Chapter 358 Large-Scale Conscription
With a decision in mind, Wang Jin accelerated the arrangements for the base affairs.
The first thing Wang Jin did was to recruit soldiers. Originally, there were only 20,000 regular army troops in the Lishan base. Now with Wang Jin's order, the regular army will be supplemented to 100,000.
Among them, the original prisoners of war from the Lingnan base will be drawn to join, and another part will be recruited from the survivors. A total of 80,000 soldiers will join the army.
The 100,000 troops are divided into three divisions, one of which is an armored division, including 120 tanks and 200 armored vehicles, equipped with relevant anti-aircraft artillery, and Chen Dong is the division commander.
Two infantry divisions, most of which use light weapons, are equipped with 50 armored vehicles and an anti-aircraft battalion. The division commanders are He Youxi and Lin Shibin respectively.
In addition, there will be an aviation mobile brigade equipped with 25 armed helicopters and 10 fighters, five artillery battalions equipped with 100 artillery pieces, and others include missile battalions, special brigade, engineering troops, etc.
It is expected that after all the troops are replenished, the number of troops will exceed 100,000. The reason why so many troops can be formed is that they have weapons resources obtained from the 37th Army. Otherwise, Wang Jin has no weapons to develop unless his soldiers are willing to fight with big knives.
With the current stable situation, Wang Jin uses his population of more than one million to build the army. If it were not for the shortage of weapons, Wang Jin could continue to increase the number of troops.
After all, most of the people who survived the end of the world are young and strong, with high psychological quality. It is not difficult to train a qualified soldier with weapons in hand after a period of training and running-in.
Wang Jin's order was issued very early. Chen Dong and others were overjoyed when they heard it. They immediately began to draw prisoners of war and recruit soldiers from the base. Lu Yuanhuai began to prepare for training.
Recently, the whole base has been in a state of excitement. Hundreds of recruitment points in the base are crowded with young and strong people, showing their muscles and scrambling for recruitment quotas.
This is an opportunity to get rid of poverty. After becoming a soldier, not to mention other benefits and wages, most of the meals are in the barracks, and there is money to be made every other day. This makes the survivors crazy. The benefits of soldiers have long been known to everyone in the Lishan Base. Who doesn't want to be a soldier if they are of the right age!
As for whether being a soldier will kill people? There is no place that is not dangerous in the end times. Who cares about this for the survivors who are afraid of poverty? From ancient times to the present, the poorer the people, the more people want to be soldiers. What's more, now is the end of the world. If everyone is rich, who would be willing to suffer and risk their lives as a soldier?
From the Lishan Base to the Lishan No. 1 Market Town, and then to the Lingnan Base, from the survivors of the Lishan Base to the survivors of the Lingnan Base and the survivors of the underground base, 700,000 to 800,000 young and strong men gathered to apply, almost crowding the recruitment points. In order to prevent unrest, Wang Jin even dispatched the Zerg to maintain law and order, and barely suppressed this restless and hot atmosphere.
On several construction sites, the 50,000 prisoners of war who were undergoing labor reform all performed well. If they didn't perform well, they would not be able to do so. Who would be willing to do hard labor reform if they could become soldiers again?
When the order to recruit soldiers was issued, these prisoners of war were more excited than the survivors, and they all rushed to show their best side.
What about their accurate shooting skills! They can drive tanks! They can organize soldiers! They can infiltrate and fight! In short, they all showed their best side.
These soldiers did not say that they had no faith. In the end times, the concept of the country was already very dim. They served more just to live a better life. Otherwise, what kind of virtue was Liu Jun in the past? Didn't Liu Jun do enough bad things?
Massacres, looting, suppression, etc., weren't these soldiers also the executioners?
When the country disappears, the terror of the soldiers is more powerful than any robbers and bandits.
Wang Jin killed the leader they were loyal to, which meant that Wang Jin was stronger than Liu Jun. In the end times, following a strong man is something that no one would refuse.
So when Wang Jin announced the recruitment, very few of these soldiers insisted on not joining Wang Jin. People are all profit-seeking creatures. Seeking benefits and avoiding harm is the nature of humans and even all animals. Under the temptation of welfare and food, most soldiers are willing to buy their lives for Wang Jin.
There is a saying that the so-called loyalty is only because the cost of betrayal is not high enough!
Compared with working hard on the construction site and eating less than the survivors, the cost of being a soldier is not small, so they naturally know how to choose.
After solving the recruitment issue, Wang Jin's second thing is to deal with the resettlement of the underground base.
110,000 people moved from the underground base and settled in the No. 1 market town of the mountain base. Only 50,000 people were left in the underground base to grow mushrooms and hunt. Wang Jin would arrange several hosts every day to bring back the mushrooms and fresh prey picked on the day of the underground base.
In addition, the termite colony is also stationed in the underground base, and it is not possible not to be stationed here.
Wang Jin waited for Jiang Zhengqing to surrender before he discovered that mushroom cultivation in the underground base required the help of termites. There was a method that Wang Jin did not understand to take care of mushrooms, providing them with nutrition to grow quickly, and mushrooms could become food for termites, forming a simple complementary relationship.
Jiang Zhengqing has now returned to the underground base to take charge of affairs, and Jiang Shishi stayed to help He Xin and learn how to handle official business, which was also Jiang Zhengqing's request.
Regarding the Great Mountain Range, Wang Jin knew that there were still 500,000 or 600,000 mutant beasts in it, but the mutant pythons and level 3 mutant beasts were all killed by Wang Jin, so these mutant beasts were no longer dangerous.
Wang Jin was not going to kill all the mutant beasts in the Great Mountain Range, but to keep them as a source of meat for the base and the Zerg. In fact, Wang Jin considered killing hundreds of thousands of mutant beasts, but thought about it and gave up. What was the difference between doing so and fishing in a dry pond? The resources obtained by killing all of them were far from upgrading the level 3 mother nest.
Regarding the disposal of the Great Mountain Range, Wang Jin would arrange for the Zerg to hunt the mutant beasts and control the number of these mutant beasts within a certain range.
Anyway, the mutant beasts reproduce very quickly. It only takes a few months for an ordinary mutant beast to grow. As long as they are properly controlled, these mutant beasts are like Wang Jin's sheep, and he can kill them whenever he wants. It is better than building dozens of farms by himself, and they can continuously provide him with meat and crystal core resources.
There are not many such captive breeding conditions. The environment of the Great Mountains is extremely suitable for mutant beasts to survive. The primeval forests are more lush and tall than other places, which means that herbivores are not short of food, and carnivores also have sufficient food. They will not easily leave this area, providing sufficient conditions for Wang Jin's captive breeding.
If it were in other places in the wild, Wang Jin would never be able to do this. Once the insect swarm appeared and killed, the mutant beasts would have run away long ago. There is no place to live! Why face these ferocious insects.
With such a large mountain range, Wang Jin's efficiency in obtaining crystal cores will be greatly increased in the future. Wang Jin has even prepared to cover the outer periphery of the Great Mountains with fungal blankets. It will take several months to surround the entire Great Mountains and completely become his hunting ground.