Chapter 940 Embarrassing Situation
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Suddenly, a sharp buzzing sound that was enough to pierce the eardrums was heard in the sky. At this moment, the soldiers on the large and small fronts in Lanzhou City subconsciously looked up!
Above the pitch-black dome, countless artillery shells were seen tearing through the air and rising into the sky from the direction of the artillery positions set up by the legion in the western suburbs!
Rockets, dragging long scarlet tails, streaked through the night sky, like bright iron flowers burning through inky silk, leaving twisted and blazing tracks on the sky, as if they were going to burn holes in the entire night sky!
They intertwined in the air to form a fleeting web of fire, swooping down with the momentum to destroy the world.
"It's artillery support!!!"
"Open your mouth! Quick!!!"
"Stop being stupid, you damn new recruit! Open your mouth!"
In a flash, the veterans on the battlefield had estimated the approximate landing point based on the trajectory of the shells, and began to remind the new recruits by kicking and scolding them.
next second!
BOOM——————
When the first explosion sounded, the entire city of Lan seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible giant hand!
Flames suddenly broke out on the roof of a residential building, like a flower of death that bloomed in an instant. The blazing red light instantly engulfed half of the roof, and broken bricks and body parts mixed with scorching air waves soared into the sky.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Immediately afterwards, the dense explosions merged into one, turning into thunder that shook the earth!
One shell after another accurately smashed into the area where the zombies were most densely packed, setting off a bloody storm every time it landed:
The scorching red shock wave spread out in a circular shape, tearing the zombies into pieces and throwing them away. Blood and broken bones splashed on the streets like a rainstorm.
The ruins of the building collapsed after being hit, the reinforced concrete twisted and exploded in the high temperature, and the smoke and dust were dyed an eerie orange-red by the flames.
Even the soldiers behind the temporary defense line in the distance were shaken by the continuous shock waves, and the entire shelling area was shaking violently under the artillery fire!
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At the same time, at the Gaolanshan Radar Station outside Lanzhou City, the front-line command post of the 76th Army Corps of the Western Theater was brightly lit, and a large number of staff officers in dark green uniforms were hurrying...
In the center of the combat command room, Major General Gao Zhikai, the commander of the 50th Corps in his early 76s with white frost on his temples, was staring at the huge map of Lanzhou hanging on the wall with his hands behind his back.
On the map, red, blue and black are linked together like pieces of a puzzle. Red represents the area where the zombies are entrenched, blue represents the position that has been recaptured, and black represents the blind spot that has not yet been cleared.
At present, the entire map is clear at a glance and not complicated.
The blue color representing the human-occupied area has almost surrounded the red color representing the urban area of Lan City, like a collar around Lan City. According to the auxiliary arrows on the picture, there is an obvious trend of continuous tightening.
"Report to the commander, after 10 days of attack, our corps has achieved the first phase of the combat objectives!" A colonel stood respectfully in front of Gao Zhikai, commander of the 76th Corps, the paper in his hand trembling slightly due to the force.
Before he finished speaking, the sounds of drawing and discussion in the command room suddenly stopped.
The corps commander Gao Zhikai turned slowly, his boots rubbing against the rough concrete floor. His eyes swept over all the senior officials present. The colonel director quickly flipped open the paper document that had just been printed:
"Report to the commander, after 10 days, our army has completed the first phase of the operation against Lan!"
"First, the artillery brigade has completed large-scale firepower coverage of the periphery of the city's core area, large transportation hubs, and ring road nodes. While killing a large number of zombies, it has also greatly weakened the zombies' ability to gather in the city."
"Secondly, the 76th Armored Division of our corps has successfully advanced to the edge of the city along the three strategic axes of the north, west, and south of Lan City in accordance with the predetermined plan. During this period, the powerful firepower of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles was used to eliminate a large number of small-scale scattered zombie clusters."
"At the same time, the 77st Regiment of the 1th Mechanized Infantry Division, which is responsible for the final control, has currently occupied and consolidated key points such as villages, towns, and factories in the suburbs of Lan City, and established a large number of stable forward bases and material storage points along the way."
"We also rely on the mobility and firepower of the ZB92 infantry fighting vehicles to establish regular patrol routes for the supply lines of the forward troops to ensure the safety of the logistics supplies for the front-line troops."
"Finally, just now, according to your instructions, the engineering troops have entered the battlefield in full force!"
"At key points along the route of advancement and outside the city, such as bridges, tunnel entrances, and major intersections, we quickly set up obstacles such as tank trenches, concrete roadblocks, barbed wire, and mines to quickly consolidate the current results!"
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When the colonel's report was finished, the senior cadres and leaders of the 76th Corps in the entire combat command room showed joy on their faces.
10 days!
Do you know how everyone has been spending these 10 days?
The entire army fought day and night, treading on thin ice, and finally!! they reached the gate of Lanzhou City!!
The Lanzhou recovery operation was initiated by the Western Theater Command. It is no exaggeration to say that it was a desperate attack with the strength of the entire theater command!
After all, this is a giant zombie nest with a pre-apocalyptic population of over 800 million and an estimated number of zombies of over million!
In order to take this place, the entire Western theater made a lot of preparations for this, including time cost, material cost, strategic tilt cost, etc. It is no exaggeration to say that the investment is huge!
Therefore, if a problem occurs, even if the 76th Army Corps, which is responsible for the recovery mission, can escape unscathed, the huge amount of material investment will be wasted and will also cause heavy damage to the entire Western theater.
This is mainly because the Western war zone is "poor"!
It can be said that there are gains and losses, and fortune and disasters are interdependent. Because of the geographical location, compared with other areas of the Zhou state, the survival rate of survivors after the apocalypse should be the highest in the sparsely populated Western war zone!
But precisely because of the vast land and sparse population, the economic development of the Western War Zone was not good before the end of the world. It was mainly based on agriculture and animal husbandry, and there were very few categories of industrial development.
Although there are some impressive industries, the only outstanding one from beginning to end is the nuclear industry, and its glory has gradually become history and a black-and-white documentary...
For example, in New Brunswick, several important nuclear factories and nuclear weapons test sites were opened as tourist areas with national defense education bases due to practical and economic needs in the two years before the outbreak of the apocalypse.
Although these bases still undertake some scientific research tasks, they are more focused on demonstrating the historical value of national defense development.
Therefore, this has caused the Western theater to face a rather embarrassing situation. The defense industry that can be used after the end of the world is almost equivalent to nothing...
Under such circumstances, it is no exaggeration to say that the massive amount of military supplies used to recapture Lanzhou was really a last-ditch effort by the Western Theater after it had emptied out all the weapons vaults in the area...
The consequences of failure are likely to be equal to the breaking of the enterprise's capital chain...
ps: Let's combine the timeline of 05...
