Chapter 288: Air Transport Spreading to Dongzhou

Chapter 288: Air Transport Spreading to Dongzhou

Chapter 288: Air Transport Spreading to Dongzhou

2 month 22 day.

The blizzard once again covered the surface of Jianghe City.

The water vapor in the air condenses into ice crystals, turning into lingering white mist.

Together with the freely flying snowflakes, the whole world becomes dark and hazy.

Being in this world.

Whether it is human vision or the lens of a camera, it is difficult to see clearly what is more than 10 meters away.

Except for the whistling wind.

Deep in the fog and snowstorm.

There are also more than a dozen huge pipes with a diameter of more than ten meters, cast from fast cement.

It extends all the way from the edge of the farmyard shelter to an artificial mountain 2 kilometers away.

Inside the pipe.

A huge rotating motor and a conveyor belt with slots.

At a constant speed.

The rubble excavated from the ground is continuously transported to the other side of the mountain.

Let it grow little by little as time accumulates.

The basement level of the farmhouse.

control center.

"It's time to adjust the position of the pipeline outlet again."

Su Wu reached out and fiddled with the transmission pipeline for transporting waste rock on the holographic projection.

From different angles.

Observing these dozen or so buildings that can definitely be called giant buildings.

The engineering team currently excavating the 8th underground level of the shelter produces tens of millions of cubic meters of rubble and waste every day.

Almost all of it is transported out through these pipelines.

As long as they pause for a moment.

The construction progress of the entire shelter will be affected.

And given their importance.

Even Su Wu had to come and inspect in person regularly.

To ensure there are no hidden dangers.

Well done on observation.

Another convoy carrying spider robots and construction materials was dispatched to the artificial mountain to carry out the task of fine-tuning the pipeline.

Su Wu withdrew his gaze.

He then began to look at the map of the entire Dongzhou.

The current Dongzhou.

The dividing line is Chongzhou City, a super city about 300 kilometers west of Jianghe City.

Continue westward, approaching the area of ​​the Western Wilderness Plateau.

It is an area directly controlled by the Dongzhou government.

And to the east of Chongzhou.

Basically, they are like Su Wu's Jianghe City, which has been completely separated from the influence of Dongzhou's capital.

A local independent force that enjoys de facto autonomy.

But, even though it is autonomous.

But in these autonomous regions.

The official shelters in various places still have close ties with federal officials.

Normally they may not interfere with each other.

But if you encounter serious problems, such as what Su Wu once did.

Large-scale plundering of resources from official shelters.

This may lead to federal intervention.

Just look at these.

Because we cannot target the official shelters that have the most resources.

The ceiling of Su Wu's future development seems to have been locked.

But in reality, the opposite is true.

The territory of Dongzhou is really too large.

Only those small number of people in civilian shelters who were labeled as anti-human camps were eaten.

It is enough to support the current rapid development of Su Wu.

And in the vast wild areas outside the official refuge.

Limited to the harsh surface environment.

For the vast majority of local official shelters.

There are no mines that have the capacity to be developed.

For Su Wu, these were all readily available resource collection points.

and.

Led by the Ice-class land frigate, the caravan is capable of reaching any remote area in Dongzhou.

Just normal trade with shelters in various places.

The resources are exchanged for small industrial products that have become rampant in farmyard shelters and are almost as expensive as the raw materials.

It will not be inferior to mining income.

These are three ways to obtain resources.

It is enough to allow the scale of Su Wu’s shelter to expand several times, or even dozens of times.

Once it develops to that point.

It is the world's first super shelter that can accommodate more than one billion people with a diameter of only seven kilometers, comparable to the population size of an entire continent.

Even the federal central capital.

Nothing can compare to it.

And besides that.

It's not true that the official shelters cannot be moved at all.

For example, the steel city that Su Wu had previously occupied.

That super city still has a population of 2300 million.

But not all of them are controlled by local families and gangs.

There are also forces that have inherited the name of Steel City's official shelter.

But it turns out.

Su Wu merely demonstrated his military power to the capital of Dongzhou.

Took ownership of it.

It can be inferred from this.

There is actually quite a lot of flexibility here.

As long as Su Wu didn't go too far, he would occasionally take over a few official shelters within the autonomous region.

It shouldn't lead to too serious consequences.

"As the apocalypse continues."

"The control of the East Continent capital and the Federation over the local areas is declining at a speed visible to the naked eye."

"Wait until the future and eat up all other edible resources."

"At that time, we can also consider forcing a war of unification."

"The entire autonomous region will be completely dyed the color of Jianghe City."

I have a vague understanding of the future development path.

All the confusion in Su Wu's heart was swept away.

Next.

He turned his attention to the Kuanjiang River Basin on the map.

It was the first place managed by Su Wu.

There is nothing there except the official shelter.

Most of the civilian shelters had been completely cleared out by Su Wu.

All the people inside were moved to the farmyard.

However, there are a large number of mature mines in that area that are producing resources continuously.

At this time, there were still nearly 30 caravans.

Traveling in that area for a long time.

Responsible for the finished resources produced by the mine and refined, as well as the gains from trading with the local official shelter.

Bring them all back to the farmyard.

These caravans can complete a round trip every 4 days on average.

In total, it can bring nearly 30 tons of supplies.

The scarce resources will be used to build land warships and sixth-generation fighter jets.

Most of the ordinary supplies are used to expand the underground shelter in the farmyard.

The remaining small portion is invested in the manufacture of snow transport vehicles and other conventional mechanical equipment including robots.

"Output from the mines in the Kuanjiang River Basin."

"It is the basic source of income from external resources at present." "In addition, due to the large-scale transfer in the past month, the roads in that area are well maintained."

“Transportation costs are much lower than in other places.”

“It can be regarded as the back garden of Jianghe City.”

And out of the emphasis on the back garden.

Even though there are almost no robbers there.

Su Wu was not at all negligent in protecting the place.

Not to mention the caravan itself, the 1,500-ton carrying capacity of the Iceborne-class land frigate is almost entirely used to carry combat drone clusters, spider robot formations, and weapons and ammunition.

The firepower that can be unleashed is strong enough to tear apart a division-level regular army without long-range heavy weapons.

Each of the affiliated shelters and communication signal tower fortresses along the way serves as a backup supply point.

A certain scale of armed forces are also stationed there, ready to provide support at any time.

Even, in the hangar on the ground floor of a farmyard.

There are also more than 24 sixth-generation fighter jets available 10 hours a day, fully loaded with ground-to-ground missiles for combat, ready to take off at any time.

We guarantee that we can arrive at the scene to provide support within 40 minutes at the latest.

"Then over in the northern steel city."

"There are also 30 caravans stationed there to transport supplies and people."

Different from the Kuanjiang River area.

On the 400-kilometer journey between Jianghe City and Gangcheng.

There are more than just steep mountains blocking the way.

Making it almost impossible for regular vehicles to pass through.

The complex forces of various shelters along the way and the robbers they bred also added a lot of risks to the journey.

Although it will not affect the transportation safety of the caravan.

But every once in a while, the caravan would indeed encounter some small-scale battles.

The strategy adopted by Su Wu in this regard.

It is to let multiple caravans act in unison.

Improve fault tolerance with a larger scale.

"The rare resources stored in Steel City have already been transported to the farmyard in advance."

"Nowadays, it mainly consists of ordinary supplies."

"However, Steel City is the only super city we control besides Jianghe City."

“It also undertakes the task of serving as a sub-base, gathering the output of several large and medium-sized mines in the surrounding area, and conducting primary refining and processing.”

"As a result, some new rare resources will continue to be produced."

"The caravan there."

"It's mainly used to transfer people, and occasionally transport some common metal materials back."

"They are also the main providers of the nearly 20 new people that the farmyard shelters still receive every day."

At the beginning of design.

A caravan can normally carry 8000 people.

But now the surface environment has become extremely harsh.

Apart from special means of transportation such as land warships and snow transport vehicles, there are basically not many vehicles that can safely travel long distances.

The original seats were removed and passengers were forced to stand and squeeze inside the snow transporter.

It is not impossible to accommodate 1.5 to 2 times the number of people.

At most, it will be a little more difficult during the ride.

Of course, you can also make temporary stops and repairs in some affiliated shelters along the way.

In fact, it won’t really cause too much torture to the passengers.

"Finally, in addition to these 60 caravans that travel back and forth regularly."

"The remaining 100-odd caravans will disperse to other areas of Dongzhou that have not been visited before."

The missions these caravans undertake are somewhat complicated.

Some were responsible for capturing civilian shelters that were marked as anti-human camps and turning them into supply bases for Su Wu.

And based on it, the surrounding minerals are mined and smelted.

Some are responsible for trading with local shelters, exchanging supplies and technical services for the other party's excess resources, including population.

Others are responsible for traveling to more distant places.

A vertical take-off and landing airport for sixth-generation fighter jets will be built in a selected large mine or a small or medium-sized civilian shelter.

It is responsible for refueling the sixth-generation fighter jets and increasing their operating radius.

Because vertical take-off and landing airports are not cheap.

Su Wu only planned to build six fixed vertical take-off and landing airports outside.

Three of them are located 1500 to 2000 kilometers away in the south, north, and east respectively.

It is mainly used to expand the flight range of the sixth-generation fighter jets.

It allows it to truly reach the entire Dongzhou, and even every corner around Dongzhou, in the air.

The remaining three.

Among them, one is located in Steel City, and two are located near two super cities in the economically prosperous southern area.

These three airports are built purely for economic reasons.

Mainly used to transport supplies from the air.

As Su Wu's 320 sixth-generation fighter jets gradually rolled off the production line.

Su Wu's air transport capabilities.

It has completely grown to a level that cannot be ignored.

A sixth-generation fighter can transport 15 tons of supplies at a time, with a maximum flight speed of 4 times the speed of sound.

This means that in just one hour.

Su Wu can be within a radius of five to six hundred kilometers around Jianghe City.

This range includes Gangcheng, Kuanjiang River Basin and most of the surrounding areas of Yu'an City.

Any place where a vertical take-off and landing airport is built.

Transport 4800 tons of supplies back to the farmyard.

These supplies alone are almost equivalent to the transport volume of half a caravan of carriages.

In addition, a caravan of vehicles wanted to transfer supplies to Jianghe City from a place five or six hundred kilometers away.

The round trip takes at least four or five days.

There are these times.

It is enough for the sixth-generation fighter jets to fly back and forth 90 times.

Convert it.

That is the transport capacity of 320 sixth-generation fighter jets.

It is roughly equivalent to about 40 caravans.

It has accounted for one-quarter to one-fifth of Su Wu's land transportation force.

"And, relative to the complexities on land."

“Air transportation is safer and more efficient.”

“The longer the distance, the more cost-effective air transport is.”

Because we fully understand the advantages of air transport.

Su Wu naturally tried his best to use them to make the most of this advantage.

Therefore, in addition to the 6 fixed vertical take-off and landing airports.

Su Wu also built a movable vertical take-off and landing airport twice as large.

Every mobile vertical take-off and landing airport.

They are converted from a total of 6 snow transport vehicles with a total mass of 600 tons.

They are additionally attached to the caravan carriages.

Can move with the caravan.

Arrive at a designated location.

For example, mines, shelters, and other places that require transportation.

It can be assembled on site into a temporary airport for a sixth-generation fighter jet to take off and land.

It was not until the sixth-generation fighter jets transported all the supplies from that place back to the farmyard by air.

Only then will they continue to follow the next caravan and head to the next destination.

If nothing unexpected happens.

This air transport network composed of sixth-generation fighter jets is capable of covering the entire East Continent.

For quite some time to come.

It will be responsible for the surplus rare resources that can be used for trading in the entire Dongzhou civilian shelter.

All were quickly transported back to the farmyard.

It became the main way for Su Wu to obtain high-end resources in the future.

And the entire air traffic network, except for the sixth-generation fighter jets.

There are also 55 biplane helicopters and tens of thousands of Qingkong-class transport drones.

This is also a transportation force that cannot be underestimated.

Together, they are equivalent to more than a hundred sixth-generation fighter jets.

(End of this chapter)