The communications staff officer with a tired face walked lightly to Minister Xiao and lowered his voice: "Report!"
The voice interrupted Minister Xiao's thoughts. Minister Xiao, with red eyes, raised his head: "What's the matter?"
"I just received an emergency notice from the military region!" the communications staff officer handed a document to Minister Xiao with both hands.
Minister Xiao took the document and after reading only two lines, his expression changed drastically and he stood up: "Where are the troops now?"
The combat staff quickly stood up: "Near a street!"
"Don't tell me what street it is, show it to me on the map!"
"Yes!" The combat staff quickly adjusted the electronic map to the big screen and drew a very inaccurate curve on the map with his finger: "Probably this is the line."
"Only one-third?" Minister Xiao frowned, "Inform the troops to speed up the advance at all costs!"
"Yes!" the combat staff member immediately agreed, but immediately showed an embarrassed look. He leaned close to Minister Xiao and whispered, "Minister, there is no problem in increasing the advancement speed, but the transportation capacity in our hands is limited. In this way, we can rescue them.
The people will not be able to send it out."
"Let them find their own way. Those with cars will drive, those without cars will carpool, and they will find their own way to the train station." Minister Xiao suddenly paused when he said this. "Inform the troops, don't use any layers to advance, just give it to me directly."
Push over and inform the residents that they must evacuate the occupied area before dawn."
"What about the gangs?" the combat staff asked in a low voice.
"We have no time to care about them, let them fend for themselves."
"Yes!" The combat staff understood Minister Xiao's intention and immediately passed on the order.
Minister Xiao's eyes were fixed on the map, and his eyebrows stood up like a knife.
The troops who received the order immediately took action, changing from their previous step-by-step approach and quickly penetrated into the depths of the occupied areas. They used electric loudspeakers and other propaganda tools to spread Minister Xiao's orders throughout the occupied areas.
The military made it clear and the residents heard it clearly, but the gangs cast too many shadows on the residents. Without knowing the situation of the gangs, many residents were worried that they would be attacked by the gangs if they left home, so they would rather hide at home.
, and are unwilling to follow the military's instructions. Only in areas completely controlled by the military do residents dare to leave their homes.
Thanks to the popularity of automobiles in recent years, many residents own private cars. Although many vehicles have been taken away by gangs, there are still many private cars left, enough to send away one-third of the residents in the occupied areas.
However, the development of the situation is not so ideal. The vast majority of car owners are unwilling to accept strangers for rides. Instead, they take their families and valuable belongings and drive on the road out of the city.
The military, which was originally feeling a lack of power, welcomed the people who were evacuating by car. Not only did they let them leave with a green light, they also took the initiative to arrange refueling points to help these vehicles refill their fuel. At the same time, they did not forget to teach the key points and precautions for driving in the wild.
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No one knows the situation in the wild better than the military. After the Yibei District lost control, giant ants and giant locusts have spread throughout the province. Whether in cities or rural areas, you may encounter lone giant insects anywhere. If you don't drive away,
If the people in the city explain the situation clearly, they may encounter danger on the road.
The military knew very well that there must be a large number of gang members hidden among the people who drove away by themselves, but at this time, Minister Xiao could no longer care about that. The most important thing was to evacuate the people in the occupied areas as much as possible.
People have a herd mentality. Many residents who originally planned to stick to their homes also wanted to leave after seeing the rushing traffic and crowds on the streets and joined the evacuation army.
In this way, the occupied area in the middle of the night was full of vehicles and pedestrians. Soldiers acting as traffic police were directing traffic at every intersection. There were flashes of car lights and loud voices everywhere, and the dense traffic even blocked the road.
Fortunately, boxer ants are not nocturnal creatures, otherwise the noisy noise would disturb the ant colony, and the consequences would be disastrous.
A large number of residents poured into the train station, almost overwhelming the dispatchers at the station. In order to send people away as quickly as possible, each departing train attached as many carriages as possible. Each departing carriage was as crowded as a sardine can.
It was full of people, and eventually even the freight cars and the stuffy tank cars that had not been used for who knows how many years were used.
Time passed by minute by second, but the evacuation speed always met Director Xiao's expectations. However, he had already done everything he could and could not think of a better way to speed up the efficiency, so he could only wait anxiously.
At about five o'clock in the morning, a line of white fish belly finally appeared in the dark sky. The sun had not yet jumped above the horizon, and a thin layer of mist suddenly appeared.
As the sky gradually brightened, this layer of mist gradually became thicker, and soon turned into heavy fog, shrouding Linyi who had been noisy all night. The visibility was only 50 to 60 meters, and the speed of evacuation was suddenly greatly reduced.
What's even more troublesome is that as the sky gets brighter, the boxer ants that have been dormant all night come back, and the military has to light barricades piled up at various intersections to separate the spaces to intercept the ant colonies.
Some residents were also blocked by the flames. They failed to cross the roadblock in time and were quickly overwhelmed by the incoming ants. In the blink of an eye, only piles of corpses were left.
The burning fire dispersed the nearby fog, but the trapped residents were unable to cross the burning roadblock and could only wait uneasily behind the roadblock, as if waiting for their fate to be pronounced.
The officers and soldiers who had been busy all night were hungry, but they had to join the battle against the giant ants again. Fire dragons leaped up one after another, harvesting the lives of the boxer ants.
At this juncture, the headquarters once again received an emergency notice forwarded by the military region, reminding Minister Xiao that the ant colony from the north was approaching Linyi, and in one to two hours, the ant colony would enter Linyi. In view of the boxer ants
Due to the danger, the military region ordered the troops to withdraw from the occupied area immediately and evacuate the entire army before the ant tide entered the city.
Minister Xiao immediately issued a retreat order. Although the troops who went deep into the enemy-occupied areas immediately organized a retreat, there were more or less residents near each army vehicle. The evacuating troops had to bring a large number of people with them. It originally only took ten minutes.
We were able to evacuate everyone from the occupied area, but it took more than half an hour to evacuate them all.
After a busy night, the military recovered less than half of the occupied area. When Minister Xiao issued the order to retreat, at least a quarter of the residents were still stranded in the occupied area.
The military had neither time nor the ability to wait any longer, so it could only withdraw from the occupied area with regret.
Ye Han received the order very early, but he didn't have a vehicle in hand. More than a dozen people were immediately dumbfounded.
A soldier suggested: "Let's go to the headquarters!"
"Yes!" Everyone responded one after another. More than a dozen people left the temporary prison and quickly rushed to the headquarters not far away.
