In the center of the Wailing Basin, a huge building rises from the ground.

Although there was no special construction equipment brought, which made the construction a bit troublesome, there were ships in the fleet that were specially used to transport equipment, and with the strong strength of the Lei Ling Clan, it was obviously not difficult to build a fortress-level military camp on this devastated planet.

If there were special construction equipment, the progress of the project could be much faster, and the camp built would be more solid.

Just, why build a camp here?

Carlson didn't know, he was just acting on orders from the fleet commander, and as the head of engineering, he didn't need to know why.

In any fleet of the Thunderling Clan, there is an engineering leader like Carlson.

This is not only the tradition of the Lei Ling clan, but also has a very important significance. When they came to the Southern Alpha system and waged a war against the indigenous civilizations, each of the Thunderling tribes had a dedicated engineer in each unit. It is precisely in this way that the legions of the Lei Ling clan are invincible. Although the combat effectiveness of the engineers was not very good, in the fierce battle, the barracks and defense lines built by the engineers played a vital role. Over the past thousands of years, the military engineers of the Lei Ling Clan have performed many miracles. For example, during the First Greenwich War, the military engineers of the Thundering Clan transformed an asteroid into a space fortress in just one month, and blocked the pace of the Silicon Phantom army here, buying time for other civilizations in the Galactic Alliance to complete the war mobilization, allowing other civilizations to form more legions, and then having a strategic counterattack, and the final victory.

Obviously, building a fortress-level barracks here is nothing at all.

Although the resources on the slag star have long been mined and abandoned for thousands of years. But there are still a lot of materials that can be used on this planet. Of course, the most important material needed to build a camp is everywhere, and that is, the rocks found on any solid planet, silica to be exact. Rock can be easily processed to make it malleable and used to build a variety of infrastructure.

Like what. That huge conning tower.

"Command tower" is just a colloquial name, but it is actually the heart of the barracks. Subsequently, the engineers will install a large energy converter to maintain the entire camp, convert the original energy into other energy sources, and transmit the obtained energy to the equipment and pipelines that come out of the camp, and finally install an ecosystem that can maintain the entire barracks, completely changing the environment in the barracks.

After the engineers have completed these tasks, the legion will be ready to move in.

By the standards of the Thunderling Legion, even without any preparation. Engineers can also use the engineering equipment carried by the Legion to build a barracks large enough to accommodate the entire Legion in a single day. With enough equipment, especially heavy equipment, an engineering unit could build a fortress-class barracks capable of accommodating a hundred legions with well-equipped protection facilities in ten days.

As long as the barracks are built, the Lei Ling Clan Legion will be invincible.

Although the Thunder Clan has the strongest military strength in the Galactic Alliance, the Thunder Clan Legion is not good at attacking, but at defense. Relatively. On the contrary, the Weaver Legion is better at attacking. Over the past millennia, the Thunderling Legion has achieved major victories. Almost exclusively obtained through defense. To put it simply, as long as the Thunder Ling Clan Legion is allowed to gain a firm foothold on the battlefield, that is, a solid fortress and defense line has been built, even the Silicon Charm Army commanded by the War Emperor himself may not be able to break through, and the Lei Ling Clan Legion has rarely been defeated by the enemy in defensive battles. The most important support of the Lei Ling Clan Legion in defensive operations is the impregnable military camp.

Relying on the fortifications with the barracks as the core. The Thunder Ling Clan Legion is able to block an enemy ten times or even a hundred times stronger than itself.

In the "Battle of Solomon" in the First Greenwich War, the Thundering Legion relied on a makeshift fortress and used the strength of ten legions to resist the repeated attacks of nearly a thousand Silicon Legions on the Solomon Asteroid, and held out for ten years until reinforcements arrived. This classic battle, which was recorded in military textbooks by all civilizations, made the Lei Ling clan famous. At the same time, it made the Lei Ling Clan legion famous.

It is also good at defense, so in all the Greenwich Wars, the Lei Ling Legion has been the mainstay on the battlefield. During several Greenwich Wars, the main task of the Thunderling Legion was to build, defend and control forward bases, while the legions of other civilizations were responsible for attacking. The most representative is the Third Greenwich War, with the support and assistance of the Thundering Clan, the offensive strength of the Weaver Legion was fully exerted, and by the time the legions of other civilizations drove to the battlefield, the Silicon Phantom Legion had been defeated. To put it simply, the Lei Ling Clan and the Weaver Star Clan defended and attacked, and with close cooperation, they defeated the Silicon Charm army commanded by the War Emperor himself.

This is the glorious history of the Thunderling Legion, and Carlsen certainly knows it.

However, the current situation is not very ideal.

Although only ten legions followed the fleet, the fleet commander asked Carlson to build a fortress-level barracks for a hundred legions, which had to be completed in ten days. If there is enough heavy equipment, Carlson doesn't find it much of a challenge. The problem is that there is not enough heavy equipment, not even enough manpower. Carlson couldn't figure out why he would build a fortress-level barracks that could accommodate a hundred legions with only ten legions. It's just that Carlson knows that the order of the fleet commander is very likely to come from the Wanluo War Emperor. This means that more legions are definitely coming, and they will be arriving soon.

Wanluo War Emperor mobilized a hundred legions?

You know, even in the Fifth Greenwich War a thousand years ago, the Thunderlings had only sent that many troops in three decisive and crucial battles. If it were not a decisive battle, such as simply holding or consolidating a defensive line, ten legions would be enough.

Don't forget, with a strong defensive line, ten Thunderling legions are enough to withstand an army of silicon charms ten times their size.

Besides, the Slag Star is in the Central Region, even if it is adjacent to the Northern Region, it is thousands of light-years away from the North Fourth Region, and it is difficult for the Silicon Charm army to launch a large-scale attack here, so the possibility of being besieged is very small. Now that there are ten legions following the fleet, what reason is there to send more troops, and a hundred legions?

Carlson didn't understand this kind of strategic problem, and he didn't think much about it.

As a junior officer, all Carlson has to do is obey orders and act according to orders. As for why, it wasn't at all something he needed to figure out.

Of course, as a veteran of the Fifth Greenwich War, Carlson understands military discipline.

After the inauguration of the conning tower in the barracks, he did not laze, and now is not the time to be lazy. The conning tower is only the core, and a complete barracks requires a lot of other infrastructure. What's more, Magnus built a fortress-level barracks, that is, a fortress capable of stationing a large number of legions, and the key to a fortress was a complete defense, which required a strong perimeter defense.

According to the Legion's construction procedure, when building a fortified barracks, the conning tower is completed first, and then the all-important outer line. It is only after the completion of the perimeter defense line that the construction of the internal infrastructure begins. Only in this way can the barracks be held in the event of an attack.

The question is, where is the enemy in this hellish place?

Although Carlson was visiting Slag for the first time, he had read the relevant information and knew that the planet had been abandoned thousands of years ago.

It's a barren planet where no one lives and even a passing spaceship is rare.

Enemies of the Silicon Alliance?

Obviously impossible, if there was a silicon beast on the slag star, it would have been discovered by the fleet a long time ago.

Carlsen still couldn't figure it out, but he still didn't think much of it.

As a conscientious project leader, he began to build the perimeter defense line after the conning tower was completed.

Obviously, it's a chore.

Prior to that, the outer line of defense was under the responsibility of three corps. Because it was only a temporary garrison, the legion built only temporary fortifications on the outskirts of the basin. Next, Carlson's engineering troops had to build permanent fortifications on this line and replace the temporary fortifications built by the corps one by one. If it's just a normal camp, it's not a big problem. However, Carlson was going to build a large camp that could hold a hundred legions. What's worse is that there are no inhabitants on Slag Star, and all supplies have to be transported through spaceships, so there must be a place for spaceships to take off and land in the camp, as well as warehouses for storing weapons, ammunition and other materials, so the camp is twice as large as usual, and the outer defense line of the camp is longer, and there are more fortifications to build.

Obviously, it is absolutely impossible to complete this fortress-level military camp in ten days.

Fortunately, the commander of the fleet was reasonable, and after Carlson explained the situation, he also made concessions, and only asked for the completion of the outer line of defense within ten days.

Even so, time was tight.

You must know that the Weeping Plains is a huge crater with a radius of 1,000 kilometers, and the length of the outer defense line is more than 6,000 kilometers. Even according to the minimum standard, there are more than 600 permanent fortifications every 10 kilometers, and about 100 mobile force camps will be built.

Not to mention that Carlson only has three corps of engineering troops, even if all the engineering troops of ten legions come, it may not be able to be completed in ten days.

Of course, the fleet commander thought Carlson could do it, and Carlson could only believe that he could do it.

In any case, an order is an order, and even if you don't have much faith, you must do your best, and you should not slack off because you feel that you cannot complete it.

It must be admitted that Carlson was a very responsible engineering officer.

After completing the construction of the conning tower, he, like his engineering officers and soldiers, went to the periphery of the basin and personally participated in the construction of the outer defensive line.

The main thing is that there are not enough people, otherwise Carlsen would not have worked so hard. (To be continued.) )