Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

Tallulah was confused: "What's wrong?"

Command coughed twice: "Another Empire's Sixth Army was destroyed by another group of redheads, so this is...a good omen."

Aurora continued with a satisfied expression: "The Civilian Army now has two brushes, and they are capable from top to bottom. Considering that they use their firepower as much as possible to prevent the troops from being directly exposed to the enemy's artillery fire, even In the end, it was all about mechanized troops to eliminate the stubborn resistance. I think the exchange ratio is five to one, and the casualties of the Civilian Army are greater."

Tallulah showed a skeptical expression: "Really?"

Comand asked: "Otherwise? This side shows the enemy's weakness and lures the enemy to go deep. The Imperial Army was eager to find a breakthrough and was recruited. They established a landing field, but the 62nd Division blocked their further attempt to develop victory. And the 5th Army Control the strength and speed of the counterattack, and give the enemy the illusion that 'here may be progress', so the Imperial Army invested a lot of reinforcements and artillery here.

"When the enemy's reinforcements also start to enter the battle on a large scale, and when they are trapped in a fierce battlefield and cannot get out, then they will join the reserve team and concentrate their overwhelming advantages in technology, troops, and firepower to destroy the enemy's artillery and follow-up reinforcements first. , to completely isolate the enemies who crossed the shore, and then concentrate their strength to overwhelm the stubborn enemies. Therefore, the Ursas Sixth Army gave us an entire infantry division as an organization.

"When the enemy attacked, not to mention crossing rivers and rushing mountains, their little artillery fire could not chew through the perfect system of trenches and tunnels; when we counterattacked, the enemy artillery was completely suppressed by the newly invested artillery of the Nationalist Army. Think about it: the enemy was defeated Confined in a small landing field, our army commanded a clear view; there was no artillery and air support, and it was too late to turn into a defensive posture to build fortifications. The main force of anti-armor was 76 field guns, and the infantry only had anti-tank guns and Molotov cocktails. They were carefully controlled Isn’t it normal for groups of T-55s and BMP-2s to cover fire? Isn’t it normal to have a disparity in the exchange ratio?”

"...It's normal." Tallula finally replied leisurely.

Aurora summed it up briefly: "The Ursas Empire is large in size, but the integration movement is small in size. One division of our army is equivalent to [-] divisions of the enemy, but one division of our army needs to deal with three enemy divisions. Division! But we have technological and material advantages, so the overall situation has formed a temporary stalemate. Moreover, the Civilian Army also holds the initiative by virtue of its technological advantages."

Comand interface: "So, the plight of the Trinity Army is not on the front line."

**

Since the formation of the Cossack group, their "rebellious" and "difficult to conquer" have been well-known.And the independence of this group of guys does have a solid support-in any village, men can form one or even several companies, and bring their own rifles, sabers, and even horses and saddles.

The reunification movement has been able to fight all the way here, and for a long time to keep these thorns of "obtaining land with the honor brought by the war, and repaying the favor of His Majesty the Tsar with the glory of the war" temporarily, it is because of various various means.

The military is of course the least problematic.The regular army of the integration movement can hammer the emperor's army to the ground from the front, forcing it to flee to the east of the Don River; The district built a military road in a hurry, and invested a lot of motorized troops and even aviation troops to clean up the gangsters wandering in the vast wilderness.

For the Cossack gangs and Imperial Army units wandering behind the Civilian Army, encountering those four-six-eight-wheeled armored vehicles that run fast and can ignore rifle bullets is extremely fatal; Pressing the head on the head and blasting hard...

Of course, military power alone cannot solve social problems.

It is certainly a fact that a small group of rebels and collaborators massacred our own commanders and soldiers in an appalling manner, but that was in an area where the enemy and the enemy were in a tug-of-war and the two sides were confronting each other. It had to be an area controlled by our own side that was close to the battle line.Only in this way can it be "guaranteed" that the imperial army can more effectively smuggle personnel and materials to support the rebels in the red zone, and "guaranteed" that while the militiamen are busy fighting on the front lines, it will be difficult to turn around and sweep away local bandits and the Cossack leaders who cooperate with them.

At least fifty kilometers away from the front line, although there are still a large number of guerrillas and civilians hiding weapons, the militiamen can free their hands to solve the problem.

Although most of the families here have men who have retreated with the imperial army, the tribal army still managed to maintain a normal environment with their flexible and powerful means: the Cossacks robbed, raped, raped and abused prisoners, etc. Taking it for granted that he judged others by himself, he was going to see the villages occupied by the militiamen ignite soaring fires.But the militia was enough to ensure that the troops would still not grab anything after the attack, and even if they took a watermelon and a glass of milk, they would pay the integration movement's paper ruble at the price.

Instead, the Cossacks were at a loss and at a loss, and both the civilians in the Red Zone and the soldiers on the east bank of the Don River felt great suspicion.They all thought that the Tribunes would burn all the Cossack villages and market towns to the ground, that they would "kill all" the remaining residents, at least the men, but according to the definite news, the Tribunes did nothing to the peaceful residents. Not one moved.

This does not mean that the Tribunes are soft persimmons. Assize courts and local troops roam the consolidated areas at all times, cooperating with village teams to pass judgment on attacks.Serious criminal cases such as the assassination of village staff members, in addition to killing people for life, will also impose other punishments according to the specific circumstances.

These things are clearly stipulated by written decrees, and all decrees are pasted in conspicuous positions in each village, and special personnel are responsible for preaching.At first, the Cossacks didn't take it seriously, thinking that this was a beautiful cover for the clause to take effect only when targeting Cossack villagers.However, after several cadres and fighters of the National People's Army who committed crimes such as robbery, murder, and rape were tried in public and sentenced to death, the villagers gradually believed in it and began to abide by it.

However, in a few cases, such as when dealing with an assassination, it was easy to provoke violent resistance in the village.But the militiamen would never give in at this time.Even if things develop to the point of suppressing the entire village by force.

The traditional working methods of dividing rich peasants from poor peasants and forming poor people's leagues have not been left behind.Although due to the difference in economic composition, this method is not as effective as in the northwest tundra and northern wasteland; but under the lubrication of the integrationist village regime established in the villages in the liberated areas, and the strict restraint of the troops on their own discipline, the garrison and the Cossack people The relationship is indeed not blindly antagonistic.At least for the latter, the red heads will not kill villagers, plunder food, or rape women indiscriminately.Not to mention the Cossack gangs that were present on the Don River before the arrival of the tribune army. The regular imperial army passing through here would cause far more "displeasure" than the red heads.

On the other hand, due to immature conditions, the political and economic transformation of the Cossack group has not yet begun.For example, the original church and clergy in the village will be retained. As long as they do not openly incite the people to violently resist, the militia basically let them go.In several villages that tend to integrate, Orthodox priests will also be invited into the village government to participate in secular management.In addition, most of the taxes collected by the Western Front Army from the villages in the Liberated Areas were returned to the village government in various names for the expenses of village medical care, education relief, and public facilities.But obviously, much more was returned to the "red villages" than to the "white villages".

Even the Cossack villagers, who were most hostile to the Reunification Movement and the Tribunes, were impressed by the Tribunes' strict discipline, equal treatment, and the combination of kindness and force.

Therefore, I leaned on the off-road vehicle to close the back cover of the latest issue of "Internal Reference" of the Western Front. Tallulah, who was dizzy from reading a book in the car, saw the kind Aurora, the aunt of the Civilian Army, teasing at the gate of someone's yard. child.

"Well, very well. What's so great about a twig... Where is your father? On the other side of the Don?"

"On the other side of the Don."

"That means you're at war with us?"

The little boy was amused by the affectionate words before, and said: "He commands all the Cossacks."

"Little guy, just talk nonsense!"

"If you don't believe me, ask grandma."

The talkative little grandson made grandma almost do not know what to do, just clapped his hands and sighed.

"Is it commanding all the Cossacks?" Aurora asked with a smile.

Grandma cast a stern look, so the little grandson began to feel less sure: "Maybe, not all of them..."

Looking at the adults who were fidgeting and pale because the conversation slipped into a dangerous direction, Aurora poked the little guy on the head calmly, then walked away.

The courtyard door closed quickly, and there was the sound of jumping and jumping that should be heard when beating a child.

Tallulah sighed to Comand: "In this regard, Djugashvili did a good job, really good."

Yes, the civil work in the Don River Basin is mainly the responsibility of the political commissars of the Western Front.

The convoy followed by several people stopped to rest in a Cossack village fifty kilometers away from the front line.Seeing that the military and civil affairs personnel of the village task force got along fairly well with the Cossack villagers, Tallulah couldn't help feeling so emotional about Comand.

It's not that she's naive.But before leaving from the front line, Zubachev introduced the complexity and subtleties of the current political situation:

There were three Cossack brothers in his division, the taller was a battalion commander, the lower one a company commander.But their father was the head of the Imperial Legion on the other side.In a battle, the second son and the third son were unfortunately captured. After their father found them among the prisoners, he cursed and stabbed his youngest son, and it took him the whole night to let his younger son die; In the counterattack, the infantry regiment of the imperial army was wiped out in the blink of an eye. The second son who escaped by chance found the eldest son, and the two found their father among the captives. ...

The rather tragic tragedy greatly lowered Tallulah's expectations for the Don River Basin, so that Aurora's interaction was beyond her expectations.

But Commander was skeptical: "Really? You think it's fine?"

Tallulah pondered, then shook her head: "Yes, but it's not enough."

Not enough.The audacity of the Cossacks made the tense frontline militiamen afraid to implement political and economic unification immediately-when the imperial army stormed the frontline, a sudden riot behind the Don River would be terrible.

Commander nodded, his eyebrows knitted into knots: "The Don River area is neither up nor down. The troops and localities have done a lot to ensure that the contradictions have not intensified for the time being. But also in order not to intensify the contradictions, the village merging, household registration system and Baojia system are root causes. The measures to delay the crisis have instead laid the foundation for possible crises in the future. The movement of people, weapons, food, livestock, medicines, and salt have not yet been controlled, and the fish of the gangs are still in the Cossack waters. . Although the gangs in the liberated areas have temporarily subsided due to military strikes and the easing of social conflicts, a slight change in the environment may trigger a large-scale rebellion.

"Don't think this is impossible. The Don River Basin has just been involved in the war, and there are still a large number of young and middle-aged people in the liberated areas. They did not die in the war, and because of the restrictions of the war and the policies of the liberated areas, it is difficult to go out hunting, fishing, and business. Farming and raising livestock within a short distance of the village led to a serious waste of labor force, and quite a few young men and women were left idle at home, doing nothing. At the same time, a large amount of manpower and material resources were involved in stabilizing the rear of the People's Republic of China—now the Don River Basin The ratio of local troops to Cossack civilians is [-]:[-]. Originally, the manpower of the Tribal Army was much tighter than that of the Empire!"

Tallulah rubbed her temples: "Then where should I solve the problem?"

"You ask me, who do I ask? Just relying on the current military and administrative means, even if the current resource investment is still maintained, the 'shelf life' of social security will not be very long, and it is difficult to maintain. The root solution is to subvert the original The Cossack’s self-government system and land system are political and economic means. But as I said earlier, it’s a rat-to-rat… The front line is at a stalemate, and the weight of a mouse may cause the balance to tip.”

Comand turned around and looked seriously at the militia soldiers standing guard at the village: "The problems of the Terra people will ultimately be resolved by the Terra people themselves. I don't know what you will do. But you can only solve this problem." Only by solving a series of problems can we have a future.”

Seeing Tallulah's serious and thoughtful expression, Aurora curled her lips and said, "Hey, hey, hey, are you leaving it there so that you can show off to others?"

Commander smiled awkwardly, and Tallulah watched Aurora hand over the two documents in confusion.

Comrade Jianniang made a supplementary explanation: "What's the trick of doing politics? Make more friends and make fewer enemies. How can you get friends? It's still based on common interests. Look at Si...  .Ah yes, Comrade Dzhugashvili's preliminary idea."

Tallula looked at the two documents: "The construction plan for the supply and marketing cooperative and the handicraft workshop?"

Chapter 14 Dilemma and Breakthrough and Chicken Soup

PS: Pinching Ma Ma Di, it seems that I still have to work hard (

"Fighting" is really not a simple matter.Although the red heads came, almost all the men left in every house.

But there is life.

However, the manpower taken away by the war and the blocked trade made life difficult for the Cossack civilians.It only takes a couple of laps of any Cossack village in the Liberated Zone to know that things are not that simple.The Cossacks had to endure the lack of various necessities of life, so they cursed the integration movement regime.In the small grocery stores in various villages, soap, sugar, salt, kerosene, matches, tobacco and even axle oil-all these vital daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea are absent.

Without kerosene, one had to pour some refined butter, lard or mutton fat on the plate for lighting at night; without shredded tobacco, one smoked leaf tobacco grown by oneself; without matches, flint and the fire scythe made by the blacksmith in a hurry were all the rage .In order to make it easy to ignite, people put tinder and sunflower stalk ash together in boiling water and then dry it-but this is just a stopgap measure.Because I am not used to it, it is still very difficult to make a fire.

In this report, various work teams and village committees gave vivid examples: In order to be able to light a fire with a flint, smokers would often huddle together and try to light a fire, cursing their red heads and mumbling while doing so : "Comrade Ulyanov, light the fire!"

Even the papers for the cigarettes are gone.The Cossacks showed their talents in this matter. From the children's old exercise books to the birth and death registers in the village church, they were used to roll cigarettes. They even stuck some old newspapers on the lids of their boxes.

The axles of the carts creaked and creaked because they were not oiled; the harnesses and boots were cracked because they were not tarred.Even the supply of salt is difficult to guarantee for a while: in the black market in the Don River Valley, there is often a situation where a fat caprini beast can be exchanged for a pound or two of salt.

"Isn't that right... where is our ancestral caravan?"

Halfway through the report, Tallulah raised her head and looked at Comand with puzzled eyes.

Comand shook his head, took the report on the construction of supply and marketing cooperatives, flipped through a few more pages, and returned it to Tallulah: "Simply put, the logistics forces and state-owned enterprises are busy supplying troops; as for private enterprises... ..”

Aurora interjected from the side: "Let's not say that they are all new small businesses. Whose supermarket chain is opening to the war zone... Do you think the enemy has too few infiltrators?"

Before he finished speaking, Andrei Petrovich Sersky hurriedly walked into the reception room of the state military district headquarters.The commander and political commissar of the Rostov Region Military District took the pipe from his mouth and carefully pressed the raised ash with his finger.

The pipe was out.

This veteran militia soldier who also joined the army from the northwest tundra saluted the old political commissar, and the two greeted briefly.Then Commander Xue said with a gloomy face, "Old chief, I have to say, you came at a bad time."

"what happened?"

"There are enemy agents in the headquarters of my state military region. This guy may have noticed it. He happened to catch up with you here. Moreover, the first batch of prisoners exchange personnel will pass here today... .”

**

We have long said that the Ursus Empire is a feudal centralized empire with "insufficient centralization".And the army comes from society, and the Ursus Imperial Army must also have a strong feudal color: it is extremely seniority-based, it pays more attention to the background of connections than ability, and the promotion of soldiers is determined by noble blood.

This of course has an extremely fatal negative impact on the development and progress of the Ursus Imperial Army.The Nationalist Army, which always liked to recruit poor peasants, workers and even serfs from the prisoners of the imperial army, was indifferent to the imperial officers.Except for an insurgent who can be both an admiral and a trainer, and recently switched to playing war rap in the Ark of Tomorrow; the captured Ursus middle and senior officers have little chance of switching even if they are positive.

But from another point of view, the captured Ursas officers are different from the mud legs of the Civilian Army, and have political influence beyond the status of generals, which is a very useful bargaining chip.

Theoretically speaking, the Ursus Empire and the integration movement are still in a state of "mutual non-recognition".The official caliber of the empire is only "rebels" and "red rebels"; while the integration movement has not publicly announced the founding of the country, and the "Northern Ursus Base" has become a political entity that occupies 30.00% of the vast territory of Ursas The temporary main title of .

However, the empire is not capable of extinguishing the riots of the integration movement, which directly determines their choice: in addition to war, there are also private negotiations.

Indeed, the Fourth Army has been wiped out and ceased to exist.Their armed forces were wiped out by the integration movement, and all the areas under their jurisdiction became the integration movement base.However, most of the captured imperial officers came from all over the country.

Seriously speaking, requests for them to come back came from all over the empire, covering the entire palace; to be exaggerated, men and women from all walks of life, big and small, noble families are trying to come back for their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons, trying their best in the court. Hair prying.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the war, Emperor Fyodor of Ursus, who had only been on the throne for a few years, successfully took over part of the power, trying to reorganize the army and initiate reforms.At the same time, the emperor, who was facing the backlash of various armies, was also trying to win the hearts of the people.Therefore, His Majesty actively promoted the process of the prisoner exchange negotiations.

The Berkonsky family in Chernobog thus received good news and bad news: the good news is that their two sons, Andrei and Vasily, are still alive; Andrei, who has never been worrying, voted for the integration movement, and Vasily was eating in prison in a prisoner-of-war camp...

The subsequent negotiation process caused quite a stir in the upper echelons of the Ursus Empire.Because the number of Tribal Army prisoners held by the empire is far less than the imperial prisoners captured by the integration movement.So if you want to integrate sports and release prisoners, you will have to pay more.

The two sides started a long negotiation (tearing) judgment (forced) on this.The Ursus nobles and commoners who were worried about the return of their men also tried their best to promote the negotiation process.In the end, the two sides pushed forward the original intention of this long negotiation to be realized first.With the conclusion of the prisoner exchange agreement between the two sides, Vasily Berkonski was fortunately included in the first batch of prisoner exchange lists.

The first batch of prisoners who were exchanged prisoners moved out of the prisoner-of-war camp where they had lived for nearly two years, and embarked on a journey back home.All in all, the journey was uneventful.Everyone was occasionally allowed to go out during the transformation of the prisoner-of-war camp, and saw the integrated movement cities and villages rising directly from the northwest tundra:

Supported by a large number of light industrial products from the 113th Division's fully automatic factory, the various base areas of the integration movement have stepped into a moderately prosperous society. industrialized construction.

In every liberated area, after the empire and the original local forces are smashed, armies, factories, and universities will migrate in mighty force to consolidate the liberated area.There are many modular semi-permanent houses that have sprung up like mushrooms after rain in various base areas.

The red torrent with no worries about the future attacked in all directions, and the factories built by the integration movement provided a steady stream of steel, ammunition and energy for the war machine.Most of the newly turned former imperial subjects did not join the tribal army, but were put into jobs in the rear that required a lot of manpower and a relatively low-skilled level.

The People's Defense Army is more angry, and has not even launched a full-scale mobilization. With various advantages, it firmly holds the initiative on the battlefield.Almost never suffered heavy losses.As the rear area of ​​this war, in the various base areas of the integration movement, the residents' living security is sufficient, and they can even eat starfish occasionally, and they often hear good news from the south and the east, and the interest of the whole society is very high. .

The captives originally thought that this was just the environment in the core area of ​​​​the red elements.But I didn't expect that even the rebellious guys like the Cossacks couldn't break the storm for the time being.

Most of these aristocratic officers, who are still young, envy and praise the integration movement; but considering their own aristocratic status, they are not comparable in the political theory and social environment of the integration movement.So most of them seem to be quite mentally exhausted.Idealists even openly admit that they have expectations for the integration movement, and realists are worried about the future of the empire and the family.Debates, arguments and even fights broke out among the young people from time to time.

The only thing that everyone can praise is the food.The cooking skills of the red-headed people are amazing. The imperial officers and nobles who were tidied up in the prisoner-of-war camps are also used to eating in the same cafeteria from the generals to the soldiers of the Tribal Army. ordinance.

This meal was lucky, it was in the cafeteria of the State Military Region Command.Even though the prisoners were of high value and the militiamen took good care of them, the bumpy journey from the base to the front line still made the prisoners eager to sit down and have a peaceful meal.

Just as soon as he entered the house, Vasily Belkonsky felt that something was wrong.

There were a dozen people at a table in the corner of the cafeteria, and several of them were smoking.Gray smoke shifted unpredictably under the frosted-glass shade of the chandelier and hovered over the seat of the commander and political commissar of the state military district.The people around the table seemed to be shrouded in a thick fog.

The steward leading the group took the imperial officers and captives to another table.But soon, the captives began to whisper: there were sharp-eyed people who saw through the crowd of people eating, and found that Comand on that table.

It was the Yan Guo guy who defeated them in the Kursk Valley back then!