Chapter 475: The first battle of the artillery platoon
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On the west bank of the Nen River, small villages within 25 kilometers of the Iron Fort had been cleared long before the winter offensive began. The rest are all medium-sized and above-sized villages, with 17 zombies above 600.
On the east coast, perhaps because it is really on the northeast boundary, except for Lijiatun, the other villages are generally larger. Most of the populations are between 600-1000, and there are 30 of them, so it is difficult to clean up.
However, now the strength of the Iron Keep Self-Rescue Army has been greatly improved, so it can clear about 3-4 villages every day.
Twelve days after the start of the winter offensive, 44 of the planned 47 villages have been cleared.
Not only did the settlement receive a large amount of supplies, but the population also increased from 4,200 to 6,500. It's already a big force.
However, the casualties of the self-rescue army were very weak, and there were 11 minor and serious wounded who were not infected with the virus, and most of them were cured the next day after taking the medicine, but only 3 days at most.
The 6 people who were infected with the virus were all ordinary zombie viruses, so they could be cured.
The three people who died were all killed on the spot in the process of fighting with zombies in the street. The blades of the zombie soldiers are not all burning sticks, and the wounds such as the stabbing of the heart with a long sword cannot be saved even with new healing potions.
In the remaining three villages, the number of zombies is estimated to be around 1,000. So it was saved for last.
At this moment, Chen Yuan was secretly assembling behind a small hill 3 kilometers away from Liuhe Village with three field infantry companies, a guard platoon, a fire support company, a sniper squadron, a special operations squad, one mortar platoon, one rocket artillery platoon, and a tank battalion.
Luring snakes out of their holes is the most common way to deal with the zombie hordes entrenched in the village.
This time, in the face of more than 1,000 zombies, Chen Yuan sent a company of bait.
The 2nd Company of Field Infantry, which was used as a decoy, walked over on foot, and came to the outside of Liuhe Village for a while, and sure enough, it attracted no less than 500 zombies to rush out of the village. Among them, there are many enhanced zombies.
"Fire! Just give me a hard beating! "Acting can't be too fake, you can't even do decent resistance, you can't turn around and run. So that even a fool can see that there is a deception. According to their investigation, there is a corpse in Liuhe Village. So Zhang Zhen ordered the soldiers under him to open fire and stop the attack.
Now a field infantry company of the Self-Salvation Army is not small in size and firepower. Together with the guard squad, the total number of people is 133, equipped not only with a large number of assault rifles, but also 18 light and heavy machine guns.
150 meters away, the 500 zombies rushing over from the opposite side, even if they were relatively high-end, with complete shields, helmets, and heart armor, were killed by at least more than 20 of them with one-time headshots, and a few others were broken legs and couldn't get up.
Don't think it's too little for such a result, the hit rate is actually okay. It's not easy to hit a fast-moving head exactly from 150 meters away, and it has to be near the head. Fortunately, the high-intensity battle for more than ten consecutive days has improved the marksmanship of the fighters a lot. If it had been more than ten days ago, there might not have been such a result. However, as the distance closes, the hit rate will get higher and higher. So the zombies are falling faster and faster as they continue to charge.
In fact, with such firepower, even if Zhang Zhen and the others don't run, they won't necessarily lose the fight. It's just that the casualties will be relatively large.
At the very least, these zombies will be killed by three-fifths before they storm the defensive positions of the 2nd Company of the Self-Salvation Army. Especially in this section within 50 meters, a large number of zombies will fall.
But within 50 meters, it means that the weapons thrown by the zombies are enough for you! This is no joke. Don't think that there are virus treatment drugs that are foolproof. Others may not know, but Chen Yuan knows that corpse control is very cunning, and some corpse control will make the zombie soldiers below smear the virus of the enhanced or even mutant zombies on their weapons.
Of course, Chen Yuan didn't want to see big casualties, this was just a small scene, and there would be many big battles and tough battles to be fought in the future. The soldiers who have been trained with great difficulty can't be lost here so easily. And zombie healing potions are expensive! In comparison, he would rather waste a few bullets.
At a distance of 80 meters, the zombie in front of him had already revealed the weapon in his hand. Zhang Zhen even saw some zombies holding crude bows and arrows in their hands!
"Nima! Even ranged weapons have been figured out! It's still not a zombie! Seeing several axes, spears, and even bows and arrows fall less than 20 meters away from their defensive line, Zhang Zhen groaned in his heart. But the mouth immediately ordered: "Withdraw!" Evacuate! ”
With a fierce shot just now, nearly 90 zombies have been killed just now, especially with several groups of snipers who have been ambushed nearby for a long time, the two flying corpses have been killed. This greatly reduces the likelihood that they will be overtaken. Now if you don't want to be stuck with a few zombie thrown weapons on your body, then you have to withdraw quickly.
So the soldiers of a company began to run wildly in the direction of Xiaoshanbao, which was 3 kilometers away, at the urging of Zhang Zhen, and the soldiers running at the back would turn around and fire two shots from time to time. Because about 80 meters behind them, more than 400 zombies were also chasing after them frantically.
"Quick! The preset shelling site is ahead! Keep up the good work, everyone! ”
In the past, many people might not be able to run 3 kilometers with their physique, especially weak girls. But now 3 kilometers is nothing, the end of the world has been nearly 45 days now, some people have strengthened more, some people have strengthened less, but those who can enter the field army have at least 1.8 times strengthened in the past. Coupled with the improvement of usual training, it is not difficult to run down 3 kilometers.
Just run to the back, there will still be a little tired. This is the weakness of human beings, so the further back you go, the slower it becomes. Zombies don't. At first, they distanced themselves slightly from the zombies behind them, but now their speed slowed down. The zombies behind them had chased them nearly 50 meters away.
Fortunately, the zombie weapons in front of them had just been thrown, otherwise at a distance of 50 meters, their weapons might really hit the soldiers running behind.
But just in front of them, the warriors could see a big "X" drawn on the ground, what did this mark mean? Naturally, it was the preset shelling point in Zhang Zhen's mouth.
At this time, on the hill not far ahead, a mortar platoon of 12 mortars and a rocket platoon of 10 rocket launchers were ready. Chen Yuan wanted to take this opportunity to test the power of large-scale artillery bombardment.
Seeing that not far from the bottom of the mountain, Zhang Zhen and his company had successfully passed the preset artillery attack point, and the vanguard of the zombie group had just arrived at the position marked with "X" on the ground, and because the distance was a little closer, the zombie group behind had already begun to throw weapons again.
The platoon commander of the mortar platoon took the lead in waving a small red flag and shouted excitedly: "Release!" ”
So in a "bang, bang" sound, 12 mortar shells flew out of the air and smashed towards the place where the standard was drawn on the ground.
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