It just so happened that Zhou You had had a day of "rest" yesterday and had gained unlimited physical strength. It was just the time when he needed to test his combat prowess with his bayonet seeing red.

After consulting Zhou You himself, Zhou Lingsheng decided to bring out a thousand-strong elite team from within the Zhou family to accompany him in the battle.

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He used the past elite combat team as the core, supplemented by about half of the new recruits, to create a thousand-person action team, and then drove his own hybrid off-road vehicle, his uncle's hybrid MPV and three

The tank-type fuel cargo truck that has been completely renovated and fully enclosed has set off.

This action team brought along three of the latest Langya No. 4 airships and nearly a hundred improved Langya No. 1 airships.

Compared with the Langya No. 3, which has solar function, the biggest change is that the huge airbag has become foldable. When all folded, it is only about the size of a 49-inch TV, making it easy to store and carry.

Its maximum carrying capacity has also been increased from the allowed capacity of more than 30 people in the past to 50 people.

And the air bag is no longer an "avoidance balloon", but a more reliable special balloon made of high-strength and high-air-tight synthetic materials in stock.

The whole team set off from Lelai County at ten o'clock in the morning.

The fleet has a total of twenty vehicles, including twelve trucks, eight off-road vehicles and various family vehicles.

If the demand is just to carry people, naturally there will not be so many vehicles.

However, the mission of this team is to assist Kangyue County in completing strategic clean-up as much as possible. There will be a large number of combat missions and a large number of temporary supply needs, so most of these trucks are loaded with arms reserves.

Compared with a week ago, human armaments have once again advanced by leaps and bounds.

Due to intensive hunting by humans, the number of stray cats, dogs and larger wild animals such as mustelids has declined sharply, and is gradually no longer a concern.

At the same time, long-range weapons have also been vigorously developed, so under normal circumstances humans no longer need full-coverage heavy plate armor that would hinder movement.

Nowadays, in addition to heavy shield melee warriors, the armor of other long-range tactics and ordinary infantry has become mainly made of various lightweight materials, and chain-link armor made from the ancient Wenshan armor has also begun to be widely used.

Only joints such as the neck, arms, calves, knees, etc. have overall reinforcement.

Mail armor can properly resist the bite force of rats, and can also resist the claws of cats and dogs, which is enough to fight. At the same time, it is lighter than plate armor and more convenient to move.

In terms of melee weapons, swords, spears and shields, which are particularly classic melee weapons in history, are still the main theme today.

The reason is simple. No matter whether it is a larger size in the past or a miniature size today, humans are still essentially mammals that walk upright and have a pair of flexible hands.

Based on the human body structure, no matter whether they are big or small, the most convenient and handy melee weapons are still those things that can form additional parts of the body.

When it comes to long-range weapons, humans now have more and more specialized choices.

Traditional bows and arrows are so inconvenient to load that the Zhuge Crossbow has been completely eliminated.

The lighter nail guns of the past, which were simple but low in power and continued to release butane flammable gas, have also withdrawn from the stage of history.

The simple high-pressure gas tank gun that relies solely on pulling down and releasing the trigger with your finger to release ammunition and then manually loading bullets has been eliminated. Instead, it has been replaced by an integrated continuous-fire mode with automatic loading function and a powerful single-shot mode.

High pressure gas tank machine gun.

The bullets of these gas tank machine guns are mainly made of iron beads.

There are also electric-driven mechanical transmission firearms whose design principles are similar to those of past live-action CS water guns, but whose core components and materials are better, and the bullets are also made of iron beads.

There are also small flamethrowers modified based on the principle of oxyacetylene flame cutting machines.

In addition, thermal weapons made with explosives and gunpowder as core materials have fully returned to the stage of human history after twenty-one days of silence.

However, human body size and absolute strength are now much smaller than in the past, so today's firearms look a bit like miniature toys in the past, smaller than children's AKs, and the thickness of the steel is naturally much thinner than in the past.

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Perhaps even the father of AK himself could not have imagined that the weapon he designed would be shrunk N times and return to the stage of history in a miniature version.

But such thin steel is bound to be limited by material properties.

After all, ultra-high-strength titanium alloys are not available everywhere.

People in most areas of the country still only have basic steel materials such as cast iron, carbon steel, galvanized steel, and forged steel.

Therefore, if the original design is followed, the precision and durability of the finished firearm will be reduced.

In view of this, at least the arsenal here in Lelai County chose to simplify the design as much as possible, cut off the high-speed continuous fire function, and changed the loading mode of these "heavy" thermal weapons to a manual bolt-pull ejection and reloading mode.

Single shot mode.

If you are a skilled shooter, you can maintain an average firing rate of one round per second during the magazine cycle.

Of course, the Lelai County Government still obtained some special alloys and special steels, and manufactured some firearms with better continuous fire performance. But not many. The Zhou family also received some, which were allocated to people such as Luo

Xun is a fighter with the best marksmanship.

In terms of throwing weapons, equipment such as grenades, explosive incendiary bombs, white phosphorus bombs and other equipment have also been fully popularized.

There are electric-driven tanks, mini armored vehicles, deformable individual exoskeletons with a final assembly height of half a meter, multi-functional combat robot dogs driven by humans, multi-legged robots that can lift, and high-power rotor helicopters using model aircraft engines.

equipment.

Although today's drones are no longer as convenient and easy to use as they were in the past due to the decline in wireless communication capabilities, they can still operate in offline mode, and the onboard personnel can also rely on walkie-talkies to maintain communication with the commanders behind them.

All things considered, the effectiveness of human weapons today is roughly equivalent to that between World War I and World War II.

However, with the support of cellular networks, various walkie-talkies, and drones that can barely operate today, human beings' information combat capabilities and low-altitude combat capabilities are even stronger than during World War II.

This seems incredible, after all, only about twenty days have passed since humans shrunk to today.

But from another perspective, the recovery of such a high-speed war capability is actually based on the squeezing consumption of many industrial products in the past of mankind.

At present, some industrial products that require the use of very large equipment during production have become non-renewable resources in the short term, so use less.

For example, once the core chip of a drone fails, it cannot be repaired.

Therefore, there must be an upper limit to the recovery of human war capabilities.

After reaching this upper limit, it will stagnate for a period of time, and you don't know when it will start to grow again.

Zhou You is sitting on the roof of his car.

Now a triangular structure is installed on the roof of the car.

This thing used to have another name, called Halo structure, which was used in F1 racing cars and its structural strength is extremely high.

Although there are not so many titanium alloys in Lelai County that can be wasted, material collection personnel still found some alloys with slightly lower structural strength that can be used as substitutes.

The function of Halo is to prevent the tragedy of the commander sitting on the roof being taken away due to a traffic accident once the vehicle rolls over or even rolls over.

If General Walker knew...

In short, although the cost of this simplified version of the Halo structure is a bit higher, it is indeed very useful. Both Zhou You and other combat commanders can better take advantage of the field of view on the roof.

After all, it is also very important to maintain continuous observation of the outside world on the march.

At this time, Zhou You was sitting behind a monocular telescope, staring at the telescope, and using the fifty-fold optical zoom telescope to look at the situation on both sides of the road ahead.

At present, the convoy is about to drive to the edge of Lelai County. About two or three kilometers further, it will reach the boundary of Kangyue County.

As soon as we arrived in the wild here, the number and density of rats immediately increased, and they seemed more active.

Whenever Zhou You notices a swarm of more than a hundred rats, he will slow down the convoy slightly, and then dispatch an aerial force consisting of 20 high-performance drones to fly over these rat swarms.

Drop the white phosphorus bomb and walk away.

White phosphorus bombs have been listed as taboo many times in human internal wars.

Although after getting really angry, few countries will actually abide by the so-called weapons ban regulations.

But the ban itself illustrates the astonishing lethality and cruelty of white phosphorus bombs.

Nowadays, mankind's enemies no longer come from within, but have become rats, so naturally there is no need to talk about martial ethics or rat moralism.

The convoy took an hour and a half to walk along the way. During this period, the drone squadron was dispatched six times in total, and probably killed more than 2,000 adult rats. As for the number of young rats, there was no careful statistics.

This amount seems to be a lot, but it is actually not much.

After all, the population base of rats is continuing to expand. Even if more than 2,000 rats are placed in Lelai County, they will only be a drop in the bucket.

Deng Tao was standing next to Zhou You and looking at a mobile phone in front of him.

At this time, the phone no longer has Internet access, but many software previously downloaded offline can still be used, including maps.

Deng Tao is studying the map of Kangyue County to determine the distribution of rats in Kangyue County, which will also help to carefully plan the response plan for the next march.

After watching for a moment, Deng Tao patted the shoulder of Zhou You next to him, "Four or five kilometers ahead is the town where the mudslide occurred. The area in front of it was also the first town to lose power at that time. Now it is basically occupied by rats. Kang Yue

The county government and township management departments tried their best to rescue people, but overall, at least one-third of the people were unable to leave. The total number of trapped people in several towns reached about 40,000."

"I understand. That means we will pass through the rat-occupied area next, right?" Zhou You nodded to express his understanding.

"Yes." Deng Tao responded, "Although we have strong troops and horses, we are not afraid of large-scale battles, but we still have to be careful, otherwise if we are really attacked by a pack of rats, they will break through like a life-threatening force and bite off several vehicles.

The wiring is also troublesome.”

Zhou You: "I understand."

Now that Deng Tao has reached this point, it would be inappropriate for Zhou You to be more careful.

At this time, Shen Moxin, a technical service member accompanying the army on the expedition, sighed with regret: "It would be great if our communication base station was not bitten and we could still maintain wireless communication capabilities. Otherwise, I can release the fixed-wing model aircraft."

,This can greatly increase the scope of our investigation."

Zhou You also nodded in agreement.
To be continued...