The temporary command room outside the base was set up under the city wall. Fu Lianhe was sitting in front of his seat with his eyes wide open, watching the wireless messages from the first line of defense come back one after another, but his face was pale as if he was stunned.
"Report, report! One hundred meters in front of the formation, there are more than twenty ghost monkey corpses!"
"Let's go! If you don't go, everyone will die!"
"Leave me alone, save the squad leader first! He was shot by a bone spur."
"Come here, reinforcements...where are the reinforcements?"
"Kill! Kill these beasts."
"Help, someone come and save us..."
"Fu Lianhe, organize a counterattack quickly, otherwise it will be too late. Fu Lianhe, do you receive it? Hurry, be fast."
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Beads of sweat trickled down his forehead and down his cheeks, and Fu Lianhe's face had lost all color. He opened his mouth wide, but no sound came out. He raised his arms, but his fingertips were shaking violently. Once upon a time, no teacher ever taught such a tragic scene in the classroom...
With a loud "pop", Chen Hui kicked open the door of the command room. He threw aside the sniper rifle and the headset, walked to the communication desk and grabbed Fu Lianhe. Chen Hui grabbed the other party's collar and shouted: "What are you doing? Didn't you receive my message?"
"Uncle Chen, I..."
Fu Lianhe just woke up from a dream. He looked at the unshaven man in front of him, speaking incoherently and unable to speak a complete sentence. At this moment, another voice rang out from the already silent wireless message, numbered 013, which was a rifle position in the front left.
"Headquarters, headquarters, this is position 013, please fire, please fire!"
"I'm here!" Chen Hui grabbed the microphone and asked hurriedly, "Which department are you in? Is there anyone on the first line of defense now?"
"I'm... a medical soldier." The radio sounded like a young man's voice. His voice was soft and fragile, and he had an obvious cry. "I don't know if there is anyone else here. I have no one here." If he dies, I will be the only one left.”
"What? Then find a place to hide."
"It's too late. I'm surrounded by corpses. There are more than twenty ghost monkey corpses here. Please fire, please...ah!"
Along with a scream, the wireless message was interrupted. Lao Chen looked at Fu Lianhe with red eyes and shouted hysterically at him: "Didn't you place two rocket launchers on the city wall? Fire! Blast these beasts to pieces! Kill!!!"
"Yes." Fu Lianhe quickly grabbed the microphone, "Attention artillery, target position 013, three volleys, let go!"
The next moment, Chen Hui opened the gate of the outer city and led a team of troops to charge in the opposite direction. He took the lead with a Type 05 rifle, and the others were also equipped with new rifles with full firepower.
"He is still just a young man!" Chen Hui's eyes filled with tears before he knew it. "He obviously still has great youth, this damn apocalypse, these damn black corpses! Fight them all, leave no one behind." !”
At the same time, in the trench under the outer city wall, 1,600 soldiers on the second line of defense rushed out of the trench under the leadership of Xing Wutian, raised their swords and guns and rushed towards the oncoming black corpses.
The long sword is in hand, and the gun is like thunder.
This is the flame of vengeance, the clarion call to welcome the dead home.
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Human beings are an anomaly in the history of biological evolution. They do not have sharp teeth, sharp claws, strong muscles, or sharp reactions, but they have unexpectedly climbed to the top of the biological chain. This situation has not changed after the cataclysm. It can be said that humans have no advantage in close combat with all evolved creatures. The seemingly passionate and massive counterattack meant greater casualties.
Soldiers broke out of the trenches to avenge them. In this battle, the heavy damage to Langya City was foreseeable. But no one thought it would come so quickly and so fiercely.
Looking down from a high altitude through the perspective of a drone, around the charging array, there are some retreating figures with their heads covered. They look embarrassed and have low morale. They look so out of place compared to other soldiers.
A few of these people were disgraced wounded soldiers, including Sanxi who had successfully withdrawn and a few logisticians, while the rest were all ability users. In the previous battle, they had killed or injured six or seven people. Even those who were not injured were almost exhausted of their energy. Now they were unable to fight anymore. Now, with livid expressions on their faces, the ability users faced the white eyes of ordinary people and quickly entered the city along the passages on both sides, while also making way for the rifles to shoot.
As if in response to people's charge, the rocket launcher standing at the top of the city made a continuous roar. 72 107 mm caliber artillery shells dragged a long tail flame from the 12 gun barrels and fell into the group of corpses, like a fire dragon plow. It cut apart the ground and everything attached to it as easily as the earth. Further outward from the outer city, within a range of about 3 to 4 kilometers from the second line of defense under the city wall, patches of soil, rocks, and broken wood were shaken into the air, and countless black corpses were overturned, torn to pieces, and killed. Swallowed by air waves and smoke.
Then came a sea of fire that suddenly rose. A trench buried between the first and second lines of defense was filled with flammable and explosive kerosene. At this time, a micro bomb was remotely detonated, and a sea of fire immediately set off. Looking around in the sea of fire, there were struggling and tumbling ghost monkeys, gorillas, and a few shields. They were ordinary black corpses that were ignited and fell down like candles. The long and narrow sea of fire divided the huge group of corpses into two parts, front and rear. Although the vanguard troops that broke through the first line of defense escaped the sea of fire, they were hit by rocket launchers. When the smoke gradually dissipated, countless sharp blades rushed out. , countless eyes that are red from killing. They were soldiers with live ammunition, fully armed warriors. There was no peace between them and these inhuman monsters, only a life-and-death struggle.
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While the fighting was going on on the front line, someone was watching silently on the top of Fengwei Mountain, far away from the front line battlefield. The leader was Chen Xinyan, wearing a white coat and glasses, with Duan Qing and Zheng Yueying standing behind her.
There is a layer of mist in the air halfway up the mountain, but standing on the top of the mountain, you can still see the rocks and trees fifteen kilometers away, as well as the movement tracks of the corpses ten kilometers away. Even without a telescope, the black corpse in the field of view has a rough outline. The view from the top of the mountain is extremely broad and can take in everything in the distance, which is enough to lay out the entire battlefield.
"Dean, the kerosene defense line has been triggered. Chen Hui and the others are now fighting outside the second line of defense."
"I saw."
There was only the whistling of the wind on the mountain, and the sounds in the distance seemed to become clearer. Guns, fights, fighting, screams... Chen Xinyan stood silently in the wind, taking a deep breath, as if she could smell the burning smell of gunpowder smoke, and the faint smell of blood that followed.
The sea of fire combined with the shells has an outstanding effect. The smoke and high heat are not only harmful to the black corpse's sense of smell, but also cover up the "human smell" that pervades Langya City to a certain extent. As a result, the tide of corpses that had already poured out of the jungle like a tide suddenly shrank back.
"The corpse group... seems to be retreating."
After Zheng Yueying finished speaking, she didn't look happy at all. She and Duan Qing looked at each other and said in unison: "King of Corpses!"
Zheng Yueying couldn't understand: "But the prophecy post said that the Corpse King will not be formed until next year at the earliest."
"That's right, there must be a Corpse King controlling it behind the scenes." Duan Qing insisted, "Otherwise, how can we explain the organization and discipline of the corpse group? Moreover, look at those black corpses that attack from a distance, they actually know how to hide under the thick skin and thick flesh. Behind the gorilla and shield armor, they were never included in the charge troops."
Zheng Yueying said anxiously: "This distance is already beyond the range of the rocket launcher. Why don't we use the Qin family to send those..."
Duan Qing naturally knew how sophisticated the equipment sent by the Qin family was, but she did not answer and just turned her questioning gaze to Chen Xinyan.
The latter seemed to be aware of it and said: "No need. The tide of corpses has subsided. Tell Chen Hui and Xing Wutian to act according to the original plan. Now is not the time to show your cards in a hurry."
"yes."
The messenger took the order and used the zipline to go down the mountain. After that, Chen Xinyan stood on the top of the mountain for a long time. She watched the rockets carrying tail flames fall into the corpses with great effect, and watched the soldiers on the second line of defense dragging their tired bodies to clean the battlefield and collect the bodies of their companions. She was bitter and speechless for some reason.
The group of corpses retreated, which was undoubtedly a tragic victory for the humans in Fengwei Mountain. The price paid by Langya City was far higher than expected before the war. It was just the first charge of the zombies. Langya City lost its first line of defense and the kerosene trap between the first and second lines of defense, not to mention a large number of combat attrition and ability users who died unexpectedly...
Perhaps the Corpse King's family has a great cause and doesn't care about the life and death of thousands of black corpses, but the warriors of Langya City are living lives, and everyone is a survivor who has finally escaped from the black corpses.
According to the prophecy post, the proportion of special evolutions of corpses is higher than that of parasites, so special black corpses are often more common than ability users and black beasts. Among the limited combat personnel in the base, there are very few capable ones, and they really cannot withstand repeated consumption.
Thinking of this, Chen Xinyan suddenly asked: "Xiaoqing, do you know...how many people died?"
"According to reports from the front line, the number of casualties among ordinary evolved people is close to 600, and those with abilities are less than 10."
"That's it..."
Chen Xinyan remembered that there were once 600 new soldiers on the first line of defense, but now not even a tenth of them were withdrawn alive. According to Zheng Yueying, among them, the frontal defense line with the largest number of black corpses was the most severely damaged. On a few positions that were cared for by special corpse groups, many combat squads disappeared into organized areas.
The first line of defense is the weakest, as there are no measures to stop the speedy black zombies. The real defense line of Langya City is the tall fortress wall. It is only a matter of time before the first and second lines of defense outside the city fall as planned.
As long as the black corpses can be initially consumed, the mission of the first and second lines of defense has been achieved. With Caiyun and Cai Shifen creating earth walls to block the zombies, the black zombies' attack pace would not be too fast. After several rounds of battles between the rifle squad and the ability users, this batch of 10,000 black corpses was able to consume at least seven or eighty-eight, and both the ability users and ordinary soldiers were able to retreat to the outer city calmly.
It's a pity that the incident happened so quickly that these people were not given time to evacuate. Unexpectedly, the ability users were so stubborn that they not only harmed themselves, but also harmed the soldiers in the frontline rifle squad.
If the area between the first and second lines of defense hadn't been filled with trip wires, wire formations, and ditches filled with diesel oil, and if the soldiers hadn't charged forward and fought without fear of death, perhaps those corpses would have reached the city wall long ago. Unexpectedly tragic, unexpected corpse king and special group of corpses, as well as unexpectedly huge group of corpses, no one knew what to do next.
The dark group of corpses entrenched on the edge of the jungle looked at each other through the flames with the human warriors waiting on the city wall. Zheng Yueying and the others stood on the top of the mountain and had the clearest view, and the worries in their hearts were also the heaviest.
Only when she looked at the straight woman standing in front of her did she feel a little more at ease. Thinking of this, Zheng Yueying couldn't help but ask: "Dean, do you think we can win this time?"
The other party seemed to think about it, and after a moment of silence he replied: "Win or lose is not decided, everything is possible."
And when everyone around her had left, Chen Xinyan stood alone on the edge of the cliff, with light words floating in the wind:
But in the final analysis, what is the difference between a "miserable victory" and a "miserable defeat"?
