Wang Qi could not make up his mind whether the institute should build a branch or the main institute in Nan Town.
Both sides have their own advantages.
Xincheng Research Institute is next to Xincheng Heavy Industry, Locomotive Factory, and Automobile Factory. It has complete supporting facilities. If you want to pick up any new equipment, you can just go around to each factory to get it. In addition, it is close to the Magic Academy, which facilitates communication on projects with low confidentiality. .
Nanzhen is a little farther away, but it also has its own special venue advantages.
When Wang Qi was traveling, the Nanzhen Iron Mine had ceased production and its entrance had been transformed into a civil air defense facility. Now there are only two industries in Nanzhen, the timber business and the provision of ordinary labor for manufacturers. The total population involved, including minors and old people, is less than 3,000.
As an important town, Nanzhen protects the extremely important Blue Sky Heavy Industry from all kinds of strange things hidden in the dense forests and ice forests, and also takes care of the exploration expedition team. The troops currently stationed are at the regiment level, consisting of the 24th Regiment and the 42nd Regiment. Three regiments, 43 Regiment and 43 Regiment, took turns to garrison.
It is impossible for three regiments to be stationed in one place. They are the internal garrison force of the entire Phoenix Floating Island. They can easily support the defense line around the island and maintain daily supply lines. In this defense system, only the troops stationed in South Town are at the regiment level. The new city and the eastern no-man's land are all stationed at the battalion level. The north is naturally covered by the headquarters.
In addition to military strength, Nanzhen also has an advantage in terms of location.
The Xincheng land is a small basin with hills in the east, west and south directions. There is also a central reservoir area composed of a lot of hills in the south. The relatively large flat land has been divided by various factories. It is necessary to build a larger flat land. Fill with soil.
Filling is not impossible, but half of the existing transportation system is serving the construction of the central reservoir and Little Bear City, and the projects are difficult to coordinate.
The terrain here in Nanzhen is relatively flat. If it is not enough, we can push the dense forest line a little to the southwest.
The shortcomings of Nanzhen are also obvious. It is dozens of kilometers away from the new city. The connection with the Fenggu plate also requires transit in the new city or air transportation. In the construction of large-scale experimental equipment, it is severely restricted by the specifications of the railway system.
Or change the idea and move the manufacturing bureau to Nanzhen alone?
This seems more feasible.
The Manufacturing Bureau mainly serves military needs and is more in line with the tone of South Town. Relocating it will also free up a large amount of land for the institute's headquarters to renovate and add experimental facilities.
Wang Qi reviewed the matter, but did not directly approve it, leaving it to the relevant departments to discuss and coordinate on their own.
Next, when Wang Qi returned to his daily work, planning to straighten out various backlogged affairs at home and abroad and continue to be the boss, the demons had an idea.
"Your Majesty, the Xincheng Automobile Factory has been attacked. The local outpost has discovered that the number of magic sources has increased rapidly. It seems that a temporary portal has been opened. Our army is on its way to support."
"Pay attention to protecting workers."
"yes!"
When Wang Qi received the news, it was more than ten minutes before the incident occurred, and the military did not know the specific situation.
The temporary portal should be the means used by the demons to transport ground troops to the temporary world gate. This time it is probably revenge for the previous action of intercepting their trophies. It is unknown how many people will come in.
The military department has General Audrey to counter the high-level demons, but since the scale is unknown, I think it is better to let Li Xiang lead a team to prevent accidents and add some medical power.
He explained something himself, and accompanied by Akeem, went to the military headquarters to watch the battle.
Simply watching the battle, there was nothing that required his participation in the whole process.
The headquarters has been in contact with the local outpost through wired telephones. When Wang Qi arrived, he had already grasped the basic situation.
The teleportation point is located in a corner of a material field that is less frequently used. It is speculated that this kind of teleportation gate requires a certain size of magic array to be deployed in advance before it can be activated.
Before the teleportation point was activated, the Armed Forces Department of the automobile factory detected an abnormal concentration of magic power and sounded the alarm. Most of the workers began to move to the safe area before the first batch of demons penetrated the material yard. Under the cover of the Armed Forces Department, their losses were limited.
Key enterprises such as steel plants, automobile plants, and Xincheng Heavy Industry must build evacuation systems in accordance with official guidance. Most of the shelters are underground facilities. The heavy equipment factory is based on the core factory building, with a magic anti-magic array covering the entire factory area superimposed. The same anti-magic device is also found in the workers' living areas.
As long as magic is banned, the demons have nothing to fear. Just relying on their bodies, more than half of the demons can't even fight with sharp blades. What's more, the armed departments of key enterprises are equipped with guns, and the evacuation system has certain terrain advantages for their own people, which is enough to support them. to the arrival of reinforcements.
Across the railway from the entrance of the automobile factory is Xincheng Heavy Industry. To the west of the heavy industry, against the wall, is a company-level outpost dedicated to protecting these key manufacturers.
The cannon on the top floor of the outpost can directly aim at the west and north walls of the automobile factory, which can effectively prevent the spread of the disaster. Military magic detection equipment is also deployed here. After confirming that the number of abnormal magic sources increases, the person next door to the automobile factory is immediately requested. Locomotive and locomotive factory alert.
Once the three factories turned on the anti-magic devices, only their own weapons were left usable.
It is very simple to counteract the magic-forbidden effect. Your own firearms and ammunition are purely kinetic after being discharged. You do not need to control them. They only protect the effective operation of the magic circuit in the firearm. There is only a corresponding magic recoil layer, which will accelerate the loss of magic power. For example, a magic module that can originally fire 30 bullets can only last ten minutes without firing a gun once it is connected to a firearm in the forbidden magic field.
The effect of banning magic on people is similar. It does not prevent people from releasing magic in one breath, but the magic released will be very unstable and cannot form an effective magic model.
Several external small-scale armed forces did not take direct risks because the incident was too close. When the outpost roughly judged the situation, the first batch of fighter planes were already on the scene.
Military danger elimination within the jurisdiction is also a main direction of the military. Targeted exercises have been conducted, but they have not been used in actual combat. Generally, more powerful mysterious crimes can be suppressed by relying on local troops and security companies.
The tactics of fighting within the country are completely different from those of defending the country outside the country.
Complete air control has been implemented within the territory, and the city defense force, which has shrunk in size at this stage, is also equipped with previous-generation cannons, which can achieve air suppression.
In this environment, fighter jets no longer need to fire a few shots to escape the danger zone immediately. Instead, they use the emergency take-off and landing system to focus on semi-hovering attacks.
This attack method will shut down the engine at a low speed and activate the military version of the emergency landing system. The difference from the civilian version is that after the emergency system is activated, the military version can manually change the attitude and achieve short-term lateral maneuvers to obtain Longer time for the nose to be pointed at the enemy.
This is a tactic developed by the Air Force specifically for urban environments. It can effectively clear enemies in narrow open areas and cause much less damage to infrastructure than dropping bombs.
The demons that had come out were quickly suppressed in every corner, unable to make an effective impact on the safe zone.
By the time the second batch of fighter planes entered the scene, the portal had disappeared, which should be attributed to the Demonic Forbidden Field.
However, the environment in the factory area is complex. The thousands of demons still active at this time, and the fighter planes are restricted from dropping bombs and can no longer cause effective damage. They can only protect the core factory building and living areas and wait for the ground troops.
The road from Pettus to New Town is a straight line, but the first one to arrive was not the soldiers from the headquarters, but the 107th Battalion of the 42nd Regiment, which arrived by train from Nanzhen.
The process of getting on the train on the chariot is more complicated. The first to arrive can only be lightly equipped. They obtain the headquarters order through the outpost and are responsible for surrounding the south and east walls of the automobile factory.
People's ideas are sometimes a bit troublesome. The space left between the east wall of the automobile factory and the west wall of the motorcycle factory was originally reserved as a disaster isolation zone to prevent fires or other types of disasters in one factory from spreading to the next door. . As a result, over the years, this road became a food street, serving employees and their families of the two factories.
When the 107th Battalion entered, the place was a mess. Demons had already jumped out to kill in the middle of the road, and there were still people cleaning up stalls here.
Li Xiang, Bai Xiaojiao and the more than 20 inner court guards she brought with her also arrived at this stage, and were arranged by the general to go to the factory with the workers to avoid more casualties caused by insufficient ammunition for the Armed Forces.
After the 107th Battalion completed the external blockade, it was the turn of the main force to appear respectively, the fully armed 1st Regiment and the 21st Regiment.
The 1st Regiment is a sharp-edged force. Their huge size is not suitable for fighting with armored vehicles. However, with the highest priority equipment level in the army and the heaviest weight of individual equipment, there is also a plug-in battalion like the First Battalion, which is very suitable for use in complex terrain. To clean up the enemies, with the support of the magic ban system, it is basically a pressing attack.
The 21st Regiment is equipped with more armored vehicles. They are responsible for rushing into the factory to guard various nodes, establishing safe passages, and sending workers out in batches.
Regardless of the details of the follow-up cleanup work, the result was that our side lost 21 soldiers, and the basic cleanup was completed within six hours. However, in order to find the fish that slipped through the net, the two regiments toiled in the factory area for another two days, killing all the rats in the factory area. Killed them all.
Not counting the various troubles caused by the suspension and resumption of work at the automobile factory, the losses caused by the demons' "surprise" this time are very limited.
It was still a bad choice. If we had chosen Elte and built a portal at the bottom of the lake, things would have been even bigger.
