Chapter 226, two minutes
President Pierre felt quite angry.
After learning that the alliance suddenly mobilized its troops, his first reaction was to think that the alliance was exerting extreme pressure.
It's normal for him to have such thoughts.
He had already talked to the battle nuns several times and provided some help to them. Later, he also had some relatively friendly communications with the Northern Provincial Government in the alliance. He was even ready to send a secret negotiation team to Fuxing City to negotiate with the alliance government in the near future. Industry joins the alliance and accepts the conditions of alliance jurisdiction.
At this time, what does it mean for the alliance to suddenly use military means?
Although, there is no direct conflict yet, and it may not even enter the northern boundary. But even if there are tens of thousands of troops on the border between the Central and Northern Provinces and the Northern Territory, it is still a silent declaration.
By playing such a trick on the eve of the negotiations, the alliance must be suppressing and lowering the conditions for subsequent polar industries to join the alliance.
He had indeed prepared a lot of conditions. After all, they were not defeated and surrendered. They maintained a large-scale industrial production capacity that was rare on the Raging Owl. They could effectively maintain their rule over the vast northern region and live in it. More than two million people on the planet can be affected to some degree or another by polar industry.
In this case, they are indeed qualified to negotiate some conditions.
For example, will the people who made the decision to ‘join’ the alliance, that is, the management of Jiji Industrial Group, get a better treatment?
Can polar industries have some autonomy in the north?
Can the polar industry get technical support from the alliance?
Can the Alliance open the market to polar industry?
There is actually a lot more that can be discussed about issues like this.
In fact, Polar Industries has not sent a formal negotiation team to the south to meet with the Governor because they have not yet negotiated these issues internally.
It is true that Pierre is the president of the group, but he does not have the final say in the entire group. The factions and interests within such a large group are very complex.
And now that the alliance is sending troops, is it equivalent to saying:
"Don't negotiate terms with me. There are no terms to negotiate with me."
So outrageous?
But is there anything else he can do?
It seems not.
He could issue some threats, refuse to annex, and use the northern border as his capital to resist the alliance's military operations.
But he himself knows that such threats are weak.
One fundamental factor that had not been reversed by this act was that they could not defeat the Union's armies.
This is the most despairing and confusing fact.
Just when he had a gloomy face and tugged at his beard, the door of his office opened.
A tall lady wearing white and green power armor walked in.
She held her helmet under her arm and greeted President Pierre with a smile: "Hello, Mr. President."
"Sister Gerrit." Pierre no longer cared about politeness. He said with a gloomy expression: "Your alliance is so impolite. Our negotiations are advancing in an orderly manner. I have also been sorry for your actions in the past. We have gained a lot of convenience and are gradually drawing a clear line with those cultists. Everything is developing in a good direction. Why are there alliance troops heading north in large numbers? "
"I need an explanation!"
Garrett was not from the Alliance, but she did not try to correct Pierre's statement.
She said: "What you said is correct, but things have changed. My sisters and I will leave this planet soon. We promised Governor Gu that we would solve all the problems in the Polar Industrial City before leaving. .”
Garrett did not hide anything and told the reason, and then she earnestly persuaded: "So, before tomorrow, the Polar Industrial City must plant the flag of the alliance. You can add conditions and other things later. Talk.”
Pierre almost laughed angrily.
He stood up suddenly and said: "Wait until the alliance captures the Polar Industrial City before we can talk? You have the nerve to say this! By that time, what else is there to talk about? The entire group has become Meat on the chopping block of the Alliance!”
Gerrit sighed and said: "I'm sorry to say this, but I have to tell you that this is an ultimatum."
"Don't even think about it!" Pierre said, "Then let the Alliance give it a try! We will not be cowardly and do nothing when others bully us! We will arm all three million people in the north! We will give our full support The activities of the Original Raging Owl Sect! Perhaps even in this case, the Alliance will eventually win, but they will shed blood and pay a terrible price; and what they will gain in the end is a scorched northern land!”
The words were quite tough.
Not to mention whether this is what he says from his heart, whether it really reaches that point, their polar industry has the determination to do as he said, but at least he has to show this kind of momentum now, otherwise it will really be easy for others to do. Knead it round and flatten it.
But Gerrit didn't accept this.
"President Pierre, is this your official answer?"
She looked at the group president seriously.
Pierre was stunned for a moment, and felt something bad in his heart.
But it had reached this point, and he couldn't swallow back the hard words he just said for a second.
He could only continue to scratch his neck and said to Gerrit: "Yes! If the alliance insists on taking military action, then this is my final answer on behalf of the entire Polar Group!"
Gerrit's expression didn't change at all, she just said: "You still have two minutes to change your mind."
"No need for the so-called two minutes, this is my final answer."
"This is your freedom, but I suggest you think carefully in these two minutes."
"That's enough! See off the guests!"
He gave the order and the office door opened again.
A whole group of guards wearing gray-blue uniforms and armed with deadly weapons walked in.
The leader made a gesture of invitation to Gritte.
Gritte sighed again.
"It seems that the best situation is beyond our reach..."
It was more like she was sighing to herself.
"What?..."
Pierre, who had already turned his back, turned his head again.
He saw the Battle Sister put on the helmet casually.
Suddenly, a very bad feeling took over his mind.
"Wait..." He wanted to say something else, but the head nun, who had already made up his mind, did not give him a chance.
Gerrit took action.
She knocked down the guard who made a "please" gesture to her with one punch, and when others raised their weapons to fire at her, she stepped up with her long legs and quickly lowered her body, not only dodging a round of bullets , the sweeper's legs fell over several times.
Then, she casually snatched the gun from the fallen soldier.
The guy subconsciously held on to the gun and refused to let go, but when the nun grabbed him and dragged him up with the gun, he punched him in the face and fainted instantly, so it didn't matter whether he let go or not.
At this time, a bullet had already hit the head nun's body. However, the protective capabilities of the nun's power armor cannot be easily threatened by these polar industrial self-made firearms. On the contrary, the head nun grabbed the weapon and counterattacked, accurately distributing every bullet evenly on the guards who attacked her, without any waste.
In this situation where the combat distance is no more than ten meters, with her ability, she can certainly hit wherever she wants.
After eliminating these guards, the nun quickly moved forward, closed the door to Pierre's CEO office, and locked it from the inside. This of course doesn't have much effect, since someone outside has the key.
But Garuit herself doesn’t want to stay here for a long time.
The nun, who had closed the door, turned around and did not see Pierre.
She took a few steps and pulled the CEO out from under the desk.
Just now, after the head nun took action, he hid - mainly because he was afraid that stray bullets might kill him for no apparent reason.
At this moment, although his body was still struggling, the group president still tried to stay calm and strong at this time.
"Just... even if you take action, even if you kill me here, it will not change the overall will of the group... We will not... we will not completely surrender because of violence. Your choice is completely wrong. ! ”
"I know, but I don't expect that kidnapping you will completely change the situation."
"Then you..."
"Shh... be quiet, I just want you to wait for two minutes."
Two minutes?
Earlier, the head nun was also stressing to him that he only had two minutes to change his mind.
At first, he thought this was just a short deadline to put further pressure on him when issuing an ultimatum.
But now it seems...does this so-called two minutes really mean something?
What will happen?
For two minutes, he could only sit peacefully.
During this period, he heard movement outside the door, and a guard tried to break in, but failed. The door to his CEO's office is still very strong. Immediately afterwards, there were vague voices outside, probably looking for spare keys.
Two minutes is very short, and it is just enough time for these things to happen.
Then, he saw Gerrit opening the window of the president's office.
He subconsciously leaned over and looked around, and then he heard continuous explosions, rumbling from all over the Polar Industrial City.
The nearest one was probably less than two thousand meters away from where he was.
After the explosion, there was the sound of gunfire.
It seems that the entire Polar Industrial City is boiling!
Pierre's brain suddenly fell into a shutdown state.
After a while, he turned his head with difficulty and looked at Gerrit.
"You... sent people to lurk into the Polar Industrial City? How many people lurked in?"
He didn't expect Gorita to answer, he just asked out of shock.
But Garrett really answered: "Two thousand people. The Alliance's 31st Airborne Division is responsible for this operation. There are two thousand soldiers, following your group's suppliers and the transport team into the Polar Industrial City."
Pierre looked quite shocked: "But...so many people...damn it! Have all the settlements outside betrayed us!"
Gerrit said seriously: "Not all of them...just a dozen. In the past two days, when their shipments were delivered, Alliance soldiers and weapons were hidden inside. Of course, if you want to do this, We also need help from some people in your group, otherwise it would not be easy. But fortunately, our work in the city has not been ineffective in the past few months.”
"..."
Pierre didn't know what to say.
It turns out that not only the external settlements that act as suppliers have become insiders, but there are also insiders within the group, right?
And there are quite a few!
He calmed down: "But...with all due respect, two thousand people may seem like a lot, but they don't have heavy weapons or the Alliance's famous armor. With just this few manpower, it would be unavoidable to conquer the Polar Industrial City." Too confident.”
He spoke more politely than before.
But what he didn't expect was that Gerrit nodded again, admitted his statement, and continued: "You are right, so... we have some other preparations."
"Huh?"
Pierre was just about to open his mouth and ask what he meant by "there are some other preparations".
But soon, he saw it with his own eyes.
When the roar reached him, it was no longer loud, a bit like bees flying.
But what comes is much scarier than bees!
From a distance, he saw a formation of a hundred machines swooping down from the clouds in the sky not far away. In just the blink of an eye, they arrived above the Polar Industrial City.
Polar Industrial City has anti-aircraft firepower.
But obviously, the alliance's special operations have some kind of pertinence. They have a certain understanding of the information on the anti-aircraft firepower layout of the Polar Industrial City. Many of the first wave of alliance soldiers who had lurked in before launched their attacks were near those air defense points.
If they were suddenly attacked, they might not have much chance to launch their anti-aircraft firepower.
Of course, it is impossible for the lurking soldiers to completely control and clear out all the air defense firepower points in the entire city.
After the alliance's air force arrived, there were still some firepower points roaring into the sky.
But... its effect is very limited.
First of all, it is not dense enough and very sparse; secondly, the caliber of firepower is not good enough.
This kind of anti-aircraft machine gun has no problem hitting some thin-skinned aircraft, but it will kill you if it hits it.
Fighting the Falcon?
That armored vehicle-level armor is really not something that air defense firepower of insufficient caliber can accurately damage.
On the contrary, whenever there is anti-aircraft firepower somewhere, the Wind Falcon in the sky will launch an airborne missile.
Often, that solves the problem.
Some wind falcons arrived at some open areas and opened their hatches.
Immediately afterwards, the rope was lowered, and dozens of soldiers clung to the rope and began to descend rapidly.
Pierre was stunned.
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I fell asleep last night...I didn't finish writing...
Fortunately, we finished it before 12 o'clock.
(End of chapter)