Chapter 44: The Bloody Battle in the Docklands (Part II)
The docklands have been thrown into chaos, with wails and fires everywhere.
The basic needs of living beings are food and reproduction, and the aristocratic pied piper of the dusk, who is cursed by the gods and has no future and no hope. In their own way, they are expanding their family.
Under the threat of the rat swarm, ordinary people will only scatter and flee, and the uniformed city guards and city defense troops will become the key targets of the rats.
As Jiang Shang expected, most of the police and military forces were visiting more "important" business districts and administrative districts, and the slum-like dock areas were severely lacking in liliang, and most of the scattered guards were born in the dock districts and rushed to protect their families in disobedience.
"Light the barrel and the alcohol, and set fire to the rat monsters, they are afraid of fire. Aunt Li, don't cherish that bit of liquor and cotton clothes at this time, your life is gone, what do you want to do. ”
"This is a century-old wine left by Uncle Li. Not ordinary liquor. ”
The one who organized the defense was actually Jiang Shang's old acquaintance, the notorious wanted criminal gang leader of the Crazy Dragon Gang, bald Wang Meng.
At this time, while crying and laughing, he persuaded the old lady who was reluctant to drink well, organized arson to stop the rats, and turned his head to ask his little brother.
"Bai Mao, haven't you believed in the city defense army yet?"
"Boss, the south gate was suddenly opened, a lot of abandoned beasts came in, the city defense army is organizing the second generation of defense lines on the spot, and now they are all asking for help, and they can't pull out manpower at all."
"Niang Xipi's, usually forty, fifty or eighty thousand, one by one, when it comes to the critical moment, it is useless. White hair, is there a letter from the guards? ”
"A total of sixteen people came, led by Ashin from Liujia Hutong, all of whom were buddies born in the dock area. The rest of the guard had gone to the north gate to protect the officials and merchants, and Ashin was still worried about being held accountable for disobeying orders. However, they are indeed more useful than us in organizing the defensive line when they are trained. ”
A few members of the military-trained guard became the backbone of the defenders, and they became the core of the defense by disobeying orders to support their homes.
Wang Meng laughed dumbly.
"Came here in violation of military orders? Ashin's kid is really a grandfather, too, his wife and son are here. Tell him. If he loses today, he doesn't have to worry about being held accountable, if everyone survives today, they are the heroes of the villagers, and if the security bureau dares to punish him, we will give those guards who don't care about it look good. ”
"Boss, the people I sent got a reply, the situation of the South Gate City Defense Army is not very good, those ancient beasts are also going crazy, they want us to move quickly."
With a sweep of his eyes and a glare, Wang Meng still has the demeanor of a big man.
"Transfer? Where to move? It's our home, and out of here, we're nothing. Retreat to the teaching area? Yes, the women and children will go, and the old men will stay, and let these filthy beasts see the ambition of the human race. ”
The main force of the defense unexpectedly became those gang members and gray mercenaries, and when the catastrophe came, these dangerous elements who roamed the border with morality and law became the most determined fighters to protect their families and countries.
Even if they weren't good people in the past, but their home and family are here, and they know that there is no other way to survive except to fight to the death, to escape? Even if you escape from the city, in the endless dark wilderness, in the pursuit of endless hunters, you will only die faster and more miserably.
"Brothers, it would be too bad for you to be inferior to those students and civilians
It's not just the gangsters who come to support.
Behind the dock area, there is a teaching area and a civilian area with a high population density, but there is no defense itself, if the south gate and the dock area are lost, and a large number of abandoned beasts pour in, it will only be a matter of a few minutes late death.
In this era when everyone works hard to learn soul power, students with sufficient soul power also have a certain combat power, and even, compared to those gang members who are mainly Shiraishi, although they have a lot of combat experience, their average combat power is a little stronger.
Many civilians and students with high soul power formed the new volunteer army, and one of their leading figures was Li Zhenjun and Li Dashao, who Jiang Shang was familiar with.
The unlucky young master who was repaired by Liu Min and the Tianping Knights, the son-in-law of the family of the deputy general manager of the city defense army, as the vice president of the student union of the No. 1 Middle School, organized a support team as soon as he found out that the situation was wrong.
They organized various types of study sessions on weekdays, and when they found that the solar furnace was not rising as usual, they began to contact them urgently.
According to the previous plan, in just half an hour, the emergency volunteer team was successfully organized, and at the same time as the alarm sounded for the destruction of the city, they made up their minds to start the operation.
Most of the support teams are the backbone of various colleges and universities, and there are also semi-dependents who are not low, and in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they are basically soul energy people above the original stone level.
The manpower is only in the early 100s, but the average strength is not bad, and even many of them have mastered the family heirloom star soul skills, which greatly complements the lack of high-end combat power in the local area.
They also know the city, and they know that instead of sticking to the area where they are, it is better to concentrate their superior combat power to suppress the source, and this dock area is the place where they need support the most, and their thoughts are actually the same as Jiang Shang, which is to protect their homes and schools.
In this era of the jungle, human beings, as the weak side, have long learned to huddle together for warmth.
The lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and it is pointless to die a few minutes late.
As for Liu Min's Knights of the Balances, they had more important things to do.
"Bang! Boom, boom, boom,"
In the midst of a series of explosions, the sewer pipe was blown off.
Under the loud explosion, a large number of improvised bombs exploded in a row, and the sea water that passed along the city was successfully diverted, and in some places, the sea water began to pour into the sewer pipes.
The sound of the explosion shook people's spirits, and the Knights of the Scales successfully completed the assault mission, blowing up a ditch where the rats were entering and exiting.
But the number of enemies that can be reduced is better than pure passive defense.
"They want to join up with the herd of beasts that entered the south gate and stop them."
The goal of the rat swarm is not disguised and cannot be disguised.
The outcasts are not beast gods, they can give flesh and soul to the ancient beasts, and drive these beasts within a general range, but they cannot directly command these manic beasts.
Let them have hope of attacking the city, let them and the rats obediently drill into the sewers, I am afraid that the rats with extremely weak individual strength will become their food first.
The total population of Haiming City is 340,000, the garrison (city defense army) is 27,000 people, and the city guard force is 3,000 people.
Although the south gate was damaged due to the destruction of the gate, the 6,000 city defense troops at the south gate still retained their combat strength, and they built a defensive line on the spot to prevent the beasts from entering.
The guards with fewer personnel have to carry out security tasks in dark towns, and most of them are faced with outlaws, and their personal combat strength is superior, while the city defense army that has to undertake the task of city defense has been dealing with the impact of abandoned beasts for many years, and has sufficient training and strength in the battle formation coordination and position construction.
The shield insignia of the city defense army is enough to show their natural advantages in defensive warfare and positional warfare, one-third of their soldiers are full-time defenders, even if they lose the cover of the city wall, but in a short period of time, it is extremely difficult for the ancient beast herd without high-end combat power to break through.
But the Macedonian line could not be forced, but could easily be bypassed, and even the strongest positional defenses could not defend against attacks from behind, and now the Pied Piper was commanding his army of rat men, ordering them to attack the city defenders from behind.
If the rats besiege from the back or from the flank, I am afraid that under the front and rear attacks, the city defense army will inevitably be completely wiped out.
The terrain of the dock area is already narrow, and the defensive position jointly built by several gangs is in a good position, which is stuck in the large drainage ditch and the south gate, like a stone, and the rat colony is intercepted.
It used to be the Dragon's Lair, the Dragon's Nest, where the old scrap car disposal yard had just enough metal to build a splinter fortification.
Ironically, the fortifications that were originally used to defend against the city defense army and the guards have now become a lifeline for the city defense army.
It was a simple fortification, and they usually built a fence, a mound, and a ditch around their settlements, and now this simple fortification plays a huge role.
Filled with alcohol in a fire gutter, the flames are not intimidating, but they are extremely effective for rats that are instinctively afraid of fire.
Seeing the fear of fire on the opposite side, the guards frantically made fires, and even did not hesitate to set fire to their own wooden bungalows, removing wooden planks and lighting the fires, these burning barriers became the strongest protection.
Relying on these defenses, they have been holding their positions for two hours since the alarm sounded at the West Gate, and if they fail, the entire dockland will be completely lost due to a chain reaction.
And then there will be a succession of unsuspecting educational and civilian areas, and two-thirds of the city's population will be food for the herd.
Ironically, when the rats came out of the sewer pipes, the Dragons, who had originally planned to make a mess, became the first to react because they were fully equipped and ready to go.
And the Knights of the Balance, who originally planned to attack them, directly became their first batch of reinforcements due to the sudden change in the situation.
In the face of foreign invasions that feed on people, the contradictions within humanity are temporarily put aside, after all, if the city falls, no one can survive.
Gangs shili, illegal mercenaries, autonomous terrorist organizations (Knights of the Balances), senior students, these people who couldn't fight together in the past, but for a common goal, build a barrier of life.
But their situation is getting worse and worse.
Driven away by the increasingly rapid sound of the flute, the rats who rushed forward and followed used their bodies to fill the ditches, and as time went on, there were fewer and fewer supplies that could be ignited.
The soul equipment is too expensive, and the standard soul equipment used by the city defense army is even more ordnance, although in order to deal with the guards of the ink research institute, Catro supported a batch of Huigang weapons, but there are not many gangs that can use the soul power above the original stone of the combat soul tool.
The weapons that most people have in their hands are nothing more than some homemade cold weapons, and the self-made swords cannot attach soul power, and in the hands of ordinary people, the lethality is too low.
The accuracy of a homemade crossbow is too poor, and it is difficult to shoot at the target through the fire,
With the cover of the rat colony, the throwing stones and bows consume more, while the agile and cunning nezumi did not lose a few.
Liu Min left a few men to play a big role, and under their guidance, the wounded and women in the back continued to make homemade incendiary bombs out of wine bottles and alcohol, and if there was a gap there, one incendiary bomb would be enough to temporarily retreat the fire-feared rat colony.
If it weren't for the fact that these big men played with their lives in street fights, and the rats were too desperate for their lives, I'm afraid they would have fallen a long time ago.
The Pied Piper did not expect that he had chosen the weakest defense of the dock area as a way to break through, but it still formed a tug-of-war.
The rats are not good at fighting, and the fear of fire is one thing, but the main thing is that the rats do not intend to bear unnecessary damage for the food that has already arrived.
Although their king was constantly urging them, the rat people who were desperate for their lives only used demon rats to charge instead of themselves, and even those advanced demonic beasts were reluctant to invest.
They are playing with their prey, as usual, waiting for the plague and the virus to spread without a fight.
"Hold on! Ignite everything that can be ignited, behind us is our family, think about what will happen to them if we fail, those brutes will not have a good time, sooner or later the solar furnace will be repaired, victory is at hand. “
The impact of the demon rats was once again blocked, and the victorious return of the Knights of the Balance lifted the spirits of the human side.
“…… We can't wait any longer, if we fail, the boss will tear us apart. ”
The tenacity of the residents of Hemming City made the rats very annoyed, and after the piercing screams, the mutant demon rats went to the front line, and the rats moved seriously.