Chapter 427, The Lone Warrior

The ferry was slowly approaching over towards the shore, a group of people were lying on the deck carefully surveying the area, Zhang Xiaoman said, “There are no lights, but I can see that there are no buildings on the shore, there should be no enemies.”

“This should be a very desolate place, maybe we’ve long drifted past the Zong’s military garrison,” Jiao Xiao Chen analyzed, “The speed at which we drifted on the river is probably about eleven kilometers per hour, it’s been a day and a night and we’ve drifted out for two hundred kilometers, it’s already far away from the main battlefield, ah. ”

“That also needs to be careful, even if we meet some stragglers and give away our trail, it’s not good,” Zhang Xiaoman said seriously.

“Then if we encounter stragglers, do we kill them?” Jiao Xiao Chen asked.

“It’s not like this war has anything to do with the stragglers, don’t kill innocent civilians,” Zhang Xiaoman frowned and said, “Have you forgotten the discipline of our 178 Fortress.”

“But ……,” Jiao Xiao Chen wanted to say, they are now alone deep behind the enemy lines, if the stragglers give away the trail, it could be doomed ah.

However, Zhang Xiaoman denied, “There’s nothing but, if we want to kill civilians indiscriminately, what’s the difference between that and Zong’s?”

“Alright,” Jiao Xiao Chen responded.

In fact, this was completely adding to the danger factor for the Sharp Dagger Company, but Fortress 178 had their own insistence, and no one could say whether this choice was right or wrong.

Of course, if 178 Fortress hadn’t been so adherent to their principles, they wouldn’t have been favored by the people of the Northwest.

In fact, after 178 Fortress declared war with the Zong Clan, even some of the people in the Zong Clan’s territory were talking about it, and secretly, they even spoke a bit more toward 178 Fortress.

What it boiled down to was that people felt that if 178 Fortress ousted the Zong Clan, everyone’s days would be a little better and taxes might be lower.

“But where do we go after we disembark?” Fu Rao suddenly wondered, at this time the gunshot wound on Fu Rao’s body had already healed on the third day after the black medicine had been applied, “The only way to go back in this neighborhood is the Beiwan Bridge, but the Beiwan Bridge has already been blown up by the Qing Clan, and there might still be quite a lot of Zong Clan troops stationed there, so how are we going to go back?”

“We’re not going back!” Zhang Xiaoman said with a wave of his hand, “Our vanguard battalion is mainly responsible for the early stage of the battle, the entire vanguard battalion’s mission will be over after we knocked down Qiangwan Mountain and Beiwan Bridge, and for the rest of the time, we can only watch the armored brigade and their performances, so what’s the point of going back at this time.”

“Not going back? Why do we have to compete with the Armored Brigade, our firepower isn’t as strong as theirs, and even though we’ve won so many battles, the first credit must still go to them,” Jiao Xiao Chen said, puzzled.

Zhang Xiaoman said, “That’s why we have to grab the first credit, only the first credit will be remembered, understand?”

“It doesn’t make much sense,” Jiao Xiao Chen muttered.

“How is it meaningless,” Zhang Xiaoman asked with a sneer, “Do you know what the highest mountain in the world is?”

Jiao Xiao Chen shook his head, “I don’t know.”

Zhang Xiaoman immediately choked, he wanted to say that the world only remembers the first peak in the world, but not the second or third, but Jiao Xiao Chen, an illiterate, didn’t even know the first peak, so he couldn’t even follow up on that!

At this time, Ren Xiaosu suddenly said, “Did Battalion Commander Zhou say that the main force of the fortress is going to start the battle at the Wuchuan Mountain line north of the Heishi River? How long do you guys think it will be fought there?”

“A few months, at least three months,” Zhang Xiaoman said, “Although I despise Zong, but after all, so many soldiers to the Wuchuan Mountain pile, it is enough for us to fight for several months, besides, strength and weakness are relative, Zong is also a modernized force, the Commander wants to break through the line of the Wuchuan Mountain, it is not that easy, it may be possible to fight for half a year. It’s not that easy, it might be possible to fight for half a year.”

If the Wuchuan Mountain line is breached, it is basically the same as declaring Zong’s war defeat in advance.

Ren Xiaosu said, “At this time, all of Zong’s troops will definitely be gathering towards the Wuchuan Mountain line, and their rear defense will definitely be empty, so let’s go and invade their northern industrial forces, those factories are outside the barriers, and the defending forces will definitely be weak, and some of the factories don’t even have private troops stationed there.”

Zhang Xiaoman’s eyes lit up, “That’s a good idea, Ren Xiaosu how did you come up with that.”

“It wasn’t my idea,” Ren Xiaosu sighed, “It’s Qing’s way of dealing with Yang, and right now Zong’s and Yang’s situation is almost the same, both have empty rear areas.”

Qing Zhen’s tactics against the Yang Clan pointed a clear path out for Ren Xiaosu.

Zhang Xiaoman and the others looked at each other in dismay, if it was an ordinary company, it would never be able to disrupt the entire Zong’s northern industrial system, knowing that Qing’s plan had organized a regiment of bandit forces.

But they can pick a portion of the factories to fight.

Jiao Xiao Chen laughed: “This idea is really good, don’t need to cause much damage, as long as you can make Zong’s headache is good, then let’s plan it out and see which factories are better to knock out Zong’s?”

As a result of this, Ren Xiaosu froze as he said, “I mean, hit them all ……”

Silence fell on the deck once again, and Zhang Xiaoman laughed dryly, “Let’s not joke around.”

“No kidding,” Ren Xiaosu said seriously, “I’m afraid you haven’t seen the private forces in the barriers for years, their order has long since collapsed, the kind that may not even hit the target with a fifty meter shot.”

“Then what if Zong’s hands are freed up to hunt us down?” Zhang Xiaoman said blankly.

“Then run,” Ren Xiaosu said, “Don’t worry, I have a solution for this.”

At this point, the people of the Sharp Dagger Company all thought that Ren Xiaosu was a Transcendent with two abilities, which was already very impressive.

But in fact, Ren Xiaosu still retained his bottom card.

It was something that was going to deal a fatal blow to Zong and Zong Chen and overwhelm the last straw for the other side.

With a thud, the bottom of the ferry bumped into the mud and sand next to the shore, and the sharp knife companies jumped off the boat one after another, completing their formation assembly in just two minutes, and began to infiltrate the shore in a triangular arrowhead formation.

In an unfamiliar place, the most taboo is to scatter the troops, so they must coalesce together, to die together, to live together.

178 Fortress and Zong’s forces looked down from the sky, the south and north were clearly separated, the east was the avenue to the Central Plains, and the west was the Gobi Desert, which stretched all the way to the Alashan League in the north.

And now, in that clear-cut distribution of power camps, there was a strange company mixed in with it, heading all the way north.

Zhang Xiaoman was walking in the team, Ren Xiaosu had already taken advantage of everyone’s inattention to release his shadow, and suddenly he heard Zhang Xiaoman say: ”Brothers, we will no longer have any reinforcements this time, and no one will be able to turn back from a single road to the black. If I die, you guys can remember to make sure to bring back my big grooved teeth.”

Ren Xiaosu said in a cold voice, “You’d better not die, or else I’ll knock all the teeth out of your mouth and choose a better looking one to take away.”

Zhang Xiaoman shivered, “So damn ruthless.”