Chapter 379: The First Confrontation (5000 words)
The city wall of the Xiangtan base was built brick by the survivors, with a height of about 20 meters and a thickness of five or six meters. {Sui}{Dream} ั{suimะตng][lฤ} is not as tall and powerful as Wolf Smoke City, which uses the Doomsday Fortress to control the center and direct conversion, but it is also very good.
Such a city wall, only powerful zombies above the second order can rely on their own strength to climb or cross, and it is almost impossible for zombies below the second order to cross.
It is the last line of defense for all the survivors of the Xiangtan base, which is both real and internal.
Liu Wuqiang stood on the city wall, holding a military binoculars in his hand, observing the situation of the zombies, and beside him, there were only a few evolutionaries in military uniforms or police uniforms.
Including Shan Qiang, the high-level leaders of the major forces that appeared in the conference room before had long since dispersed, each responsible for the combat command of a region.
At this time, the grievances between individuals have been put aside.
Nearly a kilometer outside the city wall, all kinds of plants have already been cleared by the Xiangtan base, and the huge place is a smooth road, and it is not easy for any enemy to quietly launch a sneak attack on the Xiangtan base.
Nowadays, this smooth road is full of deep pits, more than ten meters deep, and the deep pits are full of sharp thorns, and if zombies below the second order fall, the possibility of climbing up is very low.
Not because they don't have that ability, of course, but because they don't have that time.
With the density of zombies, unless the pit is filled, the zombies that fall in front will not have any time to breathe, and they will be crushed by the following zombies.
On the city walls, hundreds of soldiers in military uniforms are holding bazookas, waiting for battle; Many evolutionaries waited silently with conventional weapons such as submachine guns and sniper rifles; Outside the city walls, dozens of armored tanks lined up like a red line of steel.
These are the last modern firepower units in the Xiangtan base, and almost all the weapons and ammunition have been taken out this time.
However, everyone knows that in addition to heavy firepower such as rocket artillery, heavy snipers, and armored tanks, the lethality of other weapons is only effective against zombies below the second order, and it is not a simple matter to completely kill zombies.
And the biggest effect of these weapons is actually to delay time as much as possible and save the physical strength of the evolutionary.
In the end, the key to victory or defeat is still in the evolutionary.
"Heavy firepower troops, pay attention, your attack targets are mainly large zombies and zombie concentration places, use interval attacks, slow down the speed and continuity of zombie advancement, and don't let them connect into a sea of corpses."
"Guns and archers, put the zombie group a little closer before fighting, with limbs and heads as the main targets, and strive to maim or even kill."
"All evolutionary troops are ready to kill the enemy at any time, don't let the zombies break through the walls and enter the base."
Orders were issued in an orderly manner, and everyone tensed their nerves.
Roar! ~
The distance was shortened, and the keen sense of smell made the zombies quickly feel the human breath in the air, and they were not in a hurry, but they went crazy in an instant.
Countless zombies roared and rushed to the Xiangtan base.
The first to charge are those zombies whose strength is in the first-order stage, most of them only have hunting instincts, and under the stimulation of flesh and blood, they have red eyes and salivation, eager to rush to the human race immediately and feast.
And those zombies above the second order, although they also had some intentions, they did not charge indiscriminately, but followed behind the first-order zombies unhurriedly, looking relatively calm.
After getting rid of ordinary zombies, the speed of first-order zombies was faster than ordinary people's 100-meter sprint, and it didn't take much time for the zombies at the front to rush out of the woods and come to the spacious open space outside the Xiangtan base.
The trap set by the evolutionary is very simple, and for humans, as long as they don't pay attention and don't see it for a while, they basically won't fall into it.
For zombies, this trap is very effective.
Because in their world, there is no such thing as circumventing the trap at all, and the only thing they will do is to charge, charge, and charge again!
Rumble! ~
The first trap was triggered, and in less than two seconds, dozens of zombies fell in, you pressed me, I squeezed you, and each other wanted to get up.
However, as long as the zombie who fell in first, after only a few struggles, it was ruthlessly pressed under the zombie behind it, and soon, until the deep pit was filled by the zombie with a physical body.
Second, third......
One has a trap that is triggered, and then filled, and the zombie horde is slowed down a lot, but it doesn't stop.
There were so many of them that millions of zombies were so vast that they could barely see the end at a glance, and they could only see one after another gurgling zombie heads.
Nearly a kilometer of open space, countless deep pits were quickly filled by a third of the zombies with their bodies.
At this time, the heavy firepower unit moved.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
The tank armor roared, and one after another shells with fire tails and tearing through the air whizzed out and fell to the densest concentration of zombies.
The violent explosions one after another brought up one after another of flames to the sky, such firepower, even if a second-order zombie was directly hit, it would be more dead and less alive.
For a while, the zombie's stumps flew wildly, dark blood splattered, and the overall travel speed was immediately affected, crowded and blocked, and became slow.
After a few rounds of bombardment, the heavy fire units stopped their offensive and replenished their ammunition, allowing the hot barrels to cool down for a while.
When the heavy fire force bombarded, the evolutionaries did not watch the show, and several teams composed of second-order evolutionaries jumped down from the city wall with gasoline on their backs, and took advantage of this time to clean up the zombies on those traps, and by the way, they spilled the gasoline and set it on fire.
By the time the fireteam stopped bombing, the fire was already very large, like a high red wall, spreading between the zombies and the clearing, blocking their path.
Fire, almost all creatures instinctively fear, although the zombies don't know what fear is, but instinct still drives them to want to bypass that clearing and approach the Xiangtan base from other places.
And this scene is exactly what Liu Wuqiang and others want to see.
The location of the Xiangtan base is carefully considered, except for the open space, which is a smooth road, the other directions are either mountain peaks or deep valleys, which are natural defensive fronts, if the zombies choose to attack from other directions, then the pressure on them to defend will be much less.
"Roar! ~~โ
Just when everyone was rejoicing that the plan was going smoothly, a zombie roar resounded throughout the battlefield.
As if with some kind of magic, those zombies who had planned to make a detour, after this roar, immediately changed their minds and rushed madly towards the flame wall, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they were not afraid of death.
Roar roar roar ~~
A roar of rage was accompanied by a burning zombie figure, some of them failed to survive the calcination of the flames, and fell into the flames, becoming the nourishment of the flames.
And some zombies roared and continued to charge with a body of flames and a sky-high smell of barbecue.
Heroic, tragic!
In just a short period of time, at least thousands of zombies died in the flames, and many were ignited, and sparks fell all the way to the charge and the deep pit behind them.
This unexpected surprise made the survivors in the Xiangtan base excited.
"Haha, zombies are zombies, all of them are brainless things, they don't know that as long as they keep charging, they are adding wood to the wall of fire?"
"To use the corpses of your own people as fuel, and then to burn your own people, well, not bad, very good! The zombies' strategy is very effective! โ
"If you continue to develop according to this posture, you may not need reinforcements from others at all, and these zombies will have to burn themselves clean!"
"Don't be too happy, now it's just those first-order ordinary zombies who are charging, at most they are cannon fodder-level existences, and the main force of the zombies hasn't moved yet!"
"Yes, don't take it lightly, the real battle hasn't started yet!"
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Some people are excited and optimistic, others are silent and calm, everyone knows that the current scene is just an appetizer at most, and the real meal has not yet been served.
No matter how big the wall of fire is, no matter how fierce the fire is, there is a moment when it is finally extinguished, and half an hour later, under the suicidal charge of the zombies, the wall of fire is finally extinguished.
However, its effect has greatly exceeded everyone's expectations, and the huge open space, a piece of black charcoal, is all made of zombie corpses, and after such a round, at least tens of thousands of zombies have died.
The results can be described as remarkable.
However, in front of millions of zombies, the number of zombies is at most a small drizzle, and it has almost no impact.
On the contrary, the zombies who broke through the barrier of flames filled most of the deep pits in the clearing, and except for the area closest to the city wall, the rest of the place truly became a 'smooth road'.
It was a bloody path paved by zombies with their own corpses.
Roar~Roar~Roar~~~
The furious roar that sounded before reappeared.
Under its roar, the zombie charge began again, and this time, among the charging zombies, it was no longer just first-order ordinary zombies, many tall and powerful second-order giant zombies were also dispatched.
"It's a bit strange, there should be special zombies with command ability among these zombies, otherwise, it would be impossible to be so organized!"
Liu Wuqiang, who had been observing the battlefield, frowned.
From the moment that particular roar appeared, he had a sense of foreboding in his heart, and now, the zombies that should have been charging recklessly began to match as if they had cooperated, which made the sense of foreboding in his heart even stronger.
He had a very bold and dangerous guess!
If the truth is really as he thinks, then this battle may really be more than auspicious.
"Come on, immediately gather all the evolutionaries who have the ability to fly or flying war pets, and go to the back of the zombies to investigate and see if there is some kind of special zombie that is suspected of having a high IQ!"
Liu Wuqiang didn't dare to be careless, and immediately summoned a henchman beside him and whispered.
"Find out as soon as possible, and don't reveal this news yet, so as not to cause panic!"
"Yes!"
Hearing Liu Wuqiang's order, his henchman also trembled, but in the end, he was a character who had experienced the test of life and death, he quickly calmed down and immediately went to carry out Liu Wuqiang's order.
Soon, more than a dozen black dots rose from the Xiangtan base and flew towards the rear of the zombie army.
Liu Wuqiang looked at the group of zombies that were getting closer and closer, waiting for the results of the investigation in his heart.
At this time, a figure hurried to his side.
"Single? What are you doing here when you're not in your area of responsibility? Seeing the person who came, Liu Wuqiang asked with some doubts.
Shan Qiang glanced at the evolutionaries around him, and after motioning for Liu Wuqiang to follow him to a no-man's corner, he whispered: "According to the information I got, there is a 'controller' in the zombie group this time!" โ
"The master?" Liu Wuqiang's heart moved.
Shan Qiang explained: "The controller is a special zombie that I once came into contact with when I was in the Chuanqing base, this zombie has a very magical ability, which can control other zombies whose level does not exceed its own, and this time the zombie group should be gathered by it." โ
"The gap between the zombie group with the controller and the ordinary zombies is very large, because the wisdom of the controller is not much worse than that of humans, and it will command other zombies to fight, which is very terrifying!"
"And so it was!" Hearing Shan Qiang's explanation, the doubts in Liu Wuqiang's heart suddenly dissipated, and his previous speculation was answered.
If it was before, he might have considered the authenticity of Shan Qiang's words, but this time, he didn't have the slightest doubt, because he himself had such a guess.
"You also know that there is a master?" Liu Wuqiang's performance surprised Shan Qiang.
Because the news he got was conveyed to him by Li Wenbin not long ago, but Liu Wuqiang looked like he had known it for a long time.
"I didn't know that there were zombies like the Controller, but after seeing the obvious cooperative actions of those zombies, I guessed that there should be a special existence similar to the 'Commander' in this group of zombies."
Liu Wuqiang explained casually, and then asked, "Since you know that there is a controller, do you have any good suggestions?" โ
Hearing this, Shan Qiang immediately said: "Generally speaking, the strength of the controller is not very strong, so there are often a lot of powerful zombies around it, as long as we find a place where powerful zombies are concentrated, we can basically find it." As long as the controller is killed, the zombie horde will lose command and chaos, and our chances of victory will be much greater. โ
"However, it is not easy to kill the master under the protection of a large number of powerful zombies. So, my suggestion is to form a powerful evolutionary commando team and do a 'decapitation operation' while the main zombie force is storming the base. โ
"Operation decapitation? How sure are you? Liu Wuqiang's eyes lit up, and then he hesitated.
The strength of high-level zombies is no worse than that of evolutionaries, and they have an absolute advantage, there is the number, it is said to be a surprise decapitation, but he understands that all the evolutionaries involved in it may lose their lives on the battlefield.
"If you look at the strength of our Xiangtan base alone, the success rate is less than 20%." Shan Qiang did not exaggerate and said truthfully.
Twenty percent, this is already the best estimate, in fact, both of them know in their hearts that the real situation may not even be one percent.
But......
Liu Wuqiang suddenly looked at Shan Qiang and said in a deep voice: "You just said ...... 'the strength of the Xiangtan base alone'?" Do you say ......"
"Hehe, I knew I couldn't hide it from you!" Shan Qiang smiled slightly and said, "That's right, I have already found foreign aid, and with their joining, the success rate of this 'decapitation operation' is at least sixty percent or more!" โ
Liu Wuqiang was stunned for a moment, then his eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "Is this true? โ
"Seriously!"
"And where is the foreign aid you are talking about? I need to be sure before I can make a final decision! Liu Wuqiang said.
Shan Qiang nodded and said, "No problem, they also just arrived here from the Chuanqing base, but in order not to cause misunderstanding, they did not enter the Xiangtan base, and are waiting outside the city now." โ
"Lead the way, I'll take a look!" Liu Wuqiang said immediately.
Soon, under the leadership of Shan Qiang, the two came to the city wall near the direction of the Chuanqing base, and with Shan Qiang's roar, a pair of iron-blooded knights wearing blood-colored armor appeared in front of Liu Wuqiang.
There were fifteen of them, except for the woman at the head, the others were shrouded in armor and couldn't see their faces clearly, but the violent bloody aura made Liu Wuqiang, a battle-hardened master, feel a tremble.
It's so powerful!
Just a contact, Liu Wuqiang felt the strength of this group of knights, even if he, the top three masters in the Xiangtan base, was not the opponent of any of them.
"You should be the commander-in-chief of this battle at the Xiangtan base, my name is Blood Crane, the commander of the God-devouring Iron Cavalry!"
When Liu Wuqiang was shocked, the female knight led by him stood on a mutant blood crane, came to him, and took the initiative to introduce.
Blood Crane? God-killing Iron Rider?
That's right, the fifteen iron-blooded knights in front of him are the god-killing iron knights under Li Wenbin's command, and they are all members of the flying force.
This is Li Wenbin deliberately transferred from the Dragon Spirit Realm after discovering the traces of the controller, in order to be the 'decapitation operation' that Shan Qiang said before.
"You...... Hello, you are ......" Liu Wuqiang came back to his senses and took the initiative to extend his right hand to the blood crane.
The Blood Crane didn't shake hands with him, but said calmly: "We are from the former Chuanqing base, now Dragon Spirit City, and immediately rushed here after receiving the news from the 'Blood Eagle'. โ
As her words fell, a knight behind her also came to Liu Wuqiang's side and took off his mask.
It was the god-killing iron knight who appeared in the conference room with Shan Qiang before, and his code name was 'Blood Eagle'.