The fifth attack of the zombie swarm has lasted for three hours.
From the setting sun to the darkening sky, the long battle brought unbearable fatigue to everyone. Among the seven thousand people guarding the edge of the defense line, Sanxi was one of them.
Before the disaster, he was just an ordinary office worker. His irregular work schedule and frequent overtime and late nights had long emptied his body. In his normal life before the disaster, he had neglected to exercise. It was because of this doomsday crisis that Sanxi had to run. He used all his strength and a lifetime of potential to run with himself and his family.
He was lucky. Although he encountered groups of corpses from time to time on his way out of the city, the three of them were always not the ones who died. He was lucky. After escaping from the city, he followed the refugees to Fengwei Mountain and became a member of the Langya City Defense Force. There are equipment and companions here. Although the training time is less than a month, Sanxi thinks that he is already a qualified warrior.
But until now, his shoulder was sore from being hit by the gun butt, his fingers were numb, and the continuous noise made his whole body numb, and his head was like a stone poured with lead water. Facing the endless swarm of black corpses and the endless wave of monsters, Sanxi felt the same panic as the day she escaped from Shashi.
At a certain moment, Sanxi suddenly had a suspicion in his heart. In this battle with no end in sight, he was not sure that he could survive to the end, nor was he sure whether they could win this war. He was not even sure whether the Black Corpse would break through the city wall and claim everyone in the next moment. human life.
Numbly firing, reloading, shooting, reloading, as if he were an hourly worker on an assembly line.
At a certain moment, Sanxi even felt that she was dead, and that everything around her was just a painful illusion that lingered after death. In the vision, he saw the city wall as straight as a right angle. The black corpses were climbing up with their sharp claws, and the people on the opposite line of defense were aiming at the back of their heads and firing. The hit black corpses rolled down the slope composed of black corpses one after another, and an entire layer was cut off the top of the slope. At the same time, more black corpses were climbing up, extending the "tentacles" on the top of the slope upward again.
This was like a tug of war, and the Corpse King used the most disdainful tactics of fueling the fight.
The most disdainful, but also the most fearful.
Not just Sanxi, not just the top brass, everyone at the base knew one thing very well - the ammunition reserves in the warehouse were limited. Theoretically, you cannot defeat an infinite horde of corpses without infinite bullets. Of course, the corpse swarm will not be unlimited. Although it seems that there are still black corpses rushing out of the jungle in a steady stream, in theory, the corpse group will always be exhausted. The final count of black corpses may be 880,000 or 1.03 million, but it is still a realistic number, rather than tending to infinite nothingness.
But people will never forget that as long as there are more black corpses than ammunition, and as long as the black corpses are not extinct before the ammunition is exhausted, the end of mankind will usher in.
In fact, their ability to hold on until now is also due to the powerful equipment supported by the Qin family. In addition to the results brought by those heavy artillery and tanks, a handful of machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were all used against the enemy at this time.
The machine guns installed on the defense towers dealt a heavy blow to the corpses before they approached the city wall. The caliber of the machine gun bullets exceeds 20 mm, which is enough to break any black corpse below the third level into pieces. When the black corpses attacked the bastion and the edge defense line, the cannons frequently fired out bullets. Any black corpses that rushed up the "hill" were shattered by bullets and became part of the remains of the mountain of corpses beneath them.
Different from when they were on the first line of defense, Sanxi and the others now had Type 03 and Type 05 rifles produced at the beginning of this century. Part of the production capacity of these two batches of firearms is still active in military and police services in various places. Compared with the Type 63 and Type 67 rifles of their ancestors, the Type 03 and Type 05 have greater damage, longer range and higher accuracy. Sanxi alone fired thousands of rounds of bullets in three days, but until now I haven't encountered any problems such as jamming or explosion. With the new guns in hand, the firepower of the defending team doubled, and the zombie hordes could no longer attack the city wall as easily as they could break through the first line of defense.
"What a great gun."
Looking at the weapon in his hand, Sanxi couldn't help but think, if there had been such a gun in his hand that day and such firepower on the defense line, wouldn't the squad leader, Xiao Liang and Xuanzi have died?
He didn't understand military affairs, let alone tactics. He didn't know which of the factors that caused the death of many comrades was the biggest driving force behind the scenes.
On the opposite wall, there were a few unscrupulous black corpses who tried to climb up, but were shot down by Sanxi's bullets. The black corpse's corpse fell off the city wall, rolled from the corpse mountain to the foot of the mountain, and then fell into the ditch with a clatter.
(Distribute cold weapons.)
Sanxi just glanced at the trench that was once filled with wooden thorns and stopped paying attention. He knew that the black corpses would gradually fill this ravine, just as they had filled the previous ones.
I heard from other people that in order to prevent a large group of corpses, the city lord and deputy city lord had raised the walls of the fortress a month ago, but retained the trenches, parapets and slopes outside the city. The previous second line of defense was in the trench under the city wall, and the first line of defense was dug out on an unsheltered slope.
Although Sanxi didn't understand military affairs, he could see that the zigzag wall had some obvious advantages after defending the city for three days. That is, when the enemy climbs any city wall, he will be fiercely attacked by the defenders on the other side of the city wall.
Generally speaking, the taller and straighter the city wall is, the larger the blind spot at the base of the wall is. However, the bastions and edge defenses of the star-shaped fortress can serve as horns and cover each other. When the soldiers focus their fire to attack the opposite city wall at the same time, there will no longer be a blind spot problem. Longer walls also extended the battle line, further spreading the size of the corpse horde.
Therefore, some of the black corpses attacking the fortress at a certain moment had to receive firepower from all the defending officers and soldiers at the same time. When facing a large-scale siege, only the star-shaped fortress can maximize its firepower across the board. They must be grateful to the foresight of the city lord and deputy city lord for their survival to this day.
Before boarding this fortress, no one thought that they would leave their life and death to others, and they regarded protecting the safety of their companions as a task that must be completed. But the destruction of the city and the death of people are the sword of Damocles that hangs high. At this moment, everyone guarding the defense line understands the meaning of death.
So people have a profound understanding that protecting comrades is to protect oneself, and to guard the opposite line of defense is to guard one's own line of defense.
Sanxi had to admit that if this were not the end of the world, if this was not a modern society where thermal weapons have been domineering for many years, the star-shaped fortress would be the nemesis of all siege tactics. But it's a pity that the fortress's opponent this time is the black corpse who has no fear, is tireless, and will not flinch. He is the corpse king who doesn't care about sacrifice or death.
When hundreds of thousands of black corpses swarmed up the city wall, the trenches that had been tried and tested in the cold weapon era became a joke. Hundreds of thousands of black corpses are enough to fill any trench and suppress any sea of fire. Even if the city wall is not high enough, the star-shaped fortress will be a joke.
Sanxi felt that she should be lucky. Lucky that the city wall was high enough, lucky that the firepower here was strong enough, lucky that although the world had become a mess, she and her family were still alive.
At least I'm alive at this moment.
"Click." "Thump, thump, thump, thump—"
As night fell, huge searchlights were lit on the city wall, illuminating the 100-meter area closest to the outer city wall as bright as day. So far, the attack of the corpse group is still balanced with the people's counterattack. Except that the mountain of corpses under the city wall is thicker and larger, there is no change compared to the daytime.
In such a fierce battle, people still have the opportunity to take turns to rest, which is not a rare thing. A few people rubbed their sore shoulders and sat down with their backs against the wall, naturally talking about these gossips that replaced cigarettes.
"Hey, tell me, if the zombies can't attack for a long time, will they retreat?"
"I'd rather they give up, but do you think that's possible? Will wild dogs let loose easily before they've eaten the meat?"
"Perhaps you have forgotten that the first few attacks failed in the later stages."
"This... I hope your guess is right."
…
Just as people were whispering despite their fatigue and sleepiness, Lin Wenjin, who was in Fortress No. 1, suddenly stood up straight.
He looked far into the distance and saw a running black corpse suddenly appearing on the edge of the "daylight" at the end of his vision. Running from the dark night into the light, the black corpse ran extremely fast, almost as fast as Bolt before the end of the world, so it was particularly conspicuous among the corpses. First there was one, then ten, a group, and finally an innumerable large area. Countless black corpses suddenly accelerated like a riot, then broke through the night and rushed towards the star castle wall.
"No, sound the alarm!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Hei clicked the alarm button installed on the wall. All of a sudden, the air defense siren sounded, and the sharp high-decibel tone echoed throughout the defense line. As soon as people came back to their senses, they saw that these black corpses were almost reaching the city wall!
"Defend, defend quickly!"
"Fire for me, aim and hit them hard!"
“Da da da—” “Hoo uh!”
"No, they moved too fast!"
"Coming up! They're coming up!"
"Shoot! Drive them off the city wall!"
Soon, a new batch of faster black corpses reached the top of the corpse mountain. They were like beasts on stimulants, desperately trying to climb the city wall. In the process of climbing upwards, they stepped on the shoulders and heads of their companions, using their hands and feet to grab everything around them. At a certain moment, they actually formed a continuous upward "chain of corpses." Although many black corpses slipped and rolled down the mountain of corpses, more black corpses actually climbed up the city wall.
As soon as they came into contact, people discovered that these black corpses were very different from those who came to die before. Their evolutionary levels are relatively high, and they seem to be generally from the peak of the first level to the early stages of the second level, and there are even some black corpses from the middle to late second level mixed in among them. Moreover, they are all evolved types that favor speed. As long as the soldiers do not hit their vital points immediately, these black corpses will knock people down and bite their throats.
The natural moat that they have always relied on seems to have disappeared. For the people guarding the city wall, this is simply a nightmare.
"Grenade!" "Quick, quick! Throw them all down!"
“Bang!” “Hoo uh——”
"Go to hell, monster!" "Blow up all of you black corpses!"
"Bang bang bang——"
People threw down all the grenades at hand, and the fist-sized iron lumps fell like raindrops into the sea of blood under the city wall. Soon they exploded, causing a wave of blood. In the blood wave, there were pieces of flesh flying, arms broken into three parts, and less than half of a head.
After an explosion, the mountain of corpses did not collapse, but its height was greatly reduced, almost half. The mountain of corpses composed of one hundred thousand black corpses is far thicker than people imagined. The explosive power of offensive grenade fragments is average, and it is already the limit to be able to do this. But also because the mountain of corpses has become half shorter, the chances of black corpses climbing up the city wall have dropped sharply.
Within minutes, the situation took a turn for the worse and then returned to control again, a roller coaster ride that tested people's mental endurance. Although the situation had only slightly improved at this time, some people could not help but cheer.
"Great, the mountain of corpses has collapsed!"
On the No. 3 bastion, his companion pointed to the opposite edge defense line and retorted: "Nonsense! Look clearly, there is still half of it."
"Get out of the way, let me come!"
At this time, a person squeezed in from behind. He was the squad leader of a certain rifle class. He had a beard on his face, a strong back and a strong waist. I saw this man carrying a personal rocket launcher on his shoulder, aiming it at the waist of the city wall along the edge of the defense line, and pulled the trigger while shouting.
"RPG!"
"brush--"
A powerful gray-white jet appeared at the tail of the rocket launcher, pushing the rocket to fly away from the launch tube at a muzzle velocity of 117 meters per second. The rocket with its stabilizing fins spread out rotated and flew directly into the top of the mountain of corpses in just 0.5 seconds.
A violent explosion occurred instantly, with flames and metal fragments shooting in all directions, quickly blowing up the "wall of corpses".
"here you go!"
A personal weapon capable of destroying tanks' armor, it truly lives up to its reputation!
Seeing this scene, the others followed suit and found more than ten rocket launchers and went into battle. The corpse ladders one after another on the wall opposite the No. 3 Bastion were suddenly cleared.
"It works!" Wu Ke's eyes lit up when he saw this scene. He quickly informed other defense lines: "Use the rocket launcher to kill these black sons of bitches!"
As more RPG rocket launchers join the battle, the corpse walls and ladders that have been formed are rapidly collapsing.
In Langya City, the inner city wall is five meters high, and it was doubled when the outer city was built. The fifteen-meter-high zigzag city wall was built entirely by people with earth-type abilities. Its material is similar to rock and is not afraid of water or fire attacks. Because the wall is more than five meters thick, it remains structurally stable even if it is hit by grenades.
Everyone knows that rockets are limited, so it is only a matter of time before the wall of corpses forms again. But it is also because of the powerful blows of rockets that the pressure in people's hearts can't help but be relieved.
At the same time, some unfamiliar faces were coming to them. These people were holding strange-looking silver-gray short guns with a thick and heavy gun body, and a cylinder-like device like a gas tank connected under the barrel.
"Gauss Weapon!"
Someone soon recognized it. It was the first-generation magnetic energy weapon that was partially produced by the coalition government at the beginning of the century. It was also commonly known as Gaussian weapon. At the same time, the device under the barrel is not a gas tank, but a special electromagnetic stamping pump. Although I have heard that the coalition government plans to equip the army with Gauss weapons on a large scale in the future, ordinary people have rarely seen the real thing.
Under the gaze of everyone, these new defenders silently came to the city wall, stretched the barrel of their gun out of the wall stacks and pointed straight down, without saying anything, they pulled the trigger.
With a "boom", the powerful recoil shook the gunners so much that they almost jumped. But these people were the best soldiers and generals selected from among the first batch of citizens of Langya City. After they were done, they just moved their shoulders, and it didn't seem to be a big deal.
The people on the opposite bastion defense line didn't know why. They only saw a blue-white pulse flow suddenly appeared, penetrating downwards through dozens of black corpses climbing the wall in a straight line. The blue and white pulse dived to the bottom, and then triggered a small explosion on the top of the corpse mountain.
Killing a corpse ladder with one shot is indeed much better than conventional firearms. People only saw the gorgeous pulse flow, but Chen Hui knew that what really worked was the metal warhead hidden in the pulse flow.
According to information circulated before the disaster, the first-generation Gauss weapon was still equipped with conventional caseless bullets, and its most powerful feature was its kinetic energy kill. After the trigger is pulled, the electromagnetic stamping pump will provide a motive force for the electromagnetic induction prime mover in the gun body. Then the bipolar magnetic field in the barrel is activated, instantly accelerating the metal slug so that it passes through the muzzle and shoots toward the target. .
I heard that the bullet acquires a lot of energy at this instant, and under ideal conditions the speed when it passes through the muzzle is close to the speed of light. The greater the speed, the greater the kinetic energy, and the greater the destructive power, which is naturally not comparable to conventional thermal weapons. It should be said that the lethality of this magnetic energy gun is not inferior to the ordinary smoothbore cannon before the disaster. However, Langya City does not have many magic weapons such as magnetic energy guns in the arsenal, so they can only be used at times like this to meet urgent needs.
"Awesome! We are saved this time."
"Shoot, shoot quickly! Kill them all, leaving no one behind."
Rockets and magnetic energy guns work together to bring hope to people once again. Sanxi's mood was very exciting, and people thought that everything was turning for the better.
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred.
With a "swipe" sound, several sharp objects suddenly flew past Sanxi's cheek. The thing made a sound of breaking through the air, followed by a short scream - "Ah!"
Sanxi shuddered, then looked to the side and saw the tip of an arrow-shaped hidden weapon penetrated deeply into the man's eye socket. The magnetic energy gun was thrown aside, and the victim's body was twitching unconsciously. The end of the murder weapon exposed outside the wound was still glowing with a dark white luster, and it was shaking uncontrollably.
"Brother? Brother!" Sanxi soon discovered that this man was already dead.
He put down the body, stood up and issued a warning with all his strength: "Beware of the black corpse with bone spurs!"
At the same time, roars and screams came from various defense lines one after another. In just a moment, the edge defense line became the hardest hit area by the special black zombie attack.
"ah!"
Someone was pierced through the shoulder blade and shouted: "G-type bone spur attack!"
Others looked at their companions who were corroded beyond recognition, and shouted in panic: "Spitters! Damn it, there are still spitters!"
From time to time, a few bone-spiked spear guns and a few balls of yellow-green corrosive slime appeared in the air. At first, they were thrown around inaccurately, and most of the time they only hit the city walls and wall stacks. But it didn't take long for these guys to be accurate. As if they had been calibrated and adjusted, most of the extremely lethal bone spurs were shot directly at the soldiers, and a lot of corrosive slime also fell on the soldiers. There was no other way, the surviving people had no choice but to leave their combat positions and run away, praying that they would not be the next unlucky person to die miserably.
Amidst the hail of bullets, the surviving squad leader shouted loudly: "Defense, shield soldiers defend!"
At this time, people seemed to have just remembered, and swarmed to find the nearest shield soldier to cover themselves. Under the log shields raised by the shield soldiers, the soldiers returned to the city wall defense line and organized counterattacks in twos and threes.
The arms under the Langya City Defense Force are generally equipped with standard cold weapons produced by Wu's Weapons Factory. Some have broadswords and long swords, and some have wooden shields and spears. Among them, the shield soldiers have an exclusive hardwood shield, which is nearly round in shape and two meters in diameter. Although it is ugly and bulky, it is the core equipment of each combat squad to defend against bone spurs, mucus and other attacks.
