Similar to Tang Zheng's expectations, the Fifth Army also came up with a similar method.

When Liu Yibang came to the Xiangshui River, he ordered the ice on the river to be blown up.

The Fifth Army had a large number of people, and the first wave of blasting was quite good, blowing up more than a dozen kilometers of the river in a row.

But the next action was not so smooth.

The mutant birds began to attack the sappers who had planted explosives on the surface of the river, causing heavy losses to the army.

When the large army of zombies approached the distance of ten kilometers from Xiangshui, they began to diverge to the left and right.

And Liu Yibang didn't care about casualties at the moment, and forcibly sent sappers to continue to blow up the river.

Under Liu Yibang's strict orders, the sappers had to carry explosives and continue to set off, blowing up a section of the river.

However, in the process, the casualties became more and more large, and when the total surface of the river was nearly 30 kilometers long, more than 5,000 sappers had been killed, which made Liu Yibang have to stop this suicidal action.

And during this time, Liu Yibang and they began to seize the time to build the ice wall.

A large number of survivors were gathered and went to the Golden River on the other side of the city, where they began to cut ice on the river's surface.

Almost all the trucks available in the city were called in to transport ice to and from the riverside and the city.

A huge pipe was piped directly into the river, and as soon as the ice was placed together, water was poured on it.

The cold weather causes the water to freeze quickly, solidifying the ice cubes together and forming walls.

Under Liu Yibang's repeated orders and the call of the princess, nearly two million people participated in the construction of the city wall.

With the help of the delay in blowing up the ice, the Fifth Army survived the night without incident.

On this night, nearly two million people in River State were dispatched to cut and cut, load and load, and carry those who did not have the right tools, holding ropes to pull the ice, or pushing it to walk on the road, to transport the ice to the southeast of the city.

Zombies come from the southwest, but the estuary area is surrounded by water from south to west and then to north, constantly blowing up the river and cutting ice, so that the zombies can only continue to march in the northeast and southeast directions.

In fact, on the west side, there is also a passage into the estuary area, which is the road bridge and the railway bridge over the two rivers.

But this kind of narrow passage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Liu Yibang arranged heavy troops here, and after the corpses arrived, he chose to bypass here.

But there were also some corpses that blocked the other side of the bridge, and did not allow the people of the estuary to leave from here.

Troops and corpses faced each other two or three kilometers from the river, and the battlefield opened up elsewhere.

To the southeast, it will be the first area to welcome the arrival of zombies.

Two million people were busy all night, and they built an ice wall more than ten kilometers long and twelve meters high here in the southeast region, and now it is more than six meters thick, which can be used for guarding for the time being.

The people who had barely slept all night, unable to rest even after dawn, the Fifth Army was stationed at the southeast wall, and the survivors were assigned to continue moving northeast, where the ice wall would continue to be built.

And the battle, also at 7:50, began at the southeast city wall.

When the countless zombies approached, the soldiers of the Fifth Army understood how huge the difference was between a group of corpses with unified command and without a command.

In the snowy field, corpses are constantly coming, standing on the ice wall, and there is no end in sight.

Mutant birds flew everywhere in the sky, blocking out the already not bright skylight.

The roar of zombies and the chirping of mutant birds, the buzzing of people's eardrums, and the distraction.

Liu Yibang came to the top of the city wall, looking at the scene in front of him, his heart couldn't help but beat wildly.

His eyes were red and his beard was unshaven, and he had completely lost the image of a suave general in the past, and now he couldn't care about it.

Just as he was about to direct the battle, the communicator ran over.

"Commander, Tang Zheng's call."

Liu Yibang was stunned for a moment and took the walkie-talkie.

Tang Zheng's voice came: "Commander Liu, don't speak yet, listen to me, if your Fifth Army can support it, just don't say it, but if you feel bad, don't hesitate, contact me immediately, I will try my best to help you evacuate people, after all, those people don't deserve to die." ”

Liu Yibang felt that his nerves were a little sensitive again, the people didn't deserve to die, should they die?

He was just about to sneer at each other, but Tang Zheng had already ended the call.

"!"

Liu Yibang dropped the walkie-talkie and directly began to command the operation.

In the face of the incoming corpses, he first let the artillery units of the Fifth Army start a long-range strike.

Artillery has had a place in warfare at all times, even now.

The cannon sounded, and the smoke of the fire exploded in the distance, and the scene was quite shocking.

The Fifth Army had a considerable number of artillery, and the number of artillery pieces was more than four hundred.

Rumbling cannons rang out, and many zombies were killed in the explosion.

But this level of blow, for tens of millions of corpses, is not painful at all, and the corpses continue to advance under artillery fire.

Liu Yibang has not resumed the production of mines here, although his military industrial line has recovered some, but it has not reached the level of unscrupulous mass production, the previous stage of fighting Hezhou, has consumed most of the ammunition in his stockpile, and his current life is not rich.

The corpses advanced under artillery fire, and after paying some price, they finally approached the city walls.

From the beginning of the war to the brutal attack and defense of the city walls, it only took four hours.

With the zombie siege begins, the Fifth Army's life is not so easy.

At the beginning, their firepower was still very dense and ferocious, and countless zombies were killed on the snowy field.

But with the addition of high-level zombies to the battlefield, their firepower has been limited to a certain extent.

It is difficult for an indestructible bullet to take out those iron armors with a single blow, and the sharpshooters who usually wear through Yang in a hundred steps cannot hit the agile zombies who move quickly with a single shot.

High-level zombies and ordinary zombies were mixed together, and a lot of bullets were wasted on those cannon fodder, but they couldn't stop the advance of the corpses.

By two o'clock in the afternoon, the corpses had charged under the ice wall.

Just like the siege of the city, the corpses are piling up rapidly.

At this time, Liu Yibang also realized that his city wall was a little short.

But he can't help it, the time is tight and the task is heavy, almost all the people who can be used in the estuary area are used, and some old and weak people also have to cook and boil water in the rear to do logistics, and it is already the limit to be able to do this.

Faced with the piles of corpses, Liu Yibang had no choice but to order the use of petrol bombs.

But at this time, there are drawbacks.

As a defense, the ice wall cannot resist the burning of gasoline bombs.

The ice wall continued to melt, which made Liu Yibang shocked, and he could only let the people who worked to continue to transport the ice and thicken the wall in the back.

Others carried ice blocks up the city walls and temporarily raised them.

It is not enough to just put ice cubes, but also to water, and the disadvantages of watering with water pipes are also very large.

If a soldier is not careful, he will easily be drenched with water.

In this cold winter season, it is drenched in the cold wind, and only by going back immediately to take off your clothes and take a hot bath can you not catch a cold.

It is very common for one to be accidentally frozen to death.

But now, how can there be that condition, many soldiers were frozen and stiffened and died on the city wall, not in the hands of zombies, but in the hands of their own people.

It was in this difficult situation that the Fifth Army held out until dark.

Liu Yibang also knew that the night of the first day was the most difficult time.

In the darkness of the night, the cold wind howled and whistled across the wasteland.

The warriors stood on the ice, their frozen eyelashes frosty, and their faces pale.

Constantly people fell stiffly on their hands and feet, and then they were immediately carried away.

This is not difficult, the key is to deal with the steady stream of zombies below.

Flares were launched into the air, and the Fifth Army fought at night.

Compared with the abundant troops during the day, it is already difficult to fight at night.

Because the zombies had already arrived in the northeast region, they had to divide their troops to defend the northeast city wall.

The fighters on both sides were fighting hard, barely moving their stiff hands and feet, raising their guns and shooting.

The zombies on the ground are better to aim, but the mutant birds in the sky have become their henchmen at the moment.

In the darkness of the night, it was impossible to find the location of the mutant bird.

Even if the flares were lifted into the air, as the light gradually faded, those mutant birds hid in the darkness behind, found the right time, and suddenly rushed out of the darkness.

Then, there was a warrior on the city wall who covered his face and screamed.

Mutant birds can easily blind them, and at least they can take away a large piece of flesh and skin on their faces.

Some of the warriors were blind, and tried to catch the mutant bird and jump off the city wall and die, but unfortunately they fell to their deaths, and the mutant bird could still flap its wings and take off to fight again.

The flamethrower flames pierced the night sky, sometimes burning some mutant birds, which was a good feat.

Under the double attack of the sky and the ground, on the night of the first day, there was a major danger in Hezhou.

A pile of corpses didn't have time to burn, and the zombies washed up the wall.

Seeing that more and more zombies were climbing the city wall, and even jumping into the city through the city wall, Liu Yibang was so anxious that he personally led his guard battalion and a division as a reserve to rush up.

It took nearly 7,000 people to carry this wave of crisis and successfully burn the pile of corpses.

After the incident, there were more than 2,000 wounded, all of whom had been scratched by zombies, but they had not mutated for the time being.

Looking at these brothers with dead faces and desperate eyes, Liu Yibang wanted to cry without tears.

He could only give the men some explosives and let them charge one last wave.

The warrior who was attacked by the virus gritted his teeth and rushed out, and in the explosion, he died with the zombies.

Courage and blood can't really turn the tide.

The combined operation of zombies and mutant birds made it difficult for the Fifth Legion.

It's not that they don't have combat power or courage, it's just that there are too many zombies, and there are countless high-level zombies, and they can't be killed.

After a day of fighting, they have killed and injured more than 500,000 zombies, but it is a drop in the bucket and useless.

Seeing that in the second half of the night, the city wall was in danger again, Liu Yibang could only grit his teeth and sent armored troops out of the city to meet the enemy.

The two thousand tanks and armored vehicles of the Fifth Army went out to fight with the zombies, and I don't know how many zombies were killed and wounded, and the rumbling artillery continued for several hours.

The night was finally over, but by dawn, there were less than sixty of the two thousand armored troops and the chariots that could come back alive.

(End of chapter)