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It was all because of his stubbornness (2) that time, the Nationalist army's defense was tight, and no matter how hard the Sharp Blade Regiment tried, they couldn't gather any intelligence on their defenses. Chen Zizhong requested to act alone, but Xu Kai told him to bring two more people along. He said that a single clove of garlic is spicier.
Wearing civilian clothes, Chen Zizhong stood guard by the side of the road, specifically targeting American jeeps. In the end, he stopped a regimental commander's car and claimed he wanted to join the army. The commander was busy with military affairs and didn't bother to chat with him, telling his guards to chase him away. Chen Zizhong took down three tall and sturdy guards with just three punches and two kicks.
The commander was impressed and asked him to shoot a gun. He intentionally missed the target, but still hit three out of five shots at a tree stump 100 meters away. The commander was thrilled and, adding that Chen spoke with confidence and had a strong presence, decided to make him his personal bodyguard.
A few nights later, Chen Zizhong followed the commander to the regiment's command center. The commander still didn't trust him and told him to stay in the car. He saw that the command center was brightly lit, with people coming and going, and the defense plans were posted on the wall. So he destroyed the electrical switch, relying solely on his memory to charge into the command center in the darkness and tear down the defense plans.
At this time, a handgun appeared from behind him, accompanied by curses. He quickly stuck his little finger into the gun barrel, and the loud noise of the misfired gun caused even more chaos in the command center. He used his dagger to take out two guards beside him and retreated completely.
As he drove away in the jeep, the sound of gunfire filled the air inside the command center. Later, it was learned that two combat staff members had died in the crossfire.
Chen Zizhong was not tall or fat, but he walked with an unusual gait, his feet inwardly slanted. His shoes would wear out at the toe before the heel. He started practicing martial arts at the age of six and spent the first three years only practicing horse stance, which formed his strange walking posture.
Chen Zizhong was skilled in using dual guns, shooting targets within range with ease and accuracy. His two "box cannons" were German-made Mauser pistols, also known as "fast-slow machines." The front sight of the right-hand gun had been intentionally ground down because the box cannon would often be holstered at the waist, affecting the speed of drawing the gun.
In a movie released some time later, "The Plains Guerrilla Team," the main character Li Xiangyang also had a right-hand gun with the front sight ground down.
Most of the soldiers in the third company were farmers by origin, and Chen Zizhong was no exception. Before he went to the Korean battlefield, he had already been discharged from the army and returned home. When he received the notice to return to his unit, he was squatting in the fields, eating loudly from a bowl of rice, estimating how much melon he could harvest that year and how much money he could make.
Earlier, when the unit had just liberated Hainan Island and was executing production tasks in Henan, within a short period of several months, large rocks were scattered everywhere, and the desolate sandy land became a vast expanse of green. When Chen Zizhong returned to his unit, Xu Kai's eyes shone brightly as he gave Chen a hearty bear hug and patted him on the back, saying: "Look! Everyone has seen it! This is what the Sharp Blade Regiment's soldiers are like - they're champions at farming and vanguard warriors in battle!"
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