Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1034 - 402: The Flesh Grinder

After returning to Starfire Town, Ren Zhong first gathered the senior executives under the group and issued a full military mobilization order to them.

After three years of war, the backbone of the current Starfire Army has long been professional soldiers seasoned by countless battles.

For three years, they have either been fighting or preparing for war, becoming entirely accustomed to this way of living.

A month has already passed since the last major battle; it should have been a good time for rest and recovery, but the warriors were uncomfortable with their idle time.

Once the order was issued, the warriors immediately ended their respective vacations, returned to their posts, and resumed intense training.

After three years of evolution, the organizational structure of the Starfire Army is no longer the flat First and Second Army... Nth Army system but has become a more clearly defined institution.

The Starfire Army is composed of five major branches: the Missile Army, Army, Air Force, Navy, and the gradually forming Space Army.

Among them, the Army has the largest number of personnel, with standard equipment featuring various armored vehicles, humanoid armor, and various medium- and short-range firearms.

Distinguished by function, armored vehicles include logistical types, medium-range heavy artillery types, and comprehensive close combat light weapon types. Differentiated by power source, they are divided into internal combustion engine off-road types, hybrid power systems of internal combustion engines and battery function packs, and pure battery-powered types. By mode of transport, they include anti-gravity near-ground medium-speed flight types, purely ground-based wheeled and tracked propulsion types, and dual-capability ground and low-altitude flying types.

As for humanoid armor, it retains the standard Professional System from the past Source Star, mainly due to the high technological content of the armor and the extensive use of interstellar trade components. The Ren Corporation does not have the capability to develop armor from scratch and must rely on Source Star Military Industry.

Various firearms, however, were developed into a plethora of innovative designs, including ultra-high rate of fire short-range rapid-fire machine guns, long-range guided module-equipped single-shot slow-loading heavy sniper rifles with a range of tens of kilometers, and medium-range sniper energy cannons based on the principle of the Hunter main cannon.

Additionally, the air force of the Starfire Army is vastly different from before. When it was first established, the air force had only a few dozen "salute" Viper Fighters personally designed by Ren Zhong, powered by medium engines and anti-gravity engines. Today, with support from Purple Crystal Mining and Source Star Military Industry, the Viper Fighters have undergone multiple iterations, resulting in various models. For example, the Viper C model emphasizes long endurance, the J model focuses on air combat capabilities, the H model targets ground attacks, and the B model adapts to various combat situations. Different models are further divided into first, second, and third generations, with the J fighter already evolving to the fifth generation. Each generation's upgrades include aspects such as equipment carrying capacity, engine power and stability, fuselage materials, aerodynamic structure, and internal piping performance.

As for the Navy, it was a new type of unit that Ren Zhong began forming after taking over a coastal town from Tang Xiangyun, primarily focusing on multi-functional submarines with hardly any surface vessels. Ren Zhong initially faced opposition from Ying Hao when forming the Navy, but he convinced Ying Hao by stating his intent to enter the maritime transport field and needing naval defense forces, receiving appropriate support.

After three years of operation, the current Navy boasts over three hundred submarines, with displacement ranging from 80,000 tons to 5,000 tons. These submarines are not merely lurking assassins but multi-functional war machines capable of adapting to the complex and ruined-beast-filled underwater environment.

The Navy possesses ultra-long-range destructive capabilities similar to the Missile Army, as well as the ability to silently complete personnel deployment.

The Missile Army is simpler; as the name suggests, it is designed for medium, long-range, and ultra-long-range destructive power, with a variety of base models, including mobile missile vehicles, underground missile bases, open-air missile bases, and underwater missile bases.

The Space Army is only in its infancy and is entirely confidential to the outside world, composed of Astros that ostensibly serve the revival plan but are actually equipped with destructive modules.

Ren Zhong's planning for the military is always one step ahead of everyone else, making it difficult for others to keep pace with his rhythm.

But no one knows that Ren Zhong actually has another underground force.

A genuinely underground one.

All the desolate people he rescued from all over the world as a survey officer live underground.

Of course, these individuals did not live a life devoid of daylight. Ren Zhong invested heavily and expended substantial resources to build a gigantic three-dimensional Underground City.

Nearly two hundred million people live under the illumination of a simulated sun.

Ren Zhong even modified the spectrum of this simulated sun. Within a short time, plants in the Underground City "mutated" and turned green again.

Subsequently, newly converted botanists began to spread these green plants extensively, even making the living environment in the Underground City more habitable.

Numerous trusted high-ranking surface managers liked to take vacations in the Underground City, occasionally providing various professional training to its residents.

Among the two hundred million underground residents, as many as ten million have passed the Professional certification. Although they cannot train or gain combat experience on the surface, this group of people abandoned by the Association bears deep hatred and possesses strong combat will.

When the time is right, releasing these ten million will immediately produce a powerful new military force. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Time flew by, and two months later, Ying Hao officially declared war on the Mengdu Group.

Ying Hao's declaration of war instantly shook Source Star.

Whether the Elder Council or the upper-level members of the other Nine Major Groups spoke out in an attempt to dissuade him, expressing confusion about the purpose of such a war on the eve of a great migration.

Ying Hao ignored everyone and assembled his privately expanded army over two hundred years, launching attacks on Mengdu Group-related institutions on all planets and major settlements with overwhelming force.

Ren Zhong, who had never grasped Ying Hao's true trump card, was quite surprised this time.

As it turns out, Ying Hao had been continually sending Professionals to his secret base for freezing and quietly accumulating equipment.

Once the dagger was revealed from the map, it appeared as a massive army of Professionals totaling three hundred million people.

Throughout the lengthy process of over two hundred years, an average of 1.5 million people were absorbed each year, accumulating equipment for 1.5 million people. Ying Hao had nearly 150 million warriors on Source Star alone, with fifty million more in various settlements on other planets.

As for Ren Zhong, he seamlessly joined Ying Hao's enormous army with his own twenty million troops and all subordinates.

Moreover, Ren Zhong was appointed as the chief military advisor, able to have a decisive influence on Ying Hao's decision-making.

Ren Zhong knows this still isn't Ying Hao's trump card.

Currently, he is still hiding the Star System Level Main Cannon, a supermassive weapon.

Despite such a fierce offensive, the Mengdu Group did not panic.

Hewitt immediately activated the Puppet Plan, using a highly addictive Special Anti-Aging Potion to form alliances and isolate Ying Hao's Source Star Military Industry Group within the Nine Major Enterprises and the Association's Elder Council.

At the same time, the Mengdu Group also deployed a large army of Armored Soldiers and immediately activated the Legion Beasts distributed worldwide on Source Star. The previously independent Ruined Beasts on Source Star became the Mengdu Group's minions, at least balancing out the differences in numbers.

Ruined Beasts originally matched human strength on Source Star, and with a commander, they certainly cannot be underestimated.

Before the war had fully commenced, Ren Zhong glimpsed a massive, bleeding meat grinder in the making.