Chapter 186, the target of the war is the entire Qinggu area!
This is not the first time that the vicious cycle in the Qinggu area has occurred.
In the past years, every wave of aberrations that formed would lead to similar situations.
However, the monster waves in previous years would not last particularly long, nor would they be particularly large in scale.
Once the wave of monsters subsides and the source of the vicious cycle is gone, things will get better.
The raiders were either wiped out, or they could be washed ashore in the place they occupied and turned into a normal plantation. There are also those who continue to be plunderers without clearing their name, but the number is not too many.
Anyway, when most people have had enough to eat, the situation will gradually calm down, until the monster wave appears again the next year, and the vicious cycle begins again.
In short, this is how people in the Qinggu area came here over the past many, many years.
But the difference this year is that the wave of aberrations is too big and not scattered; it also lasts for too long. It has been almost half a year now. Not only has it not weakened, but it has intensified.
The source of the vicious cycle is not weakening, but is intensifying. Of course, the vicious cycle cannot be stopped.
But the problems in the Qinggu area must be solved.
It is the most important granary of Nuo Xiao. It not only feeds the 10 million people in the Qinggu region itself, but also delivers food to the central and eastern provinces.
If the problem in the Qinggu area is not solved, it will not only represent the livelihood problems of the 10 million people there, but will also cause large-scale famine across the entire planet.
Ultimately, this is a population loss that Gu Hang cannot bear.
Population is extremely important, both for productivity and for the fixed monthly income of his system.
Only with more people can we support a stronger industry, support more armies, and provide more gift point income.
Gu Hang must protect this grain-producing land and these ten million people.
As early as a few months ago, the alliance had already taken action on this.
The weapons and equipment that the army replaced, ranging from those of the old alliance legion to those of the adventurers in Junk Town after they were incorporated, were sold in large quantities as arms and supplies to the Qinggu area in the south.
There is a shortage of arms in the Qinggu area. It stands to reason that these guns, bullets, cannons and the like can be sold at very high prices. However, under the instructions of Oceana, the Union Ministry of Commerce did not do so. When there was a shortage of food in the early days, the price was a little higher. Later, after the food imports in the Western Desert increased significantly and the food pressure on the central and central provinces eased, the Ministry of Commerce further lowered the price.
Later, even some of the arms produced in the Weixingcheng Arsenal were sold to the Qinggu area.
Even a lot of weapons and equipment are provided free of charge in the form of military aid.
Of course, the so-called "no money" basically means that you want everything except money.
Military assistance, assistance of various daily necessities, and consumer goods must be purposeful and have a strong political attribute.
If it weren't for such a large amount of arms, how would the alliance's diplomats, civil affairs observers, and military observers rely on to establish the so-called 'Qinggu Mutual Assistance Committee'?
And this so-called 'Qinggu Mutual Aid Committee' is Gu Hang's preparation for completely ruling the entire Qinggu area in the future.
Many plantations, refugees, and even plunderers who were willing to put down their guns and clean their names were all taken in.
The 'Mutual Aid Association' asks plantations to pay food as protection fees to ensure that refugees and looters will not rob them; it organizes refugees and whitewashed looters to form militia groups armed with arms aided and sold by the alliance. , patrol teams to attack other looters who have not joined the mutual aid association; militia groups and patrol teams will quickly provide support when receiving requests for help from various plantations. If you encounter a huge wave of monsters that cannot be resisted, then at least the people inside can be evacuated alive.
The existence of the mutual aid association has proven to be very effective in the past two months.
In just two months, the Mutual Aid Association has rapidly expanded from a small area in the south of the central province owned by the alliance to an area covering almost 4 million people. The behemoth that conquered the entire northern part of the Qinggu area.
If you really want to say it, the population size of the mutual aid association is not far different from that of the alliance itself.
Such rapid expansion is possible not only because the alliance's expatriates are efficient and the weapons provided are valuable enough, but also the core point is that the existence of the mutual aid association meets the needs of almost everyone in the northern Qinggu area.
The refugees have a shelter, the whitewashed looters have a stable food income, and the plantations have strong armed foreign aid...
Gu Hang looked at the mutual aid association as if he were looking at a rapidly growing fruit of victory.
When the mutual aid association expands to a certain extent, the alliance army can quickly move south, take the mutual aid association's militia regiments and patrol teams, fully reorganize them, push all the way south, and bulldoze the mutated monsters sweeping across the central and southern parts of Qinggu.
Back then, he could already destroy thousands of aberrations with just one infantry battalion, let alone now.
He has more troops, and his weapons and equipment have been updated several times. He has powerful long-range firepower, armored forces, and even an air force.
As long as the aberrations remain at their original level, there is nothing to be afraid of no matter how many there are.
He only needs to wait for the mutual aid president to mature, and the rest is the harvesting work.
With one wave, Gu Hang could completely bring the entire Qinggu area under his control, and it would be as easy as picking something out of a bag.
But now, the news brought by Hu Ke made Gu Hang feel deeply worried.
The Natural Salvation Society's transformation technology for those aberrant monsters involves supernatural power and demonology, so it cannot simply be viewed as a group of monsters formed by the local environment of the planet.
If the devil is the imaginary enemy...
Gu Hang felt extremely guilty.
To put it bluntly, even the green-skinned clan in the Tower Province that has not yet fully developed is quite difficult to fight. If they encounter demons and chaos traitors... they will at least not be easier to fight than the green-skinned orcs.
At this time, it was Hu Ke who was trying to persuade Gu Hang not to worry too much.
"The situation is not so bad that it is irreversible." The new C9-level employee in the alliance comforted the largest boss and said, "At least during the half year I was in the town of Singers, I only noticed that their technology and Demonology is related, but there is no concrete evidence that they are more related to the devil, and I have never seen the devil with my own eyes. Lord Governor, you don’t have to worry too much.”
However, at this point, Hu Ke still added: "But our actions may have to be accelerated. After all, no one knows how things will turn out if we give them more time... Even, just Even this year's extraordinarily large wave of aberrations, there is no doubt that it must be the work of the Natural Salvation Society. Unfortunately, in the past six months, I have been putting off doing their so-called 'sublimation transformation', which contains many special secrets. I have no access to them, so I’m not sure what their purpose is.”
Gu Hang nodded and said: "I understand, you are very worthy of thanking you for providing the current information. I have worked hard for you during this period. Officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs should have prepared your new residence for you. Well, take your family and have a good rest. The future development of the alliance will rely more on your contribution. As for the problem in the Qinggu area..."
After a pause, Gu Hang continued: "I don't intend to change our original plan, but we must speed up."
This is inevitable.
When you don't know the enemy's plans and it's difficult to find a way to detect them, the best way to deal with it is to use thunder to completely eliminate them before their actions are fully launched.
Gu Hang stopped caring about the two technical experts Wu Jiarong and Hu Ke, and instead made his own calculations.
The best solution time is within one month.
The Quintet is still there and won't leave for another month. Although the starship has suffered considerable damage, the various weapon systems are still intact. The ammunition reserves on the starship are not sufficient, but there are still some, at least enough to carry out an orbital strike on the ground.
So, Gu Hang's best solution at the moment is to use all his strength to solve the Qinggu problem within a month while the orbital attack is still there, and to physically eliminate the Natural Salvation Society.
If things are delayed until a month later, and there is no orbital strike, it will be troublesome.
After figuring it out, Gu Hang called his secretary, Zhang Chao, the butler who also came to the Raging Star with him.
"An order was sent to Yan Fangxu to cancel the rotation of all troops, and all soldiers must be assembled within three days. His troops will set off in three days, and the war has begun."
"Yes!" Zhang Chao responded instinctively, and then asked a little puzzled: "But... what is the goal of the war?"
"The entire Qinggu area." Gu Hang said.
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Jason Morgan feels that since the establishment of the new alliance, he has been particularly lucky.
He was rewarded again for bringing one of the league's top talents to the table.
A bit dreamlike.
With a conscience of heaven and earth, he really just saw that many people among the refugees were infected and died, so he hoped that a good doctor could help him solve the problem. As a result, an engine prophet was discovered?
Jason Morgan now understands what the Engine Prophet represents.
He is now glad that he did not speak rudely at that time, but treated Hu Ke with a polite and virtuous corporal attitude.
If there are any key technological breakthroughs in the alliance in the future, I should have a share of the credit!
However, this incident can only be said to be an episode for him. Although he has received a lot of benefits from this, in his latest communication with the leader of the Immigration Bureau, the leader told him that it was a certainty that he would go back and get a two-level promotion this time.
Of course he was very happy about this.
However, his leader also reminded him.
"You still have to do your job well."
"I understand!"
And what is his job?
1. Ensure autumn harvest results.
2. Population migration, one of the most important things is to control infectious diseases.
The above two items are what he has been working hard to do in the past.
Recently, autumn has entered, and the main food crops in the major plantations in the northern Qinggu area have almost reached the harvest season.
Although the overall harvest this year will definitely not be good, what can be harvested must be harvested well.
According to the instructions given by the Governor: Harvest one more grain now, and one less person may starve to death in the future.
For this work, Jason actually traveled tirelessly between major plantations, just to see how the grain harvesting situation was in various places, and to sign a future grain purchase contract with the corresponding plantation owners. .
The second task is to move towards the central province, especially the Shuangcheng area, and continue to migrate people there.
This is a well-established business. It used to be that people migrated from other places in the central province to the Shuangcheng City, but now they do this from the northern part of the Qinggu area.
In terms of population willingness, migrating people from Qinggu to the Shuangcheng City is even easier than doing the same thing in the central province.
The people here in Qinggu are all refugees, and it is a dream to go to the Shuangcheng area.
However, the situation is complicated when it comes to infectious diseases.
This is a special situation that was discovered only in the past month.
The infectious disease known as 'abscess disease' is not very fatal, but after the onset, it will cause herpes all over the body, which is very itchy, and the pus after ulceration is the source of infection. Healthy people can easily become infected after unprotected contact.
Therefore, before migrating people to the central province, people must be quarantined to ensure safety before being transported to the rear. In Fuxing City, another quarantine and observation is needed. Only when there are no problems for that group will they be admitted into the city.
And Jason Morgan's isolation policy in multiple refuge settlements is not just about whether people are sick or not.
Those who are sick should be transferred to the ward as soon as possible, and then they will be cared for by medical workers.
Of course, you cannot expect medical staff to be professional.
Although the hospitals in Shuangcheng have been under construction for some time, the quality of the doctors... can only be said to be just that.
And in these refugee camps in the northern part of Qinggu, it is even more difficult to find professional doctors.
It was some medical staff who were recruited on the spot, holding a simple medical manual, and using medicines transported from the Shuang Cities to feed the sick people.
But don’t say it, the effect is still good.
Among them, the one that plays the biggest role is the medicine itself.
The pharmaceutical and chemical factory that has been in operation in Fuxing City for some time produces really powerful drugs.
Speaking of analgesia, it really doesn't hurt when you eat it - although it may not cure the disease, but if you feel more comfortable, you feel better, and you can eat, your body will naturally get more energy to fight the disease. .
Although some drugs for skin diseases and immune diseases are not necessarily completely symptomatic, the barefoot doctors take the pamphlets and feed them according to the standard dosage, and they are really effective.
People are fragile sometimes, but sometimes they are strong.
With enough food, pain relief, and symptom-relieving drugs... even if there are no specific drugs, most people will eventually be able to get through it.
The current mortality rate of 'abscess disease' is about 5%-10%. This is a very high number. Currently, the number of people who are sick in many refugee camps totals over 100,000, which means that tens of thousands of people will die from the disease.
It was precisely because he had seen so many tragedies that after Jason heard about an outstanding doctor, he took time out of his busy schedule to recruit Corporal Li Xian - and got even greater benefits, but that's another story. .
However, Jason Morgan is relatively optimistic about the future.
As those temporarily recruited medical staff and barefoot doctors gain more experience in treating abscesses, no matter how stupid they are, they can summarize some objective rules and further optimize the use of medications and the process of caring for patients.
Moreover, a new medical manual with the words 'Fuxing City Research Institute' printed on it was soon sent to him. It explained in detail how to use medicine for abscess patients and what the symptoms are like at each stage. , how to change the medication plan corresponding to the transition stage; specific methods of isolation; confirming the signs of patient recovery...
This manual is much more reliable than the 'barefoot manual' they used before.
He knew that this new researcher was actually chaired by Mr. Hu Ke, whom he had 'recruited'.
He was very relieved.
Although there was a misunderstanding before and it turned out that Mr. Hu was not a doctor; in fact, he played a greater role than just a doctor.
All in all, with the medical staff having more experience and the new treatment manual from the Fuxing City Research Institute, the situation will definitely get better.
In addition to the two tasks of autumn harvest and abscess disease, he has just received news that he has a new task:
Cooperate with the Central Army Group that has moved south, and with the military observers of the Mutual Aid Association, militia groups are assembled on the spot. All militia regiments should next be placed under the command of Brigadier General Yan Fangxu of the Central Army Group and subject to the unified dispatch of the headquarters.
In addition, the mutual aid association should mobilize all plantations to supply food to the army on site after completing the autumn harvest as part of the material supplies going south.
He has sent relevant notices to various places through the mutual aid association system.
However, the execution was less than ideal.
The decision-making body of the Mutual Aid Committee is the committee meeting. These so-called committee members are basically held by large planters who still maintain order, and a few are held by whitewashed former raider leaders who are now militia leaders.
None of the officials of the alliance are official members, and they basically serve as observers.
When mutual aid societies were established, this was to dispel the vigilance of plantation owners and militia leaders.
Originally, they still had time to slowly eliminate the power of the mutual aid association, but the sudden advance action of the alliance headquarters broke their plan.
Today's plantation owners and militia leaders are still very powerful, both in terms of influence and actual power.
A considerable number of people are opposed to the alliance's full southward movement.
Today, the mutual aid committee has become a quarrel.
Jason Morgan has to fix that.
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This chapter is 5,000 words long.
I'll post it first. By the time I finish it, it's too late. I'll have to wait until I wake up to correct typos or grammatical errors...
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