Chapter 218: The Trench

The October day was unbearable hot, and it reached its peak in the afternoon, without even a hint of wind.

In the wide area outside the West End, the sand and gravel are scorched hot by the sun, giving off a suffocating heat wave. Working in this environment is definitely the hardest moment, especially when there is no quiet rumbling explosion in the ears, and it is even more irritating.

Zou Chengcheng is forty years old, definitely one of the oldest soldiers in the wasteland settlement, and his long years of training have made him dark-skinned and powerful. He shoveled up a stone and piled it up on the edge of the trench, not forgetting to take a puff of cigarette and exhale a cloud of smoke. It's just this action that makes him cough dryly, and his throat that cracks and fires is tossed by the smoke, and in the cough, it becomes hot and painful.

A clever young soldier next to him immediately untied the kettle from his waist, handed it to Zou Chengcheng, and said, "Wrinkled team, hurry, drink saliva." ”

Zou Chengcheng took it, and after pouring it a few times, he returned the kettle to the soldier, patted the other party's shoulder, and said, "Xiao Gao, yes, clever enough." He wiped the water trails on his neck, looked at the entire dusty fortification area, and scolded: "This kind of ghost weather just makes people unsafe." ”

The soldier, known as Xiao Gao, pinned the kettle, patted the sand on the edge of the trench with a sapper shovel, and said dissatisfiedly: "I don't know what the boss thinks, why do you let us stay here and repair this useless fortification?" I think it's a battle to rush directly into the city and fight the zombies. ”

Xiao Gao seemed to think of something, pointed to the fighter planes like small black dots in the sky above the city, and the giant airship, and said: "They are cool, they can fight freely, alas, looking at their appearance, it should be easier to get a battle medal." He touched his chest and said, "Like our ground troops, it's miserable, and we haven't even caught a single piece of zombie hair until now, when will we get a medal?" ”

Facing Xiao Gao's complaints, Zou Chengcheng just laughed vigorously, and then said seriously: "Xiao Gao, remember our identity, we have no right to question the orders above, we just need to obey and obey." Besides, do you really think it's useless for us to build these fortifications here? So you are wrong, and I am very responsible to tell you that these fortifications will be able to guarantee our safety. ”

Zou Chengcheng said: "You don't need to envy those pilots, hehe, they have no way to experience the fun of fighting." What's more, when it comes to getting medals, the generals you see in that country who have won the most medals are not the army? Kodaka, I want to get a medal. It's not difficult, perform well, do what you can get, and I'll help you apply when the time comes. ”

Hearing Team Zou's words, Xiao Gao was also happy, and worked hard to shovel up a shovel of sand.

In the city, the fighter planes continued to perform, but the target of their bombing was only the big main road, and in some small streets and alleys, the surging zombies began to rush out of the streets out of control, cross the ring road, and appear in front of the soldiers.

Zou Chengcheng's team was located relatively close to the city, so when he saw the zombies pouring out, he threw away the sapper shovel as soon as possible, put the gun he was carrying in his hand, and shouted: "Soldiers of the 107th formation, enter the combat state!" ”

The 107th formation, which is the number of Zou Chengcheng's team, has a total of 150 people, and is not divided into squads, platoons, and companies, but subdivides 60,000 soldiers into formations, and sets up the positions of chief and deputy captains, as well as formation squad leaders. Now hearing Zou Chengcheng's roar, the soldiers of the entire 107 formation quickly threw away the sapper shovel, and lay on the trench with their guns, aiming at the zombies gushing out.

Zou Chengcheng carried a gun and walked behind the soldiers who were lying down, kicking the soldiers who were not in the right posture from time to time to correct their posture.

And in the distance, for the reason of the segmented defense, the men of the 106th and 108th formations did not pay attention to the actions of the 107th formation, and were still building their fortifications.

The few trenches that had been built a long time ago were not deep, only about half a meter, and they were not very strong, just a small trench that was dug out quickly. Each of these trenches was about ten meters apart, and they appeared in this wasteland in an unaesthetically unappetizing twisted and crooked manner.

Zou Chengcheng walked behind Xiao Gao and said lightly: "Didn't you just say that these trenches have no effect?" Look at it, and you will know in a moment how useful these trenches are. He let out a sneer as he stared at the zombies that poured out and spotted the human soldiers.

Dealing with zombies is not an ambush war, let alone being afraid of startling snakes or something, so Zou Chengcheng visually measured the distance, a distance of 200 meters, and a soldier with accurate marksmanship can already hit the zombie's head with six or seven shots out of ten, so he said without hesitation: "Free shooting." As he spoke, he took a slight aim with his gun, and after a "bang", among the running zombies, a bullet hole appeared in the head of a zombie who rushed in front, and he fell down.

The soldiers who have been trained for more than half a year are mostly recruited from former corpse hunters, and their marksmanship is naturally better than that of recruits who don't know anything.

According to the tactics taught by the instructor during the training, it is not that they shoot freely, that is, everyone shoots at the zombies indiscriminately, but according to their own ability, they decide whether to shoot or not. This is free fire in the last days, according to the dogma, in the case of saving bullets, there is no certainty, it is not allowed to shoot.

Despite this, these corpse hunters turned into soldiers, there are not a few people with accurate marksmanship, after Zou Chengcheng, sporadic gunshots rang out, and groups of running zombies fell down one by one, falling heavily into the sand and stones, raising a puff of dust. The zombies in the back don't care about this, after discovering humans, they are instinctively driven, so that they only know how to approach, and then bite and devour.

This wave of zombies rushing out of the street is not much, and the estimated number is about 1,000, but looking at it, it is also a large area.

The 107 formation of 150 people, not many people fired, all of them were lying on the trench, looking at these zombies who came up with great momentum. Some soldiers who have experienced it still leisurely smoke cigarettes, take a break, check the guns in their hands, and from time to time pull out the magazines to see the bullets inside, and then put them back in.

For the nervous recruits next to them, these experienced veterans always looked disdainful and said: "Rookie, there are still more than 100 meters away from us, look at your nervous appearance, are you bold?" At this point, the recruits always say, "What if that jet shoots liquid?" ”

"Don't you have brains? The launch distance of the squirt monster reaches about 1500 meters, if there were them in this zombie group, they would have been smashed over by a cloud of liquid, and they have waited until now? The veteran was still disdainful and said: "Rookies, zombies are to be put into 5 or 60 meters before fighting, do you think your marksmanship is as good as theirs?" ”

They, naturally, refer to the veterans who are shooting, their abilities are not comparable to those of recruits, and they can always solve a zombie with one or two shots.

More than a thousand zombies poured out, and after nearly a hundred were eliminated by soldiers with good marksmanship, they finally entered the first trench. Xiao Gao's eyes widened, only to see the zombies in the front row, they were like blind people, ignoring the half-meter-deep trench, without the slightest pause, raising their feet to continue forward.

It is conceivable that in the half-meter-high trench, these zombies did not have any preparation, and fell directly into the trench.

Since the trench was not deep, these zombies who fell into it struggled to get up. But the zombies in the back, they don't know what happened in front of them, and they still rush straight ahead. It's a pity that these zombies who fell first haven't gotten up yet, but they were pressed by the zombies behind them and crushed under the trench.

Blocked by this, the group of zombies that charged up suddenly became a mess, pushing each other and almost stagnating.

Xiao Gao opened his mouth and muttered, "I see! "At this time, these zombies are less than 60 meters away from the soldiers, and at this distance, they are stopped by the trench, and it is much easier to hit them in the head than if they were trained to be a target a hundred meters away. The biggest advantage is that they stand still and do not compress the distance from humans, giving the soldiers enough time to shoot.

At a distance of 60 meters, even rookies no longer hesitated, and they were aiming at zombies.

Dense gunshots rang out, and the zombies in front fell down one by one, they wanted to move on, but there were struggling zombies in the trench, and these zombies were moving around, so that the zombies who wanted to move forward were greatly disturbed, and they were entangled in the trench.

A thousand zombies, for the 150 formation with 107 soldiers, it is not enough to make the barrel hot, it has already been wiped out.

Xiao Gao, who had only fired fifteen shots, was still unsatisfied, and said to Zou Chengcheng next to him: "Team Zou, is it over?" Zou Chengcheng just smiled and said, "It's not like this, what else do you want?" He patted Xiao Gao on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, there are many zombies, this is just the beginning, and there will be more ones that will come out, and there may be high-level zombies that have slipped through the net." ”

Of course, a veteran like Zou Chengcheng knows that this is indeed just a warm-up.

At the latest, the day after tomorrow, it will enter a full-scale urban war, and then it will be the most cruel time, and you never know if there will be zombies suddenly rushing out in a corner. Thinking of the set of full-body armor issued from above, Zou Chengcheng couldn't be happy.

Yes, with this set of body armor, these captains themselves are safe, but what about other ordinary soldiers?