Munitions Empire

Chapter 1143: Where does 1063 come from?

As dawn began to break, Xiang Ziyu and his comrades finally received their reinforcement troops, another company of paratroopers arrived at Leping Village, and saw the fruits of their battle.

Some soldiers were dealing with corpses; they had one casualty and two injured last night, but they captured Leping and eliminated about 400 Goblins.

Now the entire village was littered with bodies, and a 75 mm caliber field gun lay overturned next to a courtyard wall. The Goblin troops had destroyed it, fearing that it would be used by the Tang Army.

The platoon leader of 3rd Platoon looked at Xiang Ziyu, gestured towards a building that was no longer ablaze but still smoking, and asked, “Pretty ruthless, did you set the fire?”

“No, they hid inside and refused to come out, so they set the fire themselves,” Xiang Ziyu answered truthfully.

“Right, that’s what you should say,” the leader of 3rd Platoon nodded in agreement and said, “The battalion headquarters will be here soon, we need to establish defensive fortifications to prevent the Goblins from passing through here and reinforcing the coast.”

“I’m telling the truth,” Xiang Ziyu clarified again, then he no longer had the energy to argue with the platoon leader of 3rd Platoon, “I’m getting ready to build a defense line; the road must be destroyed, and defensive positions set up on the small hill outside the village, forming mutually supportive states with the village.”

“No problem, which side do you want me to defend?” the magnanimous platoon leader of 3rd Platoon let Xiang Ziyu choose first, “You’ve been fighting all night and your unit is not at full strength, you pick first.”