It was already dark, the signal of radio navigation had become stronger, and it seemed that the first stop of the caravan was about to arrive, and just as Shi Yuhang was about to turn around, an alarm sounded from the entire fleet.

I saw that the armed gunboat next to the cargo ship accelerated and rushed out from the right side of the cargo ship with black smoke, it can't be a pirate! Then a flare was shot into the air.

The white flare light illuminated the sea in an instant, and a gunboat flying the flag of the coalition government came from a distance, and the voice of the coalition government was heard on the general radio broadcast:

"Welcome to the business group! Our ship was ordered to escort you! ”

Hearing that he was coming to escort the hungry, Captain Shi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he didn't come to rob, it was easy to say.

Guided by the coalition government's ship, the flotilla slowly approached.

Seeing that the port is brightly lit, and there are countless piles of boxes on the shore, dozens of trucks parked on the shore, and many people waiting around, it seems that the coalition government is in great need of supplies for the caravan!

When the transport ship docked, the stevedores who were waiting on the shore immediately rushed up, and moved all the materials on the ship like a robbery, Shi Yuhang looked at the workers who looked malnourished, and couldn't help but feel that the living standards of the people here were really not good.

After following the porter off the ship, Shi Yuhang saw a Mao Zi officer holding the cargo table, he smiled and waved his hand to Shi Yuhang, this officer looked like those workers, his eye sockets were deep, and his cheekbones were obviously protruding, it seemed that he had not eaten enough for a long time to become like this.

Looking at Shi Yuhang who was coming, the officer took the initiative to greet him, he reached out and shook Shi Yuhang's hand, and said in fluent Northeast dialect: "Oh, mom! Big brother! It's time for you! Why don't you hurry up and inspect the goods to make sure that there is nothing wrong with the transaction! ”

Shi Yuhang was still a little shocked by this fluent Northeast speaking Mao Zi, he smiled and nodded, stretched out his right arm and made a "please" gesture to Officer Maozi, and followed Officer Maozi to inspect the goods.

The hairy officer came to the cargo and directly pried open the box with a crowbar that he didn't know where to find it.

When he saw the compressed biscuits neatly stacked in the box, a "cooing" sound came out of his stomach, he glanced left and right, and found that except for Shi Yuhang, no one else around him paid attention to him, so he turned around and whispered to Shi Yuhang with a pleading face:

"Big brother! I'm going to want to sneak some food in a while, please don't expose me, okay? ”

Shi Yuhang looked at the pleading officer Mao Zi in front of him, and was a little confused for a while, this guy really dares to say anything!

He thought about it, grinned at the officer Maozi in front of him, and whispered in his ear: "This is simple, as long as you help me find some technicians, or people with excellent military ability to smuggle to us, each of us will give you 20 catties of food, what do you say?" ”

Officer Maozi was stunned for a moment, nodded excitedly, and then turned his head and kept taking out long strips of compressed biscuits and those packaged mutant shrimp meat from the box and stuffing them into his briefcase.

By the time the fleet set sail again, the cabin was already filled with barrels of crude oil, which would slightly alleviate the problem of oil shortage within the Restoration Army.

The energy of the Northwest Army and the coalition army, and the military-standard bullets of the Central Army are all materials needed by the Restoration Army, and the food and daily necessities exported by the Restoration Army will gradually erode the economic lifeline of these forces, and slowly achieve the purpose of indirect control over them invisibly.

The thousands of tons of food and daily necessities of the Restoration Army made the coalition high-ranking very happy, and the reason why they continued to expand southward was actually to alleviate the food problem, after all, the cold northeast region was really not easy for them to grow crops.

At the beginning of December, for the first time, the merchant ships of the "caravanserais" became the hope of the northern coalition forces, and at the same time, the caravans of the Restoration Army selling food became the most important guests of all parties.

The most important reason for this is that winter is coming, and this winter is due to the strange climate, the winter that should have been the northeast monsoon has become the southeast monsoon blowing from the south.

This deadly climate brought with it a lot of radiation, and in just five days, the level of radioactive dust in the air had soared from 5-8 roentgenium to 15-20 roentgenium! Occasionally, there will be violent radiation storms, and the radiation level will soar to about 50 roentgenium in a short period of time.

Moreover, the virus in the air this time is obviously not an ordinary mutant, and many forces that grow traditional unmutated crops are facing the terrible situation of large-scale reduction in grain production, and the fear of food shortage two years ago has reappeared on this wasteland full of radiation.

Liu Qi's decision to fully implement agricultural greenhouse planting against public opinion at the beginning became the foundation for the Restoration Army to gain a foothold in this catastrophe.

In the face of the crisis of the overall reduction of food production, the internal reforms of the Salvation Army have also been shaken apart, food has become a scarce commodity, and the already rising treatment of the people has become a mess and is deteriorating day by day.

Far away in the snow next to a small railway bridge near the Trench Bridge, a group of Salvation Army civilians in tattered clothes are hiding in the biting snow, and a group of Salvation Army White Army soldiers patrolling the vicinity of the bridge.

As soon as the patrol passed, the group of refugees immediately stood up and hurried to the other side of the iron bridge despite the heavy wind and snow and poor visibility.

It's just that I didn't run two steps just now, and I met a team of Salvation Army soldiers who were changing shifts, these civilians were stunned for a moment, these Salvation Army soldiers saw the defected civilians, and immediately prepared to press the bridge and shoot them directly, these are all death orders given by Si Tao, and no one dares to disobey.

Just as the Salvation Army soldiers were about to shoot civilians, a Restoration Army soldier with a megaphone came across the bridge, and he stopped standing by the red line drawn in the middle of the bridge.

The Salvation Army soldier waved his hands above his head to show that he had no ill intentions, and the Salvation Army soldiers by the bridge lowered their weapons.

"Salvation Army brethren on the other side! Let these civilians go! Why are they all Chinese, there is no need to kill your compatriots so badly! Enough people are dead now! Don't kill anymore! They also want to be alive! Just let them come! ”

Hearing this, these Salvation Army soldiers looked very ugly, they were actually very entangled in their hearts, they were all human beings, and no one wanted to kill their compatriots, but these fleeing people meant food to these Salvation Army soldiers, both old and young.

Truth be told, are these Salvation Army soldiers the bad guys? Actually, no, they are just trying to have food to eat and feed a family, it's as simple as that, do they really want to pull the trigger on their compatriots?