Chapter 1: The First Battle After Returning Home

  A loud roar came from the vast, boundless forest in the southeast corner, and a plane with a blue sky and white sun emblem rapidly dived down, accompanied by about 180 degrees of loss of control. A thick black smoke billowed out of the tail, drawing an irregular line across the sky. In less than a few seconds, a deafening explosion shook the air, and intense flames made it impossible to open one's eyes.

  Two parachutes floated down one after another into the middle of the forest, slowly descending...

  "Wake up..."

  "Who are you? How did I end up here?" Along with the cries, a severe dizziness shook Chen Shaocen's head, and he slowly opened his eyes. In front of him was a military officer wearing a World War II uniform, shaking his body to wake him up. The look of surprise and disbelief immediately replaced the pain caused by the injury.

  Chen Shaoqin clearly remembered that he was an elite special forces soldier, participating in a real combat exercise. A hand grenade suddenly appeared beside his right foot, and before he could dodge, the massive explosion sent him into unconsciousness. When he came to, everything in front of him was unfamiliar, and he couldn't understand what was happening.

  "I don't know if your head got hit when the parachute broke and you fell, causing you to temporarily lose your memory, but now I have to tell you some very important things. You don't need to ask why, just listen!" The other person was shocked and amazed at the same time, with beads of sweat the size of soybeans appearing on his forehead, showing how much he was struggling.

  "What's going on...?" Chen Shaoqin was puzzled but couldn't resist his curiosity.

  "When we parachuted down, we landed in a Japanese-occupied area, surrounded by danger, and large numbers of devils could appear before us at any time!" The other party ignored Chen Shaoqin's curiosity and continued to say, "You and I were both students sent by the Whampoa Military Academy to study at the Munich Military Academy in Germany. Due to the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, we were ordered to return home and participate in the battle. Nine people took a special plane back to our motherland, but over Yunzhou, our plane was attacked by enemy planes, and the tail of our plane was hit, forcing us to parachute down. Only the two of us survived!"

  Chen Shaoqin and the others stared at each other with wide eyes, as if they were listening to a heavenly book. It seemed like the other person was fabricating a distant and bizarre legend that had nothing to do with him.

  "I know it's hard for you to understand these things at once, but you must know what your identity is now!" The other party paused slightly, and the sweat beads on his face fell to the ground like raindrops, but he didn't intend to rest at all. He continued, "Your public identity is Chen Shaoqin, a student of the Nationalist Party's Huangpu Military Academy, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Your true identity is that of an important personnel embedded in the Nationalist Party by our organization, codename Shan Ying!"

  "Mountain Eagle?" The incredulous gaze fully revealed Chen Shaoqin's skepticism, and he even suspected that this was the start of a spy war film, making him feel even more like an outsider.

  "I... I am your only superior, codename Black Fox..." The other person said, suddenly clutching their chest, a fit of convulsions, followed by a mouthful of fresh blood gushing out from their throat. It was clear that the shockwave from the plane's explosion had injured their internal organs. Probably knowing they were done for, they handed over these instructions to Chen Shaoyin: "After I... after I die, you can go to Nanjing West Fourth Street, Tongrentang Pharmacy, find Qian Zhanggui... password is..."

  Not yet finished speaking, the other party died of anger, which made Chen Shaoqin at a loss for what to do at this moment. After all, this person really died in front of him, everything was real, he personally felt it all, and his mood was naturally affected.

  He inexplicably knew an address, a person named Qian Zhanggui, and the incomplete password that the other party had not finished saying. His heart began to knot up. These things were originally unrelated to him, but because of Hei Hu's sacrifice, he deeply felt how closely all this was related to himself.

  He can't handle that many things, leaving here now is what he must do at present, this decision is clearer than any other decision made at any time, and even leaves him with no other choice.

  Just as Chen Shaoqin was at a loss, a rustling sound came from outside the forest, and he could hear the sound of dry branches being trampled on and the sound of wild grass being trampled around his boots. Everything seemed to be happening right next to him, causing him to hold his breath and tense up, closely monitoring every movement around him. One hand involuntarily reached out to the parachute not far from him, pulling up the thick rope, assuming a defensive posture, waiting for the enemy to approach further.

  "Report to Lieutenant General, we have found the wreckage of a Chinese military plane and the bodies of seven Chinese soldiers!" A hasty footsteps suddenly retreated dozens of steps, followed by a hoarse voice speaking in Japanese.

  "According to the intelligence provided by the Special High Command, there were nine military students on the plane returning from Germany to China. Now only seven have been found, which means that the other two have escaped from the scene. However, judging from the dimensions of the plane wreckage, it is absolutely impossible for them to leave this forest in such a short time. We must now seal off the entire forest and then narrow down the search area, and finally capture them all at once!" A bespectacled Japanese officer, holding a command baton, made this analysis as soon as he heard his subordinate's report, clenching his right fist as if to crush something.

  "Ah hai!" The Japanese lieutenant responded, then waved his hand towards the other Japanese soldiers behind him. All of them, holding long guns, surrounded the entire forest in a circle and began to slowly search forward towards the center.

  A Japanese lieutenant junior grade walked through the big tree beside Chen Shaokan, suddenly rushed to Chen Shaokan's face, and when he saw Chen Shaokan, he immediately called out to the little devil beside him to come over.

  Chen Shaoqin stretched out his hand and struck the rope in his hand, just hitting the little devil's right wrist. The opponent's southern fourteen-handed robbery had not yet fired a shot, but was knocked to the ground by this powerful force. Immediately afterwards, Chen Shaoqin quickly leaned back against the back of the devilish lieutenant, put the thick rope around his neck, and then pulled him up with his back against his back.

  The young lieutenant's hands were tightly grasping the rope around his neck, desperately trying to wriggle free some space so as not to strangle himself, but it was clearly futile. His feet had already been pulled off the ground by Chen Shaobin, and under the effect of gravity, his neck was being pulled tighter and tighter. His entire face began to turn red, his tongue involuntarily sticking out of his mouth due to lack of oxygen, and his eyes started rolling back in that instant.

  Under the call of the devil lieutenant, the two devils who came over saw this situation and immediately held guns with shiny bayonets, stabbing and killing towards Chen Shaoqin.

  Chen Shaoqin kicked the first ghost soldier to come up, accurately kicking him to the ground. Then, he swung the lieutenant behind his back and threw him in front of another ghost's bayonet. The little devil's bayonet was unable to be withdrawn due to the force of the charge, and it pierced the chest of the lieutenant. Chen Shaoqin took advantage of this time to step on the throat of the little devil who had fallen to the ground. All he heard was a gurgling sound, and a stream of fresh blood spurted from the corner of the little devil's mouth, and he died.

  After finishing off the little devil on the ground, Chen Shaoqin quickly picked up the opponent's gun and almost in one second removed the bayonet from the muzzle. He went around to the back of the devil soldier who had stabbed him in the chest, and with one stab of the bayonet, he pierced through the little devil's heart from the front chest and out. The little devil hadn't even recovered from his surprise and panic before he lost his life.

  "Eight ah!" Then the little devil who came later rushed to the front, saw Chen Shaoqin had solved three devils including the devil lieutenant, and angrily charged towards Chen Shaoqin, this time more than a dozen devils rushed over, each one fierce and powerful.

  Chen Shaoqin saw that things were not going well, and with a quick flip of his body, he ran towards the depths of the forest. In an instant, only the sound of "pa pa" gunshots could be heard, as bullet after bullet flew past his back, hitting the big trees beside him.

  "He's right over there... surround him!" The Japanese lieutenant saw Chen Shaoqin running into the woods and immediately ordered his soldiers to charge, and with his command, all the little devils rushed towards Chen Shaoqin.