Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

"Politically, the situation is now becoming more delicate again. The East Kazdare clans are once again absolutely loyal to Theresia. On the other side, various rumors are emerging - from 'Atlas is deceiving His Highness'. 'His Royal Highness was forced to commit himself to the Command', well, it was quite interesting, there were political intrigues, sex and violence. But the Ministry of the Interior is watching me, and I am not sensitive to the position of Prince Kazdaele."

While joking, Comand made his attitude clear: "The newly established country of Kazdel should be a republic."

Thalmann nodded: "Yes, we cannot tolerate another king after so much bloodshed and sacrifice."

"Comrade Thälmann, is this the attitude of your organization or your entire 'red zone'?"

“It’s going from an organizational attitude through propaganda to a consensus in the red zone.”

Commander replied with satisfaction: "Very good. Here, I would like to introduce to you some of our ideas for the new Kazdel - Comrade Thalmann, what is the essence of politics? There are many answers, after all, this question is too general You can answer from any angle. And now I have a saying: Politics is a process in which people form a consensus and organize to practice.”

"That's right."

"So, what are the consensuses that can maintain the entire Kazdel?"

Thalmann pondered for a moment, and finally gave a wry smile: "Integrationism is definitely not good anyway. Its main scope of influence is in the former Teresia Group control area that was invaded by Teresia. We have basically formed administrative organizations in these places. Other places are still limited to infiltration. If I have to say... No one in Kazdel, which has been divided for a long time, would dare to openly oppose unification, and Kazdel, which has been in war for a long time, unanimously calls for peace."

Comand snapped his fingers: "Yes! Unity, peace, and a 'bright future' are the current consensus of the entire Kazdel. Therefore, the ideology of the New Republic must be based on these consensus .

"Furthermore, Comrade Thälmann, what do you think is the biggest difference in concept between a republic, a kingdom, and an empire?"

This is a question that has been discussed as early as in the training class at the Oder River base. Thalmann replied: "In the ideology of the kingdom, what is sacrosanct is the royal family; in the ideology of the republic, what is sacrosanct is the royal family. 'Founding Ideas'."

"Sacred and inviolable" does not mean that there will be no things that violate the royal family or ideas in the country.To put it simply, citizens love to talk about royal gossip and political jokes; to put it more complicated, there will be violations of these things within the system of any country, such as conspiracy to usurp the throne, corruption, subversive elements, and so on.It's also impossible for Yuri's mind control or brain upgrade aura to put an end to these things.

However, the meaning of this "sacred and inviolable" is on another level-if the kingship or ideals of this country are completely denied in society, then the political legitimacy of this country will completely cease to exist.

And these things must be those "hypocritical" and "sacred" things. Individuals may admit that they are pragmatic or even mercenary, but society as a whole always wants the benefits of being a bitch and the dignity of building a memorial arch. Most people will think that they are great and upright.

As the key to maintaining society, this "sacred and inviolable" thing must be the consensus of the society to the greatest extent.

"So, when we came up with 'peace, unity and the future' as a consensus to unite people's hearts, we twisted the biggest pain point of the Sarkaz group." Comand gestured on the table, "And this is also the new Kaz The founding philosophy of the Republic of Dale."

"These are short- and medium-term goals. In the long term...forget it, this republic is still in a state of flux."

Comand nodded: "Yes. For the next attempt to unify Kazdel at the political level, our highest goal is to establish an integrationist republic under the dictatorship of the proletariat; the lowest goal is to establish a Kazdel unified country with at least a parliamentary representative system. On the Ursas side, the integration movement has enough strength to achieve the former; but as a political upstart, its strength is still relatively weak, and its influence is not wide enough. It is hard to say even the Kazdel integration movement that has not formally established a party. This is It depends on how far you can go."

Thalmann seemed unconvinced: "Just wait and see."

"I'm looking forward to your results. We will also start work on Theresia and Traces. If they can betray their own class, it will be of great help to us." Commander stood up and signaled that this time The brief exchange ended here, "But even if both people are willing to follow the trend of history, the problem has just begun. We still have to reduce the vassalage."

Thalmann shook his head: "According to you, if luck is unlucky, Teresia and Teresis will have to join forces to fight a Second Civil War to take care of their former subordinates. Okay, official work The report will be delivered later, and our team of representatives will be present for the working hearing."

**

To put it bluntly, the People's Federation's behavior towards Terra is a direct interference in the internal affairs of the Terra countries. They have adopted methods including but not limited to economic infiltration, espionage, cultural invasion and even armed intervention—

However, this does not mean that there will inevitably be a tsunami of opposition.

Theoretically speaking, the units sent across the universe by the Alliance of the Future Community of Mankind have indeed made a move to interfere in the internal affairs of various countries.However, the problem is that this does not violate the sovereignty of the Terra countries——

Because the countries of Terra currently have no sovereignty.

Of course, this statement is rather outrageous.Because sovereignty is the most important and basic right of a country, it is inherent in the country and is not conferred by international law.The principle of national sovereignty in international law only confirms and protects this right.

However, currently, there is no international convention between the countries of Terra, even at the level of the Treaty of Westphalia, to clearly explain the concept of "sovereignty" and to enable one or more countries to act in international interactions. Use this concept; countries on "this land" still use concepts such as "divine right of kings" as the main endorsement of their own legitimacy.Of course, there are exceptions, such as a certain Colombian federation.The problem is that this thing really doesn’t look like the bald eagle of 1776...

As for the level of social consensus, it can only be said that even nationalism, which is directly constructed from general social practice in many ideological trends and relies on common language, history, customs, beliefs, characteristics, region, lifestyle, etc., is still called nationalism. Don’t follow the “trend of thought”.

You must know that other ideologies basically come from the abstraction of a certain political philosophy doctrine, and political philosophy is abstracted by philosophers through observation, cognition, analysis, and summary of the world.Therefore, no matter what kind of doctrine they are, they have all gone through the evolution process of reality-political philosophy-ideology.Then this ideology has to struggle to expand its audience through propaganda.

Nationalism has planted seeds in everyone's hearts through every detail of daily life: customs, language, appearance, even dishes, clothes, and jokes, all of which are adding to nationalism.Therefore, nationalism was the first of many ideologies to appear on the historical stage.

However, Terra's situation is too complicated.For example, an important factor in the formation of nationalism, that is, the economic foundation of the national identity of the country formed by the increasingly close economic ties and trade exchanges between various parts of the country, Terra does not have it. "Thanks to" the well-known problems of natural disasters, communications, transportation, etc., the countries of Terra are in fact the closest to the "city-state alliance" or even the "city-state federation".The trend of nationalism has not even spread, and the lords and city-states are more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.What about more complex ideologies?

The problems of city-states are reflected in the economy, such as trade obstruction, insufficient circulation, and the inability to plan the overall development of industrialization.When it comes to light and heavy industries, the inability to implement cross-regional coordination has led to serious low-level redundant construction in various regions in order to meet their own needs...

But Kazdaele is different - it has basically no industry except military industry and related industries that are limited in scale and level.

Don't laugh, this does have advantages.The development and application of Origin Stone technology and Origin Stone industry has a fatal problem - it invites natural disasters.This has largely driven the use and promotion of mobile cities.Originally, the people of Terra were not very interested in mobile cities that were expensive and extremely limited in size compared to settlements in natural space.However, the extraordinary incidence of natural disasters in the Originium Industrial Zone, including but not limited to Originium meteorites, earthquakes, storms, etc., is really unbearable for the Terran people, especially because the "sensitivity" of industrial production is far beyond the imagination of laymen. , the smallest natural disaster can significantly disrupt industrial production.

However, industry represents power, and no country is willing to abandon this power after possessing industry.So they would rather grit their teeth and choose to move the city, and the people of Terra still started the process of industrialization with difficulty.

Kazdel, who had been in war for more than two hundred years, was left behind by this process.This is unfortunate, and everyone must know what kind of result such a country will face, especially in the past.

However, for the Sarkaz, unprecedented luck has come to them—based on the new technology system, comparatively safer industrial investment has extended an olive branch to them.The opportunity to overtake on a curve has come.

However, this extremely tempting opportunity is not so easy to seize.For example, there must be a unified political power in Kazdaele that can guarantee the basic order of production and life within the country, right?

So the question comes back - when will the Kazdel Civil War end?What kind of new country will be born after that?

Chapter 56 Choices

The sky was gloomy and gray, and a pale sun rose in the sky, shining feebly on the desolate and troubled land of Kazdel.

"Feuer!"

The newly trained artillerymen of the National Guard moved to follow the instructions in Kazdaele language.The earth-shattering sound of artillery sounded immediately, a large ball of artillery flames flashed past, and dozens of artillery shells flew like a gust of wind and rain towards the Wang Tingjun position in the distance.

Clusters of explosive spots bloomed between the simple soil ditches, swelling into gray-white clouds of smoke.The ground vibrated amid the violent explosions, only a shovel was used to dig it out, and the simple trenches with little wood reinforcement trembled.The shock wave of the explosion rushed straight up, and the shrapnel was wrapped in the mud spots and splashed. People within the killing range were either beaten into blood by the shrapnel or turned into terracotta warriors by the mud.The corpse was blown to pieces, the shrapnel and bone fragments were splashed and shot together, and the minced meat was mixed with the gunpowder smoke and scattered, making people sick.

However, don't look at the soldiers of Wang Tingjun who are covered in mud and water, their hair is dirty and messy, their eyelids are swollen, their eyeballs are bloodshot, and their clothes are torn. You can smell the strong stench on them from a long distance, and the uniforms have become tattered. Bad auspicious clothes, no need to pretend at all.Huddled in the wet and muddy trench, they didn't even open their eyes and continued to sleep soundly.

Even though Sarkaz is known for his tenacious vitality, this environment is a bit out of line.But I was bombarded seventeen or eighteen times every day for a whole week, and I had to get used to it if I wasn't used to it.

With his men so miserable, Tresisi and his generals were no better.This makeshift command post was also hit by a near-missile not far away.Although there were no casualties, the shell explosion caused the headquarters to be completely covered in mud and sand falling from the cracks in the roof. Half of the piece of dry food in Tracys' hand was also covered in mud.The leader of the military council regime frowned and took out a dagger, carefully shook off the mud on it, then scraped off the mud spots on it with the blade, and finally continued to eat.He frowned, puffed up his cheeks, rubbed the swollen dark circles under his eyes, and asked Manfred with a wry smile: "How many times is this shelling today?"

Manfred's shoulder had been hit by a shell fragment in the morning. It had just been removed, and now the bandage was soaked with blood.Feeling a little weak, he leaned against the wall without opening his eyes: "No. 20 once. The last time it caused more than [-] casualties in our army. General, you'd better take the time to sleep for a while. In about twenty minutes at most, they will attack again." It’s time to fire.”

"Fucking Atlas, as expected of a rich man..."

Tracy muttered, turning to look outside the shelter.There were two soldiers fighting there, whether over blankets or compressed biscuits.This is the most elite headquarters security force in the entire Wang Ting Army!

He smiled wryly, now that supplies are extremely scarce, such conflicts are becoming more and more frequent, and there is nothing he can do.

Atlas fired a rain bomb a few days ago. The heavy rain last night chilled Wang Tingjun in the encirclement, and it was freezing enough in summer.With the loss of the royal army's artillery and the lack of ammunition, Atlas began to withdraw those expensive, sophisticated and scarce advanced artillery that were overused some time ago, and pulled up the newly trained artillery of the National Self-Defense Forces who were equipped with the most World War II level. The positions are used as schools, and the fortifications are used as playgrounds."

Shaking her head, Tracy wrapped the dirty blanket around her body a little tighter, holding a pen in her notebook with fingers stiff from the cold and writing straight.And the people in the entire bunker, except him and Manfred, were all curled up in sleeping bags, snoring contentedly, even if they were whipped, they couldn't be whipped up.

You know, since they were trapped in a siege, sleep has become the most luxurious thing for these generals.Ordinary soldiers can sleep soundly after the battle as long as they do not receive new orders, but they cannot. While the soldiers are resting, they have to rack their brains and plan the next round of combat.

Opportunities to hide in a relatively dry enclosed space are few and far between.Most people could only hide in the leeward, barely able to avoid freezing.The deepest water in the trenches was knee-deep, and the soldiers' faces were as pale as the sun, and they were trembling uncontrollably.

Teresia had no choice but to shrink back, glanced at the letter paper spread on the table, and continued to write a reply to Teresia:

"...Your letter does worry me, even you, deeply feel that Atlas is unfathomable. Who knows what they will do to Kazdel?

"However, Teresia, apart from Kazdel, we all have responsibilities to our followers. Before that, I must face the cruel reality: I have played all my cards, but I am still trapped In this purgatory. Your fire is unimaginable to poor Kazdel. There are broken bodies everywhere, and our blood has stained the land of Kazdel black.

"I know why you didn't launch a general offensive. You let us consume the last supplies bit by bit, and you are moving towards success step by step. Our supplies are getting less and less, and we are extremely short of food, ammunition, medicine, bedding and clothing. … We lack all the supplies needed for an army.

"We had no razors to shave, we had no clippers to cut our hair, we had no boots to replace, and we had no clean new clothes to replace the rags we were wearing. Every attack was repulsed and failed countless times Afterwards, the soldiers were unwilling to attack any more. In their view, rushing towards the positions densely covered with machine guns and artillery was simply suicide! They either contradicted the commander with fierce words, or responded to all the orders of the commander with silence, and followed With the roar of artillery fire, morale became more and more low.

"It's getting harder and harder for me to control the troops. The soldiers' resentment is getting bigger and bigger. In their eyes, it's the stupidity of our generals that got them into this dead end (it should be admitted that we are indeed to blame), and they There is less and less respect for us, and the antagonism between each other is growing and difficult to resolve..."

Suddenly there was a sound of electric current when the tweeter was turned on in the distance.Followed by a quiet and powerful male voice and a lively and cheerful female voice.The two frontline announcers read aloud:

"The Kazdaele National Guard Front Radio Station is now broadcasting!"

After a brief silence, the female announcer said loudly: "Now broadcast, "Urge Tracy to Wait for the Letter of Surrender", "Urge Tracy to Wait for the Letter of Surrender"!

"General Tracys, General Manfred, and commanders, divisions, brigades, and regiments of your two armies:

"It's time for you to choose life or death!

"The two new trainers mobilized by your army in West Kazdale were wiped out on the night of the [-]th, and the temporary division formed by the four local garrison regiments turned around and fled westward. It is hopeless for you to get closer to them.

"Do you want to break out? There are our troops in all directions. How can you break out? You have tried to break out these days. What is the result? Our bayonets and courage are no less than yours, and our steel and explosives are even more powerful than yours." You are many. Your third and fourth armies are finished, and more than half of your remaining two armies have been lost.

"Although you have disbanded the logistics, communications, teaching, supplementary, training, engineering and other messy units and organized them into front-line troops to keep the combat units basically full. But what combat effectiveness does such a unit have? No need for you to defend, we can detect it Come out. In the past week since the defeat of Fulda, under our layers of siege and heavy blows, the noose around your necks has gradually tightened. You only have a small area, no more than ten kilometers across. No. Food, no ammunition, no clothing, no medicine, no soldiers.

"You have finished killing the beasts of burden and burned all the fuel. You have used all the furniture, houses, and even the bones of the coffins in the cemetery in the surrounding villages to make a fire for cooking. Now you have eaten bark, leaves, and grass roots; Your soldiers sleep in muddy ditches, few of them have a roof, and firing may attract shells at any time; your wounded have no doctors and medicines, and their wounds are infected in the muddy ground, and dozens of them die.

"Before your troops go to bed every day, you should collect automatic rifles and machine guns to the company commander for safekeeping, and shoot directly when you see defectors; each of your posts must have double personnel to monitor each other; you are at the door of the bunker where you live Hang up booby traps made of grenades to prevent deserters. Even so, what can you do? Your soldiers rushed to guard and ran to our army's positions under the pretext of going to the bathroom to surrender. The wounded. You can directly read our propaganda materials, listen to our broadcasts, and even ask the officers and soldiers of your army who came to us and returned, and the propagandists who touched your positions.

"The current situation is that your wounded and their families are complaining incessantly; most of your soldiers and many officers do not want to fight. Those of you who are commanders-in-chief, chiefs of general staff, and army commanders, division commanders, and regimental commanders should take good care of you. subordinates, cherish their lives, find a way out for them as soon as possible, and don't let them make unnecessary sacrifices again.

"Now, in just over three weeks from June 22, you have lost two divisions of the Fourth Corps, three divisions of the Third Corps, two regiments in Hamburg, the entire Land Fleet and one regiment in Hanover, Georgia. A regiment of Tingen, two divisions of Fulda, and three divisions which have lately been formed at West Casdales to try to meet you, were either completely annihilated by our army, or were beaten to pieces, Except for the part of the broken troops who ran away to be supplemented by other troops, all the rest ceased to exist. You have seen the fate of the above-mentioned armies, divisions, regiments, and fleets. You should immediately order the entire army to lay down their weapons, Stop resisting, and our army can guarantee the safety of your senior generals and all officers and soldiers. Only in this way is your only way of survival.

"We suggest that you seriously consider our proposal. If you think this is suitable, then do it. If you still want to try again, then we don't mind accompanying you for another dozen. It doesn't matter, because when the time comes at last--

"You will definitely be dealt with!

"The Commander-in-Chief of the East Kazdale Coalition Forces Teresa

"Command, Regional Manager, Atlas Kadsdale"

In the dingy command post, generals and staff officers woke up, listened to the radio, then watched Tracys in silence as another round of shelling followed.

Like Theresia, who makes people feel like a spring breeze, Tracys, who is a compatriot from the same mother, was originally a handsome man in the military and always paid great attention to appearance.Now, like everyone else in this circle, his clothes are dirty, his body exudes strong body odor, his eyes are bloodshot, and his face is as white as a piece of paper.He turned around and walked out of the shelter regardless of Manfred's obstruction.

These days, Atlas and National Guard fire has turned the ever-smaller position over and over again.Teresis tried every means to bring the troops out of this dead place, including small-scale infiltration of infantry, crowd assaults, and even the royal court's battle... all available methods were used, but none of them worked. After returning from success, I can only watch rows and companies of soldiers being crushed by artillery fire...

Only then did Tracy fully understand where the frustration in the army when facing Atlas came from.Strictly speaking, the artillery fire of Atlas is not very intensive, but it is extremely accurate and quick to respond. The landing point of the shells almost never leaves the formation of the Wang Ting army, and the efficiency is frighteningly high.Breakthroughs were dismantled with ease, making any attack feel pointless.

The rumbling sound of cannons in the distance shook the earth like spring thunder, rolling through the blood-stained mountains, and clouds of smoke roared from the ground.The whole valley was like a big drum beaten by God. The earth-shattering explosion didn't seem to come from the ground, but it seemed to come from the center of the earth, making people untenable.

The soldiers of Wang Tingjun were already indifferent.Such shelling is a daily repertoire.A shell fell near the command post, and the shrapnel even passed Tracys directly and nailed to the wooden wall of the command post.However, the senior officers and staff officers in the command post turned a blind eye to the shrapnel whizzing in from the entrance, and continued to work on their own.

In the distance, the smoke and flames billowed, the smoke rose slowly, and the shrapnel spread layer by layer.The entire Wang Ting army's position was full of flickering explosions, as if Atlas had too many shells and some of them had to be consumed.

The cold air became scorching hot, a large number of incendiary bombs released a billowing heat wave, and the fire swallowed everything. In the end, there was nothing to burn, only the soil was still burning. The soldiers who were still shivering just now found that it was as warm as spring , This is probably the only benefit brought by shelling.

Tracy felt a tightness in her chest.He exhaled a strong breath, turned around and walked into the headquarters, ignoring the falling soil, pacing back and forth in front of the huge military map with his hands behind his hands, not knowing what he was thinking.Everyone tried to stay quiet for fear of interrupting his train of thought.

The shelling lasted for a full 15 minutes, and many areas in the encirclement could be directly planted with potatoes.

The results of the work of the staff officers are on the table, which is the briefing just completed yesterday.Trexis carefully selected the staff members of the frontline headquarters. Almost everyone in this team was painstakingly cultivated by him. They were young, capable, and energetic, and everyone had their own uniqueness.A lot of complicated information was screened and summarized by them, and finally turned into a few, concise but not small information information and handed it to Tracy.

Teresi drank the cold water that smelled of gunpowder and soaked in the ditch at night, so as to drive away the tiredness.The effect of drinking a cup is immediate, the blood is almost frozen, as if even the soul is shivering in the cold, and the deep tiredness is forcibly dispelled.However, this forcibly cheered up spirit and functioning thinking will face a stronger stimulus:

The National Guard around the encirclement was further supplemented, growing in number to nine divisions of nearly 2 men each.In addition to the Atlas troops, and considering the downsizing of our own troops in the past few days, the strength of our troops has fallen into a great disadvantage;

Wang Tingjun currently does not have any ability to deal with armored forces;

The enemy has hundreds of artillery pieces, all of which are advanced rapid-fire guns and long-range howitzers, cannons, and rocket launchers. A few extremely advanced self-propelled artillery and self-propelled rocket launchers can cover the entire encircled area.

Preliminary estimates indicate that the number of Wang Ting Army casualties since the encirclement has exceeded 1, and the number of non-combat casualties is still increasing rapidly!

Although the strictest rationing system was implemented, even Tracy himself was half-starved, but the army's food reserves were less than five days old!

......

The bombardment was over.

The front-line radio station started broadcasting again, this time for the soldiers of the Wang Ting Army.The propagandists accurately grasped the pain points of users, focused on publicizing the food and medical conditions of the captives, and emphasized that "resistance is a dead end, and surrender has a way to survive."