Chapter 1648 Border invasion, Li Yu is disappointed

The northern border is positioned as a food production area, so basically no other buildings are built except greenhouses.

All these residential buildings now were built by Yuan Zhi and others.

In addition, the northern border is quite large, larger than Oil City and Trading Market, but its population is much smaller than that of the headquarters base.

Therefore, in terms of wall defense, it will appear much weaker.

Li Yu, Lao Xie and others walked on the wall of the outer city in 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 walls of Oil City, so the walls have not been raised since the Big Zhangshu forces took over.

However, new mobile gate knives and ultraviolet lights were added to the northern fence to defend against zombies.

On the northern border, there is only one combat brigade and two militia brigade.

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 was less than 700.

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

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

If it weren't for the ultraviolet lamp and the mobile knife, these 700 people alone wouldn't be able to defend it.

As long as it doesn't rain, a wall tens of meters high can resist ordinary zombies, and ultraviolet lights can prevent wall-climbing zombies from invading.

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

These two things save a lot of defense costs for the North.

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

"Have you checked the mobile blades here?"

Lao Xie nodded and said, "Yes, twice a week. It's the same as in Oil City."

"Yes." Li Yu clapped his hands and dusted them off.

Then he walked into the duty room behind him, found the record book inside, and looked through it.

While he was browsing, Lao Xie hesitated for a moment, then came over and said:

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

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

Lao Xie rubbed his hands, pointed outside the northern border and said:

"Since we settled 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 in full swing and has absorbed a large number of people for development. You can also see it here in the north. The population is sparse, with a total number of less than 3,000 people."

"And most of them are planters, so I thought, should we attract some people to the north? We can also build up industry and commerce."

Li Yu flipped through the record book. The contents in the record book were very simple.

Comparing 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 closed the book and returned it to its original position for the time being.

Walked out of the duty room.

When Lao Xie saw that Li Yu didn't answer, his heart skipped a beat.

He was keenly aware that the city lord didn't seem to want to do this.

Li Yu never answered him, and Lao Xie didn't dare to continue asking.

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 northern border is not suitable for opening up to absorb the population yet."

"Why?" Lao Xie asked doubtfully.

Li Yu sighed and said:

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

"The trading bazaar can open its mouth widely and attract strangers almost unlimitedly. Do you think it is so easy to just absorb people?"

"With so many people coming in, do we have to ensure that there are enough combatants and patrols to manage them? If there are too many people and there is no ability to stop them from rioting, the more people there will be, the more unstable they will be. By then, even a city will be subverted by these survivors! "

"Nowadays, do you know that there are not as many combat personnel in the headquarters base as there are in Oil City?"

"There are only over 2,000 combat personnel at the headquarters base, but there are nearly 3,000 in the Oil City and Trading Market!"

"They can only stabilize the hundreds of thousands of survivors in the trading market there, and can also resist the invasion from the northwest."

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

The combat team of the Great Zhangshu Force has always been relatively short-lived.

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

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

Therefore, there must be a choice.

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

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

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

Without strong military support, blindly absorbing the population to develop the northern border will easily lead to backlash due to inability to manage it well.

Li Yu's words are very intuitive and not hidden.

Lao Xie understood, lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying:

"City Lord, I understand. You mean to stabilize the development of the headquarters base and the oil city first, and develop agriculture in the North? Don't do anything else for the time being?"

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

Li Yu said slowly: "Concentrate troops to do big things and important things. We only have so many people. If we disperse, we can't develop well anywhere."

Old Xie thought for a while and continued to ask:

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

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

Halfway through, he said:

"Let them go to the Oil City Trading Market, tell them the policies there, and lead people there."

"Okay." Old Xie nodded.

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

As a grain production area, most of the area in the North is planted with crops, and there is no need for commercial industry.

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

There are nearly 2,000 planters in the North, and there is no shortage of planters.

What is lacking is combat personnel.

The new survivors cannot become combat personnel.

Everyone in the combat system has risen up little by little, and they have absolute loyalty and recognition to the big camphor tree forces.

Li Yuning is not a sloppy person.

It is not that you can become a combatant just by finding someone and giving him a gun.

Li Yu does not believe in such people who have not been tempered from the bottom, have not been assessed, and have no recognition and loyalty to the big camphor tree forces.

Give such a person a gun to fight the enemy or block the zombies, and he may turn the gun back at you.

Li Yu dare not use such a person.

In short, the North lacks not agricultural planters, but combat personnel.

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

Then, these survivors who want to enter the North are not of much significance to the North. It is better to lead all these people to the oil city trading market to contribute to the development of the trading market.

A group of people walked down the wall, and Li Yu suddenly asked again:

"How many survivors are there outside the northern border now? Have you counted them?"

"Uh"

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

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

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

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

"Based on limited contact, most people came from the northeast and the coast."

"Sometimes we will also issue them some tasks, asking them to help collect some things, as well as some intelligence and give them some food."

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

Ah Hong glanced at Old Xie, who raised his chin.

"The city lord asks you, what do you think I do."

This whole thing seems to be hiding something from the city lord.

Ah Hong was a little embarrassed. He mainly felt that it was the job of the person in charge, Old Xie, to report to the city lord.

He said that he was afraid of stealing Old Xie's limelight.

He felt bad about the cross-level report.

Ah Hong scratched his head and said:

"There was no valuable intelligence before, but there were two valuable intelligences in the past week. One was that the survivors from Liao Province reported that there were many Koreans and American soldiers there."

"There were many battles there before, and many survivors there were driven away, but according to their description, they were not very strong."

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

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

Oil City, Dazhangshu Base, and the North Territory often receive various intelligences about the survivors' team.

Now on the map of Dazhangshu Base, there are special marks on the locations of some survivors' forces, including their population, combat power and other information.

But these forces are not enough in front of the powerful Dazhangshu forces.

And these forces will not seek death to provoke such a powerful Dazhangshu.

Li Yu is in a high position. Various things happen every day in the camphor tree force. He cannot know everything.

In the eyes of Ah Hong and others, the emergence of a not-so-strong force, which is still hundreds of kilometers away from the northern border, is not a big concern.

Moreover, there are fewer combatants in the northern border now, and they have to defend the wall. The 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 attention.

Li Yu's face is gloomy. If it is an ordinary domestic force, he naturally doesn't care.

This stick and the American soldiers have run to the territory before the end of the world, which makes Li Yu very unhappy.

He thinks differently from ordinary people. From the outbreak of the end of the world to now, his thinking has not changed.

Ordinary people may choose to avoid conflicts when facing the emergence of surrounding forces.

And Li Yu annexed that force in order to avoid possible conflicts.

Take it down directly.

If it is not suitable for annexation, just destroy it directly.

Destroy it completely.

Nip the possible crisis in the bud.

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

Now, a Korean and American people have entered the country, but Lao Xie and his team don't care? !

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

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

Ah Hong heard the change in Li Yu's mood, swallowed his saliva and said seriously:

"Two helicopters were sent to investigate, and it was indeed a team of only a few hundred people, but it didn't seem to have too many heavy weapons.."

Before he finished speaking, Li Yu continued to ask:

"Is it just these people or are there other teams behind them? Where is the nest? Have you sent people to monitor them?"

Ah Hong was hesitant to answer this question.

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

Old Xie stood up and said:

"City Lord, they are far away from us, hundreds of kilometers away, and they are staying in Dandong."

"They dare not provoke us even if they have the courage to do so."

"How do you know they dare not come to you?" Li Yu asked with suppressed anger.

"City Lord, our Dazhangshu is so powerful, why should we be afraid of them? They definitely dare not come to trouble us." Old Xie said.

Hearing his answer like this.

Li Yu looked at Old Xie in shock. Who gave him such confidence?

As the Lord of Dazhangshu, he didn't get cocky, but you, Old Xie, dared to get cocky? !

He looked at Old Xie as if he knew him for the first time.

In his impression, Old Xie has always been a cheerful, interesting and premature old man.

And he has been following the Dazhangshu base for many years. He joined in with Old Lu not long after the base was established.

He has been staying in the headquarters base for so many years. Eight months ago, because his third uncle went south to sit in the oil city, the North Territory was short of people, so he was transferred to the North Territory to be in charge of the affairs here.

Unexpectedly, he had no sense of crisis and was even a little arrogant.

Recalling Lao Xie's experience, it seems that it makes sense why he was like this.

He stayed in the headquarters base for too long and did not deal with too many turmoil.

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

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 fighting, fighting, or pioneering.

When Ju Tianrui and Xiao Jun first arrived in Oil City, they were poor and there was no shadow of the 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 now.

On the other hand, the strategic positioning of the North is not so important to the top leaders of the base, so the resources and manpower invested are not so much.

Moreover, the walls in the North are high, and the headquarters base and the oil city provide oil, ultraviolet lamps, switches and other things, so they can rest easy here.

Li Yu was very disappointed and angry. At this moment, he doubted that it was not a good decision for him to send Lao Xie here.

Perhaps it was too stable in the North, or perhaps it was because he did not come here often.

After Uncle San led the team to withdraw from the oil city.

The North was too stable.

There was no war.

There was no need to manage the interior, just to do a good job of planting, which was almost the same as retirement.

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

Because this side was too peaceful and stable.

He walked down and had a clear 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 very obvious sense of crisis, and built a large number of sentry towers around and patrolled regularly.

The headquarters base was also okay. Although it had been peaceful for many years, perhaps because he was stationed there, the battle sequence of the headquarters base was still very crisis-aware.

In the north, Old Xie is in charge, especially after Old Yi left.

He is basically the only one who has the final say here.

As the saying goes: "Incompetent generals will tire the army to death; a bunch of incompetent generals will make all the soldiers incompetent."

With Old Xie being like this, it's no wonder that the entire combat team he led is so lax!

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