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Commanding the Wasteland

In a world consumed by biochemical mayhem, our hero harnesses an extraordinary system to unleash chaos back! Armed with self-produced aircraft, tanks, and sheer badassery, they bulldoze through zombie hordes, saving the good and wiping out the bad. Get ready for a wild ride of survival, where our protagonist isn't just a survivor – they're the apocalypse's reckoning. This is a partial rewrite (read: translation*) of an existing MTL translation.

Dog_With_Wheels · Sci-fi
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85 Chs

Chapter 53: Attack the Town

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Upon hearing the prompt, Ye Fan swiftly checked the red alert page and verified that the amount of money had indeed increased to 10,000.

"Nana, is this reward still available? Will it be granted when there are thousands or tens of thousands of people?"

"No sir, this 10,000 gold reward is from selling the mining site in the virtual world."

"Ah! My mining farm is gone."

Ye Fan recalled that before the apocalypse, he had constructed three buildings: the power plant barracks and the mining field. While the power plant barracks proved useful, the mining field remained idle due to the inability to obtain minerals.

He had even forgotten about building it for a while, but he didn't expect it to be a benefit now.

Ye Fan was unsure whether he would make a profit or loss by selling it, but it certainly solved a significant problem for him at the moment.

His troops had just reached 100, and he was short on funds. The 10,000 came at just the right time.

Ye Fan allocated a quota of one hundred and thirty red police units for his company. Currently, he had one hundred, still thirty short.

Certainly, the 10,000 could be used to build a chariot factory, but Ye Fan felt that even if the factory was constructed, it might not be able to produce chariots. So, it seemed more practical to fill up the existing quota first.

It wasn't too late to upgrade his soldiers and gather materials to build a tank factory.

Just as Ye Fan was about to continue his actions, Nana issued another reminder.

"Sir, may I suggest building a tank factory first?"

"Oh, why?"

"Because your company-level unit still lacks a unit. This type of unit can only be unlocked for production in the military camp after the tank factory comes out. This is also the reason why the system sells the mining farm, because your troop strength exceeds 100, which is far away from the camp. It won't be long, but there is no chariot factory yet, so the mining site will be sold urgently so that you can build the chariot factory."

Ye Fan thought for a while: "Will this unit be of great help to me?"

"Yes, it is currently the most powerful unit among company-level units."

Ye Fan picked up the pen and calculated it.

He wants to upgrade to battalion commander, but the current 10,000 gold may not be enough.

Because he is short of several expensive units. First of all, he is short of one sniper, which is 800.

If two bazooka warriors are missing, it will be two thousand and four.

The engineer's plan is to produce four, so that the research speed of the base vehicle can be completed within half a month, which will leave another three thousand missing.

There are also medical corps, cooking classes, and the guard force he planned, and money is needed everywhere.

Since Nana said so, the construction of the chariot factory is necessary anyway. With the last virtual building unlocked, he has finally fulfilled his wish.

Rather than being unable to complete both ends, it is better to complete one goal first and see what Nana said is the strongest firepower unit.

"Well, let's build a chariot factory. Anyway, the current soldiers will be enough to attack the town."

"It is confirmed that the construction of the tank factory will take 100 minutes. Please wait patiently, sir."

Ye Fan was not in a hurry and took advantage of this time to look at the produced troops.

Standing in front of the team are two scouts.

When Ye Fan looked at him, the scout immediately began to salute.

"Scout Shen Ruihui reports to the commander!"

"Scout Tan Qiaoge reports to the commander!"

Shen Ruihui is a capable young man with bright eyes, giving Ye Fan the feeling of a sharpshooter.

Tan Qiaoge is a tall and strong young man with well-developed muscles and a very strong close combat ability.

The capabilities of every Red Alert soldier of the same type are not exactly the same. It can be said that they have their own strengths. After all, they are all living people and cannot be exactly the same.

It seems that the initial feeling of these two people is better than that of Xu Haoran.

Except for the two scouts, the other soldiers, Ye Fan, couldn't remember so many names at all. He now has basically all the main combat personnel in the three platoons. Next, Ye Fan appointed several platoon leaders.

Three scouts, Xu Haoran, Shen Ruihui, and Tan Qiaoge, served as the first platoon leader, second platoon leader, and third platoon leader respectively.

However, Nana told Ye Fan that this appointment was only temporary. After he left the physical building, there would be other ways to appoint officers.

Ye Fan also knows this. The advantage of the scouts is not in commanding operations, but fortunately, the enemies they face now are just zombies without intelligence, and they are still barely competent.

The first row of Ye Fan uses all three-star veterans, while the second and third rows are a mix of recruits and veterans. The recruits are the newly born warriors, and the veterans are the warriors with stars.

Three flamethrower warriors also temporarily joined the three combat platoons as supplementary strength.

The soldiers from the cooking squad were assigned to Huang Jian's staff and began to cook.

There are over a hundred people, and Ye Fan doesn't want to leave the troops idle. There are still two hours before dark, and they can definitely do something.

"Leave two squads in the first platoon, the second squad will be responsible for guarding the restaurant, and the third squad will stay at the police station. All the people from the first squad, the second platoon, and the third platoon will go to the town!"

The reason for doing this is to allow the new recruits to grow up quickly and try to upgrade them to three-star soldiers.

With two platoons and six combat squads, there are forty-eight people, plus one military dog ​​per squad, one flamethrower warrior per platoon, rocket launcher warrior Su Mo and sniper Lin Qing were also sent by Ye Fan.

In addition, Ye Fan was sitting on the Xiaolong vehicle, leading platoons and groups of people, as well as several medical soldiers, following the two platoons to hold down the formation, so that if there was any accident, they could be rescued in time.

The troops of seventy men were dispatched and headed towards the town.

Ye Fan turned on the radar and began to check the situation in the town.

Ye Fan has pretty much seen the situation in the town during this period, and there is basically no change in the zombies.

At the beginning of the apocalypse, armored zombies and agile zombies soon appeared. At that time, Ye Fan was a little worried.

He is worried that the zombies are evolving too fast and will not give him a chance to develop.

But it doesn't seem to be the case now. At least ten days have passed, and no new types of zombies have appeared, and those mutated zombies have shown no signs of evolving again.

According to Ye Fan's analysis, it may be that there are more people at the beginning of the apocalypse and zombies have more opportunities to get food. In addition, the first evolution may require less energy, so the evolution speed is faster.

But later on, there were fewer and fewer survivors, and there were fewer food sources for zombies, so the pace of evolution naturally slowed down.

At least judging from the current situation, it should be impossible for new zombies to appear within a few months.

Ye Fan just wants to take advantage of this period of time to try to eliminate more zombies and develop faster. If the zombies evolve again in the future, it may not be so easy.

The soldiers of the two platoons have advanced to a place less than 300 meters away from the zombies.

This is close to the center of the town, and there is a field of abandoned vehicles for cover, which is a natural position.

"Be prepared to fire, there is no need to reserve the elixir, the fighting time should be limited to half an hour, and do not expand the scale."

According to Ye Fan's experience, if a fight starts here, it will attract about 3,000 zombies, accounting for about one-ninth of the entire zombie group in Chengguan Town.

In order to support war with war, he planned to clear out Chengguan Town within five days.

Second platoon leader Shen Ruihui took the lead in firing the first shot.

The silent submachine gun has infrared aiming and can shoot a headshot with one shot!

Then the gunfire sounded like exploding beans, and the zombies attracted by the gunfire howled and rushed towards this side.

Just after Ye Fan's battle to clean up Chengguan Town started, on the other side of the railway, ten motorcycles were moving along the railway line.

"Third brother, how far is it? This railway line is not a place for riding motorcycles. My buttocks are about to explode." asked the bald man on the second motorcycle.

"This is good. Although it's a bit bumpy, it's at least safe. It's not far away. After turning this corner, you can see Chengguan Town."

"It's true that Jiang Shilong has been in contact with Boss Xing for a few days and there has been no sound. As a result, we have to make a trip. When we get to his territory, I will make him pay some blood to compensate me."

"Don't make matters worse. Our Boss Xing has great ambitions. The prison base is strategically located. Now survivors are coming to seek refuge. Only the Hot Spring Base in the entire Coal City area can compete with us. Boss Xing is recruiting troops everywhere. It is estimated that sooner or later he will have to fight with us." There are separate hot spring bases, so let's not hold back and make the boss unhappy."

"It's okay, the boss won't blame me. I'm just worried that Jiang Shilong is too cowardly and won't dare to let go of anything when he sees me. I heard that he is also a superpower. I wonder if he dares to compete with me?"

"Then I'm afraid he doesn't dare. Who dares to use force with you? Isn't that asking for death... huh? Look there!"

Several motorcycles stopped because they saw a high-speed train parked on the railway not far in front of them, in the direction of Chengguan Town!

The man named Lao San was stunned for a moment, but soon a smile appeared on his face.

"There's still a train here, it looks like we've had some fun today!"