Spy Family

Lu Linbei kept his promise to Huang Pingchu and never contacted Qiu Xinyang, Dong Tianchai and others. He also did not use Mei Wang's authority to issue any orders. He did his job as an assistant honestly and sat in the office every day. Processing documents in the office and reviewing information gathered from all parties.

The information from the Military Intelligence Office is divided into two categories. One type comes from investigators, and the quantity and content are not fixed. The other type is documents copied from various departments. The quantity is huge and the time is very regular, usually every one to seven days. Delivered once.

Under normal circumstances, the Military Intelligence Office has special procedures for processing these documents. Administrative clerks first conduct preliminary classification and mark keywords, and then analysts conduct in-depth screening.

When the people of Zhai Wangzhen retreated, the administrative staff had a higher priority and had already boarded the ship to return to Zhai Wangzhen very early. Therefore, Mei Wangzhen had a group of investigators under his command, but he could not find even a qualified secretary, let alone an analyst.

Lu Linbei actually wears multiple hats, and reviewing documents is only the simplest part. When he hopes to make some achievements, his workload immediately increases exponentially. It takes a lot of time just to review the accumulated information, not to mention the Find the hidden context.

Lu Linbei liked this kind of work. The only problem was that he had too little time. He hadn't even finished reading the documents before the first battle between the Peace Front and the Independence Army began.

It was January, the coldest season in Paradise City, with low temperatures approaching zero degrees. The Peace Front assembled nearly 100,000 troops and launched an attack on the Independence Army. In the history of Zhaowangxing, an army of this size was unprecedented. In comparison, the strength of the Independence Army was still small. Less than 10,000 people.

The main force of the Peace Front is still Uranus. They throw away the term mercenary and directly admit that this is the official army of Uranus, thereby hiding First Light Industry.

Forty percent of the 100,000 people come from various forces in Zhaowang Star, and most of them are responsible for logistics and support work.

Cyberattacks by the Independence Army are a big trouble. Although the Peace Front has a large number of experts, it is not 100% sure that it can block the enemy's ghost attack. Therefore, all medium and heavy equipment in the army have their network functions turned off, and their coordination capabilities are greatly reduced. , but security is guaranteed.

At the same time, the Peace Front has formulated a detailed and complete network attack plan to ensure that the equipment of the Independence Army does not dare to connect to the Internet.

This is a battle that "goes back" for hundreds of years, and the quantity and quality of troops and equipment have become more important.

In the first cyber attack launched by Qiu Xinyang, a large number of equipment either exploded or became paralyzed. After rapid repairs, half of them were still able to be used for combat, and the number was still far more than that of the independent army.

King Zhai has no soldiers to participate in the war and only provides support in network warfare. Huang Pingchu regards the remaining troops and equipment as treasures and refuses to send a single soldier no matter how generous the conditions offered by King Zhai.

The battle started at nine o'clock in the morning. King Xing chose this time to cooperate with the propaganda of the "Military of Benevolence and Righteousness". They publicly promised to carry out precise strikes against the independent army and do everything possible to avoid hurting innocent people.

The battle still started with a cyber attack, and the public network was quickly paralyzed. Lu Linbei could only rely on the dedicated line network to keep in touch with the front line and obtain some information.

Mei Wangzhen took Lu Yezhou to the front line in person. He was regarded as Zhai Wangxing's representative in the war. He collected as much as possible the battle situation on the front line and sent it to the rear.

Lu Yezhou stayed in Tiantang City for three days and came into contact with people from all walks of life. The information he sent back showed that there was indeed chaos within the Independence Army. The half-heartedness of senior officers had become an open secret. The conflicts with the initiators such as Qiu Xinyang Increasingly, and even publicly blaming each other, the morale of ordinary soldiers was low, and they returned to their mercenary nature, chasing their bosses every day to demand early payment of wages.

The enthusiasm of the residents has always been high. Many people volunteered to join the army, but they had no combat experience and had not received any training. Lu Yezhou witnessed an accident with his own eyes: when a recruit who had just received a gun was called by name, he turned around and accidentally triggered the trigger. , shooting another person next to him.

"Once the war starts, the Independence Army will last less than three hours." Lu Yezhou attached his own judgment to the report.

The progress of the battle was beyond Lu Yezhou's expectations. The network battle alone lasted for more than three hours. Even the private network was often delayed or interrupted. Lu Linbei was like guarding a water pipe that was not smooth enough at the rear. There will be no water, and then a big gush will suddenly come out.

The information ahead showed that the network war was a draw. As the intrusion software increased and crossed with each other, the complexity of the network environment doubled every few minutes. After three hours and seven minutes, the computer system of the Independence Army fell into It was paralyzed and no data was sent out. The computer on the Peace Front side was also overloaded and had to be restarted.

In the middle of the cyber war, both sides sent out drones respectively. Due to the unreliable network, there was no way to remotely control these drones. These drones were in a truly "unmanned" state and relied entirely on pre-programmed identification and combat. As for the outcome of the battle, , can only rely on frontline personnel to observe with naked eyes, which is extremely unreliable.

Lu Linbei put all information on the drone battle situation on the waiting list, and it is expected that real data will not be collected until after the war.

Neither cyber warfare nor air warfare could determine the outcome. Four hours after the war started, at about one o'clock at noon, the Peace Front dispatched its first armored convoy.

Although they were overconfident before the war, when the war actually started, the Utopian military was very cautious, strictly following the tactical manual every step of the way, and treating the Independence Army as a formal opponent.

Hundreds of alien robots first entered the city, followed by armored vehicles hundreds of meters away, cooperating with each other and gradually encroaching on every street. Safety was the priority, so the speed was very slow.

Around five o'clock in the afternoon, the Independence Army showed the most obvious signs of collapse: "Commander-in-Chief" and "Interim Chief" Pang Gaohou announced his surrender, and he appeared in the military camp on the side of the Peace Front. No one knows when he escaped from Paradise. city.

Pang Gaohou claimed that he was being coerced by the Independence Army and issued a call to the soldiers in the city to immediately lay down their weapons. He also called on the residents to stay calm, stay at home and not go out, let alone provide assistance to the Independence Army.

"The battle is over and entering the final stage. You can have a good sleep tonight." These words sent by Lu Yezhou were almost the aspirations of everyone in the Peace Front.

The armored troops began to speed up, divided into several small teams, and advanced at full speed on the streets to seize important strongholds, especially the First Light Industry Planet Headquarters. It did not have much strategic significance, but it had a strong symbolism - the Independence Army gained victory here. The first victory will also be the final defeat here.

The messages that followed were mostly similar, with the Peace Front advancing and occupying more and more buildings and streets.

Lu Linbei felt a little disappointed. He was one of the very few dissidents who had confidence in the Independence Army. He thought that the battle would last at least for a while and would end in one day.

Qiu Xinyang's human brain weapon must rely on the Internet and chips. When his opponent cuts off the Internet and adopts more primitive tactics, he is helpless.

As night fell, the Peace Front did not slow down its advance, but moved faster. The infantry came on stage and began to clear the road. Sporadic fighting broke out in many places. The Independence Army still had supporters who did not dare to directly confront the Peace Front's armored forces. In the streets and alleys, Fight guerrilla warfare and shoot cold shots at the infantry.

This is the military's most hated battle mode. It is necessary to annihilate a single enemy without harming innocent people. It is extremely difficult to grasp the balance.

Lu Linbei received some information indicating that frontline personnel were complaining, asking their superiors to relax orders and give them freer fighting space.

Lu Linbei guessed that the soldiers of the Peace Front had let go, and these complaints were actually a cover-up for the fait accompli.

After ten o'clock at night, Lu Yezhou sent another message: "It seems that I won't be able to sleep well tonight. The Independence Army is as hard to catch as flies and needs to be eliminated one by one. The battle is likely to continue until dawn. Be prepared to work overtime." Get ready."

The information from the front began to decrease. Lu Linbei did not rest. Instead, he used his rare free time to quickly browse through the information sent before in order to have an overall understanding of the battle scene.

The information is extremely imperfect, especially the situation on the Independence Army side, which is all speculation, and the accuracy is less than half. The resistance of the Independence Army will not be particularly fierce, and senior officers will surrender. Both speculations are accurate. The Independence Army will They collapsed within a few hours. The main job of the Peace Front was to hunt down the rebels. These two speculations did not come true. One day passed, and the future was still "within a few hours."

Rereading the information, Lu Linbei noticed one thing. After the Peace Front troops entered the city, they spread wider and wider and were being "swallowed" by the streets and alleys. The distance between the teams had exceeded the requirements of the tactical manual, showing obvious signs of aggressive tendencies.

Lu Linbei did not write this matter into the report because he felt that the frontline commander had his own arrangements and it was not his turn as an outsider to dictate.

The tactical manual is dead, but the soldiers are alive. It is the commander's power to make adjustments according to the actual situation.

After twelve o'clock at night, there was a sudden increase in information. Frontline soldiers claimed that the Independence Army was still resisting and sent out armored vehicles.

The Independence Army has more than a hundred intact armored vehicles. It was once the most powerful armed force in Paradise City, but now it is at an absolute disadvantage. After being besieged, it suffered losses very quickly.

At 3:15 in the middle of the night, the first ominous news came from the front: an armored vehicle of the Peace Front exploded, and the people in the vehicle escaped, but it was unclear whether it was a fault of its own or an external attack.

Similar news began to increase, and soon the military understood that this was not a malfunction, but an attack, coming from the network.

This confused everyone. The network in Paradise City and within hundreds of kilometers nearby had already collapsed. The Peace Front's equipment did not have network functions enabled at all. How could it still be attacked?

The commander issued an order asking frontline soldiers to dismantle network modules on site, at least cut the lines, and completely cut off the network from the hardware level.

This move had no effect. News of armored vehicle explosions continued one after another, with increasing frequency and wider scope.

Lu Linbei sent a message to Lu Yezhou, which contained only five words: brain extension device.