Chapter 895: Frustrated Ulysses
Twelve giant pangolins continued to dig in the direction Ulysses directed.
These pangolins moved very quickly and reached the location designated by Ulysses in almost no time.
Several pangolins dug upwards together, trying to make a big hole in the film and cut the railroad track.
However, as soon as they poked their heads out of the soil, they saw a machine gun bunker standing ready for battle nearby.
Da da da…
Before they could react, the machine gun fire completely enveloped them.
Under the baptism of the metal storm, several pangolins were directly smashed into pieces.
One of them was a little slow in movement. After hearing the gunshots from above, it instinctively felt something was wrong and immediately ran downwards. However, before it had taken two steps, an explosion sounded above its head.
Boom!
The violent explosion blew away the dirt above its head, followed by a burst of machine gun fire.
This pangolin followed in the footsteps of several of its companions.
In an instant, several pangolins died.
Zhang Tuohai put his hands in his pockets and looked at the bodies of several pangolins. A sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Thank you for the supplies sent from thousands of miles away. Come on, expand the underground pit, build an underground tunnel, and build our underground base!"
Thousands of refugees entered the pits dug by the pangolins.
The hole dug by the pangolin is so large that two subway cars can fit in it. With a little renovation, it can be used to create a direct route into the mountains.
This will greatly increase Zhang Tuohai's expansion speed.
There are many fine mineral deposits in the deep mountains, but the road passes through many wild animal nests, and the mountain road is rugged. It would be difficult to build a railway through it. The construction is difficult and it is easily damaged. Now, with this hole dug by the pangolin, we can directly lay a railway track in it, and everything will be solved.
Zhang Tuohai really wanted to give Ulysses a thumbs up and thank him for helping him expand his power.
Without Ulysses' strong support, his development would never have been so fast.
Under the command of Zhang Tuohai, his forces quickly spread to the deep mountain areas. Led by machine gunners, they launched a counter-mopping-up campaign against the wild beasts entrenched in the mountains.
The large army cleared hill after hill, killing all the animals they saw, no matter how big or small, and made them into food. They cut down trees and made them into sleepers, cleared a large area nearby, established a stable stronghold, and even occupied several important mineral deposits.
The sudden appearance of the team stunned the wild beasts in the mountains. They always came down the mountain to attack human camps, but today, humans actually rushed into their territory and killed them. This made them feel unbearable, so they organized teams and launched a counterattack, trying to drive these humans out.
But they found that these humans were obviously well prepared. As soon as they arrived here, they built a large number of fortifications, various trenches and barbed wire, machine guns, howitzers, and terrifying flaming stone sculptures, all of which were weapons aimed at them.
The beasts' attacks failed several times, but instead left behind a large number of corpses, which became Zhang Tuohai's strategic materials, making Zhang Tuohai's war army increasingly powerful.
In fact, it was not that Zhang Tuohai wanted to expand like this, but once this rapid expansion mode was started, it could not be stopped at all. All materials and cores were centered around the rapid construction of the base, all productivity was focused on mining coal and iron ore and manufacturing weapons, and the food source depended entirely on the corpses of wild beasts obtained from foreign wars.
If Zhang Tuohai dared to stop this huge war machine, the refugees in the camp would be in a dilemma of having no food. He would not be able to expand the scale of food production in a short period of time and the entire camp would collapse.
If this were true, the country would have to keep declaring wars on foreign countries, consuming its surplus population while snatching resources from the outside to provide itself with blood transfusions in order to survive.
Zhang Tuohai also took the same approach, maintaining the operation of the camp through constant plundering.
As for what to do after defeating the beast?
According to Zhang Tuohai's experience in deduction, there are too many beasts in the entire map to defeat them all in a short time. By the time they are almost finished, the time he has dragged out will be almost up. It all depends on his mood whether to charge forward or just overturn the table and give up.
After several attacks, the beasts found that they could not do anything to Zhang Tuohai's camp, so they had to accept it and leave in disappointment, preparing to try a few more times at night.
However, when they came back at night, they found that they were wrong.
At night, Zhang Tuohai actually turned on all the high-power searchlights in the camp, all pointing downwards.
The strong light blinded them so much that they couldn't even open their eyes, let alone attack. They couldn't even see the road clearly, but the howitzers on the mountain could easily cover them.
After leaving behind thousands of carcasses, many animals hurried away.
After repelling the beast tide's attack, Zhang Tuohai was not idle either. He sent out pioneering teams to other mining sites, built railways along the lines, and continuously expanded his scope of activities.
Ulysses was furious when he saw that the pangolin he sent out had become Zhang Tuohai's helper and allowed Zhang Tuohai's forces to infiltrate the deep mountain mining area.
He went deep into the mountains and mobilized wild beasts to fight guerrilla warfare with Zhang Tuohai and attack the lone members of the pioneer team.
"Hmph, let's see what you can do this time?" Ulysses looked at the several members of the pioneer team in front of him whose necks were bitten by wild wolves, and excitement appeared in his eyes.
"No one can defeat the beast in the forest."
Just when Ulysses was full of energy and ready to avenge his previous humiliation , he suddenly smelled a pungent odor.
"What's that smell?" Ulysses twitched his nose, then looked in the direction where the smell came from, and was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him.
Before his eyes, columns of black smoke rose up, balls of orange flames flashed, heat waves rushed towards him, and a blazing wall of flames rushed towards him.
"How dare you..."
Ulysses never expected that Zhang Tuohai would dare to set fire to the mountain.
Isn’t he worried that the fire will burn him?
You have to know that once a wildfire becomes large-scale, not a single blade of grass will grow. If you are not careful, even your own people will be trapped.
Ulysses couldn't understand why Zhang Tuohai dared to be so bold.
Little did he know that Zhang Tuohai had used the Gate of Truth to deduce hundreds of times and had figured out the impact of igniting each point, so he could execute it with absolute precision.
The raging fire all over the mountain not only saved Zhang Tuohai the time of cutting down trees to clear a path, but also completely destroyed the hiding places of the wild animals, causing Ulysses' plan to fail before it could be executed.
