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

As we all know, once the army gets involved in business, bad things will happen, and the Ursus Empire Army is no exception.When the officers discovered the profits, they immediately forgot about honor, military discipline, law and other things, and concentrated on smuggling. Their enthusiasm was much higher than fighting against the militia.Since the military can use various methods and has various preferential privileges, it didn't take long for a large number of nouveau riche to emerge.Within a month, the Ursus Empire's armed forces had become a gang of armed speculators and smugglers.

Material temptations wreak havoc on military discipline and organizational structure.After all, the Don River Basin is an agricultural area, and its economic aggregate is far from being comparable to that of even the city of St. Junbao.As the food, materials and red rubles in the new "recovery" area gradually bottomed out, paper rubles continued to pour in, and prices rose three times a day.In order to continue the business, the Imperial Army began to engage in various no-cost transactions, and the notice of "selective law enforcement" by the General Staff was just in time.

In terms of integrity, it is difficult to break through at first.But it’s easier to continue declining after a breakout.Besides, the Imperial Army didn’t have much moral integrity to begin with.Smuggling, smuggling, arson, robbery, rape, drug trafficking, and human trafficking.The Imperial Army, which has already banned prostitutes, has even opened an internal facility called "Military Paradise", where there are also minors who have been kidnapped and kidnapped.No wonder the most die-hard Cossacks in the past picked up their weapons and risked their lives against His Majesty the Emperor's army.

What's even more troublesome is that when it comes to speculation, the subjects of the empire are much more enthusiastic than they are about war.This includes not only the business community that is already doing business, but also a considerable part of the Ursus people.

Most of the paper rubles that poured into the Don River Basin like a tsunami were used to exchange red rubles.Yes, the loyal subjects of the Ursus Empire cared about exchanging the country's legal currency for counterfeit currency with unprecedented enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and then took the red rubles to the black market and exchanged them for commodities, precious metals, or the currency of other countries.

After all, as the paper ruble continues to depreciate, this is the only way for ordinary people to ensure that their property is not damaged.

Although theoretically the red ruble cannot be circulated in the actual control area of ​​the empire, it is extremely strong in the black market and international trade.At a time when materials are severely scarce and black market trade is rampant in the empire, people will collect red rubles as much as possible whenever they have the opportunity.Now that there is an opportunity to exchange paper rubles for red rubles at an unbelievably good rate, speculators and ordinary people have joined forces—ordinary people have no access, but paper rubles exchange for less and more; speculators do the opposite.As a result, a large amount of paper rubles poured into the Don River Basin, while the limited red rubles and supplies were swept away.

And the saddest thing about all of this is that you can't stop the car.

In order to make up for the vacuum left by the one-way flow of paper rubles, and for profit, the money printing machines continued to operate, and even counterfeit paper rubles began to appear (?).However, foreign exchange, precious metals, and material reserves did not increase, so the depreciation of paper rubles accelerated, and the appreciation of red rubles and commodity prices accelerated. Throwing into the black market with unusable gadgets...

Of course, the empire did not print paper rubles into gold coupons, and the matter had not yet reached an irreversible situation.But Fyodor was shocked to find that as the emperor of the empire, he couldn't save this situation!

The Ursus Empire has armed grain requisition teams, but no party organization, no counter-revolutionary committee, and no political committee system.It can't order the army to stop doing business, it can't effectively crack down on black market trade and speculation, and it can't control the most powerful productive forces in the civil war.At most, it can only tighten the money printing machine and announce a few bans that exist in name only.

After Chekhov's cautious little civil servants were all thrown into speculation, the Ursus Empire was powerless to deal with this economic chaos.

After Speaker Witte helped Fyodor sort out the ins and outs of these things, Fyodor felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

The current Ursus Empire is an autocratic feudal country with a bit of militaristic genetic modification, but the concentration of power in this country is not very good.Although the new emperor is powerful, he is far from being a dictator.To put it more essentially, this is a country managed by the army, nobles, and bureaucrats. Those in power prioritize not the interests of the country, but the gains and losses of the small groups they belong to. Organizations and their own interests go all out, with little regard for the views of other groups, nor do they care much about how serious damage may be done to the country in the end.It is very close to the set of kings, lords, subjects, fiefs and subjects.

This is a group of selfish moths who have made a lot of money in the war.On the issue of the armistice, they will obliquely object, saying: "I agree that the war should end, but we have different opinions on how to armistice."

Don't get me wrong, what they think is not the current high degree of binding of currency and credit to war, but that the army is satisfied with the wonderful environment in which the war has brought national resources to itself, and the bureaucrats are dependent on profit-making methods under war conditions.

These bastards!

Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible to make any substantive progress in the negotiations with the integration movement.

Just as the emperor was thinking about this unsolvable problem, he heard a loud voice: "In this case, we should leave this issue to His Majesty for adjudication."

Fyodor came back to his senses and saw that everyone's eyes were on him.The emperor asked: "Is it still a matter of pack animals?"

The financial officials and logistics officers all looked at him expectantly: "Yes, Your Majesty."

"You continue to argue." Fyodor replied calmly.

Everyone was stunned.

Fedor stood up: "Everyone, I must remind you that we are facing a terrorist weapon attack that surpasses airplanes, tanks, and artillery. It has a long history and existed a long time ago. We also use It's got good hands. But now we're getting hammered by it."

The members of the War Council looked at him blankly.

Werther whispered: "Homeland."

People are silent.

After a bloody battle, it was like occupying an empty city with little gain.The main force of the enemy has disappeared, while the vast land around remains ominously silent...

Chapter 32 Deception and Preparation 1

"What are you looking at?"

Tallulah turned down the volume of "Song of the Defender of the Red Flag City" in her earphones, and looked up to see Comand's curious expression.She handed Commander the document she was flipping through.

"Some of the letters Ilyich received."

Comand took it and looked at the stack of bound books: These letters were written by bureaucrats and soldiers of the Ursus Empire, as well as informal notes from foreign countries and regions.

When the tribunes rushed eastward at the beginning of the war, almost rushing all the way to Fort St. Jun, letters of allegiance flowed like a river through various channels to the desk of the Supreme Commander of the Integration Movement, the Document Management Office Almost exhausted to death.After the fronts of both sides stagnated in the Don River Basin, the pledge of allegiance also shrank.Recently, when the Civilian Army returned to the starting point more than a year ago, more letters were sent to the red-headed big boss again. The content was not the same flattery as before, but various requests for "cooperation" and "cooperation". Some people simply wrote a high price to buy themselves.

As for signs other than Ursus, they are also normal.Only the Republic of Kazdel, because of its close interest relationship with the integration movement, took the initiative to ask whether the integration movement needed support, saying that it could provide more soldiers in addition to the Kazdel First Army, which is currently in the battle sequence of the National Guard.In addition, all countries and forces that have previously been associated with the integration movement have a cold attitude towards the integration movement.

For example, Wei Yanwu, the city owner of Longmen, a special city-state in the Yan Kingdom that had a long-term cooperative relationship with Atlas due to frequent commercial trade, began to use euphemistic and courteous words and sentences in his letters to express that he would reconsider the relationship with Atlas. Some "sensitive" items in commercial cooperation.

"A group of guys whose vision is not as far-sighted as Lin Yuxia's." Tallulah said with a hint of contentment and gloating, "This is not surprising. It's just that the favorability of the loser should be slowly increased."

"Isn't there your uncle here?"

"Yes, but I am a soldier of the People's Federation."

Comand was silent for a moment.

Tallulah's expression gradually became serious: "What's wrong?"

Comand handed her a data pad: "The latest information. There is a collective emergency in Fort St. Jun. The citizens of St. Junburg have launched a large-scale mass demonstration to protest the reduction of rations, sugar and tobacco quotas. But the response of the empire this time It was tougher than before, and the city government of St. Junbao received the imperial decree and directly ordered martial law in the city, ordering that all demonstrations in the city must be stopped immediately.

"The urban guerrilla detachment of the Socialist Revolutionary Party was still attacking the imperial government and violent departments in this incident, but the situation has changed. The imperial army changed the rules of engagement after the martial law order was issued, and would use force to disperse the demonstrators after a warning. When the crowd throws stones at them, the Imperial Army will use infantry and cavalry to attack the demonstrators with cold weapon lines; when the crowd throws Molotov cocktails, the Imperial Army will shoot violently at the throwers in the crowd; when the crowd is mixed with guerrillas, the Imperial Army will The army completely ignored civilian casualties. When the demonstration was completely dispersed, more than [-] citizens of Saint-Jon Castle had died abnormally and tens of thousands were injured. The underground armed forces of the Socialist Revolutionary Party suffered heavy losses in order to cover the evacuation of the crowd."

Tallulah flipped through the pictures, her face gloomy.

"Next, I have to talk about something more complicated. News came from multiple intelligence channels: Such tough measures were taken because Emperor Ursus wanted to discuss war loans with the Longmen envoy. Integration in the palace Various channels such as movement sympathizers and GPU intelligence scouts have achieved mutual confirmation. Because the Municipal Government of St. Junburg mobilized a large number of manpower and vehicles to hurriedly transport the bodies of the victims out of the city and dumped them in the wilderness. Less than three months later, The special envoy from Longmen entered the palace at an hour... Tallulah, let go."

There was a little doubt in the gloom on Tallulah's face, she looked up at Comand.The latter pointed to the corner of the table: "You are about to break this thing off."

Tallulah let go of the corner of the table as if she had just woken up from a dream.

Then the corner of the table top cracked, and the corner of the table fell to the floor.The crisp and hard sound seemed to turn on some switch, and the Drake girl roared and slammed her fist on the table, directly piercing through the solid table:

"That bastard with the head of a pack beast!"

Heavy breathing echoed in the small room.Commander waited until Tallulah had managed to calm down and said: "These things are related to you, so you know it now. But the new mission is not this, but related to the strategic counterattack to reverse the war situation."

Tallulah stood at attention, and said in a short and forceful voice, "As long as I can make these bastards pay, I'm ready to go anywhere."

"Your determination is very good. So, follow me to Rhode Island first."

"Ok?"

**

Rhode Island has been dormant since leaving Kazdale.

Sign a cooperation contract with Atlas, seek business development in the vast medical market of the Ursas integration movement base, step up the procurement of high-tech equipment and materials, and implement ship refitting...

Today, Ursus' integration movement liberated area has become the most friendly market for Rhode Island; Rhode Island's security department has successfully achieved leapfrog development; The ship itself has also been fully modernized.

Therefore, some people on the island put forward their opinions——

Is it time to distance yourself from the Unified Movement and Atlas?

This is a very real problem, especially now that the integration movement has created a generous and tragic atmosphere, which seems like a desperate fight.This has led many people within Rhodes Island to believe that Atlas and the Integration Movement are about to lose Ursus.

Kelsey used more euphemistic syntax for these points, saying, "You and your knowledge make me laughable."It's not that she has any special source of intelligence, but even if she were killed, she wouldn't believe that the power of the Human League could not stop the Ursus Empire's attack, and it would be hard to believe that the 113th Division would let its largest friendly force on Terra collapse.

So, when the invitation from the Integration Movement came to Rhode Island and Commander personally boarded the deck of Rhode Island, Kelsey knew that changes were coming.

**

Draped over the shoulders like a cloak or cape, the navy blue military overcoat danced in the corridors of the USS Rhode Island.The coat, which has been carefully cut by an excellent tailor, is made of high-grade fabric with excellent gloss. The fur lining comes from the prey that the owner of the clothes hunted in the northwest tundra. It is a rare luxury among the personal belongings of Comand and Tallulah.

Under the coats of the two men, the regular dresses of the Space Fleet of the People's Federation Army Corps are also quite impressive. The navy blue woolen fabric is stitched together with exquisite stitching, and the strong physique is outlined with a serious and strong outline. Black tie, silver star stripe epaulettes on the left and right shoulders, brown belt, and single-breasted button design vividly reflect the upright style of the general——

"Honestly, it's quite plain."

Kelsey made this assessment of Comand's outfit.

Even though this is Command's best outfit, compared with all the bells and whistles on Terra, it's still not good enough.

From the armor of the Casimir knights to the steam armor of Victoria, to the dress of the generals of the Ursus Empire, they are always engraved with complicated patterns, pendants, medals, ribbons and family marks, and the rich are also inlaid with gems. Hanging gold and silver embroidered streamers, compared with the Lolita-style "enamel shop owners full of small bits and pieces", Command is shabby, and his status-the former leadership core of the integration movement , The members of the decision-making committee of the 113th Division of the Extraterrestrial Armed Production and Construction Corps of the People's Federation are completely inconsistent.

But Kelsey realized that there was nothing wrong with this. She had dealt with the integration movement and the 113th division, so she understood that the 113th division and the integration movement cultivated by it were highly practical groups, which had no practical significance. Pretense that wastes money is more repulsive.

In addition, compared to the extremely gorgeous knights, devil bosses and noble officers with eyes that grow to the top of their heads.Uniform and relatively simple uniforms make it easier for civilians to feel friendly, and along the way, Comand also greeted the former Babel and current Rhode Island operators whom he met in Kazdale.And Tallulah accompanied Comand indifferently.

"The situation is still changing." When he walked into the conference room that could isolate the sound, Comand suddenly removed his smiling face and put on an extremely serious expression, "And it is closely related to you."

Kelsey and Warfarin looked at each other, and Amiya tilted her head in confusion.

Command paused and changed the topic: "I know what you are thinking. Facing the heavy pressure of the Ursus Empire, the integration movement itself is hard to protect."

Warfarin asked in a low voice: "In your eyes, isn't that so?"

"Of course—no." Comand smiled coldly, "Have you ever heard such a saying? The retracted fist can only be powerful when it is punched out."

......

The hollow sound of leather shoes hitting the ground echoed in the deep passage.It is buried more than 40 meters underground, covered with several layers of armor plates and concrete, and has a complex tunnel system like a spider's web.But the spacious corridors and bright lighting make the visitors who walk inside not feel cramped.

The blue gray and sky blue mixed in the army green and gray are very eye-catching.And the Rhodes Island senior operatives mixed in with the military and political leaders of the integration movement are indeed uncomfortable: they wear Originium skill induction bracelets on their hands, and if any Originium skill is activated, the bracelet will immediately call the police.The only reason they chose to keep their mouths shut was that even Tallulah, who was a soldier of the People's Federation, was carrying this thing in her hands.

The integrated movement armed forces command center named "Wolf's Lair" fully refers to the underground fortification construction materials marked with the word "Krieg" and combines the experience and lessons learned from actual work.The underground command post "Wolf's Lair", the base camp of the Supreme Command of the Terra People's Protection Army, was built to be extremely strong.

Visitors who have visited here are mostly impressed by the spring beds in the dormitories, vodka, central air conditioning, bathhouses with regular hot water supply every day, and the officers and soldiers cinema; but the insecure Rhode Island operators only saw the regiment as a unit Guard troops, powerful and advanced technological weapons, and countless light and dark firepower points inside the building.

The smell of damp earth in the air is hard to get rid of. Even if the ventilation system is working well, a damp and sticky atmosphere with a rusty smell can still be felt in the bunker.

The visitors' confusion has nothing to do with the green army coat group that is the host.Their steps are fast and steady, and their expressions are relaxed and confident.The infected guard straightened his back, held his automatic rifle and saluted the green moving wall with shining stars.

Through the numerous stairs, ramps, blast doors, and sentry posts, two guards fiddled with the hydraulic system.The last 300mm thick carburized steel explosion-proof door opened without a sound.Command and Tallulah, who led Kelsey and the others, walked behind Ulyanov and the others and entered the command hall.

"Stand at attention, salute!"

The officer on duty yelled, and the originally noisy headquarters remembered the sound of hundreds of pairs of leather shoes knocking on their heels at the same time.As Ulyanov, who was wearing a camouflage uniform without any logo, raised his hand in return, the command hall was once again as noisy as a stock exchange.

The position of the senior commanders of the Tribune was a stretch of platform.The senior leaders of the integration movement and the leaders of Rhodes Island commanded a commanding view of the scene below.

Red and blue square team logos representing the number and type of troops are densely packed on the huge electronic sand table in the center of the hall.The operators focused on the screens in front of them and tapped the keyboard quickly.The staff officers chatted quietly around the large-scale military map, and from time to time one or two orderlies handed them messages from unknown places.

"Next, I would like to ask Comrade Commander to introduce to you our army's next action plan."

Ulyanov turned around and looked at the Rhode Island operators who were following behind.

Commander smiled and nodded without saluting, and then quickly walked to a vertical map hanging on the side of the command platform.Take out three pencils, two red and one blue.

"The next phase of the campaign planning is codenamed 'Berlin'."

The battle lines between the two armies facing each other on the map are roughly northeast-southwest.The red area in the northwest is the Integration Movement, and the blue area in the southeast is the Ursus Empire.Command picked up his pointer and pointed at the Don River Basin that the partisan army had just abandoned.

"The previous retreat of the militiamen was to withdraw the front line northwest from the Don River Basin."

He put one pencil on the large-scale map, the two red ones were posted on the battle line, and the blue pencil was side by side with the red pencil west of the Don River.

"The comprehensive retreat of the Don River Basin, as well as various political and economic factors within the Ursus Empire, forced the imperial army to launch a large-scale offensive with the purpose of ending the war and seeking an armistice."

The parallel red and blue began to rotate clockwise, slowly drawing a fan towards the Dnieper River on the west side.

"If the imperial army goes on the offensive, it can go directly to Hongqi City, the largest city of the integration movement, and approach the main industrial area of ​​the integration movement: the industrial area on the right bank of the Dnieper River. As the Ursus army pressed the border, the partisan army was forced to The situation of "a last-ditch battle" by the Dnieper River will further "prove" that the partisans have to retreat. However, if the imperial army really starts to advance and fight the new Dnieper River defense line, they will seem to have walked into a huge door. A virtual revolving door, they enter from the west side. And when they push the door in, the door on the other side also rotates very quickly."

With the military city "Steelgrad" in the center of the western region of Ursus as the axis, the red pencil located in the northeast of the city swept across the eastern and south of Ursus from west to east at a much faster speed. The huge fan was like the god of death. scythe, pounced on the blue pencil - behind the unsuspecting Ursus Empire army.Under Kelsey's surprised gaze, two red pencils clamped the blue pencil firmly on the Dnieper River.