Chapter 73: Motorized Guards (Part 2)
Luo Ren raised his head, smiled at Su Antong, and said: "Your countermeasures are good and practical, which is worthy of recognition. However, the base is now limited in scale, and the number of soldiers is not important, but the quality is. The current guard army can fully maintain the peace and stability of the base, and it is not a big problem to strike forces like Hu Cheng. Therefore, it is better to wait until the base expands to a larger scale before implementing conscription."
Su Antong was disappointed and said dejectedly: "Okay."
Seeing her like this, Luo Ren couldn't bear it. After thinking for a while, he continued: "I am also considering the production of the base. Let's do this. I approve the establishment of a militia team of 50 people, and you will be in charge of it as a demonstration."
Su Antong's face suddenly cleared up. Although it was just a militia, it was a major step, proving that Luo Ren's idea of only having a guard army in his heart was not unshakable.
Luo Ren said: "By the way, let me be frank. The militia is not a full-time soldier. They still have to engage in production labor. And if one of them relies on the weapons in his hands to oppress ordinary people, I will immediately disband the militia organization. Do you understand?"
Su Antong nodded heavily, patted his chest, and said confidently: "Don't worry, under my management, no one will oppress ordinary residents!"
Luo Ren said: "Then I will wait and see."
Su Antong smiled and said: "Just wait and see, I will never let you down."
After talking about this matter, the two talked for a while, and Su Antong couldn't wait to recruit militia, and Luo Ren didn't stop her and let her go.
After Su Antong left, Luo Ren was the only one left in the mobile base, which seemed very deserted. He sat for a while and looked at the information on the table. He was really bored. He rolled his eyes and thought, "Let's go to the parking lot."
Thinking about it, he got up and left the mobile base and headed towards the base parking lot.
Since the space in the inner city is not large, Luo Ren asked Cao Mu to plan a new parking lot in the outer city. As for the parking lot in the inner city, it is temporarily vacant. When there are important buildings in the future, this piece of land can be used.
After walking for about ten minutes, the parking lot was finally reached.
The new parking lot is very large. Although it is only an open-air parking lot, it can park more than 100 vehicles. However, there are only more than 20 vehicles in the parking lot at this time, most of which are medium-sized trucks. The purpose is to haul supplies when going out for battle, and the rest are all off-road vehicles.
The reason why there are only so few vehicles is that there was a shortage of fuel before. If there are too many vehicles, they can't drive without oil. Besides, the guard army only had 1,000 people at that time, and more than a dozen medium-sized trucks were completely enough.
But now it is different from the past. The tank factory can produce gasoline, diesel and other fuels. Now there is no need to worry about fuel shortages.
Luo Ren looked around the parking lot and thought, "Such a large parking lot, with only 20 or so cars, it's too empty, this won't do." Then he had an idea, "I remember there's a large parking lot near Jiebei Industrial Park, I can go there and get dozens of cars back."
With an idea in mind, Luo Ren immediately went to the barracks and summoned the guards. In addition to the soldiers who were out performing daily search and rescue missions and city defense missions, there were about 2,000 guards on the square at this time.
With so many people, the barracks square seemed a bit small, and people were squeezed together to barely squeeze in more than 2,000 people. Seeing this, Luo Ren thought, "It seems that the barracks need to be expanded."
But there was no rush, and the priority was to get down to business. It obviously wouldn't take more than 2,000 people to get some vehicles, so Luo Ren said, "Luo Shan, pick out 500 people and follow me to the Jiebei parking lot to get dozens of vehicles back."
"Yes!" Luo Shan stepped forward and answered, then he turned around, glanced at the other guards, pointed to the first squadron and said, "The first squadron stays, the others disband."
The other guards dispersed to continue training, leaving only the first squadron with 500 people.
Luo Ren did not set off immediately, but brought more than 500 people to the military zone, and then produced 20 barrels of diesel and 30 barrels of gasoline. After such a long time of parking, the oil in the tank of any car would evaporate. If you don't bring fuel, you can only push it back.
The gasoline and diesel were loaded onto a medium-sized truck, and Luo Ren gave an order, "Let's go!"
The 500 guards, led by Luo Ren, headed towards the Jiebei parking lot.
During the period, they encountered several waves of small zombies, which were easily solved by the powerful firepower of the guards, so the guards had a smooth journey and arrived at the Jiebei parking lot in about an hour.
The Jiebei parking lot is very large, divided into two floors, underground and above ground. The above ground is mainly used for vehicles such as trucks, while the underground is used for vehicles such as cars. Luo Ren's main purpose of this trip is the trucks on the ground, because cars are not very useful in this doomsday. Even if they are used as a means of transportation, Luo Ren prefers to use off-road vehicles.
At the entrance of the parking lot, the access control pole had been broken long ago. Luo Ren led 500 people into the parking lot without any obstruction. Looking around, it was indeed full of trucks.
Luo Ren ordered: "Just medium-sized trucks, go!"
Medium-sized trucks have a stronger cargo capacity than light trucks, and are more flexible than heavy trucks, so they have become Luo Ren's best choice.
While the guards were searching for a suitable target in the parking lot above ground, Luo Ren came to the parking lot below ground. As the power system had long been paralyzed, the parking lot below ground was dark except for some light coming in from the entrance. However, Luo Ren did not need to worry because he brought a mobile light source, a flashlight.
He swept the flashlight over the cars one by one and shook his head repeatedly. He did not like any of them. He came here to find a car for himself, so of course he had to pick a good one.
"Squeak--"
Suddenly, a mouse-like sound came into his ears, and then he heard footsteps. When he shone the flashlight, he saw a skinny zombie rushing towards him. This was just an ordinary zombie. There was no pressure for Luo Ren. He raised his leg and kicked it away. Then he pulled out the saber tied to his thigh, rushed up in one step, and cut off the zombie's head with a knife.
Shashasha...
But things were not so easy to end. Footsteps sounded from all directions, accompanied by the sound of "squeak".
Luo Ren held the saber tightly in one hand, glanced at the light at the entrance, and rushed to the entrance without hesitation. He wanted to lead all the zombies to the light and then kill them one by one. After all, unlike zombies who rely on hearing and smell, Luo Ren has not practiced the magical martial arts of listening to the sound to determine the position. He mainly relies on his two eyes.
As he expected, the zombies followed him one after another. With the light, Luo Ren could see clearly that there were less than 20 zombies, so there was no pressure at all.
Puff puff puff——
Just like chopping watermelons with a knife, the heads of the dozen zombies were split by Luo Ren in less than half a minute, but what burst out was not bright red, but a black and red sticky liquid with a fishy smell, which was very disgusting.
He wiped the saber in his hand casually, hoping that there would be no other zombies. He still wanted to choose a car carefully, but at this moment, Luo Ren felt a strong breath coming from behind him. He looked back suddenly and saw two red dots flashing in the dark.
