Chapter 440: The Wind Rises

50 million people seems like a small number, but as long as you think about the Three Kingdoms period, the total population was only 22 million, but it ruled the entire continent at that time, doesn't it seem even more thin? 50 million people live in 18 regular cities, 2 special cities, there are still a lot of people, lively streets, and the pre-apocalyptic days are no different, people shoulder to shoulder, restoring the bustling scene of the pre-apocalyptic pedestrian street.

But if you think about it carefully, 50 million people is indeed less, think about the previous S city, there are as many as nearly 13 million people, not to mention that now it is subdivided into 20 cities, on average, each city is only 2.5 million people. Take City 7 as an example, the streets are still a little deserted, and there are not many pedestrians on the streets.

The work of the Chamber of Commerce, from the surviving population of neighboring countries to the net, although the integration has been somewhat smooth, but no one dares to relax, because the ethnic groups between countries, if they want to integrate in a real sense, it is impossible to do it in just half a year, and it may take several years, or even more than ten years, to achieve real integration. Therefore, the system that controls these five emerging cities is the most important thing for the Chamber of Commerce.

A large number of soldiers stationed in the five emerging cities, as well as the walls surrounding the city, its role is not only to defend against zombies, but also to prevent chaos within the city, which can achieve the purpose of controlling the entire city. The weapons installed on the city wall are all 360-degree rotational type, and there is no dead end, which can better defend the entire city from both inside and outside.

There are pros and cons to the high concentration of the population, and the main advantage is to have the greatest resources in the last days in your hands. And in the short term, the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages.

In the offshore area of City No. 1, Zhou Yuanqiang was rarely free, and he was driving a luxury yacht with Ren Xinyun, Jia Keer and Shui Dulian, enjoying the fun of surfing outside the port. Since the Chamber of Commerce's transportation methods were all occupied by railways and transport airships, the maritime industry, which used to occupy the most important transportation market, has become a withering industry, and there is no trace of cargo ships in the once large ports except for people playing.

Perhaps another reason, that is, due to the chaos of the last days, foreign routes have long ceased to exist. The main object of shipping is international shipping, followed by domestic shipping. Nowadays, there are almost no foreign countries, and the situation is unknown, so it is naturally impossible to talk about shipping.

has been busy for more than half a year, for Zhou Yuanqiang's body, there is no need to worry at all, the only thing that makes him feel that he should relax is his spirit. After this series of actions of the Chamber of Commerce, every step is carefully executed. It's not that I'm afraid, but I don't want to set off any storms in this bone eye, because the huge forces on the other side of the Pacific Ocean are always reminding Zhou Yuanqiang that this is still the end of a cannibalistic world.

Now that everything is going well, Zhou Yuanqiang naturally wants to take the three women to take them as a distraction, after all, he is busy and has no time to accompany them.

Sometimes Zhou Yuanqiang can't figure out whether he has feelings for the three of them, or does he have physical needs? For this question, Zhou Yuanqiang was very confused. In his heart, Zhou Yuanqiang knew that he had more of a physical need for them, because for them, he couldn't do the same thing as Yan Yuhe. It's really good to fall in love over time, whether it's love or desire, at least Zhou Yuanqiang thinks that he still has feelings for the three of them.

Three women, to be honest, Jia Keer is the most beautiful one, and she is a star, and her charm is far from being comparable to Ren Xinyun and Shui Dulian. But Ren Xinyun belongs to the secretary stream and has a different flavor. And Shui Dulian, who used to be a young lady, has the flamboyance of her young lady in her personality. If you choose one alone, Jia Keer is the most satisfying, but if you can choose three, Zhou Yuanqiang knows that these are three women with different styles, and you can find a different taste from each of them.

"That's life!"

Zhou Yuanqiang looked at the three women in bikinis and smiled. Luxury boats and women, this is something that I didn't dare to think about before, but now I have it easily. In the Chamber of Commerce, everything will no longer be a problem as long as you need it. What is left in this world, you can take it yourself.

It is indeed a bit exciting to drive a yacht, but after playing for a long time, it is not interesting, so the current yachts are all driven by guards. Zhou Yuanqiang sat on the deck, wearing big pants, lying on a chair, drinking cold wine, while admiring the three women playing in the yacht pool, enjoying this rare peace.

However, Zhou Yuanqiang knew that his so-called tranquility was actually coming to an end soon.

After Zhou Yuanqiang returned to the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce, Xu Yuhai was already waiting in the rest area of the office, and after seeing Zhou Yuanqiang come back, a rare smile appeared on his cold face, and said: "Boss, did you have a good time this trip?" ”

Zhou Yuanqiang was a little weird and said, "You are very strange today, you actually laughed." He sniffed it with his sensitive nose, and immediately smelled the fragrance on Xu Yuhai's body, with a look of sudden realization, and said: "It seems that people are in good spirits on happy occasions, and even our intelligence leaders have begun to walk with peach blossoms." ”

The woman Xu Yuhai likes, the senior level of the Chamber of Commerce, is generally known to be a very ordinary girl. And Xu Yuhai is also interesting, he just used his usual identity to contact, and he didn't use his reputation as the intelligence minister of the Chamber of Commerce at all. In Xu Yuhai's words, his identity is destined to find a woman, and he can only be an ordinary woman, because as long as he follows him, he is destined to have an infinite life like others.

Since she can't give her a glorious life, why should she move out of her identity as the Minister of Intelligence?

At that time, Zhou Yuanqiang heard Xu Yuhai's words, and was silent for a long time, and finally patted Xu Yuhai's shoulder with a sigh and did not speak. And a group of old buddies who came over together, all of them no longer giggled, at this point, they admired Xu Yuhai very much, at least they had no way to be so selfless.

When Zhou Yuanqiang said this, Xu Yuhai just laughed for a while, and then his face suddenly disappeared, and he returned to his ruthless state as an intelligence chief, and said: "Boss, judging from all kinds of collected intelligence, we are developing, and it is impossible for other countries to stop." At present, the intelligence level has risen to the yellow level, and it is believed that it will not be long before it will break through to the red level. He took out the information he had prepared a long time ago and handed it to Zhou Yuanqiang.

What Xu Yuhai said, why didn't Zhou Yuanqiang know? It's just that there are more than 31 million unstable factors in the Chamber of Commerce, and not digesting them still has a great impact on the next move of the Chamber of Commerce. As Xu Yuhai said, if you develop yourself, others are also developing, and the current advantage of the Chamber of Commerce is there, but if you don't let this advantage be transformed into results, it won't be long before this advantage will be pulled closer little by little, and finally disappear.

He looked at the information in Xu Yuhai's hand carefully, but his brows became more and more twisted, because the intelligence showed that a new regime in the original United States was developing at an unprecedented speed. They have captured the important industrial city, and they have obtained a huge weapon base of the former US military, especially the five aircraft carriers, and their combat effectiveness is very amazing.

Not only that, judging from the captured intelligence, this force originally called a laboratory, they have a very terrifying warrior, which is a biochemical warrior. In terms of ability, they are more ferocious than the crystallized warriors, they are not afraid of the infection of the virus at all, and every time they fight, they always rush to the front line and tear the zombies alive, which is just the most common thing. Judging from the satellite pictures, their speed is very fast, far above the crystallized warriors.

Perhaps the other side also realized that all the satellites in the sky were destroyed, and there were satellites that could detect their every move, so they used high-power signal jammers, and in some important areas, there was no way to shoot any intelligence with satellites. Under the interference, it was all snowflake-shaped.

Of course, this kind of thing that is out of the control of the Chamber of Commerce is not something that Xu Yuhai can tolerate, so after he mobilized more satellites to conduct all-round reconnaissance, he planned to send reconnaissance troops to the mainland of the United States by warships to obtain more detailed information. Xu Yuhai did not dare to be careless about the intelligence work, after all, the good things left over from the former United States are far more than what the Chamber of Commerce has obtained at present, and if the local forces obtain it, it will be difficult to say what will happen without order.

After reading the information in Xu Yuhai's hands, Zhou Yuanqiang was silent for a while.

Xu Yuhai said: "Boss, the more I lose control, the more panicked I feel. Through our analysis of intelligence and the data of several ministers, the United States, due to its previous leadership in science and technology and its strong national strength, built a large number of underground fortifications, which ensured that when they were infected and broke out, there were not as many people as expected. According to our analysis, the final number of surviving people in the United States is about 20 million. ”

In the last days, a population of 20 million means too many things, you must know that the population of the entire continent is as high as 1.5 billion, but more than 30 million survived, and after civil strife, it was finally ruled by the Chamber of Commerce, which was just more than 20 million. If it weren't for the action of the circle people from abroad, I am afraid that in terms of population, the two sides would still be on the same starting line.

I didn't know if I didn't analyze it before, but now after a lot of intelligence analysis, I was suddenly taken aback, Zhou Yuanqiang never thought that the other party was only 400 million people before the end of the world, and there would be such a high-profile survivor. It is conceivable how much pressure this number is on the Chamber of Commerce.

The reason why there is really no unity in the Americas is that there are dozens of forces among them, and after nearly ten years of annexation, that is, in the middle of the last decade, there is only one force left in the entire Americas, and that is the laboratory. The laboratories that have unified the entire American homeland have established a new regime, judging by the information obtained. And with the biochemical warriors, he conquered the cities in the hands of the zombies, and the materials were even more huge than those of the Chamber of Commerce.

On the other hand, the new U.S. government, which has advanced weapons, has begun to deploy a large number of troops, and in terms of armament, the Chamber of Commerce is a little behind the other side except for the steel giants. If the number of the other party is around 20 million, it is impossible to be inferior to the Chamber of Commerce in terms of military strength.

The most powerful enemy in the Chamber of Commerce in the last days, without guessing, knows that it is the new American government in the Americas.

Due to their small size and complicated power tracking, Western countries did not stretch out their tentacles so quickly under the strife. In terms of intelligence, there are already historical problems between countries in Western countries, and in this last days, both sides are red-eyed, and it is impossible to sit together. Now it looks like a plate of loose sand.

The threat comes from the other side of the Pacific.

Zhou Yuanqiang understood the reason why Xu Yuhai was anxious, because the industrial capacity of the United States is too strong and too strong, especially their research ability, which is even more frightening. The current advantage of the Chamber of Commerce is that the crystallized warriors and steel giants, if they can't take action before they develop them, who knows what terrifying war machines they will create with their abilities?

Zhou Yuanqiang sighed, in this last world, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, like a boat sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Under the eyes of the great powers, how can you develop with peace of mind and live a life like a paradise? If you want to live in peace, you can only have such a day if you trample others under your feet and wipe out the crisis.

"Strengthen intelligence work, and when necessary, send out special reconnaissance units."

Xu Yuhai, who heard Zhou Yuanqiang's order, showed a smile, and disappeared in an instant, he nodded and said: "Boss, I think we should stop the manufacture of other weapons and make every effort to build star-rated warships, I have a hunch that in the future war, it is the protagonist, and only it is the strength that we can rely on the most staff." ”

There is no need for Xu Yuhai to do this, Zhou Yuanqiang also thinks so.

Now that it has been decided, Zhou Yuanqiang has devoted himself to busy work again, first of all, he held a high-level military meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and formally put forward his own plan. Needless to say, this kind of crisis, everyone clearly understands that Zhou Yuanqiang does not need to explain anything, it is unanimously approved.

After determining the military strategy of the entire Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Yuanqiang appeared in Gongcheng and personally inspected the manufacturing line of steel warships.

The Cloud-class battleship can be said to be an experimental product of the Chamber of Commerce, and the manufacturing and assembly lines are semi-automatic. However, it has developed to a star-rated battleship, and the first newly established manufacturing line is fully automated, with intelligent system control, and the precision is several grades higher than that of semi-automatic. Only on the assembly line will there be a small number of workers operating large machines to manually transport these huge parts.

If you stand on the manufacturing and assembly lines, you know how small you are, because every machine here is huge. In particular, the lifting machinery on the assembly line is even more towering, it is responsible for transporting the huge pieces of steel armor to the position, and then the staff controls the manipulator to assemble it.

Due to the big difference between star-rated battleships and cloud-class battleships, the manufacturing line can only be rebuilt, which leads to the fact that the number of star-rated battleships is not very large, and only one can be completed in a month. From the experiment to the final approval for production, so far there are only five ships.

The star battleship, its design, has been completely sci-fi, with two main guns and twelve secondary guns. In addition, there are more missile towers and anti-aircraft guns like forests. This also weapons it to the teeth, and with its harder armor, the fighters' missiles no longer have any effect on the armor of star warships. At the same time, it also has the ability to fight in space, and it is the first warship developed by the Chamber of Commerce into outer space.

The two main guns of the battleship are arranged on the left and right sides of the lower belly of the battleship. It uses the newly developed crystalline energy fission technology, and after acceleration, as long as it is launched, it is simply a range field disaster, and it is completely a small-yield nuclear bomb power. Compared with the crystalline warhead, it is more powerful and more lethal, and it is no longer simply a conductive object, as long as everything is within the explosion range, it will be destroyed.

The power of the secondary cannon is not strong, but it is better because of the fast firing speed, because its energy storage time is very short, unlike the main cannon due to the excessive crystallization energy that needs to be gathered, and after the preliminary energy fission treatment, it often takes about five minutes to fire once.

It is precisely the existence of crystalline energy fission technology that makes future wars move towards large-scale, and the tactics of crowd tactics will not work at all in front of star-rated warships, because the main artillery bombardment, as long as it is a person within the range, it will definitely not be able to find scum, no less than the power of a small nuclear bomb. Therefore, in the future, the tactics of war must be changed, but the formation and coordination must be emphasized, and the other is the performance of the warships between the two sides.

Although in the future war, the star-rated battleship is the main body, but the cloud-class battleship is still in an absolute air dominance at this stage, so Zhou Yuanqiang did not order it to stop, but went all out to build it. Five manufacturing lines were launched at the same time, and in a month's time, five Cloud-class warships entered service in the army.

In July of the eleventh year of the end of the world, as the seventh star battleship left the assembly line and officially entered service to form the flagship of the Seventh Fleet, Zhou Yuanqiang knew that there was no time to wait for himself any longer. At the same time, I don't want to give each other too much time, and the two sides are destined to be enemies from the beginning, not friends.

In August, in addition to the Sixth and Seventh Fleets left behind in the Chamber of Commerce, a total of five fleets from the first to the fifth formed the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and began to slowly break away from the Bingcheng Air Port, forming the largest fleet in the history of the Chamber of Commerce in the air, as many as 505 steel giant ships, almost shrouding the entire Bingcheng in the shadows. Then, it began to fly slowly eastward, passing through Gongcheng, passing City No. 1, and entering the vast Pacific Ocean.