Chapter 74 Emergency Evacuation

Due to the immense military pressure exerted on Dragon City by the First Zone, the city's armed forces, led by the garrison, were simply unable to defend the entire city. Therefore, after a decision by the higher-ups, the main force was to remain, using Dragon City's urban center and surrounding counties and towns as a base to continue guerrilla warfare against the invading First Zone forces.

At the same time, in order to ensure the integrity of the command system of various agencies and their overall combat effectiveness, the leadership of each agency began to evacuate Dragon City to conduct remote command.

This included the General Bureau of Investigation.

Gu Baisun had returned to his office. He had barely sat down when he received an urgent evacuation order from above.

After thinking for a moment, Gu Baisun called his secretary in and instructed, "Notify the senior management of all departments. Assemble in the conference room in five minutes for a meeting!"

"Yes, sir!" The secretary nodded and immediately left the office to relay the order.

...

Five minutes later, in the General Bureau of Investigation's conference room.

Leaders from more than a dozen departments, including the Intelligence Section, the Investigation Section, and the Action Team, had arrived. Da Xiong was also sitting upright in his seat, awaiting orders.

There were about twenty people in total. Each of them had a very solemn expression, but they did not appear flustered.

Soon, Gu Baisun pushed the door open and walked in. Everyone immediately stood up and respectfully greeted, "Director Gu!"

"Please, sit."

Gu Baisun waved his hand and sat in the seat of honor. Only then did the others take their seats.

Feeling the heavy atmosphere in the conference room, Gu Baisun said with his hands clasped, "Fellow colleagues, Dragon City has reached a moment of crisis. The higher-ups have issued an order for us to evacuate. We must act as quickly as possible according to the pre-arranged plan..."

The crowd nodded slowly; they were already aware of the situation.

Gu Baisun was very satisfied with their calm reaction in the face of danger. Only then did he begin to assign tasks: "Captain Wu, you will personally lead a team to escort the important suspects detained in the bureau to Bana City. Xiao Zhang, Lao Li, you will collect the relevant materials and documents. Take what you can, and destroy what you can't as soon as possible..."

Tasks were assigned one by one. After the meeting ended, the entire General Bureau of Investigation was bustling with activity.

The same situation was playing out within various administrative departments in Dragon City. Everyone was preparing for the evacuation.

Among them, because the General Bureau of Investigation was the most important knife in Dragon City's military intelligence system, it had prepared a complete evacuation plan long ago. Therefore, the entire process was executed very quickly. In just half an hour, the relevant matters were properly handled, and the evacuees were almost assembled.

Led by Gu Baisun, this group quickly rushed to the nearest military airport. After all, they belonged to a special department and were certainly entitled to the highest rights during the evacuation.

...

In the car leaving, Gu Baisun took out his phone and made a call.

The call was quickly connected, and Li Mingsheng's voice rang out: "Hello?"

Gu Baisun got straight to the point, specifically instructing, "Leader, don't tell me or anyone else about your evacuation route! You must leave Dragon City secretly and separately now."

Li Mingsheng's voice was very calm: "Don't worry about me. Your job is to make sure you don't lose the chips in your hand!"

Gu Baisun nodded: "Okay, rest assured."

The two ended the call, and Gu Baisun and his party continued to drive towards the airport.

...

At the same time, Su Tianbei also received an evacuation order. His job now was to be responsible for escorting important family members to Bana City via land march.

After all, the situation was critical now, and there were many evacuees. There were simply not enough planes, and they were easily intercepted, so they could only choose to march by land.

At 11:50 p.m., Su Tianbei led his troops, having escaped the pursuit of Zhang Xunchen's troops, and successfully arrived at the temporary military airport in the Longkou District. They rendezvoused with the evacuees here and replenished their equipment.

In front of a row of warehouses, soldiers of the部队 (budui - troops) were constantly moving in and out, quickly carrying supplies, working enthusiastically.

Su Tianbei stood in front of a military vehicle, looked at his watch, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and shouted, "Move faster! Quickly take away all the military equipment! Take everything you can! And Second Company, check the military vehicles quickly to make sure there are no problems! Hurry, hurry, hurry! Everyone, hurry up!"

As he was urging them, Tan Mingchao's adjutant, accompanied by several guards, quickly came to Su Tianbei.

The two saluted each other. Adjutant Liu said solemnly, "Regiment Commander Su, this group of people entrusted to you is very important! They are all family members of our garrison's direct line generals! You also know the situation in Dragon City now. Helicopters are in short supply, and transportation capacity is severely insufficient. Moreover, many family members are still gathering here and will probably have to wait some time before they can depart. I represent the garrison in entrusting these people to you! Only if these people are safe can we ensure that our front-line combat troops have no worries!"

Su Tianbei saluted again and promised loudly, "I guarantee the completion of the mission!"

"Then I'm grateful for your hard work."

Adjutant Liu expressed his gratitude.

Soon, several military vehicles drove over, filled with people, all of whom were family members of direct line generals.

Su Tianbei took over the group and began to arrange routes and plans, preparing to lead them to Bana City.

...

At midnight, outside Dragon City.

A convoy was driving on the road, passing a somewhat dilapidated residential town.

Zhou Tonghui was sitting in one of the cars, smoking a cigarette, looking around.

"Squeak—"

Just then, the car suddenly stopped. Zhou Tonghui's body tilted forward, and he hurriedly used his hands to support the front seat.

He paused for a moment, then looked up and asked the driver, "What's going on? Why did we stop?"

The driver replied nervously, "Mr. Zhou, we just received intelligence that the First Zone has detected a large-scale evacuation operation in Dragon City, so they directly dispatched a large number of helicopters and fighter squadrons from the sea, which are conducting reconnaissance along the way... We need to hide in the town now!"

Zhou Tonghui's worries increased even more, and he had no choice but to nod and say, "Okay, let's hide for now."

"Mr. Zhou, this way."

Everyone immediately got out of the car. Under the protection of the guards, Zhou Tonghui quickly crossed the street and soon arrived at a dilapidated building to take cover.

As soon as he entered, Zhou Tonghui was stunned, because a lot of evacuees were already hiding in this building. In addition, there were many ordinary refugees, and everyone was gathered together in a chaotic manner.

"Mr. Zhou, there are fewer people here."

Several guards led Zhou Tonghui through the lobby and into a room next door.

As soon as he entered, Zhou Tonghui saw a familiar female acquaintance and couldn't help but ask in surprise, "What are you doing here?"