Andy had changed into the NcR soldier outfit and blended in with the group, and Mayor Dodge asked if he would also be involved in the arrest of McClofdie, and of course he agreed, and in the presence of Major Fleming and Mayor Dodge, Andy completed a brief investiture ceremony, and from today onwards he was one more member of the NcR unit at Hoover Dam.

Looking at himself in a military uniform in the mirror, Andy has a feeling of being in a different world.... His mind flew away involuntarily.

According to Mayor Dodge, the first batch of NcR eastward troops he led only had two infantry battalions and an engineering company, adding up to about 1,000 people, and at first they were all stationed near the top of the Hoover Dam City and some ancillary facilities in the central area, such as around the Hoover Bridge and the railway station, which made the NcR Eastern Special Region begin to replenish its forces.

To the surprise of Mayor Dodge, the commander of the two infantry battalions was actually General Kohezinji, and it is said that he took the initiative to invite Ying to come to the Eastern Special Administrative Region to participate in the military dispatch and command, which also made him wonder in his heart whether there was the president's intention behind this unusual dispatch, and it was probably because she was under too much pressure because of domestic problems and was eager to seek the results of the eastward movement to alleviate it.

According to the plan of the mayor of Dodge, in view of the serious law and order problem in the eastern special region, all kinds of bandits, natives, slave traders, mob groups are rampant, coupled with a wide variety of mutated creatures that often have a strong desire to attack, in order to establish order in this land, it is necessary to put the maintenance of force in the first place, so after the construction plan was approved by the president, the famous military stronghold of Fort Alashid was first built.

With the help of the wreckage of the SA Great Southwest Federal Railway System left over from before the war and a large number of railway workers recruited from the western NcR country, the two northeast, southwest and northwest-southeast railways that intersect at Arashedburg will soon be put into operation, with trains and railways, NcR soldiers can be quickly put into remote settlements and control a larger area. In order for the NcR to maintain order and obtain resources in various places.

At that time, the footsteps of the NcR soldiers had already traveled everywhere, the northwest arrived in Burnham Springs to supervise the miners to mine the coal, the northeast supervised the salvage workers in the dog city of Denver to collect scrap and garbage in the ruins of the city, and the city of Hoover Dam and Fort Arrashed in the southwest relied on each other as a defensive barrier and rear support, if it were not for the fact that the deployment of troops in the eastern region had reached its limit at that time and the mainland did not send more soldiers over, the original Dodge mayor also planned to establish a military facility in the southeast as an advance post, If all this is carried out stably, then the layout of the NcR Eastern Special Zone will be almost seamless, and it will not be long before the Eastern Special Zone can get rid of the support of the local government and operate on its own, and even begin to feed back to the local area.

It's a pity that the plan didn't change quickly.

This was followed by Andy's chronological order of a series of events that were compiled based on the information obtained by various parties.

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In 2231, the Brotherhood of Steel flourished under the leadership of Supreme Elder Jeremy Maxson, and he decided to set his sights further east, so he assembled an expedition led by five paladins to the east in search of the vault recorded in the database of ancient records, which would be the base of the eastern reconnaissance operation.

A few years later, the expedition reached the bunker, and only five paladins survived, all of whom were promoted to elders.

Around 2240, at the behest of President Tanti, the Rangers began operations in the Mojave Desert, and Councilor Dodge was forced to accept his appointment to lead his troops to the east on a mission of "unity". After a smooth takeover of the city of Hoover Dam and the expulsion of nearby marauders, the famous military stronghold of Fort Alashid was built, the easternmost symbol of military power of the NcR, which President Tandi named after his father: the founding president of the NcR.

This action spurred the Brotherhood of Steel, and Jeremy Maxson eventually renamed the Eastern Bunker to Fort Maxson to complete the benchmarking, which was the surname of Brotherhood of Steel founder Roger Maxson and was significant to the Brotherhood of Steel.

In 2242, the honeymoon period of diplomatic relations between the Brotherhood of Steel and the NcR due to the aftermath of the Battle of Navarro's cooperative attack on the enclave came to an end, and a new round of war soon broke out with the victory of the war and the subsequent distribution of loot, as well as some untrue accusations made by the Brotherhood of Steel against the NcR military for obtaining dangerous pre-war technological items and conducting dangerous experiments at Hoover Dam.

A Brotherhood of Steel force suddenly appeared in the Eastern District to launch an attack on the NcR, which was actually a Brotherhood of Steel soldiers sent by Fort Maxson after completing the area reconnaissance and receiving support from the Lost Mountain headquarters many years ago, they changed their previous covert operations and began to intercept the caravans flowing between the settlement networks of the Eastern District of the NcR with great fanfare, checking and searching for all pre-war technical items, and confiscating them immediately if found, but anyone who resisted would basically be burned to ashes by lasers. NcR also tried to send troops to protect the caravan, but unfortunately the plate was too big to send a large number of troops to escort around, and the Iron Brotherhood had a very high quality of individual soldiers, and there was a huge gap between the equipment generation of NcR soldiers, once encountered, even if they had the advantage of troops, the NcR army still suffered heavy casualties, and in the long run, NcR gradually began to be tired of coping.

In 2245, due to the steel plague and unrest in some remote areas of the country, President Tandi ordered the transfer of some of his native troops from the Eastern Special Administrative Region, and about two infantry battalions back to the front and back, which meant that the military strength of the Eastern Special Administrative Region returned to its original level overnight.

Despite this, Mayor Dodge did not intend to abandon the construction of the Eastern Special Zone, believing that once the railway network was completed, the prosperity of trade and the stability of the law and order environment in the settlements would be achieved, and then he recruited a number of railway engineering teams from the NcR to work in the eastern part of the country for a period of three years, during which the engineering team had to overcome difficulties to complete the required construction tasks in the chaotic eastern special zone.

In order to speed up the construction of coal mining and stabilize the eastern settlement network, the Fifth Engineer Company was sent to the Burnham Springs area, but due to a series of coincidences, the deputy mayor and a number of government dignitaries were killed by rioters' bomb attacks, and then the revenge action detonated the Eagle Rock Mine to create the Eagle Rock Incident, and the Fifth Engineer Corps was revoked, which caused a huge blow to the morale of the entire NcR army, and caused the NcR to lose an important stronghold in the northeast and a unique coal mine. It has greatly delayed the progress of the construction of the settlement network infrastructure.

In 2248, due to the inability to make ends meet, all the project funds of the various railway engineering teams were suspended, the gold reserves disappeared after the 370 robbery, the Eastern SAR government went bankrupt and lost its ability to control the financial system, the NcR currency was severely inflationed, the purchasing power plummeted, the bottle cap was resurrected as a traditional general equivalent, the mayor of Dodge began to rely on caravan companies for support, and the Eastern Settlement Network construction plan was suspended. In an attempt to recover the gold, another escape occurred at Black Canyon Prison, where fugitives who were not pursued back merged with the 215 Railroad Engineer Team and wreaked havoc in the northeastern region where the NcR forces had receded, becoming the notorious 215 Gang.

It was also in this year that the NcR government announced that President Tandi had died of illness at the age of 103, controlling almost the entire West Coast of SA: the Republic of New California, which had been the president of the Republic of New California for more than 50 years since its founding, and she was undoubtedly the most influential person in the world after the war. But there are also voices that say that in fact, the cause of death was a mysterious assassination.

Vice President Joanna Tibet took over as President of the NcR, and it was also the same year that she announced the official Eastward Expansion of the NcR in order to alleviate the internal conflicts that erupted after President Tandy's death, and a large number of NcR civilians were encouraged to go east to start a "new life", and this wave of immigrants soon brought more immigrants than the maximum number of troops that could be preserved in the hands of Mayor Dodge.

In 2249, the NcR Eastern District was close to collapse, in the case of insufficient troops and lack of funds, the uncontrolled plague of tribes and natives, gang thugs, steel fraternities, and beasts posed a long-term threat to the civilians, and a large number of NcR immigrants dissatisfied with the environment of the Eastern District were stranded in Hoover Dam City, unwilling to go to the chaotic East and unwilling to return to the war-torn West, and the poor began to flow into the central area of the Hoover Dam, resulting in a deterioration of internal security. Immigrant settlements in the eastern network, such as Phoenix, began to lose their protection, leaving them exposed to dangerous wasteland, and Mayor Dodge had no choice but to warn them to move to the safety of Hoover Dam.

What Andy and Mayor Dodge didn't know was that in the same year, the clumsy Mayor of Dodge ignored a group of reporters who came to the Eastern District to take photos, and they heard about the raid on Bull Head City on the way, and after arriving there, they took a series of tragic scenes that were widely circulated, and after a period of time, the news was transmitted back to the NcR country, and after fermentation, the whole country was in an uproar, and President Tibbet was under huge public pressure as a result, that is, the Bull Head City tragedy.

The Dodge mayor did not know about the follow-up of this incident, because there were too many casualties, the 38 residents who did not heed the Dodge mayor's warning to leave the settlement and move to the Hoover Dam did not even care about what happened to the Dodge mayor, he only knew that Bullhead City later got out of control and became a stronghold of bandits.

In 2250, when the Eastern District was abruptly cut off from the mainland, all support was lost, and a dark cloud hung over the heads of all NcR soldiers and civilians, and the social atmosphere in Hoover Dam City became depressed, cold, and hopeless, and some people began to wonder if Hoover Dam was the last NcR.

In the same year, during the protracted battle with the Eastern NcR, the loss report of Fort Maxson had reached a point where Elder Blixley had been shocked, and the Lost Hill headquarters had also severed contact with Fort Maxson, which caused Elder Blixley to re-examine the need for the war to continue, but the voices of the two Elders of the main battle faction, Nils and Cosetti, and other members of the Ring of Steel, forced her to start preparing for a formal war against the NcR while the NcR was in unprecedented chaos and weakness.

After perceiving the weakness of the NcR and confirming that the Hoover Dam is actually the administrative center of the eastern part of the NcR, the Brotherhood of Steel launched a frontal assault on the city of the Hoover Dam from time to time in the following years, and the gate and the surrounding outposts were destroyed many times by the heavy weapons and explosives of the Brotherhood of Steel.

In 2252, a quarrel broke out between the Fort Maxson scribes and the knights, and the long-term high-pressure work and the rude attitude of the knights made it difficult to reconcile the contradictions between them, which eventually led to the exodus of the Fort Maxson scribes overnight, a large number of low-durability equipment was abandoned in the workshop and no one to maintain, and the main armory was locked and could not be opened, so the entire Fort Maxson army was almost shut down.

In the same year, a team claiming to belong to Caesar's Legion launched a surprise attack, and it took almost no effort to destroy Fort Ashd, which had been short of troops, aging equipment, lack of maintenance, and demoralized, and the NcR soldiers stationed there fled towards Hoover Dam City, Fort Arashed became an abandoned fortress, and Caesar's Legion pursued to the east of Hoover Dam City to do some damage, but it did not take long for an inexplicable retreat, and it has not been seen since.

In order to prevent another attack by Caesar's legions, and also to cover up the damage caused by the mining and trade of building materials in the eastern part of the Hoover Dam, the Dodge mayor ordered the eastern entrance and exit of the Hoover Dam to be blocked, and sent soldiers to guard it strictly, so that the only road between the east and west banks was the crumbling Hoover Bridge.

After the news reached Dog City, the soldiers stationed in Dog City were afraid of being left alone in the far northeast and the twinkling eyes of the prisoners, and they scattered, some died on the way back to Hoover Dam, some became marauders, and the salvage loses their guards and becomes a group of people abandoned by the NcR.

General Kohezinji, who had been mysterious, disappeared from the world after the fall of Fort Arashed, and his command was reduced to Major Fleming, and Mayor Dodge agreed with him to advance and retreat together from now on, and take back military power. He then ordered all of the scattered NcR soldiers to withdraw to Hoover Dam City, which meant that Mayor Dodge would relinquish control of all settlements throughout the Eastern Settlement Network and instead seek to shrink all remaining forces to islandize defenses within Hoover Dam City, a change that Fort McSon had anticipated, and that it would no longer be possible to drive the NcR out of Hoover Dam anytime soon.

This news also prompted Elder Blixley to make up her mind, and she asked Fort Maxson to stop all attacks on the NcR, but this order angered the Ring of Steel, and they sent Quartermaster Devin to poison Elder Blixley and wanted to support Elder Jerry Cosetti to become the new Fort Maxson commander, but this plan was not successful, and they had to flee Fort Maxson with the equipment they could take with them.

At the end of 2252, the Hoover Dam ammunition reserves were depleted, and thanks to the help of the Crimson Caravan, a batch of weapons and ammunition arrived at the Hoover Dam, and from then on, the Dodge Mayor had to give the Crimson Caravan the green light in all matters, and even helped them suppress the rival Three Brothers Caravan, both openly and covertly. It was also from this year that the Crimson Caravan secretly established contact with the Ring of Steel, and while obtaining the privilege of protecting its caravan from attack, it also used the power of the Ring of Steel to deal a heavy blow to the three brothers' caravan, making them nearly bankrupt.

Now, in 2253, the Brotherhood of Steel has not launched a frontal attack for more than a year, and the NcR, who have regained some strength after recuperation, have re-sent their troops, and they find that Fort Ashd, which has been renamed the abandoned fortress, is now a settlement controlled by a gang calling itself the Gallows Gang, and has completed the initial reconstruction, and the two sides are currently in a state of cooperation under the mediation of the mayor of Dodge and his leader.

With Andy's help, the NcR of the Hoover Dam regained contact with the dog city of Denver and the Great Dome, was supported by building materials, technological items, and suppressed the epidemic with the tonic ointment of the Great Dome before the new plague broke out in the densely populated city of Hoover Dam, waiting for Andy to send the Fruit of Hope; and established trade with New Canaan, the Blackfoot tribe, and the southeastern settlement whose name Andy did not know for the time being, and who had cooperated with the Crimson Caravan to trade military equipment, and obtained important water, food, and ammunition; A formal peace with Fort Maxson's Iron Brotherhood is now on the verge of ending the long-standing troubles.

Next, regarding the ledger found in the Ring of Steel spy quartermaster Devon's indoor safe in Fort Maxson, Mayor Dodge says that he has a long account to settle with the Crimson Caravan.

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The soldiers of the Hoover Dam were urgently assembled, and no one told them what important tasks they had today, but the serious expressions of the officers and non-commissioned officers made them understand that things would definitely not be small.

"Assemble! Gather! ”

The grumpy NcR officer wore a green beret and it was Major Fleming standing on the top of the dam and barking at the procrastinating soldiers.

"Listen up! We have obtained conclusive evidence that McClavdie, the manager of the Hoover Dam branch of the Crimson Caravan, colluded with the hostile organization Brotherhood of Steel, and there are clues that she had plotted to plant a bomb at the military headquarters in an attempt to assassinate the Dodge Mayor and other staff, and according to the Dodge Mayor's orders, Alice McClofty was immediately arrested on several charges of treason, murder, assassination of dignitaries, and endangering public safety! This order is to be carried out immediately, but those who obstruct it are allowed to open fire as the case may be! ”

"Do you understand?"

Major Fleming stretched out his finger and swept it over, and the soldiers saluted.

"Yes, sir!"