"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 mire crab eggs than to fight with the mire crabs head-on. Tens of thousands of mire crabs are surrounding you, even tanks can't do anything. Since you came by airship , then it shouldn’t be a problem to wait until early March to hide in the airship, or simply wait until the summer solstice, right?”
"We need to do something on the island, and we can't wait that long." After a pause, Jiang Chen asked, "What about you? What are your plans for the Calamity Moon?"
"My original plan was to go to the survivor settlement in southern Fujian Province and stay there until the summer solstice, but this year my boat had a slight problem. If no colleagues are willing to give me a ride, I might choose to go to Taipei No. 79 Shelter. Stay there until the summer solstice. It only costs 50 sub-crystals, which is a fair price." Chen Guangning replied.
"Okay, Mr. Chen, we happen to be short of 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 be used for, Chen will be happy to help!"
"Just be a good guide. 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 Yajing a day. If you have no other objections, you can go down ”
"Thank you Marshal!"
Chen Guangning changed the title politely, but Jiang Chen himself was not very interested in these red tapes, so he waved his hand and said.
"Go ahead."
After Chen Guangning walked away, Jiang Chen pondered for a moment, then turned his head slightly and looked at Li Wang, who was standing at attention beside him.
"What do you think?"
"Based on the intelligence collected by our reconnaissance team, we can build a defense line with cement on the northern Despair Beach and encircle the mud crabs in the shallows." Li Wang said decisively.
Jiang Chen nodded.
This is indeed a feasible plan. The only flaw is that to build a defense line that surrounds the entire Despair 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 airship. The only troublesome thing is that it is already February 18th, and there is less than a week left before the arrival of the Calamity Month.
There is not much time left for the expeditionary force.
"The required ammunition and cement will be sent as soon as possible. You can start construction immediately and do everything possible to complete the defense line before the Calamity Moon."
"Yes!" Li Wang stood at attention, saluted, and immediately took the order and left.
After Li Wang left, Jiang Chen turned on his watch, entered the communication screen and channel password left for him by the Beluga Undersea Research Station, and held a holographic video conference with them.
The person responsible for contacting him is still Wu Yue. Judging from the scenery behind him, he should be on the warship at the moment.
After the contact was established, Jiang Chen got straight to the point.
"Can the sonar equipment on your boat repel mire crabs?"
Wu Yue seemed to know the reason why Jiang Chen asked this question, but still shook his head regretfully.
"Unfortunately, our sonar cannot do this. Encountering mud crabs in shallow seas is indeed a headache. They will try to climb on the ship... Do you want to delay the delivery of space elevator parts?"
Jiang Chen shook his head.
"We should stick to the original plan. You are responsible for sending our transport ship to the shallow sea first. I will find a way to solve the problem of mud crabs."
"As you wish." Wu Yue nodded slightly.
…
Despair Beach is located at the northernmost tip of Yizhou Island and is the lowest point in the northern part of the island.
In front of the station, there was once a water park covering thousands of acres, extending from the beach along the shallow sea to the edge of the deep sea. However, now, this place has long been bombed into ruins, and there is still a cargo ship leaning over in the shoal.
The staggered steel skeletons and debris form a wetland-like environment in the shallows. Algae and seaweed grow uncontrollably in the moist shadows. This is a paradise for scavengers and a breeding ground for mutated organisms to thrive.
Even experienced adventurers would not dare to set foot in that dangerous territory easily. Even powered armor can't benefit from the mire crab's claws and thousands of bladed teeth. Not to mention those other mutated creatures lurking in shallow seas. With the complex terrain, their attack methods are even more difficult to guard against.
This is why this place is called the Beach of Despair, which makes everyone who sets foot here feel desperate.
Li Wang's execution efficiency was very high, and he started the defense line construction work on the day he received the order. One hundred engineering robots were plowing around the Beach of Despair, laying the foundation for the wall. At the same time, working on the front line were local survivors hired by the expeditionary force for 5 Yajing per day.
Not everyone has the money to live in a shelter, not to mention that shelter space is limited. When the calamity month comes, most people still choose to hide in their DIY temporary bunkers and spend these months of terror with their families.
Although at the beginning, the arrival of the expeditionary force made them feel wary, after all, judging from their sophisticated weapons, these people did not look like good people. But when these survivors saw them starting to build fortifications along the Beach of Despair, they completely changed their minds.
Even if they didn't think that these people could stop the hundreds of thousands of mud crabs that came ashore to lay eggs, they still had a faint feeling of luck in their hearts.
If these people repel the Mire Crabs from the Beach of Despair, the Calamity Moon that has plagued Yizhou Island for more than ten years will be completely eradicated. From an optimistic point of view, if the mud crabs are painfully beaten by NAC people this year and fail to lay eggs on Yizhou Island, they may be forced to change their living habits and start migrating to other places next year.
As a result, there is one less season for these survivors to survive.
Therefore, when the expeditionary force entered the survivor settlements around Taipei to recruit people, the survivors were very cooperative, at least not as uncooperative as before.
On the other hand, Jiang Chen had already made contact with the Fish Bone Base and transferred a thousand people from the Third Corps to join the expeditionary force.
There are currently only 500 soldiers of the expeditionary force stationed in Taipei. It is obviously unrealistic to fill a thousands-meter-wide front with this amount of troops. If enough soldiers cannot be recruited from local people, they can only recruit from Wanghai City. Reinforcements have been dispatched over there.
According to the plan proposed by the engineering class of the expeditionary force, the total width of the battlefield is 5.1 kilometers. First, 52 5-meter-high defense towers will be built along the edge, and then these 52 defense towers will be built with 3-meter-high and half-meter-wide cement walls. connect. Sandbags are piled behind the cement wall, and trenches and wooden stakes are set up in front to prevent mire crabs from advancing.
A total of more than 1,400 workers have been involved in the construction of the defense line. With the cooperation of engineering robots, there should be no problem in completing this defense line.
As a new batch of supplies arrived, heavy machine guns were moved onto the built wall stacks, and the ammunition boxes were filled with orange-yellow bullet chains, dazzling like gold. The rockets were lined up in the open space of the expeditionary force fortress, and the artillerymen skillfully installed the launchers, completing the deployment of the "Fireball-1" system.
When they saw this scene, the survivors working on the front line immediately gave up their worries and became more motivated to work.
With such powerful weapons, maybe these people can really do it... (.)