On July 20, the twenty-fourth year of Tai'an, the sun was shining brightly at Yongning Gate in Nancheng.
Standing inside the city gate, Chen Yuhe held a steel sword in his hand, and behind him were more than a hundred royal guards under his command.
"Brothers, when we leave the city soon, we must form a formation to prevent any unexpected events. Everything must be safe. It doesn't matter if we miss a few monsters!" Chen Yuhe said calmly.
Today is the first day of official fighting outside the city. In the past few days, the bodyguard department was mainly involved.
Today, Chen Yuhe left from Yongning Gate, while Wang Zong led his people to fight out from Beicheng. This arrangement was vaguely intended to allow the two to compete.
But Chen Yuhe believed that the safety of his men was more important, so he said what he just said.
But for the guards, it is not difficult to kill zombies now. What's more, they have a numerical advantage and basically don't need to worry about accidents.
Everyone just wanted to finish their work as soon as possible and then return to the city for a celebration banquet. In the past few days, the palace's supplies were open to them.
Of course, everyone can only keep these thoughts in their hearts, but now no one dares to openly talk to Chen Yu and Zhang Xi.
The inner city gate slowly opened, followed by the outer city gate, and Chen Yuhe saw the suspension bridge in the distance across the distance.
"Walk!"
Following Chen Yuhe's order, the team walked outside the city wall. At this moment, all the soldiers on the city wall were quietly looking at the palace guards passing below.
After they passed through the two city gates, the two city gates behind them slowly closed.
The gentle breeze should have been an extremely pleasant thing, but the large number of corpses piled up outside the city wall gave off an extremely disgusting putrid smell.
Rumble... this is the sound of the chains being dropped and colliding.
Under the joint control of more than two dozen soldiers on the city wall, the suspension bridge was slowly lowered from above, and finally set up on the other side with a "bang".
Outside the moat, large numbers of zombies have disappeared, but small groups of zombies still exist.
After hearing the noise, the zombies that were closer rushed over immediately, but the total number was only about twenty.
"Go out of the city and form an array to kill!" Chen Yuhe said decisively.
In the previous long-term fight, he had killed more than fifty zombies in total, and now he was not afraid of seeing these zombies.
The guards were eager to give it a try. To them, this was a one-sided massacre, quite like playing a game in later generations.
Everyone quickly passed through the moat, but before their formation was completed, two zombies emerged from a nearby house.
At the fourth gate of Yuanyang, outside the moat and near the suspension bridge, there are many inns and teahouses for travelers and merchants to rest.
Before the zombie outbreak, the fees at these inns and teahouses were cheaper than in the city, so business was no worse than in the city.
The zombies that jumped out made the two zombies approaching the house instinctively retreat, and at the same time they blocked the attack with their swords drawn in front of them.
The guard standing behind the two men directly slashed forward with his sword, killing the two zombies that sprang out in one round.
"You two cowards, are you scared just now when you come out?" the guard who killed the zombies said with a smile.
"Who do you think is a coward? Damn it, I'm ready to use the knife, who asked you to cut off my beard?"
Seeing the commotion among his men, Fang Tong, who was standing behind him, couldn't help but scolded: "You bastards, why don't you hurry up and form an array!"
After being scolded by the chief flag officer, several guards stopped arguing and formed a formation with the larger troops.
The formation is extremely simple. To put it simply, they line up in a row, with the left and right wings strengthening their defense, so that they can rush out with confidence.
Looking at the approaching zombies, Chen Yuhe shouted loudly: "Move forward!"
Taking the initiative to attack is because they have absolute confidence and have a fighting style.
The team slowly moved forward, maintaining the same formation during the movement, and soon the zombie forwards were facing them.
Nowadays, the palace guards all hold shields in their hands, and they can directly push over the charging zombies.
Protected by full-body bamboo armor, all they had to do was keep moving forward and kill the overturned zombies along the way.
There are not many zombies. To put it simply, this is a one-sided massacre, and the difficulty is basically equal to none.
But as the leader of the team, Chen Yuhe did not dare to relax at all, and was always paying attention to the changes in the formation.
About two minutes later, they arrived at an open area, and then Chen Yuhe asked his men to switch to a four-sided protective formation.
Although it is said to be a four-sided protection, it can also be said to be a four-sided killing formation.
No matter which direction the zombies come from, they can kill them without blind spots, which can greatly improve the killing efficiency.
"Go to hell!"
"Oh haha..."
The guards shouted loudly while slashing, but Chen Yuhe did not stop him because the sound could attract zombies.
Chen Yuhe stood in the center of the military formation. At this moment, he glanced left and right and found that the number of zombies was indeed not large.
Based on the current zombie density, it is estimated that the number of zombies within one mile outside Yuanyang City will not exceed one thousand.
Maybe it's time to go a little further... Chen Yuhe came up with this idea.
They are now only three hundred meters away from the suspension bridge, and they are still very close.
Seeing the official road blocked by trees in front of him, Chen Yuhe said slowly: "Brothers, do you dare to follow me and walk a little further?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Dabiao next to him said: "Master Bai Hu, I have been holding back in the city every day for a long time. I, Old Hu, can't bear it anymore. If you go further away, let me kill a few more monsters!"
Previously, Hu Dabiao was beaten with a military stick and lay in bed for several days. By the time he could go to the battlefield, the zombie clearing mission in the city had come to an end.
So he felt very uncomfortable, so he thought of looking further away so that he could kill a few more.
"Okay, everyone, listen to the order...keep pushing north!" Chen Yuhe ordered with a serious expression.
Since Zhao Yanxun supported him, his authority has been greatly enhanced. No one will oppose him unless it is a matter of principle.
The team was able to continue moving forward. They walked along the official road, killing existing monsters along the way, and then gradually moved away.
As we walked further out, the density of zombies was indeed slightly higher, but it was not as large as Chen Yuhe imagined.
Along the way, they saw a lot of carts saluting and highly decomposed corpses. They were people who had escaped from the city before.
Normally, a person who is bitten will turn into a zombie, but if the back of the neck is bitten off and its nerve center is destroyed, it will become just a simple corpse.
At this moment, on the south gate city wall, Wang Cheng and others felt a little worried when they saw Chen Yuhe and his entourage who had disappeared.
"Are they too aggressive?" Wang Cheng asked hundreds of households.
A hundred households on the side replied: "Master Qianhu, you just saw it. They killed monsters like they were chopping melons and vegetables. That can be called rash advancement!"
Wang Cheng nodded and said: "After a few days, they will have cleared the area ten miles outside the city, and it's time for us to take action!"
Then he turned around and smiled at several hundred households: "Looking at how smoothly they killed, I don't think this job is that difficult!"
