Chapter 224 Rat Tide

  January 20th.

  The traditional Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer.

  During this time, in order to eliminate the influence of the news that Tang Zheng had captured Daliao soldiers, Liu Yibang broadcasted news about the attack on Hezhou every day.

  The progress of the attack is updated every day, and it seems that Hezhou will be completely recovered in no more than ten days.

  Liu Yibang himself even took part in the battle during this time, visiting the front line of Hezhou in person, saying that he wanted to witness this historic moment with his own eyes.

  In Zhuguang City, the atmosphere of Chinese New Year is getting stronger and stronger.

   In the streets and alleys, Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers and other necessary things for the New Year have also begun to be put on the shelves.

  Now Tang Zheng's material reserves are extremely rich.

  The two county towns of Qingquan and Shuanglin were taken down, and the materials in the two county towns were more than enough to supply Zhuguang City and the surrounding bases.

  Tang Zheng didn't even announce these two pieces of news, otherwise the supplies in the two counties would inevitably attract those adventurer teams or mercenary groups to **** them up.

  Tang Zheng will not announce the news until he has obtained almost all the valuable items.

  Now in Tang Zheng's hands, whether it's gasoline, diesel, steel, copper, coal, building materials, etc., there are already huge amounts of materials, and it is more than enough to build two more cities of chasing light.

  But the only thing Tang Zheng lacked was money.

   The battle with Daliao was certainly a victory, Tang Zheng even seized a lot of ammunition, but these things cannot replace gold and silver after all.

   Moreover, the construction of prisons, railways, and the expansion of armored forces this time made Tang Zheng no longer have enough money.

   Of the 15 million funds, there are only a little over 5 million left.

  The money is not even enough to fill up the entire regiment, let alone a large sum of money is needed to upgrade the brigade commander.

   After the troops finished fighting Daliao, Tang Zheng sent them to Caiqi County.

  Baiqi County is within the radar range of Chasing Light City, the last county with zombies, as long as this county is taken down, the zombies within the radar range will be completely emptied.

  But this time without Chen Feilong's help, the progress of killing was much slower. It seems that the colorful flags cannot be taken down before the Spring Festival.

   Moreover, the main source of gold and silver in Caiqi County is the core business district of the county, and there are few gold shops around, so Tang Zheng can't get any funds before the Spring Festival.

   This incident troubled Tang Zheng a little. After staying in Zhuguang City for a few days, he began to think about the city.

  The closest urban area to Zhuguang City is Lunba City in the north.

   Further away, there are cities like Fengcheng and Hezhou.

  The size of each prefecture-level city in Hanyue is not small, and Lunba is considered small, and the number of zombies in it is more than 20 million.

  Going to this kind of place, of course, takes a lot of risk. If it is just to get a certain jewelry store, Tang Zheng will not go.

  But there is another point that Tang Zheng has always been thinking about.

   That's the bank's vault.

  The banking system in Hanyue is like this: Savings banks are set up at the township level, and branches are set up in county towns.

  But no matter the savings bank or the branch, there is no gold reserve inside.

  Only the royal sub-branches in prefecture-level cities have gold reserves, and they often issue some gold bars and commemorative coins to the outside world.

  Tang Zheng's previous strength has not allowed him to go to prefecture-level cities, which is simply not a place he can go.

  Actually, even now, Tang Zheng's strength is also very difficult to win the prefecture-level city. I didn't see that the Fifth Army has been fighting with more than 100,000 people for more than two months, and it has not yet won Hezhou.

  But now Tang Zheng's goal is not to win the prefecture-level city, but to win the sub-branch of the prefecture-level city.

  He was going through the maps of several prefecture-level cities in the surrounding area, and finally determined the city of Lumbardy.

  Compared with other cities, the royal branch in Lumbardy City is relatively easy to win. He thinks he can take a risk.

  If this operation is successful, the gold obtained by taking down the prefecture-level city branch is enough to make his strength to a higher level. At least it is easy to achieve a full regiment, and there will even be some leftovers.

  After making the decision, Tang Zheng saw that it was snowing again today, and the wind was blowing, so he led the team to set off.

  The large forces are currently attacking the colorful flags, this time Tang Zheng led the guard company, and the paratroopers of the Army Aviation Battalion, and went straight to Lunba City.

  Lumba is located in the northeast direction of Zhuguang City, with a straight-line distance of more than 300 kilometers.

   After flying for a little over an hour, the plane came to the sky above the city of Lumbardy.

   Looking down from the plane, the city is gray and white.

  White snow covered the city, and the gray buildings revealed the unique colors of the last days.

   Gusts of wind blew, and the cold wind howled, raging over the city, and the visibility was not high.

  Actually, such weather is not very conducive to traveling, but Tang Zheng deliberately chose such a day to come out.

  The reason for doing this is because in this kind of weather, the perception of the zombies is blinded to the greatest extent. If it is not a particularly loud noise, they will basically not be alarmed.

   Arriving near the sky above the branch, Tang Zheng discovered that the bank was a dome-like building, and helicopters could not be parked there.

  He directed the helicopter to land on the roof near the Hanyue Royal Bank's Lombard branch, so as not to disturb the zombies on the ground.

  After the helicopter landed, the city was still relatively quiet, as if dead.

   Scanned the ground again with radar, and found no second-level zombies, so Tang Zheng felt relieved.

   "Paratroopers, first send a team to drop down from the building and slide down to the ground to see if there will be any changes in the zombies. If not, then the large troops will follow up and enter the bank."

   "After entering the bank, use the micro-sound pistol to eliminate the zombies in the bank, and then the scientific research soldiers go to open the vault, can it be done?"

Guo Yun and some scientific research soldiers who followed nodded, and Guo Yun patted his chest to assure: "Don't worry, general, I am already a five-star scientific research soldier. It is absolutely easy to open a bank treasury. Today will definitely give you a good harvest." .”

  Tang Zheng nodded, with Guo Yun's guarantee, maybe today's action can really bring a huge surprise.

  The paratroopers began to drop from the building. After all, it was very windy and snowy today, and it was very unsafe to parachute.

   Fortunately, rappelling is also one of their training subjects, and a group of soldiers went down smoothly.

   Untied the rope, and the soldiers marched towards the royal branch.

  On the road amidst the wind and snow, zombies stood there like human sculptures, all covered in snow, motionless.

   There are not as many zombies on this road as Tang Zheng imagined. He originally thought that the zombies in this area would be very dense, but there are not many on this road.

  Although he didn't know the reason, Tang Zheng was very grateful that the troops could move faster.

  When the soldiers passed by the zombies, they tried to stay as far away as possible and didn't make too much noise.

  Under the cover of wind and snow, this method is quite effective, and it actually took a safe road.

   It is less than 100 meters away from the bank.

  A warrior carrying a flamethrower, stepping on a sewer manhole cover.

  Maybe because the flamethrower is heavier, the sound is slightly louder.

  The people around were startled, they stopped in their tracks, and looked at the zombie carefully.

  Even Tang Zheng on the roof realized it, and nervously looked at the zombies on the road.

   Although there are not many zombies here, once they are alarmed and roar, they will soon attract a large number of zombies, and today's operation will be considered a failure.

  The soldiers also remained motionless. If the zombies exploded, they would retreat immediately.

  Time seemed to freeze, ten seconds passed.

   The zombie didn't move.

  Everyone let out a long sigh of relief. The situation just now was too dangerous, but luckily there was no danger.

  But Tang Zheng didn't finish his breath when he suddenly realized something was wrong!

  The radar screen shows that countless red light spots are swarming towards this area!

  The red light spot was like a river, traveling extremely fast, but Tang Zheng didn't notice any zombies moving.

   "No! What's going on?"

   Tang Zheng froze for a moment, and hurriedly began to rotate the angle of the radar on the system page to make it a three-dimensional pattern.

   Tang Zheng rarely used this kind of three-dimensional map before, because the situation on the ground is easy to observe, and it is impossible to use the three-dimensional map to scan the underground all the time.

  But the situation is special at this moment, as soon as Tang Zheng turned the radar screen, he immediately discovered the abnormality!

   Massive red light spots come from underground!

   Tang Zheng didn't have time to say anything more, and directly gave the order: "Withdraw! Run back as fast as possible!"

  This paratrooper team is all five-star soldiers. Hearing the general's order, he ran back desperately.

   They just ran back, and the mutation popped up!

  The manhole cover of the sewer seemed to be blown away by some powerful force, and it flew directly into the sky more than 20 meters high!

   And flying up with the manhole cover are countless big rats!

  Each mouse has the size of a medium dog before the end of the world, with a round body, and weighs at least 30 catties!

  Their rat teeth have also become extremely sharp at this moment, even sticking out of the mouth.

  The black mane stands on end, the eyes are blood red, and it squeaks when it rushes out of the ground!

  The torrent is so huge, whistling to the ground, like a fountain, erupting continuously.

   Rat tide!

  The mice rushed out like a tide, and immediately alarmed the nearby zombies.

  Those zombies seemed to be revived in the ice and snow, shaking off the snow from their bodies, howling and rushing towards the mouse.

  But their fangs and claws, as well as the terrible zombie virus, completely lost their effect in the face of the rat tide.

  Countless big rats rushed over howling, and the zombie instantly turned into a skeleton.

  Tang Zheng even saw an iron-clad zombie, which was devoured and turned into a bone without even being able to hold out for ten seconds in front of the rat swarm.

  Seeing such a situation, Tang Zheng was greatly surprised.

  Among the mutant beasts of the last days, he had indeed seen rats, but the rats were not in large numbers, and they were not a big deal at all. When had he seen such a large-scale rat swarm.

   "Hurry up! Go faster!"

  The soldiers of the team rushed towards the way they came, with all their strength.

   Fortunately, these five-star fighters are super strong physically, and each of them runs faster than the world champions before the end of the world.

  And those zombies along the way did save their lives, delaying the speed of the rat tide.

  They ran all the way back to the place where the rope descended, grabbed the rope, and were pulled up.

  The last fighter slowed down a bit, and was immediately bitten by two big rats on his calf.

  Thanks to the comrades around him shooting in time, the two mice were knocked down. Even so, two pieces of flesh were torn off his leg, and the injury was serious.

  Looking at the soldiers being pulled up, Tang Zheng heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time his heart felt a little chilly.

  He thought the world was just like this, but he never thought that the world is also changing rapidly.

  (end of this chapter)