Chapter 100: The Line of Fire
The morning light tore through the night, and a faint blue light began to shine in the east, and everyone could see the scene outside more clearly. The burning of the small building continued, the fire had begun to spread to the third floor, the small building had become a dangerous house, and zombies continued to pour into the hall from the northwest side of the small building.
Zheng Jieming and his group, now there are only seven people who can fight in close combat in the real sense, Zheng Jieming, Zhou Jitang, Hua Feng, Li Yimeng, Jin Yue, Wang Yueshan, and Dong Yuan. Li Yu and Zhang Xiushan can barely be regarded as half of their combat strength, and the other female dependents can barely make some auxiliary attacks.
Set fire to the corpses lined up on the north side of the building!
Zheng Jieming suddenly thought of the small layout he had made before, he was so laid out at that time, mainly to prevent the tide of corpses, he hoped that when there was a large tide of corpses besieging the small building again, he could throw Molotov cocktails from the second floor to ignite the corpses, and then detonate the cars on the side of Qingli Street and lead the corpses to the east of Qingli Street.
But he didn't even think that other survivors would come to the door, the situation at this time was not as good as last time, he knew that this method might have little effect at the moment, but he could only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
Zheng Jieming ignored the possible hunter attack, picked up a burning wooden stick, rushed out of the building, and set fire to the nearest zombie.
The corpses were oozing oil, the dry clothes were easy to burn, and the fire ignited the zombies almost immediately, and the zombies burned in turn, and the bows and arrows arranged by the corpses were all ignited, and the vehicle on the side of the road that was originally used to detonate was knocked out of position by the truck, and reached the green belt, but it was still burning.
This line of fire didn't seem to play a decisive role, but it still shared a little pressure, and some zombies were attracted by the line of fire in front of them and burned to death.
Geng Zhi saw the intention of this arrangement before, he did not remind Song Zhi that the attack plan he envisioned did not include the link of blowing up the small building, the main idea was to attract the surrounding zombies to attack the survivors by making noise and light, if there were not enough zombies, it was not the problem of his plan, but the problem of insufficient collection of corpses. Even if there are many corpses, the survivors can ignite this corpse fire defense line to block or burn some zombies.
He actually wanted to leave a way for the survivors to survive, but now everyone has been cornered.
Zhou Jitang rushed forward with a katana, at this time he was like a fierce beast, slashing zombies frantically with a knife, and Wang Yueshan and others were also red-eyed.
When Li Yu saw Zheng Jieming rushing out, he also hurriedly pulled Jin Yue and Zhang Xiushan out of the door to receive help.
On the east side of Qingli Street, three cars galloped towards the small building, led by a black sedan, which went on a rampage and crushed the zombies blocking the sidewalk.
"It's Brother Mingxiu who is here! Golden Tiger, drive over! Song Zhi turned around, saw the car coming, and shouted excitedly.
"Mingxiu..."Geng Zhi bit his tongue and looked down at the Type 79 submachine gun on the seat of the man next to him.
Jin Hu turned the steering wheel, threw the front of the car to the west, and drove towards the small building. The four cars were parked on the north side of the small building to the west, north of the line of fire.
Mingxiu got out of the car with two machetes and stood on the sidewalk, surrounded by three people, one of whom was Lao Sha.
"This time, we are almost all dispatched, Brother Mingxiu, in fact, you don't have to come out in person." Lao Sha stood next to Mingxiu, looked at the situation of the small building, and said to him, "You see that this small building is basically about to be burned out." ”
Mingxiu looked at the line of fire in front of him, frowned, and did not speak.
Song Zhi and the others also got out of the car and gathered around Mingxiu.
A total of nineteen men stood guard outside the building, ready to carry out the final fatal blow to Zheng Jieming and his party. They gathered around Mingxiu, and the people on the periphery were responsible for defending against the incoming zombies. Most of the group had knives in their hands, and a few two or three people were holding iron rods.
Mingxiu carefully observed the situation in the small building, there were many zombies rushing towards the building, but the number was not much.
"The main entrance of this building is on the west side, but the wall on the north side has also collapsed, and it is a load-bearing wall." Lao Sha suggested next to him, "Wait for the fire to burn like this, just go in after it is extinguished, maybe the building will also be burned down, just go in and finish it without bothering." ”
Mingxiu looked at the back of the small building, the space behind the building was very narrow, and it seemed that there was some garbage piled up, which had been almost burned by the fire.
"We'll just go in and collect things in a while, I don't think the people here can survive this level, but let's wait for the building to collapse before going in..."
Syllable!
Lao Sha received another slap in the face.
Before Lao Sha could react, he looked up at Mingxiu, who looked straight south at this time, looking at the truck that had been burned black and only had empty shelves. Next to the car, Zheng Jieming and others were standing.
"It's you... You're not dead yet..."
Zheng Jieming and the others also heard the sound of the car coming, stopped, and looked north through the line of fire.
"Go back! Why don't you go..."Jin Yue saw Zheng Jieming and Li Yu standing still one after another, looking back anxiously, she looked up at the small building, the second and third floors were already crumbling, and the building had been tilted to the west and north, I am afraid that it would not last long before it collapsed, and from time to time stones or debris fell from the sky and fell on the hair of Zheng Jieming and others.
The two groups stood in the line of fire and looked at each other.
"It's you bastard!!" Zheng Jieming gritted his teeth, clenched his fists and knives tightly with both hands, and his whole body trembled.
"Mingxiu?" Jin Yue looked north and saw Mingxiu and others on the flames, and with the heat wave, the image shook slightly. She was both frightened and angry.
The tears on Zhang Xiushan's face had not dried at this time, but his heart was already surrounded by anger.
Zheng Jieming recalled the impact of the heavy truck at the fast food restaurant that night, and there was a great similarity to the attack today. Grandma Li's tears before she died were floating in front of his eyes.
At this time, Qin Qin was still holding her daughter in the house, with blood in her left eye and tears in her right eye in her empty eyes.
Fang Xinping was holding his big belly, and he was also waiting for the arrangement of fate in fear.
And Liu Qianwen stood aside, her brows only slightly furrowed, looking at the tragic scene in front of her.
Zhou Jitang, Wang Yueshan, Hua Feng and others had also cleared the zombies in the house, followed them out, and stood next to Zheng Jieming.
They also all noticed Mingxiu's group on the other side of the line of fire.
Hua Bong also recognized from the crowd that the man who broke his left leg was a man with a bald head in the crowd!
"If my leg hadn't hurt, how could Hua Hui have died..."
"It's all you... These bastards..."The more Zheng Jieming thought about it, the more difficult it was to contain his anger in his heart, and now he wanted to rush up, bite Mingxiu's throat, and bite him to death.
Mingxiu stood on the north side of the line of fire, looking at the figure of Zheng Jieming and others, he still remembered the scene in the residential building, and the people he brought were almost wiped out.
"Lao Sha..."
Mingxiu spoke slowly.
The red marks on Lao Sha's face have not disappeared.
"Kill."
Lao Sha glanced at Mingxiu, and then issued an order to everyone.
"Kill them all in the small building! Don't be merciful! Kill all the survivors! ”
Except for Mingxiu, Lao Sha, Song Zhi, and the man sitting next to Geng Zhi, the other fifteen people all carried weapons, bypassed or directly crossed the line of fire, and rushed up the slope.
"Come on!!"
Zheng Jieming shouted hysterically.
Zhou Jitang roared, rushed straight to the side of the line of fire, and faced the first man who rushed over, holding the knife in his right hand upward, holding the top of the handle with his left hand, and slashing forward and downward, the man subconsciously blocked with the knife in his right hand, but his hand did not hold the handle of the knife, and he was cut to the ground by Zhou Jitang with a knife, and blood splashed on the fire, making a loud sound.
The other survivors also rushed to the line of fire, trying to use it to stop the incoming enemy.
But Mingxiu's subordinates all didn't want to die, they crossed the line of fire from the north side of the small building, some of their clothes were still on fire, and they turned around and outflanked Zheng Jieming and others.
"Brutes!" Zhang Xiushan picked up the shovel with his left hand, clamped it under his armpit, and pushed a man back into the fire, the man did not stand firmly, sat on the burning corpse, his lower pants were ignited by the fire, jumped up and roared, ramming aimlessly, planting his head on the broken wall, and swallowing his breath.
Zheng Jieming, Wang Yueshan, and Zhang Xiushan all had guns at this time, but they all chose to use melee weapons to vent their inner anger first.
In addition to slashing each other, the two groups of people also had to face the attacking zombies, and the situation became extremely absurd and chaotic for a while.
The battle of dozens of people, it is almost a matter of time to divide the victory and defeat, at this time, Zheng Jieming and his group are angry, all full of revenge, it is the state of the Buddha blocking and killing the Buddha, and the god should kill the god.
Mingxiu saw that the situation was not good, and looked sideways at the man who was sitting next to Geng Zhi before.
The man and Mingxiu glanced at each other, returned to the back seat of the car, and copied out the Type 79 submachine gun.
He took out the gun, took out a piece of chewing gum from his pocket, slowly peeled off the outer skin, put it in his mouth, chewed twice, and then walked steadily up the slope with the gun.
Jin Yue saw the man with the submachine gun at a glance, and was shocked in his heart, and warned everyone loudly.
"The other side has a submachine gun!!"
As soon as the words fell, the man had already pulled the trigger. He also ignored the fact that there were his own people in front of him, and shot indiscriminately at the crowd behind the line of fire.
Li Yimeng was shot in the left shoulder and right arm at the same time, and he could feel the impact of his left and right shoulders in turn, and looked down at his wound.
Two of Mingxiu's gang were also shot in the back.
"Retreat!!"
The group hurriedly retreated into the house, Zheng Jieming and Zhang Xiushan took out their pistols and fired two shots at the enemy. Hua Feng pulled Li Yimeng and ran back.
Geng Zhi was originally above the line of fire of bullets, when he heard the sound of the car door behind him, and knew that he was about to shoot, he grabbed the golden tiger next to him and went around the back of the truck.
"Just wait here and let them rush." Geng Zhi whispered to Jin Hu.
This scene was seen by Song Zhi, his eyes were wide open, and he raised his knife and walked around behind Geng Zhi.
"What to do!?"
The other party had a submachine gun, and the second and third floors of the small building were about to be burned down, Li Yu saw at a glance that the wall of the kitchen corridor had not collapsed at this time, and suddenly thought that there was an escape hatch in the kitchen, and put all his hopes in the kitchen.
"All retreat to the kitchen!"