After Li Yuanhong finished giving instructions about the weapons, he ran outside to see the progress of the ice wall. He saw that four hundred people had been rotated. Many of the people who had worked before had their hands turned red from the cold. If they continued to work, they would probably freeze their hands. , there is no choice but to let others take over. This slowed down the progress of the project. After all, many of the people taking over the work were women, who were not as strong as the male workers before. At this time, it has been less than ten hours since the zombies arrived at the base, and less than one-tenth of the internal wall has been built. At this rate, by the time the zombies come to the door, half of the wall will not be built.
So Li Yuanhong called Xu Bing and Erya over again and listened to the difficulty of the project progress.
Erya said: "The weather is too cold. Many people carry water and often spill the water on themselves. Soon the water will be frozen, and many people will get frostbite."
Xu Bing also said: "It's too cold now and the ground is frozen hard, so it's difficult to dig a foundation. Even if ten people dig a one-meter-deep foundation, they can't dig ten meters in an hour, so the speed is always increasing." Don’t come up.”
Li Yuanhong listened, thought for a while, and then said: "Let everyone don't just keep doing it. Let everyone use their brains. Whoever has a good solution, let everyone propose it. If anyone comes up with a good solution, as long as it is adopted, he will be rewarded with five dollars." Canned fruit." Li Yuanhong explained the reward policy.
Erya and Xu Bing quickly promulgated the incentive policy. Sure enough, it didn't take long for someone to come up with a method: light a fire on the place to be excavated, which will not only heat up the land and soften it, but also make the work easier. People are always ready to keep themselves warm by the fire and dry their wet clothes.
Some people also proposed that the water pump for irrigation be connected directly to the wall, so that no one would have to carry the water. Others proposed using wooden boards to make a frame and pouring water on them, so that the wooden boards would be frozen into the outer wall. Wall skin, this way you don’t have to use ice bricks one by one, and the speed will be improved.
Now that the method is in place, the next step is to apply it in practice. Sure enough, the construction speed of the ice wall has increased. Some people even mixed men and women to do the work, so that the lighter work is assigned to women and the heavy work to men, and then they work in two shifts. Everyone will have time to rest, and the efficiency will be improved.
Li Yuanhong not only rewarded those who made suggestions, but also asked Erya to write down the names of these people, and look at their performance later. If they perform well and have good character, Li Yuanhong doesn't mind promoting them. After all, they are in management and testing. It’s about being able to be flexible when dealing with things, instead of just sticking to the old rules.
Although the construction speed has increased, there is still not enough time to complete the work before the zombies arrive. At least, we must find a way to make the zombies arrive three hours late. And if the zombies arrive longer, you can prepare more on your side. Weapons, so Li Yuanhong planned to stop the zombie swarm.
Li Yuanhong came to the second floor of the meeting hall, entered the sand table room, opened the sand table, and looked carefully at the movement route of the zombies. Suddenly, Li Yuanhong saw a good ambush location, and Li Yuanhong rehearsed the idea on the sand table. Sure enough, the zombies moved. was delayed. At this time, Wang Jingrong and Liu Hu had already set off with the main troops to stop the scattered groups of corpses. They were not at the base. Xu Yingyou was better at defending the city, so it seemed that he could only lead the team out himself. So Li Yuanhong immediately called for the sparrow. The sparrow had been in charge of the quarry before, but this time he was called back by all the staff. At this time, he was working on the city construction site.
Seeing the sparrow coming, Li Yuanhong immediately asked: "Sparrow, in your quarry, who is responsible for quarrying and firing?" Li Yuanhong asked.
"Oh, it's Wang Yonghai." Sparrow replied.
"Then where is he now?" Li Yuanhong asked.
"He was working with me just now, and he should be taking a break now." Sparrow said.
"Okay, call him later, bring some more people, weapons, pickaxes for quarrying, mines, and explosives, and come with me to fight zombies." Li Yuanhong said.
"Okay!" Sparrow said excitedly.
After a while, Sparrow, Sparrow led a dozen people to Li Yuanhong. Li Yuanhong only gave them five rifles, and then said: "These five guns are for you to defend yourself, not for fighting. Don't use them." I thought you could only fight with a gun, but you can also use your brain to hit a stick. Okay, I will take you to fight zombies later." After saying that, Li Yuanhong ignored these people with question marks in their heads and asked them to check all the tools, especially the Tools for blasting mountains and quarrying rocks. After everything was checked, Li Yuanhong took everyone, as well as the spearmen and archers, and boarded the RV.
It's been a long time since I drove an RV. It wasn't because Li Yuanhong was trying to be cool. All the armored vehicles had been driven away, so Li Yuanhong had no choice but to drive in the RV.
As the snow continued to fall, the ground was slippery, and the field of vision was not very good, Li Yuanhong did not dare to drive the car very fast. The speed was only controlled between forty and fifty miles. After driving for a full hour, Li Yuanhong finally stopped. The RV drives to its destination.
This is a winding mountain road. The place where Li Yuanhong is located is the narrowest part of the winding mountain road. It is tight enough for two cars to pass side by side. On one side of the road, there is a cliff more than a hundred meters deep, while on the other side, It is a cliff tens of meters high. The cliff is almost at right angles. Not to mention zombies, even Li Yuanhong cannot climb up without professional tools.
What Li Yuanhong has to do is to blow up the cliff and completely block the road. Once the road is blocked, unless the zombies can climb mountains, they can only retreat and then take a detour. This detour will at least He has to walk more than 60 kilometers. In such weather, these 60 kilometers can buy Li Yuanhong at least four or five hours.
Li Yuanhong got out of the car, asked Wang Yonghai to look at the mountain, and then said: "I ask you to blow up the mountain in front of you and completely block the road. Can you do it?"
Wang Yonghai did not answer immediately, but looked towards the mountain. It was around four o'clock in the morning, and it was still dark. He could only see the general outline of the mountain with the help of car lights. However, with so many days of shooting and artillery experience, Wang Yonghai nodded and promised: "No problem!"
So Li Yuanhong arranged for Wang Yonghai to start digging into the mountain to install explosives. About ten minutes later, Li Yuanhong's walkie-talkie suddenly heard Zhang Yuan's voice: "Report to the boss that the zombies are moving this way."
When Li Yuanhong heard this, he did not dare to neglect and hurriedly ran in the direction of Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan was standing at an intersection of Winding Mountain Road, where he could overlook the entire Winding Mountain Road. Li Yuanhong took out his telescope and looked down the mountain. At this time, white snowflakes had covered the entire mountain. At the foot of the mountain, under the reflection of the snowflakes, he could see a dense black shadow, slowly moving along the winding mountain road. Going up, maybe because of the cold weather, the zombies did not move very fast, but the large group of zombies was like a huge black wave, pressing directly over them. From them, Li Yuanhong even spotted many tall figures. Because the sky was too dark, It's impossible to tell whether it's a fat zombie or a giant zombie, but no matter what kind, it will be a huge test for future defense.
Li Yuanhong calculated the zombie's moving speed and estimated that it would take more than twenty minutes to reach him. It seemed that time was a bit tight. So Li Yuanhong ran back to Wang Yonghai. At this time, Wang Yonghai was hanging on the cliff, firing holes continuously. Li Yuanhong did not dare to distract him, so he waited for a while and saw Wang Yonghai finished his current work before shouting: "Yonghai, how is the work going? , how long will it take?”
Wang Yonghai rubbed his frozen hands and said, "Brother Li, there are still five blastholes left to complete, and half of it is still needed!"
After listening to Wang Yonghai's words, Li Yuanhong knew that this progress would definitely not work, so he said to Wang Yonghai: "Yonghai, you mark the positions of the five blastholes, and I will be responsible for digging the blastholes!"
Wang Yonghai did not argue, so he followed Li Yuanhong's instructions and drew the positions of the five blastholes. Li Yuanhong asked Lu Yi and three spearmen to take charge of one blasthole each, while he himself was responsible for one blasthole. Li Yuanhong evolved twice, and digging the blastholes was a trivial matter. piles, so in less than ten minutes, all the blast holes were drilled.
Wang Yonghai didn't expect it to happen so quickly. He checked it and installed explosives and fuses into the blasthole. Everything went smoothly. Then Li Yuanhong led people to evacuate the explosion area and prepare for the explosion.
At this time, the frontline troops of the zombies were less than three minutes away from the explosion zone. Even people like Wang Yonghai, who had not evolved, could see the dark silhouette of the zombies. Everyone was a little scared. If it had been later, not only If you fail to complete the blast hole operation, you may be surrounded by zombies.
Li Yuanhong did not detonate immediately, but waited until the zombies completely entered the explosion area before ordering the detonation. As Wang Yonghai pressed the detonation button, the time for the big explosion that Li Yuanhong was looking forward to finally arrived!