Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 380 Change (9)

at noon

  In the chaotic East End

  Although no one is allowed to enter and leave Laizein at the moment, the chaos continues because the people are still free to travel in the city.

   The Equality Society Operations Department, the Independent Mixed Division, and the Guard Corps, which had not yet been reorganized, had no time to eat lunch. They were racing against time to maintain order and stabilize the boiling city as soon as possible.

"Everyone, please rest assured! The International Equality Alliance will guarantee the supply of the most basic supplies! Everyone will not be left without food! The money in everyone's hands will not be turned into waste paper! Any increase in the price of food at the grain store will be immediately resolved. Deal with it! Everyone is welcome to report at any time!"

"For the sake of safety, Laizein has temporarily closed the entrance and exit, but it will be opened as soon as the situation stabilizes. Don't worry, everyone! If you have any special circumstances, you can contact us at any time! We will try our best to help you solve the problem! "

"Many of your questions can actually be answered from the public notices posted on the street! The International Equality League launched this revolution to allow people to enjoy equal rights! No longer oppressed! We will take practical actions in the future. Prove it!"

  Bright notices were posted on all the streets. There were soldiers patrolling to maintain order, and people from the Propaganda Department of the International Equality League held their trumpets against the scorching sun and explained the situation over and over again to appease the people.

  As for the public, quite a few people trust the Equality Association very much, which makes it easier for the comrades of the International Equality Alliance to stabilize the situation. But at the same time, there are also some people who have deep worries and do not easily believe in the guarantee of the International Equality Alliance. They choose to hoard supplies crazily and buy gold to protect their own interests.

When this group of people took to the streets to buy in a big way, the panic began to spread rapidly. More and more people embraced the belief that they would rather spend double or twice as much money to stock up on daily necessities than entrust their lives to others. Thoughts, the group of people who followed the lead surrounded the grain shop.

   Soon, in less than half an hour, the materials were sold out, and before they were sold out, the prices had increased five or six times on average. But with such a high price, it is priceless in the current Laizein.

  One hundred gold grams can't buy a bag of bread, so isn't it just a piece of waste paper?

   Gradually, among the majority of the people who could not buy supplies, some extreme people inevitably appeared. They chose to use violent means to **** the supplies from others, which further exacerbated the chaos in Laizein.

  The independent mixed division cavalry regiment handled as many as dozens of such riots in one morning.

In response to this situation, the International Equality Alliance urgently dispatched personnel to establish contact with large and small grain stores, and transferred large quantities of grain from agricultural product trading companies that had purchased and hoarded a large amount of grain earlier. Prices are available to the public.

  Through the solidarity and cooperation of many parties, although small problems appeared one after another, fatal contradictions were quickly killed in the cradle.

   "Are you hungry?" In front of a grain store on a street, the leader of the combat team responsible for maintaining the order of people's food purchases asked his subordinates.

   "Hungry, I've been running this morning, and I'm so hungry that my chest is sticking to my back." The young comrade was so hungry that his eyes dimmed.

"I told you to eat a little more in the morning. If you don't want to eat, here, take it." The team leader reprimanded the young comrades lightly, and then took out a bag from his pocket, "Do you share these pieces of bread with everyone?" Divide one point, and if you persist, you may have time to rest and eat in the afternoon."

  The young comrade happily took over: "Then, what about you?"

"I ate up to my throat this morning, and now I'm not hungry at all. Go and share it, everyone is starving." The team leader patted the young comrade on the shoulder, and then noticed that some people in the queue to buy food A quarrel broke out during a queue jump, and it was about to turn into a fight, so I hurried over, "Stop! No queue jumping! No quarrels and fights! Don't worry, everyone! There is enough food! The price will not go up!"

  The young comrade looked at the busy figure of the squad leader, then looked at the slices of bread in the bag, and swallowed involuntarily: "Anthony, come here, share these bread with the other comrades, and fill your stomach first."

   "Don't you want to eat?" Anthony took it.

   "I almost ate to death in the morning, and I'm not hungry, you eat." The young comrade held back his hunger, pushed Anthony away, and then went to the team leader to maintain order together.

   "It's not good! Come and save someone!"

  At this time, a cry for help came from a shop near the grain store, and the team leader who had just stopped the conflict between the two citizens immediately rushed over with two comrades.

"What's wrong?! What happened?!" The team leader who rushed into the store looked around anxiously, and soon saw a pregnant woman with a big belly sitting on the ground near the left side of the door, with blood dripping from her body. , the person almost fainted, and another woman beside her who looked like a pregnant mother was at a loss.

   "Hurry up and save my daughter! She is about to give birth!" The woman asked the team leader who came in for help.

"It's about to give birth?!" The team leader experienced this for the first time, but the solution was still quite clear, "Hassel, Quaid, go find sticks and cloth, hurry up and make a simple stretcher! We have to send her to the hospital as soon as possible." Hospital!"

"clear!"

"clear!"

  The two comrades searched nearby, and the team leader further investigated the situation of the pregnant woman: "Can you hear me? Wake up!"

  The pregnant woman did not respond to the team leader's shout.

  The team leader secretly screamed that it was not good. Judging from the current situation, if he really waited for the stretcher to be carried to the hospital, there might be no one left: "It's too late! Both of you go find a car!"

   "Okay!" Hassel and Quaid, who were about to remove the table legs, rushed out of the shop again, seeking the help of the vehicle.

   "Come on, give me your hand." The team leader picked up the pregnant woman, and accompanied by the old woman, trotted out of the shop and rushed towards the street.

  Outside the store, two young comrades, Hassell and Quaid, had already run out for nearly a hundred meters, rushing further away to seek support from a team of the Independent Mixed Division Cavalry Regiment.

   "Huh...huh...huh..." the team leader panted heavily, holding the pregnant woman steadily and rushed over.

   Just when he was extremely exhausted, Hassel and Quaid's shouts attracted the attention of the cavalry. A team of cavalry stepped forward to communicate with the two, and after understanding the situation, they rode away.

   In less than a minute, a speeding car appeared at the intersection.

The team leader hurriedly carried the pregnant woman to hand over, put the pregnant woman in the back seat, and then helped the old woman into the car: "Get in the car quickly! Comrade driver, please hurry to the hospital! You may die if you are late! "

"rest assured."

  The team leader felt a little familiar with the voice, so he took the time to look up at the driver: "Comrade Verak!"

  Verak, who was sitting in the driver's seat, nodded to the team leader reflected in the rearview mirror: "Are you going to come up?"

"No, no, I won't be needed if you're here. I'll continue to maintain order here." The well-known Veraker was actually driving and transporting people by himself. After being surprised, the team leader quickly closed the door and watched as Veraker led the people away. .

   "Captain, how are you?" Hassel and Quaid rushed over.

  The team leader was so tired that he was about to collapse, so he sat down on the ground and rested: "Comrade Verak took them away in a car, there shouldn't be any problem."

   "Comrade Verak?!"

   "Why is he here? Also responsible for driving?"

   "I don't know, huh... It should be that there is a shortage of manpower, otherwise people like him should be in the government building." The team leader guessed.

   "It should be like this, it seems that there is a lot of pressure everywhere..."

   "Captain, how are you? Are you okay?"

  The squad leader stood up within half a minute of sitting: "I'm fine, that's fine, let's stick to our posts, and hope that nothing will go wrong in the future, and stabilize Laizein as soon as possible."

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  The former government building, now in the office of the chairman of the alliance, which is renamed the Equality Building

   "Eat something." Keating, who stayed in the building and coordinated the overall situation with Boyne, brought two meals to the office.

  Boin just wanted to get up and go to the reception area to have something to eat with Keating, but because he suddenly remembered something, he finally remained motionless: "Have the other comrades eaten?"

   Keating put the meal on the table in the reception area: "...Most of them haven't had time to eat yet."

   "Then when will they have their meal, and when will I eat it." Boyin calmed down and prepared to continue working.

"There is a shortage of manpower now, and maintaining order is already overloaded, let alone dispatching an extra group of people to deliver lunch to them, or letting them rest for two hours, and take advantage of this time to finish their lunch," Keating explained. The reason why most people haven't eaten yet.

   "I know, this point can only be overcome by everyone first." Boin is very clear about this, otherwise he would not ask about the situation in this regard.

   Keating persuaded: "Everyone can basically hold on, but you are different. If your physical condition, if you don't even eat lunch, how can you speak publicly in the afternoon? How can you deal with work?"

   "Because of my health and work assignment, I couldn't go to the front line to stand side by side with them, but at least I can advance and retreat with them on this point." Boin was particularly persistent in this regard.

"...I can't persuade you, so I won't eat. I'll work first." Keating is too clear about what kind of person Boyin is. Such a character may destroy Boyin, and he is destined to achieve something. .

   "You are so old, you should eat." On the contrary, Boyin is very tolerant to others.

  Under normal circumstances, Keating would definitely eat it, but now that Boyin doesn't eat it, he really can't open his mouth: "I'm not very hungry."

   "Okay, I just had a few departments submit their latest reports, you can take a look." Boyin didn't talk nonsense about the meal, and invited Keating to come over and analyze the situation together.

   "Is there any question?" Keating sat opposite Boyne, flipping through the documents.

   "It's still a matter of maintaining order. The pressure in this area is much greater than we imagined." Boyin sighed sadly, "We have to hurry up and stabilize. If it is unstable, other work cannot be carried out."

   "Verak has volunteered to go out to help, right?" Keating said while turning.

"Yes, after he reported to me the situation in Kip City, he applied to go out to help, and he probably didn't have time to eat now." Boin said, "In fact, the pressure in this area is not bad. In Laizein We made the greatest preparations here, just to get through this period of time. But other sub-stations are different, such as Kip City reported by Vilak. The city hall of Kip City has been captured by the comrades of the sub-station, but The comrades at the station are beginning to face the problem of city paralysis. Their manpower is in short supply, and their preparations are far less than ours. To do the same things as us, to make Kipu City operate again and have a normal order, the difficulty is not the slightest... "

   "Hmm..." Keating pondered.

Boyne's question is not finished: "There is one more thing that is not optimistic. The main force that Francois sent to the border to intervene in the War of Strell and Castellane showed signs of withdrawing from the border. They belonged to the The old faction, with far more troops than us, will definitely want to come back and take back Laizein. We estimated that it would take ten days to half a month for them to rush here from the border. Now this time may It's going to be shortened to a week."

   "What do Morais and the others think?"

"Of course, it is necessary to stabilize Laizein as soon as possible. The Operation Department of the Equality Society, the Independent Mixed Division, and the Guard Corps will be reorganized into the Equality First Army, and then expand the army according to the situation." Boyne said, "The garrisons in other places have various sub-stations. The revolutionary movement in the country is restrained, and this main force is imminent. There is really no other way but to face it head-on. If we win by then, the remaining garrison troops in Bresci will weigh their strength and recognize the situation, and they should not resist any more, so that we can stabilize The whole country. If we lose, Laizein will have to hand over to others, and we will retreat to other regions for development.”

Keating shook his head slightly: "We have put all our efforts into Laizein. If we quit, all our efforts will be in vain, and now we have torn faces with the old forces, to the point where we will never die. Once we lose the war , unless you flee to other countries, you will be pursued wherever you withdraw.”

"Morais, Joseph and the others have been planning for this tough battle for a long time, but the extent of the war there is far less than what we thought. It is estimated that we will fight them a few days earlier. Now time is as precious as gold, a few days earlier God, we will have much less confidence to fight against."

   "What's the situation at the embassies of various countries?" After listening to Boyne's words, Keating didn't put forward his views directly, but seemed to change the subject and asked about other things.

"Ambassadors from all over the world can't sit still. They sent me a message a few hours ago, hoping to see me." Boyne had a hunch that Keating wanted to rely on mediation with other countries to gain support so that he could have greater confidence Win the next tough battle.

   "Among the ambassadors trying to contact you, is there Bash?"

"Have."

   "Where's Wellland's?"

   "This is a very strange point for me. Wellland's ambassador has not made any movement at the moment."

  (end of this chapter)