The area of the new Lanzhou base city is very large, which is certainly conducive to the development of the city. However, it is also doomed to an excessively wide defense area.

The Northern Air Force Command urgently dispatched six early warning planes to monitor the surrounding areas of Xinlanzhou 24 hours a day. Thanks to information from the Air Force, a large number of defense units began to reinforce in the direction of the southern city gate. However, including Yuan Zhicheng, the soldiers did not expect that the civilians in the city would show panic and chaos at this time. Whatever the cause and idea, whether intentional or undoubted, the turmoil created by civilians in the city has greatly delayed the movement of supplies and troops.

To paraphrase the viewpoint of peacetime, this is the same as the behavior of migrant workers who cannot get wages to block the streets, and the developers maliciously defraud the rent of their shops, resulting in bankruptcy or hopeless life gathering in the downtown area to hang banners of pleading and pity, attracting the attention of many onlookers.

Whether it is blocking the street or gathering people in the downtown area, there are many people who pay attention to it, and it will inevitably cause a series of consequences such as traffic congestion, frequent accidents, and the consumption of a lot of social resources. Of course, in the face of the reporter's interview, the answer of the chaos maker is almost the same: "I can't live, I can't get money, that's all."

Actually, there are many ways to solve the problem. However, limited by the framework of thinking and logical concepts, people will always subconsciously choose the most direct, the most radical, the most easy to hurt others, and in their own opinion, it is also the most effective way.

The new Lanzhou base is Yuan Zhicheng's old nest. He can give up New Urumqi, give up Xinhuhhat, and even give up the existing defense line in the entire north, and endure such terrible things as the casualty rate of all troops in the entire theater as high as 80 percent, and he will definitely not give up Xinlanzhou.

He will be desperate to hold Xinlanzhou at any cost.

Although humans and mutated creatures have been fighting for two whole years, those monsters are always evolving, and the human army is always encountering all kinds of new problems. It takes time to formulate a battle plan or mobilize troops, and although Yuan Zhicheng has already ordered the mobilization of more than a dozen combat divisions to launch an attack on Xinlanzhou, there is always a process of troop assembly and marching.

The populace will never understand and will not understand this.

They just saw the mountains of corpses piled up outside the city, and saw the mutant creatures launch a frantic attack on the base city. They want to get out of here as soon as possible more than ever. In the midst of the chaotic and panicked crowd, there must also be a number of sober-minded and rational people. But their shouts and voices were destined to have no effect in front of most people. As time passes, they themselves become manic and flustered, losing their original composure and original heart.

They climbed to the roofs of buildings, threw down all sorts of debris and construction debris, blocked traffic with all sorts of messes, and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the speeding military vehicles in the streets. Some civilians even stood in groups in the middle of the road, with their hands outstretched, forming a wall, holding aloft homemade horns rolled out of iron sheets, and shouting: "If you refuse to let us go, then don't think about going over." ”

The military situation is urgent, and the soldiers will naturally not be polite. There is no need to consult the Supreme Commander Yuan Zhicheng, the leading army has already given the order to shoot. In the face of irresistible death, the human wall was quickly dispersed, and the heavy military vehicles had no mercy to run over the dead or not dead who had been shot, but had to stop in front of the improvised accumulation of obstacles.

The fleeing crowd regrouped, leaning against the building, continuing to shout at the troops, repeating their demands over and over again. Further afield, there are many more who continue to pile up obstacles...... Having lived through the outbreak of the virus and survival in the wild, civilians knew that if they didn't ask for it now, they would never expect anything.

Yuan Zhicheng and the army, of course, will not bow their heads in the face of coercion. It is not difficult for a reinforced soldier with great strength to clear obstacles. In this way, the reinforcements stopped and stopped all the way, and the soldiers were constantly dropped along the way to clear the obstacles...... By the time the first reinforcements arrived south of Base City, the situation had changed.

The thick steel gate was already mottled, and a large amount of strong acid seriously weakened the thickness of the metal gate. With the fierce impact of giant humanoids such as pigmen and cowmen, the entire gate has been significantly deformed and began to sink inward. In particular, directly above the steel gate, there was a crack more than ten meters long, and the surface was slowly dripping with a semi-solidified acid decay solution. It slowly expanded under the impact after impact, and could no longer close.

Along the "meat ladder" constructed by the giant humanoid corpses, more and more agile mutant creatures rush up the walls and engage the guards in hand-to-hand combat. In this case, at least a third, if not more, of the gun mounts and batteries were rendered useless by the disturbance. Without the firepower output from the top of the city walls, the progress of mutant creatures destroying the city gate is naturally much faster. Coupled with the chaos caused by the people in the city, the reinforcements could not speed up, and when they rushed all the way to their destination in the most savage state, the city gate had already been breached, and a huge group of mutant organisms poured in from the city gate like a tide, instantly flooding all the nearby open spaces.

The situation of the battle, which had been under control, suddenly deteriorated. Many soldiers had not even jumped out of their carriages before they were crawled all over by the overwhelming rush of mutant creatures. A frenzy of creatures engulfed the gates and walls, and they rushed into the building along the walls and stairs. Neither civilians nor the military could resist in the face of such a rapid and intense destructive force. Thousands of soldiers were killed and torn apart on the spot, and many more civilians suffered the same fate. It was a terrifying sight like a colony of army ants in the Amazon rainforest, rushing into a village where the natives gathered, never sparing any target that could be used as food.

"Build a line of defense on the spot."

"Block them, you have to block them"

"Armed forces are served, and the fire direction of each guard tower has been adjusted to 30 to 75 degrees south, and we urgently need reinforcements."

"It's no longer able to resist the attacks of mutant creatures. Quick, everyone retreat————"

The mutated creatures that stormed the city had an absolute advantage over the people and the military. The narrow streets and activity space limit the strength of the enhanced soldiers, and the cooperation between the soldiers is nothing more than gun fire and hand-to-hand combat, although the strength is superior, it is far less than the flexible attack combination of mutant creatures. Despite the commander's repeated orders to build a defensive line in the communication channel, the difficulty of operation was far beyond imagination. Reinforcements were arriving from all directions, but in the absence of preparation, this refueling tactic only increased casualties.

Yuan Zhicheng ordered: within ten minutes, all troops retreat to the back of the second line of defense, that is, the inner wall built around the military-controlled area.

This order is equivalent to the death sentence of all civilians in the base city. At the same time, it also means that those troops who are unable to enter the military-controlled zone within the stipulated time must remain outside and act as a cover for the inner walls

Yuan Zhicheng kept staring at the screen, his eyebrows and wrinkles tightly twisted together. His eyes were full of complex ingredients, anger, unwillingness, shock, remorse......

The sudden battle made Yuan Zhicheng feel indescribably irritable and awkward.

The fact that mutant creatures leave an abandoned city without warning is an unexpected change. Although the human army has the advantage in weapons and has enhanced potions, those monsters can easily gain the upper hand with the combination of numbers and local attacks.

Humans have only two hands.

Despite the strength of the enhanced manpower, there will always be inevitable omissions in the face of three-headed mutant creatures

A young adjutant walked up to Yuan Zhicheng, bent down, and said with a respectful expression: "Your Excellency, I just received information from the air monitoring force: there are as many as 250,000 mutant creatures that have broken into the base city. The southern city is currently in full decline, and chaos and commotion are spreading to neighbouring areas. The guards of the various urban areas are urgently constructing temporary defensive lines, and the Army Aviation Brigade has dispatched all helicopters. A state of emergency has been fully declared in the military-controlled areas, and the first and second reinforcements have been put in place. Four requests in a row from the City Defense Command Center asking you to approve the use of laser launchers in battle in order to massively reduce the number of mutated creatures entering the city......"

"Humph————"

Yuan Zhicheng let out a cold accent from his nostrils.

The person who can sit in the position of city defense commander under his nose is, of course, Yuan Zhicheng's cronies.

He was a brigadier general with a very good reputation, brave in battle, and also capable of multi-faceted thinking. But such a guy who was favored by himself and entrusted with a heavy task actually panicked completely after the mutant creatures broke through the outer city walls. He sent himself telegrams for help, asking for the use of laser emitters and the like...... It's a bastard stupid idiot

The laser launcher was so destructive that the troops guarding the southern gate were caught off guard and didn't have time to use it. If a high-energy laser is released in the city, it means that the entire city is within the range of the ray. The blazing light will cut through the mid-sections of all buildings and walls, killing people, armies, and mutated creatures.

This guy would make such a stupid request, I really don't know how he got those previous achievements? He also didn't want to think about how to deal with the next biological war without people and cities?

The adjutant's expression became a little embarrassed. He approached Yuan Zhicheng again, his tone becoming more humble, but with obvious anxiety: "Your Excellency, the attack of the biological frenzy is progressing very quickly. If the current pace continues, it won't be long before the entire civilian area of Base City will fall. When the time comes, we ......"

Yuan Zhicheng turned around and looked at the adjutant with a majestic and cold gaze: "What, are you accusing me?"

The meaning of this sentence was so obvious that the adjutant suddenly felt a chill jump up his spine. He immediately shut his mouth, lowered his head, took two steps back, and honestly stood aside, not even daring to breathe

Glancing at the retreating adjutant, Yuan Zhicheng turned his body back to his original position, staring at the computer screen with unchanged eyes.

Of course, he will not give up the base city of Xinlanzhou, but he also does not want the city to be too badly damaged. Especially the use of laser emitters in the city, not to mention at all.

It's just hundreds of thousands of mutated creatures. As long as the creature frenzy besieging the base city does not reach the scale of one million, there is still a way to deal with it.

Of course, even Yuan Zhicheng himself had to admit that he was indeed negligent in the guarding and guarding work of the base city. After all, no one thought that the mutated creatures would leave the abandoned city, and no one knew that they rushed over without warning. If I had known that this would be the case, there would have been many ways to contain them, and I would have been able to rely on the city walls to strengthen the gates and keep these damn guys out.

The cautious adjutant obviously didn't know what Yuan Zhicheng was really thinking in his head. He also didn't understand, why did the high-ranking commander keep staring at the computer screen? There were only a few tables of data that were constantly changing, nothing more than current combat casualties, the occupied areas of the base city, and so on.

Yuan Zhicheng's eyes kept staring at the lower right corner of the computer. When the electronic timer had just skipped the "twelve-09" scale, he immediately pressed the intercom button on the desktop and gave the order with a very majestic and irresistible momentum.

"Send out the 31st Mobile Squadron. With them as the spearhead of the attack, the whole army switched to a counteroffensive. ”

As the vice chairman of the military department, Yuan Zhicheng must have many more secrets than an ordinary adjutant.

He can order the Air Force's Northern Theater Command to revise all surveillance information, but he does not have the right to control the space strategic forces located at the Beijing-1 base.

12:09 a.m. is a fixed time limit for the No. 10U military satellite to fly over Xinlanzhou. There are still 4 hours and 27 minutes left before another Earth observation satellite enters the same area.

According to the relevant military regulations established before the outbreak of the virus, all base cities must be under satellite monitoring. Yuan Zhicheng used his power to spend a lot of materials, and only then did he buy off several responsible persons of the space strategy force. The conditions he put forward are not excessive, that is, for a few hours a day, there is always a period of time when the base cities under his command are in the blind spot of monitoring.

It is not difficult to do this, as long as the speed of satellite operation and monitoring range are adjusted.

Yuan Zhicheng didn't want to have a pair of eyes looking at him in the sky at any time.

That would be very uncomfortable, and it would be inconvenient to carry out certain plans and actions.

Under the open space next to the 21st apron on the east side of the military control zone, there was a unique sound of hydraulic machinery. The flat ground began to sink downward, and soon split into four disconnected plates, revealing a huge square crater about 200 meters long.

This is a large lifting platform connected to the underground. With mechanical friction and gear rotation from far and near, an elevator with an oval tip quickly rises from the ground. When the two steel gates were slowly separated in a cross seal, the light came through the lifting cabin, and a line of heavily armed soldiers stepped out.

They wore tan camouflage combat uniforms. Except for the difference in color and marking, it is no different from the regular army uniform. These men were cold-looking, glazed-eyed, slightly stiff in their movements and steps, either carrying large-caliber individual machine guns, heavy machine guns with barrel-mounted ammunition boxes, and some simply holding long-handled carbon knives or tomahawks. It looks like a bunch of armed zombies that have just been dug up from a grave.

In total, five mechanical platforms were raised from the ground. More than 600 armed personnel came out of the elevator one after another. They were loosely formed, not lined up like ordinary troops, but armed with their weapons, and walked directly to the city gate, which separated the civilian and military areas, not far away.

If you look at it from the air, you will see that these people are not actually in a row. They form a team of three people, and according to their different weapon configurations, they form a tightly knit triangle. When the myriad triangles are mixed with each other, it is natural to feel confused. However, each squad never intersects with each other, and each occupies its own separate area. It's just that in terms of weapon matching, it's a bit weird, most of the whole squad has a single cannon, or a hand-to-hand carbon knife axe, rather than one of them.

Their military ranks are uniform, and all of them are captains.

Yang Junhao and Zhang Wen walked in the middle of the team.

Their appearance was not much different from before, except that their skin looked a little rough, with a very abnormal, dull blue color. It was as if there were no muscles at the bottom of the skin, but an alternative substance the color of the deep sea. Against the backdrop of this strange color, blood vessels also stand out from the surface of the skin. In particular, the temples and cheeks are covered with fine lines that are dense like the fibrous roots of plants.

Behind these strange-looking and indifferent soldiers in tan combat uniforms, there were tens of thousands of armed soldiers. They are the garrison of the military-controlled zone, and they are about to attack the mutated creatures outside the walls.

The gates opened.

Looking at the mutated creatures that were far away outside the passage and rushed towards here, they could already roughly see the vague shape, and Yang Junhao and Zhang Wen's indifferent eyes suddenly flashed out like ghost-like pupils. The change was so rapid that it was only for a moment, like when a computer was turned on, and a point of light suddenly flashed in the center of a dark screen.

This bizarre situation happens to humans and can no longer be explained by a simple physiological reaction.

There were no orders such as "everyone charge", and there were no rhetoric such as "everyone come with me", and all the soldiers in gray-brown combat uniforms poured into the passage and rushed towards the civilian area outside the city walls.

They were incredibly fast, leaning forward like sprinters. Running at high speed stirred the air around the body, and couldn't help but let out a terrible scream. In just a few seconds, the battle group of more than 600 people had already rushed into the battlefield, and the most fierce collision with the swarming mutated creatures had the most fierce collision.