After the convoy entered the Qingtang boundary for more than a hundred kilometers, a neat row of buildings finally appeared at the end of the horizon.
At this time, there was only a trace of afterglow left in the sun, and the sunset glow slanted down, reflecting the green pond in front of us a fiery red.
Xiao Yuan stood up and looked at the buildings ahead: "We're finally here!"
Ye Han chuckled and looked towards the urban area of Qingtang. He unexpectedly discovered that at the end of the pasture was a group of buildings. He was surprised to find that Qingtang had no protective wall!
The protective wall is not a city wall, it can also be a layer of barbed wire, or a trench with a span of tens or even hundreds of meters, etc. In short, the protective wall is the city's first line of defense against giant insects, as long as it can play this role
, can be regarded as a protective wall.
However, nothing similar can be seen outside Qingtang City. There are only a few solitary machine gun towers standing on the edge of the city, and behind the machine gun towers is the city area.
In Ye Han's impression, protective walls have been rebuilt in major cities across the country. Qingtang is the largest human gathering area in the west. Isn't its biggest feature the city's high walls and thick walls?
However, my mind turned around and I figured it out again. Qingtang is located in the west, with a vast land and sparse population, and relatively poor natural resources. There are not many giant insects that can survive here, and the possibility of a large-scale insect swarm is very small.
Small-scale insect swarms are completely useless, and the city's defense system can completely cope with them!
At this point, we have to talk about today's urban defense system. If the military's previous combat policy was to actively defend against the enemy, then the current policy is to use defense instead of attack to preserve strength.
As early as the beginning of the insect disaster, Beidu gradually established multiple core cities to concentrate a large number of people and avoid unnecessary losses caused by over-dispersion of the population.
Since that time, the urban architectural style has made a 180-degree turn. Whether it was originally exquisite and graceful or magnificent, it has all turned to solid and durable construction.
To put it simply, the walls are built thicker and the windows are made smaller so that insects cannot dig through or penetrate.
Such a building is definitely not as comfortable as living in before the war, but it is worse than safety. Even the interior of the building is designed with necessary partitions. Once the insect swarm attacks on a large scale, each building can be transformed into a bunker and serve as a mainstay against the insects. group.
Even the buildings before the insect disaster have been fully renovated, not to mention the buildings after the insect disaster. They are completely fortress-like, so they are officially called fortress buildings!
As for the folk names, there are many. In some places, they are called gun towers, watchtowers or fort towers based on their functions; some places call them pigeon towers because of their narrowness, others call them tube towers because of their height, and gray towers because of their color.
, there are many kinds of them, all kinds of things.
At the moment, Ye Han and others can only see the periphery of Qingtang. All the buildings are fortresses. They are of the same height, similar in length and width. The undecorated concrete surface is rough but very strong, and the windows are as small as shooting holes.
To put it bluntly, this thing is indeed not much different from a real fortress. Just find a window and put a machine gun on it, and you can block the street; put machine guns on several windows at the same time, and you can create a crossfire.
The firepower of the fortress building is naturally more than that. It is usually machine guns on the bottom floor, support firepower on the middle floor, and anti-aircraft firepower on the top floor. It is a combination of long, medium and near, low, medium and high. It is not generally useful for dealing with insect swarms.
Given the size of Qingtang, it would be impossible to break through the city without its 1.8 million giant insects. It would make no difference whether or not to protect the wall.
There are dozens or hundreds of such cities in the country, and each city uses its strong arms to protect mankind.
However, such a city can only be found in China, which is known as an infrastructure madman. Foreign countries do not have such sufficient building materials, nor are they so fast in construction speed. According to the authoritative records of Beidu, a thirty-story fortress building only needs to lay the foundation.
The shortest construction period to completion is only nine days, the longest is only fourteen days, and the average is only twelve days!
This achievement is a miracle achieved by engineering staff who work in three shifts day and night. In other words, as long as the building materials are supplied, one engineering team can build 30 standard fortress buildings a year, with 24 households per floor.
Counting four people per household, each building can accommodate 720 households and 2,880 people.
Due to the large population and shortage of information, fortress buildings are rarely allocated by household. In most cases, just like military camps, people are crammed into the buildings as much as possible. On average, each building houses no less than 4,000 people.
Of course, everything will be fine in Beidu if you just cram people into the building. With so many people crowded into a limited space, it won’t matter for a short time. But over time, there will be all kinds of contradictions and conflicts, various management systems, and supplies.
Supply, environmental sanitation, entertainment methods and punitive measures must all be kept up to date. Any shortcomings in any one of them will cause unpredictable consequences.
Problems have arisen in personnel management in major cities. After summing up years of experience and lessons, an effective management plan has been formed.
While thinking about it, the convoy approached Qingtang. The road passed directly between the two fortress buildings, and the width of the road was basically the same as the width of the building.
Ye Han was surprised again here, because there were no roadblocks at the intersection, but there was a registration office sign on the first floor of the fortress building on the left, and several people dressed as civilians were queuing up outside the registration office.
Seeing the motorcade approaching, that person couldn't help but look over. Everyone's expression was different, some were envious, some were worried, and some looked yearning.
Ye Han rushed to the registration office and said, "What kind of registration is there?"
Xiao Yuan chuckled: "It's definitely not marriage!"
"Go away, I didn't ask you!" Ye Han scolded him angrily.
Gu Cheng said: "It should be the exit registration office. After registering here, you can leave the city and change weapons and equipment from the military."
"So simple?" Ye Han was extremely surprised. Shouldn't mercenary registration require strict approval plus political review?
"How complicated can it be?" Gu Cheng was also surprised, "Is it possible that we still need to check the eight generations of our ancestors?"
Ye Hanxin said that being a soldier and interrogating eight generations of ancestors: "That can't be such a child's play, right?"
"There is definitely a basic review, but it just means checking whether there is a criminal record or something." Gu Cheng said.
Ye Han suddenly became interested: "What if you have a criminal record? What if you don't?"
"Those with criminal records must be scrutinized strictly, and if they have truly reformed, they can pass; those without criminal records must be persuaded, but if they cannot be persuaded, the registration office can help find a senior mercenary to lead them."
Ye Han was shocked. Isn't it just to register a mercenary? Is there such an operation? Isn't it just to reduce the population pressure and let people out of the city? Is this just a special purpose to cultivate mercenaries?
In a word, it's all out of date, so I only have one update today, so I would like to say sorry here.
