The Walking Dead: Rebuild

Chapter 76 Shelling
On the afternoon of February 2th, the ninth month of the doomsday eruption.

More than 200 soldiers from the Umbrella Company launched an attack on more than 4 mutant zombies at the Senas Nuclear Power Plant.

Lyon guessed that this was probably the largest counterattack launched by the survivors against the zombie monsters so far since the disaster broke out.

Standing on the observation platform specially built to observe the battlefield, looking at the black mass of corpses 2 kilometers away, the armed drone controlled by Paige's sister and brother took the lead in launching an attack horn.

10 armed drones are lined up in a row, with about 20 kilograms of high-explosive explosives hanging below each drone.

They took off from the defensive position, flew directly into the sky at an altitude of about 200 meters, covered a distance of 2 kilometers, and came to the top of the group of corpses.

As the explosive packets continued to fall, explosions continued to sound.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

The power of a 20 kilogram equivalent explosive package is astonishing. The range of each explosion is between 50 meters and 80 meters. Facing the densely packed group of zombies, each explosive package can blow dozens of zombies into pieces.

The zombies in the group of corpses could only watch these little things. After dropping the bombs, they flew higher and higher and disappeared into the sky.

Three consecutive waves of drone bombings consumed a lot of high-explosives and probably caused a loss of one or two thousand zombies. After these zombies found that they could not track the drones flying into the sky, they gradually began to pay attention to them. The force was placed in the direction in which the drone was flying.

The black corpse group began to move slowly towards the defensive base at a walking speed.

Paige put down the laptop in her hand, raised her head and looked at Leon and said:

"Boss, our drone swarm can carry out another bombing, do we need to do it now?"

Leon shook his head expressionlessly and said:

"Not needed for now, you can now use armed drones for expendable attacks, and bomber drones to wait until the critical time."

Peggy nodded, and together with her brother Sherman, they controlled eight assault-type armed drones, took off from the defensive position, and carried out strafing attacks on the corpses.

Unfortunately, the assault-type armed drone is a weapon against the human body. Its muzzle caliber is quite small and its bullets are not powerful enough, making it difficult to control accurately. Only by hitting the zombies on the head can they cause effective damage.

Moreover, these drones have a limited load capacity and can only carry 300 rounds of ammunition at a time. Almost every three minutes of attack, they must be controlled to come back and reinstall ammunition.

But air units also have the advantage of air units. These drones basically don’t need to worry about zombie attacks threatening them. They can even stick to a position several meters above the heads of the zombies to strafe.

Although the power is not very good, they can continuously consume the number of zombies and achieve considerable results over time.

Seeing the noise of the battle getting louder and louder, and the sound of machine gun explosions and strafing getting louder and louder, the huge black corpse group was finally attracted by the commotion here as they expected, and began to leave the scope of the nuclear power plant, all huddled together. Slowly move towards the high ground where the defensive position is located.

As the saying goes, the number of people is over 4, boundless. Looking at the huge group of corpses composed of more than [-] zombies in the distance, Leon truly realized what is called a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​corpses. The overwhelming and indomitable posture is really unparalleled. sense of oppression.

Soothing his inner turmoil, Leon calmly watched the movement of the corpses.

Due to the varying speeds of the mutated zombies, the black mass of corpses slowly turned into an oval square array.

They maintained the walking speed of ordinary people and moved slowly towards this side.

A few minutes later, Colonel William's serious and calm voice came from the earphones.

"General, the enemy has entered the artillery range. Do you want to carry out bombing?"

Leon was silent for a second or two, then said:
"There is no need to save ammunition and carry out saturation bombing." The voice on the headset responded without any hesitation and immediately respectfully:
"As ordered, General."

Colonel William put down the radio in his hand on the artillery position. His military uniform was straight, his expression was solemn, and he possessed the seriousness and tenacity of an old-school soldier.

He retracted his gaze from the corpses, looked around at his gunners, and shouted in a loud and passionate voice:

"Twelve o'clock, 500 meters."

"All preparations."

"fire!"

As soon as the colonel's voice fell, the gunners all entered a state of concentration.

boom!boom!boom!boom!boom!
Thirty mortars opened fire instantly, and the sound of shells flying in the air became audible.

call out!call out!call out!call out!
All the soldiers on the defensive positions could see that as the shells fell, dozens of flames exploded suddenly in the center of the black oval corpse group.

The zombie at the center of the explosion was instantly torn into pieces, with flesh and blood flying everywhere and turned into debris. A large number of zombies in the surrounding area were also burned by the raging flames.

The zombies are covered in flames, but you don't notice it at all. They continue to roar and move forward until the high temperature burns your brain, and then they turn into charcoal as they move forward.

This volley of mortars could take away seven to eight hundred zombies. Such power made Leon feel slightly relieved.

It is also thanks to the fact that the mutated zombies have no intelligence and like to fight in groups without leaving many gaps between each other that they can achieve such results.

Only about 15 seconds had passed since the first round of mortar bombing, and the second round of bombing came.

Boom!Boom!Boom!boom!

Due to differences in gunner proficiency and weapons and equipment, the artillery position commanded by Colonel William cannot achieve the rate of fire of more than a dozen artillery shells per minute by professional artillerymen. However, at the current rate of fire of about 1 rounds per minute, they can also fire at about 4 rounds per minute. Pour 120 shells into the zombie swarm.

Despite the mortar bombardment, the group of tens of thousands of zombies remained brave and fearless, and it could be said that they continued to move towards the defensive position on the high ground without knowing whether to live or die.

boom!boom!boom!boom!
As the artillery positions continued to fire, nearly 1 zombies were turned into burnt corpses or minced meat in the artillery fire almost every minute. However, as the number of zombies in the group of zombies continued to decrease, the gaps between each zombie became larger and larger. As the army grew larger, the results of the artillery bombardment continued to decline.

But when the corpse group composed of more than 4 zombies crawled for nearly 15 minutes, covered a distance of 2 kilometers, and arrived at the bottom of the ramp of the defensive position, more than 3 zombies had already fallen to the ground forever. on the road.

But by this time, the mortar position has also lost its role. Not only is the close range shelling ineffective, but it is also easy to injure one's own people.

Colonel William quickly withdrew the entire artillery position, commanded other team captains, and led more than 200 fully armed security soldiers, all of whom climbed onto the wall composed of large vehicles, preparing to hold on to this last line of defense.

Leon also changed his position to watch the battle, looking at the long ramp under the iron wall, looking at the mutant zombies that still had ferocious expressions, no traces of decay on their bodies, and looked like living people, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

These monsters were once living humans, with their own thoughts and feelings.

But now, they have all turned into brainless monsters, which is a bit sad.

No matter what the living people on the high ground thought, the mutated zombies surrounding the bottom of the ramp still ignored them and only wanted to eat the fresh flesh and blood.

They didn't realize at all that this ramp full of traps and traps would be an insurmountable chasm for them.

(End of this chapter)