Author: Huozhongwu

Originally, after executing Duke and the Rat King, Zhou You planned to lead the team to set off immediately and continue to Kangyue County.

But before the large force set off, one of the peon representatives came to him and said that he had a way to solve the expeditionary force's current drones and the communication problems of the ordinary operations team.

This man was the young man who first expressed his intention to join the expeditionary force when Zhou You first met the ten labor representatives.

He said: "Mr. Zhou, I see that your communication method is mainly based on walkie-talkies. I personally think this is very unreasonable. Although walkie-talkies can also communicate in real time, they are not conducive to hierarchical grading of the organizational structure. If you want to make unified decisions,

To give an order, you can only pull all the walkie-talkies into the same communication band. So every time you give an order, for example, you only want to notify Unit A, but Unit B and Unit C will also hear it."

"Even if you can use FM grouping to achieve individual communication, switching frequency bands every time will bring a lot of operational inconvenience. In addition, no matter how good the performance of the walkie-talkie is, the communication range is very limited.

Then when taking specific actions, it will severely limit the scope of action of each team."

"Anyway, walkie-talkies are definitely not a good choice. And because of the characteristics of the walkie-talkies themselves, they weigh too much. When the air force equips the walkie-talkies, its own load loss is too large. They can only use

For emergency use, it can be used as a team-level communication method."

Ma Yuan analyzed it this way.

I have to say that Zhou You also thinks his analysis is very reasonable.

In fact, there is no need for Ma Yuan to mention it. Some of the combat team members below have also reported this problem, but there is no solution for a while.

Shen Moxin and Shen Ling's father and daughter are already considering ways to miniaturize the walkie-talkies.

But this was very difficult, mainly due to the large antenna required for the walkie-talkie.

In addition, as Ma Yuan said, walkie-talkies consume much more power than mobile phones, so they often have to be equipped with large-capacity batteries, and the weight of the battery is naturally very large.

Zhou You nodded, "Indeed, then please put forward your specific plan. If it is indeed feasible, I can promise that I will give priority to the rescue of your family in the future, even if your family is not in Kangyue County, but farther away. I

We can even arrange a long-distance special operations team for you to help you pick up your family."

Ma Yuan looked delighted, "My method is very simple, make your own small communication base station! Then install this base station on those large airships, and you can naturally restore the past mobile Internet communication capabilities in a small area."

Zhou You frowned, "Ma Yuan, you said you can make your own communication base station? Are you kidding? This matter is very important."

In fact, what Ma Yuan proposed is not a new idea.

As early as when we first set out, Zhou You and Shen Moxin had discussed this topic.

Previously, the three major operators and some scientific research teams in the communications field had been thinking about this matter.

Originally, with the support of the current level of communication technology, the technical threshold for realizing a mobile base station was not high and the difficulty was not too great.

But it is a pity that before it was finally realized, large-scale power outages and nationwide network outages occurred. I don’t know how far this matter has progressed now.

However, Zhou You can be sure that he will not be able to wait for usable finished products in the short term.

But the current situation is that although the expeditionary force showed strong enough combat power this morning, the reason is that it successfully caught the rat tribe, so that the two consecutive battles only took place in a small area.

Never exceed the communication range of the walkie-talkie.

When we get to Kangyue County, if we want to expand the sweep area and continue to divide our troops, the walkie-talkie communications will indeed be stretched.

Ma Yuan nodded very confidently, "By the way, I forgot to tell Mr. Zhou about my previous job. I am a master's degree graduate from Rongcheng University of Information Engineering. I have been working in a mobile company for almost three years. I am originally a busy person.

Technical staff from Yangshi Mobile Company. This time I came to Tongming Town to debug and install communication base stations. My engineering truck is parked in Tongming Town, and it contains several brand-new 5G base stations."

"However, I do not recommend using 5G base stations as air mobile base stations. I recommend using 4G or even 3G. Of course, with the capabilities of 3G base stations, it may be difficult to support drone flight control and video transmission, so it is better to use at least 4G.

Okay. I have a layout plan saved in my laptop over there, and I know where the 4G base stations are located in the surrounding area of ​​Tongming Town. Anyway, this is also an occupied area now, and there shouldn't be many living people left except us.

, and because the lines are almost cut, the communication capability should not be restored. So my suggestion is to simply remove the core components of these 4G base stations and then modify them into air base stations. What do you think?"

Seeing that he expressed so many thoughts in one breath, very meaningfully, and obviously thought about the entire operation process before speaking, Zhou You was convinced even if he didn't believe it.

"Although what you said is very simple, if we really want to change the action plan as you said, then we will probably spend the whole day here. Are you sure your level is okay? As far as I know, the previous base station

It can only function as information transmission. To really process the mobile Internet information, a server is needed to complete the scheduling."

Ma Yuan nodded heavily, "Mr. Zhou, I don't dare to brag in front of you. But before shrinking, I was indeed the technical backbone of Fanyang City, and I chose this major out of interest and personal preference, so I

In addition to completing my job, I also spent a lot of energy on tinkering with some electronic products in my spare time.”

"I dare to issue a military order. If Mr. Zhou can assign me a small work team and find a few people who also know the knowledge of electronic product welding and integrated circuits to assist me, I can give it to you before twelve o'clock tonight at the latest.

It is not difficult to build the first base station and server. I can just use my work laptop as the server. I can modify some codes to disguise it as the regional master server in the past. The objects we serve are not too big.

More, just using the computing power of a laptop is enough. I think those electric cargo cards also have a 220-volt output function, which can keep my laptop from shutting down all the time."

"Okay, then I believe you once. Now take action!"

Zhou You has always been so straightforward and decisive in doing things.

It is not difficult to find the assistants Ma Yuan needs.

Shen Ling and Shen Moxin, the father and daughter who serve as core technical personnel, were originally in the team.

In addition, there is a cargo truck that originally functions as an engineering center, and it also has a complete technical team. Now it only needs to shift the focus of work slightly and assign people to Ma Yuan.

If the expeditionary force had to adjust its action plan at will like this before, then the Kangyue County Government would have some objections.

However, today's expeditionary force had already captured 300,000 yuan while they were still on their way, so no one could fault them.

At eight o'clock in the evening that day, the expeditionary force's convoy was still stationed in the grain station square in Tongming Town.

After a short period of renovation, this small square has been simply transformed into a small military base.

With the addition of the original team of hard workers, the total number of people in the expeditionary force has now reached nearly 9,000.

At this time, the new recruits and veterans had been dispersed and mixed, and they were once again working together.

Although after Duke was executed with a thousand cuts, many people in the hard labor team who had some mental illness have recovered a lot.

About a thousand of them have overcome their psychological shadow and fear of rats and can join the battle order. Together with the more than 3,000 combat members of the expeditionary force, they are mixed into a combat team of about 4,500 people. .

But there are still nearly 2,700 people who have not yet fully come out and have no combat effectiveness for the time being. Fortunately, these people are now considered mature workers and can be combined with the more than 1,000 logistics personnel in the expeditionary force. Together, they formed a logistics team of more than 4,000 people, making the original somewhat top-heavy expeditionary force's combat personnel and logistics personnel ratio reach a more reasonable one-to-one ratio.

At this time, more than 4,500 combat members have been dispersed and divided into two major categories. Among them, about 1,500 new and veteran mixed teams with weak combat effectiveness are on guard duty around the grain station square. defense work.

The other three thousand people were divided into more than sixty action teams, large or small, with different levels of eliteness.

Among them, there are three teams with more than 200 combatants, each with a family car, and an additional 200 logistics personnel.

The task of these three teams is to follow Ma Yuan's instructions to dismantle the existing 4G base station in Tongming Town.

Ma Yuan, his father and daughter Mo Shenxin, and accompanied by a hundred elite combatants, went to the hotel where he had stayed to find his engineering vehicle.

In addition, a small operation team with an average number of about forty people drove various small vehicles to patrol around Tongming Town to collect various available supplies, focusing especially on hardware stores and children's toy stores. Home appliance stores and mobile phone repair shops, etc.

They even found a well-hidden underground fireworks and firecrackers workshop under the guidance of locals in Tongming Town.

This workshop is quite large and is built directly in the basement of a farmer.

The man who led the team only said that this was a small factory run by his friend, but he refused to admit that the matter had anything to do with him.

It was not until later that news about the workshop reached Zhou You's ears. Zhou You praised the workshop for its ability to replenish thermal weapons and ammunition. He also praised the person who led the way and promoted him to a small boss in the military factory.

This man finally admitted with great embarrassment that he actually had a small stake in this underground workshop.

"But I am not a major shareholder! I used to be a law-abiding and good citizen. Please don't misunderstand me!"

During the sweeps of many teams, various material reserves gathered from Tongming Town to the Grain Station Square, and were turned into various military supplies in the temporary production lines built on trucks.

In the previous battle, the expeditionary force's armament consumption was still very large, especially long-range ammunition and gasoline, which were used a lot.

However, after half a day of supplies, the expeditionary force is now back to full strength, full personnel, full ammunition, and full reserves.

In addition, in addition to collecting supplies, the expedition team members also found about a thousand trapped people in Tongming Town who have persisted until now.

Although the entire Tongming Town has long since fallen, as long as the sample base is large enough, there will always be some people who can create so-called miracles.

The way these people hide to survive and their experiences are beyond the imagination of Zhou You.

It is true that the Eight Immortals crossed the sea and each showed their magical powers.

Of course, these people's mental state was somewhat abnormal when they were first rescued.

Fortunately, there are no evil people like Duke. Most of these people can return to the group only after a period of physical and psychological treatment.

After these new members joined, the number of members of the expeditionary force exceeded 10,000.

But the biggest gain for Zhou You and others today was not from these people. It was that after working for most of the day, Ma Yuan finally completed the transformation of the first 4G base station.

Now, it's time to test.

"The notebook server has been debugged."

"The base station has been debugged and the signal tester has read the signal."

After Ma Yuan muttered habitually for a moment, he said to the people next to him: "Okay, Mr. Zhou, you can turn on your mobile phones and try it out."

Zhou You and others nodded and each took out their mobile phones.

Previously, due to the interruption of communication, the mobile phone lost its call function and became a pure query tool using the offline version of the "Guide".

In order to save power, most of the time, most people just turn on airplane mode on their mobile phones and turn off all network functions.

Now, the three Zhouyou people are turning off airplane mode one after another.

About ten seconds later, Ma Yuan pointed to the three terminal codes that popped up on the laptop and said: "It has been identified. Now you can try calling each other. As for surfing the Internet, forget it. My server does not have those software functions.

.Most of those apps from the past can no longer function now.”

At this time, a programmer next to him interjected: "If I am sure that I can connect, I can write a simplified version of the QQ applet later and embed the functions of private chatting with friends and voice calling conference rooms. Other

There is no need for fancy functions. As for many of the previous ones including maps, drone flight control programs, etc., we can change them to LAN versions and use our own base station."

Shen Ling also said: "We can get another desktop computer with slightly better performance and connect it later to serve as a server for the LAN version of "Guide"."

Zhou You nodded, "It would be great if we could succeed, but the most important thing now is to make a call and give it a try first."

As he spoke, Zhou You watched the signal on his cell phone jump to full, then he carried his cell phone to the corner next to him and tentatively dialed Shen Ling's number.

In extremely nervous mood, everyone waited for two seconds.

"You are my little apple, I can never love you too much..."

Shen Ling's cell phone rang, and she connected.
To be continued...