Chapter 249: Opening the Warehouse and Releasing Grain
The commander of the fortress was killed, the elite troops were wiped out, and there were only a few thousand regular troops left in the entire Chuancheng Fortress, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled. Of course, there were also a large number of slave owners, slave hunters, arms dealers, smugglers and other small groups with armed forces in Chuancheng Fortress, adding up to tens of thousands of people. However, when facing the insect cavalry of the Dawn Fortress, these people had no power to fight at all and were easily wiped out.
At the same time, a large number of people who served as guards for these merchants or slave owners took the lead in surrendering to the insect cavalry of Dawn Fortress. The reason why these people became guards was mainly to make a living. After seeing those powerful flying insects and mutant cavalry, they immediately lost the idea of resistance.
They had heard of Dawn Fortress and Richemont a long time ago, and understood deeply that these mutants had a blood feud with the slave owners. If they were stubborn and refused to change their ways, their final fate would be to become food for insects.
Previously, the legends about Richemont and Dawn Fortress had been circulating throughout the Chuancheng Fortress. People originally thought that those were just rumors, and as long as Xu Hao and his Chuancheng Fortress army arrived, they would be able to capture those mutants immediately. But when Richemont and his insect cavalry appeared, everyone understood that the rumors were true! Xu Hao, such a powerful existence, and the tens of thousands of elite soldiers he led were killed just like that! You know, that was an armored group army with a large number of cyborg warriors, and fully armored!
For a time, in the entire Chuancheng Fortress, almost no one dared to resist, except for those slave owners and modified humans who knew that they had blood on their hands and would not be let off, and some soldiers who were loyal to Xu Hao.
On the contrary, many poor people living in the outer and middle areas of Chuancheng Fortress warmly welcomed the warriors of Dawn Fortress. According to the rumors about Dawn Fortress, since their cooperation with the Zerg is true, it is also true that they can feed their men. For these ant-like low-level people who struggle on the verge of death every day and can do anything for preserved fruits, it doesn’t matter what race they cooperate with. What matters is that they have food to eat, even if they are only half full, as long as they don’t starve to death!
After only half an hour, there were only dozens of small firepower points still resisting in Chuancheng Fortress. All of these firepower points were slave owners or slave hunters with a certain reputation and status, and some were cyborg officers and soldiers who stayed in Chuancheng Fortress. They had always heard about the style of Dawn Fortress. Cyborgs and slave hunters would have no chance of survival if they met these Dawn Party members!
The places where these people were stationed were generally small bunkers or shelters, which were easy to defend but difficult to attack. For a time, most of them resisted the first wave of attacks from the Insect Cavalry and remained in a stalemate.
Lifeng did not rush to help his men destroy these fortresses, but directly ordered to distribute weapons to the mutants and original slaves who had just been rescued, and let them join the battle. Nearly 10,000 mutant slaves and tens of thousands of original slaves who had just been liberated in the entire Chuancheng Fortress immediately received weapons and joined the battle with excitement.
The reason for doing this is to allow those who have just been liberated to quickly regain their confidence and integrate into the new Dawn Fortress. Moreover, this kind of battle against the enemy can also slightly calm the anger and hatred in their hearts, so as not to be suppressed for too long and become mentally abnormal.
As expected, after these mutants got the weapons, they immediately started fighting frantically. Some mutants even didn't care about their own injuries and just wanted to tear the enemies hiding behind the fortress into pieces.
This also shows from the side how these poor slaves had been subjected to inhumane abuse! The kind of life worse than death and more miserable than hell almost drove them crazy!
The final result was that all the fortresses of resistance were broken within an hour, and those guys who used to be domineering and treated people like pigs and dogs by relying on their power even had their hearts and livers dug out by some crazy slaves and then fried and eaten!
"Head of State, the last stronghold has been breached." Luo Tian reported to Li Feng in the Chuancheng Fortress Headquarters which originally belonged to Xu Hao.
"Very good, hang the heads of all the resisters and cyborgs on the city gates, and then... open the warehouses and release the grain." Li Feng said expressionlessly while playing with an egg-sized diamond taken out of Xu Hao's safe.
"Yes." Luo Tian took the order and left.
After Luo Tian left, Li Feng sighed and threw the diamond on the table. He did this not because he was cruel, but because only in this way could he quickly shock the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Chuancheng Fortress and make them understand Li Feng's determination. After all, the Chuancheng Fortress had been in Xu Hao's hands for so long, and had always adopted a slavery policy. It was indeed difficult to change people's ideas overnight.
Otherwise, if so many people really get into chaos, even if Lifeng can kill them all, what's the point of having an empty city? The early stage of the apocalypse has passed, and now the entire human civilization has gradually declined. The Zerg has risen, and the Orcs and zombies are all extremely mysterious. For humans, the most humble thing may be human life, and the most precious thing has become population.
The policy of stick and carrot is always the most effective.
When the heads of the slave owners and modified humans were hung on the city gates, when the huge granary in Chuancheng Fortress, which was enough to feed a million people for ten years, was opened, and when a steady supply of food was transported out of the granary and distributed to the people in the outer areas who had been struggling on the brink of starvation, the entire Chuancheng Fortress was stabilized in less than an hour.
In a fortress, in a society, the people with the most people are always the lowest class. The entire Chuancheng Fortress has nearly one million people, of which 800,000 are refugees from other areas. These people usually rely on the little rations given by Xu Hao to survive, and almost all of them are starving. The recent situation is ten times worse than the last time Li Feng came to Chuancheng Fortress.
Hungry, so hungry. Many hungry people ate until they died after getting more food than they ever thought possible. But even if they died of overeating, they still had happy smiles in their eyes before they died...
The occurrence of this incident immediately caused the mutant officer in charge of food distribution to change his strategy. He first distributed enough rations for one meal to each person, and then gradually distributed larger amounts of food after people had freed themselves from the fear of hunger.
Survival is always the most important thing in the end times, and food represents survival. If you can survive, there is hope. Therefore, the entire Chuancheng Fortress quickly became orderly and extremely stable.
Except for a few former dignitaries who used to live in the inner area, 99% of the people are satisfied with the current situation. You know, Richemont not only brought them food, but also brought them dignity.
Moreover, Richemont’s promise to develop superpowers made everyone almost crazy!
For those primitive people, when they heard the news, it was impossible not to go crazy. The power of supernatural powers was too tempting! Strength and food both represent survival, and strength is completely in the first place!
By night, the atmosphere of the entire Chuancheng Fortress had been completely changed. Teams of mutant warriors patrolled the streets, and air cavalry hovered in the sky for alert. There would be no more secret killings. All criminals would be punished immediately - their heads would be hung on the city gates after being beheaded - all of this made everyone feel safe for the first time. Many people slept soundly for the first time in a long time.
However, Li Feng turned a deaf ear to all this. At this moment, his attention was completely attracted by something else.
In Xu Hao's headquarters, Li Feng found a huge black human head statue several meters high in a dark room!
