Episode 32
Brigade commander Tang
Please
Prove me I’m innocent
Enough
Rise up, tell me what happened
Stand up
Brigade commander Tang, I’ve been wronged
I’ve been treated unjustly
Really?
He won’t do that to you
Sir, you know that
I’m a captain in Japs army
But I always have a Chinese heart
Always thinking about serving you
In order to get inside
get their more intelligence
I put my own reputation aside, pretend that
I don’t know they all call me a traitor
Hiding in our enemies
But sir
Do you have any idea
How hard is it?
You think I want to be a traitor?
You think I want to
be pointed
and called traitor dog?
You won’t understand me
Enough!
Sir, sorry for that
I’m all for our country
but they call me traitor
I can’t take it
So I lose control
So you are saying
You are a hero?
Tell me
If you want to serve him?
Why you sneak in
Qingyuan town
Sir, let me explain
I got some news
a couple days ago, said
national army and communists in Mount Hutou
are gonna making plans against the Japs together
So I decided to join you
and sharing my intelligence,I changed my clothes
dressing like a local civilian
happened to meet my old friend San Liu
the moment I got in
This San Liu was a lake famous guy
suddenly became Mr. Zhou’s man
I don’t know what did he tell Mr. Zhou
He caught me with no reason
I never had a chance to say something
I know Mr. Zhou must have some bias
If he want to kill me, be my guest
But if I died
those important intelligence
of Japs in Laiyang,
which I get
will be such a waste
Brigade commander Tang, please
Please give me justice
Brigade commander
Maybe Ermazi Liu
is telling the truth
Mr. Zhou
He seems also reasonable
Do you have any convidence
about him serving the Japs
Brother Weiguo, look
Sorry, it’s Weiguo’s fault, please forgive me
About his disposal is all yours
All right, since that
- Deshui – brigade commander
I’ll leave it to you
Yes,sir
Ermazi Liu, if you’re telling the truth
I will let things between us be the past
If you are lying
I don’t need god punish you with his thunder
I will put a bullet in your head
I know, I know
Brigade commander Tang
I’m not feeling well
I will go back hotel and have some rest
About our cooperation things
Can we talk this afternoon?
Not the hotel
Please rest here
You’re so nice
But that will be too much trouble
Since that, please
Deshui
- Send my brother back – Yes,sir
As for today, no matter it’s sunny day or rain
With or without thunder
You must be careful
Sir
In the future
Please say things straight between us
Don’t let him
ruin our friendship
Do you feel some unfriendly vibe here?
No, nothing
Chief of staff is such a smart man
Weiguo should learn from you
Mr. Zhang is always thinking ahead
Deshui admire you so much
Goodbye
Regiment commander, what did Bingquan Tang do?
Nothing, nothing
Why? We have a witness, right?
He didn’t believe it?
I underestimated him
Who are you talking about?
Ermazi Liu, of course
Ermazi Liu?
This Ermazi Liu
When we get there
He seems quite shock
when he saw Deshui Yu
Deshui Yu seems quite nervous too
When Ermazi Liu found out
Deshui Yu’s on the same boat with him
He changed his confession right away
Said he is loyal to our country
What he did is to get the Japs information
Deshui Yu helped him of course
Finally
They got Bingquan Tang on their side
Regiment commander knew there’s nothing we can do
So we find an excuse and left
Why didn’t take that Jap
make a direct confrontation there?
This is just the beginning
We can’t show our ace
so easily
Qingyuan is still Deshui Yu’s place,
we are the guests. We should take it easy
Regiment commander, what’s next?
Seems this Bingquan Tang
didn’t want to face the Japs
We have to give him a push
Give him a push?
How?
Still got that Japanese corpse?
Yeah, still there
We can’t use it here
Take our task force
Pull out of town
Take this dead Murakami
and other Japanese corpse with you
Regiment commander
Why we are pulling out?
Once Ermazi Liu met Deshui Yu
He will tell him how he got caught
If Dushui Yu finds out
We have task force here
He will catch us
in the name of catching traitors
It will be a bad situation for us
if he got our men
I got it, but regiment commander
if all the task force
men are out
How can we protect you?
I’ll be here
Don’t worry about that
I’m still Bingquan Tang’s guest
Deshui Yu can’t do anything to me
No matter who is behind him
If things goes wrong
I can live with Bingquan Tang
That’s a good solution
Remember, find a cart when you out
Send that corpse
To Laiyang
You can decorate it a little,
more suffered, with more holes and a slogan
“That’s what you will get”
About the signature, should we sign
Qingyuan police brigade,KMT army?
Jie Zhao, you get me
Come back to Qingyuan town in two days
Got other mission for you
Yes,sir
Comrade 8th Route, you are going out?
Be careful
What happened?
You don’t know that?
There’s a bulletin outside
Said there’re some traitor
in Qingyuan town
The chief of staff Yu from police brigade
take his men searching from door to door
They are coming, go
Chief of staff Yu, what’s this about?
Mr. Zhou
I’m searching the Japs’ traitor
by orders
Please forgive me if I offend you
Traitor?
Of course, do it carefully, be my guests
Weiguo Zhou
Tell me, if I do find a traitor
in this hotel
He don’t want surrender, we open fire
and hurt you by mistake
What do you think?
Can you find a safer way to kill me?
Mr. Zhou, sir
I just saying
Don’t take it personal
Search it
Stop
Chief of staff Yu
What’s that? Battalion commander Liu
Don’t you see I am doing my job?
I see that
And I wasn’t gonna stop you
Please keep going
I have order from Brigade commander Tang
to protect represents of 8th Route’s safty
thank you, brigade commander Tang
All right
Since battalion commander Liu is here
I think those rats
will behave themselves
Let’s go
Such a hound
Brother, did he give you a hard time?
No, why you came?
I was on patrol today
Saw that bulletin on the street
My men said Deshui Yu took his men here
I thought he won’t be good to you
So I came here immediately
Just on time
Relax
No matter who he got on his side
He can’t touch me
It’s always right to be cautious
My instincts tell me
This Deshui Yu has something
That traitor I am talking about
is Deshui Yu
This jerk
You should be watch him
Don’t worry, brother
My men is the best in the police brigade
He can’t touch me
Platoon commander
It’ve been two days
I am staying here all day long
So boring
Let’s just go back to Mount Hutou
We can fight the Japs
With or without the nationalists
You can go back if you want
It’s not I’m saying
I just can’t bear them
They invited us here to discuss
how to cooperate and fight the Japs together
Now what?
We came and they want to slow down?
I just can’t get it
What are they thinking?
Just fight! Right? Damn
The door, Jie Zhao
Regiment commander, it’s all done
We have another mission today
We got something when questioning Ermazi Liu
Said every 17th
Deshui Yu will report to the Japs in Laiyang
Jie Zhao
You take four brother
To Laiyang town
Must catch Deshui Yu alive
Yes, sir
This can’t wait
You set out now, you’ll get there before sunset
Yes, sir
Brother San, I need to bother you
Say it
Don’t worry
I’ll be back soon
What about me?
Stay here with me
Why?
Gun
Gun?
You have to give me a reason
Sir, please come inside
Here, here
Sir, just have some rest in here
Come
I’ll be gone soon. There’s no need
- Come in – Hand
Leave me alone
Sir, have a stuffed bun?
Stuffed buns! Stuffed buns!
Sir, sir, don’t hesitate
Here, come in
Come on
Sir, come here
Stop, stop, stop
- Come in – Stop
- Sir, come in - Stop
Did you take my wallet?
Did you take my wallet? Tell me
Nuts
Sir
Is this yours?
Yes, yes, it is
It’s mine
Thanks, great, thank you
You’re welcome
Thank you so much
Please accept this
You’re welcome
Please check your wallet, check it
It won’t be necessary
Check it then you can relief
All right
Who the hell are you?
You want my name?
Don’t drop it. It will explode
Sir
Something wrong?
Are you not feeling well?
You, you, don’t worry
There’s hospital just around the corner
Let me help you there
What the hell do you want?
No more questions, follow me
Let’s go sir, it’s just around the corner
Get in
Brother Weiguo
Brother
Please forgive me
if I neglected you these days
Not at all
You are so busy
We should wait
Brother, please
Brother
The urgent intelligence I got this morning
Said the Japs in Laiyang are going to
launch an attack against Laiyang
They have assembled more than one thousand
men towards Laiyang
We have few crossfire
with their troops in front
which cost us a little
Brigade commander Tang’s men are all the elites
This 1000 enemies should be no problem for you
I think they are gonna got themselves beaten up
Weiguo will wish you
victory here
Brother, when it comes to fight the Japs
I’ve ever been afraid of anybody
But the truth is
Although the number of my men
is a little larger than the Japs
But I have to preserve the public order
My men are split up
The troops I can get
is just one company at most. The enemy
on the other side, this 1000 men are just their
outposts, them can get reinforcement in any minute
Brother, we are partners against the Japs
We need to help each other at this time
Brigade commander Tang,
The reason I came to you
is all about this
Just been hold up
because of something came up, right?
Right, yes
What about this
Let’s get it all done today
What do you say?
I believe if we both want the same thing
We can finish it today
Of course, of course
Please tell us your conditions
No hurry
I’d like to introduce someone to you
Get inside
Deshui Yu
Let me go
Brigade commander, you have to say something
Brother, what’s this about?
Brigade commander Tang, please
Please met another chief of staff Yu
Dali, the file
Deshui Yu was caught by my men last night
When he was making contact with
Japs in Laiyang
Some of these letters
are intelligence
he got from the Japs last night
And others are correspondence
between him and the Japs
Weiguo Zhou, you liar!
Brigade commander
Deshui Yu
I trusted you so much. How dare you
Collude with the Japs behind my back?
Regiment command, I did it for our country!
Do you walk worthy of your uniform?
Worthy of our dead brothers?
Guards
Brigade commander, please
Please hear me out
I did it for our country!
Get him out and take care of it
- Commander! – Move – Commander! – Shut up!
– Move – Commander!
Regiment commander!
Weiguo took my own decision
caught Deshui Yu
without notice
Please forgive me
Not at all, brother Weiguo did a right thing
Traitor like this should be all caught and killed
Otherwise
How can we face our dead brothers
The traitor thing has been taken care of
I believe your army
won’t suffer some loss here
I believe brigade commander Tang
also have seen our sincerity in this
Here are our conditions
First is we should act in a relationship of equals
Not working in superior-subordinate relationship
All right, I promise that
Would you mind
I calling you younger brother?
Of course not
As long as you didn’t acting like a big bro
And we should have rights to make decisions
all by ourselves, the time, place
and ways we are taking,
you have no rights to interfere that
No problem
Second, we both maintain strictly of their own
Can’t go in other’s area without permission
Things like last time
Your squads went in our area
can’t be happen again. If you do
We will see it as an unwarranted provocation
and acts accordingly
Don’t worry, bro
It won’t happen again, I promise
But what if the Japs come
I am just about to say it
Third, in order to ally against Japan
We can consider
setting up a ally HQ
We both sent a man to be the commander
But for now, this HQ will be only
in charge of mobilizing their own troops
and divide the front. They have no rights
to give orders to the other side
Under certain conditions,
and authorized by ally HQ
they can get to other side’s area
But in case of unnecessary conflicts
They should follow the route designated by ally HQ
Of course
This ally HQ’s authority won't be limited forever
If this goes well
Maybe we can consider
letting ally HQ giving orders to them both
and worked as a group
No problem, anything else?
No
No?
Brigade commander Tang, relax,
8th Route won’t hit anybody when he is down
Brother Weiguo can set store by overall interests
It is really the bliss of our country
Brigade commander Tang, you and I
both know this well benefit for us both sides
You’re right
Our relationship is close interdependence
Once we work together
Mount Hutou and Qingyuan
will become each other’s reinforcement
Mount Hutou will have a strong base
and support
The vulnerable directions
will fall from3 to 2, this is really
help us ease the threats on many fronts
And it works the same to your side
Mount Hutou is at Taifeng south, Laiyang east
It’s like Qingyuan’s defender
As long as we have Mount Hutou
Qingyuan’ll only need to dea
with the attacks from Laiyang
which’s quite an advantage in strategy
But once the Japs take Mount Hutou
You will be facing the enemy from both sides
There’ll be no safe flank for you
So this cooperation
Will gains you more advantages than we do
We don’t want waste any strength there
Since we have show you our sincerity
Please turn us the same
Hope things which sadden your friends and
gladden your enemies won’t be happen again
I promise, don’t worry about that
That’s all our conditions
Brigade commander Tang, please tell us yours
We accept all your conditions
We have no other special requirements
Just hope you can participate earlier
relieve some stress for us
No problem
I’ll arrange that once I get back
Great
- Chief of staff Zhang – Yes
Figure out a cooperation text accordingly
- right away – Yes, sir
- Chief of staff Wang - Yes
Send Ermazi Liu’s intelligence to Mr. Zhou
Yes, sir
Please consider this Laiyang situation map
as our sincerity to working with you
Brigade commander Tang is willing to share
Important files like this with us
I think this cooperation
will work well for us both in the future
Of course
Brother Weiguo
You are the elite one can hardly get
Brother, come to our side
If you join us
I will sent you my best company
Brigade commander Tang
This doesn’t look like we are cooperating
It’s like you are poaching
It’s just a joke, don’t mind it
Detachment leader
You are back
Haven’t seen you for some days, how’s that?
Everybody is fine
What about you in Qingyuan
We are all getting worried
You came just on time
We are discussing about transfer route
of our civilians against their next mop up
What’s your opinion?
This can wait
Political commissar
I want to show you
our achievements of the talks in Qingyuan
All right, you got that?
This is very good
Not only define our cooperation relationship
and also adhere to our independent principles
Which is consistent with our instructions about
establishment of the
anti-Janpanese national untied front
Good
Long Yuan
Fire
Pour it at them
Nail the MG and the big gun
Grenade
Let’s move
Fire, pour it on them
We have two messages today from Qingyuan
underground, which is not that optimistic
The police brigade in Qingyuan
is in danger
The Japs sent a military unit and launched
a vigorous attack on their 1st company
since last night
They broke their three lines of resistance
Until this morning, they finally hold the field
after police brigade sent their elite
1st reserve battalion
Laiyang direction
In order to support this attack
the Japs have allocated a dozen supplies
from the north now is already
in Laiyang station
As the saying goes ‘if the lips are gone,
the teeth will be cold’
Qingyuan police brigade is
also an anti-Japanese army
If they are down
Then next
Mount Hutou will be isolated
So do you think
we should do something
to support Bingquan Tang?
Of course
But we can’t go to Qingyuan
I know him too well
If we do that, he will pull back in town
Then the Japanese will come after us
Qingyuan is not our place
We can’t gain any advantage there
You’re right
So what are you heading to?
They said their supplies are
all concentrated in Laiyang station, right?
That’s our target
Laiyang?
You mean the station there?
Questions?
They got tight security around Laiyang station
According to my reconnaissance
They got guard spot
at 1km from the station
And firing point
are countless
If we just go straight there, I afraid
Jie Zhao
You forgot your task force?
But their security is too tight
It’s hard to get there
even for our task force
- Huzi - Yes
Tell me
What’s the maximum fire range of our
machine cannon company’s 82km mortar got?
2850m
So what do you think
If we make the target of 1km*100m
from 2 km away,
how will it be?
You mean
Using the mortar against the station?
Brilliant!
Tell the machine cannon company to get prepared
Yes, sir
- Jie Zhao – Yes
Get ready with your task force
When the machine cannon company starts
Your team will start to get in Laiyang
I need you blow their signal station,
power station, military police, barracks
all of them
make the biggest chaos you can get
- I have one question – say it
When can we take these weapons and
explosive in under their tight security?
Jie Zhao, you don’t need to consider it
a lot if it’s my mission you will on
I have arranged it for you
My honey
You have no idea
After that long day
serving those Japs
In the night, in here with you
the moment I touched your little finger
my annoying thoughts are all gone
My sweet heart, my babe
You’re such a bad boy
- Dejiu – Who is that?
Who is there?
Don’t move
Seems you have a lot of fun here
Even forgot my voice
Cool Breeze Village
Ziming Zhu
Big brother Zhu
It’s really you! Brother Zhu
We haven’t seen each other for many years
How are you?
Thanks, I’m good
I didn’t know you are coming
If I did
I should come to take you here
Forgive me
Don’t be, you are brother
Yes, yes
Brother Zhu
This time in Laiyang
Anything you got?
Right
Brother Zhu, come in, sit
All right
Come, here
- Brother Zhu, sit – All right
Brother, tell you the truth
This time, I came to
send you a merit
Brother, that’s very kind of you
As long as anything I can do for you
Just send me a message
Why all the trouble?
If anything goes wrong
How can tell our
brothers in the village
Brother, I want to ask you something
What’s my price with the Japs?
Brother Zhu, this…
- Tell me – It’s…
Five thousand
Brother
You tied me up and send to the Japs
You can get that five thousand
and merit, what do you say?
Come on
Brother Zhu
What are you talking about
Who do you think I am
Right, Dejiu Li
is working under those Japs
But there’s no other choice
Right, I admit that I’m not a good person
But Dejiu Li
Will never betray our brother
Brother Zhu, if you still see me as your brother
Don’t say things like this anymore
All right?
I know, you came to me
Because you still see me as brother.
I’m flattered
You’re a so famous
in Jianghu
If you there’s anything you think I can help
Just a word
Good brother, really
Brother
Honestly, I want ask you for a favor
I need to get one cart in town
A cart?
Brother Zhu, what’s in it?
If you don’t trust me, just forget it
No, no, no
Brother Zhu, I trust you of course
But you know
I’m in charge of the city gate
If anything goes wrong
I’m okay
But I have about 400 men to take care
They will be all dead
Brother, what are you gonna do with that?
That’s say it. Even if something goes wrong
It won’t come after you anyway
What about this, brother Zhu
Please give me some time to think about it
This is not an easy thing
All right
Since you said that
I don’t have anything to say
From day
You take your open road
I will cross my log bridge
Like we never met
No, no, no
Brother Zhu, don’t be angry
I didn’t say I won’t do it, right?
All right, let’s say I let you in
but the Japs have
patrols in town
Dejiu
Tell you this, my brother Weiguo Zhou
Officer of the 8th Route in Mount Hutou
have a message for you
You are working for the Japs, right?
Everything you have done
Are all in his eyes
One day, when the Japs are gone
Are you planning to follow them
to Japan?