Chapter 89 The Final Battle of the Three Eastern Provinces
After the trial of the last group of people, they were all sentenced to reeducation through labor. Since their actions caused damage to society, they should be compensated through labor. At the same time, Li Yuanhong opened a special study class there to learn the laws of the base and learn labor skills. Only by letting them know that labor is beautiful can they correct their eagerness for quick success and indulging in work. No one is born good or bad, only education.
After handling this matter, Li Yuanhong was equivalent to re-cleaning up the leadership. Through this incident, many unrest factors hidden in the government were cleared away. The so-called blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.
With a more united leadership, Li Yuanhong can let go and continue attacking zombies. In the entire Northeast, only the Black Province is left to be liberated. Now is the time to deal with it. Once the zombies in the Black Province have been dealt with, Li Yuanhong will have a solid offensive foundation. The three eastern provinces plus the Far East not only have a vast area of cultivated land. , and there are rich mines, so that they can produce a large number of weapons and equipment. When the time comes to attack Guanli, they can face millions or tens of millions of corpses.
Li Yuanhong summoned Commander Xiao and the four army commanders to discuss the attack plan. The obstacles to this attack come not only from zombies, but also from Wang Haikuo and Tian Manfeng. The leader of this civil strife and rebellion is Wang Haikuo's son. I think there must be Tian Manfeng's factors involved here, otherwise only Wang Haikuo would dare to surrender with confidence. His son came over to make trouble, but this is good, so that we can prepare for them in advance and avoid being tricked by them in the war.
Li Yuanhong spread out the map and asked Commander Xiao: "Commander Xiao, you are a garrison in Ji Province. How much do you know about Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province?"
"The terrain of Harbin is relatively complex, with many hills and water. Such terrain is not conducive to large-scale mechanized movements. At the same time, before the end of the world, the population of Harbin exceeded 10 million, so the number of zombies is now estimated to be eight to nine hundred. Thousands of them."
After listening to Commander Xiao's introduction, Li Yuanhong frowned. Li Yuanhong planned to bombard the city with tanks and airships like he did in Dalian. However, the terrain of Harbin restricted the use of tanks, and the number of airships was not very large. This was impossible. Forming the advantage of group artillery fire, this is very troublesome.
Li Yuanhong asked: "Is there anything you can do?"
Everyone lowered their heads in thought at this time. After all, what they were facing this time was not one or two million zombies, but nearly ten million. Tanks and artillery could not be used on a large scale. No one was sure how to fight such a battle.
Li Yuanhong was not asking, but looked down at the map, hoping to find a solution on the map. Soon, Li Yuanhong was attracted by a place on the map. It was when the Songhua River flowed through Harbin that a sandbar island emerged. The area was not large, and there was only one bridge connecting the island to the sandbar island.
"Commander Xiao, are you familiar with these sandbar islands?" Li Yuanhong asked.
"These islands were all created by the Songhua River. Look at some of the larger ones. There are no buildings marked on them. Do you know why?" Commander Xiao pretended.
"Oh, why?" Li Yuanhong also asked curiously.
"Because those sandbars will be flooded by water during the rainy season, there are no buildings. In addition, the soil on the sandbar island is relatively soft, and buildings that are too tall cannot bear it." Commander Xiao explained.
"Well, if I want to build a building like the last defense tower, will there be any problems?" Li Yuanhong asked.
"This should be no problem!"
"Is there any possibility that Shazhou Island will be submerged now?" Li Yuanhong asked again.
"Spring has just begun and the rainy season has not yet arrived. At this time, the river water is still stable and there will be no flooding of the islands."
"Okay, that's good. We can fight like this. We occupy a few sandbars and separate Harbin City from them. The number of zombies we face is reduced by half. Then we can find a way to use airships and tanks to fight block by block. Clean up, so the most critical thing in this battle is the blockade of these bridges. How do you think they should be blocked?"
Li Yuanhong's idea suddenly opened up everyone's thinking, so everyone began to actively talk about ideas. In fact, it is much easier to defend the bridge than to attack. After all, the bridge deck is relatively narrow, and the number of zombies each attack is limited, which makes it impossible for the zombies to attack. Taking advantage of their numbers, as long as the human soldiers have sufficient ammunition and the soldiers take turns defending, there is almost no pressure.
Soon, the battle plan came out. The entire battle was fought from north to south, with the bridge deck blocked in the middle. The person responsible for the blockade was handed over to Xing Ling. At the same time, Li Yuanhong left an army as a reserve team. In fact, this army was for defense. Tian Manfeng and the others.
Three days later, Li Yuanhong landed on the sandbank in an airship. At this time, the Songhua River was flowing quietly, without the legendary turbulent waves. It looked like a calm river. There were very few zombies on the sandbank at this time, only three or two kittens, and they were all missing arms and legs. It looked like they had fallen off the bridge.
Li Yuanhong quickly ordered the personnel to clear away the zombies, and then built fortifications on the bridge. At this time, the zombies had not noticed the situation here, so the zombies had not poured in here yet.
Taking advantage of this gap, Li Yuanhong erected many defense towers on both sides of the bridge, and specially arranged airship guards on the bridge. In this way, with air fire support, the pressure on the bridge would be much smaller. Once the corpse group reached a large scale, Airships can be dispersed through magic cannons.
After arranging one island, Li Yuanhong turned to another island. There were a total of four islands that required troops to be stationed, so Li Yuanhong had to hurry up, otherwise he would not be able to set up defense towers so calmly when the zombies reacted.
Fortunately, the zombies did not come around, but occasionally zombies came onto the bridge and were killed by weapons.
After the defenses of the four islands were arranged and soldiers began to move in on the islands, the smell of humans finally attracted the zombies. Groups of zombies began to gather on the bridge, so the magic cannon on the airship began to fire, and the gunfire exploded among the corpses. The newly formed zombie group was blown up again, so that there were not many zombies on the bridge, which put little pressure on the bridge's defense.
But as the sound of artillery fire spread, the zombies finally noticed the humans on the four sandbanks, so more zombies began to come here, and the exchange of fire became more and more intense. Soon the bridges leading to the four islands It was blocked by piles of corpses, making it impossible for subsequent zombies to move forward.
At this time, in the center of Harbin City, there was a special zombie roar. As the zombie roar sounded, the zombie attacks were no longer so chaotic, but began to have a rhythm, and many zombies wearing robes appeared, and these zombies had more or less Some of them wore protective clothing, and some held shields or weapons in their hands. These zombies came to the pile of corpses and began to push the zombie corpses blocking the road into the river. Soon the road on the bridge was cleared. come out.
With the addition of these zombies, the soldiers' attack efficiency has dropped significantly, especially long-range bow and arrow attacks, which are basically blocked by shields and armors. Moreover, the zombie formations are no longer so dense, and the attack efficiency of artillery fire has also dropped. With the change in zombie attack strategies, the zombie team is getting closer and closer to human defense positions.
At this moment, violent gunfire rang out in the north of the city in Harbin. It was obvious that the soldiers deployed on the north side began to attack the zombies in the city. The zombies on the north bank of the Songhua River were suddenly attacked from two sides. The zombies were in chaos and they didn't know which way they should go.
At this time, the zombie roar sounded again, and the attack on the north side of the bridge was obviously weakened. Many zombies turned around and rushed towards the edge of the city. Apparently, the zombies in charge did not pay attention to the humans on the sandbank. In their opinion, the sandbank There are less than 10,000 humans, and this is the four sandbanks combined. According to past experience, the zombie swarm of these 10,000 people was wiped out in minutes. Although the humans took advantage of the danger, but before, ha Many survivors escaped from the city and built many gathering places, many of which had difficult terrain, but they were all destroyed by the zombie hordes.
But the giants didn't understand that they were not facing ordinary survivors at this time, and their corpses were divided invisibly. Especially the giant zombies were commanded on the south bank. There were no giant zombies on the north bank at all, so the zombies had almost no command, even if they rushed up. It was noisy and the formation was very dense, which gave the human magic cannon a great advantage.
As time went by, many of the zombies that crowded the streets and attacked humans were basically mutilated, turning the entire street into a horror movie scene. Many of the new soldiers who joined the war were vomiting and made the commanders angry. He scolded his mother vigorously, fearing that the ugly behavior of these recruits would be seen by the people above, but even if Li Yuanhong saw it, he just smiled. When he first killed zombies, he was no better than these recruits.
The zombie attack was thwarted and faced attacks from two sides, which immediately made the giant zombie aware of the crisis. Especially the human artillery fire not only came from the ground, but also from the sky. The movement of the zombies could be seen more clearly from the airship, and the intensity of the attack on the zombies on the streets was Stronger, and as the human infantry advanced, the space of the zombies was gradually compressed. The zombies on the north bank lost nearly one million in less than half a day, and most of them were killed by magic cannons.
At this time, the zombies thought of using buildings to fight street battles, but many important urban buildings in the city had been occupied by humans in advance, leaving only ordinary buildings. These buildings could not form a barrier to humans at all, and the zombies that entered the buildings, It is more difficult to form a numerical advantage over humans locally. Instead, humans are defeated one by one with the advantage of weapons. Soon, the corpse group on the north bank has a tendency to collapse.
Only then did the giant zombie know the importance of several bridges, so the giant zombie ordered the zombies on the north bank to rejoin the offensive to attack the bridge. However, at this time, the bridgehead was reinforced by humans, making the zombie attack even more difficult, especially when Li Yuanhong added many more bridgeheads. Defense tower, even if humans do not attack, the defense tower can kill more than half of the zombies on the bridge.
The giant zombie on the south bank realized at this time that he had committed a taboo of underestimating the enemy. In order to recapture several bridges, the giant zombie sent the fat zombie to assist, intending to rely on the fat man's human shield to capture the bridge in one fell swoop.
These fat zombies were covered with iron sheets torn from who knows where, and they were holding simple steel shields in their hands. They were approaching the bridge step by step. Although humans had guns or bows and arrows, they could not hurt the zombies, and the magic cannon They didn't dare to bombard the bridge directly. If the bridge collapsed, subsequent attacks would be impossible. Seeing that a fierce hand-to-hand battle would be inevitable, even Li Yuanhong and Fatty Lu rolled up their sleeves, preparing to fight in hand-to-hand combat. .