After arriving at Jixi Town, Aige was originally planning to launch an attack to find out why there was a group of infected people approaching a place only three or four kilometers away from Jixi Town.
As a result, Ige heard a piece of news that made him furious. There were actually defectors in the gospel team, and two groups of people defected in two consecutive days!
Iger has a crow's mouth. He can't say good things but he can always say bad things.
When Iger merged the "Love and Family Team", he proposed a "three-step" plan to prevent all kinds of nonsense after the merger.
At that time, Iger was worried about three things. The worst thing was that conflicts between old and new members would cause internal strife.
In order to prevent the possibility of a firefight and to allow the old members to have the firepower advantage as much as possible, Egg deliberately left Fran, Erica, and Vance behind. Together, these three people can stabilize the situation.
It is said that during the war, everyone had guns, but whether they had received military training or not, the actual difference was very big.
Some organizations have conducted statistics and found that the combat loss ratio between soldiers who have received complete military training and armed civilians in battle is about 1:22.
Armed civilians here generally refer to people who can use guns.
If it is civilians who cannot use guns, the battle loss ratio will be further increased.
Take the gospel team as an example. Although Egg and Fran have the best marksmanship in the team, if they team up to participate in a real-life chicken game and their opponents are Vance and Erica, then the probability of them being killed will be
Infinitely close to 100%.
Accurate marksmanship and survival in actual combat are two different things. When new recruits go into battle, they are often killed before they know what is going on.
You can think back to when you first came into contact with shooting games. If you only had one life, how many rounds could you survive?
Fortunately, what Iger was most worried about did not happen.
The second worst thing is this collective defection.
Collective defection can easily lead to team disunity.
The third worst thing is a long-term worry.
Iger is worried that the new members will take advantage of their absolute numerical advantage to slowly squeeze out and seize control of the gospel team through non-violent means.
Defections happened twice in a row, which seriously weakened the gospel team, but the remaining members had to unite in this sudden battle and join forces to annihilate the enemy. This kind of concerted fighting enhanced the sense of cohesion among the old members
and a sense of identity with new members.
After all the field teams returned, all 25 existing members of the gospel team, excluding the seriously injured, gathered at the door of the Morgan Building. They looked at Father Locke expectantly, hoping that he would announce this hard-won victory.
victory.
Father Locke straightened his slightly stooped waist. He looked at Vance, who was still recovering from his serious illness, then at Iger, who was standing at the front of the crowd, and at Sister Maria, Andy, Fran, and Allie.
Old members like Ka and Avila finally took a look at Nicholas, Ella, Kate, and Robin...
Father Locke shouted to the crowd: "We won!"
For a time, there were shouts of approval, and many people shed tears of excitement.
Egg looked calmly at the cheering crowd around him, holding back his sighs and shaking his head.
Although in Iger's view, the gospel team suffered a huge stumble this time and fell several times in a row. This victory is really not worthy of cheering and celebration.
However, people need this victory now. Even Iger doesn't know where he won or what he won.
The only thing that makes Iger feel better is that although the gospel team has been hit hard this time and the losses have been heavy, overall, the fundamentals have not been affected.
As long as the vast majority of members still identify with the gospel team, and as long as the town is still under the control of the team, the fundamentals will be very stable.
Penny's remains have been placed, and a grand funeral will be held for her tomorrow morning.
The dinner was very simple. Everyone has been tired these past few days and was not in the mood to cook a big meal to celebrate.
After dinner, there is a dinner party as usual.
At the meeting, Father Locke first told everyone about the origin and development of the crisis.
The first thing that needs to be explained is why the infected group was only discovered when they were about to attack the city, the second is why the Aige field team did not immediately return reinforcements, and the third is the two defections.
After Father Locke finished his brief speech, he asked each member to share his thoughts on this incident.
Starting from Sister Maria, everyone talked about sadness and sadness, but when it came to Iger, he began to self-examine when he opened his mouth.
"This time, the first responsibility lies with me." Egg reviewed to everyone, "I did not turn on the radio on time as required, so I missed Lily's broadcast instructions."
Father Locke waved his hand to Egg and asked everyone to talk about their feelings. This is a very common way of sharing feelings.
Showing your vulnerability to everyone can easily shorten the psychological distance between people, and is a common method used by a team to unite members.
As a result, Ige started criticizing himself from the very beginning. If he was allowed to do this, the meeting would not be able to continue.
Well, Iger's self-criticism was stopped, but he still didn't follow the routine and asked him to talk about his feelings. He really started to talk about his feelings.
"I think our Jixi Town reconstruction plan needs to be rearranged.
When I planned before, I was too conservative. I think we need to revise the original plan and try to include the entire Jixi Town commercial area within the scope of renovation.
I have discovered a bad trend. In the future, there will be a large number of "locust" survivors. They will not produce, but will eat all the time. After consuming all the resources, they will go to other places to continue consuming.
In order to fight against this locust organization, we need to increase the collection of resources and collect as much materials as possible to hoard them before they run out.
Therefore, we have to take a long-term view. First, we should encircle as large a circle as we can in the safety zone and collect as many resources as we can. In this way, the safety zone can be extended to the side of the gas station.
Our team must have complete control over the gas station.
The material these 'locusts' need most is gasoline. Without gasoline, they can't go anywhere.
Gasoline is an important production material, and not a drop should be wasted by them.
By the way, we discovered an empty town yesterday. I suggested that the internal staff organize a scavenger team to transport supplies.
Also, our supplies in the gospel community, anything that can be used, including the remaining gasoline in the oil depot and the cans at the outpost, are all transported to Jixi Town for centralized storage.
Finally, I would like to emphasize: Running around is tantamount to asking for death. Once the material consumption reaches the critical point, that is, each time the supplies are replenished less than the consumption, then the team's doom will come.
And I think that day will come sooner than they think."
Iger didn't say a word. He didn't know if the two consecutive "encirclement" incidents of infected people were a coincidence. If it wasn't a coincidence, how could the group of infected people be surrounded at the same time?
Those guys all think that the infected group moves randomly, but if the infected group does not move randomly, but cooperates regularly to encircle it, then the space for survivors to move will be greatly reduced.
After Iger finished speaking, the reflection sharing meeting could no longer continue. In this case, Andy took over the chair of the meeting and announced that the board of directors would be convened, and other people were eligible to observe.
The content of this board meeting is: the treatment of defectors.
