Chapter 49: Natural and Man-made Disasters Section 1

The drastic change in the climate is a new test for human beings in the apocalypse, especially the masses in the south, under this cold weather where there are no birds in the sky and animals are scarce underground, there is snow everywhere, and there are zombies coveting your flesh and blood on the outside of the crowd, and inside, the companions you used to rely on have become exhausted due to the lack of food, and even began to kill each other!

Snowflakes are flying in the south, and a large area of the zombie siege is already full of starvation, and those who survive are trapped in a cycle of cannibalism, and there is no hope, only despair for the future! But in the northern realms, the human army is still desperately planning to save their brothers and sisters in distress.

On a high post called Chuantou Town, fifteen miles past Baimapo, an observation group composed of a small group of officers was patrolling, and judging from the clothing, it was clear at a glance that the essence of the R County Restoration Army was located.

"Strategist, look at it, the speed of this big turtle is not slow, the big leader has been out for almost a week, and the big turtle has actually excavated more than forty miles, according to this progress, it only takes another twelve days or so, and the road to LZ is completely opened!" Riding tall horses all the way, a group of officers under the strict protection of the escort team can be regarded as seeing the great achievements of His Royal Highness Longzi! Wei Zhongshu's most ugly face for many days finally had a sunny moment, even if it was snowing with goose feathers, he also pointed to the national highway line exposed by the large piece of dirt dug up by the giant turtle in front of him, although the sky was not beautiful, and the snowflakes that fell covered the road again, but it could always be seen that the shallow snow line was concave to represent the part of the road.

"yes, I've finally solved a big problem, who is that? Who reminded us to use dragons to do this project? Yan Wanshan also smiled and groaned, he deliberately raised his voice, and all of a sudden, a large group of staff officers aimed their smiling faces at Zhang Bing, who was huddled in the crowd.

All of a sudden, he paid attention to this little fat man so much that he blushed like the sun who had just taken three strokes!

Wearing thick tortoiseshell shell-style glasses, he scratched the back of his head embarrassedly: "I just borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, remembering that the big turtle has been hiding in the nest to eat and drink, and does not do big work...... It's a loss to raise this living treasure, so it's better to let it resist the big life.... We did not treat him badly, and served him with good wine and food. Otherwise, it will sleep in the nest all day long, and it is hard to say that it has a cold and cold.... Hey. The explanation made all the people present laugh.

"That's right, this person likes to cause trouble when he's free." Wei Zhongshu was also in a good mood, and as he spoke, he deliberately raised his eyebrows and secretly looked at the expressions of his subordinates, and before he could say it clearly, the staff here was a human spirit, starting with Yan Wanshan, everyone laughed happily. There is no other reason, naturally it is the idle soldiers in the county.

The Hanjia camp, the Miao family camp, and a foreign army with ill intentions are already a three-legged trend, no matter which side sits big, it is very unfavorable to the harmonious development of the entire R County Restoration Army!

What happened before can be ignored in the past, but in the current state, as the succession of the prince is basically laid, some unexpected and most terrible things are coming one after another, first of all, the second sister-in-law - Li Juan, who is the real sister-in-law in the eyes of Shaomin, actually has a happy pulse, then, as a pivotal bargaining chip, Shaomin will naturally not let go of this opportunity to turn the tables! The second son competes for the heir, and it is not new in the successive dynasties of the Celestial Empire! According to the information sent by the night wolf recently, it has repeatedly shown one thing, the restless young people have made some moves, but the purpose is not very clear. The only thing that is certain is that the fight for children's education rights has made the minority ethnic group lose face, and the balance between the three forces, which was originally like still water, has been quietly broken, and the smell of gunpowder between them has become stronger and stronger. The solution is not for nothing -- led by a few representatives of the young people, the military sent personnel to organize and use the huge gymnasium in the county to hold the first military sports competition of the R County Restoration Army!

Aren't you all angry and have no place to spew? Okay, brisk your belly, take your stride and come to the arena, horse racing, running, shot put, long jump these traditional sports competitions are enough to stimulate your hormones to the fullest, what? Not enough to enjoy? Sanda, wrestling, and freestyle fighting are all for you – and you'll have to bring protective gear, of course. Isn't that enough to satisfy you, enough to make you shed the last drop of sweat in the hoarse screams? It doesn't matter! And Fred's suggestion: "Judo and fencing are the most competitive sports!" And it's also the main sport of the Olympic Games! "Yes, you shirtless, sweaty, simple-minded and well-limbed military men are holding back a wave of evil fire and are trying to beat people, right? Let you fight! If you don't hit a dog's brain, it's not a stop!

With Zhang Jiaming's approval, Wei Zhongshu's acquiescence, Yan Wanshan provoked it, and a cadre of generals and minions actively cooperated, even if the Shaomin forces and the priest forces knew what medicine they were selling in their gourds, they were powerless to stop half a point.

R County is happy now, the ordinary people who live on basic food distribution every day are so boring that their mouths are about to fade out, and suddenly there is a prosperous competition for recreation, so why not hurry up and give full play to the attributes of the masses who eat melons without knowing the truth, and go to join in the fun?

The contest will be held for two weeks and will be open to everyone, except those in important positions!

However, the civilians were very considerate and chose not to participate in this kind of bloody brawl - it was really a game of life.

Sure enough, on the first day of the Sanda competition, the young people were all short and stout men, and their representative was a skinny old man! Don't underestimate the old man, a one-meter-eighty-nine big man in the Han family camp was beaten into a panda eye by the old man because he was a light enemy! If it weren't for the fact that there were many people, plus the rules of the game were wheel battles! In terms of individual strength, the Hanjia camp really doesn't take advantage of any small advantages, and after a few rounds, all of them are covered in scars before all the members of the Shaomin camp on the opposite side are exhausted! As a result, eleven contestants were beaten with cerebral hemorrhages! Twenty-five team members have broken bones, and as for the desilting of scars and teeth, it is impossible to count them one by one!

The next day was even more tense and exciting, the fencing project took away everyone's eyes, it was really desperate to win the championship, the sword and the sword saw the blood, the knife skills of the Miao knife master are sharp and quintessential, with the steady body of the young people, often able to kill the opponent is screaming again and again, and the saber master educated by Fred is also not too much, the modern saber knife is refined and streamlined, focusing on actual combat, plus no less than three hours of immediate stake cutting practice every day, these selected seed players in the field let the young people members are suffering! Both sides are young and vigorous, with a blood surge, plus the past are all kinds of unsatisfactory to each other, to the field, everyone finally has an excuse to kill the Quartet, why not take this opportunity to beat each other a round, kill each other's sharpness? Come on, brother, let's have a good fight.

I saw the shouting on the field: "You Nanban mud legs eat Lao Tzu's horseshoe ashes!" The evil response over there: "The shameless man who relied on a four-legged brute to deceive the exploits of the war has to be a ball!" ”

"Who are you scolding as a villain from a donkey's shadow puppet?"

"Whoever accostes will scold whom!"

"Do you have to try again?"

"Ten more times, you dare to scold!"

Anyway, what do you see? Just look at you and the scolding will be heard before the game starts! In the end, after the end of the day's competition, nearly 100 players were all popular! More than 30 other players will not be able to participate in the next semi-final!

The slight loss did not move the high-level of R County at all, compared to the loss on the battlefield, this little thing is simply pediatric! What is the R County Restoration Army fighting? It's just a blood spirit, if you don't have that guts, don't want to marry a wife and eat rice and white flour buns! Anyway, the adult males in the settlement grab a handful, so that ordinary people can see blood, so as to stimulate their self-motivation.

On the eleventh day, the equestrian event overshadowed all previous competitions! This time, it was a civil war between the mixed brigades of the cavalry, and the forces of the old cavalry regiment led by Fred and the new forces of Batur began a fierce competition. In just two hours in the morning, Fred's equestrian brigade made nine competitors on the opposite side almost break their necks with their superb technique! In the afternoon game, he broke the ribs of the thirteen poor cavalrymen on the opposite side with the wooden knives and short guns in his hands, and threw them on the ground to gnaw on! Now Zile is very angry, the two chiefs originally had a kind of great hatred that did not share the sky, speaking of which it was a hatred of two places a day, a feud of three rivers and four seas, and a pair of old enemies who were incompatible! The two sides stared at each other on the field separated by a guardrail, gritting their teeth and not speaking, and their faces were full of class hatred and national hatred - you dare to hurt my brother? Stinky boy, you don't want to mix it up, right, if it weren't for the fairly solid fence between the two rivals, if they really let them go, it is estimated that they can do it with each other, and they can eat each other alive without getting oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

The angry and dangerous staring at the family didn't last long, and the mouth began to scream, and it was all new and old hatred welling up in my heart.

"Okay, you savage barbarian who jumped out of the dead Horqin grassland, you actually dare to break ground in front of Tai Sui! You don't pee like you pick up the rags! Fred wanted to bite a sharp tooth, and with a black face, he put on a protective suit, held a spear in his right hand, and slipped on a shield in his left hand, and quietly stepped out on his horse! If you don't have that majesty on your lips, Lao Tzu's credit is not a few points less than that of you, the brigade commander! When it comes to playing with blades and pistols, my surname Ba has never been afraid of others! Here, Batur had already blushed, regardless of the referee's dissuasion, he even drank three bowls of rice wine, without even rubbing his mouth, spraying the smell of wine, he also followed his solid ash pole spear, a beautiful sideways straddle horse action, clamped the horse's body, and rushed out of the arena with a whip. Both of them are masters of equestrianism in the army, this time, the meeting on the field was originally what everyone was looking forward to, including the main one, who was also an enemy who looked very red-eyed, basically there was no need for extra agitation, the big guys were wide-eyed, ready to watch this showdown of the century carefully!

Many daring people even opened the game in the audience in the outfield: "Optimistic, good, good, Grand Brigadier Fred against Cavalry Commander Batur, and now the handicap has come out: Brigadier Fei won 1 to 5, Batur won 1 to 3, and the draw was 1 to 10!" Come buy it, buy it! If you don't buy it, it's too late! ”

"Look, Captain Batur is majestic, magnificent, worthy of being a good man of the grassland, you weigh the spear in his hand again, that thing is a strength job to wield, you see, Captain Batur's spear is twice as heavy as the ordinary one, his old man dances without being angry, he is born with a champion appearance, what are you waiting for? If you want to buy it, hurry up! ”

"Look at the brigade commander Fred who appeared in the back, what is the iron body, and then look at his height, how do we say the old Chinese saying? That's a nine-headed body, and the brigade commander in front of you is it. Red rabbit among horses, red among people! Have you heard of it? The brigade won the championship at the hometown horse racing festival that year! The people who were defeated by him alone would not be able to count them with a hundred hands borrowed from you! ”

The gambling game is worthy of being a professional fool master, divided into several ways of people and horses, spitting stars splashing around in the audience seats, and lobbying gamblers to join in the crowd of excited people with a loud voice. Maybe someone wants to ask, the big guys are a bunch of poor ghosts haha, in addition to this dress and this well-conditioned piece of meat, what gambling money can be bet on? Where you are too young, too simple Tucson is broken, grain, candy, cigarettes, condoms! Yes, that's right, condoms! All the supplies you want and the bits and pieces you have on hand to eat and use are the best bet items, although the settlement is a ration system, but there is no objection to the residents privately exchanging the surplus materials in their hands, and even acquiescing to the existence of the underground black market. This time, I finally have fun for everyone to enjoy, so why not try your luck with him?

So exciting, more exciting than the Colosseum in ancient Rome, but also to stimulate the bloodthirsty instinct of human beings, how can the event not get the crowd excited? In the spectator seats around the arena, as the "athletes" - in fact, a herd of bloodthirsty bulls engaged in bloody battles in the middle of the arena, cheers like a flash flood and tsunami - you can finally see your usual bullish and high-flying soldiers beaten to the head!

The words were divided into two ends, and the inspection team looked at the development of various road sections on the hill, and it was also noon time, so they simply did not rush back, and set up a dragon gate array in a relatively complete small building in Chuantou Town, and the group began to have a dinner party with cups and lamps.

Although it is the heavy snow of the New Year, a thick layer of ice is frozen between the heaven and the earth, but the vegetables are also easy to get, although the nearby fish pond is frozen, it is difficult to get the local soldiers of the hometown, with a few explosives to easily break the ice and take fish, plus a few soldiers with good water quality volunteered, one by one coated with animal fat to go to the lake to catch fish, and after a while, they got dozens of catties of high-quality fish for the staff, plus the vegetables provided by the nearby vegetable fields at their fingertips, this is not, just hot pot, and sauerkraut brought from the settlement, I picked up a few large pots of salivating sauerkraut and fish head for a feast.

After all, after the New Year, except for the last celebration, it is rare for the big guys to get together for a meal, get close, and the relationship between Lala is good. This time, it's good, then the inspection, it's good to organize a working meal, the wine is over three rounds is the five flavors of the dish, and the group is slightly drunk.

"The big leader sent a message from the front, saying that our troops have firmly established their footing, and relying on the satellite positioning system, it can be determined that our forward base will be very solid." Then the wine was strong, and the big guy simply started an impromptu meeting, Wei Zhongshu unfolded a map, held a long pole, and began to point.

"You see, choosing this location is very conducive to our large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle." The place pointed out is naturally the huge plain area of Fengshan Town, "The geographical location here is unique, the north is the river with R County, and it is three good tributaries, and the south is a large plain, as long as we transform it a little..."Lao Wei paused deliberately, and the staff officers all showed knowing smiles. "The terrain of Jigong Mountain is dangerous, as long as we build it carefully, we can build an advance base here that can accommodate tens of thousands of troops!" Lao Wei's face was solemn, and there was obviously a lot to explain.

"You see, Jigong Mountain is facing Fengshan Town, here, here, and here." Wei Zhongshu pointed out a few locations in one breath, "It is very suitable for setting up our artillery positions, as long as we completely control the line along the river, so that the zombie group is attracted by the main force in the area near the river in Fengshan Town, then, we can attack, retreat and defend, even if the zombies sacrifice the feat of filling the river and crossing the river, we can also use the mountains, rivers, and ....." Old Wei stopped the conversation at the right time, and looked at the big guy with blazing eyes.

Judging from the map, Fengshan Town will become the first checkpoint to resist the tide of zombies, but in fact, according to the tactics of the R County Restoration Army, thousands of deep ravines and ravines will definitely be created on the vast plain in front of Fengshan Town to let the zombies play the game of meat. Secondly, once the battle is approached, the fortifications constructed in Fengshan Town will be supported by the fire of the "gunboats" along the river, as well as the dense artillery blows of Jigong Mountain behind them, and they will hold on to the moment before the collapse, and strive to nail the tide of zombies in front of Fengshan Town, of course, this is just an ideal plan, after all, LZ's zombie group is not easy to mess with according to the current estimates, according to the information sent by the Seraphic Company - the photo budget taken back by satellites, where has gathered more than 10 million zombies!

Of course, there is a small episode here, Daddy Qin heard the news about the total strength of the zombies, and he almost jumped up in a hurry to stop the big guy from sending troops to attack LZ!

The old man is the old man, and compared with a group of fanatical militarists, it shows the posture of the old man seeking the country: "Attacking an enemy tens of thousands of times larger than ourselves is already beyond the limits of our ability. Regardless of whether the war is going well or not, let's just say that the amount of materials required for this war is a huge amount! Even if we win, once a villain gets in the way, how can our tired army after the labor expedition deal with the surprise attack that is likely to come after killing the zombie group? The words made the originally ambitious generals fall into contemplation.

Even Mr. Priest, who originally had a gap with Father Qin, also looked a little bit of agreement.

For a time, the General Staff, the young generals, and Minister Zeng Jianguo, who represented the civil affairs department, and others were all caught in a huge controversy. ”。

The young generals of the Young Zhuang faction are not radicals? One by one, they rolled their arms and sleeves, shy and cheeky with the same hue as the monkey's buttocks, stepped on the bench with one foot, and here they made a desperate posture of "Lao Tzu lost the big deal and took his life", and here he roared hoarsely with his thick neck! It seems that the first difficulty today is the General Staff Department, if you don't defeat these pesky mosquitoes who hinder your own meritorious service in the war, your hope of becoming an official and a knight will be completely ruined!

The conservatives who hold different opinions and obviously support Daddy are also not to be outdone: "It's easy to fight the country and it's hard to defend the country, and now it's not easy for R County to take a breath, but it's not easy for the people." "There are even people who have moved out of the previous secret meeting between Chief of Staff Zhang Bing and Chief of Staff Cao Zhigao: directly announce the current weak logistics in R County to the public! Especially the big fat man Zeng Chang taught, rarely, he stood up, first waved everyone to stop, and then raised his voice, and shouted: "If you use your method, then we demand the mobilization of every rear force that can be mobilized, including women, children, and the elderly, and naturally there are also your relatives and your wives!" "Don't you say it, this fierce medicine is really timely, all of a sudden, it's like throwing a red soldering iron into the icy snow water, and the fanatics over there are all dumbfounded-this cold and snowy weather, let your mother-in-law be responsible for carrying the ammunition box in the ice and snow? That family's wife doesn't carry a belly?

Quarreling and arguing, when everyone spit on the stars dried up, their tongues were white, and it was almost time for the flag to die down, Wei Zhongshu, who had been laughing and groaning, and Yan Wanshan, who was silent, exchanged colors with each other, and then sneered, and said leisurely: "Retaking LZ City is the general policy set by the big leader..."

"Cough, cough, cough, cough..." A series of coughing voices fully expressed the embarrassment of a group of rightists who were still indignant and thought they had a plan just now!

At the same time, the militants were all overjoyed, squeezing each other's eyebrows, and their smug expressions were unhesitatingly overflowing on their faces--hey, see, these rightist turtle grandsons dare to contradict the instructions of the supreme leader? It's not alive and crooked, is it? If we secretly participate in such a book with the big chief, oh .......ho These martial artists who fell into a state of obscenity are now perfectly portraying the four words of villain Dezhi on their faces!

It is imperative to recapture LZ County! This was the consensus of the staff officers attending the meeting, although there were still many bumps and bumps in the past.

"Old Wei, I recently got the information, saying that the big leader had captured a large herd of cattle over there, estimated to be more than 10,000 heads. It's a happy event. Yan Wanshan unfolded the map and pointed to it.

"Also, the terrain of Jigong Mountain is dangerous, but it is very inconvenient to supply and transport materials, if we use this as a former base, send a large number of soldiers, plus the local people, there are thousands of people, we can overcome the heavy snow, but in the spring season after the snow, the spring snow melts, the ground is muddy, have you ever thought about the logistics problem between the mountains?" Yan Wanshan shook his head, he didn't drink much, and his mind was the most sober among the big guys: "This is a list of supplies sent by the big leader.... Let's take a look first. ”

Wei Zhongshu and the staff officers looked at the words on it and made it difficult, not that everyone was illiterate and couldn't recognize this rare word, but that the words on it were so few that they couldn't be said! Just one, salt!

In ancient times, the reason for the surrender of the trapped side was not because of lack of water and food, but because of a fatal material problem, that is, salt! Without salt, even if the soldiers are full, they can't handle guns, draw bows, or wield knives, and soldiers in a state of salt shortage will be even more unable to talk about the work of fighting the enemy to the death, which is a truth that three-year-old children know!

It is no wonder that Lao Wei and his staff officers looked stunned one by one, and now that the road is impassable, it is not ordinarily difficult to immediately send salt to a settlement of thousands of people who are short of salt. Perhaps a good man will say, "Send out the cavalry!" "The snow is covering the mountain, and the snow on the ground has reached more than one person's height, not to mention the slippery road, just the problem of frostbite on the road can make you give up this idea immediately. Some people also say that the waterway can transport large loads? Well, the problem of the blockage of the waterway caused by the great flood made the face of Deputy Division Commander Wei, who was sitting there immovable, gloomy, and after a meaningful and cold enough gaze, it directly made the person who gave the opinion shrink his glans, and honestly sat there silent. The problem of waterway development is also slowly rising, and a lot of people have been found along the way, which is only a lot more than the refugees in Jigong Mountain. Of course, the idea of "genius" is not without it: "Don't we have airplanes!" Let the dead ghosts over there help with the luck! "It's a pity, unprecedentedly unprecedentedly, the big guys all glared at the person who proposed the airlift like idiots, and then looked at the goose feathers and snow outside in a daze.

A "salt" stumps a hero! It's cold weather again, it's a super snow rarely seen in the south in a hundred years, and the leader just sent you an urgent express delivery task of hundreds of kilometers at this time, which completely suppressed the originally jubilant atmosphere. Thousands of lives are in front of him, and the situation is precarious! The staff officers frowned bitterly, and their expressions were depressed, just like the courier brother who was preparing to go home from work on Chinese New Year's Eve to make dumplings and suddenly heard the notice of "Spring Festival overtime".

"There will always be a way, everyone don't be impatient." It was the words of the military master that calmed everyone down again. "The cold climate will not last forever, we will face nothing more than a heavy snowfall, as soon as the sky clears, our goat cavalry regiment will be on the road immediately to transport the first batch of salt from the mountains."

"I'm afraid it's not appropriate, this local goat, on the snowy mountains may not be able to walk on the ground, I think, it's better to use the method of air transportation." Wei Zhongshu pondered for a long time, and randomly ordered the staff officer next to him: "You immediately draft, let the foreign instructors of the Yunlong Aviation Brigade be ready at any time, once the weather is clear, immediately carry enough salt to the front line, and at the same time, you must also do a good job of contacting the front-line cavalry battalion and let them arrange to be ready to respond." Lao Wei steadied his mind and looked at the map for a while: "You see, there are still many villages and towns here, why can't you think of self-.....?"

A staff officer next to him reacted quickly: "Division commander, flood ....."

Old Wei's face automatically turned sunny and cloudy.

"We can only rely on the power of the air force." With a sigh, this brief meeting was over. Suddenly, Yan Wanshan slapped his head as if he remembered something. "When the big turtle was digging forward, our cavalry team also began to reconnoiter the terrain near LZ in the snow one after another, and in the place near the three miles of LC County, those young men made a major discovery... However, it's hard to say.... I don't know if it's true or not..."It's rare, and in everyone's minds, it's always a rare hesitation for a military advisor like Zhiduoxing.

"Is there a major gain?" Lao Wei handed over a cup of tea, and his tone was very cautious.

"I can't say yes, but it's very important, this matter is too troublesome, the scope is too wide, and it is really very, very tricky, alas, it is too difficult to say clearly in one sentence!" After half a day, our military division was like a master who played Tai Chi, where he held a shelf for half a day, so that a group of officials were about to doze off and flow, but they didn't use a single and a half moves. I was stunned to let a group of staff officers who didn't know what was going on scratch their ears and cheeks one by one, and they couldn't figure out what kind of dog skin plaster the military advisor was selling there!

Even Lao Wei looked impatient, maybe with a little wine, Wei Zhongshu slapped the table: "Brother, you are not authentic like this, you are okay, everyone is in trouble.... That Tongdang..... Blessed..."The deputy division commander, who was so excited that his mouth and tongue were fighting, his face was flushed, his eyes were red, and he didn't look like a seven-trick smoke, so he just pounced on it and bit someone!

"A team of scouting soldiers has found a deranged survivor in a dilapidated village!" Yan Wanshan spat out the matter in one breath, and after speaking, he looked at the big guy with a calm face, as if he was waiting for everyone's reaction.

However, before everyone crooked their faces and pursed their lips, they said in unison: "Cut, aren't you another madman!" There is already a Zhu Maniac Zhu Tuan Deputy in our settlement, isn't this just the right thing, just make a pair! ”

Even when Wei Zhongshu almost wanted to laugh, Yan Wanshan put on an extremely serious expression, compared to the cold air outside, all the staff officers were stopped by the military master's stunt of "changing faces"!

Word by word, Yan Wanshan's tone was as hard as the stones that had been frozen outside for a night: "According to the information sent back by the soldier concerned, and the certification provided by the eldest sister-in-law, we can confirm that the rescued survivor, a crazy old man, is most likely the biological father of the big leader!!!!!!!! ”

With a bang, we faced the army of millions of zombies, and Deputy Division Commander Wei, who had not been soft enough to pull his feet, actually fell down with a pale face clutching his chest, and before the big guy went up to help him, this old boy stood up with a carp, and pointed at Yan Wanshan and yelled: "What the fuck are you kidding!! After speaking, Wei Zhongshu fainted again.