Chapter 1022 The Youngest General

Li Zhi was a very young and confident man, his confidence stemming from his high education and vast knowledge reserves.

He was once a top student at a military academy. Upon graduation, he was recognized by higher-ups for his outstanding performance in war theory knowledge assessment, ranking first and being sent to various Western military academies for exchange and study.

Whether at home or abroad, his grades were always top-notch. In numerous simulated command operations, the legion commanded by Li Zhi had a win rate of over 85%!

This was an incredibly terrifying statistic.

Such achievements allowed him to be rapidly promoted after completing his studies and returning to China. Starting as a major, he soared all the way to the rank of general in less than eight years, taking the position of deputy chief of the Northern Military Region, rightfully becoming the second-in-command.

That year, Li Zhi was only twenty-nine years old!

He was the youngest general since the founding of the Federation!

Perhaps it was precisely such brilliant and dazzling achievements that cultivated Li Zhi's confident, almost arrogant personality.

After becoming the deputy chief of the Northern Military Region, although his status was very high, he had very little substantive power in his hands, and his prestige in the military was far inferior to that of Chief Chen Qiong.

The reason was simple: although his grades were outstanding, he had no battle achievements and no experience in commanding substantive wars!

In the military, a place that values battle records, you cannot gain recognition with just a pretty resume and education from school if you don't have any impressive achievements to show.

Over time, Li Zhi began to feel that those subordinates and soldiers who were usually respectful to him on the surface were actually mocking and ridiculing him behind his back.

Why could a civil official without any battle achievements be promoted so quickly in such a short period of time?

He just has a slightly better resume, just a bookworm who only knows how to talk about war on paper...

Some rumors reached his ears, making him unable to calm down. He began to feel angry, he wanted to find an opportunity to prove himself, to make his position worthy of its name!

He repeatedly requested Chen Qiong to give him the freedom to command some military operations.

But each time he was rejected by Chen Qiong.

And the reason was... Chen Qiong hoped that he could continue to calm down and learn by his side. When the time was right, when Li Zhi was fully capable of standing alone, he would give Li Zhi enough opportunities to perform.

Such a reason could hold the situation once or twice, but after a long time, Li Zhi began to be unable to accept it.

He believed that he was mature enough and capable enough, and countless previous simulated command operations had proven his strength.

In this situation, Li Zhi began to suspect Chen Qiong's true intentions.

Chen Qiong had been unwilling to give himself command, was he afraid that his performance would be too outstanding, which would make Chen Qiong feel threatened?

Was Chen Qiong... suppressing himself by controlling military power?

Once such an idea was born, it quickly took root, sprouted, and grew like a sinful flower, and could no longer be removed.

And Li Zhi's attitude towards Chen Qiong also began to change, no longer treating him as his teacher and superior, but instead vaguely treating him as an opponent and enemy!

It was under the guidance of this idea that when Li Zhi heard that Chen Qiong and Zhang Shoucheng were violating the Supreme Leader's orders and privately leading air force troops to support Kuangxi Island, he was overjoyed, unable to suppress the excitement and joy in his heart, and believed that his opportunity had finally come. He could finally overturn the heavy shadow that had been pressing on his head and had a chance to get ahead!

Therefore, when facing the Supreme Leader's questioning from the other four major powers regarding the unauthorized deployment of troops to support Kuangxi Island, Li Zhi said that Chen Qiong and Zhang Shoucheng should be dealt with according to military law, and claimed that his command ability was not weaker than Chen Qiong, recommending himself.

Although the Supreme Leader did not adopt Li Zhi's "military law" plan against Chen Qiong and Zhang Shoucheng, he adopted another of his suggestions, allowing him to successfully take over Chen Qiong's position and completely become the person in power in the Northern Military Region.

At this time, Li Zhi was high-spirited. He completely controlled the Northern Military Region, had the greatest autonomy in command, and was even more eager to achieve his own battle achievements!

Although the Northern Theater did not receive the task of attacking the Trilateral Tower together with the Allied Forces, guarding the frontier defense line was also an excellent choice to prove his strength.

In this war, it was almost foreseeable that the Ancient Civilization would definitely invade the weak human defense line.

The war on the border would not be much easier than that at the Trilateral Tower!

"Please rest assured, with me here... the human defense line will be as solid as a rock! I will make all invading enemies vanish into thin air!" Li Zhi stood up straight and said loudly.

The Supreme Leader glanced around the generals in the command room, said nothing more, but nodded and said, "We set off! Immediately arrive at your respective combat posts!"

...

The location of the Trilateral Tower on Blue Star was in an area called the Gulun Noah Desert. It was not within the human defense circle, but in the territory of a country that had perished in southeastern Africa.

In this desert, in addition to the Trilateral Tower, there were also some huge, oddly shaped sphinxes, but they were clearly not made by the Ancient Civilization. They had long been worn away by the dust of history, and now only a rough shape remained.

These were built by the ancient Egyptians who lived in this land.

The ancient Egyptians lived here. Once uneducated, they had a strange worship for the Trilateral Tower that had always existed in this desert. They relied on the shape and style of the Trilateral Tower to create a large number of pyramids, which they used as tombs for rulers, and built many sphinxes as guards.

They piously believed in this Trilateral Tower, regarding it as the divine building of their country, but it was clear that the gods believed in by the ancient Egyptians did not protect them from this disaster.

During the period when sea beasts ran rampant, ancient Egypt had already become a ruin.

"Ahead... about to arrive at the Gulun Noah Desert!"

Roaring warplanes swept across the sky.

The vanguard of the Human Allied Forces had arrived in ancient Egypt. At this time, the Trilateral Tower was less than five hundred kilometers away from them.

Satellite exploration equipment was activated, and various unmanned reconnaissance aircraft began to enter the desert like swarms of bees.

"Detected huge energy fluctuations ahead!"

Soon, the satellite exploration equipment sent back signals, indicating that there were a large number of terrifying life energy fluctuations in the area centered on the Trilateral Tower!

The photos fed back by the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft were transmitted to Li Tianran.

Li Tianran sat in the Kunlun mega-ship, looking at the photos in his hand.

At this time, in the Gulun Noah Desert, there were not only one tall miracle building, but three!

And in front of these three miracle buildings, countless sea beasts, mutant beasts, and subordinate sequence followers formed a vast ocean!

"Bronze Palace, Babel Tower..." Li Tianran squinted his eyes, looked at the other two miracle buildings on the photo that formed a tripod with the Trilateral Tower, and said softly, "Wind Apostle and Night Apostle, only these two groups have been dispatched?"

"Two apostles, can they stop me?!" Li Tianran laughed, pointed ahead, and said, "Notify, advance at full speed for three hundred kilometers..."

"Artillery fire covers the entire battlefield!"