Chapter 139 Food Problem, Return to Jincheng, the State Capital
As the teacher said, fifteen thousand people fled at the same time, not to mention the danger of being chased and intercepted by the Zerg, just to maintain the existence of this organization , it’s a big expense.
In peacetime or in wartime, these are not problems.
But now it’s the end of mankind, which is fully invaded by alien creatures. The survivors in all countries and regions have no time to take care of themselves.
The ability to maintain and supply the logistical needs of frontline operations from the rear is entirely dependent on the developed transportation system once established by the Federation. Now as the frontline shrinks and retreats, the expanded 13th Division still remaining on the frontline will soon They were reduced to the difficult situation of running out of food and weapons.
But if these soldiers are simply abandoned or disbanded on the spot, it will cause a heavy blow to the stability of the rear area and the future resistance of the Federation.
Of course the teacher didn’t want to waste these precious soldiers.
Even if they have only been in the army for half a month and have only been on the battlefield for a few days, they are at least more capable than the civilians who fled.
Internally, a systematic command system has been established. This organizational power allows these soldiers to obey orders and resolutely execute them.
Instead of being reduced to a mob, or like gangs and bandits, who are chaotic when encountering battles.
As the top management of the Thirteenth Division led the awakened people to evacuate, the remaining large number of strengthened people and early awakened people needed a strong leader.
Lead them to continue to grow and become the backbone of the resistance against the Zerg invasion.
The young man in front of him has the ability to block danger and provide weapons. He only needs to solve the food problem and can take over the army that is about to be disbanded.
Lin Feng also knows this.
I also admire the magnanimity of the old man in front of me from the bottom of my heart.
He originally thought that the other party visited him in person to recruit him, or to help him complete something in exchange for benefits.
For example, capture second-level live insects, trade second-level insect eggs, so that the top management of the Thirteenth Division can smoothly enter the second stage, or hire yourself to resist the Mother Queen, defend the next key city, etc. ...
But what Lin Feng didn’t expect was that what the other party wanted was just to let him take over the Thirteenth Division, retain this team, and ensure that these soldiers would not be displaced and waste the time to fight against the Zerg invasion. Valuable manpower.
On this point, Lin Feng strongly agrees.
But the problem of food supply is equally difficult.
With the help of Hu Fei and Han Yuxin, Lin Fengshang was able to provide food for hundreds of people and nearly a thousand people. However, these fifteen thousand soldiers had fifteen thousand mouths. Just to stay alive, they would consume 1.5 per day. tons of grain.
If they are sent to participate in frontline battles, the food consumption will only be more!
Moreover, eating only rice as a staple food does not provide much strength. Meat rich in fat and protein is also in urgent need.
Maintaining an infantry division of 15,000 people is far more difficult than feeding 15,000 survivors.
The latter only needs to be full, but the former needs to have fighting power.
At present, most of these city-defending soldiers have also experienced defensive battles to stop the insect tide. Their combat effectiveness is not a problem. The key is how to solve logistics.
Weapons and equipment can be dealt with by replicating them, but food cannot be replicated.
So before thinking of a solution, Lin Feng certainly couldn't agree hastily.
Otherwise, when faced with fifteen thousand mouths, the chaos caused by hunger and the distortion of human nature...
It will be more terrifying than defeat!
At this moment, the teacher has handed over his rank of major general. The two silver stars represent the supreme power in the apocalypse, but also mean heavy responsibility.
Normally speaking, a division commander only has the rank of senior colonel, and at most is a one-star brigadier general. However, the teacher's commander once had outstanding military exploits. Under his hands, the Thirteenth Division also became the ace force of the Federation, so he was promoted to a two-star major general.
But what Lin Feng cares about is not his military rank.
With the awakening of individual abilities, there is no corresponding strength level. Even if you sit on the presidential throne, you will gradually become a puppet of a powerful awakener.
Before the food supply is completely solved, Lin Feng will not consider these formal trivial matters.
He took out his mobile phone and saw that the three-bar signal was finally displayed in the upper right corner of the screen.
The first counterattack from this afternoon to evening successfully pushed back the Zerg activity range beyond the first line of defense. With the large number of deaths of the new second-order Zerg, especially the Pulse War Scorpions, the Queen of Haicheng must have He has been hiding in the rear all night.
The electromagnetic interference caused by the Zerg mother nest naturally became much weaker as the mother queen withdrew.
So Lin Feng picked up the phone and replied:
"I'll make a call first..."
The teacher nodded and was not unhappy because of Lin Feng's hesitation. It was precisely the other party's cautious character that made him feel a little relieved.
Thinking carefully and taking action after planning are the qualities a leader must possess.
If Lin Feng is like other young people who rise to the top in one step and covets the power and status brought by these fifteen thousand soldiers and directly agrees, then the teacher and elders will re-evaluate whether the other party is qualified. Some Secret means will also be arranged in advance.
Lin Feng called Hu Fei first.
It took half a minute before the call was connected.
The other party has returned to the safe zone in the rear area, just above Hulao Pass. He has already contacted the top federal officials and opened up the upper-level relationship network.
Through conversation, Lin Feng knew that he could use the live insects of the Zerg in exchange for a large amount of food...
Especially the second-order Zerg, which is currently in extremely short supply.
In order to maintain their status and power, those high-ranking officials are willing to use tens of thousands of tons of food, and even meat, to exchange for the opportunity of second-level awakening with the insect hunters on the front line.
This is exactly what Lin Feng wants.
After all, the difficulty of catching a second-order live insect is dozens of times that of a black spine insect.
And how to safely transport them back to the safety zone behind, a long journey of thousands of kilometers, will be an even bigger problem.
The huge body of more than ten meters is even harder to hide.
However, live insects are difficult to transport, but the second-order eggs, which are not dangerous in Lin Feng's hands, can be easily transported back to the rear.
And in the second-order insect eggs, the physical enhancement effect of the organic nutrient solution can also be exchanged for more benefits.
There was no problem on Lin Feng's side, but the key problem appeared on Hu Fei's side.
How to transport tons of grain and send it back to the front line has become a top priority again.
The cost of food is actually transportation.
Large in size and light in weight, it cannot be compressed.
Grain has also become a typical representative of bulk commodities.
In the past, low-cost long-distance transportation could also be carried out through powerful transportation capabilities, such as railways and shipping.
But now we have arrived at the end of the world.
With the upcoming outbreak of the capital defense war and the resumption of the reconstruction of heavy industry in the rear, the fuel and other fuels that the Federation was already short of have now become even more scarce, even more precious than food.
The fuel consumption and escort costs of transporting hundreds of tons of food are higher than taking back these soldiers.
If we take the water route, the fuel consumption is low, but the speed is too slow. In addition to the assembly at the dock, it will take five or six days. The current surplus of the Thirteenth Division is only enough to last until tomorrow.
The evacuation of the top management and the 10,000 awakened people will take away most of the food, but the heavy weapons and equipment will be left to the defenders on the second line of defense.
Once the stable food supply is lost and hungry, even the awakened ones will not be able to hold on for long, and they will only consume more when they exercise.
The disintegrating escape is bound to happen.
Even if Lin Feng picked up his gun and pointed it at them, he could not prevent the formation from collapsing under the torment of famine.
Although Hu Fei was unable to deliver food in time, he also provided another remedy:
"I have contact with the director of the Food Security Bureau. I used a few black spine worms to get from him a schematic diagram of the secret war preparation granaries set up across the country."
"There are several in Jincheng. I will send you the area map and the coordinate address."
Lin Feng nodded. Sure enough, it is useful to open up high-level relationships, at least now we can respond to emergencies.
Hang up the phone and receive the message. At the same time, the teacher sitting opposite him added:
“Actually, these are all defense facilities under the threat of nuclear war in the last century, except for the war preparation granary. , there are also many secret arsenals of old weapons sealed away for emergencies.”
"The reserves of war preparation granaries are very small, and most of the locations are hidden in the mountains. The east side of Jiangnan Prefecture is full of plains, and only the westernmost state capital, Jincheng, has an old mountain chain more than 20 kilometers long... "
"If there is a war preparation granary, it is probably there..."
Lin Feng's eyes lit up. Because the signal was slightly affected, after half a minute of loading, the regional map sent by Hu Fei and coordinates, showing three war-ready granaries, which are indeed located west of Jincheng, Laoshan Park, as the teacher and elder said!
It is only two or three kilometers away from the research institute where Ding Chenghai is located.
The storage specifications are 50 tons per container. The food reserves are mainly canned and compressed dry food, with less meat because it is easy to spoil. For other specific situations, you will have to open it in the past to know.
A total of one hundred and fifty tons, which can temporarily cope with the consumption of fifteen thousand soldiers, as long as they can be transported back.
Seeing the change in Lin Feng's expression, the teacher rarely showed a smile:
"The large ship that comes to pick us up will dock at Jincheng Port tomorrow morning and finally stop at Wucheng Pier.”
“It’s not too late if we leave now.”
Lin Feng nodded. He was not worried about transportation problems. Jincheng was only a hundred kilometers away from Wucheng, and there would be no other obstacles on the way.
And he still has this little fuel.
Not to mention the help of Han Yuxin, a local.
Before the day after tomorrow, it would be no problem to move the food from the war preparation granary and transport it to the front line.
After seeing the map, Lin Feng had other ideas and wanted to confirm whether they could be realized.
After thinking for a few minutes, he finally smiled.
Lin Feng stood up slowly, walked to the division commander, and stretched out his right hand:
"I promise to take over the remnants of the Thirteenth Division."
Teacher Changshen Taking action, the two shook hands and made an agreement, then reminded:
"Are you sure you don't need the help of a transport ship?"
Lin Feng shook his head:
“I also have subordinate forces distributed in Jincheng City. With just one phone call, I can enter Laoshan and move out food, and my fleet can also arrive in Jincheng at any time.”
"No need to wait until tomorrow."
After hearing Lin Feng's explanation, the teacher nodded with satisfaction, then picked up the two-star military rank on the table and handed it to the young man:
"I will Leave some of the grassroots backbone behind and join the defenders on the second line of defense. They will help you organize your team and take care of the new recruits below..."
"Of course, if you are not satisfied, you can also replace it with Li Ran and others, but the execution ability and reaction speed will be reduced."
As he said that, the teacher who had fulfilled his wish patted him. Lin Feng looked over his shoulder with a hint of ridicule:
"Believe me, managing these fifteen thousand people is more difficult than fighting the Zerg!"
The two met. Look and smile.
Lin Feng took over the military title from the teacher, but tied it back for him, and then said:
"I don't have the qualifications and ability to command so many people in battle. Just give me a senior colonel, one level higher than Qin Hu."
"And the number of people needed for future battles will not exceed a thousand. , I will arrange for the rest to be responsible for logistics. A senior colonel rank is enough."
The teacher nodded, which is also in line with Qin Hu's views on future wars:
"Okay, then. Tomorrow afternoon, I hope Colonel Lin can lead your invincible fleet to come behind the second line of defense and hand over the command of the Thirteenth Division to us!"
Lin Feng took a deep breath and nodded his promise.
The teacher gave a final salute and turned to leave.
Watching the top management of the Thirteenth Division leave, Li Ran and others came over one after another, wanting to know what the two were discussing.
After all, the teacher’s face was much more relaxed and joyful when he left than when he came.
Maybe the Master Chief promised the other party a lot of things.
Lin Feng did not hide his secrets. After all, he would take office after tomorrow, so he directly asked Li Ran to gather everyone back to the camp and announce on the spot that he would be entrusted by the teacher to succeed him.
Everyone's expressions were exactly the same as when Lin Feng heard about this for the first time.
The audience was silent until Lin Feng waved his hand and announced the disbandment, then cheers broke out.
The master chief's rapid rise also means that their status will surely rise.
And if you can follow such a powerful awakener, the space for future growth and progress will be broader.
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Lin Feng returned to the cockpit of the battleship. Chen Yanyan, who had woken up early, had already dressed and was standing in front of the bridge waiting for her man's arrival.
She seemed to have expected it.
He asked with a tacit smile:
“Are you going somewhere?”
Lin Feng shrugged and smiled back:
"Yes, taking over the Thirteenth Division means that we are about to officially enter the stage of this war between humans and insects. We will become a force competing for the final victory."
"At the moment, apart from the food, drink and food of the soldiers "Sa, there are other more important things that need to be prepared in advance."
Chen Yanyan walked over gently and leaned into Lin Feng's arms:
"Go to Jincheng to find Professor Ding?" ”
Lin Feng nodded and kissed the woman:
"Not only that, we also want to occupy the entire Jincheng as our temporary base."
"As for now, let's deal with the food rations for fifteen thousand people tomorrow first!"
"Convene Several captains and commanders, arrange the action."
Chen Yanyan hummed and used the intercom on the battleship to call the captain.
When returning to Jincheng this time, the eight tanks must keep up, otherwise their various attributes will disappear after the land cruiser leaves.
In addition, transporting food goods also requires the help of eight tanks. Although they have no storage space attribute, they also have twenty cubic meters of backup space inside, which can help transport more goods.
Now that the Queen of Haicheng has been pushed back, the service area far away from the battle line is not in danger for the time being.
Lin Feng asked the commander to drive the chariot and follow the action, while the other captains stayed at the camp to appease his soldiers.
Because Shen Jie has to take care of Zhang Liying, who is in the second-level upgrade and awakening state, she also needs to stay.
And his personal strength is enough to deal with any second-order Zerg attack.
Before leaving, Lin Feng found Shen Jie and asked him to remember to drink the organic nutrient solution of the second-order insect eggs to strengthen his physique, which was very beneficial to his recovery.
Shen Jie nodded. One hundred kilograms of nutrient solution could fully satisfy his and Zhang Liying's consumption.
After instructing everyone to keep vigil, Lin Feng waved his hand and boarded the battleship.
Chen Yanyan then drove the battleship out of the service area.
I originally wanted to take the expressway as I did last time, bypassing Taihu Lake and heading north. Unexpectedly, Lin Feng held a walkie-talkie in his hand and commanded:
"Follow the land cruiser and rush out of the highway."
"We will not take the land route this time, but directly take the water route!"
"Remember, I saw something related to fishery, Whether it’s a fishing boat or a fishing net, mark it all in my mind and remember to bring it all back to the shore on the way back.”
At first, Chen Yanyan was a little confused, but when Lin Feng finished speaking. The following reminder command suddenly dawned on me:
“Do you want all the fifteen thousand people entrusted by the Thirteenth Division to come over to fish!?”
Lin Feng nodded.
At this moment, after the land cruiser drifted and turned, broke through the guardrail and sailed into the water of Taihu Lake, the waves aroused slapped on the bow of the ship, and the sound of the waves drowned out the conversation between the two.
Lin Feng looked at the fleet riding the wind and waves, driving on the lake with great power, reaching a speed of more than 100 knots, which is equivalent to 120 kilometers per hour, which is not much different from the average speed on land.
But compared to naval ships, due to limitations in power system efficiency and armor stress factors, they can only maintain an average speed of about thirty knots.
Even the aircraft carrier only has about thirty-five knots.
However, smaller torpedoes can break through a hundred knots, and even the latest supercavitating torpedoes can reach a terrifying two hundred or even more than three hundred knots.
If the underwater units of the Zerg can have such an astonishing strike speed, it is no wonder that the powerful navies that all countries are proud of can instantly lose contact and capsize within a day...
As the battleship continues to be upgraded and becomes larger, its speed in the water will inevitably decrease.
More replicas are needed to serve as wing ships.
Lin Feng thought about it and replied loudly:
"Yes, there is not a lot of meat in the war preparation granary, so they can barely fill their stomachs, so they have to use their own hands to get food."
"And this will weaken the strength of the Zerg very well. ”
Half an hour later, the fleet sailed into the tributary of the big river and saw many fishing shops on both sides.
Lin Feng immediately ordered to go ashore.
Then he took out his phone and dialed Han Yuxin’s number:
"Hey, find some locals from Jincheng, especially those who are familiar with Laoshan Park."
"By the way, there is no need to be awarded the title of the State Guard. Now, I am the commander of the 13th Lu Division! ”
This chapter echoes the previous call and the last call.
(End of this chapter)