Resurrection Empire

Liu Xiaotao: "In the corporate war, it is reasonable and legal for me to ask you to hunt down these barren people from other towns who invaded Zhaoshan Town!"

The middle-aged man was silent for a while.

The other scavengers heard the words, but they didn't struggle any more, they just kept their mouths shut and began nervously doing self-checks on their equipment.

Everyone has a death wish on their face.

They have no choice.

If they really became deserters, Zhaoshan Liu would make their list into a wanted list through the town government and submit it, they would indeed have to die.

As Ren Zhong has always known, on this planet, the way citizens control barbarians is usually the same.

First use lies to trap people in, and then use the rules to favor citizens to force barren people to work for themselves.

This is the norm.

Ren Zhong sighed, "It seems that there is no choice."

He slowly raised his right hand and stretched it behind him, holding the handle of the improved Corrosive Blade pinned behind his back.

On the other side, Liu Xiaotao hurriedly said: "Mr. Ren! These desolate people have no grievances against you. Are you really going to kill them all? Do you know that many of them have families? They are the main heads of their respective families. Labor, once they die here, their children and elderly parents will not live long! You really have the heart to destroy 620 families in Zhaoshan Town for this benefit? Why are you willing to save these supposedly The barren people who were captured by the Mengdu Group as volunteers, but they want to treat us so cruelly?"

Ren Zhong's hand holding the knife paused slightly.

Damn it, I was fucked.

He was still wondering before, how could the opponent have the courage not to stick to the city, but ran to the river to confront his two armies.

Now he understands.

The opponent's real ultimate move is to use his relatively "kind" personality to give himself a moral kidnapping.

Ren Zhong let go of his grip on the knife, "Liu Xiaotao, does this make sense? Even if I retreat today, I will break up these people under my command and go directly to Zhaoshan Town to snatch the beast resources. Zhaoshan Resources can't receive a first-level chip. You can't last long either."

Liu Xiaotao gritted his teeth, and veins popped out on his forehead and temples.

"But we have at least a few days to prepare for the war! What are you, you know about the corporate war three weeks before us, and you even formed an army for it! The preparation time left for my father is only 5 minutes!"

"Mr. Ren, if you retreat now, give us another three days. My father can sign a contract with you, and we will never threaten you with the lives of these barbarians again."

Ren Zhong looked down at the group of desolate people whose eyes were full of pleading and expectation.

Although I once vowed to become cold-blooded, it is indeed difficult.

"Three days is too long."

Liu Xiaotao: "One day!"

"it is good."

One day later, soldiers of the Yangsheng Second Route Army approached the city and besieged Zhaoshan Town.

As for the Yangsheng First Army.

Faced with the same moral kidnapping move, Zheng Tian chose to attack with all his troops, killing 800 people in a row.

The remaining ten thousand people fled.

At this time, the First Route Army had not yet arrived at Wangdong Town.

The scavengers in Wangdong Town, who were forced into a desperate situation because of signing the contract of hard work, used their knowledge of the terrain and the details of the distribution of beasts to do their best to harass them along the way, and they were also buying time for Wangdong resources to prepare.

Ren Zhong's heart is merciful, but instead he pushes forward with great speed.

When hearing Zheng Tian's battle report, Ren Zhong's mood was a little complicated.

When he gave Zheng Tian the greatest autonomy, he actually somewhat expected such a scene.

He doesn't know whose choice is better in this troubled world, so he can only keep going and use time to find the answer.

Chapter 288 Growing pains, the price of kindness

On Yuanxing, many things can be done in one day.

After arriving outside the wall of Zhaoshan Town, Ren Zhong dispatched the first-level war artist newly trained under his command to control a large-scale city-breaking machine built in advance to approach the city wall and make a tentative attempt to break the city.

But this machine was broken by the automatic weapon defense system by several large-caliber heavy artillery that suddenly appeared on the city wall, and it was blasted to pieces in an instant.

According to the rules of corporate warfare, this machine and Ren Zhong have a clear ownership of property rights and belong to Ren Zhong's assets, so they will not activate the automatic protective firepower provided by the official town government on the high wall to resist the beasts.

According to the information provided by the previous spies, these heavy artillery were not deployed on the high walls.

Yesterday, when the corporate war started, all desolate people and non-local citizens were confiscated by Zhaoshan Resources for official wristwatches, and contact with the outside world was prohibited.

The spies lost their effectiveness.

But now this artillery formation suddenly appeared.

There is no doubt that this is the garrison force that Zhaoshan Town's resource recovery company hired from the outside during this day.

In the next second, hundreds of mobile forts appeared on the top of the city.

One after another, the scavengers whom he spared their lives yesterday appeared in the protective cockpit of the fort.

With the turret turning, hundreds of dark cannons pointed at Ren Zhong's side.

It was at this time that Ren Zhong suddenly received a notification from the Tang Gu Group.

The Tanggu Group has changed the rules of corporate warfare.

There is an unreasonable thing in the previous rules, that is, the lives of sovereign citizens must not be harmed.

As for the restricted citizens who signed the slave contract, when they are passively involved in the war and forced to charge forward, they will be regarded as barbarians and lose legal protection.

In addition, citizens who accept employment contracts and go to war will automatically lose their legal protection.

Restricted citizens and hired citizens are collectively referred to as non-sovereign citizens.

In previous corporate wars, this rule was sufficient.

Because there will be no sovereign citizens who can enjoy a good and comfortable life, but casually get involved in the war.

Top-level professional citizens above level [-] who have the ability to protect themselves in Wanjun will not lower their status to accept employment from town-level resource recycling companies, and others will not be able to afford the price.

When the two armies confront each other, even if it is a seventh-level heavy-armored defensive mech fighter, if they are not careful, they may be caught in a concentrated fire.

There are too many accidental factors in war, and the risks and benefits are often not directly proportional.

Therefore, even if it is related to their own interests, even the boss of the resource recovery company that is about to be defeated will not end in person. He will only take some petty profits out of his pocket and ask the barbarians and hired non-sovereign citizens to go Desperate.

The final outcome is usually determined by barbarians and non-sovereign citizens.

Whichever side suffers so many casualties that it completely loses combat effectiveness, so that the company is unable to maintain the beast resource mining business due to manpower shortage, or if all the beast resource mining areas are firmly controlled by the opponent, then naturally which side will lose.

This rule can effectively prevent some red-eyed combatants from posing a threat to the lives of citizens when the defeated party is broken into the town.

This rule has been embraced by business owners on both the upper and lower sides.

Even if the money is gone, life is still there, and life is much more important than money.

The lives of sovereign citizens are precious.

But this time, Ren Zhong, the fifth-level sovereign citizen who had just beheaded the sixth-level ruin beast, ended up brazenly, completely breaking the balance of power on the field.

If this rule is not changed, Ren Zhong will be able to overwhelm the towns with one person's strength.

You can't kill him, but he is still too strong. This battle has never been fought from the beginning.

So, within one day, the owners of resource recycling companies in nine other towns in Yangsheng City jointly lodged a complaint, demanding that the rules be optimized.

They believe that if sovereign citizens themselves go to war and go out in person, other forces must be empowered to kill them.

Unless the citizen only sits in the base and commands remotely, then naturally he cannot attack.

With the information monitoring accuracy of the "net", it is very easy to accurately determine whether it is in a state of war.

According to Tanggu Group's original intention, of course they don't want to agree.

Their real purpose is to support Ren Zhong, let him flex his muscles, and further practice his new management method without angering "Wang", so as to completely change the work efficiency of the town-level resource recycling companies on Yuanxing , in order to achieve the goal of hollowing out the resources of the Yuanxingxu Beast before the great migration.

In case Ren Zhong died prematurely in the war, who would he turn to for reasoning?

However, there are also comprador factions within the Tanggu Group, and these people quietly brought this matter to the association's senior elders.

The comprador faction forces in the elders' group joined forces to put pressure, and the Tanggu Group had no choice but to nod in approval.

Therefore, behind the notice Ren Zhong received was a text message from the Tanggu Group President's Office.

"The rest of the town-level resource recycling company's business owners will not go out in person, enjoy absolute security, and protect themselves without any worries. This is a trap aimed at you. I suggest you return to Xinghuo Town immediately."

After reading the information, and looking at the top of the city, Ren Zhong understood everything in an instant.

Liu Wanxiong has definitely received the commitment and funding from the bosses of the other eight town-level resource recycling companies in Yangsheng City.

This group of people united at the speed of light yesterday to fight against their giant.

Since Liu Wanxiong, the boss of Zhaoshan Resources, enjoys absolute safety.

Even if all his people are dead and he has caused serious damage to himself, he can sit back and relax and don't have to worry about his revenge.

Of course Liu Wanxiong can boldly let the desolate people under his command work hard.

"Mr. Ren, retreat. We have prepared a total of [-] mobile city defense guns, which are distributed throughout the city wall. Even if you prepare engineering equipment, it is impossible to get close to the city wall. These are real weapons of war. Even you It may not be safe either. To be honest, you are already within our range."

Liu Xiaotao sent such a voice message to Ren Zhong.

Ren Zhong remained calm, and only replied: "According to the contract we signed yesterday, you are not allowed to threaten me with the lives of these barren people today. I have already filed a complaint."

"It's useless Mr. Ren, I haven't said anything now. It's just their own choice."

After talking here, Ren Zhong already understood the truth.

The other party cheated.

The contract only stated that Zhaoshan Resources would not use the lives of barren people to threaten Ren Zhong, but it did not say that they would not use these barren people's relatives and friends to blackmail barren people into battle.

There is a text trap here, and the logical relationship between the two does not conflict.

Ren Zhong secretly gritted his teeth and raised his hand.

"Retreat three miles, spread out the formation, and completely block Zhaoshan Town."

He has already obtained the blueprint of the city's anti-aircraft artillery from Ju Qingmeng, and knows its bullet velocity performance.

After retreating three kilometers, the automatic protective energy cannon on the Qingfeng heavy truck was able to respond in time, using the energy cannon to detonate its shells in advance.

"Mr. Ren, the town has enough supplies. You are stationed in the wild, and your supplies come from Xinghuo Town, which is hundreds of kilometers away, and you are also attacked by market beasts at night. This kind of consumption is not good for you. This corporate war seems to be an opportunity, but it is even more important. There are many risks. It doesn’t mean that you can win if you are strong. After all, Mr. Ren, you are rich, there is no need, there is no need. Retreat.”

Liu Xiaotao said again.

Ren Zhong kept his mouth shut and only activated the command system to observe the situation on Zheng Tian's side.

The same 3-strong Yang Sheng army, but Zheng Tian's side played a completely different effect.

Zheng Tian's army rushed all the way, and the enemy harassed all the way.

Although the advancing pace of the army was delayed very slowly, the army formation was very neat and never broken through. The casualties of Zheng Tian's army along the way were very small. On the contrary, the scavengers sent by Wangdong Town to carry out the harassment mission suffered heavy casualties.

Zheng Tian has been consuming the enemy's vitality.

At the same time, Zheng Tian dispatched the elite in advance to break up into pieces, break away from the main force, travel day and night, and arrived at the wall of Wangdong Town at two o'clock this morning.

Subsequently, this group of elites took out medium- and long-range weapons represented by individual rocket launchers prepared in advance, and continued to interfere with the construction team on the city wall.

Up to now, Zheng Tianjun has advanced to only [-] miles away from Wangdong Town, but only less than [-] city defense guns in Wangdong Town have been successfully installed.

Zheng Tian planned to attack directly after arriving, and followed Ren Zhong's order to take down Wangdong Town as quickly as possible.

There must be casualties, but Zheng Tian and Chen Hanyu have already formulated a recruitment plan.

After taking Wangdong Town, Zheng Tian's army will replenish the source of troops on the spot, making up 3 people is no problem.

Comparing the two, Ren Zhong made too many mistakes.

Strictly speaking, Ren Zhong's cutting-edge strength is far stronger than Zheng Tian's.

If he had chosen to make a move yesterday and took advantage of the rules, he could have slaughtered more than [-] people from Zhaoshan Town by the river at a very low cost.

Although he himself is likely to be forced to become a massacre and hurt the "kind" character he established among the barren people, today Zhaoshan Town will become an empty city with almost no garrison.

Now the opportunity had slipped through his fingers.

If they were to attack against the city defense artillery at this time, Yang Sheng's army would definitely pay a heavy price, and the town would still be devastated.