Hearing this, Brother Beitou was filled with admiration. Because as a member of Jiang Zhi's forces and the captain of the Mobile Team, he didn't even know what the real intentions of the higher-ups were, but Xia Yashuang's analysis was very clear.
"Well, Xia Yashuang, if Langfang City must be lost, then why should we go to the southeast affiliated town? We certainly can't defend such a small town."
"In this world, besides territory, another important thing is resources. People are also a very important resource."
"Are you talking about the civilians in the attached town? It seems like the higher-ups didn't mention taking in civilians."
"Because you, Jiang Zhi, are rich and powerful, and there is no shortage of civilians like this."
Chapter 425
"Okay, but it may be that the superiors deliberately refused to separate from you. After all, you have made great contributions."
"Did he accomplish great feats...?" Xia Yashuang said helplessly, "Actually, it's not that I don't understand Su Kouye. He wants to enslave me and Po Kong and bow to him."
"Why do you refuse? Maybe holding on tight will be more effective and more profitable than doing it alone."
"Hey, Brother Beitou, since when did you become a lobbyist?"
"I didn't mean that, it's just that we have known each other for a long time, and I don't want everyone to become enemies in the future."
"An enemy?" Xia Yashuang smiled easily, "Don't worry, I'm not qualified to be Su Kouye's enemy at all."
"But no matter what, I hope everyone can always live in harmony."
"I understand. Since I call you Brother Back Tou, it means that I never thought I would be your enemy."
"Ah That's good."
"By the way, are Po Kong and I at the small mountain base okay?"
"Don't worry, Yu Yu is guarding there with tens of thousands of soldiers."
It’s the 111th day of the end of the world, five o’clock in the evening.
Here is a brief summary of the troops: Po Kong, Xia Yashuang, Ye Wuxue, and Beitou Ge had about 10,000 elite soldiers when they attacked Lang Fang. After the battle of Lang Fang, 2,000 elite soldiers were seriously injured, 1,000 died, and the remaining 7,000. (The 2000, 1000, and 7000 here are reference quantities, not actual quantities. The actual quantities will have errors. For convenience, the reference quantities will be used in the future, that is, they will be automatically rounded.)
The remaining 7,000 elite soldiers were divided into four waves and pursued the enemy deserters after the Battle of Langfang City until they reached the enemy's lair. Four waves of troops successfully occupied the small subsidiary town of Langfang City, a total of four cities.
After the battle in Langfang City, Xia Yashuang Poukong and others received a total of about 50,000 troops, of which more than 30,000 were injured. Po Kong and others focused on the quality of their troops, while Li Menghua focused on their quantity. Po Kong Xia Yashuang and others were allocated about 5,000 uninjured troops with high combat effectiveness, and the remaining troops were all given to Li Menghua.
In the afternoon, Xia Yashuang Pokong and others left Langfang City with 5,000 high-quality surrender troops and 2,000 seriously injured elite troops.
At five o'clock in the evening, Brother Xia Yashuang took over the small town affiliated to the southeast of Langfang City and took over 10,000 civilians and 5,000 militiamen in the town. At the same time, 1,000 elite soldiers from the northern affiliated town led civilians into the southeastern affiliated town.
The situations of Po Kong and Ye Wuxue were similar to Xia Yashuang, and the numbers of troops and civilians they were allocated were similar.
At this stage, the average combat power of elite soldiers is 30, and every 10 people have one level of strength, so there are three levels of elite soldiers. The average combat power of high-quality surrendered soldiers is 20, which is a second-level soldier. The average combat power of ordinary soldiers is 10, and they are first-level soldiers. The average combat power of militiamen is slightly less than 10, and they are also classified as first-tier soldiers.
So far, there are 4,000 third-level soldiers, 3,000 second-level soldiers, and 10,000 first-level soldiers in the small town affiliated to the southwest of Pokong Yewuxue, with a total strength of 20,000. Xia Yashuang and Brother Beitou's southeastern affiliated town are in a similar situation, and their military strength is similar.
Li Menghua of Langfang City had 10,000 second-order cavalry and 50,000 first-order soldiers (most of whom were wounded), for a total force of 60,000.
At the same time, Liu Ji was on her way to Langfang City with a total force of 50,000 troops (mainly first-level soldiers and some high-level soldiers), and was expected to arrive before 7 p.m.
On the other side, Xiaotian is on his way to Langfang City with a total force of 100,000 troops (mainly first-level soldiers, some high-level soldiers), and is expected to arrive at 11 o'clock in the evening.
Let’s put things on land aside for now, and jump to a depth of 5 kilometers underground.
The sound of violent breathing, rapid running, and shouting...
"Run to the right." Tianpeng shouted.
"Are you sure? It won't be a dead end again, right?" Ni Lin shouted.
"No, hurry up, the road on the right is definitely not a dead end."
"Why do I think it's the left side?" Li Ming shouted.
"Woman, please save us some trouble. Last time you led us into a dead end. If it weren't for the tall grass there, we would be dead." Jiang Hao shouted.
"Okay, then I don't care, Tianpeng will be responsible for leading the way."
"Stop fighting, they are catching up soon, run." Tianpeng shouted.
The four people ran as fast as they could, and they were about to approach an intersection. There are two roads at the intersection, one on the left and one on the right.
Just when the four of them were about to rush to the road on the right, a large number of zombies holding spears suddenly poured in from the left.
"Fuck, it's too late." Ni Lin said nervously.
"Don't panic, keep running."
After Tianpeng finished shouting, he increased his speed. He ran to the right in an arc trajectory, and a wall of flames in an arc line poured out. The flame wall was about 5 meters high and the fire was so strong that the group of zombies immediately stopped and did not dare to approach.
At the same time, Tianpeng and others successfully ran into the road on the right.
The four of them ran wildly for more than ten minutes, and they came to an extremely empty place with a huge depression. An underground spring sprays water from the low-lying area, forming a small lake. This is an underground lake with a maximum depth of five meters.
"I can't run anymore." Ni Lin stopped.
Seeing Li Ming stop, the others had to stop temporarily. After all, they were really too tired.
"Li Ming, how are you?" Tianpeng asked.
Li Ming turned behind him, looked into the depths of the road, and sensed carefully: "No, they are still chasing."
"No, what should we do? I really can't run." Ni Lin gasped and replied.
Tianpeng turned to look at the underground lake and thought deeply for a few seconds: "Everyone, how many minutes can you hold your breath in the water?"
"Just seven or eight minutes," Jiang Hao replied.
"Let's hide in the water."
"Normally it's seven or eight minutes, but now we're still panting. In this case, we can hold our breath for two or three minutes at most." Jiang Hao replied.
"Two or three minutes is enough, let's go in." Tianpeng began to walk towards the lake, and the water slowly submerged Tianpeng's knees and waist.
"Tianpeng, do you really want to go into the water?" Ni Lin asked.
"We all have no powers and no physical strength anymore. We can only gamble once. If you don't want to die, just hurry up." Tianpeng continued to walk deeper into the lake.
Although Ni Lin and Jiang Hao were reluctant, they could only grit their teeth and walk into the lake.
Li Ming stepped into the water and said, "In addition to holding your breath, everyone should try to lower their strength to about 10. The most powerful aquatic animal in this lake has a combat strength of about 10."
"These aquatic animals won't attack us, right?" Ni Lin worried.
"No, if it really attacks, can't you just use your red knife to chop it?" Tianpeng replied.
In this way, the four people gradually submerged into the water, and the ripples in the water slowly opened up, gradually calmed down, and slowly disappeared. A minute later, the water surface became like a mirror again, with no ripples at all.
"Hiss, hiss..." Several red humanoid creatures sprang out quickly. They made strange hissing sounds, and their tongues were very long, twisting like snakes.
If you look closely, it seems that these humanoid creatures have no outer skin, and their red muscles are exposed, but there is no blood on them. But if you look at them from a distance, you will have a bloody illusion.
These humanoid creatures are both male and female, and have similar physical characteristics to humans. The woman has a pair of breasts. In other words, the breasts should not be described as breasts, but the red protrusions should be used to describe them.
In addition to their red appearance, they also have a very special appearance feature, that is, they have a tail, like a lizard.
These creatures do not move on their feet, but crawl. But they climbed up very quickly and rushed from one side to the other in one go.
When these creatures came to the side of the large lake, they stopped and began to run around. Their speed was really exaggerated. They were stopping in one place, shaking their heads and looking left and right, and then suddenly rushed to another place the next second.
Although the word flash cannot be used to describe their speed, their speed is close to flash. The principle of action is similar to Jiang Feng and Li Ming's super speed.
They cannot flash continuously, but stop at one location and then suddenly flash to another location. If Jiang Feng's speed is level 1 sonic, then the speed of these red humanoid creatures is level 0.8 sonic.
No terrestrial creature on earth has ever been able to reach this level of speed.
This is also the reason why strong men like Li Ming and Tian Peng should stay away from such creatures.
These creatures also have a more terrifying ability, which is perception. They can sense power to find prey, and the creatures they target will basically die.
They were scurrying around the lake, seemingly looking for prey. The prey that could be sensed disappeared after arriving at this place, and they felt very strange.
There are a total of 7 humanoid creatures. You look at me and I look at you. They slowly came to the lake.
Obviously, they had begun to suspect that the prey might be hiding in the water.
At this time, Ni Lin in the water was almost out of breath. The original plan was to hold my breath for three or four minutes, but now five minutes had passed, and I would be doomed if I continued.
Unable to bear it, Ni Lin spit out a lot of bubbles, which surfaced and alarmed these humanoid creatures on the water. They all looked into the water, but because the color of the water was dark green, they couldn't see clearly what was going on in the middle of the water.
One of them put its tongue into the water, but the moment it touched the water, it automatically retracted.
It turns out that these creatures are afraid of water. Since they cannot enter the water, they are waiting obediently by the water.
The bubbles that kept emerging gave them unlimited expectations.
