"It's hard to have a hard top, and it should be easier to retreat to the fortifications on the north bank of the Yellow River and rely on the moats. However, it is also not easy to withdraw all the troops, LY is more than 200 kilometers away from Jinan, and if we do not completely discard the baggage, it will take at least three or four days for our troops to arrive.

According to the speed of the zombie tide in the first two days, even if there is the barrier of the Yi River and Yishui, it will only take more than a day to reach Jinan. If they catch up with them during the retreat, I'm afraid they will be wiped out! ”

Although Captain Fang is not in the army, he has a very clear understanding of the situation on the battlefield, which may be called standing high and seeing far, after all, the air force has a wider field of vision and is used to large-scale transfers.

"Empty the ammunition depot in Xuzhou first, and then prepare to empty the ammunition depot in Jining, give me half an hour!" After listening to Captain Fang's analysis, Niu Dafu threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it fiercely, turned around and walked towards the telecommunications room.

He had roughly calculated that according to the current strength, if he did not resist desperately regardless of losses, the 3,000 people in his hands plus the more than 2,000 people in the Southern Group should be fine until dark with the advantage of the river, and the ammunition would be enough.

But once it's night, the difficulty of defending increases exponentially. Once a zombie breaks through a certain point, it will trigger a chain reaction, and it may not help to put the reserves on top. After all, people are not zombies, and they need to have clear vision to fight.

The main forces of the two brigades in Jinan had already received orders yesterday to send reinforcements to the south, but they were carrying a large amount of ammunition and heavy equipment, and the speed of movement could not be too fast. Even if the lightly armed and rapid march barely arrived, light weapons and men alone would certainly not be of much help.

If he can't resist the arrival of reinforcements, he will have to retreat, not only will these more than 5,000 people be in danger, but the more than 10,000 main forces behind him will also be in trouble. Defending against massive zombie onslaughts in a wilderness without preset fortifications is obviously impossible.

Rather than be so passive, it is better to retreat in advance and redeploy to the north bank of the Yellow River. There are not only wide and turbulent moats, but also permanent fortifications that have been built for several years, and as long as there is enough ammunition and equipment, the zombie tide will not think of crossing the river for a while.

In fact, just stopping the zombie tide from continuing to develop northward is not the ultimate goal, and the only way to completely solve the zombie tide is to find and destroy the living corpses that command them. Now the living corpses are becoming more and more cunning, knowing that hiding to avoid air raids, it is in vain to throw more bullets if they can't find the target.

But as long as the zombie tide moves widely, the living corpses will definitely come out of their hiding places and follow along. On the more than 200-kilometer journey from LY to Jinan, how could the Air Force find an opportunity to drop bombs?

Now what I need to think about is not how to hold my position, but how to use the troops in my hands to use the air force as bait and lure out the living corpses on the premise of reducing losses as much as possible.

Niu Dafu's idea was quickly supported by Pan Wenxiang and Gao Tianyi, and there was no other way if he didn't support it, if he threw nearly 20,000 troops south of the Yellow River and was consumed by zombies, although he could pull more than 2,000 Southern Group troops on his back, it was the East Asian Alliance that suffered in the end.

"Inform the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Reserve Brigade to immediately halt their advance and return to Jinan, and transport all their baggage to the north bank of the Yellow River to set up defensive positions. The 1st Brigade Engineer Regiment was dispatched to set up a temporary defensive line along the north bank of Qingyun Lake east of Xintai to receive the LY troops to retreat.

Staff Officer Zhou, you immediately take the engineer battalion to carry the baggage and retreat to Taimiao Village, Mengyin County, and after arriving, use this small river to arrange temporary fortifications and lay minefields on the low slopes. Move quickly, take all the carriages and horses away, whether we can safely withdraw to the north of the Yellow River, more than half depends on you! ”

After ending the communication with the capital base, Niu Dafu did not hesitate at all, and immediately began to adjust the deployment. First, he ordered the reinforcements from Jinan to return the same way, carrying the baggage to the north bank of the Yellow River.

At the same time, the engineer regiment of the 1st Brigade was asked to build temporary fortifications in the northeast of Xintai City, which is more than 100 kilometers away from LY, and set up blocking positions in the narrow strip between the two reservoirs.

This line of defense alone is not enough, and it is impossible for the soldiers to run more than 100 kilometers in one night, so a temporary line of defense must be added on the way to effectively stop the tide of zombies that may be tracked. After a few minutes of looking, I finally found a suitable location on the map, the embankment reservoir located in the northwest of LY.

The reservoir runs roughly east-west and stretches for more than 10 kilometers. Between it and a mountain range to the west, the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway and the National Highway run side by side. The fortification here, the width of the battle line is only about three kilometers, and with the help of geographical advantages, it should be able to effectively stop the zombie tide for a while.

"Mission Guaranteed Completion! Minister, we have taken all the carriages and horses away, what will we do with our heavy artillery? The staff officer immediately stood up and saluted to show his determination, but before he could put his hand down, the problem came.

"There are no more heavy artillery and baggage, and when you run out of shells, you stay in place...... As long as we can keep the zombies south of the Yellow River, we can come back and get them in the future. Don't bother, hurry up, every minute is a fate now. By the way, by the way, tell the guard platoon commander and ask him to ask the division commander of the Southern Group to come up. ”

When it came to discarding the baggage, Niu Dafu couldn't help blushing a little. A few hours ago, I laughed with my staff officers about the embarrassment of the Southern Group, but it was really a report from the world, and it was immediately effective.

Now we must not only follow in the footsteps of the southern bloc, but also try our best to obtain the cooperation of the other side, and the first step is to explain the general situation and the decision to retreat.

But it's not like that's it, Gao Tianyi gave himself another idea. After arriving on the north bank of the Yellow River, they found an excuse to control the amount of ammunition supplied by the Southern Group, so that they would not be left useless or too abundant.

When the air force finds the traces of the living corpses, it will find an excuse to provoke a dispute, and then force the other side to disarm with superior forces, and directly eat this regiment, which is more cost-effective than encirclement and extermination.

As it was approaching noon, the battle on the LY defense line became more intense, not that the zombies strengthened the attack, but that the survivors' artillery fire suddenly became fierce, and shells of various calibers fell on the zombies as if they didn't want money.

Together with the Air Force, they also went crazy, no longer controlling the number of bombs dropped, nor going to find key targets to bomb, but flying and throwing about 200 meters in front of the defensive line, returning immediately after throwing, and flying back again after a while.

The exact reason for which the soldiers did not know, even many middle and lower rank officers did not know. But the effect is still relatively obvious, the offensive of the zombie tide has been suppressed, and the pressure on the defense line has been relieved.

But it was only relief, giving the soldiers a short break to catch their breath, drink their saliva, and smoke a cigarette. Looking at the endless gray-black tide in the south, whether there are more cannonballs or zombies, most people can still figure out this simple math problem.

In the southern suburbs of LY, by the Yi River, in a relatively complete pumping station hut, Hong Tao was holding headphones and pickups to talk to Zhou Yuan and others who were a hundred kilometers away.

When Zhou Yuan heard that he had defeated the Southern Group with an army of zombies and was besieging the Northern Group, he was not too surprised, but raised the most troublesome and easiest problem to solve, how to face the human survivors in the future.

Hong Tao was very emotional, after going through so many people, only this woman really had a heart for herself, and her thoughts on many issues were almost the same. But it's a pity that I have to pass by her again, not only can't we work together, but also have to become enemies.

"It's not worth it, I discussed it with Commander Wada, and decided to abandon Hokkaido and turn to Australia. There are few survivors there, and with our strength we are more than capable of resisting, if you can come together, we can swallow them. For a long time, no one will be able to cross the ocean to attack Australia, and we still have time to develop! ”

Zhou Yuan didn't quite understand Hong Tao's decision, and he definitely didn't want to be a zombie leader like Juma and Alexei. Although she already has antibodies in her body, there is a high probability that she is not afraid of zombie infection, but as a normal human being, who wants to become a monster, live with zombies all day long, and become the public enemy of all mankind!

(End of chapter)