Chapter 44: The Army Arrives!
Three days later –
The fourth day of a global outbreak of the bloody virus.
It's snowing.
This is the first snow to fall in Lingzhou since the beginning of the new century.
The world under the snowflakes seems to be frozen; The fog that has enveloped the city for the past three days has not only not dissipated, but has become thicker and deeper.
The combination of white and pure snowflakes and gray fog will love and kill each other in the cold wind as fast and violent as a knife, and finally the entire city will be submerged together, regardless of you and me.
The power of minus degrees Celsius is spreading wildly, and four days ago the scorching summer was like a beautiful dream, and today, four days later, all the good things are long gone, and people seem to have fallen into an endless nightmare, a nightmare that has just begun.
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Lingzhou city center, nine o'clock in the morning.
As a southern coastal city with a warm climate, snow has been a rarity in the eyes of people here since ancient times, and in peacetime, it can only be enjoyed on various electronic screens in peacetime.
But in such a post-apocalyptic environment full of bloody slaughter, no citizen would be in the mood to enjoy or be amazed by such a scene, and even in the eyes of people, this sudden snowflake sprinkling in the sky brought a very ominous omen, like a special signal before a greater catastrophe came, and was about to sprinkle a handful of salt on their wounds, adding a despair to everyone's already cold and helpless hearts.
Such a cold weather not only physically tests the citizens who are currently lucky to survive, but also mentally is an extremely painful torture for them.
Many people pessimistically wonder if this heavy snowfall will continue like the fog that envelops the city, until the entire city becomes a snow city, and all life is frozen into ice sculptures - you can imagine that beautiful and moving picture now.
But if you think about it from another angle, this kind of ending seems to be a good one, at least better than tearing those horrible blood-shattering virus infections alive and swallowing them in one gulp.
Of course, no one wants to die if they can live.
The only thing that can be called a good change is that on the night three days ago, the support troops from the Xishan Military Base in Lingzhou City finally rushed to the central city of Lingzhou and stationed themselves in the fitness plaza outside the city hall of the city hall.
The support unit was composed of nearly 800 heavily armed elite soldiers from a combat battalion personally led by Xu Anqiang, the top commander of the Xishan Military Base and political commissar of the Ministry of Armed Forces, and drove more than 20 large green pickup trucks loaded with supplies and five combat helicopters escorted all the way.
Although the distance was not far (less than 40 kilometers), the attack of countless blood-infected creatures along the way greatly delayed the speed of the army's march, resulting in a lot of casualties.
It is worth mentioning that in the entire support force, including the supreme commander Xu Anqiang, there are more than 30 armed people, more than half of whom are willing to join halfway or recruited and gathered by Xu Anqiang himself, which is equivalent to a high-level thug with the status of a temporary mercenary.
With such a group of outstanding combat power, combined with the various high-lethal firearms used by the army, coupled with the high-intensity fire cover of five combat helicopters, the overall impact power is quite strong, which is also the main reason why they were able to break through many obstacles and successfully cross dozens of miles to get here.
In any case, the arrival of the support troops led by Xu Anqiang greatly alleviated the crisis in the central urban area of Lingzhou, and at the most critical moment, it also joined forces with Tian Gansheng and other guards of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, who had been fighting hard for a day and a night.
Starting from the second day, in addition to the 300 soldiers stationed in the same place, Xu Anqiang, as the supreme commander of the military, sent 500 combat elites at one time, divided into ten patrol troops, each team with at least three armed people, with the city government building as the center, swept out to remove the blood-shattered virus infected organisms along the road, captured major supermarkets and shopping malls, and collected all kinds of materials first, warm clothing, food and clean drinking water were the items they focused on seizing.
By the third day, some of the surviving citizens in the central city had been able to receive a certain amount of supplies from the government army, but everyone's share was fixed, and the amount was very small, even the children had to go hungry, and the three meals that used to be fed and clothed had become a luxury. As ordinary people with no combat effectiveness, the citizens can only live in fear.
The fierce gunfighting outside never stopped, the explosions came and went, and as far as the eye could see, residential buildings were burning all night.
The figures of those creatures infected with the blood-shattering virus were also like lingering nightmares, constantly emitting low, terrifying howls from all directions, accompanied by the pungent smell of gunfire and gunsmoke in the air, and there was no night to sleep peacefully.
People understand that the end times have come, and what is happening now is a doomsday battle for the survival of mankind!
Looking at the heavy snow outside the window, some people still have a hope in their hearts, hoping to see a glimmer of hope representing the dawn of victory.
But they are destined to wait for endless darkness.
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