Volume II San Diego 128 Annexation of Blood Wolves
"Bang bang!" three green flares rose from the wall, and the roar of a motor could be heard not far away.
The Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps under the walls is in chaos due to Odom's killing. A few of Odom's hardcore men insisted on continuing to attack Maple Leaf, while others tried to retreat back to the gathering place, while many more people spun around like headless flies, making a fuss and a mess.
When they gradually heard the roar of the motors and looked around, they found that there were four tanks, four armored vehicles, and more than two dozen armed vehicles equipped with machine guns on their perimeter, and four self-propelled guns aimed at them a kilometer away.
If the electromagnetic cannon is still there, these armored forces are not terrible, or Odom is still alive, desperately losing a division of soldiers, the blood wolf people can still cripple the Maple Leaf Town armed forces excluding Ye Hao. However, there are no ifs, so when the rest of the Blood Wolves can't even agree on their next move, defeat is inevitable.
Eventually, hundreds of Odom's die-hard loyalists attempted to continue their assault on Maple Leaf, and after being killed by a company of guards who remained behind the wall, Odom's painstaking expedition came to an end. In this battle, the total casualties of the Blood Wolf Gathering were less than 500, and the remaining 4,000 people all became prisoners of Maple Leaf Town, and they only caused less than ten casualties in Maple Leaf Town in the final stage of dying struggle.
This is not so much a battle as a farce, and Ye Hao still has a lot of finishing things to do, first of all, the remaining population of the blood wolf gathering place must all move to Maple Leaf Town, which is related to the main task of the system, Ye Hao does not dare to be sloppy.
Ye Hao collected the remaining more than 4,000 people in the blood wolf gathering place and imprisoned them, and after temporarily pacifying them, after leaving Lawrence the next day, he led the people of the guard company and the Barnes armored company to the blood wolf gathering place.
The people of Maple Leaf Town who came to the door in the blood wolf gathering place had lost the heart to resist, and after Ye Hao put out the bodies of Odom and several of his leaders, the blood wolf people surrendered.
Ye Hao did not delay, and after packing up some useful supplies, he and Barnes escorted the remaining six thousand people from the blood wolf gathering to return to Maple Leaf Town. Three days later, they returned to Maple Leaf Town, and after hastily settling everyone in the Blood Wolf Gathering Area, Ye Hao immediately launched the purge of Odom's forces and some of the most heinous people in the Blood Wolf Gathering Area, he didn't want to leave hidden dangers in the Maple Leaf Town that he had single-handedly established.
Seven days later, a thousand soldiers sent by the authorities of Buffalo Town, who got the news, arrived in Maple Leaf Town, led by Ye Hao's acquaintance, Skoda, the head of the Buffalo Town's External Relations Department. When Skoda arrived, he found that Maple Leaf Town had completed the annexation of the Blood Wolf Gathering Area, and the purge of the personnel of the original Blood Wolf Mercenary Group had also been completed.
Skoda pondered for two days, and after finding that there was no chance to take advantage of it, he had no choice but to leave Maple Leaf Town.
Ten days later, Skoda came to Maple Leaf Town again, this time on behalf of the Buffalo Town Authority to sign an agreement with Ye Hao. In this agreement, Maple Leaf Town and Buffalo Town officially formed an alliance to jointly resist the invasion of zombies and mutant beasts and contribute to the revival of human society. This agreement can be seen as a code of conduct for the human survivor base after the outbreak of the cataclysm, and it also represents the human survivor base in the San Diego region that truly recognizes Maple Leaf Town as one of them, and Maple Leaf Town led by Ye Hao has officially become a force to be reckoned with in the San Diego area.
After Skoda signed the agreement, it left the next day. After he left, Ye Hao began to rectify the brand-new Maple Leaf Town.
Still the same as before, Ye Hao called the high-level leaders of Maple Leaf Town together for a meeting.
At this meeting, Ye Hao announced several things.
First of all, Ye Hao announced the construction of another wall on the periphery of Maple Leaf Town.
When there were only 5,000 people, Maple Leaf was already crowded, causing some people to pitch tents outside the walls. Now, after Maple Leaf Town annexed the Snow Wolf Colony, it has a population of more than 15,000 people, and the original walls will definitely not be able to protect everyone, so it has become an urgent matter to build a new wall.
Secondly, Ye Hao once again expanded the armed forces of Maple Leaf Town.
The original Maple Town Garrison Battalion has 500 soldiers, Ye Hao plans to expand the garrison battalion into a garrison regiment, and after the annexation of the blood wolf gathering place, the formation of a new armed force in Maple Leaf Town is also the proper meaning of the question. Ye Hao selected 500 people from the original Blood Wolf Mercenary Group and the civilians of the Blood Wolf Gathering Place to join the military force of Maple Leaf Town, and selected a total of 1,000 people from the personnel of the Blood Wolf Gathering Area, on the one hand, to weaken the resistance of the Blood Wolf Gathering Area, and on the other hand, to speed up the integration between Maple Leaf Town and the Blood Wolf Gathering Area. Then, in order to balance the composition of Maple Leaf Town and the Blood Wolf Gathering Place in the new armed forces of Maple Leaf Town, Ye Hao selected five hundred people from the original residents of Maple Town to join the Maple Town Garrison Regiment.
At this point, the Maple Town Garrison Regiment has become a regimental-level combat unit with 2,000 soldiers, with three battalions and one company in addition to the regimental headquarters. The three battalion-level combat units are two mechanized infantry battalions and one armored battalion, each with a strength of 550 personnel, and one company-level combat unit is a regimental guard company with a reinforced company of 300 personnel.
The post of head of the garrison regiment is, of course, held by Ye Hao. The company commander of the guard company is Ye Hao's former bodyguard Jimmy, and the guard company, as Ye Hao's personal guard, of course needs to choose someone Ye Hao trusts to be in charge. The remaining three battalion commanders were Lawrence, Chauming, and Barnes, respectively.
Xiao Ming is a small leader of the original Blood Wolf Mercenary Group, and like Ye Hao, he is also a Chinese. After the outbreak of the cataclysm, he fled to the San Diego Military Port, where he was carried away by Odom's Blood Wolf Mercenary Regiment when the military port was besieged and fell by millions of zombies. Later, when Odom established the Blood Wolf Colony, Xiao Ming joined the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group and became a small leader among them.
This time, when Ye Hao formed the Maple Leaf Town Garrison Regiment, he planned to hand over one of the three battalion commanders to the people of the original blood wolf gathering place, on the one hand, to appease the personnel of the original blood wolf gathering place, and on the other hand, to tell them that the management of Maple Leaf Town would treat them equally, and they would not become second-class citizens of Maple Leaf Town.
After the investigation, Xiao Ming entered Ye Hao's sight, and was finally appointed as the commander of the second battalion of the Maple Town Garrison Regiment. Of course, Xiao Ming's appointment as the commander of the second battalion had some serendipity. Of course, because of Ye Hao's absolute strength, he is not worried that someone will have different intentions, but as the highest person in power, Ye Hao also hopes that the face of the East can appear in the high-level of Maple Town, as a means of checks and balances. This can be seen as Ye Hao's careful thinking, which can also be said that Ye Hao is gradually maturing and can consider problems from the perspective of the highest decision-maker.
Third, Ye Hao set up an industrial bureau under the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Maple Leaf Town, and Sloan, the former vice minister of civil affairs, served as the director.
The development of Maple Leaf Town to this day can be regarded as a small town, and it is not impossible to rely entirely on Ye Hao to transport materials from the real world, but it is not conducive to long-term development. Therefore, Ye Hao must slowly let go of his control over some materials, and at the same time let Maple Leaf Town make its own blood, although these things cannot be completed in one step, but the early start can benefit as soon as possible.
Ye Hao plans to open several small light industry enterprises first, such as food processing factories and tobacco factories.
Food in the last days can be said to be far better than gold hard currency, but because the industrial base of human society has been destroyed, so human beings can be said to have almost returned to the primitive society of Ru Mao and drinking blood, and the lack of processing methods such as vacuum packaging of food is not easy to preserve, so there is a vast market for further processing of food.
As for the windfall profits of tobacco, as long as it is a modern person, it can be imagined. It and several other categories, such as salt wine, occupy a pivotal position in modern times. Just look at how many of the CCTV bidders 9o years later are companies that belong to these three lines.
However, Ye Hao is not worried that he will break the law when he buys tobacco, and generally only if he makes cigarettes and counterfeits other kinds of cigarettes, he will be sentenced when he is investigated and punished. Like loose tobacco, tobacco leaves that have not yet been tangented, there are a lot of them circulating in the market, and you can buy them at any time when you want, or in some areas where tobacco is grown in large quantities.
Ye Hao's idea, of course, is not finished cigarettes, after all, in the last days, under certain restrictions, finished cigarettes are very scarce, which is not in line with his long-term and stable philosophy. So what Ye Hao wanted to pour was shredded tobacco, and then processed in Maple Leaf Town to make the simplest cigarettes. Of course, you can also sell tobacco directly in the last days, so that although it is not as valuable as finished cigarettes, it is simple, safe and convenient.
It is impossible for the authorities of Buffalo Town not to see the huge profits of tobacco, but the population here is huge, and there is no more free land to grow tobacco and other cash crops, so the last time Ye Hao's caravan went to Buffalo Town to make a lot of money.
As for the machines needed to build these light industries, of course, Ye Hao bought them from modern society.
After Ye Hao and the management of Maple Leaf Town planned the future direction of Maple Leaf Town, they began to implement it in an orderly manner. After being busy for nearly ten days, the chaos in Maple Leaf Town gradually subsided due to the annexation of the blood wolf gathering place, and Ye Hao finally had time to accept the rewards of the system.
At the beginning, when Ye Hao officially decided to settle in Maple Leaf Town, the system gave the main task four: to make the population of Maple Leaf Town reach 10,000 within three months. Now, after annexing the Blood Wolf Gathering Place, the population of Maple Leaf Town has exceeded 15,000 people, which can be said to have exceeded the task of the system.
After finishing the day's work and having dinner, he returned to his tent, and Ye Hao could finally receive the rewards of the system with peace of mind.
In addition, because the new expansion project in Maple Leaf Town is underway, Ye Hao and other management are still living in tents for the time being, and when the expansion project is completed, they will be able to end their days of living in tents.
"System, receive the reward of the main quest four!"
"The host has completed the main quest four - the population of Maple Leaf Town has reached 10,000. β
"Does the host claim the quest reward?"
"Pick it up. β
"Ding Dong! The host receives the reward ...... of the main quest four"
"Bonus 1: The host gains the skill - Absolute Defense. β
"Reward 2: The host will receive a bottle of Level 4 Gene Elixir. β
"Reward 3: The host will receive two vials of the third-level gene potion, four vials of the second-level gene potion, and the manufacturing method of the first-level gene potion. β
"Reward 4: The level of the biometal robot Li Tie has been upgraded to a level 5 gene body. β
Ye Hao raised his eyebrows: "System, what's going on with the genetic medicine and manufacturing method of Reward Three?"
"Since settling in Maple Leaf Town, it is no longer possible for the host to rely on the strength of one person to fight, so this system will appropriately improve the strength of the host's subordinates. β
"So, these genetic drugs are for me to choose people to take, and what about the manufacturing method of the first-class drugs?"
"In order to maintain the balance of this world, the high-end combat power of the human race must be limited. However, in view of the fact that zombies and mutant beasts evolve faster than humans, in order to reverse the decline of humans in the face of zombies and mutant beasts, the system provides a method for the manufacture of first-class genetic drugs. In the future, with the improvement of the host's strength, the manufacturing method of gene drugs will be updated in time. β
Only then did Ye Hao understand the intention of the system, he had always been strange that he had met people with special skills other than himself for so long in the end of the world, it seemed that it was because the humans in this world had suffered too serious losses in the solar storm, causing them to lag behind zombies and mutant beasts in evolution. If this continues, it is possible that humanity will really perish, so the system provides a method for the manufacture of genetic drugs.
"The system reminds the host that the City of Angels, the largest local human survivor base between San Francisco and Los Angeles, has also recently developed a method for manufacturing a first-class genetic agent. In the near future, humanity will embark on a new path of evolution, and a new era has begun!"
Damn, Ye Hao originally thought that this time the system was rare and generous, but who knew that it was still an afterthought, with the precedent of the city of angels, he gave himself the manufacturing method of the first-level genetic medicine, it seems that the system is still that system, and he is too naΓ―ve. However, he and the City of Angels are on the same starting line, and in addition, the San Diego region where he is located does not have a manufacturing method for first-class genetic drugs, and this market is still in his own hands.
"System, what's going on with that City of Angels?"
"The City of Angels is located between San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the host did not pass through the City of Angels when it went south. After the outbreak of the cataclysm, because of the geographical location, it attracted the defection of human survivors from both places, and now has a population of more than 500,000. It has not been besieged by a large zombie horde so far, and is the largest human survivor base on the West Coast of the United States. Since most of the human survivors in San Francisco and Los Angeles have entered the City of Angels, the City of Angels has absorbed a large number of talents from the two cities, and has made extraordinary achievements in the fields of biopharmaceuticals and machinery manufacturing, but due to the lack of various materials and machinery and equipment in the last days, the City of Angels cannot develop rapidly. However, now that the City of Angels has developed a first-level genetic potion, it can form an army of supernatural beings, and it already has the ability to counterattack big cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, once it obtains a large number of materials and industrial equipment in these cities, the City of Angels will embark on the fast track of development and become the biggest enemy of the host's growth!"
"System, you mean I'm going to fight that Angel City for control of the West Coast of America?"
"The host will be the man standing at the top of the blue star, and it is the host's unshirkable responsibility to save all mankind. β
"Your sister, isn't this a goddamn plot of hegemony, don't you want to be so bloody!"
"This system reminds the host that if Maple Leaf Town is annexed by the City of Angels, the host will be wiped out!"
Well, the system uncle has the final say!
After Ye Hao finished complaining, a question suddenly came to mind: "System, is the manufacturing method of the first-level genetic medicine you provided the same as the method developed by the City of Angels?"
"Produced by this system, it must be a high-quality product!" said the system arrogantly: "The first-level gene medicine manufactured according to the prescription given by this system has a theoretical evolutionary success rate of more than 98% after taking it, and there are no sequelae, while the evolutionary success rate of the gene medicine developed by Angel City is less than 80%, even if it successfully evolves into a first-level gene body, it will lead to damage to the central nervous system of the user and the exhaustion of potential development and other factors, resulting in an extremely difficult evolutionary road in the future." β
"What do you mean?"
"This system is in a hurry for the host's IQ! For example, if you take the gene medicine provided by this system, the probability of evolving from a zero-level gene body to a first-level gene body is 98%, then the probability of evolving from a first-level gene body to a second-level gene body is still 98%, and so on, of course, with the increase of level, the probability of evolution will decrease, but there will be no cliff-like decline; Even if they continue to develop new evolution potions, when the level is raised to level four, the success rate will get lower and lower until it reaches a desperate number. β
According to the system, the genetic potion developed by the City of Angels has an evolution probability of less than 80%, and the success rate of the third-level gene body evolving into the fourth-level gene body is less than 40%, and the success rate of the sixth-level gene body evolving into the seventh-level gene body is only 20%.
Don't underestimate these probabilities, according to the algorithm given by the system, theoretically, Maple Leaf Town and Angel City each have a hundred people to take genetic medicine, and when they evolve to the seventh-level gene body, there are still 87 people left in Maple Leaf Town, and there are only 21 people in Angel City. And as you move up the ranks, the gap will only get bigger.
"Wait, system, what is the success rate of the evolution of the genetic potion you gave me?" Ye Hao suddenly asked, because he was also evolving by taking the evolution potion, he really hadn't thought about this problem before.