Hou Liangping arrested a hawkish general, and his father-in-law panicked

Chapter 12 is finally here

Hou Liangping hurried back home.

I turned the key to open the door, and the warm light and the aroma of food hit me.

"I'm home?"

Zhong Xiaoai poked her head out of the kitchen, wearing an apron and holding a spatula in her hand.

She only took one look and noticed the low pressure on her husband.

"Why do you look so bad? Did you run into a snag?"

Hou Liangping didn't say anything, but just threw the briefcase onto the cabinet in the entrance hall. The muffled sound was accompanied by nameless anger.

He changed his shoes, walked straight to the sofa, and sank into it, not even bothering to loosen his tie.

Zhong Xiaoai brought a cup of warm water and placed it on the coffee table in front of him. Without asking any further questions, she just sat down quietly beside him.

She knew him too well, and this silence only served to illustrate the difficulty of the problem.

"I don't know why Old Ji suddenly left in a hurry today. Something big must have happened."

Hou Liangping's words fell.

Zhong Xiaoai finally spoke: "Ji Changming is panicking because Zhao Yuanchao disappeared in Handong?"

"Who?"

"Zhao Yuanchao?"

"Who is he?"

Zhong Xiaoai calmed her tone and continued, "Liangping, listen carefully. Every word I say next, you must keep to yourself once you leave this room."

"First of all, the name Zhao Yuanchao cannot be mentioned lightly in our family circle."

Hou Liangping's heart sank suddenly.

"why?"

"Because he's the commander of the 20th Army, a renowned hawkish general. Handong is currently in turmoil. It's said that six special forces soldiers from the 20th Army have gone missing in Handong. Zhao Yuanchao is furious and has come to Handong personally to look for soldiers."

Hou Liangping took a breath of cold air.

No wonder Zhong Xiaoai is so cautious about this person.

"More than a decade ago, why did the Eagles suddenly suffer such a setback in the Middle East, losing several intelligence stations they had operated for many years and causing their entire strategic layout to become passive? The whole world couldn't understand it at the time. My father said that he was the mastermind behind that operation."

"Boom——" Hou Liangping's mind went blank.

Eagle sauce...

A super figure who can make even the world's hegemon suffer a loss...

Such a behemoth that can easily shake the international situation actually disappeared in Handong?

"He once said that a large-scale war is worse than a small one, and that the advantages of war resources are concentrated. It would be better to bring Sakura along with us to fight against Wanwan."

Hou Liangping became even more panicked.

Such a hawkish general was "attacked" in Handong?

This is dragging everyone down with it.

At this moment.

In the meeting room of the Standing Committee of the Handong Provincial Party Committee.

in a meeting.

It was more of a collective ordeal than a meeting.

Sitting around the huge oval conference table were the most powerful people in Handong Province, but at this moment, everyone's face was covered with a visible haze.

The ashtray was already filled with cigarette butts, and the strong smell of smoke was mixed with the oppressive silence.

Li Dakang's face was darker than the bottom of a pot, and his iconic double eyelids were drooping.

Gao Yuliang, Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, seemed unusually silent. He held the cup of tea that had remained unchanged for thousands of years, but did not drink a sip.

"Still no news?"

Sha Ruijin's voice broke the silence.

"More than ten hours have passed!"

As the provincial party secretary, although he remained calm on his face, his furrowed brow revealed his inner anxiety.

"Qi Tongwei from the provincial department also led people there. We've used all the technical means, but we haven't found a single person yet."

"Disappear into thin air?"

"How could a living person, such an important figure, disappear out of thin air? Either he was hidden, or... the worst possible outcome."

The temperature in the conference room dropped a few degrees.

"The worst outcome", these five words are like a huge rock, weighing on everyone's heart.

None of them dared to think about what kind of terrible political earthquake would be triggered if something really happened to Zhao Yuanchao in Handong.

Everyone here, from Sha Ruijin on down, no one can escape.

This is no longer a simple matter of dereliction of duty.

This is a catastrophic disaster that can instantly bring their political lives to zero.

At this moment, Sha Ruijin's red confidential phone made a shrill ringing sound.

Everyone's eyes were instantly focused on the past.

Sha Ruijin picked up the phone and said only one word: "Hello."

No one knew what was said on the other end of the phone. The people present could only see that Sha Ruijin's face turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The veins in his hand holding the phone were bulging and his knuckles were white from excessive force.

After a few seconds, he put down the phone, looked at everyone, and moved his lips, but no sound came out.

He cleared his throat, and when he spoke again, his voice was as dry as sandpaper.

"Just now... it was a call from the General Office of the Central Military Commission."

In one sentence, the air in the entire conference room completely froze.

"Instructions from above."

"Comrade Zhao Yuanchao, who has lost contact within our province, has had his identity verified. Until he is safely found, I, Sha Ruijin, shall not leave Handong Province for any reason."

He paused and added, speaking to himself and everyone else: "Stay where you are and accept investigation."

The chill of the pinnacle of power, at this moment, mercilessly penetrated Sha Ruijin's bones.

For the first time, he felt that his power as a frontier official was so fragile.

There was a pair of invisible, cold eyes staring at him and the entire Handong from far above.

He was no longer a chess player, he had become a chess piece on the board, unable to move.

At the moment when the video signal was about to be connected, a top-priority encrypted message suddenly popped up in a crude way, covering the entire screen.

It was a line of shocking scarlet words, written in blood.

[CMC Emergency Operations Order]

The order was simple and direct, yet it carried the solemn and murderous aura of a mighty army.

[Investigation: Comrade Zhao Yuanchao, commander of the 20th Group Army, lost contact while carrying out a secret mission in Handong Province. His whereabouts are unknown.]

Order: The 20th Group Army is to immediately complete its combat readiness assembly. The airborne and special operations brigades of Group A and Group B will coordinate to block all land and air traffic in Handong. They are fully responsible for searching for Comrade Zhao Yuanchao's whereabouts and are to implement temporary military control over the entire Handong Province.

All party, government, and military units and individuals are to obey the command of the Military Control Commission.

【Anyone who violates the order will be treated as a traitor! 】

Sha Ruijin stared at the lines of words on the screen, his mind blank.

military……

Martial law?

The 20th Army is about to march into Handong.

The sword hanging over everyone's head finally fell.

The expressions of the other people in the conference room, Gao Yuliang, Li Dakang, and Ji Changming, changed in shock.

Chapter 13 The Sky Collapses in Handong

The sky in Handong changed overnight.

Sha Ruijin and Gao Yuliang feel that their political future is bleak as never before!

Three hours later.

Sha Ruijin and Gao Yuliang received the order.

Zhou Shoujing, Chief of Staff of the 20th Army, arrived in Handong.

Discuss finding General Zhao and taking military control of Handong.

A military transport plane without any civil aviation markings tore through the clouds under strict air control.

Landed on the dedicated runway of Jingzhou Airport in an unquestionable manner.

The cabin door opened. There was no gangway, only a built-in metal ramp, which hit the ground at a cold and hard angle, making a loud "clang" sound.

Handong Provincial Party Committee Secretary Sha Ruijin, Provincial Party Committee Deputy Secretary Gao Yuliang, Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary Li Dakang, and Provincial Procuratorate Prosecutor Ji Changming, four people at the top of the Handong power pyramid, are now standing side by side in the shadow of this steel behemoth like elementary school students.

The cold wind blew the dust from the runway into their faces.

A figure in a neat general's uniform appeared at the cabin door, and the general star on his shoulder was still flashing a dazzling light under the gloomy sky.

Without stopping, he walked down the slope. The sound of his military boots hitting the metal plates was like stepping on the hearts of Sha Ruijin and others.