Chapter 165 - 157: How to Fight a Field Battle?

Chapter 165: Chapter 157: How to Fight a Field Battle?

"I practice the Six Harmonies Great Spear. The fundamentals focus on the Inner Three Harmonies and the Outer Three Harmonies."

"The Inner Three Harmonies are: the mind and intent are in harmony, the intent and energy are in harmony, and the energy and force are in harmony. By maintaining focus in the midst of fear, with your will and breath undisturbed, you can deliver a fatal blow."

"The Outer Three Harmonies are: your hands coordinate with your feet, your elbows with your knees, and your shoulders with your hips. With every step and every twist, your entire body must move as a single unit."

"The spear is controlled by the wrists, the arms support the wrists, the body supports the arms, and the feet support the body. It all combines into one. Simply put, you’re mobilizing the strength of your entire body and channeling it through the spear!"

"In terms of technique, we focus on interception, advancing, blocking, entangling, seizing, and thrusting."

"But that’s for fighting people. Against zombies, it’s not so complicated. First, I’ll teach you the thrusting stance and how to project your power."

"Alright, pick up your spears. Hold them at your waist. Right hand grips the butt of the spear, left hand grips the lower-middle section. The shaft should be horizontal in front of your waist. Splay your left foot out into a half horse stance, like this."

Yu Chengfei demonstrated the spear-holding posture, and everyone quickly began to imitate him. Yu Dong, however, already knew it; he had practiced the stance every day in his past life.

"Align your nose, the spear tip, and the tip of your front foot. Keep your center of gravity stable."

"Then, with your waist as the core of the movement, you send it forward like this... and there! The spear thrusts out."

"The mantra for holding and thrusting the spear is: front hand guides, back hand locks. Power from the waist sends the spear, force pierces through the tip!"

After Yu Chengfei demonstrated the holding and thrusting motions a few times, he saw that everyone had more or less gotten the hang of it. The zombies in front were still roaring. Yu Chengfei’s gaze sharpened.

"Now, for some live practice with me. Aim for the zombies’ heads... Hah!"

Yu Chengfei thrust his spear out, punching a huge hole straight through the head of the zombie in front of him!

The others: "Hah!"

Their thrusts landed everywhere, a complete mess that only provoked the zombies into a howling frenzy.

Some people managed to hit their mark, but lacked the force to pierce the zombie’s skull, getting the spear tip stuck in its nose...

It was a scene of total chaos.

However, the firefighters like Wang Dingbei, Xiao Dabe, and Liu Hao were quite strong from their long-term training. After a few practice thrusts, they could aim accurately and take down a zombie with a single strike.

"Interesting... I can’t believe traditional martial arts are actually useful at a time like this," Wang Dingbei said, pleasantly surprised after skewering a zombie.

"It is indeed useful. It’s just that the spears Yu Dong prepared are less than two meters long... they’re a bit too short. They’re not as safe or as powerful as a true great spear. A three-meter great spear would be more suitable for this situation."

Yu Dong took a deep breath.

"That makes sense... I originally bought these spears because they’re easier to use in hallways. For a wide-open combat area like this, a longer spear would definitely be better."

Path dependence had led Yu Dong to not upgrade the spears this time.

"But no matter. They’re good enough for dealing with zombies. Keep practicing with me."

Yu Chengfei continued to teach them how to stab zombies with their spears. The bodies of the dead zombies piled up in front of the metal barricades, growing higher and higher, until the zombies behind began to walk over the corpses of the ones in front.

WHOOSH!

Yan Yikai fired a Crossbow Arrow, hitting a zombie in the neck, but it wasn’t a fatal shot.

He quickly re-cocked the crossbow and fired again in rapid succession.

WHOOSH!

It struck the skull, killing a zombie that had climbed high up on the pile of bodies.

Seeing this, Zhao Youcai, Huang Zhiqiang, and Zhao Wenjie also began practicing with their Death God Repeating Crossbows, continuously firing at the zombies.

Although the defensive perimeter of the metal barricades wasn’t large, and the zombies could easily climb over once the bodies piled up, the barricades didn’t obstruct their attacks, allowing them to hide behind and freely deal damage to the zombies.

Most of the group practiced with spears, while Yu Dong and his side practiced with crossbows. Whenever Zhou Jian Country saw a spot where the zombies were too dense, he would just toss a napalm-filled bottle and start a barbecue on the spot!

BOOM!!!

"Teacher Zhou, this time we can really set the zombies on fire..."

Zhou Jian Country looked at Yu Dong, puzzled. "Didn’t I do this in the past life? Even a simple napalm bomb without the added oxidizer and sugar is easy to make."

"Uh... in the past life, we didn’t have any gasoline or diesel."

"No wonder. It’s a good thing you were prepared this time around. Otherwise, burning zombies would be a real chore."

Yu Dong had bought 300 tons of gasoline and 300 tons of diesel, stacking countless barrels in the warehouse specifically for Zhou to use.

The special, upgraded version of the napalm bottle that Zhou had made this time was exceptionally effective.

Gasoline + polystyrene (styrofoam) + white sugar + potassium permanganate.

Once it landed on a zombie, it would burn and never go out. Even if it was trampled under the feet of other zombies, the flames could not be extinguished.

It burned for a long time and at a high temperature.

It could inflict devastating damage on the zombies.

Behind the main group, Liu Ye’ye was teaching Shen Xinyi how to use a reconnaissance drone.

Compared to an FPV drone, which required wearing a VR headset to operate, a standard reconnaissance and photography drone was much easier to control. The remote had its own screen, so you could watch as you flew.

But Shen Xinyi was distracted as she learned, her gaze constantly drifting over to Yu Dong.

She couldn’t understand how the somewhat dorky college kid who had been awkwardly hitting on her every day for the past week had suddenly become so capable. And now there was even a gentle, beautiful, and cute girl constantly orbiting him.

He didn’t pay any special attention to her anymore; they were just ordinary teammates. Their WeChat conversation was still stuck on Yu Dong’s last message: "I’m going to take a shower..."

’You’re the one who started flirting with me in the first place...’

Shen Xinyi felt a little wronged.

There weren’t that many zombies outside A Port. After all, when the outbreak started yesterday, Yu Dong had lured a large group into the sea, and then burned all the rest.

Today’s numbers were low, scattered across the 500-meter defensive line of barricades. They were little more than target practice for the group to hone their martial skills.

An hour and a half later, the 28 survivors had completely cleared out all the zombies at the entrance.

Everyone’s experience with their weapons had increased slightly. This was especially true for the spear users; under Yu Chengfei’s guidance, each of them could now at least make a proper forward thrust at a zombie.

But to truly channel power into their strikes, they would still need a lot of hard practice.

"That’s all of them...? Seems like the zombies are just as pathetic as you said," Wang Dingbei remarked with a purse of his lips, feeling that these things were less impressive than Yin Shuangyang’s henchmen.

"That’s only because I set up fortifications in advance, prepared the right weapons, made incendiaries, and rescued all these people. We had the right time, the right place, and the right people—all the advantages. That’s the only reason it was so easy," Yu Dong retorted. "Don’t talk so big, Wang. Why don’t you take a stroll down the street? You’ll change your tune after a couple of ’gym-bro zombies’ start chasing you."

"Where do you come up with all these weird nicknames... But you’re right, the engineering work was top-notch. We had the advantage of fortifications. I admit, you prepared well. But I have another question."

"Go ahead."

"When we leave A Port and have to face zombies that could pop out from anywhere... how do we handle a field engagement?"

Wang Dingbei felt that the defensive system Yu Dong had set up was indeed excellent, but when it came to proactively going on the attack... it wasn’t enough.

Yu Dong patted the sturdy metal barricade and kicked open the locking plate on its wheel.

"Officer Wang, this thing is mobile..."