Operation Engine
Operation Engine is Operation Engine appears to be a large-scale logistical and military initiative designed to address severe humanitarian, supply, and operational crises in a fractured region. This mission involves relocating thousands of displaced refugees—particularly those fleeing hardships in Zhejiang—to temporary bases like Jeju Island and later Lingao, where they undergo quarantine, training, and resettlement before potential permanent settlement or onward transit to areas like Lingao itself. The operation prioritizes securing critical resources such as food (with a focus on grain self-sufficiency in regions like Jeju and Kaohsiung) and winter supplies—particularly warm clothing—to ensure survival during harsh conditions. Beyond logistics, Operation Engine integrates military coordination between the
Context from Novel
"Chapter 884 - Simple Rations Continued To facilitate preservation, relief rations were thoroughly dehydrated, rendering their texture excessively hard. Consumers generally had to smash them with a hammer and wash them down with water; swallowing without water was virtually impossible. More commonly, consumers would add vegetables and boil them directly in a pot, producing a gruel. Relief rations were essentially simplified individual rations, unable to compare with ordinary military MREs in tast"
"Chapter 885 - Joint Operations Command Schneider walked beneath the scorching spring sun, sweating profusely as he carried his own luggage. As a Navy Lieutenant from a background emphasizing dress, etiquette, and bearing, his image—personally hauling baggage—stood out on the road. The Navy maintained specific regulations regarding the use of orderlies. Navy Lieutenant Schneider had formerly been known as Shi Shisi. A certain elder in naval circles had felt the name Shi Shisi was too inauspicious"
"Chapter 886 - Logistics Training Team Both Army and Navy People's Commissars provided assessments that were far from optimistic. He Ming was especially frank, telling Wu De that the Army's current condition was poor. Troops continuously executing security war combat missions had become severely exhausted. Though casualties in security warfare remained minimal—a death report only every several days—the endless cycle of combat and duty had eroded troop morale. Currently, security operations in Nor"
"Chapter 887 - Taiwan Island For the refugees gathered from Zhejiang, the General Staff proposed establishing a transit point on Taiwan. The plan was straightforward: refugees would first be transported to camps on the island, held there for a period of quarantine and acclimatization, then shipped onward to Lingao. Some might remain permanently to develop the land, forming a second colony. Taiwan's political situation, however, was rather more complicated. Multiple powers had carved out footholds"
"Chapter 888 - Grain Supply Grain constituted the bulk of the supplies. Jeju Island and Kaohsiung would require six months to achieve self-sufficiency; the Taiwan base in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung region would need at least four. This meant that from the launch of Operation Engine, five months' worth of grain for two hundred thousand refugees had to be secured, along with provisions for approximately ten thousand operational personnel. Calculated by caloric requirements, each refugee needed 350 gram"
Appearances
Appears in chapters: 885, 886, 887, 888, 889, 891, 892, 893, 894, 896, 897, 898, 905, 909, 912, 913, 914, 921, 927, 928, 929, 934, 935, 936, 937, 939, 945, 951, 965, 967, 968, 976, 978, 982, 983, 985, 986, 987, 989, 990, 994, 998, 1001, 1003, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1023, 1024, 1025, 1113, 1133, 1137, 1142, 1143, 1151, 1155, 1156, 1167, 1181, 1186, 1233, 1238, 1268, 1272, 1273, 1279, 1287, 1294, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1316, 1332, 1333, 1334, 1339, 1341, 1346, 1425, 1485, 1560, 1561, 1562, 1621, 1645, 1670, 1673, 1674, 1698, 1867, 2072, 2121, 2230, 2438, 2557.