Hefei is the largest city in Anhui Province, but because it is not on the Beijing-Shanghai line, it was not listed as the target of bombing when it was bombed by the political axe, and the first to be bombed was Nanjing, which is not far from Hefei, but Hefei escaped a catastrophe, mainly thanks to the traffic here, the most important thing is east-west, not north-south.

As the nearest Jiangbei provincial capital city from Shanghai, of course, in addition to Nanjing, which has become a ruin, Hefei has become Xie Tian's primary target for airdropping, the first batch of 5,000 rescue packages are ready to be put into Hefei first, for this task, Xie Tian sent three transport planes, took off in the morning of the next day, flew directly from Shanghai to Hefei, this time, Xie Tian himself also boarded the plane, sat in the bow to observe the current situation in Hefei.

When the plane approached the southeast of Hefei, Xie Tian looked at the provincial capital city from afar, compared to Nanjing, which is not far away, the development degree of Hefei is not high, and the new area outside the city is quite good, but the city due to the overlap of the old and new urban areas, it also seems a little staggered, the plane has reduced its altitude when approaching Hefei, the current height is only about 500 meters, and the sound of the roar of the plane has attracted the attention of the zombies below. Most of the zombies stood with their heads up, looking at the behemoth that swept overhead.

At this time, on the top floor of a shopping mall in Hefei Women's Street, more than 20 happy human beings suddenly poured out, these more than 20 people were men, women, and children, and they rushed to the roof of the building the moment they heard the sound of the plane, staring at the military transport planes that were getting closer and closer, and they were constantly jumping and waving excitedly.

Xie Tian looked at the more than 20 people from a distance and said to the pilot: "Estimate the approximate location, lean over and drop a few rescue kits." ”

"Okay." The plane began to tilt to the left, at this time, the door of the rear cabin has also been opened, the airdrop personnel in the cabin have already prepared, these rescue kits tied with parachutes are all arranged in order at the door, the ropes on the parachute bags have been hung on the curtain in the cabin, as long as the rescue kit is thrown out, the parachute will be automatically opened.

The pilot estimated the approximate location and said to the people in the cabin with a communicator: "As soon as the red light is on, you will drop ten rescue kits in a row, and you must act quickly." ”

"Roger." The airdrop personnel in the cabin did not know the situation outside, but the pilot's order they had understood, and immediately prepared to drop, at this time, the plane was about to approach the location of the mall, the co-pilot pressed the signal light, and the airdrop personnel behind immediately received the signal, and began to continuously drop one rescue package after another from the hatch.

When the survivors saw the square packages dropped, and then opened a large white umbrella in the air to approach their own direction, a group of people were excited to add, they have been in this mall for several months, these months, everyone is relying on the remaining food in a few fast food restaurants in the mall to survive, fortunately there are a lot of rice noodles, otherwise, they simply can't hold on to the present, but as early as half a month ago, their food is extremely scarce, A few days ago, the adults of them had run out of food, and the limited food was left for two children who were not yet twelve years old, and they were desperate, but they didn't expect to suddenly find the plane of the political axe, and the most happy thing for them was that the plane actually dropped a package, and they didn't have to think that they knew that this must be a rescue package.

The airdrop of the rescue package requires the pilot to have a certain amount of experience, they have to determine the approximate landing point of the rescue package according to the speed of the aircraft, the wind speed and direction of the outside world and the altitude, the plane has been close to the top of the mall when the plane has finished delivering ten rescue packages, and then put it at this time, the habitual surname will let the rescue package pass over these survivors and fall to the other side of the shopping mall, so the pilot decisively closed the hatch, and then, the plane began to tilt and turn in mid-air, at this time, Thank you for the fact that you can also see the ten parachutes slowly landing towards the top of the mall, and happily, seven rescue kits have landed on the top of the mall, which is already quite high.

"It's a rescue kit! It's really a rescue kit! The more than 20 people caught all the rescue bags one by one, and the young man who was the first to open the rescue bag yelled excitedly and said to the people around him: "Look! Not only food, but also water, medicine, and guns! The political axe has finally come forward! The political axe has finally come to our rescue! ”

When people are carrying out normal social life, they don't have much concept of the political axe, but once they encounter a disaster, their greatest hope is pinned on the political axe, which is beyond doubt, and only the political axe has the ability to rescue them at this time, but Xie Tian also has a faint pain in his heart, and has been only caring about settling down, but he did not start rescuing the survivors in other parts of the country earlier, which has to be said to be a serious mistake.

"Brother, look, there's a letter!" A girl pulls out an envelope and can't wait to open it.

The young man next to her didn't care about this, hurriedly opened two bottles of canned beef, opened a box of instant rice, handed it to the girl and said, "Jingjing, eat something, you haven't eaten a bite of food for two days, I'll see later!" ”

The girl nodded slightly, looking at her brother, tears unconsciously swirled in her eyes, in fact, most of the people had not eaten for four days, but the brother had been hiding a bag of compressed biscuits, and he had not been willing to eat until two days ago, and he secretly let himself eat until two days ago, but he said that he was not willing to take a bite, the girl knew that her brother had always loved herself, no matter what time it was, at this moment, seeing that there was so much food, my brother still let himself first, and he was moved and sad.

The boy himself took out a box of field cans, opened it and hurriedly ate two bites first, and then stood up and said vaguely to the people around him: "Everyone must not be in a hurry, don't eat too much at one time, our current state is not suitable for eating too much at once, we should eat less and eat more!" Otherwise, I'm afraid my life will be in danger! ”

The boy looked to be in his early twenties, but these people seemed to be very obedient to his opinion, and they were all very anxious, but after hearing his words, they immediately calmed down, and everyone ate carefully, and endured the gobbling **, and ate half full first.

After eating, the girl took out the letter printed in the envelope and read aloud: "Compatriots, at present, the Provisional Military Commission has established a new security zone in Shanghai, and the country is slowly recovering, the political axe will definitely not ignore you, the materials in it are enough for you to temporarily maintain your survival, and the weapons are left for you to use for self-defense, as for the satellite phone and walkie-talkie, we have attached the manual, you can use the satellite phone to get in touch with the Provisional Military Commission Rescue Office, and inform you of your situation and specific location, number of people and other information." Please do not act rashly, let alone try to go to Shanghai, because there is currently no bridge that can be driven through the whole section of the Yangtze River, so please do not take risks, believe in the political axe, the Provisional Military Commission will do everything possible to rescue you in the most appropriate way, and we also recommend that you keep the walkie-talkie out of the state of power, and use 460.125MHz to try to contact other nearby survivors. ”

"What does the political axe mean is to let us wait here?" A middle-aged woman spoke.

"Yes." The young man before stood up and said, "Don't worry, we are on the ninth floor of this mall, the way down has been completely blocked by us, it is impossible for zombies to come up, it has been so long, everyone should be clear, and the most important thing is that now we have enough food, and we have a satellite phone to contact the political axe, I believe that the political axe will definitely rescue us, now all you have to do is to wait patiently." ”

"We have guns now! You can kill some zombies from here! A middle-aged man gritted his teeth and said: "These zombies have surrounded us for so long, and if we don't do them, it's really embarrassing!" ”

"That's right!" A man eating canned fruit in the corner raised his hand and said, "I agree with Lao Xu's meaning, beat him up badly!" ”

"No hurry!" The young man said: "Let's not be in a hurry, now the political axe is still airdropping rescue kits, there must be a lot of survivors like us around us, and after more people get the rescue kits, let's use the walkie-talkie to try to contact them to understand the situation of the survivors nearby, so that everyone can also exchange information, at that time, let's talk about the question of whether to fight zombies, the most important thing now is to wait, wait for us to find more people!" ”

"Good! Listen to Chen Peng! Don't get excited, everyone! Let's wait! ”

Three planes, respectively hovering over the three areas of the city center, Feidong, and Feixi for airdropping, but Xie Tian rarely found such a large number of survivors as the more than 20 people just now, and more rescue kits were directly dropped on the ground, I don't know if there are survivors nearby, and I don't know if they can get the rescue kits smoothly, 5,000 rescue kits have all been dropped, and then, Xie Tian knows that he can't do anything else for them, after all, it is a transport plane, and he can't hover in the air to rescue some of them, and there are a lot of zombies in Hefei, although Hefei Airport has not been damaged, but it is impossible for survivors to complete the collection at the airport.

After returning to Shanghai, Xie Tian immediately came to the newly established rescue office located at Pudong Airport, when he came to the rescue office, the phone here had been burst, and the four phones could not cope with the call requests of the survivors. Surname and age.

This information was recorded one by one, and then on another computer, someone collected the information from the four computers, and then counted it, Xie Tian came to the man and asked, "How many survivors have been identified now?" ”

"Sixteen hundred and twenty." The man made a sum formula on an excel sheet and got this exact number.

"So many people?!" Xie Tian blurted out in surprise: "More than 1,600, almost 2,000 people!" ”

"And there are a lot of survivors whose satellite phones can't be called for the time being." The man said excitedly: "Now that less than four hours have passed since the airdrop, some of the rescue kits should not have been obtained by the survivors, I think, the number of survivors must be more than these, and there may even be many more!" ”

Thank you for being inexplicably excited, a Hefei, there will be at least two or three thousand survivors, so in this way, so many cities across the country have not been bombed, I am afraid that if you collect it, you may be able to turn out hundreds of thousands or even more survivors! After all, just like Chongzuo before, more than 200,000 people were discovered in one breath!

However, due to the limited number of satellite phones, many people's information can not be collected at all, Xie Tian personally contacted one of the survivors, and instructed: "Please use the walkie-talkie to help me convey a message, please use the walkie-talkie to turn on, search for the survivors who can establish a conversation with themselves nearby, the range of the walkie-talkie may not be too far, but if each of you radiates a few kilometers, it can completely cover the entire Hefei City, I hope you can get in touch with those survivors who do not have satellite phones, And record their situation and give us feedback, so that it is convenient for us to rescue. ”

Xie Tian's request was naturally not refused, the other party even agreed, and then, a radio love spread in Hefei, some places, there may be only one satellite phone within a radius of several kilometers, but there are many walkie-talkies, one walkie-talkie covers three kilometers, and the other walkie-talkie covers the same distance, you can transmit the information six kilometers away to the person who has the satellite phone, so all of a sudden, you get more news of survivors.

In the afternoon, the contact with the survivors in Hefei was still ongoing, and to the delight of Xie Tian, the number of known survivors had reached more than 5,300, and this number continued to increase, making everyone involved in the rescue operation in Shanghai extremely excited.

"Brother Xie." Arlo, who was beside him, asked, "How can we get them back?" Can you get them to find a way to meet at the airport? ”

"Impossible." Xie Tian waved his hand and said: "If they are allowed to go to the airport, I am worried that it will be good if they can survive half of them, there are too many zombies in Hefei, and they can't move at all." ”

"What then?" Xie Xiaofei, who was on the side, hurriedly said: "Otherwise, let's send someone over to rescue them, we will send soldiers to land from the airport, and then kill into the city." ”

"It doesn't work well." Xie Tian shook his head and said, "I think it's safest and most efficient to use a helicopter, notify all the survivors, wait on the roof of the building where they are hiding, and we will send helicopters to pick them up one by one." ”

"It's hundreds of kilometers away from Hefei, and I'm afraid it will take longer to come and go." The head of Pudong Airport said: "Helicopters simply do not have such a long range. ”

"It doesn't matter." Xie Tian blurted out: "You immediately check where and how far away the nearest place is on the south bank of the Yangtze River from Hefei, and then send all our helicopters over and some trucks over." ”

Xie Xiaofei said excitedly: "Brother Xie, I understand what you mean, you want to find a place on the south bank of the Yangtze River closest to Hefei as a helicopter take-off and landing point, as long as you use a helicopter to take them from Hefei to the south of the Yangtze River, we can use a car to bring them back." ”

Xie Tian snapped his fingers and said, "Smart, that's what it means." ”

The person in charge of the airport also suddenly realized and blurted out: "Then I'll do it immediately." ”

"Don't worry." Xie Tian stopped him and instructed: "First choose a good location, and then you let people prepare a large amount of aviation fuel, transport it by tanker trucks, and let the helicopters also go over to assemble, it is absolutely too late to carry out rescue today, but we can use the time to prepare tonight, and also give the survivors in Hefei time to prepare, let them find the commanding heights before dawn and wait, we will take them to the south bank of the Yangtze River one by one." ”

"That's going to have to do a certain amount of modification to the helicopter, at least some rope stuff." The person in charge of the airport spoke.

Xie Tian nodded, and then, Xie Xiaofei took a map of the whole country, spread it on the table, and said, "Brother Xie, come and see." ”

Xie Tian stepped forward, took a general look at the location of Hefei and the Yangtze River, and then selected a corner of the Yangtze River in Tongling, and said: "Let's go here, you can calculate the straight-line distance between here and Hefei City." ”

The person in charge quickly took a ruler, measured the distance on the map, and after calculating the scale, said, "Between 100 and 120 kilometers." ”

"That's good." Xie Tian nodded and said, "Just set the point here, let the helicopter get ready as soon as possible, the fuel truck will arrive first, prepare enough fuel, and this time you must save all the people for me!" ”

"Okay." The person in charge hurriedly began to contact Zhangshujun Airport, the total number of helicopters in Shanghai and Zhangshu is less than 20, and there are two helicopters in Chongzuo, but the distance is too far to be worth tossing over, so in addition to the two helicopters in Chongzuo, all the helicopters have received orders to immediately install rescue rope ladders and safety ropes, and do a thorough pre-takeoff inspection to ensure the operation of the aircraft.

More than a dozen fuel tankers have gone to the aviation fuel refinery, after filling up the aviation fuel, immediately drove to the predetermined location marked by Xie Tian, the army also drove out 30 trucks as a carrier, convenient to transport the survivors back to Shanghai, these people rushed to the predetermined location overnight, the helicopter was also ready for a long rescue the next day overnight, since the outbreak of the zombie virus, the first large-scale air rescue operation, about to kick off.

(To be continued)