Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 1648 Border invasion, Li Yu is disappointed
The North is positioned as a grain production area, so basically no other buildings are built except greenhouses.

All of these residential buildings now were built by Yuan Zhi and his team in the past.

In addition, the North Territory is quite large, larger than the Oil City and the Trading Mart, but its population is much smaller than that of the Headquarters Base.

Therefore, the wall defense will appear much weaker.

Li Yu, Lao Xie and others walked on the wall of the outer city of the North.

The height of the northern outer wall reaches 48 meters, and the height of the inner wall reaches 56 meters.

This height is even higher than the wall of Oil City, so the wall has not been raised since the big camphor tree forces took over.

However, new mobile gates and ultraviolet lamps have been added to the northern wall to defend against zombies.

On the northern side, there is only one combat battalion and two militia battalions.

The combat brigade was led by Lao Xie himself, while the militia brigade was led by Zhu Xiao and Guo Peng respectively.

The total number of combatants added up to less than 700.

The rest are basically affiliated forces of the former Northern Territory, and most of them are engaged in agricultural planting in greenhouses.

A combat team of less than 700 people guarding such a huge city.

If it weren't for the ultraviolet lamps and mobile switches, these 700 people alone would not be able to hold the city.

As long as it doesn't rain, the dozens of meters high wall can resist ordinary zombies, and the ultraviolet lamps can prevent the invasion of wall-climbing zombies.

Once it rains, there are also mobile gates to prevent zombies from stacking up.

These two things saved the North a lot of defense costs.

Li Yu stopped at the edge of the outer wall and looked down at the retracted mobile gate.

"Have you checked the mobile switch?"

Old Xie nodded and said, "Yes, twice a week, the same as in Oil City."

"Yeah." Li Yu clapped his hands and shook off the dust.

Then he walked into the duty room behind him, took out the notebook and started looking through it.

While he was looking through it, Old Xie hesitated for a moment, then walked over and said:

"City Lord, there is something I want to discuss with you."

"What's the matter?" Li Yu looked at the notebook in his hand without raising his head.

Old Xie rubbed his hands, pointed to the north and said:

"Since we arrived in the North, some survivors have occasionally approached us. After we contacted them, they expressed their desire to join us."

"I heard from Zuo Ruxue that the trading market is booming and has attracted a large number of people for development. You have also seen that the population in the North is sparse, with a total population of less than 3000."

"And most of them are plantation workers, so I wonder if we should absorb some people to the North? We can also develop industry and commerce."

Li Yu finished reading the notebook and found that the content was very simple.

Compared with the record book in Oil City, it is completely different. There are too many loopholes here.

But he didn't say it right away.

Instead, he remained calm and temporarily closed the notebook and put it back to its original place.

Walked out of the duty room.

When Old Xie saw that Li Yu didn't answer, he felt a pang in his heart.

He keenly noticed that the city lord did not seem to want to do this.

Li Yu didn't answer him, and Lao Xie didn't dare to ask any more.

After following Li Yu to inspect the outer city wall, he was on his way down.

Li Yu suddenly turned around and looked at Lao Xie.

"The North is not suitable for opening up and absorbing population yet."

"Why?" Old Xie asked puzzledly.

Li Yu sighed and said:

"There are powerful enemies and natural disasters outside, internal development still needs time, and new soldiers still need training."

"The trading market can open up wide and absorb strangers almost without restriction. Do you think it's that easy to absorb people?"

“With so many people coming in, don’t we have to ensure that there are enough combatants and patrol personnel to manage them? If there are too many people and we can’t stop them from rioting, the more people there are, the more turbulent it will be. By then, even an entire city could be overthrown by these survivors!”

"Nowadays, you know, there are not as many combat personnel in the headquarters base as in the oil city."

"There are only more than 3000 combat personnel in the headquarters base, but there are nearly people in the oil city and the trading market!"

"They are there to stabilize the hundreds of thousands of survivors in the trading market and to resist the invasion from the northwest."

"We only have so many combat personnel now. If the North wants to absorb the population and develop commerce and industry, we need reinforcements. Where do you want me to transfer them from?"

The combat team of the Dazhangshu faction has always been willing to have fewer people than to have too few.

So after six years of development, including the militia brigade, there are only about five or six thousand people in total.

This number is already quite large, but it seems a bit small when it is spread over three places.

So, you have to make a choice.

There is no doubt that the headquarters base must always have a combat force of more than 2,000 people.

The Oil City is closest to the northwest, and is openly open to the infiltration of spies from the northwest. In addition, the number of survivors is huge, so a large team of combat personnel is also needed.

Since the combat troops in both places cannot be reduced, it is naturally impossible to increase the combat troops in the North.

Without strong military support, blindly absorbing population to develop the northern border would easily backfire due to poor management.

Li Yu's words were very direct and he did not hide anything.

Old Xie understood, lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying:
"City Lord, I understand. Do you mean to stabilize and develop the headquarters base and the oil city first, and develop agriculture in the north first? And not do anything else for the time being?"

"Yes, that's what I mean. Development must have a focus."

Li Yu said slowly: "Concentrate our forces to handle major and important matters. We only have so many people. If we disperse, we won't be able to develop well anywhere."

Old Xie thought for a while and then continued to ask:

"Well, there are quite a lot of survivors coming here in the past few months. I didn't let them in, but some of them are stationed near the northern border. Are we just going to ignore them?"

Li Yu rubbed his wrist and walked down the steps of the outer city wall.

When he was halfway there, he said:

"How about this, let them go to the Oil City Trade Fair, tell them the policies over there, and lead people there."

"Okay." Old Xie nodded.

In Li Yu's opinion, the North must seek stability.

As a grain production area, most of the North is planted with crops and does not require commercial industry.

The main purpose is to provide food for the headquarters base and the oil city.

There are now nearly two thousand growers in the North, so there is no shortage of growers.

What is lacking is combat personnel.

New survivors cannot become combatants either.

Everyone in the combat system has risen up step by step, and they all have absolute loyalty and recognition to the Dazhangshu forces.

Li Yuning is perfect.

It's not like you can just pick someone and give him a gun and make him a combatant.

Li Yu doesn't trust people who have not been tempered from the bottom, have not been tested, and have no recognition and loyalty to the Dazhangshu forces.

If you give this kind of person a gun and ask him to fight enemies or stop zombies, he might turn the gun around and point it at you.

Li Yu doesn't dare to use such a person.

In short, what the North lacks is not agricultural growers, but combatants.

And the combatants can only be dispatched from the headquarters or the oil city.

Then, these survivors who want to enter the North are of little significance to the North. It is better to lead all these people to the Oil City Trading Market and contribute to the development of the Trading Market.

As the group walked down the wall, Li Yu suddenly said:
"How many survivors are there outside the North now? Have you counted them?"

"Forehead"

Old Xie shouted to Ah Hong behind him, "Ah Hong, come here."

Ah Hong trotted over and Lao Xie repeated Li Yu's question.

Faced with this question, Ah Hong thought for a moment and replied:

"There is no exact number, but the total number of people scattered around the northern border in Yi County, Laishui County, and Gaobei should be more than 3,000."

"Based on limited contact, most of them came from the northeast and the coastal areas."

"Sometimes we will give them some tasks, ask them to help collect some things, some intelligence, and give them some food."

"Intelligence? Tell me." Li Yu asked with interest.

Ah Hong glanced at Lao Xie, and Lao Xie raised his chin.

"The city lord asks you, what do you think I can do?"

It seems like there is something that needs to be hidden from the city lord.

Ah Hong was a little embarrassed. He mainly felt that reporting to the city lord should be the job of Lao Xie, the person in charge.

He said that he was afraid of stealing the limelight from Old Xie.

He didn't feel good after reporting it across levels.

Ah Hong scratched his head and said:

"There wasn't much valuable intelligence before, but in the past week, there were two pieces of valuable intelligence. One was that survivors from Liao Province reported that there were many Koreans and American soldiers there."

"There were many battles there before, and many survivors were driven away. But from what they described, they weren't very strong either."

"Captain Xie and I reported this information to the headquarters base the day before yesterday."

Li Yu frowned when he heard this. He didn't know anything about this.

Oil City, Big Camphor Tree Base, and the North Territory often receive various intelligence about the survivor teams.

Now on the map of the big camphor tree base, there are specially marked locations of some survivor forces, including their population, combat power and other information.

But these forces are no match for the powerful camphor tree.

And these forces would not seek death by provoking such a powerful camphor tree.

Li Yu is in a high position, and various things happen every day in the Dazhangshu forces. He cannot know everything.

From Ah Hong's point of view, the emergence of a not-so-powerful force, which is still hundreds of kilometers away from the northern border, is not a cause for concern.

Moreover, there are fewer fighters in the North now, and they have to defend the walls. Their main focus is on food producers. As long as those people don't take the initiative to provoke them, they don't want to pay any attention to them.

Li Yu's face was gloomy. If it was an ordinary domestic force, he would naturally not care about it.

The Korean and American soldiers have both run into the territory before the apocalypse, which makes Li Yu very unhappy.

His thinking is different from that of ordinary people. From the outbreak of the apocalypse to the present, his thinking has not changed.

When faced with the emergence of surrounding forces, most people will basically choose to avoid conflict.

In order to avoid possible conflicts, Li Yu annexed that force.

Take it directly.

Those who are not suitable for annexation will be destroyed directly.

Total destruction.

Nip in the bud any future crises that may arise.

If the Northwest was not too far away, the expedition was not difficult, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the Northwest's forces were indeed strong, he might really have led his team to destroy the Northwest.

Now, a Korean and American people have entered the country, but Xie and his people don't take it seriously and do nothing? !

"Have you sent anyone to investigate?" Li Yu asked.

His tone was a little low, as if he was a volcano about to erupt.

Ah Hong heard the change in Li Yu's mood, swallowed her saliva and said seriously:
"We sent out two helicopters to investigate, and it turned out to be a team of only a few hundred people, but it didn't look like they had many heavy weapons."

Before he could finish his words, Li Yu continued to ask:

"Are they just these people or are there other teams behind them? Where is their base? Have you sent anyone to monitor them?"

Faced with this question, Ah Hong hesitated and couldn't answer.

He couldn't answer because he didn't know.

Old Xie stood up and said:
"City Lord, they are very far away from us, hundreds of kilometers away, and they are staying in Dandong."

"They would not dare to provoke us even if they had the guts to do so."

"How do you know they don't dare to come to you?" Li Yu asked, suppressing his anger.

"City Lord, our Da Zhangshu force is so powerful, why should we be afraid of them? They definitely won't dare to cause trouble for us." Old Xie said.

Hearing his answer.

Li Yu looked at Lao Xie in shock. Who gave him such confidence?
I am the Lord of Dazhangshu City, but I am not arrogant. How dare you, Old Xie?!
He looked at Lao Xie as if he was meeting him for the first time.

In his impression, Lao Xie has always been a cheerful, interesting, prematurely aged old man.

Moreover, he has been following the Dazhangshu Base for many years, and joined in with Lao Lu not long after the base was established.

He has been staying at the headquarters base for so many years. Eight months ago, his third uncle went south to take charge of the Oil City, and the North Territory was short of people, so he was transferred to the North Territory to be in charge of the affairs there.

But I didn't expect that he had no sense of crisis and was even a little arrogant.

Looking back on Lao Xie’s experience, it seems to make sense why he was like that.

I stayed at the headquarters base for too long and didn't deal with or experience much turmoil.

Even when Li Yu went to the Western Alliance and the Southeast Asian Fraud Park, Lao Xie stayed in the headquarters base to defend.

He is different from Ju Tianrui, Lao Luo, Xiao Jun, Dongtai, Lao Bi, and even Zhu Xiao and Guo Peng.

Ju Tianrui and his gang have been constantly conquering, fighting, or exploring.

When Ju Tianrui, Xiao Jun and others first arrived in the oil city, they were penniless and there was not even a trace of a trading market.

The height of the wall of Oil City is only a dozen meters.

Everyone can see what the Oil City Trading Market has become today.

On the other hand, in the North, the top management of the base did not attach that much importance to the strategic positioning of the North, so not as many resources and manpower were invested in it.

Moreover, the walls in the north are high, and there is a headquarters base and an oil city to support oil, ultraviolet lamps, switches and other things, so they can rest assured here.

Li Yu was very disappointed and angry. At this moment he doubted whether sending Lao Xie over was a good decision.

Perhaps it's because the North is too peaceful, or perhaps it's because I don't come here often.

After Uncle San led the team to withdraw from the Oil City.

The North is too peaceful.

There was no fighting.

There is no need for internal management, you just need to focus on planting, which is almost the same as retirement care.

No wonder the imperial concubine had to step down from the position of a militia captain in the northern border and join the transport brigade.

Because this place is too peaceful and stable.

As he walked down, he had a distinct feeling about the combat team here, that is, they were content with the status quo and had no sense of crisis!
The combat team in the oil city had a clear sense of crisis and built a large number of sentry towers around the area to patrol regularly.
The headquarters base is also okay. Although there has been peace for many years, perhaps because I am stationed there, the battle sequence of the headquarters base is still very crisis-aware.

In the northern border, Old Manager Xie, especially after Old Yi left.

He basically has the final say here.

As the saying goes, "An incompetent general will tire out his army; a bad general will make all his soldiers incompetent."

With Old Xie being like this, no wonder the entire combat team he leads is so lax!

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