There is no flaw in this sentence, it sounds prosaic and unremarkable, and there is nothing hidden in it.

Chen Yanlin nodded in agreement: "Yes, unless they take the initiative to leave, others will never have a chance."

Sun Zhan's expression was a little helpless, and he couldn't help shaking his head: "I never thought about fighting for power, I just wanted to play the role of the last." However, things are not without change. ”

Chen Yanlin's attention began to focus: "Oh? What's wrong? ”

"The military department intends to rebuild the 184 Army. However, candidates for the post of commander can only be selected from among the members of the Military Commission. ”

Sun Zhan's words made Chen Yanlin's interest just mentioned instantly become lost. But the next content made him feel very weird, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while.

"I want to apply and go to a division under the 184th Army as a division commander. There is always a gap between dreams and reality, and since it is difficult to climb up with the same status, it is better to go down and lower the height, and things will become easier. Hehe, do you think that's right? ”

"Well, there is some truth to it......"

New Chengdu base city.

It was late at night, and the lights were still on in the chief of staff's office.

Chen Yanlin sat on the chair, looking at the military lunch box full of food on the table, slightly distracted.

He has always had the habit of working late, and the adjutant brought him dinner on time as usual, but Chen Yanlin did not touch a single chopstick.

The standard of food in the senior officers' canteen was obviously much better than that of ordinary soldiers. There are sweet and sour meatballs and deep-fried pork ribs that taste very good, and the cold lotus root slices and ground three fresh looks very tempting. In addition to the usual rice as soldiers, senior officers were also able to eat chicken soup, which is now extremely valuable.

That was all hours ago, though.

The food in front of Chen Yanlin was already cold, the meatballs and pork ribs were so cold and hard that they were hard to chew, and the vegetables had lost their original luster. Even the bowl of chicken soup has a thin layer of oil on the surface, which looks yellow and greasy, which makes people lose their appetite.

Chen Yanlin has been thinking about it, and has been recalling what Sun Zhan said in his mind.

He didn't understand, why would Sun Zhan contact him without warning? As far as the conversation itself is concerned, there are no noteworthy details, just two old men playing homely things, talking about the mountains, setting up a dragon gate array, expressing their opinions on the current situation, and then complaining.

Although Chen Yanlin is not in the military department, it does not prevent him from knowing Sun Zhan's embarrassing identity in the military department. Speaking of which, although Sun Zhan's military rank is high, he, the Minister of Administration, like himself, belongs to an undesirable role, and has no real power in his hands, so he can only be used as a foil for those who really hold power. To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to a role that is often overlooked like a green leaf.

Because of this, Chen Yanlin can understand what Sun Zhan said about "bitterness". Especially when Sun Zhan said that he planned to surrender his identity and go to the combat unit to serve as a division commander, Chen Yanlin himself felt a little sad, and couldn't help but pour bitter water on Sun Zhan.

The military headquarters was controlled by Zhao Zhikai, and the person who really gave the orders to the 71st Group Army was Xu Renjie. No matter how hard Chen Yanlin and Sun Zhan tried, they couldn't overpower these two mountains. They are destined to be just inconspicuous rocks at the foot of the mountain, and their roles and positions are at best seen in a hurry, and are quickly forgotten.

Perhaps, it was precisely because of his resentment and unwillingness that Sun Zhan made this decision and was willing to take the initiative to demote himself to become the commander of the combat unit. After all, a mere division commander, in terms of status and income, is far inferior to the post of head of the administrative headquarters. However, the combat forces also have superiority beyond the reach of administrative officers. In particular, the absolute control of the military chief over the officers and soldiers is simply not at all imaginable for the executive. They have de facto control over an area, and this is the biggest difference between a military commander and a senior administrative officer.

Chen Yanlin asked himself, if he wants to be like Sun Zhan and demote himself to become a division commander, I am afraid it will be really difficult to do it. I really don't have the determination to give up everything, nor do I have the decisiveness to break the boat. I finally struggled to the position of chief of staff of the group army, and I was really unwilling to give up so easily.

But what if you are unwilling? The head of the 71 Army was Commander Xu Renjie, who never gave himself any chance. Don't say it's the division commander, I'm afraid that the position of the regiment commander, he will never allow himself to get involved. The so-called chief of staff, to put it bluntly, is just a useless ornament, except for Xu Renjie's cronies, anyone who sits in this position will face the same problems as himself. No real power, no troops, anyone is perfunctory to themselves, of course I want to change this damn situation, but what should I do?

When the mind is affected by external things, it is easy to feel it. Chen Yanlin is no exception. Although the call with Sun Zhan had ended a few hours earlier, he still felt that some of Sun Zhan's words were correct and worth learning from.

The most crucial part of this is Sun Zhan's concept of the relationship between position and rank. He said: If you want to get a position, there are two prerequisites. First, you must have that ability. Second, the seat must be vacant.

Of course, this is not Sun Zhan's original words, but the meaning of his words is similar to this. Isn't it? If it weren't for the defeat of the Battle of Hefei. A large number of high-ranking officers of the 184 Army were killed in battle, how could the Military Council appoint a new commander of the group army? Where did Sun Zhan's division come from?

Chen Yanlin did not consider whether Sun Zhan would deceive himself or anything like that. In his opinion, this is not necessary at all. The content of the communication was just an ordinary conversation between the two people, and there were no military secrets involved, and the other party did not ask him to do anything. Regardless of the attitude or expression, I can't find anything wrong. This made Chen Yanlin completely give up his vigilance, and he didn't think at all that he should check with the military department whether there was such a thing as Sun Zhan applying to be the division commander?

is just a division commander, Chen Yanlin certainly can't look down on it.

He just felt that Sun Zhan had given him some kind of inspiration. Although it is not clear, it seems that he has found a way to change the current predicament.

As soon as the conversation with Chen Yanlin ended, Sun Zhan had already sent an additional message to the personnel department through the military department's network. The content, of course, is that he himself applied for demotion to the post of division commander of a combat unit.

All information exchanges within the military are supervised by a central computer. As the Minister of Administration, Sun Zhan is of course aware of the computer's processing flaws, as well as the blind spots of several extremely secretive programs that can be exploited. He first changed the application date to two months ago, and the computer would sort them by date. When the information entered the database, Sun Zhan again used his authority to add the suffixes (pending) and (invalidated) to the application form. As a result, the form will be automatically seized in the review area and will not be prioritized. If Chen Yanlin has doubts about what he has said, he can easily see the application form by searching according to the classification. However, he did not have the authority to obtain further information, and naturally he had no right to inquire about whether the form had been approved by the military department. Conversely, the Ministry of Information will not make changes to the review documents. They usually review the review information for a period of three months. As long as the time period for mutual hearings is controlled, Sun Zhan will be able to make this application form exist in the information database without anyone noticing.

Sun Zhan is a very meticulous person. After doing all this, he opened the search space on the computer, typed in the items he wanted to find in order, and the fake application form immediately appeared on the screen.

Silently staring at the screen, Sun Zhan's old face showed a trace of hideousness, and the eyes behind the reading glasses were full of coldness, as well as endless emptiness.

Of course, he knew what he was doing.

However, he didn't know if Chen Yanlin would resonate with his words?

The reason why that guy was chosen was because Chen Yanlin has always been dissatisfied with his current situation. When a person is imprisoned by the environment and cannot satisfy his desires, he will definitely want to change the status quo strongly. Sun Zhan will not leave any handles, there is no sensitive content in the conversation between the two people, even if it is known, Sun Zhan will only laugh, and say that it is just a joke for "demoted to the division commander". Denial and lying have always been survival techniques, and honest people, while virtuous, are outright fools.

The only question is whether Chen Yanlin will do what he expected?

Slowly moving the corners of his mouth, Sun Zhan finally felt a little thirsty. He took a sip of the cold tea and found that his mouth was sticky, emitting a stench that even he felt disgusting.

For a whole day, he hadn't eaten anything, he hadn't drunk much water, and bad breath was a natural physiological reaction.

Sun Zhan was tired, but he had no desire to rest. He clicked on the screen again, and this time, in the center of the screen with the input command, it was an image of Yuan Zhicheng smiling.

For a short period of time, Sun Zhan was unable to conduct an in-depth investigation of Items 1 and 2. He could only list Su Hao and Yuan Zhicheng as suspects based on his previous experience.

No, it's not just suspicion, they're all their own political enemies, they're their own opponents. No matter who falls, Sun Zhan will feel happy. Chen Yanlin is only the first step in setting up a plan for Su Hao, and the next goal is naturally Yuan Zhicheng, who controls the Yuan family.

This person is far more difficult to deal with than Su Hao. He controlled the entire northern front, and as many as a million officers and soldiers were loyal to him.

Looking at the photos on the screen, Sun Zhan gradually fell into deep thought.

When Xinyan and Jiang Wanqi led the convoy into New Guiyang, Su Hao only felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, and the dullness that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time was completely cleared, and a smile that had not been seen for a long time appeared on his face.

In addition to the much-needed food, Xinyan also brought a lot of good news.

The progress of the "No. 1 Hive" is progressing smoothly, and the construction progress has increased by 60 percent compared to the previous month. Due to the concentration of the strength of the entire "castle" and other small "hives" in the surrounding area, all the heavy workshops planned for the first phase have entered the production stage. At present, the "No. 1 Hive" is no longer short of raw materials, and the supply of food and drinking water can meet the needs. According to the drawings left by Su Hao, several medium-sized spar energy furnaces have been assembled and will be put into use next month at the latest.

The practice of concentrating most of the team's resources on the supply of "One Hive" has already shown exciting results. In addition to the accelerated construction progress, the development of the surrounding area by the Lao Song team has also been expanding. The area where Hive No. 1 is located is close to the tropics, and the hot climate has greatly shortened the natural ripening period of crops. On the periphery of the "hive" base, there are a large number of fields and mountains, and most of the crops currently cultivated are rice, and even if there are no artificial farms with underground bases, in this harvest season, the grain produced in the newly reclaimed fields on the periphery of the base alone is enough to feed 20,000 or 30,000 people.

The effect of black particles on the human body is obviously not limited to the adjustment of appearance. The first group of members to join the team in Kunming City have shown more and more comprehensive strength in terms of combat, administrative management, scientific research, etc. Just last month, Dong Guoping, who is in charge of project management and supervision, proposed a new plan———— deploying an automatic roadheader with the strongest propulsion power to build a hidden underground connection between the "No. 1 Hive" and the "castle" in Kunming.

According to the area, the entire "bee colony" is divided into three parts, which is the plan determined by Su Hao through telecommunications and letters before the implementation of the Hefei Campaign, and Lao Song and others.

Su Hao knows very well that from Kunming City to New Chengdu, and then to New Nanyang Base City, his too good performance has attracted the attention of many people. The best way to disguise and hide is to focus all your attention on a certain point. It is precisely because of this that the construction of the new Guiyang base city began. However, there are pros and cons to this plan. The advantage is that the probability of the "No. 1 Hive" and "Castle" being discovered is greatly reduced, especially in the case of centralized supply of raw materials and energy, the construction and growth rate of the old Song team is extremely rapid, once the function of the base is becoming more and more perfect, Su Hao has enough hole cards to ⊥ him is no longer afraid of anyone.

However, the disadvantages of planning are also obvious———— under the premise of giving priority to meeting the "No. 1 hive", all kinds of materials in New Guiyang can only be compressed to the extreme. Regardless of the construction progress, just solving the food consumed by the population is the biggest problem that currently plagues Su Hao.

In fact, the easiest way is to move the huge group of refugees gathered around New Guiyang in the direction of "No. 1 Hive". Lao Song already has some grain reserves in his hands, and the current output of "No. 1 Hive" is enough to maintain the needs of civilians. However, Su Hao is not able to do so at the moment. The military headquarters has been very closely monitoring the Xingui area, and the Xi'an command center has specially dispatched two early warning planes to conduct comprehensive monitoring of this base city under construction. Su Hao could take advantage of the gap in the rotation of planes to occasionally carry out some innocuous small actions, but it was impossible to order Lao Song to transport grain from the "No. 1 Hive" to New Guiyang on a large scale. That would do no good except expose your strength in advance.

Nor will mass evictions of civilians be possible. Refugee groups, which are too large, are the most visible targets on the ground. Although from the beginning of the plan, Su Hao ordered Cao Rui and Du Tianhao to quietly turn some civilians to the "No. 1 Hive", but after all, it was a squad with dozens or hundreds of personnel. In the face of a huge base of 300,000, only such an extremely limited reduction does not arouse suspicion.

The long-term separation has made Su Hao and Xinyan's mutual attraction extremely strong at the moment. They hugged each other tightly, kissed each other desperately, and had sex in the fiercest and most violent positions, until the whole room became a battlefield, and all kinds of miscellaneous items were scattered everywhere, clothes, shoes, weapons, all kinds of messy things were scattered all over the floor, the beds were messy, and the air was filled with a strong smell of hormones and sweat.

Xinyan first came to his senses from the scuffle. She sat naked on the bed, her legs bent over her chest with her hands, silently staring at the scenery directly facing the bedside window.

The body is wrapped in scattered sheets, but the slender and round long legs are peeking out from the edge of the bed, which makes people have a very seductive reverie. She tuck the quilt upwards to cover her extremely full breasts as much as possible, but the curve of her back and waist becomes tense, and her mouth is dry, and she feels the urge to sin.

Su Hao lay flat, he didn't seem to want to get up, he just wanted to just sleep comfortably forever without any scruples, and no longer have to worry about all kinds of troubles and problems.

Xinyan grabbed her backpack from the bedside table, took out a cigarette and a lighter, lit one, and inhaled hard.

Under Su Hao's influence, she began to like to smoke. Although Xinyan knew that smoking was not a good thing, nicotine did not seem to have any effect on high-level enhancers, and the stimulating effect of tobacco burning could make her feel excited.

"You might be in big trouble."

Xinyan's face revealed a charming and bright ruddy luster, she inserted her fingers into her messy long hair, smoothed it slightly, and spit smoke in her sexy lips: "When I came from the Xinliuzhou base, I found that several nearby roads were full of refugees coming here. I asked a few people, and they came from different directions, but they all said they were told that there was a military shelter where they could get free food.

Su Hao did not answer. He crossed his hands behind his head and stared at the ceiling, the light in his eyes so clear.

The problem that Xinyan is talking about is not a secret.

After the Battle of Hefei, refugees have been arriving in New Guiyang one after another. They come in groups of three or five, and their numbers vary. At first, Su Hao thought it was a cascading effect caused by a large-scale transfer, but later found that things were not so simple. These refugees come from different regions, in addition to neighbouring regions, as well as refugees from other provinces. The number of refugees gathered from all over the world is increasing, especially in the last week of last month, when more than 6,000 people were added to the periphery of New Guizhou in just seven days.

This number will not be absolutely accurate, and there will not be much moisture in it. With the help of Cao Rui and Du Tianhao, outsiders will be monitored invisibly, and the actual number of incursions and fluctuations is very small, almost uncountable.