Chapter 52: Harvest and Enlightenment
The amount of loot harvested this time is simply staggering.
Putting aside the bounty on the zombies, the biggest gain is close to five thousand cubic meters of diesel!
Wutong County is a large mining area, and there are large trucks with a load of 20 tons to 30 tons, Gaopingba is the first supply point in the north of Wutong County, and many trucks will replenish fuel at the highway gas station in Gaopingba for long-distance driving. Therefore, several major gas stations in Gaopingba have always been rich in reserves, and in order not to exceed supply, these greedy bosses even dig oil depots illegally to store oil.
However, the apocalypse came suddenly, and the Panshan area became a forbidden area after the outbreak of the X virus, and it was important to flee for their lives that year, even if the oil bosses had the intention to take away their property, they could not do it, so they could only obediently stay here, and as for the vast majority of urban residents who escaped by private cars, the massive amount of diesel fuel was useless to them. As a result, after so many years, even if a huge amount of oil has been volatilized, the remaining reserves are very large!
Wang Qiang estimated that the oil depots of several major gas stations add up to 5,000 cubic meters of diesel, what is this concept?
One cubic meter of diesel fuel is 1,000 liters of diesel, and 5,000 cubic meters of diesel fuel is close to 5 million liters of reserves!
Oh, my God!
During this period, the most powerful main battle tank in the alliance consumed only 500 liters of fuel for 100 kilometers. A main armored division of the first class is only 400 tanks at full strength, so the diesel reserves obtained by Wang Qiang this time are enough for a fully armored division to run 2,500 kilometers without attrition!
You must know that so far, there are less than four fully equipped armored divisions in the alliance, and many tanks have been used as city defense guns, and the biggest reason is because of lack of fuel! With the devastation of the offshore oil fields in the south, the four armored divisions that the alliance is currently able to drive have largely come to an end.
Wang Qiang got such a big windfall, he was really excited.
In addition to oil, the troops also collected all kinds of materials from the building, including furniture and electrical appliances that were once ordinary and now look valuable, some tools that are not easy to produce, etc., and even textiles such as bedding and bed sheets, which are also very good things in the eyes of the soldiers!
Most of these textiles that have been placed for more than 20 years have signs of decay and decay, but for now, most of the clothing, bedding and other items used within the alliance are chemicals, and how comfortable it will be to wear them on the body. The reason for this is that traditional agriculture has been abandoned, coupled with climate problems, no one is engaged in agricultural production activities, and no one does things such as planting mulberry, raising silkworms, planting hemp and spinning threads.
So, these things that were once ordinary are all good items to treasure in the eyes of the soldiers!
After some scraping, Wang Qiang's soldiers looked like a group of bandits who had just entered the village and ransacked them, some of them were wearing large cheongsams, red belly masks on their chests, and they were swaying when they walked.
Wang Qiang was stunned when he saw this scene, these guys did not lose their fighting spirit in front of the zombies, but completely lost the appearance of soldiers when they swept up the supplies.
Where can he look like this, the results of his hard training have been destroyed in vain, Wang Qiang is angry!
On the spot, Wang Qiang set up a supervision and law enforcement team to seriously deal with the unruly soldiers in the process of sweeping the city!
Three soldiers who threw away their weapons to pick up supplies were expelled from the team, and then all soldiers were strictly required to hand over the searched supplies to the public and manage them personally.
Wang Qiang's drastic rectification measures made the soldiers feel dissatisfied, and even two soldiers spoke wildly, Wang Qiang rarely talked nonsense with these two soldiers, and after a violent beating, he ordered the soldiers to return their weapons and equipment, took off their military uniforms, and then issued this month's military salary, kicked out of the team and left them to fend for themselves.
Brother Qiang's iron-blooded methods completely suppressed the soldiers, and this wilderness was abandoned by a large group of people, and the probability of survival was greatly reduced, and everyone had scruples.
The soldiers had no choice but to hand over all the collected materials, and Yu Kuan selected five squads of soldiers to be responsible for collecting the materials, and then registering them for unified management.
Taking advantage of this time, Wang Qiang gathered the squad leader and the officers above the deputy squad leader in the team for a short meeting.
At the meeting, Wang Qiang made a generous speech, asking the soldiers to give up the weapons in their hands and care about the supplies, if they encounter an enemy attack and a zombie raid, how will the team respond?
After the meeting, each company began to rectify and study, and then set up its own discipline picket team to strictly regulate the behavior of the soldiers and prevent the soldiers from getting out of control again in front of the spoils of war and materials.
After the purge was completed, Wang Qiang packed some of the diesel fuel and took it away, and the remaining diesel fuel and the materials that could not be taken away were all hidden for the next time.
On the way back, seeing that the morale of the army was repeatedly low, following Yu Kuan's advice, Wang Qiang announced the reward mechanism.
After seriously rectifying the troops, Wang Qiang felt that sweet dates should be given appropriately, and Brother Qiang was not hypocritical, and after a little thought, he announced on the spot that all soldiers would be paid twice the military salary, and the soldiers who participated in the sweeping operation would double the military salary.
This time, the enthusiasm of the soldiers was mobilized again!
These old and rough soldiers don't care about the morality of the country, they were just to eat at the beginning, and it is impossible to have a high spiritual realm. So they can't help but loot and take it for themselves when they see the big supplies, and they don't hesitate to fight with their comrades-in-arms for this reason, and even throw away the weapons in their hands!
Now Wang Qiang has increased the military salary for everyone, which means that even if the soldiers lose their own scraping materials, they have also received additional compensation, as long as they have money, they can have cigarettes, spirits, meat, and even women...... If there were a woman in the millstone pit.
After Wang Qiang announced the salary increase, the restless soldiers finally tamed and obeyed the commander's dispatch in a proper manner.
However, on the way back, Wang Qiang kept frowning.
"Brother Qiang, what are you unhappy about, is it that I have been constipated too badly recently, I have laxatives." Xiao Zhong said, as disgusting as ever.
Wang Qiang didn't pay attention to Xiao Chong's ridicule, but turned his head to Wang Erye and asked: "Second Master Wang, you are a soldier in the old republic, I want to ask you, what do you think of this group of troops under me, and what is their strength?" ”
Wang Erye, who was silent along the way, commented: "This is a group of out-and-out rabble, at best, it can only be regarded as morale. ”
Yu Kuan disagreed: "The old man means that my soldiers are not well trained?" ”
After that, Yu Kuan put on an expression of doing what you want.
Wang Qiang stopped Yu Kuan, and then said: "Second Master Wang, if the soldiers hadn't robbed the supplies, I really didn't realize that these soldiers seemed to be well-trained, but they all seemed to lack some qualities. ”
"Oh? What are the qualities of a man? Xiao Zhong touched his crotch and asked.
Wang Qiang shook his head: "My expression may not be good enough, but I mean, I feel that there is something missing from these soldiers." What are they soldiers for, and what are they fighting for? ”
Duan Feng snorted: "Brother Qiang, don't you still need to ask, aren't they just to fill their stomachs when they become soldiers." ”
Wang Qiang nodded: "You got the point, if they are fighting just to eat their stomachs, they are a very dangerous group of people." First, if I can't feed them, I may be attacked by them; Second, if others give them better treatment, they can turn their backs on me; In the end, they didn't see the group and the team as their own. ”
Wang Erye said: "Qiang Wazi, I understand what you mean, this is a group of people who have no faith, no pursuit, lack of collective honor and lack of security. ”
Yu Kuan was silent when he heard this, it seemed that what Wang Erye said was really good.
"So, what about the soldiers of the old days?" Wang Qiang asked.
Second Master Wang raised his head and pondered, and then said: "The strict discipline of soldiers in the era of the Republic is incomparable to that of any faction of warlords within the current alliance!" Moreover, the soldiers of that era had a high political consciousness, had their own beliefs, and at the same time had a high sense of honor and disgrace and collective honor. ”
"How can I make my soldiers like that?" Wang Qiang sighed.
Second Master Wang said: "What can be done is just ...... Time. ”
On the way back, Wang Qiang and his subordinates drew up a detailed training plan, involving issues such as improving the team's sense of honor and finding faith.
This is a milestone start, but Wang Qiang himself did not realize it.
And the discussion between Wang Qiang and his subordinates, as well as what he did, everything fell into the eyes of Guan Jun, and the head of the Earth Fire Mercenary Regiment had other ideas in his heart.
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The road back to the grinding stone pit was not difficult, the troops only went out for two days, and there was a huge harvest, and the entire grinding stone pit was a sensation because of this, and for a while, there were many wait-and-see freedom bounty hunters eager to join Wang Qiang's troops!
In the following week, Wang Qiang transferred a large number of manpower to carry all the materials in the oil depot of Gaopingba back to the grinding stone pit, and then, Wang Qiang sold most of the diesel fuel at a discount according to the market price.
Supplies such as diesel and gasoline are scarce in the last days, and any army or mercenary group will pay a huge price in exchange for a portion of the fuel.
In the difficult situation of encountering zombies, if there is a locomotive that can escape, then the probability of survival will increase a lot.
Therefore, under Li Bai's operation, in a short period of time, Brother Qiang's waist bag quickly bulged.
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