I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 795 - 693: The Military’s Grand Plan

The plan proposed by the military can only be described as insane.

Even with his frequent wild imagination as a web novelist, often jesting that above his neck is a black hole, Chen Xin was shocked by the military’s fantastical proposal.

The military’s plan is less of an attack plan and more of a construction plan.

Speaking of underground warfare, this kind of tactic was not unfamiliar to the Flame Country’s military back in the day, and they also had some experience in clearing out enemies in tunnels.

However, these experiences have certain limitations.

After all, whether it’s using smoke and fire, flooding tunnels to force enemies out, or using ground-penetrating bombs to blow up hills and unload mountains, they are somewhat effective against small-scale tunnels, but are utterly useless against large-scale underground caverns, especially ones that are excavated several hundreds or thousands of meters deep.

For instance, the caverns beneath the Dongting Lake, even if you open up the entire lake and flood all the water in, it cannot fill these caverns completely.

As for using smoke and similar methods, they have attempted them, but the vast corridors and the intricate network of underground caverns ensured ventilation, rendering smoke and poison gas ineffective, and instead causing chaos among our own forces.

Though the plan to use heavy bombs to collapse underground caverns is feasible, after thorough evaluation and analysis, the military concluded that it cannot completely eradicate the alien species underground.

The military once used supercomputers and the virtual system designed by Chen Xin to conduct simulation experiments, showing that detonating a five-million-ton nuclear bomb underground could indeed cause large-scale collapses in the caverns in the Dongting Lake Region.

Theoretically achieving the strategic goal of collapsing all caverns and tunnels in the area in a chain reaction, thus eliminating the alien species underground.

But in the simulation, the military also found that unless they can bury the nuclear bomb deep enough, its blast effect wouldn’t reach the deeper layers underground, let alone collapse the deep tunnels.

As for deploying more powerful nuclear bombs, it’s possible, but the bigger the blast the greater the impact, potentially affecting nearby cities.

Their aim is to eradicate alien species, not to trigger a massive earthquake across the Dongting Lake Region.

Therefore, after extensive research, the military decided to adopt a steady and gradual approach, progressing step by step downward, building strongholds as strategic support points at intervals.

Stockpile supplies at the support points, rest troops, then use the support points as bases to launch new offensives, continuing to penetrate deeper, gradually and steadily clearing the underground space completely.

This plan is highly feasible, and indeed the military is executing this plan.

Though progress is slow, some tangible results have been achieved, with some shallow caverns cleared and taken over using such methods.

The plan has no major flaws, except for being somewhat resource-intensive and slow to show results.

However, as speculations arose about alien species moving south to Africa from the European Battlefield and potentially attacking from the Middle East Region, along with the military’s deeper operations making heavy weapons less effective and slowing the offensive, they had to consider changing their plans to accelerate the offensive and shorten the clearing time in the Dongting Lake Region.

This undoubtedly necessitated changes to the entire plan, significantly increasing the difficulty of advancing and constructing in the underground caverns.

As for the revision, it’s quite manageable, with a group of senior military advisors completing the adjustments and revisions to the plan within approximately half a month, shortening the original estimated three-year clearing plan to be completed within six months.

However, consequently, the military must upgrade existing weaponry to enhance their clearing efficiency in underground caverns by at least threefold to ensure the timely completion of the clearing tasks.

The increased construction difficulty of strategic support points underground is even more problematic, with many demands raised that even Chen Xin, with all systems, found daunting.

Nevertheless, the military believed that Chen Xin, who had created technologies like the Weather Controller to purify the sky and the land aircraft carrier used as an aerial airport, had the capability to solve these issues.

After all, their demands, compared to purifying the sky and building a flying aircraft carrier, seemed simpler.

Yet, examining these military demands, Chen Xin felt an impulse to curse.

Enhancing existing weaponry to increase the military’s clearing efficiency in underground caverns is not particularly difficult, merely a matter of developing a new weapon.

As for the resource investment and cost issues brought about by equipping new weaponry, given the current ability of the country to obtain resources from Europe, these issues are also relatively minor.

What truly made Chen Xin find it challenging was the military’s demand to construct strategic support points underground.

First, these support points needed sufficient logistics and maintenance capabilities to allow troops to station, rest, and resupply.

This is expected, although considering the potential construction locations of these supply points might be several hundred meters deep underground, Chen Xin felt this challenge was solvable.

However, the military also demanded these support points have ample defensive capabilities to withstand alien species attacks, maintaining their presence even under the assault, and possibly repel alien attacks, which was somewhat unreasonable.

Especially given the military’s requirement for these support points to be quickly constructed and form combat capabilities swiftly, which indeed made Chen Xin want to curse.

What kind of joke is it to construct logistics and supply points several hundred meters underground, let alone ensuring they have sufficient defensive capabilities, already challenging the construction personnel, and then requiring rapid construction!

This demand would likely have any other construction or development department person flip a table (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ in protest, though Chen Xin still considered whether there were any means to accomplish this.

After all, this kind of unreasonable demand is comparable to the whims of a certain sharpshooter elementary school student with a blue cat.

Yet perhaps only that blue cat’s utterly unreasonable black technology could meet such demands.

As for Chen Xin himself, after seriously studying the military’s demands and plans for three days, he concluded that the investment required for this entire plan was excessively large, extremely impractical.

Even if he could fulfill the military’s requirements, the plan’s investment surpasses the Flame Country’s current bearing capacity.

After all, the country still needs to prepare for potential wars in the Middle East Region and cannot allocate excessive resources to this clearing plan.