Chapter 402: As long as the people are still there, it’s fine.

As a matter of fact, Zhang Xiaoman’s suspicion of them was correct, this machine gun position itself was terminated by Ren Xiaosu’s Shadow, who had started to let the Shadow scout ahead when he always set out to avoid ambushes.

Having experienced some mistakes, Ren Xiaosu had learned how to be more careful and cautious.

But this wasn’t something to be particularly happy about, because it was something that someone had taught him with blood.

The extent of a person’s enlightenment was precisely equal to the depth of the pain he had suffered.

The second company and the third company were a bit far away from each other, the spacing between the three companies’ marching was always maintained at around two kilometers, while Ren Xiaosu’s control range of this shadow was only about one kilometer, so he couldn’t help the other companies.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaoman suddenly said, “Continue marching, we are still a day’s journey away from Shichuan Town, don’t be lax, at any time we may encounter another ambush.”

Zong had put stragglers and private troops at the forefront, a single heavy machine gun could cause the frontline troops of Fortress 178 to suffer heavy losses, this was the strangeness of war in the era of hot weapons.

While walking, Zhang Xiaoman asked Ren Xiaosu, “I’ve actually been quite curious, you don’t seem too interested in promotion?”

“Well,” Ren Xiaosu said, “After this battle, I might be going to the Central Plains.”

“Wait,” Zhang Xiaoman suddenly felt that something was wrong, “You said that you’re leaving Fortress 178 to go to the Central Plains after the battle?”

“That’s right,” Ren Xiaosu said, “Looking for my family, the day before yesterday when you guys wrote your suicide note, you still had someone you could write to, whereas I don’t even have someone to write my suicide note to nowadays.”

“Did Zong do this?” Zhang Xiaoman said.

“Yes,” Ren Xiaosu said calmly.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaoman suddenly realized that no wonder Ren Xiaosu was so hard on Zong and took such initiative to take on the main attack, it turned out that he had hatred in him.

Normally, although Ren Xiaosu did not show any pain, everyone clearly felt the loneliness in Ren Xiaosu.

For example, when everyone was sitting around the campfire, Ren Xiaosu would sit by herself and look at the starry sky.

For example, when everyone would laugh and chat after eating, Ren Xiaosu would still be alone leaning against a big tree and looking into the distance, not knowing what he was thinking.

The day Ren Xiaosu came down from Guanshan was like a bloody man, and Zhang Xiaoman clearly detected the anger that was subsiding from the other party.

“Did you kill the bandits in Guanshan?” Zhang Xiaoman was talking about the main force of Guanshan that had disappeared.

“No,” Ren Xiaosu shook his head, “My brother killed them.”

Zhang Xiaoman choked for a moment, Ren Xiaosu was already so fierce, but he even had a younger brother who could regiment the Guanshan bandits? What kind of family is this ……

Of course, Ren Xiaosu didn’t explain too much.

“But if you leave, won’t the Commander arrange for you to come to the Sharp Knife Company for nothing?” Zhang Xiaoman said doubtfully.

“Does the Commander arrange for me to come to the Pointed Sword Company for any purpose? I was the one who asked to come to the most dangerous place,” Ren Xiaosu said doubtfully.

“Eh, it’s nothing, nothing,” Zhang Xiaoman said, thinking that everyone might have gotten it wrong, how could a person who was going to leave Fort 178 after the war be the commander of the fort?

Or maybe Commander Zhang had other ideas?

Along the way, a total of three ambush positions were passed by, yet without exception, all of these machine gun positions had been taken out in droves.

Ren Xiaosu suddenly asked, “Zhang Jinglin can’t fight either, why are you all listening to him?”

This is Ren Xiaosu’s heart has always been puzzled, northwest of this group of brown man is the most admire the strong, and Zhang Jinglin, although there has been a rescue feat, but also not enough to lead this group of killing billet right?

Zhang Xiaoman shook his head, “I don’t understand it either, but someone once said that the commander shouldn’t have a sword aura on him in the first place, killing is what we should do, what the commander has to do is to tell us who to kill and how to kill.”

When Zhang Xiaoman used the communication radio to report to Zhou Yinglong that they had arrived at the target rendezvous point, Zhou Yinglong was shocked, “The second and third companies are still blocked on the road, how did you guys get here? Didn’t you encounter any ambushes on your way?”

“The ambushes we encountered were all cleared by the mysterious Transcendents,” Zhang Xiaoman told the truth, “We don’t know who did it either.”

“Wasn’t it Ren Xiaosu?” Zhou Yinglong asked.

“We also suspect that he did it, but he’s been by our side all along,” Zhang Xiaoman said, “Battalion Commander, do we need to go and support the Second and Third Companies?”

“No need, the companies all have their own marching routes, the plan can’t be messed up,” Zhou Yinglong said, “The pressure on their side isn’t that great, it’s just a matter of delaying them a bit, the enemy in the ambush isn’t a veteran.”

“Then what do we do now?” Zhang Xiaoman asked.

“You guys familiarize yourselves with the terrain first and get ready to attack Shichuan Town, wait for the second and third companies to rendezvous with you, the rest of the forward battalion’s combat sequences will also arrive the day after tomorrow,” Zhou Yinglong hung up the communication after he finished speaking.

Zhang Xiaoman commanded, “Squad groups 1, 2 and 3 will rest first, and squad groups 4, 5 and 6 will work with me to make improvised fortifications to prevent the enemy in Shichuan Town from coming out to sneak in.”

It had to be said, no matter how Zhang Xiaoman mingled with the forward base on weekdays and asked for ordnance, when it came to the battlefield he was a qualified company commander, and he would not be ambiguous at all about what he should do in wartime.

Ren Xiaosu looked at the distant Shichuan Town through the dense forest, only to see that the abandoned town high-rise buildings have long since collapsed, and all that remains are crumbling two-story small buildings.

Zhang Xiaoman said from the side, “The reinforced concrete that humans rely on for survival is no match for time, as long as there is no renovation and rebuilding, the tall buildings will collapse within two hundred years, and after five hundred years there will be no buildings here, human cities are far from being as sturdy as they are imagined to be.”

“It’s fine if the people are still here,” Ren Xiaosu said suddenly.

Zhang Xiaoman froze for a moment, then laughed, “That’s true, as long as people are still around.”

Since it was near Shichuan Town now, no bonfires could exist, or else they would be used as targets by the artillery in Shichuan Town.

Ren Xiaosu expressed his understanding after hearing this reason, then in the middle of the night, he had nothing to do, so he ran far away and lit several piles of bonfires out, and sure enough, the fires had just flourished, and the artillery within Shichuan Town locked onto those piles of bonfires for a round of frantic shelling.

Zhang Xiaoman and the others sat behind the bunker, listening to the sound of artillery with a confused face, all do not know who the enemy in this Shichuan town is fighting.

When Ren Xiaosu came back slowly, Zhang Xiaoman curiously said, “What did you do?”

“Ao,” Ren Xiaosu explained, “Didn’t you say that lighting bonfires would attract shelling, so I went to light bonfires. I thought it would be good to waste some of their artillery shells, the army in this Shichuan Township is a lone army, there must not be any ammunition to replenish, so maybe we can reduce some casualties?”

Ren Xiaosu was just trying his hand at it, and didn’t think it would really work.

Zhang Xiaoman thought, “I don’t know how Ren Xiaosu’s brain grows.