The tragic incident that occurred at the headquarters of the 19U Army, together with the attacks on the checkpoints along the way, was quickly reported to the competent departments at all levels.

The military department reacted quickly: the discipline supervision brigade of the 71st Group Army, to which Xinyan belonged, was characterized as a "rebel army". The Air Force's South-West Command and South-East Region 2 Command each sent two reconnaissance teams to search the rebels' routes. At the same time, the Air Command Headquarters ordered the 19U Army to immediately send a large number of search teams to the surrounding areas, and once the rebels were found, they would immediately call for air support, and depending on the terrain and surrounding environment, if they were sure that there were no mutated creatures to disturb them, they would be directly killed.

This sudden incident caused an uproar throughout the military.

The Information Headquarters found that before the incident, there had been communication records between Lieutenant General Xu Renjie, commander of the 71st Group Army, and the deceased Chen Shang. The Security Bureau immediately sent a special person to the Xincheng base to ask Xu Renjie to explain the content of the communication and verify it through some clues that had been obtained.

Under normal circumstances, the Information Headquarters does not supervise communications at the level of commanders. This is an extraordinary period, and although Chen Shang is not an outstanding military talent with ordinary ability, he is a group army commander after all. If he dies in battle like Zhang Shengfei, no one will say anything. But he died at the hands of his own people, and was killed on the spot in the office of Xinyan, an officer of the Security Bureau.

Since the matter has happened, the so-called "rescue" is nonsense and empty talk. Although the military department has repeatedly claimed that whoever is at fault in this incident will be dealt with according to the circumstances of the incident in order to clarify the innocence of the people on both sides at the time.

This high-sounding statement is just a cover-up. In the eyes of bureaucratic old fritters like Xu Renjie, it is even more of a joke that is not worth mentioning.

Innocent?

What fucking bullshit

If the self-righteous members of the military department had been able to sort things out, look at the problem rationally and calmly, and give real rewards and punishments to both sides involved, the problem would certainly be much simpler than it is now, and it would not have been in such an uncontrollable situation.

In fact, the matter is not complicated, and the traffic record of Xinyan's last trip to the 19U Group Army can be easily checked. It's no secret that she's transporting grain on a small scale in the direction of New Guiyang. To put it bluntly, the wife wanted to help her husband solve the difficulties, Chen Shang refused and repeatedly made it difficult, Ziwei helped in time and deeply, but Chen Shang held a grudge and retaliated after arresting people, which led to a series of changes later.

Xu Renjie believes that the "incident investigation report" that he handed in will not be listed as evidence by those people in the military department at all. At most, in the course of the trial of the case, a few sentences will be mentioned without pain or itching. Now the key is not to find out the facts, but who is responsible for the killing of the commander of the 19U Army. Whatever Li Xinyan's motive for doing this? Just or not? Revenge or anger? It doesn't really matter. The purpose of the military commissioners is just to catch her, and then kill her as an example, completely deterring those who dare to disobey the orders of the military department and secretly want to move.

Without the constraints of the basic moral and legal framework of society, many people's ambitions and desires have begun to sprout.

Since last year, there have been dozens of incidents of disobedience by troops.

Most of these incidents were caused by the refusal of officers and men of the unit to carry out combat orders, and the units involved included squads and squadrons, the largest of which had not yet exceeded the scale of the battalion. The refusal of the soldiers and junior officers was not without reason. They were sent to the most dangerous areas of the front and were not treated and compensated as they were. Some units have not been rotated for half a year, soldiers are extremely tired, and although the combat units have been issued with the latest protective clothing and weapons, the casualty rate has remained high. In addition, it is not surprising that some middle-ranking officers are greedy in terms of materials, senior generals entrust their cronies and family members to important departments, the corruption situation is becoming more and more serious, and the opposition of soldiers and junior officers is getting louder and louder.

Xinyan's killing of Chen Shang was not the first case of the following crimes.

In similar cases that have occurred since last year, it is not uncommon for soldiers to lose their officers on the battlefield. The inexplicable death of the logistics officer in charge of distributing supplies has happened in almost every base city. When the normal demands are not met and the higher authorities ignore it, the people below always have to find ways to save themselves and resist, and the dead become normal.

You ride on Lao Tzu's head to and pee, and Lao Tzu will chop you alive with an axe. This world has always been like this, with status, wealth, and power, when you call others at will, it means that you must always pay attention to your conduct, and if you are not careful, you may cause hatred and vendetta.

The military department was not completely unaware of these circumstances. Their approach is to keep it all down and never make it public at any time. Now unlike before, information processing and dissemination is far less rapid than in peacetime. In the case of last week's night mutiny in a squadron on the eastern front, which was killed on the spot by the Judge Advocate General's Court, all those in the know were strictly forbidden to spread the news, and the bodies of the dead were burned overnight, and the vacant battle sequences were filled with the same number of civilians. Even the neighboring forces had no way of knowing what had happened there

Xu Renjie felt more and more that it was fundamentally wrong to abandon all cities according to the demands of the Atlanteans, so that the original social and moral system of mankind would completely collapse, and then all countries would implement wartime systems and concentrate on winning biological wars.

That will only lead to more sin and hatred, and there is no kindness and trust between people at all. It is undeniable that the survivors who came out of the mountains of blood and corpses alive have multiplied their physique and combat effectiveness, strengthened their ability to adapt to harsh environments, and have no problem responding to emergencies. But they have lost their most basic potential as human beings. Without reason, without the ability to think independently, the fighting instinct becomes the sole master who controls the brain and body. In their eyes, everything they see is an enemy, whether it is a kind of creature or a mutated creature, and the only signal that translates into physical action is a cold word "kill".

But what if you don't?

The Atlanteans will release viruses that will eventually lead to the destruction of humanity in the face of a global infection scare. Not because of the lack of food, but because of the loss of trust in each other. Without cooperation, human beings alone are limited in their ability to fight mutated creatures in gradual evolution. After all, the number of surviving powerhouses is very small, and even if they really win the biological war, the outcome will only be miserable. It is likely that the remaining number of humans will not be able to sustain the continuation of the race, and then ...... It is the destruction of the whole people.

This idea was really terrifying, and even Xu Renjie himself was suddenly startled. He hurriedly extinguished the cigarette butt that had burned to his fingers, sat down in his chair in silence, and fell into deep thought again.

If it weren't for Xinyan, he would never have thought about it holistically.

It stands to reason that the military should be the most obedient, disciplined, and hierarchical social group among human beings, and the most structured.

However, too many problems have now come to light. Military orders and discipline have become difficult to restrain soldiers. The army system is collapsing, and the influence of the military department is gradually decreasing. It is true that they are still functioning now, and the orders of the Beijing No. 1 base can still be carried out by the commanders scattered in the various theaters through the airwaves, but how long can this situation continue? In fact, no one knows what to do.

Therefore, Xinyan's situation is very dangerous.

The military department needs an example of stabilizing the morale of the military. Once she is arrested, she will not be given a chance to defend herself, she will not talk about any morality and principles at all, and she will not be as stated in the current document, and she will not present facts and reason to clarify the culpability of both sides...... She would have died a terrible death, and the body was used as an illustration to deter others.

Last time Xinyan took the initiative to come over for help, Xu Renjie realized that Ziwei was a very heavy person. At least, in Xinyan's eyes. Although from the perspective of position, Chen Shang is the commander of the group army, and Ziwei is only a deputy regiment commander, many soldiers in human thinking are not dominated by power and interests. They attach more importance to friendship and intersection, and their affection for each other is often more valuable than mere interests.

Initially, when Su Hao was still in Kunming City, just an ordinary civilian, Xu Renjie never thought that he would rely so heavily on this young boy.

It must be admitted that Xu Renjie has indeed been wooing and using Su Hao. There was surveillance, speculation, several times of temptation, and even the idea of falling into the well and solving him once and for all. However, things did not turn out to be the worst in the end, and the reward received from Su Hao also made the relationship between Xu Renjie and him gradually deepen. So much so that now, Xu Renjie and Su Hao have formed a community of interests in many aspects, and if any party is damaged, it will always affect the other.

Xu Renjie has never understood, why did Su Hao take away as many as 300,000 civilians from Xinnanyang?

It is indeed a very difficult thing to feed these people.

With the output of the new Chengdu base, it is enough to sustain the daily consumption of millions of people. But even Xu Renjie didn't dare to do this. He knew that civilians were not like the army, and that discipline was not binding on them. If food is distributed on the first day, they will stare at the city, do nothing, and prefer to sleep every day rather than go out hunting and farming, but wait for the next food distribution. If the amount is too small to feed the population, a new round of fighting will immediately erupt among the refugee groups. As a result, more people are killed, and the living are snatched from the mouths of the dead.

This is definitely not unfounded speculation. Even before the outbreak of the virus, when the top G5 government formulated a biological warfare plan, this situation had been deduced by computer and agreed by the governments and relevant personnel of various countries. The reason for the establishment of a new base city and the abandonment of the original human habitat is of course because mutated organisms will occupy it, but more importantly, it is to force the refugees who leave the city to become self-reliant and no longer rely on anyone.

Su Hao is breaking the rules.

The situation in New Guiyang is probably an unprecedented precedent in the whole country and even in the whole world. Xu Renjie really couldn't figure it out, what was the use of Su Hao asking so many civilians? Pooling these people together for cash-for-work? But he didn't have to do this at all, he only needed to forcibly order the civilians to participate in the construction of the city, even if he had to distribute food, at most to ensure that they would not starve to death. It is important to know that people are motivated only when they are hungry, and the desire to be full will prompt them to do anything———— and women dare to take the initiative to strip naked under any circumstances; Even in the face of hordes of mutated creatures, men will still charge with their bare hands; The most honest people will become liars, and the most cunning fellows will become saints.

These things sound ridiculous, but once you experience them for yourself, you can understand that they are definitely not false illusions, but real reality.

Was Su Hao a philanthropic Puritans?

The answer, of course, is no.

This guy's calmness and sanity are terrifying, whether it is saving people or killing people, once you make up your mind, there is no possibility of change. That kind of stubborn approach, even Xu Renjie can only shake his head.

Xu Renjie has always thought that the energy potion is a product of the Academy of Sciences, and it is the material help that Wang Qinian gave to Su Hao. This idea was denied through the old fat man's mouth, and Xu Renjie himself was surprised. After all, he had personally experienced the effects of an energy potion, and the ability to pull the dying back from the brink of danger meant the potion's place in the history of human evolution.

Su Hao actually handed over such an important thing to the Yuan family casually. When he heard the news, Xu Renjie almost didn't have a crooked face. His original abacus was very loud, and he felt that he could use energy potions to balance Yuan Zhicheng and restrict the development of the Northern Theater. However, the price offered by Yuan Zhicheng is really staggering. There are ten new divisions, which has far broken through the psychological bottom line that Xu Renjie can bear. It was from that time that he finally discovered that Su Hao's mind and planning had already reached a height that he could not imagine.

From the standpoint of a bystander, Xu Renjie has almost seen through Yuan Zhicheng's plans.

No matter in the name of the Yuan family or Sun Zhan, it is impossible for the proposal to set up 10 new divisions and regiments to be adopted at the meeting of the military department. Although the military department has sufficient supplies and equipment, the training of officers and recruits is an issue that no one can ignore. Yuan, Zhao, Administration...... and other political factions, large and small, all want to gain a share of it and strengthen themselves. There is nothing more effective in controlling the troops than by sending one's own trusted officers to take charge of the training of the personnel of the newly reorganized troops.

Civilians are the equivalent of a blank sheet of paper. From passing the selection to actually being trained as a soldier, the middle and junior officers who have the most contact with them at this stage are the middle and lower ranks. As long as this link is firmly grasped, these soldiers will always obey the orders of the officers and their superiors.

Now it is not like before, slogans such as national interests are no longer useful. It was precisely on this basis that Sun Zhan and several other members of the military department willingly released a large amount of supplies and sent thousands of cronies to the Xingui area. On the surface, it is to help Su Hao build a base. In fact, it is to lay the foundation for their own seizure of power and army.

As for Yuan Zhicheng...... Hehe, that old guy's abacus is very fine. Xu Renjie concluded: Yuan Zhicheng had already seen the irreconcilable contradiction between Su Hao and Sun Zhan, and neither side would give in to the control of the ten new divisions. Sooner or later, there will be a fight between Sun Zhan and Su Hao. When they are both defeated, it is time for the Yuan Department to come out to clean up the mess and swallow the results of the battle.

Even if the 10 newly formed divisions were all disabled, their personnel were dead, and their weapons and equipment were completely lost, they were still 10 divisions on the battle sequence list of the military headquarters. With the logistical foundation possessed by Yuan Zhicheng, it would not be difficult to re-equip and integrate the ten divisions and regiments. He could logically turn these formations into his own subordinates. The whole process was reasonable, and even Zhao Zhikai, the chairman of the military department who had always opposed the increase in troops in the Northern Theater and restrained the Yuan family in various ways, could not find any fault in it.

Xu Renjie saw these things very thoroughly. He had thought of reminding Su Hao to pay attention to the strength of the battle with Sun Zhan and preserve his strength. After all, the situation is completely different now than it was two years ago, when the virus broke out. The independence of the southwest region is constantly strengthening, and if Su Hao's new Guiyang base city is missing, then the new Chengdu under his command will lose its barrier, and may even be annexed by those in the military department.

A series of incidents, such as Xinyan's murder and abduction at the headquarters of the 19U Group Army, gave Xu Renjie a further understanding of the current situation of Su Hao and the 11th Independent Army.

He suddenly discovered that Su Hao brought 300,000 civilians from the New Nanyang area and had been supporting them, but it was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

Ten new divisions were subordinate to the 505 Army. The 505th Group Army's garrison is the new Guiyang base, and the protection scope of the unit is the abandoned city of Guiyang and the surrounding areas.

With the region as the core, the foundation of the formation of these ten newly organized divisions and regiments can only be dominated by civilians near the new Guiyang base. And these people, these refugees, they followed Su Hao all the way from Xinnanyang, Su Hao would rather have a grudge with the military department and other big people, and did his best to feed them at the expense of resources.

Unconsciously, Xu Renjie trembled suddenly, and the cigarette butt between his fingers loosened and fell to the ground.

Xu Renjie stared at the wall in front of him, and in a trance, Su Hao's figure gradually appeared. The young man's body surged with countless intense energies. Although it was a picture imagined by his brain, Xu Renjie still clearly felt an unprecedented shock, and his face immediately turned pale.

Oh my God, the reason why Su Hao was holding 300,000 civilians hostage, and would rather starve himself than support these people, was it just to deal with Yuan and Sun Zhan?

Could it be that he had already begun planning from the end of the Battle of Hefei?

He had raised those civilians for a whole winter, and those people must have been grateful to him. With a preconceived sense of thinking, the officers sent by the military department simply could not command these recruits.