afterglow

Chapter 220 Don't leave when you come; Earth-built armored vehicles
Perhaps because of the stereotypes before time travel, Zhou Changfeng didn't welcome the reporters, but they couldn't be driven away when they came, so he could only ask them not to run around.

There is a mess everywhere now, and bandits are running rampant. If these guys are accidentally hit and killed by local bullies, then I might have to take the blame.

The reporters who had just arrived belonged to different newspapers. In addition to the official Sun Moon News Agency of Ming Dynasty, there were also three newspapers, namely Bowen News, China Daily, and Imperial Chronicle News.

However, the arrival of the reporters was not bad. It didn't take long for the state government to receive several telegrams. The generators and wording were different, but they all asked whether the flat land here was enough for small planes to take off.

Due to the purpose of field commuting and artillery observation, the Type [-] liaison aircraft only needs a distance of more than [-] meters to take off, and can easily take off and land on the front line.

Zhou Changfeng originally thought that the military department would organize an airlift. Although the transport capacity is limited, some key materials such as medicines can be brought in to some extent.

What left him speechless was that when the two small planes landed at noon, it was a member of the Advisory Council who got out of them, and the first thing he said after landing was to ask if there was a car here.

Accompanied by several entourages, this elegant and generous middle-aged man wandered around a few times and took more than a dozen photos. He dubbed it "adventure to the worst-hit place to investigate the situation".

Then he left on the grounds that he was unwell, and two Type [-] liaison planes taxied to take off one after another, turned around and flew towards the south.

But this was not over yet, and then another plane came, this time it landed on a patrol road, with the title of deputy envoy of the Shandong Provincial Inspection Department.

The Taoist also wandered around and said some comforting words such as "If you persevere, there will be relief".

When Zhou Changfeng took a nap for two quarters of an hour because he was too sleepy, he woke up and saw only the plane gradually disappearing into the skyline.

"Damn it! Everyone has come to check in, right?"

It just so happened that another plane arrived at this time, and after descending the altitude and circling slowly, it aimed at the small flat land.

At this point, Zhou Changfeng couldn't bear it any longer, and directly said to Luo Fuling: "No matter who is inside later, after he has gone far, you can take someone to dismantle the wheels of the plane for me!"

This blue-gray Type [-] liaison aircraft painted with "D [-]" turned its speed to the slowest and approached cautiously.

The seat of this small plane is not flattering. The cushion and backrest are made of a piece of sponge plus a canvas cover. The flight of more than one hour made Gao Senbai's back ache in the seat, and he only hoped to land as soon as possible.

In addition to the traditional cleaning department corresponding to the provincial administrative region, the current household department also has a relief department in charge of disaster relief. It is responsible for formulating strategies, coordinating materials, organizing donations, and so on.

However, the Relief Department is destined to monopolize power only in small and medium-scale disasters. When a disaster is so big that it requires the whole nation of Ming Dynasty to go all out, it is only a small department of the imperial court and can only play a supporting role honestly.

Gao Senbai, a doctor of the Relief Department, knew this well. He thought that he could just stay in the capital and follow the steps, but he was asked to travel thousands of miles to come to the scene in person, and it was the most serious epicenter area.

This is not the request of the court, but the request of his party.

"Extremely miserable, such a catastrophe... Alas." Looking at the surrounding urban areas that were almost razed to the ground, Gao Senbai thought of the great earthquake in Tancheng more than 200 years ago, which was also in Shandong.

But as soon as he got off the plane, he felt the malicious eyes from the people around him, which made him feel uncomfortable.

Gao Senbai is not stupid, this kind of atmosphere is still easy to distinguish - not because he is too busy to be irritable and unhappy, but because he is disgusted and disgusted for other reasons.

When he asked where Zhou Changfeng was, the others just replied bluntly, "I am busy directing all parties."

Am I so unpopular?
The Beijing official who should have been sitting in the guard room was leisurely and contented, but came all the way to the scene in person. Even if he wasn't welcome, it wouldn't be so annoying, right?

Gao Senbai decided to talk to Zhou Changfeng. After all, he only brought one entourage with him. If he didn't explain the truth to the commander here, he would hardly be able to take a single step.

As soon as they met, the latter said straight to the point: "I am very busy. Hundreds of thousands of disaster victims in Caozhou suffer from hunger, disease, and bandits all the time. I don't have time to chat with you. Sorry."

Although Gao Senbai was very dissatisfied, looking at Zhou Changfeng who was all dirty, with messy hair and tired face, his anger came and went quickly.

What kind of people should be used in what way? This is the basic skill of an official. Gao Senbai, who has been in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years and is proficient in this way, asked directly: "I think everyone seems to be dissatisfied with me. Why is this?"

He was so straightforward, Zhou Changfeng was naturally unambiguous, and replied casually: "Before you, there were two guys who came here to put on a show. They walked around a few times, took a few photos and then left."

As soon as he said this, Gao Senbai understood instantly.

But shouldn't this kind of thing be used to it?However, he soon realized that this was his way of thinking—as a relief secretary, he naturally knew a lot of inside information, and he was used to it long ago, but...ordinary people don't know.

Zhou Changfeng said leisurely: "Gao Langzhong, don't you also plan to walk here for a few laps before leaving?"

Feeling a little ashamed, Gao Senbai smiled awkwardly, "No way, I plan to stay for a few more days."

"That's good. The plane you're flying has a problem with the wheels. It won't be able to take off these days." The serious Zhou Changfeng deliberately emphasized the word "problem".

"what?"

Does this count as entering the wolf's den?

Gao Senbai was a little confused, "Xiao Zhou, you and I belong to the same faction, it shouldn't be like this..."

He is a member of the Ming Dynasty Constitutional Council, a party founded by royalists, covering most of the enlightened dignitaries and the more conservative bourgeoisie, with a position of center and center right.

Although Zhou Changfeng didn't join any party, since he followed Zhu Lingjing, it was equivalent to being a friend with a standpoint.

"Those two people before were too chilling, and the image of Ming Dynasty politicians is already shaky."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Changfeng looked at Gao Senbai, an official who could be regarded as his father in his age, and said seriously: "In times of crisis, there should be dignitaries on the front line to calm people's hearts, Mr. Gao, it doesn't matter if you blame me or not, I will I must stay with you for three days, I hope you can cooperate well."

Why is it three days?Because in any case, the order must be restored within three days, otherwise the victims will die on a large scale due to hunger and disease, and the corpses buried under the ruined walls will rot and induce plague.

"..." Gao Senbo remained silent.

But Zhou Changfeng didn't care about that much, he continued to order: "Come on, put a striking sign on the landing site with a bonfire and a red cloth, and no landing is allowed. Directly send electricity to the Ministry of War, and Caozhou doesn't need to come to check the bullshit situation. Now Isn't the situation clear enough? Sending a can in is better than giving away!"

At this time, Lu Weizhong walked over quickly, cupped his hands and said: "The sixth and seventh teams worked together to wipe out a group of bandits, captured more than [-] people alive, and simply interrogated them."

"Just follow the previous rules. Those who commit evil deeds will be shot immediately, and then hung on a wooden frame. They will be changed every two days to avoid rot and maggots."

"Uh... After cross-examination, it seems that they all participated in looting, wounding, rape..."

"Then kill them all. This kind of thing that usually doesn't dare to do things, but takes advantage of the fire to loot when there is a disturbance is the most hateful thing. It is a waste of food."

This understatement made Gao Senbai finally remember what kind of person he was in front of him.

The rumored evaluations of kindness and friendliness are all false. This man fought with one enemy and many bloody battles for several days and nights in a remote borderland. A few days ago, he would even go against the law to find a war in Spain privately. Hit people hard.

At this moment, Gao Senbai suddenly felt that Zhou Changfeng was a guy who would not be comfortable if he did not slaughter others, and he could not help subconsciously worrying about whether he would be able to spend the next few days safely.

It's better to be sensible, and be careful when sailing for ten thousand years, so as not to offend talents is the official rule.

He took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Xiao Zhou, since I'm here, I will naturally be loyal to my duties in the past few days, and I will be worthy of the people's admiration to share the difficulties with you."

Zhou Changfeng stared at him with a faint smile, and immediately turned his gaze back to the map laid out on the table.

The State Ya Bingfang is similar in nature to the local armed forces of later generations. Large-scale military maps of Caozhou are stored here. However, under the current circumstances, military maps do not seem to be as convenient as ordinary civilian tourist maps.

After a whole day of hard work, people brought out two medium-sized shelling machines that were still functioning from the government-run grain workshops, and collected five small shelling machines from several private workshops.

People began to transport a large amount of raw grain piled up like a mountain to carry out the shelling process. Five trucks that had just been repaired were used to transfer back and forth between the preparation warehouse and the workshop. After the roar of the two gasoline generators, the white flowers The rice grains gushed out from the outlet of the machine like a waterfall.

On the afternoon of the [-]rd, when You hour was approaching, more than [-] military policemen on horseback and two armored vehicles came to the urban area from the southwestern suburbs.

Generally, the gendarmerie of each unit will be scattered and stationed in the suburban areas, and they will also be responsible for maintaining law and order in rural areas.

After the earthquake, they first tried to restore order in the surrounding villages and towns. Due to the sparse population and generally low-rise buildings, the disaster situation in rural areas was much better. The villagers are usually familiar with each other. Under the command of the chief, he recovered quickly.

Looking at the two tall armored vehicles, Zhou Changfeng asked in amazement: "Your armored vehicles...you modified them yourself?"

The leading Second Lieutenant of the Gendarmerie clasped his fists and said, "Yes, I entrusted the car repairers in the city to remodel them two years ago. There are four cars in total."

Based on ordinary civilian trucks, riveting and welding some steel plates to transform them into earth-built armored vehicles, this is a craze that has arisen in Daming local states and counties in the past ten years-cheap, easy to use, and strong deterrence.

The northern region is fine, there may be only two or three vehicles in a state and county; while in the south where the clans are powerful, hundreds of people can be mobilized to fight for water and land between two villages, armed with knives, guns, sticks, There are bird guns, iron cannons and so on.

Under such circumstances, dozens of patrol police and military police can only stare blankly, and only big guys like armored vehicles can barely maintain order.

The arrival of the armored vehicle lifted the atmosphere in the city. For the citizens, the sense of security brought by this thing is extraordinary, and those young people with evil intentions will have to think twice after seeing the machine gun.

In this way, with the unremitting efforts of everyone, more than a dozen of the most arrogant bandit gangs in the city were wiped out one by one.

Two of the gangs worked together and attacked the trucks transporting grain, killing and injuring more than a dozen people, including officials and civilians, but were quickly chased and intercepted. That night, the remaining [-] or so people were trapped in a half-collapsed building.

After repeated warnings were ineffective, Zhou Changfeng, who was very angry, couldn't care less. How could everyone's precious energy be wasted on the stalemate with these stubborn bandits?
Luo Fu, whose neck was scratched by the bullet shot by the opponent, was very annoyed, "Brother Zhou, we can't be dragged here, we have to deal with these stubborn guys quickly."

So Zhou Changfeng directly asked someone to bring some mining explosives unintentionally dug out from the warehouse of the workshop. At dawn, taking advantage of the other party's drowsiness and not paying attention, he placed more than 300 catties of explosives under the building, and then directly detonated.

"boom!!!"

Bricks and tiles were flying, dust was flying, and the half-collapsed building was now completely in ruins.

The deafening explosion sound spread throughout the city, startling the citizens, and everyone looked nervously at the direction of the explosion sound.

Zhou Changfeng breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said, "Okay, what should I do, the airdrop is coming soon, get ready."

Around the same time, Yanzhou Mansion, three hundred miles east of Caozhou...

This was the second day after Zhu Lingjing arrived here, and the emperor did not authorize her to be officially dispatched, so her coming here was purely a personal act.

Yanzhou Prefecture is close to the disaster area and is located on the railway line, so it has naturally become a transit point for disaster relief personnel and relief supplies.

A total of more than forty trains stopped to unload goods yesterday, with an average of one train every half an hour, either from the north or from the south.

Although there are countless supplies, they will not be able to be sent in for a while, and most of them are backlogged in Yanzhou Mansion.

Su Yiyi walked slowly to the edge of the balcony and reported: "Your Highness, it is said that Zhou Changfeng has sealed off the land where he can land, and he said that no more people are allowed to go in. The words... are quite explicit."

Standing on the balcony feeling the dawn, Zhu Lingjing said indifferently: "There are many people who are not used to showing off, but very few people dare to speak out."

Although she knows that being shameless is a basic skill for being an official and a politician, this kind of behavior is still very intrusive in Zhu Lingjing's eyes - she is obviously unwilling to endure hardships, but she still has to pretend that she is not afraid of hardships.

If you can't bear that hardship, then it is worthy of your conscience to sit honestly on the outskirts of the disaster area, but the fact is that many people's virtue is limited.

When she was imagining what the situation in Caozhou would be like at this moment, the roar of the engine in her ears interrupted her thoughts.

She looked up and squinted against the sun, and she could see that the eastern sky was full of densely packed planes. At a glance, there were as many as dozens of them. They whizzed past and headed west.

(End of this chapter)