Today is the third day of the siege. The sunset is as red as blood. The warm glow penetrates the thin black fog and shines on everyone's face, reflecting the tired and haggard faces.
Although the sunshine is warm, it is not as cold as the cold wind. Shashi Fengwei Mountain is located deep in North China. In winter, the temperature drops sharply at night, and people cannot stay outside for too long. However, the rotational battle between two shifts will greatly reduce the firepower and the gain will not be worth the loss. Therefore, for the people guarding the city of Langya City, every night will be a difficult stage.
The city wall outside Langya City is in the shape of a zigzag line, with three corners folded into the city and four corners protruding from the city wall, like a single row of staggered wolf fangs. However, the angle of the fold line is gentler, with one obtuse edge after another. At the same time, there are three bastions protruding outwards outside the city wall, located at three inwardly folded corners. The largest one in the center is Bastion No. 1, and the west and east sides are Bastion No. 2 and No. 3 respectively.
This is a section of the city wall between Bastion No. 1 and Bastion No. 3. There are 700 people stationed on this edge less than a hundred meters long. Looking around, there were all soldiers sitting and resting under the battlements step by step. Some of them were wearing military uniforms, and most of them were wrapped in their own various coats, sitting silently.
"Hot porridge, hot porridge... After drinking, it's time to change the guard..."
"Bring me a bowl." "I want it too."
The sun was about to set when a cook came pushing a cart. He was wearing an apron. Although it was white, it was so dirty that it was hard to tell. He walked very hard, and the cart was loaded with three large iron buckets, which made the cart creak and creak. The cook was accompanied by two soldiers armed with pistols to prevent commotion. If anyone is afraid of fighting, they are also the supervising team to execute the execution at any time.
The cook filled a large spoon with hot porridge for the soldiers on duty and asked casually: "Sanxi, didn't you just drink a bowl?"
He has been responsible for delivering food here for several days, and Sanxi is the leader of one of the teams, so the two of them are relatively familiar with each other.
"We are all on the battlefield, so naturally we need to drink one more bowl." Sanxi seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly looked a little sad, "Maybe... it will be the last bowl."
"Don't be discouraged, there are so many of us." The cook patted Sanxi's shoulder to comfort him, "You should also go and rest. I've seen you on duty several times when I came up."
"One more shift, wait until dawn, otherwise I won't be able to leave without worry."
After hearing Sanxi's reply, the cook shook his head and said nothing more, then pushed the cart towards the next person who wanted to drink porridge.
Behind him, Sanxi looked at the porcelain bowl in his hand and the hot soup in his hand, using the light from the city tower in a daze. There was steaming soup in the soup, and there was also a face. He was a man with disheveled hair, sunken eye sockets and bloodshot eyes.
To say that he is a human being, it is better to say that he is more like a ghost, like a lonely ghost. This look simply shocked Sanxi. His hand trembled, the water rippled, and the stranger-like face twisted, blurred, and almost disappeared. Not long after, Sanxi gritted his teeth, raised his neck as if he had died heroically, and drank the hot soup in the bowl in one gulp.
Suddenly, loudspeakers placed a hundred meters apart on the city wall rang out shrill and shrill sirens one after another. The low-frequency sound seemed to have magic power, and all the soldiers who heard the sirens could not help but shudder.
They stood on the top of the wall and looked outside the city. They saw at the edge of the Fengwei Mountain jungle in the distance. As if they had made an appointment, they rushed out of the jungle and rushed here at the same time.
The zombies are about to attack the city!
The waves crashed against the rocks. Although this experience had happened more than once, the tense atmosphere quickly spread among the team.
"No! The black corpse is coming!"
"The zombies are attacking, prepare to defend!" There was a squad leader in the crowd to maintain order.
"Get up, get up, come on, come on!"
"Stop the changing of the guard, stop the changing of the guard! All combatants return to their posts immediately!"
"We need a box of grenades here!"
"Team Three, Team Three doesn't have enough people."
"Shield soldiers, two more shield soldiers."
People were screaming and running, and the sound was like a handful of water being poured into a frying pan. Sanxi stood up at this time and handed the porcelain bowl back to the cook who hurried down the tower. He took a deep breath and told the people around him: "I won't go down anymore. I will wait until this wave of black corpses is defeated before I change my guard and rest."
"Brother Sanxi, I'm coming with you."
"Captain, let's fight together."
In every siege, the defenders sacrificed their lives. It takes courage to dare to stay.
"Okay! All four teams are doing well!"
Sanxi looked at one of the young men and thought that he might not be older than the sacrificed Xiaoliang. Sanxi's eyes suddenly turned red, and a fire suddenly lit up in her heart. He looked directly at several people and asked, "Are you all drunk?"
"Drink enough!"
"Okay, when you're done drinking, pick up the gun and fuck these beasts with me!"
"yes!"
…
At this time, on the nearby No. 3 bastion, Xing Wutian was standing on the wall looking worried.
He knew these soldiers and knew that several of them were survivors of the previous first line of defense, and some were even the only survivors in the rifle squad. Many of them were injured, but they did not repair for long after they were withdrawn, before they were put on the battlefield again.
In war, soldiers die quickly and are promoted quickly. People like Sanxi, who have experienced the test of life and death, can now stand alone and organize a small team to defend a small section of the city wall. The young man is full of energy. Although he has experienced death threats, his fighting spirit is still high.
The soldiers in his hands were a mixed bag. In addition to the soldiers originally stationed on the first and second lines of defense, there were also a large proportion of ordinary survivors. Some of the latter have just arrived at the base, while others have never fought with the army. Therefore, the preparation speed among different groups varies. Often some people are ready while others are still arguing.
Since Lin Wenjin and Duan Hei led the team back yesterday afternoon, the defense task of No. 1 Bastion has been handed over to them. Xing Wutian and Wu Ke led people to guard the No. 3 bastion, while Cao Liang and others from the Autonomous Association guarded the No. 2 bastion.
"Attention on the front line, attention on the front line. Prepare the bastion defense line, and each long-range firepower point fires on its own. The rifle squad of the edge defense line, wait for the corpses to enter the shooting range. Repeat, the bastion defense line..."
“Bastion No. 1 received it.” “Bastion No. 2 received it.” “Bastion No. 3 received it.”…
Nine heavy artillery pieces were lined up in the open space on the outer city military exercise field. Chen Hui was ordered to lead 20 people to guard here.
"Report to instructor, preparations for shooting have been completed."
"Okay! Everyone pay attention, three, two, one, release!"
In the public channel, Chen Hui's voice was deep and powerful, and an explosion immediately sounded in the outer city.
"Bang bang bang!"
As the gunshot sounded, the gun barrel shook violently, and a yellow flame the same length as the gun barrel appeared around it. The flames were dispersed in an instant, and then a line of white gunpowder smoke appeared along the barrel. That was the launch trajectory of the artillery shell. The human eye could not capture the image of the artillery shell being launched. We could only see that its powerful recoil caused the entire heavy artillery frame to hit the ground, shaking up a piece of floating soil.
Hearing the sound, Lin Wenjin and Duan Hei from the No. 1 Bastion said in unison: "Howitzer."
In just one second, two violent explosions appeared in the center of the corpse tide. Yellow fire shot into the sky, gray gunpowder smoke spread everywhere, and black earth and stone rubble all flew into the air. There seemed to be some flying and thrown objects in the dust mist, which looked like they were on people. When the smoke cleared, two large craters with a diameter of 30 meters appeared on the ground. The shock wave and fragments caused effective damage to targets within at least 50 meters, and black corpses fell down within a hundred meters.
"Good job!" Xiao Heizi stood on the wall, clenching his fists and cheering.
"Don't be too happy too soon." Lin Wenjin shook his head, "Look!"
Looking in the direction of his arm, I saw that the remaining corpse tide quickly filled these explosion craters. Whether it was the remains of corpses or the fainted and fallen companions, they were all trampled under their feet and trampled over by the remaining ones. .
Duan Hei couldn't help but shudder, these guys were like a group of marching ants, as if nothing could stop their progress!
"Fu Lianhe, damage effect assessment." Chen Hui urged on the radio.
"The radar is capturing the explosion point," Fu Lianhe looked at the data on the computer and quickly assessed. "1% of the corpse group was hit. After being blocked, its movement slowed down. It is expected to arrive under the city wall in 10 minutes and 30 seconds."
"Why is it only 30 seconds late? No, fight again!"
"Instructor, our ammunition is limited." The soldier next to him hesitated.
"Didn't you see the scale of this attack?" Chen Hui stared and said, "The black corpses are likely to be out in force this time. Fight me! If you can't survive this attack, everything is nonsense!"
"yes."
"The artillery team listened to the order and aimed and fired on its own. Each team left three bases, and I fired the rest!"
Among these people, only Chen Hui understood best. At this time, only by taking the initiative to disrupt the offensive posture of the zombie tide, the pressure on the front line could be reduced.
Anyway, there are black corpses everywhere now, and there is no need to consider the hit rate of the parabolic projectiles. As long as the number of black corpses can be further consumed, it doesn't matter if the shells are used up.
A moment later, nine heavy artillery launched fire strikes at the same time. One shell after another exploded in the tide of corpses, but it soon returned to calm like water. This time the scale of the corpse tide was really too great. The scattered 120mm grenades were like small pebbles falling into the corpse tide, unable to turn over much of Lang Hua.
Looking at the images sent back by Fu Lianhe, Chen Hui became anxious.
"No," he slapped his thigh and hurriedly ordered, "Each team adjusted its various elements and aimed at the middle of the corpse wave. Today, even if I emptied my family's fortune, I still have to cut off its 'small waist'!"
"Boom boom boom——"
The howitzers focused their fire one after another, forming a sea of fire in the middle of the corpse wave.
At the same time, two tanks lying in ambush outside the city suddenly appeared. They drove out of the hiding spots on both sides in unison and came to the center of the zombie attack. The turret rotated and aimed at the oncoming corpses, and then a cannonball fired flatly.
The fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile equipped on the ZTZ-30A tank has extremely high penetration depth and can penetrate 1 meter thick homogeneous armor at a distance of 2,000 meters. Once the armor-piercing bullet was fired, it was like a hot knife inserted into butter, immediately cutting a fifty-meter-long trench into the tide of corpses. Wherever it went, the black corpses' limbs disintegrated, causing countless casualties.
"here you go!"
The direct aiming effect of the tank cannon was so good that Fu Lianhe from the headquarters couldn't help but applaud. He knew that the walls of the outer city were tall and thick, and it was impossible for tanks to sit inside the city like artillery and carry out firepower against the tide of corpses outside the city. Moreover, direct-aimed weapons have always had a short range, so they can only be effective if they are placed on the attack route of the zombie wave outside the city, but this is also risky.
The fighting lasted for three days, and the flat grass surface was now covered with a layer of loess. Gun smoke, broken wood, and flesh and blood debris were everywhere. On the broken ground, two tanks covered in jungle camouflage were lined up side by side, forming two armored fortresses.
At the same time, the two automatic loaders pulled the chain, loaded 125 mm caliber shells and opened fire in unison.
The two tanks continued to output armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells. The hard cores of the armor-piercing shells and the explosives of the high-explosive shells continued to kill the vanguard of the zombie tide. It looked like they ran up to die on their own.
However, the crew did not relax their vigilance. Although their bombardment was effective, as time passed, the zombie tide got closer and closer to them. Xiao Zheng, who was responsible for the maneuver of the No. 1 tank, was breathing more and more heavily, and his forehead was already covered with sweat.
"Captain, are you leaving?"
"Wait a minute, fire again!" Shen Quan, commander of the No. 1 tank, stopped him.
"Bang bang." "Boom boom——"
Just as tanks and heavy artillery were attacking like crazy, several pools of slime suddenly fell from the air, corroding the grass and turning it black as soon as it hit the ground.
The expressions of all the crew members changed when they saw it, and they shouted in unison: "Spit out the black corpses!"
"Captain! What should I do?"
"Go back quickly, Commander."
"No," Shen Quan gritted his teeth and said, "Listen to me and move forward!"
"Captain?" The driver seemed to think he heard wrongly.
But Shen Quan ignored the exclamations of the team members and ordered: "Hurry, now!"
"yes!"
In just seven seconds, the 30A tank had just advanced five meters when they saw the corrosive slime flying over the tank's head and landing on the grass behind them. They narrowly avoided it.
"Captain, you are so amazing!"
"Stop flattering," Shen Quan said with an air of dignity on his face, but he still refused to relax. "Hurry up and adjust the direction and keep maneuvering. We can't stop where we are."
"Not good! The tanks of the second group were splashed."
On the other side, Tank No. 2 had been hit. Thick yellow-green liquid was sprinkled on the turret on the roof of the vehicle, and soon white smoke began to rise.
Fu Lianhe, who was at the headquarters, also observed this scene through a drone. He was shocked and immediately grabbed the microphone and shouted: "Quickly withdraw! Inform the vehicle crew to withdraw to the base."
"Group 1 received," Chen Liang held a headset and sent a message, "Call Group 2, is there something wrong with your tracks?"
Two seconds later, the other side replied: "No, the tracks are intact." The voice sounded a little panicked.
"That's okay." Chen Liang breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. He did not dare to delay any longer and hurriedly sent a message: "Listen to me now. The two tanks will take the outer route back to the base. Every 50 meters they travel, the parking space will move 5 meters to the outside. Let's set off now. The speed must be fast. The second group is in front. We cover."
"receive."
During the movement, Tank No. 1 did not forget to turn the turret to face the rear, and fire a shell from time to time to block the enemy.
"Raise the angle of fire for me. Ask the headquarters where these clusters of black zombies are located."
"Commander, the command center has responded, it is two kilometers directly behind us."
"Fuck him! Let's run after we finish."
Although the tank is a direct-aiming weapon, it also has a shooting elevation of 20 degrees, which is expected to be enough.
"Commander, you are using the tank as a self-propelled artillery."
"Stop talking nonsense, when it comes to cross-country mobility, I was number one during the military exercises!"
