Chapter 41: The Captive Problem
After internal scramble and baptism of war, the vigorous Earth Federation Conference finally came to an end.
The end of the Federal Conference meant that the Earth Federation was officially established as a power group.
Raise a federal army, prepare for an all-out war with the Bright Heavens, coordinate the contradictions between forces, formulate a plan to defend against the global beast tide, and promote the improvement of the apocalyptic environment on Earth...... A lot of work is waiting for the Earth Federation to coordinate and promote.
The first thing that needs to be solved is to determine the remaining personnel of the Earth Federation Headquarters and form the Federation Army, and only by first setting up the organization of the Earth Federation can we promote the operation of the Federation and the follow-up work.
But the first issue of those left behind has become a thorny problem.
In this war, all the forces suffered heavy losses, like the last survivors of the Holy Guerrillas, only two seriously injured second-order powerhouses, and they also faced the problem of re-electing their leaders. Neither of the two second-order powerhouses could stay, otherwise the one who went back would not be able to tell what was happening on the island anyway.
The same is true of the other forces, who have been in a hurry to return to their respective forces after such a long time. It is difficult to arrange for important figures in the power and a large number of evolutionaries to stay at the Federation headquarters.
In the end, Chi Hua gritted his teeth and had to make a decision directly. Each member of the Federation only needs to keep people, and as for how many people will stay behind, it is up to them to decide according to their own circumstances. However, within a month, each member of the Federation must send a permanent representative and ten staff members to the Federation headquarters, and within three months, the second-order powerhouses and first-order peak evolutionaries sent by each member of the Federation to the Federation army must be in place.
Although the Shinto rebellion was disqualified from the Federation, the size of the 1,500 first-order peak evolutionaries in the Federation army remained unchanged. In view of the huge losses of the various members of the Federation in this war, the number of members who had difficulty sending a hundred first-order peak evolutionaries to the Federation army could be reduced to no less than fifty. The free-running federal army is recruited through other channels.
After Chi Hua announced his decision, the members of the various federations, after leaving a few to a dozen evolutionaries, were either eager to integrate their internal forces, or to prepare for the next all-out war between the Earth Federation and the Bright Heaven, and they all hurried back.
In the end, there were only over a hundred evolutionaries left in the huge Earth Federation headquarters.
Seeing that the remaining personnel on the island are really thin, the bloody tsar left a hundred armored soldiers, Dragon City and Phoenix City each left half a special combat team, and the island barely had enough three hundred people.
Compared to the low-level evolutionaries, there are even fewer super powerhouses who stay at the Federation headquarters.
In addition to Chi Hua, who had to stay behind, only De Lun, who had just stepped into the third-order realm and had nowhere to go, and An An, who was forcibly left behind as a family member. In addition, there are several forces such as the Bloody Tsar, the Avengers, and Huaxia Dragon City, leaving behind six second-order powerhouses with ordinary combat power.
Including the mount Bald Sea Eagle, the fledgling Earth Federation had barely managed to gather ten powerhouses above the second order. In terms of the number of strong people, I am afraid that it is not worth a small superpower.
Three days later, Chi Hua regretted fighting for the president of the federal parliament.
In the past, Chi Hua, the lord of Phoenix City, was a hands-off shopkeeper, with Song Yu inside and Yi Feng cold outside. He spends his days loitering, and only needs to show up for important things.
Now the burden of the Earth Federation is all on Chi Hua's shoulders, and all the details of the Federation's operation must be decided by him alone, and even the people left behind on the island have to ask him for instructions.
is distressed that there is no one around him who can share the pressure with him, and the only people he trusts are An An and Delen.
An An has been a young lady since she was a child, and she is barely qualified to go to the battlefield as a thug, if she is allowed to manage people and affairs, it would be good if she could manage herself. As for Delen, he is even more uncle than Chi Hua, except for wandering around the island with a wine bottle, or basking in the sun on the beach, sometimes he can't even see a person, and he can't count on it at all.
In addition to the functioning of the Federation, there is another problem that needs to be solved urgently, and it is the problem of captivity, and it is the first problem.
This problem was immediately exposed after the withdrawal of the evolutionaries of the members of the various forces.
At that time, Chi Hua told Yi Fengleng to properly hold the prisoners, but there were no cells on New Hope Island, and even if there were, it would not be able to hold so many prisoners.
So Yi Fengleng ordered the earth evolutionaries to build a city on the spot in an open field, and temporarily built ten huge stone cities with walls up to more than 20 meters high and covered without a roof on Phoenix Island as prison cells, and imprisoned these prisoners of the coalition army separately. Evolvers are sent by members of the Federation to guard them, and those who escape from prison are killed on the spot.
At that time, the super powerhouses of various forces were there, and even if those who had the ability to escape from prison among the captives did not dare to take a step out of the cell.
When the evolutionaries of various forces were evacuated one after another, there were less than 100 evolutionaries guarding the cells. There were more than 30,000 captives in the cell, including nearly 1,000 low-level evolutionaries. How can the 1:300 guard ratio be kept?
On the third night of the evacuation of the various forces, two cells rioted and escaped, and more than 30 people were killed in the riot, which was already a small number of Union guards.
After Chi Hua and Delun arrived, they killed nearly a thousand people with thunder to suppress the riot.
Chi Hua stood on top of the wall, looking at the trembling captives squatting in all corners of the cell, silent in thought.
These captives were frightened by Chi Hua's tactics just now, and with a flash of Chi Hua's sword, dozens of corpses were cut into two pieces. With a few random swings of the Great Xia Dragon Bird Knife, hundreds of people died under the knife, and none of them were all corpses.
"City Lord Chi, these captives can't be kept. Our guards are seriously underwhelmed, and even if this crackdown continues, there will be riots after a while. The chubby Jin Hai stepped forward and whispered in Chi Hua's ear.
Jin Hai is a subordinate of Bi Xin of Huaxia Dragon City, and he is also an old man with Chi Hua, so he is still the city lord who is used to the city lord of Chi City. Jin Hai is also a smart and clever master, and now he has become a second-order powerhouse and was retained by Yang Zhaohui.
Chi Hua was still silent in thought. If it were the other thing, Chi Hua said that he would not kill these coalition captives on the battlefield, but since Ilya said those words to him, he did feel compassion, and some of these captives did not deserve to die. Now that these people have been spared on the battlefield, he can't do it now if he is allowed to kill the prisoners.
"I have already spared your life on the battlefield, why do you still riot, do you really want to die?" Chi Hua suddenly spoke, and his loud voice made all the more than 30,000 prisoners in the ten cells hear it clearly.
Chi Hua already had the power of the superior, and the voice with a hint of anger made the bodies of many ordinary soldiers tremble.
For a long time, not a single captive stood up to answer.
"Don't you even have the courage to reply? Do warriors like you dare to go to war? ”
As soon as Chi Hua's voice fell, seven or eight people stood up in the cell below at the same time. It seems that there are still brave men among the evolutionaries.
The few people who stood up looked at each other a few times, and one of them, a bearded European-faced man, raised his head and replied: "Your Excellency, Speaker, we thank you for sparing our lives on the battlefield, but you can't starve us to death through this, we need food!" ”
"Yes, we're going to eat! We're starving! ”
As soon as the bearded man took the lead, countless captives stood up and shouted at the same time, and the noisy voices buzzed into the air.
Chi Hua frowned, and an invisible murderous aura gushed out, and the thousands of people below were so frightened that they were silent at the same time.
Chi Hua glanced back at Jin Hai.
Jin Hai blushed and replied truthfully: "I really haven't given them much food these days." It's not that we deliberately mistreat them, it's that we don't have that much food either. ”
Chi Hua nodded slightly, and did not blame Jin Hai. Chi Hua knew that the daily food consumption of these 30,000 people was simply a huge amount, and there was indeed not so much food reserves on the island.
Kill or release? It was a difficult choice, and Chi Hua fell into deep thought again.
"What's that trouble? If you let them go, where are they going? I'm going to sleep, think for yourself. Delen muttered a few words and jumped off the wall and left.
But Delenn's two words woke Chi Hua up at once, and a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred in his mind.
Chi Hua suddenly shot out without warning, and a huge sword slammed into the opposite city wall with all his might. The masonry shattered, and a huge gap three meters wide was cut into the wall.
The coalition captives thought that Chi Hua was going to kill him, except for a few who stood up and prepared to fight Chi Hua to the death, the rest ran to the corners of both sides.
After a knife, Chi Hua said aloud to the people below: "Listen to the soldiers of the coalition army, I, Chi Hua, will make an appointment with you today for three chapters. As long as you follow my rules, not only will you have a day to go home, but I can even give you a way out. ”
The birds below were silent, quietly waiting for Chi Hua's rules to be announced, because Chi Hua's next words would decide their life and death.
"First, you can get out of your cell from tonight, and I'll cut off a no-go zone on the island, and you can go wherever you want outside of it? But trespassing on the Forbidden Army died. ”
"Second, there is no surplus food on the island, and there is no extra house for you to live in. If you want to live, you have to go to the sea to find food, and if you want to find a place to live, we will set aside a living area for you, and you can build your own house. ”
"Thirdly, someone will assign you work tasks in the future, and you can arrange your time freely after completing the tasks. But if you fail to complete the task, you will be punished, and the heaviest punishment is direct execution! ”
"If you can follow the above rules and perform well, I will give you a chance to join the Union Army or return home."
As Chi Hua finished speaking, cheers erupted in cheers from all the cells, and many prisoners had forgotten the hostile identities of the two sides and chanted slogans such as "Long live the speaker".
No one wants to die when they have a choice, and now Chi Hua has given them hope to live and be released.
Jin Hai hurriedly stopped, "City Lord Chi, don't do it, if these people run away, there will be trouble after letting the tiger return to the mountain!" ”
Chi Hua smiled lightly, "Run? The sea is vast on all sides, and New Hope Island itself is a big prison, where are they going? ”
Jin Hai had a smart brain, and he immediately reacted to Chi Hua's meaning.
There were no second-order powerhouses among the captives below, and they simply did not have the ability to cross the ocean. Even if they can get a boat, they can't run, the biggest threat in the ocean now is the rampant mutant sea beasts, without a second-order powerhouse on the ship, they can't escape for hundreds of nautical miles, I'm afraid they will become the lunch of the mutant sea beasts.
In this way, keeping them in a cell is no different from putting them on an island, and it also saves the strength of the guards.
Chi Hua may not have expected that a decision made by chance tonight caused a series of unexpected changes......