Chapter 4: Colliding with Japanese soldiers who sneaked ashore

  The temporary hospital in Bunsuran was filled with even more wounded soldiers, some of whom were still bleeding, but not a single one was crying.

  Dr. Lin Tianlong and Long Fanglan rushed forward to help.

  Tianhu followed Long Fanglan closely, moving around with her everywhere.

  "What's wrong with them, why are they all bleeding?" Tianhu looked at the wounded people and asked innocently, like a little kid.

  "They went to fight the war, on the front lines fighting against the Japanese devils, just like you, killing enemies and getting wounded. They are just like you, all heroes of Singapore." Long Fanglan replied to Tianhu's question while busy bandaging the wounded.

  "Like me? Have I also been on the front line and fought against the enemy?"

  Long Fanglan suddenly remembered that Tianhu had lost his memory and didn't know anything about past events.

  "Wait a minute." Long Fanglan said as she followed into the medical room.

  Before long, Long Fanglan took out a newspaper and walked to Tianhu's side, pointing at a report on it and said to Tianhu: "Look, this is you. A man who killed four Japanese devils and rescued his comrades. It's so cool. And there's your photo, look at that heroic appearance of yours, people are envious. You must recover your memory as soon as possible and once again take to the battlefield, showing off your heroic demeanor."

  Tianhu took over the newspaper and looked at it seriously.

  After finishing reading it, Long Fanglan asked: "Is what's written on this really about me?"

  "That's right, it's you. Pretty cool, huh?" Long Fanglan said after putting the last bandage on a wounded soldier's arm and standing beside Tianhu, "I read the newspaper three or four times after I got it, so yesterday I recognized you at a glance. I didn't expect that you are still Dr. Lin's son. What a heavenly dragon and a heavenly tiger. Truly impressive."

  "I really don't remember anything at all." Tiān Hǔ furrowed his brow, seemingly trying to rack his brains, but apparently without any gain.

  "I asked your father about your past yesterday. He said you used to study in the US, came back for a family visit and coincidentally encountered the war. Your parents didn't let you go and advised you to return to the US to continue studying, but you refused and even signed up with the militia, going to the front line to fight against the enemy. That's really not simple! This morning, I just heard that Chen Jia-geng is gathering leaders of overseas Chinese communities for a meeting to establish a volunteer army, and he will use your heroic story to rally students and workers to learn from you."

  "My past was like that. What can I do now? Can I join the Righteous Army?" asked Tianhu.

  "You're injured now, you can't go. Wait until you've recovered from your illness and regained your memory, then you can go." Long Fanglan comforted Tianhu, "You don't have to rush either. There will be plenty of opportunities to kill the Japanese devils."

  Tianhu nodded at Chalong Fanglan, but it was unclear whether he had understood or not.

  After lunch, Lin Tianlong sent Tiantiger back home and rushed back to the hospital. What did Xiaos say about the house?

  Tianhu sat alone at home on his bed, holding the newspaper that Long Fanglan had given him, glancing at it from time to time, and after finishing reading, he would stare blankly into space, sometimes deep in thought, sometimes dazed.

  Tianhu didn't believe he was as brave as the newspapers said, and he also began to doubt his decision to study in America.

  He looked at the newspaper, thinking to himself that if he were really the "Tianhu" described in the paper, he wouldn't be so easily defeated. If he had studied abroad in America, he shouldn't be like this now, seemingly like an idiot with nothing in his brain.

  Tianhu stood there for a while, then walked out of the house in a daze, holding a newspaper and muttering to himself as he walked: "Am I really the Tianhu mentioned in the newspaper? Did I really study abroad in America?"

  Tianhu walked and thought to himself, muttering as he went along, until he unknowingly arrived at the seaside where Japanese warships were anchored. By this time, the sky had gradually darkened.

  "Hey, Chinese, get out of here! If you don't leave, I'll shoot!" A sudden shout came over.

  Tianhu looked over there and saw a Japanese soldier pointing his gun at him, shouting fiercely.

  Tianhu didn't understand what was going on and thought of walking closer to take a look.

  Suddenly a wolf dog barked and pounced over.

  Tianhu wanted to run away, but it was too late. The wolf dog pounced on him and knocked him to the ground, its jaws snapping towards his neck.

  Tianhu subconsciously quickly raised his arm to block Xunlang's dog.

  That wolf dog bit down on Tianhu's arm in one swift motion.

  The Japanese soldier looked at him and burst out laughing.

  However, before the Japanese soldier could finish laughing, the wolf dog suddenly fell to the ground and died.

  Tianhu saw the wolf dog fall to the ground and quickly got up and ran away.

  When the Japanese soldier came to his senses, Tianhu had already run far away.

  Tianhu was so frightened that his heart was racing and his limbs were trembling violently. He thought of the wolf dog's bloody big mouth, and cold sweat poured down like rain.

  Tianhu didn't know if it was his own clothes that he hadn't had time to change out of that killed the wolf dog.

  The civilian group that Tiantiger participated in had a rule, which was to die rather than be taken prisoner. Therefore, each member of the team sewed a special button on their arm, inside which was placed highly toxic potassium cyanide, and anyone who was captured by the enemy would bite it and die immediately. Unexpectedly, the button did not come into use on the battlefield, but instead saved Tiantiger's life here.

  Tianhu hurriedly ran back home.

  Lin Tianlong hasn't come back yet. His mother saw him and asked: "Tianhu, what's wrong with you? Why is your hand still bleeding?"

  "The Japanese, the Japanese." Tianhu said with a quiver.

  "What Japanese?" Tianhu's mother asked anxiously.

  "By the sea, Japanese people. By the sea." Tianhu curled up in the corner of the wall, his voice trembling as he spoke.

  Tien Hu's mother understood: Tien Hu must have encountered the Japanese. In other words, the Japanese had sneaked into Bukit Timah. Tien Hu's mother didn't dare to delay and immediately ran to inform their neighbors, telling them to spread the word from house to house that the Japanese had snuck up to Bukit Timah and for everyone to be prepared.

  The news spread quickly and effectively. In no time, the whole of Bukit Timah knew that the Japanese had landed secretly, and everyone took up their knives, guns, sticks and whatever they could find at home to gather at Tianfu's house.

  "Where is the Japanese?" someone asked Tianhu's mother.

  "I don't know either. It was my son Tianhu who encountered it himself when he went out. You see how scared he is, and that injured hand, it's definitely not fake." Tianhu's mother said.

  "Tianhu, did you really see Japanese soldiers?" someone asked Tianhu.

  "Japanese, Japanese." Tianhu was still trembling with fear as he said.

  "Where did you see the Japanese?"

  "Japanese... Japanese." The Heavenly Tiger's whole body shook as he hugged his injured hand and said.

  "How did yesterday's battle hero become like this?"

  "Isn't he injured? I heard it's amnesia."

  "I've forgotten, and it's become like this. Alas, what a pity."

  "I think we shouldn't ask any more questions. After my son lost his memory, he became very timid. I think you should send someone to report to Lin Jiangshi quickly, otherwise, if the Japanese really come in, these clubs will not be able to stop them." Tianhu's mother said.

  Just then, Lin Jiangshi came running over with Fan Jiang and Lin Hai.

  Lin Jiangshi saw Tianhu's mother and immediately asked: "I heard that Tianhu encountered Japanese devils who sneaked ashore? Where did he encounter them?"

  "Jiang Shi, you're just in time. Look at Tian Hu being scared." Tian Hu's mother said to Lin Jiang Shi, pointing at Tian Hu who was hiding in the corner.

  "Take good care of him." Lin Jiangshi couldn't bear to ask Tianhu any more questions, so he turned around and shouted to the crowd gathered in front of Tianhu's house, "Everyone light up your torches and beat the drums as we head to the seaside. I think the Japanese who sneaked ashore must be hiding by the sea."

  Everyone lit torches and beat gongs as they followed Lin Jiangshi to the seaside.

  They found the Japanese wolf dog poisoned by Tianhu on the beach.

  They rushed to the riverbank at once to have a look.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, a Japanese rubber boat was speeding towards the Japanese warship anchored in the sea.

  "If it weren't for Tianhu, I'm afraid the Japanese would have landed here by tomorrow morning. Tianhu is really great, even when he's sick, he scared away the Japanese, we can say that he helped us avoid a disaster." Lin Jiangshi looked at the rafts on the river and sighed, "The Japanese are really cunning, seeing that they couldn't land at Yu Lang and Ban Si Ba, they thought of secretly landing here. It seems that we need to strengthen our defenses along the whole line."