Chapter 288 Growing Pains, The Price of Kindness(1/2)
On the Origin Star, you can do a lot of things in one day.
After arriving outside the walls of Zhaoshan Town, Ren Zhong sent his newly trained first-class war artist to control a large-scale city-breaking machine built in advance to approach the city wall and conduct a tentative attempt to break the city.
However, several large-caliber heavy cannons that suddenly appeared on the city wall broke through the automatic weapon defense system, and the machine was instantly blown to pieces.
According to the rules of corporate warfare, this machine has clear property rights with Ren Zhong and is an asset of Ren Zhong. Therefore, the automatic protective firepower officially equipped by the town government on the high wall to resist the beasts will not be activated.
The intelligence provided by the previous spies showed that these heavy cannons were also deployed on the high walls.
Yesterday, when the corporate war started, all deserters and non-local citizens had their official watches confiscated by Zhaoshan Resources and were prohibited from contacting the outside world.
The spies have lost their effectiveness.
Now this artillery array suddenly appeared.
There is no doubt that this is the garrison force that the resource recycling company in Zhaoshan Town hired from the outside world on this day.
The next second, hundreds of mobile turrets appeared on the top of the city.
One after another, the scavengers whose lives he had spared yesterday appeared in the protective cockpit of the fort.
As the fort rotated, the muzzles of hundreds of huge black cannons were aimed at Ren Zhong.
It was at this time that Ren Zhong suddenly received a notice from the Tanggu Group.
Tanggu Group changed the rules of corporate warfare.
One of the unreasonable aspects of the previous rules was that the lives of sovereign citizens must not be harmed.
As for restricted citizens who have signed a slave contract, when they are passively involved in a war and forced to fight in battle, they will be treated as deserters and lose legal protection.
In addition, citizens who accepted an employment contract and went to fight in the war would automatically lose legal protection.
Restricted citizens and employed citizens are collectively referred to as non-sovereign citizens.
In previous corporate wars, this rule was sufficient.
Because there will be no sovereign citizen who can just live a peaceful life and meddle in the war.
Citizens who are level 7 or above top professionals who have the power to protect themselves among thousands of troops will not lower their status to accept employment from a town-level resource recycling company, and others cannot afford the price.
When the two armies are facing each other, even a seventh-level heavy-armed defensive mecha warrior may be killed if he is accidentally caught in a concentrated fire.
There are too many accidental factors in war, and risks and benefits are often not proportional.
Therefore, even if his own interests are at stake, even the owner of the resource recycling company who is about to be defeated will not end the battle personally. He will only take out some petty profits from his pocket and ask the barren people and employed non-sovereign citizens below to go to war.
Work hard to survive.
The final outcome is usually decided by deserters and non-sovereign citizens.
Which side has suffered such casualties that it has completely lost its combat effectiveness, so that the company is unable to maintain its resource mining business due to a shortage of manpower, or if all of its resource mining areas are firmly controlled by its opponent, then which side will naturally lose the battle.
This rule can effectively prevent some eager combatants from posing a threat to the lives of citizens when the defeated side is breached.
Business owners on both the advantaged and disadvantaged sides strongly support this rule.
Even if the money is gone, life is still there, and life is much more important than money.
The lives of sovereign citizens are precious.
But this time, Ren Zhong, a fifth-level sovereign citizen who had just killed a sixth-level ruin beast, ended up brazenly, completely breaking the balance of power on the field.
If this rule is not changed, one person will be able to overwhelm every town with such heavy burdens.
You can't kill him, but he is still ridiculously strong. This battle was never fought from the beginning.
As a result, within one day, the owners of resource recycling companies in nine other towns in Yangsheng City jointly filed a complaint, demanding that the rules be optimized.
They believe that if sovereign citizens themselves go to war and take part in the battle themselves, other forces must be given the power to kill them.
Unless this citizen only sits at the base and conducts remote control, then of course he cannot attack.
With the information monitoring accuracy of "Net", it is very easy to accurately determine whether a person is in combat status.
According to Tanggu Group's original intention, of course they don't want to agree.
Their real purpose is to support Ren Zhongzhong and allow him to flex his muscles, further practice his new management methods without angering the "net", and completely change the work efficiency of the town-level resource recycling company on Source Star.
, in order to achieve the purpose of hollowing out the resources of the Yuanxing Ruins beast before the great migration.
If Ren Zhong died prematurely in the war, who would he ask to reason with?
However, there are also compradors within the Tanggu Group, and these people quietly brought the matter to the association's senior board of elders.
The comprador forces in the elders teamed up to put pressure, and the Tanggu Group had no choice but to nod in approval.
Therefore, behind the notice received by Ren Zhong was a text message from the Tanggu Group President Office.
"The business owners of other town-level resource recycling companies will not go out in person. They enjoy absolute security and have no worries about self-protection. This is a trap for you. It is recommended that you return to Spark Town immediately."
After reading this information and looking towards the city head, Ren Zhong understood everything in an instant.
Liu Wanxiong has definitely received the commitment and funding from the owners of eight other town-level resource recycling companies in Yangsheng City.
This group of people united at the speed of light yesterday to fight against their own giant.
Since Liu Wanxiong, the boss of Zhaoshan Resources, enjoys absolute security.
Even if all his people were killed and he was severely damaged, he could sit back and relax without worrying about his revenge.
Of course Liu Wanxiong can confidently and boldly let his subordinates fight tooth and nail.
"Mr. Ren, withdraw your troops. We have prepared a total of two thousand mobile city defense guns, which are distributed throughout the city wall. Even if you prepare engineering equipment, you cannot get close to the city wall. These are real weapons of war, even if you
It may not be safe. To be honest, you are already within our range now."
Liu Xiaotao sent such a voice message to Ren Zhong.
Ren Zhong remained calm and replied: "According to the contract we signed yesterday, you are not allowed to threaten me with the lives of these barbarians today. I have already filed a complaint."
"It's useless, Mr. Ren, I haven't said anything now. It's just their own choice."
By this point in the conversation, Ren Zhong had already understood the truth.
The other party cheated.
The contract only said that Zhaoshan Resources would not threaten Huang Ren with his life, but it did not say that they would not use Huang Ren's relatives and friends to blackmail Huang Ren into fighting.
There is a literal trap here, and the logical relationship between the two does not conflict.
Ren Zhong secretly gritted his teeth and raised his hand.
"Retreat three miles, spread out our formation, and completely blockade Zhaoshan Town."
He had already obtained the drawings of the city defense artillery from Ju Qingmeng and knew its projectile speed performance.
After retreating three kilometers, the automatic protection energy cannon on the Qingfeng heavy truck can react in time and use the energy cannon to detonate its shells in advance.
"Mr. Ren, the town has sufficient supplies. You are stationed in the wild, and your supplies have to come from Xinghuo Town hundreds of kilometers away. You are also attacked by beasts at night. It will not be good for you to waste it like this. This corporate war seems to be an opportunity, but it is even more dangerous.
There are many risks. Just because you are strong, you will definitely win. After all, Mr. Ren, you are rich and valuable. There is no need, there is really no need. Just retreat."
Liu Xiaotao said again.
Ren Zhong kept silent and only activated the command system to observe the situation on Zheng Tian's side.
Yang Shengjun, who also had 30,000 soldiers, had a completely different effect on Zheng Tian's end.
Zheng Tian's army advanced all the way, and the enemy harassed them all the way.
Although the advance of the army was delayed very slowly, the military formation was very neat and had never been broken through. Zheng Tian's army suffered very few casualties along the way. On the contrary, the scavengers sent by Wangdong Town to carry out the harassment mission suffered heavy casualties.
Zheng Tian has been consuming the enemy's vitality.
At the same time, Zheng Tian even dispatched his elite troops in advance to break them into parts and break away from the large army. They traveled day and night and arrived at the wall of Wangdong Town at two o'clock this morning.
Subsequently, this group of elites took out the medium and long-range weapons represented by individual rocket launchers that had been prepared in advance, and continued to interfere with the construction team on the city wall.
Up to now, Zheng Tian's army has advanced to only fifty miles away from Wangdong Town, but only less than fifty city defense artillery pieces have been successfully installed in Wangdong Town.
Zheng Tian planned to attack directly after arriving, follow Ren Zhong's order, and capture Wangdong Town as quickly as possible.
There will definitely be casualties, but Zheng Tian and Chen Hanyu have already formulated a recruitment plan.
After taking Wangdong Town, General Zheng Tian replenished his troops on the spot, and it was easy to make up for 30,000 troops.
Comparing the two, Ren Zhong's mistakes were too big.
Strictly speaking, Ren Zhong's cutting-edge strength is far stronger than Zheng Tian's.
If he had chosen to take action yesterday and took advantage of the rules, he could have slaughtered more than 12,000 people from Zhaoshan Town by the river at a very low cost.
Although he himself is likely to be forced to become a massacre, which will damage the "kind" persona he established among the deserters, today Zhaoshan Town will become an empty city with almost no garrison.
Now this opportunity has slipped through his fingers.
If they attack at this time against the city defense artillery array, the Yangsheng Army will pay a heavy price, and the town will still be devastated.
Nothing good has been gained from the heavy workload.
He sighed deeply in his heart.
Kindness to others is cruelty to one's own people.
To be continued...