Republic of China: Ace Pilot

Chapter 511 Secret Infiltration into Western Guangzhou, New Ability: Portable Perspective
On the Pearl River, Japanese patrol boats are chasing fishing boats.

The four Japanese soldiers on the boat were firing at the fishing boat in the distance.

The fishing boat was not fast, but relying on its familiarity with the terrain, it turned into the riverbank where many boats were moored.

Once they got close, the few people on board could only use the other ships as cover to evade the Japanese pursuit.

However, their lack of speed makes it difficult for them to get close enough to the patrol boat before it gets too close.

At that moment, a whooshing sound came from the sky.

The Qinyuan descended from the sky and swooped down.

The two machine guns aimed at the Japanese patrol boat and opened fire, hitting the patrol boat accurately.

The Japanese soldiers on the boat were hit one after another and were thrown into the river by the impact of machine gun shells. The patrol boat was then blown into a fireball.

Having completed his attack, Fang Wen used his supernatural abilities to observe the people on the fishing boat at close range just as he was about to gain altitude.

There were five people in total. He recognized two of them; they were soldiers from the Taishan Independent Regiment who had stayed in Guangzhou to lie in wait during the last surprise attack on the Japanese headquarters.

The other three were clearly members of the Guangzhou underground Communist Party.

This gave Fang Wen a sudden idea: tonight's operation could be carried out with the help of the Guangzhou underground party.

Immediately after the aircraft returned to high altitude, the Qinyuan concluded its reconnaissance and returned directly to Yangjiang.

After landing in Yangjiang, he immediately contacted the underground Communist Party in Guangzhou by telegram.

Guangzhou City NA District, which will become the Lizhiwan area of ​​Guangzhou City in the future, is located in the western part of Guangzhou City.

This area is mostly comprised of docks, shipyards, and warehousing zones, making it an important logistics and industrial area in western Guangzhou. A large number of ships dock and are repaired here, and goods are loaded, unloaded, and stored here, providing vital support for Guangzhou's economic development.

Now that the Japanese army has occupied Guangzhou, many merchants have fled. The puppet regime has colluded with the Japanese merchants, seized a large number of properties, and is preparing to restore the business environment.

Such a large area, inhabited by a large number of workers who relied on river transport, naturally became the best cover for the underground party.

Therefore, there is a secret hideout for the underground Communist Party here.

The five men who escaped from the fishing boat were headed there.

They navigated the dock area familiarly, turning into a narrow alley between two warehouses. At the end of the alley, a wooden board covered the space, looking as if it had been casually placed there.

The leader lifted the wooden plank, then moved the boxes underneath, revealing a round hole. The five men then crawled into the hole and restored the outer covering.

The space inside was surprisingly spacious.

It was clearly a hidden space specially partitioned off in the warehouse.

The five people immediately lowered their guard and chatted happily.

"This operation was fantastic."

"It was all thanks to the weapons of the brothers in the Independent Regiment. Those rockets were really powerful; one shot sank the Japanese patrol boat."

"It's a pity we only have one left. Otherwise, we could continue our operation and keep the Japanese in a state of constant fear."

The three men were talking excitedly, but the two soldiers from the Independent Regiment were not in such a good mood.

The two soldiers spoke in hushed tones:

"The fighter jet that just flew down from the sky, I think it belonged to our regimental commander."

"I think so too. Luckily, the regimental commander appeared and saved us, otherwise we would definitely have been caught up by the Japanese devils."

“We disobeyed orders and acted without authorization. We will definitely be punished when we get back.”

“I accept the punishment, at least I avenged Da Chun’s family.”

It turns out that the two of them attacked the Japanese patrol boat for someone else's sake.

At that moment, a noise suddenly came from another entrance to the room.

The five men quickly took cover and drew their guns in preparation.

A middle-aged man arrived; he was the head of the underground party in the NA district.

The five people then relaxed and came out from their hiding place.

“You’re just being ridiculous. How can you act so casually? If the operation fails, everything that the NA district has worked so hard to build will be ruined. Moreover, the three of you are leading the Taishan Independent Regiment on this operation. If something happens to the comrades in the Independent Regiment, how am I supposed to explain this to the organization?”

His words made the three men lower their heads. The two independent regiment soldiers were about to explain when the middle-aged man stopped them.

"Let's put that aside for now. I received a notice from my superiors that there's a major operation tonight that requires our cooperation. We'll need your walkie-talkies."

"Using a walkie-talkie?" the soldier asked excitedly. "Is our Independent Regiment coming to Guangzhou?"

"I don't know the specifics either, but I need to take the two of you and someone familiar with Pantang to cross the Pearl River tonight to meet you."

Of the three men with their heads down, one looked up and said, "I grew up in Pantang. Take me with you."

The middle-aged man nodded: "Okay, I'll report it to my superiors right away."

7 o'clock at night.

Fang Wen received a reply.

The people who were supposed to meet them had already gone to Pantang to wait for orders.

The next step was to consider how to cross the Pearl River and extract the gold.

Fang Wen had already considered this kind of military equipment during the previous crossing of the Beijiang River.

Those were 8-10 seat inflatable rubber boats purchased from the European company Klepper and placed on military vehicles.

However, considering that there were too many troops and the Independent Regiment had a limited number of inflatable rubber boats, they abandoned the use of them and everyone crossed the river by warship.

It comes in handy now.

With the means to cross the river, the availability of highly mobile military vehicles, the support of someone in Pantang, and the ability to use his special powers to command troops to secretly bypass the enemy and approach Guangzhou at night, the whole plan became very feasible.

Immediately, he said, "Go and call Sun Tianrui here."

Gong Xiuneng accepted the order and went to the dormitory area to bring Sun Tianrui over.

Sun Tianrui, looking completely bewildered, still didn't know why he had been called here.

Fang Wendao said, "Come with me to the sea airport. We'll take action tonight."

"What action?" Sun Tianrui asked, puzzled.

"Go to Guangzhou to get the gold."

"Going tonight?!"

Sun Tianrui was taken aback by Fang Wen's swift and decisive actions.

But I'm also very curious about what will happen.

Then, he followed Fang Wen to the sea airport.

At the seaplane base, Fang Wen chose to pilot the Water Tiger 4 for nighttime aerial command and gold transport.

In order to accommodate one ton of gold, half of the ammunition in the plane was removed. In addition to Fang Wen, Sun Tianrui, and Gong Xiuneng, two soldiers were also brought along to move the gold.

After the ammunition boxes were unloaded, Fang Wen and his group boarded the plane and immediately took off.

The plane flew towards the Sanjiang area, and after reaching the airspace, Fang Wen switched frequencies to communicate with those below.

"Airborne call to ground, please respond."

In the area below, 10 military vehicles were parked in the woods, and soldiers were resting in the vehicles.

William's military vehicle was equipped with a radio communication device that would be turned on every half hour to receive signals.

It was exactly 10 minutes after he turned on his computer when he received a communication signal from the sky and immediately connected.

"Commander, I am William."

"Have your people prepare to depart for Guangzhou. I will guide you."

William was surprised, but he did not question it and immediately gave orders to the soldiers.

"Get up, everyone, get ready to leave."

Ten military vehicles carrying 200 soldiers emerged from the hidden woods and headed towards Guangzhou under Fang Wen's command.

The troops below set off, taking advantage of the cover of night to head towards Guangzhou West.

The troops initially headed north, but after entering a main road, they turned southeast.

A few miles ahead, there is a small river called the Southwest Canal. Several ancient bridges from the Ming and Qing dynasties span this river.

Fang Wenxuan's bridge was just the right size for military vehicles to pass through.

But at the bridgehead, there is a sentry post with an estimated 10-20 soldiers stationed there.

After this information was relayed to William via air command, the ground forces immediately took action.

The military vehicle stopped 1000 meters away from the checkpoint, and the soldiers got out and quietly crept over.

Under the cover of night, soldiers guarded both ends of the stone bridge, while the barracks were located on the west side of the bridge.

Two young soldiers from western Hunan quietly crept up behind the sentries and easily dispatched them with their bayonets.

The two men carried the gradually cooling Japanese soldier's body down and signaled to their comrades not far away that the matter was resolved.

The troops then approached the barracks and began their attack.

The grenade was thrown directly into the barracks. After the explosion, the soldiers broke down the door and opened fire on the room.

Meanwhile, two sentries on the other side of the bridge were also shot dead by snipers.

In this way, the outpost was easily taken care of, and the troops boarded the military vehicles that came from behind and crossed the bridge.

After passing the Southwest Creek, there are several villages of varying sizes along the way.

These villages were mainly clan-based and had a clear stance against the Japanese invasion, and all of them suffered damage from the Japanese army.

The 36-kilometer journey through this desolate area took an hour and a half.

Two hundred men from the 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion of the Taishan Independent Regiment successfully arrived in the western suburbs of Guangzhou.

The troops halted on a desolate riverbank along the Pearl River, awaiting orders from air command.

The troops below successfully reached the south bank of the Pearl River in the western suburbs of Guangzhou.

Where are the underground party's contact persons?
Fang Wen used mechanical perception to observe the south bank of the Pearl River.

He noticed that a fishing boat was moored not far downstream, and people on the shore were covering carbide lamps with cloth and constantly uncovering and uncovering them to shine the light into the air.

This was the agreed-upon signal, and Fang Wen immediately picked up the microphone and adjusted the frequency.

"Mount Tai is calling Guangzhou. Please respond if you hear this."

A response came from below: "This is Guangzhou, I have arrived at the rendezvous point."

"Our people will soon join you."

Fangwen switching frequency.

“William, your liaison is 1000 meters ahead. Drive over there.”

"It's the regimental commander."

William put down the car's communication microphone, stood up, and said to the back, "Let's go."

After the convoy traveled 1000 meters, they indeed found four people waiting to pick them up.

Two of them were soldiers from the Independent Regiment.

William warmly shook hands with the people who were there to meet him: "We've finally found you."

The other person looked at William, who had arrived in a military vehicle, with surprise: "You just drove here like this, didn't you encounter any Japanese soldiers?"

“We encountered it, but it’s been resolved. Our whereabouts haven’t been compromised,” William explained simply.

"Then how will you cross the river? I only have one fishing boat here, which can only carry a maximum of 8 people at a time."

“We have a boat,” William said, gesturing. “Take the stuff down and inflate it.”

The soldiers unloaded rolls of rubber boats from the military vehicle and inflated them with foot pumps.

After inflation, they pushed the rubber boat into the river and waited for the order to depart.

Looking at the 10 rubber boats, the underground party contact nodded and said, "Alright, we'll lead the way, you follow."

William replied, "We'll have to wait a bit."

"Wait for what?" the underground party contact asked, puzzled. "Haven't all the people arrived?"
William did not explain, but instead picked up the microphone from the military vehicle.

"Commander, we have met up with the contact and are requesting further instructions."

"I will land here and go with you," Fang Wen's voice came through the radio.

Before William could object, Fang Wen had already landed the plane on the river.

The plane taxied for a while, then turned and approached the shore.

After landing, Gong Xiuneng opened the cabin door and was the first to jump off the plane, carrying a large box on his back, followed by Fang Wen and Sun Tianrui.

The other two soldiers remained in the plane to wait.

After getting off the plane, Fang Wen went directly to contact the underground party contact.

"Hello, I am the person in charge of this operation, and I am now in command of this operation."

And so Fang Wen took over command of the operation.

He boarded the first rubber boat, and Gong Xiuneng and Sun Tianrui also boarded the boat together.

Then, the fishing boat led the way, followed by 10 rubber boats.

To avoid getting lost, each boat uses short flashlight beams to guide each other.

Sun Tianrui, participating in such a military operation for the first time, couldn't help but worry: "Crossing the river like this is still very dangerous. As long as Japanese patrol boats pass by here at irregular times, we will be discovered."

"No, that won't happen," Fang Wen replied. He had already scouted the area from the air and there were no patrol boats patrolling the river tonight.

After all, he had shot down one ship during the day and sunk another by a rocket, so the Japanese army didn't have many more patrol boats to cover the entire river surface of Guangzhou for the time being.

Sun Tianrui was skeptical and nervously stopped talking, instead glancing at the river surface from time to time.

(World War II inflatable rubber boat)

The ferry fleet quietly sailed across the river.

We crossed the Pearl River safely, albeit with some close calls.

It eventually docked at a shipyard pier.

There were workers at the dock reporting to their underground contact: "The Japanese army came to the south bank twice tonight to search for people, but they just left. You need to be careful."

The underground party contact informed Fang Wen of the situation and apologized, saying, "This matter is related to us. If my men hadn't acted on their own during the day, the Japanese army wouldn't have come to the south bank to search for us."

The Japanese search was indeed an accident and will affect Fang Wen's subsequent actions.

Fang Wen had his own preparations for this.

His superpower requires machinery to activate, and as long as he has the superpower, the Japanese army will not be able to capture him.

Therefore, he kept thinking about whether there was a way to activate his superpowers outside of airplanes and cars.

The large box that Gong Xiuneng was carrying was prepared by Fang Wen for this purpose.

Inside the box was a semiconductor television camera device; the upper half contained the device itself, and the lower half contained 12 sets of dry cell batteries.

Once activated, Fang Wen can use his supernatural abilities to obtain television camera signals, thereby discovering situations within a short distance (2-3 kilometers).

"Where is the highest point here?" he asked.

"Over there." The underground party contact pointed to a tall Western-style building not far away.

Immediately, the group headed over there. William led his troops to wait below, while Fang Wenze, Gong Xiuneng, and the underground party members who were there to meet them went up the tower.

At the top of the tower, Fang Wen took out a television camera device with connecting wires from the box behind Gong Xiuneng and put it on his head.

After turning on the device, he gained a new perspective.

With the help of electronic devices, he was able to see a clear image below.

From this perspective, he saw things that ordinary people cannot see.

The workers in the NA district, the traitors and spies lurking in the corners, and the Japanese troops gathering 2 kilometers away.

Clearly, another round of manhunts is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)