Chapter 274 War Council

The battle between Roland and Locke is over.

Apart from sensing the huge energy fluctuations that erupted at Locke's residence, outsiders did not know the entire process of the battle.

The only thing they knew was that Roland, whose clothes were not damaged at all, walked out of Locke's house calmly, and after Locke announced that he would give up the leadership position, he closed the door and stopped meeting with anyone.

Roland won, which meant the last obstacle to a coup to seize power had disappeared.

Roland sat in the temporary command center, directing the Border Area Faction to conduct a thorough purge of all local faction members in Black Rock City.

All local faction members who were qualified to participate in the parliament, as well as their cronies and relatives, were executed, and ordinary soldiers were disbanded and imprisoned.

Roland had only one attitude towards the top leaders of the local faction: he would rather kill the wrong ones than let any of them go.

If we don't kill them now that we have a huge advantage, do we have to wait for them to escape back to their own territory and then organize an army to fight Roland?

Under Roland's ruthless attitude, extraordinary wars broke out in various parts of Black Rock City, with extraordinary people fighting each other.

The border faction, which had been well prepared, naturally had an absolute advantage, not to mention that Roland was still here. Once they encountered extraordinary people from the local faction that were difficult to deal with, Roland would kill them.

"boom."

Before he could dodge, a four-ring knight was hit by Roland's spell and knocked directly to the ground.

He coughed a few times, raised his head, and looked at the extraordinary people from the border area who were besieging him, and Roland who was calmly looking at him in mid-air.

"puff."

He spat out a few mouthfuls of blood and roared tremblingly.

"Shouldn't you all be on the front lines? You spoke so high-soundingly, but in the end, you called back the troops from the front lines just to fight for power. What qualifications do you have to criticize us?"

"What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson? The resistance army is carried by us everywhere. Go ahead and stir things up! The soldiers on the front line will lose their supplies and suffer a defeat. The front line will be in ruins, and the green tide will come and destroy the entire resistance army."

"So much nonsense."

Listening to his dog barking, Roland calmly put down the spell in his hand and said lightly.

As the dazzling spell exploded before his eyes, the extraordinary person in the hole in the ground uttered his last words.

"I'm waiting. You will all die at the hands of Green Tide!"

Roland ignored his incompetent curse, looked up at the stalemate on the other side of the city, and rushed over with the extraordinary person beside him.

Since Roland dared to ask the border area to recall the troops and extraordinary people from the front line, he must have his reasons.

Of course, Roland did not intend to give up the front line. In fact, after getting in touch with the border faction through Odin, Roland shared the information about meal-making techniques with them.

At Roland's request, the soldiers sent from the frontier areas, after receiving the information, worked day and night to squeeze the vitality of the border land.

Under the pressure of exhausting all resources, the material and vitality of the front-line land were completely squeezed out, turning it into a barren and lifeless dead land. The dead land is not a good place for any living thing to move around, even for the green-skinned orcs. If they dare to enter the dead land, the dead land will drain their vitality.

Although the dead zone will actively absorb nearby vitality to slowly recover, as long as the front line continues to extract vitality, the area of ​​the dead zone will not decrease.

The long dead zone became the best line of defense against the green tide. It was also because of the dead zone defense line that most of the front-line troops and extraordinary people were able to withdraw.

In addition, after creating a long dead zone, the front line also accumulated a huge amount of food. A small amount of it would be enough to support the front line for several years, and the remaining food would be enough to support the border area faction to fight a full-scale civil war for three or four years.

As for weapons and equipment, most of the rebels' weapons and equipment come from the territories of the border faction members. As long as there are enough raw materials, various weapons and equipment can be continuously provided.

As for what to do with the raw materials, there are many mines in the territories of warlords annexed by Jiuqixin.

Roland had previously offered various conditions to lure local people to come and open mines, just for the present moment.

The border area faction had long been prepared for a three-year all-out civil war. So, were the local factions ready?

Unfortunately, no.

Compared to the Border Area Faction, which is relatively united and connected with Roland, the local faction was originally united to deal with the Border Area Faction. It can be said that it is a mess internally, and there is no one who can have the final say and lead the actions of the entire local faction.

Just like the current situation in Black Rock City, even if the border faction drew their butcher knives and wanted to kill all the local factions in the city, the members of the local factions had never thought of gathering together to resist, and each of them only wanted to save their own lives.

Even among the few local factions that united, there were intrigues among them, and quite a few of them simply sold out their teammates and ran away.

Even when they were forced into a corner, the local factions were very cautious in joining forces because there was no basis for trust.
It was precisely because the local faction was in disarray that the border faction's cleansing was carried out much faster than expected.

It didn't take a day for Roland to capture all the high-level officials sent by the local authorities to attend the meeting in Black Rock City. They were all killed without a single one left alive.

After finishing the cleansing of Black Rock City, Roland also summoned members of the Border Area Faction and held a small meeting together.

Since Roland had already made an agreement with the top leaders of the Border Area Faction in advance, the other members of the Border Area Faction who attended the meeting were surprised, but in view of the guarantee from the top leaders and Roland's usual performance, they all acquiesced.

So, after the small meeting, the border area faction quickly reached a consensus.

Abolish all promises made by the Locke rebels, abolish the administrative autonomy system, re-plan all territories, including those controlled by the border factions, and re-plan the administrative system to be used in the future. For now, military control will be imposed on all territories.

Abolish the chaotic military system, prohibit anyone from recruiting soldiers at will, compulsorily purchase all weapons and equipment, restrict export flows, and at the same time, reorganize the army. The future military system is yet to be determined, and Roland is currently in unified command and leadership.

A comprehensive martial law order was issued, blocking all channels of communication between the rebels and the outside world, and at the same time, strictly restricting population movement.

A food restriction order was issued, prohibiting all food price increases. At the same time, reserve food was mobilized to stabilize food prices, limiting the amount each person could purchase to ensure that large-scale famine would not occur.

At the same time, all merchants were warned that any merchant who sold grain at a price higher than the restriction order would be executed and all his property would be confiscated if he was found.

In addition, the most important point is to disband the Locke Rebellion, establish a War Committee to replace it, and Roland will serve as the interim chairman.

(End of this chapter)