Chapter 105: Muddy the waters, so that you can fish

There are four major military regions in the Odin Continent, and similarly, the entire continent can also be divided into four regions, namely the eastern, central, southwestern, and northwest regions.

Southwest China: There is the largest mountain range in the Odin continent------ the Kurensk Mountains, and it is also the most important mineral resource base of Krotan, where there are countless mines of all sizes, and there are many mineral resources such as iridium and cobalt necessary for the aerospace field. When the base was just built, the transport planes that transported minerals such as Source Zero, iridium, cobalt, manganese, and rare earth could almost obscure the sky in the southwest region.

Today, this mineral resource base is in decline, and it is no longer in its prime. However, general metal and non-metallic minerals such as rare earths, diamonds, petroleum, zinc, iron, and manganese still have a high output.

Northwest Region: Crotanxing Metal Smelting and Heavy Military Industrial Zone, relying on the mineral resource base in Southwest China, has a large number of heavy military factories, as well as various weapons and machinery rooms. For example, frigate-level naval guns, land armored vehicles, power armor, space fighters, armed shuttle components, etc., are all produced.

In its heyday, the magnificent Zero Source Refinery was built here, only to be depleted of scarce resources. Most of the cutting-edge equipment has been dismantled and removed, and only a few foundations remain, which still tell the story of Crotan's former glory.

Central Region: As the key point of the entire Odin continent, it is bordered by mineral resources and military industrial zone in the west and the alluvial plain of the Sunaru River in the east, and its military and economic significance is self-evident. It is the most prosperous area in the whole of Crotan, and the capital Rheinston is located on the Miluo Plateau------, the source of the Sunaru River. Countless dignitaries and government officials gathered here to enjoy the comfortable life brought to them by the Marquis of Kane Rudolph.

It can be said unceremoniously that Rheinston is a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor. Those who can live here either have money or power.

Of course, there is a chance for poor people to live here, provided you are beautiful enough or handsome enough. Being burly and sturdy is also a selling point. Well, before that, you have to forget about yourself and throw away that damn self-esteem.

The eastern region consists of the alluvial plains on the north and south banks of the Sunaru River, the Root Bay, the Gunt Mountains and the Diromos Plateau in the northwest, and the Suha Hills in the southeast. It was an important base for the cultivation industry of Crotan, and the grain, vegetables, and oil crops produced by it were not only supplied to the local area, but also exported to other parts of the empire, and was an important source of income for the Rudolph family.

Crotan is transitioning from a declining resource star to an agricultural star. There is no doubt that this transformation has been very successful. From this, it can be seen that Kane Rudolph is a very financially minded guy.

Each of the four regions has four major defense military districts. The Sunaru Military District, where the 1st Army Corps is stationed in the East, the Miluo Military District, where the 2nd Army Corps in the Middle, the Kurensk Military District, where the 4th Army Corps in the Southwest, and the Termon Military District, where the 3rd Army Corps in the Northwest is stationed.

After the Garcia rebels occupied the military port of Drosnir, they did not rush to fight a decisive battle with the military, but at the same time infiltrated the revolutionaries into the western part of the Odin continent. Vigorously promote guerrilla tactics in the east, on the one hand, recruit comrades and form alliances, and on the other hand, focus attacks on the military's combat readiness material reserves, so as to achieve the goal of arming ourselves with the enemy's weapons and expanding our strategic superiority little by little.

Since the vast majority of military satellites have been destroyed by electromagnetic pulse missiles, the existing satellite network is not enough to provide a global-scale monitoring, so that in the guerrilla mode of gopher-like burrowing, the military troops are like a country man, who only knows how to heal his head and feet, and is led around by the nose of the rebel army, exhausted by running for his life.

With the military strength of the First Army, three divisions were withdrawn to surround the military port of Drosnier, and the remaining forces were simply not enough to form a strong deterrent to the war situation in the eastern region.

The vast majority of the magnates were cowards, and Aldrich was no exception, and he did not dare to send the Second Army, which was guarding the Beijing Division, to the eastern region to quell the rebellion.

As for the Third and Fourth Legions, there are also many inconveniences.

The garrison point of the Third Army Corps is a base of mineral resources, and once a large number of troops are withdrawn, if those guys who specialize in infiltrating and sabotaging behind enemy lines take advantage of the situation to make some small moves, it will be a pot of rotten porridge if they can't keep the third area. You must know that the entire lower space of the Kurensk Mountains has been hollowed out, and the pit extends to the West Sea to the depths...... Rumble...... Boom ......" will have a good show to watch in the future.

Draw the Fourth Army to quell the rebellion? Unless the brain is broken, the rebel army is originally outdated, and it relies on looting military materials to equip itself, and as soon as the Fourth Army leaves, aren't those military industrial enterprises and mechanical research institutes like SE and XY goddesses with open arms, and those hillbillies and old hats don't have a reason to rush to the top?

The Second Army Corps did not dare to move, and the Third and Fourth Army Corps could not move. The entire Crotan Star battle situation can be said to have fallen into a very delicate situation. The five divisions of the First Army became firefighters and were forced to fight fires everywhere, but the scale of the uprising was like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger, and the two allied armies of northern and southern Jiangsu were like two sharp knives, hanging in Aldrich's throat.

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The above is the information that Tang Fang learned from Grant's mouth about the occupation of Crotan, which is very large, and after digesting it for a long time, he came back to his senses and asked by the way: "Why didn't Aldrich ask for help from the Starport garrison." ”

It turned out that the Marquis of Kane Rudolph was not only very economical, but also very good at politics and military skills, and Aldrich, who was in charge of managing Crotan, was at odds with Commodore Ramsden Adams, the commander of the fleet stationed in Starport and responsible for the defense of the Aslam star system.

During the hostility between the Sulu Empire and the Monya Empire, Nuoda had a starport, which was almost entirely occupied by military forces. Later, the two countries made peace, and in order to show sufficient sincerity, both sides cut the border garrison by half. The Marquis of Caine transferred the main fleet, leaving only a small number of combat ships to garrison here.

Ramsden Adams was the commander of the fleet and was in charge of Starport. Due to the dwindling resources of Crotan, with the intervention of the Marquis of Kane, this resource planet is transforming into an agricultural planet. Because these agricultural products were sold as commodities to the empire and other nobles, and even exported to the Sulu Empire, the United Kingdom of Turanks, the Republic of Date and other countries. Transportation, of course, is an unavoidable issue.

Cargo ships from different parts of the empire converged here, and there was a necessitated berthing place, and Ramsden Adams saw this golden opportunity to make money, and at a very low price, he rented out most of the idle berths to the family members, and then charged the berthing fee at the same rate as a commercial port, and the Adams family had an additional way to make money.

This incident was seen by Aldrich and held a grudge. As soon as he came, he was at odds with Ramsden in the first place. Second, the economic aspect has always been in his management, and Ramsden is a soldier himself, but it is unbearable to extend his hand to economic affairs. Third, as a habiting planet, why do you need so many garrisons? And the army, navy and air force are all in place, and the planetary defense force? Who is it for? A discerning person can see at a glance that he is not stupid, so he naturally knows what to do next.

Aldrich filed a complaint against the Marquis de Kane for Ramsden's filthy deeds, bluntly saying that he used his power to seek personal interests for the family, and as a high-ranking officer, this was unworthy of a soldier.

Enraged, the Marquis of Kane sent a sternly worded warning letter to Ramsden and ordered him to cede half of the use of Starport to Aldridge for ease of management.

At this point, one of the Adams family's fortunes was buried in the hands of Aldrich. Although Ramsden did not say it, he always secretly hated it.

At the moment, how could he not know that such a big event had happened to Crotan, but on the one hand, Aldrich did not lower his head like a white swan and come to him for help. On the other hand, he actually really wants this blind guy to suffer a big loss and lose face, and it is best that the entire Crotan Star falls, in that case, Aldrich's title of governor will not be kept.

In fact, he wasn't worried about the situation on Crotan at all, Garcia's rebels? In his eyes, it's just a bunch of clowns jumping off the beam, jumping around. In the face of the space fleet, in the face of the large ion cannon in the starport, even if Marion occupies the missile base on the Thor continent, what can he do, the high-energy ion beam is fired, and the people and the base are boiled.

He was waiting, waiting for the right moment, waiting for Aldrich to run to him with a handful of snot and tears to give in and beg for mercy. Or maybe the planet fell, or this guy became a short-lived ghost and died at the hands of the rebels. Then, he led the fleet to quell the rebellion and made a few points of fame.

You must know that his duty is to be responsible for the security of the universe of the Aslam star system, and as for the affairs of Crotan, it is Aldrich's territory, and if something goes wrong, it has nothing to do with him.

On the other hand, Aldrich did not think it was necessary to let the fleet of Starport intervene in the inland war of Crotan, and solve the troubles caused by himself by himself, and it was the only way to solve those rebels with the planetary garrison, and only in this way could he keep the top flower feather on his head.

After listening to the grievances and hatreds between Aldrich and Rams's accession to the throne, Tang Fang couldn't help but express the doubts in his heart with a curious face again. If the rebel army led by Marion can really pass through the entire planet Crotan like a typhoon, how can it face the space-based weapons of Starport and the space fleet led by Ramsden?

This time Grant didn't answer, just looked at his face and smiled meaningfully.

If you think about it carefully, Marion is an old fox who has lived for nearly 70 years and dealt with the Imperial army all day long, how could the other party not think of anything he could think of.

Grant's smile may have two meanings: one, he doesn't know, and this is something Marion needs to consider. Two, he knows, but it is inconvenient to say.

"Whew." A bump came, Tang Fang turned his head and swept the topographic map on the holographic projector, unbuckled his seat belt casually, got up and said, "You guys go first, I still have something to deal with." ”

Grant's brow furrowed slightly, and he quickly stretched out again, signaled the stop to the driver in front of him, and said with a smile: "Okay, then let's go first." ”

Tang Fang read the trust in his eyes, nodded and said, "Don't worry, we will rush over as much as possible." With that, open the hatch and get out of the armored car. Aros pulled over the truck, jumped off with Hausen, and waved goodbye to Grant and the others.

Seeing Grant and the others disappear at the end of sight, Tang Fang withdrew most of the machine gunners and raiders back into the system space, and led Hausen and Aros towards the Blue Lake not far away.

Before, he was still wondering why the military had not moved for a long time when there was such a big thing as a flying machine crashing in the territory, but after listening to Grant's narration, he figured out the twists and turns. It turned out that it was not that the military was slow to react, but that they simply could not spare their hands.

At first, Aros and Hausen rescued him ashore and abandoned Ma Runjia and Marauder at the bottom of the lake. He didn't want the empire to get these power armors, and if he got some results, he would use them on him and find someone to cry with when the time came.

"Go get those two sets of armor up." Command two machine gunners to go down to the lake to retrieve the power armor.

Tang Fang took Aros and Haosen to a slightly higher slope and released the eyeworms with his hands. Most of the military satellites of the Crotain government have been destroyed, and the surveillance of land has been greatly reduced, which is undoubtedly a great convenience for him.

The huge eyeworms slowly climbed, the photoreceptor organ and the microwave unit operated at the same time, and one after another the battle information was fed back to Tang Fang's mind.

About 300 kilometers northeast of the Blue Lake, a fierce confrontation is taking place in the area around an arsenal covering an area of more than 100 hectares.

In terms of the situation, one side was an attacking force from the direction of Mondstadt, while the other side was relying on the buildings on the outskirts of the arsenal to carry out a defensive counterattack.

The former has the advantage of troops, the latter has few troops, and if it is common sense, even if the latter is backed by defensive structures, it will be difficult to resist the charge of the former's armored group. What's more, the point of exchange of fire is not one, but around the entire arsenal, and the battle line is in a regular circle, long and dense.

However, there was a "but", and at some point on the sea surface of Root Bay, a battleship formation consisting of three missile destroyers and 12 frigates began to rise, relying on the guidance of the defenders, and dumping missiles and magnetic track projectiles on the frontline battlefield, causing the attackers to retreat one after another.

However, what made the Tang side even more puzzled was that in the face of the strong fire support of the defenders, those attacking troops were not discouraged and launched wave after wave of charges tenaciously and unremittingly.

In addition, west of Mondstadt, more than 200 kilometers from the arsenal, an armored division of about 10,000 men is marching rapidly eastward, and it is expected that it will take more than an hour to reach the place where the two sides exchanged fire.

This sudden appearance of an armored division rushed to reinforce the attacking side? Or is it a flanking attacker? What the hell is going on with this damn mess?

The eyeworm could only perceive and summarize the information of the battle situation, but could not make a more detailed analysis, and Tang Fang couldn't figure out what was going on after thinking about it for a long time.

"It really made Grant guess that something happened at the arsenal."

"Huh?" Aros frowned and asked, "What is the situation?" ”

Tang Fang sighed and informed the two of them of the information that the eyeworm had fed back to their minds.

After hearing this, Aros looked up at the eyeworms in the air, and then at the two machine gunners who were dragging the power armor out of the water: "What are you going to do?" To get involved, or does it mean that Zhe protects himself and finds another way? ”

"Marion has been doing small actions in Crotan for so many years, there must be a lot of backhand, sending a few people out, it should be very simple, not to mention that we are Grant's life-saving benefactor, it is reasonable, this request is not too much." After that, Tang Fang waved his hand and put the two sets of wet power armor into the system space, walked towards the truck on one side, and said without looking back: "Instead of running around like a headless fly, it is better to insert a leg and make the water muddy, only in this way can it be beneficial for us to fish in troubled waters." ”

Now that he has a decision in his heart, Aros and Hausen naturally won't say much. The three of them got into the truck, chose the direction, and headed all the way north.