Chapter 1606: Why bother

Ye Chen looked at Su Shoudao and found that his mouth was bulging, making his entire face deformed. He was startled for a moment and couldn't help but ask Hamid, "Brother, what's going on?"

Hamid looked at Su Shoudao and said with a smile, "Oh, this guy wouldn't stop talking, it was annoying as hell, so I blocked his mouth first."

After finishing, he pinched Su Shoudao's cheeks and forcibly pulled the beret out of his mouth.

Su Shoudao rubbed his cheeks painfully. Hamid shook the crumpled beret in his hand and slapped it on his leg a few times.

After smoothing out the hat, he put it on his head, adjusted its position, then put his arm around Ye Chen's shoulder and said enthusiastically, "Let's go! Brother Ye! Let's go to my office for a cup of coffee, we need to have a good chat!"

Ye Chen looked at the beret on his head, then at the painful-looking Su Shoudao, smiled helplessly, and asked him, "How is the situation these two days? Did the Cataclysmic Front come to trouble you again?"

"No," Hamid said, "Our scouts received news that they are constantly shrinking the encirclement, but I don't see them intending to make a move in the short term. They must be scared by me."

As he spoke, Hamid gave a thumbs up and said gratefully, "Brother, this time I really owe it to you. If you hadn't given me pointers on everything, let me learn the spirit of Shangganling, and prepare for a protracted war, I might have been finished off by those bastards from the Cataclysmic Front long ago! Just because I listened to your instructions, I killed three or four thousand of them in two battles, and I lost less than a hundred people myself. This brilliant record is simply unprecedented."

Hearing this, Su Shoudao was so stunned that he couldn't even care about the severe pain in his cheeks.

He thought to himself in horror, "Damn! Hamid's strategies and tactics were all Ye Chen's ideas! I was wondering why his fighting style looked so familiar; it turns out they all learned from our great predecessors!"

"Ye Chen is truly a god. He can remotely command a small warlord like Hamid to win two battles with huge disparities in strength and astonishing results. Is this guy even human?"

"With Ye Chen's schemes, if he really fights the Su family head-on in the future, what will the Su family have to fight him with?"

"Moreover, Ye Chen's strength is also incomprehensible. An expert like Old He probably wouldn't be able to withstand a slap from him, let alone he also has a lick-dog like Hamid. This lick-dog now has nearly ten thousand soldiers, already considered a great warlord in Syria!"

At this time, Hamid enthusiastically grabbed Ye Chen and walked down the mountain. Su Shoudao could only follow behind them.

When they were about to reach Hamid's office, Hamid looked back at him and shouted sternly, "What are you following for? Go back to your tunnel!"

Su Shoudao had no choice but to say flatteringly, "Okay Commander Hamid, I'll go back right away!"

Hamid turned to Ye Chen and said, "Don't worry, Brother. Except for his tunnel, he doesn't dare to go anywhere else. He definitely can't run."

Ye Chen laughed dumbly and nodded gently.

Su Shoudao indeed didn't dare to go anywhere else.

Hamid used to be afraid of him escaping, but ever since the war started, Hamid didn't worry about this point anymore, because if Su Shoudao really dared to escape, he might have been shot by a sniper hidden in the dark before running a few kilometers.

After all, after losing face, the Cataclysmic Front had long ago threatened that not even a fly could leave Hamid's base alive, so even if Su Shoudao were given the guts, he wouldn't dare to run.

Su Shoudao was sent away, and Ye Chen went to Hamid's office with Hamid.

It was called an office, but it was actually just a larger tunnel.

Entering the tunnel, there was an internal space of about a dozen square meters, with electric lights and a ventilation pipe leading directly from the tunnel entrance to the inside, constantly sending air in.

After entering, Hamid introduced to Ye Chen, "We are currently excavating a large number of hidden works and tunnels. Before long, these tunnels will all be connected. Even if we can't achieve full connectivity, at least we will first connect ventilation, water supply, and power supply, and then constantly improve the internal environment, striving to make the tunnels more livable!"

Ye Chen nodded gently and said, "I see that the buildings in your valley have basically been leveled. Do you have any plans for such a large space?"

"What plans can I have?" Hamid said, "Once the opponent starts fighting, artillery hits the valley first. The valley mouth is large and the bottom is small, which is the best target for artillery, so it has no practical use anymore."

Ye Chen said, "I suggest you just demolish all those houses, clear out the construction waste, and then dig some rectangular deep pits five or six meters deep in the original place to store water. Since it is currently the rainy season, use these reservoirs to store a large amount of fresh water, and then find a way to add covers on top to reduce evaporation. This way, even if you are surrounded for a long time during the dry season, you don't have to worry about having no water."

The Middle East is relatively arid and hot, and the rainy season in Syria is not long. Once the rainy season passes, fresh water resources, while not extremely scarce, are relatively precious.

Ye Chen is not worried about Hamid being wiped out by his opponents, but he is somewhat worried that his opponents will conduct a comprehensive siege, forming a situation of long-term encirclement without attacking.

In fact, for Ye Chen, the easiest way he can think of to solve Hamid is to deploy troops and completely cut off Hamid's connection with the outside world by sea and land.

Especially to cut off all ways for materials to enter, so that Hamid cannot get any materials from the outside world.

In this way, Hamid can only consume his own reserves until he is exhausted.

Food and ammunition are relatively easy to store. In a place like the Middle East, finding a dry and light-proof environment to store them safely for two or three years is not a problem.

But only large amounts of fresh water resources are not easy to store.

Using bottled water to store drinking water is not a problem, but domestic water is difficult to guarantee.

Groundwater resources were not abundant to begin with. If there is another dry season, there might be no rain for several months, and the groundwater will also be greatly affected.

In that case, if the base wants to ensure normal water usage, it has to be transported from the outside.

But once the enemy cuts off transportation, fresh water resources cannot be effectively replenished. Once thousands of people lack water, morale will definitely continue to decline until it collapses.

Therefore, Ye Chen suggested to Hamid that he could find a way to do some water storage projects first.

Seeing that Hamid hadn't figured it out yet, Ye Chen said, "Anyway, your base has already been blown into a mess, and the enemy's artillery fire is very fierce. Your base can't be reused anyway. It's better to dig pits to store water and prepare an extra hand for the future."

"Moreover, deep-dug reservoirs are not afraid of shelling. Even if the water turns into mud, as long as it is settled and filtered, and then simply sterilized, it can still be used for daily use."

Hearing this, Hamid agreed, "Brother, this idea of yours is very good! I will arrange for one or two hundred people to start working tomorrow!"

Ye Chen nodded. Then, he remembered something and asked Hamid, "By the way, Brother, I heard that the reason the Cataclysmic Front cooperated with the government army is because after clearing you out, they would be approved to build a mercenary base in Syria. I don't know if it's true or false?"

Hamid asked in surprise, "Brother, I only heard about this news last night. Where did you know it from?" ===== CHAPTER 1607 =====