After the last expansion, the number of troops has approached 300 people, and 100 soldiers on duty around the security zone and on highway and railway bridges are enough, and the rest of the people have already begun to enter the stage of regular training, and every time they are said to carry out physical training, fighting and shooting training, but the number of bullets that can be provided in shooting training is small, and the maximum number of bullets per person per day is five, which can more or less allow them to maintain their shooting level, and will not cause their marksmanship to be abandoned because they have not fired for a long time.

The survivors went out to operate, Xie Tian himself did not participate in it again, but asked Junzi to select fifty soldiers, ride in infantry chariots and Volvos, to provide a strong fire support for these survivors, the next morning, the first team of survivors began to prepare to set off, Xie Tian asked Xie Yufei, who was in charge of supplies, to take out 45 Type 95 automatic rifles, each gun is equipped with sixty rounds of bullets, that is, two magazines, and then, after numbering each gun, all of them were issued to the survivors who were selected as combat personnel.

Before leaving, Xie Tian explained: "You combatants, you must minimize the consumption of bullets, don't shoot blindly when you see zombies, if you adopt concave tactics, the three sides of the concave font will be impacted by a large number of zombies, but only a very few can break through the defense, so your target is those zombies who break through the defense, and the others, even if there are many of them, will not cause any danger to you." ”

After that, Xie Tian explained to Shunzi: "There are a lot of materials in the city, but don't let them rush in because of greed for materials, and reduce the mortality rate as much as possible." ”

Junzi nodded and said, "Brother Xie, don't worry, I will do my best to ensure the safety of the team." ”

Xie Tian smiled with satisfaction and said, "Okay, let's get ready to go." ”

Watching the convoy leave, Xie Tian doesn't know what the result of this operation will be, how much will be harvested, how many will die, these are still unknown, so many people have to eat, if the results are good this time, the follow-up action will be easier to carry out, if you hit the nail at the beginning, then there will be some trouble.

The order in the security zone is quite orderly, and Song Hui selected six members of the joint defense team from the two groups of Du Yuewei and Hu Xiaobao, whose specific task is to wear red armbands to patrol the security zone to avoid any behavior that affects public order.

The new gang of people have already got a pound of relief supplies per person, and eating is no longer a problem for them, Xie Tian also temporarily put his mind at ease and returned to his office, Zhao Ziye also ran over not long after, and said to Xie Tian: "The engineer said that our power system can't support the electricity of so many people, and the new more than 1,000 people use rice cookers and induction cookers to cook, and the generator can't carry it, so the power supply to the dormitory building is cut off, but those people are a little resistant, shouting that they can't eat anything if the raw rice has no electricity, How to solve it? ”

Xie Tian frowned, at present, all the electricity consumption in the safety area has to be solved by that generator set, and it is indeed a big problem to support so many people's electricity, after thinking for a while, he said: "In this way, let those people gather in the open space behind the dormitory building to cook, no matter whether they boil water for cooking, they are all prohibited from using electricity, and all use coal as fuel." ”

"Yes." Zhao Ziye nodded lightly, and then said: "Otherwise, let's just build a simple cooking center, make more coal-fueled hearths, and then let these survivors use them freely. ”

"Yes." Xie Tian said with a smile: "Ziye, I'll leave this matter to you, you go to the team leader they elected, discuss it with them, and let them build it themselves, but it must be orderly, all of them are concentrated, and it can't be built too chaotic." ”

"Okay." Zhao Ziye smiled slightly and said, "Then I'll go first." ”

"Don't worry." Xie Tian called back Zhao Ziye and asked, "How do you feel about your current physical condition?" And that special perception ability, has it improved? ”

Zhao Ziye pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "There has been some progress in all aspects of the body, but I feel that the improvement is not very large, but in the past two days, the perception ability has become stronger, and it is not very difficult to use, it is much stronger than at the beginning." ”

Xie Tianxin said that this was because he carried the dozen or so crystals with him, so he asked, "How far can I go now?" ”

Zhao Ziye said: "At present, it is not a problem to perceive the entire power plant, but"

"But what?" Xie Tian asked curiously.

Zhao Ziye's face turned red and said: "But this ability is really embarrassing, I can see many scenes that I don't want to see, and I am afraid of a long needle eye after a long time, so I don't dare to use it now." ”

Xie Tian smiled indifferently, he naturally knew why Zhao Ziye felt embarrassed, in the current safe zone, there are not only people who are husband and wife, but also Qiao and Amy, some of the current survivors are husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, and even some people have established a relationship on the way to escape, just like themselves and Zhao Ziye, after settling down, there are some free lovers, or simply those who take what they need for the pleasure of **, surname behavior is not a special thing here.

Xie Tian opened his mouth and comforted: "Cotyledons, your perception ability, although the scope is not large at present, but continue to develop, your perception ability will have great potential, so don't worry about these small problems, don't pay attention to what you don't want to see after you find it, but don't deliberately don't use it because of this little thing, it's hard to say what kind of ability your ability will be strengthened and upgraded into in the end, you must practice more." ”

Zhao Ziye smiled a little embarrassedly, and said: "I've started to try to distinguish the priorities now, some things that are not suitable for perception, once you find them, quickly avoid them, and some places with too many details, focus on perception, as for this ability, I will not give up exercising, and I will let the perception ability improve quickly as soon as possible, so that in the future, you can take me with you when you go out to find supplies, and I can help you perceive the surrounding environment and the situation of zombies." ”

Xie Tian nodded, and said: "The infantry chariot is the safest means of transportation at present, and there are no zombies that can break through the defense of the infantry chariot, if you need to go out to find supplies in person in the future, I will definitely take you with me, with you, it is equivalent to having a God's perspective, even if you can't see the place, you can see it at a glance." ”

Zhao Ziye smiled shyly and said, "Then let's just say it, you must take me with you if you have something in the future, and you can't leave me behind." ”

After speaking, the walkie-talkie on Xie Tian's desk rang, and Li Xiaohe's voice came, saying, "Brother Xie, among the new survivors, there is an old train driver, and he said that he has something important to talk to you face-to-face." ”

"Train driver?" Xie Tian was slightly stunned, and then said, "You let him come to my office." ”

"Okay." Li Xiaohe said: "I'll take him over." ”

Turning off the walkie-talkie, Zhao Ziye said: "Thank God, you can get busy first, I'll go to them to discuss the matter of getting a cooking center." ”

"Hmm." Xie Tian nodded, and not long after Zhao Ziye left, Li Xiaohe walked in with a middle-aged and elderly man in his early fifties.

"Brother Xie, this is Uncle Cheng, he said that there is something very important to talk to you."

The middle-aged and elderly man smiled stiffly and said, "Leader, you can just call me Lao Cheng." ”

Xie Tian saw that the other party was wearing tattered overalls, his hair was slightly ruined, and his body was relatively thin, but he looked very loyal, so he smiled slightly and asked, "Excuse me, what is important do you have to talk to me face-to-face?" ”

Lao Cheng rubbed his hands a little nervously, and said: "I am a train driver, I have driven trains all my life, and I happened to find a diesel locomotive on the edge of the coal yard behind the power plant. ”

"Don't be so polite." Xie Tian said, took out a pack of Yellow Crane Tower 1916 from the drawer, handed it to him, and said, "If you have any ideas, just say it." ”

Lao Cheng took the cigarette with some surprise, wanted to open it and smoke it but hesitated for a moment and didn't dare to make the next move, Xie Tian quickly took out two of the packs of Ninety-Five Supreme on the table, handed one to the other party, stretched out his hand to light it for him with a lighter, and said: "Sit down and say, don't be so restrained here, smoke if you want, it's nothing." ”

Lao Cheng put his mind at ease, glanced at Xie Tian with some gratitude, sat opposite Xie Tian, and said: "I was in Zhuzhou Locomotive Depot before, Zhuzhou you know, close to the border between Hunan and Nanchang, I have been a train driver, I know more about the railway, and I have run the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line for many years, from Zhuzhou to Pingxiang, Yichun, Fengcheng, to Nanchang and then to Hangzhou, I know this section of the railway line very well, and there is now a diesel locomotive in the power plant, I think I can use it, Find a way to drive to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line through the railway line of the power plant, and Xinyu, not far from here, has a national grain reserve base, and there is also a special railway line directly into the grain depot. ”

"Grain depot?" Xie Tian seemed to have been beaten into chicken blood in an instant, and almost jumped up excitedly, because he didn't know anything about the situation nearby, and he didn't know where the grain depot was, so he blurted out: "Are you sure?" ”

"Sure." Lao Cheng nodded and said, "I went to the grain depot once to transport reserve grain to the warehouse. ”

Xie Tian hurriedly asked, "If we use the locomotive in our power plant, are you sure we can reach that grain depot?" ”

"This is also what I want to discuss with you, the leader." Lao Cheng said with some sorrow: "As soon as the zombie virus broke out, the railway was basically paralyzed, take the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line as an example, it has long been electrified here, so most of the locomotives running on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line are electric locomotives, and when the end of the world comes, there is no power supply, these cars are directly paralyzed on the railway line, we want to go from here to Xinyu, the biggest problem is that there are other trains that may stop on the railway line along the way, and all these trains must be dredged." ”

"How to unblock?" Xie Tian hurriedly asked.

"It's not hard to unblock." Lao Cheng said: "This railway line is a coal branch line, connected with the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, the train will go out, to the connection between this branch line and the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, if the fork of the railway is open, we can drive directly to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line." ”

"Fork in the road?" Xie Tian asked puzzledly, "What do you mean?" ”

"Look." Lao Cheng took a pen and paper, drew a herringbone railway on it, and then drew a circle at the fork point of the railway, and said: "If it is usual, this fork is closed most of the time, so that the train on the main line will not be affected by this fork point, go straight through the fork point, if there is a car that needs to go from the main line of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line to this branch line, or there is a car from the branch line ready to drive to the main line, this fork point will be opened, these two lines will be connected, and the current railway roads are controlled by microcomputers, If the bifurcation is currently closed, then we have to manually open it. ”

"Is it difficult?" Xie Tian, who didn't know anything about this, asked.

"Not big." Lao Cheng explained: "It's like in the old movie, the turnouts that were manually lifted now have no power supply, and we can manually connect the turnouts." ”

Xie Tian nodded, and then asked: "Then what you just said, when the railway is paralyzed, there will be many vehicles stopped on the railway line, if these vehicles block the way we are going, what should we do?" ”

"That's what I thought." Lao Zheng said: "If the paralyzed train is a freight train, and the loaded materials are useful to us, I can directly use the locomotive to dock with the train, and then tow the train back, and the wagons towed back are also of great use to us, which are all made of steel plates, and they are very strong, after dismantling those wagons, those steel plates will be used to weld defense equipment, which will be much better than steel bars!" ”

The more Xie Tian listened, the more excited he became, and then asked, "How sure are you?" ”

Lao Cheng said seriously: "If you can give me some people, I can guarantee that this branch line will be connected with the trunk line, and then how long it will take to dredge the railway, this depends on the current specific situation of the railway, as long as the dredge is done, I have absolute certainty that the train can be directly driven into the new surplus grain depot, as for how much grain can be left there, I can't say it, do you think this is feasible?" ”

"Feasible!" Xie Tian immediately stood up and said, "Let's go and see it now, make sure that there is no problem with the train first, otherwise everything will be in vain, as long as there is no problem with the train, then we can start implementing it immediately!" ”

(To be continued)