After the last expansion, the number of troops has reached nearly 300. It is enough for 100 soldiers on duty around the safe zone and on highway bridges and railway bridges. The remaining people have begun to enter the daily training stage, conducting physical training, fighting and shooting training every day. However, the number of bullets provided by shooting training is small, with up to five bullets per person every day, which can help them maintain their own shooting level and will not cause the gun technique to be abandoned because they have not fired for a long time.

Xie Tian himself did not participate in the survivors' outing operation, but asked Shunzi to select fifty soldiers, ride in infantry chariots and Volvo, providing these survivors with a strong firepower support. The next morning, the first survivor team began to prepare for departure. Xie Tian asked Xie Yufei, who was in charge of supplies, to take out 45 Type 95 automatic rifles, each gun was equipped with 60 bullets, that is, two magazines. Then, after numbering each gun, all sent to the survivors who were selected as combatants.

Before leaving, Xie Tian explained: "You combatants must minimize the consumption of bullets. Don't shoot blindly when you see zombies. If you adopt the concave font tactic, the three sides of the concave font will be impacted by a large number of zombies, but only a very small number of them can break through defense, so your target is those zombies that break through defense, and no matter how many others are, it will not cause any danger to you."

After saying that, Xie Tian told Shunzi: "There are a lot of supplies in the city, but don't let them make a rash move because of greed for supplies. They should reduce the mortality rate as much as possible."

Shunzi nodded and said, "Brother Xie, don't worry, I will do my best to ensure the safety of the team."

Xie Tian smiled with satisfaction and said, "Okay, get ready to go."

Seeing the convoy leave, Xie Tian didn't know what the results of this action would have, how much harvest and how much death they would have. These are still unknown. So many people have to eat, and if the results are good this time, the subsequent actions will be easier to carry out. If you hit a nail in the beginning, then there will be some trouble.

The order in the safety zone was quite organized. Song Hui selected six joint defense team members from the two groups of people Du Yuewei and Hu Xiaobao. The specific task was to patrol the safety zone with red sleeves to avoid any behavior that affects public security.

The new group of people had already obtained one kilogram of rice per person. Eating was no longer a problem for them. Xie Tian also felt relieved for a while and returned to his office. Zhao Ziye ran over not long after and said to Xie Tian: "The engineer said that our power system cannot support the electricity use of so many people. More than a thousand new people use rice cookers and induction cookers to cook, and the generator cannot carry it, so the power supply in the dormitory building was cut off. However, those people were a little resistant and shouted that they could not eat anything if the raw rice was out of power. How should we solve it?"

Xie Tian frowned. At present, all the electricity used in the safety zone must be solved by that generator set. It is indeed a big problem to support so many people to use electricity. After thinking for a while, he said: "Let's do this, let those people concentrate in the open space behind the dormitory building to cook. Whether it is boiling water, electricity will be prohibited, and coal will be used as fuel."

"Well." Zhao Ziye nodded slightly, and then said: "Or we might as well build a simple cooking center, make more coal-fueled floor stoves, and then let these survivors use them freely. Many of them choose to cook together in groups. This would be enough for them to cook daily."

"Yes." Xie Tianxiao said, "Ziye, let me leave this matter to you. Go and find the team leader they elected and discuss with them to build it themselves, but there must be order and all of them are concentrated, so that they can't build it too chaotic."

"Okay." Zhao Ziye smiled slightly and said, "Then I'll go first."

"Don't be anxious." Xie Tian called Zhao Ziye back and asked, "How is your current physical condition? Is there any improvement in your special perception ability?"

Zhao Ziye smiled and said, "There has been some improvement in all aspects of the body, but I feel that the improvement is not very large. However, in the past two days, the perception ability has been stronger, and it is not very difficult to use, and it is much stronger than at the beginning."

Xie Tianxin said that this was because he carried the dozen crystals with him, so he asked, "How far can he reach now?"

Zhao Ziye said: "At present, sensing the entire power plant is no longer a problem, but..."

"But what?" Xie Tian asked curiously.

Zhao Ziye's face turned red and said, "But this ability is indeed embarrassing. Many scenes I don't want to see can be seen. After a long time, I'm afraid of having needle holes. I don't dare to use them at all."

Xie Tian smiled indifferently, and he naturally knew why Zhao Ziye felt embarrassed. In the current safe area, there are not only him and Zhao Ziye, but also Qiao and Amy. Some of the current survivors are husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, and some even establish relationships on the way to escape, just like they and Zhao Ziye. After they settle down, they are somewhat free to fall in love, or they simply take the people they need for physical pleasure. Sexual behavior is not such a special thing here.

Xie Tian comforted, "Jiye, although your perception ability is not large at present, if you continue to develop, your perception ability will have great potential. So don't worry about these small problems. If you don't want to see things, don't pay attention to them after discovering them. But don't deliberately ignore them because of this little thing. It's hard to say what kind of ability you will be strengthened and upgraded to in the end. You must practice more."

Zhao Ziye smiled awkwardly and said, "I have started to try to distinguish the primary and secondary. Some of them are not suitable for perception. Once you find them, avoid them quickly. If there are too many details, focus on perception. As for this ability, I will not give up training and will quickly improve my perception ability as soon as possible. In this way, you can take me with you when you go out to find supplies. I can help you sense the surrounding environment and the situation of the zombies."

Xie Tian nodded and said, "Infantry chariots are the safest means of transportation at present. No zombies can break through the defense of Infantry chariots. If you still need to go out to find supplies in person in the future, I will definitely bring you with you. With you, it is equivalent to having a God's perspective. Even if you can't see the place, you can see it at a glance."

Zhao Ziye smiled shyly and said, "Then let's make up that way. If you have any questions in the future, you must take me with you and you can't leave me behind."

After saying that, the walkie-talkie on Xie Tian’s desk rang, and Li Xiaohe’s voice came, saying, “Brother Xie, among the new survivors, there is an old train driver. He said there is something important to talk to you in person.”

"Train driver?" Xie Tian was slightly stunned and then said, "You can ask him to come to my office."

"Okay." Li Xiaohe said: "I'll take him there now."

Turning off the walkie-talkie, Zhao Ziye said, "Thank you, please do it first. I'll go and discuss the matter of setting up a kitchen center with them."

"Yes." Xie Tian nodded. Not long after Zhao Ziye left, Li Xiaohe walked in with a middle-aged and elderly man in his early fifties.

"Brother Xie, this is Uncle Cheng, he said there is something very important to talk to you."

The middle-aged and elderly man smiled restrainedly and said, "Leader, just call me Lao Cheng."

Seeing that the other party was wearing a torn work clothes, his hair was slightly weak and his body was thin, but he looked very loyal, Xie Tian smiled and asked, "What important thing do you have to talk to me in person?"

Lao Cheng rubbed his hands nervously and said, "I am a train driver. I have been driving a train for my whole life. I accidentally found an internal diesel locomotive on the side of the coal yard behind the power plant. I think this thing is very useful and I have some ideas about the railway in my heart. I don't know what you think of the leader."

"Don't be so polite." Xie Tian said, taking out a bag of Huanghelou 1916 from the drawer, handed it to him, and said, "If you have any ideas, just say it out."

Old Cheng took the cigarette in surprise, and wanted to take it apart and smoke it, but hesitated for a moment and did not dare to take the next move. Xie Tian quickly took out two of a pack of Jiuwu Supreme on the table, handed it to the other party, reached out to light it with a lighter, and said, "Sit down and say, don't be so restrained here, smoke it as long as you want, it's nothing."

Lao Cheng then felt relieved, looked at Xie Tian with some gratitude, sat opposite Xie Tian, ​​and said, "I was in Zhuzhou Locomotive Depot, Zhuzhou, you know, near the border between Hunan and Nanchang, I have been a train driver and have a good understanding of railways. Moreover, I have been running the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line for many years, from Zhuzhou to Pingxiang, Yichun, Fengcheng, to Nanchang and then to Hangzhou. I know this section of the railway line very well. There is now an internal diesel locomotive in the power plant. I think I can use it and find a way to drive to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line through the power plant. Xinyu, not far from here, has a national grain reserve base, and there is also a special railway line that directly leads to the grain warehouse."

"Grain Depot?" Xie Tian seemed to be injected with chicken blood in an instant, and almost jumped up excitedly. Since he didn't know the situation nearby, he had no idea where the grain depot was, so he blurted out and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Confirm." Lao Cheng nodded and said, "I have been to the grain warehouse once and transported reserved grain into the warehouse."

Xie Tian hurriedly asked, "If we use the motorcycle in our power plant, are you sure we can reach which grain warehouse?"

"This is also what I want to discuss with your leader." Lao Cheng said with some worries: "As soon as the zombie virus broke out, the railways were basically paralyzed. Take the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line as an example. Here, the electrification has been carried out, so most of the locomotives driving on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line are electric locomotives. When the end of the world comes, there is no power supply, and these cars are directly paralyzed on the railway line. We want to go from here to Xinyu. The biggest problem is that other trains on the railway line may be stopped along the way, and all these trains must be cleared."

"How to clear it?" Xie Tian asked hurriedly.

"It is not difficult to clear the railway line," said Lao Cheng: "This railway line is a coal transportation branch line, connected to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line, drive the train out and to the connection between this branch line and the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line. If the fork of the railway is connected, we can directly drive to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line."

"Fork road?" Xie Tian asked in confusion: "What does it mean?"

"Look." Lao Cheng took the paper and pen, drew a herringbone railway on it, and then drew a circle at the bifurcation point of the railway and said: "If it is normal, the fork is in a closed state for most of the time. In this way, the train on the main line will not be affected by this bifurcation point and go straight through the bifurcation point. If a car needs to drive from the main line of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Line to this branch line, or a car is ready to drive from the branch line to the main line, the bifurcation point will be opened, and these two lines will be connected. The railway roads are controlled by microcomputers now. If this bifurcation point is currently closed, then we must manually open it."

"Is it difficult?" Xie Tian, ​​who didn't understand this knowledge, asked.

"Not big." Lao Cheng explained: "It's like in the old movie, there is no electricity supply now, so we can just manually connect the switch."

Xie Tian nodded and then asked again: "Then what you said just now is that when the railway is paralyzed, many vehicles will stop on the railway line. What should we do if these vehicles block the road we are moving forward?"

"That's what I think about it." Lao Zheng said: "If the paralyzed train is a freight train and the materials loaded are useful to us, I can directly connect with the locomotive and the train, and then tow the train back. The towed carriage is also of great use to us. They are made of steel plates and are very strong. After dismantling the carriage, those steel plates will be used to weld defense equipment, which will be much better than steel bars!"

Xie Tian became more and more excited as he heard it, and then asked, "How confident are you?"

Lao Cheng said seriously: "If you can give me some people, I can guarantee to connect this branch line with the trunk line, and how long it takes to clear the railway. This depends on the current specific situation of the railway. As long as the unblocking is done, I am absolutely sure that I can drive the train directly into the Xinyu Grain Depot. As for how much grain there can be left, I can't say it. Do you think this is feasible?"
Chapter completed!