Time went by and four or five days passed in a flash.
Since the plan was formulated and implemented, both the Da Zhangshu Base and the Oil City have been extremely busy.
Trading market outside Oil City.
The scorching sun scorched the earth mercilessly, and there was a burning atmosphere in the air.
The sun casts mottled shadows on the barren land.
A group of construction workers were working hard to build a wall. Sweat fell from their foreheads and soaked their clothes, but their hands never stopped.
As supervisors, Hefeng and others stood aside with cold eyes, demanding that the workers build quickly.
The masonry of the wall was quickly piled up in the hands of the workers. Although their movements were mechanical, they were full of power.
The sun seems to be getting hotter and hotter, as if it is going to swallow up the entire city. However, the workers do not dare to be lazy. On the one hand, they know that this wall will be the guarantee of their survival.
On the other hand, there are supervisors watching.
If you find that you are lazy, you will find that once your food is halved, you will find that twice you will not have enough food for the next meal.
Their task is very heavy, and they must build the wall of the trading market to a height of more than 20 meters before the end of May.
The trading market is much larger than the Oil City, and they haven't had a day off during these days.
Construction basically starts at six in the morning and lasts until twelve noon.
There will be an hour's rest in the middle, and construction will continue from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., which takes about 11 hours a day.
Ding Jiu took a tape measure to measure the height of the trading market, which was 9.6 meters.
This height is already quite high. The first phase of the project was built to a height of six meters.
After completing the first phase of the project, the second phase of the project was quickly started.
The second project has only been carried out for eight days, and the wall has already been raised by 3.6 meters.
This speed is already very fast.
However, at this speed, there are less than twenty days until the end of the month. If we have to build it to more than 20 meters before the end of the month, the possibility of completing the task is very low.
Seeing such progress, Ding Jiu felt great pressure.
Due to lighting problems at night and the presence of some zombies outside, construction at night is extremely risky, so construction has never been carried out at night.
However, the construction time during the day has been compressed to the limit. From 6 am to 6 pm in the evening, there is only one hour of rest in between, so it is impossible to deduct time from the daytime.
Ding Jiu put away the tape measure and planned to discuss a solution with Ju Tianrui.
On the construction site, Chen Dachui, who was watering the fence, wiped the sweat from his face and felt a little regretful.
The weather is so hot and the construction intensity is so high. If I had known it would be so hard, I would have...sigh...
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Oil City.
Ding Jiu hurriedly found Ju Tianrui.
"Captain Ju, I have something to discuss with you."
Ju Tianrui frowned slightly. He had a lot of things to deal with now. The walls of Oil City needed to be installed with a conductive system. After all, Oil City was nearly thirty meters high, which was considered a relatively tall building.
If a conductive lightning protection system is not installed, if lightning strikes the fence, it will easily collapse the fence.
"Say." Ju Tianrui raised his head and looked at Ding Jiu.
Ding Jiu sat opposite him without mincing words. Time is most precious now.
"According to the current construction progress of the trading market wall, there is no way to build it to more than 20 meters before the end of the month, so I think..."
"How about construction at night and two shifts? But there are zombies outside at night. I would like to ask if you can send some combat personnel to protect it."
"Also, please help me solve the problem of using lights. It's dark at night and it's impossible to operate machinery and equipment without lights."
Upon hearing this, Ju Tianrui tapped his index finger on the table.
He did not answer Ding Jiu's question immediately. After thinking for a while, he asked:
"Now the wall has been built to nearly ten meters, right? Can it be built on the inside of the trading market, so that it is safer without having to be outside?"
"Can."
Ding Jiu nodded and said: "According to what you said, the speed may be slower.
But it doesn’t matter. If it can be constructed at night, it will definitely be much faster than the current situation where it can only be constructed during the day!”
Ju Tianrui was still worrying about the arrival of the thunderstorm natural disaster. If these northern affiliated forces and people from the southern paradise continue to invade the oil city as they are now, the risk will be too high.
One reason is that the Petroleum City is not large and can accommodate thousands of people, so it is quite crowded.
The second reason is that once thunderstorms and natural disasters arrive, these people stay in the oil city and can easily cause trouble.
Especially in the darkness with lightning and thunder, the field of vision is extremely restricted. Although there is a barbed wire fence now, if those people go crazy, they will never be stopped.
However, the infrastructure construction in the trading market has been suspended now, and all manpower has been devoted to the construction of the trading market wall.
Today, those people still enter specific areas in Oil City every day, and they still need to be guarded by dedicated personnel.
This is also something that gives Ju Tianrui a huge headache.
Now that he suddenly heard Ding Jiu's opinion, he had a new idea.
"Ding Gong, can this be done in two shifts 24 hours a day? I agree, but you can also allocate one-third of your manpower to build infrastructure for the trading market, mainly to build residential houses.
no?"
Ding Jiu heard what he meant and guessed a little: "Are you planning to let the people from the Southern Paradise and the people from the affiliated forces in the North go out to live in the city?"
"right."
Ju Tianrui said unabashedly:
"That's what it means. The construction of the house does not need to be very good, as long as it can protect it from wind and rain."
Ding Jiu made a simple calculation. If they really work in two shifts, then they can carry out construction around the clock, and the efficiency can be increased to at least 1.5 times the current level.
Even if one-third of the manpower is allocated, the progress will be faster than the current rate.
So he nodded and said:
"Okay, there's no problem on my side. It's just that you'd better mention it to the headquarters."
With this matter solved, Ju Tianrui's mood improved a lot.
He smiled and said: "This is natural."
Then he used the radio to contact the headquarters base in front of Ding Jiu.
Describe the current problem and provide a solution.
After discussion at the Da Zhangshu base, Li Yu and his second uncle felt that Ju Tianrui's plan was acceptable, so they agreed.
After communicating with the headquarters base, Ju Tianrui stood up and said to Ding Jiu:
"The headquarters has approved it. Let's make arrangements quickly."
"In addition, I will also ask Dongtai to send some people to protect the construction workers, but you ask those construction workers to be careful not to fall."
"Okay, okay, I'll leave first." After talking about this matter, Ding Jiu said hello and left.
Looking at Ding Jiu's leaving figure, Ju Tianrui's eyes were filled with thoughts.
In another week, I will tell Ding Jiu and the others about the thunderstorm disaster.
And Ding Jiu will definitely return to the Da Zhangshu base a few days before the thunderstorm.
Construction will definitely continue in the remaining days.
But after Ding Jiu left, there was also a deputy chief engineer watching here, so it wasn't a big problem.
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In the north.
Zhang Qiwu looked helplessly at the greenhouse not far away, shook his head and sighed.
Looking at Lao Xie who came to see him off.
"Captain Xie, this greenhouse has been built, why is it still closed? What a pity, can you tell me the reason?"
He is the planting manager sent from the Da Zhangshu Base and has been here for several days.
I personally took my students and collaborators to raise seedlings, and watched greenhouses being built one after another, some of which had already been transplanted with cultivated seedlings.
But now he was given an order to let him and his students all return to the headquarters.
This made him extremely confused.
Facing Zhang Qiwu's question, Lao Xie could only say helplessly:
"This is decided by the city lord and the minister. When you return to the headquarters base, you can ask them in person."
When Zhang Qiwu heard what he said, he stopped asking.
He shook his head and got on the helicopter.
Ten minutes later.
This plane carried Zhang Qiwu and some experts who came to support and flew to the south.
In the past few days, the northern border has also been intensively promoting the retreat.
Zhang Qiwu and the others were the first batch of personnel to withdraw to the Da Zhangshu base headquarters.
And Lao Xie was the person in charge of the last batch of retreats.
Yesterday, Lao Yi just returned to the north from Oil City.
He transported the last batch of supplies from the north to Oil City and Da Zhangshu Base.
Now that we are back on the voyage, we must prepare to retreat to Oil City with our large forces.
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Wu City Military Base.
Xiao Hu watched his uncle and the others leave. After five days of continuous moving and transportation, Lao Luo and Lao Bi had taken away most of the supplies in the military base.
As for Hefeng, Dai Jiusheng and others, they returned to Oil City two days ago with more than twenty vehicles loaded with supplies.
There is only one helicopter left in the military base, as well as three armored vehicles, ten military trucks, and a number of other supplies.
These supplies are more than enough for Xiao Hu and Zuo Ruxue's two groups.
As a sub-base, the supplies left here account for nearly one percent of the total amount of the original military base.
There are dozens of tons of grain alone.
"Okay, they are all gone, let's close the door." Xiao Hu saw the convoy disappearing from sight and said to Zuo Ruxue next to him.
Zuo Ruxue nodded and said: "Okay."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Xiao Hu saw Zuo Ruxue's appearance and smiled, "You still have the same bad temper!"
Then he said to a team member next to him: "Laifu, close the gate."
"good."
Kakaka——
This huge door moved slowly, blocking the sunlight coming in from outside.
Xiao Hu and the others were stationed here, so my uncle just told them about the thunderstorm disaster in advance.
Tell them never to open the door.
We have to suffer in this sub-base for several months until the headquarters sends someone over.
Looking at the disappearing light, the smile on Xiao Hu's face slowly disappeared.
I have to stay in a closed military base for several months. Although there are lights, it is really uncomfortable to stay in a closed underground all the time.
In order to prevent strangers from coming and going, they installed three cameras outside the gate of the military base and two cameras at the back.
In addition, one was also installed on the top of a building that did not collapse opposite the military base.
These six cameras will be their "eyes" to see the outside situation in the coming months.
On the table in the center of the rest area, there are several screens, and the scenes captured by the cameras are clearly displayed on them.
Next to it are two long-wave wireless radio stations, which are used to communicate with the headquarters base.
Xiao Hu left two people to guard the gate.
Then he walked towards the rest area.
Tap tap tap——
He walked on the largest platform where the helicopter was originally parked.
Where dozens of helicopters were originally parked, there was now a single helicopter parked alone.
The whole space seemed extremely empty.
Xiao Hu walked on this platform, and his footsteps echoed.
Although there are dozens of them, compared to this huge military base, there are still too few people.
Come to the rest area.
He sat down on the sofa next to Zuo Ruxue and handed over a piece of paper in his arms.
"Lao Zuo, I have made a duty schedule. Our two groups take turns, two in a group. One group is responsible for the front door for a day, and the other two people are in this rest area watching the monitoring screen and answering news from the headquarters. What do you think?
how?"
Zuo Ruxue took the duty list from him.
After reading it carefully, he nodded and said:
"Okay, just follow this duty list, make a few more copies, and post them on the wall."
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Big camphor tree base.
Li Yu stood on the wall and watched the mighty motorcade approaching in the distance.
In recent days, hundreds of vehicles have entered the Da Zhangshu base from outside every day.
These vehicles are filled with weapons, ammunition, food and other supplies.
Li Yuan, Li Tie and others were busy counting the supplies and stayed in the First Outer City these days.
Looking at the buffer city wall in the distance, it has been built to a height of seven meters in nearly a week.
The area within the buffer city is so large that it even includes the lake under the cliff to the east of the inner and outer city of Dazhangshu Base.
The inner and outer city of Dazhangshu Base is located at the highest position among the surrounding hills.
There are also seven or eight scattered mountains in the buffer city.
The buffer city even includes the rural roads leading from the national highway to the Da Zhangshu Base.
The buffer city wall is less than thirty meters away from the national highway.
Boom boom boom!
The mighty motorcade attracted the attention of the workers who were building the fence.
"Hey! How many times has this happened? Our Da Zhangshu Base has made a fortune!"
"I roughly counted, there should be more than a thousand cars of supplies."
"Is that much?"
"Well, there are four trips, and there are three to four hundred cars in each place. Do you think there are any?"
"This is a good thing, but I don't understand. Didn't I just say that the buffer city wall should be built a few meters high...Why are we still allowed to increase the height?"
"Bullshit, wouldn't it be better to increase the height? We all live in a buffer city now, wouldn't we be safer if we built it higher?"
"It seems like what you said makes sense."
"Hurry up and get to work! What are you talking about?!" Not far away, a man holding a gun looked at them and shouted.
