Doomsday Super Merchant

Chapter 362 Stagnation

Zhou Yuanqiang, who traveled to and from the end of the world and discovered two worlds, had just dealt with Haili's affairs and put Haili on the right track. He had to find a small excuse with Yan Yuhe, four days before her birthday.

, returning to the end of the world, because after five days of brutal offensive, the Eastern Front failed to capture Shanghai in the end of the world as planned, which really surprised Zhou Yuanqiang.

In the original plan, facing Shanghai, an international metropolis, it would take five days to capture it, but now it has been five days and only one-third of the area has been occupied. Why is it not surprising? Even Shanghai

With a population of 18 million (16.6 million in 2010, a slight increase in the book), it is not like this.

You know, it only took five days to completely recover the 15 million people in S City. The Southern Front deployed a large number of transport airships and a large number of fighter planes to the Eastern Front, and its strength was even greater. Excluding the two aircraft carrier formations

In addition to the thousands of fighter planes, 70% of the entire Chamber of Commerce's fighter planes, more than 1,700 aircraft, are all deployed on the Eastern Front.

However, as the combat effectiveness increased, the results achieved became even more unsatisfactory.

From the moment he set foot on this land of the apocalypse, Zhou Yuanqiang had to immediately convene an emergency military meeting. He was a little angry. He had only been away for a few days, but things turned out like this. He really didn't know whether it was his fault or the fault of his subordinates.

incompetence?

The emergency military meeting was held on the President supercarrier, and all the main leaders of the entire Eastern Front were in place.

When Zhou Yuanqiang is smiling in the Chamber of Commerce, you will never feel the slightest bit scary about him. But when he becomes serious and does not restrain his momentum, even Qiu Guorui, the second most powerful person in the Chamber of Commerce, will sweat all over his body.

, dare not look at Zhou Yuanqiang.

As Zhou Yuanqiang becomes increasingly powerful, surpassing the identity of the Chamber of Commerce Constitution and having more dictatorial power than a dictatorship, this momentum becomes stronger. And the increase in the level of the ring makes this momentum become extremely fierce. People who have experienced it,

It was as if I was standing naked in front of the president, and the trembling in my heart was not just fear, but more out of enthusiasm that went beyond respect.

Sitting in the main seat of the conference room, Zhou Yuanqiang looked at the five-day casualty report in his hand. It was not until he confirmed that the data above was authentic that he slammed the table and said, "Are you sure you didn't give me the wrong report?

In five days, more than 220 fighter planes were lost, 16,000 people were killed, and 166 tanks were destroyed. Very good, very good!"

As the commander of the Eastern Front Army, Zhang Yixuan stood up, lowered his head deeply, and said: "Boss, please punish me. I did not command the troops well."

Qiu Guorui's small team of five people now stands at the pinnacle of the Chamber of Commerce's power. Qiu Guorui is the Minister of Military Affairs, Zhang Yixuan is the Commander of the Eastern Front, Mu Gushan is the Army Commander, Chen Xun'an is the director of the arsenal, and Zhao Hongyuan is

Directly under the command of the Special Forces Forces.

Anyone who sees this ranking list will be shocked by their importance in Zhou Yuanqiang's heart. They are definitely the honor of the Conglong people. They control almost 70% of the military power and are also one of the most powerful figures in the Chamber of Commerce.

.Especially Qiu Guorui, whose position as Minister of Military Affairs makes him the second-largest figure after Zhou Yuanqiang.

If people who don't know Zhou Yuanqiang's prestige are worried about Zhou Yuanqiang, will someone take away the power of the Chamber of Commerce?

Only Zhou Yuanqiang knows that this is impossible. The first will of every soldier in the Chamber of Commerce is to obey himself. Any action against him is considered rebellion and he has the right to refuse. Moreover, his prestige in the Chamber of Commerce has already

Having reached an unshakable point, who would be so stupid as to plan to overthrow themselves?

Regardless of the fact that Qiu Guorui is the Minister of Military Affairs, responsible for the land and air forces, in fact, his power lies in the army, like the air force, which is equivalent to Zhou Yuanqiang's direct unit. When mobilizing, he needs to have his own mobilization order before the air force will dispatch.

.And the intelligence department is under his control. Without intelligence, who would dare to tamper with it?

Not only that, but the special forces are actually under their own control. Although Zhao Hongyuan is the commander, once an accident occurs, the special forces will be directly responsible to Zhou Yuanqiang. What is even more frightening is that the strategic forces are also directed in a single line.

Zhou Yuanqiang is in charge. Without Zhou Yuanqiang's order, this unit has just been established and is the most mysterious one. It is impossible for anyone to mobilize it.

In real terms, Zhou Yuanqiang only controls 30% of the Chamber of Commerce's military power in terms of quantity, but he controls an astonishing 85% of the military power in terms of quality.

There is no doubt that three special high-pressure warheads of the Strategic Forces can wipe out the zombies of a small town with tens of thousands of people. You can know how terrifying the Strategic Forces are. What's more, two air carriers that control the entire Air Force

With a battleship formation and 2,500 fighter planes, Zhou Yuanqiang himself was already in an invincible position.

Under such circumstances, who would have a hint of rebellion or overthrow in their mind? I am afraid that as soon as you reveal it, the Intelligence Department will invite you to tea.

In the Chamber of Commerce, there is a saying: "Don't try to challenge the intelligence chief. It only takes three minutes and you will become naked." It is the terror of the intelligence department that countless people with small ideas always magically disappear among people.

In my sight, the personnel sent from the north often just start taking action and have already reached a dead end.

When they saw Zhang Yixuan actively requesting punishment, the generals at all levels stood up and said in unison: "Please punish me, President!"

Zhou Yuanqiang frowned and said with a sneer: "Sit down, all of you. Do you think it's a show? So neat. Now I just want to know what is going on. You must understand that since the launch of the Reconquest War, all

The total losses are not half as much as they are now, which is a shame to your Eastern Front."

Under the leadership of Zhang Yixuan, the generals sat down carefully.

Zhou Yuanqiang squinted his eyes at the top loser next to him and said, "I think you are the one who can give me the best answer in the entire chamber of commerce."

Xu Yuhai's face seemed to be covered with frost. He did not stand up like Zhang Yixuan and the others just now, but was sorting out a large amount of information in his hands. He knew his boss very well and would definitely understand the progress of the matter in detail.

After Zhou Yuanqiang called his name, he stood up, glanced at Zhou Yuanqiang, and said, "Boss, you are the one who wrongly blamed Commander Zhang and the others."

"Oh?" Zhou Yuanqiang raised his eyebrows and said, "Go on."

Xu Yuhai walked to the huge screen in the conference room, set up the projector himself, entered the data, and then said: "Boss, your original battle requirement was to try not to destroy everything in Shanghai. But it is exactly what you, boss, did.

A combat requirement puts tremendous pressure on the entire Eastern Front Army. If we do not want to destroy Shanghai on a large scale, it means that the air force has basically lost its role, and even strategic weapons cannot be used."

At this point, Xu Yuhai paused, "This is mainly due to objective reasons, direct reasons, or we seriously underestimated everything in Shanghai."

He opened a huge schematic map showing the advancement of the Eastern and Southern Fronts, pointed at the marked cities one by one, and said: "The advancement of the entire Southern Front was undoubtedly the smoothest. During this process, no commander-level zombies appeared.

, even those with special infections are very few. Even Province G, which has such a huge population, did not cause much resistance to the Southern Front."

Pointing at the city where the Eastern Front Army was advancing with his tactical stick, Xu Yuhai said: "Similarly, the Eastern Front Army's advancement, all the way east, to Shanghai, is almost the same as that of the Southern Front Army. Both are very smooth. So, what's the problem?

Ignored by us?"

People present, like Zhang Yixuan and others, also understood this problem after encountering difficulties, but they did not understand what happened during the few days Zhou Yuanqiang left.

So Xu Yuhai explained: "During the tide of hundreds of millions of zombies, the bird corpses we saw seemed to have lost their shadows. There was almost no shadow of them. Boss, don't you think it's strange? And there are a lot of special birds we have detected before.

The types of infected people also seemed to have evaporated, disappearing collectively."

"When I discovered this, I sent out a large number of reconnaissance airships to conduct carpet reconnaissance, but unfortunately nothing was found. Due to the advancement of the two front armies, and the need to monitor the north, the intelligence department under the Chamber of Commerce has limited power and has not yet solved the problem.

By creating this mystery group, the offensive against Shanghai has already begun."

What appeared on the screen was no longer a picture, but an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft passing over a group of fighter planes.

On the screen, this is a flying group of 12 fighter planes. They are not flying, but fighting with a large black mass of bird carcasses. The picture is over after only seven minutes, because the entire flying group is gone in a moment.

It was destroyed, all due to a violent explosion under the "cracking" arc.

Xu Yuhai pointed at the black bird carcasses on the screen and said: "After preliminary calculations, there are more than two hundred bird carcasses here, and this is only a part of them. It was their sudden appearance that caused

A large number of fighter planes were destroyed and it was impossible to fully occupy Shanghai's air superiority."

Zhou Yuanqiang finally understood something now. It was not the Eastern Front Army's problem, but variables among the zombies.

Like bird corpses, Zhou Yuanqiang knew it, and the intelligence department had also analyzed it in depth. Although it was not as fast as a fighter plane, it was more than ten times more flexible than a fighter plane. They were exactly like birds and could do countless things in the air.

Actions that are impossible for fighter planes to do. It is by taking advantage of this that they make up for their disadvantage in speed.

The super-sensitive catching power makes the bird corpses' senses beyond imagination. They can detect the original crisis in the extreme distance, and use their flexibility to change their position to avoid the attacks of fighter planes and missiles. And this one offsets their only

The disadvantage of being able to move around 2,000 meters. Otherwise, given the attack range of fighter aircraft and missiles, and the ability of fighter aircraft to fly casually at an altitude of 10,000 to 20,000 meters, bird corpses are basically similar to living targets.

Since there is no way to attack from a distance, the only way is to fight at close range and use close range attacks to disable their super senses.

The loss of fighter planes comes from this. With extremely flexible flight capabilities, it is often possible to destroy a bird carcass only by losing two or three fighter planes. The report mentioned that more than 220 fighter planes were lost. Their

The result of the battle was to tear more than a hundred bird corpses into pieces.

At this moment, Zhou Yuanqiang was really confused and depressed. The more than 220 fighter planes cost more than 7 billion U.S. dollars, and the loss of more than 200 pilots was incalculable. But more than 7 billion U.S. dollars

, but the result in exchange for more than a hundred bird carcasses is fundamentally disproportionate.

"Why was no air defense force dispatched when the bird carcass was discovered?"

No matter how flexible the bird corpse was, it would be impossible to dodge under the rain of anti-aircraft gun attacks, right? The height of the bird corpse meant that it would be impossible to escape the firepower of the anti-aircraft guns.

Seeing Zhou Yuanqiang's question, Zhang Yixuan was so depressed that he vomited blood and said bitterly: "Boss, our army has almost no anti-aircraft firepower."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuanqiang seemed to have just remembered that since there were no flying zombies in the early days of the apocalypse, the issue of air defense was almost never thought of during development. As the air force became increasingly powerful, the necessity of air defense became even more important.

Reduced. Later, when bird carcasses appeared, the number was too small, so the Chamber of Commerce did not pay attention.

Unexpectedly, it was this carelessness that led to today's tragedy.

Zhou Yuanqiang was silent for a while and said, "Have you found any solution?"

The biggest weakness of strategic weapons is that several key technical problems have not been solved at present, and guidance instruments are still needed. Otherwise, how can the power of high-pressure crystal warheads be afraid of hundreds of bird corpses? With its huge range

Sex, they can't escape even if they want to.

Zhang Yixuan nodded and said: "The preliminary targeted arrangements have been completed. We were just careless and did not expect this unexpected situation."

Zhou Yuanqiang said "hmm" and said to Xu Yuhai: "Continue!"

Xu Yuhai closed it again. This time, the scene he activated was a certain avenue in Shanghai, with endless zombies. Under high-definition shooting, every detail of them was captured, making people feel...

My scalp feels numb, especially the surging heads, which are like sand maggots, making me feel as sick as I want.

Soon, the camera turned to the other side of the avenue, where a large number of human soldiers were advancing forward with seven tanks clearing the way.

Among the seven Rhino tanks that cleared the way, flames flashed on the tank guns an average of three times per minute, representing the discharge of three shells. The rumbling explosions and powerful overpressure overturned the zombies and tore them into pieces.

The soldiers behind fired from time to time with their guns, hitting the heads of zombies in the distance.

The scene seemed to be one-sided, and the zombies had no way to stop this steel behemoth even for half a second.

But Zhou Yuanqiang knew that since the scene that appeared here would definitely not be that simple, Xu Yuhai would not show him a mediocre video.

Sure enough, after the video was played for more than a minute, a tank that ran over a large number of fallen zombies on the street suddenly appeared with a large number of arcs, emitted black smoke, and stopped. And the intensity of these arcs

It was very high, and detonated the shell inside the tank. In the rumbling explosion, it turned into a pile of broken wreckage, burning.

The soldiers who followed were directly in bad luck.

The arc has already claimed the lives of several people, and an explosion of this level and the flying tank fragments caused more than a dozen soldiers following behind to fall to the street. Some were so tragic that half of them were even cut off by the fragments.

Head, half body.

As soon as the video stopped, Xu Yuhai played several more clips, including the charge of giant zombies, the precise strikes of backstabbing corpses, and the large-scale attacks of spraying monsters and electric zombies. More importantly, the terrifying black mist of octopus corpses

, and moving at the same speed as in water, the crazy tentacles swept over the soldiers and threw them into the sky.

The ones that appeared above were all familiar to the people present, but the zombies that appeared next were like mud. They moved slowly, but their attack power was beyond imagination. They were like self-propelled cannons. After they stopped, they started to move.

A piece of mud quickly changed into a form that was almost a pure gun barrel, and what was then sprayed out was a black liquid-like thing.

Following the camera, you can see that these black liquids quickly turned dark green after contacting the air. After a short flight, they fell into piles of soldiers.

Zhou Yuanqiang thought it would be an enhanced version of the jet monster, but soon, he was frightened.

This lump of something with no characteristics fell into the group of soldiers. It was not a splash, but a thick green fog like fog. Wherever this fog went, the soldiers were shrouded

, quickly dissolved...until nothing is left.

Xu Yuhai said: "We call this new powerful zombie the Living Yin Battery, and a large number of soldiers died in its hands. These green fogs are not corrosive, but devouring. The samples have been sent back to the Chamber of Commerce.

But it will take some time before the results are available.”

From these captured scenes, it all shows that the whole of Shanghai is actually like a zombie nest, with a large number of special infected people, including many types that have not been discovered by humans before. They live here, which is exactly

Their existence hinders human progress. Even if they pay a huge price, they can only recover one third of Shanghai, which is still the peripheral area.

"There is also a kind of ghost zombies that appear at night. They move very fast and appear at night. They are a great threat to the areas we recover. In many cases, some areas will even be lost."

When Xu Yuhai said this, he was very helpless: "Boss, the situation in Shanghai is completely different from what we have encountered before. I'm afraid if we go deeper, there will be zombie types that we haven't discovered yet.

I feel like this is their base camp, their big lair."