Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

The next three days were very repetitive.

Xiaoyun was stuck in the logistics jobs as Yezi was still at the base. So he had to sit in the camp all day trying to allocate all the resources to both the brigade's demands and the other regiment's needs.

The food and water situation was the biggest problem, as the soldiers were eating much more than initially planned.

Fortunately, Xiaoyun was able to go to the temporary storage unit and create them out of thin air, avoiding the need to ration supplies.

Many eyebrows were raised among the Majors who knew the situation, but none of them asked as they kept the information to themselves.

Besides defense still being constructed, Xiaoyun had a bigger problem.

"Tianci, when is the other you coming back?" Xiaoyun asked as he was starting to feel the current Tianci was preventing the other Tianci from coming out.

"She can come out any time she wants. She is just choosing not to." Tianci replied.

"Can you tell her that I miss her a lot? And I tell her that I love her."

"She's already hearing all these... She just needs some more time to get over the fear."

"Okay..."

Another day passed, and Xiaoyun's attention was quickly shifted back to the zombie horde as he just finished scouting for the morning.

"Lingang, is everything finished building?" Xiaoyun asked urgently as he walked inside his tent.

"Almost. We just need about one more day, and we'll be done... Is there something wrong?" Lingang curiously asked.

"The zombie horde in one of the city entrances has started to walk down the road. It's around one hundred thousand or so." Xiaoyun replied.

"What? Yesterday's scout report said they were still at the city." Lingang pointed out.

"Yeah, but I just checked this morning, and they are starting to move... I need you to go fend them off until the wall is complete."

"On my way, sir!"

Lingang saluted Xiaoyun, then immediately rushed out of the tent.

Xiaoyun himself rushed over to the reserve regiment and moved them to fill the gap in the construction of the wall.

As Lingang's troops drove off, Xiaoyun decided to check on Han Bang.

"Is everything all good up there?" Han Bang asked first as Xiaoyun approached.

"Lingang is dealing with it right now. It shouldn't be too big of a problem for him... How's the inner wall going?"

"It's done now. We are just waiting for it to dry and digging deeper moats." Han Bang replied.

"Okay, tell the soldiers that zombies can start approaching at any time. And they better be ready at a minute's notice."

"Yes, sir." Han Bang saluted as Xiaoyun left the tent.

"Where do we go now?" Kate asked curiously.

"To the frontline."

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When Xiaoyun's car catches up to Lingang's troops, the zombies have already been defeated.

"You guys are that fast?" Xiaoyun asked curiously as he approached Lingang.

"It wasn't that much. Besides, the car-mounted MG-40 is really doing a lot of work."

The soldiers were starting to clean up the battlefield as the two talked to each other.

"I might need to station your troops here until the walls are completely done."

"No problem, sir. We'll be stationed here until the last man is alive."

"No need for that. Just retreat when the zombies become overwhelming." Xiaoyun reminded Lingang before leaving.

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The next two days of the weekend were mostly calm.

The walls and defense were finally completed as several of the zombie hordes began wandering towards the wall.

Lingang's brigade was able to make quick work of them as they were only a small group that split off from the main zombie hordes.

When Monday arrived, Xiaoyun finally began luring the zombie's hordes toward the wall.

"Lingang, is your bait back yet?"

Xiaoyun asked over the walkie-talkie as he sat inside the HQ tent.

"They should be in a minute," Lingang replied.

"I'll be there in five minutes."

After Xiaoyun ended the transmission, he checked the plan one last time.

"Sending baits into one of the routes to the city, then luring them back to the wall.

Lingang has one regiment up the wall and the rest to cover the soldier's retreat to the inner wall and trap them in between the two walls... Why do I have a bad feeling?"

As he left the HQ tent and headed toward the wall, he could see all the soldiers were beginning to take down their tents as the area was going to be a battleground.

When Xiaoyun finally got on top of the wall, Lingang was already waiting for him.

"Sir! 1st Brigade is all ready." Lingang saluted as Xiaoyun walked towards him.

"Good. Open the gate for the bait to get back in."

Xiaoyun could see a massive dust cloud in the distance as if there were hundreds of thousands of zombies chasing after a car driving in the front.

After the bait car got behind the wall, the makeshift gate was slammed shut, with no way of reopening it other than flat-out destroying it.

The zombies were within a thousand steps as they all ran toward the wall beyond at a speed that most humans couldn't achieve.

Besides the normal zombies, Xiaoyun and the soldiers could see a pack of tank mutants running in the back.

"Everyone ready!" Lingang yelled as he prepared his rifles.

All of the soldiers lifted their guns as they waited for Lingang's order to fire.

Just as the first wave of zombies got within a hundred steps of the wall, Lingang finally let out the signal.

"All unit fire!" Lingang yelled in the walkie-talkie.

Within seconds, gunshots filled the battlefield as all the soldiers on top of the wall began firing.

Seeing the zombies had already been taken care of by just using rifles and machine guns, Xiaoyun held onto the artillery rounds.

"This is a lot less than I expected," Kate murmured.

"This is at least one hundred thousand. There are still more in the back." Xiaoyun pointed to the distance, where more zombies were approaching.

As the tank mutants approached the wall, Lingang immediately ordered the soldiers with RPGs to fire at them.

It took several rounds of the explosive, but the tank mutants all fell before they could hit the wall.

But now, another wave of zombies has arrived at the wall, and more and more zombies start to overwhelm the soldier's firepower.

"Free fire! Use everything you have!" Lingang issued.

The number of zombies immediately gets culled down as soldiers begin using grenades and their MP40s rather than their rifles as the zombie's ladders begin to get closer to the top of the wall.

Soon, the entirety of the wall outside had made a staircase for the zombies, as the wall was only two stories tall.

"Everyone began retreating! Do not overstay!" Lingang issued.

As soldiers began getting off the wall, the zombies immediately rushed up the empty gaps.

Xiaoyun had also gotten off the wall along with Lingang's troops as they started heading toward the inner wall.

The zombies immediately started chasing after them, but Lingang's four other regiments, who had been waiting on the ground, quickly opened fire on the zombies that had made it past the wall.

By the time all the soldiers retreated to the inner wall, zombies were pouring down from the outer wall in the distance.

Lingang's 1st regiments, with the tanks and APC, were last to enter as they served as rearguards to the ground soldiers.

"This is nowhere near the initial amount of the zombie horde in one route,"

Xiaoyun murmured as he watched the zombies rushing toward the inner wall.

"Commander Xiaoyun, I need to talk to you in private." Han Bang suddenly walked up and asked.

Xiaoyun nodded in agreement as the two walked down to an isolated corner.

"What's wrong?"

"My scout just sent back a message saying all of the zombie hordes are heading towards us now... I don't want to spread panic, but what should we do?"

Han Bang asked as he looked a little lost on what to do next, as Xiaoyun realized what had happened.

"Shit! You go back to the post. I'll start ordering soldiers to retreat."

The two split up as Xiaoyun rushed toward the HQ center.

"Lingang immediately began transporting the 10th regiment to the 20th regiment back." Xiaoyun transmitted.

"Why? Is there something wrong?"

Lingang asked curiously as all the majors around him looked just as confused by the retreat order.

"This is an order. Began retreating now."

"Yes, sir!" Lingang instantly accepted the demand the second time.

Xiaoyun changed his transmission signals to Wuli's unit as he thought of ways to buy time.

"Wuli, fire all of the artillery shells as fast as you can and just leave all the artillery pieces behind. We'll come back and get it later... At the outer wall."

"Yes, sir!"

Wuli was confused by Xiaoyun's command, but she didn't hesitate to issue the firing order.

Within seconds, a loud artillery barrage could be heard by all the soldiers at the inner wall coming from behind them.