Five Type 15s, five Scimitars, five armored vehicles, as well as a large number of jeeps, and even off-road vehicles collected by Tang Zheng, were all concentrated here, with a total of nearly two hundred vehicles.
At this moment, Tang Zheng's field troops were all participating in the battle on the city wall, but he still had soldiers mobilized.
Engineers from the engineer platoon were all transferred to serve as drivers.
Tang Zheng's security platoon and Ji Yuntian's Public Security Department personnel all acted as machine gunners.
Tang Zheng has equipped each vehicle with a machine gun and loaded it with two boxes of bullets.
These vehicles gathered here, waiting for Tang Zheng's orders.
Tang Zheng came to the front of the team and made a brief speech.
"Everyone knows that the current battle has reached a critical moment."
"I know the idea of the zombie leader very well. He plans to take advantage of the darkness to attack Light Chaser City in one fell swoop. Although we have flares here, it is not as convenient as fighting during the day. This is his best chance."
"Their second wave of 100,000 zombies is about to approach the city, and I discovered that after several adjustments of zombie troops, the forward position of the zombies has become farther away from the Light Chaser City. The current distance is about eight kilometers."
"Zombies move slowly, which is their weakness, and the plain in front of Light Chaser City is so big that it is unrealistic to come all at once. So I analyzed that this wave of 100,000 attacking zombies will be their last attack tonight.
After the first wave, if we want to organize a third wave of attacks, it should be tomorrow morning."
"We want to give ourselves a chance to rest, so we have to choose a suitable time point to hit the zombies hard so that they are forced to stop their attack tonight. This is our strategic goal."
"Now follow my orders."
"Half an hour later, the artillery launched another bombardment. Taking advantage of the chaos of this wave of corpses, we rushed out to strike. The time was initially set at two o'clock in the morning."
"Attack at two o'clock, arrive at the battlefield in ten minutes, request the battle to end at two fifty, and retreat at three o'clock. Do you understand this request?"
"clear!"
"Okay, get ready and wait for the artillery's action."
Here at the artillery position in Zhuguang City, the artillerymen were exhausted and panting.
Tonight's battle was indeed beyond the norm.
The barrel of the cannon will turn red, and if it is fired again, the barrel will explode.
However, Tang Zheng directly replenished the cannons with new cannons. The people who controlled them were still the same, but the number of cannons increased.
Let the previous cannons rest and cool down, and the new cannons go into battle.
When the army upgrades its regiment, he will add new artillery, which is equivalent to purchasing it in advance.
With the new guns, the artillery can continue to fight, thus ensuring the output of firepower.
On the other side of the city wall, thanks to the delaying tactics of the Light Chasing Army, the zombies have made some progress, and the pile of corpses has reached a height of ten meters.
Another half hour passed.
The artillery fired again, this time targeting the 100,000 zombies who had newly joined the battlefield.
On the zombie side, Chen Feilong felt a rare headache.
As a zombie, he has lost most of his feelings. He didn't feel any pain when he was burned before, but now he feels this way.
He knew that this kind of pain was a sign that he was somewhat incompetent. Commanding a large number of corpses to fight for a long time put a lot of pressure on his mental strength.
He didn't know if he, the Corpse King, was a purebred, but at present, his ability had indeed reached its limit, and there was no possibility of improvement.
"Having commanded the zombies for too long, his head will be a little unbearable. I need to take a good rest after tonight."
"It won't take long, it will almost recover in half a day."
Thinking in his mind, he commanded the 100,000 corpses to continue fighting and break through the city wall tonight no matter what.
Even if these 100,000 zombies can't do it, he will send another 100,000. In short, he must achieve the result tonight.
Enduring the headache, Chen Feilong gathered another 100,000 zombies, ready to enter the battlefield at any time.
The zombies here continued to attack, and those on Tang Zheng's side also started to take action.
In the dark night, the northeast city gate opened quietly.
More than a hundred chariots rumbled out and quietly approached the south along the east gate wall.
If it were normal, such a big movement would definitely be noticed, but now that the gunfire is booming in the south, this sound will not be noticed at all.
After arriving at the southeast corner of the city wall, the vehicle made a turn, bypassing the attacking zombie group that was advancing under artillery fire, and headed straight for the zombie army!
This is the strategy Tang Zheng formulated.
It's now past two o'clock in the morning, and it will be dawn in three hours.
After dawn, the advantage of the zombies in the dark night is gone, and the battle will return to normal.
He believes that no matter how crazy the zombie leader is, he should consider taking a rest.
Even if the zombies don't need to rest, shouldn't their corpses devour the corpses all over the ground?
He wanted to take this opportunity to interrupt the connection between the 100,000 zombies and make them disconnect from each other, so that the zombie army would not have time to provide support again.
As long as the two sides are out of touch and want to get together again, the eight-kilometer distance will create a time difference.
This time difference is a rare rest time for the Light Chasing Army.
If the action goes smoothly, the battle may be suspended, which would be the best result.
The best way to interrupt the connection between the corpse horde and the vanguard is to launch a tank assault.
Tanks and armored vehicles cannot play a big role in defending the city, but they are perfect for attacking.
Taking advantage of the chaos on the battlefield, the convoy quickly rushed forward.
Tang Zheng estimated that the Corpse King's attention might be focused on the city wall in a short period of time. Even if it discovered it, with the speed of the convoy, it would be caught off guard.
Sure enough, the convoy took advantage of the chaos and rushed about five kilometers before being discovered by the zombies.
The zombie army was still endless. There were zombies in front who noticed the approaching convoy and immediately started a commotion.
This caught Chen Feilong's attention.
"What! Tang Zheng actually dared to send a convoy to attack me? Is he tired of living?"
Chen Feilong felt deeply insulted.
Facing his millions of corpses, Tang Zheng not only was not afraid, but even sent a convoy to attack them. This in itself was contempt for him.
He wanted to organize zombies to surround this desperate convoy, smash the cars, drag out the people inside and eat them, but this convoy was no pushover.
When the tank fired at the black crowd of zombies, Chen Feilong knew that things were not that simple.
The Light Chasing Army actually has tanks!
An iron lump like a tank is too unfriendly to zombies.
Whether it is ordinary zombies or mutant zombies, the threat to tanks is almost zero.
Even for second-evolved zombies like Lickers, there is no good way to use tanks.
Only the orangutan zombies, which are extremely destructive and can withstand heavy machine guns under Chen Feilong's deliberate arming, can threaten tanks.
Chen Feilong believes that as long as the orangutan zombies can get close to the tanks, they can smash their machine guns, bend their barrels, and even dismantle their turrets.
However, in order to prevent the orangutan zombies from being captured by the light-chasing army's aircraft and concentrated fire, he had already dispersed the orangutan zombies to the rear of the large army, and it was not easy to mobilize them for a while.
So now, he can only watch the opponent's vehicles attack his own corpse group.
When the battle really started, Chen Feilong realized that each of the opponent's vehicles posed a great threat to his own corpse group.
Because these vehicles were all equipped with machine guns by Tang Zheng.
More than a hundred vehicles were like a long dragon breathing fire. The high beams of the vehicles were turned on, and the machine guns fired wildly at the group of corpses in the distance.
The zombies tried in vain to catch up with the vehicles, but the speed and agility of these vehicles were beyond their ability. Except for the agile zombies, no other zombies could catch up with the running cars.
There were too many corpses here. The agile zombies rushed out of the corpses. Without the cover of a large army, there would be no good end. Before they could get close to the car, they were beaten into pieces by the roaring machine gun bullets.
The ten tanks not only opened fire with their machine guns, but also opened the rocket nests attached to the outside of the vehicle, firing at the zombies with all their might.
They lingered at the front of the convoy, causing maximum damage to the zombies.
The heavy machine gun is an anti-personnel artifact. A torrent of metal is shot out, and the zombies fall down like cutting grass.
These fallen zombies were the third batch of attacking zombies gathered by Chen Feilong.
The mission of these corpse groups is to support the corpse groups that have already been put on the battlefield, ensure continuous pressure on the Light-Chasing Army, and strive to capture the Light-Chasing City before dawn.
But now that they were beaten by these tanks, they were completely in chaos. Not only did they suffer a lot of losses, they were unable to provide support to the 100,000 zombies in front of them.
As a result, his battle plan was completely disrupted.
The 100,000 zombies in front have lost the support from the rear and will become a lonely army.
It is obviously very difficult to take down the Light-Chasing City with just these 100,000 zombies, and they might even be annihilated before dawn.
The plan to take advantage of the darkness to capture the Light-Chasing City suddenly came to nothing.
Chen Feilong was in the large army in the distance, and he was so angry that his mouth was filled with smoke.
There were two paths before him now.
One is rushing over desperately and fighting to the death with the Light Chasing Army.
One is to simply retreat and admit that his night battle plan has failed.
He was unwilling to give in, he wanted to fight to the death, but his headache was getting a little serious now.
"No! My mental strength is not enough to sustain such a fierce battle. I need some time to rest."
"Damn Tang Zheng, I will never let you have an easy time. If I don't take Zhuguang City first, I will wipe out your fleet here."
Chen Feilong couldn't stand it any longer, so he decided to stop large-scale operations tonight.
It seems to be a good choice to let the zombies in the vanguard come back, devour the corpses of their companions, and eliminate the rebellious convoy.
In desperation, he issued an order for the attacking zombie group to withdraw.
The 100,000 zombies who had entered the battlefield and were about to engage in direct combat with the Light Chasing Army chose to retreat.
They abandoned more than 10,000 corpses and tried to come back to surround the Light Chasing Army's convoy.
However, Tang Zheng had radar to watch, and after discovering the movements of the zombies, he immediately ordered the convoy to return to the city.
Led by tanks, the convoy launched a counterattack.
Without the participation of gorilla zombies, the Type 15 tank is almost invincible as long as it still has gasoline. It can crush a path through the zombies, break through the zombie blockade, and lead the convoy back to the city smoothly.
The light-chasing army's convoy seemed to have completed a honeymoon trip, annihilating more than 10,000 zombies, breaking Chen Feilong's night combat plan, and overfulfilled its mission.
By the time the zombie vanguard retreated and joined the main force, fish-belly whites had already appeared on the horizon.
Chen Feilong organized a battle that lasted an afternoon and most of the night, and lost almost a quarter of the corpses. There were no results worth mentioning, and he didn't even climb the wall of Zhuguang City.
Only the three piles of corpses that were more than ten meters tall and the countless corpses scattered on the plain still told the story of the tragic battle on the first day.