vrcanaries Chapter 112 1 is on the verge of collapse
Chapter 112 1 is on the verge of collapse
That night, the moon had its own light.
People looked up at the sky, staring in astonishment at the scene.
The lunar base was bombed.
The scene of the three fleets destroying the Gabriel cannon was captured by Lin Xuan using the Reach Star space station in space and broadcast to the world.
As if afraid that people wouldn't be able to see it clearly, he also gave a close-up of the destroyed lunar base.
At this point, the location that was originally the lunar base is now completely empty, with only a large crater remaining.
Countless lunar rocks, blasted away, exhausted their full speed but still failed to reach the moon's escape velocity, and fell back to the ground, forming a meteor shower.
People watched the images transmitted back from Reach in silence for a long time.
Their feelings at this moment are complex, and more than anything, they are confused about the future.
With the PDC losing and the Gabriel cannon gone, it has become almost impossible for the PDC to use other means to restrict the three fleets.
It's a foregone conclusion that the three fleets will break free from Earth's control; whether they actually do so is only a matter of time.
Nobody knows whether doing this is good or bad.
After all, although the PDC has been plagued by civil war for more than a decade, it has indeed gradually led humanity toward unification.
Now, the era of the PDC has ended, and no one knows who the next ruler will be, let alone what fate humanity will face next.
At this moment, the shock value that all of humanity had given Lin Xuan had exceeded 100 million. Adding the shock value that she had been saving up, Lin Xuan now had a terrifying amount of several billion shock value.
He can now exchange for almost all items from level 1 civilizations.
Even some items from the early stages of pseudo-Level 2 civilizations are within his exchange range.
For example, the warp drive spaceship Star Ring that appears in the original work, and the antimatter bullet that Thomas Wade once developed, capable of destroying a space city.
However, Lin Xuan was not in a hurry to redeem them now. He had been saving these shock points for a big use later.
Inside the underground city.
Watching the video of the lunar base being destroyed, the representatives from various countries at the PDC felt as if their hearts had stopped for a second.
Regardless of whether Lin Xuan ultimately becomes the next ruler of Earth, the PDC has already lost.
This organization, which has existed for more than 20 years, has finally come to an end today.
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Meanwhile, the ground forces' counterattack was still ongoing.
After being decimated by the clone army in urban warfare, they gradually learned from their mistakes and switched to using large-scale mechanized forces for fire suppression.
When poor, use tactical infiltration; when rich, use artillery fire to bombard the ground.
Since we can't engage in a direct confrontation, I'll learn from the US and use all sorts of high-tech weapons to suppress your firepower. They won't believe that a clone army can survive such a concentrated attack without suffering casualties.
It would have been better if they hadn't used it; the nightmare for the ground troops only truly began after they started using it.
With the combined efforts of the two major artificial intelligences, Zhizi and Chengxing, all drone units, tank units, missile vehicle units, and control systems were hacked and began indiscriminately bombing their own people.
Because sophons cannot directly affect the operating system, since they can only intervene in the microscopic world.
However, things are completely different when Cheng Xing is involved. Zhi Zi is responsible for providing the information she has collected, while Cheng Xing is responsible for hacking into their control system and directly causing them to betray them on the spot again.
What were originally fully automated high-tech weapons have now become the biggest hidden danger for ground troops.
Fortunately, after they switched the automatic operating systems of these weapons to manual lever mode, Zhi Zi and Cheng Xing were powerless to do anything about it.
Before the ground troops could even celebrate for a few minutes, reinforcements from the Space Force arrived.
Previously, in order to deal with the Trisolarans, the Space Force was composed of the elite of the army, navy and air force, and they possessed the best weapons among the army, navy and air force.
With these space forces joining the battlefield, ground troops began to show signs of fatigue, whether in terms of heavy firepower or individual combat.
In response to these space forces reinforcing the ground from space, ground troops have even begun to use depleted uranium munitions without regard for military ethics.
Depleted uranium (DU) rounds are a type of subnuclear weapon, consisting of artillery shells and bullets made primarily from hard alloys of uranium-238. Their working principle is the same as that of ordinary armor-piercing rounds, utilizing the high hardness, high specific gravity, and high melting point of DU alloys to penetrate targets using kinetic energy. They are primarily used to destroy armored targets such as tanks.
Like nuclear weapons, this subnuclear weapon also contains highly radioactive elements, which will cause serious radiation damage to humans, animals and plants.
Upon discovering this, the Space Force decisively withdrew its lines slightly, allowing the clone troops to advance first in order to deplete the depleted uranium munitions.
They now finally understand how wise Lin Xuan's decision was to have the clone army destroy all the missile bases first.
If these ground forces still possessed nuclear weapons, they would probably not hesitate to press the launch button for nuclear missiles in order to deal with the Space Force.
This war has gradually begun to deviate from its original purpose.
Initially, the ground troops were under the command of the PDC, which is why they engaged in battle with Lin Xuan's forces. Now, however, they are more afraid of dying.
Especially the officers of the ground forces.
They had all worked for PDC and naturally had done their fair share of heinous things.
It can be said that at least half of the resentment of the grassroots people towards the PDC is caused by the violent law enforcement by these officers and soldiers.
So they were afraid of dying, afraid that if the PDC really lost, they would all be sent to military court for trial.
This has led to the situation where, even though the PDC is now defunct, they are still stubbornly resisting.
Those who don't know the situation might think these guys are so devoted to the former PDC that they'd rather die than surrender.
In reality, it's simply because they have something to hide.
Those who truly had a clear conscience surrendered the moment they saw the lunar base being bombed.
Lin Xuan didn't make things difficult for these people. After the Space Force disarmed them, she planned to let them leave.
As a result, this group of people not only refused to leave, but also hoped to join the Space Force and fight against the remnants of the PDC together.
Then the absurd thing happened.
Initially, Lin Xuan commanded a total of approximately 200 million clone troops, distributed around the world.
The Space Force has fewer than 50,000 personnel, and that's only after the three major fleets brought in additional personnel via space elevators.
However, by the third day, Lin Xuan's space force had expanded to 3, and nearly 12 ground troops had chosen to surrender, with 8% of them willing to join Lin Xuan and the three fleets.
The battle was so fierce that Lin Xuan was completely stunned. Their side had more and more people fighting, while the opposing side had fewer and fewer.
By the 15th day, even more people had joined Lin Xuan's side, making up almost half of the total ground troops.
Meanwhile, more and more negative news about the PDC was exposed by these surrendering officers.
People then realized just how many evil deeds PDC had committed over the past decade.
It can be said that the PDC was indeed working towards building a space force at the beginning, but it completely changed its purpose in the later stages.
Especially during the period when people condemned the immortals, the PDC's power reached an unprecedented peak.
The direct result of this was that PDC officials became virtually lawless, and serious corruption began to emerge from top to bottom.
The news reports that Lin Xuan previously published, taken out of context, were even a bit too conservative; the actual situation in PDC was even worse.
In that era when everyone was starving, some PDC officials not only ate lavish meals every day, but also sold large quantities of disaster relief grain to the lower classes at high prices.
Of course, in the event of an economic collapse, what these officials want is not money, but people.
Those with daughters could sell them to exchange for food, while those with sons could use the money to supplement the army's losses and fill the gaps in construction workers.
To be honest, this whole thing comes back to the US.
At the time, the United States wanted to take advantage of this period of great downturn to completely annex the surrounding countries and make itself the world's number one superpower, so it greatly expanded the size of its military.
But the middle-level officials aren't stupid. If you, a bunch of upper-level officials, want to fight a war, then it's still us, the officers and middle-level backbone, who will go to the battlefield.
Therefore, we need a way to complete the tasks assigned from above without breaking out into war.
Then they came up with a very outrageous and bizarre idea—to borrow the army.
That's right, it's borrowing.
They first reported the expansion of the army to their superiors and asked for military subsidies. Then they seized a group of people from the grassroots and sent them to the army to fill the gaps.
In reality, they didn't provide any training to the captured civilians at all; the military funds were all pocketed by their mid-level officers, meaning they made money from both ends.
The result is that, for some reason, the higher-ups have found their army to have become so weak that sometimes they can't even defeat some African countries.
But they all assumed it was because the soldiers were weary of war during a period of great decline, never suspecting that it was corruption among the middle ranks that had ruined them.
Now, Lin Xuan has begun to launch an attack on PDC.
Within 15 days, almost all of the American troops surrendered, accounting for one-third of the total number of surrendered troops in the PDC. At this point, a group of American officials realized that they had been tricked.
With the war having progressed to this point, the outcome was essentially already predetermined.
Especially after the PDC lost its mass base, the defeat of the remnants became even more obvious.
In many cities, the people even formed their own militia groups, using shovels, spades, and other cold weapons to fight against the retreating PDC troops.
In an instant, those remnants of the regime became like rats crossing the street, becoming enemies of all mankind.
The counterattack ended completely on the 18th day, with the remaining PDC forces wiped out... But that's not entirely accurate, because actually, not many people died in the entire campaign.
The PDC forces collapsed almost immediately, and the speed of their surrender even left the person responsible for writing the press release somewhat bewildered.
Day 15 of the battle: Lin Xuan, the traitor to humanity, and his rebel army march from Berlin into Poland.
Day 16 of the battle: Lin Xuan's army has captured the port, and our brave soldiers are fighting back fiercely.
Day 17 of the battle: Wallfacer Lin Xuan is about to capture the last PDC territory.
Day 18 of the battle: The great leader, Lin Xuan, the messenger sent by heaven, is leading his legion to complete the liberation of mankind and save us from our suffering.
Lin Xuan did not go on a killing spree. After all, he saw no point in human civil war. The decline of the PDC was only a matter of time, and he had only slightly turned the clock of history.
On the 20th day, PDC completely disappeared from the world, and humanity will remember this era.