A violent air current swept across the entire city wall. It swept away the despair in the heart of the Brigadier General like a hurricane, pushing the mutant creatures gathered around them to the point of falling. Against the background of the inky blue sky before dawn, the sight was blocked by blood, and the hazy Brigadier General in front of him could only see blurry black shadows. However, through the sound of the engine turning, he could still tell that it was a "Nighthawk" helicopter carrying powerful power.

More than a dozen flames appeared in the sky, which were heavy machine guns and multi-barrel cannons roaring. Within a few seconds, the mutated creatures surrounding the Brigadier General were beaten backwards, leaving an irregular circle with him as the core. The searchlights on the sides and front of the helicopter changed directions, illuminating the ground, forming huge oval apertures.

Just as the brigade general was confused and trying to adjust his breathing in excitement and fatigue, more than a dozen ropes were hanging in the air, and fully armed soldiers fell. As soon as they landed, they quickly built defense lines, seized various gun seats, and poured bullets at the mutant creatures that were constantly retreating.

It is a reinforcement force.

They finally came.

Just as this thought came out of my mind, the brigadier suddenly felt his body soft and fell to the ground with a "thump". A medical soldier with a red cross armband on his arm rushed over, examined the wound, and quickly rescued him.

The nerves that had been tense for a long time finally relaxed. The Brigadier lifted his eyelids hard and saw a tall figure walking towards him.

He was a very handsome man with a sunny smile, his hard facial lines seemed to be carved out by a knife and an axe, and his curved lips had an indescribable strange charm. His hazy vision made the target less clear, but added a bit of mysterious beauty.

The face was very familiar. The brigade general was sure that he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it. His eyes began to shift to the side and found that the man actually had the rank of major general on his shoulder.

Damn this guy is so young.

"Cough... Cough... I'm a man in his forties, and I've just gotten into the brigade general, and you've actually climbed onto my head. It's so fucking unfair."

The brigade general gasped and cursed fiercely, and a smile appeared on his tired and pale face. He raised his right hand, stretched over tremblingly, and said with great gratitude: "Welcome back, General Su."

The brigade general is Xu Renjie's confidant, so of course he will not forget Su Hao's too young face.

Putting down the assault rifle in his hand, Su Hao held the brigade general's right hand hard, and comforted him with emotion: "You have fought very well and guarded this city."

The brigade general swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva and smiled, "Hehe": "How could I leave this here for those damn monsters? But, have you watched too many Indian police and gangster movies? Just like those unscrupulous policemen, they always appear in the finale?"

"I'm already racing against time, you have to understand me."

"The genius believes..."

The reason why he was able to arrive in New Chengdu overnight from the new Guiyang base was thanks to the large amount of military supplies that Wang Qinian had previously given. In addition to ten sets of large-scale base construction components, the computer information given to Su Hao by the old fat man also had some weapons design drawings strictly controlled by the military headquarters. Among them, they included super-large transportation helicopters and the "Nighthawk" that were put into use in large quantities.

According to the scheduled plan, the new 70l Bu Chong division of the Yellow River will arrive at the Xin Chengdu base in two hours. Despite Xu Renjie's repeated urging, the Yellow River's troops still cannot further increase their speed. In order to alleviate the combat pressure of the base city, Su Hao concentrated all the helicopters obtained from Xinnanyang and the Eastern Theater Command, together with the two "Nighthawks" that had just been put off the production line, and led more than 1,200 guards to the Xin Chengdu base city overnight.

He came in time. If he was a few minutes later, this area would be completely lost. Once a large number of mutant creatures poured into the city, the problem would become out of control.

Seeing the brigade general who was moved to a stretcher and about to be sent to the field hospital in the city, Su Hao asked: "Where is Xu Renjie? Where is your reserve team?"

"All the reserves were put into battle. Everyone who could go to the army was on the way, and the entire military zone was empty. Many checkpoint personnel were drawn, and even the damn thugs felt that there was an opportunity, so they had the courage to rob the city at will."

The brigadier Yang Yang's arm, which had just been wrapped in a bandage, showed a puzzled look on his face: "As for Commander Xu... we have lost contact since he left the temporary command center and have not had telecommunications contact. I also want to know what he is doing now?"

Military control area, army ground command center.

Xu Renjie, with messy hair, sat on the ground, his chair was tilted to the side, his heavy desk was blown to pieces, and the ground was scattered with various documents and wood chips. They were mixed with blood and flesh, which looked shocking.

He could no longer move———More than a dozen large-diameter bullets hit his legs, and they were blown up from bones to muscles. The scattered shrapnel even hurt their abdomen, and a hole the size of a fist was blown out on the right waist. Although Xu Renjie stuffed the outflowing intestines back, there were still pus and blood mixed with liver crumbs and slowly overflowing.

The young adjutant was lying next to the bookcase more than ten meters away opposite him. There was a terrifying hole in his chest, and the huge impact pressure caused the air that mixed with blood in his lungs to explode from his body. His entire head flew away from his shoulders, threw it high into the air, and fell on the floor not far from Xu Renjie. The adjutant was wide-eyed until his death, obviously not understanding why he died? Why did the soldiers who were supposed to be companions become the murderers who shot him?

Chen Yanlin sat in a chair a few meters away, holding a large-caliber pistol that had just been fired, with gunpowder and warmth.

He wore a special combat suit specially issued for the general. His bloated body was wrapped tightly with high elastic fabric. The ceramic protective armor piece set according to the physiological structure of the human body made his chest look full and strong, but against the wrinkled face, it made people feel a strong contrast that was extremely inconsistent.

According to Xu Renjie's order, the adjutant brought Chen Yanlin into the office. From the sudden attack to the end of the battle, it took no more than five seconds. Xu Renjie didn't even have the chance to draw his gun, and was shot in the legs by two soldiers who rushed into the office. When he struggled to activate the electronic protection system on the desk, Chen Yanlin rushed over at an extremely strange speed, forcibly pulled the whole person away from the chair. Then, smashed the entire desk.

Xu Renjie reacted quickly. He was seriously injured and dying and immediately took a bottle of energy potion he carried with him and held on until now.

"I'm so stupid that I've actually misunderstood."

Xu Renjie's voice was hoarse and his tone was extremely weak, but his words were filled with undisguised mockery: "I always thought Lao Chen, you are a useless person. I didn't expect you to be a lackey. Tell me who is the master behind you? Yuan Zhicheng, Sun Zhan, or Zhao Zhikai?"

"You're thinking too much."

Chen Yanlin shook his head, slowly fiddled with the rotor on the pistol, and said lightly: "What does they have to do with me? I am only targeting you, and this is also a plan I made myself. Don't forget that I am the chief of staff of the 71st Army and a think tank type."

"Think tank? You'll change your name to the scrotum."

Xu Renjie spat hatefully: "You are dead all day long. Apart from making small moves behind you, you won't even let go of a fart. I hate you the most like you, like a mouse, who hides in the cave all day long, and can't stand the sunshine and has a dark mentality."

Chen Yanlin's eyes twitched slightly. He suppressed the urge to shoot Xu Renjie's head with a shot, and released a very complicated gaze in his eyes, silently staring at the prisoner in front of him.

I don’t know which bastard invented the word “contradiction”, it’s so fucking classic.

"Actually, I've always envied you."

Faced with Xu Renjie's vicious and vulgar curse, Chen Yanlin, who looked indifferent, did not curse or rush to the top of his anger. He put away the gun in his hand, took out a piece of chocolate from his backpack on the side of the combat uniform, pushed apart the wrapping paper, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it slowly.

"When I was young, I always thought I was excellent. I was a three-good student in school. No matter what subject I had, my scores were never ninety. When I graduated from college, I could have chosen to continue my studies or work in a monopoly company in China. With my abilities and qualifications, I could have become an authoritative in a certain research field or an executive of a corporate group."

"However, I chose to join the army."

"The subject I majored in is economics. This has nothing to do with military affairs. Although I was already an officer when I joined the army, the government praised college students like me. But those are all false. I have always used the strictest standards to demand myself, actively asked to participate in training, and requested to serve in grassroots troops... Haha, do you feel excited when you hear it? Yes, that was how I was at that time. My mind was full of great ideals such as defending the country, national honors were higher than anything else, and striving for the strength and growth of the motherland. If you don't believe it, I can show you the diary of that time. I also thought of one day becoming a general, leading the troops to Japan, occupying Tokyo, selling the emperor's family to Thailand to be a shemale, and then turning to attack the North American continent, blowing up the American Independence Monument in Washington, and changing it to our own five-star red flag."

Xu Renjie did not interrupt Chen Yanlin's words. The energy potion injected into his body took time to repair the damaged organs. He himself was somewhat curious about Chen Yanlin's words, wanting to hear what this power-hungry "partner" would say?

"My military rank has always been promoted step by step. No matter how good I do, I have never had the opportunity to make meritorious and receive awards. I have calculated that according to the situation at that time, when I retire, I will be at most a colonel rank. And it depends on luck. This made me very confused. Because another young officer who came in at the same time was not as good as mine in his education and qualifications, and his subjects were not involved in military affairs. He was a special sports student and played very well in table tennis. The second year he joined the army, he participated in international competitions, and returned as a world runner-up. Then he was very prosperous. When I was in my forties and was still struggling to be a lieutenant colonel, this guy had become a major general."

"Later I found out that there was someone above that guy. Otherwise, it wouldn't be his turn to go abroad to participate in the competition, let alone any extraordinary promotion."

"Mr. Xu, you have a wife with a good family background. I know that you and you have many women outside. I envy you very much and admire you very much. After all, at your age, it really takes a lot of courage to marry a woman you don't like, or even dislike. I don't know how your wedding night came. Your wife's appearance is really unsatisfactory. That kind of woman is disgusting just by thinking about it. If it weren't for the high power relationship behind her, I'm afraid no one would want to throw it on the street for free."

Xu Renjie collapsed on the ground, without moving at all, and asked with a sneer: "Are you laughing at me?"

Chen Yanlin shook his head: "In the past, I really looked down on you. I felt that doing this was simply selling dignity, giving up freedom, and trampling on life. Young people dared to despise everything, and their pure thinking could not tolerate any dirty dirt. You have experienced that time, but you can have the best things in your life and are willing to accept the ridiculous gaze of others. This is what is called "no effort, no gain." Unfortunately, I understand it too late."

Xu Renjie continued to sneer: "So, you also chose to join the crowd?"

"I just want to live like a real person."

Chen Yanlin turned around and looked at the dark blue sky outside the window, immersed in the memories of the past: "I was the worst achiever of all of you at the class reunion that year. I haven't seen you for a few years. Some of them became entrepreneurs, some became doctoral students, and many of them have successful careers, happy marriages and families. Only I am alone, and my salary is pitifully meager. I began to feel that my choice was a mistake. Many of my classmates felt sorry for me, thinking that joining the army was just a self-burying. In addition to abandoning dignity and flattering the future with the bribes that I despise the most, I really can't find the second way."

Xu Renjie took a deep breath, and the wound on his abdomen was no longer bleeding, but his body still felt weak. He moved backwards and leaned against the wall, with a playful look on his face: "So, are you and I the same kind of person?"

"You are a person with a very strong desire for power."

Chen Yanlin did not answer Xu Renjie's question. He slowly said: "You control the entire army and are unwilling to give up any authority. Almost all the senior officers in the 71st Army are yours. You have spent a lot of energy and thoughts to operate the new Chengdu base into an iron bucket that cannot be poured into water. You don't need any deputy, let alone me, the chief of staff. I don't want to scold you. I just admire your various actions. Haha Life is my best teacher, and I have learned a lot from you. Any theory needs to be verified from practice. Now, it is the time when I assist in the action.

As he said that, Chen Yanlin smiled with difficulty and said in a calm and powerful tone that he said without any doubt: "For the sake of his colleagues, I don't want to kill you. Open the central information network and inform the entire army: From now on, the 71st Army will be transferred to me to command. In addition, don't forget to add words like you are seriously injured."

Xu Renjie picked up his broken left leg, stirred the soft medullary in the center of the broken bone with his fingers, and asked casually: "Is this your purpose?"

Chen Yanlin looked at him calmly: "Don't think about delaying time. You have six minutes and twenty-two seconds to consider. If you still refuse, I will kill you first, and then inform the entire army in the name of the Chief of Staff. If that happens, of course there will be a lot of trouble. There are a few guys who are loyal to you who will definitely jump out to express doubts. However, as long as you get the appointment and removal documents from the military headquarters, they will be useless no matter what they do."

Xu Renjie put away the sarcasm and indifference on his face, and his expression began to become serious. It can be seen that Chen Yanlin's words were definitely not intimidation and threats, but a real idea that could assist in action at any time. Things will indeed change as he said, under the premise of his own death.

"I have to thank Su Hao."

Chen Yanlin said again: "If it weren't for his actions at the new Guiyang base, I wouldn't have been ruthless and made the current decision. It's actually that simple to seize power. Eliminating you, either to get rid of you, or to force you to issue similar orders, and then put you under house arrest. It's not a peaceful time. Except for people who are very close, almost no one will pay attention to the life and death of others. Su Hao taught me a lesson with practical actions——If it weren't for his boldness, he wouldn't have climbed to the throne of the general in just a few years, and wouldn't have become the commander of the army with heavy troops."

The last few words are indeed Chen Yanlin’s true thoughts.

The long-term remote communication with Sun Zhan has broadened Chen Yanlin's vision and his perspective on the problem has gradually shifted.

Sun Zhan pays great attention to conversation skills. He never mentions topics such as the power struggle of the military headquarters. At most, he only uses extremely obscure words and adds a small part of the irrelevant content. The time he chose was often when Chen Yanlin was highly concentrated. After several private conversations, Chen Yanlin completely dispelled his doubts and concerns about Sun Zhan and began to re-examine his position in the 71st Army. He intentionally or unintentionally brought closer to Sun Zhan, and wanted to get help from the military headquarters.

This is a very clever psychological suggestion. If it weren't for the special environment in which Chen Yanlin was living, Sun Zhan's suggestion technique would not have any effect. The reason for doing this was to stimulate and promote Chen Yanlin's ambitions and desires. More importantly, it was to borrow this chess piece he used unknowingly and turn Su Hao into the next target.
Chapter completed!