Episode 20
Hurry, keep up
Sir, we have been detained here for a long time
It’s not safe here
What about we crept around and back to Laiyang
Bastard
As a samurai
how can you things like that?
Listen
I must hunt him down and make him
as a sacrifice for our samurai today
Yes, sir
Keep up
Big stone valley is close
Brother Shuisheng and his men are fighting
Speed up. Let’s go
Yes, sir. Hurry. Keep up
There’s only one 8th Route there, he’s out
Take him alive
Juanzi, wait for me
Let me go, let me go, let me go
Kill him, kill him
Kill him, right?
Kill him
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, you little ass
My men want me to kill you
You little ass, come on, come to your grandpa
Fire
Japs, your grandpa Yang is here
Damn
Take cover
Come here
You go back at once
Tell major general, Weiguo Zhou and
the 8th Route’s armory are both in Village Yang
- Hurry. - Yes, sir.
Pull out! Pull out!
After them
See where they can go
Brother Shuisheng
Where’re the other two?
Revenge
Revenge. Revenge
Who did that?
Weiguo Zhou
How dare he tied me up? I’ll see to him punished
Untied? You fool, see?
Weiguo Zhou came out of the line
What’re you waiting? Find our regiment
Brother Shuisheng
Platoon leader
We have got about 7 or 8 capture
One officer include
You are Shuisheng
I am
I saw two dozen of dead Jap corpses
on the way here
Is that you?
It’s me and my two fellows. They….
Want revenge?
Yes
It must be done
If you do, take it.
Be my man, you’ll get your revenge
Zhuzi, who is he?
No idea
I only know he is one of the 8th Route officers
Bro. He is the well-known
second master of the Cool Breeze Village
You know the battle at the Thin Strip of Sky
It’s him and his men
They annihilated the whole Japanese battalion
Now our second master
Is a platoon leader in 8th Route Army
He is that second master Zhou?
Yes
Weiguo Zhou
Platoon leader, water
Check them out
I’m with you
Me too
Good
Zhuzi, help me out
Come on
Weiguo Zhou
How is everything
The Japs are all there
I mean the casualties
5 down, 9 injured.
That easy?
They are lives
If I were you
you should wait for our amry
The Japs will go back to Laiyang
while we were waiting
Do you know what you did?
You acted without permission
You don’t see you bro
and these civilians as living persons
What’re you talking about?
Report
Platoon leader, something is up there
Company commander is here, tell him
Now I’m the company commander
We will talk about it later
Where?
Big brothers in 8th Route
It’s him who took his guys and did bad things
- to our sisters - Calm down, calm down.
My fellow villagers, calm down
I’m the commander of the 3rd Company, indepent
regiment Guangrong Xu, we 8th Route have rules
we can’t abuse the capture
But I totally understand your feelings
As long as we catch him back
he will be put on trail
You will see that
I understand
Don’t worry about it
You will have an explanation
I promise
Did you take your men and touched the ladies?
As an imperial Japanese Samurai
It’s their honor to be touched
Weiguo Zhou
That’s it!
Chief of staff
Comrade Weiguo Zhou
Took his men disobey the orders
in the Village Ligong encounter this afternoon
and killed the capture
That’s basically what it is
I think although comrade Weiguo Zhou
and his 4th platoon won the battle
but he also had big mistakes
I hope organization can reach a conclusion soon
I’m done talking
Allow me. As a platoon leader, Weiguo Zhou
disobeyed the orders,
and made trouble with his men
That put 26 4th platoon soldier’s lives in danger
Ended with 5 dead, 9 injured
More than a half casualties
It’s all because of him
Besides
The capture thinks
It’s serious violation of our military discipline
The things he did today
is very bad, we must handle it seriously
And emphasize our discipline
Comrades
Comrade Weiguo Zhou
Did make a serious mistake
We'll be faced to his criticism and his punishment
The organization will deal with it
But think about it
Weiguo Zhou has just come here
We can’t change a man in a couple days
This gonna need more time for it
And it was a big victory
which saved lots of fellows
I disagree with comrade Yi Chen
Right, he won the battle
but that victory
can’t undo the costs
to our army, comrades
Why can we win this revolution?
What is that depend on?
It’s our iron discipline, our loyalty
Weiguo Zhou see no discipline
and violate it so easily, if we didn’t punish him
He will become a bad influence
to our soldiers
Now soldiers in several companies
have complained about that
They are waiting for our decision
So I suggest we should take it seriously
and get it done as soon as possible
You all have finished?
Sit down
Let me ask you some questions
What did we communists do?
And what did we communist army do?
We communists have all vowed
We take the duty of liberating the world
and all people in misery as our own responsibility
And these people in Village Ligong
They are one of these miserable people
What did Weiguo Zhou did?
He saved our people
We had casualties
But it is worthy
Cause we saved the people
You all knew that
I have some prejudge against Weiguo Zhou
But it is not personal.It’s just some
prejudge against the nationalists reac…
Sorry, I mean the nationalists
Guangrong Xu
Have you forgotten our civilian in Soviet area?
Have you forgotten how they treated us?
But Weiguo Zhou did violate the discipline
Right
When he is out in combat, were you there?
Yeah
I told him not to
So he tied me up
Chief of Staff. I have reported that
If you agreed with him, would you be tied up?
Is there gonna be any violation
against the discipline?
Brother Zhou, your dinner
What’s that? You’re still upset
because of company commander Xu?
He didn't bother me
Brother Zhou,
I heard about what happened in Village Gong
We are all on your side
That feels really awesome
It’s true, they admire you so much
Brother Zhou, you are a real hero
You took down more than sixty Japs
with only about twenty men
And you saved so many ladies
I was born for killing the Japs
After you finished it, then what?
Then, I will go chasing your sister.
If you do that
I will follow you there
Ya Xiao
I killed three more Japs for you today
Is everything okay on the other side?
Wait for me
I’ll be with you soon
Officer, we want to see Weiguo Zhou,
please let us in
Officer, we want platoon leader Zhou
We want him have this
Please let us in
Please
That’s too much
Sorry, we can’t
We want him have this
Sorry, we can’t
Mr. Zhou, you awake
What happened?
These villagers want to see you
Villagers, this is our platoon leader Zhou
Platoon leader Zhou
You are our benefactor
Villagers, on your knees
Thank you, leader Zhou, thank you
Don’t, don’t
Thank you, platoon leader Zhou
You saved our lives
Chief of staff
What happened?
Villagers came in the early morning
They won’t leave until they met Mr. Zhou
Officer
Old man, I’m Yong Li
If you have anything , just tell me
Platoon leader Zhou is our benefactor
And you too
Your soldiers are all good men
Please accept my kowtow
I can’t, it’s too much
Araise, please
If you have anything to say
Take your time
I am Wentai Zheng
champion of provincial examination in 1900
also the leader of village Ligong
Honestly, I’m eight-seven years old
No deaf, good eye sight
I see tons of soldiers all my life
Soldiers with braids from Qi Dynasty
Soldiers with big noses from
the Eight-Power Allied Force
All kind of local warlords
The bowlegs Japs
In a word
The soldiers are the one against us
But I survived
until today
It’s long enough
But the younger people, they…
If not for platoon leader Zhou
The younger would be all killed
Right, thanks, platoon leader Zhou
Chief of staff
Our villagers and I brought some things today
Just a little token of our gratitude
Please accept them, please
Villagers, on behalf of our 8th Route, thank you
But I know
You are also suffering a hard time
We can’t let you suffer the hunger
So please take it back
We accept your kindness
Thank you
No
It’s just a little token of our gratitude
Right
It’s just a little token of our gratitude
If you don’t take it
I will see it as you despise us
I can’t just back
and tell my people
You must take it
You must take them
Take it platoon leader Zhou
All right, that this once
I accept
Jie Zhao
Bring the Japs belongings here
Leave the ammos behind. As for the other
things like cans, food, and clothes
Give them to the villagers
They can use them in winter
Yes, sir
Chief of staff, don’t do this
Villager
I want to apologize
for the thins happened yesterday
The Japs sneak in
and cost so much damages
It’s because we failed in vigilance
We are responsible for that
So please
Accept these things
Otherwise, the regrets will eat us
I….I….
That’s it. Take it
You must accept it
All right, we will take it
Thank you, chief of staff, thank you 8th Route
Platoon leader Zhou,
please accept Village Ligo’s kowtow
Villager, please don’t, arise
It's our duty
Villagers, we will let them to work
Let’s go back
Chief of staff, platoon leader Zhou,
You can leave us here
Safe home, safe home, villagers
Thank you, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
So many villagers
Ok, everybody
Back to work
Weiguo
Walk with me
Chief of staff, anything?
No chief of staff here,
Call me Li
Zhou, how long have you been in Mount Hutou?
Three month
How is everything here?
Did you get used to it?
I don’t care about the other things
As long as I can kill the Japs
Seems you are
still upset with comrade Guangrong Xu
Did he make you upset?
No. obedience is the first duty of a soldier
I know it since the first day
in Huangpu military school
I did violate company commander’s order
last time
I did wrong
Yeah, you said so
But you also said
You can live the life as long as you can kill Japs
Words betrayed you, Zhou
Chief of staff
Call me Li
I join the 8th Route
Is because I want kill Japs
But last time
I did violated the discipline
I like that
Zhou
I admit that
I had prejudge for you when you came
That’s because
We have fought all these years
against the nationalist party
So many relatives, so many comrades
died in their hands
I can’t just let it go
I understand
Although once
I stood on the side against you
But please believe me
We are all the same, we love this country
Right, I want us to be friends
I admire you
Cause you devote yourself
And fight for our people
Li
The truth is
When I did that
I wasn’t thinking of our people at all
I just want to kill more Japs
Get my revenge
I like it anyway
It’s my first time seeing
things like today
I never realized
Our people are such kind
Although I didn’t participate in
the battle against your army.
But I have learned something
from today
Mr. Zhou, glad we can be comrades in arms
But I have to say something
As a soldier, first thing is following orders
We have thousands of soldiers here
If they all like you
Violate the order
Kill any Japs they saw
How can we fight as an army?
You have been a regiment commander before
And you are one of the regular army
You know what am I saying, right?
I know, my mistake, please punish me
Really?
Really
All right, I will tell comrade Ming Qiu
See what he gonna do with you
What’s wrong with chief of staff Li?
His attitude turned a whole round
It’s Weiguo Zhou who violate the discipline
See no organization and no discipline
He is a 8th Route for gad’s sake?
If they like him
How can we lead them
Chu Zhang
Let’s calm down
If we are those civilians
Will you hoping someone is coming for you?
You see the situation there
If it is not for Weiguo Zhou
Can you imagine?
Yes, he did make mistakes
But he killed the Japs and save the civilians
I admire him that
We imperial soldiers
should always stay alert!
Yes, sir
Report
Major general
Sir Wantanabe’s men is back
He brought in some important intelligence
Where’s captain Wantanabe?
Mr. Wantanabe dead for our imperial majesty
What about the other men?
All dead
What the hell happened?
We encountered a 8th Route troops
which is merciless
Sir Wantanabe said
Their handler should be Weiguo Zhou
Weiguo Zhou again?
Sir Wantanabe also detected that
The 8th Route have a armory
just around Village Yang
that position is easy to hold but hard to attack
The 8th Route has troop station there
Sir Wantanabe has written them all down
on this report
- Go and get medical treat – Yes, sir
Salute to our imperial soldier Sir Wantanabe
Yes, sir
Major general
Sir Wantanabe is intelligence is quite precisely
Are we gonna attack
Village Yang immediately?
Launch an attack against Village Yang immediately
Yes, sir
The superior give me an important intelligence
this time in military subarea
Just three days ago
A bridge at 200km south
to Laiyang on Jinpu Line was broke down
by the local anti-Janpanese force
The Jinpu line is blocked
So the Jap’s ammo, equipment and oil resource
To the south in transfer are all gathered
In Laiyang arsenal
The superior ordered us
take down Laiyang arsenal
at any costs
Burn it down to the ground
According to the intelligence
the Japs are taking the time
repairing the bridge.
The Jinpu Line will be recover
In ten more days
So we have to do it in the meantime
This is very important to them
Right
Leave alone the problem about how can
we get through those multiple blockade
line around Mount Houtou
Just for city Laiyang
A whole regiment station were there
and they also have tons of Japs which
were stationed there because of the blocking line
So our mission this time
to take down Laiyang arsenal
is like tooth extraction to a tiger
Regiment commander, give me three days
I’ll give you an operation plan
Good
Any problems or difficulties
Just tell me
All right, I’ll go back them
Ok, go
Although the whole regiment are
asking for fight them
But I can tell they are not thinking
of coming back, and any of them
will cost a lot casualties
Wu, come an look at Weiguo’s report
Check it out
Operation Laiyang arsenal
What do you think?
Tell me
Do you think Weiguo Zhou
is a little crazy?
Not just a little crazy
In my opinion
It’s like indulging in the wildest fantasy
12 people
against hundreds of Japs station in
Laiying arsenal
It’s unimaginable
It’s an absolutely new conception
to 8th Route’s fighting experience
Something we never knew
Wu
Say it out
What are you thinking exactly?
I think
we should not reject
new things flatly,
This plan do looks like
a little naive
But after consider it closely
It’s also quite smart
Right, we were in the same page here
Wu,
Many miracles comes
from these unusual but wonderful thinking
Tell me what’s your decision?
My opinion is
We can’t just vote it down
We should listen to him
And even let him try
I agree
Since you agree with that
Let take this task
To the meetings
Let’s discuss about it
How is that?
It’s a deal
All right
Report major General
What
Infantry cohort
And artillery brigade are all ready
We can attack the 8th Route
Amry in Mount Hutou in any minutes
Good
Major general
Are we doing it now?
No
Our primary mission
Is protecting these military supplies
In Laiyang station
After several days
When Jingpu Line is back on track
They get these supplies all
Safely out
We will begin that attack immediately
Report
Come in
Wu
You tell Weiguo
Weiguo, we find you here
to tell you one thing
After serious consideration
We have approval your
plan about sneak attack
the Japs Laiyang arsenal
Really
Wait a second
Since we are going,
We must make sure we can win
Right
Tell me , any request?
Regiment commander, before that?
I want to go there at first?
To Laiyang?
I need to detect the situation there
All right, know yourself and know your enemy
It’s necessary to reconnoiter them out
But the whole Laiyang is under the Japs'control
It’s not safe for you to go alone
The less the safer
I will set off tonight. Don’t worry about me
All right
I’ll leave first
Go
Brother, it’s me
Not here, follow me
Brother San
I never thought I can see you here
Right, me too
It has been years
Since last time we saw in Nanjing
Here, cheers, brother
I thought you are staying
In Jiangnan area
Why you came here
Tell you truth
I haven’t rest for a day
Since the Japs got in
I did it for a dozen time in Jiangnan area
All the Japs' shops, stores
was stolen by me
The last time
I took down the Japs
Garrison headquarters’ vault
That really irrigate the Japs
They put me on their wanted list
So for now, Jiangnan is not safe for me
I thought Shandong is a good place
So I’m gonna move here
and make some fortune
Cheers
What kind of business are you planning?
Are you mocking at your brother?
What else can I do
Except stolen?
If I steal , I will steal the Japs
I’m telling you, bro
Laiyang is really a nice place
Look the railway here
It’s in all directions
It’s a transfer station of the Japs
Quite a lot nice things here
Your brother will not let these Japs rest in peace
Brother San
There’s not much person I truly admire
You are one of them. This is to you
Brother, why you came to Laiyang
Are you planning do the same thing?
Let’s drink
Regiment commander
That’s my report
Now I will organize my own squad
There will be a lot of request, get ready
Just name it,
Political commissar and I are ready for it
Come here and sit, tell me
All right
First thing first, I need men
Who do you want
For this mission, I don’t need too many
I have been working it out, 12 will be the best
But this 12 men
Should all be the elites
I can only find 7
out of my platoon
so I need one person from 3rd platoon
platoon leader Jie Zhao
all right
there’s a sharp pitcher in 2nd platoon Dayong
Zhao who’s grenades is quick and precise
And a sharp shooter Sanhe Li
These two have good psychological quality
for special operation in enemy’s rear
I want these two
You have them
And…
And who? Say it out
Why are you embarrassed?
You want us two to go with you?
Say it
I want your safeguard Dalong Zhao
I heard he is with you since
the long March
And he is quite good
Dalong
Yes
Listen up
From now on
You’ll take orders form Weiguo Zhou
His order is my order
Understand?
Yes,sir
All right, you got the man, what’s next?
I hope the whole regiment could help me
While we attacking the arsenal
If our regiment can assault
the other stronghold at the outside
The Japs in Laiyang will reinforce them
According to my detection
The Japs in Laiyang have lots of designation
They are from different division
As they coming in and out
It’ll make a chaos in them
It will help us a lot
Okay
I will assign all the active troops out
to cooperate with your action
We will turn this whole city
Laiyang upside down
Our operation this time
need to sneak in city Laiyang
We need 12 Japs’ uniform
12 type 38 rifle
Four pumpkin grenades for each person
will be the best
I want the latest and the best
All right, leave it with political commissary
It will be ready in three days, is that okay?
All right
Anything else?
If case of anything happen to our men
We need lots of time bomb
Time bomb?
We didn’t have that here
Where can I get them for you?
Regiment commander
We don’t have it here
But we have a person
Who know how it make it out
Who is that?
Chu Zhang
Chu Zhang?
He is one of the top students in Fudan University
He is good at machinery
It’s not a thing for him
to make some time bomb
All right
I will find him for you
As long as he can do it
If he need anything
I will tell chief of staff to do it
Our mission in Laiyang arsenal
may encounter with close street fight
type 38 rifle will be too clumsy
we need 12 pistol
Made in Germany not in Shanxi