At the Beijing No. 1 base, in the huge comprehensive office of the administrative headquarters, which covers an area of thousands of square meters, many soldiers are shuttling back and forth between various departments and compartments. Their expressions were serious, and even if they met very well, they would not talk to each other, but just quickly exchanged subtle eyes, and then hurriedly passed by

Since last night, the atmosphere here has become particularly heavy. In the midst of their busy travels, people will always subconsciously look up or turn around and glance at the minister's office due south, with the door closed. Perhaps to prove that people's worries are not unreasonable, there is a thunderous roar from behind the gray-white alloy door panels, full of all kinds of foul language.

"What the hell is going on? Why did you lose contact with the 505 Army? They haven't sent a routine telegram since yesterday, and no signal connection of any kind can be reached. Can anyone tell me what this is for?

The wrinkles on Sun Zhan's face were squeezed together by anger and nervousness, which made him look even more hideous. He roared incessantly, waving his wizened hands back and forth in the air, like a devil in hell who was wildly unleashing fire and fear.

More than a dozen male and female officers stood around, their heads bowed, and their expressions stiffened as Sun Zhan spoke. They had been in this position for more than half an hour, but the minister's anger seemed to be far from being released on the net, and it was intensifying.

Communication with the 505 Army was completely severed. This does not bode well.

As the applicant for Su Hao's personnel appointment and dismissal order, Sun Zhan kept a close eye on the whole matter from the moment the military department issued the order. He would not allow the slightest mistake in this matter, and sent his most elite high-level reinforcement team to be responsible for the execution, which was also completely out of security considerations. For the order of the military department, Su Hao actually only had two choices: either accept it or reject it.

Sun Zhan actually hoped that Su Hao would make the second choice. That would be enough excuse to get rid of it and settle the problem once and for all.

Things clearly didn't go their way to what they had hoped. Sun Zhan has not received any information from the 505th Group Army. This made him very uneasy, and he suddenly had extremely bad thoughts. The complex and tangled thinking makes the head hurt more and more, as if it may explode at any time.

Sun Zhan once deduced the various situations that may arise after the personnel appointment and dismissal order is issued.

Signal outages are one of the worst, and they mean that the situation is being lost, or completely out of control.

However, judging by the information that has been obtained, the probability of this happening is very low and almost non-negligible

Isn't it?

The entire 505 Group Army has lost power, and Su Hao has completely lost control of the ten newly formed divisions from the day the number was issued. All the division commanders, deputy division commanders, chiefs of staff, and even the commanders of the regiments, none of them were his people. A large number of his own cronies became the new masters of the army. The order issued by Su Hao at the headquarters has been suspended at the division level. Except for the commander's office and less than 2,000 remnants of the Eleventh Independent Army who were still loyal to him, Su Hao couldn't move even if it was a dog.

What would you find in this situation?

Why will communication be cut off?

Sun Zhan's mind was full of bad premonitions. He didn't know what was wrong with the Dao, and he didn't know how the Dao could change the current situation.

He tried to communicate remotely with all the new divisions, sending airwaves through the agreed encrypted channels, but received no response.

Divisional, regimental, and combat brigade ...... Including the seven high-ranking reinforcement officers sent by themselves, all telecommunications were lost. All I got was a dull blind sound in the microphone.

Roaring and yelling will not solve the problem after all. The long night of waiting made the doubts and concerns in Sun Zhan's mind completely turn into shock. Looking at these helpless clerks in front of him, Sun Zhan only felt that his anger had nowhere to vent, so he could only slap the table and roar: "What are you all stunned here?" Immediately contact the Air Force Command and the Special Aviation Department, and ask them to send planes to conduct a comprehensive reconnaissance of the Xingui area, and then allocate a few satellites to observe the area. ”

These words are not uttered out of arrogance.

Although the Ministry of Administration is not qualified to deploy aircraft, it controls the allocation of supplies to other departments. Don't say it's planes and satellites, even if it's too much, the other party will definitely agree.

Just when the administrative department was in a panic and the personnel were running around, the communicator on Sun Zhan's wrist suddenly popped up in the video screen frame, and a sweet-looking female officer appeared.

"What's the matter? Say hurry. I'm busy right now. ”

Sun Zhan controlled his anger slightly, and although his tone was tough, he maintained the necessary rhythm. He knew this female officer, who was Zhao Zhikai's person, the deputy director of the Beijing No. 1 communications department.

"General Sun, the Military Department Committee will hold an emergency meeting in twenty minutes, please attend on time."

Sun Zhan was a little puzzled: "What is the content of the meeting?" Is there any unexpected event?

"I don't know."

The female officer still maintained a polite smile: "As for the specific content, you will know the truth after you go."

When Sun Zhan walked into the conference room of the military headquarters, the main screen had already risen, and aerial footage taken from a high altitude was being played.

The moderator of the meeting is still Zhao Zhikai. He nodded to Sun Zhan, who had just walked into the room, motioned for him to sit down, and then pointed to the office computer on the desktop, his tone was serious, with an extremely rare cold and hard component.

"This is the image taken by the Air Force during a routine patrol in the New Guiyang area this morning."

The picture on the screen is blurry, and you can only judge the surrounding landscape and buildings. Due to the light, the image has a dark tone, making it difficult to discern the details.

"The routine cruise mission is carried out by the P AWACS aircraft. They discovered this when they were detailing the aerial footage. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Zhikai clicked on the induction frame, and the aerial photos suddenly became clear, and the blurred articulation at the edges was smoother. As the image magnification was further increased, something resembling a cross appeared on the top of several high-rise buildings located in the new Guiyang Base City.

"P reviewed the aerial photographs taken at the same time yesterday and confirmed that these settings should have appeared last night or early this morning. For verification, AWACS made contact with the 505 Army, but did not receive a response. The on-board system judged that the area was in a signal blocking state. Due to the uncertainty of the situation, the P crew analyzed the captured footage and lowered the altitude to observe the suspicious object from multiple angles. Now, look, this is the information they sent back. ”

With the movement of Zhao Zhikai's hand, the screen quickly switched to several clearer photos.

The photographs were taken from different angles and obliquely from above. The content is several men who are naked and tied to a "ten" shaped steel frame. Their expressions were painful, their bodies were covered with blood, some were dying, some were still angry, as if they were swearing something.

The moment he saw the image, the muscles on Sun Zhan's face immediately began to twitch, his face was unconsciously distorted, and his eyes radiated a frenzied light.

Sun Zhan knew all these bound people.

They were their own cronies who were sent to the 505th Army as a new divisional regiment. Just yesterday morning, they sent a routine communication, claiming that all affairs of the troops were business as usual and that nothing unusual had occurred.

"The information department has searched and compared the photos."

Zhao Zhikai's voice was slightly slower than Sun Zhan's thinking. He pointed to the tortured people in the photo and said: "The results of the comparison show that the personnel information of these people in the information inventory of the military department matches. Among them, four had a 98 percent facial feature matching rate, and several others also had more than 90 percent. That is, it can be basically determined that they are active military personnel. ”

A major general with glasses lit a cigarette, leaned over, and asked nonchalantly, "What if the match rate is 100 percent?" The use of lynching is widespread. Don't say it's us, it's also common for wealthy consortia and civilian groups. I really don't understand that it takes so much thought to spend so much effort for just a few strangers. Are those guys in the Air Force full of food and nothing? Even such trivial things have to make a big fuss. ”

Major General and Zhao Zhikai belong to two different factions. As an opponent of political views, he will always look for possible opportunities for repression on all occasions.

Zhao Zhikai glanced at the major general, and his eyes became cold: "These torturers are not ordinary people. They are active duty officers. ”

The major general didn't mean to let it go at all, chuckled lightly, and shook his head: "There are also many disobedient guys in the officers. This kind of thing is very common. ”

Zhao Zhikai replied lightly: "According to the comparative data of the military department's information database, the lowest military rank of these people is colonel. Three of them were brigadier generals. ”

There was silence in the conference room, and only Sun Zhan, whose eyes were wide with anger, let out a heavy gasp.

The major general's face was a little ugly. He stuffed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray, licked his lips, laughed a few times, and said, "Hehe, I think it's unlikely." Didn't you just say that? The highest facial match rate of these people is only 98 percent, which means that they are not really identified. ”

No one echoed the statement of the major general. It was clear to all the attendees that Zhao Zhikai never made mistakes in such details. Especially in the comparison of identities, there is almost no difference between ninety-eight and one hundred. Since the chairman of the military department urgently convened a meeting on such a matter, it means that there is evidence that no one can justify with absolute certainty

"The new Guiyang base is the administrative area of the 505 Group Army. As I checked, there was no routine communication from them this morning, and the contact signal was completely cut off. I have ordered the P crew to keep a watchful eye on the area, and the Xi'an base has also urgently dispatched two landing teams to the area where the incident occurred. If all goes well, the cause of the problem should be identified and communication restored soon. ”

Zhao Zhikai looked around, and his calm expression did not change in the slightest: "What I want to say is———— if it is finally determined that the identity of the prisoner on the photo matches the archived information and it is confirmed that it is him, what should we do?" ”

Many of the participants either looked at each other or fell into deep thought alone, and no one answered, and the room fell into complete silence.

Although I don't know what happened to the new Guiyang base in Ludao? But it is clear that the situation there is probably out of control. Otherwise, there would not have been such a thing as a suspected officer being tied up and tortured.

If the victim is of a lower rank, in the rank of lieutenant or colonel, the matter is much simpler, and it may be the punishment imposed on them by a senior officer.

Now, the torturers are actually several generals.

The problem becomes more complicated.

Who is so bold?

Also, the brigadier general's own enhancement ability is at least as high as the third order. Civilians could not deal with them, and even a large-scale riot would not have such a sensational effect.

In other words, the only people who can tie up the generals and torture them for public display are the generals, or the extremely large group of fortified people. That is...... Army.

No one spoke. Attendees either bowed their heads in contemplation or whispered to those sitting next to them. After strengthening, the auditory organs and the ability to react to the mind become extremely sharp. With lips and ears within two centimeters of each other, the talker can understand each other's intentions without making a sound, and only need to change the shape and temperature of the lips without anyone else being able to detect it.

Sun Zhan sat expressionlessly, not saying a word.

His mind burned with rage. Sun Zhan really wanted to do something to vent this overly strong emotion.

If it was in his own office, Sun Zhan would definitely call the secretary guarding the door in at this moment, and use various methods to wreak havoc, killing one and calling another. These women are consumables anyway. They don't belong to the combat formation, and they don't have a lot of media to make noise about a woman who has been tortured and killed, as is the case in peacetime.

Now, in the conference room of the military department, Sun Zhan can't do anything. He could only try his best to suppress this crazy consciousness, not to let it break free from his mind, but to control the ideology of his mind. Doing so made Sun Zhan feel very painful and extremely difficult. But he understands that the accident that happened at the new Guiyang base also has more people who have doubts about it.

Sun Zhan didn't know what had happened in New Guiyang in the past twenty-four hours?

He could only vaguely guess that Su Hao was likely to have occupied the commanding heights in this power struggle. This was originally Su Hao's personal wish, no one would be willing to accept the suppressed situation, and would always try their best to fight back. That's a daring man. From Kong Xiao, who was originally sent to serve as the chief of staff of the 11th Independent Army, to Sun Zhan's nephew, and then to those henchmen...... They all died at the hands of Su Hao one by one. Whenever he thought of this, Sun Zhan would always use cold, bitter hatred from every corner of his body. This hatred is boundless, far beyond what a normal mind can bind and control. Even when he slept at night, Sun Zhan felt that it was difficult to close his eyes. He always dreamed of blood-soaked dead people roaring and screaming in front of him, crying and begging him to help them avenge them.

Repeated encounters, repeated defeats. It is said that failure is a success, but Sun Zhan has no experience from the past, and he has the idea of retreating. He only knew that the blood feud between himself and Su Hao was getting deeper and deeper, and there was no possibility of resolving it at all. That brutal and ferocious young man always had a variety of ways to fight it. To put it bluntly, it's as simple as killing people and killing people. The hateful thing is that I can't always come up with enough evidence.

Sun Zhan knew very well that Yuan Zhicheng would not agree to set up the 505th Group Army in New Guiyang for no reason. Although he didn't show any interest in the ten new divisions, he definitely had the idea of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, watching the contradictions between himself and Su Hao, and waiting until both sides were exhausted before coming out to reap the benefits.

Even if he saw through the conspiracy, Sun Zhan couldn't do it. He understood that those new formations were an irresistible bait. I can only swallow it with my mouth open. If they don't eat, these troops will inevitably be controlled by Su Hao, and Yuan Zhicheng's counterattack will naturally be even stronger at that time. If you just stand by and watch, it will only be more torture for yourself. Even if he has to face the giant beast Yuan Zhicheng in the end, he can still pick up a little leftovers from between his teeth. Either way, it's better than being swallowed in one bite and leaving nothing behind.

In order to achieve his goal, Sun Zhan almost sent a huge amount of materials and equipment in the direction of New Guiyang with an extremely crazy attitude. For this reason, the material replenishment of other troops on the eastern front was even delayed. However, Sun Zhan, who had made up his mind, couldn't take care of so much. He urgently needed to take control of those new divisions in the shortest possible time. With sufficient material support and absolutely trustworthy military commanders, the troops can be rapidly expanded within a controllable range. At that time, even if Yuan Zhicheng really wanted to swallow these ten divisions, Sun Zhan could hand them over on the basis of ensuring the specified number of soldiers in each division. And by themselves, they can also get a direct subordinate force that has formed a scale and has combat effectiveness.

According to military regulations, the basic establishment of an operational division is three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, plus communications, engineering, and reconnaissance brigades or battalions, and the total number of troops in the division is about 20,000.

At the time of the routine communication with the 8L last week, according to the report of the division's chief of staff Hou Jingzhen, the 8L Division currently has five infantry regiments and two artillery regiments, and the number of expansion is still increasing. On this basis, it can be broken down into two combat divisions at any time. One is the 8L existing on the military department's establishment table, and the other is the "Reserve 8L Pei" who only obeys Sun Zhan's personal orders.

Sun Zhan knew Yuan Zhicheng very well, as long as he assigned the group of editors to that old guy, the other party would also turn a blind eye to the tricks he was playing with. After all, everyone can benefit from it, so why fight to the death? Bleeding from the head?

But what happened to the new Guiyang base? The torturers who appeared in the aerial footage were obviously my people, so why did they do this? What the hell happened to those troops, those huge quantities of supplies