Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Hundreds of soldiers with pistols, two or three meters apart, kept firing at the zombies in the cages, carrying out accurate headshots.

At such a short distance, almost every bullet can take the life of a zombie, and they are crowded in a cage welded by steel pipes and steel bars, in vain squeezing their rotten and tattered faces into those gaps ten centimeters wide, trying to break out of the steel confinement and eat the fresh flesh and blood they crave the most, almost tearing the entire skin and flesh of their faces into a mess.

By this time, it was close to four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and even the sun was beginning to retract its light, and the whole five or six hours of shooting and carrying corpses made everyone feel tired.

The chassis of the steel tunnel had long been stained with blood plasma and minced meat into large patches of black and red, and the viscous liquid gathered into a stream of water, flowing slowly, forming a shallow puddle in the low-lying area, and some zombies with swaying bodies stepped on it beyond their ankles

Outside the passage, Leon held a video camera to record all this, not far from the flat ground, tens of thousands of zombies had already piled up their rotting and dilapidated corpses, dozens of workers wearing gloves, protective clothing and masks, carried these corpses to the large truck, like goods, neatly arranged.

These bodies will be transported to a valley more than ten kilometers away for burial, so that these deplorable people can return to nature.

After another half an hour, fewer and fewer zombies rushed out of the gate of the fortress, and the Peggy siblings in the command office beside him also spoke:

"Boss, these should be the last batch, even if there are still scattered zombies in the ground fortress, they must be trapped in some remote corners, unable to come out, it is difficult to pose a threat to us again."

Leon nodded, he hadn't moved this afternoon, but with an assault rifle in his hand, always on guard against accidents, guarding the safety of the soldiers under him.

Killing zombies on such a large scale made everyone's senses and psychology inevitably numb.

"Thank you for your hard work, but tonight, you two can't rest yet, the password to the underground base still needs you to crack, wait, I will send someone to connect the backup power supply, I will personally protect you, and work overtime all night."

When Sherman heard that he was going to work overtime, he immediately became depressed, and his sister Peggy, although she yawned a little tiredly, still looked at Leon with joy on her face, and asked:

"Boss, are you going to stay with us tonight?"

"Yes, I will stay here with a hundred warriors to prevent other forces who do not know whether they are alive or dead from coming to disrupt our plans."

The bait mission was accomplished, and the Peggy siblings no longer needed to control the armed mechanical dogs, so they relaxed and gossiped with Leon with great interest.

About ten minutes later, Frank's voice came over the intercom.

"Custer, is our mission accomplished?"

Leon could hear some frustration in his voice, but instead of asking, he replied:

"Yes, today's mission is accomplished."

"Come back and fix it, you may have to continue exploring the underground area tomorrow."

By the time Frank the Iron Wolf came out of the fortress with a dozen of his subordinates, Leon probably guessed why his voice was a little depressed.

In the morning, he went in with 20 soldiers, and now, only 17 people came out with him, and the faces of each soldier were a little gloomy.

After the iron wolf Frank walked out of the steel fence with these soldiers, he took off his military uniform stained with zombie flesh and blood, threw it on the grass on the side, came to Leon's side, met his eyes, and took the initiative to say:

"A few soldiers saw that their relatives had become zombies, and their emotions were a little out of control, and they were discovered by the zombies."

"It's a pity that they died, and we saw them hollowed out by hundreds of zombies"

As she spoke, Frank sighed.

"They were very brave soldiers, and they came here from New York with me, and they were never afraid to fight."

Leon is not good at comforting others, so he can only say lightly.

"Condolences."

Frank nodded, looked at Leon with a serious expression, and said:

"Your method is very good, Custer, I originally expected to sacrifice dozens of soldiers, but I didn't expect that, because of your plan, our casualties were greatly reduced."

"I thank you for my soldiers!"

Leon unceremoniously accepted Frank's thanks, and a large part of the reason why he came in such a hurry to clean up the military base at Fort Benning was because of his commitment to Frank the Iron Wolf.

He patted Frank on the shoulder, a strong man who endured a gunshot wound in the abdomen, risked dying at any moment, and spent an afternoon in the zombie pile, and was indeed a very capable soldier.

"Take your soldiers to rest, Frank, I've brought you enough tents and food to rest and prepare for the next battle."

"When our people open the door to the underground base, I will let you know."

Frank was well aware of his physical condition, and instead of reluctantly, he called his adjutant Matt and ordered him to stay with Leon the whole time and wait for his dispatch.

He took his soldiers with him and went to the rest area that Lyon had arranged for them.

That night, Leon took more than a hundred warriors and the Peggy siblings into the interior of the fortress to rest, he did not relax his vigilance, not only arranged many sentry posts, but also sent people to keep an eye on the resting place where Frank and others were, to guard against what tricks they played.

It was only after entering the fortress that Leon took a serious look at it for the first time.

The ground level of the fortress is divided into three floors, with many areas connected around the perimeter, heavy stone walls, solid structures, few exposed windows, and all kinds of defensible, defensive buildings everywhere.

The first floor was a number of fortifications to resist the attacks of ground forces, and various public facilities such as canteens, baths, rest rooms were built inside.

On the second floor, there are various offices, conference rooms, and reception halls for official business.

On the third floor is the Infantry Command Center, which not only has all kinds of high-end equipment that Leon can't name, huge screens, and a sand table for deduction, but also has the clearest map of all of America, which records all the human towns and routes of movement in the country.

The fortifications on this floor are exceptionally strong, not only set up a variety of anti-aircraft turrets, long-range missiles, and a variety of large and small long-range artillery arranged in various areas, even close to the edge of the outer wall, a lot of heavy machine guns are also installed, to condescendingly defend against the attack of ground troops, it is simply a real war fortress.

Leon suspected that once the machine guns and artillery here were fired, the firepower here could wipe out a town with a population of thousands in an instant.

It's a pity that most of the artillery installations here need professional personnel to operate, and judging from the quality of the survivors of the current apocalyptic period, if you don't enter a professional military academy to study, these powerful weapons may have basically been scrapped.

With this emotion, Leon came to the entrance of the underground base, a huge metal gate hidden in a huge room, very technological.

According to Lieutenant Matt, this is only a relatively rudimentary defensive gate, and the main material is a 30-centimeter-thick diamond plate, which can defend against almost all heavy firearms attacks.

But his defense is not particularly strong. Even if you can't crack the code of the gate, you can cut the gate directly with a high-temperature oxygen cutter.

The core vault located on the 5th basement floor, whether it is the wall or the gate, has a defense level that can resist a nuclear bomb-level attack, and basically no means known to mankind can destroy the defense there from the outside.

Outside of cracking the procedures inside the gate, it is only possible to open the door from inside the vault.

After listening to Matt's explanation, Leon suddenly felt speechless, since you can use the stupid method of oxygen cutting, why didn't you say it earlier.

Anyway, there is no shortage of these resources and time now, so it is better to let the Peggy siblings have a good rest, recharge their energy, and focus all their energy on the final shelter door.

He immediately stopped the work of the two sisters and brothers, arranged for them to rest, and then a communication, from the logistics staff who had just returned to the canning factory base, transferred more than 10 workers who knew oxygen cutting technology, and asked them to bring all the equipment and come over to work immediately.

Anyway, on combat missions, they can't help much, and overtime is not a bad thing.

(End of chapter)