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

And of course, when he reunited with Chernobog after nearly two years on the deck of a lander, he felt...  

Furious.

The land ship port of any Terra city is basically a place of commercial concentration, and the Sami port in the Vyborg district of Chernoborg is close to factories and workers' residential areas. It can be called the largest labor force in the Ursus Empire. distribution center.In the past, it was densely covered with various shops and temporary stalls.Originally, the earl's son thought he would see a depression, but the result made him wonder if he really left the front line:

The windows of the shops facing the street were all smashed, and broken glass was scattered all over the place; all kinds of rags and debris were scattered on the ground, and it was full of footprints and rubbish.Looking through the empty doors and windows, the room is either broken furniture scattered all over the floor, or the mouse is about to starve to death in the empty room.

Traces of fire; walls sifted by artillery shells and rifle bullets; blood stains that have turned the color of rust.

Dirty, vacant-looking Imperial Army patrols, armed with rifles, passed the charred bodies at the base of the wall.

"......What exactly is going on?"

Valery asked the servant who came to greet him with a livid face.

The uncle, who watched the two brothers Andre and Valery grow up, sighed, and his face showed a completely opposite expression to his beautiful suit: "It's very simple-there's no more bread!"

......

The cause of the incident was the entrance of a bakery in the Vyborg district (as mentioned earlier, this is the most important proletarian settlement in Chernoborg).The long line here suddenly spread rumors that "there is no bread in stock and the store is closed".

In just a few minutes, the Ursus women who were still in the long queue started to commotion.They frantically rushed to the stores closest to them, smashed open the doors and windows, and frantically snatched all the food.

For those who have not experienced the life of the rationing system of high scarcity, it is hard to imagine that the meek citizens can be turned into terrorists in the blink of an eye by saying "no bread".But that's what happened to Chernobog a few days ago.

For today's residents of Chernobog, "no bread" means only one thing - falling into a slow death.

Since the start of the all-out war between the Integration Movement and the Ursus Empire, a large number of young and middle-aged laborers in rural and urban areas have been recruited to the front line, and a large number of livestock for farming have also been requisitioned. Provinces and cities close to the front line even lost nearly 35% agricultural labor force.

We have introduced that there are also a large number of settlements on the vast land outside the mobile city.The productivity and social form of these settlements with agriculture as their main industry are backward, and they can be compared with those urbanites who even set up local area networks in the city.

But the latter has no ability to put aside the former.

Hundreds of years ago, the efforts to unearth the heritage of pre-civilizations suddenly leapt forward.Then the world began to change dazzlingly: factories, land ships and mobile cities stood on the ground.In the eyes of the Tyrayans, whose lifespans often reached triple digits, society rushed into a new era almost in the blink of an eye.

Those powerful people who control power and wealth play with unfamiliar new toys like excited children: land-ships, mobile cities, origin stone industries, new types of warfare-but their new toys only come from fully automatic fools. factory.Reverse exploration is slow and difficult, and independent research and development is even more difficult.

The lack of foundation allows the people of Terra to come up with a bunch of gorgeous big guys, but they can't let the drones be cheap enough to go into thousands of households to spread pesticides; Enter the new countryside; let alone let the entire Ursas be covered with automated agricultural factories.In the shipyard of Fort St. Jun, there are world-class land battleships being outfitted, but the serfs are still using wooden plows.Gorgeous pavilions do not have a solid foundation, which exists more or less in all Terran countries.

Therefore, the loss of labor is a devastating blow to the old agriculture of the Ursus Empire.Coupled with the exploitation of landlords, the hoarding of merchants, the attrition of the army, and various losses and delays in the transportation process, food shortages generally appeared in major cities of the Ursus Empire, and some low-level people's settlements were generally cut off from cooking.The concentration of workers in Chernobog is extremely large, and the phenomenon of starvation is extremely serious.

Facing the increasingly severe situation, the imperial authorities had to adopt a food stamp quota distribution system.So every morning, citizens braved the cold wind of minus [-] degrees and lined up at the entrance of the food store, waiting for the rations to be released.

Food is far from the only problem.

Originally, after the emergence of Terra’s urbanization, commercial development was severely restricted by Terra’s harsh environment. All commercial entities were faced with the dreadful situation of insufficient liquidity, and could only “circulate” in their own mobile cities and surrounding villages. ", in this one-third of an acre of land, the development level of capitalist business can be described as appalling.

During the war, the entire industrial system had to give priority to meeting military needs, which caused the already fragile economic cycle of the Ursus Empire to be further damaged.The amount of industrial and agricultural products used for trade has dropped significantly; the Tribunal Lien Chan and Lien Jie took 30.00% of the empire's territory.All these have made countries' willingness to invest and trade in Ursas, as well as the willingness to invest and trade across regions within Ursas, to become weaker and weaker.

There is a serious shortage of important industrial raw materials and mechanical processing equipment, and exports are like an untightened faucet.With only access and no access, the resources and vitality in the reservoir of the Ursus Empire are rapidly decreasing.

Insufficient supply of daily necessities led to skyrocketing prices, so the cost of living for ordinary people soared, which led to a rapid decline in the consumption power of the people of Ursas; the lack of high-grade raw materials and processing equipment made production costs extremely expensive.Under the two-sided trend of these two trends, a large number of enterprises in Ursas, ranging from state-owned to privately-owned, have become unsustainable and have gone bankrupt. Many citizens are unemployed or at risk of unemployment.

Negative emotions of anger, anxiety, and dissatisfaction are slowly accumulating among the masses.And this looting was just the last straw that broke the endurance of the general public.What was originally just a looting by housewives suddenly turned into a riot of beating, smashing and looting all over the city.

The Ursus Empire's famous "barbarism" on Terra is not without reason.Since the establishment of the empire, it has always dealt with such disturbances quickly and firmly.For example, the Imperial Army pointed out in the relevant experience summary: For the crowd who fell into group frenzy, they should not use live ammunition first to intimidate them with blank ammunition.Because the crowd will become more fanatical after discovering that it is a blank bomb, and I believe that the suppression force will be brutal; only the live ammunition is used first to cause casualties, and then the blank bomb is used to further create panic and disperse the crowd...

This summary of experience from many practical operations can be called bloody, but at any rate it still has the meaning of "reducing casualties".But this time, the Imperial Army completely screwed up.

After receiving the report of the riot, the "military police" in charge of security and the Cossack cavalry battalion defending the city were dispatched immediately.However, after the war began, a large number of garrison troops were stationed in the city, and these purely field troops also joined in to suppress the riots.They were all trained in conventional combat, and they didn't know how to deal with the nearly [-] rioting civilians in front of them.

This is an apt description of this situation.At the scene of a demonstration, it is easy for an emotional crowd to get out of control, and the military and police are also prone to overreact in the face of a huge violent crowd.The event site at this time is completely filled with gasoline inside and out, and then filled with natural gas. A big explosion can be created by a single spark, let alone a Molotov cocktail.The street riots in Chernobog escalated rapidly under the fierce interaction, developing in an increasingly bloody direction along the way.

The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army felt their scalps numb in the face of the black and violent crowd, so they smashed their rifles and threatened them with bayonets as soon as they came up, which naturally caused bloodshed; It quickly evolved into "the army is going to kill everyone!" - so the chaos became more and more uncontrollable, and some frightened guys rushed directly towards the army line, and the neurotic soldiers ushered in chaos. gun shooting.

The large-scale gunfire created a huge panic, causing the rioting crowd to flee in all directions.In the process of escaping, a series of serious stampede accidents were naturally triggered.

"More than 2000 people were trampled to death, and more than 1 were injured. Only about [-] people were directly killed or injured by bayonets and bullets."

"...The army is always like this." Valery sighed.

The uncle replied: "So, the city is not peaceful now. Or rather, it's going to heaven!"

**

The general process of a social movement aimed at regime change will inevitably include the following: taking to the streets, pulling banners, buying for zero yuan, building barricades, raising impossible demands, disrupting negotiations, and causing death.Then starting with death, a new round of campaigns starts, round after round, and finally achieves regime change.

This is a description without value judgments. Whether it is the sans-culottes or the Red Guards, the brownshirt stormtroopers or the color revolutions, all social movements aimed at regime change will inevitably avoid such routines.

But before all this starts, there will be many factors affecting the environment that triggers these social activities.Simple insinuations are meaningless and must be evaluated in a specific environment.

The environment facing the Ursus Empire is indeed complicated.

First of all, the living standards of the urban residents under the Ursas Empire have indeed reached the point where they cannot guarantee food and clothing.Under various factors such as war consumption, trade blockage, wartime economy, social control, and official corruption, the subjects of Emperor Ursus, from soldiers to serfs, from farmers to citizens, paid hundreds of millions more in taxes than before, but from above Unsatisfied to the next.The high degree of internal contradictions is the root cause of all tragedies.

However, external factors also exist, and account for a considerable proportion.

On the day of the Chernobog riots, the Chernobog garrison of the Imperial Army stated that it had encountered an "unexpected" situation.

Amid the commotion, and even those who did not even appear to be participating in the commotion, there emerged attackers hidden among civilians.They are both individuals and groups. Their appearance is no different from ordinary people walking on the street. They are indistinguishable from each other.Until they suddenly throw Molotov cocktails at government agencies, or buildings such as police stations or branches of the Imperial Secret Service.

Those with higher "professionalism" took out their headscarves from their arms, covered their faces with masks, chanted various anti-government and anarchist slogans, and incited the crowd to march and demonstrate or stormed government agencies, police barracks, and street shops.

If there is a police or army nearby, the accomplices in the surrounding high-rise buildings will quickly report the situation of the incoming enemy.If the number of military and police is small or there is no coordination, the instigators will incite the people to attack the military and police who are alone; Go into sewers, alleys, or buildings, get a makeover and move or wait for things to calm down.

In addition to fanning the flames and intensifying conflicts on the spot, there will also be accomplices of the attackers squatting in the building who will use a variety of camera equipment to shoot "contagious struggle pictures" as promotional materials.

The above are just relatively basic ways of playing, and the more advanced version even organizes violent activities.The attackers created violent activities in multiple neighborhoods at the same time, highly concentrated in time and highly dispersed in space, making it impossible for the military and police to concentrate their forces.Sometimes it only takes one day to exhaust the military and police, and at the same time cause heavy losses.

——To put it bluntly, this has broken away from spontaneous mass protests and reckless vandalism, and has entered a "quasi-war" involving external forces.

"Now the market is in chaos. The Socialist Revolutionary Party, the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Socialist Party, the Snow Moon Party, and the Federal Revolutionary Party are all jumping out. There are rallies and demonstrations, demonstrations, strikes, strikes, assassinations, and disrupting the transfer of troops."

The old servant sighed, and continued: "Our family, the Rostovs, have all moved to the country for a while..."

Valery didn't continue to listen to the old man's chatter, but just closed his eyes and leaned against the back of the car, recalling the education courses in the Tribal Army prisoner-of-war camp and the internal struggles of fellow prisoners of war.

**

"Good day, Comrade Ulyanov. I have come to give you a report."

Command put the documents on Ulyanov's desk and sat down opposite him: "I heard that the Supreme People's Council is arguing recently?"

"Yes." Ulyanov scratched his bald circle in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.

"how is the situation?"

"Not so much. There are voices of radicalism inside. For example, some people regard the effect of subversive means as the best signal for a new upsurge in the general offensive. But if you ask him 'the violence of the enemy Is the organization festered enough?", "To what extent has our strength behind the enemy's rear been developed?", "What about the several Ursus armies on the other side of the Don River?", they misfired.

"As for the work department in the enemy's rear, it seems that they are very fond of the work of creating destruction and turmoil, and think that this is the best way to achieve results...

Commander's cheeks twisted: "This is not good news, Comrade Ulyanov. It is not necessarily a bad thing to love to punch your fist. The key is to see where to hit. The views on such destructive activities reflect to a considerable extent. position."

"Yeah, 'self-positioning'. Some people still position themselves in the idea of ​​working underground, knocking down, smashing, destroying, no need to go further, just think about throwing their fists. They should really be grateful to the Ursus Empire : It is the difficult life under the imperial order, and the life that has been unbearable recently has caused the subjects of the empire to turn their anger on the empire; if the empire is a little stronger, most people can still live in life. Our subversive elements are They can only be beaten by all the subjects of the empire under the guidance of the empire."

Comand shook his head: "There are many things you can refute in this passage, but I don't need you to add a bunch of restrictive rhetoric to speak; if you expand it, it can also be extended to the dialectical relationship between destruction and construction in revolutionary organizations ...so let’s get back to business.”

"Yes." Ulyanov folded his hands under his nose, this is the movement he learned from Comand in the Northwest Tundra, "So, Comrade Comman, what do you think about the current comparison of forces between the enemy and us? "

"Generally speaking, our side has an advantage, but it is not big enough. First, please answer a question: Is the Ursus Empire really weak?"

Chapter 20 new map open

Another conference room, another dense cigarette smoke that seemed to have been blown up in a smoke bomb.

Comand's report, which was originally submitted directly to Ulyanov, was eventually assigned to the Supreme Command.And Command will also make a report for this group that includes the party and government leadership and a considerable number of senior military commanders.

Speaking of which, Command's position in the integration movement is very delicate.In terms of substantive political relations, he does not have any existence that can be called a faction in today's integration movement.

However, this guy has military prestige.

The word "military prestige" is a bit complicated to say, but it is actually very simple——

In a brutal war, the authority of a commander is based on victory after victory. Every commander can only sit in this seat after winning the approval of his subordinates and superiors by his own ability.A person who can command an army must be irreplaceable in the eyes of his subordinates.This is not just a simple fear, it is a kind of awe from the heart.

Comand is an iconic symbol in its own right.Most of you here knew him when he was in the Northwest Tundra, and when Comand was rounding up the tundra to gather people, they were digging, wandering and doing hard work on the Tundra; When the soldiers attacked the Usas picket team, they were the squad leaders and soldiers; when Comand dominated the expansion of the base area on the northwest tundra, they led the armed forces to spread around; , they are regimental and battalion-level cadres...

Commander Kang is going to make a report. Can the leaders of the People's Protection Army not sit upright like elementary school students and tremble?That's not a question of Li Tuanchang meeting with the brigade commander; it's a question of Li Tuanchang meeting with the teacher and even the deputy commander...

Command left the integrated movement system and transferred to Kazdel to work. From a certain perspective, the 113th Division of the Extraterrestrial Corps wanted to see how the political ecology level in the integrated movement was.And when needed, Comand's resources should be used.

Just like it is now, when Command gave a report, even the quick-win factions who were pointed at their noses and scolded could only sit upright and listen with a serious expression:

"Many comrades always like to talk about the imperial army's feet. 'The sea of ​​people is on fire', 'Tianlinggai fights the mace'. This kind of thinking cannot be said to be unreasonable, mainly because we are an integration movement, and the People's Army is a contemporary From concepts, to equipment, to the fighting will are top-notch armed forces.

"However, if we look at the whole of Terra, or in a 'major country' with a certain population size and economic scale, the Ursus army can't be said to be a 'weak' existence!

"Of course, we can despise the imperial army's tactics of mobilizing serfs and even pulling strong men everywhere as cannon fodder, filling the line with a large number of light infantry, and relying on numerical superiority to infiltrate and assault tactics, but they can also do at least three things:

"First of all, basic light weapons and individual equipment, such as rifles, staves, grenades, grenades, etc. - no matter what the quality is, it is enough. Although these things are of various types and quality may not be very good, from Mosina They range from musket-loading muskets to gunpowder power and origin stone power, but at least in quantity they can be used on the front line. Combatants at the front have at least guns that can fire, and troops with a little combat experience have them. There will be a system of infantry weapons;

"Secondly, the Imperial Army still has a basic vehicle and transportation system. Although the Imperial Army's auto soldiers have air intake and exhaust under our aerial strangulation; although the Imperial Army's land fleet has been beaten to almost nothing but soy sauce; The few tracked vehicles of the imperial army could only climb to the front line by motorized marching due to lack of means of transportation; although more than half of the imperial army's vehicles were at the original level with backward performance, in any case, the imperial army was still useful to fill those hundreds of thousands of vehicles. The ability of the line baby to be stuffed into the correct position, only the final stage of the transportation link requires people and supplies to go to the trench in the mud;

"The last point also leads to the last point: the basic logistics support system. Although we all know that the Ursus army's logistics is corrupt and the guarantee is not good, and the soldiers are poorly fed and well-clothed, but hundreds of thousands of thread-filling soldiers are scattered on the front line. Can you How many times have you seen front-line troops without food for a long time? How many front-line personnel have died of freezing and starvation? You can’t say that there are absolutely no, but the ratio is absolutely negligible. Prefabricated black bread, at least their logistics can basically fill their stomachs, a torn coat, a bowl of oatmeal porridge, can always be guaranteed. This also means that every one of the vast number of enemy symbols on the map At least he still has fighting power!"

Comand's sharp eyes looked around, and all the "Young and Strong School Generals" felt their scalps go numb.

Then he continued: "Looking at all countries, I don't think there may be a few companies that can do these basic tasks well while recruiting 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands of mobilized troops. Our comrades must deeply understand Now, the technical problem is not the so-called 'institutional advantage'!

"That's right, the enemy 'can gather but not disperse, form a long snake formation, and can't fight mobile warfare'. But the imperial army can still launch a group attack with whole regiments and divisions, trying to crush our defense line; it can also organize small groups day and night. Team infiltration. Although our army has powerful firepower and advanced equipment, it must be carefully prepared to effectively destroy the enemy;

"Anyone who reads too many jingles will think that the enemy is a soft persimmon. I will hang him on the armor plate of the tank on the front line now, and let him see what the 'soft persimmon' in his mouth looks like!"

The commanders and staff officers of the National People's Army watched their noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, and hearts, with embarrassing expressions and lowered their eyes.

Comand slowed down his tone slightly: "We must be alert to this ideological tendency, that is, 'politics in command'. The characterization of 'feudal army' and 'revolutionary army' is very important, but it cannot be too cross-border to specific military science. The enemy as An army that has lasted for hundreds of years still has a deep foundation accumulated and the ability to learn and develop, rather than loose tofu. They are just not as good as us in the upper limit. It doesn't mean that they can't see our future if we slack off. back!

"Next, let's talk about some specific examples of the above-mentioned aspects. The first is the anti-landing battle at the mouth of the Medvedi River, the level of organization of the imperial infantry in the face of the impact of our army's mechanized troops... ..."

**

The crowd with different expressions walked out of the conference room amidst the noise, and Comand was able to sit down for the first time in three hours.

Ulyanov sat down next to him, and his tone seemed satisfied: "Good job."

"Don't count on me next time." Comand coughed twice, then picked up the enamel jar from the small table next to him, and drank the remaining boiled water in one go. "I withdrew because I was not professionally qualified, and because I emphasized the independence of your organization. After a long time of internal disagreement, I had to be called back. That would affect our rating for you."

"Why don't you use it... Besides, there will be no chance in the future. Ah, Felix, you are finally here. Kang, come and see these."

The entire face of the visitor seemed to be chopped out of limestone with an axe. His face was gray, his eye sockets were sunken, and his edges and corners were particularly sharp. Together with the circle of stubble around his lips, he faintly revealed a cold taste—the country The head of the Political Security Service, Felix Edmenevich Dzerzhinsky, entered the conference room.

He calmly handed over a folder.Ulyanov took it and handed it to Comand.

Comand opened it and took a quick look.

The two sheets of paper in the folder briefly introduced two things: