Chapter 52: Chapter 51: Re:Zero Base Construction in Another World (Part 2)
As mentioned earlier.
The rabbits’ plan prioritizes strategy, holding onto military force, but not resorting to force first.
The strategic part has already been introduced.
So, what’s left is the military aspect.
According to the plan.
The rabbits will build a military base about ten kilometers from the valley.
The military base is adjacent to a large river, sharing the area with facilities like a water plant and pump station—of course, the hydropower facilities are upstream.
Similar to the Life Experiment Base.
The military base is also divided into a three-phase plan, and engineering troops have been dispatched for construction.
In the long-term plan.
This military base will become a comprehensive strategic fortress, serving as the main concentration point of the rabbits’ military power in the Damo Realm.
It will possess high-strength defensive capabilities, along with forming a substantial land and air combat force.
The minimum operational range will not be less than five thousand kilometers.
However, similarly.
Due to issues with material transport and changes in physical constants.
To fully realize this long-term plan, it might take a year or even longer.
After all, no one can become fat in one bite, not even Er Gen—it’s all about gradual eating.
So, in the relatively short-term executable Phase One plan, the main tasks of the military base are streamlined considerably:
First.
The base is responsible for adjusting the ballistic precision of experimental weapons—the computation tasks will be completed by the valley base and domestic efforts.
Secondly.
The base needs to quickly form logistics capabilities for the production, assembly, and maintenance of military equipment, and establish a moderately sized power plant.
Due to equipment upgrades in the past two years, a batch of machinery from the Eastern Front’s military factories has been retired.
These machines, compared to the currently active, which replaced them, indeed have some differences.
But these differences mainly manifest in cost and efficiency.
For instance, some devices’ core chips were upgraded to be more time-saving and energy-efficient.
In terms of critical structure and component precision of products, these retired machines actually don’t have a significant gap—otherwise, the products made before the upgrade couldn’t have been supplied normally for over a decade.
There is some wear, but using them for another five or six years isn’t a problem.
According to the standard plan.
This batch of retired machines would be secretly transported through several deep lines to be stored in some mysterious caves and the previous batch fetched from caves would be unsealed and destroyed.
But now with the start of the Damo Realm military base.
This batch of machines, intended for storage, has been quietly brought back.
Moreover.
Arriving along with this production line, there are also three generator units.
The total installed capacity of these three units reaches 1.44 million kilowatts, equivalent to 1440 megawatts.
The rabbits will use these three generator units as the power center to build a thermal power plant.
If peak-demand issues are not considered, this power plant could supply around 21.6 million kWh of electricity per day.
What’s the concept here?
Normally, 10 million kWh of electricity can support the daily electricity needs of a city with a population between 300,000 to 600,000.
However, in the field of scientific research, this amount of electricity is not significantly consumed.
Currently, the top supercomputer that the rabbits possess, ’Tianhe-2’, consumes approximately two to three hundred million kWh of electricity a year for each server, exceeding 400 million when running at full speed. (Last year, only one server was running on Tianhe-2, with a total electricity bill of 100 million yuan, where the electricity cost for research purposes was about 0.20-0.30 yuan per kWh.)
Thus, the average daily total electricity consumption of eight servers is several million kWh—usually, one server is enough, but starting up all eight for a large-scale project is a once-in-a-decade occurrence.
Even though the Experiment Base’s supercomputer is several notches below Tianhe-2 (primarily because better supercomputers have larger servers), running two or three could naturally consume four to five million kWh daily.
Not to mention other power-demanding areas.
Once the production line officially starts operation, it too will become a substantial electricity consumer—one helicopter production line’s daily consumption starts from a million kWh.
According to the rabbits’ calculations.
The power plant will consume about 2,000 tons of coal daily and a little over 17,000 tons of water.
Even though the proportion of hydropower increases annually, Huaxia still primarily relies on thermal power—thermal power’s share hardly drops below 75%, not even in Modu.
Modu’s annual coal consumption is about 42 million tons, averaging 120,000 tons daily.
With the transfer through Jinling Railway, it’s not much pressure to allocate the required amount of coal for the Damo Realm.
So, as soon as the water plant is completed, the rabbits can easily cover the daily consumption of two power plants.
Once the thermal power plant is completed.
This area will form an upstream water plant and downstream power plant flow pattern.
After the completion of these two key facilities.
The base will officially commence the final step of Phase One:
Establishing a military airstrip and quickly forming a small aerial group with a power of at least five fighter jets.
That’s right.
This time, the rabbits have finally transported fighter jets!
Considering various debugging data issues in the Damo Realm.
The rabbits did not first transport J20, the fourth-gen fighter jet that officially came into service in 2018, but chose the renowned third-gen fighter jet, the J10.
After all, the J10’s years of service make it extremely well-debugged in all aspects—including maintenance technology.
Additionally, the J10 uses a single vertical tail structure, compared to the J20’s two all-move vertical tails.
The J10’s simulated performance in uncertain conditions is slightly better.
In the previous siege battle, the lack of aerial fire support was the rabbits’ biggest shortcoming.
That battle ended with a zero-loss victory.
Firstly, because the rabbits’ ground firepower was sufficiently powerful, eliminating nearly ten thousand ordinary or first-tier demonic beasts.
Secondly, because those few second-tier great demons didn’t understand the rabbits’ missiles’ power and got significantly hit while injured.
If they hadn’t, not only might they have escaped, but they could also have taken some people with them before dying.
It’s even possible they might have tried desperately to fly against direction and self-detonate on the positions behind the hill.
After all, the limits of these extraordinary beings are unknown when they give their all.
Didn’t that azure-clad elder do just that back then?
With a desperate strike, he instantly killed a creature of the same rank.
At the time, Yan Shaohua only had one anti-aircraft company in hand. Had a demonic beast burned its lifespan for a do-or-die attack... no one could say what the outcome might have been.
Furthermore, according to the Wei Mansion’s information, flying demonic beasts actually exist in the Demon Realm.
So, for the rabbits.
Lacking adequate aerial combat support... is quite unnerving.
The J10’s maximum speed at high altitude is 2.0 Mach, or 680.6 meters per second.
At low altitude, its maximum speed is 1.2 Mach, 408.36 meters per second.
According to the model built previously by the Fire Camp.
The J10’s maximum speed doesn’t compare to a Fourth-Layer Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator, but it slightly exceeds a Second-Layer Nascent Soul ordinary cultivator.
Assuming the J10 can take off normally, with its ammunition firing normally.
There is a 92% chance of killing a Fourth-Layer Core Formation cultivator.
So.
If the J10 fighter jets can be successfully debugged, the rabbits can somewhat ease their minds a bit.
Additionally, the rabbits have brought over components for four armed helicopters, which will undertake the task of providing aerial firepower support before the J10s are fully operational.
In the rabbits’ plan.
The first phase of the military base’s plan will be completed within three months.
The overall sequence plan for the Life Experiment Base is called Dawn, while the military base here is codenamed...
Qingtian!