Chapter 410: City Defense Battle 2

Central city wall, inside the defense tower.

As the backbone of the base, Lin An naturally stood in the highest place so everyone could see him.

Behind him, Jing Tian let out a light sigh.

Colonel Chu stayed inside the base, directing the artillery and sniper units through data analysis.

"Lin Dui, it's too chaotic..."

The zombie tide had just rushed to the wall's base, and countless zombies were smashed to death against the smooth wall.

Like an unstoppable truck, the first wave of charging zombies clung to the wall like minced meat.

Under wave after wave of impact, the first batch of zombies were crushed to death by the zombies rushing in behind them.

Jing Tian looked at the chaotic scene on the city wall, his heart filled with worry.

The mutants hadn't even made a move, yet our own formation had already fallen into chaos.

"Nothing."

Lin An shook his head slightly, not caring about these.

It's also quite normal for the base soldiers to perform this way.

Not to mention them; even the most elite soldiers would behave this way when facing such a scene for the first time.

After all, their enemy is zombies.

"Zombies aren't likely to threaten us; a little chaos at the start is nothing."

"After this baptism, facing such things later will be much better."

Jing Tian nodded, understanding Lin An's earlier cold-hearted, almost harsh orders in his heart.

All citizens are soldiers; everyone must go to the battlefield.

At first he still thought it unnecessary.

Now it seems that without personally experiencing such a scene, no amount of high-intensity training is useful.

In front of Lin An, inside the crystal ball floating midair, Huang Shaohua stared fixedly at the zombie tide surging toward his feet:

"Lord Lin An, the next will be the probing attack of the first batch of mutants."

"Pay attention to defense; if the first batch is eliminated too slowly, the zombie tide's attack pattern will change."

As soon as the voice spoke, everyone inside the defense tower felt their hearts tighten.

Below the city wall, the endless zombie tide once again split off a patch of zombies.

Among them, the horrifying figure of the lickers began to appear.

"Snipers in position!"

"Machine gun line, cease fire!"

"Two spiritual energy defense towers, begin charging!"

Order after order was issued by Lin An, then Jing Tian and Wen Ya broke them down into concrete actions.

"Whoosh"

The long ammo belt was loaded, and the two-person machine gun emplacements ceased fire simultaneously, preparing to face the first batch of mutants' charge.

Thirty snipers distributed at various high points, holding man‑high sniper rifles, moved quickly along the wall; the data analysis from Colonel Chu gave the best sniping spots.

"Hum-"

With a buzzing sound, the entirely dark‑gold spiritual energy defense tower still rotated its launch device, sending out waves of strong spiritual energy fluctuations.

Energy supplied from the base core and the spiritual energy tower flowed into the tower like water, illuminating a section of the wall defended by the tower and emitting a strange glow.

Spiritual energy technology and modern technology were activated simultaneously.

In less than a minute, a fire net composed of three attack means was ready.

On the city wall, as the heavy machine gun's tat‑tat sound stopped, it was replaced by rifles firing in bursts like popping beads.

After some adjustment, the soldiers held their rifles; although tense, they no longer swept fire but fired steady point shots.

The zombies beneath the city wall were like headless ants.

Drawn by sweet flesh and blood, the first batch of zombies gathered below the city wailed, jumped, and flailed their arms, trying to grab the soldiers on the wall down.

Compared to the scene of zombies charging, this scene right now undoubtedly looks much more ridiculous and laughable.

Mindless zombies could only jump uselessly, or scramble wildly on top of zombie corpses.

Even a meter‑high pile of corpses stacked up was still insufficient to pose a danger to the defenders on the wall.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Bullets shot out one by one; at such close range, shooting downward was utterly simple.

Blooms of blood mixed with shattered skulls rained down onto the ground beneath the city wall.

The gunfire rang out in rhythm, like the opening drumbeat.

Inside the spiritual energy defense tower, Jing Tian quickly glanced around, found everything all right, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

He asked Huang Shaohua inside the crystal ball with some doubt:

"Why don't the zombies attack all at once in a full press?"

"If they launched a full‑scale assault, wouldn't our pressure skyrocket?"

"What's the point of these zombies dying in batches?"

Inside the crystal ball, Huang Shaohua, whom Lin An had forced to join him in "guarding the city," stole a glance at Lin An, who was looking at something unknown, and patiently explained:

"Under the defense mission, the zombie tide's attack differs from a "natural" zombie tide."

"In the mission, the zombies and mutants launch attacks under the system's arrangement."

"Of course, as the city‑defense mission of a First‑Level Safe Zone, the system won't assign them too high intelligence."

But probing in batches, searching for weak points to break through is still possible.

After a brief pause, Huang Shaohua's face flashed with a trace of memory:

"Don't think it's a good thing that the zombies didn't all rush up together."

"Many safe zones, when first encountering a siege battle, almost always pursue large-scale lethal weapons."

"The zombie tide rushes in with an ultra-dense formation; for them, the difficulty is actually reduced."

"Crammed among the zombies, the movements of a first-level mutant will inevitably be restricted."

"Think about it: although artillery poses little threat to a second-level tank, if he follows that wave of zombie tide charging up, it's actually just taking the artillery fire for nothing."

"Artillery can't kill it, but it can kill the zombies around it."

"Therefore, under the system's command, the zombie tide will split into multiple batches of zombies, attacking in rotation, in order to consume the defenders' ammunition."

After listening, Jing Tian nodded thoughtfully.

What Huang Shaohua said, he actually understood: the zombie tide's batch attacks are not to reduce pressure on the defenders, but rather a kind of game.

Using the cheapest zombies to probe the safe zone's weak points, consuming ammunition.

With systematic command, the zombie tide can rely on its huge numbers without fear of sacrifice.

Just that.

Jing Tian stared at the new wave of zombies preparing to charge again, and voiced his doubt:

"If there weren't so many mutants in the zombie tide, this approach would indeed work."

"But we face so many mutants that, after repeated simulations, if they all launch an attack at once, we will definitely be breached in a sector."

Lin An's return time was too short; only a day ago did Huang Shaohua have the chance to say what he knew.

In the original battle plan, Colonel Chu and Jing Tian had already prepared for the worst.

If a large number of mutants simultaneously strike one point, they had prepared to abandon part of the walls first.

A large amount of gunpowder has already been buried at several weak points in the defenses.

The purpose is that after the zombie tide breaks through, to buy Lin An time to kill the mutants, thereby forming a counter-encirclement.