Chapter 12: Capturing Spoils of War

  Before long, the Japanese car slowly entered Zhang Lieyang's ambush site. Then a loud explosion was heard, followed by a string of rifle shots. In the blink of an eye, ten minutes had passed. Zhang Lieyang carefully checked the surroundings through his sniper scope, then carefully slung his sniper rifle over his shoulder and pulled out the 92-style pistol with laser sight and silencer, slowly walking towards the Japanese car.

  Zhang Lieyang, who had arrived at the car, looked around at the Japanese corpses and smiled as he began to inspect his spoils of war. Soon, Zhang Lieyang quickly gathered all the spoils together, and looking at the spoils scattered all over the ground, Zhang Lieyang laughed and returned to the woods, where he drove out his Hummer.

  After the car was in place, Zhang Lieyang quickly loaded the things onto the car. Then Zhang Lieyang quickly checked the battlefield again, cleaned up some traces, and felt that there was no omission, so he drove the car away quickly.

  Not long after Zhang Lieyang left, more than 20 fully armed Japanese soldiers jumped out of a military vehicle that had arrived from Shanghai. The leading Japanese officer, looking at the corpses on the ground and the burning cars, suddenly roared crazily: "Get in the car, chase!"

  Zhang Lieyang drove the Hummer back to Ningbo in high spirits. After returning to Ningbo, Zhang Lieyang directly drove the car to a mountain near the Qita Temple. On the mountain, Zhang Lieyang began to sort out his spoils of war.

  Around noon, Zhang Lieyang finally counted the spoils of this ambush: ten German-made rifles, twelve German-made P40 submachine guns, five southern pistols, 10,000 rounds of various ammunition, thirty lemon hand grenades; eight large boxes of gold bars totaling 8,000 gold bars; in addition, there were 505,022 silver coins and thirty scattered gold bars.

  Looking at the spoils, Zhang Lieyang couldn't help but think: "Fortunately, I launched a surprise attack this time and caught them off guard. The timing was just right too! If these escorts had delayed me for a bit longer, I would have been in trouble! It seems I need to train some helpers. Otherwise, doing things like this in the future won't be so smooth!" Thinking of this, Zhang Lieyang couldn't help but smile. Next, Zhang Lieyang quickly disassembled and buried the five Southern-style handguns.

  At dusk, Zhang Lieyang changed his clothes and drove back to the Zhang Mansion. As soon as he entered the house, Zhang Lieyang hastily asked the old steward: "Is my grandfather in the study?"

  "Little master, the old man is in the study!" The old steward replied with a smile. "Then please help me find twelve people to move some things!" Zhang Lieyang said hastily.

  "Alright, young master, wait a moment!" The old steward said as he turned around to call someone. As soon as the old steward left, Zhang Qihua and Zhang Zihuan walked in from outside and saw Zhang Lieyang standing beside the car. Zhang Qihua curiously asked: "Lieyang, what are you doing here? I didn't see you all day yesterday, where did you go?"

  "Second uncle, my dad asked a friend to bring something to Shanghai and told me to pick it up! This grandpa knows!" Zhang Lieyang explained with a smile. "Then you're back, why are you still standing by the car?" Zhang Zihuan asked with a smile. "I'm waiting for Old Guan, he went to help me find someone to move things!" Zhang Lieyang explained.

  "What is it?" Zhang Qihua asked. Zhang Liyang ran to Zhang Qihua's ear and whispered, "Gold and guns and ammunition!" Upon hearing Zhang Liyang's words, Zhang Qihua smiled and said to Zhang Zihuan, "Zihuan, you go back to your room first! I still have something to discuss with your brother!"

  "Alright! I'll go first then!" Zhang Zihuan helplessly looked at Zhang Lieyang and Zhang Qihu, pouting as she walked away.

  After a while, the old steward brought people over. Then Zhang Lieyang had them move the things to Zhang Lao Ye's study, after which Zhang Lieyang said: "Grandfather, my father asked his friend's merchant ship to send over this year's first half of production gold and part of our family's stored gold, and told me to hand it over to you!"

  "How much gold is there in total?" Old Master Zhang asked with a smile. "There are eight large boxes, 8,000 bars of gold in total!" Zhang Lieyang said as he opened the box. Seeing the boxes filled with gold, Old Master Zhang excitedly asked: "Lieyang, did your father say when he would be back?"

  "Grandpa, my father's friend told me that Japan is now very strict with Southeast Asia, and he doesn't know when he'll be able to deliver the goods next time. My father asked him to tell me to wait until things are settled there before coming back!" Zhang Lieyang said as he opened another box full of guns and ammunition, "Grandpa, this is equipment sent by my father to guard the house. And my father told me to bring 150 gold bars, which can be picked up from the British arms dealer in Ningbo. Here's the list!" Zhang Lieyang handed over a prepared list to Old Master Zhang.