The expansion in recent days has resulted in an extremely long defense line for Tianyuan Base. In order to cope with the coming alien wave, the military government mobilized almost all the builders in the city to strengthen the walls surrounding Tianyuan Base and add machine guns and turrets to the walls.
An order worth 1 million energy crystals!
But not many people were happy about this. The coming alien wave made everyone feel deep fear. Some people chose to flee, but most people chose to stay.
If you ask why, it's all because of a wartime regulation issued by Chu Zhaonan.
"Anyone who leaves Tianyuan Base during wartime will have the real estate registered in their name confiscated and used to pay for defense expenses. The excess will be used as rewards to individuals or organizations with outstanding performance during wartime.
.If you have to leave but are reluctant to part with your property here, please pay a war tax of 20-40 energy crystals per square meter for your property here. This money will be used to pay the salaries of mercenaries and strengthen the defense line.
and ammunition expenditure.”
This order may seem unreasonable, but it is actually very fair.
Why are the soldiers at Tianyuan Base sacrificing their lives and blood to defend the industry here for you, while you, the vested interests, flee outside at the critical moment? Either contribute, or pay, otherwise the new Ming government will tacitly admit that you have given up on Tianyuan.
Ownership of base real estate!
Although many businessmen tried to protest through the parliament, they obviously did not understand the situation. Five of the 10 members had "honor chips" installed by Zhu Tian.
The bill passed without resistance and was supported by the vast majority of civilians.
These civilians have finally found their own home in Tianyuan Base. Who would be willing to return to a wandering life? As for those who want to flee at the slightest sign of trouble and want those who stay to guard their property for them, they will not get it.
Sympathy from anyone.
As a result, except for businessmen based in other places, basically no one chose to leave at this time.
As for what is the use of tying up irrelevant people in the base?
This is of great use.
The armed forces currently stationed at Tianyuan Base are mainly composed of three forces. One is naturally the third corps of the new Ming Dynasty military government, the second is mercenaries and hunters and some armed scavengers, and the third is merchants
Our private soldiers!
Although all the nuclear materials in their hands were confiscated after the denuclearization of Tianyuan Base, Tianyuan Base has never restricted their weapons. Because when doing business in the wasteland, if the gun barrel is weak, it will have two legs.
Sheep. Even if they escape the claws of alien species, they cannot escape the robbery of their own kind.
Keeping the merchants here means leaving their private soldiers here. These merchants are much richer than the average mercenary group, and this wealth is reflected in the quality of the equipment. Although these
There are no Type 50 electromagnetic guns that are restricted for sale by merchants and private soldiers, but there are still a few assaulter infantry vehicles and the like.
The civilians mobilized to join the army, and the merchants reluctantly sent their private soldiers to the front line. Once the alien wave broke out, it was impossible to open the city gate. Since you chose to stay, there was no option to escape. At this time, there was still hiding.
There's no point in hiding, it's better to stand on the front line and earn some commissions.
The arms factory is operating at full capacity, turning steel, aluminum and other materials brought from the Ming Dynasty survivor base into arms.
At this time, the industrial production capacity of Tianyuan Base came into use.
At the beginning, Zhu Tian disclosed some of the equipment and technology of the W-2 type power armor in the military factory acquired from Zhao Tianqiang to other small workshops, and then through outsourcing
Using the method of producing parts, 20 units of W-2 were produced in just one month.
This output is almost 10 times that of before.
Not only the power armor, but also the Type 99 anti-tank gun, the Screamer mortar... As the industrial system gradually improves, these heavy weapons with low production capacity are also flowing out of the factory like water.
Drag out.
When they saw the heavy weapons being pulled from the factories to the front line, and the boxes of bullets and artillery shells being pulled to the supply points, almost everyone was full of confidence in this war.
If the ones that come to harass you are always zombies.
...
At this moment, three hundred meters outside the north gate of Tianyuan Base, the soldiers of the First Corps built a simple defense line here with mobile bunkers and sandbags, and used machine guns to shoot approaching zombies. The wall behind them was being reinforced and reconstructed, and their mission
Just stay here and prevent the tide of alien species from advancing to the wall before the reconstruction is completed.
From time to time, screams came from behind them, which was the tail sound of the electromagnetic shells fired by the Screamer mortars.
Three artillery shells rose into the air and slammed into the position of the zombies. The flying shrapnel instantly tore apart the nearby zombies, and their intestines and pieces of meat were scattered on the ground.
At this time, a huge thing suddenly appeared in the dust of the explosion. It waved the billboard in its hand and rushed towards the defense line with load-bearing steps.
"Discovering Roshan."
While squatting behind the machine gun position and pressing the trigger tightly, a soldier shouted loudly into the headset.
"receive."
He answered calmly, accompanied by the explosion of the cannon.
The orange-yellow shells screamed past, shattering Roshan's head.
"Good shot!" the soldier yelled back, while reloading the ammunition into the machine. Seeing a pause in the offensive, the scavengers who had been waiting for a long time rushed towards Roshan's body with a knife in their hands. Recovery
The energy crystal on the back of their neck. After obtaining the energy crystal, they can keep 40% as their reward.
Standing on the sentry tower, Wu Qiang observed all this with a telescope.
Contrary to the optimistic public opinion, as the commander of the Third Corps, he did not have a relaxed expression on his face at this moment.
Although after many days of reinforcements, the strength of the Third Corps has expanded to 4,000, which is enough to equal the number of the First and Second Corps combined, this is still not enough to bring him too much optimism.
As a former Liuhe District survivor, he had witnessed with his own eyes the horror of the alien tide.
At that time, the alien wave even overwhelmed the soldiers of the former World Alliance, forcing them to abandon Jinling City. The survivors of Tianyuan Base relied on a large amount of standard equipment left by the World Alliance to hold on to this survivor base.
After the last civil war, the only remaining equipment was the Prowler tank. Now that tank has been deployed to the First Corps, the only heavy weapons Tianyuan Base can rely on are self-produced heavy weapons.
"Report, Executive Officer Chu Zhaonan sent me to inform you to attend the meeting."
"I know." Wu Qiang nodded.
The soldier made a military salute and stood aside.
After taking a final look at the front line with his binoculars, Wu Qiang stuffed the binoculars back into his pocket, turned around and left.
...
Arriving at the holographic conference room, Wu Qiang nodded and said hello to Chu Zhaonan, then sat in his seat.
The meeting begins, Marshal
Zhu Tian, staff officer Xu Anhua, three regiment leaders, Tianyuan Base Executive Officer Chu Zhaonan, Logistics Minister Wang Qing, and Interior Minister Li Chengwei. Basically all the top officials of the new Ming Dynasty government are here.
Floating on the conference table was a holographic map of Jinling City. Seeing the deployment of troops on the map, Wu Qiang roughly guessed the purpose of this meeting.
First, Wang Qing explained the situation of military supplies in the base, and then Li Chengwei reported on the reserve mobilization situation.
Finally, the staff officer presented the battle plan. Since this battle plan had been discussed with the marshal in advance, all Zhu Tian had to do at the meeting was just to nod.
But after hearing the battle plan, Chu Zhaonan frowned slightly, couldn't help but stand up, and raised objections.
"I have an objection. Prowler tanks, 8 Hunter Tiger IIs, and 15 Raider infantry vehicles are all deployed in the First Corps? Although Tianyuan Base is mainly defensive, it does not mean that it does not need any armor protection."
Zhu Tian looked at Wu Qiang.
After pondering for a long time, Wu Qiang nodded solemnly.
"I agree with Chu Zhaonan's point of view. Without the cover of armored forces, it means that once the city gate is lost, we will not have the ability to recapture the city gate. We can only completely abandon the lost defense line and retreat. To be prepared, we need to deploy at least 4
A Jagdtiger II."
"As long as we don't lose control, it will be fine." Xu Anhua said calmly.
"Of course, I know it's best not to make a single mistake, but..."
"Tanks are the most efficient option to defend the city. The First Corps, equipped with all armor, will capture Jiashi in the shortest possible time and then turn around and return to defense." Xu Anhua said in a tone that left no room for doubt.
A very risky decision.
If there is a flaw in the defense line of Tianyuan Base, if the First Corps is in a stalemate in its battle with the mutants...
Zhou Weiguo, the commander of the First Corps, did not speak, but gave Wu Qiang a helpless and apologetic look. Wu Qiang also did not speak, but used his eyes to express his understanding of the helplessness of his colleagues.
Taking a deep breath and staring at Xu Anhua's face, Chu Zhaonan slowly sat back down.
"I hope your decision is correct. This affects the lives of 80,000 people."