42 Chapter 40

The piercing siren resounded over the entire town, and the originally quiet town suddenly boiled into excitement. All the people who were sleeping or half asleep were awakened. They stood up in a hurry and ran to the window, wanting to know what happened. Something important must have happened.

In the temporary command post in the center of the town, Harry listened to the intelligence from the liaison officer with an ugly face. Layers of cold sweat continued to break out on his forehead. When he heard the last part, he couldn't help it. He slapped the table hard and shouted angrily, "Is the sentry in the east just a decoration? Why did you wait until nearly a thousand infected people were approaching your door before you sounded the alarm?"

"Now... we can't contact the sentry right now, so we don't know what the situation is there." The liaison officer lowered his head and looked very helpless as he gave such an answer.

"I don't know. I don't know."

He clenched his fists and hammered the table hard again, venting the anger in his heart. Then he took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and calmed down as quickly as possible.

He knew that now was not the time to be angry. No matter what happened, he needed to talk about it after getting through this crisis. At this moment, he couldn't help but secretly regret that if everything was arranged according to regulations, everyone would sleep in the car. Then they can evacuate immediately without caring about the infected people at all.

"It's too late to evacuate now..." Harry closed his eyes tightly, thought for a while, and slowly said, "First, let all the personnel of the peripheral team withdraw, and tell them to throw grenades along the road, and try to lure the infected to go far away and buy us time."

"Yes!" Upon hearing this order, the liaison officer immediately shouted yes, turned around, and took out the radio.

Slowly sitting on the chair, Harry narrowed his eyes and began to analyze the current situation. The infected people were not too far away from the town. The alarm sound just now must have alerted the infected people, leaving them to prepare.

But there are only a few simple checkpoints in the town, which are vulnerable to a large number of infected people. But without bunkers, they can't deal with such a large number of infected people.

In this hurry, Harry suddenly remembered the size of the passenger car, and his eyes suddenly lit up. Isn't it just a huge city wall?

Thinking of this, he suddenly stood up and shouted, "Inform the people driving the passenger cars to park their cars side by side in the middle of the surrounding streets. Then ask all the soldiers to bring enough ammunition and go to various intersections. When the passenger cars are on standby, they will be deployed there. We have formed a defense zone, and we must do our best to stop the infected!"

Then he said to Corbett and Justin, who was standing next to him, "Corbett, you need to go to the main road on the west front, so it must be the first place to be hit by the infected, and it is also the place with the largest number. It is necessary that you take command, and you can also use the gasoline in the tanker to make Molotov cocktails. That thing is much more lethal to infected people than a grenade!"

"Justin leads your armed team and sets up controls on the paths next to the streets. After all, the entire town is not the only street that can be entered and exited. Those infected people can climb. The infected people must not be allowed to pass through the defense zone through these paths; otherwise, everyone inside is in trouble."

"..."

A barrage of orders came out of Harry's mouth. Every time he gave an order, the people around him would immediately send out his instructions. Even Corbett and Justin didn't say much. After receiving the order, they ran directly outside. No one hesitated at all, because everyone knew that every minute and every second was very precious now.

Harry picked up the water glass on the table, took a sip, moistened his throat, and said that it was still very ugly. He understood that only two thousand people could be evenly distributed in all defense areas, and the manpower must be insufficient.

He was silent for a while and then said to a tall soldier standing next to him, "Ask all the soldiers in the town to gather all the citizens together. I have something to say to them."

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At this moment, the center of the town can be said to be in chaos. Most people panicked after hearing the siren. They took their belongings and rushed out of the house. They didn't even know what they were going to do. They just followed. The crowd was running around like headless chickens.

Since most of the soldiers were spreading around the town, there were only a few soldiers left here, so how could they control more than 5,000 people?

But soon, a tall soldier came out and stood on a high platform. It was the man who punished all the troublemakers in the morning.

He shouted, trying to make everyone quiet down, but the noise made by thousands of people was not comparable to his voice, and it was quickly drowned out, which made him look a little unhappy. He directly took out the pistol and fired several shots at it!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sudden sound of gunfire shocked everyone's bodies, and they all stopped and looked toward the place where the gunshot came from.

Seeing that everyone was looking over, the tall soldier picked up a loudspeaker and shouted, "If you don't want to die, just shut up and gather together immediately!"

Hearing the soldier's shout, the crowd immediately fell silent due to the other party's power. It only took less than five minutes for them all to gather together immediately. Although it looked very messy, it was pretty good. 

After everything was prepared, Harry walked to a high platform seriously, took the loudspeaker from the tall soldier's hand, and said loudly, "I am the commander of this convoy, Harry. I think everyone was shocked by the siren just now. I heard it, and I am sorry to tell you that there are a large number of infected people on the east side of the town."

As soon as these words came out before he could continue, the crowd suddenly felt like a pot was exploding and boiling again. Everyone's faces were filled with fear. If there were no soldiers around, they would probably turn around and run away.

"Everyone, please listen to me!" Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, Harry quickly shouted, making everyone's eyes turn to him again.

"We have blocked all the streets with buses and set up a protective zone around the center of the town, but we are short of manpower. If we want to survive, we must work together. I hope you can go to the defense zone and cooperate with the soldiers to resist the infected; otherwise, once the defense line is breached, all of us will die here."

As soon as they heard that they were going to fight against the infected, the crowd suddenly fell silent. Everyone looked at each other in panic, wondering if they should follow the commander's order to cooperate with the defense.

At this moment, a sharp voice suddenly came from the crowd: "The infected people came from the east. Can't you just ask us to evacuate from the west first? Why do you want us to deal with the infected people?"

Now the crowd was rioting again. Yes, the infected people came from the east. We can just evacuate from the west. Why should we fight so hard?

Standing on the stage, Harry looked coldly at the commotion in the audience, picked up the loudspeaker again, and said, "Yes, I can ask some of you to evacuate first, but have you ever thought about those in front? Soldiers who are fighting for you, your life is your life; isn't theirs too?"

"If they don't risk their lives to fight off the infected and choose to run away like you, then have you ever thought about what to do with the remaining people who are left here? There may be relatives and friends among them. Who else is going to protect you?"

The crowd suddenly fell silent again. When they heard the appearance of a large number of infected, they were all so frightened that they could not even think of resisting at all. They only thought about whether they could escape.

But when they heard Harry talking about their relatives and friends, all the men's minds suddenly became clear. You have to know that many of the people in this motorcade were raising families, so how could they be willing to leave everyone behind? and escape alone?

"Then give the order, and we will cooperate in the defense!"

After a period of inner struggle, someone finally responded first and raised his pistol high.

Then Everyone present took out their only pistol from their arms and raised it high, expressing their willingness to cooperate in the defense.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. Maybe when there are only one or two people, these people may still be afraid of the infected, but once they get together, the fear in their hearts gradually subsides, and they seem to be a little eager to try.

Seeing this situation, Harry smiled with relief, said a few words to the tall soldiers beside him, and then led a dozen soldiers to gallop toward the east. They had already wasted too much time here, and they couldn't do it. I don't know what the situation is like there now.

After receiving the order from his commander, the tall soldier waved his hand towards the soldiers below. Then dozens of soldiers began to quickly sort out the crowd. Due to the urgency of time, there was no time to count the number of people, so they could only divide the crowd into three unevenly. Most of the people ran toward the east, and the rest flew to the south and north.

As for the remaining women and children, they were gathered in a dozen surrounding houses. There were nearly fifty soldiers stationed outside, fearing that something unexpected would happen here.

And just when Harry loudly persuaded everyone to cooperate in the defense, on the dark road, a flood of infected people had already rushed into the town.

They ran towards the center of the town as if they had smelled the breath of life in the air, and their red eyes glowed with excitement!

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