War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 54 What on earth is a blind pestle? (Thanks to 'Happy Baby Fish' for the 500 reward!)
The weather started to get warmer, and the woods were filled with the sound of dripping water.

The snow on the branches melted and green buds appeared. When the wind blew through the forest, the snow seemed to be carved by a knife, removing the edges and corners to reveal the melting cones.

In the jungle, Xu Chaoyang, wearing a cotton-padded jacket, staggered forward, humming a little tune. While humming, a wooden stick was flipping between his lips...

"Why is the sunset so far away?"

"The old couple sat on the kang and drank wine..."

"We've had some drinks, after three o'clock~"

"Thinking back to when I was young, that little bit of work..."

A figure appeared at the top of the mountain and said to the foot of the mountain: "Captain, your version of 'Eighteen M' is not good. I still like you to sing 'Blue-faced Dou Erdun'. If that doesn't work, the one in 'Fuckin' in the Sand will also work."

After hearing this, Xu Chaoyang turned around and climbed to the top of the mountain, and slapped Liu Gener on the back of the neck - snap!

The sound of the hit was so crisp.

Liu Gener shrank his neck, covered the back of his neck with his hands, smiled foolishly, and said nonchalantly: "I'm telling the truth..."

In front of Liu Gener, five or six oil cylinders were all buried in the soil. The muzzle of the Feilei cannon was pointing at the low-lying area under the hillside, while under his feet was a hastily built wooden house, which was far from the "shanzhai" style shown in movies and TV dramas.

Tong Meng, Yu Minghao, and Qu Yong were busy in front of the oil cylinder. Tong Meng was loading the propellant, Qu Yong was pressing the fuse outside the cylinder, and Yu Minghao was inserting the baffle on the oil cylinder. The brothers had a clear division of labor and finished the work in a short while. Liu Gener, who was supposed to be on guard with a gun, stood next to Xu Chaoyang and talked nonsense...

"Captain, I think you should go down and pretend to fight with the bandits in the gang, then point your finger and we'll light the fire. Then there will be thunder and explosives falling from the sky..."

Xu Chaoyang pouted and cursed: "You hope I die, right?"

Liu Gener quickly denied: "How could that be possible! That would be so cool!"

"You're only concerned about having the pie. By the time you get the pie, I'll be fucking dead!"

Xu Chaoyang turned around and looked at him: "Did I tell you how dangerous this thing is? The power of this thing's explosion after it hits the ground depends entirely on the shock wave. Sometimes the person who is hit by the explosion doesn't even have a wound on his body, but his internal organs are shattered..."

"What's going on? Am I the reincarnation of Sun Wukong? Did I pop out from a crack in a rock?"

"That's a real rock. Even the amount of drugs our scholar put in it can break it into pieces!"

"No..." Xu Chaoyang became angrier and angrier as he spoke: "When I was explaining the effect of this thing to you, did you stuff donkey hair in your ears?"

Xu Chaoyang remembered, it's not that they didn't hear him. When he was talking about these things, these guys under his command hid more than ten meters away, so how could they hear a shit?
But Xu Chaoyang saw it with his own eyes. He saw how the roots of the big tree were shattered, and how the shock wave squeezed the tree so hard that even the trunk was damaged!

Before this, who would have thought that the flying thunder cannon fired from the oil barrel would have such power?

The extra oil cylinder beside Xu Chaoyang was the result of Yu Minghao's another trip to Nangang.

At that time, Liu Dapiezi almost knelt down to Yu Minghao, crying and insisting on following this group of people to leave Northeast China. He was thinking, how safe it would be to follow them, they dare to fight, at least they can guarantee their lives and property, right? The most important thing is that the border is not safe either.

The Japanese tried their best to instigate the five provinces to become independent. Although it was not very successful, it did encourage quite a few people after spending a lot of silver dollars.

I heard that conflicts have already broken out in some places, and the entire North China has been turned into a mess by the Japanese... If Yu Minghao and his men could really get a few gasoline barrels, they could leave the Northeast and arrive in Beijing safely. At least that would be a peaceful place.

Liu Dapiezi was still blindly superstitious about the capital, so he obeyed Yu Minghao's words.

Yu Minghao not only asked Liu Dapiezi to get a few gasoline cans, but also asked him to catch the sticks left by Tianwangshan in Nangang. The two brothers interrogated him overnight and smashed the boy's face with the butt of a rifle more than ten times before he got the truth out. Even so, before returning the next morning, Liu Gener beat the boy up again. Yu Minghao asked him, "Why did you beat him up again?"

Liu Gen'er was so cunning that he responded, "I just want to hear whether what he said is the same as yesterday..."

Just like that, the two brothers came back with the empty gasoline cylinders in a horse-drawn carriage, and until this moment, the group of bandits in Tianwang Mountain still didn't know what they were going to face.

"Brother, I think these bandits have come up with the best tricks. They keep claiming to be the king of the mountain, but in the end, a group of people live in the valley. I was born and raised in Nangang, how come I have never heard of such a mountain outside Bingcheng!"

"That's Tianwang Mountain. How majestic does it sound? If you think about it for a moment, you'll feel that it's a towering mountain. Whether the government is trying to capture them or the Japanese are attacking the mountain, as long as they don't catch the suspects, they're just like a fool trying to stir up trouble. They don't know where to start."

After hearing what Xu Chaoyang said, Qu Yong also came over and said, "Brother, I always hear people talking about this thing called a blind pestle. What on earth is this thing?"

"What the hell, you don't even know this?" Xu Chaoyang looked at Qu Yong in surprise.

Liu Gener also shook his head: "I don't know either."

"It's the one with big claws and a tiny head. If you don't look closely, you can't even see its eyes. Don't you know?"

Tong Meng finally opened his mouth: "Captain, the one you are talking about is a mole, right?"

Xu Chaoyang, who couldn't say anything, nodded and said, "Hey, it has to be our scholar. You guys are all in vain."

Yu Minghao pouted and interjected, "Then you two can spend the night together tomorrow. We can sleep in the same bed together."

"Get lost, your whole family is a dead rabbit!"

Hahahahahaha!

The brothers were amused by Qu Yong's words and almost laughed out loud. In this era when people still called G rabbits, ordinary people's happiness was so simple, just chatting and talking nonsense, it seemed to be extremely happy. And this kind of happiness was what Xu Chaoyang had been looking for for a long time in his own era. Since leaving the army, it seemed to have completely disappeared as if it was hiding from Xu Chaoyang. No matter what method you use, you can't get it back.

At this moment, after Xu Chaoyang experienced the days of returning to the Northeast, he finally understood that this happiness was not a luxury at all, but the most real contact between people.

The necessary condition to trigger this kind of happiness is that you have to be face to face, be able to say a few words to someone out of the blue as if jokingly, and then find happiness in the other person's rebuttal, even if that person is scolding you.

Xu Chaoyang looked at the sunlight in the distance while laughing. The sunlight shone through the shade of the trees in front of him, creating a "Tyndall effect". The dust danced happily in the light, as if foreshadowing something...

suddenly!

The sunlight in Xu Chaoyang's eyes changed color, turning into blood red, and the dust in the blood red all turned into a one and a half meter long steel helmet on his head!
Xu Chaoyang watched them charge forward, watched them being knocked down by bullets, still shouting almost morbidly and moving forward, saw them rushing to someone's position, and planted the plaster flag on our land at the same second!
Xu Chaoyang's pupils were filled with blood!!

　Thanks to 'Happy Baby Fish' for the 500 yuan reward. This may be the first time we meet, but I am still very grateful!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)