When Ye Fan was about to start expanding his troops, he received another prompt from Nana.

"Commander, your forces have exceeded the size of a battalion and have been promoted to a regiment. Please set the personnel for the regiment."

Ye Fan began calculating, touching his chin.

Currently, he has 550 Red Alert units in a battalion, and this type of battalion is called a mechanized infantry battalion.

Generally speaking, a regiment should have three mechanized infantry battalions as its main force.

However, the issue is that his current regiment is a mixed regiment with multiple arms; it already has tanks, rocket artillery, and mortars, and in the future, an airfield will be built to deploy aircraft, with the air force included in this regiment's composition.

Moreover, many units need to expand in size, such as medical personnel and cooks, both of which should be upgraded to a company size.

Currently, the base's cooking staff is a bit inadequate, even though the survivors manage their own food. With Ye Fan's fully staffed battalion and some workers in the buildings, there are already seven to eight hundred people, and three logistics support teams are clearly insufficient.

His guard platoon should also be upgraded to a guard company.

Additionally, a regiment-level unit needs to have a direct company to serve as the basic support force for the regiment headquarters.

After all, many officers will appear in the future, all of whom will need escort forces.

The engineer unit should also be expanded to a company, as construction, clearance, and mining tasks all require them.

Ye Fan picked up a pen to calculate.

Three mechanized infantry battalions, 1650; one guard company, one engineer company, one direct company, as well as the medical team and logistics units are also at the company level, adding another 650 people.

Tank troops and artillery, as well as anti-air units, should also have about 300 people.

What about the air force when it comes out later on?

Will there be an airborne unit?

As for the logistics personnel affiliated with the team, three thousand people are definitely not enough.

"Make it 4000, structured as a reinforced regiment, leaving room for any future troop types."

"Confirmed, the personnel number for the Dawn Corps regiment-level unit is four thousand."

After setting the regiment's personnel, Ye Fan started production.

He was operating on three fronts simultaneously now.

The arms factory over there was still in manufacturing, and the 250,000 gold he held was to strengthen the troop's power.

First, Ye Fan built two tanks.

The T5 light tank is currently the most advanced light tank equipped by the Qin Han Army, but Ye Fan isn't sure about the specifics, though he knows it must be a powerful combat weapon. He decided to try out two first.

Forty thousand gold.

Ye Fan found the D-66 Towed Rocket Cannon particularly good for long-range fire coverage.

Modern warfare no longer relies on sheer numbers; high-tech weapons are the strongest.

The cost of this isn't too high, 6000 each, so he first built five units.

Thirty thousand gold.

Then it was time to add soldiers to the troops.

Since the barracks for the second battalion were already in place, he decided to produce soldiers first.

Previously, Army Soldiers could be produced in two minutes, now they can be made in one, and Conscripts that used to take a minute now take thirty seconds.

Ye Fan directly added foundational infantry units for three companies all at once.

For these two types of soldiers, a squad consists of eight people, a platoon of twenty-four, and a company is seventy-two.

Three companies of basic infantry add up to two hundred sixteen.

Thirty-two thousand four hundred gold.

Aside from the basic troop types, there are many expensive ones, but Ye Fan didn't have enough money to produce them all.

He first made ten heavy machine guns and ten Flamethrower Warriors.

These are extremely effective against zombies, costing a total of twenty-five thousand gold.

Then there were ten Snipers, specialized for targeting Mutated Zombies, which cost another eight thousand gold.

After selecting these for production, Ye Fan was left with just over 110,000 gold.

After restocking the second battalion's military dogs and cook platoon, the cash was about 110,000.

"That should be about it; once the arms factory completes, I need to save money to buy bullets. It would be problematic if I had no bullets at a critical moment; bayonet fighting probably won't work."

With the current force of one battalion, fully equipping it with armored vehicles and tanks would cost around three to four hundred thousand.

However, his organization is a bit mixed right now. After this round of affairs, he'll need to conduct a military reform to reorganize the regiment.

But he doesn't have time right now; from starting production at midnight until the next day at noon, Ye Fan was so excited that he didn't eat.

The continuous deployment of troops from the barracks hardly needs mentioning. When the first tank appeared, Ye Fan excitedly cheered.

The gate for siege vehicles opened, and the first tank of the Dawn Army officially joined the battle sequence!

Armor, turret, anti-air machine gun, treads.

The rumbling sound gave an extra reliable feeling.

Ye Fan, donned in a cloak, stood facing the wind, waiting until the tank arrived in front of him.

The tank's hatch opened, and the soldier stepped down to report to Ye Fan.

"Tank Commander Zhou Tao reporting to the commander!"

Following Zhou Tao were two soldiers; a tank had a crew of three.

Ye Fan returned a military salute: "Tell me about your vehicle."

"Yes, Commander. We are driving a T5 light tank, with a crew of three and a total vehicle weight of 35 tons. The vehicle is 7.5 meters long."

"Equipped with a 105mm main gun, and a 12.7mm anti-air machine gun, in a No-Star state the main gun automatically carries 20 rounds per day, and the machine gun carries 3000 rounds, refreshing every 24 hours."

"The entire vehicle is covered with dual-layer composite armor, effectively defending against handheld anti-tank weapons, with a maximum speed of 90 km/h and a maximum range of 500 km, wading depth of 1.3 meters!"

Hearing Zhou Tao's briefing, Ye Fan's eyes lit up.

Goodness, this is just a light tank, yet already such a steel beast.

The 35-ton weight and dual-layer composite armor make this guy almost invulnerable against zombies.

Having 20 rounds is already very good, considering Red Alert units can be promoted in star level.

Who knows what kind of power this tank might have if upgraded to Three-Star.

In the game, tanks are notoriously nerfed, getting blown up by a few infantrymen with guns—is that even a tank?

Not in reality; it's clear this thing isn't something infantry units can contend with.

The first tank appeared, followed by the second.

The commander of the second tank was called Wu Ling, and when he met Zhou Tao, both soldiers were clearly not convinced of each other.

With the same army type and tank model, it seemed they wanted to compete on the battlefield to see who could kill more enemies.

After the tanks came the D-66 107mm Towed Rocket Cannon.

It took an hour to make one, and Ye Fan inspected it carefully.

A rocket cannon equipped with two soldiers for operation.

This wasn't the large, vehicle-mounted kind of rocket launcher; it's got two wheels and a towing section for a vehicle to pull it.

There is a rocket launcher with 12 barrels.

It can launch 12 rockets at once, carrying 24 rockets by itself each day.

The maximum range reaches 8,500 meters.

This is an affordable light rocket, a super weapon against light vehicles, ordinary people, and ordinary zombies.

Carpet bombing.

Within range, all is Dawn!

Ye Fan had a premonition that these five rocket cannons would become the main weapon against zombies.

Ye Fan did not equip the rocket cannons to the companies; he wanted to concentrate them.

Strikes would be in masses, for greater power.

After inspecting the rocket cannons, the time had already moved to the afternoon of the second day. Ye Fan took a look at the radar, discovering that dense zombie herds had entered the radar range.

The zombies were advancing along the highway on the edge of the Star River, numerous to the point it was impossible to estimate.

At their current speed, they might reach below Dawn Army City by tomorrow morning.

"Let's rest for a while; the arms factory will be ready by tonight, and we'll prepare to manufacture bullets."

Having gone without sleep for a night, Ye Fan was truly exhausted, eating a bit before lying down to rest.

He slept from shortly after two until six when Zhuge Yunxue entered Ye Fan's bedroom to wake him.

"Commander, wake up."

Ye Fan's left eye barely opened a slit.

"Huh? What's wrong? So terrifying, so cold, why is it so cold...?"

Ye Fan shivered in bed, appearing as if he had a nightmare, but his arms were spread wide.

Zhuge Yunxue immediately tenderly pulled up the blanket to cover Ye Fan snugly: "Commander, if you cover up, it won't be cold."

Ye Fan pulled the blanket aside, wiping his forehead of sweat, quickly becoming alert.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Those Survivor Alliance people are making a move, secretly dispatching personnel who have now reached the Water Gate outside Dawn City, seemingly about to make their move."

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