Kapitel 196: Another Plan
Just as Airon's team was setting out for Texas after receiving that alert, the central base in Atlanta was also very busy long before they were contacted about occupying a military base.
The process in creating a post-war report against the walking horde took a week. This time, almost all the members of the central base and base growth support at Georgia Tech University mobilized and finally succeeded in stopping this immense horde of walkers.
After having the report of the war, Guillermo noted very intensely on such a large attrition of ammunition, with a total of more than 600 people firing, it is estimated that at least 100,000 full rounds of cartridges, including machine guns on tanks, Humvees, outposts and on the ramparts without considering the mortar shells.
Although the crop was eventually saved, this made Guillermo very worried. You should know that over 100,000 rounds at the central base is about one-third of the inventory.
With the recovery of the cartridges and sufficient equipment, they can be slowly recovered but that will not be enough if they keep wasting that amount of cartridges. It should be known that in the other bases the consumption is not little either, so now it is difficult for them to send cartridges.
Rick also sighed helplessly, there was no way this confrontation could be avoided, there were too many walkers in this horde and the crops were exposed, the time was too short to prepare because they had no more scouts.
This was not only a loss of cartridges, but also some other resources due to many other things, so now this had been a painful loss.
"Guillermo, not to worry too much, we still have Richard, don't forget that he had taken control of the ammunition factory and has sent many important reports to Shane about the weapons. And once things stabilize inside the prison, we might even have a simple weapons factory at this central base."
Rick thought of the old man Airon found, and the other party seemed to have expressed that he would fully cooperate with the base to manufacture weapons, cartridges and armored vehicles.
Guillermo can't lament this loss either, although his job was related to logistics and measurement, and although he knew that there were many ways to manufacture ammunition, he still felt distressed to see so many bullets spent in a single slut against the walkers, but Rick also had very reasonable ideas, so he decided to ignore that annoyance.
Rick breathed a sigh of relief and looked around at the people present. Since Airon took several senior leaders with him this time, he had to find some more people in charge, including Mike who was one of Airon's followers, Jim and Daniel who were good soldiers and some other extremely trustworthy people.
While it is true that a lot of ammunition was wasted, some people have awakened a fear within and have become much more hardworking in active tasks, everyone felt lucky and grateful to be in this community and there were even more aspiring soldiers.
Carol who recently received Tara, along with Andrea, Amy, Oscar, and many more people began to excel in continuing to improve, so Rick planned to rely more on these people and they are leaving the base.
The first half of the meeting slowly ended in everyone's post-war summary. Rick took a document he had prepared earlier and said to the people present: "Next, I will organize our tasks half a year from now."
Everyone sat up straight. Not only the usual people were there, but also some important members of the base and several advisors as well as right hands of many leaders who are still busy working, and after talking to these people, it was equivalent to notifying everyone at the central base without them being present.
Rick took the report and began reading it line by line.
"Over the next six months, our task remains very arduous. Airon, who had been working on this information, gave it to me before it came out, and I also carefully discussed with various members of this room and even Shane consulted the details of this information. Next, I will finally share the arrangements with you."
Rick raised his eyebrows and brushed his beard before saying, "First, we need to upgrade the base security system. Now that we are hiding there are more and more people on the base being sent from Atlanta, although word is that a vaccine is being created en masse so that when someone dies naturally and there is no concussion to the brain they can't become walkers."
"But even a bite or scratch from a walker will affect us, so we plan to set up a checkpoint for entry and exit of the base. An infection containment team will be created and children will receive training so that they can eliminate walkers if necessary. Some buildings will be created outside and most of the staff will be moved there, while even more important things will be worked on in the central area."
"Secondly, it's the outer wall. Guillermo I need you to work overtime and hurry to build it, Shane will send many more people to support the construction. We're not sure when the next horde of walkers will approach. But when that happens, the outer wall should be important."
Guillermo nodded his understanding and then Rick continued, "We need to design a circle for the horses, and add more wells outside the second wall. Solar panels for electricity, as the architect mentioned a few days ago, structures will need to be well and systematically created to defend the heart of the central base."
"Third, we need to explore the port of Atlanta as soon as possible. There are still a lot of materials stored in containers there and Shane mentioned that he needs the containers to seal the territory in Georgia. Maybe some of them are damaged, but there must be a lot of important materials.
"There are military bases and other places where materials can be hidden. We have many active soldiers here, and we have some knowledge of some large military bases around us. These places should not be ignored."
"Fourth point, due to the constant population of the base increasing, we should start thinking about expanding various infrastructures. The greenhouse should not only be expanded outside, but also increase more plant species, and even plant some fruit trees, which can not only improve the living environment, but also receive a large amount of fruit. Hershel, use your wits at this point, we will increase our exploration in this area when we leave."
"Fifth point..."
Rick assigned tasks to all aspects of the prison, and some of the tasks discussed with various leaders earlier are also mentioned in all the details.
According to the few books left by Airon, a group of people were specially arranged to practice the work of blacksmiths and carpenters.
The search range should also be expanded to find materials to make cartridges and not rely on Atlanta for that, increasing not only resources but also vision and thus getting lead, gunpowder and more.
It can be said that what Airon left him was a semi-finished product. During the six months that the other party will be away, Rick needs to spend a lot of time to refine this almost finished plan and slowly turn it into a fully finished one.
This process will definitely take more than half a year, but Rick intends to complete these things as much as possible.
Two consecutive walker attacks filled Rick with a sense of urgency. He didn't dare imagine what would happen with another group of walkers attacking just now, and he didn't dare gamble, so he also made a lot of preparations. First, the base and surrounding forests continued to be cleared, followed by preparations to create walker masks, the establishment of outposts around the outer base was implemented in addition to a series of preparations.
Over the next few days, Rick's heart sank with worry as the outer walls were gradually completed. The outer and inner wall of the central base are incomparable, but they were still a bit taller and made of a strong material. In addition to the hard foundation, following Airon's hard plans, the third wall outside that would be created much later would be the most powerful of all.
At least Rick won't worry if there is a horde of walkers again like last time. This wall is enough to withstand a large-scale horde. Along with some watchtowers, it looks as if this place was being built for a great war, a mighty breath of a giant fortress was slowly taking shape.
Now that the development of the base is on track, Rick is completely relieved. The next step is to collect materials.
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One month later.
Rick got up very early and arrived at the base cafeteria, but there were already a lot of people sitting in the cafeteria at that time.
There was a relatively large operation today. Airon had contacted home base and ordered a base to be cleared and secured to send planes with resources and survivors. So Rick immediately set up a mop-up operation at a relatively large base not too far from the central base.
So Rick agreed to that. And the reason they got up so early today was to take that military base.
"Rick, here!"
Mike was sitting in the corner of the dining room, eating breakfast, and there was another plate in front of him, which was obviously Rick's.
Rick walked over with a smile, this man got up very early every day and every time he helped him get his food ready.
Rick looked at Mike while he ate and said, "Mike, don't come with me this time, I'll lead the team and you'll stay at the base to make sure there's no trouble."
"It's very dangerous this time, you may even meet the military, it's very dangerous for you to go alone."
Rick shook his head and pointed, "No, I'll take a lot of people there this time, just focus on taking care of the base. I'll be more worried about this place if you're not in this place!"
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