"At 3:47 p.m. today, a high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance plane of our army crashed while inspecting the city of Taizhou, where an unknown fire appeared yesterday night. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

At the Purple Mountain Observatory Air Force Headquarters, twelve Air Force officers and commissioners from the Army Air Brigade were sitting in their respective positions, and the large screen at the front of the room, spliced together by several 32-inch screens, was replaying the images sent back before the drone crashed.

Littered with ruins, no one would have believed it was a city if it weren't for the still-defined layout of the buildings, and unburned black smoke rose from the flickering flames above the ruins, and vehicles with strange shapes and incomparably advanced tires and tracks were sucking insect corpses out of the gravel and clumps of steel bars with what seemed to be powerful suction devices under the nose of the front of them, and then submerged into the vehicles. Throughout the picture, such vehicles can be found in almost every corner of the city. Even more eye-catching than these vehicles are the piles of insect corpses and the corpses of some of the humans wearing blue helmets mixed in with them.

The entire video is only 16 seconds, and then the camera spills out endless sparks of sparks like oil leaks from top to bottom, and the next second the whole video suddenly distorts, and then goes black.

"The lethal attack came from above, and the weapons were airborne machine guns." A captain said, and several captains and lieutenants around him also nodded, all of them had served as test pilots, participated in actual combat exercises in peacetime, and had personally carried out precision strikes on the key targets of the swarm in the previous months, and they could see the location and method of attack from this video.

It's just that there is only so much that can be seen with the naked eye.

The rest of the Air Force officers had some speculation and added details, and a clerk sitting in the corner of the room quickly recorded the Air Force analysis, a scene that was also being played out in other branches of the unit. These analyses will be sent to the General Command in a unified manner, and a dedicated staff team is waiting for the final analysis to be carried out after the analysis between the departments is aggregated.

At 4:15 p.m., 28 minutes after the drone was shot down, a thorough and detailed report was delivered to the top head of the military district. The core contents of the report are as follows:

"The city of Taizhou was stormed by a military force suspected of being a peacekeeper, and the battle should have ended within 24 hours, ending with the victory of an unknown military force. Post-war clean-up work is currently underway, and the collection of insect carcasses by its unidentified vehicles proves that insect carcasses have some value in using them. It is protected by a low-flying helicopter above the vehicle, which is not one of the aircraft types in service in the world today, and does not have any external weapons bay. Our military drone should be found when it descends from a high altitude to the edge of the city to approach the reconnaissance, and the attack comes from the sky above the front of the drone, which is a rapid-fire weapon attack such as aviation cannons. The rate of fire was 35 rounds per second, and it was preliminarily judged that two cannons were attacking at the same time. ”

"Peacekeepers?" Liang Jun, commander of the Jinling Military Region, who was at the head of the chairman's table, patted the documents in his hand and looked at General Qin Zheng who was sitting on the side with a ghostly look. He has always been accustomed to consulting this deputy commander, as a veteran of the army and the commander of the capture of Jinling, Qin Zheng's calm and resolute and remote approach to the center of power have made him extremely admired, more importantly, both of them are veterans who participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and decades of working together have made them maintain an extraordinary tacit understanding on many things.

"This is a dereliction of duty on the part of the intelligence services." Qin Zheng lowered the corners of his eyes and said: "We have not never had the idea of capturing a county town occupied by insect swarms, but no matter how you calculate it, the price will be unbearable, and now someone is rushing ahead of us." Is it from other military districts? Is it a foreign power? There is not a single mention in the report! ”

Qin Lao's sharp eyes looked at a middle-aged officer sitting at the end of the table, the other party immediately lowered his head, recently there has been news in the city that the intelligence department in the army is more aimed at ordinary people than the boundless sea of insects outside the city, as the number two person in the military, these news naturally reached Qin Zheng's ears as soon as possible.

"Let's put this aside for a moment, the top priority is that we don't know anything about the other side, and the other side has already openly shot down our plane! What is it? This is a provocation! Liang Jun diverted the topic, and since he received the news, he had been suppressing a wave of anger in his heart, and the feeling of being forced to shrink into the city by the insect swarm made him, a veteran who had been beating people since 1979, feel unable to adapt. As the supreme commander, he naturally smelled a trace of unusual smell brewing in the city, there will be chaos in the siege, and now Jinling urgently needs an outlet, and the war that can be won is undoubtedly the best choice.

"There are two things that matter urgently." Yichen, who was sitting on the other side of Liang Jun, spoke. As a major, he sat next to the commander, and I have to say that this arrangement is really delicate.

"First, it is natural to find out what the opponent is from, and no matter what decision is made in the end, it must be supported by sufficient intelligence; Second, whether or not to notify the central authorities of the matter. ”

Everyone was stunned, and in the past few months, most people have subconsciously ignored the "behemoth" that is still nominally on the heads of all military regions. However, there are nuclear power launch codes all over the country, and the sad smell of the codes that were said earlier to be automatically distributed to the military regions if the central government suffers a devastating blow has completely changed after a few months, and many people feel that a rope has been put on their throats, and they were sincerely worried about the central government a few months ago. Notification? What exactly does Yichen mean by throwing out this topic at this time?

"Also, there are some speculations on my own. What does this armed force have to do with a massacre settlement some time ago? Could they be the culprits in that incident? Yichen then threw out his own questions.

Qin Zheng, who had been lowering his eyes, looked pale, and he knew that this sentence would make the people present have a preconceived bad impression of the armed forces they had never met. The army is an extremely xenophobic and short-term organization, and internal fighting is okay, but if there is external fighting, it is definitely a strong rebound in a group.

Sure enough, as soon as Yichen's words came out, the expressions of the officers present suddenly changed, and the officers who originally had the idea of contacting first and then talking about it began to quietly change towards the main battle faction.