Chapter 7 The Second Round of Attacks
As for the remaining dozen wild dogs, they had just rushed to the fence and were hit by iron sand slapped. The battle was over before it even entered the melee process.
"Team one and two keep alert, team three go and drag the bodies of these wild dogs in." Margaret quickly issued a new order, and more than a dozen agile men in black flipped over the sandbags and fences and began to pick up the bodies of those wild dogs.
These crazy beasts carry a special virus on them. If people eat the meat pieces with this virus raw, they will soon go crazy and will twitch and die in less than a day. However, this virus does not seem to be fire-resistant and can kill them as long as the meat is completely roasted.
Margaret's approach was very correct - more than two hundred people, and it was difficult for them to survive for three months by relying solely on the supplies they brought and the inventory of the central market. For them, these beasts that attacked the market became the best source of food.
Especially when the frequency and intensity of the beast tide attack are not high, collect as much prey as possible... When a large-scale beast tide comes, if you want to jump out like this and pick up the beast's corpse, you may have to take your life into it.
After the men in black picked up the corpse of the wild dog, they used a short knife to break the belly, cleaned the internal organs and intestines, drained the blood and then applied salt. In this way, these pickled dog meat can be preserved until the next dark season comes, and will not rot.
"Calculate the consumption of ammunition and compressed steam." Margaret ordered his subordinates. At this time, she couldn't help but think of the little boy who dared to make "suggestions" to her just now...
He was right. If we calculate based on the consumption of the battle just now, let alone three months, I am afraid that in just half a month, these steam guns will become useless fire sticks.
Ammunition is not a key issue. The key is the high-pressure steam used to replace gunpowder. This high-pressure steam can only be replenished in Linfeng Fort and several other large military fortresses. Once it is used up, the steam guns in the hands of the soldiers will immediately be silenced.
Hold on for three months, this is almost an impossible task.
As for using armored vehicles to break through the isolation area, this is indeed a feasible solution. However, except for the necessary operators, armored vehicles can only transport about ten people at a time. Even if the space inside is freed up for storing materials and ammunition, it will only increase this number to fifteen people.
Even if you send all this batch of seeds out of the isolation area, you have to walk back and forth twice, let alone these more than 200 people under your command...
According to the original plan, they were already preparing to withdraw from the quarantine area today, but the dark season that was coming early was so unexpected... In this case, Margaret could only rely on the "emergency regulations".
If the Rinfeng Castle did not forget them, at most a month, a rescue force composed of a thousand imperial soldiers would forcibly break into the quarantine area and rescue them - of course, the premise is that they have to survive until that time.
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Ashes still didn't expect an escape plan with certain feasibility. These men in black not only had strict defenses from the outside, but also did not leave any loopholes inside. Four people guarding them took shifts in pairs, and at any time there would be one person guarding the entrances and exits at both ends of the carriage. It would be difficult to escape from the carriage, let alone slip out of the central market from the noses of so many men in black.
Perhaps, when their defense line was washed away by the beast tide, the ashes could wait for the opportunity to escape... However, at that time, what he needed to face was not these men in black holding strange guns, but the group of cruel and bloodthirsty wild beasts.
That seems worse...
The rope on his body was untied when it was taken into the car. Apart from not leaving the car, the people in black did not impose any more restrictions on Ash and others. With the protection of their bodies, Ash broke off a rusty triangular iron piece from the corner of the inner wall of the car, and polished the iron piece back and forth on the bottom plate of the car that was also made of metal.
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The second round of attacks came soon. This time, the mixed beast tide of beasts appeared in their sight, consisting of several different beasts. The ones rushing in front were giant wild boars with a height of nearly two meters, a body length of more than four meters, and a diameter of fangs comparable to that of an ordinary adult man’s thigh.
This giant wild boar will be the overlord of the quarantine area tomorrow. Even among the indigenous people, few people dare to attack this guy - the fanged wild boar may be killed by a flintstone, but this giant wild boar, which is several times the size of a fanged wild boar, is not so easy to deal with.
Especially in the dark season, a large amount of fat will be secreted under the shells on the giant wild boar's body, which will not only make its body look more expanding, but also greatly enhance its defense. Even the flint gun is powerless against this thick layer of subcutaneous fat - the fat layer can absorb most of the kinetic energy attached to the projectile and minimize the lethality of the projectile. As for iron sand, even the shells on the surface of the wild boar cannot penetrate.
However, with such defense and tonnage, the giant wild boar's movements did not seem clumsy at all. When it sprinted at full speed, it was almost equivalent to an armored steam tank. Except for some of the remaining city walls outside the isolation area, in the impression of ashes, there seemed to be nothing that could block the charge of the giant wild boar.
Behind these two giant wild boars were more than a dozen porcupines covered with thorns and more than a dozen canine animals that looked like dogs, non-dogs, non-wolfs. The indigenous people in the isolation area called this beast "博". The forelimbs have short forelimbs, but their hind limbs are extremely developed, and they run more like jumping. Every time the powerful hind limbs exert force, they can jump more than ten steps away in an instant.
Behind the porcupine and the wretch, there are hundreds of wild beasts of different species. Among these wild beasts, there are many species that are mortal enemies of each other in the morning. But now, they are gathering together and rushing towards the defense of the people in black.
"Team 1, change armor-piercing bullets, aim at the giant wild boar in the front, gather fire to shoot; Team 2 and Team 3, put the target on the beast behind, shoot freely. If you enter melee... Enhancement agent is allowed!" Faced with the beast tide that is far larger than the previous round, Margaret's expression was unprecedentedly serious. She had even taken off the cloak on her body, revealing the tight leather armor she was wearing.
The gunshots rang out again, but this time, the first round of shooting had little effect - the two giant wild boars pressed against the front blocked most of the bullets for the other wild beasts behind them. Only one of them was rubbed by the bullets and tore a huge hole on one side of the abdomen, dragging out the bloody intestines for more than ten meters.
Chapter completed!