Chapter 741 Build a Defense Line!

"The best way to deal with the Calamity Moon is to wait for it to pass by itself. It is better to clean up the eggs of the mud crabs than to fight the mud crabs head-on. Tens of thousands of mud crabs surround them, even tanks can't do anything. Since you are here by airship , then it shouldn’t be a problem to wait until the beginning of March to hide in the airship, or simply wait until the summer solstice, right?”

"We need to do something on the island, so we can't wait that long." After a pause, Jiang Chen asked, "What about you? What's your plan for Calamity Moon?"

"My original plan was to go to the survivor colony in southern Fujian Province to stay until the summer solstice, but this year my ship had a little trouble. If no one of my colleagues is willing to take me for a ride, I may choose to go to Taipei No. 79 shelter. Stay until the summer solstice It only needs 50 subcrystals, which is a fair price." Chen Guangning replied.

"Okay, Mr. Chen, we just need a guide, so I wonder if you are interested in staying with us?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile.

Hearing Jiang Chen's invitation, Chen Guangning was overjoyed, and immediately said, "I'm very interested. If there is anything I can use, Chen is willing to help!"

"It's enough to be a good guide, and you don't need to do anything else. Go out and talk to the guards, and they will arrange a place for you. I will pay you a salary of 10 crystals a day. If you have no other opinions, you can go down. gone."

"Thank you Marshal!"

Chen Guangning politely changed his address, but Jiang Chen himself was not very interested in these red tapes, so he waved his hand and said.

"Go."

After Chen Guangning walked away, Jiang Chen pondered for a moment, then turned his head slightly, and looked at Li Wang who was standing beside him.

"What do you think?"

"According to the information collected by our reconnaissance team, we can use cement to build a defense line on the northern Despair Beach, and encircle and suppress the mud crabs in the shallows." Li Wang said firmly.

Jiang Chen nodded.

This is indeed a feasible plan, the only flaw is that, in order to build a line of defense that surrounds the entire Desperate Beach, the amount of cement and ammunition required may not be a small amount. The sand can be obtained locally, and the graphene tubes and cement used as the skeleton can be transported by supply airships. The only troublesome thing is that it is already February 18th, and there is only less than a week left before the arrival of Calamity Moon.

There is not much time left for the expeditionary force.

"The ammunition and cement needed will be delivered as soon as possible, and you will start working immediately, and do everything possible to make it before the Calamity Moon,

Complete the defense line. "

"Yes!" Li Wang stood at attention and saluted, and immediately took orders to leave.

After Li Wang left, Jiang Chen turned on his watch, entered the communication screen and channel password left for him by the Beluga Seabed Research Station, and had a holographic video conference with them.

It was still Wu Yue who was in charge of contacting him. Judging from the background behind him, he should be on the warship at this moment.

After the connection was made, Jiang Chen got straight to the point.

"Can the sonar on your boat keep mud crabs away?"

Wu Yue seemed to know why Jiang Chen would ask such a question, but he still shook his head regretfully.

"Unfortunately, our sonar can't do this. It's really a headache to run into mudcrabs in shallow water, and they'll try to climb up to the ship... Do you want to delay the delivery of the space elevator parts?"

Jiang Chen shook his head.

"Still according to the original plan, you are responsible for sending our transport ship to the shallow sea first, and I will find a way to solve the mud crab problem."

"As you wish." Wu Yue nodded slightly.

...

Desperate Beach is located at the northernmost tip of Yizhou Island, which is the lowest point in the northern part of the whole island.

In front of the station, there used to be a water park covering an area of ​​thousands of acres, spreading from the beach along the shallow sea to the edge of the deep sea. But now, this place has long been bombed into ruins, and a freighter is still tilted in the shallows.

The staggered steel skeleton and debris form a wetland-like environment in the shallows. Algae and seaweed grow uncontrollably under the damp shadow. This is a paradise for scavengers and a breeding ground for mutated creatures.

Even experienced adventurers dare not set foot in that dangerous land easily. Even if it's power armor, it's hard to get benefits from the mud crab's pincers and thousands of blades and sharp teeth. Not to mention the other mutated creatures lurking in the shallow waters. With the complex terrain, their attack methods are even more unpredictable.

This is why this place is called Despair Beach, and everyone who steps here feels hopeless.

Li Wang's execution efficiency was very high, and he started the defense line construction work on the day he received the order. A hundred engineer droids worked around Despair Beach, laying down the foundation of the wall. At the same time, local survivors employed by the expeditionary force also worked on the front line, with wages of 5 sub-crystals per day.

Not everyone has the money to live in a shelter, not to mention the space in shelters is limited. When the Calamity Moon comes, most people still choose to hide in their self-made temporary shelters, and spend the months of terror with their families in fear.

Although at the beginning, the arrival of the expeditionary army made them feel vigilant, after all, judging from their well-equipped weapons, these people are not like good people at all. But when the survivors saw that they had begun building fortifications along Despair Beach, they changed their minds completely.

Even though they didn't think these people could stop hundreds of thousands of mud crabs coming ashore to lay eggs, there was still a hint of luck in their hearts.

If these people drive the mud crabs back from Despair Beach, the calamity moon that has plagued Yizhou Island for more than ten years will be completely eradicated. Thinking optimistically, if the mud crabs were beaten up by nac people this year and failed to spawn on Yizhou Island, they might be forced to change their living habits and start migrating to other places next year.

In this way, there is one less season for these survivors to survive.

Therefore, when the members of the Expeditionary Force entered the survivor settlements around Taipei to recruit people, these survivors participated very well, at least not as uncooperatively as before.

On the other hand, Jiang Chen has already contacted the Fishbone Base, and transferred a thousand people from the Third Corps to join the expeditionary force.

At present, there are only 500 soldiers of the Expeditionary Army stationed in Taipei. It is obviously unrealistic to use this force to fill a front line several kilometers wide. If you cannot recruit enough soldiers from the locals, you can only recruit soldiers from Wanghai City Reinforcements have been dispatched over there.

According to the plan put forward by the engineering squad of the Expeditionary Army, the total width of the battlefield is 5.1 kilometers. First, 52 defensive towers with a height of 5 meters will be built along the edge, and then the 52 defensive towers will be covered by a concrete wall with a height of 3 meters and a width of half a meter. connect. Sandbags are piled up behind the concrete wall, and ditches and stakes are set up in front to prevent the mud crabs from rushing in.

A total of more than 1,400 laborers were devoted to the construction of the defense line. With the cooperation of engineering robots, there should be no problem in completing the defense line.

With the arrival of a new batch of supplies, a heavy machine gun was moved onto the built wall, and the ammunition boxes were filled with orange ammunition chains, dazzling like gold. The rocket racks were lined up in the open space of the expeditionary fortress, and the artillerymen skillfully installed the launchers, completing the deployment of the "Fireball-1" system.

Seeing this scene, the survivors working on the front line immediately dispelled their worries and became more motivated to work.

With such powerful weapons, maybe these people can really do it... (To be continued.)