other, blocking the cold wind from the Silver Dragon Snow Mountain for each other.
"So you're here, Old Wei." Qin Tianwu panted and climbed up the watchtower, still holding a yellowed piece of paper in his hand.
"Come up and relax."
"Look, it's going to stop again." Qin Tianwu said, slowly spreading out the yellow paper on the railing, Wei Yilin looked down and saw that there was still a small note in this paper roll, and there was a line of small characters crawling on the note.
"What's this?" Wei Yilin took the note and looked at it, but the content of the note made his brows frown, "Abolish the Southwest Chi Commissioner's Office and establish the Ren'an Martial Law Command......
Qin Tianwu smiled bitterly: "The big boss has changed." The Directorate of Detectives and the National Police have been merged into the Strategic Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense, and we are now grouped together with the Hometown Guard Corps here to form the Ringan Garrison. The telegram said that the Guiji Zhushi Corps was moderate, and Old Man Jia became the commander and colonel of martial law. Others, according to rank. β
"Oh? In this way, the General Bureau of Detectives has become history. β
"Well, it's gone." The corners of the eyes of the two seem to be red, although this adjustment is also to better integrate the strength, it is to take advantage of the trend, but after all, the love has been deep for a long time. How can you not be emotionally moved to see the disappearance of the institution to which they have dedicated their youth? It's really a lover since ancient times, and the most sad parting.
"See what title you've awarded?" Wei Yilin grabbed the telegram and read it line by line.
"Don't look at it, we haven't started teaching yet, what we have to care about now is this." As he spoke, he turned over the telegram paper, and Wei Yilin realized that there were two lines of big characters written on the back of the telegram paper. Presumably, in order to save paper, each piece of telegraphic paper is used on both sides.
"Captain Liu is injured?" Wei Yilin read and read, his pupils couldn't help but relax, this is not good news, after all, Liu Shimeng is very capable of fighting, and if he is going to be injured, it proves that his opponent must not be simple.
"The granary of Xiaobeihe was occupied by a group of strongmen, and when Captain Liu went to reconnoitre, he was accidentally injured by them, and now it has been transported back to Ren'an for healing." Qin Tianwu seemed to be very familiar with the content of this message, and he was about to reach the level of reciting it backwards.
"Old man Jia let us go." Qin Tianwu held his arm and sighed, "There will be a few fewer people on one trip, alas." β
"I want to go to her." Wei Yilin replied to the question, and at the same time raised his right hand slightly, pointing to Lijiang City in the distance, "I always feel that she is still alive." β
Wei Yilin's delusions, although Qin Tianwu felt ridiculous, but he didn't rush to wake him up, after all, at the beginning of this year, he also thought the same, in the first ten days of the lost Qingxia, he also dreamed almost every night, Qingxia was by his side, jumping around, the pair of obsidian in the eye sockets, the color was pure, how could there be any blood nematode, but what, whenever Qin Tianwu wanted to reach out and hold Qingxia into his arms, what he got was always just the cold breath that woke him up.
At this time, the two helicopters in and out of the pair also flew over the airport, one of them was slowly descending, as the altitude decreased, its cabin was slowly exposed to Wei Yilin's eyes, this cabin, crowded with people, there were uniformed soldiers, there were also people in civilian attire.
"What does this old man Jia want to do?" Qin Tianwu watched with interest, those who were unloading the big and small burdens from the helicopter.
"I'm going to cultivate the land here." Wei Yilin stretched out his hand and drew a circle in the air, "Around this airport, there are almost all fields within a radius of twenty miles, if they can be planted, next year, there will be grain to eat." β
"I don't think so." Unexpectedly, Qin Tianwu actually objected without thinking, "Few people know how to breed now, they all take seeds at the agricultural machinery station and take them back to plant." But the seeds in these farm yards ......"
Qin Tianwu didn't continue to say the rest of the words, but Wei Yilin already understood what he meant-next year's agricultural machinery station will no longer be able to provide seeds.
"Moreover, without chemical fertilizers or anything, pure crushed rely on natural fertilizers, and the output of grain will definitely decline sharply, just like the production of meat and livestock discussed before."
In other words, starting this year, Ringan's grain harvest will decline year by year, and if there is not enough food, then Ringan will inevitably not be able to feed such a large number of people, if this is the case......
"It seems that we will have to take down the granary even if we die." Wei Yilin shook his head, no longer thinking about this useless and terrible result.
Wei Yilin also asked Xie Lingguang to come over, plus Qin Tianwu and Qiao Wu, that is, the four of them, everyone gathered together, looking at the topographic map near the Xiaobei River granary brought by the helicopter. This granary, built at the junction of Lijiang and Ningshan, is geographically difficult to tell, which administrative region it belongs to, perhaps both occupy a little. This granary covers a large area, with more than 10 warehouses of all sizes, and the granary is backed by another tributary of the Jingnan River - Xiaobei River.
Moreover, in order to facilitate transportation at that time, people also dug an artificial river channel to divert the water of the Xiaobei River, and the other three sides of the granary were also enclosed, so that the grain ship could directly reach the four gates of the granary, which greatly saved manpower and loading and unloading time. But now, this canal has become the biggest obstacle to Wei Yilin's movement - just standing on the top of the granary, they can see the entire river at a glance, and Liu Shimeng was also found and injured when crossing the river to reconnoitre.
"We have reconnoitred this warehouse through satellites, and there are about dozens of gangsters inside, they are obviously organized, and the weapons on hand are also very diverse." Qin Tianwu introduced the situation in the warehouse, and all this news came from that telegram, "According to our understanding of human nature, many human behaviors are selfish, and in extreme cases, they will do things that harm others and themselves. In other words, if we put too much pressure on this group, there is a good chance that they will burn down this granary. β
"So, we still have to outwit it." Wei Yilin hugged his knees and added, "It would be great if they could take the initiative to disarm." β
Active disarming? This is impossible, in the troubled times, the greed of human beings will be infinitely magnified, and even if this group of people disarm, it is impossible for this base to accommodate them, because the army here is only forty people, and it cannot constitute an overwhelming advantage, in case this group of people changes their minds, it will be a devastating blow to the Mingsha base.
"This place is nearly 60 kilometers away from the granary of Xiaobeihe, and our mission this time is to reconnoitre, and we must not startle the snake again." Wei Yilin gestured on the map with his hand, "If it's possible, we still need to find someone to mix in disguise, and the inside and outside should be together." β
"Blending in?" Xie Lingguang looked surprised, looking at his expression, it seemed that he had already known that this road would not work.
"Is there a difficulty?"
"You've heard of xenophobia, right?"
Xenophobia is an emotion buried deep in the human heart, but some people hide it shallowly, and some people bury it deeply, but whether it is deep or shallow, as long as the moral pressure disappears, and someone provokes it twice in the ear from time to time, this xenophobia will be revealed.
"When I was in the bureau, there were already signs of this emotion in the hearts of the big guys, but we pressed them and didn't break out. But if, according to the intelligence, this is a gang of gangsters, then their xenophobia must be even worse. It's impossible for outsiders to get in, unless ......"
"Unless what?"
"They have the same ambitions as the Blood Worship Society, and there are not enough of them." Wei Yilin is not a stupid person, Xie Lingguang's words were not finished, he had already reacted, indeed, if social animals want to unite with the outside world, the most ideal external conditions are that there are enemies that are difficult to defeat, and the population is maintained within the range that the local ecosystem can supply. And now there are many settlements, and they only meet the first condition. Therefore, almost none of these settlements can last longβotherwise, Jia Zhongquan would not have spent a lot of effort to compete for food in the granary of Xiaobeihe.
Of course, it is not necessary to plunder outward in order to maintain the stability of the settlements, after all, "open source" is not enough, "throttling" can also be, what is "throttling", naturally reducing consumption, and the most typical example of reducing consumption is the Lake Valley camp of the Blood Worship Society - they turn excess people into infected people and into tools. Before they can do that, though, they need to absorb a large number of survivors β the more survivors there are, the more options they have.
This sentence is very heavy, after all, several of them have seen how miserable those who are trapped in the blood worship meeting are. As a result, the idea of mixing in was naturally eliminated from the hearts of several people.
"Let's take a step. Get a good rest and set off in three days. β
"Yes." The three of them responded in unison.