Doomsday rat

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This was the first large-scale rescue operation launched by the alliance, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the army, navy and air force gathered. Even Minister Jiao came to the front line to command.If it still doesn't work, the remaining two battalions of the 8th Regiment may never have a chance to be saved, and they must die as a living horse doctor.

Ordinarily, the progress was quite smooth. Under the joint attack of air strikes, heavy artillery and infantry, the zombie group on the north side, which was originally invisible, was obviously a little bit overwhelmed, and those who rushed up did not fall down as fast.If he could stay like this for a few more hours and lead the team to charge out, most of the main force should be able to break through successfully.

But the heavy artillery suddenly stopped, and the gunfire became sparse. The air force transport plane was still circling in the sky, but it didn't drop a single bomb. Isn't this a waste of fuel?

After a brief questioning, Yang Ming was told that he was ready to break out at any time.But don't take risks, when to move and when to wait, you must obey the command of the headquarters.If you act without an order, even if you succeed in breaking out, it is considered disobedience!

It was the first time Yang Ming received this kind of order, but no matter how he didn't understand it, he had to abide by it, especially after talking directly with Minister Jiao, there was no excuse left.As long as you don't want to go to the military court for trial, you can only watch.

Chapter 870 Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while

But if you obey, you should obey, and you should still look for answers to the questions in your heart.What is certain now is that the Special Operations Regiment has stopped its offensive and has built a simple defensive position on the spot, apparently waiting for reinforcements.

"Regimental Commander, why did the attack stop?" At this moment, the first battalion commander ran over. According to the division of labor, his first battalion was responsible for breaking out when breaking through. The troops were concentrated on the south side of the dam, and they could not see the battle situation in the north.

"You have to ask Minister Jiao about this in person, I really can't answer it!" Like Niu Dafu, Yang Ming was very resistant to the sudden parachute and taking away the command power.

For front-line commanders like them, the most annoying thing is for someone to point fingers during combat, especially those superiors who sit in the office.It's a pity that the first rank of the official ranks crushes people to death. If you catch up, you can only obey, and don't say too many strange words, otherwise it will be passed on to people's ears in the future, and the small shoes will be considered worn.

"Ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai!" The first battalion commander knew what was going on when he heard this answer full of some kind of resentment. I smoked a cigarette, lit it myself, and raised my binoculars to watch the fun.

The sight was terrible, his tongue cramped in shock, the cigarette fell straight down, his mouth was full of exclamations, he stared at the big eyes and pointed to the north, unable to utter a whole sentence.

"Hiss... look at it, what are you doing?" Coincidentally, just as Yang Ming sat down to take a steady puff of cigarette, sparks fell from the sky and fell directly into his neck.It was hot for him, almost rolled off the roof of the car.

"Live...live...live..." The first battalion commander's brain has been short-circuited. He neither helped the regiment leader get the cigarette butt out of his neck, nor recovered from the shock, but kept the posture just now, desperately Point north.

"Live your mother's job, I can't live with your fucking virtue! Let's go, let's go back and do what we should do, don't make trouble here!"

Yang Ming kicked the first battalion commander's leg, and the cigarette butt came out, but his back was burning hot, no need to ask, at least a few blisters would come.But he understood that the commander of the first battalion definitely didn't do it on purpose. What is it that is so scary? There is a high probability that reinforcements are coming.

But when he picked up the binoculars and looked to the north, he immediately stopped cursing with his mouth half-opened. His stupid character was not much better than that of the first battalion commander, and it took more than ten seconds for him to recover.

I saw a light infantry fighting vehicle coming from the road about 2 kilometers away. From the appearance, it was exactly the same model as the air force guarding the airport, and the painting was exactly the same, nothing special.

But there was a semi-circular fence on the roof of the car. At this time, there were four people standing in the fence, two tall and two short.Gao is wearing a camouflage uniform, bulletproof vest and steel helmet, but what he holds is not a gun but a pen and notebook. He writes and draws, and doesn't seem to care much about the surrounding environment.

The short one was wearing a gray-black robe, which seemed to have nothing on it, and the skin on his chest could be seen from the collar pulled away by the hood.He didn't wear any protective equipment on his head, and he didn't even have hair.But it's not nothing, it seems that there are a few wires plugged in, swaying with the bumps of the car body.

No matter how many details there are, I can't see clearly, but what stunned Yang Ming and the First Battalion Commander was not these four people, but the huge changes they brought on the battlefield when they appeared.

The group of zombies that had been sparsely bombarded by the heavy artillery suddenly stopped rushing forward. Instead, they stood obediently, facing the southwest uniformly, facing the sun that had begun to slant west, and opened their arms in a hug.

As the infantry vehicles drove closer and closer, there were more and more such zombies.Just as the group of zombies in the back was about to charge upwards, they seemed to hit an invisible wall out of thin air. They immediately turned around and opened their arms...

If the zombie group is regarded as iron powder on the glass plate, then this infantry chariot is like a magnet moving slowly under the glass plate.The zombies within a few hundred meters of where they passed reacted immediately, hugging the sun in unison, no longer caring about the people in the car.

"...Damn it, the alliance still keeps this thing, why don't I know?"

Yang Ming joined the army earlier, and was fortunate enough to see the living corpses captured by the Ministry of Health, and also participated in the battle against wild living corpses using preliminary domesticated living corpses.Seeing this scene, I immediately understood the high-level arrangements and intentions, and at the same time had deep doubts.

Capture and domesticate living corpses, and then fight against wild living corpses. This method was very fashionable seven or eight years ago. It was not only used by the East Asian Alliance, but also by most survivor groups around the world.It is said that this method was the masterpiece of the first chairman, secretary-general and minister of armed forces of the alliance, and it really worked.

But this method is not invincible. For some reason, domesticated living corpses are always not as powerful as wild living corpses.In other words, it does not have a large control range and strong control ability compared to wild living corpses.

If there is no human help, they will soon be surrounded by wild living corpses with several times the number of zombies, and will eventually be caught and eaten.In addition, some artificially domesticated living corpses will suddenly surrender when the situation of the battle is obviously unfavorable, and strike back.

Coupled with the expansion of the scope of the Air Force's targeted removal of living corpses, it is becoming more and more difficult to go deep into zombie-controlled areas to capture wild living corpses. In the end, human survivors gradually gave up this method.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, the top management of the East Asian Alliance still kept two domesticated living corpses and took them out at a critical moment.What is it called?This is called raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while.If it is said what artificially domesticated living corpses are best at, the current situation must be one of them.

With them mingling here, the zombie encirclement will immediately become a mess, and they all fight each other, so there is no need to care about humans.As long as the artificially domesticated living corpses move forward for about one kilometer, the troops on the dam can break out of the siege, and within 10 minutes at most, these more than 1000 people can run clean.

"Regiment commander, is this a living corpse?" Although the first battalion commander is also a veteran and has participated in more than one operation to clean up zombies, he has only heard about this kind of combat method from his colleagues and has never seen it with his own eyes.

"...Why are you still here? Is it important to watch the fun or save your life? Otherwise, Yiying will follow me, and you stay and watch slowly!"

Ever since he saw the artificially domesticated living corpse appearing on the stage, all the pain on Yang Ming's body has disappeared, and his mind is full of various calculations, desperately trying to figure out when to break out and where to run after breaking out.

According to past experience, wild living corpses will soon come over to the artificially domesticated living corpses and completely crush them with the number of zombies.So there is only one chance, if you can't seize it, then you can't blame others for dying.

"Don't, don't, I'll go back and make arrangements!" The first battalion commander didn't have the urgency to watch the fun rather than die. Hearing this, he immediately understood the regimental commander's intentions, jumped off the chariot and ran to the south.

"Tell Wang Gang to unload all the ammunition from the car and load the supplies you found. Hurry up! Damn it, you can't die if you survive a catastrophe, and you can't go back empty-handed!" Yang Ming put down the binoculars, turned his head and A word of warning.

When life is in danger, people are often willing to give up everything, and they have no problem running with bare buttocks.But as long as there is hope of life, it is time to ponder whether it is necessary to bring some extraneous things.How much you bring depends on how big your hope is, the bigger you bring, the more you bring!

"Don't worry, I'll let the brothers load the car together, and I promise not to delay the breakthrough!" The first battalion commander's mind is not slow, and the speed of his feet is obviously accelerated, and he can't see the slightest fatigue.

"Regimental Commander, something seems wrong!" At this time, another officer emerged from the infantry tank. The third battalion was the main force to break out of the siege, and the third battalion commander naturally had to be on the front line to prepare at all times.But when the head of the regiment came, he couldn't go to the roof to grab the commanding heights, so he had to nest in the gun emplacement and use the on-board gun mirror to observe the details.

"...It's not surprising. Zombies and living zombies are like using Bluetooth headsets. When they meet for the first time, they need to match each other first, and then they can move after a while!" Yang Ming quickly raised his binoculars again after hearing this, and stared at the people around the chariot. The group of zombies took a look and explained the confusion to their subordinates with a veteran attitude.

"Captain, I have participated in more battles with living corpses than you, right? And I have also served as the guard of this thing. You don't need to explain these basics. I mean that there is something wrong with living corpses. Look carefully, they It's like they're all kids!"

The commander of the third battalion is much more confident than the commander of the first battalion. He has not only seen it but also seen it up close, so the angle of observation is different from that of ordinary people.He doesn't want to see how the zombies obey orders at all. It's not interesting to watch too much of that stuff. What he pays attention to is the appearance of the living corpses.

Chapter 871

"...Could it be the child of a living corpse?" Yang Ming only noticed the specific shape of the two living corpses on the roof of the infantry vehicle at this time, and stared at them for a long time without finding a reasonable explanation.But as a leader, you can't confess in front of your subordinates, and you have to make up an answer.

"Oh, then they still have to call you grandpa!" The commander of the third battalion was also a slob, and he would carry whichever pot he didn't open.

"...Hey, you bastard, dare to talk about my daughter, I...you don't stay idle, hurry up and contact Brigadier Niu, and ask him if he needs us to help rescue Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang after he breaks out !"

Yang Ming pondered for several seconds before he woke up and was about to kick him.It's a pity that it was missed, and the commander of the third battalion had already got into the carriage.It would be demeaning to chase him in and beat him, so let him run into trouble.Niu Dafu was well-known as a thorn in the army, and he didn't want to get into trouble, but he couldn't do without this sentence.

"Brigade Commander Niu said that if he wants to flatter him, he will do it, but he doesn't care about the cover..." Soon the third battalion commander shouted in the carriage, and conveyed Niu Dafu's reply to the regimental commander.

"Yeah, then let's give him the chance to flatter, who would let him be the first brigade!" Yang Ming knew that there was nothing good to say before he asked, but he still had to complain after hearing this reply.

They are all the Union Army, they have become dogs in the water, and others have become heroes, so where can they justify it?This time I have to mention it to the brigade commander. If there is such a thing in the future, it is best to let the first brigade go first, and we will stay behind and wait for the rescue. Binima is always doing thankless work.

"Damn it, you still don't forget to flatter at this time!" In fact, Niu Dafu was also scolding. Yang Ming thought that the first brigade of the reserve team took all the credit, but he felt even more aggrieved.

Commanded the two regiments and fought hard for most of the day, but the result was not as fast as the advancement of the four others.Afterwards, I concluded that the troops I commanded were at best nanny, and most of the credit had to go to the secret team.

Not only the army, but also the air force and navy.Especially the navy, after running for more than 2 days with great effort, one of the boats broke down, but after arriving, a single shot was fired, and a soldier did not go to the battlefield, but just watched the fun in the river.

When all the troops have withdrawn to the north bank of the Huaihe River, they have to drive back by themselves. The whole long-distance training will not get any credit, and if they are not kept properly, they will be accused of poor maintenance.

"Opportunism, sooner or later it will be unlucky!" Looking at the infantry tank that had crossed the front line several hundred meters, Niu Dafu was even more annoyed.

He was too familiar with this scene. Back then, the Pingnan Army was besieged by a group of zombies led by a man who used living corpses, and finally had to put down his weapons and surrender.And that man was Hong Tao who blinded himself in one eye and ruined his younger brother's life.

Although it is said that my younger brother served in the army and died a worthy death, as long as this person's name is mentioned, an unknown fire rises in my heart.As long as there is anything related to that person, I will be disgusted by myself.

The reason why I want to support the reformists is not that I think that set of ideas is clever, or that I simply don't understand what they want to do.But I understood one thing, the chairman of Chuqiu opposed the rules made by Hong Tao and planned to change it.

As for which set of rules is good in the final analysis, whether it is good for the short term or long term, Niu Dafu thinks it doesn't matter.No matter what the rules are, I rely on my real ability to be popular and drink spicy food. As long as it is against Hong Tao, then it must be good!

"Bang bang bang... How many hairs are stuffed in your ears? Or wait for me to drive it myself? Drive, follow!"

At this time, the voice of the brigade staff came from the walkie-talkie. He was instructing the entire special operations regiment to press up, neither to exceed the infantry combat vehicle, nor to be too far away.But his car didn't move, and Niu Dafu immediately mistook the driver for Hong Tao, and beat the roof of the car with his helmet while cursing.

At this time, if you look down from the sky, you will see a weird picture.The tens of thousands of zombies besieging the reservoir dam are gradually disintegrating from the north side, and more and more zombies have come to a standstill as the infantry vehicles approached and the power was cut off.

The zombie who stopped first had passed the short matching period, and without warning, it suddenly took a big step towards the south, like a wave of water reeling from the tide, and slapped its companion fiercely.A fierce battle started in an area less than one kilometer away from the dam with the group of zombies that had not yet been controlled by the two living corpses on the infantry chariot!

Speaking of the battle between zombies, it can make people laugh out loud.Zombies, who usually have a crushing advantage over humans, face their own kind, and immediately become stupid, stupid and playful.

The weapons for which they are famous, the hard teeth and sharp nails, are now useless.Everyone is a zombie, so what if you bite or grab a handful?Losing their weapons, and not knowing Sanda, Judo, or Kickboxing, the zombies could only push each other, trying to push each other away, and then move on.

As for why to move forward and what to do next, I don't know at all.It is estimated that with their intelligence, they can only execute the simplest commands, and they cannot understand them in more detail.

At this time, it depends on who has the most number. Layer after layer of zombies gathered on the half-kilometer-long front, pushing and pushing each other with their bodies, oppressing 1.1 meters.Whoever falls down will be stepped on by countless big feet immediately.

Wait until the large army has passed before getting up. If you fall into the control range of the living corpses on the infantry chariot, you should immediately turn around and join the team advancing south.If you haven't been controlled, you won't be idle, and you will go around in circles to find a gap and return to your own camp.

"Dragonfly 4, Dragonfly 4, no traces of living corpses were found in areas 4, 5, and 6, but animal heat sources appeared. From the appearance, they looked like wild dogs, and the number was about seven or eight. There were too many obstacles, and it was impossible to accurately Estimate, it's over!"

There were indeed people watching in the sky, not just one or two. The six small planes were slowly circling, and the co-pilot scanned all the areas that passed by during the flight through a large thermal imaging camera fixed on the fuselage, and then reported the scanning results to the command through radio.

On the second floor of the control tower of Minggang Airport, there are maps on the ground and maps on the walls.From time to time, officers put wooden dolls of various colors and shapes on the map with long poles to mark the specific positions and numbers of the enemy and us on the battlefield.

These maps have been gridded with black lines, much like a Go board magnified many times.It is 8 kilometers deep from north to south and 8 kilometers wide from east to west. This is currently the area where the zombie group is most concentrated, including the main force of the besieged 8th Regiment and Zhang Ke and his party.

The Air Force planned this area into 16 equal parts. After numbering, it was handed over to 4 reconnaissance planes for scanning, and the other 2 transport planes hung incendiary bombs and stood by in the air.As long as the specific location of the living corpse is found, immediately arrive at the bombing as quickly as possible.

This is the rescue plan that Jiao Qiao and the generals of the navy, land and air forces had a one-night meeting and worked out.In this scenario, a special operations regiment from the [-]st Reserve Brigade and a regiment covering the flank were used as bait.

If their offensive caused a lot of trouble to the zombie clusters, forcing the living zombies to show up and strengthen their control.Needless to say, incendiary bombs will fall from the sky soon.

If the living corpses haven't shown up yet, let the secret team bring the test items into battle, use the zombie swarm to counter the zombie swarm, and advance step by step towards the reservoir dam, and give the choice to the living corpses on the opposite side.

There are two contingency plans here. If the living corpses do not show up at this time, then control the group of zombies and push them to the vicinity of the dam, and first rescue the main force of the 8th regiment.After successfully breaking through the siege, marched 2 kilometers northward to find the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway, and quickly approached the south bank of the Huaihe River along the highway.

At this time, if the living zombies command the zombies to chase after them, due to the restriction of the reservoir, they must detour from the west, and they will leave the area where the ruins of the town are concentrated, and they will be exposed to the wild.

With the guidance of the aerial reconnaissance plane, the heavy artillery group deployed on the north bank of the Huaihe River and the gunboats on the Huaihe River can shoot accurately at intervals, effectively delaying the advance speed of the zombie swarm.As long as the living corpse dared to show up, it would still be handled by the transport plane in the air.

If the living corpses did not appear at this time, Team X directed the zombie group to push another 4 kilometers southeast to rescue Zhang Ke and his party.But we can no longer run to the northwest along the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway. There is no reservoir barrier, and it is easy to be intercepted halfway by zombie swarms.

Chapter 872

At this time, you have to run due east, and the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway extends northward for about 5 kilometers.Although this expressway has been abandoned for many years, and there are many sections along the way that have been washed away by floods, a small group of troops without heavy equipment is still faster than marching in the wild.

If the living corpses can't resist chasing them out, it doesn't matter, the air force will send all the transport planes into the sky to bomb along the west side of the road.As long as they can block the faster blue devil squad, the remaining zombie swarms will not be able to catch up.

As long as they can get out of the encirclement, Zhang Ke and his party can rely on the air force reconnaissance plane to evade the zombies, then contact the headquarters, find a usable port on the Huaihe River, and board the navy gunboat to retreat.

In fact, this plan is not easy to implement. It requires seamless connection and close cooperation between the sea, land and air and the X team, and the distance across the battlefield is as long as 8 kilometers. If any link in the middle goes wrong, it is very likely that even the special operations group will be trapped .

The easiest way is to let the X team command the zombie swarm and the zombie swarm commanded by the wild living zombies to forcibly attack the plain area between the north side of the reservoir and Xinyang North Station, attracting a large number of zombies to gather here, and then use air bombing and The heavy artillery group massacres the effective forces behind the front.

It seems that doing so will consume a lot of bombs and incendiary bombs, but it is not.When the zombies rushed over in a dense formation, the lethality of the powerful shells and aerial bombs would increase exponentially, often killing hundreds of them with one drop.The zombies that were lucky enough not to be killed or shattered by the bombing were left to the X team for control.

If the living zombies commit chicken thieves and don't push a large number of zombies to the front line, Team X can easily gain the upper hand, control the zombie group and push the front line forward, and rescue the 8th Regiment and Zhang Ke and his party.

As for whether the living corpse can be found and eliminated in the end, it is not the ultimate goal of this battle. It is better to find it, and it is okay to find it.Anyway, there will be plenty of means and time to deal with them in the future, as long as they don't spend most of their time underground like moles, they will be caught out sooner or later.

But why didn't Jiao Qiao adopt the simplest and most reasonable solution?The reason is very simple, just a word, he is not at ease with this mysterious and mysterious X team!

He didn't know the details of Project X from the beginning to the end, but now he suddenly popped up and said that it can save mankind from fire and water, and help the collapse of the building. No matter how he thinks about it, he is not sure.

Not to mention whether there is any scientific basis and data, it is really difficult to convince his elm head only by several successful small-scale experiments and theoretical calculations.It is not a question of whether to believe in science or not, but whether a new thing has emerged and whether it is fully understood.

When he was hanging out with Hong Tao back then, he was often fooled at the beginning. If Liu Ruoshuang and Liu Ruoyu didn't have the face of his sister and brother, his pants would have been tricked by that old bastard.

As the saying goes, one can gain wisdom by eating a pit. Jiao Qiao blamed himself for not having a good brain, but after eating a large basket of pits, he must gain some wisdom.Hong Tao has said more than once, don't rush to jump on any new things, the safest way is to watch others rush first.

Don't watch the drama of making money and taking advantage of it, and only pay attention to when someone is unlucky and suffers.Everything in the world has two sides, and it is necessary to see both positive and negative sides completely, so that it is possible to evaluate objectively whether this new thing is an opportunity or a trap.

Team X must be considered a novelty, let alone read it, never even heard of it, so Jiao Qiao refused to give up his reputation and the lives of thousands of officers and soldiers rashly.But people must be rescued, and they must be rescued quickly. Once the continuous rainy day comes and the air force support is lost, the situation will deteriorate further.

So he got together with the generals and staff officers of the three armies, and based on the principle of safety first and high technology second, they came up with a plan that not only made use of the strengths of Team X, but also did not pin all their hopes on it.

According to He Wanjun, the leader of the X group, this is not a plan at all, but a mess, no courage!Even Zhou Yuan partly expressed objection, fortunately Lin Na was in charge, otherwise Jiao Qiao would be alone.

"Command received, Dragonfly 4, continue the search mission!"

Seeing that the sky was approaching dusk, and the battle on the front line was developing in the direction that everyone least wanted to see, the mood of the officers in the room was not very high.Only the staff officer in charge of communications kept giving orders to the reconnaissance plane.

"Minister Jiao, in the battle report sent by Zhang Ke, it seems that there are wild dogs suspected of being controlled by living corpses. Should these wild dogs also pay attention?"

In addition to the officers of the armed forces and the general staff, there were also a few outsiders in the headquarters, such as Zhou Yuan, Lin Na, and He Wanjun.They were considered to be present and participated in the rescue operation, but they had no decision-making power and could only influence the decisions of the generals through private communication.

Zhou Yuan took the most serious attitude, occupying a desk alone, wearing glasses, flipping through various telegrams and reports about the frontline battle situation these days.Hearing the report from the reconnaissance plane and the reply from the staff, he immediately picked up a few pieces of paper and walked over to Jiao Qiao, whispering a suggestion.

"...If even the wild dogs listen to the command of the living corpse, I'm afraid we won't be able to go back."

Jiao Qiao took it over and looked at it, then returned it to Zhou Yuan.I have read these few minutes of telegrams a long time ago, and the overall feeling is that I don't feel it.He instinctively didn't believe that wild dogs would be with living corpses, which was not logical.

You don’t need to go to the battlefield to see it, just say that near the airport, there are groups of wild dogs moving around at night, howling one after another.This is not only the case at Minggang Airport, as long as you leave the safe zone, there are wild cats, wild dogs and various wild animals everywhere.

If animals can also be infected with zombie virus, the infection rate will be N times faster than that of humans.But who has seen infected wild dogs or other animals for so many years?None!It can't be said that once Hong Tao appeared, the animals were infected.

In that case, whether to save people or kill them is a matter of debate.Didn't this shit deliberately cause trouble for human beings? Even friends, for the sake of all human beings, they have to kill their relatives righteously!

"But I did see a brown bear infected by the zombie virus in Xinjiang Province, and the corpse was brought back. After inspection, the symptoms were the same as those of the zombies!"

Zhou Yuan is different from Jiao Qiao, she has seen the example with her own eyes, and Zhang Ke will not guess on this issue, she must have got some kind of hint, maybe Hong Tao is on the side to give advice.

"Minister Zhou, the Air Force is already at full capacity, and all the planes have to rotate continuously. If they are given more tasks, not only will the people be overwhelmed, but the planes will also have problems due to lack of maintenance!"

Jiao Qiao was a little annoyed, the situation on the front line was unclear, and the living corpse never showed up, and he always felt that there was a knife hanging above his head.If a part of the force is allocated to clean up the wild dogs at this time, the force in hand will be stretched immediately.

"...Can you find it at any time, and clean it up by the way?" In terms of military affairs, Zhou Yuan can't be said to be completely blind, and the only ones who can accurately name her are the firearms used in daily training, or her own guns, and other equipment. Not at all.But she still didn't want to give up her efforts, and made another compromise request.

"...Minister Zhou, wild dogs have small targets, move fast, and are easy to hide. Cleaning them up will consume a lot of ammunition. At present, the ammunition in the airport is only enough for regular use. If all the ammunition is wasted on wild dogs, once a living corpse is found, maybe Cleaning up to the end is not enough.

For such a large-scale wave of zombies, there must be more than one or two living corpses hiding in the dark.How about this, I will order the special operations group to pay more attention along the way, and kill all wild dogs if they find them! "