Chapter 752 Trapped Dragon

"Commander, do you think we should contact the Western Theater? For example, the troops on the screen?"

At the end of the discussion, the Lieutenant General Deputy Commander of the Southern Theater made a proposal.

"Okay, then let's see who is willing to lead the team? Let's go in a transport plane and send two fighter jets to escort it."

As soon as he finished speaking, with the final decision made by the Southern Theater Commander Wu Xianglin, the decision to send representatives to contact the Western Theater was finalized.

The current southern theater of war is in an unprecedented state of weakness. The apocalyptic blow coupled with successive wars has not only reduced material reserves to the red line, but even troop replenishment and quality are facing extremely severe tests.

For example, the army forces in the Southern Theater have a total of two army groups, namely the 54th Army and the 55th Army. Among them, the 55th Army is mainly deployed in Yunnan Province. Although it has been contacted, it has its own defense and disaster relief responsibilities, and it is impossible for it to abandon the survivors in Yunnan Province and rush to Guangdong Province at all costs.

Therefore, the only army unit available to the Southern Theater Command was the 54th Army Group.

But just like all the troops after the apocalypse, due to the indiscriminate infection of the virus in the early stage, all the existing troops were in a state of severe damage, from command-level officers to grassroots soldiers, the personnel losses were very serious.

This has resulted in a personnel structure that has to be half old and half new, especially for many key positions with long training cycles, which have been vacant for a long time or have been difficult to function.

This is like a high-performance heavy-duty military armored beast that is forced to replace a large number of civilian car parts. It can run, but its performance is extremely unreliable and it will have problems every once in a while.

Not to mention the combat effectiveness, it has dropped by more than one level.

In addition to the army, in terms of the navy, the Southern Theater Command now has only one naval force, the Zhanjiang military port, with 2 destroyers, 4 frigates, 10 patrol boats, and 1 conventional-powered submarine.

However, the navy faces the same problems as the army, and even because the navy requires higher professionalism and technical skills, the navy's decline in combat effectiveness after the end of the world is particularly serious.

As key positions cannot be easily replaced, less than half of the 17 ships of various types can be put into operation.

Taking into account the threat of sea beasts, they would rather not move than not move. Even if they have to, they will only cruise near the coast or sail short distances at most.

So to sum up, although the navy is not completely useless, it can only play a limited role.

In terms of the air force, the Southern Theater Command now controls a total of three airports, namely Xuwen Field Airport, Zhanjiang Suixi Air Force Base, and Southern Fleet Aviation Base.

The total number of fighter jets is about 80, there are more than 20 bombers, and a small number of early warning aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, and helicopters.

Finally, there are the missile forces, which are the deterrent and decisive force in modern warfare!

Because of the special domestic situation before the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the Southern Theater only had medium- and long-range ballistic missiles, medium- and short-range tactical missiles, and cruise missiles, with a range of about 600-4000 kilometers.

However, due to the last sea beast attack, the already limited missile inventory in the Southern Theater Command has also reached the red line. Even if the medium- and long-range ballistic missiles that are rarely used are included, the total number of missiles is less than 200, including 8 tactical nuclear warheads.

Precisely because the military equipment has reached an unprecedentedly weak state, the Southern Theater Command is very eager for help from external friendly forces!

It's like a trapped dragon that has exhausted all its strength. When it cannot break the situation with its own strength, it can only look for a breakthrough from the outside!

Today, the Southern Theater is said to have opened up the Jiangyang-Maoming-Zhanjiang defense zone, but this is only a concept in geographical space. At most, it can be regarded as a wider strategic buffer zone.

But if armaments are not replenished in time, this strategic buffer zone will not be of much use.

For example, if a larger-scale sea monster lands again, the Southern Theater Command will most likely have to abandon the Leizhou Peninsula base circle that it has painstakingly built for more than half a year.

But how easy is it to give up?

Today, the total number of survivors received by the entire Leizhou Peninsula base circle has exceeded 200 million!

Most of them are survivors from western Guangdong, such as Zhanjiang, Jiangyang, Maoming and other places, as well as a small number from Haikou, Sanya and other places in Qiongzhou Province.

Let’s not even talk about how much waste of resources would be caused by abandoning facilities that cost a lot of manpower and material resources to build. Just the relocation and resettlement of 200 million people would have been fraught with difficulties even before the end of the world, let alone the end of the world where everything is in short supply.

Whenever an accident occurs, the death toll would be in the tens of thousands!

And the bigger question is, in the end-of-the-world environment, where can the Southern War Zone take these 200 million people?

Tens of thousands of troops protecting the migration of 200 million people?

No matter how well this little horse pulls the big cart, it will still be pulled out of shape! If it really has this kind of fighting power, does it still need to migrate to avoid the sharp edge of the sea beast? ?

Therefore, the southern war zone is currently like a trapped dragon, tightly bound to the Leizhou Peninsula area by a chain composed of more than 200 million survivors, zombies on the ground, and mutated sea beasts in the sea.

I was completely unable to move, and even though I knew I might die slowly, I couldn't give it a try!

It’s not that the decision-makers in the Southern Theater lack courage, but that no one dares to use more than 200 million lives as chips and put them on the gambling table!

So now the only thing the Southern Theater Command can do is do nothing.

Just one word:

Wait!

The industries in Zhanjiang, Maoming and Jiangyang have recovered.

Zhanjiang has the Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Plant and the Dongdao Petrochemical Base, Maoming has the Maoming Petrochemical (the largest oil refining base in the country) and the oil shale mine, Jiangyang has the Jiangyang Alloy Materials Laboratory (special metals), the wind power equipment factory, and so on.

With the above-mentioned energy + steel industry combination, the Southern Theater Command will be able to initially restore the production capacity of light weapons, ammunition, and simple armored vehicles!

Only then will the Southern War Zone truly have the foundation to stand firm in the end times!

Otherwise, if we only rely on the dwindling inventory, no one will be confident even if the recovery speed is fast.

However, this was what everyone thought before.

Now, after speculating that the Western Theater might have recovered, the leaders of the Southern Theater have new ideas.

That is to unite the industrial base that the Western Theater may control and provide blood transfusion to the Southern Theater!

Although the Southern Theater now has some military industrial capabilities, it can only produce light weapons and ammunition. If it wants to be able to independently manufacture artillery, armored vehicles, drones, etc., it must at least wait until the mechanical manufacturing bases in Fo City, Yue City, Shaoxing City and other places are recovered!

If we rely solely on our own development, we don’t know when it will take. The premise is that there are no accidents in the process, otherwise the deadline will be further postponed, or there is a great risk of collapse.

After all, reality is not like playing games where you can't just build a military factory and produce weapons coolly, or create many high-quality soldiers who can skillfully operate these weapons with just one click.

Any of the above requires a lot of resources and time, but time is the most scarce thing in the end times...

Humanity's industrial capacity is indeed invincible when it recovers in the later period, but the end of the world has never thought of giving humanity a chance in the later period...

The various difficulties encountered by the Southern Theater are like a microcosm of the difficulties currently faced by all human forces...

The end of the world is to kill you, a late-stage hero, in the early stage!

Helpless and frustrated...

Not in good condition, one update, will make up tomorrow