Chapter 90 Grand Scene
Such efficiency surprised Iron Wolf Frank and the soldiers who followed him.
But when Frank saw the dozen or so excavators and cargo trucks in the convoy, the iron-blooded soldier was suddenly confused.
Is this for dealing with zombies?
Are you here to develop real estate?
However, he was a man who didn't like to talk too much. Seeing that Leon was confident, he just followed Leon in silence, who seemed to have turned into a contractor, and watched him assign work to the excavators.
In fact, the task was quite simple. It was to install TNT explosives along the base wall, about 1,000 meters away, and dig a pit 50 meters wide and three meters deep.
According to his calculations, such a large pit could accommodate 300,000 crowded zombies.
After Leon finished instructing the excavator on its task, he turned to Iron Wolf Frank and explained:
In just a few minutes, more than 100,000 zombies entered the kilometer-long pit.
The buzzing noise of the propellers is very attractive to zombies. According to the pre-arranged routes, some of these drones can attract hundreds of zombies at a time, and some can attract dozens of zombies at a time. Some trainees are not even proficient in operation. Not only do they fail to attract zombies, but their operational errors also cause the drones to crash into obstacles.
He looked at the zombies piled up in the pit, struggling but unable to escape from the zombies under them, and said with some excitement:
"This method is worth promoting. Facing those unimaginable numbers of zombies, it is really a labor-saving and safe strategy."
"Your method should work. If you encounter soldiers from the northern outpost coming to cause trouble for you, tell me my name and notify me to come over."
Looking around, there were nearly 200,000 zombies crowded in this pit that was more than three meters deep and more than a thousand meters long. Their dilapidated bodies occupied almost half of the area of the pit. They stretched out their rotten palms, roaring and scratching the hard soil under the feet of Leon and others. Even if their fingers were broken and their palms were rubbed with blood and flesh flying, they did not stop for a moment.
Everyone was waiting outside the pit for more than ten minutes, until many zombies escaped the fate of being crushed under them, crawled out from the pile of corpses, and gathered at Leon and his men's feet without forgetting their original intentions.
The dense roars, the countless rotten faces crowded together, and the pungent stench of rotting flesh and blood made everyone around dizzy.
The more than 40-centimeter-thick concrete wall was immediately blown into many pumpkin-sized pieces. With a loud noise, some of the rubble fell into the pit dug by Lyon and his team, and some of the rubble remained in the military base.
"There won't be any casualties either."
He took a puff of his cigar and exhaled a puff of white air.
Leon shook his head, poured a basin of cold water on him, and said:
"I know where to get fuel. I can help you get enough. Just give us some cars. We don't need your people to help."
"However, you have to be careful. The noise you guys are making here is not small. There are other forces around here, so you need to be careful."
With a series of muffled sounds, the specially made TNT explosives exploded on the spot. Iron Wolf Frank had top blasting experts under his command. After his adjustments, these bombs were not only of moderate power, but also produced a soft explosion.
The mission this time is relatively simple, it is a bait mission that does not require combat, so Leon specifically asked Peggy and her brother to bring these trainees who are still receiving training together for the first practical training.
"I'll help you deal with them."
Fortunately, there are not so many coincidences in the world, and their plan went smoothly.
However, what made Lyon a little embarrassed was that he was also a layman in the construction industry. The efficiency of the excavator was not as high as he imagined. The large excavator they used could only dig out one thousand cubic meters of debris every day. Even if they worked overtime, it took them eight days to dig such a huge pit more than one thousand meters long.
Iron Wolf Frank walked to Leon with some shock in his eyes and said with some emotion:
"When the time comes, as long as we control the drone as bait, we can lure all the zombies that can reach here into this pit."
Because once a conflict occurs, it is likely to affect his recruitment plans.
"Last time, we dealt with tens of thousands of zombies at the Senas Nuclear Power Plant. We set up many traps and found that digging a pit in the ground was more effective than using mines, bombs, heavy machine guns and other weapons."
For safety reasons, and in order to avoid being looked down upon by other forces and causing conflict, Lyon transferred another 100 soldiers and more heavy weapons and ammunition from the base yesterday. This also made Frank more convinced of Lyon's strength as a manager.
But no matter what, after more than three hours, after the continuous action of thirty drones, except for some zombies that were blocked in specific areas, almost all the zombies that could move freely in the base were led into the pit.
"Try to spread them out evenly, and don't let too many zombies pile up in one place."
Fortunately, Iron Wolf Frank is not the kind of man who cares about every little thing. After he recognized the feasibility of Lyon's plan, he cooperated with all his actions without any complaints.
"It not only saves supplies, but also can trap a large number of these zombies."
Lyon pointed to some trucks in the convoy that came this morning and said:
"Explosives or bullets?"
"If you feel that you don't have enough manpower, I can send some of them to go with you."
"When zombies gather together, using fire is indeed a good way to deal with them."
"This method is only suitable for dealing with zombies that gather in the wild. It's hard to find such wide terrain that can be dug in the city. Between those tall buildings, if we make too much noise, we will have to face the siege of countless zombies from all directions. The more people there are, the harder it will be to escape."
"Besides, how many bullets and explosives are needed to kill hundreds of thousands of zombies? Do you and your soldiers have so much ammunition?"
He paused for a few seconds and then continued:
Leon added a sentence as he looked at the zombies piled up in the pit.
Leon lit a cigar and took a puff. Seeing that Frank didn't seem to object to smoking, he handed him one.
"Got it, no problem, boss."
A pleasant female voice came from the radio.
"What a spectacular scene, Mr. Custer. It is really very practical to deal with these zombies gathered together."
Almost every second, thousands of zombies were swarmed, pushed and thrown into the pit by their companions behind them. Many zombies that were already extremely rotten were thrown to the ground with their arms and legs broken, and could only crawl. Some of the more unfortunate ones were thrown directly into a pool of rotten meat.
"These zombies look scary and there are countless of them, but they are dumber than wild animals like wild boars, monkeys, and even rabbits. They just act on instinct."
Iron Wolf Frank nodded thoughtfully and asked:
"You have trapped hundreds of thousands of zombies here. How do you plan to kill them?"
Being ridiculed in person made Iron Wolf Frank's face darken a little, but what the person said was very reasonable. He was not an unreasonable person and did not want to refute.
"When we were in New York, even if we only faced a swarm of 10,000 zombies, we would become overwhelmed and even lose a lot of soldiers."
Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
The bodies fell to the ground, and the description of falling like dumplings was not enough to express the number of zombies that fell.
On the other side of the wall, the group of zombies that had been lured by the noise of the excavator outside the wall for many days were finally liberated. Each one was crowded together without a single gap, just like a large pool of black tide, crossing the foundation of the wall and rushing into the more than three-meter-deep pit.
Using drones to lure zombies in every corner is not a very quick task. According to the pre-prepared maps and pre-assigned tasks, the drones began their work.
It wasn't until there were no more zombies in the base outside the pit that Leon took out the radio and said:
"Peggy, Sherman, send out a swarm of drones to lure all the zombies from other places here."
"I brought in 10 truckloads of gasoline from our base in Atlanta, which is more than 200 tons. But it's still a little short of what we need to burn all those zombies."
Iron Wolf Frank lowered his eyes and thought for dozens of seconds, then nodded to Leon and said:
As the bodies of the zombies piled higher and higher, they soon piled up into a mountain, forming a huge stepping stone made of flesh, which was then trampled by more zombies and continued to fall forward into the pit.
Leon nodded, indicating that he understood. He actually had some concerns and did not want to conflict with the local survivors.
"They rushed over from all directions, knowing no fatigue or fear. The guns in our hands could not cause much damage to them. Some soldiers whose shooting skills were not accurate enough could not even do anything."
"As long as the pit we dig is wider than the gap you blew up and deep enough that the zombies can't climb up, this place will become an extremely solid dungeon that will trap the zombies that keep pouring in."
Leon looked at Frank with a slightly disdainful look and said:
"Once they enter this dirt pit, they become rats in a trap. Why waste precious explosives and bullets to deal with this garbage?"
Frank thought for a few seconds, thinking about the dangers his troops faced in New York, and nodded in agreement.
In the drone command center, siblings Peggy and Sherman were controlling their own drones while directing a dozen other trainees to begin their first mission.
One morning eight days later, the day of action, Leon and his fighters, as well as Iron Wolf Frank and his soldiers, all stood attentively opposite the huge earth pit, holding various weapons in their hands, waiting for the explosion to sound.
"Got it, boss."
He raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a hint of pride:
"I don't need your soldiers' help for now. Please take them to the surrounding areas to collect some gasoline or diesel. The more the better."
Under the command of Peggy and her brother, nearly thirty armed drones gradually took off and flew into the interior of Fort Benning Army Base with the buzzing sound of propellers. They broke up into small pieces in the sky and dispersed to various locations in the base.
"So how are you going to get rid of them?"
"It just so happens that you are very familiar with the situation around here."
It's hell.
Looking at the unforgettable scene in front of him, Leon thought for a few seconds, then thoughtfully took out a camera from the car, turned on the switch, and recorded all of this horrifying hell on earth.
After recording for seven or eight minutes with the camera, he said to Frank and a team leader from the logistics department:
"Okay, let's carry out the second step of the plan."
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