Chapter 392, Zhang Xiaoman’s Dreams

178 The warriors of the fortress all had an unrivaled sense of belonging to the vicissitudes of that fortress, but Ren Xiaosu was curious: “The Inland Consortium has never told the residents of your feats, those residents don’t even know who is guarding the peace on their behalf, even so, are you willing to continue to guard it?”

“Whether they know or not is their business,” Zhang Xiaoman laughed, “To guard or not to guard is our business.”

Because of the increase in ammunition supplies, so much so that everyone was carrying something that was almost as heavy as half a soldier.

Everyone complained that it was too tiring, but no one was willing to throw away all that ammunition because that was what everyone depended on to survive on the battlefield.

In Zhang Xiaoman’s words, when war comes, the only thing you can trust is the gun in your hand, the bullets in the magazine, and your comrades in the trenches.

That’s why the Sharp Knives Company looked down on cowards, and cowards would get their comrades killed in the company.

“I heard that when Commander Zhang used to come to the Sharp Dagger Company as a medic, he didn’t even want to fire his gun,” Zhang Xiaoman said with a smile as he strained to move forward, “At that time, the soldiers of the Sharp Dagger Company looked down on him, but he didn’t refute it, and as a result, in one battle, he saved hundreds of wounded men hard, not only saving his own company, but also other companies, which gained him respect. Before that, everyone thought he was a wuss to boot.”

This group of brown men from Fortress 178 did not avoid discussing Zhang Jinglin at all, and Zhang Jinglin did not seem to care about this.

Zhang Xiaoman said, “Originally, when I saw that you were skinny and weak, I thought that you couldn’t fight, but it turns out that I didn’t expect you to be so fierce.”

Ren Xiaosu curiously said, “When Mr. Zhang went to the Sharp Knife Company, were you there too?”

“In my ass, I was still playing with mud at that time,” Zhang Xiaoman laughed, “That’s all from the older generation.”

“Older generation?” Ren Xiaosu curiously said, “Who are the old generation of Fortress 178?”

Zhang Xiaoman recalled for a moment and said, “Don’t mention it, they’re all almost dead.”

“So tragic?” Ren Xiaosu froze, “What happened.”

“Sixteen years ago, the battle, fought too fierce, the original group army ten no one left, those who survived said that it was a battle of nine deaths, the fortress is almost collapsed,” Zhang Xiaoman said: “know why the fortress used to accept the stragglers do not, on the one hand, because everyone himself is a straggler, some people are still exiled from the Central Plains, and some of them are still exiled from the Central Plains. Some people are still sinners exiled from the Central Plains, so everyone’s status is not good, and no one dislikes anyone, and on the other hand it is …… no one is willing to come to this bitter place except for the stragglers,178 the fortress needs someone to guard it.”

Ren Xiaosu was surprised, “There are still exiled Central Plains people in 178 Fortress?”

“There is,” Zhang Xiaoman laughed, “My neighbor is ah, but the fortress has not seen any Central Plains people exiled here for more than a decade, I heard that the place has been changed, exiled to the north 176 fortress, the north of 176 fortress is the grassland.”

“176 barriers is far from us here?”

“Very far.”

Ren Xiaosu suddenly asked, “Besides waiting for the bell, don’t you have any other thoughts or wishes.”

“Yes,” Zhang Xiaoman laughed, “I want to become a brigade commander, just like my father!”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, “Your father is a brigade commander?”

Zhang Xiaoman paused for a moment, “I mean, my father’s dream was to become a brigade commander as well.”

Ren Xiaosu: “……”

The journey from Guanshan to Dingyuan Mountain was not far, and before they had traveled much further, Jiao Xiao Chen, who was in charge of the front line, suddenly raised his palms, and in a moment, all the soldiers in the rear half-kneeled on the ground and raised their guns in alert.

Zhang Xiaoman bent down and ran to the front of the group, whispering, “What’s wrong?”

“Enemy sightings, there seems to be hidden stakes,” Jiao Xiao Chen said.

Zhang Xiaoman picked up the binoculars and looked towards the front, he suddenly saw that there was white smoke coming out of the gully roughly a few hundred meters ahead, “It should be the smoke that comes out when you smoke, the white smoke from cooking won’t be like this, the damn broken bandits even have people to stand guard and keep watch at the bottom of the mountain, it’s quite a professional thing to do, it’s just that the people who are carrying it out are too retarded.”

Zong’s management of bandits indeed to be a little different from other bandits, but bandits are ultimately bandits ah.

“What to do?” Jiao Xiao Chen asked, “Directly drive down this hidden stake?”

“Well, continue along the gully, Fu Rao, Lin Pingan, you two see if there’s a way you can feel your way over there, and take it out secretly without any gunfire,” Zhang Xiaoman said.

These two people he ordered were the best training results in the sharp knife company, specializing in sneak infiltration and dagger close attack.

However, Fu Rao whispered, “Company commander, Ren Xiaosu has already gone ……”

As soon as the words fell, the back of Zhang Xiaoman’s head ached, having such a fierce player in the company team would also give people a headache ah, he said, “Wait in silence!”

At this time, Zhang Xiaoman was most worried that Ren Xiaosu had made a big noise again, but the result was that there was no sound at all in front of him, after a few minutes, he only saw Ren Xiaosu coming back with two people in his hands, and those two people didn’t even die, they were just unconscious.

Ren Xiaosu threw these two people on the ground, “We can ask them about the deployment on the mountain, maybe we can use the mortar to directly knock out their machine gun position, the bandits are not that cautious, the two of them should know quite a lot of things.”

Zhang Xiaoman froze for a long time, usually when this kind of quiet breakthrough of the defense line is very difficult to leave a survivor, because we have to avoid the enemy struggling, firing warning shots, and shouting, so once the shot is taken, we can’t leave any room for error.

But Ren Xiaosu’s appearance turned this impossibility into a possibility.

However, Zhang Xiaoman seriously said: ”Xiaosu ah, you are very raw, but marching and fighting must listen to the command, must wait for my order know? It’s not that I’m intentionally playing the company commander’s faction, but the army must follow orders in order to fight.”

Ren Xiaosu paused for a moment, “Understood, sorry.”

“No need to say sorry, you guys have been soldiers in our 178 fortress, and you went to the battlefield without training, so there are some things that we teach you in the process of fighting, you just need to have an open-minded attitude.”

Ren Xiaosu nodded, “Well, I won’t act without authorization in the future.”

Zhang Xiaoman looked for someone to pat the two bandits on the ground awake, Fu Rao and Lin Pingan both put their daggers on their necks, “I’ll loosen my hands, if you dare to yell I’ll get you killed right away.”

The bandits nodded frantically, Zhang Xiaoman took out a battle map and pencil, “I’ll give you two a chance to draw a map of Dingyuan Mountain’s defense, and I’ll spare you from death.”

Fu Rao and Lin Pingan loosened the palms covering each other’s mouths, only to hear the bandit ask, “What’s a defense map?”

“It’s to draw where you put heavy machine guns and mortars on your mountains, and then tell me how many people are guarding where,” Zhang Xiaoman said in a cold voice, “We’re from the 178th Fortress, so you won’t die if you cooperate honestly, got it?”

The two bandits froze, “You are from Fortress 178? We’ll cooperate!”

Ren Xiaosu froze as he watched this scene, it seemed that after these two bandits heard the name of 178 Fortress, they were not at all afraid of Zhang Xiaoman backtracking afterward.