Zhang Hong, the brigade commander of the 1st Guards Brigade of the Aurora Legion, was frowning on the outskirts of this small town because there was a strong stench in the air that made people feel nauseous.
The best areas of the United States are on the east and west coasts, while these inland states tend to be very closed and conservative. Residents living in these states are often nicknamed "country bumpkins" by wealthy people in big cities in New York.
Inland states generally have developed agriculture, which is very important in the end of the world. The surrounding area of Gosenberg is an important agricultural production area, and a large-scale irrigation system can provide a large amount of agricultural products. Now this area has a large agricultural population.
The place has become a ghost.
Zhang Hong stood on an armored command vehicle, holding up a telescope and looking towards the city of Gosenberg. Many ragged figures were swaying back and forth in the abandoned buildings. These figures may be living people or 'living corpses'
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The so-called 'living zombies' are another type of human mutants that are different from mutants and zombies. They have ulcers all over their bodies, walk quickly, are relatively clear-headed, and are very aggressive in hunting. Their survival restrictions are relatively small, and they pose a greater threat than mutants.
Both humans and zombies are big.
Due to the Enclave's unrestricted biological and chemical warfare, it caused a huge number of civilian casualties. The most unlucky thing was not the Aurora Legion that was hostile to it, because the Aurora Legion's main territory is in the southwestern part of the United States such as Mexico and Texas.
The Enclave is relatively far away.
If 'David Lawrence' wants to attack the critical points of the Aurora Legion, it has to use expensive and small number of long-range missiles. The combat effectiveness is actually very poor. The Legion can still withstand it. But it is much easier to deal with the Brotherhood of Steel adjacent to it. Artillery shells
There are bombs and so on.
Zhang Hong was sent by the army to help some pig teammates in the north stabilize the front. But when he arrived at the scheduled front, he found that things were completely different from what he had imagined.
The Enclave didn't attack at all, and was even retreating. And what about those pig teammates? Except for a few dignitaries who fled to the rear in panic, everyone else had given up. As long as Zhang Hong is willing and the logistics can keep up, he can advance two hundred kilometers a day.
Not panting.
Unfortunately, the trouble Zhang Hong faces is the mutated humans all over the place. Unless they are cleared away, people will not be able to fight with confidence.
"Prepare to set fire." Zhang Hong ordered over the radio.
After the 1st Guards Brigade arrived at the northern front line, they discovered that they were actually doing the work of the "Corpse Corps". They didn't need to fight at all, and they didn't need to be shelled. Instead, they had a very heavy task of purifying battlefields and cities - they couldn't drink water indiscriminately.
, can't run around randomly, can't leave the team randomly.
Several specially designed arson tanks drove out from Zhang Hong's queue. They rumbled close to a few hundred meters away from the city, and then launched napalm bombs into the city, burning the city to ashes.
Except for some tall reinforced concrete buildings in the core area, the most common ones in American cities are very ordinary single-family villas. These buildings use a lot of wood as building materials and are particularly easy to burn. Raging fires will quickly spread throughout the city.
As the arson tanks drove in, many surviving human mutants rushed out and tried to attack the legion's troops. These terrifying-looking living creatures can challenge the nerves of the soldiers. As soon as they appear with their teeth and claws, the heavy machine guns of the army's armored vehicles will be fired.
It won't stop.
Amidst the sound of gunfire, the screaming mutants were quickly beaten to pieces on the road. The machine gunner on the armored vehicle waved back, and soon chemical defense soldiers came on the truck to clean up the corpses - usually
It was also sprayed with gasoline and burned.
It is different from the situation Zhou Qingfeng encountered during his expedition to Baltimore. The number of human mutants now is very small. Zhang Hong raised his telescope to confirm that the fire in Fort Gosenberg ahead was fierce, and said with emotion: "Fortunately, the weather is hot now."
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In the past, the number of mutated humans was large because the dead humans were frozen by the low temperature of nuclear winter and became their food. Nowadays, humans are also dying in large numbers, but the normal temperature means that the corpses cannot be kept for long before they completely rot.
Without food, creatures with fast metabolisms like mutants cannot survive for long before starving to death. The number of 'living zombies' is not large, and only the 'zombie' with extremely high endurance can enter a low-energy hibernation state to survive.
But 'zombies' can't stand high temperatures, so arson can drive them out.
"But he's burning down cities one by one. Will it take until the year of the monkey?" Zhang Hong commanded the troops to do nothing after arriving at the northern front. They set fire to the city and houses every day for fun. As for whether there is anything in the city that can be saved.
Civilians - None by default, all burned.
The United States is a developed country after all. Even the inland states have completed urbanization a hundred years ago. There are various small towns and cities everywhere. It will take a lot of human and financial resources and a lot of time to burn them all.
Gosenberg was just an inconspicuous small town. It took three days for the fire to burn the town to ashes. During this period, the 1st Guards Brigade swept through more than a dozen other surrounding towns, eliminating thousands of human mutants and killing a large number of people.
More survivors - No one can be sure whether the survivors are infected with the virus. Rather than taking huge risks and undergoing medical examinations, it is easiest to kill them.
The earth was covered with corpses, and the stench of burning corpses filled the sky. Because of the hot weather, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Guards Brigade felt that they were about to be smoked into smelly meat. It was really painful. Until one day the army sent them
The latest virus research results, some kind of liquid purifier.
"What is this thing?"
"It is said that Nova, the chief biochemist in the rear, caught a special mutant, and she developed a virus against the 'Enclave virus'. This thing is harmless to ordinary people, the cost is not high, and it can be used on a large scale.
It just needs to be spread at low altitude like a pesticide machine spreading pesticide."
"What's the effect?"
"It's not certain yet. I just say that various human mutants infected with mutant viruses will be quickly killed by this 'purifier'. However, it seems to be ineffective against high-level third-generation mutants and can only deal with early-stage mutants."
"Being able to deal with those ordinary mutants will be a big help. It's better than letting us set fire to them all the way. I've long been tired of those monsters running around. It's very troublesome to manage them regardless."
The 'Kirov' airship transported hundreds of tons of 'purifying agent' to Zhang Hong, and the 1st Guards Brigade itself had many brigade-owned Y-5s that could be used for spreading. Brigade Commander Zhang Hong ordered the troops to advance to Gosenberg
Experiment in the next small town to the east.
The simple Yun-5 kept flying into the sky, using a sprayer to spread the 'purifying agent' on the ground at a height of 100 meters. On the first day of spreading, Zhang Hong and his men just observed stupidly outside the city. There was no reaction at all in the city.
, the drone discovered that the mutated humans in the city were still operating as usual.
The second day, the third day, and so on until the fourth day...
"Thank God, they finally fell." Through the images taken by the drone, Zhang Hong saw that the mutant humans who were still active were slowly losing their ability to move. "We can advance quickly, get rid of the disgusting stench, and
Go kill those Enclave sons of bitches."
Yeah..., the exciting moment has finally arrived. In the past, the Enclave was holding back its energy to overthrow the Aurora Legion, but now that the Enclave is disabled, it is the Aurora Legion's turn to seek revenge.
"Advance, advance, spray out all the decontaminants. Let our cannons reason with the Enclave and make them pay for their sins."