Chapter 998 - Interrogation Report (1/2)

Just as Luoyang City was abuzz with the investigation of the real murderer, some breaking news shocked everyone.

The Wang Consortium had just recalled all men under the age of 30 who had served in the military from the strongholds they controlled. Then they suddenly launched an all-out war against the Kong Consortium and the Pyro Company.

Currently, the Kong Consortium existed in name only. Their former bureaucracy and big shots had taken refuge in the easternmost strongholds along the coast after abandoning the dozen or so strongholds they originally controlled.

During the past few months, those strongholds had been left unmanned, with a large number of residents having fled south. As such, criminals started running amok in them. Whoever had a gun would call the shots.

It would not be difficult for the Wang Consortium to occupy most of the Kong Consortium's strongholds anymore.

As for the Pyro Company, they only had two of their original 12 divisions left due to the war with the expeditionary army in the north.

If the Wang Consortium had planned to unify the entire Alliance of Strongholds from very early on, this would probably be the best opportunity for them to annex the other organizations.

Moreover, the Wang Consortium's conscription policy played an extremely effective role during such a time.

Similarly, they had fought against the northern expeditionary army like the Pyro Company. Although they suffered many casualties, the Wang Consortium was able to quickly replenish its troops.

However, the focus of the average person's discussion of this war was more about how they had just defeated the foreign enemies, so should the Wang Consortium take advantage of the situation?

After all, the Pyro Company had fought very hard to resist the expeditionary army's advance. For the Wang Consortium to make a move now, wasn't that a little too unethical?

But they also knew their discussions were pointless and would not change the will of the consortium. The Wang Consortium did not care how they were viewed.

As the saying goes, winner takes all. If the Wang Consortium could really unify the Alliance of Strongholds one day, history would be written by them.

Everyone knew the Pyro Company and the Kong Consortium no longer had the strength to resist the Wang Consortium. After this battle, the Zhou Consortium would be the only force in the Central Plains that could stand up to the Wang Consortium.

However, only the Wang Consortium's higher-ups knew that the Zhou Consortium, who they were initially worried about, was probably unable to even look after themselves.

Just as the Wang Consortium was sending out their troops to the Kong Consortium and the Pyro Company, the Zhou Consortium suddenly started mobilizing their main forces.

When the rest of the world learned of this news, they thought the Zhou Consortium was preparing to guard against the Wang Consortium's troops who were heading south. After all, the deployment of the main forces this time was extremely widespread, and it looked like they were preparing for a total war.

Among the deployments, the Zhou Consortium's 1st and 3rd Divisions marched northwards when they were originally garrisoned in the south.

But two days later, everyone realized the Zhou Consortium's main forces did not seem to be rushing to its northern front line. Based on their trajectory, they were actually heading to Stronghold 73 where the Zhou Consortium's political center was based.

This left many of the intel brokers confused. Why were so many of the Zhou Consortium's divisions heading to Stronghold 73?

After all, Stronghold 73 was located in the center of the Zhou Consortium's territory. Even if the Wang Consortium attacked, they couldn't make inroads there, right?

Could it be that the Zhou Consortium was planning to abandon their six strongholds north of Stronghold 73?!

At this moment, an article called Interrogation Report was published in Hope Media's newspaper.

In the report, it detailed how the Qing Consortium and the Northwest Army had surrounded the hitmen in Luoyang City and investigated the spies, how they analyzed the surveillance footage of the city, how they arrested corrupt officials who had taken bribes, all of which led to the capture of the mastermind, Luo Zongren (real name: Yang Yanbang).