CHAPTER XLV
In the military's view, it is not surprising that there are more than 1,000 villages scattered on the entire northern and western front, which is nearly 100 kilometers wide and deep in a straight line, and some of these villages have less than 100 people, while the slightly larger towns have 350,000 people. However, the garrison and field troops of the Northern Army combined were only 400,000 people, and the military had no way to defend every town and village, nor could it do everything.
Moreover, as a grain production base, Gravel Town has a company of troops under the 20th Division of the Seventh Army stationed for a long time, although the 20th Division belongs to the garrison division and ranks among the B combat divisions, but it is also a regular army.
Compared to those remote towns that have no military support for many years and can only rely on mercenaries to encircle and suppress zombies, Gravel Town already has a lot to take care of.
Therefore, the military refused to send a single soldier, but ordered the gravel garrison company numbered 358 Company to solve the trouble on its own!
For the group of zombies that inexplicably appeared in the defense line for nearly fifty kilometers, the military was more interested in where did these zombies come from?
According to the staff's speculation, it must have been somewhere in the hills near Gravel Town that zombies had found the way to pass. Finding this path, and then establishing a stronghold to curb the infiltration of zombies, to achieve the effect of eliminating future troubles, is what the army should do.
Then, the defense of Gravel Town will have to fall to the local garrison itself!
Originally, it was not a strange thing to have zombies in the wild, just like outside the city of Black Mountain, zombies wandered all the time. But when the zombies become a horde of zombies, the situation is completely different.
The zombie horde has brought the blind movement of zombies to a terrible point.
If you are in the wild, attacked by a junior zombie, even if you are an ordinary person, as long as you don't pee your pants when you see a zombie, you will be sure to kill a junior zombie alone.
But if you encounter not a zombie in the wild, but dozens or hundreds of disgusting monsters with fangs and claws, exuding a festering aura, I believe that any ordinary person will lose their fighting spirit.
Of course, this doesn't take into account that there are some mutated guys in the zombie group, and if there are a few mutant zombies mixed in the zombie group, then the trouble will be even greater, because ordinary people can't outrun the evolved mutated zombies.
Therefore, in the face of the threat of the zombie group, in the absence of foreign aid, the 358th Company stationed in Gravel Town mobilized the young and strong labor in the town and strengthened the defense of the city wall by itself, and was ready to fight a protracted battle with the zombie group.
With the advantage of the grain production base in Gravel Town, the garrison troops in Gravel Town are not worried about starving to death at all, and the bullets stored in the company headquarters are enough to toss.
The 358th Company guarding Gravel Town was a subordinate unit of the Seventh Army of the Northern Army. As a type B army, the Seventh Army was mostly subject to garrison tasks, and its peacetime treatment was not as preferential as that of the A type combat army, and military salaries were often misappropriated, and the soldiers were angry, and the officers could not hold their heads up in the military headquarters of the Northern Army, but it was as if they had a mother and no mother.
Therefore, the Seventh Army, which has always been counting meters to live, was guided by the operational policy of "minimizing casualties" personally issued by the army commander Wei Nanguo, and the operational ideas were passed on layer by layer, and finally reached the 358th Company, which effectively carried out the instructions of the upper peak in 358, strictly abided by the orders of the superiors, stuck to the fortified city, and did not go out of the town gate for a whole month!
In the past month, the shooting level of the soldiers of the whole company has improved, and individual officers and men have even reached the standard of snipers!
As for the casualties, except for one unlucky guy who fell to his death while peeing on the walls of Gravel Town, there was no second casualty. Of course, it is impossible for the company to report that the guy who died was kicked off the city wall by his companions when he was peeing, and he died with his head on the ground, and his ass was still depressed in the autumn wind when he died, which would have detracted from the prestige of the 358th Company. So this lucky man became a lone martyr who died in the mouth of the zombies under the military commendation!
Throughout October, fighting broke out on the Northern Front in as many as 48 places, and there were casualties in battles in various places. And the proportion of casualties in the whole month of Gravel Town reached an astonishing 1:8000, arrogant on the entire northern front, blinding the eyes of colleagues! In October's circulars of the four major military regions, the 358th Company was called upon by the military to study extensively as a model object for the whole army for the first time, and the Seventh Army also really showed its face in the large military region. You must know that in the most eye-catching battle of the hammer in October, the 13th Division, the fist unit of the Fourth Army, suffered nearly 2,000 casualties.
The 358th Company of Gravel Town shines, but the number of zombies wandering in the wild is increasing from dozens to hundreds every day, and they don't know where they came out, and they can't finish fighting. And the fraternal troops in the surrounding area, out of the orders of the military, and even more out of envy, jealousy and hatred, did not bird the 358 company at all.
The meaty and fragrant ammunition in the gravel town is sufficient, but it is also difficult to defeat the veteran oil of the company, these guys are full of food and sleep, sleep and eat, and they can't sleep when they are full, so they hold the gun on the city wall to practice shooting, which can be described as a fairy-like day.
However, this is a hardship for ordinary people who are begging for a living in Gravel Town. The zombies besieged the city, and the people did not dare to step out of the town gate, because there were zombies not far outside, and the 358th Company only defended and would not take the initiative to attack and suppress.
According to this style of play, if there are endless zombies, it is estimated that you can fight until the New Year! The buildings and grain fields outside the town were completely lost, many people lost their livelihoods, and many people were like ants on a hot pot, anxious to turn around because of the impact on their business, including the Northern Grain Company.
Although the name of the Northern Grain Company is very large, it is only a small private company. The company connected with the grain business in Montenegro and Longbian City, and then bought grain from farmers everywhere at ultra-low prices, and then sold it at a price lower than the market set by the large grain station supermarkets controlled by the military and chaebols.
Selling at a price lower than the market price is not worried about disrupting the market and being wiped out by people with good intentions, and it can also make a lot of profits, all because in the entire northwest region of the alliance, many peasants in small places have no way to risk great dangers to transport grain to the two major urban areas for sale, and the large chaebols have not expanded their business to such a detailed link, which has given the northern grain company an opportunity to make profits.
Due to the geographical location of Gravel Town and the relatively convenient transportation, the Northern Grain Company contracted the Gravel Granary as the last transit station for its business, but now, the business of the Northern Grain Company was almost ruined by the damn zombie horde!
In order to smoothly transfer out the hundreds of tons of grain stored in the granary, and for the stability of this business route, the Northern Grain Company invested a lot of money and hired mercenaries to come and exterminate the zombies.
However, Comrade Lao Hei, a company employee who went to Montenegro City for a bounty mission, had commendable courage in breaking through the zombie encirclement, but his language organization skills were a mess, and this task that could obviously be assessed as a four-star task was expressed as an ordinary three-star task, which is really as many pits as there are pits!
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Lao Hei looked at Wang Qiang and the others in front of him, and his heart was cold.
In the past week, three mercenary groups have taken over the mission issued by the old gang boss, but without exception, they only arrived at the outskirts of Gravel Town to conduct an on-site inspection, and then decisively aborted the mission. In the words of the leader of the last mercenary group, it is the grass mud Malegobi pit daddy!
For no other reason, they were all scared off by the zombies outside Gravel Town.
Lao Hei remembered that the least of the three mercenary groups had twelve people, and the maximum number was as many as fifty, but they all gave up without hesitation. Yes, without hesitation!
Lao Hei looked at Wang Qiang and Zhang Feifei, with tears in his eyes, he wanted to cry but couldn't cry, he just wanted to scold his mother, these six people can be used if they go.
But the boss has been besieged in Gravel Town for more than a month, and if he doesn't rescue him, the business will be all over! After the business is over, Lao Hei will go back to the mountains to live the hard life again, and the wife and children who have just moved to Gravel Town will follow him to the mountains to be savages.
Lao Hei's heart is horizontal, it's a big deal to go back to Black Mountain City when the time comes, that dead horse is a live horse doctor, six people are six people, go and talk about it!
Wang Qiang looked at the middle-aged farmer with a strange face and asked, "Fei Fei, is this the publisher of the task?" How do I feel like he's panicking? ”
Zhang Feifei took out the business card in his hand and the mission certificate of the corpse hunting team, and also looked at the crop man again and again: "You are Mr. Hei?" ”
Lao Hei nodded, Zhang Feifei took a long breath, and said: "That's a good feeling, we are here to take over the task, you confirm it, let's set off immediately!" ”
Lao Hei looked at Feifei's team and asked tentatively, "There are only six of you?" ”
Zhang Feifei nodded.
"I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it, this task is quite difficult!" Lao Hei still decided to kindly remind him, after all, the farmer, sincerity is personality.
"Huh? Do you know how strong we are? Powerful you've never seen before! Zhang Feifei flashed her little arms, and her bulging little muscles were emitting a pink color in the sun.
"The girl's skin is good...... "The old black product is full of words.
", the rural people are so dishonest now, let you look at the muscles, you actually look at the skin, fortunately, the old lady is not afraid of being looked at." Zhang Feifei said angrily.
The old black face was red, but because his face was too dark, he was not noticed.
Zhang Feifei continued: "Lao Hei, let me tell you, we have taken over this task!" No problem, just sign it, and then let's go. Tell you, we can be strong, the recovery of Falling Hammer Town knows no, we only participated a few days ago, dare to say that we are not strong, the Huangquan mercenary group dare not say ......"
Wang Qiang shook his head, knowing in his heart that Zhang Feifei was afraid that his team would be disliked and lose the opportunity to be hired, so he cherished it very much, and cherished it a little speechlessly.
The old black general signed his name on the certificate suspiciously. At this time, the mercenary agreement began to take effect, although there was no substantive constraint, but out of the professional ethics of the mercenary group and the corpse hunting team, the spirit of the contract could not be easily violated.
Putting away the proof of the employment agreement, Zhang Feifei smiled and said, get in the car, let's go!