Doctor, I'm really strong!

The vast majority of soldiers came from the bottom of Yan society and lived a life worse than cattle and horses. Now the community showed them with practical actions that after killing those officials, they could live a better life. They also told them how to do it, and provided them with weapons, houses, food, medicine, and guaranteed jobs.

Look at how many people cross the border of Yan State every day, and how those border trading cities have been infiltrated.

To put it bluntly, the border garrison probably has more soldiers than the lower echelons of the community's development, more than the soldiers of Yan State. You expect such an army to stop the community's iron torrent? You really know how to be funny.

Given the current strength of the community, if the land-based fleet were to overwhelm them, even the Yanlong Army of yesteryear would have to fight and retreat until it completely collapsed, let alone these ordinary soldiers who have no loyalty to the Yan Kingdom whatsoever.

The consequences of not treating people as human beings in the past are now beginning to backfire, and Yan Kingdom is finding it difficult to even find reliable soldiers.

Wouldn't they then prevent the community from infiltrating?

Hehehe, look at the community's land-based ships on the border, and those mobile fortresses, you try it.

Furthermore, as the economic ties between the two sides became increasingly close, many Yan Kingdom merchants discovered that they could make money simply by acting as middlemen. Since they could make money while lying down, why bother standing up? So they immediately got started.

Thus, the first batch of compradors emerged within Yan. They earned their first fortune through reselling. Although the community didn't specifically cultivate this group, as long as your economic strength is strong enough, people who specialize in making money through buying and selling will appear. They lack a solid foundation for survival in their own country, relying on foreign resources and connections to make money. Naturally, they become increasingly politically aligned with the source of the goods.

These people feel no psychological pressure as long as their own interests are not harmed. They use their wealth to directly or indirectly influence the decisions of the Yan Kingdom's court. For example, many of the ministers who are arguing now make their living from import and export trade.

Directly opposing Yan's national policies can easily lead to accusations of treason, but using patriotism as a pretext to subtly criticize others' methods, muddy the waters, and ruin things is still acceptable.

Yan Kingdom is the most historically significant country on the Terra continent, and its officials have plenty of experience and methods for causing trouble.

However, these discussions and arguments eventually came to an abrupt end with the appearance of one person.

Section 345: Time Waits for No One

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The ancestor of the Yan Kingdom has emerged from seclusion!

The amount of information conveyed in that short sentence is even greater than the wild ideas Melancholy had in that convertible back then.

What are our ancestors to the Yan Kingdom?

It is a spiritual moat. For the nobles of Yan, the history they accept is the history of victory led by their ancestors. They overthrew those lowly people who wanted to distort the truth, allowing the true elites to rule the country and bringing Yan its current prosperity.

As for the real history, the true past, none of that mattered to them; knowing this was enough.

Or rather, even if the truth were presented to them, they would not accept it in order to maintain their rule.

The people of Wei appeared before the rulers and ministers of Yan through a virtual projection, watching them kowtow to them and excitedly express their loyalty to Yan, even uttering nauseatingly sentimental phrases like "The people of Yan long for their ancestors as they long for their parents."

The common people? The common people you're talking about probably all own vast tracts of fertile land and have many wives and concubines.

A group of traitors who stole Da Bao are constantly proclaiming their own righteousness and greatness here; it's truly disgusting.

But it is precisely because of this that I am better able to solve problems.

“I, Wei, have already felt your patriotism.”

Wei Renmin's words greatly pleased Emperor Yan, as it showed that the other party had no intention of seizing his power. He was merely the ancestor of the Yan Kingdom, and the true power of the Yan Kingdom would remain with whoever it originally belonged to.

What a foolish ancestor!

Although he, the emperor of Yan, was on the verge of becoming the last emperor, Emperor Chongzhen, even knowing he was doomed, did not relinquish his throne.

"The Yan Kingdom is now facing a great change that is unprecedented in a thousand years, but as long as I, Wei, am still here, the Yan Kingdom will not perish!"

The time for making statements is over; now it's time to deliver the real deal. Wei Renmin knows all too well what kind of people these feudal bureaucrats are, and he just happens to have something good to fool them with.

On November 27, 1107, the Beidou Integrated Military Satellite Network of the Community detected an object resembling an intercontinental ballistic missile taking off from Yan Country. Subsequently, the National Earthquake Monitoring Bureau detected a minor earthquake within Yan Country. However, the energy waveform released by this earthquake was very abnormal, and it came and went quickly.

The relevant data of the anomaly was sent to the national database for verification and analysis. The result showed that it was a man-made nuclear explosion with an explosive yield equivalent to five million tons of TNT.

The discovery was immediately presented to Liu Jiuli. After confirming its accuracy, Liu Jiuli immediately began to consider the possibility of a full-scale nuclear strike against Yan Country. He absolutely could not allow a few nuclear bombs to stop the community's progress in unifying the Eastern Pacific continent of Terra.

But at that moment, Yueying's voice suddenly rang in Liu Jiuli's mind.

"Master, there is encrypted communication."

There is only one person in the entire Terra continent who can send encrypted communications directly to Moonshadow—Wei Renmin.

This was Liu Jiuli's exclusive secret communication line with him. Liu Jiuli already knew many of the official secrets of Yan State before the Red Team inside Yan State obtained them. The Red Team mostly confirmed whether the order had changed from an idea of ​​the Yan State's top leadership into an order to be actually executed.

Anyone who works in intelligence knows that the hardest thing is to determine what the enemy is going to do. With a direction, you can get accurate intelligence; otherwise, you'll just be flying around aimlessly like a headless fly.

With the help of the Wei people, the community's infiltration of the Yan Kingdom was basically a chaotic massacre.

Given the special status of the Wei people within the Yan Kingdom, Liu Jiuli placed great importance on the intelligence they transmitted back.

"Send it over right away."

Soon, a line of words appeared before Liu Jiuli: "When autumn comes on the eighth day of the ninth month, my flowers will bloom and all other flowers will wither."

This is a poem by Huang Chao, the infamous tyrant who ended the aristocratic class. In a single sentence, he encapsulates the time and purpose—a uniquely Chinese romanticism.

The seriousness on Liu Jiuli's face vanished instantly, replaced by a relaxed smile.

"How many troops do we have stationed along the border of Yan?"

The officer, who was organizing documents, immediately replied, "There are now seven assault divisions."

Originally, the community only had three assault divisions deployed near the Yan Kingdom's border (not counting other combat divisions, as well as the line-filling and militia units), but in order to avoid a backstab from the Yan Kingdom during the community's liberation of the Ursus Empire, the number of assault divisions was increased to seven.

The community's assault divisions are land-based fleets, typically equipped with around 350 Type 59 land-based ships and around 50 Barrage-class ships, a ratio of about seven to one. If it is necessary to enhance the attack capability, then the ratio of the two may become three to one or even one to one. It is believed that the Type 59's 210mm and the Barrage-class's 500mm large-caliber guns will be able to easily shatter the enemy's sleeping mind.

Only the Commonwealth could defy the odds and assemble such a terrifying fleet of land-based warships. In other countries, the daily maintenance costs of these warships would be enough to bankrupt the Victorian government ten times over at its peak.

Liu Jiuli nodded and then said, "Increase the number of assault divisions to ten. Do not move the troops in the newly liberated areas for the time being. You can select the best from the second-line troops for promotion and strengthen their training. Before May next year, increase the number of assault divisions to twenty and raise the total strength of the Red Army to ten million."

"Ten million!"

Ling was taken aback; this was far too militaristic. But then he realized that there was only one country in the world that required the community to mobilize an army of ten million.

"Ten million is just the number of regular troops; the reserves must be at least twenty million. This is a national war that requires our full strength."

"Isn't it too early?" Ling expressed his concern.

Not long after liberating Ursus, the following year they launched an attack on Yan, a nation of 400 million people. It wasn't like France, which surrendered before even reaching Paris. The sheer number of low-level civil servants they incurred was enough to drive the current community crazy.

"Problems in reality don't always wait until you're fully prepared before they start to appear. We still have at least a year to prepare, allowing the new civil servants who are currently undergoing training to get ready. If they haven't finished their courses, they can go to the front lines to learn them."

The series of orders issued by Liu Jiuli quickly became the community's driving force. Although the mobilization was large-scale, it was done in stages. The resources and manpower mobilized in each stage were only twice as much as usual. Considering that the community had just completed the liberation war in Guiussau, the focus in the next period should be on digesting the newly liberated areas and being vigilant against hostile countries taking the opportunity to cause trouble. It was normal to increase the number of troops, so it did not attract excessive attention from other countries.

As for the Yan Kingdom, it is normal for the community to be highly vigilant towards them at this time. If the community reduces its attention to the Yan Kingdom now, it will only make the neighboring countries worry that they are preparing to destroy the Ursus Empire and then find a small country to eat as a snack.

That's how the Ursus Empire was back then. No matter how badly they fought wars with other countries, they would always come back to bully Kazimir, who had become the weaker party.

Having learned from this historical experience, Kazimir is now quite worried that the Community's steel torrent will crush the boundary markers. There are daily alarms along the border, and there have even been instances where Kazimir border patrols mistook their own people for enemies, resulting in a fierce battle that lasted all night. When they woke up in the morning, they found the ground littered with the corpses of their own soldiers.

This behavior, comparable to that of a US ally killer, infuriated the border commander and also demonstrated Kazimir's military capabilities at that time.

There's no way around it. Because of frequent issues like unpaid wages, understaffing, exploitation of soldiers, and oppression of rank-and-file soldiers, the current Kazimir army is utterly hopeless. Apart from a very few elite knights who can still fight, the rest have a strong psychological trauma from Ursus. Now, this trauma has transferred to a more powerful community, causing frontline soldiers to secretly study how to surrender quickly every day. They wonder if they can learn from the Gauls, who surrendered quite quickly back then.

Don't blame these ordinary soldiers for being incompetent. Even the proud Silverwing Pegasus trembled in fear when faced with the tsunami-like steel torrent of the community. No matter how strong the individual combat power of the knights is, they are no match for a land-based fleet. They can overwhelm you with sheer numbers.

In the past, the Silverwing Pegasus might have had the possibility of launching special attacks through boarding maneuvers (the Emperor was overjoyed), but now, every land-based ship of the Commonwealth has at least one company of heavily armed elites, fully armed and waiting for idiots to board.

These are all trained by Patriots, and the new generation of Shield Guards built with the technological power of the community. Their combat power is more than three times that of the old version. The Shield Guards led by Patriots were opponents that even the Silverwing Pegasus had to fight to the death to achieve a 50/50 chance. Now, this new type of Shield Guard is more like a 30/70 split, with 70% of them being the Shield Guards themselves.

As for the remaining 30% chance of winning, that depends on fate.

Moreover, the community has a hidden trump card that it hasn't used yet. This secret weapon is currently undergoing modification, and Liu Jiuli plans to personally take a look so that the community's military system can quickly enter a new era.

But war is a matter for the future; for now...

"Put it down, put it down, put it down, okay, stop, start securing it."

"Detect system circuitry, prepare to start the energy harvesting tower."

"Transport vehicles for the residential area, please come this way and park in Zone 3."

While Kazimir was experiencing sleepless nights, the community was building a city on the new border, a city with a proud name—Leningrad.

It will not become a forward base prepared by invaders, but rather an open and friendly border trading city.

The Kazimierz people may indeed fear the Ursus's dominance, but they cannot refuse the community's cheap goods and the labor opportunities that come with them.

When faced with survival issues, people will vote with their feet.

The forest ranger and her guerrilla comrades were secretly observing the Red Army soldiers on the border. To them, these men were just Ursus people in disguise, who might suddenly launch an attack on Kazimir one day.

Such things have happened frequently throughout history. The Ursus Empire's unwavering integrity, which even fools cannot deceive, has made Kazimir, the nation most deeply wounded, hostile towards the newly formed community.

This is actually quite contradictory. Before the Community liberated the entire Ursus, the Kazimir people had a very favorable impression of the Community that had split the Ursus Empire. However, this favorable impression vanished with the collapse of the Ursus Empire, turning into fear of their new neighbor, even more so than before.

This is a legacy issue, and Liu Jiuli can't do anything about it, but some things can be conveyed with very simple means.

"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready! Today we're having braised pork belly, big chunks of braised pork belly, and all-you-can-eat bread. Hey Kazimierz friends across the street, wanna come and try some?"

The forest rangers and other guerrillas certainly wouldn't go there. They were self-organized civilian groups resisting the Ursus Empire. Such groups had firm beliefs and were full of hatred for the enemy. They couldn't be bought off with a few pieces of meat or a few pounds of bread.

However, along the long border, many poor children not only lack meat, but their clothes are also tattered. In some villages, children don't even have pants. Their plight is no less dire than that of impoverished areas in Africa.

This place used to be the border between the Ursus Empire and Kazimir. The people living here were considered livestock that looked like humans by both countries. The Kazimir government didn't care about them, while the Ursus Empire often came here to capture slaves. It was like Lin Yuxia being caught in the middle – suffering from both sides.

This is a group of abandoned people. They have no homeland, no faith, and don't even understand basic morality. All they know is that here, a meal is enough to buy a person's life.

They would be willing to die even after eating this meal.

Then these people all became part of the border construction teams, repairing bridges and roads.

The job has a very high casualty rate.

But this is only the nominal job description. In reality, they have to undergo intensive training. In the brutal past, these survivors were capable of anything. Don't be fooled by the fact that many of them are children. To the locals, a child who can pick up a stone already has the ability to kill.

Although they are pitiful, they are just upright apes whose bestial nature has been awakened. They are not human at all. To awaken them, discipline and rules are needed, even the whip of an instructor, or even a shooting range for executing criminals.

Some people, once they turn into beasts, can never regain their humanity. They are the tragedy of their time, abandoned by the old era and judged by the new era. For them, death is the most merciful redemption.

Because they were sentenced to death as human beings, instead of being hanged and left to rot in the ground like other runaway serfs.

If there is an afterlife, I hope they can have a chance to be reborn as human beings.

The Red Army soldiers could only do their best to help these people adapt to the new era; if they couldn't, they wouldn't let the innocent victims of the new era become the price of mercy.

When you give out bread, it's best to hold your pistol firmly at the same time.

What is the point of such behavior?

Chapter 346: The Overt Scheme of Crushing Defeat

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