Volume 1, First Pot of Gold, Chapter 741, Build a Defense Line!

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"The best way to deal with the Calamity Moon is to wait for it to pass on its own. It's better to clean up the eggs of a mireururk than to fight with a mirelurk head-on. Tens of thousands of mireuras surrounded them, even tanks. Since you're here by airship, it shouldn't be a problem to wait until early March to hide in the airship, or simply wait until the summer solstice to come back, right?"

"We need to do something on the island, we can't wait that long. After a pause, Jiang Chen then asked, "What about you, what are your plans for the Calamity Moon?"

"I had planned to go to the survivors' settlement in Minnan Province until the summer solstice, but this year my boat was in a bit of a bad situation. If I don't have a companion willing to give me a ride, I may choose to go to Taipei 79 Shelter. It only takes 50 subcrystals to stay until the summer solstice, which is a fair price. Chen Guangning replied.

"Okay, Mr. Chen, we just lack a guide, so I don't know if you're interested in staying with us?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile.

Hearing Jiang Chen's invitation, Chen Guangning was overjoyed and immediately said, "Very interested." If there's anything that can be used by me, Chen is happy to serve!"

"It's okay to be a good guide, you don't need to do anything else. Go out and talk to the guards, and they'll arrange a place for you. I'll pay you 10 crystals a day, and if you don't have any other opinions, you can go down. ”

"Marshal Xie!"

Chen Guangning changed his name very respectfully, but Jiang Chen himself was not very interested in these red tapes, so he waved his hand and said.

"Go ahead. ”

After Chen Guangning walked away, Jiang Chen pondered for a moment, then turned his head slightly and looked at Li Wang, who was standing beside him.

"What do you think?"

"Based on the intelligence gathered by our reconnaissance team, we can build a defensive line with concrete on the northern beaches of Despair and encircle the mirelurks in the shallows. Li Wang said categorically.

Jiang Chen nodded.

This is indeed a viable plan, and the only drawback is that it will take a lot of cement and ammunition to build a line of defense that will enclose the entire beach of despair. The sand can be sourced locally, and the graphene pipes and cement that serve as the skeleton can be transported by supply airship. The only trouble is that it's February 18th, less than a week before the arrival of the Calamity Month.

There was not much time left for the expeditionary force.

"The necessary ammunition and cement will be delivered as soon as possible, and you will start construction immediately, and finish the defensive line as soon as possible before the month of calamity. ”

"Yes!" Li Wangli saluted and immediately took the order.

After Li Wang left, Jiang Chen turned on his watch, entered the communication screen and channel password left for him by the Moby Dick Submarine Expedition Station, and had a holographic video conference with them.

The person in charge of contacting him is still Wu Yue, and judging from the setting behind him, he should be on the warship at this moment.

After the contact was connected, Jiang Chen got straight to the point.

"Can the sonar on your boat repel mirelurks?"

Wu Yue seemed to know the reason why Jiang Chen would ask this, but he still shook his head regretfully.

"Unfortunately, our sonar can't do that. Encountering mirelurks in shallow waters can be a real headache, and they will try to climb into the boat...... Do you want to delay the delivery of space elevator parts?"

Jiang Chen shook his head.

"It's still the original plan, you are responsible for sending our transport ship to the shallow sea first, and I will find a way to solve the problem of mirelurks. ”

"As you wish. Wu Yue bowed slightly.

……

Despair Beach is located at the northernmost tip of Yizhou Island, which is the lowest terrain in the northern part of the island.

In front of the station, it used to be a water park covering thousands of acres, stretching from the beach down the shallow sea to the edge of the deep sea. Now, however, it has been bombed into ruins, and a freighter is still lying in the shallows.

The staggered steel skeleton and debris form a wetland-like environment in the shallows. Algae and seaweed grow uncontrollably in the damp shade, a paradise for scavengers and a breeding ground for mutated creatures.

Even experienced adventurers did not dare to set foot in that dangerous place lightly. Even if it is power armor, it is difficult to get advantage in front of the mirelurk's pincers and a thousand bladed teeth. Not to mention the other mutated creatures lurking in the shallow seas, with the complex terrain, their attack methods are even more unguardable.

That's why it's called Despair Beach, and it's a place of despair for everyone who sets foot here.

Li Wang's execution was very efficient, and the construction of the defensive line began on the same day that he received the order. A hundred construction machines and men are working around the beach of despair, laying the foundations of the wall. At the same time, local survivors hired by the expeditionary force worked on the front lines for a salary of 5 subcrystals per day.

Not everyone can afford to live in a shelter, not to mention that the space in a shelter is limited. When the month of calamity comes, most people choose to take refuge in their makeshift shelter from manual DIY, and survive the months of terror with their families.

Although at the beginning, the arrival of the expeditionary force made them feel wary, after all, judging from their well-armed bodies, these people did not look like good people. But when the survivors saw them start building fortifications along the beach of despair, they completely changed their minds.

Even if they didn't think that these people could stop the hundreds of thousands of mirelurks that came ashore to lay eggs, they still had a faint hint of luck in their hearts.

If these people push the mireurk crab back from the beach of despair, the Calamity Moon that has plagued Yizhou Island for more than a decade will be completely eradicated. Optimistically, if the mirelurk crabs are hurt by the NAC people this year and fail to spawn on Yizhou Island, they may be forced to change their habits and start migrating to other places next year.

As a result, there is one less season that will require these survivors to survive.

Therefore, when the expeditionary force entered the survivors' settlements around Taipei to recruit people, these survivors were also very cooperative, at least not as uncooperative as before.

On the other hand, Jiang Chen had already made contact with the Fish Bone Base and transferred a thousand people from the Third Corps to the ranks of the expeditionary force.

At present, there are only 500 soldiers stationed in Taipei, and it is obviously unrealistic to fill the battle line with a width of several kilometers.

According to the plan of the engineer squad under the expeditionary force, the total width of the battlefield is 5.1 kilometers, and 52 5-meter-high defense towers will be built along the edge, and then the 52 defense towers will be connected by a cement wall 3 meters high and half a meter wide. Sandbags were piled up behind the concrete wall, and trenches and wooden stakes were set up in front to prevent the mirelurks from penetrating.

A total of more than 1,400 laborers were engaged in the construction of the defense line, and with the cooperation of the engineering machine, there should be no problem in completing this defense line.

As a new batch of supplies arrived, heavy machine guns were loaded onto the built stacks, orange chains filling the ammunition boxes like gold. The rockets were lined up in the open space of the fortress of the expeditionary force, and the artillerymen skillfully installed the launchers, completing the deployment of the "Fireball-1" system.

When they saw this scene, those survivors who were working on the front line immediately dispelled their worries and became more motivated to work.

With such a strong armament, maybe these people can really do it...... (To be continued.) )