Doomsday rat

Chapter 830 A Slight Setback
This special vehicle itself has the ability to move over short distances. There is a rotating device on the hydraulic arm consisting of steel cables and steel balls, which resembles a high-speed rotating chain hammer after it is activated.

The driver will adjust the height of the hydraulic arm so that the rotary chain hammer is close to the neck of the zombie, and then it will harvest the head of the zombie like a harvester harvesting wheat, like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves.

Compared with bullets, this chain hammer is many times more efficient in killing zombies. It only consumes a little fuel, and the cost is extremely low. There is no need to be afraid that zombies will besiege the excavator.

Several machines of this type are covering each other. Under the flexible rotation of the hydraulic arm, almost no zombies can break through the chain hammer. If they hit it, they will shatter, regardless of any part of the body.

Yang Ming and Zhang Ke had no better way, and set up two temporary gathering places for zombies in their plan.One is in the west of the city, where there is a large reservoir called Nanwan Lake.It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, twists and turns, and almost every ravine meets the conditions for gathering zombies. It is a natural giant zombie grave.

The second is also a reservoir, in the east of the city, called Haiying Reservoir.Naturally, the scale is much smaller than that of Nanwan Lake, but it is surrounded by roads, with convenient transportation and short distances. If it is planned properly, it can accommodate 200,000 zombies.

Once there is a temporary gathering place, the assignment of tasks will naturally become clear.Yang Ming continued to lead the first battalion, the third battalion and the team directly under the regiment to lead the zombie group to Nanwan Lake from the west of the city.

Zhang Ke still led the third battalion and a guard company, along the North Ring Road to the east to the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway, starting from this expressway, leading the group of zombies from east to west to the Haiying Reservoir.

Like peeling an onion, the two troops will lure away the zombie groups remaining in the ruins of the city layer by layer until the two sides meet, and the first phase of the combat mission will be completed.This process will last about 20 days according to the plan, provided that the weather will not change much.

"The material staging area of ​​the Gugang Reservoir is temporarily reserved, and a major advance base will be added here."

Hong Tao is definitely not qualified to participate in the battle meeting. After listening to Wang Gang and Bung Zhu conveying the spirit of the meeting, he has no objection to the battle plan.When he hadn't feigned death and fled, he did the same to clean up Jinmen Port. It was indeed a good way.

But he was instinctively unwilling to trust anyone, including Zhang Ke, so he had to set up some safety devices outside the plan.For example, in case of an accident, how to escape.For another example, if the situation gets worse and you are surrounded by zombies, how should you stand firm and wait for help.

At this time, the material staging area set up at the Gugang Reservoir became very important. Whether it was Yang Ming's main force or Zhang Ke's partial division, they would pass by when they evacuated north.And here is also the only terrain that can withstand the siege of a large number of zombies on the road to the north, not one of them!

However, the Gugang Reservoir is about 4 kilometers away from the North Ring Road, which is a bit far away, and it is inconvenient for the coachmen to pack ammunition and supplies to transport to the front line.So he found a more suitable place on the map - the campus of Xinyang Vocational and Technical College.

This campus is very large, and there are not only relatively empty stadiums and gymnasiums that can be used as temporary warehouses, but also high-rise buildings that can be used as sentry towers to monitor the surrounding movement at any time.

The most important thing is that it is adjacent to the main road to the north and passes by the Gugang Reservoir.In the words of the ancients, it is called connecting the north and the south, taking into account the east and west, and it is actually a battleground for military strategists!

Of course, this statement was put forward by Hong Tao himself, but Zhang Ke also agreed.After hearing Wang Gang and Benzhu's arrangement, he not only readily agreed, but also set up his headquarters together, which shows that Hong Tao's location is very critical.

"Gangzi, you continue to stay at the forward base to coordinate and command, and I will go with the company. Be careful, don't talk too much about our affairs with this chief of staff, and talk more than your head!"

But this is not good news for Hong Tao, the place where the headquarters is located must be far away, so Wang Gang has to hand over the easy work of commanding, and go to the front line to suffer!
Compared with the clean-up operation in the first phase, the tasks in this phase are obviously much heavier, mainly because the population density is high, and the corresponding zombie density is also high, the buildings are next to each other, and the neighborhood is adjacent to the neighborhood, so don't pay attention You have to be surrounded.

How did the army lure the zombies away?Very simple and very original.They assigned a limited number of cavalry to each platoon, and then used the platoon as a unit to let soldiers ride horses into the community to wander around.

First lure the zombies strolling outside to the intersection you found beforehand, and then lure more zombies nearby through gunfire, gather a certain number, and lead the cavalry to gather by the reservoir.

Easier said than done.The first is the problem of falling from high altitudes. Zombies are not afraid of death at all, and I am afraid they have no concept of death.They may only have three things in their life.First, do everything possible to find a new host for the virus; second, take time to bask in the sun; third, don’t go into the water!

As long as human activities are discovered, these guys will jump down from dozens of floors without thinking about their own safety, even if none of them succeed, they will continue to move forward.In the narrow community, zombies fell from the sky, causing great trouble to the cavalry.

The second is the overall situation and planning. The cavalry responsible for luring the zombies will carry a mobile phone and earphones, and communicate with the drone operator through the radio at any time to determine the changes in the number of zombies around, and then decide how to get in and how to get out.

Once a mistake is made, or the cavalry is about to be surrounded, the security forces can only rush forward and use bullets to open a way out to rescue the cavalry.This requires not only tacit cooperation, but also a strong ability to withstand pressure, and not to panic when things happen.

Groups of zombies must have been drawn in. The soldiers in charge must plan the way in and out in advance, and communicate accurately with the cavalry, otherwise it would be a tragedy.

Finally, there are cavalry skills and horse adaptability issues. Riding a horse in the city streets is very different from that in grasslands, mountains, and forests.In addition, it is best to blindfold the horse's eyes to prevent it from being startled. As a result, the horse is completely controlled by the rider.

To be honest, the soldiers are very brave, and most of them regard fighting zombies as their job. Apart from complaining about food and weather problems, they basically have no negative emotions, and they have qualified experience and ability in dealing with zombies.

As the saying goes, nine out of ten times life is unsatisfactory.No matter how well prepared he was, he couldn't stop this guy from appearing unexpectedly.In just one morning, four soldiers from the 2nd Battalion led by Zhang Ke disappeared forever.

One of them was directly hit by a zombie that descended from the sky, and the other two were attacked by a blue devil hiding in the community.In order to exterminate this guy, another life was taken.

Gold and iron horses go, horse leather shrouds return!Since ancient times, it has been the norm for good men to die on the battlefield, and they will be praised in poems by literati and poets from time to time.I don't know if these soldiers who used their lives to protect the same kind from the harm of the other kind will also be able to enjoy this kind of treatment in the future.

But their current treatment is really not as good as that of their ancestors. They don't even have horse leather, or even ashes.

There were casualties, and the drivers of the transport team finally woke up from the blind optimism of the previous two days, but they went to another extreme, and began to hesitate and fear of approaching the front line.

"Are you willing to help the soldiers?" Hong Tao saw it, depressed in his heart.

It is not good to be too optimistic, but it is more troublesome to be in a state of panic all the time, and it is easy to lose everything.How to do it?Reasoning alone is obviously not going to work, so he decided to take a practical action to show everyone that zombies are not scary!
"How can you help?" Ben Zhu was one of the few drivers who was calm, and this little casualty was nothing to him.

"Find four horses, remove the horseshoes, come with me as bait, let them see what riding is!" Apart from worrying about the coachman's mental state, Hong Tao didn't want the soldier to die again.

Soldiers can basically ride horses, but few can be called good at riding.When two skilled cavalrymen were attacked and killed by the blue devil, the two soldiers who replaced them were really worrying about their riding skills.

After getting on the horse, he grasped the rein tightly with both hands, his whole body tensed up, looking around for the zombies, and was almost swept off the horse by a branch.If things go on like this, there is no need to wait for the Blue Devil to appear, and there will be a tragedy if there is a slight terrain obstacle.

(End of this chapter)