After all, Steel City is a large city with a population of 200,000, second only to Long Beach City, the capital of New Jersey, in the Eastern Wasteland, followed by New Richmond, the capital of the Liberty League. In order to maintain the existence of such a regional metropolis, it is necessary to have a large number of affiliated villages, workshops, farmlands, and workshops responsible for providing raw materials and semi-finished products, as well as the necessary labor.

Many of the first pioneers who came out of the Cleveland Shelter had lived before the war, studied higher education systematically, and naturally knew the relevance of the city's economic system.

The task of the second generation of pioneers was to further expand more construction areas without destroying the fragile supply balance, and it was about 20 years after the verdict that the written "Resident Law" of the Steel City was promulgated, which absorbed the northern displaced people on a large scale, and the inflow of population and production factors made the Steel City prosper rapidly, and the large suburban ruins of the old Cleveland City were reclaimed into fields, and the first large wharf on the shore of Lake Erie was established, after the lake demons were cleared and raised, and opened a large number of freight waterways with Ford City (Detroit) and Mill City (Milwaukee), and the route reached as far as Ghoul City (Chicago) in Lake Michigan.

The Thirteen Councils of the Iron City, which was born from the Council of the Overseers of the Shelter, was established as early as the first generation of pioneers, and after the census, the calculation of the soil fertility, and the long-term planning, the Iron and Steel City amended the "Residents Law", declaring that the sick were not allowed to enter, which was equivalent to expelling the burden of the population outside the city in disguise, and with the help of the strong attraction power of the city center, these displaced people from afar were forced to open up the suburbs, and the construction of the outer city wall in the south was stopped, and in the thirtieth year after the ruling day, the overall steel city was basically fixed, It will only be carefully widened to the east.

On this basis, the suburban towns of Steel City gradually prospered, and although there were more than thirteen towns in total, out of reverence for the council, the first mayors consciously arranged thirteen important towns, and the council was naturally happy to do so, and every year the council would give aid or preferential treatment to the towns that were constantly fluctuating in the ranks. According to the latest census of the city, the number of residents in the city has reached 220,000, an increase of about 30,000 from the previous census, but the population of the towns outside the city is extremely mobile, and the total number is roughly estimated to be no less than the population of the steel city.

Simon discovered a very interesting phenomenon when he was lurking in the Crusaders, the Crusader War Knights knew that the Iron Town was fat, but the Crusaders, who were known for their boldness, did not have the arrogance to launch even one raid on the Steel Town, even if it was enough to plunder countless riches. This situation puzzled Simon, but it was only after becoming a Gun Knight's Iron Soldier that he had access to the Crusaders' more classified military maps, battle reports, and newsletters, and Simon understood why.

It's not that I don't want to, but I can't, I don't dare.

The outer city of Steel City has only reached about 350 square kilometers until this year, which is really not worth mentioning compared to the area of nearly 4,000 square kilometers of Cleveland City before the war, and in order to avoid the ruins that are impossible to clean up, the first, second and third generations of pioneers have only cleaned up the ruins around the shelter as the main area of the black wall in Area A, and then developed to the east of the sparse buildings, so the Steel City as a whole is closer to the east than the old Cleveland urban area. Coniot, where Adolfina had temporarily stayed, was actually not far from the Iron Outer City.

Ohio itself wasn't big in the old Union states, bigger than Texas and California

The state is nothing more than a fraction of its size. There are only three options to keep the city absolutely safe in such a small area.

First: the city is fortified. As far as human history is concerned, urban fortification is a relatively cheap and efficient means of defense, most of the cities with the suffix "burg" in the old European region were fortress cities in the past, basically the old urban area is very small, the famous Constantinople is in the main defensive wall, and the city area behind the Theodosius city wall is only about 18 square kilometers, but it has controlled the Dardanelles Strait for a thousand years, locking the entrance and exit of the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. However, as far as the builders of the steel city are concerned, the materials required to turn such a large core area into a fortress and a city wall are too huge, and the steel required for the multi-phase project of the city wall consumes almost 70% of the steel production capacity, which is just a superficial construction of the main area city wall belt. i.e. areas A to O, and the rest of the urban auxiliary agriculture and animal husbandry are behind the lower walls. The construction of a new Hopkins lakeside airport and the city walls of the port area are still in full swing, but it is estimated that there is still a long way to complete.

Second: an offensive standing army. Back in the days when old Europe dominated the world, the Saint-Cyr Military Academy produced the most offensive soldiers of that era, and until the First World War, they all advocated that offense was the best defense, and for a country with a long border, it was a wise choice to use lightning strikes to advance the defense line into a suitable area within the opponent's border. The builders of the Iron City encountered no more problems than this, and the lakeside plains were not in danger, so they devoted all their resources to building a small but fine mechanized army, the Iron Army. With a tactical air force, consisting of A-10 "Thunderbolt" jet attack aircraft in the refuge stock, A-29 "Super Tucano" propeller light attack aircraft, to ensure absolute air supremacy.

Third, establish buffer areas and fortified areas. Steel City looks like a small irregular semicircle on the map, but the towns that are included in the area of Big Steel City are about the size of several old Cleveland cities, about 7,000 square kilometers, of which there are no less than 100 villages and towns. Excluding Steel City, the population remains at around 300,000 all year round. The absolute defensive ring conceived by the builders was 300 square kilometers in size, with an independent agricultural and industrial outer city within the city. The necessary defensive ring is a trapezoidal area of 7,000 square kilometers. As a result, the army was heavily fortified at the four corners of the area. At the southwest corner is the Worcester Fortress, about 50 miles from the main city of Old Cleveland, and from Worcester it is 50 miles north to the New Loreen Lakeside Fortress on the lake, and from the Loreen Fortress it is about 100 miles east through the Old Town to Conneot, and 90 miles south to the Lisbon Fortress at the top corner of the south. The four corners are connected in a line, which is the necessary defensive circle. In any case, the 3,000-strong Iron Army would have 1,000 men in the four forts, with the Worcester Fortress and Lisbon Fortress to the south. To the west, on the side of the fortress of Loreen, the old city occupied by mutant creatures, is a natural barrier.

The wider buffer zone extended farther south to the ruins of Columbus and Pittsburgh. Once an enemy force crosses an outpost, the Council will authorize the army to strike at the enemy who crosses the border until it retreats or is annihilated. In fact, the entire main battlefield of the Winter War last year was between these two ruins, and from beginning to end, except for the sudden attack and destruction of the Steel S3 caravan, and the gunmen and gunmen angrily pursued Simon to 50 kilometers outside the necessary defensive circle, the formed crusaders never touched the steel city in a straight line only 80 miles

Sben Fortress. They did not even dare to attack the ruins of Pittsburgh, but turned to the weaker ruins of Columbus and turned into a tug-of-war.

So Simon was deeply impressed by the foresight of the builders of the Steel City after reading the deployment of the Crusaders' troop deployment at that time, and from the time they walked out of the shelter, the pioneers arranged things to half a century later, and from the current construction of the Steel City, the builders of this generation are still following the plans of their ancestors.

Now anyone with a discerning eye could see that the crusaders were running out, that it was only a matter of time before the war ended, and that the towns that had been abandoned for a winter were thriving, and that caravans from the south along the new Interstate 77 were coming in endlessly. Simon parked the car, and after paying the money, there was a special person to watch the official, so that the homeless people with unclean hands and feet would not steal gasoline. Simon stretched his back, and he was in the slave town closer to the east, as the name suggests, specializing in the slave trade, and as far as the eye could see, dozens and hundreds of crusader prisoners of war were crouched in the fence, waiting for the mine owner to buy them in a big deal.

Wearing a Hydra uniform to Slave Town is too eye-catching, taking off the uniform means that no one will bird him, Simon has no choice but to line up into the town, a circle of wooden fences is better than nothing, but the sentry tower machine gun is not better than nothing. While waiting, Simon took out a military telescope given to him by Longhu, on a sunny day today, through the high-powered telescope, Simon could barely see the Lisbon fortress in the distance, a typical star-shaped fortress, the faint black smoke of the fortress arsenal is very conspicuous, and the fortress that controls the intersection of the road also sets up checkpoints, looking at a large number of caravans accumulated here, obviously, collecting taxes.

After tossing for a while, Simon and his party wrapped in a cloak entered the slave town, and as soon as they entered, the smell of urine rushed to their nostrils, and the smoked man had a fight. Simon cursed secretly, quickly closed his sense of smell, covered his mask, squeezed through the crowd of people who were all dressed like this, and followed Gerald to find the fence where there were imperial prisoners of war.

A procession of Crusader prisoners of war entered the town, and the swaggering guards, happy or unhappy, whipped directly on the prisoners of war who had been reduced to slaves, and most of them silently accepted their fate, and there was also a stunned young man who had not polished a few unruly spirits, and dared to stare back, and immediately, under his fists and feet, a miserable howl sounded.

Simon watched in silence as an ox cart drove by, so narrow that it was only large enough for a person to curl up on his legs, and in a small iron fence that was close enough for a man to curl up on his legs, and the ox cart carried several of these bars were taken to a nearby square for display and sale.

Dickens definitely made a mistake, if the 19th century was the worst era, the 22nd century would have to be purgatory. Simon thought.

PS: Hong Kong is about 1,100 square kilometers, the main urban area within the Grand Ring Road of Paris is 100 square kilometers, the greater London area is 1,580 square kilometers, New York City is 780 square kilometers, and Chicago is about 600 square kilometers. So 300 square kilometers is a pretty big concept, because Ermeng is very poor in mathematics (covering his face), he can't calculate the total area of this irregular trapezoidal shape (the liberal arts student wailed), the area of the necessary defense circle is about 7000 to 10000 square kilometers, about how big, Shanghai 6350 square kilometers, Beijing is 16,000 square kilometers and Ohio is 111,000 square kilometers, given that mechanization in the wasteland era is limited to a few large forces, this necessary defense range is relatively reliable, not to mention that there is a larger buffer zone (this really can't be calculated), so the buffer space of Steel City is relatively sufficient in the era of this book, after all, the road speed of the M1 tank can reach more than 60 kilometers per hour.

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