Chapter XXI - The Fault Line of the Military
On the day of the disaster, chaos did not come from the people alone; As long as there are people, there will be corpses, no matter which system or unit; The mutation is a full-fledged occurrence.
The command system at all levels, such as the military, police, and firefighting, lost its role not long after the disaster began, and the grassroots personnel were unable to respond to reports at all levels; Whichever unit rescues you will come to your rescue, and all radio channels are looking for organizations, leaders, and directions.
The few surviving grassroots officers and police officers also formed teams to leave for survival after losing contact with Shangfeng for a few days.
"Didn't the special forces accept a relatively high level of authority, isn't there any correct news?"
Zhou Zhiyuan said suspiciously
"The military discipline of our troops is even stricter than usual, and the slightest abnormality will be controlled; So I can still receive a little message, but it's also very fragmented; The last thing I received was an order from a major battalion commander in our system, who ordered all officers and men in each unit to be able to express their personal consciousness rationally; Bring all the equipment, weapons and ammunition that you can bring, and evacuate them to the special training base in the field to recuperate."
The uninjured special forces said
"Is this order issued only to your special forces or is it known to other units?"
Zhou Zhiyuan asked
"The battalion commander sent it to the military public channel, and it should be received by many units; But only theoretically, too many units were in a scuffle that day"
The special forces replied
The development of things was different from what Zhou Zhiyuan expected, he originally thought that after meeting the military, he would be able to get news of his family through their unique communication channels; I didn't expect the military to be in chaos itself, and I don't know if the situation has stabilized now.
"It seems that we can only go with these soldiers to see the situation first"
Zhou Zhiyuan thought in his heart
"Is that training base of yours around here?"
Zhou Zhiyuan asked
"You have to have a map to say this, I came here by looking at the terrain along the road."
Special Forces Road
Chen Guohao took out the large map he had printed out in the mall before, and a group of people returned to the conference room on the third floor; Chan opened the map and hung it on the wall.
"I didn't expect you to be so well equipped, in addition to mobile phones, tablets, navigators, there are also physical maps!"
The special forces exclaimed
"What are you doing with those places you have fenced?"
The medical officer suddenly asked curiously
"I was going to live in the mountains after picking up my family, and those were alternative camps"
Zhou Zhiyuan said with a smile
It turns out that there are no military-related places on the map, and the place pointed by the special forces is on the top of a mountain, but there is no road around the place to go up; According to him, the base is not large, just a place for field special operations training; No unit other than them and other special forces of the military knows about it.
"It's about 70 kilometers away from here."
The special forces pointed to the mapway
"Do you have any extra diesel? I'll give it back to you when I get to the base."
One of the canine patrol soldiers asked
"We carry about 130 litres of spare diesel in each car, so we can fill up your car"
Zhang Hongda said
Another special soldier was very grateful to Zhou Zhiyuan after he sobered up, and kept saying that he owed him a life and would repay it in the future; Friendships between men can be established very easily, and after a meal and drink, they can exchange names and chat happily together.
After filling up the three military vehicles, the six vehicles set off for the entrance of the base; After driving for 2 hours, in the woods next to a lake, all the cars drove up the upstream channel of a lake.
After about 6 or 7 kilometers, an artificially carved open space appeared, with a modular house and a guard tower about 3 stories high; Then a dirt path headed up the hill from the side.
After driving up the cement road for a kilometer, an iron gate about 10 meters wide appeared; It was covered with barbed wire, and there were also cylindrical guardhouses on either side; After the special forces connected the power of the iron gate, all the vehicles entered the base in order.
The whole base is roughly a long and narrow triangle, and the gate is this side and the bottom; After entering the door, there is a square parking lot on the right hand side, and behind it is a rectangular building; There are also two large lifting platforms on the side of the building, which are supposed to be used for overhauling vehicles.
The parking lot used to be lined up by three four-story rectangular buildings in a zigzag pattern, with the middle one being the core building of the entire site; Inside is a command center with a lot of high-tech communication equipment, and on the other two sides are military houses and arsenals.
Behind the command center there is also a rectangular helicopter landing ground and hangar, which can operate three heavy helicopters at the same time; Parking for 6 medium helicopters.
The entire site is surrounded by a five-meter-high iron wall with a thickness of about 50 centimeters; There is a barbed wire fence on it, and in the middle of the base there is a triangular pool of water brought in by a small river outside; One lap is exactly 200 meters.
The dirt road at the entrance went in the other direction, and according to them it led to the training ground and the farm and the small airport; That's right, it's a farmstead! This base grows its own vegetables, sweet potatoes and fruits, raises chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and has a small fish pond; Although the area is small and the number is small, it can improve the food of a battalion.
The small airport is used to take off and land medium-sized fixed-wing UAVs, with a hangar and control tower that can park 2 UAVs; A 3MW wind turbine.
In addition to the standby emergency fuel generators, there are also five 1MW steerable semi-direct drive permanent magnet synchronous wind turbines in the base. All buildings are equipped with high-power solar panels on the roofs that automatically adjust the orientation of the sun.
After everyone parked the car, Zhou Zhiyuan and his party inspected the scope of the base; Two special forces go to open the living area of the barracks, as other places require the officer's permission to open them; The entire base was not powered except for the main gate, so the six servicemen could only sleep in the car.
"Everything is normal throughout the base, the livestock on the farm have mutated; The largest fish in the pond is one meter long, and it is not clear that the farmland is not yet harvested."
After patrolling around, Zhou Zhiyuan said to the six soldiers
"Now you can only use the radio on the car to search for information about friendly forces, and you can't really operate until the battalion commander or other officers arrive at the base; I don't know where they are."
The uninjured special forces sighed
When it got dark, the equipment of the three campervans was fully deployed, and the tents of the six people were set up; The elastic inflatable cushion and the wind, rain and snow proof tent cloth allow everyone to rest at ease in the changing climate of the mountain.
"You don't look like you're fleeing, it's like you're on vacation."
One of the military dog duo laughed
"Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all top outdoor brands, if this outfit is killed by buying, I don't believe it"
The other member of the military dog duo also laughed
After dinner, Zhou Zhiyuan and the others showed off all their weapons and equipment, and the other four except for the special forces were all eye-opening.
"The bow and crossbow are ok, but not as good as the military; When our chief arrives, give you a whole 120-pound compound bow, that's the hard guy we can pull as an ace."
A special soldier recovering from his injuries
The alertness of the special forces was unusually high, and when the sky was still slightly bright, Zhou Zhiyuan had just come out of the tent, and the two special forces came out to greet him.
Looking at their physical exercises, the two special forces secretly muttered there
"It's fine for me to do 2 or 3,000 push-ups at a time, but it's impossible to do 1,000 push-ups of each."
"Don't forget that they also train all parts of the body, can you do anything else after you do 3,000 push-ups? Even if the monster on the team comes, it can't be done."
"These five civilians are not physically human."
"I rub... After doing this set, they can still run 10,000 meters, they are the special elite."
"Looking at their breathing rate and chest heaving after exercising, there should be still room for energy!"
The six soldiers leaned together and whispered earnestly, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, it would have been hard to believe that the limit of the human body could be so high.
"Do you all practice like this?"
The medic asked curiously
"Well, it's just that I suddenly became better after the disaster."
Zhou Zhiyuan replied
"Hmm... Perhaps, just like military dogs, there are some people in humans who have undergone positive mutations."
The military doctor touched his chin and muttered to himself
Originally, they just wanted to show the value of their group, but they didn't expect it to become a shock; The army is the most convincing of the strong, especially the one with such physical strength; As long as the military skills are taught, they will definitely be the elite of the elite, and the two special forces have already begun to think about how to persuade the battalion commander to absorb Zhou Zhiyuan and his party to join their troops.
After breakfast, a message for help came over the radio; The battalion commander of the special forces and a group of soldiers were besieged by the living corpses in the small county town where Zhou Zhiyuan and his party found that the living corpses would run away, and everyone argued for a while before the special forces made the final decision.
"We've been there, and we've dealt with quite a few living corpses in the metropolis, so let's go"
Zhou Zhiyuan said seriously
"Okay, the medical officer and the other four stay at the base; Seven of us went to the rescue of the battalion commander them."
commando
Seven people drove two assault vehicles to the small county town and stopped about 500 meters south of the county seat; Chen Guohao released a drone to investigate.
"This is a commercial search and rescue drone equipped with two lenses; A thermal imaging and a telescope"
Chen Guohao said while setting
The drone's footage shows an articulated tracked all-terrain armored vehicle and an eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier parked in a cement plant, both of which are not equipped with weapons; At least hundreds of living corpses were surrounded by the perimeter.
The cement plant is next to the east-west national highway at the entrance of the county seat, and the living corpses must be lured away so that two military vehicles can cross the river directly from the rear of the cement factory to the provincial road to the south.
"Inform your battalion commander that they will rush to you from the back door of the factory after we lure the living corpses away; Both of these military vehicles can float, so it's not a problem to ask about the river."
Zhou Zhiyuan said to the two special forces
Zhou Zhiyuan's car detoured the road and drove to a hill about 500 meters opposite the cement factory, where he and Liu Jianyu each cut their arms a few times and stuck their hands out of the car; In about half a minute, hundreds of humanoid creatures strode from the county town with their arms raised to them.