One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Seven Qingtang
After the convoy entered Qingtang for more than 100 kilometers, a neat row of buildings finally appeared at the end of the horizon.
At this time, only a trace of afterglow was left from the sun, and the sunset glowed obliquely, making Qingtang in front of it a fiery red.
Xiao Yuan stood up and looked at the buildings in front of him: "Finally arrived!"
Ye Han laughed and looked towards the Qingtang urban area. He unexpectedly found that the end of the pasture was a group of buildings. He unexpectedly found that Qingtang had no protective walls!
The protective wall is not a city wall, but can also be layers of stacked barbed wire, or trenches with a span of tens or even hundreds of meters, etc. In short, the protective wall is the first line of defense for the city to defend against giant insects. As long as it can play this role, it can be regarded as a protective wall.
However, there is nothing similar outside the Qingtang urban area. There are only a few lonely machine gun towers standing on the edge of the city, and behind the machine gun towers is the urban area.
In Ye Han's impression, major cities across the country have rebuilt protective walls long ago. Qingtang is the largest human gathering area in the west. Isn't its biggest feature the high city and thick walls?
However, I figured it out again. Qingtang is located in the west, with vast land and sparse population, and relatively poor natural resources. There are not many giant insects that can survive here. The possibility of a large-scale insect swarm is very small, and a small-scale insect swarm is not a big deal. The city defense system can handle it!
Speaking of this, we have to talk about the current city defense system. If the military's previous combat strategy was active defense to keep the enemy out, then the current strategy is to defend instead of attack to preserve strength.
As early as the beginning of the insect disaster, Beidu gradually established multiple core cities to concentrate a large number of people to avoid unnecessary losses caused by excessive population dispersion.
From that time on, the city's architectural style took a 180-degree turn. Whether it was originally exquisite and graceful or magnificent, it all turned to solid and durable.
Simply put, it is to build thicker walls and make windows smaller so that insects can't dig through or drill in.
Such buildings are certainly not as comfortable as those before the war, but they are safer. Even the interior of the buildings is designed with necessary partitions. Once the swarm attacks on a large scale, each building can be transformed into a bunker and fight against the swarm like a mainstay.
Even the buildings before the insect disaster have been transformed in an all-round way, not to mention the buildings after the insect disaster. They are completely fortified, so the official name is the fortress building!
As for the folk names, there are many. Some places directly call them artillery towers, blockhouses or fortresses based on their functions; some places call them pigeon towers because they are narrow,
and some are called tube towers because of their height, and gray towers because of their color. There are many kinds of them.
At present, Ye Han and others can only see the periphery of Qingtang. All the buildings are fortress buildings. They are of the same height, similar length and width. The undecorated concrete surface is rough but very strong, and the windows are as small as shooting holes.
To put it bluntly, this thing is indeed not much different from a real fortress. Just find a window to set up a machine gun to block the street; if you set up machine guns on several windows at the same time, you can form crossfire.
The firepower of the fortress building is naturally more than this. Generally, there are machine guns on the bottom layer, support firepower on the middle layer, and anti-aircraft firepower on the top layer. It is a combination of long, medium and short distances, and it is very useful to deal with insect swarms.
With the scale of Qingtang, it is impossible to break through the city without its one million or eight hundred giant insects. It makes no difference whether there is a wall or not.
There are dozens or hundreds of such cities in China, and each city uses its strong arms to protect humans.
However, such cities can only be found in China, which is known as the infrastructure maniac. There are neither sufficient building materials nor such a fast construction speed abroad. According to the authoritative records of Beidu, the shortest construction period from laying the foundation to the completion of a 30-story fortress building is only nine days, and the longest is only fourteen days, with an average of only twelve days!
This achievement is a miracle created by the engineering staff working in three shifts day and night. In other words, as long as the building materials are available, an engineering team can build 30 standard fortress buildings a year. Calculated as 24 households per floor and four people per household, each building can accommodate 720 households and 2,880 people.
Due to the large population and lack of information, the fortress buildings are rarely allocated by household. In most cases, they are packed into the buildings as much as possible, just like the military camps. On average, each building accommodates no less than 4,000 people.
Of course, Beidu is not about cramming people into the buildings and everything will be fine. With so many people squeezed into a limited space, it is okay for a short time, but over a long time, there will be all kinds of contradictions and conflicts. All kinds of management systems, material supply, environmental sanitation, entertainment methods and punishment measures must be kept up to date. Any shortcomings in any of them will cause unpredictable consequences.
There have been problems with personnel management in major cities. After summarizing years of experience and lessons, a set of effective management plans have been formed.
While thinking, the convoy approached Qingtang. The road passed directly between the two fortress buildings, and the road width was basically the same as the building width.
Ye Han was surprised again here, because there was no roadblock at the intersection, but there was a sign of the registration office on the first floor of the fortress building on the left, and several people dressed as civilians were waiting in line outside the registration office.
Seeing the motorcade approaching, everyone looked over involuntarily. Everyone had a different expression, some were envious, some were nervous, and some looked yearning.
Ye Han pointed at the registration office: "What kind of registration is this place?"
Xiao Yuan grinned: "It's definitely not a marriage!"
"Go away, I didn't ask you!" Ye Han scolded angrily.
Gu Cheng said: "It should be the registration office for leaving the city. After registering here, you can leave the city and exchange weapons and equipment from the military."
"So simple?" Ye Han was very surprised. Mercenary registration should not be a strict approval and political review?
"How complicated can it be?" Gu Cheng was also surprised. "Do you have to check your ancestors for eight generations?"
Ye Han thought that the military review was to check your ancestors for eight generations: "That can't be so trivial, right?"
"There must be a basic review, but it's just to check if there is a criminal record or something." Gu Cheng said.
Ye Han immediately became interested: "What if there is a criminal record? What if there is no criminal record?"
"Those with criminal records must be strictly examined, and they can pass if they have really reformed; those without criminal records must be persuaded again. If they really can't be persuaded, the registration office can help find a senior mercenary to lead them."
Ye Han was shocked. Isn't it just registering a mercenary? There is such an operation? Isn't it to relieve population pressure to let people leave the city? This is simply training mercenaries, okay? u