420 Arrival of the Qing Consortium (2/2)

”It's no big deal saying thanks.” Zhang Xiaoman chuckled and said, ”In this era, we should be happy that our lives can be saved in exchange for saying thank you. Since he likes to hear people thank him, let's just thank him more.”

Ren Xiaosu came back from relieving himself. When he heard their discussion, he sat down right next to Zhang Xiaoman. ”Then what are you waiting for? Why don't we start now?”

Zhang Xiaoman was speechless.

Then, Fu Rao, who was in charge of nighttime surveillance, shouted on the communications channel, ”This is bad! Something terrible has happened. There's a large number of troops headed here from the south. They look like an independent regiment!”

Zhang Xiaoman immediately got up. Fortress 178 had not stationed any troops to the south. If these troops were coming from the south, they would definitely be enemies.

He immediately asked, ”How far are they from our camp?”

The voice on the comms channel said. ”At most three kilometers away.”

”What kind of troops are they? Are they from the Zong Consortium?” Zhang Xiaoman asked with a frown.

”No… their logo is that of a white ginkgo leaf.” Fu Rao said: ”It's the Qing Consortium's mechanized infantry.”

”The Qing Consortium?!” Everyone was confused.

Shouldn't the Qing Consortium and the Yang Consortium be fighting to the death in the South? Why would they suddenly have the strength to come and join the northern battlefield? Could it be that the Qing Consortium and the Zong Consortium had joined forces?

The war between the Qing Consortium and the Yang Consortium was full scale. All of Qing Zhen's plans had been carried out as more than half of the Yang Consortium's industries were destroyed. At the beginning, the Yang Consortium could rely on their ammunition reserves to fight the war. But after just two months, the entire Yang Consortium ended up passive.

There was a shortage of ammunition at the front lines, while the strongholds that had not suffered from the war directly were also faced with a shortage of supplies.

Qing Zhen was truly brilliant. By supporting the bandits in the North, he had shaken the Yang Consortium to its core at the lowest possible cost. He had really caught them by surprise.

Zhang Xiaoman had said to Ren Xiaosu that if it were the Qing Consortium's troops they had encountered in the mountain range, he would have already fled.

It would be difficult to say who would win when an entire regiment of infantry faced another regiment. But there was no doubt that a company would lose against a regiment even if both sides had similar capabilities.

Therefore, an independent regiment from the Qing Consortium suddenly coming north didn't sound like good news.

Only Ren Xiaosu was still sitting quietly next to the campfire. Zhang Xiaoman said, ”Let's retreat towards Mt. Qiangwan and join up with Battalion Commander Zhou. We can't fight against this independent regiment from the Qing Consortium on our own!”

But Ren Xiaosu piped up, ”They might not be here to fight us.”

”Are you crazy?” Zhang Xiaoman said in shock. ”How can the Qing troops not be here to attack us when they suddenly appeared at a place so close to us?”

But Fu Rao suddenly said on the comms channel, ”Wait a minute, Captain. Their mechanized infantry has stopped advancing. They've sent someone out to hoof it over to us.”

Ren Xiaosu sighed and stood up. ”They're probably here to look for me.”

Everyone from the Razor Sharp Company was stunned. 'You're saying that the Qing Consortium traveled all the way north in the middle of the night with such a massive turnout of mechanized infantry just because they're looking for you?'

Ren Xiaosu looked south and waited quietly. In reality, he was also unsure of the Qing Consortium's intentions until he saw Tang Zhou.