Episode 44
Step aside
Weiguo Zhou, look carefully
Mr. Zhou, please
- Father - father - father
Regimental commander Zhou
Do you really want to see something happen
to your old father, because of you?
China always values filial piety
And’ hundred good filial first’
Hope you can think twice before you do anything
Father, I’m not a good son
I brought you into this
Mr. Mishima
Can I say something to my son?
Mr. Zhou
Of course. Please
Mr. Zhou
Please persuade him
- Weiguo - I am here
You are stronger now, got a suntan
Father, Zhihui will get you out
You are all here
I’m so happy to see you all here
Father, I will get you out
Do the things shouldn’t be done
Is that the right way to use your men?
They are using me as a bait, you gonna take it?
Is it something we do?
Weiguo, when you changed your name
Have you forgotten the meaning of it?
Have you forgotten the words I said to you?
Father, I didn’t
The day Japs are all gone,
will be the day you return
Right, that’s my son
I'm relieved
Yuan, Wen, Zhihui
Don’t worry about me
Country first
Father
Remember, The day Japs are all gone,
will be the day you return
Shut up, tell him to shut up
Hold on a sec
Father! Father! Father!
Mr. Zhou, easy, we can talk
Rise, my sons
I’m proud to have you as my sons
We Chinese will never surrender to Japs
I die today, so you can drop it
Kill all the Japs , protect our country and homes
I will die without regret but smile
Father
Father, dad
Fire!
Hurry, get his corpses back for me
Yes, sir. Move, move
Father, father, father
Protect the regimental commander
Father
Fall back
We will got revenge for him
Fuck off, all of you
Weiguo, calm down
Do you forget what he told us?
- Let me go – Regimental commander – Father
- Big brother, save him – Weiguo Zhou
I need you to pull out
Look around, how many lives
you want to waste? Pull out!
What are you doing? He is not dead yet
Big brother
Report, emergency call from Miyamoto
Inform the unit to fall back
- to Laiyang – Yes, sir
Now Jixian Zhou is dead
I was gonna use him to get him
Now it’s gone
What’s next?
Do you have any good idea?
Hang his body on the city gate
Is that really necessary?
Only in this way
can warn those men like him
Good, we’ll do it as you said
Yes, sir
Guards
Take his corpse out
And hang it on the east gate of Laiyang county
with a bulletin
Make sure that everyone knows
He is Weiguo Zhou’s father
I want all the civilians in Mount Hutou
know what will happen
if they won’t corporate – Yes, sir
Miyamoto
I suggest you’d better not do it
Why is that?
Because if you do so
You will infuriate a tiger
Yeah, so what? That’s the thing I need
I am gonna kill the tiger
You’ll be regret about it
Urgent call, independent regiment in
Mount Hutou must get Mr. Zhou’s remains
back at any costs
In the meantime
The New 4th army HQ forward
Pay tribute to Mr. Zhou
They are asking independent regiment in
Mount Hutou must get Mr. Zhou’s remains
Thank you
Chief, since it’s an order to
independent regiment in Mount Hutou
- please follow my orders – all right
We are done here
After this
I will inform your task as soon as possible
Orders from the military HQ
Qingyuan Police brigade shall coordinate
with 8th Route at any costs
and take Jixian Zhou’s remains back
You don’t need to know who is he
All you need to remember is this operation
is an order from the military HQ
And they have indicate that
we should cooperate with the 8th
Route at any costs
I think you all know
the meaning of it
That is to say we Qingyuan police brigade
must get ready to
take orders from Weiguo Zhou, sit
Brigade commander, why is it?
We risk our lives just for an old corpse
Right. And we need to follow Weiguo Zhou
We could die there
- Don’t listen to the bullshit – How dare you
Jixian Zhou is my father
I won’t bother you guys
Brigade commander, Zhihui and my 1st company
will act in coordination
Brother Zhihui, you get the wrong way
Zhihui
I appreciate your kind offer
Thank you, brigade commander
- Report – Zhihui, wait
What’s it?
Urgent telegram from general Zhizhong Zhang
Read it
Commander of Qingyuan police brigade Bingquan Tang
Wenbai is asking you to take Mr. Zhou’s remains
in person, Zhizhong Zhang
Report, Urgent telegram from Juntong
Commander of Qingyuan police brigade Bingquan Tang
After Suzhou and Shanghai was taken
Mr. Jixian Zhou has made great contributions
to our intelligence network
We are asking you please
take his remains back
And Generalissimo Jiang has promised
He will promote the unit to a higher lever
which accomplish this task
Their soldiers and gears supplement
will be the same as the central army
All clear?
We will obey the order
Now I need everyone back to their unit
- Get ready to fight – Yes, sir
Brigade commander, what brought you here?
Mr. Miyamoto, where is colonel Takeshita?
He hasn’t seen anyone for two days
Even me can hardly see him
As an imperial soldier officer
How could he be like this at this time?
I think I’m not suppose to
judging my officer
But I’m sure that he is upset
because we hang Jixian Zhou’s body
on the city gate
Report
The three stronghold on the first outer
defense line of Mount Hutou Taifeng
were all broken by the enemy
All the died imperial soldiers’ body were all
hanging on the stronghold’s outer wall
without the head. Yes
Bastards!
Report, our two patrol
of Laiyang and Taifeng
were all beheaded!
Damn
I think we have irritated
Weiguo Zhou
- Mr. Miyamoto – Yes
We must keep alert and get ready
- Report – say it
According to our intelligence
the Chinese army in Qingyuan direction
has began to attack us
And that is authorized by
their military HQ
with only one purpose-
to get Jixian Zhou’s remains back
That’s the reason
I have never thought that they were
just coming after a corpse of an old man
and even the Chinese army in Qingyuan
were brought into this
But we are sure about one thing
We will be under the attack from both
8th Route from Mount Hutou
and Chinese army from Qingyuan
Come on, let’s fight to the death
Brigade commander, Miyamoto suggest
Pull two detachment from the troops
secretly assembled in Mount Hutou area
and waiting for Weiguo Zhou
Use them to protect county Laiyang
All right
- Big brother – brother
Got news of county magistrate Chen?
It’s takeshita Jun. He brought her
from the military police to commando’s station
Are you sure?
Yeah
And I saw her today
You saw her?
Here’s the thing, some days ago, I met a girl
said she wants to see Takeshita Jun
So I took her there
I deliberately go for a walk
near their station
Because I want to see her
I was so lucky
I really met her
She even invited me to her house for some tea
So she can express her gratitude
And I saw county magistrate there
According to the girls’ words
Takeshita wants her to take care of her
Seems she is okay, didn’t suffer a lot
Thanks, bro
Big brother, big brother, listen to me
They are Takeshita’s commando residence
Not that easy to get in there
Don’t worry, bro
Be careful, big brother
Stop the dilly-dallying
Hurry up
Still not finished yet?
You go there and call for backup
Hurry, call for back up
Yes, sir
Report ,company commander
2nd battalion have annihilate
the Japs in village Zhao
Make a telegram and inform commander Zhou
- Asking for further mission – Yes, sir
Our soldier are all on the outer line
We can’t pull them back to Laiyang in time
It’s not that way
We don’t have enough time for pull them back
So tell me, what are we gonna do?
Stop, why all this flurry
We can’t solve the problem by arguing
If we can, I will join you guys
Think! Use your brain
Report, brigade commander
I think first thing is we should pull
some unit to Laiyang
Good
- Make orders – yes, sir
Brigade commander, you’re here
Mr. Mishima, intelligence confirmed that
8th Route in Mount Hutou and Chinese army
in Qingyuan are gonna launch an attack
on Laiyang tomorrow
Seems, they are coming for real this time
Great
Finally the tiger is coming down
I am begging for this
Mr. Miyamoto
We will be just wait for windfalls
Our imperial army are all trained well supplied
And what Weiguo Zhou had are just bandits
Without strong weapons
I will kill them in Laiyang
Yes, Miyamoto believe
We will defeat them
Good
I will make a telegram to the commander of
Huabei area, general Okamura Yasuji
I’m telling him that I will
annihilate the 8th Route in Mount Hutou tomorrow
Yes, sir. We are waiting for your orders
- Mr. Miyamoto – Yes
Take the commando, fight with the other troops
Yes, sir
Inform my urgent order to every unit
to keep alert
the enemy may launch
a night attack tonight
Yes, sir
The enemy sneak attack village Guo
at 3 a.m. ,we got all killed
Bastards!
Weiguo Zhou, how could you
You’re too crafty
Bastard
Guards
Yes
You must block the information
of village Guo
Yes, sir
So are they really coming?
How could they?
They are here, in front of your eyes
Step aside
- Report – Come in
Brigade commander, bad news
Calm down, say it slowly
Report, the old man’s body on
the city gate is gone
What? What is gone?
The old man’s body we hanged on
the city gate is gone
Bastard
Damn bastard
It’s professional
Mr. Takeshita, what do you find out?
I’m sure it’s Weiguo Zhou
He took the remains back
Why are you so sure?
I know him
His statics and these ropes
Weiguo Zhou
He started with attacking some strongholds
to cause a panic in us
so he can find his chance in the chaos
ambush our back ups
attack out reinforcement
After all of that
he made some false intelligence
saying he is out for Laiyang
Using our secret special agent
to inform us with wrong messages
he want
When we are pulling troops from places
back to protect county Laiyang
He went into the county with them
Once they draw out attention to another place
He will take the chance
and take down village Guozhen
When we are all think he is just
acting here while he has some other purpose
He changed
and took Mr. Zhou’s remains
Not only he change the hanging corpse
to some soldier of ours
but also he succeed in making us some panic
He will seize every chance
And every tiny interests
A nice snitch
A nice series of stratagems
Consolidate step by step, linked with one another
That’s thirty – six stratagems in total
And he used 12 at one time
Weiguo Zhou, nice one
Weiguo Zhou, we have done the make up
Mr. Lu, that’s all I have
Regimental commander Zhou
It’s my honor and the only thing
I can do for you
I can’t accept your money
If I do that
Not only I can’t let it go
The civilians will all judging me
Thank you, Mr. Lu
Father
You still look great
and so serious
We haven’t had a chat for years
Let’s do that today
Do you have any idea
I was not quite satisfies with you
Because you are always so strict to me
Since I was a child
I did everything to the best
Just because I want to see you smile to me
But you always said
It’s not good enough, it can be better
Sometimes
I was so curious
I was wondering whether you can smile or not
Father
After I kill those Japs
I will be with you and my mother
When we meet at that time
Please let me see you smile at me for once
Salute
To Mr. Zhou
Ready? Fire
Don’t worry about me, country first
Remember, The day Japs are all gone,
will be the day you return
Big brother, you can leave me here
Any news of my sister-in-law?
Brother Zhu said, after she got caught
She was sent to Takeshita’s commando station
We need to save her out
I will
Zhihui, take care
You take care too
Weiguo Zhou, I’m sorry for the things
I did to you.I'm sorry
Raise your gun
Can you hear me, can you hear me
Fire
Can you hear me
Comrades
The Japs have launched
a decisive and massive attack
on our Chinese army
Although it is taken place in Henan province
The Japs in Shandong have also
began to launch the so-called mop-up
on our liberate area and base
So they need me back to the military region
About our independent regiment’s plan and task
the military region will sent it to you today
Once we got that
We will make battle plan immediately
Comrade Weiguo, do you have anything?
Nothing
Comrade Yuan Liu, announce it
Approved by the military region, we decided
Approve comrade Weiguo Zhou’s
party membership application
Comrade Weiguo Zhou, now you are
already a communist now
Thank organization for trusting me
Thank comrade Yi Chen, comrade Chu Zhang
for be my sponsor
Thank you
Great
Report, Ziming Zhu, Mater Zhu is here
- Let him in – Yes, sir
- Bro – Big brother
Anything I can help?
Sit
Have some tea
Brother Zhu, I heard my brother said
You know where they have Yi Chen?
Seems she is in Takeshita’s commando station
I want to ask you for a help
Get me and my guards in the county
Brother, what are you up to?
- You want to save Yi Chen? – Right
Did Weiguo know about it?
I didn’t tell him
All right, bro
I will take you in
Thank you
But I have a condition
You must take my bro from the
village this time
Brother Zhu, it’s my own…
What do you want to say?
You don’t want us, right?
Fine
You can find your own way in there
All right
I promise, we will go there together
That’s right
But bro, you know that
It’s not an easy thing to get into the city
You must be prepared at any time
Wait for my message
Understand, I will get ready for ot
Brother Zhu, I’m depending on you