January 20th.

The traditional Spring Festival of the Han Moon is getting closer and closer.

During this time, in order to eliminate the influence of the news of Tang Zheng's capture of Daliao soldiers, Liu Yibang was overwhelmed with propaganda about the attack on Hezhou every day.

The progress of the attack is updated every day, and it looks like it will take no more than ten days before Hezhou will be completely recovered.

Liu Yibang himself, during this time, even went into battle in person, coming to the front line of Hezhou, saying that he wanted to witness this historic moment.

In the city, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger.

In the streets and alleys, Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers and other necessary things for the New Year have also begun to be constantly put on the shelves.

Now Tang Zheng's material reserves can be described as extremely rich.

The two county towns of Qingquan and Shuanglin have been defeated, and the materials in the two counties are more than enough to supply the bases in Zhuguang City and the surrounding areas.

Tang Zheng has not even announced these two pieces of news to the public, otherwise the materials in the two counties will inevitably attract the crazy robbery of those adventurer teams or mercenary groups.

Tang Zheng will only announce the news to the public after he has almost taken the valuable things in it.

Now in Tang Zheng's hands, whether it is gasoline, diesel, steel, copper, coal, building materials and other materials, there are already a large number of materials, and it is more than enough to build two more cities chasing light.

However, the only thing Tang Zheng lacks is money.

Although the battle with Daliao was a victory, and even Tang Zheng captured a lot of arms, but these things could not replace gold and silver after all.

Moreover, the construction of prisons, railways, and the expansion of armored forces this time also made Tang Zheng's hands no longer rich.

Of the fifteen million dollars, only a little over five million remains.

This money is not even enough to fill the entire regiment, not to mention the large amount of money needed to upgrade the brigade commander.

After the troops finished fighting Daliao, Tang Zheng sent them to Caiqi County again.

Caiqi County is the last county town with zombies within the radar range of Chaguang City, as long as this county is knocked down, the zombies within the radar range will be completely emptied.

However, this time without Chen Feilong's help, the progress of the kill was much slower, and it seemed that the bunting could not be taken down before the Spring Festival.

Moreover, the main source of gold and silver in Caiqi County is the core business district of the county, and there are few gold shops around, so Tang Zheng can't get any funds before the Spring Festival.

This incident troubled Tang Zheng a little, and after staying in the city of chasing light for a few days, he began to play the idea of the city.

The closest urban area to the city of chasing light is the city of Rumba in the north.

Farther away, there are cities like Fengcheng and Hezhou.

The scale of each prefecture-level city in Hanyue is not small, and the rumba is considered small, and the number of zombies among them is also more than 20 million.

Of course, the risk of going to this kind of place is very great, if it is only to get a certain jewelry store, Tang Zheng will not go.

But there is another place that has always made Tang Zheng very worried.

That's the bank's vault.

The banking system in Hanyue was like this, with savings offices set up at the township level and branches set up in county seats.

However, there are no gold reserves in the savings bank or in the branches.

Only the royal branches of prefecture-level cities have gold reserves, and often issue some gold bars, commemorative coins and other things.

Tang Zheng's previous strength had never allowed him to go to prefecture-level cities, which was not a place he could go at all.

In fact, even now, Tang Zheng's strength is difficult to win the prefecture-level city, I don't see that the Fifth Group Army has been fighting for more than 100,000 people for more than two months, and he has not yet taken Hezhou.

But now Tang Zheng's goal is not to win the prefecture-level city, but to win the sub-branch of the prefecture-level city.

He was going to turn over the maps of several surrounding prefecture-level cities, and finally determined the city of Rumba.

Compared with other cities, the royal branch in Rumba City is relatively easy to win, and he feels that he can take a risk.

If this operation is successful, the gold obtained by the prefecture-level city branch will be enough to make his strength go to the next level, at least the whole regiment will be easily completed, and there will even be surplus.

After deciding, Tang Zheng saw that it was snowing again today, and the wind was blowing, so he led the team to set off.

The large army is currently attacking the colorful flags, and this time Tang Zheng took the guard company and the paratroopers of the army aviation battalion and went straight to Rumba City.

Rumba is located in the northeast direction of Zhuguang City, with a straight line distance of more than 300 kilometers.

The plane flew for more than an hour before coming to the skies over the city of Rumba.

Looking down from the plane, the city is gray and white.

White snow covers the city, and the gray buildings reveal the colors of the last days.

Gusts of wind blew and the cold wind howled, raging over the city, and visibility was not high.

In fact, this kind of weather is not very conducive to travel, but Tang Zheng deliberately chose to come out on such a day.

The reason for this is because in this weather, the perception of zombies is blinded to the greatest extent, and if it is not a particularly loud noise, it will basically not alarm them.

Coming to the vicinity of the branch office, Tang Zheng found that the bank was a dome-shaped building and could not park helicopters.

He commanded the helicopter to land on the roof of the building near the Rumba branch of the Hanyue Royal Bank, so as not to alarm the zombies on the ground.

After the helicopter fell, the city was still relatively quiet, as if it were dead.

After scanning the ground with radar again, no second-level zombies were found, and Tang Zheng was relieved.

"Paratrooper troops, first send a team to rappel from the top of the building, slide to the ground, see if the zombies will move, if not, then the large force will follow up and enter the bank."

"After entering the bank, use a whispering pistol to destroy the zombies in the bank, and then the scientific research soldiers go to open the vault, can you do it?"

Guo Yun and some scientific research soldiers who followed nodded, and Guo Yun patted his chest and promised: "General rest assured, I am already a five-star scientific research soldier, and this kind of thing is definitely easy to open a bank vault, and it will definitely give you a bumper harvest today." ”

Tang Zheng nodded, with Guo Yun's assurance, maybe today's operation can really bring a huge surprise.

The paratroopers began to rappel in the building, after all, the wind and snow were too strong today, and the parachute was very unsafe.

Fortunately, rappelling was also one of their training subjects, and a group of soldiers went down smoothly.

Untying the ropes, the soldiers marched towards the royal branch.

On the road in the wind and snow, zombies stood there like humanoid sculptures, covered in snow and motionless.

There were not as many zombies on this road as Tang Zheng imagined, he thought that the zombies in this area would be very dense, but there were not many scattered on this road.

Although I don't know what the reason is, it also makes Tang Zheng very happy that the troops' actions can be faster.

When the warriors passed near the zombies, they tried to stay as far away as possible and not make too much noise.

Under the cover of the wind and snow, this method is still relatively effective, and it has really taken a safe road.

It's less than a hundred meters from the bank.

A fighter carrying a flamethrower with his foot on a manhole cover in a sewer.

Perhaps because the flamethrower is heavier, the sound is a little louder.

The people around were startled, and suddenly stopped, looking at the zombies carefully.

Even Tang Zheng on the roof of the building realized it, and looked nervously at the zombies on the road.

Don't look at the zombies here, but once they are alarmed and roar, then they will quickly attract a large number of zombies, and today's operation will be considered a failure.

The warriors are also motionless, and if the zombies break out, they will immediately retreat.

Time seemed to stand still, and ten seconds passed.

The zombies didn't move.

Everyone let out a long breath, the situation just now was too dangerous, but fortunately, there was no danger.

But Tang Zheng's breath hadn't finished yet, and he suddenly found out that something was wrong!

The radar screen shows that countless red points of light are swarming towards this area!

The red point of light was like a river, traveling extremely fast, but Tang Zheng didn't notice any zombie movement.

"That's not right! What's going on? ”

Tang Zheng paused for a moment, and hurriedly began to rotate the angle of the radar on the system page, so that it turned into a three-dimensional pattern.

This kind of three-dimensional map was rarely used by Tang Zheng before, because the situation on the ground was easy to observe, and it was always impossible to use the three-dimensional map to scan the underground all the time.

But at this moment, the situation is special, as soon as Tang Zheng rotates the radar screen, he immediately discovers the abnormality!

Massive red dots of light, from underground!

Tang Zheng didn't have time to say anything, and directly gave an order: "Withdraw!" Run back as fast as you can! ”

This paratrooper group was all five-star soldiers, and when they heard the general's order, they immediately rushed back desperately.

They had just run back when a mutation protruded!

The manhole cover of the sewer seemed to be puffed open by some powerful force, and it flew directly into the sky more than 20 meters high!

And along with the manhole cover, there are countless big rats!

Each rat was the size of a medium dog before the end of the world, with a round body and a weight of at least thirty pounds!

Their rat teeth have also become extremely sharp at this moment, and they even poke out of their mouths.

The black mane stood on end, the eyes were blood-red, and it squeaked when it rushed out of the ground!

The torrent was so huge that it gushed to the ground, like a fountain, erupting continuously.

Rat Tide!

The rats rushed out like a tide and immediately alarmed the nearby zombies.

The zombies seemed to have been resurrected from the snow and ice, shaking off the snow from their bodies and howling and pounced on the rats.

But their fangs and claws, as well as the terrible zombie virus, completely lost their effect in the face of the rat tide.

Countless large rats howled and rushed over, and the zombies turned into a skeleton in an instant.

Tang Zheng even saw that an iron-armored zombie was gnawed into white bones before it didn't even last ten seconds before the rat tide was full.

In such a situation, Tang Zheng was greatly surprised.

Among the mutant beasts in the last days before, he did see mice, but the rats were not many in number, and they were not at all weather, when had he ever seen such a huge scale of rat tide.

"Hurry, hurry! Go a little faster! ”

The soldiers of the squad rushed with all their strength towards the way they came.

Fortunately, the physical strength of these five-star warriors is super strong, and they are running faster than the world champions before the end of the world.

And those zombies along the way did save their lives, which delayed the speed of the rat tide a little.

They then galloped all the way back to the place where the rope was dropped, grabbed the rope, and was pulled up.

The last warrior slowed down a little and was immediately bitten by two large rats on his calf.

Fortunately, the comrades around him shot in time to knock down the two mice, but despite this, two pieces of flesh were also ripped off from his legs, and the injury was not light.

Looking at the soldiers who were pulled up, Tang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, but also felt a little chill in his heart.

He thought that the world was like this, but he never thought that the world was also changing rapidly.

(End of chapter)