In the cave, ten people and three loaders were also arranged, and they were tasked with unloading the wagons and placing them in suitable places.

The second part of the basic labor force is the construction team, with a total of 40 people, with Hou Xianglin as the chief commander of the project.

Last night, Hou Xianglin and all the members of the General Affairs Coordination Committee discussed all night, made a detailed transportation and yard construction plan, according to the final plan, most of the bulk materials in the Nicole cabin do not need to be moved into the cave, should be moved into the nearby yard, in addition, the dangerous materials in the cave, such as oil and chemical raw materials, need to be moved out of the cave and stored in the yard.

This includes a large amount of ammunition, and it is believed that such flammable and explosive dangerous goods are better stored outside.

Especially for ammunition, it's best to stay away from the Red Mansion, anyway, there are no other humans on this island except ourselves, and we are not afraid of being stolen.

If you are really not at ease, you can also send people to take turns on duty, as for saying that the guards are a waste of manpower? It doesn't exist, everyone knows that in the foreseeable and quite long time, there must be a lot of heavy physical work, and taking turns to guard the materials is actually a disguised holiday and rest.

Of course, in addition to fuel oil, industrial lubricants, chemical raw materials and ammunition, all supermarket materials, grain, edible oil, ship steel, non-ferrous metal materials, cement, rubber and other materials should be transported into the cave for storage.

The yard should have been built near the Red Pier, and the ammunition obviously needed a secure ammunition depot at a certain distance from the Red House, but within line of sight.

So Hou Xianglin proposed that a sturdy and fully enclosed ammunition depot would be built on the open land outside the Red Mansion.

Of course, the yard near the dock must also be a warehouse that is almost decently sheltered from the elements, even if it is a simple one.

These are the tasks of the construction team, and Hou Xianglin is in charge of the entire project.

Considering that there are tens of thousands of tons of materials that need to be moved and stored, so Hou Xianglin's warehouse construction task is actually quite heavy, so most of the construction machinery vehicles have been given to Hou Xianglin them, the construction team of 40 people is equipped with six excavators, three bulldozers and three road rollers---- with the help of construction machinery, although everyone has been very tired recently, but the labor intensity is bearable.

Regarding what kind of warehouse to repair, everyone only gave one principle requirement: safe and reliable, try to save materials, and implement the specific plan, that is the matter of Hou Xianglin, a professional.

Therefore, Hou Xianglin, as the commander-in-chief of the project, gave full play to the various abilities he had cultivated in the construction of the ravine, and designed a semi-underground simple warehouse.

On April 6, the construction of the warehouse officially began.

At eight o'clock in the morning, under the leadership of Hou Xianglin, all the construction machinery and personnel were transported by train to the red wharf, and after several round-trips, the construction team finally drove these construction vehicles to a slightly higher hilly area in the north of the wharf, and Hou Xianglin decided to use the terrain there to build a semi-open-air large cargo yard.

Hou Xianglin said that the inspiration came from a project he worked on in the northern loess one year, and the semi-underground cave courtyard of the locals is a very good storehouse, warm in winter and cool in summer.

And the first and other military charms who participated in the construction of the brigade believe that this structure is actually very similar to the tank fortress on the battlefield back then.

According to the topography, the depth of each open-air storage yard varies from three or five meters to more than ten meters, and the bottom of the pit is usually kept level with the ground according to the topography, or the entrance has a long gentle slope, three sides are natural earth walls, and some slopes have one or two more drainage ditches on the side.

Hou Xianglin also admitted after hearing their statement that this structure is indeed a bit like a tank trench, but the scale and area are much larger.

The benefits of this semi-underground warehouse are clear – it consumes almost no building materials brought from the Old World, except for fiberglass tiles and woven plastic sheeting for the ceilings, and some job-specific steel scaffolding and fasteners for the supports.

Considering that these stored materials will be consumed sooner or later, these steel pipe scaffolding fasteners can be dismantled and reused at that time.

In any case, everyone is full of praise for this engineering design, believing that this semi-underground warehouse is not only material saving for storing these bulk industrial oil and chemical raw materials, but also safe and secure.

Once on the construction machinery, the progress of this kind of digging pit work becomes very fast, Hou Xianglin here as soon as the terrain is surveyed, the area is determined, the excavator, the bulldozer excavates from several directions at the same time.

After digging the concave structure, the roller will go in to compact the ground, and then manually do the wall trimming, some places the ground is relatively strong, even the compaction operation has been saved, just directly use the bulldozer to push forward a concave shape, in addition to a little trimming the wall, at most dig a drainage ditch on both sides of the surface, the whole warehouse is alive.

Although these semi-underground warehouses are rudimentary, they are still very effective for storing large quantities of materials.

So in the following ten days, the construction team quickly built more than 20 such semi-underground warehouses, large and small.

This is a strange sight, and from the pier, one can see a series of undulating hills not far away, covered with patches of colorful woven plastic sheeting, and dancing like waves with the sea breeze, as if the whole hill is beckoning to the sea.

As soon as the simple warehouse was built, the beach by the dock was already full of oil drums and plastic drums, which contained fuel oil such as diesel and gasoline, as well as a small amount of industrial lubricants.

Now these oils are temporarily stacked on the sand near the wharf, and according to a rough count, there are tens of thousands of metal barrels and plastic barrels of all kinds, and a large piece is placed, which looks spectacular.

However, the removal was halted due to the muddy ground.

It's autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's the end of the rainy season, so from day to night, there are occasional rains of one or two, big or small, that make the beach road to the knoll and the newly excavated warehouse floor very muddy, and no matter how solid the dirt floor is, it can't withstand the rain for a day and night.

Hou Xianglin knew that it was unrealistic to use precious cement from the old world to harden such improvised roads and warehouse floors now, unless the cement plant would have its own cement in operation.

However, now there is only one more temporary way to solve the problem, Hou Xianglin thought for a moment and had an idea, he immediately ordered the excavator to dig sand on the beach, and then to dig pebbles on the nearby river beach, and then fill it all the way on the dirt road leading to the hill, and also fill in the semi-underground warehouse floor, and then let the roller press it several times, which made the ground less muddy. After two days of tossing and turning like this, the removal was able to continue.

After the problems of the road and the floor of the warehouse were basically solved, the rest of the transportation work was taken care of by the handling team, and at this time, Hou Xianglin led the construction team to immediately devote themselves to the construction of the ammunition depot outside the Red Mansion.

The so-called ammunition depot is actually 35 steel containers of 28 square meters stacked together, uniformly and neatly placed on a newly built 45-meter-long railway track.

Underneath the railroad tracks were sleepers and a standard railway embankment, which was also the main work of the construction team led by Hou Xianglin in those days.

Of course, the sleeper rails and containers were all moved out of the cave, and originally these containers were filled with various machinery and equipment.

The plenary meeting approved Hou Xianglin's plan in advance, and the construction of such a strong and fully enclosed ammunition depot did not consume more materials from the old world, and everyone thought that Hou Xianglin's plan had perfectly completed the task assigned to him.