Chapter 7: Promotion Mission
Facing reality, look up and take a glance at the amount of funds at the top of the interface:
Current base funds: 6685
Accumulated usage of funds: 3815
Yeah, let's recruit five people first. There is also a power plant under construction, which will continue to consume funds. We can't let the construction site stop work due to lack of money. Click on the PLA icon five times, select the first option for enhanced ability, which is individual combat capability. I also randomly clicked on two military dogs, and it's not bad to have them help with sentry duty at the gate. The cost is cheap anyway. Then... then nothing else. The first formally recruited PLA soldier will take an hour to come out, and there will be soldiers from the guard squad coming to welcome him. Commander Zhong doesn't have anything to do, so he reluctantly studies the interface for half a day but can't find anything else that can be controlled. It's boring, time to sleep. Currently, there are too many aspects of the base that are not satisfactory, except for the big bed on the third floor, which is soft and large, making people reluctant to leave.
Lying down with a straight face, my brain is still running at high speed, how can I sleep? There are too many things to consider, not to mention long-term goals, but also how to survive in the short term. At least after being able to summon troops, the number of people in the base is increasing, and food is a big problem. Huang's Australia can be put aside for now, but the Australian Federation still has tens of thousands of troops, plus they have the support of the British Empire, the pressure we will face in the future will not be small, the development of the base must be accelerated.
Funds, military ranks, food... the more I think about it, the bigger my headache gets, and it's all getting a bit messy. Let me sort it out from the beginning. The problem with funds is that the production capacity of a mining truck is only so much, even if we have drivers now, without a tank factory, we can't produce more mining trucks, so activating the tank factory is the most important thing right now. And to activate the tank factory, I must raise my military rank, damn it, thinking about this makes me regretful, if I had played like my second brother day and night back then, I would have at least become a school officer by now. Also, food, this is an even bigger issue, people rely on food to survive! Without something to eat, forget about the Liberation Army, even a group of heavenly soldiers wouldn't be effective!
What's the point of being impatient, making a local decision? That group of people who can't even cover their bodies probably don't have much grain stored. To say that there are people with guns on this Australian continent who won't starve to death, and rabbits are so abundant they're a disaster, but an entire army goes hunting every day? Zhong Yi thinks it's shameful just thinking about it.
Yes, only by seizing it. Anyway, this is not the domestic situation. If you want to make Australia yellow, conflicts with white people are inevitable. "Kill anyone who is not of our kind", those who want to achieve great things must have a black heart and be ruthless, without being bound by trivial matters. To the west, there is a gold mine. The gold mines in Western Australia were quite famous for their richness in later times. Moreover, Europeans had been mining there decades ago. Robbing the gold mine, food, and funds all at once!
Zhong Yimeng sat up on the bed, "Bird, call Jiang Yunzhi to wait for me on the first floor."
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Jiang Yunzhi led two guards with reconnaissance skills and left the base two days ago. Their mission was to scout out the exact location of the gold mine and its defensive capabilities. In these two days, the military camp successfully recruited ten Liberation Army soldiers. Zhong Yi reorganized them into a class, with Xu Erniu as the sergeant, a talent with extremely low probability who possessed leadership skills. No more soldiers were summoned because Zhong Yi built another ore processing plant. Although it was a bit wasteful, in order to develop faster, they could only use the processing plant to obtain mining carts. In this way, two processing plants and two mining carts could generate an income of 10,200 per day. Under the condition of sufficient electricity, Zhong Yi had confidence that he could recruit sixty people, or two platoons of troops, before Jiang Yunzhi and the scouts returned.
But things are unpredictable, just as the twentieth soldier recruited from the military camp had just walked onto the square, a female announcer's voice rang in Zhong Yi's ears: "Congratulations, Officer, the number of soldiers under your command has reached thirty, meeting the highest number of troops that can be led by a junior lieutenant rank, suspending the military camp recruitment function and activating the rank promotion task."
Zhong Yi was momentarily stunned in front of the console, almost bursting into tears, finally able to be promoted.
The bird of paradise didn't notice the commander's strangeness and continued to say:
Promotion to Lieutenant Mission
Task duration: 72 hours
Task requirements: The base can use funds up to 50,000
Mission Success Reward: Commander promoted to Lieutenant, War Factory building unlocked
Penalty for mission failure: Prohibited from promotion within one year
Mission countdown starts now.
"Ah..." Commander Zhong growled, "Isn't this too sudden? We haven't made any preparations yet?" But no one paid attention to the commander's complaint. On the lower part of the holographic screen, a 72-hour countdown had already appeared.
The reward for the task is very tempting, whether it's a promotion in military rank or the opening of a factory, which is exactly what the base urgently needs and must have. But the task came suddenly, and in order to recruit soldiers and increase mining vehicles, the currently available funds are already less than one thousand. The income from three mining vehicles for three days is only 27,000, far from enough to complete the task, and the punishment for failing the task is simply unacceptable - no promotion for a year, and the day the base is discovered by others will be the day it is destroyed.
What to do? Zhong Yi's brain was racing, and the only method he could think of, also his only hope, lay in the reconnaissance team that had already set out two days ago.
Fortunately, the information from the Heavenly Bird arrived in a timely manner. "Report to the superior officer, the reconnaissance squad has returned, and Sergeant Jiang Yunzhi is waiting for orders in the first-floor hall."
For the first time, I felt that the female anchor's voice was so pleasant to hear. The leather chair in front of the control panel was still gently rotating, and Zhong Yi had already entered the elevator.
Jiang Yunzhi brought back the news that in the southwest, more than 80 kilometers away from the base, there is a small town called Karguli, where there is a gold mine that has already been mined. The armed guards on the mine have more than 200 people.
"How many people are in that small town? How far is the gold mine from the small town?" Zhong Yi's expression was very serious.
"We captured a native laborer from the gold mine and obtained intelligence from him that there are over 10,000 people in Kalgoorlie, most of whom work on the gold mines, while others run hotels or engage in other occupations related to gold mining. The distance between the gold mine and the small town is five kilometers." The sergeant's intelligence was very professional.
"Nima, a city of 10,000 people, this is also in Australia, if placed in our China, it would just be a small town." Hearing that there weren't many people in the city, Zhong Yi finally put his mind at ease. Solving the defense of 200 people wasn't a problem, fighting isn't just about numbers. But relying on the base's 30 soldiers to control an entire city was too difficult.
"Sergeant, you've worked hard, your reconnaissance work is excellent, but our mission time is urgent, I'm afraid we'll be having a night march soon, please take some rest."
"Yes, sir!" Jiang Yunzhi didn't hesitate at all. That's how soldiers are - there's no difficulty that can't be overcome; the first rule is to obey orders, and the second is to refer back to the first rule if there's any difficulty.
Zhong Yi hated the lowly rank of second lieutenant, not to mention the limited authority, and was restricted to leading only thirty people. Even if he had been awarded a first lieutenant when he graduated, it would have been barely enough for a hundred or so people. There was no way around it, so he could only summon a few more dogs. The thirty men must all go on the attack, and the safety of the base could only rely on military dogs. Fortunately, there were no fierce birds or beasts on the Australian continent.
The existing few military dogs all went out with the team, and ten more military dogs were recruited on the control panel. Fortunately, there was no limit to this. The 30-man team also gathered, and the mining cart was ignored. There was not much left of the two days' worth of military rations that the Tian Tang bird soldiers carried with them when they were recruited. During the mission, they could only rely on the mountains for food. Equipment was scarce, with each person having one Type 56 assault rifle and sixty rounds of ammunition. No way, who let the commander's rank be too low to manufacture anything?
Once again despising the one stripe and one star on his shoulder, he whispered a sentence at the low collar: "Bird, take care of home!"
With a raise of his right hand, "Depart!"
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