In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

"What kind of victory is it if you can't hold onto the land you've conquered!"

Zhang Xiao gritted his teeth and roared in frustration.

Wang Jianjun couldn't sit still any longer; his eyes were sunken, like an old wolf driven to the brink of despair.

"Old Zhang, calm down. Ultimately, it's because we don't have enough people!"

He pointed to the holographic sand table, his tone revealing a deep sense of helplessness.

"Ten million expeditionary troops, plus nearly ten million foreign auxiliary troops!"

Twenty million people? Isn't that terrifying? Isn't that incredible?

"Try scattering it all over the world! Throw it into the ocean and it won't even make a bubble!"

"Each safe zone we capture can only maintain a minimum staff."

Wang Jianjun placed his hands on the table and turned his gaze to Zhang Xiao.

"A standard company is now responsible for monitoring an area of ​​hundreds of square kilometers."

After capturing the city, the main force would barely leave before leaving only half a platoon to garrison it!

"The mutated beast horde has emerged from underground to counterattack. With so few people, we don't even have heavy firepower. We don't even have time to send out a distress signal!"

Wang Jianjun's tone was bitter and full of helplessness.

"The large force is going to keep pushing forward, so it's impossible for them to stay behind to help with the defense."

It's a vicious cycle with no solution: if we keep our troops around, we can't push the front lines forward.

If we don't leave any survivors, the territory we've captured will be lost in no time!

"We can't just stand by and watch!"

Zhang Xiao, his neck stiff and fists clenched tightly, turned his gaze to the person beside him.

"Couldn't the engineering corps just grit their teeth and build the fortifications thicker? If they're short-handed, then they can just fill in the gaps with automated fire networks!"

"General Zhang, it's easy for you to say that when you're not in my shoes."

Liu Zhen, the deputy director of the Engineering and Construction Department sitting opposite, pushed back his chair and stood up.

"The vanguard troops at the front line use high-energy weapons to bombard the area. After finishing one place, the armored vehicles step on the gas and immediately move on to the next war zone."

What should our engineering corps do?

Liu Zhen, not to be outdone, pulled up a construction video, which showed engineering soldiers pouring armor plates in the mud.

"Constructing fortifications isn't something you can just finish by drawing a circle on a map!"

Liu Zhen's voice rose uncontrollably.

"The main force pushed over, and the land was blown up."

Our engineering corps followed behind, eating dirt as they went.

We need to lay down basic defensive positions, repair the heavy roads that were overturned by monsters, and build supply warehouses for you!

With our millions of employees under the Public Works Department, we wish we could split each one in half.

The battle lines are pushing every day. Where are we going to find extra troops to build permanent defense systems for every safe zone?

He traced several defensive lines heavily on the sand table with his finger.

"The current situation is that the longer the battle lines are stretched out, the slower we can build the wall."

"The wall can't be built, the garrison is too small, and with a sudden monster counterattack, all the brothers' months of blood and sweat will be wasted!"

The atmosphere in the meeting room was extremely tense.

The generals looked at each other, none of them able to come up with a solution to the impasse.

"The war can't be fought anymore!"

A roar suddenly erupted from the end of the conference table.

Qian Liye slammed his fist on the table.

"Old Qian, what do you mean?"

Zhang Xiao turned his head and glared at him.

"The territory our brothers on the front lines risked their lives to win, and you're just going to say we're not fighting anymore?"

"What am I supposed to use to fight you!"

Qian Liye slammed the report in his hand onto the table.

He was panting heavily, his fingers trembling as he pointed at the holographic screen.

"You guys just look at that lousy map where the blue area is getting bigger. Do you know how much stuff the Supply Bureau has to fill in for every square kilometer it expands?"

Qian Liye raised his voice, almost roaring.

"Fuel! Ammunition! Special cement for building defensive walls!"

He pointed at Zhang Xiao's nose,

"Your men fire hundreds of thousands of bullets at a time, and after destroying a city, you still want me to immediately transport steel bars to repair the walls."

Where will the supplies come from? Will they just fall from the sky?

Zhang Xiao gritted his teeth and forcefully retorted.

"Don't they have resources overseas too? Aren't all those overseas arms factories already in operation?"

"Once it's produced, it also needs to be able to be delivered!"

Qian Liye abruptly waved his hand, interrupting Zhang Xiao.

"The transport line is so long, we have to send a lot of troops to escort it along the way!"

For every additional square kilometer of so-called safe zone added overseas, our logistical capacity consumption triples compared to domestic levels!

Su Ran raised an eyebrow slightly.

Qian Liye was right.

The most fatal flaw is the logistical collapse.

Once the army is cut off from supplies, it will become the fattest live target for monsters in the wilderness.

"Let me be frank."

Qian Liye rested his hands on the table, his gaze sweeping across the room.

"The logistics of the Great Xia have long been severely overstretched. To put it bluntly, it is now overdrawing the life force of the Great Xia and barely holding on."

Our logistics accounts are currently in deficit.

If we continue to use that false figure of occupied area as a metric for performance evaluation and victory, and continue to expand without any bottom line...

"We don't need high-level monsters to fight; we can drain the lifeblood of the Great Xia Dynasty ourselves!"

He took a deep breath and made his final conclusion.

"Continuing to expand the occupied areas will only make the old safe zones more vulnerable."

The faster we advance, the more open the rear becomes.

This is a bottomless pit, a vicious cycle that can never be filled!

The meeting room was completely silent.

Li Guodong's face turned ashen.

Zhang Xiao opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

Su Ran looked at Qian Liye and knew that Old Qian wasn't exaggerating.

He himself started out in logistics, so he knows all too well how big this hole is.

To disperse troops across worthless wilderness is tantamount to slow suicide.

The reports from the three core leaders shattered the fig leaf of "a full-scale push."

This is the harsh reality facing the Great Xia Dynasty.

Human resources, material resources, and engineering capabilities have all reached their physical limits.

Li Guodong sat in the main seat, rubbing his throbbing temples.

He picked up his teacup, took a sip of cold tea, and forced down his agitation.

"Xiao Su."

Li Guodong looked at Su Ran, who had been sitting silently at the end of the room.

"Do you have any objections to this deadlock?"