Chapter 36: The Second Cataclysm—Prelude to the Blood Station
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After reading the reviews of the assault riflemen, I played a few more battles with Man of War, Company of Heroes, and Resident Evil 6 (the time to update the Gundam fandom was gone...... After comparing it, I felt that the power of the cannonball was indeed a little small for the zombies, but it was true that the fragments actually had no effect on the zombies.
Can you expect zombies to be afraid of pain? Moreover, the weakness of zombies is more in the back, and the fragments on the front are basically useless to zombies.
The power of small and medium-caliber shells will be appropriately buffed later, and the following is the main text.
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"Let the troops be ready to fight at any time, and press forward slowly!" Since all the troops that Zhang Shixin brought down the dungeon this time were summoners, he only needed to give combat orders in his mind to be able to let the troops carry them out.
Why did Zhang Shixin need to do this? Because he saw several light tanks that he had let out to reconnoiter at full speed, all of them desperately rushing back from afar.
Although the tactical map has not yet shown what the situation is, it is estimated that the situation is not much better if it can make the light tank retreat so quickly.
After Zhang Shixin issued the battle order, the formation of the team quickly changed again to the formation form of the battle.
Qingtan is returning to the team, acting as a firepower for mobile support, and Zhang Shixin doesn't expect Qingtan's firepower to help much.
Although the number of T-44s is small, it still has a certain combat capability when mixed and matched with IS heavy tanks. So, the first line of battle is composed of IS heavy tanks and T-44s plus a part of armored vehicles, Pyros.
Most of the remaining armored vehicles were captured on the second line of defense, the Su-152 assault guns and the Cheetah tank destroyers. The auxiliary infantry is a machine gunner with a drum MG34 machine gun.
In this case, the firepower output of one machine gun is better than that of several snipers.
The last front was led by several King Tiger tanks, plus a few No. 4 Dongfeng anti-aircraft tanks.
To be honest, the ground combat surname of the No. 4 Dongfeng air defense tank is still quite good. Zhang Shixin compared the shooting depression angle of this thing, and found that except for the zombie dogs that could not attack at close range, the Dongfeng air defense tank was able to shoot at the opponent with 37mm-flak43-L89 anti-aircraft guns.
Dongfeng air defense tank and furniture car air defense tank are two different turret things, so, taking into account the ground attack, Zhang Shixin chose the Dongfeng with a higher cost instead of the furniture car.
In a combat state, it is impossible for the furniture car to attack the ground, because the warhead baffle completely conceals the depression angle.
However, Zhang Shixin's Dongfeng anti-aircraft tank used not the original 37mm-FLAK43-L89 anti-aircraft gun, but a modified 37mm-FLAK46(N)-L110 anti-aircraft gun.
The biggest advantage of this anti-aircraft gun is not a more accurate hit rate, nor a faster shell speed, nor the ability to use new types of shells.
Its biggest advantage is that it uses an artillery chain to feed ammunition, each Dongfeng anti-aircraft tank is equipped with seven magazines of 10 rounds, and the 1-second automatic gun tube reloading ensures the rate of fire of this 37mm-FLAK46(N)-L110 anti-aircraft gun.
This was also due to the horizontal firing angles of this anti-aircraft gun, which depended mainly on the turret and not on the rotation of the gun body. That's why there will be such improvements.
So Zhang Shixin knows very well that this thing is an air defense weapon. For low-flying things, whether it's a helicopter or a harpy, it's hard to escape the nightmarish barrage of attacks.
Of course, this gun is not without its shortcomings, that is, it takes a long time to replace the magazine.
However, compared with the original 37mm-FLAK43-L89 anti-aircraft gun, the surname of the new anti-aircraft gun can be improved overall.
Zhang Shixin had no choice but to let the car crew shoot in stages to maintain the fire network, and he would not choose the original anti-aircraft gun.
Most of the anti-aircraft guns are magazine guns, but Zhang Shixin found that the largest anti-aircraft guns are now mounted on the rat chassis 150mm-flak48(N)-L75, but the actual effect of this thing is still to play shrapnel killing.
Unlike high-explosive shells, anti-aircraft artillery shells use more timing fuses than trigger fuses, so the blasting effect of anti-aircraft guns looks huge in the air, in fact, the explosion effect should be similar to that of high-explosive shells of the same caliber.
As for the 37mm shells, if they didn't directly hit the flying Harpies, it was estimated that the killing effect would not be very good.
But the problem is that Zhang Shixin only has Dongfeng air defense tanks to use now. Let's just order it.
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A few minutes later, Zhang Shixin saw an area of about a kilometer ahead on the tactical map, showing large areas of various purple markings.
Some of them are diamond-shaped symbols with wings in the middle.
This means that it refers to small zombies that can fly.
The two bars of the Zombie Centaur also appear on the tactical map, meaning that they refer to medium-sized zombies.
The overall movement speed of these zombies was not very fast, and Zhang Shixin actually wished that those harpy banshees and zombie centaurs could break away from the large group of zombie troops, so that he could calmly concentrate his firepower to deal with it.
However, after experiencing the last battle, Zhang Shixin knew that although his idea was very beautiful, well, there was no such possibility.
The other party is obviously smarter than ordinary zombies. Therefore, Zhang Shixin knew that it was difficult for him to achieve his wish in this regard.
"Bang ......"
The first to attack was not the troops of the first front, but the Su-152 assault guns loaded with high-explosive shells.
One by one, the shells fell into the zombie group of more than 600 meters, Zhang Shixin found that the zombies with a radius of about seven meters of the shells were overturned by the strong explosive kinetic energy, but in addition to the zombies in front of the landing point, a certain number of columns were destroyed by the strong explosive kinetic energy, and most of the zombies in the back got up again.
"......" Zhang Shixin did not let other troops also attack, because even the 152mm shells became like this to the zombies, well, other high-explosive shells with smaller calibers were also hopeless.
The air flow in the dungeon is much better than that of the underground railway network, and the flamethrowers that Zhang Shixin relies on the most can play their due role without restrictions.
Zhang Shixin also learned the lesson of the last time and hid the flamethrowers behind armored vehicles or tanks to avoid accidents as much as possible.
It's just that he expects the flamethrowers to have no casualties, and he also knows that it is unrealistic, after all, in this case, Zhang Shixin's scattered armored force cannot completely suppress the opponent's zombie centaur troops, and he is arranging it in this way, so he expects that the troops will have certain casualties.
The zombies passed a distance of two hundred meters, which was enough for the Su-152 to fire five rounds of shells. However, for a large number of zombies, the damage of high-explosive shells that are not very effective can also eliminate a considerable number of zombies to a limited extent.
After all, compared with Zhang Shixin's self-propelled artillery system, the Su-152 is not an orthodox self-propelled gun after all, and it cannot be compared with the former in terms of quantity, Zhang Shixin did not expect that the Su-152 alone would be able to withstand the assault of the zombie group.
Therefore, after a distance of 300 meters, Zhang Shixin's troops began a full-scale counterattack.
The mission of the King Tiger and Cheetah Tank Destroyers is to concentrate their firepower on the zombie centaurs with long-range recoilless guns.
Other troops are attacking the zombie hordes indiscriminately.
Because the zombie centaur troops here were far more numerous than the last time they were encountered, Zhang Shixin, who did not concentrate his forces, found that he could not hold so many numbers, many machine gunners suffered casualties, and a small number of armored vehicles were destroyed.
However, even if these shells landed on the front of the T-44's hull, they would not be able to damage the T-44 unless the weak point of the turret happened to be hit by the opponent, causing some casualties. Zhang Shixin knew that these zombie centaurs were still defending strong and attacking weak as always.
When those harpy banshees really appeared in front of Zhang Shixin's eyes, Zhang Shixin almost didn't throw it out, it was too ugly, the harpy banshee in Hero Invincible was much better looking than this kind of ghostly thing.
But Zhang Shixin still let the Dongfeng air defense tank shoot at these ugly and damn things.
There aren't too many Harpys, but the 12.7mm bullets of the M2 heavy machine gun hit the opponent's body and had no effect at all, except for adding blood holes to the opponent.
At the same time, because the Harpy has a good flexible surname, the bullets of the M2 heavy machine gun cannot hit the opponent's head at all.
Although some of the Harpys were killed by the M2 heavy machine gun, even Zhang Shixin strafed the next Harpy.
However, compared to the same hit rate, it is not very good, but as long as it hits the upper part of the opponent's body, it often only takes one 37mm shell to solve the problem.
The Dongfeng air defense tank has the greatest credit in this regard, because with the advantage of the rate of fire and the terrain factor, although the 37mm anti-aircraft gun cannot be said to be accurate in one hit, but two to three shells can solve a harpy, and the problem is still not big.
So, the not too many Harpies were quickly cleaned up.
The battle was also over in ten minutes.
"That's it?" Zhang Shixin was puzzled by such a situation, he didn't expect this skirmish to end so easily.
But Sinia's voice sounded in Zhang Shixin's mind: "Maybe this is just an appetizer." None of the main dishes have been put on the table yet. ”
Zhang Shixin was stunned when he heard this, but quickly nodded with relief.
Because, if that's all there is, it's impossible.
Zhang Shixin knew that the level of this task was S-level. Therefore, after the other two troops also ended the fighting, he quickly replenished his troops and ran out of ammunition.
At the same time, he gritted his teeth and again bought a squad of Dongfeng air defense tanks to strengthen his air defense.
The team set off again after regrouping.
However, what Zhang Shixin didn't know was that the troops he left in the cemetery were in trouble.
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"Do you want to inform the boss about this?" After several commanders looked at each other, one of them said to Firay in an inquiring tone.
"Now inform the boss, the boss can't come back in time, he has reserved most of the troops, just because he is afraid of such a situation. I have to say that in terms of tactical expectations, the boss's ability is much better than ours. Firay looked at the direction of the gate of the cemetery, and several A-20 light tanks were speeding towards him.
In the cemetery, all the soldiers were busy digging trenches and building temporary defensive lines.
And the cathedral where they are located is clearly the focus of the points.
Most of the weapons left behind by Zhang Shixin were distributed to each soldier.
Of these, a considerable number of G43 semi-automatic sniper rifles were assigned to the soldiers who were placed at the cathedral elevation and given sufficient ammunition.
The difference between Firay and Zhang Shixin is that he attaches more importance to the sniper's precision strike ability than to rely on the fire suppression of machine guns.
Moreover, in this open terrain, the sniper is able to fight zombies more effectively, which is also one aspect.
At the same time, with Zhang Shixin, he focused on the defense of dense formations, and Fei Lei arranged the entire mausoleum area into an area that could carry out effective crossfire.
Of course, he knew that Zhang Shixin's way was more effective, but he couldn't copy Zhang Shixin's combat method in such a situation.
is not only a problem of insufficient manpower, but to defend such a huge cemetery park, it is estimated that even with the troops brought into the underground passage by Zhang Shixin, it is far from enough.
What's more, they stay here, and more importantly, they must ensure Zhang Shixin's retreat.
What's more, he received news that a large number of zombie groups were approaching in almost all areas. This is a very severe test for Fei Lei and others.
Therefore, they adopt this kind of scattered defense camp to defend the mausoleum park, more to gain a certain amount of time.
The area on the outskirts of the cemetery was completely abandoned, and Firay relied on some buildings and the area of the cemetery of the successive kings of the Grunshire Empire as a defensive fulcrum, arranging small defensive lines.
At the same time, in order to ensure the combat efficiency and defensive strength of these defensive fulcrums, most tanks and combat vehicles are also split into each defensive point.
The remaining tanks and combat vehicles surround the outer strip of the cathedral, serving as a perimeter defense line for the cathedral in the core area.
The combat efficiency of the sniper is the key to this defense network.
In terms of the armament of the other squads, each squad had only one machine gun and one flamethrower, because in such a situation, a larger number of machine guns would not be effective enough.
If there are a large number of machine guns in the defensive positions behind, it is easy to accidentally damage friendly troops.
Therefore, Firay's arrangement is just an inevitable choice because of the adoption of different tactics.
Fei Lei, who was watching the busy phenomenon in the mausoleum park, what he didn't know was that Zhang Shixin didn't hate snipers, nor did he not know the role of snipers.
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However, the reason why Zhang Shixin did not deploy sniper weapons on a large scale was because of the weapon.
Zhang Shixin now has a lot of weapons on hand, but either the rate of fire is too fast, or it is a bolt rifle, or it is a heavy thing to die, and in general, there is only one G43 semi-automatic rifle like his eyes.
Zhang Shixin knew that the colonel-level military rank was one of these weapons, and when Zhang Shixin reached the rank of major general and unlocked some weapons at the post-war level, Zhang Shixin didn't mind using a fal assault rifle as a sniper rifle.
Of course, the MG-34 will also be replaced with the M60 general-purpose machine gun, the standard weapon will be the AK47 assault rifle, and in terms of pistols, upgrading the M1911 to the M1911A1 will meet the needs.
In order to save money, Zhang Shixin once asked Sinia why the AK47 was not an upgraded version of the Steyr 44 assault rifle......
As a result, he was despised by the other party.
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On the way forward for Zhang Shixin, he suddenly thought that the things he had encountered just now were not enough to make those light tanks flee.
It's just that he found out the reason why the other party fled in the wilderness -
Because, in front of him is an underground residential area with dense zombies roaming and a complex environment.
"......" Zhang Shixin looked at this situation and could only raise his middle finger towards the residential area......
ps: There will be more changes tomorrow, and the number of words is guaranteed.
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