Chapter 634 Military Morale

"You are young and promising~"

"Young and promising..."

...

As Gu Chengyuan and his group were walking out of the station, Yu Zhengguo seemed to have lost his soul and kept muttering to himself.

It was not until he arrived at the gate of Xishan Freight Railway Station and felt the cold wind mixed with rain and snow blowing on his face that Yu Zhengguo's expression gradually became clear.

At this moment, on the road outside the gate, a convoy consisting of Mengshi 3 armored command vehicles, Mengshi 3 armored assault vehicles, 04A infantry fighting vehicles, and Lynx all-terrain vehicles has already formed a long queue.

The bright lights of the convoy gathered together, forming a shocking contrast with the darkness in the surrounding wilderness, which made Yu Zhengguo a little dazzled.

It was also at this time that he couldn't help but look at Gu Chengyuan beside him again. He saw him standing in the brilliant lights, his outline cast by light and shadow.

A general in his early 20s, a commander in charge of the military and political affairs of a province...

It is indeed brilliant!

"please!"

Although he had no idea what this Army Commander Yu Zhengguo was up to, and he looked distraught since he got off the train, Gu Chengyuan still tried his best to observe proper etiquette, as guests are welcome.

"Captain, I'll support you!"

Yao Zhihe, the Minister of Equipment who was accompanying him, hurried forward to support his commander after seeing his commander's appearance.

Hearing this, Yu Zhengguo waved his hands and quickly calmed down:

"No, I don't need help yet. I'm sorry to make you laugh, Commander Gu."

"I'll go up myself!"

After saying that, Yu Zhengguo strode towards the Mengshi 3 armored command vehicle in front of him, and the guard beside him hurriedly followed with a large black umbrella.

Seeing this, Gu Chengyuan smiled slightly, thinking that this old man was quite interesting. Then, under the escort of several guards, he also walked to the driver's seat.

...

Zizzi~

In the quiet duty room at the north gate of the Qinghe gathering place, a sharp electronic noise suddenly came from the communication equipment, which was like a cat's claw scratching into the heart of the duty officer, making him quickly alert even though he was originally drowsy.

zizi~

"North Gate, North Gate, open the city gate quickly!"

"The leader's motorcade will arrive in ten minutes. Please be alert to the surrounding environment and ensure security!"

Hearing the slightly hurried speech in the communication equipment, the lieutenant of the internal security on duty immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

The chief is coming?!

"Roger that!"

After responding to the notification from his superiors, the lieutenant on duty immediately sounded the second-level alarm at the north gate.

Ding ding ding ding~~

As a shrill electric bell rang on the city wall, the lighting equipment at various locations at the city gate lit up one by one, and the city became brightly lit.

Several high-power searchlights on the roof, also under the control of the operators, emitted tunnel-like beams of light towards the dark wilderness.

Two minutes later, all the guards at the city gates took up their battle positions one after another.

The ten-meter-high steel gate in the gate arch slowly retracts into the city wall through the ground slide rail under the action of the motor.

Door door door door~~

"Hurry up!!"

"Run faster!!"

...

Five minutes later, the sound of uniform combat boots tapping on the ground and the echo of urging voices came from the doorway.

A total of two platoons, with a total of 70 internal security troops, wrapped in dark green waterproof raincoats and holding ZB01 assault rifles in their hands, ran out of the city quickly.

After arriving outside the city gate, two platoons of internal security soldiers lined up on both sides of the road, facing the middle of the road.

buzz~

Soon, a low roar of an engine sounded!

Under the cold rain, a convoy with red and blue flashing lights appeared in the field of vision. With an extremely oppressive momentum, the convoy smashed the needle-like rain curtain and rushed towards the city gate.

Huhuhu~

The convoy roared past, entering the gate like a long armored dragon, and the water vapor brought up by its wake swirled in the air.

In the tunnel-like beam of light cast by the searchlights on the city wall, the soldiers on both sides stood still like sculptures, saluting with solemn and determined eyes!

.....

"Are these the inner guards?"

In the motorcade, Yu Zhengguo looked out the window at the internal security soldiers standing in the rain, regardless of the wind and rain, and was secretly surprised.

It is no exaggeration to say that the discipline shown by the other side now far exceeds that of the current 77th Legion.

It’s not that the other side’s discipline is exaggerated. We know our own business. But the discipline of the 77th Legion has collapsed to a very serious level.

This is something that Yu Zhengguo and other corps leaders can clearly feel, but they are powerless to do anything about it.

The main reason for this is that there are serious morale problems within the legion...

The psychological problems and physical and mental exhaustion caused by the battle are only the lightest. The most serious is that the soldiers are generally worried about the safety of their families.

As we all know, Zhou Bang adopted a system of military service in a different place, which resulted in the fact that after the end of the world, most of the legion soldiers could do nothing to protect their families.

As a result, a large number of soldiers from other provinces had the same desire: they wanted to leave the team and go home to find and protect their families.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the end of the world, the top leaders of the legion noticed this trend in time, and through the national majesty and discipline of the Zhou State, which had not yet completely dissipated, they restrained the soldiers and controlled the troops.

Otherwise, as everyone wanted to go home to save their families, the 77th Legion would have disappeared long ago, and there would have been no subsequent series of recovery battles.

However, although the troops were temporarily under control, it also made Yu Zhengguo and other senior corps leaders more cautious in controlling the troops.

Up to now, except for the most basic bottom line of principles that cannot be crossed, the rest of the disciplinary issues have basically been turned a blind eye and left alone.

Now, in Yu Zhengguo's eyes, the entire 77th Legion is like a pile of dry firewood that may be ignited at any time. Any spark may detonate it instantly.

Therefore, the current management and control of the grassroots troops within the corps is mainly based on appeasement, trying to coax them as much as possible, and the requirements are also very low.

It's okay to be absent from duty, it's okay to not train, it's okay to drink alcohol against the rules, it's okay to steal some supplies from the warehouse. The only thing you can't do is "leave the team and go home". It's okay as long as you can go to war.

Behind the rapid deterioration of discipline, it was visibly clear that the entire 77th Corps had reached a critical juncture of life and death.

There are two problems facing the top brass of the corps: if they take care of it, they will die immediately; if they ignore it, they will die slowly.

This was the main reason why the 77th Corps was eager to stake its claim on Shu Province and even the Corps Commander Yu Zhengguo took the risk to go there in person.

Because if we don't fight and drag it out any longer, the troops might be gone one day...

This is not alarmist talk, but signs of this have already begun to appear.

Incidents of soldiers going missing with their equipment occur almost every once in a while, and the frequency is increasing over time.

This forced the top brass of the corps to give low-key orders, ordering the grassroots units to reorganize and requiring that no more than three soldiers from the same hometown could exist in a squad, in order to prevent the troops from escaping as a whole!

So seeing the scene in front of him, and thinking about his own situation of being trapped both internally and externally, Yu Zhengguo sighed with envy:

"No wonder the provincial military district launched a series of major battles this night..."

"I don't know how they managed to maintain such high morale. Can a person's personal charm really overcome human nature?"

"What on earth made these soldiers abandon their families and careers and fight for him wholeheartedly?"

Thinking of this, Yu Zhengguo felt that he knew less than one percent of Commander Gu Chengyuan.

"Compared to advanced armies, the most powerful aspect of the Ye Province Military Region is the morale of the troops."

In the slightly bumpy carriage, Yu Zhengguo couldn't help but take out a notebook and pen from his jacket pocket and wrote this down.

The greatest danger in the apocalypse does not lie in the mutated zombies and mutant beasts, but in the unpredictable and uncontrollable human nature.

It's a human who killed himself...