148: There are corrupt officials everywhere
"Hurry up, hurry up!"
Outside the city, the forests within fifty kilometers of the perimeter have been bulldozed in the last ten days, leaving bare earth and countless tree stumps.
The shovel digging into the bunker swings quickly.
The legs stacked with sandbags are like flying.
The pins of the iron mesh are flowing.
Tens of thousands of workers are busy working on this land.
On the city wall, all the posts were torn down, and all the guardrails at the top of the wall were smashed.
One by one, the cannons were erected.
The cannons of the four walls of the city are now all concentrated on the end of this absolute demonic beast defense battle: the western city wall.
All the boiler rooms in the royal city are firing at full power, making new city protection cannons and the required projectiles.
When Zheng Qian arrived at the construction site with the cat Nanbei, he also had to be shocked by this scene.
I didn't expect Chuandong's mobilization power to be so strong.
"You are Mr. Zheng Qian?"
Taking the cat to inspect all the way to the north and south, Zheng Qian tried to understand the layout of the position first.
I didn't expect that the workers who passed by actually recognized Zheng Qian.
Quite a few people gathered around.
Among the workers who did not come around, many of them stopped what they were doing and looked curiously.
This made Zheng Qian a little bit out of time.
"You know me?" Zheng Qian asked a little shyly.
The dirty workers had wistful smiles on their faces.
"Of course I do, you're a celebrity."
"The Monster Storm City, the Ghost Tooth Mountain Rescue Battle, these are all well-known battles."
"It's said that you may be the next war king, is it true?"
Am I that famous now? How did I not know?
The enthusiastic voices of the workers were even a little noisy.
It was the first time in Zheng Qian's life that he had such an experience.
It feels like a fan meeting for a celebrity.
"Mr. Zheng Qian, what are you doing this time?" A worker asked in a thick accent.
Zheng Qian replied: "It's nothing, just to see the position configuration." ”
"What do you ask you to mention, we are all coolies, we can't go to the battlefield, and now at this critical moment, that's all we can do."
"No, no, no, you're all good, and without you, this battle would be very difficult."
Damn, am I infected by Zhao Aotian's virus? How can you even say such a thing?
However, at this moment, in the noisy voice, there were suddenly some discordant problems.
"Then again, Mr. Zheng Qian, when will the salary owed to us by the sect order come down?"
The question was asked by an old carpenter who was about sixty years old.
He asked with anticipation as he bent his thin back and held up his dirty hand full of calluses.
"Zongren Order?" Zheng Qian was curious.
As soon as this question came out, the surrounding workers also turned their curious eyes to Zheng Qian.
They are all working people at the bottom, and they can't tell what department they are, and they can't tell whether Zheng Qian and Zongren Ling have a subordinate relationship.
They only knew that Zongren Ling was in charge of the royal chores, and Zheng Qian was a celebrity, and both of them were big shots, so it was the same to ask anyone.
"What? Didn't the sect order pay you? Zheng Qian was a little strange.
It stands to reason that the treasury funds in eastern Sichuan are abundant at present, and now that the national crisis is at hand, the funds related to the war should be sufficient.
Are the wages of the workers uneven?
"I'm going to stay here for a while anyway, and if I want to run into the sect's order, I'll help you ask." Zheng Qian responded.
When the workers heard this, they enthusiastically said: "You are a big man, you must rest assured." ”
"We know that the country is in trouble, but the country is not short of money, so we can't be allowed to work for nothing, right?"
"Yes, please Lord Zheng Qian."
Bidding farewell to the construction workers, Zheng Qian and Mao Nanbei continued to wander around the position under repair.
I have to say that sometimes high IQ and experience are really two different things.
It is possible that you have an IQ of three hundred, which allows you to arrange your troops, and it is not as good as an IQ seventy, but a strategist with fifty years of battlefield experience.
The entire position was laid out in the shape of a wifi.
Or rather, wavy is more appropriate.
The position is divided into ten levels.
The outermost front was excavated and bulldozed, creating an uncovered plain.
Then looking inward, the closer you get to the inner positions of the royal city, the more the battle line is shortened and compressed.
The entire position is divided into nine layers, plus the outermost plain, which is very suitable for the warrior monks to charge, so it can be basically understood that the battlefield this time is designed as a total of ten layers of defense line.
The outermost part is the plain, allowing the warrior monks to take the lead in containing a large number of demonic beasts.
This is followed by a five-story position that is gradually stacked up, and I can't understand what it's used for.
On the seventh and eighth floors, countless sentry tower-like buildings have been erected, presumably to facilitate the use of heavy bombardment magic by magicians.
The ninth floor, next to the walls of the royal city, was almost completed, and was filled with newly cast ultra-long-range heavy bombardment cannons.
The tenth floor is the city wall itself.
All of the city's in-service cannons were transferred to the western city wall to build this last line of defense.
Of course, the houses inside the royal city are currently being renovated.
If the city wall is breached, the warriors retreat into the city, relying on the terrain of street fighting, they can still have the strength to fight.
Although Zheng Qian couldn't fully see through the strategy of defensive warfare, he was barely able to read half of the positional layout.
Zheng Qian himself has no experience in participating in such a large-scale battle, so he has nothing to point out about, so he can only say to take a look and familiarize himself with the environment in advance.
It's just that when he visited and investigated, Zheng Qian found some discordant places.
"What's the matter with this sandbag?"
Using two fingers to pinch the sandbag that the worker was struggling to carry, Zheng Qian gently checked it a few times, and asked with some reproach: "I remember that the standard configuration of the sandbag is a bag of 220 catties, why is it so heavy?" Too much stuffing? ”
Sandbags are exquisite, too light to pile out the stack is easy to be washed away by the monster, too heavy means that the filling is too full, and the sandbag itself is easy to burst when impacted.
This sandbag is obviously a bit too heavy.
Zheng Qian pinched it and found that it didn't feel like sand.
When I opened it, I found that it was full of mud, stones, and other things.
The worker said: "Zong...... Zongren Ling said that in order to save money, half of the workers who dug up the river sand were transferred, and we did not have time to irrigate, so the foreman could only let us fill half of the sand and half of the soil and stone waste. ”
After hearing this, Zheng Qian's brows couldn't help frowning.
The sandbags poured out in this way will cause the mud moisture to be squeezed out over time and gravity.
The stacks will become the outside and loose on the inside.
It's okay to block people, but the demonic beasts with infinite blocking power, this kind of sandbag stack can't play a covering role at all.
Thinking about what the workers he met at the beginning said, Zheng Qian's brows became tighter and tighter.
Zongren Order?
Is that Xiao Xuan's father Xiao Baoguo?
After that, Zheng Qian took the cat to the north and south to continue his patrol.
Sure enough, a lot of problems were discovered.
The diameter of the barbed wire is too fine, and the barb density is insufficient.
The pile spacing of the fixed pile of the pit is too wide, which is easy to cause the bunker to collapse.
Zheng Qian even retreated to the city gate tower and checked the ammunition and inventory of the newly cast cannons.
It was found that there was a deficit of 20% in the amount of ammunition.
Now, Zheng Qian is really on fire.
100 million Warcraft and Ares against humans and me.
It's a soldier-to-soldier battle of king-to-king.
Defeat on one side means increased pressure on the other.
If the human side can't hold it, Zheng Qian won't be able to concentrate on dealing with Ares.
It can be said that the task of truth is now binding the fate of Zheng Qian and mankind.
Aren't you kidding with Lao Tzu's life?!
Is the Zongren Ling Xiao Baoguo right?
"Hey, you!" Zheng Qian casually grabbed a passing overseer and grabbed him like a chicken until his legs were off the ground.
"Where is Xiao Baoguo? Take me to him! ”
"Zheng... Lord Zheng Qian, I... I haven't ...... the project yet."
"Fuck you!"
Zheng Gan didn't care what the overseer said, grabbed his neck and pulled him to a position close to his face: "Order the whole construction team to stop work!" Take me to see Xiao Baoguo! ”
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