Chapter 69

  "Are you awake? How are you feeling? Is there anywhere that still doesn't feel right?" The beautiful woman asked with a smile as she saw Li Tie wake up.

  "Nothing, thank you, I'm feeling great now." Li Tie indeed felt extremely good, especially with a beautiful woman by his side.

  "This time your leg was shot with a small hole, and there is an open wound on your back. You have undergone surgery again, and it's estimated that you will need to spend more days recovering."

  "Do you know who hit me?" As soon as Li Tie asked, she regretted it. How did she know?

  As expected, the beauty doesn't know.

  "I didn't know that when I found out you were hurt again, you had already been taken to the operating room by someone else. By the time your surgery was finished and you still hadn't woken up, I came over to take a look, thinking I'd wait for you to wake up and see if there's anything I need to take care of."

  "Oh, that's all, you can rest too, it was hard on you."

  "It's alright, this is what I should do. Since there's no problem, you rest and I'll head back."

  The beauty finished speaking and turned around to leave.

  "Excuse me, may I ask you a personal question?"

  "Really?" The beauty said skeptically.

  "Can you tell me your name?"

  "Hmph, what's with the private questions? My name is Lin Jing, but the sisters in the medical team all call me Xiao Jing. See you later, my heroic company commander." Lin Jing playfully waved goodbye to Li Tie and walked away.

  Watching Lin Jing's back, Li Tie was stunned for a while.

  Lin Jing had just left when Er Gouzi appeared in the ward. When Er Gouzi came in, Li Tie was still dazed, and after being called several times by Er Gou, Little Li's soul finally returned.

  "How about it, isn't this girl pretty?"

  "Of course, ah, no, no, no, yes, Lian Chang, you're here." Li Tie was extremely embarrassed.

  "Little Li, how are you feeling? He's started messing around with those shady Japanese guys." Seeing Li Tie's embarrassment, Er Gou changed the subject.

  "Company Commander, I'm fine, do you know who fired at me?"

  "No one was found, just a person who came to the health team for medical treatment a few days ago after falling ill. At that time, he wasn't cured and was allowed to stay in the health team, resulting in this incident today."

  "What's going on?"

  "What's the point of interrogating him, his head has already been beaten to a pulp? Luckily, a soldier said he saw him two days ago coming to the medical team for treatment."

  "Are you out of your mind?"

  "That's right, when the sentry heard the gunshot at that time, he rushed over immediately and saw this kid lying outside your hospital window with his head and body separated, his neck was gone. Coming in to take a look, you were covered in blood on the ground, still holding your gun in your hand, not a single bullet left in the gun."

  According to a wounded soldier from the artillery company, he was sunbathing in front of the tree when he saw someone approaching your window. Before he could react, the guy pulled out a handgun and fired a shot at the window. He tried to rush over to catch the perpetrator, but before he could even stand up, he heard a burst of gunfire, and a string of bullets flew out from the window, directly hitting the guy's neck and breaking it. The head then fell to the ground, and everything went quiet. You probably fainted at that moment. The sentry arrived immediately and took you to the operating table. After the surgery, they brought you back.

  The two dog sons, the team leader, told Li Tie about the past in a nagging tone, and said that in order to avoid similar events from happening again, they had strengthened the sanitation team's vigilance. At the same time, a widespread mass mobilization campaign was carried out throughout the base area, striving to nip similar incidents in the bud.

  Li Tie was so depressed, having been in this world for less than a year and already suffering three injuries. The most depressing thing was that just as one injury healed, another came along, it was simply maddening.

  At night, some off-duty warrior cadres heard the news of Li Tie's re-injury and came to visit him again, saying they would keep their eyes wide open and strive to avenge Li Tie as soon as possible.

  It was late at night, after a day of running around, Li Tie felt particularly tired and lay down on the bed ready to fall asleep. Just then, the back of his head suddenly felt a tingling sensation, as if all the hairs were standing up.

  This feeling is a special kind of danger lurking nearby! It's like walking down a night road and being stalked by wolves.

  There was no light in the room, and the moonlight outside cast a faint glow through the window.

  Li Tie quietly got out of bed, holding his submachine gun in his hand, enduring the pain in his legs, and checked his weapon. The gun was fully loaded with bullets, probably by someone who knew Li Tie's habits, so the safety was not engaged, and it could be fired directly.

  Through the small gap under the window frame, Li Tie carefully observed the outside situation with the help of moonlight.

  The courtyard of the health team was quiet, with no noise at all. The sentry at the gate was still standing guard conscientiously. The dark shadow of the night watch also couldn't see anything.

  Just as Li Tie thought he was being too tense and suspicious, a black shadow flashed at the door, a cold light flashed by, and the sentry fell to the ground without making a sound. The black shadow then pounced on the hidden sentry, who had apparently exposed his position. Similarly, there was no sound, and the hidden sentry also fell to the ground.

  It seems that this dark figure is well-prepared, with not only strong martial arts skills but also a deep familiarity with the terrain and even the sentry posts.

  This black shadow is also quite cunning. In general, if a shooting incident occurs in the morning, similar actions should be cancelled at night. Because in general, the other party will strengthen their defenses, but this black shadow does the opposite, either because of exceptional skill or because they have no choice, with the arrow on the string having to be fired.

  As Li Tie was relatively far from the door, if he fired at this time, he didn't have a 100% guarantee of taking down the black figure, so Li Tie didn't make any moves and instead rested his gun on the windowsill, just aiming, waiting for the right moment to fire.

  The black figure knocked down the sentry and then headed straight for Li Tie's sickroom, apparently his target was still Li Tie.

  He came so fast, from the gate to Li Tie's ward at least a hundred meters, and he only used ten seconds or so to get there. His target was not the window, but the door!

  Li Tie aimed the gun at the door. The black figure walked silently, indeed a master. The black figure held a long samurai sword in one hand and a handgun in the other.

  Li Tie's door wasn't closed, probably he also knew about this matter, so he directly pushed the door open a crack and slipped in quietly, and then casually closed the door.

  He looked at the bed and was shocked - there was no one on the bed! Where was he? He had been keeping a close eye on him, Li Tie absolutely did not go out, and also absolutely did not change rooms, it was this room.

  Just at this moment, Li Tie's gun fired in his hand.

  "Bang bang bang......"

  A string of flames went towards the dark shadow.

  Heiying was startled and hastily dodged away.

  Good guy, worthy of being a master, one burst of bullets didn't hit a single shot.

  The black shadow made some strange movements on the spot, and a burst of bullets all fell empty!

  "Crack"

  The sound of the gun falling empty alerted Li Tie and also alerted Hei Ying, a burst of shots was finished.

  "Hehehe!"

  The black shadow let out a string of mournful cries, then surprisingly put the pistol into his waist and approached Li Tie with a samurai sword in one hand.

  Li Tie threw his gun at the black shadow in a state of extreme terror.

  Heiying used his knife to deflect the gun with a single touch.

  It was at this moment that Li Tie somehow had a shotgun in his hand, "Dadada...", the black shadow was just exposed at this time, probably thinking that Li Tie had already lost his weapon and wouldn't have any excessive resistance, so he was a bit careless. As a result, this burst of bullets directly hit the black shadow's lower body. On the abdomen, on the legs, and even one bullet hit the samurai sword.

  From the first shot fired by Li Tie, the courtyard of the medical team began to bustle. One after another, dark shadows crouched and moved towards Li Tie's ward. At the same time, some people also discovered the two sentries who had been killed at the door, and the soldiers surrounded the ward.

  "Baga, you're cunning." The black shadow resentfully leaned on the warrior's sword, its small eyes gleaming with hatred.

  Just as Li Tie was quickly replacing the pistol's magazine, the black shadow suddenly raised its samurai sword, gritting its teeth in pain, and let out a loud shout as it charged towards Li Tie.

  Li Tie raised his pistol, ready to give him another shot. Suddenly, a machine gun burst forth from the window frame, and a string of hot bullets shot out, directly hitting the black shadow on the opposite wall, densely packed bullets instantly turning his belly into minced meat. The gunfire stopped, and after several tens of seconds, the sound of "dang" was heard as the warrior's knife fell from his hand, followed by his corpse slowly sliding down the wall to the ground.

  "Company Commander, how are you?" The voices of the soldiers came from outside the window.

  "I'm fine, on high alert, checking if there are no enemies yet."

  "Yes!" A response came from outside the door, and then hurried footsteps could be heard rushing away.

  Z picked up his own submachine gun, replaced the magazine, then went to pick up the samurai sword and grabbed the black shadow's pistol. Just as he was about to take a look at what this black shadow looked like, someone outside shouted: "Fire! Come quickly to put out the fire!"

  As soon as he heard someone shouting "Lost fire", Li Tie's mind had an idea that these devils were up to no good.

  The warriors outside left two people on guard at the door and the rest went towards the place where the fire was lost.

  Just then, a woman's voice came from outside the door.

  "How is Commander Li?"

  "Report to Doctor Lin, Captain Li said he's fine." The soldier outside the door replied truthfully.

  The door opened and Lin Jing came in, seeing Li Tie standing beside him with a submachine gun in his hand.

  "How are you? Haven't been hurt again, have you?"

  "Alas, this time there isn't, these detestable devils, really haven't finished yet."

  Lin Jing came over, called out to the warriors outside the door to take away the Japanese corpse, and took Li Tie's gun as if it were an old friend, very calmly, then put it aside. Li Tie also didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this, just like casually putting down a normal object.

  Lin Jing helped Li Tie back onto the bed, helped him lie down, then lit a lamp and gave Li Tie's wound a check. Finding no change, she finally felt at ease.

  Outside the door came a burst of noise, which was the warriors putting out the fire.

  Several nearby civilian houses caught fire at the same time, apparently someone had deliberately set them on fire. In order to put out the fire as soon as possible, the soldiers mobilized most of their forces, some carrying water buckets and others holding iron shovels. However, these fires were very strange, and water could not directly extinguish them. It seemed that the enemy had poured gasoline or something similar on the houses.

  Li Tie did not go out. Firstly, he was injured and could not help even if he went out. Secondly, there were other cadres outside directing the firefighting efforts, which ensured that the fire would be extinguished as quickly as possible.

  So I took advantage of this rare opportunity and had a casual conversation with Lin Jing there.

  Li Tie quickly conquered Lin Jing with his experience of over sixty years beyond this era. Just as Li Tie and Lin Jing were getting closer, the sentry outside shouted: "Password." The person on the other side responded with the password, and then there was no movement, apparently not coming over. Just as the two were talking enthusiastically, Li Tie's scalp suddenly felt a chill, he turned his head to look, and the dim oil lamp stretched Lin Jing's shadow very long, projecting it onto the window. Since Lin Jing wore an Eighth Route Army military cap, it was impossible to tell whether the shadow was male or female, only seeing a vague figure.

  Not good, it's dangerous!

  Li Tie suddenly sprang up, directly knocking Lin Jing onto the bed, and then swung a pillow to extinguish the lamp. Just as Li Tie was pouncing on Lin Jing, a faint gunshot sounded outside the door, passing through the window and hitting where Lin Jing had been sitting. Although Li Tie had knocked Lin Jing down, even so, this bullet still grazed Lin Jing's arm, breaking the skin.

  Then the warriors outside the door also fired their guns, but only two shots were fired - each person fired one shot, and then there was no movement.

  Li Tie felt something was off, the shotgun was already in his hand, and the 20-round magazine was full - his gun never ran out of bullets.

  Because the submachine gun was placed on the wall and couldn't be reached for a while, he could only hold the pistol and pulled Lin Jing to hide in the dark shadow.

  Outside the door, apart from the noise of the firefighters, there was no other sound. The gunshot just now surprisingly didn't attract anyone's attention, which is very abnormal. Could it be that the noise was too loud? No, the warriors who fought in blood and fire all day were particularly sensitive to gunshots and wouldn't have missed this problem.

  Just as Li Tie was lost in thought, a very faint footsteps came from outside the door. There were not only one person coming, but at least three or four people.

  They cautiously approached the sickroom. Li Tie aimed his shotgun at the door, and Lin Jing also pulled out her small pistol - a compact handgun of unknown model.

  Just as the approaching person's hand touched the door, Li Tieguang opened fire from outside. Suddenly, a fierce burst of machine gun fire came from outside - at least two or three machine guns fired at the same time, targeting the people at the door. The dense bullets not only turned several black shadows into beehives but also turned the two wooden doors into standard beehives. Moonlight shone through the bullet holes and onto the ground, casting a bloody red glow - the blood of the devils that had flowed earlier hadn't been cleaned up yet, and more blood flowed in from outside the door.

  The machine gun fire stopped, and outside was a chaotic mess of footsteps, all heading towards the hospital room.

  Today was really too lively, and Li Tie alone suffered three attacks. It seems that the devils really want to get rid of Li Tie as soon as possible.

  This time all who came in were their own people, Li Tie had already seen clearly from under the window frame.

  The one running in front isn't Er Gou's team leader, is it?

  Two dogs rushed in and asked anxiously: "Little Li, are you okay? Little Li, what's wrong with you?"

  Because Li Tie just smashed the oil lamp, the room was very dark, and Er Gou did not see Li Tie, nor did he see that there was another person in the room.

  "Even if I'm fine, that little devil won't let me go, he's determined to torment me to death."

  "Turn on the light and clean up the entrance." Hearing that Li Tie was fine, Er Gouzi felt relieved and began to direct his men to clean up the battlefield.

  A warrior placed a small lantern on the table, and Er Gouzi only then discovered that there was someone else in the house besides Li Tie. As soon as he saw her, he wanted to make a joke, but suddenly saw Li Tie supporting her from the hiding place just now, while she covered her left arm, with faint bloodstains inside.

  "What's wrong? Dr. Lin, are you injured? Medic! Medic!"

  Lin Jing was unexpectedly injured, and Er Gou's joke immediately flew to Mars, and a health worker was called over right away.

  The medic was originally following Er Gou and came together, after hearing Li Tie say it's nothing, he didn't come in directly, but instead checked on the two wounded soldiers outside the door. The two people at the entrance were not seriously injured, just knocked unconscious and thrown aside, after a round of emergency treatment, they had already woken up. Hearing the company commander call for the medic, this medic immediately ran into the room.

  At a glance, it turned out that Dr. Lin was injured, and immediately they were in a flurry to find bandages and hemostatic drugs.

  "It's okay, I can do it myself." Seeing the nurse's busy and flustered appearance, Lin Jing said to the nurse, while taking out a roll of gauze from the nurse's bag and roughly bandaging herself.

  "Let's put some medicine on it, otherwise if it gets infected, it'll be troublesome."

  "It's nothing, just a scratch."

  "Alas, since it's like this, then rewrap it for me again. I feel that my leg is bleeding again."

  After all this trouble, Li's wound on his leg started bleeding again, and the gauze was completely soaked through.

  The nurse re-dressed Li Tie's wound under Lin Jing's guidance.

  After all this commotion, the east has already appeared with a white belly of fish, and it's almost dawn.

  One night he was attacked twice, Li Tie was both tired and painful, and fell asleep on the bed in a daze.

  At last, the undercover agent hiding within the enemy's ranks sent back the long-overdue intelligence report.

  Intelligence says that the devils are preparing to carry out a "beheading operation" against the Eighth Route Army, the time of the action is uncertain, the personnel participating in the action are uncertain, and the object of the action is uncertain.

  This is a very vague piece of intelligence and it's also too late, but this just shows how much importance the devils attach to this operation and that the level of this action isn't ordinary.

  Time went back two weeks ago, in Itai's office.

  Itanda Masa and several subordinates were studying the battle situation.

  Itō Hirobumi's speech:

  "Gentlemen, over the past year, our Imperial Army has suffered heavy losses in this region! Not to mention the massive loss of equipment, many excellent Imperial soldiers have sacrificed their lives for the Empire's cause, especially in the last half year. The number of casualties is more than the total of several years ago. This is not a normal phenomenon, and we need to investigate this matter."

  "Haneda-san, regarding this matter, our military police have already conducted some investigations beforehand," an officer said.

  "Oh, you're talking nonsense."

  "Hey! Itou. In the past, the Imperial Army was repeatedly attacked, but both the irregular and regular Eighth Route Army were just small-time thieves, unable to launch effective attacks against us. However, several months ago, they changed their tactics. Their methods of attack have become more shameless, not something a warrior should do."

  "From the intelligence sent back by our agents, and the intelligence sent back by the maintenance meeting, as well as the intelligence detected by the special agent team, after comprehensive consideration, reasonable research, and scientific calculation, we discovered that there is a particularly shameless leader in one of the eight routes closest to us."

  "This man's name is Li Tie. He was just an ordinary soldier before, but after becoming the company commander, he repeatedly launched shameless attacks on the Imperial Army. First, he ambushed the Imperial Army's artillery unit, and then he ambushed the Imperial Army's foreign concession. It is likely that the recent Imperial Army's supply train is also related to this man. Because so far, there is no evidence to prove that this man has nothing to do with this matter."

  "Since this person became the company commander, the combat effectiveness of the nearby Eighth Route Army has risen sharply. The equipment is even stronger than that of the Imperial Army, and the logistics supply is more abundant than that of the Imperial Army. I even suspect that the annihilation of the entire Imperial Army's guard line troops nine months ago was also done by this person."

  "This person is good at using shameless means to attack the Imperial Army, using despicable methods to deal with the Imperial Army, showing no mercy to Imperial Army soldiers, and harboring extreme hatred towards the Imperial Army. He is a stubborn Eighth Route Army element."

  "In summary, this person is despicable and shameless, ignorant of shame, the most shameless, repays kindness with resentment, destroys cultural heritage, degenerates, shoots people in the back, kicks people when they're down, creates trouble out of nothing, openly commits arson and robbery, takes over others' homes, kills people and then lends them money, does every evil deed, is cruel beyond human nature, has a wolf's heart and dog's lungs, destroys humanity, loses all sense of justice, is addicted to killing, and defies heavenly principles! The existence of this person is unfortunate for our department, unfortunate for the Imperial Army, and unfortunate for the Great Japanese Empire."

  The officer spoke with a glib tongue, spewing forth white foam, and in his words, Li Tie became a cunning and treacherous villain, two-faced and ruthless.

  "Hmm, Matsushita-kun makes sense." Itoda affirmed what he said.

  "I suggest, first get rid of this man, and the Eighth Route Army will definitely be severely damaged. Although the highest commander of this army is Zhao Er Gou, but this man's words are sometimes even more important than Zhao Er Gou! If we get rid of him, it would be equivalent to cutting off one of Zhao Er Gou's arms."

  "That makes sense."

  "I suggest that this top-secret mission be carried out directly by the Imperial Army! The abilities of the Imperial Guards are truly disheartening, and they are completely unreliable."

  "Alright guys, this time we'll be working with the Imperial Army's assassination squad, Special Operations Unit. Everyone needs to keep this under wraps."

  "Hurray!"