Ancestors, please don't crawl out again.

Chapter 153 The Betrayed Heroes

Immediately after the CEO spoke with the Senate opposition leader, various performances began in the city.

"They protected us. They weren't bandits; they were real soldiers. They protected us from harm."

A female celebrity who was unable to escape broke down in tears in front of the live broadcast camera.

Although she had just been assaulted by a group of soldiers in her luxury apartment.

but……

She has forgiven them.

“I don’t know why they’re called rebels outside. All I know is that they were protecting the city from the beginning. They were protecting us unarmed civilians from thugs. But now the National Guard of Lone Star State and other states is killing innocent civilians. They’re shelling the city, bombing homes with heavy bombs, and the streets are full of innocent civilians killed by them.”

Since Your Excellency already knows that Colonel Norrington and his men are not insurgents, why did you allow the National Guard to attack them?
I am a supporter of the President, from the same party, but now I expect him to give me an answer.

"I can't believe it," a jewelry store owner said indignantly.

Although his jewelry store was looted by the soldiers at the very beginning.

But he still insisted on saying it.

After all, if the fight continues, not only will his shop be ruined, but his life will be in danger.

So what if he's a supporter of the internet celebrity president?

When a thousand-pound bomb falls, it won't distinguish whether he's a supporter or an opponent of the internet celebrity president.

They are most afraid now. After all, they can't escape, and hiding means being bombed. Besides, there's nowhere to hide. Even if the basement can protect them from bombing, being buried inside is still the same. And more importantly, there's the issue of food. They can't hide and not eat. This place is indeed a treasure trove, but food won't magically grow around them as the number of banknotes increases.

In the past, people would go to restaurants to eat, but now it's impossible for anyone to serve them red wine and steak.

Even in those luxury apartments, large quantities of food are not stored.

Everyone is eating the freshest organic food.

It might be thrown away the next day.

Now everyone has to endure hunger. Some people have already been killed by artillery shells because they were so hungry that they went out to find food. It has only been three days. If this continues, millions more people will be driven mad by hunger and have to go out to find food.

There's no escape route here. It's surrounded by water on three sides, and the main battlefield is to the north. The fighting on those bridges is comparable to that on Omaha Beach. This isn't the Eastern Ukraine battlefield; the Russians there have vegetable gardens and are in agricultural areas, so sneaking out to find some food isn't difficult. This is a pure city. Forget wild vegetables and game, there's not even enough grass to eat. With that little green space, there's not even enough grass to go around. You can't even dig through concrete to dig for earthworms. There are some rats, though, and some have already started preying on their pets because of hunger.

After all, the pets don't have any food either.

One of the world's most prosperous cities has been transformed into an abyss of despair.

After all, reinforced concrete is definitely not edible.

……

Countless desperate victims testified before the live stream cameras that Colonel Norrington's troops had been protecting civilians, and that the internet-famous president knew this and had indeed promoted him to acting division commander. Meanwhile, National Guard troops from across the country were indeed attacking them, and fierce fighting ensued in the city, with the whistling of shells and the explosions of heavy bombs playing in the background of their live streams.

The city is being reduced to ruins.

Unarmed corpses littered the streets...

Since weapons and ammunition were limited in the city, the weapons and ammunition of the armed personnel who were killed were naturally taken away immediately.

"Why is this happening? Why aren't they stopping the fire?"

Everyone was asking the President the same question.

At the same time, a large number of opposition lawmakers once again signed a petition to impeach the president. Although the petition was ignored in the ensuing infighting, the governor of White Bear State on the West Coast then publicly warned the president that if he could not stop the National Guard of Lone Star State and other states from killing civilians, then he was not qualified to continue serving as president.

In addition, given the President's dereliction of duty, White Bear State will suspend a range of collaborations with the federal government.

This includes suspending some of the orders previously issued by the president.

For example, tariffs, etc.

For example, certain export bans.

If you can't even get the Lone Star National Guard to stop firing, then you're obviously incompetent. And we certainly have the right to refuse to carry out the orders of an incompetent president.

Following suit, two other states on the West Coast followed suit, especially the Northwest state that shares the same name as their capital. The governor even claimed that he would send the National Guard to the battleground state to stop the massacre by the Lone Star National Guard. Several governors of deep blue states also threatened to send fighter jets to protect the innocent civilians, which, in short, meant shooting down Lone Star fighter jets that were bombing there.

Of course, they were just talking, because they knew very well that if their own National Guard were to go, they would probably have a hard time controlling their desires. The reason they couldn't go was largely because they were too far away.

They were not against burning, killing, and looting.

Instead, they opposed burning, killing, and looting without their participation.

But their statements are indeed rapidly clearing the name of Colonel Norrington and others.

A mob of soldiers who burned, killed, and looted?
Rebels?

None of them are right.

They are heroes who protect civilians!
They were trapped in the city by millions of rioters, protecting innocent civilians—a fact even acknowledged by the internet-famous president—yet they were falsely accused of being insurgents by states like Lone Star and are now forced to take up arms to protect themselves.

They are truly innocent!
Those innocent civilians have all said they are heroes protecting them, and even the popular president has acknowledged that they are protecting civilians. Why then are the National Guards of Lone Star and other states attacking them? Look at the buildings that have been bombed, the civilians killed—all done by the National Guards of Lone Star and other states. They are destroying the city and slaughtering innocent civilians. Why doesn't the popular president stop them? He knows the truth, he knows that Colonel Norrington and others were framed, why doesn't he stop this massacre?

Then foreign powers that have been watching the show for a long time can intervene.

The chameleon president has asked the influencer president to take measures to end the fighting to ensure the safety of diplomats.

Especially the United Nations.

Although that wasn't a major battle zone...

That's not a commercial area, so who would rob a bunch of poor employees? There were indeed quite a few armed men in that area before, but there's not much value around the UN headquarters, so at most some stray bullets hit.

European countries followed suit. These guys, who had always been allies of the opposition, had long harbored resentment towards the internet celebrity president, and now they finally had the chance to vent their frustrations.

However, the Russian side expressed their belief that the internet celebrity president had the ability to end this tragedy, which made the internet celebrity president quite gratified.

But he remained sufficiently clear-headed on this issue…

He knew exactly what kind of bastards these were, so despite publicly stating that he would do everything in his power to solve the problem, he actually did nothing. Meanwhile, the states that supported him continued to airlift National Guard troops, and even militias that were considered part of the National Guard, including so-called charitable relief teams. These guys happily landed at the airports they controlled, then flooded into the cities, burning, killing, and looting under the guise of suppressing the rebellion, even leaving several other districts in ruins.

Who says the rebels are only in the financial district or the business district?

It's everywhere.

Anyway, those killed were all rebels.

In particular, the vast majority of supporters of the influencer president are racists, and many of them cannot even be said to be purely motivated by money.

Their main purpose is to vent.

The poorest states in the South were particularly enthusiastic, raising the old Confederate flag high. The poor took up arms, ran to the airport to requisition civilian planes, and marched north to complete the unfinished work of their ancestors.

So those who didn't participate in the arson, murder, and looting, or those who were content with a little wealth and retreated to their own neighborhoods out of fear, became easy targets for these racists. Then, videos of them beating Black people to death and waving obviously looted items while claiming to have killed thugs also appeared increasingly frequently online.

As for the battle in the financial and commercial district, the situation temporarily entered a stalemate due to the stubborn resistance of the defending troops.

The main reason is that outsiders suddenly realized that since the tough nuts to crack are hard to crack, why not try the soft ones?
The attack on the financial and commercial district resulted in heavy casualties, but the rebels in the other districts were easily wiped out.

what?
Are they not rebels?

Nonsense, we only killed insurgents. Didn't you see the rifle next to him?
Ultimately, this is something the Wang Army does all the time. This little thing is easy to handle. The Wang Army doesn't kill civilians; they only kill militants. Anyone with a gun is a militant, and if they don't have one, the Wang Army can provide one.

Now even the internet celebrity president is a little panicked, after all, this kind of spread is seriously out of control.

And it wasn't just these incidents. Some of the National Guard troops who arrived later even openly shouted slogans about killing all Black people, and then swept through several small towns in the surrounding area. A group of clearly racist individuals even swept into a neighboring state, stormed into a small town's homes to search, and dragged out and killed any Black people found. This behavior was clearly unrelated to counterinsurgency, especially since the National Guard from the neighboring state was still involved in the siege of the financial district, and the first to enter the battlefield were from this small town. Calling them insurgents is a bit of an exaggeration.

Even the popular president had to demand the arrest of the group of racists, but then the governor of his state publicly expressed his dissatisfaction, arguing that they had simply gone astray. He claimed that they were loyal to the country and the president, and that they had traveled thousands of miles with their weapons to quell a rebellion for the country, but had simply gone astray and mistaken the people.

What’s the big deal?
At most, it could be considered accidental injury.

We will bring them back.

But don't discourage the soldiers on the front lines; you need to understand who is truly on your side.

The internet celebrity president was dumbfounded; he hadn't expected this at all!

This was clearly beyond his control.

"This is an inevitable result. If your president had read a few more books on Eastern history, he would know that this is an inevitable result. He has released a wild beast, so he must keep satisfying its appetite. And its appetite will keep expanding. He can only continue to satisfy its appetite. In the end, he thinks he can control this beast, but in reality, he will be dragged along by this beast."

It has been marching towards an era of arrogant and fierce generals.

Yang Xianren remained calm and offered his evaluation as an observer.

He is now just an observer.

He and his disciples quietly observed the escalating war.

Looking out, the entire city was shrouded in thick smoke, with the flames of the explosions acting as mere decorations. The rubble of collapsed buildings stood starkly in the distance, and because no one was there to fight the fires, many areas were still engulfed in flames. This scene, like the spread of the fire itself, continued to expand outwards, now engulfing most of the urban areas that had not been affected before.

Even further out on the horizon, there were obvious trails of smoke from burning.

Transport planes laden with soldiers continued to arrive, landing at airports controlled by various states like a flock of vultures swarming for food. Ships were also arriving from the sea, as several states were not far away by sea. In reality, most of these arriving soldiers were no longer true National Guard troops, but rather armed personnel organized by the respective states, and most of them were not good people…

Unemployed.

Gang members.

Extreme racists.

……

The states also saw this as an opportunity to reduce internal security problems.

There's no need to actually provide them with any equipment; they might not even have military uniforms.

Back when our ancestors followed Mao Zedong in raising an army, it was the same way. Everyone carried their own Kentucky rifles and wore their own clothes—that's called historical inheritance. As for what these people will do here, each state probably knows: they die outside to reduce security risks, take money back to increase wealth circulation, and the governor gains staunch support—a perfect outcome.

The only thing that could ruin this perfect outcome is if they were forcibly prevented from achieving it.

That's trouble.

Those bastards go back with a belly full of anger, who knows what they'll do next.

Moreover, the state government has to pay for the military expenses of sending troops!
The governor also has to bear their anger.

Therefore, the states involved in this suppression will not back down at all, and even the internet celebrity president cannot stop them. People only recognize him as president when they support him, and it is not difficult to make him step down when they do not support him. If you anger him, believe it or not, a fleet of transport planes will land directly in the capital to demand an explanation from him.
Can't control it anymore.

I really couldn't control myself anymore.

"Immortal Master, you'd better take a look at this."

One of the divine servants suddenly spoke.

Then she held the notebook in front of Yang Feng and knelt at his feet.

The image above shows a four-star general criticizing the internet celebrity president for his hasty labeling of the military as insurgents, calling it a desecration of the army and all soldiers who fight for the country. He further criticizes the president for standing by and watching soldiers who faithfully perform their duties being besieged, calling it an even greater desecration of all soldiers.

"Your Excellency, please be mindful of your position. You are the President of this country and the Supreme Commander of the military. Please respect the soldiers under your command and do not abandon them for your own benefit."

The four-star general said very seriously.

(End of this chapter)