Murong He frowned and said: “The Chan Yue ridge is indeed suitable for an assault from our tanks. The problem is the weather! If there were to be a sudden change in weather, the troops there would lose the support and become stranded! The moment that happens, they would be finished off by the horde. I reckon that we should defend Guilin City!”
Zhang Xue Wang replied coldly: “Holding them off here is too dangerous!! If the fort was to be broken? The more than 800,000 survivors here would have no place to run to. Furthermore, our heavy rounds are lacking. With the number of zombies ranging in the millions, without sufficient ammo, what do we use to defend with? Meat shields?”
A modern army’s criteria was having enough logistical support. Du Shan Xiong had a regiment of elites and strength, and the reason why he could only occupy Guilin, was primarily due to the shortage of ammo.
Du Shan Xiong had brought his troops to reclaim Guilin, and also led them to slaughter their way into Nanning. In addition, he had been cleaning up the surrounding areas of Guilin City, annihilating a few million zombies. However, as a result, the troops were nearly depleted of their ammo, and the ammo dump had only 2 bases’ worth. It would be tough for them to deal with the 3-million strong horde with just that.
Everyone frowned, although the words of Zhang Xue Wang were hard to listen to, it was the truth, and the impending danger loomed over everyone’s heads. It felt hard to breathe.
Guilin City was not an industrial city, and within it, the only thing they could do now was to refill ammunitions. In each month, they could reload up to about 10,000 rounds. The current count of reloaded ammunition in Guilin City was about 30,000 rounds. These reloaded rounds were lacking in effectiveness, and could damage the guns. The majority of it was given to the scavenger teams to use, and no one from the military liked to use it. As for the heavy artillery rounds, not only are there no ways to manufacture them, there are no known ways to reload them.
Yue Zhong eyed Chen Ying on one side and asked: “How’s the construction of the wall coming along?”
When Yue Zhong obtained control, he had assigned a huge number of young males to start working on a wall. In society, there were countless city walls breached due to the existence of heavy artillery that could easily demolish walls. However, for the apocalypse, a sturdy wall would be extremely useful against a zombie horde, as well as the attacks of Mutant Beasts. Hence, Yue Zhong had placed great importance on it. After all, constructing a wall was much simpler than manufacturing heavy artillery rounds.
Chen Ying replied directly: “There’s a 5m-tall defensive wall built in the direction of Nanning, however, with the time we have, that’s the limit we can do now.”
As the majority of the zombies surrounding Guilin City had long been wiped out by Du Shan Xiong and his army, only the zombies in the direction of Nanning posed a threat. Even Du Shan Xiong did not dare to provoke them. Hence Yue Zhong had given priority towards that direction with respect to the construction of the wall.
“5 meters eh? Do your best!” Yue Zhong frowned when he heard that, before slowly replying.
A 5 meter-tall wall would not be enough to defend against a huge horde of zombies. However, being able to construct such a wall within the time limit of a month was impressive.
Yue Zhong pondered for a moment, before ordering: “Chen Ying, you delegate the job, immediately begin defensive fortifications all around Guilin City. Dig traps!! And organize the residents from the Gang Xi District to move towards the south. Try to clear the area, to act as a buffer.”
“Yes!”
Yue Zhong continued: “Hu Yi! Go take 200 experts, head to the frontlines and snipe the horde. Do your best. As long as the situation turns for the worse, immediately retreat! Try to preserve your lives and energy!”
In such conditions where the weather was unpredictable, it was the most that Yue Zhong could do. If it wasn’t for winter, Yue Zhong would have deployed all his troops to go hunt the zombie horde.
“Yes! Leader!” Hu Yi replied excitedly.
Yue Zhong then swept everybody present a glance as he said solemnly: “Everyone else, resume your training, await further orders! For this battle, I’ve decided to take the fight to them outside. Our lives are on the line this time, I hope everyone will give their all to prepare for it!”
Everyone’s heart shuddered as they replied: “Yes!”
Under Yue Zhong’s orders, everyone began moving.
With the assignments set by Chen Ying, the residents of the Gang Xi District began to move towards the south side of Guilin City.
At the same time, over one hundred thousand young men were mobilized and began fortifications outside Gang Xi District.
As there were many people working on it, with their combined efforts, countless fortifications and simple works were completed within a nigh