Crossing the Rise of Special Forces

Chapter 211: Shrinking the Front

Everyone present was confused about this meeting. Even Cheng Jun was bewildered and didn't understand what was going on!

"Mr. Cheng, can you tell me what happened?" Fang Tianlong quietly touched Cheng Jun beside him and asked in a low voice.

Song Yunzhong, who was sitting opposite them, also had an expectant look on his face. He stretched his neck and pricked up his ears, wanting to hear what Cheng Jun had to say.

In the end, Cheng Jun didn't say a word! He shook his head helplessly.

"You don't know? What is this commander-in-chief talking about?"

Fang Tianlong glanced around and saw young faces everywhere. There were only a few old people he knew!

But he still saw a familiar figure, Lin Husan was sitting at the back! He lowered his head as if he was afraid of being seen!

"Why is this guy here!" Fang Tianlong asked puzzledly.

"You ask him!" Cheng Jun looked at Song Yunzhong and said.

"Don't look at me! I can't control him!" Song Yunzhong hurriedly said.

"You guys! Just play charades with me!" Fang Tianlong suddenly shouted.

A few people were chatting casually when the guard outside suddenly shouted loudly: "The commander-in-chief is here!"

All of the people present jumped up like springs and stood at attention! Xu Yan was very strict about military discipline and regulations! Fang Tianlong was once punished to stand in a meeting in public!

Xu Yan walked in slowly, stood still, looked around, and waved for everyone to sit down!

"I proposed this meeting today! There are three main topics. The first is to make a notification on the punishment decision for the relevant personnel! The second is to adjust the positions of existing personnel! The third is to adjust the future strategic guidelines!"

After saying this, Xu Yan paused for a moment and looked around again! After a pause, he continued:

"I declare that Vice Prime Minister Ye Fan will concurrently serve as Minister of Border Defense Equipment! And he will join the cabinet!"

After Xu Yan finished speaking, he looked up at the people sitting there, and continued speaking without paying attention to the surprise of everyone present.

"Lin Husan, you left your post without permission during the battle on the front line! You disobeyed your superiors! You had no regard for military discipline! You disregarded the law! Considering that this is your first offense! And there are reasons for it, I will not impose the maximum penalty, but demote you to the position of regiment commander! To see how it goes! The army will be temporarily managed by Song Yunzhong!"

There was another commotion below! Who doesn't know the name of Lin Husan! With his own strength, he led the armored army to attack long distances and saved the crisis on the southern front! Such a hero was just given a chance! He was also someone who was once close to the commander-in-chief, my goodness!

"Third item! I officially announce today that all frontline troops will switch from offense to defense! Shrink the defense line and build strong fortifications on the spot. No attack without orders!"

Before he finished speaking, the conference room exploded! Cheng Jun and others were all confused! Fang Tianlong couldn't help but wanted to stand up, but was stopped by Cheng Jun!

After a while, the noisy sound gradually subsided.

Xu Yan coughed lightly and said to these people: "Everyone! If you have any opinions, just say them directly! Raise them at the meeting! If you don't say anything, it means you have no opinions. After the meeting, they will be implemented immediately without any compromise!"

"I have an opinion! Commander! Shouldn't we be attacking now? The Republic of Texas has declared war on the Japanese! Shouldn't we take this opportunity to launch a counterattack? Why stop! Most of our territory has been occupied! Jiang Chao is still showing signs of surrendering. If we continue to be afraid of fighting, won't this give Japan a chance to catch its breath?" Fang Tianlong said very dissatisfiedly! This war was so frustrating!

"That's right! I can't figure it out either! The Japanese army opposite us has begun to withdraw a large number of troops to join the battle in the south! Now is a good time for us to counterattack!" Song Yunzhong was also very dissatisfied!

Everyone is talking at the same time and the situation is chaotic again!

Xu Yan did not stop the crowd, but leaned back on the chair a little weakly!

"Everyone! Be quiet! I think the commander-in-chief must have his reasons for making such a decision! Stop arguing! Let's listen to the commander-in-chief!" Cheng Jun stood up and said loudly.

Xu Yan threw a gas mask on the table and said slowly, "Everyone knows what this is. Commander Lin Husan was punished this time because of this thing! Commander Song, you know it, right?"

Xu Yan looked at Song Yunzhong and said.

"Report to the commander! I know this! This is the latest gas mask equipped to the front line. Just three days ago, Japan shamelessly launched poison gas bombs at our troops! Because the quality of the gas mask was not up to standard, more than 300 people in our unit died! Commander Lin came back from the front line just for this! He wanted to seek an explanation for his dead brothers!"

"You're right! But the responsibility should ultimately be borne by me!" Xu Yan said with some sadness.

"This is not anyone's fault. This is because our resource reserves have reached the bottom! They are exhausted! This thing is made of rubber! But we don't have rubber! Rubber is produced in the south! Our reserves have long been exhausted! That's why this happened! This is just rubber! Our steel production capacity! The production capacity of various other rare metals! Our food! And so on, etc., we are all gritting our teeth and persisting! Our foundation is too weak! We can't produce high-tech weapons such as airplanes by ourselves, or our production capacity is very low!"

"We currently have 450,000 troops! The cost of maintaining such an army is enormous! It has already dragged down our rear! But we are now surrounded by powerful enemies on all sides! We can't fight anymore! If we continue to fight, our economy and our rear will collapse!"

Xu Yan said earnestly!

"We are not fighting for the sake of fighting! We are fighting to revive our Chinese people! I have decided to shrink the battle line! We will do our best to maintain the existing battle line! We will only maintain the size of the front-line troops, and all the second-line troops will be transferred to the production and construction corps! It is not shameful to show weakness appropriately! We must accumulate strength! Develop our foundation, otherwise we are now like a castle in the air! If the foundation is unstable, no matter how well it is built, it will be unstable! It will collapse sooner or later!"

Everyone was silent, thinking about Xu Yan's words in their hearts! Because this concerned each and every one of them!

"We need to formulate a thorough development plan! With a five-year cycle! We need to vigorously develop our basic industries and agriculture! These are the 150 categories I listed! We need to concentrate our efforts on conquering these categories in the shortest possible time! This places higher demands on our scientific research departments, industrial departments, and equipment departments!"

"In a word, we can act a little timid to the outside world! We need to accumulate strength! When we return to the world stage, we must defeat all the enemies in front of us in one fell swoop!"