Chapter 432, Forced by Life

The old man looked at the Sharpshooter Company and the others from the side and didn’t know how to react, instead, the little girl actually laughed when she saw the two of them, Zhang Xiaoman and Jiao Xiao Chen, bickering.

The world of children is simple, they don’t understand how scary this world is yet.

Ren Xiaosu asked the old man, “Which is the closest ledge here?”

“Barrier 144,” the old man answered truthfully, “About sixty kilometers to the west.”

Ren Xiaosu looked at Zhang Xiaoman, “Can you determine our position?”

“Can,” Zhang Xiaoman nodded, “Barrier 144 is the Zong Clan’s granary, as 70% of the good land is near Barrier 144, it can be said that this is a barrier built specifically for food resources, just like Qing Clan’s Barrier 114.”

“I see,” Ren Xiaosu nodded, “Then let’s start near the 144 Barrier.”

Jiao Xiao Chen suddenly asked, “What about this old man and little girl? Don’t care? What if they report it?”

The old man was instantly anxious: “Don’t worry sir, we will never report to Zong, you’re from Fortress 178, right? Honestly, we, the people, are hoping that you’ll come.”

Zong’s treatment of the stragglers was so harsh that he had already lost the hearts of the people among the stragglers.

Ren Xiaosu suddenly said, “If not for the fact that Zong’s has already conscripted all of the light and strong, we might still be able to organize the stragglers and form an armed force behind the enemy lines to encircle the barriers, and when I used to listen to Mr. Zhang’s lectures, he said that there was such a division of a hundred battles …… ”

These words gave Zhang Xiaoman and the others a blank stare, but now they are not in this condition.

Someone beside them asked, “Master, do you still have food here?”

The reason for asking this was because they were short of dry food, although there was food that Ren Xiaosu had brought with her, but at that time, Sister Xiaoyu had prepared it for Ren Xiaosu alone.

According to Sister Xiaoyu’s idea, these things were enough to keep Ren Xiaosu in the wilderness for three months without bothering to find something to eat.

There were more things, but they couldn’t help that there were more people in the Sharp Knives Company. What one person ate for three months, 184 people would only eat for two days.

So their immediate task was to find food.

Ren Xiaosu could have planted potato shooters, but this means of consuming thank you coins must be used only as a last resort ah.

However, he heard the old man say, “Where do we have any food here, it was all seized away by the Zong Clan, and they turned it over even though they secretly hid some before.”

Ren Xiaosu glanced at the basket the old man was carrying, inside were some wild vegetables, it looked like just now when he took the little girl out, he was digging up wild vegetables, the old man wasn’t lying.

“Then what do we do?” Jiao Xiao Chen asked.

Zhang Xiaoman waved his hand, “It’s fine, let’s go bomb the factory, there are so many workers in the factory, can there still be no food?”

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately headed west, looking for uniforms, looking for food, these two things were solved together.

Things went even smoother than expected as they didn’t get far before they saw a factory with white smoke coming from the chimneys.

The sharp knife company raided in from two directions under careful planning, and the result was that they didn’t even see a decent guard force, only two people from the private forces were there, and these two people directly knelt down and begged for forgiveness when they saw Ren Xiaosu and the others, and there wasn’t much of a spirit of resistance at …… all.

There were also the stragglers in the factory, who all honestly came out and stood in line.

Zhang Xiaoman wondered, “A factory with only two people watching?”

The private trooper knelt down and replied, “Both have been drawn into the Zong’s army ……”

“Alright,” Zhang Xiaoman said as he collected their guns, “Take out some of the food you have here, we want to take it away.”

The two soldiers from the private force were about to say something, but they ended up doing as they were told.

However, Zhang Xiaoman was stunned when they saw the food on the other side, only to see the moldy nesting heads in front of them, he was surprised, “Is this the only thing in this factory? Come out a straggler and answer me.”

A straggler said, “Sir, this is what we usually eat.”

Zhang Xiaoman’s face instantly darkened, no wonder Zong was unpopular, no wonder that old man said that he was looking forward to 178 Fortress to fight over, so this was the kind of life the stragglers were living.

Ren Xiaosu sighed, although the Qing Clan is also a consortium and also oppresses the stragglers, but at least the stragglers are able to get enough to eat in the factories.

It is not that Qing s how good it is, but it mainly depends on the peers to set it off ……

Jiao Xiao Chen broke open a nest, but saw that the moldy nest was even mixed with wheat rind: “Can this thing really eat? Won’t it kill you if you eat it?”

“Sir, it’s good to be alive,” the straggler replied.

This factory was for copper refining, so the Pointed Sword Company found neither clothes nor Zong’s uniforms, which made it a bit difficult for Zhang Xiaoman to find, he looked to Ren Xiaosu, “We can’t eat this, it’s okay if it’s hard to eat, we’ve eaten hard food before, but we really can’t eat moldy stuff, it’ll affect our combat effectiveness.”

“I guess this is the case in the nearby factories,” Ren Xiaosu lamented, “So if you want to find food, you have to go to Zong’s to find it.”

“144 Barrier is known as the Zong’s granary, surely we can find food there, right? And destroying this so-called granary will surely give the Zong a big headache, fighting a war and not being able to eat, maybe the troops are going to mutiny.”

“Dream on,” Zhang Xiaoman laughed and scolded, “There is at least a regiment of defenders in the 144 barriers, how are we going to fight?”

Ren Xiaosu suddenly said, “Let’s hit their transportation unit!”

Originally, the Pointed Sword Company didn’t want to get into contact with the Zong’s regular army here, after all, this was someone else’s rear.

But now it’s impossible not to fight, if you don’t fight, you will starve to death, life is forced ah ……

No one can think that a bloody storm on the Zong’s territory is caused by the need to find food.

Two days later, the Zong’s command headquarters suddenly received a briefing that a food transportation team outside the 144 Barrier had been knocked out by a small group of enemy troops, and that the other side was a company from the 178th Fortress, which hadn’t been able to wipe out the transportation team in its entirety.

Now the infantry regiment defenders of the 144th Barrier are in full pursuit of this company.

The frontline generals at the command headquarters frowned when they received the news. 144 Barrier had a special geographic location, and 178 Fortress had to cross the river to get here, but 178 Fortress didn’t have any ships of their own, so they didn’t worry much about this place in their previous strategic deployment.

But I didn’t expect that 144 Barrier still had problems.

Command sent a document to the 144th Barrier, instructing the infantry regiment commander to make sure to clear out this company to ensure the safety of the rear supply line!

However, just a few hours after the document was sent out, news came back from the 144th Barrier side, saying that it had lost the chase ……

The general in charge of logistics at the command headquarters was furious, on his own territory, he could even lose the enemy!

Find! We must find this company, or else you won’t be able to do your job as a regimental commander!