396 How can we know if we dont try? (1/2)

Initially, Zhang Xiaoman objected to Ren Xiaosu being assigned to his company. He even wanted to discuss with Zhou Yinglong to see if he could transfer him away.

But as of now, Zhang Xiaoman was more than likely to hug Zhou Yinglong and give him a peck on the cheek. Assigning Ren Xiaosu to his company was even better than Zhou Yinglong issuing ten heavy machine guns to them!

Everyone in the army who had fought in a battle before would know how difficult it was to destroy a heavy machine gun position. They truly represented the idea of a ”meat grinder” and was an ultimate weapon that could be wielded on the main battlefield.

But now that they had Ren Xiaosu, the heavy machine guns could be destroyed with the TNT. No one knew how he did that.

Zhang Xiaoman and the others still did not know what Ren Xiaosu's superpower was. It was quite mysterious.

But everyone had their secrets, so there was no need to delve deeper.

When Zhang Xiaoman and his men finally charged up the mountain, they did not see Ren Xiaosu anywhere nearby. Meanwhile, the bandits up on the mountain were not concentrating their firepower in their direction, but away from them.

”Something's weird.” Zhang Xiaoman wondered, ”Why does it feel like Ren Xiaosu did not come up here by himself? This feels more like another company scaled the back of the mountain to attack this place.”

Many of the bandits' barracks had already collapsed, and bodies were strewn all over the place. However, they did not die from gunshot wounds but stab wounds!

A soldier was shocked when he passed by the corpses. ”Did Ren Xiaosu get into close combat with them?”

At this moment, the bandits on Mt. Dingyuan were engaged in battle with a mysterious shadow. But halfway through the battle, the shadow suddenly slipped behind a barracks and disappeared.

The shadow was extremely fearsome and had killed many of the bandits at the beginning. But for some reason, the shadow started acting less aggressively as it used its quick movements to keep the enemy at bay. It never stayed in one place for too long.

But when they were searching for the shadow, gunshots suddenly rang out behind them. Some bandits turned around in shock and saw that the Razor Sharp Company had already set up three heavy machine guns at a distance of several hundred meters away behind them. They started shooting at them mercilessly!

At the same time, Zhang Xiaoman led 2nd Platoon to outflank the bandits. They attempted to trap all the bandits in the open area and make them targets of the heavy machine guns.

Some bandits reacted quickly and immediately hid behind the ruins of the barracks to launch a counterattack. But just as they were about to shoot, they suddenly saw a hand stretch out of a shadow next to them and throw a grenade over.

With a loud explosion, the bandits who had just taken cover behind the ruins were blown sky-high. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiaoman finished organizing a simple defensive formation on the flanks.

Zhang Xiaoman had never experienced such a smooth battle before, as though all the hidden threats had been nipped in the bud by someone. It felt like a god's hand was helping them on the battlefield and greenlighting everything for this surprise attack they had launched.

However, more than a 100 of the bandits in this group had obviously received formal military training before. They retreated slowly all the way back while constantly maintaining an orderly formation.

Ren Xiaosu was observing this group of people from the shadows. These 100-odd people were probably the Zong Consortium's regular troops hiding among the bandits.

Moreover, the 20-odd soldiers manning the last heavy machine gun position were also more cautious than the bandits. They were probably also a part of the Zong Consortium.

The Zong Consortium had placed around a 100 of their soldiers here on Mt. Dingyuan and assigned them as the last line of defense. If their roles had been reversed with no supernatural beings participating in the battle, the Razor Sharp Company might not have even broken through the machine gun position after sacrificing all of their men.

Now that Ren Xiaosu had spotted the Zong Consortium's regulars, he was not going to go easy on them. From within the shadows at 200 meters away, he aimed his rifle at them and opened fire!

The Zong Consortium's regulars never expected an enemy to be over here as well. With just a burst of fire, the orderly formation they maintained while retreating was disrupted.

Zhang Xiaoman shouted, ”Charge and continue pressing them! Go Ren Xiaosu!”

…

To the north, Zhou Yinglong was leading the entire Forward Strike Battalion to create a defensive line to ensure that the forward operating base at the rear could be built successfully.

There were no unusual activities from the Zong Consortium here. But ever since the bandit lair on Mt. Guan had been taken, the two sides knew that war had begun.