"Why are they all avoiding you?" As Yang Xiaojin walked up the stairs to the Great Wall, she asked in puzzlement, "What did you do when you were getting your meals?"
Ren Xiaosu had gone alone when he went to get his meals, so Yang Xiaojin did not know what he had done.
Ren Xiaosu laughed. "It's fine, it's fine. Don't mind the details."
Yang Xiaojin gave him a strange look and thought to herself, 'It would be a wonder if he was fine. Those Pyro Company soldiers did not even dare to look Ren Xiaosu in the eye!'
"By the way, can the little black book that P5092 gave you really allow you to enter and leave the military camp freely?" Yang Xiaojin asked, "You said you wanted to give it a try …"
Halfway through her sentence, Yang Xiaojin roughly understood why the Pyro Company soldiers did not dare to look Ren Xiaosu in the eye. This method of giving it a try would definitely sound terrible.
The two of them walked up the walls and looked out. But what they saw was not the forest in the distance, but the barbarian corpses that stretched out below the walls!
The Pyro Company soldiers had erected thousands of wooden stakes outside the Great Wall and hung the barbarian corpses on them one by one. Ren Xiaosu gasped. "P5092 is even more ruthless than I thought. Is he trying to get the barbarians to attack this section of the walls?"
"Looks like it." Yang Xiaojin nodded.
Ren Xiaosu turned around and looked at the Pyro Company soldier on duty nearby. "Come over here for a moment."
The Pyro Company soldier said in despair, "Sir, I really can't sing …."
Yang Xiaojin chuckled. "… Hur hur."
Ren Xiaosu hurriedly said, "I'm not asking you to sing. I'm asking you something. Have the barbarians attacked this section of the walls over the past few days?"
"Yes." The Pyro Company soldier heaved a sigh of relief and explained, "At the beginning, it was just a feint to lure the 3rd Division's main forces out. But as more and more of them died, their morale was greatly affected by having so many corpses hanging at the bottom of the walls. So they tried to snatch the corpses many times, but they were all beaten back."
Ren Xiaosu nodded. It was no wonder the barbarian corpses in Mt. Dashi had disappeared. It turned out that P5092 had transported them here.
Speaking of which, P5092 was also a ruthless person. When he saw that there were no corpses at the foot of the walls where the other troops were stationed, this place would probably suffer the most attacks when the battle broke out.
Ren Xiaosu asked, "It's already the beginning of spring, and the weather will get hotter and hotter. These corpses hanging outside the city wall might cause a plague. Even through the city wall, the virus might be blown over by the wind."
"It's fine." The Pyro Company soldier said, "These corpses have been salted with lime."
Even someone like Ren Xiaosu, who had no inhibitions, was a little speechless when he heard this. Why were all the Pyro Company soldiers so fierce? They sounded like they were salted vegetables.
But at this moment, a dense swarm of black dots appeared on the horizon. The Pyro Company soldier said to Ren Xiaosu, "Sir, hurry down. The barbarians are here!"
With that, the soldier started reporting the enemy's situation on his radio channel. Two minutes later, the entire 3rd Division got into action. P5092 also quickly arrived at the top of the walls.
P5092 did not bother to greet Ren Xiaosu. He picked up his binoculars and looked over.
"What are they doing?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
"See for yourself." P5092 smiled and handed the binoculars in his hand to Ren Xiaosu. "These barbarians are just doing useless work."
Ren Xiaosu took the binoculars and took a look. He saw the barbarians had actually brought over some wooden stakes from afar and were hanging the corpses of the Central Plains soldiers on them.
However, such actions were useless against cold-blooded animals like the Pyro Company soldiers. The Pyro Company's people loved to say the most was "emotions are useless."
"Continue to stand guard." After that, P5092 invited Ren Xiaosu to have a chat with him at the command center.
After entering the command center, Ren Xiaosu swaggered over to two chairs and sat down in front of his deputy commander and the various combat staff officers. The other chair was for Yang Xiaojin.
As he picked up the newspaper on the table, he asked curiously, "Speaking of which, aren't you afraid that they'll focus all their troops on you since you've hung so many corpses outside the city?"
"I'm not worried." P5092 shook his head. "The 3rd Division is the Pyro Company's main firepower unit. If the barbarians come here, they'll only be asking for trouble. Moreover, the barbarians are very cunning. They've been probing and attacking the 3rd Division's base for the past few days. But when it comes time for their final attack, it's very likely that they'll attack the other walls by surprise."
"Oh." Ren Xiaosu understood. So it turned out P5092 also had his own plans. He had dealt the barbarians a few head-on blows over the past few days and deliberately created hatred for them. But by doing so, when the barbarians launched their final attack, this place would likely be the area with the least number of barbarians. "But aren't you afraid that your cleverness will backfire on you? What if they really plan to target you? If the supplies in the rear are destroyed, you might not have enough artillery shells, right?"
P5092 smiled and did not want to answer this question. Instead, he asked about Ren Xiaosu's life. "How's it going? Are you satisfied with our arrangements after coming to the front lines? The field hospital was only built temporarily, and we've also allocated temporary dormitories for y 'all."
"I'm satisfied, very satisfied." Ren Xiaosu said with a smile. The field hospital was an independent area in the entire military base. There were no brick buildings and only temporary military tents. Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin were supposed to squeeze into a shared dormitory with the others. After all, this was the situation during wartime, and everyone would have to sleep in their clothes.
But after P5092 specifically gave them instructions, the field hospital actually vacated two separate tents for the two of them. In the entire field hospital, only the two of them and the director were given such treatment.
P5092 said with a smile, "Keep the little black notebook I gave you well. But don't ever drag the soldiers into singing again."
"Hahahahaha." Ren Xiaosu said awkwardly, "I was just trying to let them relax a little. Alright, go on with your work. I'll leave after reading the papers."
"Mhm, help yourself." After that, P5092 started gathering his deputy commander and combat staff for a meeting. On one hand, it was to convey the information brought back by the scouts, and on the other hand, it was to formulate the next battle plan based on this information.
During this period, P5092 and the others did not avoid Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin at all during the meeting. They allowed Ren Xiaosu to listen in on the barbarians' movements and the Pyro Company's plans. It was as though Ren Xiaosu was really a member of the Pyro Company.
After listening for a while, Ren Xiaosu roughly understood that the Pyro Company did not have much information on the barbarians. Everyone was still in the testing phase, and the 3rd Division's most important mission right now was not to effectively kill or injure the barbarians but to figure out how many troops the expeditionary army had.
As the saying went, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will always be victorious. Only by figuring out how many barbarians there were would the Pyro Company know what to do next.
If they thought there were only 100,000 barbarians and another 100,000 barbarians popped up as they fought, everything would be over.
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