Wu Xin decided to go to war in Zhigong because the location of the salt mine in Zhigong was somewhat awkward.

According to intelligence, the largest salt-producing factory in Drikung is located in the Dajiu Salt Factory in the southwest of the city.

However, the railway originally planned to maintain transportation between the base and Drikung was at the other end of the city, separated from the salt factory by an entire urban area.

In other words, Xingtian Base must open up land transportation throughout the city.

Of course, there is also a railway near the salt factory. Even though this railway is not connected to the railway to the base, it will pass through the city to the train station at the other end of the city, and it is also connected to Lubin City to the south.

Although this railway seems to be very close to Jiangxinzhou and is more suitable than the railway from Xingtian Base to Zhigong, this route will pass through the urban area of ​​Lubin, which means that it still needs to be taken.

Since both sides were fighting, Wu Xin decided to have a big fight!

He wants to open up the line from the base to the salt factory, and he also wants to open up the line from the salt factory to Lubin.

After all, there are tens of thousands of people in Shudu. Opening this line can provide salt to Shudu.

However, the resources of the base are limited, and it is impossible for him to start war in two places at the same time. He plans to control the railway line in Lubin first.

After all, there is a mature Jiangxinzhou stronghold here, as well as safe waterway transportation. It is very convenient to start directly. The railway line from the base to Drikung will also be opened at the same time.

At that time, the troops will go north along the railway from Lubin, and then work with the troops on the other side of the base to open up the transportation lines in the urban area of ​​Drikong.

Wu Xin immediately contacted Tan Zhuojun and told him the plan.

"No problem, I very much agree with this plan, but...will it be too risky to fight against mutants in urban areas?"

Tan Zhuojun thinks there is nothing strategically wrong with this plan, but it does have some tactical problems.

Although the base has combat experience in large-scale air-dropping poison gas bombs, this method cannot completely eliminate the mutants in the city, and street fighting is still required.

The only feasible way for the base now is to allow high-level mutants like Lin Youde to disintegrate from within, but Lin Youde is currently in Yushan, so he may not be able to do anything at all.

Although Tan Zhuojun heard that the base has a newcomer named Mo Yaxuan.

However, Wu Xin did not intend to let Mo Yaxuan play, but said: "We don't need to eliminate the mutants in these two cities right away. We just need to severely damage the opponent and control the route!"

Wu Xin did not intend to eliminate the mutants in one go, but to open up routes, which would give him a lot of room for maneuver in tactics.

Especially since these lines are all maneuverable by railways, directly mounting a few armed carriages can effectively prevent harassment by mutants.

Tan Zhuojun quickly understood Wu Xin's intention and felt that this tactic was very feasible.

After the two decided on the follow-up tactics, the specific details were immediately handed over to the staff department for formulation, and preliminary preparations also began.

Since the railway line is to be opened, locomotives are indispensable.

With the base's current technology, steam locomotives are the most mature solution, and Wu Xin had found a lot of information on steam locomotives before the end of the world, so they quickly entered the manufacturing stage.

However, since this is the first time the base has built a steam locomotive, the speed is not very fast and is expected to take at least a month at the earliest.

But Wu Xin is not in a hurry. Anyway, the first stage of the battle plan is to control the railway line in Lubin City, and he must first severely damage the mutants in the urban area on the north bank of Lubin.

As for the railway line from the base to Drikung, it is also necessary to survey the line conditions along the way in advance to at least make sure that the railway line is smooth.

These two preliminary tasks quickly entered the execution stage.

There is nothing to say about the railway reconnaissance from the base to Drikung. Just let the reconnaissance plane inspect along the railway line.

Since the section of railway from Lingchuan to Zhigong has no mountain barrier and is covered by plains and hills, without even a tunnel, it takes very little effort to clearly detect the conditions along the route.

Therefore, the focus of the first phase is naturally the combat operations against the mutants on the north shore of Lubin.

For this reason, the base transported a large number of sulfur dioxide gas bombs to the north bank of Lubin. After this period of storage, these bombs were about to burst again and had to be consumed quickly.

In addition, the base's first batch of twenty imitation Warrior armored vehicles and various new equipment also arrived at Jiangxinzhou. This battle was also the base's first actual combat with new equipment and new tactics.

After half a month of adaptation and training, Jiang Xinzhou's troops immediately went into battle.

The first wave of attacks at the beginning of the battle was of course bombers taking off from Jiang Xinzhou.

Although Jiang Xinzhou is equipped with mortars that can carry out direct bombardment, its delivery capability is still much weaker than that of bombers.

More than a dozen bombers were arranged in a bombing formation. They first used incendiary bombs to cover the construction area around the landing zone of the armored convoy to prevent the mutants from attacking the armored convoy when it landed.

Boom boom boom——

Balls of flames soared into the sky, turning the area around the landing battlefield into a sea of ​​fire. From time to time, mutants covered in flames rushed out of the area and fell to the ground in the open area, burning.

The cargo ship waiting on the river immediately approached the river and lowered the bridge plank, and ten assault-type Warriors immediately rushed to the shore.

The Assault Warrior is a firepower platform specially developed by the base. The co-pilot and the two machine gun towers on the roof are equipped with a total of three mg42 shotguns. It can carry five people and has 10,000 rounds of ammunition. It can be said to be crazy.

After ten assault-type Warriors occupied the landing site and prepared defenses, ten subsequent support-type Warriors were transported over.

Although these ten support warriors appear to be armored vehicles, they are actually 120mm self-propelled mortars.

In addition to an mg42 on the passenger seat as a self-defense weapon, behind the carriage is a breech-loading 120mm mortar turret with a maximum range of 12 kilometers. It can also be leveled for direct fire if necessary.

Originally, the original intention of the Armor Design Institute was to design an armored transport vehicle with a front-mounted mortar, but Huang Biao, the head of the design institute, continued to improve it, and finally came up with this Warrior 120mm self-propelled mortar.

Just as these warriors were moving their self-propelled mortars into position, the mutants around the fire scene were attracted by the movement here and gathered at a street intersection due north. They were spotted by the reconnaissance aircraft in the sky.

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Bang!

A support warrior first fired a larger projectile.

After receiving feedback from the reconnaissance aircraft, the ten support warriors immediately adjusted their parameters and fired two salvos at the gathered mutants.

Bang, bang, bang...Woo-boom!!

Twenty mortar shells immediately drowned this group of mutants in a mass of explosions.

By the time the smoke cleared, these mutants had turned into corpses all over the place.

As the follow-up old-fashioned troop carriers and armored vehicles arrived one after another, nearly forty armored vehicles and a total attack force of more than 300 troops began to advance towards the railway line.

The mutants who tried to block the convoy along the way were bombarded by 120mm mortars in the distance and fired by mg42 shotguns in the near distance. They could not get close to the convoy at all.

At this moment, a formation of bombers equipped with poison gas bombs flew over the city on both sides of the armored convoy, dropping a large number of poison gas bombs on these two places, killing a large number of mutants preparing to attack.

After being hit hard, the mutant community on the north shore of Lubin had to choose to retreat.
Chapter completed!