Chapter 1053 I don’t understand

General Wei Jingfang, commander of the Western Theater Command, quietly watched the excited Qin Yue on the screen, without any surprise on his face, as if he had already expected the other party to have such a misunderstanding.

Because they had just had this misunderstanding not long ago...

So when faced with Qin Yue's question, the commander of the Western Theater Command, Wei Jingfang, was unusually calm. He ignored the excitement on the other side of the video, slowly picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip before focusing his gaze again.

"Captain Qin, I think you misunderstood." Wei Jingfang's words were like a cold rock thrown into a boiling lake.

He paused for half a second, ensuring every word was delivered accurately. "It's not the Central War Zone as you understand it, nor is it the Shenjing Center."

"The one that has established a strategic cooperative relationship with my Western Theater Command is the Zhongzhou Theater Command." He repeated these four words clearly and slowly again, as if engraving some new definition.

"Zhongzhou?"

"War zone??"

As Wei Jingfang finished speaking, the ecstasy and excitement on Qin Yue's face solidified and stiffened instantly, like volcanic lava encountering extremely cold weather, and then cooled and peeled off at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His forward-leaning body seemed to be pushed back by an invisible force, and he leaned heavily against the back of the chair.

The noise of the video signal seemed particularly harsh at this moment.

"Zhongzhou...war zone?"

Qin Yue subconsciously repeated this unfamiliar term, his brows tightly locked again, but this time, what was locked was huge confusion and rapidly rising loss.

"Which Zhongzhou? Yuzhou? No, that's not right..."

At this moment, his brain was working rapidly, trying to locate this suddenly appeared "Zhongzhou War Zone" from the Zhou State military map in his memory, but the result was also obvious...

Nothing was found...

This quickly replaced his previous ecstasy with a huge sense of confusion and uneasiness that was beyond his control and cognition.

"Commander Wei, I don't understand!"

Qin Yue forced himself to remain calm, with a subtle hint of vigilance and caution, an instinctive defense after falling back to reality from extremely high expectations:

"As far as I know, there's no legally defined 'Zhongzhou War Zone.' Where did this so-called 'Zhongzhou War Zone' come from? Which military region was its predecessor? Who was the commander? What was its size?"

He asked questions like a machine gun, and each question went straight to the core. However, the huge sense of loss did not make him lose his composure. Instead, it aroused his instinctive vigilance as a commander.

A "war zone" that has never been heard of suddenly appeared in this doomsday and reached a "strategic cooperation" with the neighboring Western war zone?

The information contained in this was enough to make him instantly forget his previous ecstasy and look at all this with the calmest, even most demanding eyes.

First of all, he did not doubt the truthfulness of Wei Jingfang's words. He believed that there must be such a Central Plains war zone. Otherwise, it would not be enough to explain the huge change in attitude before and after the current Western war zone.

You know, the previous cooperation between the two parties was delayed again and again due to the Hami wind power base incident...

The conflict over Hami's wind farm sector is indeed thorny, but it's definitely not so thorny as to drag out the two major theater-level units for so long...

The fundamental reason is that both parties don’t really need each other that much.

The New Province Construction Corps has a vast territory and a sparse population. It faces little threat from the end of the world and does not have a great demand for armed forces. Its own militia can meet its security needs.

The situation in the Western War Zone is the same. Although the industry is weak, the agricultural development is not bad. In addition, the vast area under its control is enough to grow food for self-sufficiency.

So just like in a relationship, if there are problems between the two parties and they are not resolved for a long time, it is probably because one or both parties have no motivation to solve the problem. To put it bluntly, they don’t love each other.

Qin Yue saw this as the case with the Western Theater Command. They had previously been perfunctory, but now they were suddenly inviting him to such a high-level video conference?!

The sense of urgency displayed is even more impatient than when a girl takes off a boy's Antarctic underwear!

So when the question was asked, Qin Yue, commander of the New Province Construction Corps, stared at Wei Jingfang, commander of the Western Theater Command, across the screen, trying to analyze some additional information from his expression.

However, facing Qin Yue's barrage of questions and his sharp, scrutinizing eyes, Wei Jingfang's face remained calm.

He even leaned back slightly in relaxation, tapping his fingers rhythmically on the table twice, as if everything was under control.

"It's normal for Captain Qin to have such doubts."

Wei Jingfang spoke, his tone steady and with a faint, maddening calmness.

It's like someone who coldly watches you lose control of your emotions and go crazy from beginning to end, and in the end just replies with an "oh", or simply reads the message without replying.

"The Zhongzhou War Zone was indeed formed by reforming other Zhou Bang troops!"

"Its predecessor was our Zhou state's top-secret strategic force. After the apocalypse, this force established the Zhongzhou War Zone based on the Ye Province. Now, it has developed into a behemoth spanning Ye and Yu and connecting to the Southern War Zone!"

Having said this, Wei Jingfang paused briefly, observing Qin Yue's reaction on the other side of the screen, before continuing. His voice was not loud, but every word was weighty:

"Its supreme commander is General Gu Chengyuan. As for its size and strength..."

At this point, Wei Jingfang's gaze suddenly became extremely sharp. He leaned forward slightly, as if to penetrate the screen and transmit some invisible pressure.

"Captain Qin, do you remember those unidentified fourth-generation fighter jets that briefly appeared in our northwest airspace over a month ago and then mysteriously disappeared?"

Upon hearing this, General Qin Yue, the commander of the New Province Construction Corps, suddenly changed his expression. "Are you talking about... the mysterious fourth-generation aircraft that appeared in our sky a while ago??!!!"

When the fourth-generation aircraft appeared in the northwestern airspace, the Western Theater Command immediately reported the situation in detail to the New Province Construction Corps.

Therefore, Qin Yue personally experienced the mountain-like and suffocating pressure brought by the fourth-generation aircraft. The feeling of powerlessness is still fresh in his memory!

"Commander Wei, are you saying that...the fourth-generation fighter jets from a while ago...were developed in this Zhongzhou theater?!"

Thinking of this possibility, General Qin Yue's face in the video was full of disbelief!

How can it be?

Not to mention after the apocalypse, even before the apocalypse, the Zhou Bang didn't have a fourth-generation fighter! How could they possibly develop a fourth-generation fighter in the apocalypse, where industrial and organizational levels have completely regressed?!

This is simply alarmist!

Could it be that the other party deliberately exaggerated the facts in order to scare him?