Chapter 100: Enemy at the Gate
The zombies were very fast and advanced a hundred meters in just a few seconds.
Gu Chao gave another order: "Heavy weapons team, listen to my command, prepare!"
Eight hundred meters here!
"Rockets, fire!"
There are six groups of PF99 anti-tank rocket launchers on each city wall, each operated by one soldier, and another soldier prepares the ammunition. The two work together, and one rocket after another rushes away.
"Bang!"
Rockets hit the still-running group of zombies. The shells, which could penetrate tank armor, blew the zombies into pieces. Dozens or hundreds of low-level zombies were killed. Groups of zombies fell down, and the zombies behind were tripped by the corpses, disrupting the advance of the zombie tide.
Many zombies fell to the ground one after another. Some were trampled to death by their own kind, while the rest quickly got up and rushed towards the base.
What's even more terrifying is that the mutilated bodies whose heads were not blown off were still lying on the ground and screaming, and the limbs that were still intact were crawling and jumping towards the base in strange postures, looking like evil spirits from hell.
Another hundred meters closer.
"Heavy machine guns, ready!"
At the same time as the rocket was launched, a 25-kilogram machine gun was set up next to it. There were also two people in a group, one holding the gun and the other holding the ammunition belt to load ammunition.
There were ten machine guns on each of the north and south gates, and eight on each of the east and west sides, all set to high-altitude fire, with the angles corrected, awaiting orders.
Before long, hundreds of shells were used up, but only about one-fifth of the zombies were killed. The zombie horde was getting closer and closer, the roars were deafening, and the battle situation was very serious.
Six hundred meters!
"Heavy weapons team, switch!"
At Gu Chao's command, all the rocket launcher soldiers retreated, and the heavy machine gun team that had been waiting for a long time could not wait to open fire.
"Da da da da!"
The speed of 200 bullets per minute is no less powerful than rockets, and facing a dense and straight group of zombies, it does not take much aiming to shoot through a zombie's head.
For a moment, the sound of gunfire on the wall was deafening, and everyone's eardrums were hurt.
Dense flames hit the zombies, not only killing them, but also causing the zombies to freeze in their tracks due to the huge impact. They collided with the zombies behind them who did not know how to avoid. The zombies who could not stand steadily were stepped on by the zombies behind them, which further reduced the speed of the zombies.
However, the disadvantages of heavy machine guns are that they are difficult to adjust their direction, and the bullets are quickly depleted.
This wave consumed one-fifth of the zombie horde, but there were still tens of thousands of zombies rushing towards the base in every direction.
Three hundred meters!
"Light weapons squad, go! Stay alert!" Gu Chao called out the last weapons squad. Each of the more than 200 people in the team was holding a weapon, which was also their last equipment for defending the city this time. If the ammunition of these light weapons squads was also used up, the guards would have no choice but to fight at close range.
However, facing such fast and thick-skinned zombies, it is obviously very dangerous to get close to them.
All the weapons were "exchanged" from other garrisons, and Luming also took out most of their own stock, which was enough to arm all the weapon teams in the four directions. It is conceivable that if they had not successfully obtained the garrison weapons, they would probably have been zombies or skeletons by now.
This also made the survivors who participated in defending the city hate the garrison even more. If they had not left, their chances of winning would have been even greater.
One hundred meters!
A huge mass of zombies was pressing against the wall not far from the perimeter wall, as dense as ants, their roars and cries resounding into the sky. Each zombie had a horrible look, with pale, protruding eyes, shrunken and blackened pupils, and the skin and flesh on their faces were mostly incomplete. Their sharp mouths without lips or skin were wide open, dripping black and red liquid. As they fell one after another, they were replaced by waves, rapidly approaching under the rain of bullets.
There are already some sporadic zombies coming under the wall!
A weird-looking zombie covered in rotten flesh and with long arms and legs suddenly accelerated and jumped up!
The guards at the south gate were all stunned and didn't even react. By the time they remembered, it had already pounced in front of one of them!
The man opened his eyes wide, his whole body turned cold, waiting for the pain to come.
“Crack!”
The zombie's cervical vertebrae suddenly broke, and it fell powerlessly from mid-air, hitting the outside of the wall with a bang, then rolled down again and hit the ground, a bloody mess.
The guard was breathing rapidly, covered in cold sweat, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat. It took him a while to come back to his senses.
The guards on the city wall who saw this scene turned to look at Gu Chao. When they saw that he had just retracted his right hand, they felt a little scared and a little relieved.
Gu Chao frowned and shouted, "What are you all standing there for?! If you want to die, just jump down!"
Cold sweat dripped down everyone's forehead. They came to their senses, gripped their weapons tightly, and fired at the group of zombies under the city wall.
"Da-da-da, da-da-da!"
Gunshots rang out one after another, bullets poured out, and the zombies that tried to climb the wall were continuously shot and killed.
The barrel of the gun became scorching hot, the air around him was filled with the smell of gunpowder, and the shell casings fell to the ground with a tinkling sound.
The light and heavy weapons teams took turns firing, the heavy weapons team was responsible for long-range attacks, and the light weapons team was responsible for defense.
At this moment, a large group of zombies also rushed to the front!
Everyone watched helplessly as the three-meter-high waves slammed into the city walls, causing the walls to tremble and the guards swayed for a few seconds before they could steady themselves.
The zombie swarm was so powerful that the low-level zombies in the front row were beaten into a bloody mess and fell to the ground, becoming stepping stones for other zombies.
Later, the lower-level zombies desperately clung to the bodies of other zombies to climb up the city wall. Because they were too anxious, some zombies kept falling down halfway up, but more of them climbed up again.
Those that were stepped on kept hitting the wall, making terrible roars that made people's ears buzz and their legs go weak when they heard them.
The higher-level zombies, especially some zombies with special abilities, relied on their special abilities and strong physical fitness to jump up and climb onto the city wall!
"Heavy weapons team, retreat!"
All the machine guns were taken away. At this time, the city walls were full of guards holding light machine guns, assault rifles, submachine guns and other weapons, as well as special assault teams of psychics waiting nearby to deal with high-level psychic zombies.
There were not many zombies coming up at this time, and they were soon knocked down by bullets and various superpowers. The corpses fell on the zombies underneath, and then fell on four or five climbing zombies. After a series of reactions, the defense line of the city wall has not been broken for the time being.
Because Lu Ming had no special abilities, she was also firing a rifle on the city wall. Her accuracy was much higher than that of ordinary guards, and she became one of the most important forces at the South Gate for a while.
Gu Chao, on the other hand, had been on guard against evolved and superpowered zombies above level four. Since there were few zombies that could climb or jump onto the high city walls at that time, and the highest superpowers were only level three, other members of the commando team could handle them. No zombies that required his intervention had appeared yet, so he occasionally used his superpowers to rescue guards in danger.
However, he was always worried, waiting for the appearance of high-level zombies.
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