Chapter 122: War Breaks Out
When the young people at the Grand Canal construction site gathered to 200,000 and the company camp for dozens of miles, Yunmeng City-State also sent his army and mercenaries, according to the peace agreement, the highest unit of the city-state's peacetime army or security establishment is the battalion, so in order to facilitate the command, Yunmeng City-State has successively set up two brigade headquarters and a joint combat command for the city-state army, equipped with heavy mortars and airships, and the total number of troops exceeded 6,000 people.
After Yunmeng's army was officially formed, he broke into the area of the Grand Canyon and confronted the workers of the metropolis.
But the construction site of the metropolis is really not what it looks like.
At the beginning, under the call of Mrs. Shui, there were only about a few thousand people responding, and at this time everyone was still like a worker, with a project plan and a construction team; But as the ranks of workers swelled rapidly, it became more and more like a refugee camp. Most of the workers only knew that they had come to dig the Grand Canal, but no one arranged for them to work in time, but only roughly defined their camps, and told them that the camps were between their construction sites, so some of them dug between the two rows of camps, but most of the time was spent looking for food, and Mrs. Water was not yet able to provide sufficient food and water for the rapidly expanding construction team.
But the biggest threat is looting. Construction crews are often attacked by bandits, and more and more workers often gang up to raid the locals.
Although the land of the Grand Canyon area is barren, it is still inhabited, they do not belong to any city-state, they can only be counted as scattered settlements, there is no unified organization, they are a group of fierce, free people, living on the land. But the arrival of the Metropolis construction team broke the peace of their lives, for these people, the Metropolis construction team is the aggressor, and contradictions and conflicts are inevitable.
However, because the locals were lonely and scattered, they could not stop the advance of the construction team, so they defected to the Yunmeng City-State, bringing their own dry food to serve as guides for the Yunmeng City-State's army, or organizing guerrillas to fight to retake their land.
In this way, it is troublesome, and everyone in the gang feels that they are fighting for justice, plus they began to die and began to avenge XXX, so in this area, as long as there is no infighting, killing people has become a heroic thing.
However, it is fair to say that in the early days of the conflict, the life-and-death struggle only existed between the construction army and the local guerrillas, and Yunmeng's army was still relatively restrained, and even when the number of construction troops increased and the company camp approached, Yunmeng's army even pulled out the camp and retreated several times, until the war officially broke out, they became the main killers.
On the day the war officially broke out, the construction army was just carrying out a very ordinary construction advance, except that there was a wilderness family on their way.
This is not unusual, before this, the construction army has already set foot on the number of such wild solitary homes, but this time is a little different.
The owner of this family is an old stubborn, has lived here for two generations, in order to resist the construction army, he did not hesitate to lend his house to Yun Mengjun as a battalion headquarters, and hoped to use this to fight against the construction army and protect his land, but Yun Mengjun was ordered to retreat when the construction army approached for strategic considerations. So the head of the family decided to protect his land himself.
His family had seven people and three shotguns, and in the face of a strong enemy, he invited a few friends to help and scraped together enough seven guns. But against a team of hundreds of people.
The family had a daughter, who was not yet seventeen years old and had never left the wilderness. During the stationing of the Yunmeng Army, she was seduced by a Yunmeng non-commissioned officer, and she thought it was love, so when her father was facing hundreds of construction metropolitans, she chose to go to the barracks to ask her boyfriend for help.
This kind of request for help will naturally not be granted, soldiers have the discipline of soldiers, but this non-commissioned officer still has a little friendship, when the girl was angry and was about to leave, the non-commissioned officer gave her a pistol and asked her to protect herself.
The construction workers did not expect that this ordinary attack would turn into a battle, they thought that this time it would be like usual, a group of people rushed in, burned the house and grabbed things, and bombed people away, maybe there would be a conflict, and there would be one or two shots, but there would be no other problems.
It seems that the owner of the house did not want to hurt people at first, but it was not very lucky, the stones on the ground made the bullets ricochet, and broke the eggs of a worker, which stabbed the hornet's nest, and the workers rushed up with a scream, and the owner and his friends had to shoot at the people, killing dozens of people one after another, before the workers were pushed back. But less than half an hour later, the follow-up workers also brought weapons, and a shootout ensued, and without any tactical means, the larger workers' side won the victory, and in the future they took revenge on the heavy casualties caused to them by the owner, and the workers tied the owner and their friends, a total of fourteen people, whether dead or alive, or uninjured, to a stake and burned them to death.
All this was seen from afar by the young girl, who, in her grief, attacked the barracks alone, killing two workers in their sleep, but was eventually captured.
As a young girl, she has a bit of beauty, and in this case, if she falls into the hands of the enemy, the consequences can be imagined, she was brutally tortured and killed, and even **.
However, there is also news that not everyone participated in the torture and murder of the girl, **The guy who was the girl was the guy who was broken during the day, because his life was scrapped, so he used this method to scrap it.
The most outrageous thing is that the whole process was photographed.
A young man who had moved to the construction site from Fort Town, and somehow got his hands on a set of photographs, fled back to Fort Town, and handed them over to the executive council in exchange for regaining his residency, in his words: "If you stay on the construction site for a long time, you will become a beast." ”
The executive meeting of Fort Town found that the state of the girl being ** was very similar to the state of the coconut being killed, so they sent someone to find Mrs. Water, asked her to hand over the murderer, and strengthened the discipline of the construction site, after all, it is one thing to have a war because of interests, and it is another thing to encroach on the land of innocents and abuse the local population.
Mrs. Water said that there is nothing she can do, with the frequent occurrence of earthquakes in the metropolis, the water level continues to rise, and the number of people who go to the construction site to participate in the construction team is also rapidly expanding, and it is difficult to ensure effective order, perhaps...... Mrs. Water put forward a condition: if the fortress town resumes its cooperation with the water family, the fortress town will form a gendarme to maintain order at the construction site, or the current situation can be alleviated.
Having said that, naturally there is no way to talk about it. However, the court in Fort Town summoned Mrs. Guoshui and several related people on the basis of the coconut murder and several other lawsuits, but the effect can be imagined, it is only a summons to be served.
But since this kind of thing has happened, there is naturally an alternative kind of justice. Just two days later, a guerrilla detachment of the Grand Canyon attacked the workers' station, seized medicine as prescribed, burned a dozen workers, and stole the photographs and copied them for distribution to the major city-states.
As a result, a war of public opinion reached its peak, the two sides exposed each other's atrocities, and many charities began to cut off the original humanitarian work on the canal construction site, which fell into a state of famine for a while.
So some daring workers began to sneak up on Yunmeng's outposts and patrols in order to loot weapons and food.
At first, due to the suddenness of the attack and the restraint of Yunmeng's army, they succeeded a few times, but the last few sneak attacks were counterattacked and suffered heavy casualties, so the workers formed a larger group to launch a surprise attack, which contributed to the escalation of the war.
Fortunately, at this time, there was still high-level contact between the two sides, so the situation could be controlled until a sheep triggered a full-scale war.
Although the Yunmeng Army is also a patchwork army, it is a regular army after all, and it is still well planned and operated in terms of weapons and supplies, and in order to support the front line, many farms have also made a special trip of hundreds of miles to send agricultural products, including a flock of sheep.
But just when the sheep had not yet turned into mutton, a brave sheep broke free from the bondage and ran to the workers' station opposite.
By the time the sheep realized that it had entered a more dangerous area, it was too late, and the hungry workers not only put the sheep in the pot within three minutes, but also picked up their guns and killed two of the three Yunmeng soldiers who came to chase the sheep.
So around the roaring bonfire and the steaming cauldron, a fierce armed clash broke out between the two sides.
At the beginning, the workers relied on the upper hand, they were not afraid of casualties, and the more people fought, but the Yunmeng Army had the advantage in weapons, although it was once out of a passive defensive posture, but it gave the workers a lot of damage.
Later, the armed convoy of the Yunmeng army arrived, and with the support of the vehicle-mounted machine guns, the Yunmeng army launched a counterattack, and finally recovered a large iron pot that had been beaten into a sieve. Although the mutton soup has leaked, the mutton is still there, but the mutton is full of various bullet slices, and it is no longer possible to eat.
In order to vent their anger, the Yunmeng army burned the tents left behind by the workers and shot the wounded prisoners, which became a new atrocity. That night, the workers gathered thousands more and carried more weapons to attack the Yunmeng Army at night.
Because too much ammunition was consumed during the day, and there was no time to replenish it, the Yunmen army was defeated and lost, and was chased and beaten for half the night, but later the reinforcements of the Yunmeng army arrived, set up mortars and bombarded indiscriminately, and beat the workers away.
The shelling was so intense that the paint on the barrel burned.
The next day, the Yunmeng Army counted hundreds of corpses of Metropolitan workers on the battlefield. At this point, the two sides had no choice but to arrange their troops to fight.
So many people died before it didn't lead to a full-scale war, and now a sheep has become the last straw.