Old Frank turned around and looked at Wang Bing who was taller than him. He stood on his tiptoes and patted Wang Bing's shoulder, and said in a solemn tone: "You allowed Wang Le to entrust his wife and child to you, you are definitely a reliable person. Furthermore, you are an Evolver, and can handle normal dangers. I will entrust my Xiao Hong and child to you. If I die, help her find a good man, and help me take care of my child …."
After he finished, Old Frank turned around and walked down the mountain. Wang Bing wanted to call out to him, but did not know what to say. He did not know how difficult it was for Old Frank to make such a decision. Old Frank was not like Wang Le, who had to worry about 3 women every day. He had a good relationship with Xiao Hong, and the environment in the past made him care about his family the most. Now that he was abandoning his family to face death alone, and letting them fall into an unknown future, to him, it was an extremely difficult choice.
Old Frank's back view disappeared from Wang Bing's sight, and Wang Bing's heart was filled with all sorts of weird thoughts. It seemed like after meeting Old Frank and Wang Le, he had 5 women and 3 children to take care of. Thinking about how he still had to meet the old officer of the armed police, Lei Zecheng, his scalp immediately exploded. It seemed like his old superior was not someone who was easy to deal with. His 2 children and 2 wives all depended on Lei Zecheng, if Lei Zecheng did the same thing, he would probably become the head of the maternity hospital?
The base was in a state of anxiety and despair. Everyone was doing their best to work, as they did not know how much longer it would take for the zombies to break through. They only knew that there was no way out now.
The mountain area was made up of various mountain paths and valleys that formed 10 different units. In the past, the idea was to use a cycle of defense. If one area was broken through, they would retreat in another direction and build a new defensive position behind the zombies. They would then surround the zombies and split them into smaller groups before clearing them out. All of this was built on the fact that they had sufficient ammunition, but it was a pity that what they lacked the most was ammunition. Countless of ammunition had been transported out from the Hubei army's warehouse and piled up by the river, but there was no chance for it to be transported in.
Drenched in sweat, Yuri got off the plane and looked at the plane behind him. His trembling right hand fiercely pulled open his collar, turned his head, and spat on the ground. He cursed loudly in Russian, and his fingers nimbly moved, sometimes showing his middle finger, sometimes giving an upside-down thumbs-up, and from time to time, he even used his index finger to scratch his neck.
This was a huge helipad. Eight Funeral Helicopters were lined up neatly. Only the one behind Yuri was much larger than the others, which made Yuri even angrier. With a click, the front cockpit was opened, and a young man with a snow-white face tilted his head out of the door. He stared at the ground below and vomited violently. Seeing that the young man kept vomiting, Yuri laughed gloatingly. After laughing, he spat a mouthful of phlegm and turned to leave.
"Hey, Yuri, what happened?
Why was he so rude?
Didn't you say you're a gentleman? "
Chanel's gentle and beautiful words stopped Yuri in his tracks. He turned to look into Chanel's eyes and gave her a perfect smile. He shrugged and said, "Oh, my Chanel, you don't know how scary it is to fly with a rookie who uses a helicopter as a fighter jet. More than once, I thought it was time for God to summon me, but damn it, the control system malfunctioned, and I could only suffer in the excitement of his vitiligo from beginning to end. I think it must be because of my grandmother's blessing that I'm able to get down to the ground alive …"
Chanel covered her red lips with her small white hands and looked at the pilot who was vomiting so hard that he almost died. She then asked, "Then what's the matter with him?"
"Who knows?
Maybe I didn't tell him after I activated the emergency control system, so he thought it was his mistake that caused the control of the helicopter to malfunction. Maybe at the very last moment, he still thought that we were going to crash and not land … "
Chanel looked at Yuri, who was teasing her, speechlessly. She said seriously,
"There will be a mission from above soon. You guys will be very busy in the next few days, and the frequency of missions will be very high. I hope the people you handed over have learned it, or else you'll be in pain."
Yuri suddenly thought of the time when he participated in the battle on the helicopter the whole day. He couldn't help but shiver. He quickly affirmed, "The twelve pilots can all fly alone. Of course, it's only limited to flying. You can't rely on them for any missions outside of flying. If they want to fully understand the aircraft, they will need at least three years, and to be able to participate in battles, it will take another year …"
Yuri saw Chanel's ugly expression after he finished speaking, and he immediately changed his words.
"Of course, if you are included, they have thirteen pilots, and you're the most outstanding one among them …"
Chanel didn't accept Yuri's compliment. She shook her head and said,
"You don't know how important our mission is. In the next few days, we have to transport hundreds of important people, and at least ten of them need your personal transport. But we're running low on fuel, and we're running low on aviation kerosene."
Yuri was obviously not impressed. He pointed at the plane and said,
"It's okay, as long as it's enough for us to escape. Once we fly out of the Hubei base, I can get supplies from other places …"
"Are you all ready?"
Standing in the permanent fortification at the top of the mountain, Huang Quan looked at the endless sea of zombies through the observation window. With the mountain road as the horizontal line, one side of the mountain slope was completely flattened, while the other side was a canyon more than thirty meters deep. The canyon was already half filled with zombies and corpses. The stench of corpses rushed up from the bottom of the mountain, making them want to vomit. In the thick stench of corpses, Huang Quan calmly stared at it and asked the communications staff officer behind him.
The staff officer was a young man who had just graduated from the military academy, and was also one of the first orphans that Zhang Xiaoqiang had taken in. He had a young and tender face, and soft hair grew at the corner of his mouth. Although he was young, he had guts. He ignored the endless sea of zombies at the bottom of the mountain, and humbly lowered his head and replied, "Madam Mu was personally escorted by Major Yuri to the island at noon, accompanied by Miss Wang Xing. Close to ten thousand minors entered the back of the mountain, and under the support of the search team, they retreated to the nearby temporary base to wait for transport.
The second batch is the workers and their families from the various factories. They will officially retreat the day after tomorrow. Before that, we need to ensure the food supply after the retreat, so … there is no third batch … "
Huang Quan sighed heavily, the base's food supply was never abundant. They had already prepared to retreat half a month ago, but the transportation of food was a huge problem. The mountain road was narrow, and even if they mobilized Honest Frank's construction team, they could not transport much food. The two batches of people had a total of twenty thousand people, and they had to prepare three months' worth of food for these twenty thousand people. Thus, many people could not retreat, as they would have to snatch the food from others.
"That means we have to hold on for at least six days, at most six days, the zombies will break through the last fortress. At that time, all the civilians will have to bring food and hide in the mountains, and wait for the troops outside to counterattack, or for them to be found by the zombies."
He could not help but sigh, and Huang Quan's eyes became slightly moist. According to the calculations, how many people would die?
Perhaps out of the seventy thousand people that would remain, only less than 700 would survive. This was a calamity.
"Huang Quan, I've thought of a good idea …."
Lu Xiaobu rushed in with a face full of excitement, and grabbed Huang Quan's arm, causing the soldiers around them to look at the two of them. Huang Quan waved his hand for them to leave, and looked at the excited Lu Xiaobu with doubt.
Lu Xiaobu pulled Huang Quan to a corner where the zombies could not be seen, and whispered:
"Do you still remember the idea that Zhang Xiaoqiang came up with in the base?"
Hearing that it was Zhang Xiaoqiang's idea, Huang Quan immediately perked up, and listened intently.
"At that time, he sent out a few people, and let them mix into the midst of the zombies, and purposely get caught by the zombies. When they reached the side of the Z-Type, they would detonate the grenades …."
"That won't work, the Z-Type has the ability to learn, and they won't fall for it again. The Z2 zombie down there must be the one that chased us to the riverside, and it should know something."
Huang Quan immediately objected to Lu Xiaobu's idea. In the base, they could find a suicide squad, but not here. The more comfortable life was, the more afraid they were of death. Only those who had no hope would not care about anything.
"Let me finish. We don't need them to carry grenades. They only need to carry a locator. As long as we find the Z-Type, we can use the wireless signal to find the position of the Z-Type, and then … Bang!"
Lu Xiaobu made an explosion gesture, and Huang Quan immediately thought of the smart bomb on the Nighthawks. The 500kg smart bomb was specially used to blow up bunkers and fortifications. If it exploded in the middle of a zombie horde, at least three football fields' worth of ground would become a giant crater.
"What if we fail?
I mean, what if millions of zombies attack the five checkpoints at the same time, and we can't find which direction is the main force? If these people are sent to the side of the Z-Type, won't we lose our chance?
We only have one chance. "
Huang Quan's words caused Lu Xiaobu to rebuke him. He only thought of the benefits, but not the difficulties. Huang Quan was right, they only had one chance, and this chance was precious in this desperate situation. How to use this chance as a trump card was what they should consider.
"What if we organize a counterattack?"
Lu Xiaobu suddenly thought of something, and his mind was enlightened. Huang Quan was frustrated. What could they use to counterattack? Just the 10 armored vehicles in Lu Xiaobu's hands?
These armored vehicles could be used to great effect on the mountain path, but it was not enough to save the situation. Their main task now was to buy time. A counterattack would not only not buy time, but it would also waste the ammunition they were using to buy time.
"Don't we still have the Yangtze River fleet? There are many strongholds along the Yangtze River, and they all have guards. If we gather them together, we can form an army of 3,000 people. Let this army attack from behind the zombies. It would be best if we could take back the three mountains and rescue Zhao Deyi.
Rescue him, and then … "
Lu Xiaobu's words opened a window in Huang Quan's mind. Other than worrying about the base, he was more worried about Zhao Deyi, who had been trapped for 20 days. Zhao Deyi's troops had completed their mission perfectly. Including the zombie horde, they had at least held back a million zombies. If not for that, the cockroach base's situation would be even worse.
"Immediately inform Gao Feng, get him to gather all the troops and arm everyone that can be armed. Reinforce the three mountains and rush there as fast as possible. Also, get Hot Springs Base to send a fleet of vehicles to receive them. The troops that have been retreated will stay at Hot Springs Base to recuperate, and get them to …"
Huang Quan immediately adopted this idea, and continued to add on, leaving Lu Xiaobu speechless. Before he could finish, when Huang Quan stopped talking, he continued, "You don't understand what I mean. I'm saying, get Gao Feng to rescue Zhao Deyi, then get Zhao Deyi to retreat to Hot Springs Base to resupply. Then, get Gao Feng to attack the zombies surrounding our base from behind, forcing the Z2 to deploy zombies to protect it. Finally, use the suicide squad to confirm its location, and then drop the bomb …"
Yomi tilted his head and looked at Lu Xiaobu in a daze. He asked in disbelief,
"You thought of this?"
"Ah?
Wasn't it me? "