The emperor is the embodiment of the will to power in feudal rule.

The second of the Golden Beetle Empire practiced this will very well, if the Golden Beetle I was a tiger, the second achieved the fierce appearance of a leopard.

But in the end, he was not careful enough, and was plotted by domestic careerists. And now the regent who inherited the capital is just a cat compared to his father and eldest brother, and he can't suppress the Quartet at all.

Zheng Xin's sudden death, after the generals who originally surrounded and suppressed the rebels lost the pressure from the top, they all began to enter a state of preserving their strength. Including the cultivated river, they all began to retreat to the coastline slightly north, abandoning the original blue crystal river defense line.

The nobles who had been united in front of the central prestige a few months ago were now scattered in an instant. Anyone thinks "the sky is changing too fast".

In the burning wheel, Genghe's behavior of selling his teammates made the students of Xinzhu scold.

After slapping the table, they stopped jumping and returned to strategic thinking.

Zhou You sighed: "In politics, it's normal to sell teammates to each other, and teammates do things for themselves, that's true." Don't shout as if you've lost a lot. The current situation in the world is a pattern of the strong. ”

……

In March, the second prince regrouped his military forces. In front, he was pressed and beaten by the empire, and his group almost collapsed and scattered. Now that the strong enemy has suddenly retreated, it does not mean that the crisis within his group has been resolved. His authority is sorely lacking, and in order to compensate for his authority, a battle must be fought.

Who is going to fight this? First of all, those imperial generals on the northern front, the second prince will never provoke them. The generals of the northern front have lost the commander of His Majesty the Emperor, so they are standing still, and if the second prince takes the initiative to stir up trouble, he will definitely find death.

With a group of hundreds of thousands on the northern front, the nobles under the command of the second prince are already trembling.

However, on the southern front, there was no other force except for the 80,000-strong corps that cultivated the river. Moreover, the cultivated river is now also moving eastward, giving way to a huge defensive front, which has the meaning of avoiding attrition.

The second prince has already corresponded with Genghe, and the two sides have reached a tacit agreement: the army of Genghe will retreat from the sea by ship in the next three months, and the second prince and the army will recover the lost territory in the south.

As for the Celestial Tour?

The negative effects of being a vassal of the Feathered Flame Locust family appeared, and none of these vassals under the former emperor were in harmony with the heavens. At the same time that the Celestial Tour and the Flame Locust Family drew a clear line, the generals also drew a line with the Celestial Tour.

However, politics will take a sharp turn with the situation of war.

April 4th.

The Second Prince's corps of '200,000 Golden Beetles' has already moved south. This is the main army of the second prince.

Due to the complexity of Gu worm species, the calculation of the strength of the corps is based on the total weight of the corps.

The standard mass of the Golden Beetle is about 1.5 tons. '200,000' means that the total weight of all the main combat arms on the front line is 300,000 tons.

After such a large legion jumped over the Blue Crystal River.

Originally, the "homecoming group" of the southern nobles also crossed the river at several points and counterattacked in the southern direction. The task given by the second prince to these 'homecoming regiments' was to prevent the surprise attack of the Genghe group on the east side. And he will use the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai to seize the territory of the burning wheel in the Xishui Port area and rebuild his authority in the south.

At the same time, on the main railway routes on the front line, the fire wheel had already deployed counterattack troops.

There were three armored divisions in total. Among them, 369 armored tanks, 593 goalkeeper armored personnel carriers, 232 self-propelled howitzers. Four regiments of army aviation, with double-bladed helicopter groups as the main ground firepower.

The fire ship is not only in terms of materials, but also in terms of pre-war preparations.

In terms of pre-war intelligence, we also knew ourselves and our opponents.

The scouts infiltrated the second prince's subordinate cities by pretending to be peddlers of alcohol, cloth, and snacks, and knew exactly what their various regiments, their numbers, and when they arrived in each area.

This is because the battle between the two princes is for the establishment of authority. And his authority is not a big deal.

Setting rules one by one with general righteousness, and hitting if you violate them, this is the establishment of the authority of the modern state that you are familiar with. As for how to fight, that's my business, you just have to be honestly prepared to accept the beating.

And the feudal model is to tell you how powerful I am. In order to win the hearts of the nobles, the second prince did not prohibit the knights under his command from proclaiming their military strength. And the nobles talked about secrecy, passed it on to their lovers, and then to the common people, and the whole north was noisy and shouting information,—— and the march of this army was slow.

The staff composed of students on the side of the burning wheel easily pushed out the opponent's march and attack plan in all the information.

April 5, 10 a.m.

Under the order of the staff headquarters in the airwaves, the armored regiment began to attack in a large roundabout way in a clockwise direction,

The original plan of the Burning Wheel Staff was that the mechanized corps would attack from the western flank of the Second Prince's group. Please note that the Cultivated River is on the eastern coastline.

Therefore, judging from the map, the steel revolving door of the burning wheel is to push the second prince's corps towards the eastern coastline.

The black-pressed swarm of six hundred fighters took off from various airfields controlled by the fire-wheel.

When the second prince's combined army encountered this scene, it did not reflect the quality that a coalition army should have. Although they also had a lot of flying Gu worms, they didn't take off at all to form a battle formation. was directly suppressed.

And the next ground war went very well.

Seven armored corps made a quick assault along the few roads that were available. There was no delay after encountering the river. Quickly build bridges in accordance with the situation encountered during the exercise.

And the Air Force also provided cover in a timely manner at key points such as river crossings and bridges.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the Purple Heart River Basin.

On the 300-kilometer front, the tank corps began to ram the main force of the second prince going south this time. A total of more than 1,000 main battle tanks were spread on the battle line, with an average of 300 meters each. The offensive is naturally to find a dense point of the enemy army to carry out a surprise attack, and this combat density is quite high.

The double-edged fighter leaned the propeller forward and licked the ground. Basically, those large war beasts that are more than five meters tall collapsed under the bombardment of shaped warheads, and then they could not escape the armor-piercing attack of the tank in front.

The tanks of the Burning Wheel were divided into multiple groups and attacked in an arc, perfectly replicating the 'pincer-shaped' offensive. Then the Walking Cuckoo Assault Robot entered the bunker under the command of the human infantry non-commissioned officer and completed the cluster of Gu worms.

The second prince who was preparing to 'plough the court and sweep the hole' was destroyed and decayed. Succeeded in making the world know the prince again.

……

The encirclement and annihilation process of the battle made the non-commissioned officers and staff officers of the core plant nervous, exciting, and enjoyable.

The characteristics of the Gu Worm Corps determine that its rout is different from that of the Human Corps. After being trapped in a situation of poor information and all-round encirclement, the human corps will shrink its head in the remnants of the fortifications, launch several waves of tentative attacks, and then surrender after being besieged and shelled. - If you surrender, you can't fight.

But Gu worms have no brains, in the case of poor information, and under the blind command of some knight commanders. began to break through frantically.

This kind of assault, which has no fire cover and no friendly forces to contain in other directions, is to let the artillery and the ground-licking double-edged men of the burning wheel smash more incendiary bombs and strafe multiple machine guns.

Zhou You: "Don't talk about the core strains and them, even I feel happy (cool), it's rare for a fool to abuse you one by one." ”

On the morning of the 7th, the battlefield, which had been lively all night and flickered all night, finally ushered in the dawn. The sun shone on this devastated battlefield full of smoke and dust.

To the east of the Purple Heart River, the second prince's army of 200,000 Gu worms seemed to have been sprayed with a super-large insecticide, killing an entire plain.

Eighty-seven two-hundred-ton war beasts fell on the side of the road like a hill. The large Gu nest was discarded on the train of the railway line, and the eggs in the carriage were still wriggling.

At the front line, sitting in a tank fighting vehicle, the Zeutical tour looked down on the entire battlefield at an altitude of three kilometers through the field. After a long time, he snorted coldly: "This is here for the meat detective." ”

In the distance, the remnants of the Second Prince's defeated army, like a garbage heap washed away by the tide, receded towards the shoreline. It's a little faster to retreat than it was when it came.

After the victory of the Purple Heart River, the second prince's southern crusade army sent almost two-thirds of its main force. This has directly changed the strategic pattern of the land bridge region.

1. Originally preparing to evacuate on the east bank, Genghe, who was stagnant, immediately made a decision, that is, to continue the crusade against the traitorous party and rebellion following the last order of the first emperor.

Well, he really has the edict of the first emperor, and the second emperor was before returning to the north, but he ordered him to continue to change families. Now, although the task is still "arduous", Genghe has decided to "never give up" to be this loyal minister.

Now Genghe's letter to Zhouyou uses a series of military terms, such as "each other's horns" and "offense and defense depend on each other". - To say it in the old saying: "Brother, let's do it together." ”

Zhou You's reply was: "I have exhausted my strength to attack the north bank of the Blue Crystal River, and I hope the general will take me to do my best." "Meaning: The north bank of the Blue Crystal River belongs to you.

And then there is a series of military lists, which, of course, cost money.

2. The second prince also sent a letter to the universe: a series of appreciation and appreciation, followed by regret; And claimed that he still had a lot of troops, and it would be no good for the two sides to continue fighting, so it was better for Qing to go to the north with me to map the world.

As the saying goes: "Boy, don't fight me again, I admit that you have military talent, but don't be foolish." ”

Well, Zeuyou didn't open the letter at all, and burned it directly.

3. The Sixth Prince of the capital, now His Royal Highness the Regent.

Well, this letter is signed by the seal and signature of the third (puppet).

The regent can now coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and in the name of the center of the empire: the Grand Duke of the Ridge of the Continent, and guard the south.

Zhou You responds to the letter: Support the Regent Imperial Capital to control the overall situation.

After this war, from the perspective of the burning wheel, although the authority of the center is much less than before, there is no need to create hostility. After all, it is enough to stabilize the supply of raw materials.

4. As for the Lie Locust family and the four princes, they also wrote separate letters to the alliance.

The Lie Locust family mentioned Yu Qian's marriage, and His Excellency the Four Princes used explicit words like "I want to take over the world, whether you will help it".

Zhou You wrote a letter to Yu Qian and her family to explain the truth clearly, and to accept the consequences of what they did.

What this four princes and the factions within their locusts are doing is purely selfish, and only fools will cooperate with them politically.

5. Even the Floating Family and His Royal Highness the Three Princes have sent letters asking to join.

Zhou You replied: Xia Hongdao gave me completely, otherwise there is no need to talk.

The aristocracy of this world is like a power game. And the people from the stars are not playing the same game of chess with them.

……

May 4th.

Zhou You, looking at "??" Continent. The "pests" in the north have been dismantled, and the "pesticides" have to be put aside for the time being. It can be followed in the long run.

Now the Burning Wheel Expeditionary Force is on the right side of the land bridge, which is naturally the inner harbor of the Mediterranean Sea. To the left of the land bridge is the west coast of the mainland. Always separated by vertical mountains up and down, few people reach the west coast of the continent.

However, in the early days of the landing, the Celestial Tour sent a double-bladed helicopter to take a large number of scientific expeditions across the mountains for a preliminary investigation.

Because it is recorded in the aristocratic library documents of the region that there is a large amount of geothermal heat due to the squeezing of the plates.

After the Battle of the Purple Heart River, the Burning Wheel began to cross that mountain range and began to accumulate a large number of power stations.

After the victory of the Purple Heart River, Zhou You warned Xin Zhu and others: "This war has brought us huge dividends. The biggest bonus is that no one puts our plans to change the world at risk. ”

In short, after the end of this war, the idea of "don't idle labor, build a wonder".

Example 1: On the east side, a gravity dam is built. Directly raise the upstream water level of the Zijin River by fifty meters, and directly turn the plains on both sides of the river, which were originally occupied by terrestrial Gu worms, into lakes. In the newly established water conservancy company of Xishui Port, there are various large-scale tasks from damming and intercepting rivers to manufacturing water turbines. This requires a workforce of 40,000 people.

Example 2: Build a signal tower on land, bury a huge pipe deep underground, and bury electrical pipes. - This work is dug by Gu worms. Calculating the standards of each project section and the progress of construction is handed over to human beings, which makes the ideal mission of 100,000 people in this life clear.

Example 3, Example 4, etc.,

After the Battle of the Purple Heart River, almost all the civilians on the entire land bridge poured into several large cities on the east coast, and the preliminary census of more than 8 million people. If these manpower are not organized, then slums will be formed and local gangs will grow.

Ranlun has temporarily set up a large number of courts at the grassroots level, and has garrisoned law and order forces.

Fourteen thousand backbone gangs of the middle strata of society were captured, of whom 244 were shot. (There is clear evidence that there is a crime of collective looting.) ）

The rest were ideological transformations, entered the labor camp, wore the scale dragon power armor, and devoted themselves to the production labor here.

At present, the prison is now operating at full capacity, and there is a serious shortage of instructors and ideological instructors, so a group of non-commissioned officers have to be temporarily replaced in these positions.

Carry out large-scale national projects, so that a large number of people can work together on one thing, instead of falling into internal friction aimlessly in chaos...... For Ranlun, this is already an urgent task.

As for whether the spectacle is mistaken - it depends on whether the spectacle is productive or not.

You have to build a super battleship, although this can feed the industrial workers, but after it is built, its role will not be related to society if it does not start a war and plunder the outside world. However, when a super dam is built, it will support a large number of industrial workers, and after completion, it will continue to gain agricultural and power generation and create economic value. If the relevant organizations of the whole society can contribute money to cover this spectacle, the national treasury will not be at a loss.

And the essence of finance is related to the credibility of the country, and the credibility will not go bankrupt.

Ranlun now has a large amount of silver waiting to be minted in the bank, and the war of the Purple Heart River has been won, which is equivalent to a positive economic and political reputation. Use credibility to do things, and then use the positive feedback of things done to establish greater credibility.

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In this way, the strategy of developing the western part of the land bridge began to be implemented, and two million laborers began to reopen the inland cities that had been occupied by Gu worms under military protection.

This series of major projects, just like the ancient sacrifices made people feel sacred, and now the grand blueprint, as well as the implementation of this blueprint in various places, also makes millions of people in the Ranlun Group feel that they are "participating in greatness".

Under the influence of this atmosphere, the work style of the workers' organizations has also undergone great changes.

Gas turbine plant output has been on the rise lately. The efficiency of these war factories is rising, the defective rate is decreasing, and some production lines are substituting Gu worm biological automation to assist production.

The output of the bearing factory began to soar at a rate of doubling in half a year.

Although the number of workers in these war factories also increased by only a tenth, the value of industrial output changed several times.

The increase in output value is due to the application of a large number of automation technologies. The application of automation technology is due to the improvement of workers' technical level and the in-depth understanding of circuits and production lines. And a more efficient and proactive management approach can be adopted.

The rapid improvement of the quality of workers comes from the upward atmosphere of society, and there are a large number of workers outside who are ready to enter the post, which has caused pressure on the existing workers. This has the effect of increasing the number of workers by one-tenth and doubling the output.

In the industrial age, human thinking is more important than the number of manpower, and the birth of human thinking lies in the reasonable scale of competition in social organization.