Chapter Ten: Cannon Fire

  Qingteng gazed coldly at the commander who had come to report, guessing in his heart whether this person was related to the death of Ishii last time. "Order the military police team, it's best to capture this person alive!" A person who can kill so many soldiers alone must not be a simple character, killing him would be too simple, if he could get some valuable information from him, maybe that would be more valuable.

  "Ah-hai!" The commander turned and walked out of Qingteng Yimutu's room.

  Lao San and several brothers rushed out of the blockade line, Liu Yi Ming immediately dispatched someone to guard and asked: "Lao San, how is it? Are there any casualties among the brothers?" The latter wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Damn it, the devils have gone crazy, they robbed a pharmacy, devils, secondary devils, police are all on the move, the whole Yang City is in chaos! Big brother, we brothers didn't suffer any casualties, but..."

  "But what?"

  "If it were just us brothers, we might not see Big Brother again." Third Brother said, lowering his head and sighing. The chaotic gunfire made him start to worry about the people in the city who came to rescue him.

  Liu Yiming furrowed his brow, asking in puzzlement: "What do you mean?" Lao San sighed and said: "Does big brother still remember the person who injured Hu Zi and Lao Wu today?" The latter nodded and said: "Of course I remember. This grudge, I will definitely help my brothers avenge!"

  "Not, not..." Old Three took a deep breath and said: "Big Brother, if it weren't for him, you might not have seen us brothers again. Just now, we were surrounded by devils, secondary devils, and police in the city, and we all thought it was a pipe dream to escape. That Scorpion attracted the attention of the devils, he used tree branches to make flying darts, killing many devils. The devils and secondary devils were furious, turned around and started attacking him, and we took advantage of this opportunity to run out!"

  Liu Yiming rubbed his head and cursed, "Damn it, what's going on here? He was just at odds with us, but now he's actually helped us. Isn't this making old Liu owe someone a favor again?"

  "Big brother!" Lao San looked at Liu Yi Ming, handed him the medicine and said: "Big brother, this is the medicine that Dr. Li wanted. You take it back to give to Hu Zi and Lao Wu and the other brothers for treatment. I, Lao San, never owe anyone a favor. He's alone in the city, surrounded by people, I'm worried..."

  "Bullshit! When did I ever owe anyone a favor?" Liu Yiming said, handing the medicine to his brother behind him. He continued, "This guy made me owe him a big favor in Qinglong Village, damn it, brothers, take San and the others back to Qinglong Village, the rest of you follow me to Yangcheng to rescue people!"

  "Big brother! No way, I want to go with you!" Old Three begged as soon as he saw Liu Yiming not allowing him to follow.

  Liu Yiming furrowed his brow and punched Lao San's head with a "thud", causing him to instantly faint.

  "Take him away!" Liu Yiming said, looking at his brother who was supporting Lao San.

  Shan Yixuan's pistol was almost out of bullets, the streets of Yangcheng were littered with corpses lying in all directions, and fresh blood had stained the yellow earth roads. Shan Yixuan no longer counted how many devils he had killed, thinking about how to break through the encirclement. The Japanese were closely pursuing behind, and the human shield he was carrying had been shot to pieces.

  "Bang... Bang... The enemy's gunfire gradually faded away, each shot seeming to mock Shan Yixuan."

  "Grass, aren't you trying to catch me alive?" Shan Yixuan muttered to himself as he gazed at the several Japanese devils cautiously closing in on him. The flying darts on his body were all gone, and the bullets had been used up; the only thing left was this human shield he was holding onto. Shan Yixuan's eyes lit up - the human shield had two hand grenades hanging from its body. He immediately threw away the machine gun in his hand, took off one of the hand grenades, and tossed it at the Japanese devils! "Boom!" Several Japanese devils were blown into the air by the sudden explosion.

  Shan Yixuan took the opportunity to hide in a clock tower, secretly thinking that he had saved them but harmed himself. If he were to die today, it would truly be a great loss.

  "Someone inside, Lieutenant Commander Qingteng wants to talk to you!" Just as Shuang Yixuan was preparing his escape route, the interpreter's voice entered Shuang Yixuan's ears. Shuang Yixuan saw from the gap in the wall that a large number of devils and police had already sealed off the clock tower, and a lieutenant commander holding binoculars looked around inside the clock tower.

  "Intelligent Chinese friend, you are already surrounded by the Imperial Army. I advise you to put down your weapons and come out to surrender! I hope we can be friends, I am very willing to make friends with a strong man like you!" Qingteng Yimù said in standard Japanese.

  The interpreter was about to translate what Qingteng Yimut had just said, but Shan Yixuan immediately interrupted the interpreter and coldly said: "Friend, if I slept with your wife, would you still be friends with me? If I burned down your house and robbed your family, would you still be friends with me? If you can do that, then we are friends!" Shan Yixuan loudly declared in Japanese, his voice almost loud enough for all the Japanese devils present to hear clearly!

  Qingteng furrowed his brow, unable to believe that he could speak Japanese and wasn't much worse than himself. He became even more curious about Shuang Yixuan in the bell tower, and also more interested, but at the same time, he was even more annoyed by Shuang Yixuan's response.

  "Do you think you still have a choice? If you're willing, the mayor of Xuzhou and even the governor of Shandong Province will be yours in the future. The Imperial Army will protect you, give you endless money, and countless women. Are these conditions not enough to satisfy you?" Qingteng Yimut said as he made a gesture to several people beside him. Seven or eight men carrying guns slowly approached the Bell Tower.

  Shan Yixuan couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh, and asked expressionlessly: "If we use this method to protect your people, take care of your wives, and develop Chinese characteristics in your territory, would you agree? Would your damn emperor agree?"

  Sei Tōichi couldn't believe that Tanaka Akira was so hard to deal with, and on top of that, he was indirectly insulting his own country and His Majesty the Emperor. The calmness he had at first slowly turned into anger.

  Shan Yixuan's ear was pressed against the wall, and he heard the noisy footsteps below. He casually picked up a stone, his eyes fixed motionlessly on the only entrance to the upper level of the bell tower.

  "Bang!" Xuan's stone hit the ghost's head that had just poked out, and then the ghost fell down from the stairs. Xuan grabbed the ghost's Type 38 cap and threw away the stone, staring intently at the entrance.

  "Bang!" A gunshot rang out, Shan Yixuan pulled the trigger again and snatched another gun. Then he kicked the dead devil down with one foot.

  "Bah! The Chinese inside, in Chinese words, don't give face and don't want face!" Qingteng Yimut shouted angrily as he watched the third and fourth Japanese soldiers fall down.

  Shan Yixuan now had a gun in his hand, and naturally he wouldn't let go of such a good opportunity. This old and broken artillery tower wasn't perfect, but ordinary ammunition couldn't harm it, so Shan Yixuan felt very safe at the moment. At least the devils shouldn't call in artillery just for him...

  "I've always thought so, you Japanese people always give yourselves a bad name, standing on my Huaxia's land and acting recklessly today, don't you feel ashamed?!" Dan Yixuan said as he pulled the bolt, cocked the trigger, and aimed the muzzle at the interpreter beside the Japanese man. He had always hated interpreters in TV dramas, and now his first shot was going to take this one's life!

  "Bang..." A gunshot rang out from the bell tower, and everyone outside immediately sought cover. The interpreter's eyes were wide open, refusing to believe that his life was so short. Qingteng Yimutou frowned, seeing that the interpreter had been shot right between the eyebrows, and couldn't help but take a cold breath - such accurate marksmanship, if he wanted to, wouldn't he be able to pick them off one by one? Just as Qingteng Yimutou was thinking of a countermeasure, another gunshot rang out, and another Japanese person fell to the ground. Again, it was between the eyebrows... Shan Yixuan's accurate marksmanship instilled a nameless fear in the Japanese and puppet soldiers - they didn't know if they would be next... Maybe... Perhaps... Probably...

  "Give me a shot! Eight gauges!" Qingteng Yimutu finally couldn't bear it, and immediately drew out the samurai sword and shouted loudly. As soon as Qingteng Yimutu's order came out, all the machine guns, three eight large covers, fiercely counterattacked towards the place where Shan Yixuan was hiding, they didn't want to give Shan Yixuan a chance to shoot...

  Shan Yixuan hid behind the wall, thinking that this couldn't go on like this, if it did, Qingteng would be enraged and it would be disastrous if the artillery were called in! Shan Yixuan took advantage of the machine gunner's reload to launch a quick attack, shooting the machine gunner in the head, then quickly pulled the trigger again, another bullet, another devil fell to the ground.

  Aoi Ichimoku finally couldn't bear it, looking at his subordinates suffering heavy casualties, ordered everyone to retreat and withdraw from the range of the artillery fire. "Report to Lieutenant Colonel Aoi, an urgent telegram from Lieutenant Kobayashi!" a Japanese soldier carrying a wireless telegraph rushed to Aoi's side and said.

  Qingteng took the telegram from the signal soldier's hand, couldn't help but smile and said: "Colonel Kobayashi wants to send us a sniper who has returned from studying at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany. This is good news. When will the sniper arrive?"

  "Report, the sniper will arrive at Xuzhou Airport tomorrow afternoon. From Xuzhou to our camp, it will probably be early morning the day after tomorrow."

  "Hachigara, this is too slow. It seems that the people in the clock tower can only be solved by ourselves. Since he has a desperate attitude and resists the Great Japanese Empire, let's fulfill his wish. Order the artillery to enter the battlefield and blow up that broken tower for me." Qingteng Yimutu angrily looked at the dead and wounded bodies on the street, his anger was self-evident. As a high-ranking commander of the Great Japanese Empire, when had he ever commanded such a defeat? Hundreds of people were actually toyed with by one person, this is the empire's shame.

  "Fire!" As soon as Qingteng Yimutu's voice fell, a row of devils carrying mortars quickly entered the position.