Doctor, I'm really strong!

Section 191: Terra 1100

Liu Jiuli placed the label for Steelgrove near Kazdel.

In this way, Kazdel will be connected to Steelgrad. Only one more mobile city needs to be added to the north to establish a connection between the two sides, ensuring that Kazdel can receive support from the Terran community at any time.

"This...this is too risky!"

"Irongrad is our capital! No, absolutely not!"

"Leader, please reconsider."

There was widespread opposition, which was to be expected.

Steel Gele was the starting point for the transformation of the Integration Movement into the Red Guards. The Red Guards were the predecessors of the Red Army. In a feudal dynasty, that would be the so-called "land of the dragon's rise." But now Liu Jiuli is sending this land of the dragon's rise to block the enemy's path.

Now that the Terra People's Community has been established, it is equivalent to the establishment of a nation. Although the capital city has not yet been decided, in the hearts of the people of the community, Steelgrad is the default capital city, the beginning of hope and new life.

Not only other cadres, but also the Sakaz cadres of Kazdel collectively opposed Liu Jiuli's actions. This city was too important, so important that they couldn't even imagine that Liu Jiuli would do such a thing.

"What's the rush? I haven't explained yet." Liu Jiuli smiled slightly and pointed to Steelgroll, saying, "It's easy for us to give up Kazdel, but it's very difficult to liberate it again after giving it up. This is an important trade route between the East and the West, and it is also the heart of the central part of Terra. More importantly, we have promised the people of Kazdel that they will no longer be displaced."

"The Red Guards began in Chernobog, and the people of Kazdel began in their homeland. No one wants to leave their home and give up the happiness they have finally grasped. I, your comrades, can understand this pain, so we can empathize with you."

"We want to build a new nation, to walk a path never before imagined, a nation without Saakaz, without Ursus, without Tripoli, without distinction of race or religion. We are all members of the Terra people's community, we are all Terrans, compatriots, comrades, and comrades-in-arms!"

"Not giving up Kazdel is not for the Sarkaz people, but for everyone living in this country. If we can give up Kazdel today, then we can give up Steelgrad tomorrow. We can give up everything. We can retreat again and again until there is nowhere left to retreat. Remember, from today onwards, this is our bottom line and also our starting point. Do you understand?"

The crowd roared in unison, "Understood!"

Liu Jiuli nodded: "Very good, then let's start formulating the battle plan based on this."

Everyone's fighting spirit was ignited, and they couldn't wait to rush to the battlefield and fight the approaching enemy to the death. Only Rei, Amiya, and Talulah saw through the trick.

Kazdel is not just a military and economic issue, but also a political one, and even a matter of national unity.

After the meeting, Ling followed Liu Jiuli back to his office. As soon as the door closed, she said to Liu Jiuli, "Such a plan will be very difficult and its success cannot be guaranteed."

Liu Jiuli walked to the window, turned his back to Ling, and said, "I know."

Looking at Liu Jiuli's retreating figure, Ling continued, "You're worried that the community will shatter."

Liu Jiuli turned around and said helplessly, "Yes, this is what I'm most worried about."

"The community is an unprecedented country, a country that has completely overturned all past modes of existence. I have brought together people from at least five countries into a new nation. Each individual here has their own demands, and these demands will become the demands of the large group because of their background, beliefs, living environment, and so on."

"The Ursus people want to liberate all of Ursus, the Yan people want to plant their red flag all over Yan, the Sarkaz people hope that Kazdel will become a prosperous homeland, and the Lateran people believe that the community should be a paradise on earth."

"In this environment, only a great ideal can unite all differences, achieve common ground while reserving differences, and allow this nascent nation to exist intact. Otherwise, it will crumble like a piece of glass that has fallen to the ground."

Feeling the pressure from Liu Jiuli, she stepped forward and said, "That's why you insisted on not giving up on Kazdel. Even if you hadn't asked that question, you knew you had to keep going. And the goal of this persistence is for the Sarkaz to truly identify with this country and the sacrifices this country has made to protect them."

Liu Jiuli smiled and shrugged: "There's no way around it. If you don't give others hope to persevere, why should they trust you unconditionally? Money and benefits alone cannot buy comrades. The belief of unity among all people needs to be forged with sacrifice."

Ling took out a bottle of milk tea and a bottle of black tea from the refrigerator next to her. Liu Jiuli usually likes to drink milk tea to relax when she is thinking. Ling certainly cannot drink alcohol in this work environment, so she chose iced black tea.

The products produced by the community factory are very high-quality, and the ingredients will definitely satisfy you. Over time, I've come to like this cool and refreshing black tea.

He handed the milk tea to Liu Jiuli and said, "You know this will be a huge sacrifice, even if it's a necessary one, you still feel bad."

Liu Jiuli opened the milk tea, sighed, and said, "War means death, and I am not a good fighter."

This order is speechless. From the establishment of the Red Guards to the establishment of the community, Liu Jiuli said he was not good at standing guard, just like Chiang Kai-shek said he never liked micromanagement, Trump doesn't like empty talk, and Britain guarantees that it will never leave the EU. Do you believe it?

Liu Jiuli smiled wryly and said, "Sister Ling, don't look at me like that. You should know that a good warrior doesn't achieve great feats."

Ling smiled, a very gentle smile. She reached out and touched Liu Jiuli's cheek, and said softly, "You just don't want to see anyone sacrifice, especially your own comrades."

Liu Jiuli lowered his head slightly: "I like a peaceful life, I want quiet days, but our enemies will not allow it."

When he raised his head again, Liu Jiuli's gaze became firm and cold: "Since they don't want us to live our lives, then they won't have a single day of peace!"

The residence of the Governor-General of Longmen.

"These are turbulent times."

Looking at the imperial edict in his hand, Wei Yanwu felt immense pressure.

The imperial edict ordered Longmen to immediately move inland, as the Yan Kingdom had received intelligence that the Ursus Empire was amassing troops in the north, preparing to march south and attack Yan Kingdom. As a vital transportation hub, Longmen was likely to be the first to be attacked. The imperial court was naturally unwilling to see this important northwestern town suffer a devastating blow, so it ordered Longmen to change course and move eastward.

Moving cities and changing flight paths is a major event, but the imperial edict has already been issued, indicating that the situation is urgent and action must be taken immediately. The imperial court would certainly not joke about such a big issue. Moreover, Wei Yanwu has already confirmed with his extensive life experience that the Originium Arts on the imperial edict are real, as real as can be.

It's not like someone could forge an imperial edict. Even if someone wanted to forge it, the mechanical bird that carried the edict wouldn't be fake. It was made using Originium Arts unique to Yan Kingdom, and the identification Originium Arts seal on the edict was genuine.

Rather than imitating, it would be better to steal directly from the Yan Kingdom's palace; at least that's more feasible than imitation.

Unless some high-ranking official in the palace gave the complete set of original documents to someone else to impersonate them, how many people in the entire court do you think are qualified to do that? Would they really do such a thing?

How could that be? So the imperial edict and its contents are real. War is about to break out between Yan and Ursus.

Wei Yanwu was well aware of Longmen's own strength. One-on-one combat was possible, but expecting a trading city to fight against the main force of the Ursus Empire, or even a land-based fleet battle, was wishful thinking. You can dream about anything.

What convinced Wei Yanwu even more was that similar news had also come from Future Science City, except that they were heading north to find the Red Guards, so the war was indeed coming and unavoidable.

However, before leaving, he had to call his niece back.

Somewhere in the Future Science City.

Are you serious?

"Yes, I'm serious, and I have no regrets!"

“But Wei Yanwu is your uncle. This path is not easy, and you may not even be understood by your closest relatives. You must be prepared to make sacrifices at any time, give up everything in the past, or even live in anonymity.”

"I know."

"Okay, I'll ask you one last question: are you really willing?"

"This is my application."

"Alright, on behalf of my comrades in the organization, I welcome you, Comrade Chen Huijie!"

On the morning of December 12, 1099, Chen Huijie led the police officers from the former Lungmen Guard Station of the Future Science City back to the Lungmen Guard Station. At 3:30 PM, Future Science City separated from Lungmen, turning left to head north back, while Lungmen turned right to head south. People on both sides waved goodbye.

At that moment, many people did not know that their lives would be completely rewritten from that instant onward.

Along with the imperial edict from Longmen, Liu Jiuli also sent more than twelve replicas of the genuine imperial edict to twelve fortified cities in the north of Yan Kingdom. The edicts all required them to prepare for battle, as the Ursus Empire was about to launch a war against Yan Kingdom. They were also instructed to move south to distance themselves from cities on the border of the Ursus Empire and to be on guard against any possible sneak attacks.

To avoid detection by the Ursus Empire, these fortified cities completely cut off external communication and maintained radio silence throughout their relocation.

Completely deceived, the Yan Kingdom's border soldiers were unaware that while they were moving, the Ussas city on the opposite side was nervously observing them. After confirming that these Yan Kingdom fortress cities were all turning south, the Ussas cities began to move one after another, but they all moved north, gradually moving further and further away from the Yan Kingdom's border.

According to the Red Army's Supreme Staff's operational plan, they would eventually arrive near the northeastern mountains of Ursus, block the various passes, and build a defensive system along the northeastern mountains of Ursus, which is also the low-temperature dividing line in the northern part of Terra.

On the same day, Steelgrad moved south and Kharkiv moved north. The two most powerful industrial cities of the community would form the Steelgrad-Kharkov defense line along the mountain region north of Kazdel, connecting to cities such as Yansk to the north and leading directly to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

On the same day, the Kiel Commune announced its joining of the Terra People's Community, and then immediately headed north to secede from Letania.

It wasn't until January of the year 1100 in Terra that the Twin Queens of Letania truly learned the full extent of the riots that had occurred in Kiel and realized the seriousness of the situation.

Meanwhile, Kiel had already entered the Iron Grokharkov defense line. If Letania wanted to pursue them, it would mean declaring war on the Ursus Empire. As for the Terra People's Community, they were really unfamiliar with it; who knows if it was a place name within Ursus?

Due to the unfriendly history of their northern neighbor, coupled with their own internal problems, Leitania completely missed the opportunity to wipe out the Kiel Commune. By the time all the misunderstandings were cleared up, it was already February 1100 of Terra.

Three months had passed between the outbreak of the uprising and when Letania was fully aware of the situation.

By the time the Ursus Empire truly realized that the Red Guards had overturned the table, it was already February 7, 1100 Terra. After a series of chaotic meetings and condemnations, it was already March. The Ursus Empire began assembling its troops on April 1. Considering the actual situation in the Far East, the Ursus Empire military believed that at least 300,000 troops, five land-based fleets, support from three mobile cities, and two mobile fortresses were needed.

It will take at least two months to complete the troop assembly, even with the assistance of mobile cities for large-scale troop and population movement. Considering that it is a combat situation, the consumption and output of the mobile cities themselves need to be adjusted.

After all, you can't send a seedling-producing plant to the front lines to produce artillery shells for you.

On April 17, 1100 Terra, the Emperor of Ursus and the Twin Queens of Letania met at St. Arthur's Castle and signed the "Joint Declaration of Ursus and Letania".

"Under the gaze of glory and light, we will resolutely destroy the evil forces from the frigid lands. We will defend the glory bestowed upon us by the gods with our blood and lives. The glory of the nobles will last forever!"

In layman's terms: I was born noble, and my descendants have been noble for generations. You lowly people dare to rebel against the just rule of the great aristocracy. Just wait to be pierced by the spears of the feudal class!

At the same time, Letania and the Ursus Empire issued a joint call to eliminate the evil and unruly regime.

The first office of Steel Grid (where Liu Jiuli works)

"Letania will deploy 200,000 troops, three land-based fleets, two mobile cities, and one mobile fortress. Notably, one-tenth of the soldiers are mages."

Liu Jiuli took the document from the order, read it, and said, "Tell our comrades in Letania to protect themselves. From now on, enter a state of silence and do not transmit any information unless it is extremely important intelligence."

Ling nodded and wrote down the order.

Putting down the documents in his hand, Liu Jiuli turned to look at the Terra map hanging on the wall.

"Let's see how many anti-cave factions respond next."

Section 192: Let's go, Comrades.

(Large chapter update, could you please give me a vote? (?ω?))

The joint statement from the Ursus Empire and Letania reached the world, but the Yan Kingdom was completely unaware of it.

Here we need to explain a special case: Terra's internet system is built from the union of many independent nodes, and is not a truly global internet.

Natural disasters made it impossible to lay ultra-long fiber optic cables here, and there were no satellites in the sky. Signal base stations could only be built in mobile cities. Therefore, Global Information uses mobile cities as large base stations to achieve global Internet connectivity. Each mobile city is a separate local area network that can be connected or operated separately at any time.

There's no way around it; the nature of mobile cities and the environment of Terra dictate that the internet here will inevitably be fragmented. The cost of mass-producing internet-related equipment is not low, and achieving global connectivity is already a feat; what more could you ask for?

Do you remember Liu Jiuli's previous plan?

That's right. By falsely issuing an imperial edict, the northern border fortresses of Yan Kingdom were ordered to begin retreating inland, and radio silence was maintained. This effectively severed Yan Kingdom's connection with the outside world, putting it into a local area network state. Since Yan Kingdom's connection with other countries relied on these cities as base stations, with these base stations shut down, Yan Kingdom naturally couldn't receive international news. Wait, what about Yan Kingdom's southern cities? They haven't moved an inch. And didn't anyone notice the problem with this network outage? Doesn't Yan Kingdom engage in international trade?

This is determined by the objective environment.

Natural disasters are an unpredictable factor, making the international network inherently unstable. It's normal for websites that were accessible yesterday to be inaccessible today, and it's also normal for them to be inaccessible for extended periods. There's nothing to be alarmed about.

As for the south of Yan Kingdom, it does not border any other country; Rembito is separated from Yan Kingdom by a vast wilderness and ocean.

Therefore, Yan's international internet connection is through various cities in the north. Now these cities have entered a state of silence, making it impossible for Yan to learn about international developments through the internet.

Moreover, as the easternmost country on the Terra continent, Yan Kingdom doesn't have much international demand. The only threat it faces is the Ursus Empire. Other countries actively come to Yan Kingdom to do business, making money effortlessly. This results in far fewer merchants leaving Yan Kingdom compared to other countries, and consequently, far fewer connections.

High-level exchanges between countries are not frequent on a daily basis; it's normal for things to be quiet for ten days or half a month, and there's nothing worth paying attention to.

Of course, the passing caravans could still bring a lot of information, but this information was severely delayed, and because it was information from the people, its reliability was obviously compromised. Whether it would even reach the ears of Emperor Yan was another matter entirely.

So while countries like Victoria, Colombia, and Casimir were actively responding, the Yan Kingdom, the strongest nation on the Eastern Continent of Terra, remained silent and made no response whatsoever.

If convenient means of communication are unavailable, then the only option is to send people. However, the entire Far East region, including Kazdel, is now under the control of Grandma Terra's Red Army. If these people want to get there, they'll have to ask the Red Army about the availability of bullets first.

The situation in the Eastern Kingdom is similar to that in the Yan Kingdom. It is also temporarily in an information island state, which avoids the predicament of fighting on two fronts in the short term. However, it is certain that fighting will still occur later. What the community needs to do is to build a solid defense line in the precious time gained, so that the attackers will not be able to return.