The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 65 The Real War Begins

The terrain of this battlefield was excellent, with a river flowing from the left side of the battlefield. This river flowed from the edge of the valley town where they started, and flowed through Green Leaf City to the sea. The river was very turbulent at the place where it came out of the mountain, and only a very small number of zombies could go upstream from the downstream of the river to threaten the flank.

On the right side of the battlefield is the remnant of the mountain, and the rugged terrain limits the possibility of the zombies charging in groups.

This time, all humans were mobilized. If they failed, they would die. That was why Ryan saw that there were old, weak, sick and disabled people among them. Because fighting against zombies requires a quick victory and a full-strength attack in the decisive battle. There is absolutely no delay. Otherwise, every dead soldier will become the power of the zombies, and the tactic of adding fuel will definitely not work.

Kenway returned with his men, saying that there were too many zombies near the outskirts of the city to get in. There was no way to go any further and find out when the zombies would arrive.

Ryan volunteered to try to investigate, and he and Kenway drove a robot to the nearest safe point in the city.

After reaching the safe point, Ryan used all his newly learned life magic. He immediately sensed the presence of a large number of filthy unnatural creatures in the entire city. He condensed his perception into a line and probed in the direction of the city. Due to his new magic and his low level, this perception was limited in distance and very vague, and he could not distinguish specific units at all. But it was enough to sense the distribution of zombies in the scanned area.

After learning that Ryan's scanning range was limited, Kenway controlled the robot to wander around the city. After circling the city, Ryan roughly drew a distribution map of the zombies in the city and marked several points that he perceived to react more strongly than other zombies.

Because of the presence of high-level zombies, Ryan felt that it was very likely that all the scattered zombies in the surrounding area were attracted to the high-level zombies. Because in his perception, the number of zombies was definitely greater than the population of Green Leaf City before the disaster.

Back at the camp, Ryan told Dave what he had discovered. After listening to their report, Dave quickly asked Kenway to rush back to town and bring all the usable plants from outside by steamboat.

After the order was given, Dave turned to Ryan and thanked him for bringing the intelligence. Because the intelligence represented two pieces of news, one good and one bad. The good news was that the zombies might not attack until 48 hours later, so the human army had enough time to build fortifications and prepare.

The bad news is that after the last zombie decapitation operation failed, the high-level zombies left in Green Leaf City attracted a large number of scattered zombies to strengthen themselves in order to survive this vulnerable stage. If these situations are not detected this time, it is likely that the human side will suffer great losses.

After that, it was time to build fortifications. The humans operated robots to build platforms and protective walls inside the positions, dug a large number of trenches in front of the positions, and brought water from the river to flood the low-lying areas in front of the positions to create a swamp to slow down the movements of the zombies.

After lunch, a steamboat came from the direction of the town, loaded with various plants. This was thanks to the fact that Kenway was an old captain, as no one else would have been able to sail on such a turbulent river.

"Don't these plants have combat modes? Why do we need to pull more plants over from the back?" Ryan asked Dave puzzledly.

"It's very simple. Plants can only enter combat mode in places with a large number of them. In this place, plants can't enter combat mode at all. I didn't expect there to be so many zombies. I thought I could just rely on the plants on the robots to solve the problem, so I could save some plant seeds for use after I recaptured Green Leaf City. Unfortunately, the current situation can only deploy plants in this area to prepare for the worst. Not to mention that the combat effectiveness of plants in combat mode has decreased. It's okay in street fighting in residential areas, but in this kind of field battle, the original plants are more suitable."

After that, Dave distributed all the pots and asked each fighter to take one.

Less than half an hour after lunch the next day, he was sitting in the tent practicing the Viking life magic. An alarm sounded on the platform, and Ryan rushed out of the tent and ran up the protective wall, and found a green zombie army with no end in sight, walking towards the camp along the road before the disaster.

Tens of thousands of zombies even covered the small plain in front of the position. Ryan could even see some particularly tall zombies staggering among the zombies.

Fortunately, after more than 5000 robots worked overnight, the human camp had built enough fortifications. The swamp in the front and the surrounding area of ​​the camp were full of potato mines. Torch stumps and various peashooters were arranged in the trenches, and there was a nut wall in front of the trenches as a shield.

A seven or eight meter high protective wall surrounded the core of the camp, connected to a platform about ten meters high. The protective wall and the platform were filled with various pitcher plants and corn cannons. The height gave them a longer range, which could cover the plants in the trenches. In addition, robots filled with plants were operated by humans as a reserve force, ready to replenish the lack of firepower at any time.

Ryan's task in the battle is to fight on the front line with the reserve team and provide Dave, who is in command in the rear, with information on the changes in the zombies in front at any time to facilitate the adjustment of the human side's strength.

Ryan found that the morale of the human side was quite high, because this was the first time they launched a counterattack. As for possible fear, the apocalypse had been going on for so many years that they would have already felt fear.

With a shrill scream from the zombies on the opposite side, the zombie swarm rushed over like a tide, and the war began.

The first batch was just some cannon fodder zombies, and they quickly collapsed under the fire of the plants. The next few batches were just slightly more zombies, and they were destroyed before they even touched the trench. It seemed that this should be a reconnaissance operation launched by high-level zombies, but Ryan also found that the zombies' attack was far less organized than the last time Ryan encountered it. This was probably because there were too few high-level zombies, so they could only roughly command the zombie group, which should be considered good news.

Finally, at the beginning of the fourth wave of zombie attacks, they launched a threatening assault, with several ice car zombies as the spearheads, and a row of football zombies behind them.

They rushed straight towards the human position. Since they had stronger defense, they suffered some losses and passed through the swamp area to the vicinity of the first trench.

Seeing this situation, the reserve team that Ryan was following also went out. They ran towards the spearhead of one of the zombie attacks, preparing to eliminate this wave of zombies by using the advanced plants equipped on the robots.

(End of this chapter)