Due to Fortress 178's desperate battle at Mt. Wuchuan, those damned fools were able to force the Soong Clan into a steady retreat.
This was the principle of "an army with indignation is bound to win."
It seemed that Zhang Jinglin, who was at the front lines, had suddenly turned the fact that their retreat route had been cut off into a good thing. All of the soldiers of Fortress 178 were united against a common enemy, and all of them were fearless of death.
Of course, this was something that could only be achieved with many years of faith. Moreover, this would not change the precarious situation that Fortress 178 was in.
For the past two days, Zhang Jinglin had been silent. When some of the generals came to ask about how to resolve the Soong Clan's surprise attack on Fortress 178, he said he had not thought of a solution yet.
The generals found it a little strange that Commander Zhang seemed to be a little out of his wits. Usually, he would have made up his mind no matter how difficult the situation was. But now, he was being led around by the nose by the Soong Clan?
So what if they had been winning battles at Mt. Wuchuan? Their hometown was almost gone.
This matter made the generals a little angry. One of them even had his hair turn white overnight. Everyone's family and friends were still in the fortress.
Someone privately asked Lin Yuze, who was in charge of the chow hall, "How's the commander's appetite these past few days?"
This was because someone wanted to see if Zhang Jinglin had any tricks up his sleeves. If he did, his appetite would probably be the same as usual. If not, his appetite would probably be much smaller.
The generals of Fortress 178 all knew about this. It could be considered to be one of Zhang Jinglin's quirks that they had figured out a long time ago.
However, Lin Yuze said with a bitter expression, "The commander hasn't eaten for two days …."
The generals of Fortress 178 all had bitter expressions on their faces. This time, Commander Zhang was so worried that he didn't even eat?!
Meanwhile, Zong Ying had suffered a series of defeats. Although the commander-in-chief knew everything would change in a few more days, the problem was that he still had to give an explanation for the current situation.
This explanation was for the Board. Victory was not the only thing that mattered in a war. During the war, there would still be a large number of people thinking about how to hold someone accountable and how to eliminate dissidents by doing so.
As for Zong Ying's position, many people were eyeing it. Once the follow-up plan succeeded, it would be an unprecedented victory in history.
To be honest, many people wanted to pluck Zong Ying's peaches.
At this time, the Board had already sent someone to question them, and Zong Ying stated that all of this was Zong Wu's responsibility. If Zong Wu had not led the 131st Brigade away, this would not have happened.
After all, the position guarded by the 131st Brigade was extremely important, and now Zong Wu had abandoned the interests of the consortium because of the robbery. This could be considered a deserter.
This action of fleeing before the battle affected the overall situation and disrupted all the deployment at the frontline.
The Board contacted Zong Wu, but Zong Wu scolded and said that Zong Ying couldn't even protect the rear, so how could he win the war?
Both sides were in the process of wrangling, pushing the blame onto each other.
But Zong Wu, who was leading the 131st Brigade, had already lost track of the Razor Sharp Company's whereabouts. He knew very well that he was not guilty of leaving the battlefield at the last minute. It would be easier for the Board to become suspicious of him if he transferred his assets during wartime.
What would he face after the war? It was bound to be a storm.
Therefore, something unexpected happened. Zong Wu actually ran away with the 131st Brigade!
Although mechanized troops relied heavily on logistics, since Zong Wu dared to run away, he must have found a good home in the Central Plains.
The act of bringing a mechanized army to their side was something that everyone would welcome!
With this escape, everyone in the Soong Clan was disgusted. Meanwhile, Zong Ying heaved a sigh of relief. That was because Zong Wu's incident had covered up the fact that they had lost the war, so no one would have the time to care about him anymore.
The most important thing for Zong Ying to do at this moment was to hold off Fortress 178's attack at the top of Wuchuan. If the Soong Clan were defeated before the follow-up plan succeeded, that would really become a joke.
…
It was quiet at night in Stronghold 146. Ren Xiaosu guessed that there might be a curfew here. Otherwise, there wouldn't be no pedestrians at all. Furthermore, troops would patrol the area from time to time.
It was not difficult for Ren Xiaosu to hide from the patrolling platoons. The difficult part now was how to locate the Soong Clan's higher-ups.
Ren Xiaosu defined this operation as a decapitation. His goal was not to destroy all of Stronghold 146, nor was it to wipe out the combat brigade here. Instead, he wanted to paralyze the entire Soong Clan's higher-ups and make the Soong Clan suffer the same fate as the Yang Clan.
But Ren Xiaosu thought of a very serious problem. If Zong Cheng was the commander of this combat brigade, then he must be in the military camp most of the time, right?
Disregarding the others, Zong Cheng was the one he wanted to kill the most.
How to infiltrate the military camp and find the address of the Soong Clan's higher-ups were the first things Ren Xiaosu had to deal with.
But how was he supposed to find them?
Ren Xiaosu hid under a small bridge for the night. The next day, he strolled around the streets as if nothing had happened.
But he realized the residents of Stronghold 146 had very indifferent expressions on their faces. There was not even a single person talking on the streets, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
He did not know what the Soong Clan had done during their rule to make these people lose their vigor completely. But it was only after entering the stronghold that Ren Xiaosu realized the Soong Clan had not only lost the hearts of the refugees, but also the stronghold itself.
But he did not strike up a conversation with any of the residents. He couldn't possibly grab anyone and ask where the higher-ups of the Soong Clan lived, could he?
At this moment, as Ren Xiaosu was walking on the streets, a person holding a white banner suddenly walked up to him. He saw three words written on the white banner: "Divine Fortune Teller."
Ren Xiaosu was taken aback. This was the first time he had encountered a fortune-teller on the streets. However, it was better to just look at it. He heard that such fortune-tellers were 100% scammers who relied solely on scamming to earn a living.
But just as the two of them passed by each other, the fortune-teller suddenly grabbed Ren Xiaosu's arm. However, Ren Xiaosu grabbed the fortune-teller's wrist with a backhand grip and carried him into a small alley.
Ren Xiaosu looked around. When he realized no one was paying attention to them, he said, "What do you do for a living?"
The fortune-teller was in so much pain that he broke out in a cold sweat. "Let go, let go. I'm just a fortune-teller. I saw that you might face a bloody calamity in the next few days, so I wanted to read your fortune."
"Oh." Ren Xiaosu was amused. Saying that someone would face a bloody calamity was basically a trick. If he wanted to resolve this bloody calamity, he would have to fork out some money. "I'm not stupid. You can try to scam other people, but I'm not that gullible."
"Why don't you know what's good for you?" The fortune-teller said in a speechless manner, "I'm really being kind and reading your fortune. I'm very accurate."
"Accurate?" Ren Xiaosu sneered and said, "Then what can you read?"
"I can read anything!" the fortune-teller said.
"Then why don't you read this? Let's set a quadratic function f (x) = ax ^ 2 + bx + c, and take the maximum value at x = 1. Then, what's the relationship between the magnitudes of f (-1), f (0), and f (4)?"
The fortune-teller was speechless.
Ren Xiaosu continued to sneer. "Can't you read anything?"
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