"If everything goes according to plan, we'll solve the problem of water for workers within a week, and completely solve the problem for industrial water in two months, and we will not have to worry about it for years."

"What about the road? Capacity has to keep up. ”

After listening to this, the chief engineer of the 17th Bureau took out a drawing, pointed at it, and said: "Speaking of this, it is a troublesome matter, and the problem now is that Hutou Mountain is not directly connected, and no one has come here before, so it is extremely difficult to transport a lot of equipment and materials." ”

"Fortunately, the area around Hutou Mountain is still relatively developed, with good roads, networks, power and hydraulic integration systems, plus there are roads nearby, so a lot of preliminary work has been omitted, and only a few kilometers long dirt road needs to be pulled out from the main road next to it, and it has a preliminary transportation capacity.

"At present, we plan to build four two-way six-lane roads in different directions, so that they can be connected to the surrounding highways, and then we are thinking about pulling the highways over, as for the construction of railroad tracks and airports, that is a matter of the future, at least in the next few months, it is estimated that it is unlikely to be carried out.

"But it's not easy to say, the construction of Hutou Mountain is a key national defense project, if the government gives a higher priority at that time, and people and equipment are oversupplied, then our construction period can be faster."

Hearing this, Zhou Xinming shook his head and said: "It's not that the Supreme Council and our department don't want to help you, but the secrecy is very strong now, and it is impossible to increase the number of people and equipment. ”

"It's okay Zhoubu, my father used to be a railway soldier, and when he was a high-level officer, it coincided with the 80s when he transferred to the East Railway Construction, and the conditions in my country at that time were much worse than now, not to mention Cohen and the Social League, even the border Fusang is unsurpassable in our eyes, we can't even compare with a fraction of others!"

"So many things have come over at that time, and now there is no water to call it a problem? At most, we don't go to the bathhouse during the rest of the time, anyway, it's October, so let's just let the workers who sweat a lot first. The chief engineer said firmly, looking at his dark face, Zhou Xinming was silent.

"It's off the rails." The chief engineer immediately broke the silence: "At present, in order to speed up the progress, we have mobilized a large number of materials that should belong to the Chaoge War Readiness Warehouse, so the relative speed can be much faster, and many of the equipment are ready-made and assembled." Straight out of the box.

"In addition, we are very fortunate that there is a large civil air defense fortification near this area, which stores a lot of war materials, including generators and water purification modules, so we moved directly here.

"Comrade Liu, in addition to the surrounding supporting facilities, what is the plan for the general base?"

"According to the Supreme Council and your ministry, the priority of the infrastructure work of Hutou Mountain is in front of the main base, but in order to prepare in advance, we have designed the relevant drawings and plans."

After speaking, the chief engineer pointed to the hills of Hutou Mountain and said: "The first phase of the project has been exploring the site, according to the above requirements, we will build a large base of about 8 million square meters, which is about 8 square kilometers, in view of the fact that no large karst caves have been found for the time being, this project may be more complicated than ordinary mountain engineering." ”

"However, because some facilities with a low degree of secrecy, such as gymnasiums and activity fields, can be placed on the surface, and some equipment must be placed on the surface to facilitate work, there will be fewer buildings set up in the mountains and underground, which should be about 6.5 million square meters."

It may be because of the vigorous engagement in civil air defense fortifications and third-line construction in the past, or it may be because of rumors spread by foreign media, rumors about the underground base of the Eastern Union Union can be described as flying all over the sky, and it should be second only to Cohen Area 51 in terms of outrageousness.

For example, under the guise of building the base of a wind power station, the Eastern Union Army has dug dozens of missile silos, or has built tens of thousands of kilometers of underground Great Wall in the Eastern Union, and what is even more outrageous is that the Taihang Mountains have been hollowed out by the Eastern Union government.

Of course, although it is not as outrageous as the rumors, the construction capacity of the underground base of the Eastern Union is definitely among the best, after all, as early as the 60s, the engineering army was able to build the 816 project covering an area of up to 104,000 square meters, and artificial military caves like this are not rare in the Eastern Union, and there were a bunch of them under the Second Artillery Corps before.

Especially at the height of the Cold War, under the nuclear threat of the two major powers, Cohen and the United Nations, the Eastern Union built countless anti-aircraft fortifications with iron picks, and most of the important facilities were located underground and inside the mountains, and were also connected by underground roads in all directions.

Not to mention that now the underground construction technology such as piercing and chiseling has been greatly improved, and all kinds of advanced machinery and equipment have been introduced and mass-produced, and the infrastructure capacity of OUCC has long exceeded that of the past.

"If the construction starts, it is expected that we will be able to lay the foundation within a month, of course, in fact, the construction efficiency depends entirely on the number of people and the surrounding supporting equipment, so we will not rush to start the relevant work, but will focus on road construction first."

"Yes, how is the interior of the main base classified? I mean the surface and the inside of the mountain. After listening to the general situation, Zhou Xinming asked curiously.

"First of all, we originally planned to set up camouflaged network defense and reconnaissance satellites in the periphery, but later the Supreme Council canceled this proposal based on consideration, on the one hand, the cost is too high, don't even think about tens of billions, on the other hand, many buildings in the base are located on the surface."

"But the most important thing is that the secrecy of this base will not be so long, it is very likely that it will be announced to the public not long after the end of the first phase, and it will even become a tourist attraction, as for why you know the reason, in order to prevent leaks, I will not talk nonsense."

"As for the real core part, it's not East Railway Construction that is in charge, we don't have any data, if you want to know, you can ask the military, it seems that they are in charge of the construction work over there.

"Okay, I probably have a number in my heart, then Comrade Liu, you can get busy with business first, and I'll just go around and see the construction situation myself." Zhou Xinming saw that there were several engineers waiting nearby, as if he wanted to discuss something about work with the chief engineer, so he took the initiative to end the conversation.

"Okay, if you have any questions, you can just come to me." The chief engineer also saw that Zhou Xinming wanted to talk to the military about the details, so he left to talk to those people after a few polite sentences, leaving Zhou Xinming alone in the busy construction site.