Volume I, Section 184, Search

The convoy traveled along the road, and the buildings on both sides gradually increased.

Two hours ago, Su Hao met Liu Jiangyuan, commander of the 517th Infantry Division.

It was a middle-aged man with an indifferent expression, his face was covered in dust and his skin looked rough.

There were no greetings and courtesies, and Liu Jiangyuan directly drew the defense area of the 11th Independent Army on the map. As for the next task, it's just a word without any ingenuity.

"Hold your ground for now, and if possible, rush to the city center."

The occupation of the Lujiang River was a combat mission that the 517 Infantry Division received half a year ago. In this damned city, the 517th Division lost more than 6,000 soldiers, and replenished its personnel and equipment four times. Although the core theater of the city has been continuously compressed, and the various participating troops have been encroached upon from different directions, they have not been able to achieve the goal of occupying the city.

It's not that hard to solve this problem. It only takes a few rocket artillery regiments to blast at the target area with intensive fire for half an hour, and those filthy mutated creatures will die in two.

However, there was no artillery on the battlefield from beginning to end, and the division's army aviation brigade could only provide fire suppression on individual targets, and could not launch attacks in a covered manner. Although Liu Jiangyuan repeatedly protested against the above and strongly demanded that the air force or long-range running support be given, the end result was always the same sentence———— "absolutely not".

Liu Jiangyuan did not expect the 11th Independent Army to play much of a role.

He just wanted to take this opportunity to let the regiment that was originally defending the position withdraw to rest and replenish. They fought badly, with a casualty rate of up to 30 percent. If it weren't for the fact that the enemy on the other side was a mutated creature, not an enemy army that was also a human being, I'm afraid the entire front would have been shaken, and things like surrender would have abounded.

Only twenty-four hours after taking over the position, Su Hao had already led his troops to attack in the direction of the city.

According to the personnel ratio standard announced by the military headquarters long before the outbreak of the virus, taking an infantry division-level combat unit as an example, the logistics support and support personnel are about 20 percent of the total number of soldiers in the division. These people must be responsible for daily food, vehicle driving, mechanical repair and maintenance, material allocation and other related matters, which is equivalent to the operation of the entire infantry division. In addition, the communications and health care departments will also occupy a portion of the staffing staff. Based on a comprehensive calculation, the actual number of front-line armed personnel that the division can actually put into battle is about 70 percent, or even 65 percent, of the total number of soldiers.

In contrast to the human wars that have erupted in history, biological warfare has the characteristics of being confined by abandoned cities. Based on this characteristic, the military department promptly adjusted the ratio of combat personnel in division-level combat units, and the proportion of front-line armed personnel was adjusted to 80 percent, or even more.

The 11th Independent Unit belongs to the newly established recruit unit, and since Xu Renjie has made it clear that he will not interfere, in addition to the sergeant instructors who are responsible for training, all the departments that make up the unit need to be completed by Su Hao himself.

According to the original plan, most of the "worker bees" sent by Lao Song from the "castle" had received corresponding technical training, and based on them, Su Hao set up a brigade-level mechanical repair and medical department respectively. These men were skilled and never questioned any orders from the "Queen Bee", and formed the basis of the logistics support of the 11th Independent Army.

After the outbreak of the virus, there is no conclusive evidence of the actual number of refugees scattered in the Kunming area.

Maybe hundreds of thousands?

Millions?

Or more?

Su Hao initially decided to disperse the entire team, and set up large and small camps around the city, led by Cao Rui, Du Tianhao and others, and expanded them in a radiant way, and finally formed a huge team system based on the "castle", which was not implicated in each other on the surface and secretly communicated with each other. This decision is now having the desired effect. According to the different skills that each person has, the "worker bees" collected by the team are classified into different departments. Inside the "castle", a strict and complex functional system has appeared, and each "worker bee" has its own position, and its resources and abilities can be used to the maximum limit, and there is no waste at all, because the condensed centripetal force generated by the prototype potion is simply amazingly high.

This is Su Hao's unique "hive", which cannot be replaced by anyone and cannot be copied.

Under the support of this strong logistics mechanism, which does not exist at all inertia and perfunctory, Su Hao integrated more than 800 armed fighters from the recruits. Although it is not equipped with armored units and can be used in urban street fighting, it is actually enough.

The position taken over by Su Hao is located in the southwest of Lujiang County. The previous troops left him a large number of permanent fortifications that were well defended. The high and low guard towers form an all-round attack firepower, and high-powered artillery weapons are set up in the main direction of the position, even if it encounters the impact of thousands of large-scale mutated creatures, there is no problem.

Gao Mingyang, Wang Jinlong, Song Xiaoye, Huo Ziwei, and Zhang Nanyi each led a squadron of 100 people, with the starting position as the core, moving towards the direction of the city.

According to Su Hao's order, the various attack squadrons successively gathered dozens of large abandoned vehicles scattered nearby, and after inspection, the engines could barely start. The soldiers carried out a simple anti-infiltration treatment on the old wagons, brought large quantities of faster than cement from nearby military warehouses, mixed them with water, quickly loaded them, and carefully filled every gap that could become an attack channel for mutated creatures along their respective paths.

In the future world, the word "gap" means a potentially dangerous pipeline.

The attacking squadron walked slowly, filling all the manholes they passed by, using all the waste and cement that were carried by the trucks.

Each squadron is divided into three parts: front, middle and rear———— front team is responsible for guarding; The squadron is responsible for escorting the modified scrap vehicles and quickly filling every "gap" along the way; The rear team was the largest in number, equipped with five trucks, and formed a cross-fire circle with on-board machine guns and surrounding soldiers, covering the front and squadron, and moving slowly in the form of engineering operations.

Experience, in fact, is the overlapping transformation of time and lessons.

In the time and space where Su Hao was originally located, in order to resist the increasing number of mutant creatures with increasing evolutionary ability, human beings paid an extremely heavy price. After the outbreak of the virus, more than half of the survivors were killed alive, and almost all of those who survived became wilderness hunters. They hide their grief and despair deep in their hearts, and with unprecedented ferocity and cruelty, they use all kinds of weapons and unbelievable methods to frantically take revenge on those hideous monsters.

The "method of filling warfare", which is based on faster than cement, is only one of them. This method is suitable for specific areas with dense buildings, such as cities. To put it bluntly, it is actually very simple, that is, to block the pipes and traffic space as much as possible, and to further compress the activity space of mutated creatures by nailing the doors and windows of houses, sealing manholes, etc., forcing them to pass along the streets like humans. Under this premise, it is possible to kill and injure them in large numbers by setting up ambushes.

It is said that this method was come up with by a German woman. She was looking for food in an abandoned bakery when she found inspiration on a moldy, perforated spoiled cheese.

"Hurry up and stay vigilant————"

"Be careful on the rooftops and balconies on both sides, let go of your mind, don't rely too much on your eyes and ears, and learn to use your conscious antennae."

"Pay attention to the movement of intersections and street directions, do not overlap each other, and each group has a fixed angle of divergence of consciousness. Repeat———— search directions do not overlap. ”

Zhang Nan also bent on his waist and formed a triangular search formation with two non-commissioned officers, walking in front of the armed truck at a slightly faster pace than normal walking, with a vigilant face.

This is the smallest triangular attack formation: one non-commissioned officer is armed with a 9mm assault rifle and the other is responsible for controlling a shoulder-fired mm man-fired cannon. Zhang Nanyi's position is more flexible, he is armed with a carbon battle axe, and he uses the middle line of the two non-commissioned officers as a benchmark, ready to deal with the sudden close attack of mutant creatures.

This is the standard search mode for urban warfare in the future world. Weapons of different functions and powers are matched with each other to form cover and suppress from different angles and distances. Each person in the search group is responsible for different observation planes, and there is no functional overlap between the divergent thinking consciousness. Under normal circumstances, the same number of mutated creatures as the search team would have an absolute disadvantage in battle.

Of course, this is only deductive and theoretical data, and the actual situation will certainly not follow a fixed pattern. After all, mutant creatures have evolved intelligence, and they are not stupid.

Although Su Hao's plan to continuously mobilize manpower from the direction of Kunming was very prudent, due to time constraints, before the departure, the "worker bees" accounted for only about 45 percent of the composition of the 11th Independent Force. Under such circumstances, Su Hao could not guarantee that the troops would exert 100 percent combat effectiveness, so they could only mix the "worker bees" with ordinary recruits, and try to give full play to their numerical superiority in the way of relying on each other.

After this battle, some of the soldiers must have had a change of mentality. Their sense of identity with Su Hao will be further deepened, and the chance of becoming a "worker bee" will naturally be greater.

There is a premise for this———— they have to survive, not die on the spot.

Zhang Nanyi's search squadron has been advancing along the eastern road.

He clutched the carbon battle axe in both hands, and his whole body was in a state where he could explode at any time. The battle suit made of Kevlar material wrapped tightly around the body, and the suppressed muscles bulged out from under the cloth. His expression was unusually calm, still the same honest and wooden appearance, and only when his eyes swept over the street in the distance would he suddenly release a cold and fierce light.

Last week, Zhang Nan also celebrated his 24th birthday.

At the time of the outbreak of the virus, he was still a trainee police officer who was in charge of law and order in the police station not long after graduation.

It was a very happy time.

The people in the office were also very friendly to Zhang Nan, and the little policewoman in charge of household registration was particularly interested in him. Although Zhang Nanyi is a full five years older than the little policewoman, the little policewoman still looks like a senior sister, and always puts on a shelf as a senior to teach him a lesson.

The little policewoman likes Zhang Nanyi very much.

Once out on errands, the little policewoman proposed to have dinner out and drank some wine by the way.

Zhang Nan also swore by his own personality that he really didn't drink much wine that night. But that's just the way it is, alcohol has an incredibly strong stimulating effect on the brain. When sending the little policewoman back to the bachelor dormitory, the two of them hugged each other inexplicably. Then kiss, then undress, and then ......

The little policewoman is very beautiful and looks a little like Japanese actress Nozomi Hazuki. Of course, this is definitely not an insult or contempt, just a contrast in appearance and feeling.

The rest is a logical thing. Zhang Nan also took the little policewoman home to meet her parents, and the old man was very satisfied with his future daughter-in-law, and the two made an appointment to get married during the Spring Festival next year. In order to achieve this important goal, which is no less than a milestone in his life, Zhang Nan also began to quit smoking and drinking for the first time, rarely partying with his former friends, but saving all his salary and planning to buy a wedding house in a suitable location.

Everything was so good, but no one expected the virus to break out.

On that day, Zhang Nan was also outside dealing with a civil dispute. He couldn't understand that a person who had been so good a few seconds ago could mutate into a fierce and cruel monster? If he hadn't been sitting in the cab at the time to enter the data, Zhang Nan also believed that his fate would be no different from that of his colleagues standing outside. Either they were eaten alive, or they were infected by a virus and turned into a zombie that described horror.

The memories in my head are vague, but I can never forget them.

This is Lujiang, not Kunming.

Walking on the cold and hard road, Zhang Nan also felt that his heart had already been cold and hard, and there was nothing extra except for ferocity and murderous intent.

The modified trucks behind them stopped and stopped, constantly unloading the churned ones faster than the cement, and the large masses were stuffed into every manhole on the ground.

"Boom ————"

More than fifty meters in front of him, a hidden iron cover of the well was forcefully propped open from below, and a humanoid with the appearance of a lizard and a terrifying red light in his eyes crawled out.

Zhang Nan was also indifferent for a long time, and a trace of tyranny suddenly flashed in the depths of his pupils. He let out a low growl in his throat, and before the lizard man and the non-commissioned officer next to him could react, his legs slammed into his head. The high-swinging steel axe slashed at the lizardman's head, and under the power of anger and cruelty, the mutant creature that had just poked its head out of the manhole could not even make a gesture of resistance, and completely split its head in half from head to chest.

This is the second-order strength of the human being, and it is the huge power produced by the perfect fusion with Su Hao's blood after taking the silver bone.

If I could have been as strong then as I am now, I ...... I can still have loved ones.

Memories deep in the brain, once again obscuring reality.

Zhang Nan only felt indescribable fear, he stepped on the accelerator hard, opened his mouth wide, and drove the police car all the way into the police station at an extremely crazy speed. There were no more traffic rules, and he could feel the bumps and cracks of car tires running over the surface of his body.

Yes, I knocked several people into the air, maybe seriously injured, maybe they were simply crushed alive. In the past, it was simply unthinkable. You must know that I, I, I am a policeman, a policeman who protects the safety of people's property

There was chaos in the house, and the patio was littered with several zombies covered in blood. There are former colleagues, and there are also a few thieves who were just caught yesterday.

Zhang Nan is only a trainee police officer and has no qualifications to be equipped with a gun. The only weapon that could be used at that time was a riot bait found in the car.

He didn't get out of the car.

Through the car window, as well as the monsters outside with hideous faces and desperately stretched out their hands, trying to pull him out of the car, Zhang Nan also stared blankly at the office hall of the police station with the door open.

The smooth white porcelain floor tiles were covered with sauce-red blood, like sticky brown sugar syrup, constantly spreading towards the unspread ground.

Several corpses lay across the pool of blood. The closest to the gate has been gnawed to the ribs exposed, has no head, and can't tell who it is, and can only guess by the senior superintendent badge that fell next to it, it may be the head of the police station.

The little policewoman was held by two zombies one after the other. Her entire right cheek was gnawed beyond recognition, revealing her cheekbones and teeth, and a large hole had been torn open in her abdomen, and a zombie had stuffed her head into it, swaying back and forth like a pig eating it. When viewed from the side, the swollen abdomen looks like a pregnant woman who has been pregnant for several months and may give birth at any time.

There is also a zombie lying on the desk, between the computer and the pile of papers, holding the left hand of the little policewoman and munching carefully.

Yes, it was indeed her left hand, and Zhang Nan was extremely sure.

Because, there is a small diamond ring embedded between the zombie's teeth.

It was something that Zhang Nan also bought for the little policewoman to use as an engagement, although the band is very thin, the diamond is small, and the price is only a few thousand pieces, but it is a diamond ring after all.

She's gone, hopeless.

Looking at his fiancée who was eaten by zombies, Zhang Nan was also stunned.

He forgot his fears, his police cars being pushed back and forth by zombies, swaying.

He had forgotten exactly when he had driven away, and how he had been rushing back and forth through the chaotic and frantic streets until he ran out of gas.

It was a terrible scene, a nightmare that could never be erased.

Like all people in danger, Zhang Nan searched for relatives and friends in the abandoned city.

Yet they all died, and none survived.

He felt that this was the end of his life, and there was no hope.

However, before starving to death or being killed, Lao Tzu desperately wanted a few zombies to make enough money and pay for his blood debts.

Until one day, Zhang Nan also met an extremely powerful man in the ruins, his name was Du Tianhao.

Du Tianhao told Zhang Nanyi that in this world, there is a more powerful existence than himself, and his name is Su Hao.

"If you're willing to be one of us, if you want to be strong, if you want to avenge the dead, drink it."

When he said this, Du Tianhao handed him a vacuum hose.

It was Su Hao's blood.