Chapter 47: No Trees, No Water

The forward base was chosen in the Nullarbor Plain because half of this barren limestone plain is within the detection range of the main base in the eastern foothills of the Maligesv Mountains, which is also the farthest distance that the base can establish a sub-base at the current level.

On the Opo railway line, there is a small town called Ourdi, which means no tree in Latin, and Ourdi is the only place in the plains where there is drinking groundwater. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two railway construction teams began to build the oil opal railway from Kalgoorlie and Augusta Port respectively, and their final triumphant meeting place was Urdi. This town is a place that Zhong Yi almost found on the holographic map to find a more suitable place to build a base, you must know that the Nullarbor Plain is not only "no trees", but also once called "no water" by the miners, an explorer who once rode a camel across the Nullarbor Plain, described it as "a stain on nature's face, the kind of place that only appears in nightmares." ”

I once thought that the red soil and desert in Western Australia were the ugliest places in Australia, but after watching it on the holographic screen for a long time, Zhong Yi only said: "This is the future nuclear bomb test site." ”

Speaking of the nuclear bomb, Zhong Yi suddenly remembered that there should be a weather controller in the Red Alert base, Australia's 7 million square kilometers of land, it is said that only 6% is suitable for human habitation, if you can get that magical weather controller out, these camels, kangaroos everywhere, and no one in the barren land to improve...... It's going to be beautiful to death when you think about it, but this thing seems to be a bit far away, and it is the right thing to implement the current battle of South Australia. One task, two preparations, the first is to send Wilson and Mu Yu to China to recruit workers to solve the population problem in Western Australia; And this South Australian campaign is the second hand, once the resettlement plan does not go well, it is necessary to occupy more cities in the shortest possible time and make up enough for the five million.

With the increase of sub-bases, the rich mineral resources in Western Australia have made Zhong Yi not worry about funds for the time being, and we are also hundreds of thousands of stars in a second...... Millions of dollars a day to earn the Lord.

In the main base, another base car has been built and hauled to Casa to be loaded. The logistics factory and the firearms factory in the Kalgoorlie sub-base were operating day and night, and a large amount of armaments and logistics materials were piled up like a small mountain.

The first troops to set off were the 2nd Brigade of the Guards and the Engineer Corps, and the base barracks limited the number of engineer units to the number of combat troops, that is, there were as many engineers as there were Red Guard combat units. So, in the sub-base outside Kalgoorlie, two army engineer regiments and an airfield ground support regiment have gathered. One of the army engineer regiments, which was the first to rush to Uerdi with the Second Brigade, was armed with only a small number of rifles and other light weapons, and they valued heavy trucks and various types of engineering vehicles more seriously.

Zhong Yi boarded the train with Jiang Yunzhi's Second Armored Regiment, in fact, everyone did not agree with him to go with the army, and the whole country Lin strongly asked the commander to stay in Perth, but Zhong Yi refused. Professional work should be done by professionals, and they are all laymen in government affairs and the economy, and as a soldier, the battlefield is the place where they should appear the most. Of course, a series of guarantees such as not going to the front line in person and obeying the arrangements of the guard unit were also guaranteed by the commander.

Hebar was sent to Shak Bay to survey and select the site for the refinery, and the offshore rig experiments were very successful, and this part of the oil Zhongyi did not intend to be converted directly into funds, and the Red Guard was a highly mechanized force, and its dependence on oil supplies was equivalent to a lifeline. Using oil from the bottom of the sea to prop up a large oil refinery near Shak Bay was Chung Yi's gift to the Smolgon family in return for their role in the peaceful liberation of Perth. This gift made old Sandra excited, since the thirties, the world economic depression, it is easy to go to the United States to buy all the equipment needed for the refinery, and you can also hire many mature skilled workers with not too high salaries, Zhong Yi's advice to him is to use the stone industry as the leader to build an oil city directly near Shake Bay.

Similar to this kind of industrial adjustment, Zhong Yi did not interfere too much, just gave full play to the advantages of a traverser, put forward some more prescient suggestions for them, and then used some of the leading technologies that Bird of Paradise summarized suitable for the civilian industry to support those powerful families and ambitious young people to start a business in Western Australia.

Taking advantage of the worldwide economic crisis since the thirties to dig into the corners of various countries is Zhong Yi's favorite idea. Moreover, Harding has already set off to the United States to acquire companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy, and on the list that Zhong Yi has opened for him, steel companies, airlines, shipping companies, medical device companies, etc. are all listed. Zhong Yi had prepared enough hard currency - gold, and believed that the temptation to use gold to complete the acquisition contract would be difficult for even the US government to resist. In this list of acquisitions, Zhong Yi also singled out a Quincy compressor company, among other things, for the climate control technology that the company is researching, although its air compressors and vacuum pumps and other products are also world-leading.

With these capable generals, coupled with the binding of the interests of several white families in Perth, and of course, the most important thing is the strong formation of the armored regiment, Zhong Yi feels that he does not have to worry about the problem of the Western Australian base, taking South Australia, marching into Victoria and New Wales, and strengthening his strength as much as possible before the arrival of the British Expeditionary Force, is the most important.

Thayer did a good job, before Zhong Yi and the 2nd Panzer Regiment arrived in Uerdi, they built the barracks and the warehouse to store supplies, and waited for the time for the base car to unload the train, Zhong Yi enjoyed a good meal of roasted kangaroo steak. The train journey was so boring, with camels, ostriches, the occasional pink cockatoos and kangaroos hopping around in the low quinoa bushes on both sides of the railway, the never-ending scenery of the Nullarbor Plain was not only drowsy, but also prone to a sense of decadence. Zhong Yi vowed that he would never travel through Nabera by train again, unless...... The base could build a weather controller, or the Quincy Corporation, which would later be rumored to be a god, could really change the climate here.