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The abandoned fields were overgrown with weeds.
Under the night, two black shadows rustled through the grass, crouched, and climbed onto the roof of a farm tool room.
Because of the civil war, the nearby farmland has been abandoned for a whole year. Looking around, there are thatches half as tall as a man everywhere. Apart from farm tool houses submerged in weeds and broken tractors scattered everywhere, it is difficult to tell that this was once the largest food production base in the Red Earth Continent— —One of the large plantations on the eastern plains.
"Night telescope."
"Give."
Taking the binoculars from her companion, the female scout in camouflage uniform looked at the distant horizon.
Searchlights were shining in all directions, and the faint roar of construction machinery could be heard.
In the green night vision goggles, a large number of excavating machinery and workers wearing hard hats appeared.
"Oh my god, guess what I saw, the sand people are building fortifications!"
"Aren't they going to attack the Principality of Nice?"
"Maybe that's not their purpose at all."
"Withdraw, and report the situation to Shangfeng immediately!"
"good!"
The two moved their bodies, slid down from the roof, and then hid in the thatch that was half a person tall, and retreated towards the back.
Not long after the news from the front came back, the southern commander Bai Yefenghua and the northern commander Lacey both returned to Sanchahe City to discuss countermeasures with Chen Xing.
A few days after the army was launched, the two supreme commanders left the team. This was not because they deserted, but because the battle situation had changed. It was originally thought that Qingguo and Saudi Arabia would continue to attack, but the troops of the two countries stopped their offensive in unison and built defense lines in place. It seemed that they had no intention of going deeper.
The location where the two countries built their defense lines was an hourglass-shaped strategic location with a wide mouth and a narrow mouth.
This kind of terrain is very beneficial to the defenders, especially when fighting large army groups with a size of one million. To put it simply, the narrow mouth is not conducive to the deployment and passage of large troops, but the defenders occupy a wide terrain and can fully deploy their troops and block the narrow mouth with fan-shaped firepower.
Usually the attacker needs to pay two or three times the price to break through the blockade.
But the hourglass-shaped strategic location is a double-edged sword, that is, no matter which side attacks, it will pay a heavy price.
The current situation is that the Qing Kingdom and the Saudi Kingdom are holding on to the key narrow opening and will not advance further.
"Can you tell us why Lumsden suddenly expressed his support for you?" Lacey looked at Chen Xing and asked.
"This..." Chen Xing hesitated and found that Bai Yefenghua was also looking at him, and seemed to care about the answer.
"Actually, I wanted to ask before, but I never had the right opportunity." Lacey paused and then said, "I heard that in the past few days, many of our shipping merchant ships have been seized by the fleets of Qingguo or Saudi Arabia. ”
"What do you mean, I didn't understand." The amount of information was too much, and Chen Xing was a little confused.
"It seems they are preparing to force us to the negotiating table." Bai Yefenghua said, knocking on the table.
"I've known this was the result since they started building fortifications." Lacey praised the passage.
"Hey, you two..." Chen Xing looked at the two women and said in a bad tone, "Are your wings stiff?"
The conversation between the two women was unclear and completely excluded him, which made him very unhappy.
"I don't dare." Bai Yefenghua quickly stood up and apologized. Lacey also stood up, bowed slightly, and apologized.
"Qingguo and Shaguo built fortifications to prepare for a complete blockade of us."
"Including the seizure of commercial ships, it is also part of the blockade."
"Completely cut off our transportation channels." Bai Yefenghua explained.
"What's the point of this?" Chen Xing asked doubtfully. The Ambergris River Basin is known as the "darling of heaven". It has fertile land and rich resources. In addition to being self-sufficient, it can also export a lot of food and resources every year, without the need for external imports at all.
"In the past year or so, we have been in a state of civil war, and many plantations have been affected and have been abandoned."
"Since June last year, we have been eating strategic grain reserves."
"Once the blockade lasts too long and there is no food import from abroad, Ambergris River will face a food shortage crisis."
"And food issues are the most likely to plunge people and countries into chaos."
"When that time comes, we will have to sit down at the negotiating table and make peace with our enemies."
"Agreed to cede the Tezera region, agree to the independence of ten city-states, and a series of humiliating conditions that robbed the country of power and humiliated the country."
Bai Yefenghua faced Chen Xing and said seriously, "The reason why we want to know Ramsden's purpose is because we all feel that Ramsden is trying to make you take the blame."
"Leaders who agree to cede territory will inevitably become sinners through the ages."
"This..." Chen Xing hesitated for a while. It's not like he hasn't thought about Lumsden's purpose. Even if the other party is a respected world guardian, as long as the other party is an individual, there will be a purpose.
Ramsden once told him that mankind is facing a huge threat.
And what is this threat?
In this regard, Chen Xing thought of two points.
One is the chaos caused by Sora.
But he felt that Sola's influence was limited to the Internet. Now that even ClearNet was abolished, what kind of splash could she make?
The second is that there is no threat at all, but Lumsden is out of sympathy for mankind.
You know, the larger the war, the more people will die. Perhaps the guardian was compassionate and didn't want to see the lives of people in ruins, so he asked him to end the war as soon as possible.
So far, these are the only two points he can think of.
If it's the second one, then it's really possible. Lumsden wanted to use him to promote peace negotiations and make the Red Country swallow this shit.
Thinking of this, Chen Xing was so frightened that he shivered. He absolutely cannot do this kind of thing.
Once he does it, not only will he be infamous throughout the ages, but he will also bring trouble to future generations. He said that he would never take this path.
"Can't we break out?" Chen Xing asked.
Bai Yefenghua and Lacey looked at each other without speaking.
The situation is obvious. Their troops are already at a disadvantage, and it is simply unrealistic to charge into the narrow mouth.
Chen Xing understood it after thinking about it for a moment.
"Is it feasible to let the East China Sea Fleet of the Principality of Nice clear the sea routes and transport food from abroad?" Chen Xing asked again.
Lacey rubbed her brow and said nothing.
Chen Xing suddenly had a bad premonition and asked Bai Ye Fenghua, "What's going on?"
Bai Yefenghua sighed, "Since the Queen came to power, she has taken away the budget of the East China Sea Fleet."
"It is said that the fleet captain sold all his cannons in order to pay his salary..."
Hearing this, Chen Xing couldn't help but slap his forehead. This Cuilisi is really good enough.
