Colonia Storm Tour

Chapter Nine: For Our Motherland!

After Taipei fell, the 4V army, having lost its central command, immediately descended into chaos, and some of the already intense power struggles within the army erupted.

Especially when considering whether to rescue Taipei, the military commanders kept shirking their responsibilities, letting their allies do the work while they stayed behind to provide support and cover the rear, demonstrating the GMD army's "better to die for your friends than for yourselves" spirit.

In these increasingly fierce power struggles, these excuses also allow both sides to pick up all sorts of things that can be used as weapons and throw them at each other.

Given the chaotic state of the military system, it was simply impossible for the 4V army to devise any effective tactical strategies to counter Colonia's flank.

Moreover, Lin Haiyuan did not send the Storm Messengers to stir up trouble in the west, but instead attacked the relatively weak and isolated Hualien County.

From a tactical standpoint, Lin Haiyuan's primary objective was to acquire most of the mineral resources needed to manufacture nanomaterials. Traditional gold, copper, and iron ores were the real target, while sulfur from the northern volcanic region was merely an add-on.

Fortunately, Taipei, Keelung, and Hualien are all places with abundant gold, copper, and iron ore deposits, and even manganese ore. However, compared to those truly rich mines, the reserves of these 4V mines can only be considered barely adequate.

Hualien has a 4V air force base, and it houses F-16A/B fighter jets, not useless F-5E and IDF aircraft.

However, there is a claim that the F-16A/B sold by the United States has serious quality problems, with so many accidents resulting in crashes and fatalities that pilots are unwilling to fly this type of aircraft.

Whether it's true or not is irrelevant to Lin Haiyuan, who controls the flank of Colonia. With the radar system completely offline, those missiles are just like sticks on the racks. As for using cannons to fight the Condors and Pteranodons, it would only be those F-16A/Bs that get blown up. And whether or not 4V pilots are willing to do it is irrelevant.

Those 4V military bureaucrats probably never dreamed that Hualien might be attacked. The army troops deployed in this area are so few that they are basically just airport guards.

After the electronic countermeasures module on the Fengshen transport plane emitted electromagnetic interference, the radar system was completely destroyed in an instant, and the outcome for the 4V army in the Hualien direction was already decided.

After the Stormbringer Air Assault Division captured Hualien with the ferocity of a lion hunting a rabbit, it naturally deployed a large number of terrorist drones, long-range drones, and roadrunner bombs to control the entire city.

Then, Xiao Yuanxun took a Vulture attack aircraft and quickly flew to Hualien County. Under the escort of drones, Xiao Yuanxun, who was very familiar with the underground party's methods, easily found all the underground party members in the city within a few hours.

After being interrogated in solitary confinement, subjected to drugs, and threatened with death, the difference between those underground party members who had become traitors and those who remained loyal quickly became apparent.

The traitor was swiftly executed on the spot, while the loyal underground party members, after being explained to by Xiao Yuanxun, the highest-ranking Communist spy, accepted the existence of Project 9991.

In fact, the ubiquitous drones have forced them to accept them, because they are real and tangible.

After capturing Hualien County, these underground party members used the CCP's old methods to win over the people, holding public trials and other measures. With the help of drones, taking control of the entire Hualien County was not a problem.

Because Fenfeng had always been short of manpower, Lin Haiyuan ordered the underground party members responsible for managing the county through drones to begin open recruitment.

At first, Lin Haiyuan did not intend to recruit soldiers from the local area. He did not trust the local 4V people at all. He knew very well how deep the grudge between the local 4V people and people from other provinces was. All of this was caused by Huashengmi.

First: After the surrender of the old Japanese Empire, it took over 4V and immediately resorted to nepotism to raise the wages of its own people. Locals were laid off for not knowing Mandarin. Even those who were not laid off had lower wages than those from mainland China and enjoyed special benefits. This led to psychological imbalance among the people of 4V in terms of their positions. They were also Chinese, not second-class citizens, and did not want to be second-class citizens. What kind of nonsense was it that people from mainland China were treated as first-class citizens like the Japanese?

Second: The takeover was turned into a "robbery". Under the guise of "cleaning up enemy property", the officials in charge of the takeover wantonly plundered the people's wealth and seized property worth 110 billion old Taiwan dollars, 30% of the houses in various counties and cities and more than 20% of the cultivated land in the province. This can be seen from the two books, "The Inside Story of the 4V Incident" and "Chief Potsdam".

Third: In order to raise food for the civil war, the rice harvest in April 1946 was abundant, but a rice shortage occurred. In just 16 months, the price of rice increased 250 times. It was common for entire families to commit suicide in April because they had no rice to cook. Driven by hunger, men became thieves and robbers, and women became merchants. The number of thieves alone filled the prisons to overflowing, with the number of prisoners exceeding three or four times the normal level.

Fourthly, the GMD's incompetence, corruption, and malfeasance caused the already struggling 4V (Taiwan) to collapse immediately. All industries suffered a recession, and unemployment soared. By the end of 1946, 90% of the state-owned and private factories in 4V had ceased operations, leaving 80 workers unemployed, accounting for more than 10% of the island's population. Furthermore, after 1946, hundreds of thousands of students, veterans, and military dependents returned to 4V from Japan, exacerbating the unemployment problem. Public resentment towards the GMD government reached an unbearable level. Social order was in chaos across the island, with continuous clashes between the military and civilians, rice looting riots, and demonstrations.

Look at this, the hearts of these 4V compatriots have been shattered into pieces by the GMD. Damn, I feel like this life is even worse than being a second-class citizen for the Japanese!

Desperate and enraged, the 4V people naturally triggered the 228 Incident.

Then, what's the problem with the peanut's solution? "Kill the all" eliminates the person who caused the problem, and while the problem seems solved on the surface, it actually sows the seeds of hatred.

After the February 28 Incident was quelled and suppressed, what did the "peanuts" (referring to the Kuomintang) do next? Simply put, it was a "purge" of rural areas.

This is all to turn 4V into a logistics base for a counterattack or something, creating a climate of fear and making everyone live in constant fear of disappearing.

After those who were beaten fled to the 4V (regional communities), the out-of-province people who were brought over inevitably had to compete with the natives for space in the 4V. Coupled with the GMD's unbalanced policies and the resulting monopoly of power, this further intensified the ethnic divisions and provincial antagonism among the people.

Peanut, who wasn't completely dumbfounded, and Chang Ching-kuo, who was smarter than his father, realized the danger and gradually took some appeasement measures. However, the blood debt and the conflict of interests led to hatred of the GMD and hostility towards people from other provinces. Some prominent figures even became hostile to everything related to the GMD, resisting the promotion of Mandarin and insisting on speaking Taiwanese. They even went so far as to use Taiwanese to curse GMD officials at the Li Fa Academy, which was met with applause from the Taiwanese public.

Thus, the era of "ZZMZH" arrived. The 4V separatists used the February 228 Incident to play the victim card, deliberately exacerbating the conflict between Taiwanese and mainlanders, thereby inciting discontent among the 4V people towards the KMT and even the entire mainland.

This was intended to create public support for 4V independence. The main message of these 4V activists' propaganda was: "The GMD came from the mainland to oppress the 4V people, adding endless suffering to them. The CCP is also from the mainland and is no better, so Taiwan must be decided by the 4V people themselves!"

It is worth noting that if the Kuomintang (KMT) had not led his men to learn from their arch-enemy and carry out land reform, expropriating the land of the 4V landlords, fabricating charges to kill more than 10,000 4V landlords, and freeing up enough manpower and land to lay the foundation for the 4V economy to become one of the Four Asian Tigers, then the KMT's governance level would probably not even be as good as those island nations in the South Pacific.

Then there's the ZMD (MZJB) of 4V, whose members are mostly descendants of landlords. Decades later, they launched a counterattack against GMD, which can be considered retribution.

In our view, the CCP and the KMT are enemies with opposing class positions and are not of the same kind. They have been fighting each other for more than ten years. However, from the perspective of some 4V people, the CCP and the KMT are both outsiders.

Then a countercurrent of nostalgia for Japanese rule emerged, not to mention LDHs who claimed to have been Japanese before the age of 20.

This world is a world of comparisons of who's worse, especially when 4VGMD was even worse than the Japanese at that time. It's easy to understand what those with a strong sense of imperialism would think.

However pitiful and lamentable the reasons that led to these people, we should still feel anger and contempt for such traitorous and despicable behavior. Even in the late Qing Dynasty and the MG era, our ancestors understood how extremely despicable and shameful it was to be a "traitor to the Han people."

As for those guys who want to become Japanese, they'd better listen to what the Japanese have to say, and then think about how the Chinese people treat overseas Chinese, green card holders, and people of Chinese descent.

We Japanese have very strict standards for "our own people." They must be genuinely Japanese in terms of bloodline, law, and ability.

Before the author had access to relevant knowledge, he basically treated the above three types of people as potential traitors or foreigners with high noses and big eyes.

Therefore, it is not difficult to arrive at a correct conclusion.

Therefore, when Lin Haiyuan led the Colonia flank headquarters to attack 4V, he only intended to use the local manpower as an add-on. The soldiers he most wanted to recruit were the underground Communist Party members who were still persisting. He would not consider ordinary 4V civilians at all. His soldiers were not valued for their quantity but for their quality, and they were extremely loyal to China, or rather, to the entire Foenwind flank of Colonia.

Lin Haiyuan agreed to the idea of ​​recruiting soldiers from underground party members, but he did not offer much support.

Therefore, when underground party members went to the conscription offices on the streets during their spare time, no one paid any attention to them or even watched them. On the contrary, Lin Haiyuan's actions of taking in homeless people were very effective.

Just as the anti-aircraft infantry consisted of criminals and homeless people, the "largest" personnel in the Foehn Winds are now the homeless and disabled.

The saying "Behind the red gates, meat and wine go to waste, while on the streets, frozen corpses lie" perfectly encapsulates the saying that in later China, such a case would almost certainly be a major event that alarmed the central government. However, in the capitalist system, this phenomenon was far more common.

In modern society, disabled people who need to be supported are equivalent to useless people who cannot work. However, Foehn doesn't think so, because Foehn has other means to give disabled people limbs again.

Those disabled people also deeply understand that once society or no one is willing to support them, it is only a matter of time before they are overwhelmed by the dual pressures of life and psychology.

So Lin Haiyuan gathered the disabled people and homeless people who were missing limbs and suffering from hunger and cold in one area, and he and several underground party members stood on a high platform and watched them.

Lin Haiyuan had his right hand behind his back, holding a microphone in his left hand, his gaze fixed intently on the swaying disabled people and homeless individuals.

"Hello, homeless people and disabled people with missing limbs."

Lin Haiyuan's sound waves were amplified through the loudspeaker, creating a deafening effect.

The confused and bewildered homeless people and disabled people were immediately startled awake by the voice, and looked at him with frightened expressions.

"You trash, look at your stupid, trashy selves!"

Lin Haiyuan shouted a reprimand and observed the reactions of the people below. Some of them immediately became angry, while others remained expressionless, but all of them remained silent.

“Some of you have been so used to being scolded that you’ve become numb and indifferent, while some of you still know how to get angry after being called fools and trash! I can say that all those numb people can just die, you drones!”

Lin Haiyuan shouted, and the drones immediately followed the direction Lin Haiyuan pointed to, targeting the homeless and disabled people who were numb to the insults.

These cold, terrifying drones immediately pinned the people to the ground, placed their claws on their necks, and were ready to decapitate them at any moment.

The long-range drone remained silent; it wasn't time to deploy it yet. But now, faced with the direct threat of death, the expressions of the homeless and disabled people present changed drastically.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

"Please spare me, sir! Please spare me, sir! Just let me go, sir!"

The cries of agony and pleas for mercy continued unabated, but a few men gritted their teeth and remained silent, though their trembling bodies betrayed their fear of the terrifying killing machine.

"Coward! Good-for-nothing! Trash scum who can't even put up a fight."

Lin Haiyuan pointed at the people begging for mercy and cursed them.

Lin Haiyuan forcefully pulled away his right hand that had been pointing at someone, and pointed at the group of men, saying, "Bring them up."

Those men who were pointed at were immediately pinned down by the claws of the terrifying drones. Thinking they were about to be dragged onto the platform for execution, they immediately began to frantically move their hands and feet in an attempt to resist the restraint of the terrifying drones.

Piu!

The stasis rays from behind immediately rendered the resistance of these men futile, and they were then dragged by the terrifying drone and lined up in front of Lin Haiyuan.

In front of Lin Haiyuan, these men's dark eyes revealed their inner resentment, anger, and fear of death.

Good, at least these guys are still alive.

Lin Haiyuan waved his hand, signaling WalkerNet's AI-controlled telescope drone to stop emitting stasis rays.

He bent down and looked at the homeless people and disabled people with missing limbs, their limbs held down by terrifying drones. "Tell me, do you want to die?"

"No, I don't want to die!"

"I don't want to die!"

"I want to live. I'm still young, and I still have dreams to realize!"

Such answers echoed in Lin Haiyuan's ears.

"Then tell me, what are your dreams?"

Lin Haiyuan continued to ask.

"A wife, kids, and a warm bed!"

"I have a beautiful wife and a warm home, plenty to eat, and a decent job!"

"I want a place to stay, I want to have enough to eat every day, and I want to live with dignity like a human being!"

Those people all said roughly the same thing.

"Your dreams are not dreams at all, but basic human needs."

Lin Haiyuan scoffed at these "dreams," saying, "What kind of dreams are these? Your dreams are so shallow that you deserve to be homeless and disabled for the rest of your lives."

"We don't know where our next meal will come from, we can't even get enough to eat, we don't even have a home, we're being evicted from the streets! What more can we ask for!"

A homeless man was shouting at the top of his lungs.

Lin Haiyuan's eyes gleamed with an inexplicable light as he scanned the group. "I can fulfill your dreams of having enough to eat, wear, and have a home, and I can make each of you live like a human being."

"you!"

Lin Haiyuan pointed a finger directly at a disabled person who had lost both legs, "And I can give you back your legs, so you can walk like a normal person, instead of crawling on your knees!"

"And you too!"

Lin Haiyuan pointed at another man who had just mentioned his wife, children, and warm bed: "I can fulfill your wish, but you have to earn it yourself. Those who don't work won't reap the rewards of their labor!"

Another young man being held captive looked up at him and said, "What do you need me to do for you? As long as I can have a home, enough to eat and wear, a wife and children, and live with dignity, I'd be willing to die for you!"

"What you need to do for me is simple: Motherland needs your sacrifices, your labor, your blood, and even your lives! We will not let heroes shed blood and tears. If you die in battle, your family will become martyrs' families, and we will support you. As a martyr, your name and your image will forever be engraved on the monument and respected by all!!!"

"When traveling abroad, no matter where you go, every Chinese person will be treated as an honored guest, not subjected to 'No Chinese or dogs allowed'!!!"

Lin Haiyuan, speaking almost directly to these men who still considered themselves men and wanted to be human rather than animals, spat on their faces, saying, "Are you willing? Are you willing to pay the price, even sacrifice it, for this brighter future?! Are you willing?!"

At this moment, in the eyes of these homeless people and disabled people, Lin Haiyuan's image immediately became incredibly tall, and they even felt that his figure became so dazzling that they could not look directly at him!

The omnipresent spiritual power immediately affected these disabled people and homeless people, and Lin Haiyuan's spiritual power fluctuations became increasingly powerful.