I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 661 - 559

The battle situation in the city is indeed as Chen Xin understood, currently in a relatively stable state. The military has also solidified the defense line, keeping the alien creatures outside the city.

However, this war is not limited to just one battlefield in the city, and the alien creatures' attack direction is not just limited to this city.

Along the entire coastline of Dongting Lake, an unknown number of alien creatures have proliferated, adopting a strategy of full-scale attack, striking everywhere at once. It can be said that the entire area around Dongting Lake is a war zone.

As one of the largest freshwater lakes in our country, Dongting Lake had an area of more than two thousand square kilometers before the disaster, with a basin perimeter of over eight hundred kilometers, spanning numerous counties and cities between the provinces of Hunan and Hubei, making it a vast region.

There has always been the saying "embracing three rivers and holding five lakes" here, and our city occupies only a corner of East Dongting Lake along the lake's shore.

Due to the advantage of having the Research Center where Chen Xin is located, the city has deployed a large number of Titans on the battlefield, which helps stabilize the battle situation, but the other front lines along the Dongting Lake shoreline are not as easy.

It must be said that these alien creatures have terrifying physical qualities. Their chitin skeletons, which can only be effectively penetrated by heavy machine guns, provide them with quite strong and powerful defense, adding great trouble to the warriors on the battlefield trying to eliminate them.

Although the military has deployed troops equipped with Exoskeletons and heavy machine guns to the front lines as much as possible, the alien creatures are not human. They have no concept of focusing attacks on one point, nor do they have the idea of capturing cities.

It's entirely a style of launching full-front assaults, wherever a prominent point is hit, that becomes the main attack direction.

The vast number of alien creatures and their strong reproductive abilities are enough to support their use of such a tactic.

In fact, this is precisely the hardest part of stopping such swarm-like creatures; a vast insect sea cannot be withstood by mere flesh and blood defenses.

Faced with vast numbers, swarms have never feared any enemy, even if these alien creatures are not insects, their method of attack is the same as the swarm.

Under such circumstances, the military can only erect an unbroken defense line along the nearly one thousand kilometers of Dongting Lake's coastline and strictly hold the line.

Despite the use of modern armored groups, air strikes, and missile and artillery technology, the military is currently able to stabilize the defense line, preventing alien creatures from breaking through, but other areas do not have the same leeway as the city.

The cities along the Dongting Lake coastline have basically been abandoned now, with populations moved to the rear for resettlement, like the city, and the cities themselves becoming part of the defense line to resist alien invasions.

Nevertheless, areas with cities can use them to build defense lines, whereas places without cities must confront the alien creatures head-on in the wilderness, just as before.

Though most of the surroundings of Dongting Lake are hilly terrain, when snow depth reaches over ten meters, the terrain has been significantly leveled, leaving it in almost a defilade defense state.

The military can only lay out defense lines as much as possible, using heavy firepower for suppression.

This battle mode is extremely disadvantageous for humans; humans need rest, and equipment will break, but alien creatures are endless, tireless, and require no rest.

This strategy of treating lower-level sub-bodies almost like expendable bullets places significant pressure on the military.

However, the city relies on the excellent performance of the Titans that played a blocking role against the alien creatures, making commanders on other fronts particularly envious when reporting on the battle situation.

Naturally, they also inquire through various channels how to procure more Titans from the city's commanding general.

In fact, the whole warzone command has been nearly buried with reports about needing more Titans.

Though it's not as if war can't be fought without Titans, given the choice, who would choose to pit their soldiers' flesh and blood against those alien creatures?

Especially when it is difficult to counter the combat sub-bodies even with Exoskeleton armor, the military urgently needs a piece of equipment that can stabilize the front line on the battlefield.

This task should originally have been handled by tanks, but facing flexible and vast numbers of alien creatures, tanks are not very effective either.

In the wilderness, the line can somewhat rely on the maneuverability of tanks to outmaneuver alien creatures, but in the cities, buildings obscure sight, roads restrict mobility, and tanks have unsatisfactory performance in front of these alien creatures.

Although alien creatures' combat sub-bodies cannot damage tank armor with their sharp claws, when faced with those sub-bodies carrying bubble-like growths similar to hermit crabs, the corrosive high-temperature liquid within those bubbles can still penetrate the tank armor and harm the tank crew.

Despite the military dispatching numerous Armed Helicopter Brigades and Air Force Squadrons to support the battlefield, they still remain at a disadvantage.

Upon understanding the situation from the general, Chen Xin couldn't help but feel a bit heavy-hearted and regretful, wishing he had considered expanding Titan production capacity earlier.

If he currently had a factory capable of large-scale Titan production, the front lines wouldn't be in such a passive state, and soldiers wouldn't have to rely on flesh and blood to fight those powerful alien creatures.

But regret is futile now. The most crucially thing is to solve the problem, find a way to compensate.

Fortunately, for Chen Xin, this wasn't too difficult a task. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Since that's the case, General, please help dismantle the equipment from the Research Center and transport it to the Dome City. I will resume Titan production there as soon as possible," said Chen Xin as he communicated with the General. He added, "In addition, I suggest building more Titan production factories in the secure areas in the rear. If existing military-industrial factories have the capability, they can temporarily refit their production lines to switch to Titan production.

As for technical issues, I will handle them when I return. Regardless of anything, I promise to provide the front-line soldiers with the equipment they need in the shortest time possible."

"With your promise, Academician Chen, I can finally be at ease!" The general relaxed considerably after hearing Chen Xin's assurance.

With more Titans, the front lines will be better secured, and more soldiers won't have to fight alien creatures with their bodies.

As equipment was mentioned, Chen Xin suddenly remembered something else he had retrieved before: "