Chapter 189, Roaring
Jason Morgan is a little panicked now.
At the committee meeting, he didn't think it was wrong to boost morale and let the wavering elements stay here honestly.
However, Crocker Manor is the nominal headquarters of the Mutual Aid Society, and there are still a large number of committee members gathered here. If it is really breached, it will be a lot of fun.
The Mutual Aid Association will undoubtedly fall into a state of organizational chaos. Even if the central army goes south and solves the problem, the Mutual Aid Association will need time to rebuild if it wants to play a good role in logistics.
That would mess up the whole plan.
However, the tragedy seen through the telescope just now, and the appearance of countless soldiers withdrawing from the collapsed third line of defense to the fourth line of defense, left Morgan speechless.
Can it be said that the warriors of the militia did not work hard?
Obviously not.
They also understand that behind them is their homeland, and behind them is the refugee camp where their families are.Everyone managed to escape here and survived. They were drafted into the militia, and what they defended was hope.
If they fight, their families will survive; if they are good defenders, their families will have the opportunity to go to Shuangcheng and have the official benefits of alliance citizens; if they fight, they will allow those who want to stay in the Green Valley area to own their own land... …
Their will to fight is beyond doubt.
However, the number of enemies is huge and their firepower is fierce. This is an objective fact, and it cannot be reversed by the will to fight.
Morgan saw with his own eyes the new types of high-level mutant monsters introduced to him by military observers before. To be honest, his calves are still soft now.
If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't the first day he came to the Qinggu area, he had already seen many aberrations, and he had received education from the Faithful Academy before, so he was just a gangster in Fuxing City. When he was a young clerk, the first time he saw those monsters, he might have fainted from fright.
However, the soldiers of the militia were able to withstand huge casualties, and they just delayed from yesterday afternoon to the present.
Just now, 300 people died before his eyes.
The military observer sighed: "Actually, it's not bad. When the sun just rose this morning, the enemy attacked on a large scale for the first time. After putting many specialized advanced biochemical monsters into battle for the first time, we were caught off guard. Thousands were lost on the first line of defense. Then five hundred died on the second line."
Jason Morgan was silent.
Here at Crocker Manor, there are only five thousand troops in total, and eight thousand have been defeated by now.
The observer continued with a wry smile and said: "One morning, we lost three lines of defense, and there was another one behind, and we were about to touch the wall of Crocker Manor after that. This place was conquered, leading all the way to the two refugee camps behind. , there will be no danger to defend..."
There was still half a sentence behind, but he didn't say it.
Evacuation and evacuation of personnel can be considered.
Even if all of them cannot be withdrawn, or even only a small part of them can be withdrawn, and the remaining people have to find their own way of life, that is better than forcing them here and waiting until the war is defeated, and tens of thousands of people are all finished.
Jason Morgan could also understand the meaning behind the military observer's words.
However, this is considered purely from a military point of view.
Jason had to think about politics.
He just suppressed the Mutual Aid Association because of the actions of the alliance headquarters, which showed some signs of wavering, but immediately the headquarters of the Mutual Aid Association and the largest plantation in the Beiqinggu area were destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people in the two refugee camps were in panic. A full evacuation in the middle, I don't know how many people will die in the middle...
What is the political cost of this?
The subsequent side effects will have a very bad negative effect on the governor's plan to recover the entire Qinggu area.
He rubbed his forehead and asked, "When will the remaining 5000 people mobilized from the refugee camp arrive?"
The observer sighed, knowing that Jason Morgan still wanted to defend.
In fact, he also wanted to.
That's fine, instead of swaying left and right, it's better to strengthen your confidence.
He gave the answer: "It will be there before noon."
Jason Morgan breathed a sigh of relief: "At least we now have the first good news... Next, we have the second good news. As far as I know, the vanguard of the Central Army going south is Major Perbov's Troops. Can we get in touch? I want to know if they can change course and come to Crocker first. If so, how long do we have to hold out before we get to them."
"We have already contacted. The Central Group Army has learned about the crisis here. The order given to us by the Central Group Army also requires us to stick to it as much as possible. Moreover, the relevant support orders have also been sent to the Xifeng Brigade. But... "
After hearing the first half of the sentence, Jason Morgan was still relieved.
This is of course good news.
With support, it makes sense to stick to it.
But the last sentence of 'but' makes people flustered.
Sure enough, the words followed by it would not be good news:
"The Central Army Group officially began to go south yesterday. Even if the Xifeng Brigade is the vanguard, there is a distance of more than 400 kilometers from the southern border of the central province to here. It will take them three days at the fastest. In fact, The order given to us by the Central Army is to ask us to stand firm until it gets dark tomorrow."
"Tomorrow will be dark..." Jason Morgan pondered, "After the five thousand militiamen around noon arrive, can we do it?"
"We... can only say that we will do our best to prevent the enemy from completely capturing Crocker Manor before I die."
"Okay, I see."
Jason Morgan turned to leave.
He did not return to the manor, but took a loudspeaker and announced some realities to the almost [-] soldiers guarding the last line of defense outside the walls of the Crocker Manor.
The core statement, of course, is that the soldiers must work hard to hold on until it gets dark tomorrow.He promised the soldiers that support from the Alliance would arrive before dark tomorrow.
This statement still makes sense.
The morale of the soldiers was really boosted.
It may be difficult to defeat and repel those mutated monsters independently, but if it is defended until dark, then... it seems that there is no hope at all?
The shadow of the previous three battles and three defeats has receded a little.
It is one thing to have a strong will to fight, but to be afraid of death is still to be afraid of death.Losing more than 35% of their troops, they haven't dispersed in a hurry, and they are already worthy of the status of militiamen; at this moment, Jason Morgan can re-stimulate some morale with a few words, of course it is Morgan Some exciting techniques and speech skills learned at the beginning have played a role, but more importantly, the militiamen are indeed reliable enough.
However, despite this, the restored morale did not last long.
When the enemy came again, and the corrosion bomb thrown by the biochemical artillery ten kilometers away fell on the position again, the militiamen still wavered uncontrollably.
If, in the face of biochemical gas shells, soldiers can still temporarily rely on cloth to cover their faces tightly, hide in fortifications and pray that the corrupted shells will not fall precisely on their side, then when the biochemical shelling temporarily stops, When the enemy started to attack head-on, they had no way to resist with their remaining strength.
The complete version of the Abscess Squirter is not the monster that Gu Hang encountered in the forest on the edge of Weixing City, with a range of only 50 meters, and was pulled out in advance by the original Angry Owl Sect.At the moment, the abscess sprayer who appeared on the front side has the ability to shoot the thick slurry flat to the target within a range of 200 meters.
There is no penetrating power at all, but it is extremely corrosive. After hitting, the only cloth military uniforms on the militiamen are unstoppable.
Those who reacted quickly and did not get any skin stains could still take off their clothes quickly and save a life; those who reacted slower, the military uniforms would be corroded and stuck to the skin soon, and then they would have to face It is the painful feeling that will not kill you immediately, but enough to make you lose your fighting power.
No matter how many zombie dogs rushed into the formation, the militiamen were completely unable to resist.
The fourth line of defense lasted for three hours, counting from the enemy's bombardment, and only persisted for three to ten minutes, counting from the enemy's frontal attack.
The rout, happened for the fourth time.
But this time, it was even worse than before.
The enemy has obviously invested a large force to attack, and during the rout, the zombie dogs that rushed in turned into even more terrifying killers.
This beast-shaped monster with four limbs on the ground is much stronger than human soldiers in terms of speed, agility, and flexibility.They would fall down after two shots, but the zombie dogs that jumped left and right and turned towards running were not so easy to be hit.After being quickly thrown down by this kind of monster weighing [-] to [-] kilograms, soldiers would often be killed quickly.
Standing in the watchtower inside the wall of the Crocker Manor, Jason Morgan, who was looking out at the battle situation, was completely ashen.
Just now, when the enemy started an all-out attack, he wanted to stay on the outer line of defense to boost morale, but was dragged back by the military observer beside him desperately.
If you do this when necessary, there will be no problems for others.
This is the fine tradition of the red hats, take the lead and boost morale.
However, the collapse of the fourth line was not a morale issue.
Not to mention whether Jason Morgan can really make everyone overcome the fear of death and face the battle without fear of death by staying there, even if he can do it, it is meaningless.
It will only bury all the soldiers on that line of defense.
Now, if people are withdrawn, they can rely on a stronger line of defense, the wall of the Crocker Manor, to fight for a longer resistance.
Then Jason Morgan couldn't die on the front line.
If he died, it would be a major blow to morale.
Mr. Morgan, who understood, could only retreat back with hatred. From the observation tower, he watched the militiamen continue to be killed outside the wall, and his heart was broken.
Except for those who had fled into the wall, almost all those who were still outside had been sentenced to death.Morgan couldn't even open the door to let the militiamen who were still alive, otherwise the wave of freak monsters would probably rush in directly through this wave.
One after another, the reinforcements who entered the Crocker Manor from the rear were arranged to go up to the top of the fence and shoot outside to help the militia troops below the city relieve the pressure.The militiamen under the city were asked to defend on the spot, and they were promised that they could be let in after temporarily repelling the enemy's attack.
This is of course hopeless.
What is repelling the enemy's attack?
Now everyone can see that the aberration monster is very powerful, how can it be beaten back?
Doesn't this clearly send us to our deaths?
Many anxious militiamen cursed in the city.
But in the end, the worst didn't happen.
The militiamen under the city knew that they were actually in a state of being abandoned, but at this juncture, they still did not choose to shoot at the robes on the city wall.
The internal strife did not happen, they turned their heads away, desperately fighting the approaching enemy in grief and indignation.
First, I tried to cooperate with the friendly forces on the city wall to shoot and kill the zombie dogs, and then I tried to follow the approaching abscess sprayer, shooting at a distance of 200 meters.
During this period, the enemy's biochemical artillery showed its power again.The main firepower was still concentrated inside Crocker Manor, but occasionally biochemical shells would fall outside and hit the remaining external militiamen, causing casualties.
People are dying more and more.
At this time, Jason Morgan didn't even have the heart to feel guilty about his decision to actually let the soldiers who didn't enter the city die.He has been pulled off the watchtower.A few minutes later, the watchtower he was on was hit by a biochemical shell and collapsed amid rapid corrosion.
It wasn't just here that was destroyed. Those walls were not the same thing as city walls or fortresses. Although they looked solid and could even stand on them and shoot outside, they were still made of wood in essence. Below, a gap has appeared, from which it can be vaguely seen that the wave of aberration monsters is getting closer.
What did you say before?
Stay till tomorrow night?
Can't make it through tonight!
Not to mention the night, if the fight is not good enough, the morale of the militiamen will loosen, and they may not be able to hold it at noon!
Jason Morgan's heart was already cold.
Boundless pain welled up in my heart.
He is not afraid of death now, he even wants to die.
If the Crocker Manor was breached, he would rather die here than live in idling.
This is not some training that brainwashed him, but his own heart, he simply can't pass the next level.
Let him see with his own eyes that the refugee camp he built with all his efforts in the past two months was destroyed, and see with his own eyes the 40 Qinggu refugees who finally found hope of being alive through his efforts, and were distorted by these distortions. The monsters were slaughtered...
He can't.
It was an easier choice to die here than to see that scene.
He took out his pistol and said to the military observers beside him, "I want to fight on the front line, and I would rather die than die in battle."
This time, they didn't stop him, but took out their guns: "I'll go with you."
The two started moving forward with a few guards.
And just when the two had the intention to die, they heard a whistling sound coming from the sky at the same time.
Raising his head, three white mist pierced through the clouds.
Squinting and taking a closer look, it looks like three cyan aircraft.
The flames suddenly appeared, and six flames flashed by.Immediately afterwards, there was a muffled sound from a place that felt far away.
The sound was not particularly clear, after all, they were on the battlefield, and they had never heard the sound of guns and artillery.
However, they clearly sensed one thing: the enemy's chemical bombardment seemed to have stopped in half.
(End of this chapter)