After Iger returned to the church in silence, he called his assistants together and collected several plastic buckets and other water storage tools. He then asked them to go to the river to fetch water, and ordered them to wash all the tableware again after returning from fetching water.
Joanna was a little confused about this, but out of her familiarity with Egger's character, she immediately understood that there might be a big problem with the water, and pretending not to know was the smartest thing to do at this time.
After solving the problem of eating, Iger excused himself from communication difficulties with Lar, handed over the task of tidying up the cathedral to Joanna, and slipped out on his own.
Egg is not just hanging out, he needs to get familiar with Rose Town so that he can have a better idea of what to do next.
Regarding the defense of Ross Town, Egger felt that the situation in Jixi Town could not be copied.
The commercial district of Jixi Town is blessed with a unique geographical location. Most towns do not have the advantage of being as organized as it is. After all, the architectural feature of America is to spread the pie.
Ross Town is a typical big pie. Not only are the houses large and flat, each house also has a front lawn and a back garden. It is not an exaggeration to say that the gaps between the houses are driveways.
If you want to build a wall to seal off such a large area, the amount of work would be equivalent to building a city, which is simply unrealistic.
After circling the church area, Egger decided to adopt castle defense tactics.
To put it simply, it is similar to a European medieval castle, surrounding the church area in the center of Ross Town, and using the church to build a core fortress.
The advantage of this is that it adapts to local conditions, but the disadvantage is that if a large number of peripheral areas are not cleared, there will be too many bunkers, which is not conducive to fortress defense, especially against invading humans.
Therefore, referring to the medieval castle defense rules, while defending, it is necessary to build a powerful mobile force and troop turrets to form a complete defense system.
What is more beneficial to our side now is that the average combat ability of the entire Gospel Reclamation Corps is very strong. Not only are they all veterans of hundreds of battles, but at least they have seen blood. At critical moments, it is not unreasonable for all members to be soldiers.
possible.
After this idea is established, Egger will consider the materials for building the defensive wall.
The best material for building a defensive wall is automobile steel plate, but after walking around the church area, Egger found that it was a bit unrealistic to build a wall with automobiles.
Although the area of this land is not large, the overall perimeter is not short. When there are no other walls that can be used, it may not be possible to rely on hundreds of cars.
Where can you find so many cars here?
If we don’t use cars, do we really need to build walls with soil?
Of course, there is another simple way, which is to demolish the house and use the old wooden boards to build a fence.
However, Egg unconsciously had an image in his mind of an overwhelming influx of infected people overturning the walls of the Evans Brotherhood. This makeshift approach was directly rejected by him.
If the fence is not strong, it is better not to build it at all. At least there is no fence, at least it will not give people a false sense of security.
Later, Egger thought of two more troublesome, but at least operational solutions.
One is to dismantle the barbed wire fence elsewhere and install it here.
Barbed wire fences are easy to disassemble and install, have a high safety factor, and good anti-climbing capabilities. More importantly, they are relatively easy to find.
For example, there is a large barbed wire fence at the fertilizer storage site in Aigela, and there is also a long section at the water supply plant. Just dismantling them will solve half of the fence problem here.
However, the biggest problem with the barbed wire fence is that it has limited impact resistance. If infected people rush in desperately, the barbed wire fence will be broken through sooner or later.
The second is to drive a truck to find Vance. Vance's original profession is a lumberjack. He goes to Vance's logging area to pull wood or newly cut wood, and uses the whole wood to stake it to build a fence.
First lay down two layers of log piles, and then fill the middle with soil and tamp it. This kind of project is much smaller than building an earth wall, and it is very strong and durable.
Not to mention the shortcomings, the amount of work is very large.
Iger only thought of these two methods for the time being. He also knew that the fortress transformation could not be completed overnight. It took nearly three months for Jixi Town to complete the overall transformation. Once he wanted to start the transformation, he could do it within three months.
It would be considered quick if completed within a month.
After walking around outside for two times, Iger turned back to the church. The interior of the church was almost tidied up, the functional partitions were basically completed, and the team's supplies were put into the warehouse on the first floor.
Among the team supplies brought this time, the food is only enough for about ten days. On the one hand, the inventory in Jixi Town is limited, so it is impossible for Aigela to directly take away half of the stored food. On the other hand, Aigela does not dare to do it all at once.
too much.
A little less, a little less pulling. Anyway, every week, Egger has to go to Jixi Town to report on his work, and then bring back the next week's rations. In this way, he can strengthen his control over the reclamation group.
In the afternoon, Bill and his party who went to Jixi Town had already returned.
After the scrapped vehicles on the road between Jixi Town and Ross Town were cleared, the driving speed of the car increased a lot. Considering fuel efficiency and safety, the one-way control was stable at about an hour.
Bill brought back many empty natural gas tanks, and all of them were unloaded into the gas station for storage.
There are also many liquefied natural gas tanks in the gas station, but the tanks filled with liquefied gas have been taken away by other survivors, and the remaining tanks are empty.
These jars will be sold for a lot of money in the future.
After dinner, Iger left all the staff for a meeting. At the meeting, he briefly talked about his suggestions for the development of Ross Town, and then began to ask everyone if they had any good ideas.
Egger put up a hand-drawn map and told everyone about the development plan of Ross Town. Then Egger talked about the two ways he had thought about building a fence, and asked everyone if they had any good methods.
As soon as Egger finished speaking, the outspoken Kate immediately spoke and said: "The method of using barbed wire fences is feasible. Tomorrow I will go to the auto repair shop to see what tools are available. I can transform the auto repair shop into a workshop. I have made barbed wire fences for people.
As long as there are horizontal steel bars on the fence, cars can be intercepted."
Iger was overjoyed when she heard it. By the way, Kate has expertise in this area. This is her old profession.
Just when Iger was about to make a decision to build a barbed wire fence, he only heard a voice saying.
Iger turned around and saw that it was Lal, who had difficulty communicating with him, who was speaking.
Iger raised his hand to suppress the speeches of others and said to Lal: "What is your opinion?"
When Iger asked this question, Lal spoke eloquently, gesturing with his hands as he spoke. Lal spoke very fast and with a strange accent, and Iger was completely confused.
After Lal had finished talking, Iger asked Shandora who was taking the minutes of the meeting: "Excuse me, can you translate it for me? What is he talking about?"
Sandra was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Aige to make such a request.
Well, in fact, many people can't understand what Lal is talking about. Even Joanna can only understand it roughly. To say that she is well-informed, she has to look at Sandora. After all, in her school, India
There are quite a few students of Chinese descent.
Shandora translated to Egger: "Lal said that he has a way to quickly build a wall. In up to two weeks, a 4-meter-high earth wall can be built."
When Iger heard this, he immediately became interested. He asked Shandora: "What next?"
"Then?" Sandra said: "The rest are modal particles and nonsense."
"..."
Lal was not angry when Shandora said this about herself. After he saw that Iger was interested in his suggestion, he directly took over the right to host the meeting without Iger's instructions, and then started to say, Gua la Gua la, bah bah bah, da.
Da da da da.
After Lal finished speaking, Sandora nodded, and she translated to Aige: "Lal said that building a wall is very simple. First nail a row of wooden stakes and wooden boards, and then dig the soil vertically on the outside.
The soil tipped over on the other side of the board and naturally formed a mountain.
By doing this, you can achieve double the construction effect. Digging 1 meter can increase the vertical height by 2 meters. So you only need to dig 2 meters to get a 4-meter-high earth wall and a 2-meter-deep trench.
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This method sounds quite unreliable.
Egger asked Lal: "Getting soil is not an easy manual job. How is he going to dig the soil?"
Lal Guala Guala, Sandra translated: "Lal said it's very simple. First go to a nearby farm to find a tiller. Use the tiller to loosen the soil, and then manually turn over the loose soil. Once the loose soil is gone, then
Use a cultivator to dig a layer and then turn it over. Lal said that the ground here is all soil, so there will be no obstacles such as rock layers."
Egger still shook his head and said to Lal: "The most critical core problem is that if you break up the loose soil and throw it to the other side, there is no way to compact it. Without compacting it, you cannot build an earth wall."
Hearing Aige's words, Lal showed a victorious smile. After he spoke for a while, even Sandora was shocked.
"What did he say?" Iger asked.
Shandora said to Egger: "He said that this problem is very easy to solve. After loosening the soil, sprinkle a large amount of potassium fertilizer. The piled soil mountain will tighten itself under the action of rain and gravity, and eventually it will become solid.
It hardens and it will take shape naturally."
Hearing this, even Egg was stunned for a moment.
Egg reviewed all of Lar's ideas in his mind, and then he found that it was really feasible.
Damn, this is such a masterful operation!!
In this way, a 4-meter-high trapezoidal earth wall can be obtained as quickly as possible, and the earth wall will become tighter and tighter as time goes by. Although it will not reach the point where it cannot be exploded with cannonballs, it will
