Chapter 983: The Nameless 1
Lan City, Gan Province
Xigu District
In recent days, since learning that the deputy commander of the theater, Zou Yuan, was about to lead the newly formed Lanshi Corps to pick peaches, the 76th Corps under Gao Zhikai's command has fallen into a state of complete madness.
A fierce attack was launched day and night, regardless of the cost, on Xigu District and Qilihe District, two important industrial towns in Lanzhou!
Time has become the most luxurious enemy; casualties, in Gao Zhikai's eyes, are nothing but cold numbers...
Five days! Just five days!
Xigu District and Qilihe District, which once carried the glory of industry, have been transformed into two huge flesh grinders and steel cemeteries that exude the smell of death and rust under the dual ravages of war and corpse tides!
Under Gao Zhikai's iron-blooded orders, the sharpest fangs of the 76th Corps - the 76th Armored Division and the 76th Mechanized Infantry Division, were like steel behemoths stuck in a quagmire. Amidst the layers of corpses and blood, they roared and struggled, crushing forward inch by inch!
Every step forward was accompanied by the sticky sound of bones breaking under the tracks and the desperate roars of the soldiers.
Just because of the special nature of the industrial zone, the heaviest shackles were placed on this crazy attack!
The industrial zone is filled with the most valuable industrial facilities and equipment for the entire Western Theater and the 76th Legion. These are priceless treasures that cannot be exchanged for any number of lives, and are the foundation for the army to survive in the end times!
Among them, Xigu District is especially famous, which is the kingdom of chemical industry!
Huge storage tanks, intricate pipes, and piled-up chemical raw materials...are both wealth and the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads!
Violent explosions, large-scale fires, deadly poison gas leaks... Any loss of control could turn Gao Zhikai's coveted "industrial vitality" into dust along with the attacking forces!
Therefore, under Gao Zhikai's strict order, the 76th Mechanized Infantry Division, which was responsible for the main attack in Xigu District, was put under the heaviest shackles.
Not only did they not receive any artillery support, even the use of large-caliber heavy machine guns was strictly restricted. Only after the commander repeatedly confirmed the safe distance and angle could they carry out extremely restrained bursts of fire.
Most of the time, the soldiers could only watch the hordes of zombies coming from afar, unable to tear them apart with the most effective firepower. The frustration and fear in their hearts were beyond words.
When the battle penetrated into the core area of a specific chemical plant - an area full of precision valves, control rooms, reactors and pipelines for dangerous chemicals, Gao Zhikai's ban reached its peak - completely abandon thermal weapons!
Soldiers were forced to put down their scalding gun barrels, put on thick protective clothing, pick up heavy engineering shovels, sharp machetes, and steel spears welded with sharp steel pipes...
Here, the battle degenerated into the most primitive and bloody melee with cold weapons!
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Helian Chemical Plant
At this moment, since the troops advanced here at 4 a.m. today, the soldiers belonging to the 76th Battalion, 135th Brigade, 6th Mechanized Infantry Division have been fighting with the zombies in the field for nearly 5 hours!
From the faint sunlight that seeped in at four in the morning until now, only the increasingly dense light outside the gas mask window, dyed a sickly orange by dust and smoke, reminds us of the passage of time.
Fatigue filled their limbs like lead. The heavy protective clothing had long been soaked with sweat and stuck to their skin, feeling cold and sticky.
Every time his arms lifted the shovel or spear, they were accompanied by muscle-tearing pain and uncontrollable tremors.
In a narrow pipeline corridor, a squad of soldiers were using a few simple shields welded together from thick steel plates to form a fragile wall.
The zombies wearing chemical factory uniforms, who had no idea what fear was, twisted their mutated bodies and madly hit the shield, making dull "bang bang" sounds. The huge force caused the shield-holding soldiers' knuckles to crack and their arms to numb.
In the gaps between the shields, soldiers in protective suits, through the mist on their masks, tried their best to aim at the "man-eating monsters" that were close at hand, their limbs corroded by chemicals to the point of exposing white bones, their skin festering and oozing yellow-green pus.
Holding a lengthened steel spear with a tetanus buff, the soldier's face was grim, and he stabbed madly with gnashing teeth. This expression was not because of fear or terror, but because he was almost exhausted.
The tip of the spear pierces into the rotten flesh, making a muffled "puff" sound, and when it is pulled out, it brings out black and red dirty blood and minced meat, which is very relaxing!
Suddenly, a soldier used too much force and his spear got stuck between the ribs of an extremely strong zombie. He was instantly dragged and lost his balance. In the chaos, a fatal gap appeared in the shield formation for a short time!
Fortunately, the soldier next to him was quick-witted and swift-handed. He swung the heavy engineer shovel and chopped it down with all his strength!
"Crack!"
With a teeth-grinding crisp sound, the zombie's head was split open like rotten wood, and the sticky brain matter and black blood splattered all over the attacker's gas mask window like a disgusting fountain!
The vision was instantly covered by a dirty red. In a trance, the soldier holding the engineer shovel felt that he had come to a blood-red world. He could only hear his own heavy breathing like a bellows and the roar of the zombies nearby.
He frantically wiped it with his gloves, but it only made his vision more blurry...
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On the other side of the operating platform covered with valves and instruments, an unexpected massacre was taking place.
An infantry squad that tried to skirt the side of a huge reactor unfortunately ran into the real nightmare of this steel jungle - an advanced mutant!
It is much larger than an ordinary zombie, nearly three meters tall, with a hunched upper body full of muscles and covered with a thick, uneven stratum corneum corroded by chemicals, like a tattered bone armor.
Its arms transformed into two terrifying meat hammers with huge bone hammers at the ends, and every time it smashed down, there was a dull sound of wind and thunder!
The battle broke out in an instant and ended almost instantly!
“Disperse! Disperse…”
The squad leader only had time to let out a half-full roar of fear before the huge bone hammer came crashing down with destructive force!
Bang - click!
A soldier who tried to block with his shield was smashed into a twisted meat pie with his shield. The sound of bones breaking was so clear that it made one's scalp tingle!
Blood, flesh and broken metal parts flew everywhere, sticking to the cold walls of the reactor.
Another soldier roared and thrust his steel spear towards the monster's waist and abdomen, but the spear tip only made a streak of sparks on the bone armor before being bounced away. The monster didn't even pay attention to this weak attack and swept back with his backhand!
puff!
The bone hammer hit the soldier's chest like a battering ram. The next second, the soldier flew backwards like a broken sack, hitting the dense pipes hard, sliding down softly, his chest completely collapsed, blood gushed out of his mouth and nose, instantly dyeing the oil stains under his body red.
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