Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Battle of the Basin

Since the barracks had a steady supply of game, Bernard has begun to pick up the sauté pan that he hasn't touched for years.

The theme of this meal, according to Bernard, was to celebrate Zhou Qian's triumphant return with a drink, and by the way to discuss the question of command in defensive warfare.

After three rounds of drinking, the atmosphere became a little strange.

"Zhou Qian, you are not a qualified soldier."

Bernard pointed at Zhou Zhen with chopsticks and made a very unkind assessment.

Zhou Zhen didn't care about replying, he just stuffed a piece of fried wild boar meat into his mouth, and filled it with a few dandelion leaves, and the corners of his mouth were dripping with oil at this time.

"A qualified soldier should be like me."

Bernard picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then took another peanut and sent the wine, and drank the whiskey in the style of an old white dry.

Zhou Zhen swallowed the food in his mouth and sneered disdainfully: "What? Brain tumor plus presbyopia? ”

Bernard wasn't angry either, and said with a smile: "I mean, when I was younger, you were a little cub back then, and of course, you haven't made much progress now. ”

"Do you mean when the army of 100,000 was wiped out, or when I was taken to the headquarters by this little cub of mine?"

Zhou Zhen sarcastically mocked Bernard casually on the surface, but he was really uncomfortable in his heart, even if he was not a qualified soldier, he would not be able to evaluate Bernard's subordinate in the future.

Bernard is still calm with a peanut and a sip of wine, not in a hurry or annoyed.

"That's what you said about these two moments, I found out that you are not a qualified soldier, before the nuclear explosion, your special company had already withdrawn to the safe zone, in order to save your brother, you left the company and ran back to the warehouse by yourself, Hayes delayed the evacuation in order to save you, as a result, your brother was not saved, and Hayes was almost killed."

Zhou Zhi was silent, the fried meat in front of him suddenly became colory and fragrant, and he picked up a dandelion leaf and threw it into his mouth to chew dry, which was also tasteless.

Bernard took the wine glass and touched the wine glass placed on the table by Zhou Zhen, and continued: "After the nuclear explosion, the task given to you by the enterprise coalition is to kill me, you take the special company to find my command and kill the only remaining thirty people in my guard battalion, at that time I was already a turtle in the urn, fortunately, I studied your resume, so I acted in a bitter scene, hugged the body of the guard and cried for a while, telling you that it was my own brother, what about you?" Probably because he touched the scene, he decided to let me live. ”

Bernard said and shook his head: "Look at you, as a subordinate, you disobey the orders of your superiors, as a boss you abandon your subordinates, as a comrade-in-arms you hurt your comrades-in-arms, as an enemy, you let go of the enemy, where are you like a soldier?" ”

"I..." Zhou Zhi was speechless, like a defeated rooster.

"More than forty years have passed, and I thought you had matured, so I handed over the command to you, but what you did on the plantation was a reckless brute force, and you were lucky to be shot in the leg, but what if it was in the heart? Your rebellious security forces will have nowhere to go, Sarah will take two companies to avenge you, and both sides will be defeated, followed by a chain reaction of corporate alliances, the loss of the barracks, and another massacre. ”

Bernard's words were heartfelt, but his tone did not fluctuate, just like the wine in his glass, which did not decrease after drinking for a long time.

"Before Sergeant Zhong left, you told him that people who have died once understand the value of life better, but you yourself don't understand the value of life at all, and this is the biggest hidden danger."

Zhou Zhen couldn't listen to this sentence, and he slapped his chopsticks on the table.

"The value of life? Bah, how many lives have you ruined? He also told me the value of life. ”

Bernard leaned his elbow on the arm of the Taishi chair: "I'm talking about value, not life itself, the world is a poker table, life is the chips of the game, I just lost the bet twice, there is always a chance to win if you don't get off the table, and you don't dare to bet, you don't bother to count the cards, and you don't even care about winning or losing, how dare I give you the seat?" ”

Life is a bargaining chip, soul is energy, a bunch of crazy people, Zhou Zhen doesn't understand what he is, the gun in the hands of the madman? He sneered: "Don't forget, I won back these chips from the gangsters, and before I came, you had already lost everything." ”

Zhou Zhen didn't want to listen to Bernard's nagging anymore, stood up and walked to the door, thought about it and came back to get the bottle of whiskey that he drank a little and a half: "I'm tired, you can command if you want, I don't really care at all." ”

Looking at the back of Zhou Zhen leaving the table, Bernard tapped his fingers on the table and said to himself: "I know you don't care, what I'm worried about is that you don't care." ”

...

Those who should come will always come, such as Cheng Xu, such as the government army.

Cheng Xu and the government army almost rushed to the front and back, and as soon as he arrived at Zhou Zhen and sat down in the tent, there was already a dense sound of gunfire in the direction of the entrance and exit of the barracks.

"It's over, it's exposed, I can't go back to A21 now, as for it? I'll just send a message, and more than 1,000 people will follow me. ”

Cheng Xu was puzzled, he was ordered by Zhong Xiaoguang to go to Zhou Qian's parting appointment, deliberately hiding his whereabouts along the way, the horse did not dare to ride the fire and did not dare to live, dragging his prosthetic legs over the mountains and mountains, but he did not expect to be targeted by the government army, and the army went out to hunt down and kill a disabled veteran of himself.

"Lao Cheng, don't put gold on your face, people are here to suppress bandits, and it has nothing to do with you."

Zhou Zhen opened the envelope brought by Cheng Xu, and inside the envelope was a blank rough-edged paper, which he gently smeared with the wine he hadn't finished drinking last night, and dense handwriting appeared on the white paper.

This is a list, all the energy hunters under the Armored Rat Company are on the list, and each name is marked with a line of small print, recording the results of Zhong Xiaoguang's treatment of this person.

"Including you and Xiao Zhong, there are only seventeen people who can use it?"

Weeks are counted with the names on the list.

The sound of guns outside the tent was deafening, and the ground and the tent shook like chaff, as if the volcano under his feet was waking up, Cheng Xu put his ears close to Zhou Qian, and asked loudly, "What did you say?" ”

"I said, the other fifty-nine people, have you all dealt with them?"

"Killed more than 20 people, all of them were burned, Zhong Xiaoguang's own hands, and more than 30 were tied in the interrogation room!"

Cheng Xu shouted at the top of his voice.

Zhou Zhen nodded, turned around and leaned on the edge of the bed to touch the wine bottle and tea jar on the bedside table, poured a glass of wine and handed it to Cheng Xu, holding the wine bottle and taking a sip.

"Aren't you a gang commander? Why don't you help? ”

Cheng Xu struggled to stabilize the tea jar, poured a sip of wine, and asked with a mouthful.

"I've been dismissed."

Zhou Zhen sat on the bed lazily holding the wine bottle.

"Food? What food? It's okay, I'll accompany you to them after eating the food. ”

Cheng Xu was obviously hungry, and the bull head didn't nag a lot in the horse's mouth.

Zhou Zhen opened the bedside table drawer, took out a piece of bread and threw it to Cheng Xu, leaned into his ear and shouted: "I specifically said that I was dismissed, and now I am an idler!" ”

"Oh fuck!"

Cheng Xu scolded perfunctorily, then devoured the bread and wiped his hands on his pants.

Zhou Zhen was distracted with a mouthful of wine in his mouth, his ears were filled with the roar of guns, and he could hear the sound of return fire in the wall gradually thinning out, and his heart was like a fight between thousands of ants.

Cheng Xu stood up with a smile, snatched the wine bottle that Zhou Zhen was holding and threw it away, and stuffed the rifle leaning on the side of the bed into his arms.

"Let's go, let's go, how can you stay idle."

...

Entrance and exit of the barracks.

On the wooden eaves at the edge of the wall, blood dripped like rain, forming a scarlet curtain.

The thickness of the wall was only enough to accommodate one person, and the first company of Han Tie was crowded on the front of the top of the wall, unable to raise its head under the dense fire of the company's army, and there were constantly corpses thrown off the wall because they blocked the road.

Lieutenant Colonel Dong and H divided the 2nd Company and the Gendarmerie into two parts and scattered them on both sides of the top of the wall, and they suffered minor losses, but they were also beaten with little defense.

The most relaxed was Mozart's 3rd Company, which was placed to hide behind the enclosure and bombard it through firing holes using field guns and mortars.

Amiko also occupies a shooting hole and is jumping to her feet in a hurry, her saber system attack range is only ten meters, hiding in the wall and not reaching the enemy in the distance.

Zhou Zhen's arrival caused a burst of cheers, which made Cheng Xu, who was following behind, quite proud.

"Where's General Bernard?"

Zhou asked Mozart in a loud voice, who was operating a field cannon, and he pointed to his ear, indicating that he could not hear clearly.

Zhou Zhen took two steps forward and asked again, the blood from the eaves of the wall dripped on his head, and his hair became dark red and solidified.

"In the tunnel at the entrance, this old guy has two brushes to arrange defense, and the company's soldiers can't attack it."

Mozart replied loudly.

It's good that he didn't die, Zhou Zhen was relieved, turned around and climbed a ladder with Cheng Xu on the wall.

Beyond the walls, the jungle was burning, charred corpses and dying wounded soldiers spread out from the open space outside the wall, extending to the edge of the woods dozens of meters away, a dense stream of bullets and mortar shells constantly flying from the dense forest, and in the firelight, behind the trunks of each large tree hid the soldiers of the Enterprise Alliance.

Soldiers, not security guards, sent regular troops from the Coalition of Companies, mostly dressed in neat gray uniforms with the logos of the Big Four on their helmets.

Zhou Zhipao pulled away a corpse beside Han Tie, pulled the bolt behind the bunker to open the safe, and then raised the semi-automatic rifle, quickly moved the muzzle to empty a magazine, and several mortars immediately died down, two of which burst into flames, and a few corpses were thrown into the air.

Han Tieman turned his bloodstained face and looked at Zhou Zhen with straight eyes, Cheng Xu leaned over and joked with a wicked smile: "I haven't seen it, when we were in the war back then, with his marksmanship, he could kill ten people with one shot." ”

With that, he placed his single-shot rifle on the gap in the wall, and with a continuous bolt of fire, the gray figure in the jungle fell in response.

The surrounding bandits were greatly boosted, and they all followed the two to fight back.

Zhou Zhen put the rifle against the bunker and patted Han Tie and Cheng Xu on the shoulder.

"It's a little wrong, I'll go over and find out."