MTL - Wasteland Commander-Chapter 63 Base site selection
Chapter 63 Base Site Selection
The troops and survivors went out to eliminate zombies and collect supplies. Ye Fan did not follow after giving the order.
The radar screen has reflected everything in Chengguan Town.
There are still 20,000 zombies here. With the current strength of a hundred-person team, they can be bulldozed in two days. He does not need to be on the front line to command.
Ye Fan stayed at the police station and was discussing the construction of the base vehicle with four engineers.
Engineer Luo Jiaxin proposed the plan.
"Sir, the preliminary materials used for the base vehicle have been determined. We currently need a large amount of steel. Please help us prepare 500 tons each, and then create a warehouse for us. The length is required to be no less than 80 meters and the width is no less than 80 meters. It’s 50 meters away, which is convenient for us to construct.”
“We need such a big warehouse.”
"Yes, for internal operations in the warehouse, you will also need to send troops to guard the warehouse, and send no less than fifty soldiers to help us do some basic work. This can improve work efficiency."
“Okay, I understand, let’s make arrangements now.”
Ye Fan actually knows one such warehouse, and it's located in Chengguan Town.
The grain depot located in Chengguan Town was originally used for spreading and cleaning grain. However, later on, the grain department began to streamline its organization due to the recession, so the grain depot was contracted out.
But the private owner later went bankrupt and disposed of all the grain, and the people disappeared. Later, there were only two watchmen in the grain warehouse, and everything inside was deserted.
There is no good solution before the end of the world breaks out.
In this case, this warehouse is a ready-made base vehicle production warehouse.
As for steel, there are several factories nearby, which should probably be able to meet production needs.
With a thousand tons of steel, even if there will be a lot of scraps, this base vehicle must be very big.
He informed the troops who were preparing for war that they must seize the grain depot today and allow engineers to move in and start construction.
Of course, a lot of things are needed, such as generators, lighting equipment, some lathes and other metals, etc., so the troops also pay attention to collecting them.
He can find some small lathes here in Chengguan Town. He can use them first to get some detailed things. If the army is larger, he can go to a factory in the suburbs of Lingshui County.
Engineers must also be manned, and survivors cannot be allowed to participate in this kind of thing.
One company of men was obviously not enough to do so many things, so he wanted to increase the number of troops as soon as possible.
The engineer made a request and left. It is estimated that he can enter the warehouse and start working today.
The construction of the base vehicle is on the right track. If everything goes well, Ye Fan will be able to see the vehicle in half a month, and with it, there will be an important task.
That is to determine where the base will be built.
There is a map on the wall of the director's office. It is a topographic map of the province. It is large and very detailed.
Picking up a pen and drawing on the map, Ye Fan was looking for a suitable place to stay.
It is impossible for the troops to be stationed here in Chengguan Town all the time. From all aspects, this place does not meet Ye Fan's requirements for establishing a base.
Having been studying the construction of the base for a long time, Ye Fan finally sorted out his ideas today. In addition to requiring plains, it is best to have mining areas nearby.
Whether he looks for jewelry from zombies, collects it from residents’ homes, or even goes to jewelry stores or banks in the future, it is actually temporary and cannot meet the development needs of Red Alert.
He has already learned from Nana that physical buildings, tanks and airplanes in the future will be very expensive.
An armored vehicle equipped with a driver and machine gunner costs 4,000 gold, and a tank may cost tens of thousands.
If it were a land warfare overlord like Tianqi, even 10,000 or 20,000 people might not be able to get one.
Physical buildings are even more expensive. He even asked Nana about this issue.
Nana's answer is that the physical buildings are very large, and the charges for the red alert system are not unreasonably high. They are definitely much cheaper than normal construction, and the construction period is very short and can be completed quickly, but the charges will not be too high. Cheap.
So while Ye Fan was trying different ways to make money, mining was an important part of the source of funds.
It is located in the northern region. There are mining areas here, but they are few.
Having a mine is an option, as well as having a water source.
Now they use collected bottled water and barreled water, and the water from the water plant in the city cannot be used.
The water in the reservoir is not very clean either. He currently does not have the equipment to purify the water.
It is okay to choose a flowing area close to a river, and it should be as far upstream as possible. The river does not flow through the city, and the water source will not be too polluted.
Another reason is that it cannot be too remote.
There are few people and few zombies in remote places. Ye Fan's troops must continue to train and kill zombies in order to grow. He wants to build an elite army of three-star soldiers, not a group of newly born starless soldiers.
It was too difficult to find a place that met these requirements at the same time. Ye Fan looked around and found that there were only two places to choose from in the province. One was close to the Rakshasa border, with mines and plains, but with a smaller number of people.
The other one is a backing farm in the Sanjiang Plain. There is a gold mine nearby, but the gold reserves are not large.
The water of the Qixing River passes through there. It belongs to the source area of the upper reaches and does not flow through the city.
There are mines and water, but there are also shortcomings.
That is this plain, which belongs to the junction of three cities.
To the south is Bingcheng City, to the west is Coal City, and to the east is Huajiang City.
There are several dotted county towns nearby, and the number of zombies is a bit too much.
However, overall, Ye Fan feels that it is better to base on the backing farm. Although there are many zombies, the wall can be defended if built.
“A strategic location that can be attacked when advancing and defended when retreating. It’s close to any city, and it’s right here!”
"After the base vehicle is built, we will move. I should save some money in the past few days to build the base's wall for defense first, and then take the people away when I come back."
It is not possible to bring a large group of survivors there and then start construction again. After all, the red alert wall and other things have to be built in advance and cannot appear out of thin air, so he has to go there by himself.
Ye Fan picked up the pen and drew a check mark on the backing farm on the map to determine the location of the base construction.
According to his budget, he must accumulate more than 100,000 units of money before he can consider building a base, and even 100,000 units may not be possible.
“Time is tight and the task is heavy. I wonder how much I can gain from today’s battle?”
Listening to the sound of gunfire echoing outside, the battle has been going on for several hours. The large delivery truck has returned five or six times and brought back a lot of supplies, including food, gasoline, medicine, clothes, and countless daily necessities, all of which were piled next to it. Inside the two newly developed private houses, they have become temporary warehouses.
However, the gold has not been returned yet. I will definitely be promoted to battalion commander today, depending on how much gold I have.
Just as she was thinking about it, Nana suddenly sent a prompt: "Sir, a supply box was found on the map, located at the town government building."
“Oh! Get it back for me immediately.”
Ye Fan suddenly became energetic and actually took out the supply box to see what good goods he could get.
Second platoon leader Shen Ruihui was ordered to go, but ten minutes later, he asked Ye Fan to change his perspective.
Ye Fan cut in and was stunned by the scene in front of him.
The picture is of the town government building. Ye Fan also saw the town government building for the first time after the apocalypse.
The other buildings remained unchanged, but this building collapsed.
It was not an ordinary collapse, but something collapsed!
The troops walked into the ruins and felt that the ground beneath their feet was scorched black.
After walking hard for a while, he saw a huge pit in the middle of the ruins.
The radar showed that the supply box was in the pit.
Green light spot, but there is also a red light spot that overlaps with the green one.
“Why is there a pit here?”
“There are actually mutated zombies here. I have a hunch that a big guy is going to come out of this scammer!”
Thanks to the book friend (丨qu丨) for the 10,000 rewards and becoming our tenth rudder-level fan of Red Alert.
(End of this chapter)
