The black mass of mechanical troops crossed the plains, hills, and mountains like a mudslide.
Thick smoke rose up along with the long dragon formation of mechanical troops.
This thick smoke contains both the unique emissions of internal combustion engines and the mud rolled up by the huge rubber wheels.
Through Huo Donghua's matchmaking and Ying Hao's endorsement, a direct cooperative relationship has been established between Ren Group and Locke Group's First Continent Branch.
Locke Group sent a large number of energy modules and bought a large amount of electromagnetic beast chips and materials.
If Ren's Group is a normally operating enterprise, then Locke Group's supply can meet demand.
However, the Ren Group is a rapidly expanding war machine, and every link is full of firepower. The energy modules provided by the Rock Group are somewhat stretched.
Others had suggested that Ren Zhong find a way to obtain the excess energy quota, but after long consideration, Ren Zhong decided to take a different approach.
It is lucky to say that no one would have thought that there is a large oil field underground in the abandoned mine, with extremely amazing reserves.
The development of oil resources in Yuanxing actually has a long history. Bass Group almost monopolizes most of the oil resources on Yuanxing, which is mainly used for refining chemical products.
During the refining process, by-products such as gasoline, kerosene, and diesel are also produced.
If we follow the scientific and technological route on Earth, these things will all become energy sources. However, Yuanxing is in a special situation and mainly relies on electric energy. Therefore, Bass Group often further processes these things and synthesizes them into other products, and rarely incinerates them.
Release energy.
Ren Zhong gave instructions to first purchase and eliminate the production line from Bass Group.
This production line can not only extract oil, but also complete the refining and separation of semi-finished products.
Subsequently, the Ren Group expanded its business and became a supplier to the Bass Group, providing some intermediate products and retaining energy products such as gasoline, kerosene and diesel for its own use.
Before that, Ren Zhong came up with the theory of internal combustion engines based on his own memory, and then the employees in the factory detailed the design. He also used readily available ultra-high-precision processing and super-strong material technology to quickly create semi-finished products for testing and testing.
Continuous improvement.
In just a few days, the first mass-produced internal combustion engine with a thermal efficiency ratio exceeding 48% was launched, reaching the technological level of the earth in 2040.
Vehicles surrounding this internal combustion engine, generator set, and internal combustion structure were quickly produced.
After a series of transformations, Ren Group initially completed changes to its energy system in just one month.
Petroleum energy covers about 30% of the low-end energy supply within the group, which can be considered to just cover the energy demand.
Moreover, as the mining and refining speed continues to increase, the internal combustion engine technology continues to improve, and the large-scale power generation equipment continues to advance, the proportion of petroleum energy supply will continue to increase until it reaches more than 50%.
At present, 80% of the ground forces in the Spark Army's mechanized forces have been equipped with internal combustion engines.
Heavy equipment is equipped with giant diesel engines, medium-sized equipment mostly uses kerosene engines, and light equipment mainly uses gasoline engines.
Under this line of thinking, the infantry unit has disappeared from the Spark Army, and the lowest combat unit is also a wheeled motorcycle unit.
A purely mechanized force of this level appears mighty and powerful when advancing, and its momentum is particularly astonishing.
The smoke and dust can be seen even from several kilometers away.
Of course, it is not the ground forces that cause the greatest sense of oppression, but the four medium-sized close-to-ground combat ships in the sky.
Since the main activity area is within the atmosphere, the appearance of the close-ground combat ship is designed to be very streamlined. During flight, the front end will open an active wind shield to discharge the airflow to the sides, further reducing wind resistance and noise.
The battleship looks like a whale, with no weapons exposed on the surface.
But once its war mode is turned on, it will instantly transform into a terrifying killing machine.
As the army advanced, the scanning devices of the four warships were operating at full capacity for a long time, scanning the route ahead and searching for high-level ruin beasts ahead.
Every once in a while, the missile launcher on a large truck on the ground will be set up while traveling and launch a missile.
The missile drew an arc in the air and hit the Ruins beast dozens of kilometers ahead of the army's advance route with 100% accuracy. The dismantling divisions who had already been lurking in the nearby reconnaissance sequence immediately swarmed up.
As for the vanguard on the ground, it consisted of hundreds of mammoth tanks, lined up in a row.
Whenever a beast dares to appear in front of the army, the mammoth chariot will often open fire in advance when it is a hundred meters away, plowing the ground and sweeping away.
When the army passes by, the dismantling divisions interspersed in the team will complete the dismantling with extremely high efficiency, leaving only a pile of waste on the ground.
This army has become a combine harvester, frightening those who peek along the way.
In the Starfire 01 battleship conference room above, Ren Zhong was standing in front of a projection picture, looking at the many commanders below.
He first briefly and comprehensively explained the purpose of this military operation.
"This expedition is called the Second Eastern Expedition. The army is composed of the Xinghuo 1, 2, 3 and 4 Route Army, with a total of 240,000 participants. The overall commander is Zheng Tian, and the combat goal is to capture Huaihai City within a week.
In addition to Zhansha County, there are three other counties in the country. I myself only serve as a combatant and do not make any additional arrangements to obey the commander-in-chief's dispatch. I only have one requirement: the battle must be won, the attack must be conquered, the orders and prohibitions must be enforced, and the people must not be disturbed."
The next morning, the first battle began. With the help of four real warships, the Eastern Expeditionary Army broke through the city wall at extremely fast speeds and entered the county town.
Half an hour later, under the witness of many parties in the county, Ren Zhong signed a merger and acquisition agreement with the county executive and some core business owners to complete the privatization of the county.
Not only that, the Spark battleships and mechanized troops showed their ferocious appearance for the first time, which only caused many secret observers to panic.
In fact, the internal combustion engine technology route promoted by Ren Zhong is not high-end, and the high-end performance of the equipment is far inferior to the original Yuanxing technology achievements. However, he could not bear it and was taking a deviant approach, waiting to create one more technology tree out of thin air than others.
He has what others have, and he has what others don't have.
The next day, when the Eastern Expeditionary Army had just arrived outside the satellite town of the second county seat, the consul on the opposite side had already taken the initiative to surrender.
In the next few days, the Eastern Expeditionary Army was broken into pieces. With the assistance of four warships, the troops were divided into four groups and simultaneously surrounded the last county town from all sides.
The situation in this county is special. The neighboring forces supported by the Mengdu Group have extended their tentacles here and quietly deployed hundreds of freshly-baked elemental armor warriors in the city. Among them, the strongest ones have reached level eight, and there are three in number.
The remaining ones are level seven. The overall combat power of this ambush is very powerful.
Moreover, Hewitt Augustus had quietly arrived in the county town with his bodyguards, preparing to personally command the battle, trying to eliminate Ren Zhong, a serious problem in his mind.
At the beginning of the war, the county guards were still unable to fight back and were retreating steadily. They soon gave way to the city wall and allowed the warships to blast away the dome.
Augustus, who was sitting in the command post on the west side of the county seat, was not panicked at all, with a look of excitement on his face.
He was waiting for Ren Zhong to enter the city as before, so the elite troops he arranged in advance took the opportunity to make a surprise attack and killed Ren Zhong on the spot.
The next process did not go beyond Augustus' expectations. The man who had always been the vanguard led the elites into the city and went straight to the county tower.
When Ren Zhong arrived at the county capital, a sudden change occurred. Hundreds of lurking colonial warriors sprang out from all directions and rushed toward Ren Zhong, who was at the front of the crowd.
For a moment, there was a slight chaos within the Spark Vanguard Army. Wang Qiao, Ma Xiaoling and a group of elites above level five tried to cover Ren Zhong's retreat.
But Ren Zhong calmly asked Wen Lei, Chen Meng and other heavy-armed soldiers next to him to open the modification device inside the armor.
One after another, special energy shields were opened and combined in series to form a fish-scale combined shield.
Immediately afterwards, the warships outside the city in the distance activated their energy cannons at the same time, aiming at the location of Ren Zhong and launching a sweeping strike.
After a round of indiscriminate bombing, the county tower was razed to the ground, while Ren Zhong and others under the fish scale shield were unscathed.
Augustus' ambush suffered heavy losses, nearly half of them were destroyed, and most of the survivors were injured.
After a brief adjustment, the Eastern Expeditionary Army immediately took action and surrounded the county tower from all directions. It only took less than ten minutes to wipe out this ambush that Augustus valued so much.
Augustus suppressed the fear in his heart, and was about to order the ninth-level elemental armored warrior guards around him to move out forcibly and perform a beheading operation, but he only heard a loud alarm in his ears.
It turned out that Ren Zhong found the location of his command post at some point, and the medium-sized warship fired a large number of incendiary bombs at the same time.
In the sky, the densely packed flying bombs were as numerous as locusts.
Behind the bomb, a large number of mecha warriors followed.
How could Augustus dare to let the guards leave? He immediately withdrew from the fortifications, boarded his private small spaceship, and almost wanted to run away.
Unexpectedly, as soon as his spacecraft took off, it would be hit by energy cannons from dozens of ground tanks at the same time, destroying the engine.
Later, Augustus was protected by his close associates and escaped from the crashing spacecraft.
After a brief discussion, one of the henchmen with particularly strong mobility took Augustus to flee far away, while the guards, including the ninth-level colonial warrior, stayed behind with the others.
Ren Zhong led the elite to kill.
Ren Zhong recognized at a glance that this was the colonial warrior who had killed him more than a hundred times.
The enemy was extremely jealous when he saw him, so Ren Zhong first asked his subordinates to help him and then went forward to fight with him alone.
The rest relied on their numerical advantage and cooperation to quickly kill the other eighth-level and seventh-level armored warriors.
According to conventional wisdom, Ren Zhong could never be a match for this lava-type colonial warrior.
However, today is different from the past. He has too much experience in fighting with the opponent and is too familiar with his opponent's every move. He has strong troops and sufficient firepower on his side.
At the beginning, Ren Zhong only had to pester him and call for fire support when he fell into a disadvantage, so he only escaped danger but remained undefeated.
Later, the opponent's physical fitness declined, and the most important task was to replace the armor energy module in time and continue to struggle with him.
Later, the other Spark Army officers successfully eliminated all the other guards, freeing up their hands to fully assist Ren Zhong in pursuing the ninth-level colonial warriors.
This fight lasted for a long time, from the east side of the county to the south gate, and then to the outside of the city.
Countless buildings were destroyed along the way, and thousands of county citizens and Spark Army soldiers died in the aftermath of the battle. Several mountains were destroyed. It was not until dusk was approaching that Ren Zhong and others finally exhausted the opponent's physical energy and melted them.
in a high temperature incinerator.
On the other side, Hewitt Augustus, who had retreated to a safe zone, was furious, but there was nothing he could do.
His trip this time was a private act, with the intention of settling personal grudges. He never expected that Ren Zhong's strength would rise to such a high level in just one year, nor did he expect that he had hidden it so secretly that it would be leaked.
Sound of wind.
Subsequently, Augustus sent coverage signals to the ground through the newly restored satellite communication system, trying to directly detonate bombs in the large number of puppets he controlled in the county.
He believed that there must be a traitor among this group of people. Instead of investigating who the traitor was afterwards, it would be better to blow them all up cleanly. By the way, these bombs could also be used to kill more important subordinates.
Augustus would never have imagined that Ren Zhong's method of dealing with him was not so sophisticated, it was just an ordinary electromagnetic communication eavesdropping method.
It's just that Hua Yuelan, a master of decryption, was brought with him on this heavy expedition. Every order issued by Augustus was quickly decoded by Hua Yuelan in just a few seconds.
His intelligence system is completely transparent.
This is the difference brought about by the difference in war concepts.
Compared with Hewitt Augustus, who taught himself the art of war from nothingness, the task of reading a lot of real human war history is on another level.
Hewitt Augustus's desperate measures did not work.
The reason is simple: Ren Zhong is the head of the supernumerary project team for Shenzhen Xun Group’s recovery plan.
For such actions that are of interest to him, Shenxun Group will send a report to the project team leader before execution.
Ren Zhong cut off the signal and saved the lives of the enemies who had just been betrayed by Hewitt Augustus. He stabbed him in the back again, told the truth about the matter, and quickly gathered the local people.
human heart.
The Battle of Huaihai came to an end.
The Ren Group's control area further expanded to nearly one-third.
Ren Zhong left the finishing work to others, and he took Huo Donghua, Wang Zhaofu and others straight to the two cities between Yangsheng City and Huaihai City to start negotiations non-stop.
The negotiations took a total of one week. After that, the two cities announced a change of course, recognized the Spark Coin trading system, and opened all counties and towns to Ren Group employees.
Since then, Ren Zhong has finally connected his territory into a complete one.
The Ren Group has finally grown from a small and unknown force to a huge local force that controls five cities, covers an area of nearly two million square kilometers, and has a population of 25 million.
Even looking at the First Continent, today's Ren Group is the strongest single force under the Autonomy Order.
Against this historical background, Ren Zhong was finally called up by the association.
Ying Hao had no choice but to inform Ren Zhong, his original words were as follows:
"Because your existence has completely broken the balance of the Autonomy Order, and your personal identity is too important, both I, Shenxun Group, Amethyst Mining and Tanggu Group need you very much. Recently, Locke Group also
I have become interested in you. The association’s elders unanimously believe that you should be transferred to Shangyuanjing City.”
Ren Zhong raised objections, saying that the Mengdu Group has also never ceased?
Ying Hao said, "We are all aware of the Mengdu Group's small moves, but haven't you noticed that they have not integrated all the peripheral forces into one? Your management model is naturally unified. Therefore, you are different."