Chapter 274 A Battle of Wits

It feels good to have a family, but with a family, the responsibility is even greater. Li Yuanhong rushed forward so desperately in the end of the world. He never thought about being an overlord. He wanted to give love to his family and himself more. people, a more peaceful environment.

The next day, Li Yuanhong continued to lead the army forward. It was still no man's land. All the towns and villages had been looted. If it were not too troublesome to demolish the houses, it is estimated that the people of the Western Empire would even demolish their houses. .

The convoy soon arrived at Qinghai Lake. Before the end of the world, Li Yuanhong had always wanted to visit Qinghai Lake. Today he finally saw this big lake, but now the lake is completely closed by ice and snow. It is surrounded by dry grass except ice and snow. There is no scenery to speak of. It is freezing cold. The cold wind made the coldness here even more intense.

Li Yuanhong looked into the distance, but there was no breath of life. Li Yuanhong wanted to cut open the lake surface to see if there were any aquatic creatures in the lake. At this moment, on the western horizon, Li Yuanhong seemed to find something moving, but In a flash, he disappeared. If it weren't for Li Yuanhong's excellent eyesight, Li Yuanhong probably wouldn't have been able to see the figure in this flash.

"There is something ahead. Send scouts over to investigate." Li Yuanhong ordered the commander of the tank regiment beside him.

"Yes, I understand!" Captain Zhang immediately sent a military jeep and rushed forward quickly. Since the tank was too slow, it was more convenient for the jeep to conduct reconnaissance.

Soon Captain Zhang's intercom rang: "Report to the leader, we found a small group of zombies ahead."

"Okay, keep an eye on me, we must not lose you!" Commander Zhang immediately became energetic when he heard this. He didn't even encounter a zombie in the past two days, which really made these soldiers' hands itchy. When they heard that there was The zombies immediately energized these soldiers. Each of them was like a gray wolf seeing a fat sheep. The tanks started up with full power and chased them into the distance.

This pursuit lasted for dozens of kilometers. At first, these zombies were still running along the road. Later, seeing that they could not escape the pursuit of the tanks, they got off the road and turned directly to the dirt road. The tank slowed down because of the slippery snow in winter. The reason is that when the tank enters the snow, the speed slows down by nearly half. In some places, you have to be careful. The surface of the snow is flat, but there may be deep pits that can bury the tank underneath.

Li Yuanhong could already see the zombies at this time. There were not many zombies, less than a hundred. Maybe a few tanks could easily deal with these zombies. But Captain Zhang got excited and sent all the tanks. Chasing zombies.

Observing these zombies carefully, Li Yuanhong discovered the problem. These zombies are all shadow zombies that are mainly agile. Although winter has an impact on the flexibility of zombies, in this snow, these zombies can run much faster than tanks. . Not to mention, these zombies seemed to deliberately control their speed and did not run at full strength. Sometimes the tanks would be pulled far away, and these zombies would deliberately slow down.

"Hold on, all tanks stop sneaking in!" Li Yuanhong suddenly ordered.

"What's wrong, Commander Li?" Captain Zhang was suddenly stopped by Li Yuanhong, and he was a little confused. The zombie was about to catch up, so why did he stop?

"There are zombies ambushing around here!" Li Yuanhong said coldly.

"What?" Captain Zhang was surprised, why didn't he notice it?

"Order the troops to retreat, be careful to retreat in a defensive formation, and do not expose your weaknesses to the enemy." Li Yuanhong said.

"Yes!" Although he didn't know how Li Yuanhong found out about the ambush, Captain Zhang carried out Li Yuanhong's order unconditionally.

Soon, the tank slowly retreated. However, at this moment, many zombies suddenly appeared in the snow not far from the tank. These zombies rushed towards the tank group.

"Fire for me and hit me hard!" Seeing the zombies rushing towards him, Captain Zhang was also jumped. These zombies were less than 200 meters away from the tank troops. If the tanks moved forward some distance, his troops would be Entering the circle of zombies.

Since the tank was relatively close to the group of zombies, the tank's artillery had no effect at all. It could only rely on the machine gun that the tank was later equipped to shoot. Fortunately, Li Yuanhong asked the tank to drive backwards, so the tank immediately launched an attack on the zombies. Otherwise, if the tank turns around and attacks, the zombies will probably climb onto the tank.

Although the firepower of the tank is very fierce, the zombies are still approaching. After all, the machine gun mounted on the tank is not a powerful machine gun, and many of the attacking zombies are armored zombies. This greatly reduces Li Yuanhong's machine gun attack, and the snow is also The movement speed of tanks is reduced, which makes it impossible for the tank group to escape the pursuit of zombies.

"Fat man, we are being chased by zombies here. We need your support as soon as possible!" Li Yuanhong took out his walkie-talkie and directly requested support from the Air Force. If it were an airship, Li Yuanhong would never ask for support. The speed of the airship would make day lilies wait until here. It's cold.

It has to be said that the Air Force was very powerful. In less than ten minutes, two new aircraft arrived on the battlefield. With a burst of micro-missiles, these zombies who were chasing after them were blown up and turned upside down. In this way, the tank group was out of close contact with the zombies. Then the tank's artillery finally took advantage. With the addition of tank fire, the zombie group was quickly annihilated. When counting the zombies, Li Yuanhong discovered that the equipment of these zombies had changed a lot. These zombies were no longer there. It's the kind of crude cast iron armor, but the armor made of fine steel. This kind of armor is more bulletproof. No wonder the machine gun bullets were so weak against them just now.

While cleaning the battlefield, Commander Zhang came over and said, "Commander-in-Chief, how did you find out that there was an ambush among the zombies?"

"This is very simple. After you discovered the zombies, the zombies ran away as if they were deliberately leading us here. This is very strange."

"Luring?" Captain Zhang was a little confused as to why he didn't find the zombie tempting him.

"These zombies were not controlled by the giant zombies, but they did not take the initiative to attack us, but took the initiative to retreat. This is not in line with the habits of zombies. Also, when they retreated, they seemed to deliberately slow down and did not escape with all their strength. This is different from a normal retreat. Zombies are different. And there are a lot of snow packs on the plain in front of us. This is a plateau and the wind is very strong. It would be normal if there were big snow packs like sand dunes, but these inexplicable small snow packs are abnormal. Because this kind of snow pack has long been blown away by the wind on the plateau." Li Yuanhong said.

"Ah, it turns out that there is such a special thing, why didn't I notice it!" Captain Zhang sighed.

"When leading troops to fight, no detail should be overlooked. The enemy will not give you a chance to correct your mistakes. Just like just now, if we retreated a little later, we would be surrounded by zombies. Don't look at us The tank has a hard shell, but now the zombies are very powerful. Maybe it won’t take long for the tank’s shell to be destroyed by the zombies, but then we will be passive." Li Yuanhong said.

"Yes, I will be more careful in the future." Captain Zhang also said with some fear.

"Well, you go and inform the whole army about what happened today, so that all units can be more vigilant to prevent accidentally falling into the zombie trap."

"Yes!" Captain Zhang immediately went down to send the message.

Li Yuanhong frowned and looked at the zombie corpses lying on the ground. There were only more than 10,000 zombies in this batch. They were completely cannon fodder in the corpse group. Except for the few shadow zombies who were used as bait, all the zombies in these corpse groups were There are no mutant zombies or supernatural zombies, they are all ordinary zombies. This is obviously the commander of the corpse group using these cannon fodder to test himself.

But this is also a signal, which means that zombies will use more and more tricks in the future. Little tricks like ambushes will appear in endlessly. Now Li Yuanhong has no choice but to use tricks. Once he finds the enemy's main force, Li Yuanhong will not Let the other party go, and then let these zombies see who is the ancestor of using traps.

The convoy continued to move forward, leaving Xining and going further to the Gobi plateau area. It is not only cold, but also has sparse vegetation and a dry and cold climate. Here, it is almost in the uninhabited land of nature. The natural environment here is harsh. Within a thousand miles, There were almost no houses. If there were no roads, Li Yuanhong would have almost lost his way.

"Where are we?" Li Yuanhong looked at the map in confusion. The scenery was the same everywhere. On the rough stone beach, there were only a few thistles full of thorns. There was no reference at all. landmarks, even the satellite signal is much weaker.

"Commander-in-Chief, we are almost at the junction of Xinjiang Province and Qinghai Province!" Captain Zhang said.

"Okay, pay attention to the warning. Although there is no dangerous terrain here, once it is surrounded, it will be difficult for us to rely on terrain defense and let the soldiers expand the warning line outward." Li Yuanhong ordered.

"Yes!" Captain Zhang agreed.

Not long after the scouts were sent out, they heard Captain Zhang's anxious shout on the intercom: "Report to the leader, it's bad, we encountered a group of corpses!"

"Report your location, report the number of zombies!" Captain Zhang quickly shouted into the intercom.

"We are ten kilometers directly in front of the team. The number of corpses is unknown. It is a large black mass. I don't know how many there are!" The voice was very urgent, and there were sounds of cars speeding and guns firing violently on the intercom. Apparently the scouts had already Caught by zombies.

"Quickly order the troops to retreat. This is not suitable for blocking. Order the troops behind to defend on the spot." Li Yuanhong ordered quickly.

"Commander-in-Chief, why don't we stop the enemy here?"

In the past, when fighting zombies, Li Yuanhong liked to drive the zombies to the plains, and then use intensive firepower to annihilate the zombie groups. But that was to set up a situation by himself, so that the zombie groups were concentrated in a relatively small area, so that the power of intensive artillery fire could be exerted. At this time, there is open space all around. If the zombies spread out their attack, the current density of artillery fire will not be enough. Then instead of annihilating the zombies, the zombies will surround themselves. Once there is a mistake in a certain direction, it will cause an overall rout.

"We don't have enough firepower density here. Let the logistics troops withdraw first, and then the tank troops retreat while fighting. Let the enemy fly doves and notify the fighter troops to be ready to add more troops at any time." Li Yuanhong ordered.

"Yes!" Captain Zhang received the order and hurried down to deliver it.

After a while, a reconnaissance military jeep came speeding up, less than a hundred meters away from the rear of the car, chasing dozens of zombies. The soldiers in the jeep kept shooting back, but they were easily killed by these zombies. More than in the past.

Although Li Yuanhong was far away, he could still see that these zombies were the evolution of shadow zombies, shadow zombies. However, the speed of these shadow zombies was faster than the ones he encountered before. If the soldiers hadn't kept shooting, these shadows would have been caused. The zombies keep dodging and slowing down, these soldiers may be caught up and killed by the zombies.

When Li Yuanhong saw this scene, without saying a word, he took out a sniper rifle from space, placed it on the roof of the armored vehicle, opened the Eye of Reality and aimed at the zombies in the distance, and then fired a shot. The zombie running at the front suddenly stopped. He was about to dodge the bullets fired at him by the soldiers. At this moment, Li Yuanhong's sniper rifle bullet arrived, and the bullet passed through the zombie's head without hesitation.