391 The copper bell (1/2)

After repeatedly confirming with Zhang Xiaoman through the radio, Zhou Yinglong finally believed that they had really taken Mt. Guan.

The Forward Strike Battalion's original plan was to first deploy the Razor Sharp Company to attack the bandits at Mt. Dingyuan, which they felt was easier to take. After that, the Razor Sharp Company would move to attack the stronger forces at Mt. Guan together with Second Company.

But in the end, Mt. Guan was taken not long after the Razor Sharp Company set out.

Zhang Xiaoman asked on the radio, ”Battalion Commander, does this count as our credit?”

”Yes, yes, yes,” Zhou Yinglong replied. ”What are the Razor Sharp Company's casualties? If there's too many casualties, take a short rest and wait for reinforcements.”

”We didn't suffer any casualties.” Even as Zhang Xiaoman said that, he was finding it hard to believe. As such, he did not bother hiding the truth. ”There were only about a 100 bandits on Mt. Guan, and they were all killed single-handedly by Ren Xiaosu. I'm shocked by it, let alone you. We had only planned for him to pin down the bandits on Mt. Guan. But in the end, he pinned them down so hard that all of them died.”

Then Zhang Xiaoman even heard Zhou Yinglong take a deep breath through the radio before shouting, ”What the!”

At this moment, Ren Xiaosu was wiping the blood off his body by a stream behind Mt. Guan. After that, he changed back into the Razor Sharp Company's combat uniform.

Jiao Xiaochen and the others watched Ren Xiaosu as they collected the ammunition and supplies a short distance away. ”Did y'all see that? He's acting like it's no big deal after killing over a 100 people. He's a little too calm, ain't he?”

”I wonder what he did before coming to Fortress 178….”

”I heard he was also a refugee. He was even a student of Commander Zhang's and well-known as ruthless in town. That's what Old Xu told me.”

Ren Xiaosu stood at the edge of the stream after changing back into the uniform of the Razor Sharp Company. This was just the beginning of his revenge. He still had a lot more battles to fight.

Zhang Xiaoman finished reporting to Zhou Yinglong. He asked Jiao Xiaochen, ”Count everything we collected.”

”We've collected two 12.7 mm caliber HMGs that came with wheeled mounts and gun shields, 31 ammo boxes, and two mortars,” Jiao Xiaochen reported. ”There's also a lot of rifles, but those are useless to us.”

Having more guns wasn't necessarily better. They would still need people to carry them to be effective. So the rifles were not much different from scrap metal to them.

”Take the mortars and rounds, dismantle the wheel mounts and gun shields from the HMGs before taking them, and grab the HMG ammo too.” Zhang Xiaoman said, ”The gun shields of the machine guns are more useful in the plains. It's not convenient for us to bring them while on the march. Wait, something's wrong. Weren't there any grenades there?”

Jiao Xiaochen shook his head. ”No, we didn't find a single grenade.”

”Were those bandits so poor they couldn't even afford grenades?” Zhang Xiaoman wondered.

It was not that the bandits on Mt. Guan were poor, but that Ren Xiaosu had already stuffed seven full boxes of grenades into his storage space before heading down the mountain.

Before he obtained any Explosive Poker cards that were at least ”sixes,” Ren Xiaosu felt he could use the grenades as a replacement. As for how powerful a ”quad-six” bomb was, he couldn't gauge that yet.

Zhang Xiaoman looked at the pile of firearms with shimmering eyes. Even the Razor Sharp Company was only equipped with the standard weaponry whenever they headed out for battle. They did not usually get issued with so much firepower. So they had to depend on their own abilities to get whatever they could from the battlefield.

Jiao Xiaochen shouldered a machine gun. ”This thing's mine!”

As he finished speaking, Ren Xiaosu grabbed the machine gun out of Jiao Xiaochen's hands. Jiao Xiaochen was stunned for a moment. Then he heard Ren Xiaosu say, ”Platoon Commander, let me carry it for you.”

Jiao Xiaochen was moved to tears. He was such a competent soldier and had such great esprit de corps. Just what kind of an angelic teammate was he!

”Thank you, Ren Xiaosu,” Jiao Xiaochen said.