Zhang Xiaoqiang understood, he saw that the other militias were all looking at them, their faces were filled with smoke, as though they were painted with paint. From their eyes, he could only see fatigue and numbness, these people no longer had the confidence to win, they were just enduring, waiting for the people behind them to come and replace them.
Beside them, half of the militias hugged their rifles and slept on the ground, snoring. These people were in deep sleep, they could not even smell the stench of corpses. Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoqiang let out a long sigh, and told Zhao Deyi: "Inform the back, let Ding Luo lead 500 soldiers to cross the river, your men wait for Ding Luo to arrive, withdraw half of them first, wait for them to attack three times, then withdraw all of them. You cannot move, assist Ding Luo to continue fighting, leave it to me, you go to the back to rest …."
Zhang Xiaoqiang was prepared to temporarily replace Zhao Deyi, Zhao Deyi did not decline, he found a few vice-platoons, and gave them the command, handing over the command to Zhang Xiaoqiang, while he himself brought a small team to carry a few fainted militias to the back of the camp.
Zhang Xiaoqiang's officer system, because of the two expansions, had become chaotic, among the 2000 soldiers, there was only one captain, Huang Quan, Zhao Deyi, and Ding Luo were vice-platoons, below them, the original squad leaders were all promoted to platoon leaders, but these people were far from enough, when Zhang Xiaoqiang brought out the base, there were only a total of 5 squad leaders, Zhao Deyi and Lu Xiaobu, including the exploration squad leader sent by Three, he only had 4 platoon leaders at his disposal.
Without a choice, he first allocated all the technical platoon leaders, and promoted the original 50 armed policemen to squad leaders, the former squad leaders were now vice-platoon leaders, as long as they could survive the zombie encirclement, they would most likely be promoted to official platoon leaders.
Zhang Xiaoqiang got a few vice-platoon leaders to sketch out the trenches at the back, he was prepared to personally use the Rat King Blade to dig out the cement on the road.
The vice-platoon leaders did not know how many trenches Zhang Xiaoqiang wanted to dig, so they brought two small teams and used lime to draw more than 30 trenches, the depth was about 150m.
Zhang Xiaoqiang had just removed half of the cement from the first trench, when he looked up, he saw the densely packed lime marks behind him, he immediately waved his hand, asking them to stop, while cursing in his heart, they were all blind.
Seeing that the zombie horde behind him did not show any signs of moving again, Zhang Xiaoqiang was prepared to continue, but he heard the sound of cement breaking behind him, he turned his head to look, it was Zhuang Zhuang and Erlang Shen digging a hole, the two sharp dog claws appeared in front of Zhang Xiaoqiang for the first time, the claws looked normal, but they were not much weaker than the Rat King Blade, the efficiency of the two dogs digging a hole far exceeded Zhang Xiaoqiang, it was as if the two dogs were burying bones, in just two to three times, they had dug out a 30 cm deep, 50 cm wide trench …
It was still the same old saying, with help, Zhang Xiaoqiang did not need to use any more strength, the entire blocking position began to move, they used shovels to dig out large trenches that were one meter deep and two meters wide, the soil that was dug out was stacked in between the trenches, forming a short wall, while Zhang Xiaoqiang commanded the two dogs to dig, the mutated water snake just watched from the side.
Afterwards, Zhang Xiaoqiang was too lazy to command the dogs to dig the trenches, he ordered people to go to the camp to find the sleepy Yang Ke-er, and let her take care of the two dogs, he took the mutated water snake and climbed to the hillside on the side, there were also militia on guard, they saw Zhang Xiaoqiang coming up, they consciously handed the binoculars in their hands to Zhang Xiaoqiang.
Taking the binoculars, Zhang Xiaoqiang observed the sea of corpses, the military binoculars in the hands of ordinary people could only magnify seven times, but in Zhang Xiaoqiang's eyes, he could see even further. In front of him, all the hilltops, roads, and bushes were covered by the dark brown sea of corpses, the densely packed zombies stuck to one another, slowly creeping forward, like countless bees forming a boundless big ball, it gave people goosebumps.
Below, the majority of the zombies were ordinary zombies. Some were tall, some were short, some fat, some skinny, and the zombies were starting to split into two groups. Some of the zombies started to evolve, while others were on the verge of being eliminated. Zhang Xiao Qiang saw with his own eyes that some of the zombies that were walking would suddenly be pushed down by their own kind. Following that, hundreds and thousands of feet would trample over their bodies, and the zombie would disappear into the sea of zombies without a sound.
It wasn't just one or two, at least in Zhang Xiaoqiang's binoculars, every second there would be one or even several zombies submerged, and this was what he saw, there were even more that he couldn't see.
Zhang Xiaoqiang immediately turned his view, looking at the edge of the zombies closest to them, directly below them, the zombies on the road quietly stopped, only the zombies at the edge couldn't control their desire to eat, they threw themselves on the corpses of the same kind and chewed. The zombies were extremely sensitive to smell, they didn't seem to care about the smell of the same kind, these zombies had a huge appetite, in the midst of jealousy and disgust, Zhang Xiaoqiang resisted the desire to vomit, from beginning to end he saw a zombie eat an entire same kind, it was still not satisfied, it picked up a second one and started to eat.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoqiang let the militia next to him record the scene of the zombie eating, ready to give it to the doctor for research, he then focused on the cross-section of the entire corpse tide.
On the hills on both sides of the road, under the withered trees, the zombies were like migrating marching ants, slowly moving forward. The terrain on the hills was a hundred times more complicated than the road, countless zombies were moving up the hills with difficulty, from time to time a zombie would step on the ground and roll down the hill, then a second zombie would fill the previous gap and continue to move forward.
Sometimes, the zombies would encounter cliffs, the cliffs were high, the zombies that fell could no longer climb back up, the zombies on the cliffs under the command of the invisible hand, constantly looking for a path, sometimes they really couldn't find a path, countless zombies would fall down the cliff into the ravine below, waiting for the entire ravine cliff to be filled with zombies, countless zombies would step on the bodies of their own kind and continue to move forward …
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoqiang put down the binoculars, he was somewhat speechless, he had never seen such an abnormal Z Type zombie, ordinary zombies had already become dispensable consumables in the heart of the mysterious Z Type zombie, moving from the outskirts of Wuhan City to here, along the way, it was unknown how many zombies had been filled up like this, although this was a bad thing for zombies, it was not a good thing for humans, after all, the artificial river in the gathering place would not be a reason to stop the zombies from moving forward.
Time slowly passed, the trenches at the foot of the hill had only been dug a little more than ten, the zombies on the hill had already slowly climbed over, almost at the same level as the zombies on the road, the trenches below had only been dug less than half. The two puppies stretched out their long tongues and panted, it looked like they were not light, even Yang Ke-er's shouts were not effective, at the same time, on both sides of the tide, a few tall D2 zombies could be faintly seen.
"You guys go down and inform the front line to retreat, what we did before, what we do now …"