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Chapter 136: Location of Northern Myanmar Base
When the DXN-1 laser weapon test was finalized, Wang Jiankun manufactured six in Eastern Canada as required by his uncle, and then returned to his old base in Landau to build six more.

This laser is easy to use, so it takes very little time to train personnel. After it was manufactured, it took only more than one day to teach users how to operate it.

After completing the training in both places, Wang Jiankun returned to Langdao and quietly recalled the past year while resting at night.

He felt that although the underground base in Wuyuan was underground, it was still very inconvenient to conduct experiments. For example, if they wanted to test laser weapons this time, they had to change the location and go to northern Myanmar.

After some thought, he decided to set up a secret base in northern Myanmar. In the future, some experiments that are difficult to conduct in the mainland will be carried out here, and the base in his hometown will be used as a place for some small experiments.

After thinking it over, he proposed to his uncle to build a test base here.

"Uncle, I want to build a large-scale test base here. How about you discuss it with some senior executives?" At the Langdao base, Wang Jiankun proposed to his uncle in his house to build a large-scale test base.

"A large-scale test base? How big a place would it need to be?"

"I want to test surface weapons and aerial weapons in the future, so of course the bigger the better, at least not less than 10 square kilometers!"

"So big? Are there any requirements for the location?"

"First of all, it has to be good for keeping secrets, and then there is a wide water surface and relatively flat land."

"Well, let me get the map, and we'll look at it together, choose a few places, and then discuss it with other senior executives."

So Wang Jiankun and his uncle began looking for a place to build a large base on the map.

In fact, there are not many locations to choose from. Most of the old base is mountainous, and only the area near the town of Langdao is relatively flat. However, as the headquarters of the Southern Liberation Front, this place is already undergoing large-scale construction. It is obviously impossible to set aside such a large area for use as a test base now.

The area around Myitkyina in the south is relatively flat, but there are mountains only in the north, and the south is the territory of the government army, which is not conducive to confidentiality and certainly cannot be used as a secret base.

So in the end we chose Ningdiben and Xinbeiting, two small towns that were originally located in the territory of Chen’s army.

Both places are on the edge of the northernmost mountains, one in the east close to the old base, and the other in the west close to an enclave of India.

Among them, Ningdi is very close to the old base Langdao. Langdao can be reached by crossing more than 40 kilometers of mountains. If the base is set up here in the future, it will be more convenient for senior personnel and personnel participating in the experiment to enter and exit.

In the early stage, air transportation can be used, and the Y-1 transport aircraft can be used. Later, we will consider building a tunnel to connect the two places.

Moreover, this place is surrounded by mountains to the north and east, and there is a river of suitable width and depth passing through it. It is also located in the heart of the Nanjie formation, which is very conducive to keeping secrets.

Shinbetin is farther away, close to the Indian enclave, but there is a big river here, and there are mountains on the west and north, so it meets the requirements in terms of confidentiality. The only drawback is that it is far away from the old base, about 120 kilometers away.

Wang Jiankun's favorite is Ningdiben, but because he doesn't come here often, he doesn't know what the Southern Liberation Army's future plans are for these two places, so he chose both.

After choosing the location, my uncle Cen Yong began to contact several senior leaders to discuss the construction of a secret test base.

At this moment, the Southern Liberation Army had just captured the territory of the Chen family army not long ago, and several senior executives had a lot of work to do, so when they got together to discuss things, they needed to communicate, otherwise they would have to wait for the weekly senior executive meeting.

Finally, the discussion was scheduled for the morning of August 8. Wang Jiankun saw that there was still one day left, so he ran to the air force base and flew a CJ-20 seaplane to Ningdiben and Xinbetin for an on-site inspection.

Wang Jiankun had authority over the air force, missile forces and radar alert forces at this time. He informed all units of his itinerary when he set out, so there would be no embarrassing situation of being targeted by his own radars and missiles.

If he flew without notifying, it would definitely cause misunderstanding. After all, he had not yet developed stealth materials, and his plane would definitely be discovered by radar after taking off.

After flying over Ningdiben, Wang Jiankun piloted the CJ-1 for an aerial survey.

Since this place is on the edge of the mountains, the original Chen family army did not develop this place much.

Looking from the air, there are only about 30 relatively good buildings built with bricks, stones and cement, but there are more than 100 thatched houses.

There is a river flowing out from the foot of the mountains. Judging from the amount of water, it should be quite large. At this time, there are several ships in the river that are sailing out from small tributaries in the mountains. There should be some ores on them.

There are two ore storage yards in the town, one on each side of the river. The dock does not look large. From the air, it can only accommodate small boats of about 50 tons.

The ores are initially sorted by water here and then loaded onto larger ships for transport to Magao downstream.

Wang Jiankun circled several times in the air, and then chose a tributary flowing out of the mountain to land.

Although it is a tributary, the water surface is more than 40 meters wide and the river channel is made of rocks, so even in the rainy season it will not flood and damage the river bank. The water depth is about 4 meters.

Wang Jiankun plans to use this tributary as a water sub-base in the secret test base, where some small watercraft or aircraft can be tested in the future.

On the left side of the river is a relatively flat hilly area. Wang Jiankun made a small four-wheel off-road vehicle and began to check the situation underground.

With the help of his super powers, the situation within 280 meters underground appeared in his mind one by one.

It took Wang Jiankun more than two hours to roughly survey an area of ​​about two square kilometers and decided that if Xinbetin did not have any particularly great advantages, he would choose to build a base here.

No minerals were found underground here, just ordinary granite bedrock and a soil layer about 20 meters deep.

The elemental composition conforms to general rules, mainly oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron and calcium, of which oxygen, silicon and calcium account for about 80, iron accounts for about 6%, aluminum accounts for about 9%, and the rest are sodium, potassium, magnesium, hydrogen, carbon and other elements accounting for 4%. There are also trace elements, but it is very difficult to collect them.

Wang Jiankun plans to use his superpowers as the main force in the construction of the interior of this base. The underground part will be built entirely by himself, and some conventional buildings on the ground will be built by people sent by his uncle.

After completing the preliminary survey, Wang Jiankun returned to the riverside and drove the CJ-1 non-stop to Xinbeiting.

After arriving, we still left it empty for observation. During this observation, we found that if we wanted to build a base, it would be very inconvenient to use water and a water base.

The town here is on the main river and there are no large tributaries around it. If a base is built in the future, this section of the main river will be incorporated into the base and it will be very difficult to manage.

This is already the downstream of the former Chen family army's territory. In the future, many ships will sail on this main river channel. It is impossible to abandon such a golden waterway for the sake of confidentiality.

So Wang Jiankun flew a few circles in the air, landed on a small river, and then prepared to use his superpowers to explore the edge of the mountain.

Because just now when he was in the air, he found a little golden reflection on the mountain wall, which should be a mineral deposit, but he didn't know whether it was pyrite or copper.

The flat land at the foot of the mountain here is mainly an impact plain. Wang Jiankun drove a four-wheel off-road vehicle quickly from the river to the foot of the mountain.

The mountain seemed very close from the air, but when we got to the ground, we found that it was still very far to the foot of the mountain. We didn't dare to drive too fast in the off-road vehicle, and maintained a speed of 30 kilometers per hour. It took about 20 minutes to reach the foot of the mountain, and then we continued to drive into the mountain, zigzagging along the small flat land at the foot of the mountain.

More than an hour had passed when they arrived at the mountain wall reflecting the golden light. When he got closer, Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to explore and found that it was actually a copper mine, accompanied by some gold and silver.

And judging from the exposed ore heads, the mining value should be very great.

So he exerted his utmost ability and first explored the mountain on the ground. He discovered that there were nearly 1 million tons of copper ore reserves in the entire mountain alone, with an average copper content of 1.2%. Compared with domestic copper mines based on the data collected by Wang Jiankun from the Geological University, this copper content was already top-notch.

Moreover, the mine on this hill should be able to be mined in the open air. If all of it can be smelted and extracted, 12 tons of pure copper can be obtained.

After completing the detection of part of the mountain, Wang Jiankun began to detect underground at the foot of the mountain. His current superpower is that he can detect a range of 280 meters, so the detection is very fast.

The underground vein of this copper mine is not buried very deep. It extends westward from the mountain and finally extends more than 6 meters. The deepest part is about 400 meters. Wang Jiankun dug several holes that are meters deep and climbed down to complete the detection of the underground part.

In my mind, the entire copper mine looks like a lying L, with the short end inside the mountain and the long end sloping underground.

With the help of Chieko, it was calculated that the reserves of the entire copper mine were 3 million tons, the average copper grade was 8%, and the copper content in the underground part was even higher than that in the above-ground part.

If all the copper in this mine can be mined and smelted, Wang Jiankun feels that the South Liberation Army will not have to worry about the source of copper within 10 years, because there will be 500 million tons of copper available.

The accompanying gold and silver are of relatively low grade, and it would be uneconomical to extract them using Nanjiezhen's technology.

Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to roughly estimate that if he used his superpowers to extract, he could probably extract about 30 tons of gold and about 600 tons of silver.

However, he does not plan to use his superpowers to extract them at present. Gold and silver are not very useful now. After extracting copper, he will extract the gold and silver from the slag.

It was almost dark after completing the entire copper mine exploration, so Wang Jiankun hurried back and headed straight to Langdao after getting on the plane.

After having a simple dinner at his uncle's house, he took out two freshly made maps and gave them to his uncle.

"Jiankun, what is this?"

"One is the topographic map of the base to be built near Nindiben, and the other is the large copper mine discovered in Xinbeitinna."

"Oh? A large copper mine. How big is it?"

"The copper reserves are 3.8 million tons, with an average grade of 1.4%, and are also accompanied by dozens of tons of gold and more than 6 tons of silver."

"Ah? There are such large reserves of copper, as well as gold and silver."

"Yeah, what are you going to do, uncle?"

"What should we do? Of course we should go and mine. Is it difficult to mine at this location?"

"It's not difficult. There's a plain about 10 kilometers from the river into the mountains, and then another 10 kilometers of mountain trails to get there. If we use blasting to make the trail as straight as possible, we can shorten it to about 7 kilometers."

"I see. Look at this mine map. A small half is open-air, and the majority is buried at a depth of about 200 meters. It is very suitable for large-scale mining. It is much easier to mine than the two small copper mines we have found now, and the grade is much higher."

"Then the base can only be chosen in Ningdiben, and I also think Ningdiben is the most suitable. Let's discuss the Ningdiben plan tomorrow morning."

"Of course. We also need to discuss this copper mine. Such a large and easy-to-mine copper mine must be mined quickly."

"Then how are you going to say it at the meeting? It's not the right time to say I have superpowers."

"Well, let's not talk about the specific reserves and mineral deposits. Let's just say that when you went to investigate the location for building the base, you found an open-pit copper mine. It's quite large, and the meeting will discuss sending prospectors to conduct an on-site investigation."

"That's fine. Although it will take some time, it's still more important to keep this secret."

"Then you don't need to draw such a precise map for Ningdiben's plan. Just give an aerial view."

"I've thought of it. I have a rough sketch as well. Take a look. This precise map is for your exclusive viewing."

"I don't really understand either. Please mark the approximate area and designate that area as a military restricted area. Then, explain the organization's plans for construction."

"Okay, I'll complete the plan for the above-ground construction tonight, and I won't talk about the underground part."

"Okay, go to bed early. You looked so tired yesterday and you ran all day today."

Wang Jiankun returned to the room, described his ideas for the base to Chieko one by one, and then asked Chieko to design it.

The entire base will be divided into * major parts, namely the energy center, aircraft test center, ground weapon test center, water weapon and transport vehicle test center, spare land, etc.

A coal-fired power plant will be built on the ground of the energy center, and a nuclear reactor (helium reactor) will be built underground as needed.

The aircraft test center will build a 10-story building and a 100-meter signal tower, as well as an airport with a 4-kilometer runway. There will also be more than 20 corresponding hangars, and an airship take-off and landing field will also be built.

At present, he is still unable to launch a satellite. One reason is that he does not have enough strength. If he launches a satellite, it means that the South Liberation Front has intercontinental missiles, which is not allowed by other major powers. The current strength of the South Liberation Front cannot withstand the pressure from major powers.

So he planned to build a stratospheric airship (flying at an altitude of 25 to 55 kilometers) to test space-based weapons.

The ground weapons test center mainly builds some vehicle test sites, such as armored vehicles, tanks, military off-road vehicles, etc.

Currently, the Southern Liberation Front's army is still mainly composed of light infantry, and its offensive weapons all rely on rockets and individual missiles. In the future, they will definitely be at a great disadvantage when facing the organized government forces, so they have to start developing and training armored weapons.

I haven’t thought about water weapons yet, but I have to keep them in reserve as they will definitely be used in the future.

The reserve plots are reserved for some new weapons and equipment that will appear in the future. What Wang Jiankun can think of now are mechas, robots, drones, etc. However, he has only seen some ideas in some materials, so he doesn’t know how to build them, and cannot build them in advance.

Because the underground of the entire base is made of granite, the strata will be very stable, so future large-scale nuclear power research, nuclear fusion research, gravitational wave research, anti-gravity research, etc. will all be carried out underground.

At present, these advanced studies are only some concepts. He will collect some domestic and foreign information from time to time, and even go to Europe, the United States, the Soviet Union and other places to learn from others.

Wang Jiankun plans to focus his main energy here in the next year, and train a group of scientific researchers for his uncle's Nanjiezhen before he goes to university.

(End of this chapter)