kingnovel Chapter 854 Machine Guns and Artillery
Chapter 854 Machine Guns and Artillery
Lu Cheng and the Xinghuo City’s army have accumulated a lot of experience in how to deal with large-scale hordes of zombies.
In fact, as long as humans remain calm and are good at using various modern weapons and taking advantage of the right time and place, they can easily slaughter those zombies that have no intelligence and move slowly.
Florida is located in the southwestern United States, with most of its area on a peninsula. Its overall area is slightly larger than that of Georgia, but its total population is more than twice that of Georgia, at more than 22 million.
As the saying goes, Texas has simple folks and Florida doesn't keep idle people.
In Florida, you can be without money but you can't be without a job.
After the outbreak, due to the high population density in Florida, the surviving humans were more likely to encounter dense zombies and had a higher mortality rate.
When more than 20 million zombies cannot find food on the island, they will naturally spread outside the peninsula, and Georgia will be the first to be hit.
As Lu Cheng issued the mobilization order, Xinghuo City directly mobilized most of its guards, plus a group of trained residents, to form a team of more than 200 people, and went south to eliminate the tide of zombies.
The team separated 30 kilometers south of Xinghuo City. The engineering team began digging pits along several main roads heading north, while the guard army continued to move south and began to use heavy firepower to clear the front of the zombie tide.
Through patrol reconnaissance by two helicopters, Lu Cheng discovered that the number of zombies in this tide far exceeded previous estimates, and should be at least over 600,000.
The tide of zombies stretched for more than a hundred kilometers from north to south, and was divided into several large groups of zombies, as well as many small groups of about ten thousand people.
Before, Daryl had only discovered the first large-scale swarm of zombies. Because he was unable to go deeper, he did not know how large the number of zombies was.
If left unchecked, these zombie hordes will naturally disperse after leaving Florida and enter Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, etc., gradually merging with other zombie hordes.
However, Lu Cheng would not waste such a good hunting opportunity.
On a road running from north to south, seven or eight scouts on motorcycles, led by Daryl, gathered on the road from various places with speakers and gathered the scattered zombies on the road.
The entire road was filled with dense zombies, and it was almost impossible to see the end of them.
After these zombies entered a relatively flat road, there was already a row of machine gunners lying on the ground in front of the road, ready to shoot. Behind this row of machine gunners, there was another row of pickup trucks, each of which was also equipped with a heavy machine gun.
Several mortars were set up on both sides of the road, with shells placed next to them.
At the same time, many soldiers were holding assault rifles and defending around the positions.
After this group of zombies entered the appropriate shooting range, Lu Cheng, who was standing on the pickup truck in the middle, operated a Gatling machine gun and opened fire first.
The dense bullets were like a whip of fire, heading towards the dense group of zombies.
Immediately afterwards, twenty light and heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time. Countless bullets formed a metal storm, and the tide of corpses in front fell down like wheat being harvested.
Although zombies can only be killed by hitting their heads, once their spines or necks are broken, they will be unable to move and can only pile on the ground.
After a round of bullet storm, Lu Cheng jumped out of the car again, operating a mortar and firing at the zombies farther away.
The sound of gunfire and artillery fire intertwined, causing the zombies at the back of the group to squeeze forward more eagerly, one after another to die.
With hundreds of thousands of bullets and hundreds of mortar shells fired, the originally dense crowd of corpses has turned into a mountain of corpses.
The remaining zombies bypassed the pile of corpses in the middle and continued to move forward, and the riflemen began to shoot accurately.
After the battle lasted for half an hour, Lu Cheng ordered a simple cleanup of the battlefield, collection of shell casings, and retreat to the second line of defense.
Since the industry has stopped operating, it will be difficult to have bullet production lines and factories for a long time in the future.
However, it is not difficult to produce bullet heads, bullet primers, and bullet gunpowder alone. Together with these used bullet shells, they can be used to make reloaded bullets.
Although the range and accuracy of the reloaded bullets are not as good as the original ones, they can still be used to deal with zombies within one or two hundred meters.
In this way, the Spark City Guards eliminated a large number of zombies by resisting in layers and killing them in sections and batches.
However, this kind of battle consumes bullets and artillery shells too quickly. Hundreds of thousands of bullets can be consumed in less than half an hour.
If Xinghuo City did not have sufficient ammunition reserves, it would not have been able to withstand such consumption.
After the subsequent zombie tide gathered, Lu Cheng ordered Lieutenant William to lead the armored troops out, drive out the tanks, and practice firing on the zombies.
Those newly trained armored soldiers have not had many actual combat opportunities, so this is a good opportunity for them to train.
After several rounds of fighting, seeing those horde of hordes of zombies falling in large numbers under the impact of bullets and artillery shells greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers, built up their confidence, and made them realize that those zombies were not that scary.
After blocking the first large wave of zombies, the soldiers began to split up and lead the subsequent zombies away, guiding them to the fire pits that had been prepared in advance.
With the cooperation and mobilization of more than 200 people, Lu Cheng's efficiency in killing zombies is quite high, and the storage space is increasing every day.
This battle lasted for more than ten days. From the initial machine gun sweeps and artillery bombardments to the later setting fires and the squads killing separately, everyone got sufficient training.
Especially in the later stages of the battle, Lu Cheng gathered together other residents in Xinghuo City and asked them to go to the battlefield in batches to ensure that every adult man and woman had to kill some zombies to train their marksmanship and courage.
After more than ten days, the gun and ammunition reserves in Xinghuo City have decreased a lot, but the overall combat effectiveness has also been significantly improved.
In fact, every child over the age of ten walked around the battlefield and shot and killed at least ten zombies.
After this battle, the number of zombies in southern Georgia dropped to a freezing point.
The guards of Spark City also began to carry out cleanup and search operations in cities and towns in southern Georgia with material collection teams. Large quantities of materials were transported to Spark City every day to enrich the construction of Spark City.
At the same time, many rescued survivors joined Spark City and became part of the strength of Spark City.
When the total population of Spark City exceeded one thousand, Lu Cheng ordered the establishment of a sentinel in a small town fifty kilometers south of Spark City, stationing a company to lure the zombies from Florida north in batches and eliminate them...