47: We need to get along with the natives (Please add to your collection)

The opponent had a tactical backpack, an AK112 rifle slung over his shoulder, a pistol on each thigh, and cool goggles on his face. Although his beige baseball cap was blackened by gunpowder smoke, it only added to his masculine charm.

“Hello! Xiaoyao Squad, Li Xiao!”

“Xiaoyao Squad? My name is Chang Zhan. My specific unit number is inconvenient to disclose, but you’ll recognize this uniform.”

Li Xiao curved his lips: “Of course, thanks to your early engagement with the Black Hawk Unit today, I might have been in danger otherwise.”

Chang Zhan seemed to be the kind of person who didn't smile much, and these locals seemed to have some prejudice against transmigrators. If it weren't for a common front, they probably wouldn't even speak to you.

Many people in the national chat channel had mentioned this. It was said that a guy once got frustrated and went to a red-light district to 'comfort' fallen women. Unexpectedly, when they found out he was an outsider, they directly refused the 'charitable' transaction.

“Then that’s quite a coincidence. The northern part of Xi City is our area of activity. Our reconnaissance personnel immediately set up an ambush after discovering this armored company leaving the city.”

Chang Zhan’s words filled Li Xiao with admiration. A guerrilla unit of about a hundred people, incompletely equipped, dared to ambush a fully-staffed reconnaissance company. He truly didn't know if Chang Zhan was overly confident or just crazy.

If he hadn't arrived to reinforce them today, this unit wouldn't have been able to destroy a single vehicle; they would have just had to flee into the forest.

Of course, he didn't dare to say this out loud. Perhaps they had no choice, after all, with their homes occupied and their units annihilated, it was already very brave for someone to stand up and continue resisting.

“Brother Chang Zhan, since you are active in this area, and I also need intelligence from this area, I wonder if we can cooperate and share information?”

“Share intelligence?” Chang Zhan hesitated.

“You’ve seen the combat power of my unit. It’s just that my forces are limited, and I can’t cover too many places. If I have your intelligence combined with my forces, I believe today’s victory won’t be the only one.”

After hearing Li Xiao’s words, Chang Zhan was clearly moved: “That sounds good, but how do we contact each other?”

“About two kilometers south from here, there’s a dirt road. The Transit Yard there is a forward outpost I’ve established. If you have intelligence or an operation, you can notify the garrison there.”

Li Xiao paused and then added: “Of course, you can also send your communications soldier to be permanently stationed at the forward outpost; that way, intelligence transfer will be even faster!”

Chang Zhan glanced at Li Xiao, nodded, and said, “I will consider it.”

“Thank you!” Li Xiao gave the other party a slight salute: “Since that’s the case, we’ll withdraw first. All the spoils of war here are yours.”

Li Xiao saw that Chang Zhan's situation was indeed quite difficult.

Back at the base, Li Xiao checked the life pool. He had actually eliminated only thirty to forty living targets today.

However, he had destroyed eight vehicles, including two M3 Cavalry Fighting Vehicles with 50,000 durability each, and two military off-road vehicles with 10,000 durability each.

There were also five armored personnel carriers and command vehicles, each with 30,000 durability.

In total, he gained 270,000 durability points. However, during the battle, Li Xiao added 130,000 to the meng hu off-road vehicle, so he actually only received 140,000.

Adding that to his previous total, he now had 380,000 durability points remaining.

As for health points, he had accumulated a little over 10,000 again. Since the squad began recruiting more members, his health points had been increasing daily. Although not a lot, at least he didn't have to do it himself.

Di Yun quickly drove the car back. Li Xiao immediately had Ye Ming repair the vehicle and refuel it.

Now this vehicle had a durability of 250,000. Once its durability was fully restored, it would be incredibly formidable to drive.

After eating a bowl of beef stew noodles in the cafeteria, Li Xiao went straight back to the command center to sleep. Fighting was truly exhausting, both physically and mentally.

But before he could fall asleep, Yun Dongliu's voice message came through.

As soon as he answered the voice message, Yun Dongliu said: “Team Leader, for some reason, the Black Hawk armored company that was originally stationed in Qiao Town, west of Xi City, suddenly relocated this morning. As soon as I got the news, I took two teammates’ units to seize the town.”

“Qiao Town? Is that the large town stronghold you mentioned last time that had a daily resource refresh rate of 20,000?”

“Yes,” Yun Dongliu confirmed.

Li Xiao felt like laughing. It seemed that the relocated armored company was likely the unit that had come to search for him.

“And then?”

“Right after we moved in, a squad called Luming Squad arrived with over four hundred people and forcibly expelled us. We only had eighty-odd people, so we had no choice but to retreat.”

Li Xiao said indifferently: “Survival of the fittest, there’s nothing to say about that. However, Qiao Town has a large resource output, and there aren’t many resource areas like it around Xi City; we can’t let it go!”

“Do we fight?”

“Of course we fight. First, have two teammates investigate their home base. It would be best if they can find the Team Leader’s base.”

“Alright, I’ll get right on it.”

Hanging up the voice call, Li Xiao immediately notified Liu Nian to inform all members that there would be an operation soon.

As the Team Leader, Li Xiao naturally couldn't do everything himself. Steering the ship well and securing greater benefits for his members was what he should be doing.

His plan was to gather the troops in Qiao Town to fight the Luming Squad tomorrow, so he had to prepare the troops tonight.

After continuous repairs by Ye Ming, the durability of the previous meng hu off-road vehicle had already reached 150,000. It should be fully restored before departure tomorrow.

However, today’s battle had depleted his machine gun ammunition reserves, so he had to buy more from the trading center. Not only bullets, but the heavy machine gun, due to continuous firing, had rapidly decreased in durability and would likely be scrapped before tomorrow’s battle was over.

He checked the amount of star coins in his backpack; he had over six thousand left. He gritted his teeth and spent three hundred star coins to buy two heavy machine guns, and another two thousand star coins to buy ten thousand rounds of machine gun ammunition.

Battles were fierce everywhere now, and bullet prices were soaring. Originally, one star coin could buy twenty to thirty bullets, but now it could only buy ten to fourteen. The 12.7mm bullets for heavy machine guns were even more expensive, at five bullets per star coin.

“Indeed, war is all about financial power!”

In the middle of the night, the second fierce tiger h9 off-road vehicle came offline. Li Xiao immediately added eighty thousand durability to it and assigned this vehicle to Zhao Feipeng. In addition to his three scouts, he also assigned a machine gunner with 20,000 health.

Now, heavy machine guns were his only heavy firepower. Yan Yizhou’s QBU101 had run out of bullets and could only be stored in the warehouse to be used later when ammunition was available.

In the early hours of the morning, Liu Nian sent a voice message.

“Boss! The headcount is complete. Including the four of us, there are eleven people in total, with approximately three hundred eighty combat personnel.”

This number was the maximum they could deploy after deducting the normal garrison forces at their base.