Chapter 461 Internal Conflicts

The First Military Region's First Army Corps airbase had been completely occupied, and they had lost their forward line of defense and their air supremacy over the surrounding area.

The main force of only a few hundred thousand soldiers could no longer attack Dragon City. They had no choice but to huddle inside the First Army Corps' base, waiting for orders from above.

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One day later, the First Military Region's People's Governance Party activated its special period political rights and took the lead in convening a regional council.

The Republican Party and other parties responded one after another, and the First Military Region entered a period of national assembly.

The meeting was attended by the First Military Region's Chief of Staff, the Chief of Staff of the Military and Political Council, the Chief of Staff of the Chinese Army Corps, the heads of various administrative factions, and other military and political generals, totaling more than a hundred people.

The huge fan-shaped conference hall was filled with people, all with different expressions and thoughts.

The meeting began with an extremely heated internal quarrel, full of the smell of gunpowder. Some suggested increasing troops, while others believed that troops should be withdrawn. The two suggestions competed fiercely and refused to give way to each other.

"Sorry to interrupt everyone, I'll say a few words." At this moment, the chairman of the First Military Region's Military and Political Council, sitting in his seat, turned on the microphone and said in a sonorous voice, "Obviously, this joint military operation by Dragon City and Lao Mo is a strong provocation and trampling on our First Military Region's military and political status! Even though Dragon City is small, we can never cede this territory and let the international community laugh at us, thereby threatening our First Military Region's leading position in the international arena! Therefore, my opinion is to continue to mobilize fleets, build two new airbases, and continue to launch an attack on Dragon City! This time, we will lead this war ourselves!"

Next to him, the Chief of Staff sat in the first seat, listening to the other party's speech without expression, without responding.

Immediately afterwards, a female speaker in her fifties, belonging to the People's Governance Party, also turned on the microphone and said in a sharp voice, "Mr. Chairman, I don't know whether this counterattack by Dragon City and Lao Mo is a provocation, but I just want to ask you a question. If we continue to increase troops, how many years do we plan to fight this war? When will it end? And what kind of political and military demands do we want to achieve?"

The chairman sat there with his hands folded and said, "Madam Speaker, please understand a principle. This is a war about the dignity of the First Military Region!! It is a war we have to fight!"

The female speaker immediately said sarcastically, "But your soldiers, in the year-long war, have completely lost the dignity of the First Military Region and consumed a lot of resources. Please look at our financial market. The wailing can be heard in the Arctic ice caves!! You have fought countless defeats, and our parliament and our people are paying for these failures! Please take a sober look at the problem. Our troops and soldiers have long lost confidence in this war! This is a very critical point!"

Hearing this, the chairman couldn't sit still. He immediately stood up and said, "The previous war is not enough to explain the people and the problem. Because our inland troops have never participated in large-scale combat! In the past year, it has been the Red Hat Army, a third-rate force, and the armed forces of peripheral mercenary groups that have been fighting with them for us! There is no doubt that once our main force is dispatched, this war will be won! No one can challenge the military status of the First Military Region!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I regret your own fabricated and absurd rhetoric!! Please recall what happened a few weeks ago! When you decided to increase troops, you activated the six war zones entrenched in the Hua District's interior! It is the 600,000-strong army corps and the four cruise fleets formed in the enemy competition zone!" The female speaker glanced at him and reminded him, "This is not just a war between us and Dragon City, they are supported by the Hua District behind them! If our main force participates in the war, they will also get involved in this war! Our inland will be ignited by war!! History tells us that any regime and nation will fail! Like the Roman Empire and the Tsar in the past...!"

The chairman immediately said, "Then take Dragon City as the battlefield and continue to fight the Hua District. The competitive relationship has lasted for a century, and a direct war will break out sooner or later!"

After hearing this, the female speaker pointed at the other party and said, "Look at your ugly appearance now, like a crazy gambler who has bet the future of the First Military Region! All the people living here have to pay for your madness! This is extremely absurd and ridiculous! I can't see what the point is in continuing to attack Dragon City and occupying it! Moreover, I think the previous actions of the Military and Political Council to interfere in Lao Mo's internal affairs and manipulate the rebel army to carry out military invasions are also very stupid! There is no oil, no precious minerals! Even the people there are so poor that they wear the same pair of pants all year round!! God testify, I can't imagine what the point of interfering in that kind of place is! I only know that the regional finance department has to allocate hundreds of billions of military expenses to you every year! To make the wallets of you people swell! If all this is just to maintain your hypocritical, insignificant dignity, it's just too ridiculous! I think it's time to end this costly war! We must face the problem of Dragon City. Obviously, they are a group of people who cannot be conquered, especially with the support of the Hua District! Political negotiations are the ultimate way to solve the problem. Unless someone wants everyone to be destroyed together."

The chairman of the Military and Political Council heard the other party's sarcasm, his forehead veins bulged, and he also retorted with strong language, "Your speech, in my opinion, is a very cowardly behavior! Just like you show in bed!!"

The entire venue was stunned when they heard this. Even the Chief of Staff himself was stunned and couldn't help but pat the table and turn to the chairman and said, "Pay attention! Your words are not in line with your identity!"

"Bang!"

The female speaker stood up directly, picked up the water glass in front of her, and splashed it on the other party's face with a bang, and cursed, "Shut your stinky mouth! You old-fashioned thing! Your performance on the battlefield is as incompetent as your aging body day and night!"

No matter what organization or unit, internal conflicts are inevitable when encountering headwinds. This is the same for the large area. This meeting directly tore apart the two major factions that were already at odds.

Of course, many people at the scene couldn't help but remain silent, secretly guessing what the relationship between these two big bosses was? Why can they so accurately point out each other's shortcomings?

In this closed-door meeting, the two sides still argued endlessly and were full of aggression towards each other. The parties led by the People's Progressive Party completely rejected the previous political means and military deployments of the Military and Political Council and the Republican Party.

On the Republican Party's side, because they had lost the battle by manipulating external armed forces before, they also lost a lot of public support. The current Chief of Staff is also facing the crisis of stepping down.

A week later, after Su Tianyu stabilized the internal situation in Dragon City, he once again sent troops to the forward base of the First Army Corps.

But this time, the other party did not engage in fierce confrontation, but chose to retreat, giving up this garrison area and starting to move closer to the inland of the First Military Region.

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First Military Region, Hua City.

Headquarters of the Chinese Army Corps, inside the military hospital.

In a luxurious independent ward, Kang Dinghuang was wearing a hospital gown and standing in front of the window, silently smoking a cigarette. After this period of recuperation, his body has recovered somewhat.

At this moment, Kang Dinghuang stared at the sky in the direction of Dragon City, took a deep breath of smoke, and said softly, "It's all really over..."