Although the call for government troops did not ring out throughout the city, the news spread to every corner as quickly as possible.
Soon, citizens responded to the call, packed their luggage, and prepared to leave Nanre.
Their thinking is very simple. No matter who loses or wins, they will not be blamed in the end. Of course, the further they can stay away from this place of right and wrong, the better.
After receiving the news, some citizens even gave up queuing to receive the supplies distributed by the Ping Ping Army, and made up their minds to settle in another peaceful area before the war broke out.
But they are not stupid, and they also know that the International Equality Alliance is not stupid.
Why haven't the government forces launched an attack for several days? Why can the Ping An Army build fortifications in no hurry?
That's all because they are here!
If they leave, the government's artillery may launch an indiscriminate bombardment on Nanre.
So is it possible for the Equality Army to let go of their protective umbrella?
Many people thought it was impossible. They boldly speculated that as soon as they left home, they would be arrested by the Ping An Army under various names and detained in Nanre City, where they would continue to serve as a bargaining chip for the government forces to fear.
Therefore, many people dare not leave their homes, waiting for the first bird to explore the way.
Ten minutes later, the soldiers of the Equality Army responded to the call of the government troops in various neighborhoods through loudspeakers.
"The Equality Army will not interfere with citizens' freedom of travel!"
"Citizens can leave Nanre City at any time! The Pingding Army will escort everyone out of the city safely without any conditions!"
"The Equality Army will ensure supplies for citizens who are willing to stay in the city!"
"We are confident to defend Nanre City. We will not give up here before our last comrade falls, and we will not let any citizen be affected!"
…
Will the Equality Army interfere with citizens leaving?
This makes sense logically, but most people are still not sure whether this move is lip service or whether it will be implemented everywhere.
But it's enough for a handful of people to muster up the courage to try it.
Someone dragged their family out of the house and walked out of the city.
During this period, the soldiers of the Ping Ping Army did not have any interaction with these citizens except to ask if they needed to be escorted.
When the first citizen successfully walked out of Nanre City and walked towards the government army station, the government troops who were observing all this burst into cheers. Other citizens who were eager to leave Nanre City as soon as possible also breathed a sigh of relief and went out one after another to gather.
It became a flow of people, leaving continuously.
The residents who were unable to leave Nanre City for many reasons and the soldiers of the Pingping Army who stood by Nanre felt as if they had been hit hard in the heart.
They stayed at home and looked through the windows. They stood on both sides of the street with guns, watching some citizens drift away.
Overall, not many citizens left Nanre City. Only about 5,000 people left in two or three hours. However, the impact they brought had a real impact on morale.
Comrades risk their lives to defend their rights, but they choose to stay away from them at the critical moment, which will inevitably chill the hearts of the comrades.
"Haha!" In the command room of the Fourth Division of the Ping An Army, Morais laughed heartily when he learned about the departure of the citizens.
The chief of staff and others also felt no sense of loss.
"Most of the people who left were the former powerful people. They were afraid that we would further liquidate them, so they rushed to leave as soon as they saw the opportunity. The other ordinary citizens basically did not move because their families were not as wealthy as the powerful people. The powerful people went to other places.
They can still live a good life in this place, but they may not even be able to rent a house or find a job..." the officer in charge of statistics reported the situation.
This result was within the expectations of Morais et al.
From the beginning to the end, the powerful people never thought about accepting the new policy of the International Equality League, giving up their wealth, and becoming equal to those they once looked down upon.
Their departure is inevitable.
Morais just hoped that they would leave so that they would not shake the people's hearts and occupy the already scarce supplies.
Other proletarian citizens are the ones who are truly on the same front as the International Equality Alliance. Their stay is both forced and destined.
"But I think it is these powerful people that the government forces are really afraid of. After they leave, the safety of other citizens should not be so important in their eyes." The chief of staff's view is very pessimistic and realistic, "In addition, they also have
They launched an attack on us in the name of legitimacy. After all, for them, they gave the citizens a chance to leave, so if they didn’t leave Nanre City during this period, they can’t be blamed.”
"Well, so when everyone is almost gone, the government troops should launch an attack." Morais agreed with the chief of staff's view, "The unfortunate thing is that our defenses can basically be completed before then."
"I think anyone who wants to leave Nanre City will leave as soon as possible. The government troops will not wait too long. They will launch an attack on us tonight or early tomorrow morning." The head of the infantry regiment had a strong premonition that as long as he entered the necessary
At this stage, the government forces will not waste a single moment of time, and will 'recapture' Nanre with thunderous momentum and advance towards Laizein.
This was consistent with what Morais thought. He stood up and faced the sand table: "During tonight and the early morning of tomorrow, the government troops do have a greater possibility of launching an attack, but they do not understand the layout of our army.
, is unlikely to launch a full-scale attack directly, but will conduct a trial."
The chief of staff crossed his arms and stood on the other side of the sand table: "It is estimated that the government troops are now closely interrogating the powerful people in Nanre, hoping to find out our details from their mouths."
"The government forces have almost figured out our situation. As for the distribution of troops, it is not something that the powerful can know. Next, we can just arrange the defense line and prepare for the surprise attack." Morais frowned, "The biggest thing we are facing now is, first of all.
The problem we are trying to solve is that our ammunition reserves are not sufficient and cannot compete with the steady supply of government troops."
If you don't have enough manpower, you can recruit troops. If you can't recruit troops, you can shrink the defense line and drag the government troops into street fighting.
Without ammunition, we really have no choice. We cannot fight the well-equipped government troops with kitchen knives and sticks.
"This is what I'm most worried about. We don't have enough ammunition. How can we defend it..." said a regimental commander.
"The government forces should also know about this shortcoming of ours. When they have exhausted us, even if they only come with a regiment of troops, we will not be able to withstand it..."
"Starting from tomorrow, we have to stick to the full plan for five days. In these five days, we can only plan carefully and save a little bit."
After listening to his subordinates' words, Morais, who had no way to save ammunition, sighed softly: "As you can see, we are at a comprehensive disadvantage in this battle, but we have no choice. I hope we can still stand in five days."
Here, we will join up with General Joseph and the others and launch a vigorous counterattack."
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July 21st, early morning
Bressy, Lezein, Equality Building, Office of the President of the International Equality Alliance
"host****?"
"Huh?" Boyin, who had not returned to the bedroom to rest all night, slowly opened his eyes and looked at the comrade who called him softly.
"There is a situation over in Nanre City." Comrade walked to Boyin who was resting on a chair. "The government troops launched a surprise attack on Nanre City at three o'clock in the morning. Fortunately, General Morais had anticipated it.
Defenses were deployed in advance, and the government troops were more probing, so this raid was successfully blocked."
Boyin did not smile because Morais and the others blocked the attack of the government troops. There was worry in his eyes: "Where is General Joseph?"
"All ministries are stepping up their mobilization and should launch an attack on Puluo City today."
"After the test, the government forces will definitely increase their offensive intensity. Morais' side does not have enough troops, and the weapons and ammunition will not last long. This battle will be very difficult..." Boyin glanced at the clock and saw that the time was almost up.
Not planning to rest anymore, I sat up and took medicine.
"General Morris sent a telegram yesterday, telling us not to worry. They are confident that we will hold on until the 25th."
"That's best." Boyin poured out the pills. "Is there anything else you want to report?"
"No. Do you need me to help you prepare breakfast?"
"No, I don't have much appetite." Boyin, who was drinking pills one by one, waved his hands and coughed a few times, "Call the doctor to come over and check my body."
"yes."
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July 21st, evening
Bash Empire, Capital Winterhold, Peace Street
After Stuart and Clark finished their work for the day, they met at Oscar's place of work. Before Oscar could understand the situation clearly, the two abducted him from his workplace and found Connie.
After roughly explaining Quentin's situation to Oscar and Connie, Connie waved her hand and stopped being angry at that house, and followed a few people to Quentin's tavern.
The tavern was bustling with activity. The comrade disguised as the bartender was busy going around. When they saw Stuart, Clark and the others were a little surprised: "You are here, are you looking for the boss?"
"Ah, yes, find the boss." Stuart, who was standing at the front, nodded.
"The boss is resting in the cubicle, go find him." Comrade the bartender didn't have time to receive a few people, so he directly arranged for them to meet Quentin.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Stuart patted the bartender on the shoulder and led the three of them to the booth with ease.
In the cubicle, Quentin was reading the newspaper. He was not surprised to see the four people coming, and said slowly: "Remember to knock on the door next time."
"Didn't you just hear the bartender say that you are the only one here, so I came here in a hurry. Please pay attention next time." Stuart greeted everyone to sit down, "Huh... I finally got through these five days. Let's go now."
Can we start discussing plans?"
"Don't be so anxious. I should have arranged for someone to call you tomorrow morning. You came here early in the evening. Some things are not ready yet, such as your residence." Quentin put away the newspaper and looked at it for the first time.
Connie and Oscar are here, "How have you been over the past five days?"
"One word, tired." Even Oscar could only describe it this way.
Connie nodded quickly: "Actually, it's okay for me to be tired. The main thing is that I'm not used to serving others like this. I can't retaliate when I'm scolded for no reason."
Quentin nodded slightly: "Just think of it as tempering your character. There will be many things that will make you unhappy and humiliating in the future. You must learn to be patient and consider the overall situation."
"Um."
"Have Comrade Stuart and Comrade Clark told you about other things?" Quentin asked.
"Basically," Clark said.
"Then I will just say it briefly." Everyone came in advance, and Quentin simply led everyone into the new task, "The next ten days will be our second phase of training. The content of the training is to help
The immigrants on Heping Street are protected from harassment by the patrol team. This task has the following requirements. First, our identities cannot be exposed. Second, the immigrants cannot be harmed. Third, the conflicts between the two parties cannot be intensified.
fourth……"
The further you listen, the uglier their expressions become.
After all the conditions were explained, their previously conceived ideas were basically framed.
"This..." Stuart had to overturn the method he had worked so hard to come up with in the past two days because it involved content that was not allowed by the conditions. "This can't be done and that can't be done. We can't rely on our thoughts to make the patrol team members
When your conscience is clear, stop coming here endlessly to take advantage."
"It's understandable not to expose our identities, and it's understandable not to let the people on Heping Street be harmed, but even the patrol team can't move them. Is it possible that we can change them by relying on the concept of equality? If they are so easy to be changed,
, Bash would not be what it is now. And if we spread the concept of equality with them, wouldn't we still run the risk of exposing our identities?" Clark also felt that the conditions set by Quentin were too harsh.
"What you said makes sense, but we still can't touch the patrol team. Once they are harmed here, we have no idea what the sensitive Bash government will do to Peace Street." Quentin responded to Clark's objection,
"I hope everyone understands that the immigrants in Heping Street have no right to speak here. Comrade Clark, you should feel this most deeply. They say you are a member of the International Equality Alliance, and you are a member of the International Equality Alliance. They say they will arrest you.
Just arrest you and tell them to die so you must die. If they are harmed in this situation, who of you can stop their overreaction?"
"Then do you have any clue? How do you think we should restore peace to Peace Street without taking action or exposing our identity?" Connie asked.
"I want to hear your opinions first." Quentin threw the question back to the four of them.
Oscar is still the one who actively expresses his opinions: "I think the people in Heping Street are bullied because they are immigrants. They have no right to speak and their voices will not be heard. If we can find a way to help Heping Street
People have made their voices heard so loudly that the government cannot turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear. Then the patrol team members cannot look down on everyone and bully them casually."