After Zhou You discovered this army, he immediately used the high-power satellite phone he carried to notify Zhang Jing and the Zhou family base.
Originally, he hoped to get the support of the army and use the summoning technique of a large meteor shower composed of distant fire to bring annihilation to this army of rats.
But Zhang Jing told him that the army of rats in Shu Province was far more than the one he saw.
High-altitude reconnaissance planes discovered many anomalies. Some modified fighter planes have flown out to conduct low-altitude observations at low altitudes. Large-scale gatherings of rats have been found in at least eight areas in the province.
Including the one that Zhou You discovered now, there are nine rat armies in total.
Even the one I saw during my travels was not the largest.
According to Zhang Jing, the largest rat army was roughly estimated to number in the hundreds of millions. They were completely dispersed and gradually approached the provincial capital Rongcheng along a circular encirclement zone.
There were originally about 300 to 400 million rats in Shu Province.
In these three months, rats around the world have gone through a total of two breeding cycles.
As the intelligence level of mice improves, they occupy more resources, and the raising and care of their offspring are much better than before.
Although humans have tried their best to kill rats, it is estimated that two breeding cycles are enough to expand the number of rats by three times three, or nine times.
There should be more than three billion rats in Shu Province now.
This time, since the rats are moving in full force, based on the distribution of the rats' forces, theoretically there should be at least more than 1.5 billion military and logistics troops in action.
But the total strength of the nine armies discovered so far is less than 500 million.
Therefore, there may be more undiscovered rat armies in Shu Province, but they obviously can't care about that many at the moment.
Zhang Jing has already reported the emergency situation to his superiors, and military forces in Shu Province have been mobilized on a large scale to prepare for a comprehensive attack on the rat army.
But there are not many troops that can be allocated to Shu Province itself.
Because Shu Province is not currently under the greatest pressure, the situation in the two neighboring provinces further to the south below Shu Province is even more serious. Not only are rat armies gathering in the province, but there are also a large number of rats that have completely dominated the southern neighboring provinces.
A larger army of rats tried to enter the country.
Faced with the menacing attack of rats, the pressure is great no matter where you are.
Even after three months of preparations, human military strength has been declining instead of increasing.
Now that a larger portion of the military force has to be used to block the country's gates, it is destined that people within the country must rely more on themselves.
Zhou You was not frustrated at not being able to get support from the military system.
He had already prepared both mentally and physically for this.
It takes a thousand days to raise an army, but it takes only a moment to deploy it. The people in Lelai and Kangyue counties have been waiting for two months, and what they are waiting for is today.
The best shield is a spear.
Following an order from Zhou You's remote command, the Lelai Air Force, consisting of a total of 100,000 people, immediately took off and flew towards the rat army discovered by Zhou You.
In Kangyue County, although no enemy situation was found, they also temporarily increased the frequency of sending out sentries and expanded the patrol scope of the sentries.
Patrolling with a purpose is naturally more efficient than regular patrolling.
Half an hour after the Lelai Air Force departed, the scouts in Kangyue County also discovered something unusual.
A rat army with a strength of between 8 million and 10 million is forming a longitudinal queue about eight kilometers long, winding along the mountains southeast of Kangyue.
The strength of this team is not large, but they are extremely careful and remain hidden throughout their march.
The rat warriors not only used a large amount of green leaves to cover their bodies, but also camouflaged their vehicles in imitation of human camouflage troops.
The camouflage of the rat army caused high-altitude reconnaissance airships and fixed-wing model aircraft to return without success. One man used a single-person airship, and then unfortunately got caught in the strong airflow and was taken out, and then encountered an attacking raptor in the air.
, the soldier whose air bag was scratched by the raptor discovered this anomaly by luck.
Although the soldier successfully wounded the raptor with a nail gun, due to too many damaged airbags, it was impossible to return to the altitude even if the entire load was abandoned. In the end, the soldier had to parachute with a device, and at the same time, he used a children's phone watch to alert his surrounding comrades.
Send a distress signal and simultaneously broadcast your location.
Regrettably, this soldier failed to wait for the rescue of his comrades.
He used an ordinary round umbrella, which could not control its landing point independently and could only follow the airflow.
About thirty meters above the ground, he had already seen the dense army of rats squirming on the ground.
And he also noticed that there were many rat guards wearing camouflage uniforms with green leaves on the surrounding trees.
The guards had noticed him and had their guns pointed at him.
The warrior immediately makes three decisions.
1. Notify surrounding comrades that they do not need to lower their altitude to rescue themselves. It is not necessary.
Second, synchronize your visual observations, observe the types of weapons and equipment levels used by the rats below in a very short period of time, and judge the opponent's anti-air strike level.
Third, quickly adjust your personal equipment, cover your face armor, replace it with double shields, and prepare to face the enemy.
As a newly promoted transgressor, this old soldier's equipment level is not considered top-notch. He uses a relatively basic high-pressure gas tank nail gun, which is fully covered with armor. He also carries more than ten grenades, as well as traditional
Shield knife set.
There was no suspense. After holding on for more than three minutes, he was completely surrounded by a dense army of rats, and then detonated all the grenades at the same time.
This is all he can do.
The sound and fire from the explosion guided the fixed-wing pilots who came to investigate the situation and rescue him, and it also served as a warning.
The pilot of the fixed-wing vehicle decisively gave up the descent height, and instead passed by at a low altitude above the woods, completed the rapid bomb release, dropped all the bombs in a short period of time, and then quickly lifted off and flew away.
After that, the 80,000 Kangyue Air Force, which had been ready for launch, immediately took off.
On the other side, the Kang Yue Army troops, which totaled 300,000 and were basically composed of young and old soldiers, all entered their vehicles and prepared to set off to intercept the rat army in advance.
For a long time before, people in Kangyue County lived a life of refugees.
The vast majority of people were squatting near the granary, unable to move. Although there was no shortage of food and they would not starve, they had no chance to restore productivity and mobility. The total number of usable vehicles in the county was less than 100.
However, with the arrival of the Lelai Expeditionary Force, this bad situation quickly reversed. After a comprehensive sweep of the raging rats in the county, the people of Kangyue County quickly resumed production.
With the support of thermal power stations that regenerated electricity, and relying on the already more developed county-level industrial system, Kangyue County came from behind and established a stronger productivity system.
In addition to meeting its own needs, Kangyue County Government also undertakes many processing tasks from Lelai County.
Today, the military strength of Kangyue County is not weak.
If it were human society in the past, people in Kangyue County would have more or less negative thoughts in their hearts when they realized that they were developing so rapidly and were actually feeding back Lelai County.
But people here in Kangyue County don't.
On the one hand, before Zhou You left, he left behind core members including Deng Tao and Jiang Chao, as well as many elite personnel with unique expertise in various aspects. These people have great prestige in Kangyue County.
What's more important is that many people in Kangyue County Government, from the head office to the middle management, have dealt with Zhou You.
When in contact with these people, Zhou You more or less used mind interference to leave some traces of his own in the other person's thinking.
These people who determine the power structure of Kangyue County are full of strong personal worship for Zhou You. They also remember the help of the Lelai Expeditionary Army in times of need, and sincerely believe that Lelai and Kangyue counties have only
Only by cooperating and supporting each other with the same hatred against the enemy can we survive this troubled world, or perhaps sustain it for a while longer.
As far as humans are concerned, although many people are unwilling to admit it, the fact is that it is the cognition of middle and high-level people that determines the direction of group thoughts.
In this troubled world, grassroots workers and ordinary people spend most of their time running around and have no time or inclination to think wildly.
There is a management team on top of them to make suggestions and formulate action plans and general work contents for them. The grassroots staff only need to follow the instructions of their superiors to complete the work they should complete, and then they can live a pretty good life. Naturally, it is not necessary or necessary.
Then use your brain when you have free time.
Under the influence of the above-mentioned reasons, people in Lelai and Kangyue counties maintained a high degree of communication during these two months.
The militia in Lelai County were supported by the electric energy and productivity of Kangyue County. The people of Kangyue County were also supported by the combat skills and military training taught by the Lelai Expeditionary Force. The over-limit transformation comprehensively promoted by the National Academy of Sciences also allowed
People from Kangyue County can register.
After the batch transformation that lasted for more than two months ended, a total of more than 600,000 people in the three places, including Fanyang City, underwent over-limit transformation.
After a few days of painful exploration, the subsequent transformation failure rate was slowly reduced to about 33%.
A total of 400,000 people have become over-limits.
Among them, Lelai County has 180,000 people who exceeded the limit, Kangyue County has 80,000 people, and Fanyang City has 140,000 people who have exceeded the limit.
More than half of these 400,000 over-limits have relied on the enhanced abilities gained after breaking through the genetic lock to become air force soldiers who require higher combat literacy.
Now, it is time for these air force soldiers who have enjoyed the best training resources and whose families have received the best treatment to play their role.
Medium and large fixed-wing aircraft from Lelai County's 100,000-strong air force took the lead in approaching the valley where the rat army was marching.
However, this air force vanguard force was not able to catch the army of rats on the ground by surprise.
Although Zhou You had already returned immediately after determining the marching direction of this army, he began to use his high-altitude vision and maneuverability advantages to quickly hunt down the rat scouts walking in front of the large army.
He wiped out at least more than five reconnaissance teams, but it was obvious that there were far more than five reconnaissance teams in front of the main force.
Therefore, the rat army has been on guard against human air forces from a very early stage, and has dispatched air forces from the airport behind to prepare for the battle.
Zhou You, who transformed into a peregrine falcon, also noticed this phenomenon.
While giving warnings to his own air force, he took advantage of small-scale flexibility and maneuverability to rush into the formation of the Mouse Air Force again and again.
This time, Zhou You, who was well prepared, updated his weapons and no longer used sharp claws, but instead used firearms loaded with explosive shells.
Since Zhou You usually only chooses to shoot at close range, his hit rate is extremely high. Basically every shot can accurately hit the mouse's aircraft and shoot it down.
But rats are really not afraid of death, and there are so many of them.
Until Zhouyou emptied his ammunition reserves, he was unable to cause any substantial large-scale damage to Mouse's flying brigade.
Zhou You also tried to forcefully approach the aircraft and use his sharp claws to kill the rats.
But after the mouse suffered a loss from him, he immediately updated his combat ideas.
This time, when Zhou You just approached a plane, he suddenly became alert and raised the altitude without hesitation.
The plane below that he had originally targeted exploded in the air without any warning. This was a self-destruction tactic.
Broken pieces of iron sputtered out, and one of them actually penetrated Zhou You's abdomen.
Fortunately, Zhou You was injured on his trunk rather than his wings. He was able to maintain a high flying ability and quickly escape from the battlefield. He hid in a forest for a short rest, took some food, and then basically healed his abdominal injury.
The kamikaze of rats is indeed deadly.
As a result, Zhou You couldn't care less about resting, and once again adjusted his body to the Swift form and flew back. He first replenished ammunition on a Wuzhi aircraft serving as an air base before setting off again.
At about the same time that Zhou You was replenishing ammunition, the air forces of both sides began to exchange fire.
The air forces of both sides did not engage in beyond-visual-range combat, but continued to advance and get closer, constantly closing the distance.
When the distance between the two sides was almost close, the large fixed-wing aircraft on the human side used better aiming systems and more accurate firearms to fire in advance to sweep away the rat swarm fighters.
At the same time, behind these human aircraft, there were a large number of single-rotor aircraft that separated from the rear cabin.
Yes, human beings' large aircraft are not only firepower fortresses in the sky, but also air carriers.
On average, every large human aircraft carries more than ten single-rotor aircraft.
Hanging underneath these single-rotor aircraft that suddenly rushed out were all elite-level human air combat warriors.
The soldiers use sniper weapons with high precision and high bullet velocity.
Since then, the armies of both sides began to fight wildly in the air.
If you look at it from a distance, it looks like two armies of mosquitoes are attacking each other.
There is no doubt that the equipment on the human side is better, and the military quality of human pilots and air combat personnel is also higher, so the battle damage rate of rats is much higher than that of humans.
But the advantage of mice is their reproductive capacity, which is also their super productivity achieved through the sharing of wisdom.
Behind the mountains in the distance, the rat air force was flying in a steady stream, like a swarm of locusts.
At this time, Zhou You, who had changed his equipment and replenished ammunition and food, also came back and relied on his super lethality to slightly turn the tide of the battle.
Zhou You was also mentally estimating how many troops the rats had.
He believes that despite the current wave of the Rat Air Force, the structure of the aircraft is complex after all, and the number of Rat Air Force cannot go against common sense and must have a limit.