Forty-one

  "Really, don't we need to send troops to help you ambush the airport?" In the face of Yan Wei and Wu Han's farewell, Fu Daojun always felt that if he just left like this, it seemed that his understanding of the two parties' sincere cooperation in times of national crisis and the gratitude for saving his life was a bit shallow.

  "Old Fu, from now on I won't be addressing you by your military title. Haven't I told you before? Our operation this time is a sneak attack, not a frontal assault! Through the reconnaissance troops' continuous scouting for two days, the Japanese airport doesn't have a large garrison, and the entire garrison force is only a small Japanese squad. Moreover, I have in my hands the best sniper from our 32nd Army Corps! As long as we can take out the two machine gun towers at the Japanese airport in one go, plus the powerful submachine gun firepower of Director Wu's troops, I am confident that we can take down the Japanese airport within three minutes."

  "Although it is said so, but having more people on hand can't be a bad thing, right?" Fu Daojun always felt that just walking away like this was not quite right.

  "Old Fu, I'm just following Yan's lead. We have no choice but to follow orders and the situation has forced us into this. You're different from us, I know that in the Communist Army, military orders are strict and you can't engage with the enemy without permission from above! But compared to our friendship, all these things don't matter. Your responsibilities are heavy too, you have thousands of people under your command who rely on you for survival, you can't afford to make a mistake either!" Wu Hanhuai was deeply moved by Fu Daoming's sense of justice at this critical moment.

  "All right, I represent the National Revolutionary Army's New Fourth Army and the Huazhong Anti-Japanese Column's First Detachment, wishing you a smooth and safe return tonight." He then gave Yan Wei and Wu Hanhua a standard military salute.

  Yan Wei smiled after giving Fu Da-jun a return gift: "Old Fu, I will definitely return safely. I still owe you the equipment for one battalion that has not been fulfilled yet!"

  Fu Daojun, also a seasoned veteran with countless lives lost in his hands over the years, looked at Yan Wei with genuine emotion and said: "Alright, don't mention those things. Last time I was blinded by rage, if it wasn't for you stopping me, who knows, we might have both fallen together! What's the point of talking about equipment? As long as you two can make it back alive, continue to fight against Japan on behalf of our country in the future, and I'll figure out a way to replenish our equipment myself."

  Wu Hanhui was also moved to emotion at this point, and continued: "My brother is not reliable! The equipment he promised you, I'll get it for you now! Airdrop it, and later I'll send someone to measure a specific latitude and longitude coordinate with you. I'll personally accompany you to receive it together! Anyway, neither of us is leaving Jingzhou City tonight! In a moment, I'll have someone contact the local headquarters via radio, if we can't fulfill my brother's promise, neither of us will leave Jingzhou City!"

  After seeing Fu Daojun off, Yan Weilai pulled Wu Huanhuai back and said seriously: "Yongxi brother, I can handle that little military affair. You must leave with the target tonight! Otherwise, I won't be at ease leaving my unmarried daughter-in-law to someone else!"

  "Wu Han smiled and said, 'Let your men escort the target away. With your troops together, what are you still worried about? Are there still people in your army who dare to poach from you?'"

  "Brother Yongxi, do you understand what I'm saying?" Yan Wei saw that after Wu Hanhuai said they would take the target back tonight, all of them were his own people, and he couldn't help but cherish this friend he met in the midst of war.

  "You think I'm worried that you can't handle the equipment of Old Fu's small battalion? If the beloved general of the 32nd Army, Guan, can't even take care of this, then why should I bother with you?! I really don't want to leave you, good brother, behind alone!" Wu Hanhuai said, his emotions already stirred up.

  "Brother Wang!" Yan Wei had a thorough epiphany about human nature at this moment. It gave him a shocking new understanding of the various personalities and styles of the Revival Society's agents, which he had been familiar with on a daily basis!

  "Don't think that just because you want something, it'll all work out. I reckon your little wife who hasn't even crossed the threshold yet probably won't listen to you and will leave first tonight." Wu Hanhua looked at Yan Wei with a smile of envy. Having said that, he turned around and left, instructing his subordinates to contact the Chongqing side to cause trouble for Fu Daojun's military supplies.

  After Wu Hanhua left, Yan Wei thought more and more that what he said made sense. So he immediately found Fang Lan and told her about his plans for tonight. As expected, Fang Lan was unmoved by Yan Wei's arrangements after being influenced by Wu Hanhua's words. She even said that now, not even the chairman could separate them again!

  Yan Wei had to coax and persuade Fang Lan to explain why she had to leave, saying that she was now the only one who could represent the Wuhan Orphanage on this trip. The mission was originally sent by the Wuhan Orphanage, and if no one from the orphanage went to Chongqing, it would be too embarrassing. He also said that if Fang Lan didn't go, he wouldn't be able to calm down and focus on fighting the Japanese army! He even said that during the battle on the mountain slope a few days ago, he was distracted by thoughts of her and almost got blown up by a Japanese hand grenade! In the end, Fang Lan's face turned red with guilt, and she agreed to let Yan Wei go first. However, she gave him an ultimatum: he had to return safely to Chongqing within a month. She also said that after she returned, she would wait for him every day at the Chaotianmen dock in Chongqing, and if she didn't see him by the deadline, she would jump into the Yangtze River and swim back to Jingzhou to find him!

  Sometimes love can really make a woman jump into the river!

  To say that the days of Hwang Sun-won were more difficult than those of Yan Wei by over a hundred and thirty times! Although they had taken advantage of all the advantages of the occupying army, since facing this unseen strong enemy, these thirteen days and nights of struggle have been nothing but heart-wrenching torture and torment!

  Hamasaki Hiro understands that this is China, it's someone else's country and territory. Here, his only enemy is himself! But he has 400 million comrades fighting alongside him! And what about him? He's an invader. What is an invader? An invader is someone who stands on someone else's land with a hated identity, facing 400 million enemies who want to tear him apart at any moment, and may actually do so at any time - a group of people who appear strong but are secretly praying for peace every second, hoping to see the sunrise the next morning.

  Here is the translation:

  There's no real advantage here, even if we have a strong army and powerful military might! This point can be clearly seen from the results of these thirteen days and nights of fighting. If this search and capture operation were on our own territory, we would have mobilized the local people to seal off the area segment by segment and conduct a thorough search of the mountains, and we would have annihilated this isolated army that has already lost its logistical support and is heavily burdened!

  But now, the opponent seems to be getting more and more comfortable! While I seem to have been pushed step by step to the edge of the cliff! One more wrong move, and beneath my feet is an abyss of no return!

  If his judgment was correct, Jingzhou, a small city in this ancient country, must be the final transfer point for the opponent!

  Judging from the opponent's IQ, they won't be foolish enough to continue walking with a team of children for over 500 kilometers into Sichuan! Moreover, if the opponent really intends to walk all the way to Sichuan by land, they wouldn't have detoured to Jingzhou. The encounter battle that occurred outside Jingzhou City a few days ago was clearly supported by other forces. The enemy's gun casings left on the battlefield can tell us that these enemies who once again severely damaged the Imperial Army are the same ones who humiliated our military career in the Hankou area, causing us to lose face and be defeated. And now, according to my prediction, the opponent has appeared in Jingzhou, with only one purpose - the Yangtze River.

  Should I order the troops to heavily blockade the Yangtze River? Will this scare the enemy into hiding and never showing their face again, blending in with the civilians and lying low with their children? Or should I order my troops to intentionally loosen the blockade on the Yangtze waterway, leaving an opening for the enemy to fall into a trap? Matsumoto Hiroshi is once again tormenting his own brain cells.

  After some deliberation, Hama-saki Hiro-matsu thought that he couldn't afford to let his guard down and take the risk. Through this clash with his opponent, he had witnessed with his own eyes how one of his standard units was annihilated like a withered tree! Hama-saki Hiro-matsu felt fear towards his opponent for this ancient country. He didn't know how many unexpected events would still occur in this vast country with an area of over 1.1 billion square kilometers.

  According to intelligence from the intelligence department, if they are really completely locked down here and can't move, then in another sense, they have also indirectly completed their mission. Because the US side will not indefinitely believe that the target is still alive in the hands of their national government! So the blockade on the Yangtze River cannot be weakened! Blocking this choke point can at least make his opponent feel uncomfortable. For Binzaki Hiroshi now, it's probably not bad either.

  So what measures would the opponent take if the planned plan could not be implemented smoothly? Hama-saki Hiro-matsu began to mobilize his relatively developed brain cells again, and once again conducted character analysis and development prediction based on his limited understanding of this opponent.

  From the moment I received the order, to entering the scene in Hankou area and seeing that all troops of the Tsushima Garrison had been annihilated! Then at night, seeing the parachute troops of the Chinese government enter the battlefield. And then it was those two consecutive sneak attacks that would bring eternal shame to my military career! Later on, I again narrowly missed the enemy in Tianmen County. Until finally, in this important city in the Yangtze River basin, Asia's longest river, I once again narrowly missed the enemy, yet he remained just out of reach!

  What would the opponent's next move be? Suddenly, a sense of unease slowly welled up from the depths of Hama-saki Hiro-matsu's heart! This feeling was like it came from a dark and cold hell! It slowly invaded his nerves from the very end, all the way to the deepest part of his brain, slowly gnawing at his mind!

  Through the acceleration of heartbeat and blood flow, Hamasaki Hiroshi realized that this unstable excitement would thoroughly disturb and entangle his hard-won inspiration. He firmly believed that this uneasy feeling was not a bad sign! Perhaps this is the key to dispel the thick fog!

  Hamasaki Hiroto closed his eyes tightly, not daring to open them, took a deep breath, or walked two steps to pour himself a glass of water. He was afraid that he would accidentally scare away the puzzle-solving spirit in his subconscious! It was as if someone who had been sleeping soundly suddenly had an incredibly wonderful dream. As his subconscious slowly became aware of how he could have such good luck, he began to feel that everything at this moment was like a dream, and he started to force himself to close his eyes and blur his consciousness, trying to make his brain cells re-enter a dormant state, hoping to continue the elusive beautiful dream! Best of all, he wanted to stay in the dream forever and never wake up again!

  Hamasaki Hiroshi rested his elbows on the desk, thrusting all ten fingers into his thick hair, slowly gathering them in an attempt to stimulate his scalp nerves by tugging at the roots of his hair, thereby forcing himself to concentrate in that hazy environment, amidst the many vague and elusive ideas floating around him, searching for that abnormal spark he was not even sure existed.

  A person in a dark and terrifying black forest, exhausted and unable to see the moon for months, struggled to find a way out with his last bit of spiritual strength. Suddenly, in front of him, a light flickered like a will-o'-the-wisp! It appeared and disappeared, elusive and ephemeral, and could vanish at any moment! It was the kind of disappearance that left no trace!

  At this time, the person used a nearly exhausted and excited spirit, opened his mouth wide and stared with wide eyes, but did not dare to let out a rough breath, for fear of scaring away the last hope in his life!

  As I walked closer, fortunately, this was not a desperate illusion. That light was still flickering around in front of me, but it looked as elusive and weak as if it would disappear at any moment!

  He stretched out his trembling arm, slowly and shakily inching closer to the target, opening his palm, slowly covering the target, then slowly closing in, and suddenly grasping with all five fingers! In an instant, he felt the real thing moving around in his palm! Slowly, light began to radiate from between his tightly closed fingers! Instantly! The entire earth was illuminated! The sky turned a brilliant blue as sunlight shone everywhere! He stood on a lush green meadow! In the distance, herds of cattle and sheep, along with smoke rising from chimneys, were right before his eyes!

  Hamasaki Hiroshi grasped the uneasy inspiration deep within his heart! He once again stood at the starting line alongside Yan Wei!

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