The war began the moment the Razor Sharp Company captured Mt. Guan. There was no official declaration of war. The first gunshot was the bugle call.
The attack on Shichuan Village was just a small interlude in the overall war. Second and Third Companies also headed to Shichuan Village together with the Razor Sharp Company. That was not a place the Razor Sharp Company could fight on their own.
From now on, they would have to face the Soong Clan's regular troops. These regular troops had received systematic military training and had shot countless targets before. It was just that they had never really been on the battlefield before.
They were completely different from the bandits they had faced before.
According to Zhang Xiaoman, the military skills of these Soong Clan regular troops were not much inferior to those of Fortress 178. The only difference was their experience and ability to adapt to situations on the battlefield.
He also knew what desensitization training entailed.
Some of the Soong Clan recruits would vomit, feel disgusted, and feel fear when they saw their intestines and severed legs. However, the veterans of Fortress 178 would not feel that way.
At the forward operating base, Zhou Yinglong had the orderlies distribute a piece of paper and a pen to everyone in the Razor Sharp Company.
"What's this for?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
Zhang Xiaoman looked up at him. "Writing a will."
"A will?" Ren Xiaosu was stunned.
"Of course. On the surface, it's for everyone to write down whatever they want to say. If you don't make it back, the General Affairs Division will help you deliver the letter to your families. Consider it a form of funeral arrangements. If you make it back, you can go to the General Affairs Division and ask for the letter back." Zhang Xiaoman explained, "We call this thing a will."
"That's so inauspicious," Ren Xiaosu said with a laugh.
"There's nothing inauspicious about it." Zhang Xiaoman shook his head. "Those who are on the battlefield should be indifferent to life and death. Actually, we didn't understand it at the beginning either. But after fighting with the enemies outside Fortress 178 so many times, we've already become numb to it."
"Then who are you writing to?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
"To my parents." Zhang Xiaoman said, "And my wife."
"You're married?"
"Look at what you're saying. I'm almost 30 years old." Zhang Xiaoman chuckled and said, "Can't I get a wife?"
Ren Xiaosu was a little embarrassed. He did not have such a concept in mind, so he thought everyone was single like him.
But it made sense. Zhang Xiaoman was already a company commander, so he was not that young anymore.
"What does it feel like to be married?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
Zhang Xiaoman replied as he wrote the letter, "It's alright. At least I have some hot food to eat when I get home."
"Are you happy?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
Zhang Xiaoman chuckled and raised his head. "Are you thinking of love? Why are you so interested in this matter? Let me put it this way, I only have one year of blissful marriage."
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"…" Ren Xiaosu was speechless.
Zhang Xiaoman suddenly asked, "Aren't you going to write a letter?"
Ren Xiaosu paused for a moment. "I don't know who I should write to."
All the soldiers in the Razor Sharp Company fell silent. They realized this might be the reason why Ren Xiaosu was fighting the Soong Clan so desperately.
After leaving the forward operating base, they could only advance on foot. According to the battle plan, they would reach the outskirts of Shichuan Village on the third day. But from the moment they stepped out of the forward operating base, they would have to be on high alert in case the Soong Clan troops set up an ambush on the outskirts of Shichuan Village.
Ren Xiaosu suddenly asked, "Shichuan Village is on a plain. Although there are forests on the outskirts, it'll still be difficult for us to break into Shichuan Village, right?"
Zhang Xiaoman held the automatic rifle in his hand and explained, "We'll attack with mortars first. With a range of three kilometers, it'll be enough for us to create an opening outside the range of the enemy's heavy machine guns. Only then will we be qualified to engage in urban warfare."
"Do you have a plan?" Ren Xiaosu was skeptical.
"If it really doesn't work, we'll get the artillery troops at the rear to bombard them with large-caliber howitzers." Zhang Xiaoman said, "There's always a way."
On the second night, the sound of gunfire suddenly came from both flanks. The Razor Sharp Company could even hear the heavy machine guns firing from afar.
Zhang Xiaoman frowned. "Second Company and Third Company have been ambushed. We have to be careful too!"
Everyone had expected the Soong Clan to set up an ambush outside Shichuan Village, so it was not really a surprise. Second Company and Third Company were probably prepared for this as well.
Suddenly, gunshots rang out in front of them, but they were still very far away.
Zhang Xiaoman and the others instinctively hid behind a tree on the side of the road. However, no bullets were fired at them.
"That's strange. Who are they aiming at?" Zhang Xiaoman wondered, "Let's keep advancing!"
But even after the Razor Sharp Company had advanced a few hundred meters, they still did not encounter the enemy they were expecting. They did not even hear any gunshots.
"Something's not right." Zhang Xiaoman frowned and said, "We're taking the main road. Could it be that the Soong Clan is trying to mislead us? Fu Rao, Lin Ping 'an, go ahead and scout! "
It was not that Zhang Xiaoman liked to order Fu Rao and Lin Ping 'an around whenever there was danger. There had to be a division of soldiers in this company. In times of danger, the soldiers would be the first to charge forward. This was a division of labor.
Fu Rao and Lin Ping 'an bent down and moved forward along the forest. But before they could get far, they saw the two of them turn back. "Captain, something's not right. The people who ambushed us have been killed. All of them had their throats slit!"
"There's only one platoon at this machine gun position. There were 30 of them, and they were all just killed. They're still bleeding," Lin Ping 'an added.
Zhang Xiaoman looked suspiciously at Ren Xiaosu. "Did you do this?"
"No." Ren Xiaosu shook his head. "Aren't I standing right here?"
"That's true." The soldiers of the Razor Sharp Company were also a little dumbfounded. "Who helped us take out this machine gun position? And they even slit their throats with a knife. Only a supernatural being can do that, right? "
Everyone was puzzled. A mysterious supernatural being had suddenly appeared on the battlefield to do a good deed?
The soldiers of the Razor Sharp Company were no fools. It was obvious that Ren Xiaosu was the one who did this. However, they did not have any evidence.
To be honest, everyone did not even know what superpower Ren Xiaosu had.
Zhang Xiaoman tried to test Ren Xiaosu again. "It really wasn't you?"
"It really wasn't me," Ren Xiaosu said innocently.
When Zhang Xiaoman arrived at the machine gun position, he found a corpse and touched the area between his thumb and index finger. "There aren't any thick calluses, so they're not trained soldiers. They should be a temporary group of refugees or private troops."
"They're all cannon fodder." Jiao Xiaochen said, "It looks like the Soong Clan is trying to use them to wear us down first."
"That's to be expected." Zhang Xiaoman said, "There should be quite a lot of enemy troops in Shichuan Village. A conservative estimate would be that there are at least a thousand of them. But the good news is that most of the enemies we're encountering should be very weak. They can't even control their firing range well."
Shichuan Village was not a very important place to begin with. The reason the Soong Clan had stationed their troops here was purely to give the FOB a hard time strategically.
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