Ice City.

Liberation Army Base.

Leader Guo Zhun's office is heavily guarded.

Guo Zhun sat behind the desk, looking at the signed document in front of him.

Although this document was signed with Dawn City in the name of Yan Zhihuan of Daqing Mountain, anyone with discernment knows that this time it was the Liberation Army that lost.

The meticulously planned operation failed, and a lot of gold and fuel were lost.

Within the Liberation Army, some are already saying that Guo Zhun is weak, oppressed by a small force, and has lost the prestige of the Liberation Army.

Guo Zhun wished he could take such people out and execute them by shooting.

Without Guo Zhun, there would be no Liberation Army of today.

No matter who became the leader, they couldn't have developed to this extent.

Guo Zhun has high authority in the Liberation Army, but with the base's population increasing, there are inherent drawbacks, namely that the newcomers don't understand his capabilities as a leader.

At the very least, in this matter, the Liberation Army surely lost out.

So, Guo Zhun must retaliate against the Dawn Army to prove his capability.

But now the Liberation Army genuinely cannot spare extra forces for this task, the base needs guarding, and North of the River needs reclaiming, which is what he promised everyone when forming the Liberation Army.

Guo Zhun is not naive enough to rely solely on the five thousand men sent to Daqing Mountain to deal with the Dawn Army.

The Dawn Army has already demonstrated their strength through battle, and they are not a soft target.

He opened his mouth to inquire of the intelligence secretary beside him.

"No movements from Oil City and Crane City?"

"Leader, those two originally intended to make a move against the Dawn Army, even Crane City had rearranged their troops to set off, but when they saw us negotiating with the Dawn Army, they stopped, probably worried we would unite."

Guo Zhun snorted through his nose: "So timid, if not for the many affairs now, I wouldn't spare any one of these families."

"Leader, are we just going to swallow this loss silently?"

"Of course not, aren't those two watching for cues? I'll give them reassurance, let them act boldly."

Guo Zhun spoke to the intelligence secretary: "Isn't Crane City short on medicines? Sort out the captured medicines from the two major pharmacies recently and load them up to be sent over. Tell them that the Liberation Army stands irrevocably against the Dawn Army, and if they're willing to continue attacking the Dawn Army, we'd be pleased to see that."

"What about Oil City? They previously sent fighter jets to threaten the Dawn Army, should we notify them?"

Guo Zhun shook his head: "Oil City won't be necessary, they're even further from Dawn City than we are, at most they can send planes for some harassment, and Li Yuntian likes face, he said he'd go to the Dawn Army in a week, even if we don't remind them, they should go soon."

The intelligence secretary agreed, then hesitated: "Leader, with our strength, isn't it unnecessary to consider anyone else? Even if we delay reclaiming Jiangbei District, wouldn't it be better to first unify the province?"

Guo Zhun snapped: "What do you understand? You think we're invincible? I'll tell you, some things aren't as you believe...".

At this, Guo Zhun suddenly stopped: "Forget it, explaining is pointless, just follow my orders."

"Anything can pause, but reclaiming Jiangbei District cannot, strengthen the troops, by New Year, we want to set off fireworks by Songjiang Riverfront!"

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Jiang Mountain in Crane City received a large shipment of medicines from Guo Zhun, and was stunned for quite some time.

His people were also puzzled by Guo Zhun's intentions.

"Is this guy crazy, why would he send us medicines voluntarily?"

Jiang Mountain pondered for a moment: "He's showing his stance."

"You mean...?"

"He's telling us that he will never unite with the Dawn Army, sending these medicines means he wants us to keep on attacking Dawn City, and he's trying to use us as his weapon."

"Then we must go."

Jiang Mountain waved his hand: "We must go, many of our people were killed by the Dawn Army at the border, if we don't retaliate, our people won't be convinced, originally we feared they might unite, since the Liberation Army has no such intention, attacking Dawn City becomes unavoidable."

His subordinates nodded, indeed so.

Being annihilated by Dawn City, losing two thousand people, Crane City was already filled with voices for retribution against Dawn City.

Jiang Mountain was already planning to fight the Dawn Army, now without concerns over the Liberation Army, setting out to Dawn City was inevitable.

Jiang Mountain made up his mind: "If we fight, we fight hard, Dawn City's defenses aren't weak, I've decided to send fifteen thousand troops for an assault."

"Leader, that would be more than half of our armed forces."

Crane City has a total of twenty-five thousand armed troops, with two thousand lost earlier, leaving twenty-three thousand.

If he sends fifteen thousand, only eight thousand would remain to guard the Crane City Divine Dragon Army Base.

"No need to say more, my mind is made up, winning is good enough."

After some calculation, Jiang Mountain still felt uneasy.

He first used radio to contact Li Yuntian of the Oil City Storm Army.

In Divine Dragon Province, the Storm Army and the Divine Dragon Army share a common enemy in the Liberation Army, so their relations are pretty good.

He is willing to pay Oil City with a shipment of medicines, with the sole request that Oil City use fighter jets within three days to destroy the so-called Dawn Justice Giant Cannon of Dawn City.

Without dealing with that Giant Cannon, he really had no confidence in taking Dawn City.

Upon hearing Jiang Mountain's request, Li Yuntian burst out laughing.

"No problem at all, recently that kid in Dawn City has been acting up, even daring to ignore my demands, I've long been displeased with him, even without your offer of medicines, I'd throw bombs at Dawn City!"

"Don't worry, brother Jiang Mountain, in less than three days, within two days, I will make the Giant Cannon in Dawn City disappear!"

With Li Yuntian's affirmation, Jiang Mountain finally felt at ease and issued the order. The Divine Dragon Army's long-awaited forces began to move.

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Ye Fan wasn't aware of the other trades; he is very busy now.

After receiving a hefty sum of 2.5 million Money, Ye Fan's construction plans immediately unfolded.

The completed Crack Generator was put on display.

The placement is right behind the mansion, between two Walls.

The Crack Generator is a towering column.

At the top of the column is a metallic crack, where three metal strips stand like fingers.

In the middle, there are strong electromagnetic energy fluctuations that can interfere with all radar and satellite signals not belonging to the Red Alert System within a 20-kilometer diameter.

With the Crack Generator as the core location, a layer of faint fog begins to spread.

This fog can be adjusted, and Ye Fan adjusted its form, allowing it to cover the entire core urban area, including part of the back mountain and part of the east side.

A total range of ten kilometers.

The Crack Generator was placed at night, as the fog spread out, extending all the way to the Wall part of the core area.

Even the Giant Cannon at the city gate was enveloped, no longer visible to outsiders.

When people woke up the next day, they were amazed to find that fog had appeared.

In the Inner City District, they could only see the core area shrouded in mist, revealing nothing inside.

Only near the Wall could they vaguely see the Wall and watchtower, with very low visibility.

Interestingly, only the core area was like this, other places weren't, leaving people curious.

Thinking the fog was temporary and would disperse once the sun appeared, people didn't pay much attention.

Ye Fan, using the fog as cover, began his city expansion plans.

Continue stretching the Walls!

Extend the core area one kilometer east and one kilometer back.

The original core area of four kilometers long, one kilometer wide, was suddenly transformed to five kilometers long and two kilometers wide.

The area expanded from four square kilometers to ten square kilometers!

An increase of 1.5 times!

Ye Fan constructed a total of nine kilometers of Wall this time.

With construction materials available, the cost of building one meter was only 10 Gold, nine thousand meters means ninety thousand Gold.

Once the Wall was placed, Ye Fan continued producing watchtowers, forming a guarding force at the city's edges.

Next, the production of the eighth Barracks continued; once this Barracks was set, Ye Fan could deploy more than four thousand troops.

At that time, he will once again upgrade, and the forces will enter an entirely new stage.

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The Crane City Divine Dragon Army departed, a team of fifteen thousand marched along Chuanshan Road, heading towards Huacheng.

With hundreds of kilometers to travel, winter roads were not easy to traverse; it would take them at least two and a half days.

Heavy weapons like tanks were hauled by flatbed trucks, while other vehicles followed, moving arduously.

They departed from the Divine Dragon Army base the second day.

At the edge of Crane City's mountainous region.

Atop a row of tall pine trees lived a nest of mutated crows.

These crows were enormous, each reaching half a meter in length.

With sharp beaks and talon-like claws, they had considerable killing power against flesh and blood creatures.

A crow hunched on a tree, its gaze searching below, looking for something edible.

They knew there was a giant human settlement dozens of kilometers ahead.

But they dared not approach, as those humans would use weapons; a few mutated birds going there would only lead to death.

They still retained avian and beast habits, reluctant to get near humans, or even those stumbling zombies.

However, with the arrival of winter, there was scarce food.

The crow's gaze swept across the forest and suddenly saw a zombie on the ground!

Bear in mind, this is a Mountain Forest District; zombies hadn't come here before.

The crow's eyes lit up, hesitating whether to feast on the zombie; with its talons and beak, killing the zombie wasn't too hard.

Ultimately hunger prevailed.

The crow flapped its wings and flew toward the zombie.

But just as it flew dozens of meters, the crow nearly fell from the sky!

Because amidst the forest, it saw countless zombies, spreading throughout the mountains and fields!

A boundless black mass, irresistibly rolling forth along the ridge, heading this way!

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