In the huge artillery position on the artificial island, 24 155 mm self-propelled guns are arranged in three rows, and the outermost 12 lightweight 155 mm howitzers are arranged in a semicircle.

Xu Changshan picked up the radio and gave the order to start the operation

With a loud "boom", the first decoy shell left the barrel and flew towards the exit of the undersea tunnel and the industrial predetermined place five kilometers away from the new city, and the rotary-wing drone hovering at low altitude clearly saw two small parachutes each connected to a round iron canister in the night vision picture and slowly descending in the sky above the target area.

The small and medium-sized fixed-wing drones used by the artillery unit to observe the impact point of the projectile are flying several kilometers around the area, and through the images transmitted by the laser night vision device, it can be clearly seen that a large number of living corpses have run out of the new city and the surrounding villages within several kilometers, and they are rushing towards the location of the decoy shells.

Xu Changshan said word by word on the radio: "Artillery unit, target area A, ordinary high-explosive grenades, shoot in full area, fire!"

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

All the artillery in the position began to fire violently at the target area, and there were different firing spacing according to the distance of the target calculated by the firing control computer and the flight time required by the shells, so that the whole target area could have a more evenly dispersed distribution of projectile impact points, so that the lethality of dense corpses would be more efficient.

"Bump", "Bump", "Bump", "Bump", "Bump", "Bump"

The shells that arrived at the target area one after another fell to the ground like thunder and rain, and the incalculable number of living corpse parts were carried into the air or thrown in all directions by the kinetic energy of the explosion, and the non-stop fire of a total of 36 guns made this bloody rainstorm fall non-stop.

In the command tent, Xu Changshan and the members of the wolf special service team were watching intently the picture transmitted by the drone on the display screen

Xu Changshan said as if talking to himself: "The defense line in the area of the undersea tunnel can be established, and the troops in that area do not need to be sent out too much, and there are not many surrounding inhabited areas, and the risk should not be great."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the radio intercom and asked the troops responsible for cleaning up the area to set off, and Zhou Zhiyuan also motioned with his eyes to Fang Xuan and Guan Haiqin to go with the troops.

The military sent a company of mechanized units to begin to march toward the target area, and more than a dozen armored vehicles of various types drove hundreds of soldiers on land and land to drive the bridge across the sea, while the engineer units drove container trucks equipped with explosion-proof walls and large vehicles carrying sand and gravel to follow behind the troops, and once they arrived at their destination and the security of the whole unit was assured, they had to establish a defensive line in the shortest possible time.

Zhou Zhiyuan continued to look at the picture and said: "It seems that the first battle was quite smooth, and this wave of shelling took away hundreds of thousands of living corpses."

Xu Changshan nodded solemnly and said: "Most of the surrounding areas in Area A are rural areas and towns, and in the era of general urbanization of the population, only the old and weak women and children are left in the village, and even the number of xenomorphic living corpses in them is very small, so the result of such a battle is expected."

Immediately after the artillery position began to shift the target, this time the area was the forest park where the decoy shells were tested for the first time during the day, and the living corpses in this area had not completely dispersed after most of the day, so the detonation height of the second decoy shell was set higher for the first time, otherwise the smell would be eaten by the living corpses before the air currents were released.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

Once again, the artillery positions erupted in a shocking roar

As the name suggests, the forest park has a large area of woods, and is located at the junction of the old and new urban areas, and the number of living corpses is far more than the previous area, so the military loaded incendiary bombs in the first round of shooting, because the majestic fire burning in the entire forest park in the night sky is undoubtedly the best bait in the city, attracting the living corpses and then sending them out of the world.

Xu Changshan then ordered: "The troops responsible for establishing the defense line of the passenger terminal will set off immediately, and the members of the wolf special service team will go with you, and after arriving at the destination, first make sure the safety of all the buildings in the dock before starting to pull up the defense line."

It was Zhang Hongda and Xie Dongcheng's turn to high-five each other, and then they took their weapons and left the command tent, and the two got into the armored car at the front of the troops and led the troops to sweep the target area.

After multiple rounds of continuous firing from the artillery position, the chambers and barrels of the guns needed to be cooled and cleaned to maintain accuracy and safety, and most of the soldiers began to perform rapid maintenance work on the guns, and then continued to carry out full-coverage shelling operations on the target area after informing the commander, and this cycle continued to work repeatedly, so that the island's originally piled up of shells and propellant boxes were decreasing at a visible rate.

I don't know how long it took, Lin Liangxue and Liu Jianyu also set off with the army, at this time, under the continuous attack of thousands of shells per hour, the number of living corpses in the entire city is conservatively estimated to be more than one million living corpses of various kinds of limbs blown by shells and cannot find the whole corpse, but according to the continuous and uninterrupted observation of the drone, there is no new xenomorph living corpse in the picture, and even the giant corpse has not appeared a few times.

Zhou Zhiyuan said with a solemn face: "It's strange, why is the number of xenomorph living corpses lured over so small, is there something wrong with the image discrimination function of the battle situation system?"

Xu Changshan replied with a serious face: "It's unlikely, even if your eyes have not found a few xenomorph living corpses for so long, it means that there is nothing wrong with the system itself, but I don't know why they didn't show up."

Zhou Zhiyuan frowned and said: "Something is wrong, it's too wrong, how can these creatures without intelligence not be stimulated by the blood of mutated creatures, unless it is something like the last time that can control the movement of living corpses with a roar, but from the beginning of the operation to the present, there has always been only the explosion of cannonballs."

Xu Changshan said indifferently: "I don't know what's going on, anyway, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and if you can't win in the face of living corpses, you will run, and if you can't win, you will die, let's go!" Now it's our turn to leave for the airport, and the Air Force hasn't landed yet."

Zhou Zhiyuan and Xu Weien took the Nineteenth Giant Wolf, including Luo Luo, and boarded an air-cushion landing craft with a wheeled assault gun, and six armored assault vehicles equipped with remote-controlled weapon stations were neatly parked on the air-cushion landing craft of the same model, as well as dozens of members of the special combat team led by Xu Changshan, and the two ships would go upriver through the mouth of the largest river in Nanhai Province and enter the shore only more than two kilometers away from the airport.

(End of chapter)