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At this time, it is necessary to run due east, and there is a Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway extending northward for about 5 kilometers. Although the highway had been abandoned for many years, and there were many sections along the way that had been washed away by heavy water, small units without heavy equipment were still faster than marching in the wilderness.
If the living corpses can't help but chase them out, it doesn't matter, the Air Force will send all the transport planes into the sky and bomb them along the western side of the road. As long as they can block the relatively fast Blue Devil Squad, the remaining zombie clusters can't catch up at all.
As long as they can break out of the encirclement, Zhang Ke and his party can rely on the air force reconnaissance plane to avoid the pursuit of zombies, and then contact the command headquarters, find a usable port on the Huai River at will, board the naval gunboat and retreat.
In fact, this plan is not easy to implement, it requires seamless connection and close cooperation between the sea, land and air force and Team X, and the distance across the battlefield is as long as 8 kilometers.
The easiest way is to let Team X command the zombie group and the zombie cluster commanded by the wild living corpses, and fight head-on in the plain area between the north side of the reservoir and Xinyang North Station, attract a large number of zombies to gather here, and then use aerial bombardment and heavy artillery groups to kill a large number of living forces in the rear of the battle line.
It seems that this will consume a lot of bombs and incendiary bombs, but it is not. When zombies rush in dense formations, the lethality of high-powered shells and aerial shells will increase exponentially, and often hundreds of them can be killed by one down. The zombies that were lucky not to be killed or shattered by the explosion don't care at all, they are all controlled by Team X.
If the living corpses commit chicken thieves and don't push a large number of zombies to the front line, Team X can easily gain the upper hand, control the zombie group to push the battle line forward, and rescue the 8th Regiment and Zhang Ke and his party.
As for whether or not the living corpse can be found and destroyed in the end, it is not the ultimate goal of this operation, it is better to find it, and it is possible to find it. Anyway, there will be means and time to deal with it in the future, as long as they don't spend most of their time in the ground like moles, sooner or later they will be pulled out.
But why didn't Jiaoqiao adopt this simplest and most reasonable solution? The reason is very simple, in a word, he is not very at ease with this mysterious X group!
He didn't know the details of Plan X from beginning to end, and now he suddenly popped up and said that he could save mankind from fire and water and help the building to collapse, so he was not sure how to figure it out.
Not to mention whether there is any scientific basis and data, it is really difficult to convince him of this elm head with only a few small-scale experiments and theoretical calculations. It is not a question of whether or not you believe in science, but whether something new emerges and is fully understood.
When he followed Hong Tao back then, he was not less fooled at first, if it weren't for the face of Liu Ruoshuang and Liu Ruoyu's sister and brother, his pants would have to be deceived by that old bastard.
As the saying goes, if you eat a trench, you will grow a wisdom, and Jiao Qiao's self-begging brain melon seeds are not very bright, but after eating a large basket, you have to grow more or less wise. Hong Tao has said more than once that you should not rush to pounce on any new thing, and the safest way is to watch others rush first.
Watch less drama to make money and take advantage of it, and only pay attention to when someone is unlucky and suffers. Everything in the world has two sides, and we must see both sides in a complete way, so that it is possible to objectively evaluate whether this new thing is an opportunity or a trap.
Team X must be considered a new thing, not to mention seeing, I have never even heard of it, so Jiao Qiao died and refused to give his reputation and the lives of thousands of officers and soldiers with his hands rashly. But people must be saved, and they must be rescued quickly, and the situation will deteriorate further once the rainy days come and the air force is without support.
Therefore, he got together with the generals and staff officers of the three armed services, and based on the principle of safety first and high technology second, he came up with such a set of plans that should give full play to the strengths of the X team and not pin all their hopes on it.
According to He Wanjun, the leader of Team X, this is not called a plan at all, but a muddy and courageous! Even Zhou Yuan partially expressed his opposition, but fortunately, Lin Na pressed the formation, otherwise Jiao Qiao would be alone.
"Command received, Dragonfly 4, continue the search mission!"
Seeing that the sky was approaching dusk, and the war on the front line was developing in the direction that everyone least wanted to see, the mood of the officers in the room was not too high. Only the staff officer in charge of communications constantly gave orders to the reconnaissance plane.
"Minister Jiao, there seems to be a situation in the battle report sent by Zhang Ke that wild dogs are suspected of being controlled by living corpses, should these wild dogs also be concerned?"
In addition to the officers of the navy, army and air force and the general staff, there are also several outsiders in the command, such as Zhou Yuan, Lin Na, and He Wanjun. They were considered to be present in the rescue operation, but they had no decision-making power, and could only influence the decisions of the generals through private communication.
Zhou Yuan's attitude was the most serious, occupying a desk alone, wearing glasses and looking through the various messages and reports about the front-line battle situation these days. Hearing the report of the reconnaissance plane and the reply of the staff officer, he immediately picked up a few pieces of paper and walked to Jiao Qiao's side, and whispered a suggestion.
“…… If even the wild dogs had listened to the command of the living corpse, I am afraid we would not have been able to go back. ”
Jiao Qiao took it and looked at it, and returned it to Zhou Yuan. I have read these messages a long time ago, and the overall feeling is that I don't feel it. He instinctively didn't believe that wild dogs could be with living corpses, which was not quite logical.
You don't need to go to the battlefield to see it, just say that near the airport, there are groups of wild dogs at night, and the howls are heard one after another. This is not only the case at Minggang Airport, but also wild cats, wild dogs and wild animals everywhere as long as you leave the safe zone.
If animals can also be infected with the zombie virus, the rate of infection will be n times faster than that of humans. But after all these years, who has ever seen an infected wild dog or other animal? Not a single one! It can't be said that as soon as Hong Tao appeared, the animal was infected.
In that case, whether to save people or kill people is a matter of two words. Didn't this Nima deliberately cause chaos for mankind, even if it was a friend, he had to kill his relatives for the sake of all mankind!
"But I did see brown bears infected by the zombie virus in Xinjiang Province, and the carcasses were also transported back, and after examination, the symptoms were the same as those of zombies!"
Zhou Yuan is different from Jiao Qiao, she has seen the example with her own eyes, and Zhang Ke will not guess blindly on this issue, she must have gotten some kind of hint, maybe there is Hong Tao on the side to point out.
"Minister Zhou, now the Air Force is at full capacity, and all the planes have to rotate in tandem. If you add more tasks to them, not only will they be unbearable, but the aircraft will also have problems due to lack of maintenance! ”
Jiao Qiao was a little annoyed, the current situation on the front line was unknown, and the living corpses never showed up, and he always felt that there was a knife hanging above his head. If a part of the forces are allocated to clean up the wild dogs at this time, the little force in his hands will immediately be stretched.
“…… Can you find it at any time and clean it up by the way? "In terms of military affairs, Zhou Yuan can't be said to be completely blind, and at present, what can be accurately called by name is limited to the firearms used in peacetime training, or his own gun, and he doesn't know anything about other equipment. But she still didn't want to give up her efforts, and made a compromise request.
“…… Minister Zhou, wild dogs have small targets, fast movement speed, and are easy to hide, so cleaning up will be very ammo-intensive. At present, the ammunition in the airport is only enough for regular use, and if it is all wasted on wild dogs, once a living corpse is found, it may not be enough to clean it up in the end.
With such a large-scale zombie tide, there must be more than one or two living corpses hiding in the shadows and commanding. In this case, I will order the special operations regiment to keep an eye on it along the way, and if they find wild dogs, they will all be killed! ”
Jiao Qiao was just about to get angry, when he suddenly saw a pair of eyes looking at this side in front of him, and immediately turned his anger into a deep breath, and continued to briefly explain the current form and specific difficulties to Zhou Yuan.
"Minister Jiao, so far, do you still think the plan formulated by the General Staff to go south can be tried? We were far from being prepared in terms of manpower, material resources, and intelligence. For the sake of the lives of the Union soldiers, you can't always be a peacemaker as the Minister of Armed Forces. ”
Jiao Qiao's explanation Zhou Yuan understood, and believed that it was not perfunctory, and the discussion about wild dogs ended here. However, there is one more thing that must be struck while the iron is hot, lest some people forget the pain when they are healed, and if they do not learn the lessons of this time, they will find an excuse to continue south.
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