"The best way to deal with the Month of Disaster is to wait for it to pass by itself. Clearing the eggs of the Mud Crabs is better than fighting the Mud Crabs head-on. If tens of thousands of Mud Crabs surround you, even a tank can't do anything. Since you came by airship, it should be fine to hide on the airship at the beginning of March, 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 then asked, "What about you? What's your plan for the Month of Disaster? "
"My original plan was to go to the survivor settlement in Minnan Province to stay until the Summer Solstice, but this year my ship had a little problem. If no one is willing to give me a ride, I may choose to go to Taipei Fallout Shelter 79. It only costs 50 crystals to stay until the Summer Solstice. This price is fair, "Chen Guangning replied.
"Okay, Mr. Chen, we just need a guide, so I don't know if you are interested in staying with us?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile.
When he heard Jiang Chen's invitation, Chen Guangning was overjoyed and immediately said, "I'm very interested. If there's anything I can do for you, I'm happy to help! "
"Just be a good guide, you don't need to do anything else. Go out and talk to the guards, they will arrange a place for you to stay. I will pay you 10 crystals a day. If you have no other opinions, you can go. "
"Thank you, General!"
Chen Guangning changed the way he addressed Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen himself wasn't interested in the formalities, so he waved his hand.
He waved his hand and said, "Go."
After Chen Guangning walked away, Jiang Chen pondered for a moment, 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 build a line of defense with cement on the northern Desperate Beach and encircle the Mud Crabs in the shallows," Li Wang said decisively.
Jiang Chen nodded.
This was indeed a feasible plan. The only drawback was that to build a line of defense that surrounded the entire Desperate Beach, the amount of cement and ammunition required would not be small. Sand could be obtained locally, and the graphene tubes and cement as the framework could be transported by supply airship. The only troublesome thing was that it was already February 18th, less than a week before the arrival of the Month of Disaster.
There was not much time left for the expeditionary army.
"The ammunition and cement needed will be sent over as soon as possible. You should start work immediately and do everything possible to finish building the line of defense before the Month of Disaster."
"Yes!" Li Wang saluted and immediately left to carry out the order.
After Li Wang left, Jiang Chen opened his watch and entered the communication channel and channel password left by the Beluga Station for a holographic video conference.
The one in charge of contacting him was still Wu Yue. Judging from the background behind him, he should be on the warship at the moment.
After the call connected, Jiang Chen was straightforward.
"Can the sonar on your ship repel the Mud Crabs?"
Wu Yue seemed to know the reason for Jiang Chen's question, but he still shook his head regretfully.
"Unfortunately, our shouts can't do that. Encountering Mud Crabs in the shallow sea is indeed a headache. They will try to climb onto the ship … Should we postpone the delivery of the space elevator parts? "
Jiang Chen shook his head.
"Let's stick to the original plan. You guys are responsible for sending our transport ship to the shallow sea first. I'll find a way to solve the problem of the Mud Crabs."
"As you wish." Wu Yue nodded slightly.
…
Desperate Beach was located at the northernmost tip of Yizhou Island and belonged to the lowest terrain in the northern part of the island.
Before the war, it used to be a water park covering thousands of acres. It extended from the beach along the shallow sea to the edge of the deep sea. Now, however, it had long been bombed into ruins, and there was a freighter lying in the shallows.
The crisscrossed steel skeletons and wreckage formed a wetland-like environment in the shallows. Algae and seaweed grew uncontrollably in the wet shadow. It was a paradise for scavengers and a hotbed for mutant creatures to multiply.
Even the most experienced adventurers didn't dare to easily set foot in that dangerous place. Even power armors couldn't gain an advantage in front of the claws and thousands of sharp blades of the Mud Crabs. Not to mention the other mutant creatures lurking in the shallow sea. With the complex terrain, their attacks were even more difficult to defend against.
This was why this place was called Desperate Beach. It made everyone who set foot here feel desperate.
Li Wang's execution efficiency was very high. He began the construction of the line of defense on the day he received the order. One hundred construction robots worked around Desperate Beach and laid the foundation of the wall. At the same time, there were local survivors hired by the expeditionary army to work on the front line at five crystals a day.
Not everyone had the money to live in the fallout shelter, not to mention that the space in the fallout shelter was also limited. When the Month of Disaster arrived, most people still chose to hide in the makeshift bunkers they made manually and spent the months of terror with their families in fear.
Although at the beginning, the arrival of the expeditionary army made them vigilant. After all, judging from their excellent equipment, these people didn't look like good people. But when these survivors saw them begin to build fortifications along Desperate Beach, they completely changed their original thoughts.
Even if they didn't think these people could stop hundreds of thousands of Mud Crabs that came ashore to lay eggs, they still had a faint hope in their hearts.
In case these people repelled the Mud Crabs from Desperate Beach, the Month of Disaster that had plagued Yizhou Island for more than a decade would be completely eradicated. Optimistically, if the Mud Crabs were hurt by the NAC and failed to lay eggs on Yizhou Island, they might be forced to change their living habits next year and start migrating to other places.
As a result, there would be one less season for these survivors to survive.
Therefore, when the expeditionary army entered the survivor settlements around Taipei to recruit people, these survivors were very cooperative, at least not as uncooperative as before.
On the other hand, Jiang Chen had already contacted the Fishbone base and transferred 1,000 people from the Third Corps to the expeditionary army.
At present, there were only a total of 500 expeditionary army soldiers stationed in Taipei. It was obviously unrealistic to fill a battle line that was thousands of meters wide with this number of troops. If they couldn't recruit enough soldiers from the locals, they could only transfer reinforcements from Wanghai.
According to the plan proposed by the expeditionary army's engineering squad, the total width of the battlefield was 5.1 kilometers. First, 52 five-meter-high defense towers would be built along the edge, and then the 52 defense towers would be connected with a three-meter-high and half-meter-wide cement wall. Sandbags would be piled behind the cement wall, and trenches and wooden stakes would be set up in front to prevent the Mud Crabs from advancing.
A total of more than 1,400 laborers were invested in the construction of the line of defense. With the cooperation of engineering robots, there should be no problem in completing this line of defense.
With the arrival of a new batch of supplies, heavy machine guns were moved to the built wall, and the orange-yellow ammunition chains were filled with ammunition boxes that were as dazzling as gold. Rocket racks were lined up in the open space of the expeditionary army fortress. The artillery skillfully installed the launcher and completed the deployment of the "Fireball-1" system.
When they saw this scene, the survivors working at the frontline immediately dispelled the worries in their hearts, and they worked even more energetically.
With such powerful weapons, maybe these people could really do it …
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