But the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop, the task of cleaning up the zombies has been issued, and the troops have just reached the middle and are urgently transferred back. When Yang Ming received the order to return to the LY base immediately, his mind was buzzing, thinking that who was talking too much and stabbed Niu Dafu about his close relationship with Wang Yingan, this is about to change generals.

As a result, when I arrived at the base, I realized that the new order had nothing to do with me. There is only one reason, the southern group was defeated by the zombie tide overnight, and at least hundreds of thousands of zombies are coming north. The Ministry of Armed Forces has ordered a moratorium on the encirclement and suppression operation, and first find out the authenticity and scale of the zombie tide.

After a night of waiting, correspondence, and a morning of reconnaissance, the situation was almost clear. Zombie tides do exist, and the number is at least in the millions. The Southern Group was also indeed routed, and the main forces were left with nothing but small arms and some ammunition.

They are currently retreating north from Xinyi, and the zombie tide is trailing about fifty kilometers behind. According to the estimation of the marching speed of people and zombies, the main force of the Southern Group and the zombie tide will arrive at the LY base almost at the same time.

Under such circumstances, the Northern Group was not only unable to send troops to meet it, but also had to make arrangements in advance to prevent accidents. As for whether it will be caught up by the zombie tide, on the one hand, it depends on the quality of the soldiers of the Southern Group and whether the delayed bombing of the Air Force will work, and on the other hand, it depends on God.

Don't let it rain! On dry roads, human soldiers grit their teeth and march for hours on end, shaking off zombies at speed. Once the road is slippery, you can only wait for death, even if you throw all the guns and bullets and move forward lightly, you still can't run away from the zombies rain or shine.

"What? You repeat! Say it louder...... Minister, the Air Force said that the zombies were withdrawn and are moving south! ”

But just when everyone was worried and anxious, and the big war was about to break out, the reconnaissance plane reported that the zombie tide had turned the direction of advance from north to south and took the initiative to retreat. Even if Yang Ming had participated in many actions to clear the zombies, he was still confused at this moment.

"Found a living corpse?" Niu Dafu strained his face, sat at the table and smoked cigarettes one by one, a little bit like gold.

“…… Probably not, the zombie tide hasn't stopped, they're heading south! For this obvious lack of common sense, Yang Ming did not dare to slack off, and carefully emphasized the key points.

"It's all rubbish! After flying all morning, so many bombs were wasted, not even a living corpse could be blown up, they should be shot! Unexpectedly, Niu Dafu still broke out, and suddenly stood up and scolded, but it was not Yang Ming and a room of staff officers who were unlucky, but the ashtray on the table.

"Brigade Commander Yang, go and arrange the rout troops in the south, let them go to the north bank of the Shu River and deploy the second battalion together, under your command!" After scolding a few words, seeing that no one echoed him, Niu Dafu had no interest in continuing to scold.

No matter why the zombie tide suddenly turned around, LY's defense line had to be laid out as planned. Now that the time is a little rich, it is better to have a big change of guard and unify the troops of the southern group to one side, so that it can be convenient for command.

The urban area of LY is divided into three petals by two rivers, the Yi River enters the city from the northwest and the Yi River enters the city from the southeast, and the two rivers converge in the city and flow southward together, forming a Y-shape.

Due to the perennial flooding of the Shu River, the east side of LY City, including the airport, has become a wetland, making it difficult for both humans and zombies to pass through, so there is no need for fortification.

Niu Dafu set the focus of defense in the central area of the Y shape according to the terrain, intending to use the natural barrier formed by the two rivers to make a fuss about delaying the forward momentum of the zombie tide and gaining time for the air force and artillery to eliminate the living corpses remotely.

Now the Southern Group has also joined in, just to put them at the forefront. In this way, not only can the strength of the defense on the western side be strengthened, but also another important task assigned to him by Gao Tianyi can be completed, which is to eliminate the Southern Group!

That's right, when designing the encirclement and suppression plan, Gao Tianyi made a request to the General Staff to take advantage of the encirclement and suppression plan to find an opportunity to eat this expeditionary force composed of the elite of the Southeast Alliance and the Southwest Alliance.

In order to achieve this goal, the Ministry of Armed Forces has secretly transferred most of the Second and Third Brigades of the Reserve Force to be stationed near Jinan, and nominally only the Third Brigade led by Niu Dafu has more than one regiment to participate in the encirclement and suppression plan, but in fact there are two brigades in ambush behind it, and they can quickly move south from Jinan by rail.

Originally, he was going to find an excuse to suddenly launch an offensive when the encirclement and suppression operation was almost completed, encircling and annihilating more than 2,000 people of the Southern Group in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect to be stirred up by the zombie tide before it started.

However, the appearance of the zombie tide is not all bad, they actually defeated the southern group first, forcing it to lose most of its baggage and retreat north, which is to use an idiom to describe it as self-defeating!

Now there is no need to find any excuses, as long as these two thousand people are arranged to the south bank of the Qihe River, and slightly weaken the rear artillery support when resisting the attack of the zombie tide, the zombies can replace the East Asian Alliance army to complete the task.

As for what to do with the hundreds of foreign volunteers caught in it, if they are lucky enough to run fast when the Southern Group is breached by the zombie horde, they can open the net to make way for the bridge and allow them to withdraw part of it. If you can't retreat, you can only say sorry, and go and be a hero against zombies!

If you want to ask the southern group whether they are willing to be cannon fodder on the front line, in fact, they are not only cannon fodder, but also more than 400 officers and men of a battalion of the Third Brigade of the East Asian Alliance. If you don't even want to fight side by side, then I'm sorry, and you have to obey orders even if you force them with a gun.

A group of defeated soldiers with only light weapons, facing the main force of the East Asian Alliance with the superiority of various artillery and air forces, it is estimated that they can only obey in addition to obeying, otherwise they will be able to stain the battlefield with blood without waiting for the zombie tide to arrive.

Is it worth it to take one of your own battalions in order to destroy one of the regiments of a competitor? Niu Dafu also asked Gao Tianyi on the radio just now, and the answer he got made him stunned.

Gao Tianyi gave him an account! The two alliances in the southeast and southwest sent out elite troops this time. That battalion was nominally subordinate to the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Brigade, but in fact it could be mixed with sand and supplemented with soldiers from the Reserve Brigade, and its officers were also temporarily transferred from the 2nd and 3rd Brigades.

With more than 400 reservists in exchange for the 2,000 elites of competitors, this deal is not only not a loss, but also a big profit. If this is not the case, in the future, in a head-to-head confrontation, it will definitely not be possible to completely annihilate the elite of a regiment by relying on a battalion reserve.

The main thing is that with it, there are dozens of middle- and lower-ranking officers who originally belonged to the second and third brigades. These people are all descendants of Wang Yingan and Yu Zhen, and they have a certain influence in the army, and the intention to remove them for no reason is too obvious, and they are not at ease to keep them.

Now it's okay, the general died in a hundred battles, and the horse leather shroud is returned. When the soldiers catch up with the zombie tide, for the people, for the country, for all mankind to die on the battlefield, afterwards the alliance only needs to award a few medals and give some pensions to the families, no one can say anything, perfect!

If the defeated troops of the Southern Group had not been withdrawn, this battalion would have had an accident while carrying out the task of clearing up or encirclement and suppression, and it would have been accidentally bombed by the air force or artillery. Niu Dafu is also familiar with doing this kind of thing, and it is not difficult.

Since inquiring about Gao Tianyi's high opinion, Niu Dafu seems to have opened up, and he likes to play this kind of difficult trick of killing three birds with one stone and killing people without seeing blood, and using Yang Ming is his free play.

To this day, Niu Dafu is still haunted by what happened in Xinyang. If Zhou Yuan and Zhang Ke hadn't escaped, they would definitely have been retaliated. Now the mastermind can't be found, and the participants of the year can't be easily freed.

Yang Ming is one of them, not only did he not support himself, but also saw the humiliating moment when he was arrested and imprisoned. Sometimes you see what you shouldn't see, you listen to what you shouldn't hear, and you should die!

No matter how shrewd Yang Ming was, he couldn't guess that the high-level would use hundreds of soldiers as his funeral companions, so he took the order without any opinion. I guess I'm still thinking about how to fight this battle well and leave a better impression in front of my new boss.

"Niu, our volunteer troops should also go to the places where they are most needed, they are all very good fighters, they have rich combat experience, and they should not be left behind!"

But the other soldiers in the headquarters with western faces did not seem to be satisfied with Niu Dafu's arrangement, they were volunteers from Central Asia and Europe, and they were basically arranged in the upper reaches of the two rivers, five or six kilometers away from the front line.

"Uh...... You tell that driver, our flanks are also very important, and the living corpses are very exchangeable, and they will not only attack the front, but also the two wings. If both sides of the line of defense were lost, the entire army would be in a desperate situation of being surrounded. Their responsibilities are not only great, but also daunting! ”

Niu Dafu took a deep breath, turned his head and explained his strategic intentions aloud to the English-speaking staff officer, and tried to squeeze out a smile that he thought was quite gentle.

But in my heart, I have scolded the ancestors of these foreign devils for eight generations, and they pronounce themselves very strangely, every time they seem to be calling "Niu'er", whether they are intentional or not, they make themselves very awkward.

If you can make your own decisions, you should send them all to the front line and be killed by zombies along with the defeated soldiers of the Southern Group. It's a pity that Gao Tianyi has a death order, and he can't let the volunteers in the Northern Group suffer too much loss, the reason is very simple, offending too many people is not good for the East Asian Alliance.

Most of the volunteers in the Southern Group come from the Americas and Southeast Asian island countries, and their groups are either too far away or too weak.

But the volunteers from Europe and Central Asia in the Northern Group are different. The group behind them is relatively strong, and there are also those who hold the position of chairman of the Human Survivors Alliance, so it is best to have a good relationship.

It is not that they can send troops to help when the East Asian alliance needs it, but they only need to have a slightly better attitude in the confrontation with the Indian Federation in the future, which can play a great role in public opinion.

(End of chapter)