Chapter 1048 Attack
The first to suffer was the East Gate Tower of the old city.
This old blue brick building was already riddled with holes from the flames of the apocalyptic war. It was now hit head-on by a 380mm cluster bomb, and the wall instantly crumbled like a shortbread. Broken bricks mixed with the remains of zombies fell onto the street, and the dust raised condensed into turbid smoke columns in the morning mist.
Dozens of ordinary zombies hiding in the doorway were torn into pieces by the air wave before they could even utter a roar. Dark red blood splattered on the remaining doorposts, and the shock wave of the subsequent explosion formed crooked bloodstains, which flowed down along the cracks in the bricks and formed small puddles of blood on the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a second wave of rockets hit the alleys in the core area of the old city.
The cluster bombs in the 380mm warhead exploded in the air, and hundreds of submunitions fell like raindrops, penetrating into narrow streets, low roofs, and even the windows where zombies were hiding.
An old shop with a faded sign that read "Zhong County Supply and Marketing Cooperative" was hit by three bullets at the same time. The wooden door panel flew off with a "crash", and the zombies huddled inside were beaten into a sieve by the fragments. Light green body fluids mixed with rotten flesh poured out of the window, flowed down the wall, and gathered into a pool of smelly muddy water on the ground.
The crawlers lying on the roof were not spared either. The bullets penetrated their bodies, and the moment they exploded, these usually agile mutants burst open like rotten watermelons.
A huge orange-red fire suddenly broke out in the direction of the county government square - it was an incendiary bomb specifically used to deal with mutated zombies.
After the three incendiary bombs landed, the thermite instantly burned to thousands of degrees Celsius, and the blue bricks on the square floor were baked white. The three spitters hiding behind the flagpole had no time to react before their bodies were engulfed in flames.
Their corrosion sacs exploded with a "bang" under the high temperature, and the yellow-green corrosive liquid splashed into the fire, making a sharp "sizzling" sound and emitting a cloud of white smoke with a fishy and sweet smell.
The hissing of the Spitterer gradually faded in the fire, and in the end, only its charred body was left curled up in the flames, like three pieces of burnt charcoal.
The steel cables of the cross-river bridge were swaying continuously due to the blast. The zombies stuck in the gap of the bridge fell into the river with a roar, but before they sank to the surface of the water, they were hit by the fragments of the rockets exploding on the surface of the river.
The bullets smashed the surface of the river into huge splashes, the remains of the corpses rose and fell with the waves, and the light red blood spread in the gray-green river water, like a spilled painting with inferior dye.
An abandoned bus on Binjiang Road in the distance was directly hit by a rocket. The body of the bus was deformed like paper, and dozens of ordinary zombies hidden inside were blown out of the bus by the air wave. Some fell into the river, and some hit the guardrail, making a muffled "puff" sound.
The bombardment lasted for a full quarter of an hour. Large-caliber ammunition of various types exploded like endless thunder, creating a sea of fire in the urban area of Zhongxian County.
The shelling finally stopped when the last rocket landed in the warehouse area west of Zhongxian County.
However, the aftermath of the artillery fire still echoed dully among the mountains on both sides of the Yangtze River, and the hot air waves, carrying the smell of burnt and blood, tightly entangled with turbid gunpowder smoke, rose into the sky.
At this moment in Zhong County, there was a sense of dead silence just after the New Year's firecrackers were set off, and there was also a brief vacuum after being completely stunned.
But the vacuum lasted less than thirty seconds.
"All units! Attack!"
The moment the order was transmitted to the attack sequence via radio, the next second, the steel torrent that had been ready for use started like a raging wave from a floodgate!
"77th Armored Brigade! Forward!"
Along with the roar of the vehicle radio, the diesel engines of the huge and heavy ZB96 main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles suddenly emitted a deafening roar, and the tough steel tracks began to roll over the broken road surface.
They did not choose to go straight in through the narrow streets, but instead cleared their way with absolute force!
The leading ZB01 main battle tank did not slow down at all and slammed into a brick wall facing the street that was half collapsed by artillery fire. The bricks and stones collapsed, leaving white spots on the thick composite armor, but could not stop it at all.
The tanks, like battering rams, forcibly carved a new path through the rubble! The infantry fighting vehicles followed closely behind, their turret-mounted 30mm cannons and coaxial machine guns unleashing relentless suppressive fire on the suspicious buildings on either side.
At the same time, a heart-pounding sound like cloth being torn continuously came from overhead!
The armed helicopters of the 77th Army Aviation Regiment are no longer the gods of death flying high in the sky. They are like giant hunting eagles flying close to the surface of the river, swooping down towards the urban area!
It rushed forward at a very low altitude, almost brushing against the steel cables of the cross-river bridge. The strong wind stirred up by the rotors stirred up the blood and smoke on the surface of the river, and the strong airflow even stirred up rolling waves on the surface of the river.
"Give up suppressing the zombie horde with firepower, and focus on sniping the high-value mutant zombies!" The calm voice of the lead plane pilot sounded in the channel.
Boo hoo hoo-!
As soon as the words fell, the rocket pod mounted on the belly of the aircraft instantly spewed out flames of death, and several rockets, dragging scarlet tails of flames, rushed straight towards the mutated zombies of different shapes on the ground.
As the armored cluster and the airborne armed helicopter formation worked together to advance and tear open the forward path, the soldiers of the 9th, 10th and 11th Infantry Brigades also followed closely into the battlefield in military transport vehicles, Mengshi 3 armored assault vehicles, electric tricycles, flatbed trucks and other vehicles.
They wore replica starry sky camouflage training uniforms, Kevlar tactical helmets, and carried QBZ-191 assault rifles. They worked in groups of three and 3 in a team, relying closely on the mobile shelters provided by on-site vehicles and advancing rapidly into the depths of the urban area.
Their steps were swift and cautious, and the muzzles of their guns moved constantly with their gaze, sweeping over every dark window, every broken doorway, and every pile of rubble that might hide danger.
As the troops went deeper, the air was filled with an indescribable stench: the mixed smell of burnt flesh, hot metal, smoke, dust, and the decaying matter exploding from the bodies of zombies was almost suffocating.
The ground beneath his feet was still scorching hot, broken glass and shell casings crunched beneath his boots, and from time to time he would step on sticky, unrecognizable fragments of organic tissue.
"Second floor, left! Window!" a hoarse warning sounded.
A soldier raised his gun and fired almost reflexively, "Da da da!" A zombie with half of its body burnt out of the window fell down.
The tank's turret suddenly rotated, and the 125mm main gun was aimed at a dilapidated three-story building - "Boom!" The entire front of the building collapsed instantly, completely burying the possible threat.
The silhouette of an armed helicopter flew over the street not far away, and the roar of the chain gun was like the drumbeat of death, providing continuous firepower to clear obstacles for the advance of the ground troops.
All of this constitutes the most spectacular and cruel picture in the apocalyptic recovery war: in the sky is the roaring god of death, on the ground is the iron cavalry that crushes everything, and in the middle is the infantry who are advancing with difficulty relying on the steel torrent.
Sound, light, smoke, and fire intertwined, with the roar of machines, the roar of weapons, the loud noise of collapsing buildings, and short bursts of gunfire...
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And just when this new round of battle to recapture Zhongxian County had just begun.
A convoy consisting of one Mengshi 1 armored command vehicle, two Mengshi 3 armored assault vehicles, and one wheeled infantry fighting vehicle was driving out of Dongxi Town, the headquarters of the Eastern Column, raising a cloud of dust and speeding towards Beibei District of Chongqing City!
