Chapter 186: Good and Bad
The city wall was still forced to stop, and the stairs were all completed, and the gray-white tall city wall was five meters high, with a slight curvature. There are also a lot of sharp iron thorns on the outer wall that Leng Yang suggests, just like the glass slag on the wall when I was a child, but it is much stronger than that.
And Leng Yang, who likes to prepare for everything, even burned the outer wall of the city wall once, and watched the outer wall persist in the fire for a whole day without any rupture before it was declared acceptable.
The width of the walls was also sufficient, also five meters wide, except for the reinforced earth and masonry used in the second half, which formed triangular steps to facilitate people to go up and down, while also supporting the walls.
Li Xiaoshi can pat his chest on this city wall to ensure that it can definitely withstand at least a seven-magnitude earthquake and not collapse, don't look like it's not much, the number of steel bars in it is doubled, although there are many that are not very qualified, but the quantity can be used as quality.
Only when his eyes fell on the left side of the city wall he couldn't be happier anymore, where a broken crawler excavator and a moving Dongfeng truck barely blocked the intersection of the road.
This is the biggest weakness of the city wall, they can't find a steel gate that is strong enough, Leng Yang has been to the bank, those small savings houses don't have his ideal metal gate, and their own current manufacturing capacity is at most the grade of trebuchet.
The days of Shibaozhai are thriving, Qin Qing and the water spinach, tomatoes, and eggplants they have saved are all on the ground, and they will take out some personnel every day to take care of and study, although not much, but looking at the little green in the field, people's hearts are sweet, they haven't eaten fresh vegetables for a long time.
And the beard has basically withdrawn from the combat group, and now he takes care of everyone's treasures every day, those few breeding pigs, Leng Yang also hopes that these big guys can spread out and develop and grow.
Everyone's new dormitory is also under construction, and they found the kind of assembled board house on the construction site, although the exterior has some rust, but in general, there is no problem in using it for a year and a half, and then it is possible to build a new house.
This project has also received strong support from everyone, and if they can have their own home, then their new life will be truly complete. With the strong support of Zhou Lei and Shao Bing's group, every room was connected to electricity, and Han Xianyou also made a large reservoir outside the dormitory area. It can be said that thanks to the efforts of the people, their living standards have basically recovered to the early nineties of the last century.
This period of development has also made people more and more confident in their lives, believing that their efforts will not be in vain, and they will be able to build their new home even if everything starts all over again.
But it's not all good news, first of all, the shortage of food, with the increase in the number of people, and the recent overload of physical exercise, so that Leng Yang's self-sufficiency is in vain, before next summer, they can provide some vegetables at most, food can only rely on potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Then there is the scarcity of cement, and many of their projects cannot be carried out. And the lack of a gate strong enough to close the city wall also made it impossible for people to relax. They can only collect gasoline frantically, and use it as a way to satisfy their sense of security.
Finally, there is the news of zombies, they have repeatedly tried to approach the zombie group in Linjiang County, trying to bite off the zombies one by one by dividing the way, but when approaching the main road of the county, the super large group of zombies makes people have to flee by the way.
Their improved triangular pyramid could only deal with one or two assassin zombies, but not a dozen or so that rushed at once, and these zombies also seemed to have some kind of organization, and they would automatically return to their original positions after chasing for a certain distance.
This news makes people shudder, under the leadership of Leng Yang, they have defeated zombies many times, and even think that in the future, as long as everyone is gradually eliminated like fighting monsters, if the zombies keep fighting in large regiments all the time, then with their current ability, even if they use up all the gas, they won't kill much.
And the sea of zombies at the leisure villa has also crossed the town where they once stayed and began to move towards Linjiang County, which made Leng Yang a little irritable in recent days.
They finally found a small place to live in this zombie-infested world, but the zombies didn't seem to forget them, and there was no drastic action. Just silently, slowly, put a noose on them, slowly and suffocatingly, so that people could not struggle.
"Now I reckon we're running out of time." In the hall of the pagoda, it is almost a general meeting being held, after Yan Shibin, who went out to investigate, Xiang Yuning of the logistics department, and Leng Yang, who has attacked zombies many times, introduced everyone. Leng Yang finally explained.
People's faces are very solemn, after watching the finished video brought back by Yan Shibin, the dense zombies on the screen make people unimaginable, and the attack on Linjiang County is not smooth, which also makes people even more depressed.
"We seem to have two paths now, one, give up everything we have now, immediately leave here along the national highway, and run as far as possible." When Leng Yang said this, many people showed a look of agreement in their eyes, and so many zombies made them lose confidence. Others shook their heads and disagreed.
"The other is to stay in this dead place and fight the zombies, and the outcome is unpredictable. Let's think about it, let's talk about it, and come up with any ideas. ”
Zhao Dao was the first to speak, "If we stay here, what are our chances of defeating the zombies?" ”
Xiang Yuning and Leng Yang glanced at each other, and Leng Yang said, "We don't know this, I only know that if we rely on the personnel and materials of our current base, it will not be enough to fight against so many zombies." As soon as he said this, many people showed a look of despair on their faces.
"However, we still have time, and during this time our focus has shifted to the interior of the base after the halfway wall is built, and if we turn our energy back to the outside now, if we can find a few important supplies, we still have hope."
"What supplies?" "What are we missing?"
"Everyone, be quiet." Signaling to Yuning for people to be quiet, and then she said, "We need food, and we can't hold on without food; We need weapons, we need rifles, especially ammunition, otherwise we won't be able to fight the ironclad zombies; We need manpower, and we're too few of them compared to zombies. There was also a lot of steel and cement, and we needed to block the walls. ”
Xiang Yuning's words silenced people for a long time, "We really can't get these things, so what if we give up here and leave?" "Someone's voice came out of the crowd.
Xiang Yuning nodded, "I'll tell you when I leave, we can take all the cars with us, and the gasoline is enough for us to travel thousands of kilometers." Some machines are also able to carry the car. At this point, there was a lot of discussion in the crowd.
"But we will lose all the subsistence food plan, and we will not be able to take away the seedlings from the field, and we will not be able to take the pigs with us for a long time. Trebuchets, walls, dormitories, and other things that cost a lot of time and effort will be abandoned. ”
"What's more, we can't guarantee an adequate supply of water, and the food reserves are not enough to support our consumption, so we have to look for a lot of food when we go out." Xiang Yuning's words did not quiet people.
Chai Jin had to come out to make people quiet, "Xiang Yuning, she is just introducing the situation, if you have any questions and suggestions, you can put forward, I feel that it is best for each group to discuss it in groups." ”
After all, it was the first time for Leng Yang to hand over such a major issue to people for discussion, the otaku really couldn't make up his mind, and he didn't have any previous experience, hearing Chai Jin's suggestion, he hurriedly nodded. "Don't worry, we have at least one to two months left, and we will find a way to continue to block the zombies, so everyone think carefully."
The kitchen group was the first to get the result, Aunt Cao and they agreed that they obeyed Leng Yang's decision, go, they had no problem, stay, they had no problem.
"Let's talk about it, I finally settled down for two days, and the zombie group of dogs is here again." The bald man smoked to everyone with a dissatisfied face, and he was thinking about living a good life after settling down.
"I don't think it's a good choice to go out, when a few of us came out of prison with guns, what happened, it's not easy to get supplies outside." Zhang Qiang's words made the members of the combat group nod. They were fighting zombies every day, so they naturally knew that it might not be difficult to find some food in a small fight, but if they were to move in a large army, the supplies would not be so easy to collect.
The discussion among the college students was also very simple, the girls unanimously agreed to follow the cold team, and the few boys who wanted to go out were quickly persuaded to stay. Shao Bing and Jiang Hao: What happened to them made them deeply understand the difficulties outside.
The problem is mainly in the study group, and sure enough, it is the same as what Xiang Yuning said when he disagreed with Leng Yang when he took out the problem and everyone discussed, the new people who joined did not know much about the cruelty outside, and only saw Leng Yang taking them to kill zombies like chopping melons and vegetables.
"I think we can drive away, there's no need to fight with zombies, they don't eat or drink, maybe they will die by themselves in a few years." There is even support for this argument.
"I'm going, I have a strong defense, I want to run outside and sleep in the open by myself? If it weren't for the pagoda, we would have died a long time ago, and we could have stopped hundreds of zombies with such a simple defense, and we now have city walls. ”
"When we go out, we can look for the weak points of the zombies, isn't it that the game action warfare can develop better, the people who have lost the land have survived, the people who have lost the land, the people who have lost the land."
"Nonsense, the weak point of the zombies? I think it's easier to crash headlong into the zombie encirclement! You know, we have to carry a lot of supplies, and we only have roads to go, if we are blocked at both ends, what should we do? ”
Zhou Lei and He Xiaoxiao continued to appease everyone, but the effect was not good, until the other groups came to a conclusion, the study group was still divided into several groups of people to argue.
This made Leng Yang, who had always thought that everyone was united, finally understand, why every country would set up a high command in wartime, and when such a discussion came out, I am afraid that the time would have passed long ago, and the zombies would have hit the door.