Chapter 406, Knocking Out Zong

Ren Xiaosu stared blankly at the hundreds of grenades laid out in front of him, for a moment he didn’t know what to say, the second company commander Xu Haichen looked at Zhang Xiaoman and said, “You give me to remember, give you all the grenades that is to want to reduce the casualties of our second and third companies, you don’t want to take grenades deep into the lone army, otherwise even if your sharp knife company make even more credit, I’m going to go to the commander to sue you. you.”

In the end, Zhang Xiaoman still used the reason of reducing casualties to impress Xu Haichen, the commander of the second company, last night when the raid on Shichuan town, the second company side attrition of more than ten people, that are all together, training, spend time with the good brothers, the war work is far less important than the human life, which is the consensus of the officers of the 178th Fortress.

When it was time to fight a tough battle, they would fight a tough battle, but if there was a better option, they would definitely prioritize preserving the living forces of their own troops.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry,” Zhang Xiaoman laughed, “We’re all brotherly troops, how could we possibly do something like that, come on, Ren Xiaosu hurry up and put these grenades away, we’ll continue to push forward as soon as it gets dark.”

Ren Xiaosu silently watched Zhang Xiaoman negotiating with the second and third companies, right next to him there was a group of soldiers who were piling up to smoke and chat, some people even took their shoes off, the whole building had a strange smell of foot odor mixed with the smell of cigarette smoke, but this smoke was different from the tobacco that was smoked by the private forces, the soldiers even when chatting put their firearms in the smoothest position in their arms.

In the past, Lao Xu told him that 178 fortresses were different, at that time Ren Xiaosu thought to himself that they were not all barriers, how much difference could there be between barriers and barriers?

But now he realized that it really wasn’t the same.

Ren Xiaosu asked Zhang Xiaoman while collecting the grenades, “I think we should be more careful in the next push, this Shichuan Town has a complicated terrain, and Zong has built some new buildings, so it’s not possible that they will leave something behind. I always feel that hitting Shichuan Town this time is a bit too simple.”

For Ren Xiaosu, things that could be done too simply would always make him a little uneasy.

Zhang Xiaoman was a bit teary-eyed at this point: “This is still simple? If it wasn’t for your ability to drop bombs accurately, do you know how many people we would have to die in this Shichuan Town? You don’t even know that Battalion Commander Zhou had originally planned to spend the entire vanguard battalion on this.”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, “That serious? To fight such an alley battle, you need to consume the entire vanguard battalion?”

“Right,” Zhang Xiaoman sighed, “Only by knocking out this Shichuan town and clearing out any long range artillery that may be hidden here can the rear troops feel comfortable enough to enter the forward base to recuperate and proceed with the next part of the battle plan.”

Jiao Xiao Chen added next to him, “Nowadays it’s a war of modern hot weapons, what about the role of our forward battalion, in the early stages it’s to clear the obstacles, in the later stages it’ll only be able to act as scouts, infiltration reconnaissance, and to patch up some of the holes in the mapping and surveying, there’s basically no stage for us on the frontal battlefield.”

“So are we being sent as cannon fodder now?” Ren Xiaosu frowned, how it sounded no different from cannon fodder.

As a result, Zhang Xiaoman immediately dismissed this when he heard this, and said seriously, “We are not cannon fodder, and Fortress 178 has never needed such a role as cannon fodder to win a war, it’s just that there is a different division of labor in the combat sequence, and the sacrifices that we make today are so that the rear forces can achieve a full victory. This is also the reason why all 178th Fortress commander candidates must come from the Sharp Dagger Company, right, only those who have put their lives on the line are qualified to have others go and put their lives on the line for him.”

Ren Xiaosu was silent, Jiao Xiao Chen cheerfully patted him on the shoulder, “Commander Zhang came out from the sharp knife company, if we are really cannon fodder, then the commander can be cannon fodder, why can’t we be?”

Ren Xiaosu suddenly realized at this moment that perhaps it was because successive commanders were willing to be the first to die that Fort 178 had the cohesion it had today.

So when he had said that he wanted to come to the most dangerous place, so Zhang Jinglin had placed himself in the Sharpshooter Company, what exactly did he mean?

“Where are we going to fight this war?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

“Of course it’s to completely knock out Zong, all the way towards the northeast, until we reach Pingluo Mountain,” Zhang Xiaoman said, “A hyena like Zong, if we don’t put an end to it forever, there will be no peace in the northwest.”

……

That night, just after the sun had set, the Pointed Sword Company led another attack into the hinterland of Shichuan Town.

During the day, the enemy in Shichuan Town seemed to have gotten orders to retake the lost ground, but alley warfare has always been a disadvantage for the attacking side, and the line the enemy chose to break through happened to be where the second and third companies were stationed.

Those two company commanders themselves were carrying a lot of fire, and the more they were angered by Zhang Xiaoman, the harder they thought about it, and as a result, now that the enemy had come to their doorsteps, it was definitely time to hit them hard.

Before the breakthrough, knocked out the machine gun position there are heavy machine guns and ammunition, Zhang Xiaoman they did not take, because they themselves load enough, can not take it again.

These weapons and ammunition were all in the hands of the second and third companies, and when the fight started, the machine gun bullets poured out like rain, and the walls collapsed on several sides.

Xu Haichen behind the machine gun position has been roaring, hit him.

The defenders on this side of Shichuan Town rushed several waves, but could not break through the defense line of the second and third companies, so they had to retreat.

The next day after the raid, the sharp knife company had already pushed 5 kilometers into the town of Shichuan with their followers, and only a small portion of the Zong’s defenders were left to resist in the northern buildings.

This battle was very frustrating for the Shichuan Town defenders, they thought they had enough firepower, throughout the alley battlefield, they had dozens of fire points, and there were even more soldiers hiding in the buildings ready to shoot coldly.

However, after two days of fighting, they suddenly felt that their own side of the defense position with the same as the mud pinch, can not cause any effective block on the 178 fortress soldiers.

Sometimes the fire points were knocked out by grenades without even seeing them!

The fight was too stifling!

According to the original plan, they would consume the entire Forward Battalion of Fortress 178 in Shichuan Town, but it turned out that the Forward Battalion had only come with three companies, and they had penetrated the Shichuan Town side.

In fact, if it wasn’t a street battle, the killing effect of grenades on flat ground wasn’t necessarily that good.

And now, that one black hole of a house, which was originally a defense barrier for the defenders, had now become a target for Ren Xiaosu.

The next night, when Zhang Xiaoman gave the battalion commander Zhou Yinglong a report on the battle, Zhou Yinglong was feeling a little bit numb, before he gave Zhang Jinglin that he would ask the commander to give him some more time so that he could bring down Shichuan Town peacefully.

The rear armored brigades have all suspended their advance plans as a result, and as a result, this has just bought time, and Zhang Xiaoman on the front line told him that he might be able to bring down Shichuan Town tomorrow ……