Chapter 17: I Was Captured by the Devils

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  The news of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor didn't reach Wei Yuankun until two days later.

  And Joseph? Visarionovich? Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek were the same, when Wei Yuankun heard the news of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States, he was overjoyed. First of all, it must be declared that this has nothing to do with gloating over others' misfortunes. Although Wei Yuankun was also a member of the "shit youth" at that time, hating America and Japan every day, dreaming of inserting American flags and Japanese flags, and doing business such as the Tokyo massacre. However, now Wei Mouren has long since shed his "angry youth" color - why do you want to kill people all the time? Isn't building a puppet country more cost-effective? Of course, since he watched movies starring Japanese stars such as Maki Watanabe, Mariko Kaga, and Rie Hana, he no longer had any thoughts of racial extermination against the Japanese. As for why he was overjoyed, it was because he was familiar with history and knew what kind of result it would be if the United States were dragged into war. After all, as long as the United States is pulled down, this battle will be easy to fight, after all, does the American Yankees' ticket factory have a large farm? More importantly, the little devils this time are even more miserable than the Americans in the original space-time, and they even bombed Oahu Island. This directly resulted in the Americans collectively exploding beans. With the temperament of the little Japanese, playing such a set will definitely have a follow-up move, and it's not impossible to land on the West Coast after taking Pearl Harbor. As a result, it is estimated that the US government's original policy of "Europe first and Asia second" will be quickly modified to "Asia first and Europe second" under public pressure. Although Roosevelt didn't want to do so at first, the reality in front of them was that if they didn't do so, those "cruel and violent" Japanese men with glasses might land on American soil, which is something no American can tolerate - in the previous few months, the traversers spent a lot of money in the United States to publish the atrocities of the Japanese army in various newspapers. Although the effect at that time was not as significant as imagined, now the news about the atrocities of the Japanese army has been brought out again by Americans, and under the instigation of some traversers who were hired, it is becoming more and more evil. The momentum is basically that all the people on the Japanese island are descendants of Satan's three aunts, six uncles, four grandfathers, and two big masters, each with glasses, short legs, big teeth, and a small tail on their buttocks... In short, no matter how to describe the Japanese, it's just that they don't treat them as human beings. What if such a group of number one villain roles in movies like "Resident Evil" and "Alien" really come to America? They must be killed first.

  However, unlike Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek, Wei Yuankun could not cheer at this moment, because he was on a Japanese 100 transport plane flying to Shenyang, no, it should be called Fengtian. His close comrades Wang He, Zhang Xin, and the unlucky Wang Fangyuan were also on the same "special plane". As for why these four people ended up on a Japanese plane, the reason is simple——

  Got captured.

  Many years later, Wei Yuankun was already very old and had forgotten many things. However, whenever he mentioned being captured by the Japanese paratroopers, after jumping up and down in anger (even when he suffered from a cerebral thrombosis and couldn't move half of his body, he still shook with rage), he would always add: Don't mention it, those little devils did a pretty good job that time.

  The thing is like this.

  At that time, Wei Yuankun, Wang He and Zhang Xin were hiding in the house using their laptops to secretly watch a Japanese behavioral art film starring Maria Ozawa, which they had brought from another space-time. Meanwhile, Wang Fangyuan was lying on the kang with her eyes closed, applying the last sheet of face mask she carried with her, according to her, beauty must be consistent and cannot be relaxed for a moment, although in this space-time she often faced the danger of being disfigured by bullets or shrapnel. Because they had special identities, Li Shuai specially arranged a separate room for these four traversers, although this gave them their own free space, but it was not good for their safety, because their residence was near the village edge and the surrounding vegetation was lush, making it easy to be ambushed. However, they seemed to have nothing to worry about, as the military district command was located in the depths of the base area, and the devils were currently being manipulated by the Eighth Route Army and the anti-Japanese guerrilla forces, who had been strengthened with weapons and equipment, and would not find trouble for them under pressure. However, they forgot two things: one was paratroopers, and the other was special forces. In fact, Wei Yuankun also thought of this problem, but thinking about the performance of the Japanese army in World War II, these people only knew how to play "board-loaded charge" with bayonets, and were equipped with folding rifles, would they use special warfare? Don't be ridiculous, that's impossible.

  It turned out that underestimating others would result in a heavy price being paid, as was the case with Wei Yuankun and his men this time.

  To catch these time-travelers, the Japanese spared no expense. Generally speaking, to deal with a small band of guerrilla fighters like this one, it would not be necessary to use something as advanced as the Ki-100 transport plane, but this time they had brought it out, and in order to capture them, the Japanese military had even deployed their legendary special forces - the Tokubetsu Kōgekitai.

  In the 21st century, special warfare may not be a big deal in wars, but we can see the shadow of special forces in every war. However, in the 1940s, special warfare was a new and fresh concept. At that time, some military personnel in various military academies were interested in special operations. According to the TV series "The Sword", their theoretical basis for special warfare was: while acknowledging that great men create history, they also did not ignore the possibility of small individuals creating history. For example, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo led to World War I. Can you say that small individuals cannot create history? When the balance is at equilibrium, even the weight of an ant can cause it to tilt. Similarly, on the strategic scale, a small team with special training and equipment can also cause a shift in strategy.

  In this regard, the Germans were at the forefront. The unfortunate Maginot Line became their first victim. However, for Japan at that time, studying this subject was considered too unconventional by most military officers. Although the Japanese liked to launch surprise attacks in war, they also enjoyed forming grand armies. The Nomonhan Incident was proof of the Japanese army's tendency to engage in fierce battles.

  World War II was a vast stage where every excellent military officer could find their role, as long as they were not killed by snipers, landmines, or artillery shells, and did not die from sudden heart attacks or other unexpected events. From the Japanese perspective, if white people had special forces, Japan should have them too. The German Brandenburgers and paratroopers were causing a stir in Europe, so why shouldn't the Imperial Japanese Army have its own special operations unit?

  Therefore, the Japanese military quickly established a special forces unit, with members selected from various units through rigorous testing and high elimination rates. They were then sent to the special forces school in Berlin. Although Japan's special forces did not achieve great results in actual combat, they did impress their German instructors at the school. The Japanese students had rich practical experience, especially in laying landmines, sniping, and reconnaissance. This was not something that could be learned in a classroom.

  The students proudly told their instructors that they were all highly educated and could speak seven or eight languages, according to the words of Chinese warlord Zhang Zongchang. Additionally, since the Manchurian Incident in 1931, the Japanese military had been continuously engaged in combat, especially after 1937. Many of these special forces members were selected from North China and other regions, where they had been constantly harassed by the Eighth Route Army and local bandits. Although they only learned some superficial skills, it was enough to impress their German instructors.

  Although the Japanese military officers' theory on weapon equipment was that Japan is a resource-poor country, equipping automatic firearms would increase combat costs. With a single soldier's ammunition base of 150 rounds calculated for single-shot rifles, it may be able to support one day of combat, while submachine guns used for continuous firing may not last an hour. If only one million army troops were equipped with submachine guns, the existing resources, production capacity, transportation capabilities, and logistics system would need to be expanded tenfold, which is a high-cost war that Japan cannot afford.

  However, under the principle of "not being poor in the military, not being bitter in special forces", the military still equipped this unit with a full set of automatic weapons - including Finnish-made "Soviet" submachine guns, FN company's Browning machine guns and semi-automatic rifles. Grenade launchers were also indispensable.

  The Japanese high command was shocked after seeing the toilet paper brought by the time traveler, learning that in future battles, the Japanese military would be defeated by the automatic firepower of the American and British armies. They realized that from 1931's Manchurian Incident, China's northeastern provinces had become Japan's main resource supply base and military production base.

  After the Marco Polo Bridge incident and the August 13th incident in Shanghai in 1937, most of China's territory and resources fell into Japanese hands. The US military at Pearl Harbor was completely destroyed, and Britain's strength in the Pacific could be ignored. Resource-rich Southeast Asian countries had become Japan's own banknotes, waiting to be withdrawn.

  The Japanese military had a vast occupied area, rich resources, and cheap labor. Listening to the old men talk about resource poverty seemed brainless. Although the Japanese military's strategic planning was historically unprecedentedly incompetent, it did not prove they were idiots. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor proved the accuracy of the time traveler's information.

  Why didn't they adjust their military production in time and equip their troops with better weapons? Information brought back by students and military observers who studied in Germany made the Japanese understand that at this moment, the main single-soldier weapons on the European battlefield were all automatic firearms. A strong army should be reflected in its firepower, not "white-fleshed combat".

  Unexpectedly, the Kwantung Army was most enthusiastic about weapon replacement. The key was that from top to bottom, they had the most personal experience with this point. Many of them could never forget the Battle of Nomonhan in 1939 on the Sino-Mongolian border. It was a battle of steel, industrial production, willpower, and flesh and blood.

  The Kwantung Army thus became the first unit in the Japanese military to experience modern warfare. The sky was filled with aircraft roaring, the ground shook with cannons roaring, and aviation bombs and large-caliber shells turned the Japanese positions into a sea of fire. The density of firepower was unprecedented for Japanese soldiers.

  In the vast Gobi Desert, on a front line tens of kilometers wide, thousands of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles came pouring in, crushing the Japanese soldiers' proud warrior spirit with their tank treads, and also turning their bodies into minced meat. In this battle, the "Flowers of the Imperial Army" were brutally defeated by Zhukov's Red Army, and units like the 7th Division were directly crushed.

  If they didn't remember this, Japan's commanders were either heartless or stupid.

  Anyway, let's get back to Japan's special attack unit.

  This special forces team was sent over with only one mission, which was to go to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region and capture a few crossers. Although the commander of the special forces team thought that the upper command had ordered his elite special operations team to take the dangerous route of parachuting in by glider to infiltrate the military district headquarters of a Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region unit, this was simply - too humiliating! We are special forces, after all. Capturing bandits is not our job. Although some members of his team had dealt with the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region before and knew how difficult it was to deal with these ragtag troops, he didn't think so. Relying on the arrogance taught to him by the Japanese Army Officer School, he thought that his special forces team should go to Chongqing to launch a surprise attack on Chiang Kai-shek's official residence, capture that bald-headed Chiang, or sneak onto a submarine and land secretly in Hawaii, capture MacArthur, that old chain-smoker, or at least blow up the ammunition depot of the US Pearl Harbor coastal defense fort. However, dissatisfaction is one thing, but Japanese soldiers have this good quality - although they often "rebel" against their superiors when there's nothing going on, at critical moments orders still need to be carried out, even if that order is to sit bare-bottomed on the ice surface of the Songhua Lake in the freezing cold. And now, as one of the targets of this special operations team, Wei Yuankun was feeling quite good because he had just removed the last bandage from his body and had no idea that disaster was looming over him. To be precise, since they were used to using historical events from their original time-space to infer what would happen in the current time-space, they never thought that although they had always been "low-key" in this time-space, they had still become a "big shot" worth noting in the eyes of high-ranking Japanese officials. A heavily armed and well-trained special operations team was sent to capture them by air - this was an honor that at least Benlai or Erwang would enjoy in another time-space.

  Before departure, the captain of the Japanese special attack team looked at the order given to him by the military department and was depressed. To put it simply, the translation into Chinese is "The order shakes the mountain, the imperial army listens clearly, I want to live as 'Zhao Yun', don't die as 'Zi Long'. If one soldier or general loses his life, 830,000 people, 51 war generals, and he will be held accountable for his life." Two points need to be explained here: first, Zhao Yun and Zi Long specifically refer to the traversers; second, the Japanese high-ranking officer who issued the order is not telling jokes.

  The glider landed at 4:00 am. Prior to this, in order to confuse the Eighth Route Army, planes had been flying over the eastern Hebei region every night, and by now the Eighth Route Army was accustomed to the sound of airplanes. At 4:10, Japanese special agents crept up to the entrance of the village where Wei Yuankun's group was located. At 4:19, the Japanese special agents approached the sentry post at the edge of the village. One agent from Hokkaido drew his tanto knife, while another cocked a silenced pistol. At 4:20, the sentry standing in front of the village entrance suddenly felt a flash of white light before him and fell to the ground without making a sound. The special agents were indeed skilled; the flying dagger they threw accurately lodged itself into the sentry's neck, and the blood from his severed carotid artery stained the snowy ground red. At the same time, the hidden sentries in ambush were also shot in the forehead by silenced pistols. Seeing that there was no more danger, the special agents leapt up and charged into the village entrance.

  The Japanese special forces soon found the residence of Wei Yuankun and others, which was easy to find - afterwards, several people had a big argument about this issue. Zhang Xin scolded Wei Yuankun for not having public morals, eating chocolate and throwing away the packaging paper at the door. Wei Yuankun blamed Wang He for singing "One Without Anything" in the middle of the night, while Wang He angrily pointed out that it was Zhang Xin's large pants with a double bear pattern that exposed their target. However, Zhang Xin vaguely indicated that these were not very obvious in the dark night, but rather someone's bra and vest that were hung outside, which were not suitable for this era's clothing and exposed their position. In fact, Rome wasn't built in a day, and all the reasons pointed out by the crowd were true. Anyway, these characteristics added up to tell the Japanese special forces that the time-travelers were here. Wei Yuankun and others also developed good habits such as not littering and putting away their clothes before sunset due to this incident.

  No one could have anticipated that someone would launch a surprise attack. When the Japanese special forces burst into the house, the three men surrounding the laptop first turned it off. However, when they turned around, they found that the intruders were not Wang Fangyuan or other Eighth Route Army soldiers, but rather a group of short-statured soldiers wearing parachutist helmets, holding submachine guns and grenades. A shout of "Hands up!" and the black muzzles of the guns made everyone understand that these men were Japanese! Wei Yuankun was the first to react, immediately realizing that these men must have killed the two sentries at the door to get there. He thought back to just an hour ago when he had shared a cigarette with a soldier who now lay dead. Enraged, he charged forward, but was quickly thrown to the ground by one of the special forces soldiers and knocked unconscious with a rifle butt. Wang He and Zhang Xin, on the other hand, raised their hands in surrender. The most intense resistance encountered by the Japanese during the capture operation occurred at Wang Fangyuan's place. When the Japanese burst into her house, she was applying a face mask made from wild vegetables. Her ghostly appearance startled the special forces soldiers, and as she shouted "Catch the hooligans!" while throwing a kettle of boiling water at them, one of the men had his nose bloodied and a large patch of skin scalded off his chest. Wang Fangyuan paid a heavy price for her bravery: just as she was about to shout "Catch the..." before she could say the word "wolf", she was grabbed by the chin and knocked unconscious with a rifle butt.

  The shouting of Wang Fangyuan also startled the surrounding Eighth Route Army, who did not expect that there were Japanese troops sneaking up, but thought that the blind guy dared to make a move on their turf, coming to their barracks to flirt with women. They all picked up their guns and rushed out, while a Japanese special agent responsible for cover thought that their action had been discovered and hastily fired a short burst of shots, thoroughly exposing their target. The leader of the Japanese special attack team couldn't help but scold this reckless guy, and quickly ordered his men to drag away these targets and equipment from the house. The Eighth Route Army also found that these devils were a bit off, as soon as the gun went off, someone discovered that this group of devils was a bit strange, their posture was very weird, they held in their hands not the usual Type 38 rifle but a kind of flower-shaped machine gun with a rotating drum at the bottom, which they had never seen before. These devils carried several ammunition packs on their bodies, and wore scabbards on their waist belts, their steel helmets were also completely different from other devils, except for no brim, in the moonlight, there was not a bit of reflection.

  "Special forces!" Li Yang, a battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army, quickly thought of a term that Wei Yuankun and his men had mentioned to them. "Brothers, be careful, this time we may have encountered tough opponents!" The two bodies of the Eighth Route Army lying in the middle of the street had already reminded him that each person was hit by a short burst of gunfire, and the location of the hits were all between the eyebrows. With such marksmanship under the moonlight, the opponent was definitely not an ordinary soldier.

  What happened next confirmed his judgment. As soon as Li Yang's voice fell, the enemy's grenade launcher sounded, and two shells flew towards his hiding place with a strange cry. Boom! Boom! And Li Yang was also a veteran of the battlefield, so he quickly lay down and rolled into a ditch. Just as he raised his head, a bullet grazed his scalp.

  Li Yang spat out a mouthful of saliva and secretly admired the opponent's accuracy. The first two shots from the grenade launcher hit their mark, and the shells landed on the same spot. And just now, he had almost been shot in the head when he exposed it for less than five centimeters. It seemed that the opponent also had a godly marksman... no, Wei Yuankun had said that this was called a sniper.

  "What's going on?" At this moment, Commander Li also ran over, "How many people are there on the other side?"

  "Report to the commander, we were just ambushed by a group of devils and Wei Yuankun and three others were captured. During our pursuit, we encountered an ambush by over 20 enemies with intense firepower. Our soldiers are currently in a standoff with them." A company commander hastily stepped forward to report.

  "What's going on with you all! A whole regiment plus a guard company can't even take out more than 20 devils, what are you all eating?!" Commander Li was furious when he heard that Wei Yuankun and the others had been captured. At this moment, among these Eighth Route Army soldiers, only he knew the identities of the four men. He was very clear about how severe the consequences would be if they fell into the hands of the Japanese army. If they couldn't be rescued, then...then they could only follow Wei Yuankun's prior instructions and take them all out, even though it was cruel, but at least that way the losses could be minimized.

  "Hurry up and rescue them for me, quickly!" However, the company commander gave him a negative answer. The reason was that the enemy's combat strength was very strong, and their marksmanship was accurate. Often, as soon as soldiers showed their heads, they would be shot in the head by the enemy's cold guns. And when launching a group charge, the soldiers would suffer from the enemy's precise short-range automatic fire. At present, more than 20 people had already been killed at the front, and although his own men were numerous, they were all being tightly suppressed by the enemy.

  After hearing this, Commander Li also remembered the special forces that Wei Yuankun and the others had mentioned. It must be them! In his impression, with so many people, plus the newly reinforced weapons and ammunition, not to mention 20 or more devils, even if a whole company came, these men could wipe them out within an hour. But now, his own troops were being pinned down in the village by the enemy's small unit.

  "It seems that this special forces is indeed formidable." At this moment, the sky had already brightened, and the sound of planes could be heard from afar. Having participated in the Long March, he knew that if the Japanese planes launched an air raid on their village at this time, it would cause extremely severe losses for them.

  "No matter what kind of troops they are, hurry up and eliminate them, and rescue the people for me!"