Chapter 401, Happy Married Life

The war started from the moment the Sharp Dagger Company hit Guanshan, there was no formal declaration of war, the first gunshot was the horn of war.

Attacking Shichuan Town was just a very small episode for the whole war, and together with the Sharp Dagger Company going to Shichuan Town, there were also the Second and Third Companies, it was not a place where the Sharp Dagger Company could fight independently.

All they would be facing from now on would be Zong’s regular army, these regular army had received systematic military training, hit countless targets, just not really on the battlefield.

It was very different from the bandits they had faced before.

According to Zhang Xiaoman, the military skills of these Zong Clan regulars were not much worse than the 178th Fortress, the only difference was experience, and the ability to adapt on the battlefield.

As well as the content included in the desensitization training.

Some of the Zong’s recruits would vomit, be nauseous, fearful and terrified when they saw the turned out intestines and broken legs, but the veterans of Fortress 178 would not.

In the forward base, Zhou Yinglong had the orderlies give everyone in the sharpshooter company a piece of paper and a pen.

“What’s this for?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

Zhang Xiaoman looked up at him, “Writing a suicide note.”

“A suicide note?” Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment.

“Of course on the bright side, it says for everyone to write down whatever they want to say, if they can’t come back, the Affairs Division will help everyone send the letter to their families, sort of explaining the aftermath, and if they come back, they can go to the Affairs Division and ask for the letter,” Zhang Xiaoman explained, “We all call this thing a suicide note. ”

“How unlucky that is,” Ren Xiaosu said in amusement.

“There’s nothing unlucky about it,” Zhang Xiaoman shook his head, “Those who go to war should look down on life and death, in fact, we didn’t understand it in the beginning, but after fighting with the enemy outside of Fort 178 so many times, and having written several suicide notes, we’ve long since become numb.”

“Then who are you writing this to,” Ren Xiaosu curiously said.

“To my parents,” said Zhang Xiaoman, “and my daughter-in-law.”

“You’re married?”

“Look at what you said, I’m almost thirty years old,” Zhang Xiaoman laughed cheerfully, “Can’t I get a daughter-in-law?”

Ren Xiaosu was a bit embarrassed, he did not have this concept in his head, so he thought everyone was as single as he was.

Thinking about it, Zhang Xiaoman had gotten to be a company commander, and wasn’t too young.

“What’s it like to be married?” Ren Xiaosu wondered.

“It’s not bad, it’s sloppy, and I have a hot meal to eat when I go home,” Zhang Xiaoman said while writing a letter.

“Is it happy?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

Zhang Xiaoman cheerfully lifted his head, “You kid is pining for spring, why are you so interested in this, let me put it to you this way, I only have one year of happy married life.”

“That feels pretty good,” Ren Xiaosu said.

Next to him, Jiao Xiao Chen laughed out loud and said, “You don’t understand, he’s been married for ten years.”

Ren Xiaosu: “……”

Zhang Xiaoman suddenly asked, “Don’t you write letters?”

Ren Xiaosu paused for a long time, “I don’t know who to write to.”

All the soldiers in the Pointed Sword Company suddenly fell silent, they realized that this might be the reason why Ren Xiaosu fought the Zongs so desperately.

After coming out of the forward base they could only advance on foot, in the battle plan they would arrive at the outskirts of Shichuan Town on the third day, but from the moment they stepped out of the forward base they had to be on full alert, lest the Zong Clan’s army ambush them in advance on the outskirts of Shichuan Town.

Ren Xiaosu suddenly asked, “Shichuan Town is on the plains, even though there are woods on the outskirts, it’s a difficult task for us to even break through into Shichuan Town, right?”

Zhang Xiaoman hugged the automatic rifle he was holding and explained, “Hit it with a mortar first, a range of three kilometers is enough for us to make a gap outside the range of the enemy’s heavy machine guns, that’s when we’ll have the qualifications to enter into a street battle.”

“Is there a plan?” Ren Xiaosu was skeptical.

“If it’s not possible, let the artillery units in the rear take the large-caliber howitzers and bombard them,” Zhang Xiaoman said, “There’s always a way.”

On the night of the second day of marching, suddenly the sound of gunfire came from both flanks, and the sound of heavy machine guns clattering could even be heard from afar on the side of the Sharp Knives Company.

Zhang Xiaoman frowned, “The second and third companies have been ambushed, let’s be careful too!”

Everyone expected that Zong would start setting up ambushes right outside of Shichuan Town, so it wasn’t much of a surprise, so I’m sure that the Second and Third Company’s side had prepared for it as well.

The sound of gunfire suddenly came from ahead of them as well, but it was still far away.

Zhang Xiaoman and the others subconsciously hid behind the roadside tree, but no bullets came over.

“Strange, who is this gunshot hitting?” Zhang Xiaoman wondered, “Continue marching forward!”

Only the Pointed Sword Company continued to march forward for a few hundred meters, but they still did not arrive at the imaginary enemy, not even the slightest sound of gunfire was heard.

“Something’s not right,” Zhang Xiaoman frowned, “We’re on the main road, could it be Zong’s staging a suspicious formation? Fu Rao, Lin Pingan, you two go to the front to explore!”

It’s not that Zhang Xiaoman likes to call on Fu Rao and Lin Pingan when there’s danger, there’s bound to be a pointman in the company, and the pointman has to rush up first when there’s danger, it’s a different division of labor.

Fu Rao and Lin Pingan two people along the woods stooped forward to touch, the results have not gone far it, will see the two people turned back: “Company commander, not right ah, ambush our people were killed, all were wiped out the neck!”

“There’s only one combat squad in this machine gun position, thirty people, all of them just died, the blood is still flowing,” Lin Pingan added.

Zhang Xiaoman looked at Ren Xiaosu suspiciously, “You did this?”

“No,” Ren Xiaosu shook his head, “Aren’t my people standing here?”

“That’s right,” the soldiers of the Pointed Sword Company were also a bit confused, “Who helped us shoot down this machine gun position? And with a knife to the neck, it would have to be a Transcendent to do that, right?”

Everyone was puzzled, a mysterious Transcendent suddenly appeared on the battlefield to do a good deed?

The soldiers of the sharp knife company are not stupid, this is clearly like Ren Xiaosu did ah, but they have no evidence ……

To be honest, everyone still doesn’t even know what Ren Xiaosu’s abilities are.

Zhang Xiaoman tried Ren Xiaosu again, “It really wasn’t you?”

“It really wasn’t me,” Ren Xiaosu said innocently.

Zhang Xiaoman came to the machine gun position, he found a corpse to touch the tiger’s mouth of the other side: “There is no very thick callus, not a trained warrior, it should be a temporary team of stragglers, or a private force.”

“All cannon fodder,” Jiao Xiao Chen said, “Looks like Zong is trying to use cannon fodder to consume us first.”

“Expected,” Zhang Xiaoman said, “The enemy troops in Shichuan Town won’t be small, conservatively estimated to be in the thousands, but the good news is that most of the enemies we’ve encountered so far should be very weak, the kind that can’t even master the shooting range.”

Shichuan Town was not a very important place in the first place, the reason why Zong stationed troops here was purely a strategically disgusting forward base.