Chapter 830 A slight setback

This special vehicle itself has the ability to move short distances. There is a rotating device composed of steel cables and steel balls on the hydraulic arm. When it is started, it looks like a high-speed rotating chain hammer.

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

Compared with bullets, this chain hammer is many times more efficient at killing zombies. It consumes only a small amount of fuel and is extremely low-cost. There is no need to worry about zombies attacking the excavator.

Several such machines cover each other. Under the flexible rotation of the hydraulic arm, almost no zombie can break through the chain hammer. If it touches it, it will be broken into pieces, regardless of any part of the body.

Yang Ming and Zhang Ke had no better idea, so they set up two temporary zombie gathering areas 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, winding

It is twists and turns, and almost every ravine meets the conditions for gathering zombies. It is a natural giant zombie grave.

The second reservoir is also a reservoir, located to the east of the city, called Haiying Reservoir. The scale is naturally much smaller than that of Nanwan Lake, but it is surrounded by highways, with convenient transportation and close distances. With proper planning, it can accommodate

One to two hundred thousand zombies is completely enough.

With the temporary assembly area established, the task distribution was naturally clear. Yang Ming continued to lead the first battalion, the third battalion and the regiment-affiliated team to lead the zombies to Nanwan Lake from the west of the city.

Zhang Ke still led the Third Battalion and a guard company, heading east along the North Ring Road to the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway. Using this expressway as a starting point, he led the zombies from east to west to the Haiying Reservoir.

The two forces will be like peeling an onion, layer by layer, luring away the zombies remaining in the ruins of the city. Until the two sides meet, the first phase of the combat mission will be completed. This process is planned to last about 20

About a day or so, assuming the weather doesn’t change much.

"The material assembly area at Gugang Reservoir will be temporarily retained, and a main forward base will be added here."

Hong Tao was definitely not qualified to attend the combat meeting. After listening to Wang Gang and Benzhu convey the spirit of the meeting, he had no objections to the combat plan. When he had not faked his death and escaped, the cleanup of Jinmen Port was also carried out in this way. Indeed,

It's a good idea.

But he instinctively doesn't want to trust anyone, including Zhang Ke, so he has to set up some safety devices outside of the plan. For example, how to escape in case of an accident. Or what if the situation is worse and he is attacked by a swarm of zombies?

If you are under siege, how should you hold on and wait for help?

At this time, the material gathering place established at Gugang Reservoir becomes very important. Both Yang Ming's main force and Zhang Ke's partial division will pass by when they evacuate north. And this is also the only place on the road north that can withstand a large number of

There is no other terrain besieged by zombies!

However, Gugang Reservoir is about 4 kilometers away from the North Ring Road, which is a bit far. It is not convenient for the truck drivers to load ammunition and supplies 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. 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 activities at any time.

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

Of course, this statement was put in by Hong Tao himself, but Zhang Ke also agreed. After hearing the arrangements of Wang Gang and Benzhu, he not only readily agreed, but also set up his headquarters together. This shows that Hong Tao's

Finding this location is very important.

"Gangzi, you continue to stay at the forward base to coordinate the command, and I will follow the company. Be careful not to talk too much about our affairs to the chief of staff. You will spend more time chatting than thinking!"

But this is not good news for Hong Tao. The headquarters must be far away, so the easy task of commanding has to be left to Wang Gang, while he goes to the front line to suffer!

Compared with the first phase of the clean-up operation, the tasks at this stage are obviously much heavier. The main reason is that the population density is high, and the corresponding zombie density is also high. The buildings are next to each other, and the communities are adjacent to the communities. If you don’t pay attention,

It has to be surrounded.

So what method did the army use to lure the zombies away? It was very simple and primitive. They assigned limited cavalry to each platoon, and then used the platoon as a unit to let the soldiers ride horses into the community and wander around.

First, lead the zombies wandering outside to the intersection that you have found in advance, and then use the sound of gunfire to draw out more nearby zombies. If you gather a certain number, the cavalry will lead them to the reservoir to assemble.

It's easy to say, but very dangerous to implement. The first is the problem of falling from high altitude. Zombies are not afraid of death at all, and I'm afraid they have no concept of death. They may only have three things in their life. First, do everything possible to find a new home for the virus.

Lord; 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 more than a dozen floors regardless of their own safety. Even if no one succeeds, they will still continue to fight. In a narrow community, zombies falling from the sky have caused great trouble to the cavalry.

Secondly, there is the overall situation and planning. The cavalry responsible for luring zombies will carry mobile phones and headphones, and communicate with the drone operator at any time through radio to determine the changes in the number of zombies around them, and then decide how to enter and how to get out.

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

The zombie swarms must have been drawn in batches, and the soldiers responsible for responding must plan their entry and exit routes in advance, and communicate accurately with the cavalry, otherwise it will still be a tragedy.

Finally, there is the issue of cavalry skills and horse adaptability. There is a big technical difference between riding a horse in city streets and running in grasslands, mountains, and forests. In addition, it is best to blindfold the horse to prevent it from being frightened. As a result, the horse

It's all up to 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, life will be unsatisfactory nine times out of ten. No matter how well prepared you are, you can't stop this guy from suddenly appearing unexpectedly. In just one morning, four soldiers from the 2nd Battalion led by Zhang Ke disappeared forever.

One person was directly hit by zombies descending from high altitude, and the other two were attacked by a blue devil hiding in the community. In order to eliminate this guy, another life was lost.

Even if they go away, they will return wrapped in horse leather! Since ancient times, it has been normal for good men to die on the battlefield. From time to time, they will be praised by literati and poets in poems. I wonder if these soldiers who use their lives to protect their own kind from being harmed by aliens will also be able to enjoy this kind of thing in the future.

treatment.

However, their current treatment is really not as good as that of their ancestors. They don't even have horse hides or even ashes. They can only join in the zombie hordes, and will be beaten into pieces with chain hammers for a period of time in the future, and finally burned to the ground.

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

"Are you willing to help serve as a soldier?" Hong Tao saw this and felt depressed in his heart.

Being too optimistic is not good, but being in a state of panic all the time is even more troublesome, as it is easy for everything to be defeated. What should we do? Just reasoning is obviously not effective, so he plans to take practical actions to show everyone that zombies are not scary!

"How can we help?" Benzhu was one of the few coachmen who was very calm. This small casualty was nothing to him.

"Find four horses, remove the horseshoes, and follow me as bait to show them what riding is!" In addition to worrying about the coachman's mental state, Hong Tao also didn't want the soldiers to die again.

Soldiers can basically ride a horse, but few can be called good at riding. When two cavalrymen who were good at riding horses were killed in a sneak attack by the Blue Devil, the riding skills of the two soldiers who replaced them were really worrying.
Chapter completed!