250. Chapter 248 A group of corpses moving strangely
Chapter 248 The group of corpses moving strangely
The day after Tang Zheng hosted a banquet for Li Wuyou and Liu Yibang.
On this day, Li Wuyou did not meet with Tang Zheng, but kept busy within the second ring road of Chasing Light City.
There are all new survivors here, and it is currently a busy construction site.
Li Wuyou personally led people to open several porridge shops here, and deposited 100,000 Guangyuan for the porridge shops as funds for purchasing food in the future.
The money came from her private treasury and was exchanged for Guangyuan in new currency.
After Liu Yibang started the new currency policy, Li Wuyou continued to implement it. Currently, many places have issued new currency, which is relatively common.
Li Wuyou was busy over there, and so was Tang Zheng.
With Li Wuyou's promise and the signed agreement, Tang Zheng finally completed the two upgrade tasks of population and land area.
Now the total population in Zhuguang City has reached 4 million, with 3.5 million in the outer city and 500,000 in the inner city.
The remaining twelve bases plus the manor base have a population of about 600,000.
During this period, some nearby small bases were gradually integrated into Chasing Light City. Added together, the total population is currently 5.03 million.
As for the land area, Tang Zheng decisively went to Mobei and established several checkpoints.
The scale of the checkpoints is not large, and each checkpoint has one shift, but it is very good for enclosures.
A total of nearly 300,000 square kilometers of desert and sand dune areas have been enclosed in Mobei, and its territory has also reached 500,000 square kilometers.
Once this number was enough, Tang Zheng no longer went deep into Mobei. After acquiring land, he planned to develop to the south and east.
At this point, he has completed a total of four upgrade tasks, leaving only one mapping task and three million zombie kills.
Another day passed, and in the early morning of the third day, the Royal Guard's helicopter arrived to pick up Li Wuyou.
Ten helicopters provided escort and one transport helicopter.
Tang Zheng personally sent Li Wuyou to the airport.
However, this airport is built inside the Second Ring Road and is designed for temporary takeoff and landing of helicopters. It is not an airport in the inner city.
Li Wuyou and Liu Yibang left together. Liu Yibang faced Tang Zheng's luck before getting on the plane.
Tang Zheng was a little confused: "Commander Liu, what's the matter?"
Liu Yibang said angrily: "The night before yesterday, you went back after drinking, right?"
"Yeah, why don't you go back?"
"Then have you forgotten something?"
Tang Zheng couldn't remember: "What did I forget?"
"You forgot that there was another drunk person there. I was thrown on the sofa by the hotel attendant and slept until noon yesterday. When I woke up, my back was sore and no one even called me."
Tang Zheng slapped his forehead. He drank too much the day before yesterday. After taking care of the princess, he left and left the drunk Commander Liu there alone. He forgot to clean up.
He said with some embarrassment: "I made a mistake. I will definitely not do it next time."
"There will be no next time. I have decided to stay away from you from now on."
After saying that, Liu Yibang was the first to board the plane.
Li Wuyou stood in front of the helicopter, watching Tang Zheng hesitate to speak.
In the light snow of the first month, Li Wuyou was wearing a purple winter coat with Tang Zheng's scarf wrapped around his neck.
However, the words "Tang Zheng I love most" were surrounded by her, and outside she could only see the words "love in the world".
Tang Zheng stood beside her with his hands behind his back and smiled.
Li Wuyou thought for a while, then said: "You will always carry out the agreement made that day, right?"
Tang Zheng nodded slowly: "I have no habit of breaking promises, so your Highness can rest assured."
As he said that, Tang Zheng made a hook-drawing motion with a smile on his face.
Li Wuyou's face was slightly hot: "It's all your fault for making me drink so much. I'm not like that usually."
"Then your Highness must remember not to drink with others easily in the future. After all, Your Highness is the Crown Prince and represents the image of Han Yue."
"Okay, I got it, I'm leaving."
Li Wuyou didn't have too much nostalgia, he just took a deep look at Tang Zheng, then turned around and boarded the plane.
The moment she closed the cabin door, she suddenly faced Tang Zheng with her hands made like trumpets and shouted: "I don't like other people to have the same gifts as me, so don't give things away randomly."
After saying that, the cabin door closed and Li Wuyou disappeared.
Tang Zheng was stunned for a moment and thought about the scarf.
He smiled bitterly, he didn't want to give it away, but this was already the third scarf he got.
However, the first one was lost, and the second one was taken away by Luo Qiuwan. Luo Qiuwan had probably been killed and might have become a zombie, and it was impossible for him to meet Li Wuyou.
Thinking of Luo Qiuwan, he felt a little depressed, but he still waved to the helicopter and watched Li Wuyou leave.
Li Wuyou left, and Liu Yibang followed him.
The Fifth Army has already begun to transfer to Yuanjing.
Tang Zheng's fleet also set sail, continuing to break the ice and returning to Light Chaser City.
Tang Zheng calmed down and returned to his official residence.
As soon as we arrived at the official residence, the correspondent came to report.
"General, the corpses in Hezhou have moved."
"Oh, where have you gone?" Tang Zheng immediately became alert. If the corpses from Hezhou came to Zhuguang City now, it would be really difficult to deal with them.
The battle of Caiqi has come to an end. Tomorrow morning, his large army will return to Zhuguang City, but even if the large army returns, Tang Zheng currently only has 30,000 troops.
Some of the 40 million funds have been spent, and now there are still 38 million.
After Caiqi's troops return, they will probably bring back more than 10 million in funds, totaling just over 50 million.
Upgrading the brigade commander requires setting aside 30 million, and he will also need a large amount of funds to purchase new units.
The exact amount of funds required is currently unknown, but the more, the better.
But it is certain that 20 million is definitely not enough.
He needs some time to get some more funds, so the movement of the zombies is very critical now.
Correspondent Wu Di continued: "According to the footage taken by War Eagle, the corpse group set out from Hezhou and did not go directly to the west. Instead, they headed towards the grassland province in the northwest. Looking at their route, it seemed that there was no specific target city, but instead
It’s like trying to cross the grassland, cross the Tongtian River, and enter Daliao in one go.”
"Oh, is there such a thing?"
Tang Zheng was a little confused.
Tang Zheng was most concerned about the movements of the corpses.
If the corpses are coming towards the west, they are heading towards the Light-Chasing City.
But now the corpse group is not coming to the west, but starting to move in the direction between the north and the northwest. This is strange.
Tang Zheng came to the map and drew a simulated route for the corpses to advance according to the video given by the war eagle.
When this straight line is drawn, it really does not pass through any city, but goes to the other side of the Tongtian River and to Daliao.
Following this route, the corpses will leave Hezhou, cross the Jinhe River, and enter the Grassland Province.
Entering the Grassland Province is an endless wasteland, and they will be walking on the wasteland. The closest point to Light Chaser City is four hundred kilometers away.
Even the northernmost university town base located on the outskirts of Lombard City is more than 100 kilometers away.
When this route was simulated, many people in the Light Chaser Army were very happy.
"General, this is a good thing. We have been worried that the zombies will come to the City of Chasing the Light, but if we follow this route, the probability of them coming to the City of the Chasing the Light is almost gone."
"Yes, if they want to come to Chasing Light City, then they can go directly to the west and they will arrive in ten days at most. Why go in circles and walk such a long way, so they probably won't come."
"If we don't come to Chasing Light City, then we'll go to the area where Daliao is. Let the corpses go to Daliao to cause trouble, haha."
During this period of time, although no one said anything, they were still worried in their hearts.
After all, the power of this corpse group is obvious to all. The 280,000-strong Fifth Army, which had similar equipment to the Light Chasing Army, was almost wiped out. No one would not be worried.
Looking at his smiling subordinates, Tang Zheng was not so optimistic.
The path of this group of corpses was very strange. He always felt vaguely that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
It was as if there was a key point that he had overlooked, and he couldn't remember it for a while.
Tang Zheng shook his head and temporarily put the problem behind him.
It's a blessing, not a curse, but it's a curse that cannot be avoided.
What he needs to do now is to upgrade as soon as possible, and then hoard funds to prepare for a war that may occur at any time.
When he saw the route of the corpses, he instinctively felt that the base in the north should be moved.
After all, the base in the north does not have the protective power of Chasing Light City. Once something happens, it will be a disaster.
But such a decision is not that easy to make. After all, there are more than 200,000 people in the University City base, plus several surrounding bases. If it is transferred this time, at least 400,000 people will have to be transferred.
Moreover, Chasing Light City is now in dire straits, and the new survivors are all crowded into shacks. It will be difficult to accommodate another 400,000 people.
What's more, the people there may not be willing to move. They have lived in those bases for a long time. It is difficult for people to accept it psychologically if they abandon everything and leave suddenly.
Temporarily suppressing the idea of transferring the population, Tang Zheng asked his correspondent to pay close attention to the movements of the corpses, and then patiently waited for the large troops heading for Caiqi County to return to the city.
At noon the next day, the large troops of the Zhuguang Army who went to fight in Caiqi County finally returned.
This time they fought in Caiqi County for more than twenty days, and finally all the corpses in Caiqi County were wiped out.
This brought the number of zombies that Tang Zheng had annihilated to 27.3 million, which was still 2.7 million away from the 30 million annihilated number.
The troops who went on the expedition also brought huge rewards to Tang Zheng.
Eighteen million funds is already quite a lot for a county.
With the arrival of this amount of funds, Tang Zheng's funds reached 68 million.
Even if you upgrade to brigade commander, you still have more than 30 million in funds available.
But Tang Zheng still felt that it was not enough. His goal was to have 50 to 100 million in funds after being upgraded to brigade commander, so that he would have the confidence to launch an army.
So after the large army returned to the city, Tang Zheng did not let them rest and immediately started the next task.
He is going to a place that everyone has ignored, and that is Hezhou.
Liu Yibang lived in Hezhou for a short period of time, but he may not have thoroughly conquered the area.
Now that the corpses were leaving, Tang Zheng was about to pass by with his hind legs to see if he would find anything else there.