The War of Resistance Against Japan: Starting with a Calm View of Life and Death

The only sound in the threshing ground was the heavy, disordered breathing of the puppet soldiers rising and falling in the cold wind.

Just when the puppet troops thought it was finally over, as expected, an unexpected incident occurred!

A loud shout, like a thunderclap, rang out above the heads of the puppet troops!

"Hands up!"

That voice sounds so familiar!

The key is authentic Chinese!

Immediately afterwards, from all directions—on the courtyard walls, rooftops, and behind the breach—those menacing "Imperial Army soldiers" who had just been brandishing guns suddenly straightened their backs, raised their voices, and erupted in a deafening roar:

"Surrender and you will not be killed!!!"

"Hands up! Surrender and you will not be killed!"

"Surrender and you will not be killed! The Eighth Route Army treats prisoners of war well!"

These shouts instantly shattered the quiet atmosphere in the threshing ground!

Gao Linyuan shuddered violently, and his unfocused eyes instantly brightened!

He suddenly looked up at the mound of earth.

Kosuke Ogawa's menacing face was gone!

Kosuke Ogawa, who was standing on top of the mound just moments before, is now running down the mound at lightning speed and heading towards the town hall gate.

That person looks like a dog!

Gao Linyuan's eyes almost popped out of their sockets!

A chill ran through me.

"We've fallen for the Imperial Army's trap!"

His mind went blank, a buzzing sound filled his head, leaving only this one thought roaring wildly.

Just as all the puppet troops were stunned and dumbfounded by the earth-shattering roar and the bizarre scene before them, the half-closed door of the town hall was suddenly pushed open with a "creak"!

Zhou Jindong was the first to stride out.

He was still wearing that worn-out dark gray cotton-padded jacket, with a Japanese army overcoat casually draped over it, the buttons not all fastened.

He feigned composure, as if he were already used to it, and his eyes swept over the piles of rotten puppet soldiers on the parade ground.

He never expected that these puppet troops would be so obedient.

It's one thing to be brainless.

They're brainless and still trying to get by, it's just... I'm so disappointed in them!

Following closely behind Zhou Jindong was Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan was far from calm. He grinned widely, revealing his back teeth, and his chin practically reached the sky.

He swaggered out, one hand on his hip and the other carrying his prized Mauser pistol, looking just like a victorious general returning from a great battle.

Zhu Zi, Shui Sheng, Quan Zi, Da Pan, Shun Zi, San Niu... more than twenty guerrillas, carrying newly captured Type 38 rifles, poured out of their hiding places and quickly separated to form a semi-encirclement, completely surrounding the more than one hundred bewildered puppet troops in the center of the parade ground.

The dark muzzle of the gun and the cold tip of the bayonet were steadily aimed at every puppet soldier in the field.

Guard Liu Meng, also holding a gun, stood vigilantly not far behind Zhou Jindong.

"Listen up, you fucking idiots!" Wang Yuan, who had been holding his anger in all night, finally let it all out. "Raise your hands! Raise them high! Anyone who dares to move an inch, the thing in my hand isn't just for show! See?"

He waved the Mauser pistol in his hand, "Peanuts galore! I guarantee I'll send him back to his grandma's!"

The paralyzed puppet troops were utterly terrified by this sudden turn of events and the gleaming bayonets around them.

Having just run for so long, my physical strength has long been exhausted to the limit. Now I can barely stand up straight, let alone have any strength to resist.

Hearing shouts of "Hands up!" and "Surrender and you will not be killed!", I instinctively knew that I was about to be completely freed.

In an instant, I suddenly felt a special warmth towards the guerrillas who were pouring in!

"Splash..."

A series of splashing sounds rang out.

All the puppet troops, whether they were lying down, kneeling, or barely standing, struggled and desperately raised their hands high above their heads, as if they wanted to reach the sky.

They were afraid that if they lifted too slowly, someone would make them continue running.

The entire threshing ground instantly transformed into a forest of arms.

Beneath the sleeves were countless faces of relief.

The guerrillas were not idle.

With a wave of his hand, Zhu Zi and Shui Sheng, who had been holding back their energy for a long time, led a dozen or so team members and pounced into the group of puppet soldiers like wolves and tigers.

They carried rifles with bayonets fixed, their movements swift and fierce.

"Squat down! Behave yourself!"

"Hands to your head! Hold on tight!"

"Anyone who moves will be stabbed to death!"

"Quick! Tie it tighter!"

While shouting sternly, the team members used the ropes they had prepared to tie the hands of the puppet soldiers who had raised their hands to surrender behind their backs, binding them tightly.

The puppet troops completely lost their fighting spirit, like lambs to the slaughter, letting themselves be manipulated without even the thought of struggling.

Anyone who moves even slightly too slowly or has the wrong posture will immediately be hit with the butt of a rifle, resulting in a weak groan.

No, no, I don't even have the strength to cry out in pain anymore!

Gao Linyuan was so shocked by this huge reversal that his mind went blank. It wasn't until two guerrillas viciously lifted him up and tightened thick hemp ropes around his wrists that the excruciating pain brought him back to his senses.

"what!"

He cried out in pain and struggled to turn his head.

With that one turn, he saw the person he hated most at that moment—Kosuke Ogawa!

Not long ago, the Japanese corporal who had been swaggering around on the dirt mound and forcing everyone to run laps until they were exhausted was now jogging up to Zhou Jindong!

Kosuke Ogawa stopped abruptly three steps away from Zhou Jindong, straightened his back, and slammed his right foot on his left heel with a "thud," standing at attention perfectly!

Then he bowed deeply to Zhou Jindong at a 90-degree angle, his forehead almost touching his knees!

Then, in an extremely submissive and even obsequious tone that Gao Linyuan had never heard before, he spoke rapidly in Japanese, pointing at the puppet troops on the parade ground and Gao Linyuan himself as he spoke.

With their bowing and scraping, servile manner, where was the slightest trace of the "Imperial Army's" prestige?

It's like a dog wagging its tail and begging for mercy!

The string that had been taut in Gao Linyuan's mind snapped with a "bang"!

His long-cultivated patience had completely crumbled!

A mixture of furious anger at being fooled, despair at losing everything, and an incomprehensible sense of absurdity erupted violently in his chest like a volcano!

"Kosuke Ogawa!!!" Gao Linyuan suddenly burst out with a heart-wrenching curse, "You spineless bastard! You son of a bitch, you traitor! You damned traitor!!"

"I never imagined that someone as small-eyed and petite as you would betray the Revolutionary... Imperial Army!"

He struggled desperately, trying to lunge towards Kosuke Ogawa, but was held down tightly by his teammates behind him, ignoring the pain as the rope dug into his flesh.

He just stubbornly refused to move, his eyes bloodshot as he glared at the groveling figure, spitting as he cursed wildly:

"You fucking bastard, do you even deserve to wear that dog skin?! Do you have any respect for His Majesty the Emperor?! Do you have any respect for the food the Imperial Army gives you?! You worthless bastard, your integrity has been fed to dogs! Even your bones have gone soft!!"

"Your ancestors for eighteen generations must be turning in their graves! To have given birth to such a treacherous and ungrateful beast!!"

"The Imperial Army! You've disgraced the Imperial Army to the point of utter disgrace!! Ogawa Kosuke! I'll haunt you even in death, you spineless coward!!"