Chapter 138: The Undercurrent of the Empire
The next morning, as soon as the sky was hazy, the entire ground camp of the Imperial Army was already boiling. Groups of marines followed the chariots and mechs rumbled out of the camp, and one after another the warplanes roared into the air, rushing in droves towards the mountains where a deep low roar was faintly heard.
The morale of the officers and men of the Reich was unprecedentedly high. Because, they learned from their own commanders that today was the first and largest general attack of the Imperial Army against this alien insect Shili. All the combat units of the Imperial Army were dispatched. As long as they can successfully and completely eliminate the alien insects in the mountains, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army will be able to return triumphantly.
Of course, tens of thousands of young officers and soldiers don't care about the so-called glory of gods and horses. What they care about most is that they can finally return home alive and reunite with their relatives.
In the Sharon Empire, Hardy practiced compulsory military service. All Imperial citizens, who are of the age of majority and meet the requirements, must voluntarily report to the Imperial Army's enlistment department within the prescribed time and fulfill their military service for at least three years. It can be said that more than half of the officers and soldiers of the empire did not voluntarily put on their uniforms and set foot on the battlefield. However, it was precisely by taking advantage of this compulsory military service, which violated the spirit of humanitarianism, that the Imperial Army was formed.
However, if Imperial citizens who joined the army could be compensated accordingly, or if they could be rewarded according to their military merits after stepping on the battlefield, then perhaps there would not be an invisible undercurrent of anger within the Imperial army.
After Hardy established the Sharon Empire, he completely changed the status quo of the Sharon Empire almost completely according to the old feudal imperial model. Within the Empire, those at the top of the Empire, who possessed great power and wealth, had become a new generation of aristocrats. They control the economic lifeblood of the entire empire, and account for nearly 90% of the empire's wealth. Although in the eyes of outsiders, the Sharon Empire is so rich, in fact, under the invisible darkness, there are thousands of poor people in the empire, who are struggling to make ends meet.
Even in the bustling imperial capital of Pilon, there is a staggering number of slums on the edge of the city. These slums are strictly open to foreign tourists. All foreign tourists who come to Pilong can only see a hypocritical and prosperous imperial capital, but they cannot see a real country that has just experienced a colonial civil war.
In order to satisfy their endless desires, the high-ranking nobles of the Hardy and Sharon empires have almost squeezed out the blood and sweat of hundreds of millions of imperial people. Taking that Führer as an example, the Imperial Ministry of the Interior spent a total of 35 trillion federal coins to build this Führer capital, which was similar to the ancient imperial palace. This astronomical figure is almost equal to half a year's financial revenue of the empire.
And those imperial nobles who followed closely behind Hadi's ass naturally wouldn't be far behind. Each of their families has mansions piled up in astronomical numbers. Compared with the ancient feudal aristocracy, the enjoyment of dogs and horses is even more inferior.
This alone may not be able to completely form an undercurrent that may erupt at any time among the officers and soldiers at the bottom of the Imperial Army. The most chilling thing for hundreds of millions of people in the empire is that Hadi also designated an almost incredible civic hierarchy with those high-ranking nobles who held the lifeblood of the empire.
Under this system, Hadi divided the hundreds of millions of citizens of the Sharon Empire into three, six, nine and other classes, and the upper class was naturally a nobleman with various titles. In the middle layer are a small number of middle-class people with no real power, who are few in number, and the vast majority are businessmen who have made their fortunes by their own hard work. At the bottom are the hundreds of millions of imperial citizens who are divided into four categories: good citizens, commoners, poor people, and untouchables.
In the Imperial Army, almost all the officers and soldiers at the bottom were from the lowest level of fourth-class citizens. According to the military system of the Imperial Army, these officers and soldiers from the bottom could not become officers. Even if they achieve great military merit on the battlefield, at best, the highest military rank they can obtain is only a senior non-commissioned officer. Moreover, once they were disabled and discharged from the army, they did not receive any subsidies from the empire at all, and could only rely on a pitiful pension and their own hands to survive.
Compared with them, those officers and soldiers from the aristocratic class, as soon as they entered the army, the lowest rank was second lieutenant. Some people from noble families will even be sent directly to the command headquarters at all levels to become idle and comfortable senior staff officers. And as long as a certain army achieves even a little merit on the battlefield, all the noble officers and soldiers in this army, without exception, will receive additional rewards and promotions for it.
It can be said that within the Imperial Army, it is precisely because of this extremely unequal and unwritten military system that has caused resentment that has been hidden among the officers and soldiers at the bottom of the Imperial Army for many years. It is precisely this resentment, unnoticed by the high-ranking generals of the Imperial Army, that has quietly converged into an undercurrent that may erupt at any time.
Once these undercurrents erupted, it would be an almost mortal threat to the seemingly incomparably powerful Imperial Army. It may even directly crush the entire Imperial Army in an instant. And now the Imperial Army, which is like a huge powder keg, only needs someone to quietly light a fuse next to it, and a shocking reversal will occur.
This fuse may be the chip in Haoyi's hand.
Before setting off from the imperial capital Pilong, Hao Yi didn't know if it was a whim or something wrong, so he asked Chen Er to urgently use the intelligence system to collect evidence of the corrupt and corrupt life of some high-level nobles in the empire, and even the extremely luxurious life of Hadi, the head of the empire, was collected bit by bit by this chip, and made into a video that can be said to arouse the resentment of the people in the empire in an instant.
Originally, Hao Yi was ready to use this video material as his most powerful weapon against the Sharon Empire in the future. And now, maybe it can help Haoyi successfully achieve his goal of making the entire imperial army mutiny.
"Old man, you rested well yesterday!" Inside the flagship of the Imperial Space Fleet, Mi Kai said with a smile to Tong Zhong, who walked quickly into the command center.
"Hmph, what else? His mother hasn't had a nightmare in years, and the devil knows what happened last night, and he actually had a nightmare that scared me out of a cold sweat! Tong Zhong walked to the command platform with his old face and glanced at the holographic combat map in front of him.
"Oh? What kind of nightmare can scare our old general Tong out of a cold sweat? Mikay was suddenly a little curious, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Did the old guy dream that his wife was cheating?" ”
"you dead Mickey Mouse, be careful that Lao Tzu shoots you, and then report to the Führer that you have been honorably martyred!" Tong Zhong was so angry that he glared at the old man, and he was about to pull out the gun on his waist, so frightened that Mikay waved his hand again and again to beg for mercy.
"Don't don't, hehe, just kidding, old man, why bother with it! However, I'm really a little curious, we are all old soldiers who have crawled in and out of the pile of corpses for an unknown number of times, what kind of nightmare can scare you out of a cold sweat? Tell me, old man! ”
"Hey, God knows how! I actually dreamed that thousands of officers and soldiers under my command turned their guns to my head one by one, and everyone had indescribable anger on their faces! In them, I seem to see a wave of anger that can change the color of the sky! Tong Zhong sighed lightly and whispered: "At that moment, my old boy suddenly found that he was so helpless, and there was not a single officer and soldier under his command who could be intimate with me." At that moment, I was really scared! Dying at the hands of thousands of his subordinates is undoubtedly a miserable end for an old military leader who has crossed the battlefield! ”
"I see!" After listening, a casual look of disdain suddenly flashed across Mi Kai's face, and then he hurriedly comforted Tong Zhong and said, "Okay, don't think nonsense, old man!" In my opinion, this damn battle must be over soon, and you have Fan Song in your heart, that's why you have such a bizarre nightmare! As the saying goes, dreams are the opposite of reality! Perhaps, this means how much you are loved by your subordinates as an old military leader! Hey, do you think I'm right? ”
"Well, maybe!" Tong Zhong was stunned for a moment, and he had no choice but to respond.
"Report, General, the commander of the 14th Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division of the 1st Army Group said that there is an emergency to report to you!" At this time, the adjutant's loud report suddenly came from behind Tong Zhong and the two.