Chapter 25 The heart is not old
On the ninth day, the day after the last battle, General Cole began to send men to clean up the battlefield, pile up corpses, and repair the defenses that had been damaged by the zombie invasion.
For a moment, the entire Saumur town returned to its previous fully armed appearance, as if the previous zombie army had never appeared.
But there is one place, Luo Fan said that he couldn't understand it. General Cole organized the militia to pile up all the corpses around the town, forming a high wall of corpses, rather than choosing to burn them on the spot immediately.
"Do you want to build a line of defense out of corpses?", Luo Fan guessed.
But when you think about it, it's not right, the wall built with corpses is not too strong no matter how you look at it, it can't stop zombies at all, and if the corpses are piled up for too long, it may cause a series of diseases.
This can confuse Luo Fan, if it were him, he would definitely choose to burn these corpses immediately, once and for all.
By the tenth day, the stench of rotting corpses had filled the town, and it would not be good to continue like this, but General Cole still had no intention of burning the corpses.
On the eleventh day, the second wave of zombie legions finally arrived in the small town of Saumur, and another wave of defensive battles began. Luo Fan visually measured the number of zombies, and there were about twenty or thirty thousand.
But the strange thing is that Luo Fan is not too worried about this, but begins to wonder how General Cole will deal with these zombies, after all, the number of zombies this time is two or three times that of the last time.
On the twelfth day, it took only one day for the zombie horde to fill the first layer of trenches and rush towards the second line of defense.
On the thirteenth day, the zombie group had already broken through the second wooden thorn fence and came to the "corpse wall" surrounded by corpses, and sure enough, the pile of corpses almost fell down with a push, without causing any impact on the progress of the zombies.
But at this time, General Cole still didn't take any action, seeing that the zombies were already more and more dense towards the small town of Somur, and even the surrounding militia began to panic a little.
Although Luo Fan has always admired the old General Cole, it is inevitable that he will be worried at this time.
Thankfully, as the zombie legion approached the walls, General Cole finally gave the order.
"Archers get ready, get on the rockets. General Cole's wrinkled face trembled slightly from excitement at this moment.
One by one, the archers opened their bows, and then the arrows were lit up by kerosene-damp cloths.
"Draw the bow, release!", under the command of the commander, the "whoosh" rockets shot accurately on the pile of corpses that had been piled up before.
With a "poof", the "fire dragon" first expanded rapidly in a ring from the place where it was ignited, forming a ring-shaped circle of fire, and then spread wildly in waves like ripples caused by dragonflies and water.
In an instant, a sea of fire formed outside the entire town, like a human purgatory, burying these devils who did not belong to this world.
Luo Fan had to admit that this was the bloodiest yet most spectacular picture he had ever seen in his life.
In Lofan's view, this is more like a bloody art. When the flames are churning and dancing on the flesh, all sin and evil will be extinguished in this dance of blood and fire.
At this point, Luo Fan finally saw General Cole's strategy, that resourcefulness, that calmness, are all soaked in the precipitation of the years.
In the next half month, more than a dozen waves of zombies came intermittently, but they were all scattered, and the most wave was only thousands, and even the second line of defense failed to break through.
So for the next period of time, the main task of Saumur Town changed from hand-to-hand combat with zombies to cleaning up the battlefield.
After the zombie tide basically stabilized, Luo Fan came to the General's Mansion again to visit the old General Somur.
"The old general is really old and strong, and he is strategic. After some politeness, this time Luo Fan took the lead in praising him.
"Where, where, this waist bone is no longer than it was back then. ", General Cole said modestly.
"The general is too modest, and I don't know how many zombies are buried in that trench and wooden fence of yours. Luo Fan continued to compliment.
"Haha...", this time the old general Cole was not saying something modest, but laughed happily.
"And your method of burning zombies is really a good lesson for the younger generation. Luo Fan continued, the reverence in his eyes even worse.
"Well, this is a helpless move, if it weren't for the fact that there is not much kerosene left in the town, I wouldn't have made this decision. ", Old General Cole suddenly sighed.
Through subsequent conversations, Luo Fan realized that the old general Cole hoarded the corpses and did not burn them on the spot because there was not much kerosene in the town.
If all of them had been used to burn the corpses, the subsequent fire attack would have been impossible due to the lack of kerosene.
It was indeed a helpless move, but it was a pity that General Cole only had 9,000 militiamen under his command, and there was only this square inch of land left under his jurisdiction. In this turbulent world, it is the limit to be able to survive, and there is really no power to change the overall situation.
But Luo Fan believes that if this old general can once again lead the soldiers of the Sada Empire, then he will definitely be able to lead Sada to glory again.
In the follow-up conversation, Luo Fan consciously asked some of the old general's deeds back then. As soon as the old general Cole heard this, he talked to Luo Fan in detail like an ordinary old man and a junior in his family about his past glory.
"Actually, now my methods of dealing with zombies are the basic operations when I followed the Emperor of Satun in the past, at that time, the Great Emperor had just come out of the western city-state of Grad, and his strength was not very strong, and he often had to fight some battles to win more with less, so we studied a lot of traps and playing methods. ”
At this point, the old general Cole seemed to be stuck in some kind of memory, and he continued for a long time.
"I remember that time, it was the most critical time for the cause of Emperor Satun, and it was very similar to the current situation. At that time, the most powerful force in this part of the Saada Empire was the Theseus family of the city-state of Nicolon. The rapid rise of Satun the Great gave them a great sense of crisis.
So, when the Emperor had just captured Illiglan, they sent an army of more than 100,000 to besiege the Emperor in the city-state of Illiglan, and at that time the Emperor of Satun had less than 30,000 men at his disposal.
In the face of a huge sense of oppression, Satun the Great remained in danger, and with his own wisdom, he defeated the enemy army on the banks of the patrol river, and since then established his hegemony, until he continued to annex all forces and unify Sada.
And now I'm just borrowing the idea of Satun the Great against the Zosius family at that time, so it's not that I'm so powerful, it's just that I've learned from Satun the Great how to judge the situation, find my own strengths, and defeat the strong with the weak. ”
Looking at the admiration for Satun the Great in the eyes of the old general Cole, Luo Fan could imagine what a heroic figure that Satun the Great was.
After finishing speaking, the old general Cole was silent for a long time, as if he remembered something sad, and Luo Fan chose to say goodbye to General Cole.
"It's a pity that we were defeated in that steely Stanger, if it weren't for the Erne's possession of that artifact, the Emperor wouldn't have been...", Rofan seemed to hear General Cole's dreamy murmur as he parted.