Chapter 191: War Begins (I)
The wind blew from west to east, blowing Luo Ren's hair and clothes. The forest in front of him was blown by the wind, raising a wave of green waves and making a "rustling" sound.
None of the soldiers of the Kingdom Army on the city wall dared to slack off. They stared straight at the forest, pointed their guns steadily at the front, and maintained a fighting posture.
Under the city wall, at the gate, twelve tanks, with their black muzzles uniformly aimed at the gate, and dozens of machine guns were also the same, which was extremely deterrent.
Luo Ren raised his hand and looked at the time. It was already nine o'clock.
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Hu——
At this moment, except for the sound of the wind and the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the forest, there were also the sounds of breathing one after another. Everything else was quiet, and everyone's movements seemed to be frozen.
Bump, Bump, Bump
It was so quiet that Luo Ren seemed to be able to hear his own and other people's heartbeats. He tilted his head to look at other people and saw the Kingdom Army soldiers, who were ready for battle, with sharp eyes directed at the forest ahead. The hands holding the butt of the gun turned pale because of the greater force.
Old Song, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, never left the forest. Even if his eyes were tired, he just rubbed his eyes quickly and immediately looked back.
Luo Ren retracted his gaze and also looked at the distant forest. Judging from the performance of others, those zombies should be "hiding soldiers" in the forest.
Tick, tick, tick
It seems that you can hear the clock and stopwatch moving, and feel the passing of time.
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Suddenly, the sky was startled and the clouds were stopped. The high-pitched eagle pierced the air and pierced the silence of this side. Luo Ren looked up and saw the familiar figure of the goshawk. He couldn't help but frowned slightly, thinking to himself, is this guy here to "steal food from Luo's mouth" again?
Rustle...
Just a moment after the eagle landed, dense footsteps were heard from the forest ahead. All the soldiers of the Kingdom Army immediately tensed their muscles and were blinded by murderous intent.
Luo Ren withdrew his gaze from the eagle and looked directly at the forest. Under his gaze, "Roar——", the evolved zombies roared, and dense zombies rushed out of the forest, including level 1 evolved zombies.
It took less than a minute for the zombies to cross the red line at a distance of hundreds of meters.
All the soldiers of the Kingdom Army guarding the city remembered the order of Chief of Staff Lao Song just now, and they opened fire with all their strength and must conserve ammunition.
At the same time, they thought of the majestic and powerful guards under the city wall and behind the city gate, and their morale was boosted. They roared and pulled the trigger, and bullets immediately poured out, forming a hail of bullets.
What the zombies who crossed the red line didn't expect was that those humans actually opened fire at full power. Many zombies were killed in a single encounter.
"Roar!"
The sharp and piercing roar was from the speed-evolved zombie. When it sounded, all the zombies that crossed the red line retreated.
Luo Ren looked in the direction of the sound, but only saw a forest. The speed-evolved zombie should be hiding in the forest, commanding these ordinary zombies and level 1 zombies to attack and retreat.
From the roar, Luo Ren analyzed that this should be a level 2 zombie, not a quasi-level 3.
The zombies withdrew from the red line and paused for a few seconds. The roar of the level 2 speed zombies sounded again, and the zombies that withdrew from the red line crossed the red line again.
Similarly, the soldiers of the Kingdom Army once again opened fire, and the bullets were densely covered like a fishing net towards the zombies.
The firearms used by the Kingdom Army are all standard firearms. The automatic rifle alone has a firing rate of up to 560 rounds per minute. It only takes a few seconds to empty a 30-round magazine, and even bursts of fire will never exceed one minute.
Therefore, every time the zombies crossed the red line, the soldiers of the Kingdom Army would consume almost 5 magazines.
Taking out half of the existing ammunition in stock, each soldier was only given more than 20 magazines, which was only enough to barely survive a zombie siege at full firepower.
The hawk was circling in the sky, and the zombies jumped repeatedly inside and outside the red line. The Kingdom Army switched back and forth between shooting and stopping. Only Luo Ren looked calm, staring at the mountains and forests outside the city with indifferent eyes.
As for the guards under the city wall, they pricked up their ears, waited in full battle, and waited for Luo Ren's orders at any time, and then executed them.
About half an hour later, the Kingdom Army's ammunition had already become exhausted, and the casualties of the zombies dropped sharply. If the casualties of the zombies in the first half an hour were 10/s, then now it was 2/s. This was not because the Kingdom Army slowed down the firing rate in order to save bullets, but because the ammunition on the scene was really running out.
Seeing this, Luo Ren walked to Lao Song, leaned over to his ear, and said, "Tell the soldiers to slow down the firing rate as much as possible and survive this siege."
What he wanted was to draw out the real main zombie group, especially the quasi-level 3 zombies and level 2 zombies among them, so that they could be wiped out in one fell swoop, otherwise it would be in vain.
At present, the ammunition of the Kingdom Army has been exhausted, and all this has been seen by the quasi-level 3 zombies hiding in the dark. Luo Ren is confident that with its IQ, it will definitely not see that this is a trick.
And according to the speculation of the battle of Chiyang City, under such circumstances, the quasi-level 3 zombies and level 2 zombies in the dark should be dispatched in the next siege.
Of course, he is also willing to see the main zombie group dispatched now, because the guns and artillery of the guard army are always ready.
After hearing this, Lao Song nodded and immediately summoned the responsible officer to pass on the order, "Save ammunition and survive this battle!"
The firing rate slowed down, and the rate of killing zombies gradually slowed down from 2/s just now to 5/s.
The obvious decrease in speed obviously did not make the evolution zombies in the dark suspicious, but made them more excited. This can be heard from the roar of the speed zombies who were secretly commanding.
"Roar——"
It was still sharp and piercing, but the sound was prolonged and a tune was raised. When the zombies heard the roar, they crossed the red line more boldly and boldly, and the speed of withdrawing from the red line was slower.
Luo Ren saw these changes and couldn't help but raise a curve at the corner of his mouth.
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Roar——
Another half an hour passed. This time the zombie siege lasted for about an hour. With a hawk sound and a piercing roar, the zombies retreated.
Swish!
Luo Ren's eyes were not on the retreating zombies, but on the mountains and forests. With the roar of the evolution zombies, a black shadow suddenly passed through the mountains and forests under his gaze. Ordinary people must not be able to see it clearly, but he can.
As expected, it was a level 2 speed zombie with red eyes, sharp claws, and quadrupedal walking.
Gradually, the zombies retreated into the forest, leaving thousands of zombie corpses outside the city and within the red line.
The weather is not too hot now, and these corpses are not so easy to rot and stink. Therefore, under Lao Song's arrangement, there is no need to rush to clean up. In the past, the corpses were cleaned up only after the zombies had attacked the city all day.
But Luo Ren had his considerations, that is, these corpses could easily become obstacles for the guards to chase out of the city, so it is better to clean them up early.
He turned his head to see Lao Song and said, "You arrange for people to clean up the corpses outside the city. You don't need to burn or bury the corpses first. Just throw them aside to avoid hindering the guards to chase out of the city."