Four Hundred and Six, Destroy the Zong Family

Ren Xiaosu stared at hundreds of grenades in front of him in a daze. For a moment, he didn't know what to say. Second company commander Xu Haichen looked at Zhang Xiaoman and said, "Remember, I gave you all the grenades. To reduce the casualties of our 2nd and 3rd companies, don’t take grenades and go deep alone, otherwise, no matter how great your achievements are, I will go to the commander to sue you.”

In the end, Zhang Xiaoman still used the reason of reducing casualties to impress the second company commander Xu Haichen. When he raided Shichuan Town last night, the second company lost more than ten people. They were all good brothers who trained together and got along day and night. No human life is important, this is the consensus of the officers of Fort 178.

When it's time to fight tough battles, they will fight tough battles, but if there is a better choice, they will definitely give priority to preserving the vitality of their troops.

"Don't worry, don't worry," Zhang Xiaoman said with a smile: "We are all brother troops, how could we do such a thing, come on, come on, Ren Xiaosu quickly put away these grenades, and we will continue to move forward as soon as it gets dark. .”

Ren Xiaosu silently watched Zhang Xiaoman negotiating with the Second Company and the Third Company. A group of soldiers were smoking and chatting together. Some people took off their shoes. This smoke is different from the tobacco smoked by private troops. Even when the soldiers are chatting, they put their firearms in the most convenient position in their arms.

In the past, Old Xu told him that Fort 178 was different. At that time, Ren Xiaosu thought to himself, isn’t it all barriers? How much difference can there be between barriers?

But now he realized that it was really different.

While putting away the grenade, Ren Xiaosu asked Zhang Xiaoman: "I think we should be more careful when advancing. The terrain of Shichuan Town is complicated, and the Zong family has built some new buildings. If they don't keep it all right, there will be someone behind. I always feel that this time Hitting Shichuan Town is too easy."

For Ren Xiaosu, things that are too easy to do will always make him a little uneasy.

Zhang Xiaoman was a little dumbfounded at this moment: "It's so simple? If it weren't for your ability to accurately throw bombs, do you know how many people we would have died in Shichuan Town? The battalion has been spent on this."

Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a moment: "So serious? To fight such a street fight, do you need to consume the entire striker battalion?"

"That's right," Zhang Xiaoman sighed, "Only by destroying this town of Shichuan and cleaning up the long-range artillery that may be hidden here can the rear troops rest assured that they can enter the forward base for repairs before proceeding with the next battle plan."

Jiao Xiaochen added from the side: "Nowadays is a war of modern hot weapons. The role of our vanguard battalion is to remove obstacles in the early stage. In the later stage, we can only serve as scouts, infiltrate and investigate, and fill in some loopholes in the map surveying. There is basically no stage for us.

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"Then are we sent to be cannon fodder now?" Ren Xiaosu frowned, sounding no different from cannon fodder.

As a result, Zhang Xiaoman immediately denied it when he heard this, and he said seriously: "We are not cannon fodder, and Fort 178 never needed such a role as cannon fodder to win the war. It's just that the division of labor in the battle sequence is different. Our sacrifice today is for It can allow the rear troops to win an all-round victory. This is why all candidates for the commander of Fort 178 must come from the sharp knife company. Only those who have fought their lives are qualified to let others work hard for him."

Ren Xiaosu remained silent, and Jiao Xiaochen happily patted him on the shoulder: "Commander Zhang came out of a sharp knife. If we are really cannon fodder, then the commander can be cannon fodder, why can't we?"

Ren Xiaosu suddenly understood at this moment that maybe it was because the previous commanders were willing to take the lead, which gave Fort 178 its current cohesion.

So at the beginning when he said he was going to the most dangerous place, Zhang Jinglin arranged for him to be in Sharp Knife Company. What did he mean?

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

"Of course the Zong family was completely wiped out, all the way to the northeast until Pingluo Mountain," Zhang Xiaoman said: "If a hyena like Zong's troubles are not eliminated forever, there will be no peace in the northwest."

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That night, just after the sun set, the Sharp Knife Company took the lead in attacking the hinterland of Shichuan Town again.

During the daytime, the enemy in Shichuan Town seemed to be ordered to take back the lost ground, but the attackers always suffered from street fighting. The route the enemy chose to break through happened to be where the second and third companies were stationed.

The two company commanders themselves were full of anger, and the more they thought about it, the more uncomfortable Zhang Xiao was, but now that the enemy came to the door, they must be beaten severely.

When they broke through before, there were still heavy machine guns and ammunition in the machine gun positions that were destroyed, but Zhang Xiaoman and the others didn't take them because they had enough weight to carry, so they couldn't take any more.

And all these fallen weapons and ammunition were in the hands of the second company and the third company. When the fire started, the machine gun bullets wanted to be poured out like rain, and several walls collapsed.

Xu Haichen kept yelling from behind the machine gun position, hit him.

The defenders in Shichuan Town rushed several times, but they couldn't break through the defense lines of the second company and the third company, so they had to retreat.

After the raid on the second day, the Sharp Knife Company had advanced 5 kilometers into Shichuan Town with its follow-up troops, and it seemed that only a small number of Zong's defenders were still fighting stubbornly in the northern buildings.

The Shichuan guards who fought in this battle were very aggrieved. They thought their firepower was strong enough. In the entire street fighting battlefield, they had dozens of firepower points, and there were countless soldiers hiding in the buildings who were ready to shoot coldly.

But after two days of fighting, they suddenly felt that the defensive position on their side was as muddy, and they couldn't effectively stop the soldiers of Fort 178 at all.

Sometimes the firepower point is knocked out by the grenade without even seeing anyone!

The beating is too aggrieved!

According to the original plan, they would consume the entire Vanguard Battalion of Fort 178 in Shichuan Town, but the result was that the Vanguard Battalion only came with three companies, and they penetrated Shichuan Town.

In fact, if it weren't for street fighting, the killing effect of grenades on flat ground might not be very good.

But now, those dark rooms, which were originally defensive barriers for the defenders, have now become Ren Xiaosu's targets.

The next night, when Zhang Xiaoman reported the battle situation to battalion commander Zhou Yinglong, Zhou Yinglong felt a little numb. He told Zhang Jinglin earlier that he asked the commander to give him some more time so that Shichuan Town could be defeated safely. down.

Because of this, the armored brigade in the rear postponed their advance plan. As a result, as soon as they bought time, Zhang Xiaoman on the front line told him that Shichuan Town might be taken down tomorrow...