You have to go 20 miles on foot to get to point B from point A, through a typical suburban landscape of single family homes, malls, etc.

You have the choice of two escort forces.

1. I've been watching the Kenshin movies on Netflix and have watched the anime. You can have 100 Kenshin level swordsmen with katanas (not his reversed one but normal) and short sword.

2. You can have 100 John Wick level gun folk with the compliment of handguns and ammo that Wick carries when he goes into a bad guy's den (which he did several times). Just the ammo, a person carries as in the movies. If you want to add a few more extra mags, I'll give you 4 more higher capacity handgum mags.

Which is the best escort as you run across the usual mobs of zombies (not a horde of thousands).

I'll go for the speed level of the walking dead as compared to fast zombies of other films.