Chapter 107: Precursor to the Storm
Just ten minutes.
The outskirts of the mine have been suppressed.
Many unlucky ghosts tried to use the terrain to gather with their companions to reorganize the situation, but Liuge didn't give them a chance and captured all these people at the first time.
I have to say that the quicksand team picked the right time for the raid.
The cadres who originally stayed in the mine rushed back to Huangtie Town due to internal chaos, for fear that they would miss the major link of "splitting the corpse", and the highest combat power and commander under normal conditions were not there, and the vicious dog team members inside the mine could only rely on those large machinery to fight back.
And when the big machines are cracked one by one, the remaining resistance becomes extremely weak.
Only a handful of vicious dog members remained, like turtles in an urn, who were driven to the depths of the mine and even the depths of the mine, carrying out a meaningless and stubborn resistance.
"Did the interception team find the passage?"
"Found it! The big rock snake has been arranged to block it! ”
Feedback from the various teams was constantly coming from the channel, mixed with slight explosions and rumbles.
Kashiwagi could clearly feel the tremors coming from under the mine, and he understood that it was a sign that the secret passage of the mine was blocked by the Liuge faction. They either lead to a wilderness, or they are directly connected to the Dungeon of the Vicious Dogs or even the mines next door.
It is generally not enabled at non-essential times.
At this point, this mine is completely under the control of Liuge.
"The information team used the radio to stop all the people inside the mine and return to the surface as quickly as possible."
"Yes!"
The unmistakable command was transmitted, and in less than ten minutes, a large number of miners and many humanoid Pokémon were quickly drilled out of one pit after another, and the number of humans alone was as high as a thousand.
At first, Kashiwagi watched all this with great concentration, but soon frowned.
I saw that among the miners were not only young men who looked to be adults, but also some children under the age of ten who had obviously not yet had the labor force, and old men who were already old.
Although he had heard about the Vicious Dogs team, he was still shocked when he saw this scene with his own eyes.
Does cramming so many people in really improve the efficiency of production?
Or is it ...... Each of them has a task standard every day, and if they don't meet the standard, they don't have anything to eat or simply die outright?
Slaves are no more than that.
I thought that the environment of the quicksand team was bad enough, but I didn't expect the vicious dog team to be even better, which can be called the worst of the worst.
At least he had to be at least twelve years old when he went to the smelter, and he still had to be sure that he had a certain amount of labor to get there, even if the intense fourteen hours of work a day made him feel like he didn't live like a human being.
Now it seems that the quicksand team can be called good, and the beauty is really by comparison-
Well, rotten is rotten.
What is there to compare it to! It won't make life better!
He looked down at the miners below, his eyes narrowing.
The miners couldn't help but panic and nervous when they saw the quicksand team members and a group of vicious Pokémon surrounding them on all sides.
It's not once or twice that the Vicious Dog Team and the Quicksand Team have fought each other for turf, and each time they will die due to accidental injuries and many bitter people like them haha.
The future of life is in jeopardy, and the miners tremble in their hearts and subconsciously make a noise.
The voices of thousands of people soon caused the mine to become noisy.
"Give me all the quiet——!
”
The tall and thin cadre Sanghe used the loud volume of the radio to make the miners cover their ears and be forced to quiet, "Next, we will count your number and temporarily transfer you to other places, as long as you cooperate obediently, there will be no danger to your life!"
"Please don't do anything to resist! Think of your family! Think of your lives and your sound hands and feet! Cooperate and give up resistance, and we will keep you safe! If you miss a companion who has not yet come to the ground, report it as soon as possible! ”
Similar words are repeated over and over again.
Amid the hypnotic shouts, the miners were a lot quieter.
Kashiwagi, who was standing in the crowd, had a strange expression, and always felt that this operation was not the same as he imagined.
Well......
Is it because the action is unusually orderly, which does not conform to the impression that Kashiwagi has experienced before, that there are many wastes, scum and rice worms in the quicksand team?
Maybe it was too smooth, they didn't lose their troops on their side, only a few Pokémon besieging the large machine were injured, and a small number of members were accidentally slightly injured.
Sand groups are different?
Possibly.
But Kashiwagi feels that it is more likely to be the "problem" of Liuge.
The good big brother is fundamentally different from other cadres, saying that he is merciful and never shows mercy to the enemy, and saying that he is ruthless, he is not excessively exploitative to his younger brother or even the merchants and civilians in charge of the territory.
I didn't fool my subordinates all day long to talk about righteousness, PUA to them, or something, and they were very decent in their work.
It's not really like a Yakuza boss.
Of course, Kashiwagi also understood that the purpose of this operation was not to raid the mines, but to find a way to seize them, with a focus on the latter.
The Vicious Dogs' counterattack is bound to be terrifying.
While Kashiwagi was thinking, he was suddenly tapped on the shoulder by Flobo.
"After a while, when the peripheral members come to receive the miners of the machine in batches, the three large detachments will be split into many squads and escorted and retreated back to our mine, and the eldest brother will arrange for us to be the queen of the palace."
“…… Good! ”
"Don't be nervous, the last group to leave doesn't mean that we will encounter the most enemies, and besides, the vicious dog team may not attack our side first, and setting two goals will distract the enemy's energy to a certain extent. Not to mention the vicious dogs at this stage. ”
"I see."
He nodded, quickly adjusted to the squad channel and told Otsuka and the others about the arrangement.
Otsuka naturally understood the dangers and opportunities behind the palace, and for a while they couldn't help but breathe heavily, and they couldn't help but become nervous.
Competing for the mine is naturally not like playing a game, you don't have to do anything after you grab it directly, and the system will automatically put the mine under the command of the quicksand team.
In the plan given by Liuge, the most basic strategy is explained - cleaning tactics.
That is, to take away as much as possible all the large machinery that can work in the mine, take away all the miners and the ore accumulated here, and destroy what cannot be taken away, leaving only an empty shell for the vicious dog team.
Although the mine will not run, the loss of the large machinery for mining and the number of working people is also immeasurable.
The key is, can the Vicious Dogs in turmoil resume production at the mine in a short period of time?
If you want to recover, you have to throw money into it, you have to buy new machines, and you have to quickly replenish the working population.
If they can't recover, they may have to put in more money to cover the regular rationing requirements of the group behind the scenes, and they will have to assign personnel to guard the mines that have ceased operations.
Unrealistic.
This mine will become a big rib in the hands of the Vicious Dogs, and for the quicksand team that is eyeing it, it is a place to take it and take it.
And in order to meet the conditions for the transfer.
Liuge deliberately arranged for thousands of peripheral members to rush out of the town through the secret passage of the adjacent quicksand team mine, striving to transfer everything here in the shortest possible time.
Such a large movement of personnel would definitely not be able to fully satisfy Huang Tiezhen's many sights.
Exposure is inevitable.
It depends on who moves faster.
Not to mention that it's not just the sand group that is in action, although Liuge didn't mention it, Kashiwagi still understands the movements of the other two groups through Flopo-
The Stone Group is responsible for preventing the Vicious Dogs from jumping over the wall and directly attacking the territory in the town, while the Crystal Group is responsible for handing over an olive branch to one of the leaders of the Vicious Dogs, making them bias towards the Quicksand Team and promoting the split of the Vicious Dogs.
At that time, even if the Vicious Dogs really have the heart to reclaim the mine, they will probably be powerless in the face of endless troubles.
The biggest possibility is to negotiate with the quicksand team to sell the mine at a good "price".
Let's be honest.
Kashiwagi didn't think that the quicksand team would settle down after successfully eating the two large mines outside the town of the Vicious Dog Team.
People are greedy, and they will gain more inches.
Two mines have been taken, but what about the remaining three? What about the Dungeons of the Vicious Dogs? What about the Vicious Dogs' turf on the surface?
Out of interest, due to many factors, the quicksand team's actions this time will slowly develop to the point of trying to swallow the entire vicious dog team completely.
As long as the demand for minerals of the group behind the scenes is satisfied, the group of masters behind it will not say anything at all.
Taking the opportunity can also transfer the contradiction between the sand group and the crystal group to the outside world.
By the way, a larger population can also solve the problem of the shortage of talents in the quicksand team.
He suddenly found that the quicksand team was growing in a much larger direction, full of dangers and opportunities, like an old ship that had resolutely broken into a storm.
Is he waiting for the rain to pass after the storm and when the sky is clear, or will he quietly get a boat and leave when the storm is coming?
Either way, it's not 100% safe.
Kashiwagi is acutely aware of this.