Chapter 247 Zhangye's Crisis

"This is a pass token." Manager Si gave a metal card to Ye Liu, "As long as you show this card when you get to the place, someone will take you to Miss."

"Oh," Ye Liu took over the pass, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

"Master Ye's words are serious, and it's my honor to serve you." Ye Liu greeted the old man again, and then sat on the Lianfu flying car that drove to his feet.

Zhangyecheng is not small, but under the high speed of the flying car, Ye Liu arrived at the destination in less than three minutes from start to stop. But in just three minutes, Ye Liu looked at the real tense situations under the flying car and frowned.

"Master Ye, the gate of the city defense headquarters is not allowed to stop for a long time. You..." Seeing that Ye Liu suddenly started to be stunned, the East Gate was a little strange, but now Zhangye is in a state of military management. Even if this car is from Zhangye's main mansion and is caught by the military police, the consequences are still very serious. The current city defense commander Guan Zhongyong is a very strict person.

"Ah, oh." Hearing the words of the East Gate, Ye Liu immediately woke up. Have you arrived yet?"

"Yes, it has arrived." Because the flying car has not moved for a long time, the city defense headquarters has had patrol soldiers coming to the flying car.

"Thank you," Ye Liu said, then opened the door and walked out of the flying car.

"Master Ye, I'll wait for you at the door. If you want to go back, just go to the parking lot over there to find me." Before the flying car left, the east gate poked its head out of the door and said to Ye Liu.

"I know," Ye Liu nodded. Then the flying car drove away from Ye Liu.

Ye Liu looked at the building in front of him. This city defense headquarters used to be a big hotel. Although the previous sign was covered by a new wooden board with seven large characters "Zhangye War Command", Ye Liu could barely distinguish the word hotel.

As the most heavily guarded place in Zhangye now, the appearance of Ye Liu certainly attracted the attention of the headquarters guards. Before standing for three seconds, several soldiers in green military uniforms, white belts and helmets came to Ye Liu.

After a military salute, one of them said to Ye Liu, "Please show me your ID."

These people are the gendarmes of the Central Army, and their duty is to maintain order. In Zhangye now, these people have great power, and Ye Liu dares not conflict with them.

"This." Take out the metal card previously given to Ye Liu by the general manager of Stu,

The gendarm with white gloves took out a pen-shaped instrument from his back and scanned the metal plate. After confirming Ye Liu's identity, the gendarmerie saluted again and returned the metal card to Ye Liu. "Your identity is confirmed, please come in."

"Oh, oh," but the city defense headquarters found it. Where Lian Xingyue was still a question, Ye Liu had to ask, "Excuse me, Lian..." Lian Xingyue did not tell Ye Liu her specific position, and it was difficult for Ye Liu to say her name directly here, so she was stuck at once.

"Lian? Are you looking for the chairman?

"Chairman?"

"Lian Xingyue, Chairman of the Emergency Committee." It seems that the brand given by Stu's housekeeper is very useful, and the gendarmerie answered Ye Liu's question very carefully.

"Yes, I'm looking for her."

"Okay, please come with me."

"Oh."

Butler Stu was right. Sure enough, he could find a leading the way. Ye Liu was relieved. The gendarmerie was very familiar here. Five minutes later, he took Ye Liu outside a gate. After saying a few words to the guards at the door, he turned around and told Ye Liu.

"Sorry, the chairman is in a meeting and will not be back soon. Do you want to go to the chairman now or wait for a while?"

Since they have come, it's okay to wait. Ye Liu replied, "Then I'll wait for a while."

This place of Ye Liu Station is a corridor, and there is no place to rest, so the gendarmes took Ye Liu to a room at the end of the corridor. It is like a living room with sofas, tables and carpet chandeliers. It should be a lounge.

"Wait here. I'll inform you when the chairman comes back."

I didn't expect this gendarmerie to be so thoughtful, and Ye Liu could only express his verbal thanks for this. Seeing that Ye Liu found a place to sit down, the gendarmes no longer disturbed him and turned around and walked out.

After sitting on the sofa for a while, Ye Liu was a little bored. He stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. This should be the edge of the hotel. From the window, you can directly see a square in the center of Zhangye City, but Ye Liu glanced around and frowned again.

As I just saw on the flying car, almost all the places Ye Liu can see, whether in the square or the streets, are full of dark crowds. There are so many people that there is not even a gap for people to move. There are both old people and children in between. Fortunately, the climate in winter in the southern continent is not How cold is it? If it is in the imperial cities of Doro and Hera Peninsula, someone dares to squat in the square all night, and the municipal office can collect the body tomorrow.

Ye Liu didn't expect the situation to be so serious. So many people stayed together without management, and it was easy to have an accident. Ye Liu held the window and stared at the whole square.

"Hello," I don't know how much time later, Ye Liu was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Come in." Ye Liu said.

It was the gendarme who brought himself in at the door. The chairman has come back and is waiting for you.

"Oh, let's go."

After returning to the door of the room just now and checking Ye Liu's metal cards, Ye Liu entered the office.

"Aye, why are you here?" The room is very large. Lian Xingyue is sitting behind a big desk, and there are dozen documents in front of her, which should be waiting for her to deal with.

"I'm here to see what I can do to help you. Because I have learned some information before, I'm familiar with how to deal with savages."

Hearing the words at night, Lian Xingyue's eyes lit up. "This morning, I received the news that the savages had built four observation posts ten kilometers away from Zhangye. Now the whole headquarters is about to quarrel because of this matter." Speaking of the savage, Lian Xingyue immediately discussed this morning for two hours without a conclusion. The news of Guo told Ye Liu.

" sentry?" The purpose of the savages building sentry posts next to Zhangye is obviously, that is, to monitor Zhangye's movements, but why to monitor Zhangye's movements is the key to the problem.

Seeing Ye Liu's arrival, Lian Xingyue immediately poured out her troubles on Ye Liu these days and talked for half an hour, and Ye Liu also understood the specific situation of Zhang Yecheng through Lian Xingyue's words.

As a hereditary count, Zhangye is the private territory of the Lian family. Everything in this land belongs to and only belongs to the Lian family. This right is protected by the imperial code and is sacrosanct, but as one of the most important transportation hubs in the entire southern continent, Zhangye is also a very important strategic place.

In nearly 300 years of reclamation, there are seven imperial provinces south of Zhangye. They have provided a large amount of resources to supply the imperial city, food, wood, metal, fiber. It is impossible for the emperor not to pay attention to such an important place. Therefore, after an exchange, from 244 of the Epoch, Zhangye was also It also became the headquarters of the 42nd Army of the Imperial Central Army.

Because of this, Zhangye's city defense headquarters is now composed of three armed forces. One of the 42nd Army of the Central Army, including a military headquarters, a semi-infantry division, an armored brigade and an artillery regiment, with a total of more than 20,000 people, is the largest and the most important part of the city defense headquarters.

Then there is the Zhangye Independent Brigade. The number of troops, which originally had more than 5,000, has now doubled to 10,000. It is the private unit of Zhangye Lian's family, with excellent equipment, strict training and strong combat effectiveness.

Finally, it is the National Defense Force, which is Zhangye's local army, which is different from the north. Because there is no real threat, the lords and governors of the southern mainland do not attach much importance to this local defense force, even if it is unavoidable. Therefore, this unit is the weakest force of the urban defense headquarters regardless of funds, personnel or equipment.

Usually, these three troops are also well water and rivers. Lian Bi is now hot in the empire. Naturally, the Central Army does not dare to be wild in Zhangye. Zhangye's independent brigade also rarely deals with its peers under the order of Lian Bi, while the national defense army with only a thousand people is completely transparent and is almost all under Zhang Ye. Forget it. If it hadn't been for the sudden appearance of the savage, not many people would have known that there was such an army in the empire.

But the situation is different now. As soon as the savages came, they immediately stirred up the whole southern continent. It was a mess and no one knew what to do.

Fortunately, as one of the most important cities in the south, Zhangye's situation is much better, especially after the emergence of Lian Xingyue, with the position of the direct daughter of the Lian family, which has been operating in Zhangye for hundreds of years, began to show its strength, stabilize the hearts of the people, restore order, and strengthen urban defense. After a series of things, Zhangye, the gateway city in the south, finally restored almost normal order.

Things are much more complicated than they seem. It's only been a week since Ye Liu met a savage and now the savage began to harass Zhang Ye. For individuals, there are too many things that can be done in a week, but for a huge institution, such as Zhangye, the whole administrative agency has to change from peacetime to wartime, this time is really stressful.

Therefore, the Emergency Committee was established as the current temporary supreme authority of the whole city to mobilize the strength of the whole city to resist attacks that savages may launch at any time.

The problem is here. Since it is now in the state of military management, the whole management of the city is naturally controlled by the army. However, now there are three armies in Zhangye City, and the highest rank and position is Xiao Guoxiang, the military account of the 42nd Army. From the name, you know that he is a member of the Xiao family of the imperial family.

In addition to him, the following is Guan Zhongyong, the major general of the independent brigade, and Li Weixin, the commander of the 73rd Division of the National Defense Force.

According to traditional custom, even if a private army such as an independent brigade has a record and archived senior officer in the Military Affairs Department, the treatment and level are lower than that of formal military officers such as the Central Army. That is to say, in Xiao Guoxiang's eyes, Guan Zhongyong's position is about the same as his next division commander, the 42nd Division However, there are five divisions, and there are more than a dozen people in the military management at the brigadier level.

However, as the most trustworthy person of the Lian family at this moment, Guan Zhongyong was naturally reused by Lian Xingyue and became the highest officer of Zhangye City Defense Command, responsible for the mobilization of all Zhangye's armed forces, and Xiao Guoxiang felt that he was stable in this position.

Under the command of a local officer two levels lower than himself, the Xiao family came out and walked all the way. At the age of 40, he became the commander of an army and had more than 30,000 generals under his command. Of course, Xiao Guoxiang could not stand this situation, but the names of all the members of the emergency committee were signed and agreed by the emperor himself. . The Xiao family is famous in the empire, and even the family is not very hot. This is still their hometown. In case Lian Bi is unhappy and suddenly moved Xiao Guoxiang from * to a private army, Xiao Huanran, the patriarch of the Xiao family, can't say a word of opposition.

It can't be confronted head-on, which does not mean that Xiao Chuanguo accepts this kind of treatment obediently, so he is passively lazy, unreasonable and annoying. These things became the most common reaction of the Central Army after receiving orders from the city defense headquarters. If it hadn't been for the emergency expansion of the independent brigade in these two days, the total number would have been increased to 10,000. At present, half of the more than ten kilometers of Zhangye wall is not guarded.