"Crackling..."
The iron bridge that once carried the hopes of 100,000 people was corroded, and the corroded and deformed iron bridge could not bear the weight of the bridge body, and it broke off and fell down to the river full of corpses. The shrill calling came to the ears of everyone on the shore, but no one moved, they all turned to Zhang Xiaoqiang who was sitting on the military vehicle. []
Zhang Xiaoqiang first looked at the zombies in the gathering place on the opposite side. After a while, he came back to his senses. When everyone else was with him, he also heard the miserable people calling for help in the river below. Zhang Xiaoqiang hesitated for a moment, and finally said:
"Give them a hand..."
There were quite a few people calling for help below, most of them had broken legs, and some lucky ones were not injured. There were natural moats on both sides. They hoped to get help. They thought they would die, but Zhang Xiaoqiang killed z2, and the way of life was opened. The dead people also have the hope of life, but they don't have the chance to live.
They hoped that the people who crossed the river would save them. They shouted hoarsely, and human heads finally appeared on the other side. When they reached those heads, they shouted even louder, until a crossbow arrow pierced their chests. .
The voice of the river channel's call changed from screaming to muffled, and the zombies on the other side of the river had already started to rush into the bridge, and when the dense zombies rushed towards the bridge, Zhang Xiaoqiang turned his head and said to Huang Quan:
"Let's go..."
Finally evacuated from the nightmarish gathering place, everyone was glad that they were able to walk to a new starting point alive, only Zhang Xiaoqiang knew that everything had just begun.
Behind them, countless zombies were attracted by the smell of blood under the bridge and rushed down the river, countless zombies were washed away by the torrent, countless zombies fell on the river beach, and were crushed to death by the falling zombies. The meat was buried with the bodies of countless companions.
There are some Z-shaped zombies in the prototype of Z2 zombies and their D2 guards waiting quietly in the heart of the gathering place. Behind the wall behind them, zombies like marching ants still gather here, and occasionally they can see horsemen Z-shaped zombies with d2 zombies, endless zombies stretching in the direction of h... The long team is struggling on the concrete road before the end of the world. From time to time, some people leave the team and go to the nearby forests, fields, and houses in search of food , Some people never return, and some people return to the crowd with enough food, exchange the food for a new identity with the team, and become an official member of the team.
As for the food offered by the poor, the convoy took all the food as ordered, regardless of whether the food was moldy or not, and it didn't care if there was still blood on the food bags.
No one knows how many people left the team to perish in the mountains, no one knows how many people left the team to fend for themselves, and no one knows how many starved corpses are burned by the corpse collection team at the rear every day.
In this regard, everyone chose to ignore it, they just moved forward, forward, one forward, or couldn't make it through, and fell to the side of the road as corpses.
As for the corpses on the side of the road, Zhang Xiaoqiang has long been indifferent. Counting, Zhang Xiaoqiang's hands were stained with the blood of tens of thousands of people. Those who were beheaded, those who defected from the gathering place, those who were killed by him by the lake, and those who were killed by Li Zhi shot and killed those in Xiaocun, and all of them were blamed on him.
Zhang Xiaoqiang never thought of being a hero, let alone saving 100,000 lives. He first became a butcher who killed more than 10,000 people. Before, although his subordinates were not too close to him, they would not be afraid of him. Now, whenever he Appearing, many people were too frightened to vent their anger, which made Zhang Xiaoqiang very helpless, and he also found that, for some reason, he could always feel a faint smell of blood permeating his body, and he couldn't tell whether it was due to psychological reasons , Sometimes just a slight frown can make the soldiers around him tremble with fright.
It was already the afternoon of the second day, and twenty-four hours had passed since they escaped from the gathering place, but the speed of the convoy was not fast. The number of people killed by Zhang Xiaoqiang in the gathering place reached more than 10,000, including those who defected and rushed to the riverside. Those at the docks, and those killed from entering the gathering place, are added up sporadically.
Two long-distance migrations, plus 20,000 survivors who were transferred to the island in the middle of the lake, almost 13,000 people died in the gathering place or were captured by zombies after fleeing, and those who died under the bridge and were killed by Li Zhi killed about 10,000 people, and there were others who found other ways of living and died in the wild. As far as the current situation is concerned, the size of the convoy is about 70,000 people, which is exactly half of the population when they entered the gathering place.
In other words, the gathering place lost about 50,000 people in this retreat and blocking operation, and more than that, you must know that Zhang Xiaoqiang brought back thousands of people from Tianxingzhou.
The population of 70,000 is only half of the total population, but migrating on a distance of two to three hundred kilometers is a disaster for a group of survivors without handover tools. The distance pulled by the team has reached dozens of kilometers, and the forward has already arrived Huang Quan recaptured the edge of the town, and the last security force was only less than 20 kilometers away from the gathering place.
To be precise, if there is no natural moat with a depth and height of more than ten meters, they are only four hours away from the vanguard of the zombies.
According to the report of the reconnaissance team, at the exit of the gathering place, the zombie sea stopped temporarily after filling the river with tens of thousands of zombies to no avail. This is good news for them, but someone found that the zombies were in the gathering place It seemed to start to reorganize, more and more scattered zombies were collected, and more zombies poured into the gathering place through the fence.
This made Zhang Xiaoqiang understand that the shrinkage of the zombies is only temporary, and when the zombies take shape again, the Z-shaped zombies will bring a sea of zombies across the bridge and rush towards them. At that time, unless they cross the river, they will be followed by the zombies forever behind.
There are two ways, one is to cross the river, using the entire Yangtze River as a natural moat, and the other is to escape on land and take the zombies to other places.
The second is a supplementary plan to the first. You must know that there are not many ships on the banks of the Yangtze River. Even if they collect them all, they cannot send 70,000 people across the river in a few days, and the zombies are behind them. Back to the origin, time.
There is not enough time to send people across the river, and the remaining people will become the bait of the zombies. The zombies are still a mountain on their heads. Although they rushed out of the gathering place at a huge price, the road ahead It is still unpredictable, but they have to carry the big burden of tens of thousands of survivors.
I don't know whether it was intentional or not, Zhang Xiaoqiang subconsciously lightened the burden on him. Those poor people who are worthless for the time being are the burden that he slowly reduces.
The long journey was a knockout match for the poor. Zhang Xiaoqiang did not supplement food for the poor. What was remarkable was that he provided the worst meal for the women and children who were mixed with the poor. He had to eat it face to face.
Zhang Huaian secretly did this behind Zhang Xiaoqiang's back. Zhang Xiaoqiang naturally knew what Zhang Huaian did, but he just turned a blind eye and pretended not to know.
In one day, more than 200 corpses were found on the roadside, most of them were men who had been hungry for too long and had lost their vitality. Of course, there were also women and children.
Regarding this, Zhang Xiaoqiang still pretended not to know, food was scarce, it was impossible for them to feed tens of thousands of people, and there was still a long way to the base, and the food they consumed was huge, and even if they arrived at the base, a month later , The base can't get enough food to feed tens of thousands of people.
Zhang Xiaoqiang has a bottom line. Before crossing the river, it is a knockout competition. After everyone crosses the river, supplies can be provided equally, because there is a large lake with abundant supplies on the other side of the river. Before that, apart from the civilians and soldiers before, the poor I can't take care of it.
Another reason is that Zhang Xiaoqiang is persecuting them. People are always afraid of the unknown. They are used to maintaining the current life. If Zhang Xiaoqiang does not force them, they will never have the courage to go to the wild to find food.
Although the end of the world has caused a lot of vegetation to die due to lack of water, it does not mean that there is no food in the wild. There are a lot of cold weapons in the convoy, and the poor can use their found materials as collateral to rent.
It is close to h, and it is an economically developed area with a relatively high population density. After several searches by the search team before, a large number of scattered zombies were killed by 90%. Although a large amount of food could not be found, the search team did not There are a lot of small supplies on the Internet, as long as they dare to fight those scattered zombies, they can always find something to eat.
Zhang Xiaoqiang was right. In the vast area, there are all kinds of materials, moldy grain, feed from farms, leather shoes, belts, and leather bags in stores. As long as they are leather, they can be eaten. The mouse food in the field mouse hole, as well as the mutated insects in the wet area, and the small mutated beasts with weak attack power.
Most people just haven't experienced it. Once they fight for survival, the power they burst out is terrifying. The hungry people's demand for food is unlimited. Within a kilometer, everything that could be eaten was looted by hungry people.
In the beginning, some people froze because of fear and were eaten by zombies, some found food and were killed by their companions, and some found food and took some people to find another way of life. After a whole day of differentiation and integration, they were surprised Discover, they can find more food than they thought.
Although most of the food is rough, and even some can only be used as daily necessities in the past, as long as it can fill the stomach in the last days, there is nothing unacceptable.
There is too much food, they can’t finish it, and they can’t take it away. Some people use food to plead with the convoy, hoping to get an official identity. In the convoy, the official identity is the same name as the militia. The new identities of the 18,000 close-combat legions have been recognized by Zhang Xiaoqiang, and they will also be incorporated into the reserve system to form the second-line legion in the future.
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