Chapter 948 Where does the mob come from?

In the underground bunker of the Gaolanshan radar station, mercury vapor lamps cast a cold blue-grey light on the steel ceiling. In the front-line command post of the 76th Army Corps, the contour lines of the battle map cut through the wall like scars.

\"Boom, boom, boom\"

The steel explosion-proof door was knocked on by knuckles, and sound waves exploded in the confined space.

\"Report!\"

\"Enter.\"

A hoarse voice came from the shadows. The major staff officer stepped aside to make way: "Commander, here comes Zhang Ziming, the retired company commander of the 77th Army!"

Behind the field table, Gao Zhikai, commander of the 76th Corps, slowly raised his head.

The fifty-year-old face was cut into two worlds of light and dark by the light tube - the swollen eye bags showed a sense of decadence, but the pupils were like tempered steel spikes piercing the heart.

At the moment of eye contact, Zhang Ziming's spine tensed instantly, as if he was a marmot locked by a plateau golden eagle, and even his fingertips were frozen on the seams of his trousers.

\"A soldier from the 77th Army?" Gao Zhikai stroked the rim of the ceramic cup with his fingertips, and the glaze reflected the silhouette of his hooked nose.

"Report to the corps commander!" Zhang Ziming's heels clanged, and his 10 years of armored soldier muscle memory broke through his fear: "Former captain Zhang Ziming, the second company of the first battalion of the 77th Armored Brigade of the 77th Group Army!"

hiss~

Gao Zhikai suddenly sank back in his chair, the leatherette making a hissing sound like a venomous snake spitting out its tongue. His neck was twisted at a strange angle, and his left eye swept across Zhang Ziming's empty epaulettes: "Tell me..."

"A deserter?" Gao Zhikai's voice suddenly turned cold, and his cloudy pupils shrank into needle points, piercing Zhang Ziming's throat bone tight - the wolf-like look of Sima Yi when he turned his horse back in the history books seemed to tear through time and space and pounce on him at this moment!

"Report to the corps commander! We are definitely not deserters!" Zhang Ziming stomped his heels together, shaking off the dust from his sleeves: "All members of my unit hold the 'Regular Retirement Order of the 77th Group Army', and all the supplies we carry have the seal of the Logistics Department!"

"Retire?!" Gao Zhikai slammed his palm against the table, causing the enamel pot to bounce up half a foot. "When the country is in mourning, who will allow you to retire and return to the fields?!"

The sound waves wrapped in rusty breath sprayed on Zhang Ziming's face. His knees under his military pants trembled unconsciously, and his speech speed was forced into a rapid-fire due to fear:

"It was a personal order from Corps Commander Yu Zhengguo! At that time, our army had just captured Shengwu County in a bloody battle, and suddenly we heard that the 1st and 2nd Security Brigades mutinied..." He swallowed the word "rebellion" with a rolling throat, "The whole army was in turmoil... Rumor has it... that the Corps was going to disband!"

Listening to Zhang Ziming's explanation, Gao Zhikai tapped silently on the center of Lanzhou on the map with his knuckles.

Under the dim light, his eye bags were swollen, but his mind was frantically deducing: there was a tide of corpses outside, and the inside was falling apart... How would he play this deadly chess game of Yu Zhengguo? Maintaining stability on the scales of doomsday is like licking blood on the tip of a knife...

"So Yu Zhengguo disbanded the 77th Army?" He concluded hoarsely, as if he had guessed the answer.

"No!" Zhang Ziming suddenly raised his head, like an old subordinate who had been touched: "It was the Zhongzhou War Zone that took action! Commander Gu incorporated our troops into the war zone sequence and allocated a large amount of supplies to stabilize the morale of the army!"

"It is said that the extra rations for us retired soldiers were approved by Commander Gu himself. He said that soldiers have shed enough blood for the country and should have a way to survive in troubled times!"

When the old things were brought up again and Zhang Ziming thought of the kindness of Chief Gu, his eyes couldn't help but turn red!

They were more than 100 retired soldiers from Gansu Province, and it took them nearly a month to reach Gansu Province from Shengwu County, Shu Province.

During this month of wandering and survival in the apocalypse, if it weren't for Chief Gu's kindness: extra weapons and ammunition, modified cars, large amounts of daily necessities, etc., these people would never have survived!

You know, even with such sufficient preparation, there were only less than 50 people left in this organized group of professional soldiers when they arrived in Gansu Province, with a mortality rate of over percent!

From this we can see how terrifying the wilderness is in the end times, and how important Chief Gu’s kindness is!

And just when Zhang Ziming was reminiscing about the past and unconsciously felt grateful for Chief Gu's kindness, Gao Zhikai, the commander of the 76th Corps sitting opposite him, was indeed a little confused?

"Zhongzhou War Zone? Chief Gu? ? Where did all these people come from? Could it be the Central War Zone before the end of the world? ? "

The Central Theater Command is responsible for defending the capital Shenjing and the core areas of North China and Central China. It is a hub connecting the north and the south and the east and the west, and has great strategic significance.

So from this point of view, the Central Theater is undoubtedly the absolute direct descendant of Shenjing!

Thinking of this, Gao Zhikai couldn't help but look at the national map hanging opposite him. He saw that the southernmost jurisdiction of the Central Theater was Hubei Province, and there was Xiangzhou Province between it and Ye Province...

"Could it be that Shenjing has made rapid progress? In just half a year, not only has the zombie problem in the surrounding areas of Jingji been solved, but the problem has even spread all the way south to Ye Province?"

"But this is not true... According to the news from the war zone, the entire Gyeonggi region is now almost completely closed after the great blood transfusion at the end of the world. It is said that the war zone sent several groups of people there but found no news..."

Under what circumstances would a regime block information to such an extreme extent? Generally, there are only two circumstances: either it is holding back something big, or it is pulling out something big...

Thinking of this, Gao Zhikai, commander of the 76th Corps, quickly denied the conjecture that the Zhongzhou War Zone = the Central War Zone.

The reason is simple. If the Central War Zone has fought from Gyeonggi to Ye Province, then it will not be long before the country is liberated... In such a situation, they would like to make a big fuss and rally people's hearts. How could they be so low-key that even the people sent by the war zone cannot find out anything...

So... where did this Zhongzhou War Zone come from? And what about the commander of the war zone named Gu that the captain in front of him highly praised?

Is there a senior leader named Gu in the Southern Theater? Or did he parachute in from the capital after the apocalypse?

"How much do you know about this Zhongzhou War Zone and this Chief Gu?"

"Reporting to the chief, I don't know... I only know that the headquarters of the Zhongzhou war zone seems to be in Ye Province... I have only heard of this chief Gu, who is said to be very young, but I have never seen him..."

The agency is in Ye Province? From this point, the possibility of the Central War Zone is completely ruled out.. So... is this really a newly established war zone from scratch after the end of the world? ?

"The combat effectiveness is probably not that good..." Thinking of this, Gao Zhikai, the commander of the 76th Army, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief...

Ye Province was once an important area of the Third Front Construction... So this so-called Zhongzhou War Zone is most likely an emergency force cobbled together from the legacy of the Third Front Construction...

This can completely explain why Chief Gu is so young. At best, he is a local military commander in the guise of a war zone, which is indeed not an important position.

"How can such a mob be called a war zone?"

Although Gao Zhikai despised this so-called "Zhongzhou War Zone" in his heart, he was actually very envious of it, and at the same time, he felt increasingly unbalanced.

Damn it, before the apocalypse, I was blocked from promotion, but after the apocalypse, I commanded the combat power of a regular army and was invincible in the northwest region. But I was still suppressed by this rubbish army that appeared out of nowhere? ? !

These damn second generation! Damn old guys!

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