Four Hundred and One, Happy Married Life

The war started from the moment the sharp knives hit Guanshan. There was no formal declaration of war. The first gunshot was the horn of war.

The attack on Shichuan Town was only a small episode in the whole war. The Second Company and the Third Company went to Shichuan Town together with the Sharp Knife Company. There was no place where the Sharp Knife Company could fight independently.

What they will face from now on will be Zong's regular army. These regular troops have received systematic military training and hit countless targets, but they have never actually been on the battlefield.

It is completely different from the bandits I faced before.

According to what Zhang Xiaoman said, the military skills of these Zong's regular troops are not much worse than those of Fort 178, the only difference is their experience and their adaptability on the battlefield.

and what desensitization training entails.

Some Zong recruits would vomit, feel nauseous, fearful, and frightened when they saw their intestines turned out and broken legs, but the veterans of Fort 178 would not.

In the advanced base, Zhou Yinglong asked the orderly to distribute a piece of paper and a pen to everyone in the Sharp Knife Company.

"What is this for?" Ren Xiaosu asked.

Zhang Xiaoman looked up at him: "Write a suicide note."

"Suicide note?" Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment.

"Of course, on the surface, it is for everyone to write down what they want to say. If you can't come back, the affairs department will help you send the letter to your family. It's an account of the funeral. If you come back, you can go to the affairs department. Take the letter away," Zhang Xiaoman explained: "We all call this thing a suicide note."

"That's unlucky," Ren Xiaosu said amusedly.

"It's nothing unlucky." Zhang Xiaoman shook his head: "People who go to the battlefield should take life and death lightly. In fact, we didn't understand it at first, but after fighting the enemies outside Fort 178 so many times, we wrote several suicide notes. , has long been numb."

"Then who are you writing this for?" Ren Xiaosu asked curiously.

"Write to my parents," Zhang Xiaoman said, "and my daughter-in-law."

"you are married?"

"Look at what you said, I'm almost thirty years old," Zhang Xiaoman said with a cheerful smile, "I can't ask for a wife yet?"

Ren Xiaosu was a little embarrassed. He didn't have the concept in his mind, so he thought everyone was single like him.

Thinking about it, Zhang Xiaoman has become a company commander, and he is not too young.

"What does it feel like to get married?" Ren Xiaosu asked curiously.

"It's okay, it's so-so, I'll have a hot meal when I get home," Zhang Xiaoman said while writing a letter.

"Are you happy?" Ren Xiaosu asked.

Zhang Xiaoman raised his head cheerfully: "You must be Sichun, why are you so interested in this matter, let me tell you this, I only have one year of happy married life."

"That feels pretty good," Ren Xiaosu said.

Jiao Xiaochen next to him laughed loudly and said, "You don't understand, he has been married for ten years."

Ren Xiaosu: "..."

Zhang Xiaoman suddenly asked: "Aren't you writing letters?"

Ren Xiaosu paused for a while: "I don't know who to write to."

All the soldiers in the Sharp Knife Company suddenly fell silent, and they realized that this might be the reason why Ren Xiaosu beat Zong so hard.

After coming out of the advance base, they can only advance on foot. According to the battle plan, they will reach the outskirts of Shichuan Town on the third day, but they must be on full alert from the moment they walk out of the advance base, so as not to prevent the Zong's army from being in the outskirts of Shichuan Town. Ambush in advance.

Ren Xiaosu suddenly asked: "Shichuan Town is on a plain. Although there are forests around it, it will be difficult for us to break through and enter Shichuan Town."

Holding the automatic rifle in his hand, Zhang Xiaoman explained: "Use mortars first. The three-kilometer range is enough for us to create a gap outside the range of the enemy's heavy machine guns. Only then will we be qualified to enter street fighting." .”

"Is there a score?" Ren Xiaosu was skeptical.

"If it doesn't work, let the rear artillery fire with large-caliber howitzers," Zhang Xiaoman said, "There is always a way."

On the night of the second day of marching, suddenly the sound of guns and cannons came from the two wings, and the rattling of heavy machine guns could be heard even from here and even far away.

Zhang Xiaoman frowned: "Erlian and Sanlian are in ambush, let's be more careful!"

Everyone expected that the Zong family would set up an ambush outside Shichuan Town, so it was not a surprise. Presumably, Erlian and Sanlian had also prepared.

There was also sudden gunshots in front of them, but the gunshots were still far away.

Zhang Xiaoman and the others subconsciously hid behind the trees beside the road, but no bullets came.

"Strange, who is this shot?" Zhang Xiaoman asked in confusion, "Go ahead!"

It's just that the sharp knife company continued to move forward for several hundred meters, but it still didn't see the imagined enemy, and didn't even hear a single gunshot.

"It's not right," Zhang Xiaoman said with a frown, "We're taking the main road. Could it be that the Zong family has set up a suspicious formation? Fu Rao, Lin Ping'an, you two go ahead and find out!"

It's not that Zhang Xiaoman likes to order Fu Rao and Lin Pingan when he's in danger, there must be some vanguards in this company, and the vanguards themselves have to rush forward when they're in danger. This is because of the different division of labor.

Fu Rao and Lin Ping'an walked along the woods and bent forward, but they hadn't gone far when they turned back and said, "Company commander, that's not right, the person who ambushed us has been killed. , all of them were wiped off their necks!"

"There is only one combat team in this machine gun position, thirty of them have just died, and the blood is still bleeding," Lin Pingan added.

Zhang Xiaoman looked at Ren Xiaosu suspiciously: "What did you do?"

"No," Ren Xiaosu shook his head: "Isn't I standing here?"

"That's right." The soldiers of the Sharp Knife Company were also a little confused: "Who helped us beat up this machine gun position? And they still wiped their necks with knives. Only extraordinary people can do this, right?"

Everyone was puzzled, a mysterious transcendent suddenly appeared on the battlefield to do good deeds?

The soldiers of the Sharp Knife Company were not fools, it was clear that Ren Xiaosu did it, but they didn't have any evidence...

To be honest, everyone still doesn't know Ren Xiaosu's ability.

Zhang Xiaoman tested Ren Xiaosu again: "Is it really you?"

"It's really not me," Ren Xiaosu said innocently.

Zhang Xiaoman came to the machine gun position. He found a corpse and touched the tiger's mouth: "There is no thick callus, and it is not a trained soldier. It should be a temporary team formed by refugees, or a private army."

"It's all cannon fodder," Jiao Xiaochen said, "It seems that Zong wants to use cannon fodder to consume us first."

"As expected," Zhang Xiaoman said, "there will be many enemy troops in Shichuan Town, and it is conservatively estimated that there are thousands of them. But the good news is that most of the enemies we encounter now should be weak, and they can shoot at a good range. The bad kind."

Shichuan Town was not a very important place at all, the reason why the Zong clan stationed troops here was purely a strategically disgusting advance base.