Chapter 875, Departure
In the evening, it was quiet in the camp of the Firebolt 3rd Division, everyone had already had dinner in the afternoon, the temporary change of meal time was a precursor to preparing for a surprise attack.
On the town, the artillery units were already in position, this time there would be an infantry brigade advancing into the northern woods, and all the artillery units would have to do was, when this infantry brigade was ready to retreat, they would be responsible for covering it.
The artillery unit did not choose to leave at night, because there were searchlights at the head of the city, and at night when the searchlights were all lit up it would result in all of their own troops being exposed to the barbarians’ view.
But if deliberately close the searchlight, that will also cause the attention of the barbarians, after all, you every day on time to open the searchlight, today does not open, who all know you have a ghost.
So the best way is to march directly in the evening and quickly cross the area illuminated by the searchlights.
They calculated that although spring had already started, the northern sky darkened at around 5:00 p.m. They still had 38 minutes to use to cross the terrain.
Ren Xiaosu had also wondered, since there was an artillery unit, then why not just carry out a saturation bombardment, before the fire did not also carry out plowing artillery attacks, why not now, to know that this forest is still within the range of artillery fire ah, the distance is only a few kilometers away from each other.
However, P5092 explained to him that the forest in the north covers an area of nearly 10,000 acres, and even if the supplies were not destroyed, it is impossible for them to carry out a saturation attack on a piece of forest, in comparison, it is more cost-effective to use human lives to exchange for precision strikes.
Ren Xiaosu had to admit, this is the thinking of the commander, weapons, people, are just pieces on the chessboard, they are interested in is to win, this win need to use their own which pieces to exchange for more cost-effective, is what they have to consider.
Ren Xiaosu thought, when the future really P5092 to bring to the Northwest later to talk to him, the Northwest people are not afraid of sacrifice, but this can not sacrifice better ah.
In the eyes of Ren Xiaosu, he always felt that as long as people are still there, everything is still possible.
Of course, this is also the reason why he can not be a military commander.
For P5092, now that supplies are tight, it is even more necessary to be careful when using ammunition, today at noon Ren Xiaosu found that the food ration in the field hospital has been reduced to half of what it used to be, and a lot of people are complaining that they don’t have enough to eat.
From here, it can also be seen that there is indeed a problem with the supply of materials for the Fire Seed, and the destruction of the supplies at the rear forward base has had a very significant impact on the Fire Seed.
At this time, the sun finally fell into the distant horizon, and the light rapidly dimmed.
The gates under the Great Wall were slowly lifted up by a gap of more than half a man’s height, and the Third Division’s infantry brigade quickly passed through the gates.
Ren Xiaosu, on the other hand, rejoined an independent reconnaissance company, and he put on the Fireblood’s combat uniform and tactical undershirt, and then carefully examined the night-vision devices, automatic firearms, pistols, and so on.
It had to be said that this Fire Seed reconnaissance company was equipped with very luxurious equipment, and one of the automatic rifles was equipped with two sights, one for optical sighting and the other for holographic sighting.
This reconnaissance company was equivalent to the special forces within the third division, generally performing difficult missions such as rescues, infiltrations, decapitations, and so on.
Ren Xiaosu took a look at the other “comrades” and realized that they even had 40mm single-shot grenade launchers on them, and each platoon had six men to provide heavy fire support.
Just as Ren Xiaosu was sizing them up, the elite of the reconnaissance company were also sizing Ren Xiaosu up, they had long known that Ren Xiaosu was a friend of Officer P5092, but they did not expect that this teenager would be taking part in this battle as well.
To be honest, Ren Xiaosu had also never shown any ability in terms of combat ah, and the mission given to them by the combat staff this time was surprisingly not a raid, nor a decapitation or infiltration, but to protect this teenager.
As for the rest, just follow this teenager, Ren Xiaosu will be their temporary commander.
The company commander of the reconnaissance company hesitated for half a day or couldn’t help but explain, “When we enter the battlefield, you will stay in the middle of the team, don’t do any extra operations, so that we can protect your safety.”
Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, and the other party said it more politely, he nodded, “Don’t worry, I know your mission is to protect me, but I don’t need to be protected.”
The reconnaissance company commander thought to himself, “You don’t need protection? It’s really blowing up, but they’ve seen this kind of person before, their self-confidence was bursting before they went to war, and when they went to war they didn’t even know which way to go.
Reconnaissance company such combat sequence are all battle-hardened, they naturally have their arrogance, in the battlefield, they have always been the most trustworthy comrades of others, if a full-scale war really breaks out, all the fighters will want to have such an elite troop by their side to collaborate in the battle.
So they knew the battlefield very well and had dealt with the barbarians, what the scout company commander knew very well was that even if a Transcendent faced a siege of those barbarians with extremely strong physical qualities, it wouldn’t end well.
He asked again, “Then can I ask sir, our mission is to protect you, so what is your mission?”
“O, my mission?” Ren Xiaosu frowned and pondered, “I don’t know what my specific mission is, let’s improvise.”
The scout company commander was at a loss for words, how is this even a target?
What exactly were these people of their own going to the battlefield for?
Ren Xiaosu smiled and patted his shoulder, “Take it easy, it’ll be fine, you guys just follow me and cover fire, right, what’s your number.”
“T40219,” replied the reconnaissance company commander, he sighed in his heart, I’m afraid there will be trouble this time when he enters the battlefield.
Ren Xiaosu asked again, “T4, not bad, what are the ranks of the other soldiers?”
“All T3,” T40219 replied.
Ren Xiaosu nodded, all T3, the overall physical quality of this reconnaissance company is good, it looks like it’s the sharpest soldiers in the third division, he said to T40219, “Since they’re all T3s, then when I speed up later on you guys all stay close to me, don’t fall behind.”
T40219 was on the verge of laughing out loud, fall out? How could a reconnaissance company fall behind?
But Ren Xiaosu didn’t say anything else, instead he directly led the scout company to drill out of the gate, the gate slowly fell behind them, T40219 said in a cold voice over the communication channel, “All squads check the communication channel.”
“Roger.”
“Roger.”
“Roger.”
After they quickly crossed the area illuminated by the searchlights, T40219 said, “Bullets, turn on the helmet cameras.”
This way, their combat footage would be transmitted back to the command headquarters in real time, and Bullet was the codename of one of the team members.
The dreary twilight and night were changing, Ren Xiaosu looked back at the scout battalion behind him, not realizing that the other side would still have a codename, he thought that the other side addressed each other with a number.
At a certain moment Ren Xiaosu wondered, would these soldiers of the Fire Seed desire to have a real name for themselves, not just a number?