Chapter 56: The Migration Begins
The next day began the official move to Shangcheng, in view of his lack of experience, Ling Chen asked Mayor Zhou and Master Li to help manage all the things transferred by the masses, he himself was only responsible for ensuring security, and the two were indeed the nominal supreme leaders, commanding in front of the citizens, which could play a role in stabilizing people's hearts.
However, things did not go well, because of the news in advance, many citizens came to the exit of the security zone early in the morning, as if they were afraid of being abandoned, which led to the encirclement of more than a dozen or even hundreds of thousands of people at each exit, and the water could not be sorted out at all. The army opened the way in front, and countless citizens followed and crowded onto the bridge......
Then the Beiyi Bridge, which had been damaged in many Zerg offensive and defensive battles, was crushed by the weight of tanks and countless people and collapsed! Thousands of citizens fell into the river and drowned, and a tank was scrapped, casting a shadow over the city's trip.
Due to the heavy weight of various artillery pieces, which would seriously slow down the forward speed, and the limited number of shells, all but a dozen vehicle-mounted guns were abandoned in S City. Moreover, the artillery hits far away and does not hit close, the insects cannot be found in the distance, and there is no need to provoke, and when it is closer, the role of the artillery becomes small. If it weren't for the fact that the tank could open the road in front of it and crash into a broken down car on the road, it wouldn't even have been necessary.
Finally exiting the safe zone through several other exits, the crowd followed the army to the northern transportation hub. There were so many pedestrians on the road that there was no end in sight for more than ten miles, so Mayor Zhou dismissed the so-called adjustment plan and let all citizens continue to move along the road. So the army and the citizens were mixed together like that, and they walked forward in a chaotic manner.
The distance between the front and back of the line is too long, and the army needs to protect it in the middle, so it is not a good choice to walk.
Mayor Zhou thought like this, he actually didn't have the experience of organizing the migration of millions of people, let alone him, I'm afraid that no one had this experience. Fortunately, the senior officer had a communicator with him, and Ling Chen by his side could put out fires everywhere, which made him put down his snack somewhat.
Division Commander Li led the army to the forefront, and when he commanded the army again, he seemed to be rejuvenated, with a loud voice and a tall posture, and from time to time loudly encouraged the army, bringing a fresh vitality to the army in front of him.
Didi, tick, the mayor's communicator sounded.
There are reports of bugs catching up behind, bugs? There are no bugs around, but the gunshots that rang out from time to time and the occasional flash of light in the sky will solve them, and Mayor Zhou didn't care, just let the self-organization behind resist.
At the end of the migration tide, countless citizens have just come out of the safe zone. They were surrounded by soldiers and card bearers who had been evacuated from guarding the dark cracks, and without the restraint of these people, the insects that came out of the nearly 100 dark cracks gradually increased, and after an hour, there were as many as 1,000 or so, and they pounced from behind the crowd.
Due to the wide distribution of the crowd and the severe shortage of soldiers, hundreds of bugs rushed into the crowd and began to kill indiscriminately. Countless people died tragically in various postures, spraying blood everywhere and broken limbs, frightening the crowd to desperately squeeze forward, and some people even began to pull others behind themselves, only to die is not themselves, and the crowd is very chaotic for a while.
Bang!
A shot shot into the eye of a distant insect, Gao Cheng dodged to get out of the way of the head cutting insect's attack, and swung his left saber horizontally, cutting out a slender wound on its wing. As a result, the bug lost its balance and failed to fly in time, crashing headfirst into the opposite store.
Gao Cheng jumped up from behind, rode on top of the worm's body, and stabbed it several times in the head.
"Hey, Gao Cheng, you kid is killing insects now, it's really clean!" Not far away, a company commander fired a shot into the sky, taking the time to take a look at this side.
Gao Cheng pulled out the saber, played a knife flower, and inserted it back into the knife barrel, "Now I can control the vitality, the action and reaction are much faster than before, as long as it is not three or four together, I can solve it, if there are one or two more cards, I believe it will not be worse than the card holder." ”
"If you kid has a card, then he is not the card holder, of course it will not be worse than them!" The old company commander smiled, "But then again, it's really remarkable that your kid can use his vitality so quickly, much stronger than my old arms and legs." ”
"Company Commander Meng, you're joking, what did Mayor Zhou say, didn't he want to send reinforcements?"
"Let's figure it out ourselves!" Lian Chang Meng sighed, "There aren't many insects, but when we kill all the insects, I'm afraid we will have two or three thousand casualties." ”
"The commander is with Mayor Zhou?"
"Yes, the Commander is going to keep the mayor safe, and the other Awoken are there."
"Hmph, fart mayor, S City is gone, what else do you want the mayor to do." Gao Cheng was very angry in his words.
"Eh, how do you speak, Master Li is not our division commander, can we not listen to the command?"
Gao Cheng snorted again, obviously a little unconvinced, the previous commander of the secret path had almost already grasped the power, why did he suddenly put it down and return it to the high-level? He suddenly thought that this trip was to Shangcheng, where high-ranking officials gathered, and he was afraid that he had scruples in this regard.
At this time, a woman screamed not far away, a woman was caught by the headworm and flew into the sky, he subconsciously fired several shots in succession, shooting down the headworm. However, a person and a worm fell from a height of more than ten meters, and fell the hard road, with two crisp sounds, a large area of blood spread around, obviously unable to survive. Gao Cheng was slightly stunned, shook his head, and rushed to the next place where there were insects.
The whole migratory army moved very slowly, and the originally wide road could no longer satisfy the people's desire to flee to the upper city earlier, and the horizontal width of the entire army continued to increase, reaching almost four or five hundred meters. If it weren't for the insects that appeared from time to time around the front, I am afraid that the people would have left the army and rushed to the upper city on their own. However, the forward troops, who were responsible for opening the roads, had to continue to clear the roads and push the parked cars off the roads, even if they delayed a lot of time, without the slightest hesitation. Because the back of the transport truck has millions of people needing food, tents, and all kinds of medical products, etc., these cannot be left behind, these are stable items.
Along the way, the rear kept catching up with the swarms, and the crowd at the back desperately squeezed forward, ignoring the shouting and control of the army, stirring up chaos in the rear of the entire migratory army, and even spread to the center for a time.
And those who are ahead are not having a good time. On the way forward, there were constantly dark cracks, starting from the original crack close to the city and there were only a few bugs around, to gradually moving away from the city, the bugs began to increase gradually, and the number of bugs near each crack before dark had grown to three or four thousand, and the damage caused was much greater than that of the back.
Every time the swarm charges, it will cause thousands of casualties, and a few back and forth, there will be nearly 10,000 casualties. Everyone was so frightened that they scattered and fled, trampling countless times, constantly squeezing towards the middle of the ranks, and creating constant chaos in front of the Chengren Chao army.
Later, Ling Chen sent two hundred card bearers to the front, which allowed the team to continue marching, and it was not too many casualties when it encountered the attack of the insect swarm.
However, Ling Chen only brought out three hundred awakened people and two hundred card holders, and on the first day, he sent the card holders out to open the way, and the rest of the road was extremely worrying.
It was only after dark on the first day that the army marched twenty miles with difficulty, reaching Xiaoting Town, which was still technically a small town within the limits of S City. If you count the distance in a straight line, it is only about ten miles away.
The town was deserted, and they had all been brought to the city by the army before, and at this time, many citizens returned to their old places, looking at the dilapidated former homes, and they couldn't help but cry bitterly.
After a day of fear and fear, the morale was already very low, and suddenly it plummeted, and many people even shouted that they wanted to return to S City and not move to Uptown - we had lived well in S City before, so why did we have to go there!
Mayor Zhou was a little helpless about this, so he had to look at Ling Chen.
Ling Chen immediately jumped to the highest place in his field of vision, "You want to go back, you can!" I'm more than welcome to turn around now and head back. ”
Everyone kept their mouths shut......
Of course, what Ling Chen said was not angry, he took the opportunity to put forward his thoughts: "And I not only welcome you back, but also suggest that everyone disperse and take the initiative to hide in the countryside, that will be higher than the probability of survival if you follow us to the upper city!" Of course, if you hide well during the day, the smell will fade when you are dispersed, and even if the insects find you, they will only send a few according to your number, and they will not send out an overwhelming wave of insects for one or two people. If any of you are interested, you can sign up with me in the evening, and I will give him a small gift before he leaves. ”
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