Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 323 Ambush
A few minutes ago, Group B.

Zhang Cheng leaned against half of the crumbling wall, peeked out from behind it, and then quickly looked away. He then gazed at the Silver Bay in the distance: "Big Eyes, have you spotted anything?"

"No!" Big Eyes replied in a low voice.

Big Eyes is the team's sniper; not only are his eyes big, but his eyesight is also exceptionally good.

Zhang Cheng remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he was somewhat anxious.

There's not much time left until the scheduled time, why is there no movement from the canal area?

To prevent accidents, the attack is not launched at a fixed time, but rather within a certain time period!
Therefore, Zhang Cheng planned to launch an attack when Lu Wei and the others appeared behind the transport ship and were ready to climb, in order to provide maximum cover for his teammates' actions.

Logically, Group A should be in position by now, so why is there no movement at all?

The drone footage shows that the enemy used fences and barbed wire to fence off an open area on the riverbank near the Silver Bay and set up a temporary dock.

Outside the fence, groups of infected people were crammed together.

Inside the fence, armed men wielding various firearms stood watch menacingly.

The fence was fairly sturdy, but not without its loopholes. Occasionally, infected individuals would squeeze through the fence and rush into the dock, but they would get entangled in the barbed wire after only a few steps. The more they struggled, the tighter the entanglement became, and soon they were firmly bound by the barbed wire and unable to move.

Despite their thorough preparations, the enemy remained vigilant, keeping a close eye on the ever-growing number of infected individuals.

Zhang Cheng astutely noticed that the enemy had also laid a ring of Claymore mines behind the barbed wire.

Fences, barbed wire, broadswords, and guards made the temporary dock as secure as an iron barrel.

Looking at the river, a small cargo ship was moored to the side of the Silver Bay, and several enemies were operating a crane to lift containers and unload them onto the small boat.

The small boat was a bit longer than the container. When the heavy container came down, the boat sank suddenly, and the river water almost overflowed the side of the boat.

Several unarmed men removed the rigging, and the small boat laboriously turned around and slowly sailed toward the shore.

At the bow of the ship, another group of enemies were pulling a steel cable fixed to the deck to the shore, tightening it, securing it, and attaching a makeshift cable car to transport supplies to the shore using the height difference.

It is much more efficient than a small boat.

After the containers were unloaded, the enemy immediately opened them, loaded the useful supplies onto the vehicles, and threw the useless ones into the river.

The enemy used a two-pronged approach, and in no time they had filled more than a dozen trucks.

A short, stocky man with a messy beard and hair shouted a few words while holding an AK47. One by one, a dozen trucks started up, and the enemy soldiers responsible for escorting the supplies scrambled onto the trucks and sat on the roofs without any protection.

A light armored vehicle drove to the exit, and the heavy machine gun mounted on the roof suddenly opened fire. Bullets swept through the crowd, and blood rained down instantly, with severed limbs flying everywhere.

At the same time, several enemies detonated the broadswords at the exit, knocking down another group of infected.

Taking advantage of the situation, the enemy opened the gate, and the convoy sped off, led by armored vehicles, out of the temporary dock.

The wheels rolled over the corpses scattered on the ground, and murky blood splattered beneath them.

Attracted by the gunshots and explosions, a large number of infected people appeared out of the streets as if by magic, rushing towards the convoy without regard for anything else.

Zhang Cheng understood a little. No wonder he hadn't seen many infected people along the way. It turned out that they had all been lured to the temporary dock by the commotion caused by the enemy!
The armored vehicle advanced while firing, clearing away infected individuals blocking its path.

The enemies on the truck also kept firing to the left and right, clearing out any stragglers.

"They're working together pretty well!" Big Eyes muttered angrily. "This definitely wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. Even if the King of Heaven himself came, it would have been planned for a long time... Captain, are we going to make a move?"

Zhang Cheng frowned, his mind in turmoil.

Even now, he still hasn't seen Group A emerge. If he launches an attack before he's ready, Group A will definitely miss their chance!
Conversely, if you are well prepared but Group B remains inactive, it's a waste of time and opportunity!
In comparison, the latter is less costly.

But we've already entered the scheduled time period, and if we don't fight this wave of enemies, we don't know when the next round will be!
With the enemy about to enter the ambush zone, there was no time for Zhang Cheng to think things through. He gritted his teeth and chose to trust his comrades: "Attention everyone, prepare for battle!"

At the command, the seven men instantly tensed up.

All the necessary preparations have been made; all they need to do is wait patiently.

A few minutes later, the convoy drove into the ambush area.

Everyone in Group B remained hidden in the shadows, relying entirely on satellites and drones to monitor the enemy's movements.

Satellite remote sensing monitors the overall situation; drones provide close-up observation and capture various details.

The enemy also had drones, and more than one, which hovered near the convoy, acting as their eyes.

But all seven of them were in a safe location, and it was impossible for them to detect anything unusual unless an enemy drone sneaked into the building.

There's no need to worry about drones either. Our drones fly higher and are quieter, and they have low-visibility stealth coatings. Not to mention enemies with equipment levels that are no match for ours, even if the US military comes, they can only search with the naked eye, and they will not be able to find any signal on the radar.

The enemy was caught off guard, but there were too many trucks, exceeding Zhang Cheng's expectations. The armored vehicles were almost out of the ambush area, and several trucks were still hanging outside the circle.

The original plan was to encircle the enemy's supply convoy, but plans change, and trapping the enemy in a trap was no longer feasible.

But it doesn't matter, since the ambush wasn't meant to eliminate the enemy from the start anyway.

Just as the armored vehicle was about to leave the ambush area, Zhang Cheng uttered two words softly: "Detonate!"

The team's demolition expert was already prepared and immediately pressed the remote control.

boom--

With a loud, muffled thud, the space beneath the armored vehicle suddenly exploded, flipping the light armored vehicle, which weighed only a dozen tons, upside down.

At the same time, explosions also occurred in the middle and rear sections of the convoy. The overturned vehicles split the transport team into three parts, and the enemy escorts were either thrown off or crushed by the overturned vehicles, with very little chance of survival.

But at this point, who has the mind to pay attention to them?
The four trucks that hadn't entered the ambush area immediately braked to a stop like startled rabbits and turned around to run back.

The trucks blocking the ambush site also stopped, and the enemies inside stared wide-eyed, but they heard neither gunshots nor explosions; only the persistent infected continued to pour in.

In the instant of the explosion, the infected were momentarily disoriented by the loud noise, but as the sound subsided, they quickly returned to normal and continued their assault on the truck.

Zhang Cheng neither stopped the four trucks from escaping nor attacked the trapped trucks; he simply watched coldly from the sidelines.

The enemy was very experienced; the initial chaos quickly subsided, and they opened fire on the infected who rushed at them. The intense gunfire was so continuous that it was impossible to distinguish the number of guns, making it much more realistic than the scattered gunfire in movies.

Compared to an enemy whose whereabouts are unknown, an infected person who is right next to you is more dangerous.

This was the result Zhang Cheng wanted. He whispered the order: "Attention, everyone, fire!" After a few soft sounds drowned out by the intense gunfire, several enemies who were desperately shooting at the infected fell to the ground and were thrown out of the vehicle and overwhelmed by the infected.

The enemy's firepower immediately thinned out considerably.

Group B did not continue firing, but instead observed the enemy's situation. Wherever they found areas with concentrated fire, they would fire a few shots to force the enemy's firepower to decrease.

Although the number of enemies is small, they all have extensive experience in fighting infected people, so holding off the zombie attack is not a problem.

After losing a large number of men, the remaining enemies were stretched thin and could not stop the infected's offensive even with their best efforts.

The fearless infected first squeezed into the driver's cab, then climbed onto the back of the truck, overwhelming the desperately resisting enemy.

Before long, the enemy convoy was completely destroyed.

Reconnaissance revealed that while the enemy at the makeshift dock was shocked by the attack on the convoy, there was no sign of them providing support.

The reason is hard to guess: the temporary dock is surrounded by a large number of infected people, and they must take appropriate means of transportation to break out, otherwise they will only be sent to their deaths.

If this were just a regular attack, it should have ended here, and Team B could have withdrawn from the battle without the enemy noticing.

But the purpose of the ambush is to cover Group A. If they don't show themselves, how can they attract the enemy's attention?
Zhang Cheng's eyes lit up and he immediately set his sights on the temporary dock.

The convoy may not care, but the dock can't possibly ignore it, right?

"Erlv, Jindou!" Zhang Cheng selected a team member and directly marked the temporary dock fence in the tactical system.

Erlv, of medium height, was the strongest member of Team B. He immediately set up his sniper grenade launcher, locked onto the target with the laser rangefinder, and the fire control system immediately provided the corresponding parameters.

The straight-line distance between Group B's hiding place and the temporary dock is about 1.4 kilometers, while the accurate range of the sniper grenade is only 800 meters.

But it doesn't matter. This thing has a maximum range of over 2,000 meters. It won't be accurate at 1.4 kilometers. Just fire a few more shots.
Erlu pulled the trigger, firing one 35mm grenade after another.

The grenade landed without veering too far off target, successfully tearing a gap in the fence, and a group of infected immediately rushed in.

The one at the front plunged into the barbed wire and was quickly tied up. The problem was that there were too many infected people. In the blink of an eye, dozens of infected people sacrificed themselves in the wire, becoming unable to move and destroying the barrier in half.

They were all huddled together, like a bridge connecting the inside and outside.

Subsequent infected individuals could simply step over their companions to rush into the temporary dock.

The enemy guarding this direction was startled. While firing to repel the enemy, they decisively detonated the Claymore, instantly blasting down a large number of the rampaging infected.

There were just too many infected people, not only from this direction, but also from other directions.

In order to hold the temporary dock, the enemy had to draw reinforcements from other directions and barely managed to hold off the horde of zombies.

Zhang Cheng naturally wouldn't give the enemy a chance to regroup, and the second round of attacks arrived just in time, but it was the other side of the fence that was blown up.

The enemy had to divide their forces to defend the area, making the already weak defense line even more precarious.

Erlv switched to the last drum magazine and was about to fire when Zhang Cheng stopped him: "Don't shoot the wall, shoot people!"

Erlv nodded, re-locked onto the target, and fired several grenades, instantly knocking down a large number of enemies who were fighting against the infected.

The infected swarmed in, indifferent to life or death, leaping onto the enemy's corpses and tearing at them desperately.

The surviving enemies were terrified and turned to flee... In the instant they turned back, they were shocked to find that all their comrades who had been behind them had boarded the transport ship and were slowly sailing away from the riverbank.

Several hot-tempered men immediately turned red-hot, disregarding their own safety, and grabbed their rifles to fire at the small boat, killing several deserters in succession.

But the deserters were not to be trifled with. They dared not face the large group of infected people directly, but they did not hesitate to fire on their own troops, and quickly killed those few hot-tempered guys.

The others were too busy escaping to pay attention to anything else.

Faced with danger, these people completely lost their composure. Some crawled into containers, locked the doors, and tried to survive; others dropped their weapons and fled desperately, eventually jumping into the canal; still others huddled in their cars, surrounded by a group of infected people, their lives hanging by a thread.

The enemies on the Silver Bay who witnessed this scene were all stunned.

They quickly regained their senses, but instead of firing at the shore, they swiftly retreated back into the cabin.

Knowing the attack was suspicious, they didn't want to engage with Team B hiding in the shadows, so they simply went into hiding.

Although Group B's attack was highly effective, it also attracted the enemy's attention.

At this point, the enemy's drones fall into two categories.

Some of the drones were rendered useless due to the death or incapacitation of the pilots, or because the pilots were too preoccupied to care. Meanwhile, the other crew members on the Silver Bay quickly located the approximate hiding place of Group B.

Zhang Cheng immediately reminded him: "Golden Beans!"

Jin Dou was a fair-skinned young man. He was particularly prone to tears when he first joined the army, which earned him this nickname.

Once they adapted to life in the team, their nicknames became their code names.

Upon receiving the order, Jin Dou immediately raised the launcher, and a miniature missile locked onto the drone in the air... He fired four missiles in one go, cutting down all the drones that dared to approach.

Zhang Cheng's original idea was that if the sniper grenade launcher failed to break through the situation, he would use a man-portable missile to blast open a gap. This thing has a range of more than two kilometers, and at first glance it looks similar to the sniper grenade launcher.

But even though it's small, it's still a missile. It's not very effective against close-range targets, but it's much more accurate than a sniper grenade launcher against long-range targets.

Fortunately, Erlv had good luck and achieved good results in both rounds of launches, not giving Jindou a chance to launch missiles. Otherwise, if all the missiles were used up, it would not be so easy to shoot down drones again.

Group B, with its own strength, suppressed the enemy so much that they dared not show their faces. Zhang Cheng, however, did not believe that the gang that dared to attack their transport ship was so weak.

Convinced that they had achieved results beyond their plans, he did not hesitate to order the troops to withdraw, and the soldiers immediately withdrew from the ambush point along the pre-planned route.

Just minutes later, a barrage of shells rained down from the sky, destroying the building where Group B was hiding.

Group B, a few hundred meters away, secretly rejoiced. If they had been any slower in retreating, they would have been hit by artillery shells.

But here's the problem: where did the enemy come from? Armored vehicles are one thing, but why do they even have artillery?

But then I thought about it again. The smuggling boats heading north were carrying so many cannons, so it didn't seem like a big deal that the enemy had cannons.

"Let's go." Zhang Cheng's gaze fell on the Silver Bay. "Our mission is complete. Now it's Team A's turn."

(End of this chapter)