Section 147 Fall of Chongzhou (2)
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The cold black barrel of the gun pointed through the firing hole in the fence, causing the crowd to become more and more frightened, but they did not have the courage to return to the hellish surface world, so they had to plead under the gun.
Fortunately, the person in charge of the base did not make them wait for a long time, Li Mingfeng lived not far from the exit, and it only took twenty minutes for Leng Suan to arrive from Hall 1 after receiving an internal call.
At this time, the second group of more than a dozen survivors also came to the front of the fence, and Li Mingfeng commanded the combat troops and the personnel of the internal guards to separate a space large enough to accommodate hundreds of people at the entrance and exit, and let them all in.
"Who can tell me what happened?" Li Mingfeng shouted at the crowd of people who were desperately squeezing into the fence, but no one paid attention to him, and some people tried to cross the cordon to a safer place, but were smashed back with the butts of their guns by the internal guards.
"Go up and fight! Let them all squat on the ground with their heads in their hands, and whoever doesn't do it will be beaten! Leng Su'an said on the side, Jiang Ming looked at Li Mingfeng, and rushed forward with his own people.
The confusion soon subsided, and the seemingly brutal and cold-blooded approach allowed the newcomer to regain his quiet in the shortest possible time, and they all crouched on the ground as the guards commanded, except for the first few who had been beaten to the ground and groaned in pain.
"Have Liang Jin and Chen Jian been notified? What about Lu Guangping, Wang Qinian, Wang Yuanzhen and Jun? Have the supplies started to be prepared? Li Mingfeng didn't react too much to Leng Su'an's action of interfering with the combat troops, the news brought by the newcomer made him anxious, at this moment, he just wanted to solve the matter as quickly as possible, and then figure out what was happening.
"Lao Li, don't worry." Leng Su'an said on the side. "When I came, the emergency plan was already activated, and the emergency personnel and materials will be transported soon, so let's find out what happened first."
Jiang Ming brought the middle-aged man who came out to answer before to them, Leng Su'an lit a cigarette and handed it to him, calming him down for a while before asking, "Don't be nervous, you guys are already safe when you walk here, there is no danger." What is your name? Who is it? What happened? Don't be in a hurry, tell us slowly. ”
The middle-aged man took a few big puffs of cigarette, his face finally looked better, he looked at Li Mingfeng and Leng Su'an, guessing who among them was the head of this place, and at the same time sorting out his chaotic thoughts, he spoke.
"My name is Li Rong, and I am from the Fourth Garrison Regiment of Chongzhou Island, and we ...... We managed to escape, there are monsters everywhere, and Chongzhou Island is finished. ”
Unlike the others in the base, Leng Su'an had never pinned his hopes on Chongzhou Island, so such news did not have much impact on him. As one of the base's long-standing leaders, he knows very well how difficult it is to maintain a team in such a post-apocalyptic situation, just more than 2,500 people have been divided into many factions, tearing each other down, fighting for power, a place like Chongzhou Island with four million survivors is simply not the paradise that people dream of.
It's supposed to be hell there.
Li Rong's description confirmed his view that Chongzhou Island had never been as beautiful as it was portrayed on the radio, and that the shadow of death had been hanging over the island since the day the disaster broke out, and it never left.
Before the end of the day, Chongzhou Island was a famous land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, with more than 1,000 square kilometers of land almost all fertile plains, with numerous farms, forest farms, pastures and fishing grounds, as well as wind farms and hundreds of factories, with a resident population of more than 800,000. No matter how you look at it, this is an excellent refuge, and Zheng Hong, the commander of the 17th Division, also gave up the defense line in the northern part of the river and sea for this reason, and put all his strength into Chongzhou Island, hoping to hold the Yangtze River Bridge on both sides and realize the defense of Chongzhou Island, relying on its superior geographical conditions and industrial and agricultural foundation to build it into a decent base.
But the reality is not so.
Chongzhou Island is surrounded by the Yangtze River, and just a few hours after the virus broke out, the island's livestock and wildlife mutated en masse, eating almost everyone.
Fang Jianguo had previously transferred the armed police force and coastal defense troops on Chongzhou Island to the inner city to participate in the defense in order to protect the river and sea, which made Chongzhou Island a dead land, and the 17th Division paid a great price to clear most of the mutated animals on the island, and thus lost the most precious time. Hundreds of thousands of refugees flocked from the Yangtze River bridges in the north and south, followed by mutated monsters several times their size.
The island's large armory allowed the 17th Division to expand to 100,000 men at one point, but it was of little practical use against monsters, with untrained militia often crushing at the touch of a button, and artillery not being able to be trained in a matter of days. After sacrificing half of the veterans and tens of thousands of recruits, Zheng Hong finally made up his mind to blow up the Yangtze River Bridge.
It was a difficult decision, not to mention the significance of keeping the Yangtze River Bridge to continuously obtain material supplies from the river and sea, and the continuous crowd of refugees on the bridge deck also made it impossible for Zheng Hong to make a decision, until a giant monster with a height of more than 15 meters appeared at the entrance of the bridge, Zheng Hong finally ordered to detonate the explosives that had been installed long ago.
Li Rong was one of the last survivors to go to the island, when he was born, he was not even forty meters away from the explosion point, hundreds of people were directly blown to pieces, and the number of people killed and injured by the flying debris was not a small number, but what Li Rong remembered most was the refugees who were separated on the other side of the broken bridge, and their desperate cries and curses even drowned out the rumbling cannonballs. Many people stand in despair at the breach, squeezed into the river alive by the crowd pushed up from behind, but more are people who take the initiative to jump into the Yangtze River with their wives and children to commit suicide, they have no hope of living, and can only use this method to escape the fate of being eaten alive. But there are also many mutated creatures in the river, who have been eaten alive before they drown.
The nightmare didn't end there, there were as many as four million refugees flocking to the island at this time, most of the water sources were polluted, the corpses of mutant monsters were scattered in every corner of the island, so that many farms and forest farms had to be set on fire, and many factories were destroyed by the monster tide. The 17th Division inherited not a base that could be maintained and expanded, but a cemetery destined to die slowly.
Every day, people are dying, some from the monsters that sneak into the island across the long coastline and the mutant bats that come from the sky, some from hunger, thirst, and disease, and many from suicide, brawls, or riots that storm the warehouses of supplies, from purges and massacres in factional struggles.
Famine, thirst, and desperate panic were the norm on the island, with nearly 1 in 10 of the 4 million people dying of hunger and sickness6, and almost the same number of suicides, and by the day the island fell, Li Rong estimated that only two million people had survived. At first, there were organizations to burn their bodies and bury them in a centralized manner, but soon these corpses became valuable food.
The munitions were consumed in the 24-hour non-stop shelling, but the barrels were consumed even faster, and the factories on the island could not mass-produce the much-needed artillery and ammunition, and there were only so many supplies on the isolated island that no one could conjure them out of thin air.
There is a military airfield on the island, and Li Rong also sees heavy transport planes landing on the airfield, bringing supplies they urgently need, but mutant bats keep crashing the transport planes. Only a short period of time at noon every day could ensure the safe take-off and landing of the planes, but it took several hours to fly here from the rear, and after losing nearly 100 transport planes in vain, they never saw any aid from the rear.
Everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before the island fell, but no one could leave, and standing on the shore, it was easy to see the monsters that were moving, and the aquatic monsters that loomed in the water.
"We all waited for this day to come, we just didn't expect it to come so soon." After Li Rong said this, he fell into silence, and the people around him did not speak for a long time.
Chen Jian has brought in the medical team and began to conduct medical examinations on the new survivors according to the procedure, and the supplies and logistics staff have also put food, water and clothing that can be used to keep them warm. Lu Guangping handed Li Rong a steamed bun and a bottle of water, and he immediately ate and drank greedily.
Li Mingfeng straightened up and looked at them with sad eyes, while Leng Su'an looked at Lin Li and Chu Zhongtian, who hurried with Liang Jin after hearing the news.
"How did you get out?" He asked one last question.
"There were a lot of fishing boats, ferries and small cargo boats, as well as sampans, and when the island fell, many people crowded into boats and fled to the south shore. Many boats were capsized by monsters halfway through, and we were lucky enough to drift down the current to a place where there were no monsters and landed, and then met the man who called himself Lin Chuan. Li Rong's face was full of confusion and doubt, but he still said. He told us to grab hold on to the ship's fixtures, and I felt only a constant shaking and jolting before we got to the outside of the tunnel. He told us all the way down the tunnel and said someone would take us in, and then ...... Then he flew away. ”
"Can you tell me who he is? What's going on? He couldn't help but ask.
"About this, I think you'll soon understand what's going on." Leng Su'an replied. "Thank you so much, you can go and rest. Rest assured, we have enough food and water to keep you safe. ”
He saw Lin Li and Chu Zhongtian tacitly exchanging glances, and Chu Zhongtian's eyes showed a look of excitement that could not be concealed.