Chapter 1250, P5092 Takes Over Defense

Counting down to the ninth day.

When Ren Xiaosu realized that there were only nine days left in this war, he instead did not feel the slightest bit of apprehension.

Regardless of success or failure after nine days, regardless of whether or not human civilization would be able to continue in the future, there would be an answer after nine days.

All he needed to do was to survive these nine days with everyone.

Ren Xiaosu began to patrol the various defense lines, and he was shocked to find that the large number of civilians here were not the refugees who had fled from the four barriers to the east, but rather the residents of Fort 178.

At this moment, not only the four barriers to the east, but even the remaining nine barriers began to retreat together towards the back of Fortress 178, as Qing’s forces collapsed.

Originally, if they were only facing the enemies on the northwest side, this defense line might still be enough to hold out for a while.

But when coupled with the raging tide of people coming from the Qing Clan, I’m afraid that it would be difficult for this defense line to stop the enemy.

Therefore, all the inhabitants of the barriers outside of 178 Fortress, began to evacuate.

However, just as everyone was evacuating, the residents of Fortress 178 actually took the initiative to come to the frontline and help the Northwest Army build the defense line.

I don’t know why, but Ren Xiaosu could still see a sense of superiority in these residents of Fortress 178, as if their willingness to coexist with the Northwest Army was a kind of honor: they dared to do what no one else dared to do.

Of course, this itself is also because of the Northwest Army culture, in the 178 fortress that place military is the guardian of the fortress, we all know what these people in order to guard their own pay.

Ren Xiaosu saw those 178 Fortress residents sitting in the cafeteria to eat after work, chatting with other residents with smiles on their faces, not scared at all.

A strange thing happened.

When the first wave of refugees arrived at the defense line, the residents of Fort 178 even took the initiative to go up and assist the Northwest Army, organizing the refugees to take a brief rest behind the defense line and then continue to evacuate.

Then the residents of Fort 178 would also comfort the refugees: the Northwest is a family, after going to Fort 178, we are still a family, don’t be afraid, when the Northwest Army wins the war, we will snatch our home back together.

These residents of Fort 178 acted as a kind of psychological counselor, and the refugees, who were originally in a hurry, really calmed down a lot after being guided.

However, the refugees asked ah, the northwest can really win, if it can win why still retreat.

Although we have some confidence in the Northwest Army, but the road to escape will always give rise to a lot of apprehension.

As a result, the residents of Fort 178 said, “Look, the Northwest Army has been fighting with the sorcerers for so many years, but it’s still fine, and now there are a large number of transcendentalists, so it will be able to lose? You tell me how to lose?”

These two rhetorical questions directly confused the refugees, so that, everyone feels that the Northwest Army can indeed win, although they do not know in what way to win, but to win would be the end of the matter.

After the first batch of refugees calmed down, the refugees who arrived later became more stable.

Without realizing it, the refugees, the toughest problem, were instead the first to be solved.

Moreover, that night, some young people among the refugees discussed something together, and then collectively ran to the officer in charge of the construction of the defense line and said: we also want to participate in the construction of the defense line.

The officer shook his head and replied directly: don’t add to the chaos here, there are enough people.

The young people were not happy at that time, they pointed to the 178 fortress residents said: Why can they, we can not?

The officer was puzzled at that time, is this something good, why are they still scrambling to do it?

It was such a big deal that it even alarmed Zhang Jinglin.

Eventually Zhang Jinglin decided to set a threshold, as long as the age of 18 to 28 years of age between the male youth, can be enrolled in the construction of the defense line, but there is one thing, you must obey the command, and can not come over to work on the spur of the moment, and the next day to feel tired to run away, to do it to stick to the end.

This time, the young people just don’t make a fuss.

Although absurd a little, but in the end it is a good thing.

Nowadays, the northwest defense line is not solid, or there would be no need for the sixth field division to delay.

Therefore, the construction of this front also did require a lot of manpower.

At the evening combat meeting, Ren Xiaosu sat on Zhang Jinglin’s left hand side and listened to the various generals report on the progress of the defense line construction.

When it was time for Wang Fengyuan to report, he raised a suspicion: “According to our calculations of the enemy’s marching speed, they should have arrived at the 219th post position today, but there was no sign of the enemy over there, so I don’t know what’s slowing down their progress.”

“What do you have in mind?” Zhang Jinglin asked.

“I’m worried that this AI is staging some scheme again, so I’m planning to send the vanguard battalion in Zhou Yinglong’s hands to do a long-distance reconnaissance, although it’s dangerous, it’s necessary to get hold of the intelligence,” Wang Feng Yuan replied.

However, just then, a combat staff outside reported that Chief Zhang Husheng had arrived at the defense line with the last batch of refugees and had something important to report.

Ren Xiaosu asked the combat staff, “Where is the 6th Field Division? Did it not arrive together?”

“Reporting to the Major, no,” the combat staff officer replied.

Ren Xiaosu’s heart immediately tightened.

Seeing the big lug running dustily into the command tent, Ren Xiaosu asked, “Who all came with you?”

“Miss Xiaoguan, Miss Zhou Yingxue and Wang Fugui and the others,” Big Snooze replied, “The 6th Field Division went to harass the enemy under the leadership of P5092, and he said that this line of defense needs to be delayed for two more days before it can be completed, so the 6th Field Division is going to buy the rear two more days of time. Moreover, he judged that there is a unit on the AI side that has infiltrated the rear, most likely the nano unit that once appeared in Zuoyun Mountain, and he wants to take care of that unit.”

Ren Xiaosu’s fists clenched at once.

All the people in the command tent who were listening to Big Snooze’s report sucked in a breath of cold air, the Sixth Field Division was just over 40,000 people, even if the Original Fireblood Troops had a high level of combat literacy, even if there was a commanding genius like P5092, and even if the Sixth Field Division possessed the most number of Transcendents, dragging down the enemy for a day with a division’s strength would be a very unbelievable thing to do.

And P5092’s goal was to stall for two days.

Regardless of how this Sixth Field Division did it, everyone had to admire it.

After the battle of Zuoyun Mountain and the battle of the Sorcerer’s Kingdom, the 6th Field Division had become the number one strongest army within the Northwest Army, and all other combat sequences could only sigh with emotion when they brought up this unit.

Zhang Jinglin looked at Ren Xiaosu and lamented, “You really helped the Northwest abduct a lot of talent.”

He said this because P5092 could accurately judge the situation in the rear just by reading the defense report alone, and also accurately guessed what kind of ambush Ren Xiaosu would encounter, as well as the AI’s elite that had infiltrated the rear.

This kind of talent was something that the Northwest had never had.

To be honest, the Northwest Army had always relied on blood and guts to fight their battles, and although Zhang Jinglin’s commanding talents were outstanding, it was still a bit short of calling him a famous general of his generation.

But P5092 and people like Qing Zhen are different, they were born for war, however, Qing Zhen is more adept at saving for a rainy day in the big picture, let him look at the defense report to think about how much time the rear needs, Qing Zhen can not do.

Therefore, solely from the perspective of a certain war, if Qing Zhen, P5092, Wang Shengzhi, and Zhang Jinglin were placed on the same battlefield and led the same troops, the final victor would probably be P5092.

Zhang Jinglin said to Ren Xiaosu, “Go and pick up P5092, if he survives, it would actually be more appropriate for him to take over this entire defense line.”

Ren Xiaosu nodded, “I’m on my way.”

As a result, at this moment, Wang Feng Yuan said, “There’s no need to go, news has just come back from Post 219 that P5092 is retreating towards the defense line with a portion of the 6th Field Division, and is expected to arrive tomorrow.”

Zhang Jinglin said, “All units are stepping up the construction of their own defensive positions, this defensive position must be able to over hold the enemy for more than five days, we can’t let the 6th Field Division’s efforts go to waste. In addition, when P5092 arrives at the defense line, the northwest defense will be taken over by P5092 for the time being, I hope you all will actively cooperate.”

Normally, asking an “outsider” to take over the defense was a very complicated matter, however, this kind of thing within the Northwest Army only required Zhang Jinglin’s word.

As for whether or not P5092 was up to the task? He had proven himself long ago.