Chapter 340 Fire attack tactics!
"What? On fire?"
In the field command vehicle, Jia Sanniu looked at the images transmitted back by the drone in real time and said with some surprise.
"Reporting to the battalion commander, judging from the situation at the scene, the fire is quite large. Without external intervention, it is likely to engulf the entire town!"
"The drone can no longer get close!"
"Withdraw the drones from the town and move to the periphery. Keep a close eye on the direction of the fire! Report any situation immediately!"
"Roger that!"
After hanging up the phone, Jia Sanniu, who was sitting on a chair, stood up and walked to the big screen. He looked at the map and fell into deep thought, constantly thinking about the pros and cons of this fire for his side!
From the current perspective, the benefits of this unexpected fire are obvious. Using fire is definitely faster than sending troops to clear the zombies, with lower costs and higher efficiency.
The only disadvantage is that the supplies in the town will also be burned!
But the main goal of the troops to recapture these towns is not supplies, but the brain cores in the zombies' heads!
The zombie brain core is resistant to high temperatures. This is the experience summarized from previous battles. As for how high the temperature is, it has not been measured yet, but ordinary fires should not be able to do anything to it!
So when you think about it this way, it seems that there are only good things about this fire!
Jia Sanniu's eyes lit up, and he immediately shouted to the clerk:
"Xiao Zhang, get me to the brigade's operations department right away. I need to report this news!"
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Office building where night school gathers
dong dong dong~
"report!"
"Enter!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Chengyuan saw Captain Huang Zhijian, a staff officer, walk in with an A4 paper.
"Report to the commander, the battle report from the front line of Maipi Town, Captain Jia Sanniu, has arrived!"
When he heard the news about the front line, Gu Chengyuan became interested.
The battle report was not long, mainly reporting that the artillery bombardment caused a fire that swept across the entire Maipi Town, and also included an analysis of the pros and cons of the fire.
"Burning zombies with fire?"
"This is indeed a good way! It's also very efficient!"
Gu Chengyuan stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the battle report again.
"What does your Operations Department think of this tactic?"
"Reporting to the commander, since we received the news relatively recently, the Operations Department has reservations about the tactic of burning the zombies!"
"Hahaha, I think you have reservations about the fire-attack zombies!"
Gu Chengyuan turned to look at Huang Zhijian and suddenly laughed.
Huang Zhijian did not feel embarrassed about this, but admitted it frankly!
"Reporting to the commander, that's right. I believe others share the same opinion as me!" Huang Zhijian said with full confidence.
"Fire attacks are indeed very effective against zombies, but the conditions for implementation are quite harsh! Not all places are suitable for fire attacks!"
"In modern cities and buildings, fire prevention measures are well taken, so it is very difficult for large-scale fires to occur!"
“This method may only be applicable to relatively backward rural areas where self-built houses are the mainstay!”
Hearing this, Gu Chengyuan nodded in agreement. Huang Zhijian's opinion coincided with his.
In his impression, there have never been large-scale fires in big cities. On the contrary, in rural areas, if a fire in one house is not controlled in time, it can often burn down a large area!
This is not to deny the role of fire attack. On the contrary, fire attack is still very effective in eliminating zombies!
At least in the current battle to recapture the Xishui area, because of the emergence of fire attack tactics, the established strategic goals may be achieved long in advance!
As mentioned before, except for the central area, the rest of the Xishui District are towns!
Most of these towns and villages are self-built houses, and they will be burned down if they are burned!
Arson is against the harmony of nature!
Ugh!
For the sake of human civilization, I, Gu, have no choice but to bear this responsibility again!
I don’t know if this will ruin my later years!
Huang Zhijian stared blankly at the leader in front of him who suddenly turned around and looked out the window. He felt that the other person's temperament suddenly became compassionate.
"Zhijian, remember this!"
"Yes!"
"Order the frontline troops to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the recaptured areas and use fire attacks as the primary method, followed by troops!"
"At the same time, it must be emphasized that the troops should put safety first and not play with fire and get burned!"
Using fire to burn the corpse is a good idea, but there are many strong winds in autumn, and the fire will spread faster than the wind!
If we are not careful, the fire will spread all over the place and the troops will definitely suffer casualties!
Don’t let the zombies not burn you, but yourself!
After saying that, Gu Chengyuan's mouth moved a few times, as if he wanted to say something else, but he held it back.
"Go!"
"Yes!"
Watching Huang Zhijian push the door and leave, Gu Chengyuan sighed slightly.
He wanted to say that he should be careful about causing wildfires...
Once the order for fire attack is issued, the troops will definitely use fire attack as the main method for those villages and towns, and Yezhou is mostly mountainous and forested.
It is late autumn now, the weather is dry and it is foreseeable that there will be a lot of forest fires caused by this!
If a wildfire breaks out and no one intervenes, there is no telling how long it will burn! How many mountains will it burn?
The education he received since childhood made Gu Chengyuan extremely resistant to such destruction deep down in his heart!
But there is no better way in reality, the area of the creek area is so large and the administrative distribution is quite loose!
It would take half a month for the two synthetic camps to recover nine towns, even if they took two days to recover one town each!
This is the case when the troops do not eat, drink or rest. If we take into account supply, rest and maneuvering, and if something goes wrong along the way, it may take more than a month!
The end of the world waits for no one. He can’t wait, and the survivors can’t wait even more!
For some reason, there seemed to be some mysterious force urging him to run faster!
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"Battalion Commander, urgent message from the brigade operations department!"
On Ping Street in Jiuan Township, in the three-story administrative building of the township compound, a clerk from the Second Combined Battalion rushed into the operations room holding a piece of A4 paper.
"What's the emergency?"
Hearing this, Lu Chong stood up from his field chair as if by reflex and took the telegram from the clerk.
boom!Boom!
Bang bang bang bang~
Just as Lu Chong was checking the brigade operations department's orders, gunshots were heard from time to time in the yard outside the room. Some came from the rooms in the yard, and some came from the street outside the yard.
As soon as the Second Combined Battalion entered Jiuan Township, it headed straight for Pingjie, the administrative center of Jiuan Township, under the command of Lu Chong!
The Second Combined Battalion launched an attack with fierce firepower, and the armored forces attacked in full force! The zombie swarm of thousands lasted less than half an hour before being annihilated on the street!
After leaving two logistics companies to finish the job, the rest of the combat units, including the infantry company, tank company, armored infantry company, etc., rushed to their pre-assigned mission targets non-stop according to the combat plan!
"Fuck it! It's still me, the old leader, who is so wild!"
"I didn't even think it could burn!"
After reading the order, Lu Chong suddenly slapped his thigh with a look of surprise!
As a representative of the barbarians in the Gu faction's army, Lu Chong was still shocked by the actions of his old leader Jia Sanniu.
Lu Chong also had the idea of setting fire, but his subconscious mind acted almost instantly as soon as his head showed up!
As a soldier who has received a good ideological education, the idea of burning down residential areas is something he would never dare to think of, even after the end of the world!
Because in their minds, fire is always associated with burning, killing and looting, and then associated with a certain beastly country!
Although Lu Chong is wild, he only strikes hard at the bad guys, not imitates a beast!
What's more, the national background determines construction, not destruction!
Therefore, not only Lu Chong did not dare to think about large-scale arson, but the entire army did not dare to think about it!
It is a red line that cannot be crossed in the subconscious mind!
The influence of mental inertia is terrible..
This is also why people become more stubborn as they get older, and you can never convince the Internet trolls...
The reason is that they have formed a solid inertia of thinking, and things beyond their thinking are almost equivalent to non-existence.
Just like a program that has set up its operating logic, it is impossible to understand things outside of the program...
If Jia Sanniu had not accidentally caused the fire, perhaps for a long time in the future, no one in the army would have thought of attacking the zombies with fire!
"Xiao Aben! Send me a telegram to all the troops, and give priority to using fire attacks according to local conditions!"
"Remember to keep yourself safe while setting fires!"
"I want the troops to run faster!" Lu Chong's tone was full of excitement!
As a frontline commander, he understood the efficiency of fire attacks too well!
It’s just like planting crops, the only difference is that when planting crops, you sow seeds, but you sow fire!
Anyway, it doesn’t matter, you will gain something!
And you don’t need to care for it as carefully as growing crops. You can just light a fire and leave!
Seeds harvest food, fire harvests brain cores!
Soon, a systematic fire attack tactic had taken shape in Lu Chong's mind!
That is, the troops used the wild gasoline in the vehicles on the road to quickly set fire, and then quickly rushed to the next place to set fire again!
Repeat this cycle and quickly pass through the recapture area!
Wait until the fire in these places is out, then come back to collect the spoils!
If we think about it this way, we will be able to complete the task of recovering 90% of the Creek District within ten days!
Then we can gather heavy troops and launch a general attack on the zombie tide in the center of the stream area!
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Afterwards, one command after another was sent to each company-level unit through the network established by the communication node vehicle...
Not long after, when the first mountain village built on the mountain caught fire and the billowing black smoke mixed with flying catkins drifted towards the dome, many places in the northwest of the entire stream area also began to rise with smoke~~~
