The Walking Dead: Rebuild

Chapter 75 Arrangements Before the Battle
On February 2, the Umbrella Company team completed its assembly outside the town of Roberta.

Colonel William's soldier squad, Glenn, Darryl, Moore, Aggie, T-Boy, and the latest addition to the Woodbury militia team, the total number of fighters in the 7 squads exceeds 200, plus the responsible Logistics auxiliary personnel, this time Lyon mobilized a team of more than 350 people and came here.

Given their current size, this is almost all the power that the Umbrella Company can mobilize at the moment.

As a former executive, Lyon had never commanded a battle of this level. He had no choice but to pull together the various captains under him to form a temporary staff department, appointing the only person who had experience in large-scale combat Colonel William served as chief of staff and held a war meeting on the first day of arrival.

After the meeting began, Lyon first made an official statement about the role and significance of this war, and then said:

"Our goal this time is to completely wipe out the mutant zombies near the nuclear power plant, but we cannot destroy the nuclear power plant itself."

"About these two points, everyone can speak freely."

Colonel William was still the serious and conservative officer. After the combat meeting began, he waited for Leon to finish speaking. Without any courtesy, he immediately stood up and said in a loud voice:
"Everyone, after detailed investigation by our scouts, the number of corpses near the nuclear power plant is about 4, and the number of our soldiers is about 200. In other words, this time, we will face 200 times the number of corpses. above enemies."

"It's going to be a tough war."

Colonel William's voice was very calm. He paused, turned on the projector on the side, and projected a video on the screen in front of everyone. While playing it, he explained:

"Before the start of this battle, my soldiers and I have tried several methods on the corpses in an attempt to deplete their numbers, but the results are not satisfactory."

"Although these mutated zombies will return to the group of corpses after losing their target, once they confirm the target, they will pursue it for more than 3 kilometers without stopping."

"Among all our fighters, there are no more than five snipers who can hit the head of a zombie from a distance of 1 kilometer."

"But even if you use a sniper rifle, after killing a certain number of zombies, the sniper will be discovered by the remaining zombies and slowly be surrounded."

Colonel William looked around at the people who were deep in thought and said:
"The only tactics I can think of at the moment are to use air units to attack them, or to use long-range artillery to bombard them with coverage."

"I don't recommend fighting these mutated zombies in short to medium distances. They are not afraid of death, their speed has increased a lot, and their number is hundreds of times ours. Except for covering strikes, it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to use them. Firearms were effective in killing them.”

"Once these monsters get close, our soldiers will collapse at an extremely fast speed under the threat of death. It is simply impossible to hold on to a large wave of corpses."

After Colonel William finished speaking, he sat back in his seat, and the captains of several other teams also began to talk with each other, discussing their own ideas.

Seeing this scene, Leon coughed lightly and said to everyone:
"Although we have a large number of drones, there are very few people who can skillfully control them. Facing such a large number of zombies, they are basically unable to form a combat effectiveness."

"Similarly, there is only one person in the base who is proficient in operating helicopters, and cannot form an organized attack. Therefore, our air force is currently only suitable for reconnaissance, and cannot be used as a combat team."

Seeing that everyone was a little frustrated, he smiled and added:
"However, we are not without weapons against them."

"In order to cope with such a situation, our engineering department worked overtime and finally completed the manufacturing of new weapons before the war." Leon gave everyone some photos and related data parameters, although most of them, like him, saw He didn't understand these, but he still introduced according to the data given to him by the researchers of the engineering department:
"The Ministry of Engineering named it the X1 mortar, with a caliber of 82 mm and a maximum range of 2 kilometers. It was imitated from the most common mortar during World War II."

"It uses common explosive bombs, which can effectively cause huge damage to flesh and blood life, and is very suitable for use against groups of corpses."

The others looked at the photos and discussed softly with some understanding. Only Colonel William frowned and said with a hint of dissatisfaction in his voice:

"The inferior imitation has a much lower range and power than the original, but it should still be barely usable against these zombies."

Leon explained to William helplessly:
"It's not their fault, Colonel."

"Most of our engineering department were mechanics and mechanical engineers. The only one who knew anything about bombs was a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White."

"They studied this mortar for a long time before finally coming up with the finished product."

He explained a few words and then began to say to everyone:

"After the engineering department worked overtime, we produced a total of 30 mortars and 5000 rounds of artillery shells."

"We must find a battlefield suitable for us near the nuclear power plant, build a solid fortification there, use these X1 mortars to form an artillery position, dig trenches, set traps, and increase our defense power regardless of cost. Only with strong attack power can we hope to defeat enemies hundreds of times our size."

He put his palms on the table, looked around at everyone, and said with a serious expression:

"In this battle, we put all the power of the Umbrella Company, no matter how difficult the enemy is, we can only win and not lose."

After saying that, Leon calmed down again, patted William next to him on the shoulder, and said:
"Colonel, the task of establishing artillery positions and defenses is left to you. This is the most critical part of this mission. I hope you will not disappoint me."

The middle-aged officer saluted Lyon and replied loudly:

"Promise to complete the mission, General."

Time turned and came to August 2th.

All the members of the Umbrella Company team dug trenches, set up traps, and built fortifications here. After three full days of busy work, they finally built a fairly solid fortification on a flat high ground 2 kilometers away from the nuclear power plant.

This highland is surrounded by steep slopes on three sides, and only the front can be climbed up through a long ramp. This terrain greatly reduces the area that Lyon and others need to defend, from four walls to one wall.

They also referred to the structures of some survivors' walls and gates, used large vehicles to connect them to each other, welded many steel plates and steel pipes, and soon completed a tall iron wall that blocked the entire ramp.

(End of this chapter)