The Last Plant Controller

Chapter 350: Operation Red Dawn

In fact, Lin Chen was not the only one to notice the hidden worries brought by the cold air. . CAiHoNgWeNXE. C

When they went out in the morning, with the cold northwest wind, the senior officials of the Shanghai base realized that a new crisis might be coming.

Last winter, the blizzard caused thousands of people to freeze to death at the Shanghai base, and hundreds of thousands of survivors suffered frostbite. This is thanks to their good preparation, and as the largest official survivor base in the south, they have plenty of supplies and food. If it were another base, I'm afraid more people would freeze to death or get frostbite. Even so, when the blizzard that lasted for more than half a month finally stopped, all the senior officials in Shanghai breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, less than a year has passed since that blizzard, and it seems to be vivid in my mind. Seeing the sharp drop in temperature and the unprecedented intensity of cold air, senior officials had to reconsider the issue of cold winter.

"There must be enough heating fuel"

"Last year's winter clothes were not enough, but some were cleared later. We must prepare early now. There are also nearly a million survivors from Nanchang and Wenzhou bases. They have almost no clothing for the winter."

"Hurry up and expand the housing area before the weather gets too bad, and be sure to move all the people who are still living in tents into the house."

At the emergency meeting, important suggestions were put forward by senior officials.

However, some things are easy to say but difficult to implement. Lin Chen, who returned to the Shanghai base overnight, sat at the top of the conference room, feeling quite helpless in the face of these suggestions. He glanced at the more than a dozen senior executives and seven or eight logistics staff present at the meeting, and asked how much fuel was needed for heating? Where did it come from? How many winter coats are needed? How many people are still living in tents? I need a specific number"

This question immediately made the people in the logistics department speechless. Obviously, they were not too clear about it.

Lin Chen snorted and said a little dissatisfied. As an official of the Logistics Department, your job is to be responsible for this, but now you don't have any? Hurry up and find out. Only by clarifying the gap first can we make a specific response plan."

"Yes, Chief"

The people in the logistics department secretly wiped their sweat and quickly agreed loudly. However, some people hesitated to speak, seeming to be worried about Lin Chen's delivery.

Noticing the man's expression, Lin Chen shrugged helplessly and said if he had anything to say, just say it. "

The man nodded with relief, stood up and said, "I am the deputy director of the Logistics Department. I am usually responsible for some statistical data. I have a few questions." "

Lin Chen nodded and motioned for him to continue.

The deputy director of the Logistics Department was not polite and directly said that the issue of heating fuel mainly depends on how cold this winter is and whether there will be extreme weather such as freezing rain and heavy snowfall. Although we have climate experts in Shanghai, the climate since the end of the world has been completely different from that of more than a year ago, and it is impossible to predict it. Without a reliable basis for judgment, the amount of heating fuel is difficult to grasp.”

This question was very to the point. Lin Chen pondered for a while and said, just prepare on the same scale as last year, assuming there will be large-scale snowfall for more than half a month."

The deputy director nodded and continued, "In this case, we will quickly calculate a number." However, the base is now short of fuel, and almost all the fuel near Shanghai and Hainan has been collected. If you want to use oil for heating, it is too wasteful and unrealistic. Therefore, the only things that can be considered are wood and coal.”

Lin Chen thought for a while and asked how easy it would be to obtain these two? "

The deputy director had obviously considered this issue before, and said without blinking that wood was undoubtedly the easiest to obtain, but our climate and environment are already very bad. If we continue to deforest on a large scale, it will probably be even worse. As for coal, there are some coal distribution centers at the Shanghai-Haihai port and the railways along the lines. However, when it comes to the most likely place to find coal, it is Baosteel.”

Shanghai Baosteel

When the deputy director said this, Lin Chen's eyes immediately lit up.

Who knows the famous Baosteel Group? It is said that a domestic steel enterprise with an annual output of 20 to 30 million tons of steel must have a large amount of coal reserves in its factory. If they can all be transported, it may be able to support their millions of survivors through this winter.

Just no, how much of Baosteel Group’s coal is still there?

Seemingly sensing Lin Chen's concerns, the deputy director smiled and said that before this, our base mainly encouraged survivors to go out to collect fuel and food, and not much else. Coal, in particular, accounts for a lot of weight and is of little use. Only the military once brought back a batch for daily cooking. As for Baosteel, there should be a lot of coal left. As far as I know, all their factories combined consume 15 million tons of coal a year. On average, that's more than 40,000 tons a day."

"so much?"

Lin Chen really had never paid attention to this aspect. Now that he learned the specific figures, he couldn't help but be surprised and happy. What is surprising is the amount of coal consumed by steel companies. Fortunately, since Baosteel uses tens of thousands of tons of coal every day, does it have to have several weeks or more of coal reserves in its factories?

Lin Chen got a little excited when he thought that hundreds of thousands of tons of coal might be at his fingertips.

"In that case, let's give up wood and focus on collecting coal." After the joy, Lin Chen made a decision on the spot.

Once the fuel problem is solved, the winter clothing problem is relatively simple. There were so many people before the end of the world, and it’s only been more than a year now, so the clothes they left behind should still be there. As long as you are willing to venture out to collect, you can easily find them in residential areas and shopping malls. But if you want to make a new one, it will be much more troublesome. You will need all kinds of modern machines and enough electricity.

As for building a house, you need bricks, cement, and steel bars. For more than a year, the open-air building materials are basically unusable, and only with good storage conditions can they be used. Or, they simply find equipment in cement factories and kilns to produce

All of these points to one path - to regain Shanghai and Hainan.

It is not impossible to solve them separately, but it will undoubtedly waste a lot of money. In Lin Chen's view, the most permanent solution is to use all his strength to regain the entire city of Shanghai in one fell swoop

As long as they can capture Shanghai, they will not only be able to completely eliminate the millions of potential zombie threats around them, but they will also be able to obtain countless production equipment and supplies inside. Even though most of the supplies are broken, there are still some that can be used. Originally, Lin Chen wanted to wait until the plant control division's troops exceeded a thousand people and then slowly plot to conquer Shanghai bit by bit. But now, the sudden drop in temperature reminded him that winter was coming

If we can't conquer Shanghai before the cold winter comes, then this plan will undoubtedly be postponed to the spring of next year.

After these few months of changes, there will definitely be more level 4 zombies, and the threat to them will be greater by then. More importantly, after the end of the world, no one can predict what will happen in the future. The safest way is to complete the feat of recovering Shanghai within a foreseeable time.

There isn't much left for him, maybe only a month.

Thinking of this, Lin Chen finally made a decision and told the subordinates in Shanghai that after at least two weeks, I decided to launch a comprehensive battle to regain the urban area of ​​Shanghai."

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All the senior executives in the conference room screamed out in shock, and even Lieutenant General Luo and others were a little out of sorts.

Before that, they had also seen Lin Chen's plan to conquer the urban area of ​​Shanghai, and they had even seen the strength of the fake plant control division troops and the real plant control divisions. However, they did not expect Lin Chen to be so hasty. Didn't he say that he would have to wait until there were thousands of plant control division troops before slowly conquering them?

"We don't seem to be fully prepared yet." The chief of staff hesitated.

"No need, because we don't have that many anymore"

Lin Chen convinced them with one sentence, or in other words, it was his firm attitude that made the senior executives shut up. To put it bluntly, the main force in the battle is the plant control master, not them. Even if they are not strong enough and encounter danger, it has nothing to do with them.

"If no one objects, it's settled."

Seeing their silence, Lin Chen took the initiative and gave the battle to recover Shanghai half a month later a nice name, Operation Red Dawn.

In his mind, this seemed to be a battle name in the Red Alert game, and he took it easily. Here, dawn represents hope, and red means that in order to regain Shanghai and completely eliminate zombies, the plant controllers do not mind bleeding and dying for it.

After formulating this plan, both the Shanghai base and Xishan Island became busy. Because the weather was getting colder and colder in the next few days, out of concern, both parties devoted their full efforts to Operation Red Dawn. All the plant control masters were dispersed and began to hunt for crystal coins with all their strength. The people in Shanghai are also organizing troops and volunteers to cooperate with the plant control divisions to conquer Shanghai and evacuate the entire city of everything useful.

Next is the formation of the fleet, the division of specific locations and the order of capture, defense and counter-infiltration after dark...

The plant control masters who worked hard to collect soul crystals did not disappoint Lin Chen, and wwhaoshyancom soon obtained a large number of crystal coins. However, Lin Chen did not dare to use all these crystal coins to exchange for the Silver Sunflower Medal. He needed to keep a large part of them to exchange for plant seal cards, sunlight energy boxes and other props, and distribute them to his subordinates to save their lives at critical moments. In addition, in order to have two more masters who could control the situation, Lin Chen did not hesitate to spend double the price to exchange for a bottle of concentrated sunlight advanced potion.

Qian Xu and Zhao Gang, one is about to break through to the eighth level of the intermediate level, and the other is about to reach the eighth level. In this way, Lin Chen can steadily catalyze two high-level plant control masters.

In this way, when the battle of conquest begins, the three high-level plant control masters will definitely achieve decisive results if they join forces.

As days passed, when the temperature finally broke below zero, Lin Chen and the others also completed preliminary preparations and were about to launch a war to conquer Shanghai in advance.

Chapter 350: Operation Red Dawn

Chapter 350: Operation Red Dawn

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