Chapter 18: The Great Aerial Escape
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The Eighth Route Army really fought desperately, the troops launched several charges, but each charge was repelled by the Japanese special forces with accurate shooting. The troops suffered heavy casualties, and in less than half an hour, they had lost more than 30 comrades, while killing only four or five of the enemy. The enemy seemed to have more than a dozen people left, if this exchange ratio continued, it would be too costly.
"Damn it, these guys are really damn tough! " Commander Li gritted his teeth and told the guard company commander next to him, "Don't stay here, bring all our hidden aces, special forces, I'll show them what's real firepower!" Soon, the two "Rock" large-caliber machine guns and one 30mm ASP17 grenade launcher that he had secretly kept without turning in were brought up, and the four 82mm mortars were also pulled over by horse-drawn carts. "Commander, how many rounds should we fire?" Commander Li frowned, waving his hand, "Damn it, I don't care, we still have a hundred rounds of ammunition, fire them all out, I don't believe these special forces are invincible!"
It turned out that these Japanese special forces were not made of steel, but flesh and blood nurtured by their parents. With the addition of heavy weapons, the Japanese special forces immediately fell into a predicament. The 89-style grenade launcher was no match for the rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and the 12.7mm bullets fired from the rock machine gun turned all their shelters into paper boxes. In normal circumstances, these Japanese commandos should have retreated immediately, as it is not wise for special forces to engage in a frontal battle with regular troops. Commanders who do so in modern warfare are either stupid or have ulterior motives, such as achieving a greater goal by sacrificing their men. The Japanese commandos were clearly the latter, and their goal was to capture the four travelers who had been taken away. When the last Japanese special forces member was thrown out from behind a wall by an angry Eighth Route Army soldier with a bayonet, all the soldiers realized that Wei Yuankun and his companions were still nowhere to be seen. "Damn it, they've been kidnapped by the devils!" Li Shouyi angrily threw his pistol on the ground. "Airplanes! The devils' airplanes!" A soldier shouted at this moment, and following the direction of his pointing hand, everyone saw a few small black dots flying over from the distant sky, and the rumbling sound of engines also entered their ears. "Prepare for air defense, Shouyi, blow the air raid siren!" Li Shouyi shouted.
The planes were getting closer and closer, with four large twin-engine planes leading the way, followed by several smaller single-engine planes. During his convalescence, Wei Yuankun had deliberately pulled out relevant information about Japanese aircraft from his laptop for the soldiers of the military sub-district to study. Through feature comparison, Commander Li knew that the larger ones were Japan's 100-style transport planes, while the smaller ones were the Japanese Army's 97-style light bombers. Soon, the 97-style light bombers flew towards the Eighth Route Army, one after another, beginning to dive and drop their three 100-kilogram bombs. The Eighth Route Army was not to be outdone, setting up machine guns and opening fire on the planes. At this moment, everyone noticed that under the cover of the 97 light bombers, several 100-style planes landed in a clearing behind a small grove of trees not far away. Although they were not far away, because of the devils' bombing and strafing, the Eighth Route Army knew that the people they wanted to rescue were over there, but they had no way to pursue them.
"Get the howitzer ready for me! There's a road over there, and the enemy plane must have landed on it. Give me a shot at the road!" Soon several shells flew over, and in no time, a plume of black smoke rose from the other side, clearly indicating that an airplane had been hit.
"Damn it, this Commander Li is really ruthless! I was just joking back then, didn't think he'd actually use cannons on me!" Wei Yuankun was currently being pinned to the ground by two Japanese special agents, his entire body tied up tightly. At this moment, he was regretful, thinking that he shouldn't have told Commander Li those things in the first place. Now it seemed like the other side was willing to do whatever it took to keep secrets, even using cannons! "I'm really asking for trouble, aren't I?" Wei Yuankun muttered to himself. The two Japanese special agents holding him down thought he was cursing and immediately punched him on the head, making his brain feel like a heavy metal concert with guitars, bass, and drums all playing at once. Soon, the Eighth Route Army's cannons stopped firing. As for the reason, Wei Yuankun knew it was probably because Commander Li was afraid that his precious artillery would be discovered by the Japanese planes, and also because he likely didn't have many cannonballs left.
The devils' special forces team saw the bombardment stop, and they hurriedly took the four crossers onto an airplane. Before boarding the plane, Wei Yuankun specially asked the leader of the Japanese special forces team: "Brother, are you called Yamamoto Kazuki?" The other party was shocked, and then replied in pure Mandarin: "It seems that you people really have some connections, no wonder the military department sent us to catch you at all costs. However, I tell you, my name is Yokomichi Niji, and Yamamoto Kazuki is the name of my superior." After finishing speaking, he waved his hand, and two Japanese special forces members beside him threw him onto the plane.
"Heng Dao Er, why does this name sound so familiar?" Wei Yuankun was still pondering after boarding the plane.
In summary, the Japanese military's surprise attack this time was very successful, whether it was the suddenness of the attack, the reconnaissance of the target, or the coordination between air and ground forces, all of which can be considered perfect and can be included in special forces textbooks. However, the unexpected events that followed made this successful surprise attack a waste of effort.
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Four crossers, along with the equipment they found in their house, were all thrown onto an airplane. The plane took off smoothly, while the Eighth Route Army, who arrived late, could only futilely shoot at them - after all, this wasn't a game of capture the flag, and it's not easy to hit a plane with light weapons.
On the plane, two Japanese special agents with submachine guns watched these "valuable goods", Wang He and Zhang Xin both hung their heads in shame - after all, being a prisoner is not an honorable thing in Chinese people's minds. Wang Fangyuan was even more miserable because she had been disarmed, her eyes were already red from crying. Among the crowd, only Wei Yuanke showed his usual "familiar" personality, he didn't care whether the two Japanese soldiers paid attention to him or not, and actively started chatting with the two Japanese guards who spoke fluent Chinese:
“…Don’t get me wrong, I know that once I go, it’s definitely not going to end well, and I’ll probably lose my life somewhere. So, before I die, I just want to teach you two friends a lesson. Actually, I also know that you don’t want to fight, you don’t want to kill people. After all, humans have kind hearts. The only difference is that Chinese people are born from their mothers, while Japanese people are born from...their mothers too...”
Wang He and Zhang Xin vomited upon hearing this, thinking to themselves how this kid managed to bring up lines from "Journey to the West". Meanwhile, the two Japanese soldiers couldn't take his nagging either. After listening to him, they vaguely felt that he seemed to be scolding them, but then again, it didn't seem like it. With the intention of ignoring him, both turned their heads away.
At this moment, Wei Yuankun was relentless and continued to scold them fiercely. "I'm telling you two, don't look out the window anymore! Don't you know that looking out the window on a plane can make you airsick? If you get airsick, it's no big deal, but if you can't hold back and throw up in this small space, what are we supposed to do? Think about it, no matter how we got here, we're still your guests, right? You think that if you throw up on the plane, we'll follow suit out of respect for you? I'll throw up too! Can this plane even be occupied anymore? Oh, and by the way, I had stinky tofu for dinner last night..."
Upon hearing this, the two Japanese soldiers almost threw up. Wang He and Zhang Xin, having grown up with Wei Yuan-kun since childhood, had extremely strong endurance, so they didn't feel anything at all. Wang Fang-yuan and Wei Yuan-kun had also been together for a long time, and although they felt somewhat nauseous, it wasn't severe - more importantly, her jaw had been torn off, so even if she wanted to scold them, she couldn't speak.
The last two Japanese soldiers barely held back their emotions and didn't shoot the kid, while secretly cursing themselves for learning Chinese in the first place. If they hadn't, they wouldn't have been affected by this little white-faced boy's verbal attack. But all of this was just the beginning, as Wei Yuankun's verbal attacks continued to intensify with a growing trend.
"I say, you two, can't you loosen my bonds a bit? Look at how you've tied me up, I have to criticize your instructor for this. All the other skills are fine, but this binding technique... look at it, it's all wrong, too tight in front and loose in back, left wide and right narrow, it's very uncomfortable. If neutral countries found out, they'd say you're mistreating prisoners of war and violating the Geneva Convention. But I know an old Chen who sells pirated books, he has a specialty in knot-tying techniques, and his prices are fair, no cheating, same book for only one-third of the market price..."
"That's enough!" the two Japanese soldiers shouted in unison, their faces now deathly pale and distorted. "If you continue like this, I'll shoot you dead with one bullet!" As he spoke, one of the Japanese soldiers had already cocked his submachine gun.
"Go ahead and shoot me!" Wei Yuankun said, standing tall with his chest out, a typical "dead pig not afraid of boiling water" attitude. "As the saying goes, life is not happy, death is not bitter, until the war is over, you will understand what I am saying." After hearing this, the two Japanese soldiers couldn't bear it anymore and slapped him several times. "Shut up!" However, Wei Yuankun didn't give up his "persuasion work" even after being beaten. "Why hit people? Hitting people is not right. I know you're very angry because what I said may be different from the education you received since childhood, but you don't have to be so angry. Anger will lead to sin." At this point, the two Japanese soldiers went crazy on the spot, one of them trembling with his hand holding a rifle and wanting to shoot Wei Yuankun. Fortunately, another soldier still had a bit of sanity and held him back. "You can kill me now, when my blood splatters on your body, I will have completed my own redemption, become a noble person, a pure person, a person who has transcended lowly desires. At that time, I will be a brilliant golden star, while you will be forever nailed to the shame of human history, and will be trampled by ten thousand feet, never able to turn over..." Wei Yuankun said this with a "you can't do anything to me" attitude on his face, but in reality, he was also a bit nervous at this moment. Although he analyzed that the Japanese devils had caught him for another purpose - it was likely that they already knew their origins, if it was for this purpose, then now it was absolutely impossible to take his life, after all, sending out special forces to catch them must have been for an important reason. However, if this devil was a fool and really wanted to kill him, then he would be finished. Seeing the opponent's face turn green with anger, but standing there without saying a word, Wei Yuankun guessed that he definitely had no life danger. "Look at you, you're so arrogant! How did your parents educate you when you were young? Don't you know that killing is against the law? What if the police catch you? Even if you escape legal punishment, it's not good to scare our sister like this. She's naturally timid and doesn't look very good. If you scare her crazy, she won't be able to get married!"
After finishing her words, even Wang Fangyuan was so angry that she wanted to tear off Wei Yuankun's rotten mouth. How dare he say that this lady can't get married? I think she is purely fed up with life! When the Japanese soldier next to Wang Fangyuan remembered that her chin had not been fixed and helped her restore it, the first thing she said was: "Wei Yuankun, I'm not finished with you!" If her hands weren't tied up too, she would definitely have slapped Wei Yuankun twice. However, this idea of hers was completed by two Japanese soldiers, who quickly shouted in unison in Japanese, "I can't take it anymore!" Then the rifle butts in their hands heavily hit Wei Yuankun's body, and Wei Yuankun let out a pig-like scream: "Damn you, you can't do this to me! I was an excellent student in elementary school, junior high school, and university. I was the vice class leader in high school, and I gave a speech on behalf of new students at the university's radio station... You damn well can't hit my face... I'm weak, you're bullying me!"
"Weakling? I think it's the coward who's right!" Two Japanese soldiers thought bitterly as they fought, "You're a head taller than us, and you still say you're weak? I'll beat you to..." Suddenly, they heard two faint "pops" from below, and then felt their limbs stop listening to their commands, while their consciousness gradually left their bodies. They wanted to use their last strength to pull the trigger and kill Wei Yuankun, but found that their hands were suddenly empty, with their guns already snatched away by Wei Yuankun, "Sorry about this, gentlemen, if you have anything to say, let's talk in the next life, haha!" These were the last words the two men heard in this world.
The other three finally understood why Wei Yuankun always had two steel pens in his combat boots. It turned out that they were pen guns, although not very powerful and with a short range, but today they came in handy. Earlier, the two Japanese special agents were first confused by Wei Yuankun's nonsense, then enraged to the point of almost dying, and as they approached him to beat him up, they didn't notice that Commissioner Kun had already cut the rope with a razor blade hidden in his back pocket. Just as they were enjoying the fight, Wei Yuankun suddenly pulled out the pen guns and shot them in the heart. These two agents had always been in the business of assassinating others, but never thought that after a lifetime of being the hunter, they would be hunted down by Wei Yuankun.
Wei Yuankun first pulled out the devil's dagger and threw it to Wang He and Zhang Xin, then grabbed a gun. At this moment, the rear machine gunner on the plane seemed to feel something was wrong, and as soon as he turned around, he faced Wei Yuankun. The two men were stunned for a moment, then simultaneously drew their guns. However, Wei Yuankun had already grasped his gun and shot the opponent dead before he could even pull out his own gun from its holster. The chaotic gunfire riddled the rear cabin of the plane with holes. The two pilots on the plane weren't deaf, and upon hearing the gunshots, they knew something was wrong. They hastily pulled out their handguns. At this moment, Wang He took advantage of his lean physique to break free from his restraints. Seeing that the pilots had discovered him, he quickly picked up a submachine gun that had fallen on the cabin floor and swept it across the cockpit. Soon, a stream of blood flowed out of the cockpit.
Committee Wei felt as if he had just woken up from a nightmare, and what he did earlier seemed to be divinely assisted. In fact, when he was doing those things, he didn't think much, just thinking about how to beat the opponent to death and escape. As it turned out, there were too many loopholes in the whole process. After thinking back, if his plan had been discovered, he would have become a noodle scoop for others to use. All of this could only be said to be due to his own good character, plus the blessing of Zeus, the old heavenly father. Thinking of these things, Wei Yuan Kun was panting heavily, drawing a cross on his chest and muttering "Amitabha". At this time, Zhang Xin's shout startled Wei Yuan Kun, making his heart skip a beat:
"Damn it, I'm telling you Wang He, are you stupid?" On the other side, although Zhang Xin's hands were still tied up, he was jumping and cursing, "You've killed all the pilots, who's going to fly the plane now!"
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, there are usually parachutes on the plane, we can just jump with a parachute if necessary." However, after searching around, they found that these Japanese people didn't install parachutes on the plane.
"Damn it! He's gone stupid!" Wang He fell onto his butt on the ground.
When Wang Fangyuan heard this news, she burst into tears "I don't want to die, I want to go home!"
However, at the critical moment, Wei Yuankun suddenly showed his heroic nature. He patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I can fly a plane!" After finishing speaking, he walked into the cockpit, pushed away the dead pilot, took over the control stick. Due to inertia, although the pilot was shot dead earlier, the plane continued to fly steadily for a period of time - but with its nose pointing downwards, and it seemed that the plane was about to touch the ground. At this moment, Wei Yuankun suddenly pulled the control stick hard, and the plane immediately lifted its head again. At this moment, Wei Yuankun took a look at the altimeter, damn it, the distance from the ground was less than 1,000 meters.
"Wei Yuankun, you little rascal, how did you learn to fly a plane? I remember you never learned from anyone!" Everyone was curious about Wei Yuankun's ability, "I'm saying, are you our China-made 007, infiltrating us on purpose? Otherwise, how do you know everything?" Wang Fangyuan had cried so much that she was almost happy now, and seeing that she didn't have to die in a plane crash, her curiosity as a little girl suddenly took over again.
"I'm not some kind of 007," said Wei Yuankun as he flew the plane. "I didn't attend flight school to learn how to fly a plane, but don't forget, we played a game called 'Defending Eagle LI2', and in that game, I was the king of air combat!"
"Damn it!" Wang He and Zhang Xin cursed together, "After talking for half a day, this kid still doesn't know how to open..." Before they could even say the words "airplane", their faces were already stuck to the cockpit of the plane. Wei Yuankun proved with his actions that opening a real airplane was also his first time - like a big girl getting married for the first time.
