The day after the Phoenix Ridge base city was destroyed, the Kong family's help came belatedly.
On this afternoon, when the corpses were slowly moving forward, a sharp whistle suddenly came from the air.
Before some of the responsive black corpses could raise their heads, a 130mm guided artillery shell accurately landed in the center of the group of corpses.
In an instant, the cannonball hit the ground, flashes of fire appeared, and the loud noise shook the earth.
Within thirty meters of the impact point of the artillery shell, a powerful killing shock wave swept across.
All the objects, including the black corpse, were torn apart by thousands of metal fragments in an instant, and then were blasted into the sky by the ensuing air waves.
At this moment, the flying flesh and blood dyed half of the sky red, and this dark red was immediately covered up by the dust raised by the explosion.
The shock wave rolled along the ground, overturning more than a thousand black corpses and hundreds of trees along the way, and finally affected an area almost as big as a football field.
From start to finish, this sudden explosion took only one second.
But in just one second, the black corpses at the center of the explosion were all turned into powder, and the big trees further away fell to the ground like straw blown up by the hurricane.
Even a hundred meters away from the center of the explosion, there were black corpses whose brains were injured and fell into a deep sleep.
Although when the shock wave reaches farther places, its power has been greatly reduced.
Many black corpses were only overturned by the air waves and were not seriously injured. As long as they got up again, they would be heroes again.
But who can guarantee that there is only one cannonball?
Sure enough, there were another series of whistling sounds in the air.
One shell after another continued to fall into the center of the corpse group with the help of precise satellite guidance.
Throughout the snake-like march of the zombies, shells continued to fall, causing explosions one after another.
It seems that the bombardment side did not give these guys any chance to breathe.
The "rumbling" sound of shelling continued for five or six minutes, and it was not known whether two hundred or three hundred rounds of shells were fired.
All that was known was the roar caused by the explosion, the strange roar of the black corpse, the crackling sound of trees being pushed down by the air waves... these were all mixed together.
It wasn't until half of the black corpses in the corpse group fell that the explosion gradually stopped.
Thirty seconds ago the last shell had flown out of the raised muzzle.
It flew all the way across the river, exploded among a group of gorilla zombies behind the zombie tide, and finally became a dead sound.
It comes from the river, which is 73 kilometers away from Fenghuang Ridge. There is a majestic and spectacular ship parked on the river.
The red and hot naval gun muzzle was emitting gray-white smoke at this moment, and countless shell casings were piled up in every corner of the bow deck.
There is no doubt that this is where those shells originated.
No one in the cabin, on the bridge, or in the command room full of LCD screens cheered.
The reason is simple. After this round of shelling, they are about to return.
Although rocket-assisted gliding can make the projectile fly farther, the continuous high-speed shooting has pushed the water-cooling device of the gun barrel to the limit.
If the firing continues, the main gun barrel may suffer irreparable and permanent damage.
For this reason, everyone on the warship was holding their breath.
All the way from the headquarters of the Third Drive Detachment in the East China Sea, they risked being stranded along the way.
This warship, born in the new era of confrontation, is large in size and has a deep draft. It is designed and manufactured for ocean warfare.
Its hull structure is not suitable for navigation in this inland water system.
Thanks to successive heavy rains this summer, the river's wet season has been extended.
In addition, in the last century, the Jinling government took the initiative to demolish several old cross-river bridges with too low clearance in order to develop shipping.
If it weren't for these reasons, they would have been blocked at the mouth of the river, and it would be impossible for them to sail all the way here.
But now that they have spent so much effort and only had one round of shelling, are they going to run away with their tail between their legs?
Too much unwillingness, and even more helplessness.
"Woo buzz——"
"Advance the front side to stop, straighten the rudder."
"Back three, sail at full speed!"
The captain's orders reached every corner of the ship along the communication loudspeaker.
A long whistle sounded, and the deck and cabins became busy.
After the loud noise of the shelling disappears, the mutated creatures lurking at the bottom of the river will soon notice the behemoth anchored on the river.
Although it will not sink the battleship, it will also be a big trouble for the power system of the hull.
Therefore, after the bombardment stopped, the warship immediately retreated in the direction it came from and accelerated towards the river mouth.
They have successfully completed this mission in accordance with the order from the top.
Although I took a lot of risks along the way, it was all worth it as long as I could defeat the zombie army advancing eastwards.
Soon after, the sun set, and the river was completely white, and the ship could no longer be seen.
And in the distance that the crew couldn't see, on the rugged mountain road 73 kilometers away from the river, there were countless corpses that they thought had been eliminated.
The bodies are getting up one after another from the smoke.
The number of remaining corpse mutants is quite considerable, and many black corpses have no serious injuries. They seem to have just fallen on the road.
The bustling tide of corpses soon filled every corner of the mountain road again.
If it weren't for the shattered flesh and blood residue and blackened tree stumps that were seen from time to time on the roadside, no one would have thought that this place had been the scene of a violent shelling.
After a brief period of chaos, these black corpses continued to gather and slowly moved toward the east following the inexplicable guidance.
Looking down from the sky, the team of black corpses is hundreds of kilometers apart, like a slender black-ringed poisonous snake entrenched among the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River.
Although the zombie wave lost a lot of troops due to this bombardment, it now seems that those fallen comrades are just a drop in the bucket compared to this million-strong army...
Section 2
At the same time, on the Taihu Lake line one hundred kilometers away from here.
More than 5,000 people under Lang Hua's command left the river yesterday and are now heading southwest without stopping.
They crossed the river at Longcheng in southern Jiangsu two days ago and made contact with a stronghold established by the Kong family in Xiangshan.
According to the other party's request, the No. 1 reinforcement force from Langya City will bypass Taihu Lake and head to Beihuang Mountain to rescue the human troops trapped there by the zombie tide.
After spending a night repairing in Xiangshan, Lang Hua led his troops to set off in the early morning and marched southwest under the stars and the moon.
At this time, Lang Hua's foresight was shown.
Most of them are pure speed evolvers, and even the remaining ones are all ability users whose physical strength and speed are not inferior to ordinary people.
In just one day and one night, five thousand people had marched 310 kilometers.
Not only did it completely bypass the southern shore of Taihu Lake, but it also left many Confucian strongholds such as Mogan Mountain, Baozi Ridge and Tianmu Mountain far behind.
While traveling to Baishui Stream, this group of troops encountered a group of about 3,000 black corpses.
The battle had been one-sided since the beginning, and ordinary corpses could not stop the tiger and wolf divisions of Langya City.
But Lang Hua has no intention of letting them fight. After finally repelling the peripheral forces of the corpse group, the troops moved northwest through a mountain depression in the north of Jian, and were able to bypass the side of the corpse group.
At that time, even if the zombies had discovered them, they could only be far behind and unable to catch up. They had no choice but to follow the Langya City troops and eat ashes.
After passing Baishui Stream and Tianmu Mountain, the Langyacheng reinforcements were still 60 kilometers away from their destination, Beihuang Mountain.
If all goes well, we'll be there before dark.
