Just like Wuqiao's plan, all the new warships were transferred to the Eastern Front. Wuqiao plans to use the eastern front as a breakthrough to break into the mainland of the Republic in one fell swoop.
The commander on the Eastern Front is still Tan Yan. It is said that during the entire battle, Wu Qiao only gave one order to Tan Yan. That was before the operation started, Wu Qiao said a few words very briefly: "I have just one order, you must come back." At that time Tan Yan responded with a smile. Wu Qiao did what he said, and since then he has never interfered with anything, and has given Tan Yan unlimited freedom. In the comments of contemporary military scientists, this shows Wu Qiao's absolute trust in Tan Yan. However, in the interpretation of military scientists and historians of later generations, it presents another situation. Military scientists and historians of later generations are always unpredictable when talking about Wu Qiao and Tan Yan. Wu Qiao made a report and asked Wu Qiao whether he should notify Tan Yan, and Wu Qiao would tell the other party that there was no need to contact Tan Yan. Tan Yan already knew about it, and his subordinates were confused and thought it was a special function.” After they finished telling the “interesting story” , but also make an expression, so that those who have not reacted will immediately react: it turned out that the two of them were still "doing things" together in the middle of the night...
Wu Qiao and Tan Yanquan knew very well that this time was the best and perhaps the only turning point, and the expected result must be achieved.
For this reason, Tan Yan even marked a certain place—all soldiers who retreated past the mark were shot dead. Everyone knows that Tan Yan is not a person who disregards human life. He said this, which shows that he will never give up in this battle.
As for Wu Qiao, they are also seeking more support from Jing Yan, and are building more advanced warships. The new country is called "Alliance", which means that it can accommodate all kinds of people and ideas. Under the ravages of war in this country, the service period in the conscription clause has been extended again and again. If the fight continues like this, Wu Qiao is worried that his country will really shed their blood. Moreover, almost all the wealth accumulated in the previous hundreds of years was squandered. At this time, only neutral countries can change the situation of the war. However, Jing Yan suddenly agreed to join the war, and there were many voices of opposition in the neutral country. In the eyes of the elites of neutral countries, active participation in the war will make the environment uncertain. In their eyes, even if the Republic wins the war, it may not really covet the territory of the neutral country. Even if it wants to "unify the world", it is impossible to do it immediately. After the war, the country is devastated. When it is said that there will be another fight, the people will not agree. They have to recover their vitality and make a long-term plan. At the same time, they have to wait for a good excuse to declare war and hide their ambitions a little... In short, as long as they remain neutral, the war is still far away, maybe When it happened, he was already in the ground. Without the support of elites, the neutral Congress also appears to be handicapped when formulating policies.
"This won't work," Wu Qiao said, "it won't give us the strength we need."
"Hmm." Ji Yao asked, "Let me think of a way?"
"yes."
Ji Yao's expression was always flat as if he was talking about the weather: "Okay. It's not that difficult to control public opinion."
"What are you going to do?" Wu Qiao knew that Ji Yao must have an idea.
"..."
"Tell me." Wu Qiao said, "I'm not the same now as before."
"..."
"I want to know—I will know sooner or later." In fact, Wu Qiao hated himself a little bit. He knew very well that Ji Yao was helping him wholeheartedly, but he still couldn't fully trust him. Wu Qiao still thinks that Ji Yao is too paranoid, so he will never treat Ji Yao the way he treats Tan Yan—do not interfere with anything and let the other party handle it. Every time a major matter is handed over to Ji Yao, Wu Qiao has to personally ask him what he plans to do. In fact, this is very obvious worry, but Wu Qiao doesn't know how to solve it.
"Wu Qiao." Ji Yao, "If I were in your position, I would design to arouse the anger of neutral countries."
"..."
"This is actually very easy to do." Ji Yao explained, "For example, we made the Republic mistakenly believe that certain passenger ships from neutral countries carried a large amount of weapons, luring the other party to sink the passenger ship, and then pretending to be sanctimonious. Open fire on civilians, although, if I knew that the passenger ship was smuggling a large number of weapons, I would also open fire. Tens of thousands of innocent people were killed, and the media fueled the flames. I believe it can ignite emotions and make people in neutral countries hate their opponents."
"... Ji Yao!"
"Don't be angry." Ji Yao's voice was still calm, "But I didn't want to do that, because you would never agree."
"..."
"Wu Qiao," Ji Yao continued, "I am a different person from you, and my bottom line is much lower. It is normal for you to be afraid that what I do will break your bottom line. But you have really thought about my Is there a bottom line? I don’t think there is, otherwise you wouldn’t be like this.”
"..." Wu Qiao realized that he really hadn't thought about it.
"Then let me tell you." Ji Yao opened and closed his lips, "Su Yiqing wants to help you get to the top, so I will help you to the top. However, Su Yiqing doesn't want to embarrass you, so I also I don’t want to embarrass you. I won’t do things he doesn’t like—when have I made you sad? I’ve asked you all about murder and arson.”
"Ji Yao..."
"So, Wu Qiao, can you trust me a little bit?"
"...I'm sorry." Wu Qiao seemed to have a needle in his heart. Ji Yao is so beautiful and so smart, with all the enviable qualities in him, he is simply a perfect person. He has been the object of everyone's envy for a long time, but... From Ji Yao's body, Wu Qiao understood that the core of life is two words: impermanence. In one seemingly peaceful night, in an instant, your entire life is changed.
"It's okay," Ji Yao said again, "Besides, I also want to see now how far I can help you go in a way that is absolutely unacceptable to you."
"… thanks."
Wu Qiao didn't say anything more, he asked Ji Yao to do it without asking for the first time.
Ji Yao invited the largest consortium in the neutral country to become the agent of the alliance to purchase a large amount of supplies in the neutral country. The commission is extremely generous, which is 5% of the total amount. However, Ji Yao made a request, that is, the financial group should come forward to borrow money from banks in neutral countries to pay for the materials, because the alliance simply cannot afford so much money. In other words, it is to use the money of the neutral country to buy the goods of the neutral country. For this considerable commission, the ramen consortium ran around and worked hard to connect alliances and suppliers. As the most influential consortium in the neutral country, it quickly found many companies willing to sell supplies, some of which even took the initiative to find the ramen consortium. After all, wealth is at your fingertips, and the flames of war are quite far away from them. As for the loan, the ramen consortium has spent a lot of thought. Fortunately, it finally got together the loan through various methods including providing kickbacks.
The role of this purchase is obvious, and the amount of supplies required by the huge neighbor is staggering. Businesses with contracts worked around the clock to produce what their neighbors sourced, and to do so had extensive hiring and massive wage increases. These exciting large orders have driven many industries, and even some related industries. Even the output of industrial robots has been gratifyingly improved. Now, not only enterprises have benefited, but many ordinary neutral people have also benefited from it.
Immediately afterwards, the alliance proposed more and longer-term procurement plans. At this time, anyone can see that the cooperation with the alliance can make the economy of the neutral country more prosperous, and there is no reason to refuse it. As for the money, it still flows directly from the banks of the neutral country to all walks of life in the neutral country. The process is very simple. Under the pressure of the outside world to "promote the economy", the banks did not dare to reject the loan application from the alliance. They issued a lot of bonds, and each time they took out a fixed amount of loans.
After a few times, the neutral countries are even a little bit inseparable from the alliance's orders. Even the people in neutral countries know that if the alliance suddenly terminates the order, it will cause a sharp drop in production in neutral countries, industry depression, idle capital, corporate bankruptcy, mass unemployment and stability problems caused by unemployment. Unlike lending money to fight wars, this time, it can really benefit neutral countries.
Gradually, the neutral people realized a problem, that is, if the alliance was defeated and the republic annexed the alliance, it would be impossible to get back even a penny of the astronomical loan, and everything would be lost. With the government gone, who will pay the bills? At that time, the war stopped, the loan could not be recovered, the capital evaporated, the bank could not exchange the bond and could only break the contract, which would inevitably lead to credit bankruptcy, which would cause a devastating blow to the economy of the neutral country, and the rich would not have a good life up. Only when the alliance becomes a victorious country and receives a large reparation from the Republic, can the loan have practical significance, and the bank can get huge interest and a lot of issuance fees, instead of one paper after another from the court.
Subtly, the elites of the neutral country became Wu Qiao's staunchest supporters, praying for the defeat of the Republic at all costs. While making a lot of money, they also fell into the quagmire of war step by step. They also understand this very well, but greed makes them unable to get away. To paraphrase an old adage: when you lend too little, you are the creditor; when you lend too much, you are reversed.
As a result, because of the change of opinion leaders, neutral countries began to participate in the war with great devotion. The government carried out several rounds of large-scale mobilization, and the rhetoric hit people's hearts and lungs, as if this would be the most just war in human history. Young people who had never participated in the war burst into blood and happily signed up. The speaker passed on the sickle of death, but the young people happily accepted the sickle, unaware of the intertwined interests involved.
…
With the spared support of the neutral countries, the troops on the Eastern Front increased rapidly, far surpassing the Republic, and the balance of war began to tilt significantly.
After the Space Third Fleet was kicked out, the strength of the two sides was not much different, but the speed of advancement in the past few months was still not fast. Now, with the new warships and the superior number of people, the front began to rapidly advance towards the territory of the Republic.
Perhaps, they will really soon usher in a turning point in the war.
As for the Western Front, the command changed and changed.
Once, after another defeat on the Western Front, Wu Qiao took the report and only glanced at it, then shook his hand angrily, and slapped the screen projection machine to the left, scaring his secretary into flying , Only then did the machine be rescued.
After Dai Lun was withdrawn, Wu Qiao never found a particularly suitable commander. In fact, Dai Lun's ability is really good, and he has been improving a few years ago, but he destroyed himself.
A while ago, Dai Lun was sentenced to death, but Wu Qiao fought for him thinking of his previous contributions, and finally Dai Lun was sentenced to life imprisonment. He will spend the rest of his life in a prison on a barren planet. That planet doesn't even have an artificial sun, and there are long nights all year round, and it's extremely cold. The prisoners rely on small stoves and broken light bulbs to survive day after day.
With a very complicated psychology, Wu Qiao, who couldn't find the commander, went to visit Dai Lun when he was leaving, but Wu Qiao himself didn't know what he wanted to get from the conversation.
When Dai Lun saw Wu Qiao, he said flatly, "Originally you couldn't win."
Wu Qiao remained silent.
Dai Lun continued: "If the emperor hadn't abdicated inexplicably, I think my victory would be great. Maybe, not only have the rebels been defeated, but even the several star regions that were temporarily ceded to the Republic have been taken back. No. The emperor doesn't believe me... In that case, my handling is the best way, and I will take back the star field in the future."
"Dairon..." Wu Qiao sighed, "Actually, I understand what you were thinking at the time. You thought you couldn't win with a hard fight, so you chose to keep the most results you could get. In history, many people lost their lives in despair. Compromise with the opponent to save the country."
Dylan snorted. He doesn't think he's wrong, he just does his best.
"But, do you know," Wu Qiao said again, "there is only one way to deal with intruders, and that is to fight."
"..."
"Any form of seeking cooperation shows that you think you are inferior to others. Only constant fighting can prove that you are the righteous side. In history, except for the very ancient time when the strong was king, all those who were robbed by force The land was later recovered, and all those that could not be recovered were signed by someone. Some things are absolutely unacceptable, and they are more terrible than the death of the country. If the battle is lost in the end, it will be a country that will be destroyed. From now on, we will You can continue to fight, but if you cooperate with the invaders, you will destroy people’s hearts and the world. Do you understand? I don’t think that preserving this country is the goal or the end, and anything can be done to achieve this goal and this end. On the contrary , I think it is a means, a process, and what we should pursue in the end is human dignity and human freedom. It is you who carved the tattoo of shame on yourself.”
"You are still so naive, Ji Yao should persuade you." Dai Lun shook his head, "Do you think I like to compromise? It's just that there is really no way. Sometimes I am very helpless and have to do things I hate. Of course now you Winning doesn't prove you're right."
"Ji Yao... won't embarrass me." After talking about it that day, Wu Qiao's knot in Ji Yao's heart was finally untied. He has some feeling that he and Ji Yao are not simply a question of who is assisting whom, but a more complicated mutual dependence, not only at the level of doing things, but even at the level of spirit.
Although Wuqiao's bottom line has been lowered and lowered again and again, as I said to Ji Yao that day, there are some things that I will never do, such as killing innocent people intentionally. The death of a heart is more tragic than the death of a country.
Finally, before leaving, Wu Qiao said to Dai Lun again: "...you should think about it in prison."
…
Fortunately, not long after, Wu Qiao found someone who would take on a major role on the Western Front. That guy was not outstanding before, and his promotion speed was slow like a snail, because in the past, the empire paid attention to defense, but this person had a unique way of thinking, thinking that he should often retreat and use the wider space behind and the more complicated terrain to deal with. Wu Qiao felt that what he said was right, and he finally had a bright future.
The replacement of the commander on the Western Front was kept secret. When the new commander first took office, the original commander participated in all secret meetings, but he only "attended" and he had no right to speak. The purpose of doing this is just to prevent people outside the house from noticing that the commander has changed.
"..." Seeing that the situation was improving, Wu Qiao finally let out a breath.
He said to Tan Yan: "I finally... didn't hold you back." If Tan Yan had a great record, but he still couldn't find the commander on the western front, he really didn't know how to face Tan Yan.
Hearing Wu Qiao's words, Tan Yan smiled: "I happen to think so too."
Wu Qiao: "Huh?"
Tan Yan continued: "I've been working hard too, for fear that I won't be able to catch up with you."
"..." So, the two of them have been fighting, in order not to be too far away from each other, and not to become an appendage to each other.