District 9

Within the Zhou Department Headquarters.

After Xu Hancheng was silent for a while, he intervened and said, "I also think we can contact the people in the eighth district, and we can even try to contact the Chen department."

While Zhou Xingli was thinking, his personal adjutant came in from outside, lay in his ear and said, "Li Bokang called."

"He's really well-informed." Zhou Xingli took the call with a smile and talked to Li Bokang in front of everyone.

At the conference table, the chief of general staff, as well as the headquarters staff and staff officers felt uncomfortable when they saw Zhou Xingli communicating with Li Bokang in a friendly manner, and some even frowned.

During the phone call, Li Bokang said clearly: "I personally suggest to continue to wait and see and not to mobilize troops easily, because once the war starts, there will be no turning back. I agree to use the Lu District as the starting point to reasonably solve the current problems and conflicts between the local area and the headquarters. Contradictory, but don’t contact the people in District 8 easily. We have to wait for them to speak first, otherwise we will be at a disadvantage in the negotiation..."

After Zhou Xingli listened to Li Bokang's words quietly, he only responded briefly: "Okay, I understand."

"That's it, Commander-in-Chief."

After saying that, the two ended the call.

Zhou Xingli handed the phone to the adjutant, continued to intervene and looked at everyone and said: "Li Bokang's suggestion is not to use troops. You can consolidate the issues in the Lu District first and wait for the opportunity to fight again."

The chief of general staff's surname was Yan. He was Zhou Xingli's deputy for many years. Although he was not as good as those factional generals with actual military power, he was at least the second-ranking figure in the headquarters. So he responded unhappily: "Commander , I personally feel that Li Bokang’s thoughts and thinking are too conservative. His academic temperament cannot be changed. I personally feel that whether Qin Yu is dead or not, this time it will be a good time for us. An opportunity. Only by taking the initiative to attack can it cause local differences and internal conflicts militarily. The previous battle at Dongfeng Town in Lu District is the best proof. No force on the other side has contacted us, but there are four regiments acting on the battlefield. , isn’t this enough to prove that there are many people in the Eighth District and the Chen Department who are dissatisfied with Gu Tai’an and Qin Yu?”

Once the chief of general staff took the lead, the remaining staff officers and staff officers began to criticize Li Bokang's strategies and ideas like mad dogs.

Zhou Xingli just listened quietly without refuting, but the final decision he made was relatively moderate.

He decided to slow down the matter of sending troops to fight for a while and focus on observation and wait-and-see. However, the contradiction between the local forces and the headquarters in Lu District must be resolved quickly, because after the war breaks out, this will be the starting point of the war.

At the same time, Zhou Xingli also ordered the military intelligence department to find opportunities to contact the opposing generals in the Eighth District in a timely manner, provided that the other party's attitude and position must be confirmed.

After the Chief of General Staff heard this decision, he did not refute it and personally took over the task of solving the internal problems in the Lu District.

…

Around twelve o'clock in the night.

The search and rescue team dispatched by the Eighth District Naval Command has found five incomplete bodies in the aircraft wreckage area.

At this moment, whether it was Sichuan Mansion, District Eight, District Nine, or the Beifengkou area, the hearts of everyone who had a close relationship with Qin Yu sank to the bottom of the sea.

Obviously, the probability of the aircraft members surviving is infinitely close to zero.

The spread of the news must not be suppressed. Wu Tianyin, who was far away in Beifengkou, after learning the exact news, was ready to go to the airport and rushed to Jinmen that day, but was persuaded by Xiang Zehao.

In the sea, Lin Nianlei stood on the boat, feeling the rolling waves on the sea, and she shed tears silently as she looked at the disintegrated and burned wreckage of the plane.

Falling in love, getting married, having children, the couple having a brief emotional crisis...scenes of these events passed through her mind.

Lin Nianlei was like riding in a time machine, flashing back from the time when Qin Yu aspired to the highest position in Sichuan Province to the time when he was a poor boy and a small police officer.

Accompany you all the way and grow up all the way.

She had never thought about what she would do if her man suddenly died one day.

Tears streaked down his cheeks, and the emotion of extreme sadness spread like a wave of sea water.

"Leilei, first..." Old Mao looked at Lin Nianlei and wanted to persuade her.

"No, he won't die! He has me and a child. He will never die. I know him." Lin Nianlei interrupted very stubbornly: "I will never believe it until I see his body. ,he's gone."

The old cat was speechless.

Lin Nianlei wiped the tears on her face with her arm, cheered up again, and shouted with red eyes: "All corpses will be handed over to the Sichuan government for disposal. Get me a set of diving equipment, and I will go down to search."

"Don't go down there, the water is too cold and the waves are strong."

"No, I want to go down."

In this way, Lin Nianlei put on diving equipment and searched for the remaining people with the search and rescue team.

In the vast sea, the waves are turbulent, and many plane wreckage have been washed away without knowing where they are. Finding people is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

…

District 8, Yanbei.

Many generals had already left the headquarters, and some of them met privately in a highly private teahouse.

Each of these people is one of the most famous figures in the Eighth District. They carry stars on their shoulders and have worked hard for the great cause of unification.

But at this moment, the absolute rights they gained from their military exploits have completely tied them to death.

This group of people established a military-political alliance and advocated opposing Lin Yaozong's appearance on the stage.

In the dark teahouse, a middle-aged man sat in the corner and said first: "Five corpses have been recovered. This matter is getting more and more mysterious."

"I'm still more inclined to think this is a conspiracy." A person in the opposite corner said: "We haven't taken action. I don't believe there is anyone else who has the ability to kill Qin Yu."

"Within the Sichuan Mansion, is it possible for the Chen Department in the Seventh District to do such a thing?" Someone asked.

"It's hard to say..."

"I suggest you wait and see and don't make any moves now." The leader of the organization intervened and said: "Let's just focus on two points, then there will be no problems and risks. First, we won't jump until the old governor dies. Second, we will not jump unless it is directly confirmed that Qin Yu is dead. By adhering to these two principles, anything is possible."

Everyone nodded when they heard this.

…

At two o'clock in the morning, no bodies or body parts were found at the crash site.

Lin Nianlei exhausted all her strength and dived several times, but still found nothing.

Lin Xiao came and saw Lin Nianlei sitting alone on the boat on the shore, silent for a long time.

Lin Nianlei stood up slowly, looked up at him and said, "Brother, you don't have to persuade me, I don't believe something happened to him."

"Whoever wants to kill your man, I will kill his whole family." Lin Xiao looked at his sister and replied simply and decisively.

…

It's about four o'clock in the morning.

The second batch of search troops entered the scene, and Chief of Staff Yan of the Zhou Clan also arrived in Taikang Town, Lu District by plane.