Chapter 409 The Siege of Chengdu

Chengdu is a famous historical city with a recorded history of more than 3,000 years. Many famous events in history happened here, such as the well-known Three Kingdoms, which was the capital of the Shu Kingdom, and Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty, who secretly crossed Chencang and raised troops here to defeat Xiang Yu.

Because there are vast plains of cultivated land here, and there are thousands of meters of high mountains around it, it has become a place relatively isolated from the outside world. There is a proverb in history: "Before the world is in chaos, Shu will be in chaos; the world has been ruled before Shu." Governance." This made Chengdu a troubled place in history. However, before the end of the world, Chengdu was a central city in southwest China. Its culture and economy have developed greatly, and its population has exceeded 10 million.

Originally, this was a plain, which facilitated the deployment of Li Yuanhong's mobile troops. As soon as zombies showed up on the plain, they would be covered by powerful artillery fire, and tens of thousands of zombies would be destroyed by the artillery fire in minutes.

The journey went smoothly, and the fight continued until the city of Chengdu, and the report said that there were not many zombies in Chengdu, only two to three million. As soon as the troops attacked, the zombies retreated directly, and the troops chased after the zombies all the way. It can be said that the troops were very excited about the fight. Basically, these zombies did not resist much. This was simply a waste of military merit.

The exciting pursuit continued until night. Due to the pursuit during the day, the formation of the troops was very scattered. Especially the entire army could not see each other from the beginning to the end. Due to the day's fighting, the troops were very tired. After nightfall, many troops directly They camped on the spot in the city. As a result, that night, zombies seemed to emerge from the ground and instantly divided and surrounded the entire army. The troops were passively trapped in a bitter battle. Since many troops consumed a lot of ammunition during the day, many troops were exhausted during the battle in the middle of the night. They ran out of food and were forced into close combat.

Melee combat is the strong point of zombies. The endless tide of zombies soon overwhelmed the army's defenses and suffered a fatal blow. The troops entering the city were squeezed into several pieces in an instant. They relied on the geographical advantage to temporarily stabilize themselves. , but the zombies came again and directly cut off the logistics highway. Now the entire army situation was even more precarious, especially when skeleton archers and ghost troops appeared later. Li Yuanhong had come into contact with both of these monsters. Knowing how powerful they are, the skeleton archers can even shoot through tanks. Many soldiers hid behind the wall and shot. As a result, the archers shot directly through the wall, injuring the soldiers behind the wall.

The battle only lasted half a day, and more than half of the 50,000 soldiers who entered the city were killed or injured.

After listening to the report, Li Yuanhong frowned. This attack on the army was definitely premeditated. Chengdu City had a population of more than 10 million before the end of the world. Even if someone escaped from the city, there would be at least seven or eight million zombies. And the army attacked There were only about three million zombies in the city, which is definitely not right. The army blindly entered the city when the situation was unknown, which shows that the commander at that time had been dazzled by victory.

Of course, now is not the time to discuss accountability. The first priority is to find a way to rescue the besieged army.

"Commander Xing, what do you think we should do about this?" Li Yuanhong directly handed the telegram to Xing Ling.

After Xing Ling saw it, he also frowned. This army was about to be wiped out. Now Xing Ling really had the urge to jump up and curse. He thought he could safely hand over the army to his subordinates, but he didn't expect to make such a big mistake: " Damn it, I’m going to remove him from his post, and when he comes back, I’m going to shoot him!”

"Commander Xing, this is not the time to discuss accountability. We must find a way to rescue people." Li Yuanhong said.

"Well, what the commander-in-chief said is that if we send the air force to fight against them, I can't. The air force can't blow them up!" Xing Ling said.

"We have to send the air force, but the role of the air force may not solve much of the problem. Don't forget, there are skeleton archers among the zombies. These archers have a range of nearly one kilometer. If our aircraft bombs at low altitude, It is easy to become the target of these archers." Li Yuanhong said worriedly.

"What should we do? We can't just watch these soldiers die there!" Xing Ling also said with a worried look.

Li Yuanhong did not answer immediately. Instead, he paced back and forth in the room. He walked around the room for more than a dozen times without raising his eyebrows. Then Li Yuanhong asked the guard to bring him a map of Chengdu. Li Yuanhong stood on the map and held his hand tightly. After staring at the map for a long time, Li Yuanhong raised his eyebrows.

"Commander Xing, let's do this. Now it's definitely unrealistic for us to send soldiers into the city for rescue. We have to take a two-step approach now. In the first step, you will lead the team and reopen the traffic. If the traffic is not opened, we can't continue to deliver supplies to Chengdu. .”

"Okay, I will lead the team to open up the traffic line." Xing Ling stood up anxiously and wanted to walk out.

"Commander Xing, I haven't finished speaking yet." Seeing Commander Xing's anxious look, Li Yuanhong quickly called to Xing Ling.

"Look at how anxious I am. I'm already anxious before you finish speaking." Xing Ling walked back with some embarrassment.

"Haha, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. If we rush too fast, it may be counterproductive. I will go on to talk about the next arrangements. I am responsible for leading the team to the rescue. I am here..." Li Yuanhong pointed to Dujiangyan City Road.

"Here?"

"Yes, send planes to airdrop here, build a base here, and I will take command here." Li Yuanhong said.

"Commander-in-Chief, why are we occupying Dujiangyan?"

"If we directly enter Chengdu urban area, with our current aircraft power, it is impossible to airdrop many troops on a large scale at one time. This is undoubtedly a boiling water, will not be effective, and will increase unnecessary casualties." Li Yuanhong said.

"Well, but..." Xing Ling still didn't understand.

"Don't be anxious, listen to me. We are airdropping in Dujiangyan. Before the end of the world, Dujiangyan had a population of less than one million. Moreover, zombies are besieging Chengdu this time. There is a possibility that many of the zombies here will be transferred, so here There won't be many zombies, and we can quickly establish a base here to facilitate subsequent air transportation of supplies." Li Yuanhong continued.

Li Yuanhong picked up the cup, took a sip of water and continued: "We can also accumulate troops here. When the troops accumulate to a certain level, we can attack the Chengdu zombies with all our strength."

"Did we delay too long?" Xing Ling asked worriedly. If the delay was too long, the troops in Chengdu would probably be wiped out by zombies.

"We cannot quickly gather a large number of troops for rescue now, so we can only carry out rescue from two aspects. I am gathering troops in Dujiangyan. On the other hand, we are airdropping supplies into Chengdu and letting the troops in the city move closer to these two places." Li Yuanhong Pointing to two parks in Chengdu, both of which are close to the rivers in Chengdu.

"Going here, isn't there too little protection?" Xing Ling said.

"Although there is no building protection here, it is close to the river. We can use the river to transport supplies, and the terrain here is relatively open, which is convenient for airdropping supplies. When we airdrop supplies, we use containers to load supplies, so that the airdropped containers can be used It is used for defense purposes," Li Yuanhong said.

"But..." Xing Ling was still worried about the defense of his troops.

"Defense is actually not a problem. If our troops have sufficient ammunition, the zombies will not be able to get close. Their only long-range attacks are skeleton archers. As long as archers are not allowed to appear in the defense circle, defense will not be a problem. There is another key point. One point, we set up defense here, closest to the current location of the troops, so that the troops can break through here with the highest success rate." Li Yuanhong said.

"Well, now we can only give it a try." Xing Ling has no choice but to give it a try, otherwise, these troops will be swamped by the zombie sea sooner or later.

Once the strategy was determined, everyone started taking action, especially Fatty Lu. In this rescue operation, Fatty Lu had the heaviest task. Whether it was airdropping troops or airdropping supplies, it was their job. Also, this time there were skeleton archers in the area where they airdropped supplies. Fatty Lu was almost shot by skeleton archers before.

But Fatty Lu would not be intimidated by such a trivial matter, so Fatty Lu took off with his airdrop troops.

At this time, in a building in Chengdu, a division-level officer was sitting dejectedly on a sofa chair. He was the one who led the team to attack Chengdu this time. He originally wanted to fight a beautiful battle of annihilation, but the result was that the troops fell into By this time, he had less than 20,000 men under his command, and they were divided into different places. It is very likely that he would die in this city today.

"Report to the division commander, there's a call!" A communications soldier ran in and reported.

"Read, read quickly!" Upon hearing the telegram, the teacher immediately became energetic.

"After receiving the airdropped supplies, I ordered your troops to immediately move closer to Park A and Park B. After occupying the parks, immediately deploy defenses on the spot and wait for rescue."

The content of the telegram is very simple, but if you let yourself go out of where you are now, you will undoubtedly die! The outside is already surrounded by zombies, and I am short of food and ammunition. How can I break through this siege?

"Call back and tell the higher ups about our current situation. We are now surrounded and there is no way we can break out!" The division commander sat back on the sofa dejectedly and said weakly.

"This... division commander, isn't this disobedience?" The communications soldier did not turn around to send the report, but reminded the division commander.

"Nonsense, don't I know this is disobedience? If we walk out of this building, we will be torn apart by the zombies outside immediately. We can survive here for a while, but after we leave here, we won't be able to return even for a while. !" the division commander said angrily. He turned all the fright he had received in the past two days into anger and vented it on this soldier.

The communications soldier was so frightened by their division commander's yelling that he didn't dare to speak at all.

"Hurry up and do as I say!" The division commander finished venting his anger, sat back on the sofa, waved his hand and said to the soldier.

The signal soldier didn't dare to talk at this moment and went directly to send the report.