There was not a single gunshot or a flicker of fire. Under the bewildered eyes of the mayor and the astonished gazes of the defenders, the mighty Eastern Expeditionary Army was silent and marched straight into this place a few minutes ago with firm steps.
The still heavily guarded town was as smooth as riding a motorboat through the spacious main road of Spark Town at midnight.
The soldiers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army quickly dispersed, expressionlessly collecting the ineffective weapons in the hands of the enemies who looked astonished and frightened.
Several level five and dozens of level four mecha warriors were lying like dead fish, either on the city wall or in some hidden fortification.
They were "betrayed" by the armor they relied on for their livelihood.
The heavy armor turned into ropes that bound them.
As for other professionals, the situation is also very different.
The gunsmiths and demolitionists have basically become useless.
The colonial warriors suffered little damage, but these people obviously did not have the will to fight to the death for the Seven Towns Alliance. Seeing that the situation was over, they decisively lay down.
In order to avoid being mistaken for resisting, the colonial warriors simply lay completely on the ground and fell to the ground.
In less than fifteen minutes, the town was officially taken over.
The town's defenders were sent to centralized sleeping pods.
More than 100,000 cannon fodder who had been hungry all day were released and finally able to eat and drink.
Unlike any previous scene of a city being captured, not a single household outside the white wall was plundered.
This is not only because there are many residents of this town in the Third Army, but also because this army with heavy responsibilities is different.
The soldiers are very clear-headed and know who their real enemies are. There is no point in plundering and bullying those desolate people like themselves.
They are fighting for themselves, but their purpose is not to enslave others.
They hope that Ren Zhong will keep his promise.
Only if they themselves first abide by the rules set by Ren Zhong can they spread these rules to more distant places.
This set of rules covers a larger area and protects more people, and the stronger it becomes.
Quietly, the doctrine that was once used to liberate old China was reinterpreted on the Source Star in another way by Ren Zhong.
But inside the white wall at this moment, there is another scene.
Some small and medium-sized business owners were pulled out of their villas, tied up, pushed to the square, and entered into the data.
Later, Zheng Tian came forward and placed thousands of tablet computers under the stage, asking the homeless people in the town to line up and enter their opinions on these business owners one by one.
This whole process lasted for more than five hours, and basically nothing was missed.
During this process, Zheng Tian used an artificial intelligence screening program written by Hua Yuelan and some actuarial programmers to simultaneously analyze and refine the keywords entered by Huang people.
What follows next is something unprecedented on the Source Star, and one that Ren Zhong himself has never witnessed, but which has left a strong mark on the history of the 20th century. The full name is "Strike the local tyrants to divide their land," or the abbreviation is "Criticism and Struggle."
Of course, there will be some differences between the two.
Under the instruction of Ren Zhong, Zheng Tian will not promote real "land distribution", but will only use the rules of the Autonomy Order to reasonably collect property.
It is the duty of this villain to at least nominally gather the wealth of these people into himself, in order to conceal his revolutionary nature.
It took a total of two hours for Zheng Tian to publicly disclose and judge these business owners one by one.
Those who had always done good deeds, but were forced to join in the crime this time, were acquitted, had their property returned, and even received appointments.
If a person is usually well-behaved and commits minor crimes, but is willing to take the initiative to compensate the victim and obtain the victim's understanding, he will be acquitted and his property will be returned.
For those who have committed non-criminal acts and have deep grievances, their property will be confiscated by the Ren Group, and they will be driven out of the town to fend for themselves.
There are more than thirty people in total who have committed numerous evil deeds, which are too numerous to describe, and where public resentment boils over. These people will have their property confiscated and be sentenced to death, but they will not be executed immediately. The Eastern Expedition Army will leave behind a law enforcement team composed of a hundred special service members.
The law enforcement team will review the charges of these people one by one, verify them accurately, and confirm that the verdict is correct before it is publicly executed.
Zheng Tian's series of arrangements shocked the people in the town, and also shocked the Third Army, the original cannon fodder prisoners, the tens of thousands of cannon fodder in the town who had been driven away, the surrendered town guards and the original cannon fodder.
Professional scavengers and others.
They never imagined that citizens could be tried.
This subverts everyone's understanding.
At first, some people had some doubts, but after the law enforcement team took the lead to verify the mayor's evil deeds, Ou Youning, who was "imprisoned", jumped out and shot the man in the head.
People understand that the Starfire Army is a real thing.
Indescribable complex emotions arose in everyone's heart.
Immediately afterwards, Zheng Tian struck while the iron was hot and repeated Ren Zhong's words.
Zheng Tian publicly stated in the square, "Mr. Ren said that although the Ren Group once accumulated trillions of contribution points as a family fortune, Mr. Ren's funds have shrunk significantly due to the network outage incident. Under the new situation,
, Ren’s Group is in dire straits, and we still need new blood and talents. Mr. Ren’s original words were, how do we get talents? Everyone may be a talent! Therefore, from now on, all members of Ren’s Group will
It is impossible for another person to starve to death. We will conduct a detailed investigation of the economic, financial and health conditions of the residents in the town, distribute food, production tools, weapons, and provide basic medical services for free. In addition, some of the people in this war will
Anyone who reports and exposes meritorious services will be rewarded.”
"Everyone has hope, and every effort is rewarded! This is the purpose of our Star Fire Army! Okay, next we welcome people who are interested in joining the Star Fire Army to sign up and join the army. If you join the army, you will be paid. If you are injured, you will be rewarded.
You can get free medical care, and those who are disabled or killed in battle can get long-term pensions for their families and children. Of course, not everyone can join the army. We don't want to fill the gap, only the elite. We will also consider the applicants based on their ability level and health status."
Two more hours passed, and at eight o'clock in the evening, the number of personnel of the Third Eastern Expedition Army increased sharply from 80,000 to 160,000. The number of personnel of the Eastern Expedition Army reached 350,000.
Zheng Tian gave an order, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Army moved eastward again, divided into two groups, and rushed towards two other small towns at the same time.
At ten o'clock at night, the fighting in the other two small towns came to an end.
As before, it only lasted ten minutes.
Faced with heavy EMP missiles from low-altitude airships, the so-called warriors whose technical and tactical methods are still stuck in the pre-internet disconnection era are simply unable to resist.
After capturing the town, Zheng Tian and Yuan Qinhu began to follow the same pattern, repeating what they had done in the previous town, interrogating and punishing the local business owners and the mayor overnight.
This time, the two mayors, who had some reputation, managed to escape death and were lucky enough to survive.
At this time, the leaders of the Seven Towns Alliance hiding in Zhansha County fell into a great panic.
They are like frightened quail.
A small number of business owners who have reached Level 5 citizenship have already taken advantage of the night to run away.
Of course, these people did not do too much and kept their direct subordinates to assist other business owners in deploying troops.
Most citizens have never reached level five and do not have the right to live in the city. Business owners who are neither above nor below are abandoned and can only survive.
But a new problem arises here.
In the previous military operations, the Seven Towns Alliance had deployed all its elites, but all these investments were in vain.
Now the only people they can mobilize are the old, weak, sick, women and children in the town, and they can only drive them to the front with guns.
But that's not the worst.
The biggest problem lies in the equipment.
Although the Seven Towns are rich in mineral deposits and animal output, the industrial layout only extends to the rough processing of metal materials, and does not continue to deepen the processing of finished parts and components, let alone a complete arsenal.
The arms reserves within the Seven Towns are still at the same level as when Ren Zhong first took over Chromium Carbon Town. They only hold some lower-level, but large and well-managed basic armaments.
Previously, in order to forcibly raise an army of fifty, business owners had cleared out all the old equipment at the bottom of the warehouse.
Now they are talking about reorganizing an army of hundreds of thousands of people, and no matter how much military literacy these temporary "soldiers" have, most of them don't even have guns, so they can't rush forward with wooden sticks.
Therefore, the hundreds of thousands of reinforcements they promised to the first mayor were nothing but "void reinforcements."
Their real plan is to hope that the first town can withstand the pressure and wait for the strong men of the Mengdu Group to rush to help.
The result was not good, Ren Chong didn't even have a chariot to lead the expedition himself, but the Eastern Expedition Army conquered three cities in a row in one day.
What's even more terrifying is that until now, they don't know why these three towns were defeated so completely and quickly.
The information in the town could not be transmitted at all, as if the moment the heavy-duty Eastern Expeditionary Army arrived, the area attacked by him became an information black hole.
They tossed and turned, extremely anxious.
This state of mind even overwhelms their biological clock.
They have to wait for frontline intelligence agents to give a clear statement before they can feel a little more at ease.
This group of high-ranking people who never stayed up late finally experienced the feeling of insomnia.
Finally, at one o'clock in the morning, a loyal fourth-level gunsmith rushed back to the town.
"The heavy-duty army has two particularly large spaceships. Normally, they only follow the large troops and float at low altitude on the ground. But when they attack the city, they will suddenly take off and launch large missiles. These missiles will not fall directly on the town, but will
It exploded in the sky. The explosion will cause the failure of smart devices in a wide range. My motorboat also failed, and the weapons were completely unusable. I ran all the way back!"
This person said so.
At noon the next day, just as the further expanded Eastern Expeditionary Army moved forward again, advancing to the fourth and fifth towns at the same time. On the way to their destination, the dead soldiers from the Seven Towns Alliance and the more than ten people who had just arrived...
Level 6 colonial warriors launched a surprise attack.
After a hard fight, the Eastern Expeditionary Army wiped out all the sneak attackers.
The Eastern Expeditionary Army only suffered a very small number of casualties, but its losses were heavy.
The opponent's attack was completely aimed at the missile silos and anti-gravity devices of the low-altitude airship.
The exit of the silo was bombarded until it was completely deformed.
The anti-gravity device completely failed.
The airship lay down on the spot.
Since this is a large piece of equipment, it cannot be repaired in the wild, and there are no construction conditions even in the chromium carbon town.
Zheng Tian thought for a moment and decided to move forward, seizing the two towns ahead and briefly stationing there. Ju Qingmeng then dispatched a transport ship from Xinghuo Town to bring over the equipment needed for temporary repairs.
As a result, although the Seven Towns Alliance lost the cutting-edge force they had just gathered, they finally got a chance for a fair showdown.
According to previous intelligence, the Third Army of the Eastern Expedition was basically composed of motley soldiers who were temporarily mixed into the ranks and were considered cannon fodder.
The commanders of the two towns believed that as a wall-level town, relying on powerful military equipment, they would be able to continue to consume the effective strength of the Eastern Expeditionary Army and severely damage Ren Chongfang's morale.
But the moment the war actually started, they realized something was wrong.
The soldiers of the Eastern Expedition's Third Army, who were rushing forward with seemingly simple equipment and unkempt appearance, were unimaginably ferocious, extremely powerful, and cooperated extremely well.
No matter how chaotic the battle situation seems, the charge formations of these "motley troops" are always coordinated and advance at an outrageous speed.
Moreover, they are also very good at using ground bunkers, and the combination of different professions is also very perfect.
What's even more disgusting is that although these people's equipment looks old and shabby, their performance is much better than their appearance.
For example, a heavily armored mecha warrior charging with his shield raised, the outer layer of his shield was rusty and colorful.
As a result, others really thought he was easy to bully, and they struck him with a shield dozens of times before they realized they had been fooled.
After being exposed to the fire, the giant shield was still structurally intact, and the rust on the surface disappeared without a trace, revealing the true material inside.
This is clearly a super alloy that can usually only be used by level five special equipment!
The giant shield warrior is pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger!
When others realized that they had been deceived, the giant shield warriors had already covered several comrades with equally strong strength and rushed to the base of the city wall, and began to plant high-explosive bombs at an extremely fast speed.
With a loud bang, a mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and a huge gap was blasted out of the city wall that could withstand the frontal impact of level five beasts.
But judging from the directionality and impact of the explosion, it was at least the work of a level five blaster.
There are experts inside the city wall who are trying to lead their teammates to block the city wall.
Unexpectedly, a bright light came on in the middle of the Third Army, and a huge beam of energy passed through the artillery fire and hit the gap in the city wall, actually hitting the reinforcements inside.
The detection equipment of the person next to him read an outrageously high energy level index from this energy beam.
This is a seventh-level gunsmith!
The shooter was none other than Wang Qiao, who had been hiding until now.
At this point, how could the defenders not know that they had been tricked again?
The cannon fodder troops at the front are not some improvised motley army at all.
This is the heavy-duty direct force from Yangsheng City!
That is the First Army!
But no one knows when the front and rear armies of the Eastern Expedition Army secretly changed positions.
Ren Zhong had no intention of using the new people under his command as cannon fodder, but instead dispatched the strongest combat force as soon as they came up.
As for the second and third armies behind them, what they really have to do is learn from actual combat experience.