Wasteland Commander-Chapter 369 - 60: Hope at the Brink of Life and Death
This time, the zombie siege of Jiangzhou is much more spectacular than that of Dawn City.
When countless zombies appeared within the camera’s view, almost everyone was stunned.
These zombies... how are they armed now?
Many advanced zombies or fat zombies are clad with pieces of iron sheet, car shells, tarpaulins, forming a layer of protection.
This makes the already hard-to-kill zombies even tougher to deal with.
Moreover, this matter represents a lot of things; the Corpse King has already learned to use items to protect zombies, which is also a form of evolution.
There are too many big guys in the horde.
Two-meter tall Iron Armors can be described as countless.
Over three-meter-tall King Kongs are everywhere in the horde.
Even those large figures six or seven meters tall, which were never seen before, are now not uncommon.
The more advanced they are, the more tightly protected.
These zombies, braving the hail of bullets, with sparks flying off their bodies, just walked towards the city wall.
As they neared the wall, landmines began to explode.
However, noticing the mines, these experienced Corpse Kings immediately dispatched ordinary zombies to step on them.
Tens of thousands of mines had no effect in this situation, easily being stepped out.
Soon, intense wall defense battles began.
Countless zombies surged in, with too many advanced zombies, forcing the soldiers to use concentrated fire to take down each advanced zombie.
This resulted in uneven distribution of firepower, and soon the zombies surged to the base of the wall.
A Tyrannosaurus Zombie roared, wielding the barrel of a tank, and swung it towards the wall.
The height was a bit short, failing to hit the defenders on the wall, but it gave the defenders a cold sweat.
Ordinary zombies toppled, beginning to form piles of corpses.
Several King Kongs and Tyrannosauruses were entrenched below the wall, difficult to eliminate in one blow.
Stepping on the pile of corpses, their height kept increasing, quickly threatening the defenders on the wall.
"Quick, quick, quick! Gasoline bombs! Molotov cocktails, bring them up to me quickly!"
"Move faster, a step too late and people will die, got that?"
"Ah! My eyes, damn Mutated Bird!"
"Brothers, I’ve been infected, I can’t make it, give me an explosive pack, I need to say goodbye to everyone."
A soldier scratched by a Mutated Bird, with a face of despair yet a strong and calm demeanor, took an explosive pack, suppressing his inner fear, preparing to say goodbye to everyone.
Poof~!
A mass of black acid flew over, engulfing this soldier about to make a heroic sacrifice, along with several others around him.
They screamed miserably, rolling all over the ground, soon falling silent, melting into a foul-smelling black liquid.
Fat zombies, from a hundred meters away, could snipe at the top of the city wall.
Countless fat zombies hid behind advanced zombies, continuously suppressing the wall.
This level of attack made it a luxury for people to utter a few sentimental words at the time of death.
Roar~~~~!
With a loud roar, a Tyrannosaurus Zombie, stepping on the pile of corpses, pressing against the flames, climbed onto the wall.
This Tyrannosaurus, holding a burning large tree, swung the burning tree, burning a wide swath of people.
Numerous bullets, even rocket-propelled grenades slammed into him; standing seven meters tall, he only wobbled, facing the impact of the rockets, he wouldn’t topple.
Taking huge strides, it started going berserk on the wall.
Squeezing one to death, clubbing a swath dead, anytime grabbing someone to shove into its mouth, able to eat half a person in one bite.
Just like a Tyrannosaurus running through a flock of sheep, the sheep’s counterattacks seemed so feeble.
"Suicide Squad! Get up there!"
The officer shouted hoarsely, members of the Suicide Squad charged up one by one.
These people had explosives strapped to them, their goal to embrace the leg of the Tyrannosaurus Zombie.
Because once these big guys were armed, they almost had no weaknesses.
They could only hope to sacrifice their lives, holding the enemy’s leg, to blow off their legs, thus bringing them down.
This task wasn’t easy to accomplish, the Tyrannosaurus Zombie could even sense their intent, needing only to lift its foot, kicking them dozens of meters away to their deaths.
With over thirty Suicide Squad members dead one after another, one finally succeeded in grasping the Tyrannosaurus’s leg.
The strong shaking felt like shattering his organs, with a mouth full of blood, he pulled the fuse.
With a bang, a leg of the Tyrannosaurus was blown off, finally falling down.
Even toppled, the Tyrannosaurus wasn’t easy to handle, just moving less swiftly, crawling to still cause immense damage.
Under concentrated fire from several heavy machine guns, forcibly breaking the car shell atop its head, blinding one of its eyes, only with a second brave soul sacrificing his life to stuff an explosive pack into its eye socket, did this Tyrannosaurus’s life end.
A Tyrannosaurus ascends the wall, causing over two thousand casualties before being taken out.
The horrific losses terrified all the defenders.
Seems there are many such Tyrannosauruses in the horde.
Not to mention the Tyrannosaurus, even a King Kong climbing the wall could cause over a hundred casualties.
This wasn’t an isolated incident, it’s happening everywhere.
As zombies continue to evolve and mutate, human soldiers, even with guns, find themselves at a disadvantage against the zombies.
Currently, there are over 230,000 troops guarding the city walls.
The first wave of the zombie assault, in just half an hour, eliminated over 50,000 of Jiangzhou’s defending troops!
And there were over a million zombies under the walls, with more than half still not eliminated.
Even those that were eliminated were mostly ordinary zombies, with Advanced Zombies still all over the place.
It’s too hard to fight, this battle is simply too difficult!
Buzz, buzz, buzz~~~~!
Accompanied by the sound of airplane engines, Jiangzhou’s aircraft finally appeared.
For the planes to appear at this time, it meant the ground forces could no longer hold out, otherwise these planes arriving meant certain death.
Coming means death, but they must still come!
The swifts, peregrine falcons, and Sakhalin hawks, all these fast-flying birds, rushed straight towards the planes.
Despite the efforts of Jiangzhou’s pilots to control the aircraft, they couldn’t withstand attacks from all directions.
They could only drop bombs before crashing, and to ensure precision, they couldn’t fly too high, making this a scene of inevitable death.
Over forty planes crashed consecutively, but they dropped many aerial bombs.
Accompanied by explosions, many blocks of the zombie horde were finally cleared.
However, the cost was too great; neither the manufacture of planes nor the training of pilots is easy, even with Jiangzhou’s resources, it is unsustainable.
Aerial bombs, with a large number of incendiary bombs, almost wiped out all the Mutated Zombies, but quite a few Level 2 and Level 3 zombies survived and retreated, joining the next wave of attacks.
The people of Jiangzhou paid a huge price, only to resist an incomplete first wave.
Wang Huining let out a sinister smile and directly issued the order for the second wave of attacks.
"Xiaoxue, you send in over 500,000, Xiaobu, you send another 500,000, don’t give these people any chance to breathe!"
With the arrival of the second wave, Jiangzhou even deployed the fleet.
The warships arrived at the Riverfront, the naval guns bombarding the land, providing strong support to the other side of the city wall.
Originally thought that the firepower from the river could reduce the pressure on the eastern city wall, but a new challenge quickly arrived.
Countless Mutant Rats entered the water!
Zombies cannot swim, but Mutant Beasts can; rats can swim.
These rats entered the Great River, directly climbing up the hulls of the warships.
Once the rats climbed on the warships, they found a crevice and squeezed in.
In the absence of openings, these rats sought out weak spots and nibbled away collectively, surprisingly gnawing holes out of the warships, then crawling inside.
Rats the size of wolves entered the warships, biting anyone they saw; humans were no match for rats in such confined spaces.
In no time, three warships fell silent, crew members screamed and jumped into the river, yet couldn’t escape becoming food.
The warships drifted like ghost ships on the Great River, losing combat capability.
Seeing this situation, Zheng Jinnan decisively ordered the warships to retreat; he couldn’t afford to lose the navy.
With the warships retreating, the Mutant Rats, however, did not relent, they swam along the Great River right into the base that lacked city wall defenses!
The rat tide came ashore, spreading darkly, killing people upon sight.
Countless Riverfront residents died tragically, one villa after another, high-rise buildings, were quickly cleared by the rats.
Zheng Jinnan no longer had forces to support, he could only let foreign soldiers take over.
These foreigners, knowing the severity, also fought desperately, tens of thousands stepped in, finally temporarily curbing the rat tide’s advance.
Zheng Jinnan pulled out everything Jiangzhou had kept as a last resort.
Numerous incendiary bombs, fuel-air bombs, and even poison gas bombs were used under Jiangzhou City.
The power of some large fuel-air bombs nearly rivaled small nuclear bombs, spreading across hundreds of meters with each explosion.
The poison gas bombs had limited killing effect, a little effective against Mutant Beasts, but useless against zombies, even affecting the soldiers within the city, after two uses it was abandoned.
There were also some missiles, whose source was unknown, which fell into the zombie horde at lightning speed, and even Tyrannosaurus could not survive within the core blast range.
Sadly, the number of missiles was too few, obviously, Jiangzhou had some missile research success, but it hadn’t reached mass production.
Another sacrifice of over 20,000 people, countless last-resort items were thrown out, finally enduring the second wave of zombie attacks.
Without letting them catch a breath, the third zombie tide arrived!
Watching the sky grow darker, hearing more and more casualty reports, Zheng Jinnan’s fingers trembled.
No, if this continues it will surely end sooner or later.
"The 500,000 reservists in the city, immediately take them into service, there’s no time for military training, they must hold the line for me!"
"All those Adventurer Squads, get them up there, the city is about to fall, no one can stay out of this!"
"Don’t be stingy with any inventory, throw it all down there for me!"
"Light up the flares, turn on all the lights!"
Zheng Jinnan urgently issued several orders, but he knew that solely relying on these, they might still not survive the night.
Finally, he got into his car.
"Duke, are we going to the airport?"
The driver thought he was giving up Jiangzhou and asked.
Zheng Jinnan shook his head: "No, we are going to the dungeon."
Upon hearing this, the driver’s eyes lit up.
At the critical moment in Jiangzhou’s survival, the Duke finally thought of the young lady.
