﻿There's no time ﻿to test the cannons.
﻿Just fire at ﻿the Japanese position. Now!
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Disassemble ﻿the two cannons and bring them
﻿and bring several cases of shells.
﻿Set the other shells ﻿as rolling mines.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Sir, it's amazing ﻿following you into battle.
﻿The Japanese devils ﻿are like mud statues in front of you.
﻿They are not gods. ﻿They are only human, too.
﻿My life is yours in the future.
﻿Nonsense.
﻿Your life belongs to you.
﻿Remember, ﻿stay alive and beat the Japs.
﻿Let's go.
﻿Commander! ﻿General Zhang Zhizhong is here!
﻿Zhou Weiguo, acting ﻿commander of the 87th Division
﻿261st Brigade, ﻿522nd Regiment, reporting!
﻿As commander ﻿in chief, I convey my greetings.
﻿I hope you can ﻿spread the spirit of Whampoa
by ﻿killing enemies bravely, ﻿regardless of any sacrifice.
﻿I will protect ﻿the battlefield with my life!
﻿Not with your life.
﻿We need your life to kill more Japs.
﻿I understand.
﻿I dare not talk ﻿about my death again
﻿before the Japs leave this country.
﻿Good! You are ﻿a good Chinese man!
﻿I'm a student of ﻿Whampoa Military Academy,
﻿I dare not defile its fame.
﻿Sit down.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿You are the acting commander.
﻿Where is the commander?
﻿The commander ﻿and deputy commander
﻿both died in battle.
﻿So the brigade ﻿commander told me
﻿to act as commander ﻿of the 522nd Regiment.
﻿Now I'm officially appointing you
﻿as commander ﻿of 522nd Regiment.
﻿You're a Major, right?
﻿Now I'm making you a Colonel.
﻿You're short of soldiers.
﻿I will give you my Guard Company.
﻿No, I can't take them.
﻿You are the key to the ﻿safety of Nanjing and Shanghai.
﻿If anything happens to you
﻿nothing can repair my mistake.
﻿Sit down.
﻿Soldiers and commanders
﻿should have no fear of death.
﻿Only in this way ﻿will we win this war.
﻿So it's a deal.
﻿I will give you my Guard Company
﻿but guard the battle field well.
﻿I will protect it with my life!
﻿You see? Here you go again!
﻿Sit down.
﻿I want you to guard the field.
﻿I don't want you to die.
﻿I've just learned ﻿that the Japs have snipers.
﻿A while ago, we didn't ﻿pay much attention to that
﻿so we suffered ﻿a great loss. What about now?
﻿A couple of days ago,
﻿a company commander ﻿here was killed by their snipers.
﻿We reported it.
﻿We've taken ﻿some measures to deal with it.
﻿Our regiment has been safe
﻿but the other troops...
﻿What about the other troops?
﻿They haven't taken ﻿as much care about this issue.
﻿This morning
﻿another regimental commander
﻿was killed by Japanese snipers.
﻿Stupid!
﻿What are your measures?
﻿First, no soldier shall ﻿expose his body to the enemies.
﻿Secondly
﻿no officer shall wear a ﻿uniform showing his military rank.
﻿Third, soldiers shall ﻿not gather around an officer.
﻿Fourth, no soldier ﻿shall salute an officer.
Fifth, it's forbidden ﻿to build a fire or to smoke
﻿except in the shelter.
﻿Good.
﻿Very good.
﻿Adviser.
﻿Make a copy of these regulations.
﻿Hand them out to all the troops.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿The Japs have snipers.
﻿Do we have any?
﻿We don't have actual snipers,
﻿I think we need some.
﻿You're right.
﻿We don't have snipers.
﻿Moreover, ﻿we don't have sniper rifles.
﻿The rifle is not a problem.
In this wing, we have ﻿four German-style divisions
﻿﻿find some sniper rifles
﻿and you can use the ﻿skills you learned in Germany now.
﻿As for snipers
﻿train them on the battlefield.
﻿Yes sir!
On November 11th, 1937, the 6th Japanese Division occupied Qingpu, up to the bank of the Suzhou River. The Chinese army retreated from the battlefield. Yu Hongjun the Mayor of Shanghai, publicly declared his regret that Shanghai had fallen into Japan's hands.
﻿Commander, there's no one left.
﻿Retreat.
﻿The Japanese spearhead
﻿is half an hour behind us.
﻿How many men do they have?
﻿Over a hundred.
﻿A hundred Japanese are chasing
﻿hundreds of ﻿thousands of Chinese soldiers?!
﻿Commander of 1st Company.
﻿Gather your soldiers ﻿and build shelters
﻿if we can't kill ﻿these one hundred Japs
﻿no one shall leave alive.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿Fire!
﻿Report!
﻿We have killed every ﻿Japanese soldier in the spearhead.
﻿We suffered ﻿less than 17 casualties.
﻿Everyone!
﻿Brothers
﻿you are amazing soldiers
﻿I'm proud of you.
﻿Take a rest at where you are now.
﻿We will rest in Kunshan for a while
﻿and then go find the 9th army.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿Do you have a lighter?
﻿No.
﻿Buddy, do you have a lighter?
﻿Which division are you in?
﻿We belong to the 811th Division.
﻿No! This guy ﻿has a Japanese accent.
﻿What?
﻿A defeated troop ﻿wouldn't be so vigorous.
﻿They must be Japanese spies.
﻿Surround them.
﻿Make them drop their weapons.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Hey, you men, stop.
﻿I told you to stop.
﻿Did you hear me?
﻿Stop now!
﻿Don't move.
﻿Brothers, speak for us.
﻿Our platoon retreated to here.
﻿I don't know ﻿how we offended them.
﻿They just surrounded us
﻿and killed many of our comrades.
﻿They are pushing ﻿us regional troops around
﻿because they are national troops.
﻿Don't get upset, brothers.
﻿This guy is not Chinese.
﻿They're Japanese spies.
﻿Brothers.
﻿Take off their pants.
﻿Brothers, this is outrageous!
﻿We're already dead
﻿and they ﻿want to take our pants off.
﻿They're insulting us.
﻿See this?
﻿Only the Japanese ﻿wear these diapers.
﻿Should I also take off your pants?
﻿Fine. I admit ﻿I'm a Japanese soldier.
﻿According ﻿to the Geneva Convention
﻿we are POWs now.
﻿The following acts ﻿are and shall remain prohibited
﻿violence to life and person
﻿in particular murder of all kinds,
﻿mutilation,
﻿cruel treatment and torture.
The taking of hostages
﻿outrages upon personal dignity
﻿in particular humiliating ﻿and degrading treatment
﻿the passing of sentences
﻿and the carrying out of executions
﻿without previous ﻿judgment pronounced
﻿by a regularly constituted court
﻿affording ﻿all the judicial guarantees
﻿which are recognized as ﻿indispensable by civilized peoples.
﻿You don't have ﻿to remind me. We will comply,
﻿but I have some questions.
﻿What's your mission?
﻿How many ﻿troops are there like you?
﻿Where are they?
﻿How do you ﻿communicate with them?
﻿Sorry.
﻿That's classified.
﻿I can't tell you.
﻿Good. Good. You are good.
﻿I admire you now.
﻿But I remember, ﻿the definition of POWs
﻿in the Geneva Convention
﻿is persons who have ﻿fallen into an enemy's power
﻿in battle and conflicts
﻿including regular troops ﻿and guerrilla detachments
﻿but you are wearing ﻿our uniforms to fight us.
﻿I don't think you are simply POWs.
﻿What should I call you?
﻿Spies!
﻿I believe every ﻿country treats spies the same way.
﻿We Chinese are humane.
﻿We will not hang you.
﻿We will shoot you.
﻿Our mission was
﻿to follow ﻿the Chinese army to cause chaos
﻿and to find a way ﻿to get into your capital, Nanjing.
﻿About how many ﻿other troops like us there are
﻿and where they are, ﻿I really don't know.
﻿We don't communicate.
﻿Take them away.
﻿Brothers, ﻿let's avenge our dead brothers!
﻿Control yourselves!
﻿Show your ﻿skills at the front to kill Japs.
﻿What are you ﻿proving to kill some POWs?
﻿You losers!
It's our good luck ﻿that we found this troop of spies.
﻿How many ﻿troops are there like them?
﻿We don't know anything.
﻿Our top priority is ﻿to send them to Intelligence.
﻿I will not forgive ﻿anyone who stands in the way.
Independent Battalion.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿March to Suzhou!
﻿Yes!
﻿Latest order from headquarters.
﻿After the Independent Battalion
﻿of 87th Division goes to Suzhou
﻿its mission as ﻿the rear troop shall be suspended.
﻿The Independent ﻿Battalion shall move to Nanjing
﻿before 8 pm on Nov 20.
﻿Soldiers!
﻿Don't keep your heads down.
﻿Square your chests. Stand tall.
﻿You were defeated.
﻿You retreated
﻿but the Chinese ﻿people will not forget
﻿what you sacrificed in Shanghai.
﻿We just hope ﻿you live up to our ideals.
﻿We hope you do your duty.
﻿A temporary failure is nothing.
﻿Just fight the Japs.
﻿As long as we unite
﻿they will be kicked ﻿out of China sooner or later.
﻿Please take ﻿these clothes and food.
﻿Report!
﻿There are some Suzhou ﻿merchants rewarding our soldiers.
﻿Give my orders﻿.
﻿Take a rest right here.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Just fight the Japs
﻿and we will be satisfied.
﻿Here.
﻿Bring these to them.
﻿Hurry, hurry. All of those.
﻿Hurry. ﻿Hand them out to the soldiers.
﻿Father.
﻿Master, it's Young Master.
﻿Father. I'm unfilial.
﻿I'm bearing military orders
﻿so I can't stay with you.
﻿Military orders are too important.
﻿My son
﻿I'm finally seeing you.
﻿Father, I'm unfilial.
﻿You are taller and stronger.
﻿General Zhang told me ﻿stories about you in Germany.
﻿You did a great job.
﻿You didn't disgrace the family.
﻿Father, ﻿I don't dare forget my vows.
﻿Good.
﻿The way ﻿I brought you up has been paid off.
﻿Father, I'm bearing military orders
﻿and I shall go to ﻿Nanjing for more orders
﻿I can't stay with you. I feel...
﻿Wait. Wait
﻿I've been waiting for you for days﻿.
﻿You've finally come.
﻿I will not regret ﻿anything, once I've given you this.
﻿Dad, I will keep it safe.
﻿I will always ﻿remember your lessons.
﻿But the Japs ﻿will be in Suzhou soon.
﻿Shouldn't you hide ﻿somewhere with the family?
﻿My son, remember
﻿compared to ﻿the interests of the country
﻿personal loss means nothing.
Zhi Hui was also admitted to the CMA.
﻿You have missions ﻿so I will not interrupt you.
﻿Just go.
﻿My son, remember
﻿you will come back ﻿when Japs are out of China.
﻿Go.
﻿Excuse me.
﻿Where is Miss Xiao Ya please?
In the dispensary.
﻿Okay. Thanks.
﻿You're welcome.
﻿Hang on.
﻿Wait.
﻿Brother Liu Yuan, ﻿why are you here?
﻿Pack and come with me.
﻿Leave? Why?
﻿To where?
﻿Shanghai is lost.
﻿The Japanese ﻿are surrounding Nanjing.
﻿The office of the 8th Army
﻿will move to Wuhan ﻿with the National Government.
﻿My mission is ﻿to send relatives to Yan'an.
﻿I've arranged everything.
﻿Didn't the government say
﻿we'll guard Nanjing at any cost?
﻿But this city ﻿will be a battlefield anyway.
﻿Brother Liu Yuan, thank you
﻿but I can't go.
﻿Weiguo is still at the front.
﻿Because he is at the front
﻿I have to take you to a safer place.
﻿I promised him ﻿I'd be waiting in Nanjing.
﻿I can't leave him behind.
﻿Brother Liu Yuan, ﻿you don't have to persuade me.
﻿Xiao Ya, don't say anything.
﻿Pack up now.
﻿No. I will be waiting for Weiguo.
﻿Xiao Ya.
﻿Headquarters' orders
﻿the Independent ﻿Battalion of the 87th Division
﻿be expanded to be a regiment
﻿as the 1st Reserve Regiment
﻿to the 9th Army belonging to me
﻿Supplementing its ﻿manpower and firepower
﻿is a high priority.
﻿Zhou Weiguo
﻿shall be the Major ﻿Commander of the Regiment.
﻿Other officers and soldiers
﻿in the original ﻿independent Battalion
﻿shall be promoted one rank.
﻿The 1st Reserve Regiment
﻿shall be a fortified regiment.
﻿Zhou Weiguo.
﻿You shall lead your regiment
﻿to the Qixiashan battlefield.
﻿Your 2nd, 3rd, 4th ﻿battalions will arrive in two hours.
﻿You should set off right ﻿after the regiment is completed.
﻿Yes!
﻿Connect me to Nanjing.
﻿Yes!
﻿Hello. Please ﻿connect me to Nanjing.
﻿Hello. This is ﻿the Nanjing Telephone Operator.
﻿Where do you want to connect to?
﻿Hello. Nanjing ﻿Female 4th Middle School please.
﻿I'm looking for Miss Xiao Ya.
﻿Okay. Wait a moment.
﻿Miss, will ﻿the Japanese get into the city?
﻿No.
﻿We have so many ﻿soldiers guarding the city.
﻿The Japs cannot get in.
﻿Xiao Ya, ﻿there's a phone call for you.
﻿Hello.
﻿Hello, Xiao Ya.
﻿Hello.
﻿Hello. Please speak louder,
﻿I can't hear you.
﻿Hello. Xiao Ya.
﻿Xiao Ya. It's Weiguo.
﻿Who is it?
﻿I can't hear you. ﻿Please speak louder.
It's Weiguo. Xiao Ya.
﻿Weiguo.
﻿You're back?
﻿I'm back.
﻿Weiguo, where are you?
﻿I'm at the front.
﻿I can't come to see you now.
﻿After this battle, ﻿I'll come look for you.
﻿Weiguo, are you okay?
﻿I'm fine.
﻿Hello.
﻿Hello. Can you hear me?
﻿Xiao Ya.
﻿Hello? Is anyone there? Hello?
﻿Hello, sir.
﻿The line has been disconnected.
﻿We can't get through.
﻿I can take ﻿a message for you to Miss Xiao.
﻿Tell her to take care of herself.
﻿Okay. Wait a second please.
﻿Hello. Is this Miss Xiao?
It is.
﻿Miss Xiao, I'm awfully sorry.
﻿There is something ﻿wrong with the phone lines
﻿I have to take messages for you.
﻿Do you have ﻿anything to say to him?
﻿Tell him to take care too.
﻿Mr. Zhou.
﻿Have you told her that?
﻿Miss Xiao wants me to tell you
﻿that you should take care too.
Mr. Zhou, do you ﻿have anything else to say?
﻿Are you still there?
﻿I am.
﻿Tell her that
﻿the boy ﻿ran away to buy more roses
﻿to get more kisses.
﻿Is that all?
﻿That's all.
﻿Okay. Please take care.
﻿Miss Xiao.
﻿Mr Zhou had ﻿one more word to say.
﻿He said that
﻿the boy ran away
﻿to buy more roses
﻿to get more kisses
﻿I'll name them now.
﻿The male one, Ah Tu.
﻿You'll be my Pig Ah Tu.
﻿Ah Tu. Ah Tu.
﻿Once there was a boy
﻿who had a girlfriend.
﻿The boy bought ﻿a rose for his girlfriend.
﻿Then the girl kissed him.
﻿Then the boy ﻿turned around and ran away.
﻿You know why?
﻿Why?
﻿I'm asking you.
﻿He is shy?
﻿No.
﻿He had something to do?
﻿No.
﻿Then why?
﻿Guess.
﻿I don't know.
﻿Guess.
﻿Tell me.
﻿Report!
﻿Come in.
﻿Fang Shengli, commander of
﻿the 1st battalion ﻿of the 1st RR, Reporting!
﻿I was curious ﻿who this Fang Shengli was
﻿when I read the list.
It's really you.
It's me.
﻿Good.
﻿My guard, Xu Hu.
﻿Terrific soldier.
﻿Marital artist.
﻿Awesome Jap-killer.
﻿Hello, commander!
﻿Let's talk about something
﻿I want this man. Okay?
﻿Sharp eyes.
﻿No problem.
﻿Xu Hu.
﻿How about working ﻿for the Regimental Commander?
﻿I will follow your orders.
﻿Commander, ﻿the entire regiment has gathered.
﻿Please give your orders.
﻿Back to your place in the ranks.
﻿Yes!
﻿Everyone!
﻿At ease!
﻿Attention!
﻿To Qixiashan - march, now.
﻿Weiguo!
﻿Fang Shengli.
﻿Yes?
﻿Lead the regiment and go.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Everyone!
﻿What are you looking at? ﻿All aboard!
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Weiguo!
﻿She's a friend of mine.
﻿Weiguo.
﻿Why are you here?
﻿I missed you. I wanted to see you.
﻿You know I'm going to the front?
﻿I know.
﻿Tell me
﻿about what you ﻿let the receptionist tell me.
What did you mean?
﻿Won't you come back ﻿after you go to the front this time?
﻿I didn't mean that.
﻿You must come back.
﻿No matter what, ﻿you must come back.
﻿I applied to ﻿join the ambulance corps.
﻿The station is in our school.
﻿Come look for me ﻿in the school when you come back.
﻿Okay.
﻿Take care.
﻿You take care too.
﻿Here.
﻿This is for you.
﻿Why?
﻿I got it from an enemy in the battle.
﻿Take it.
﻿That's for men.
﻿I don't want it.
﻿Xiao Ya, listen to me.
﻿Take it.
In the turmoil and chaos of war
﻿I will be able to ﻿relax if you have this pistol.
﻿I have Ah Tu to protect me.
﻿Ah Tu will not be around.
﻿You have to protect yourself.
﻿This is the safety catch.
﻿This is the trigger.
﻿Remember?
﻿Take care.
﻿You take care too.
﻿Commander, ﻿we've found a survivor!
﻿A survivor?
﻿Where are the other ﻿soldiers in the 758th Regiment?
﻿Where is the commander?
﻿All dead, including the commander.
﻿Only these severely ﻿injured soldiers and I are left.
﻿Good. Brother, you are the best.
﻿You have completed your mission.
﻿Orderly!
﻿Get a squad to ﻿send them to a safe place.
﻿Yes!
﻿I won't go!
﻿I have to stay here
﻿to seek revenge ﻿for our regimental commander.
﻿Brother, don't push yourself.
﻿You've been ﻿hanging for over 24 hours.
﻿Have some rest first.
﻿Please! I beg you! Let me stay!
﻿I know this field well!
﻿I can help you!
﻿Fang Shengli.
﻿You take care of him.
﻿You will be in big ﻿trouble if anything happens to him.
﻿We need survivors ﻿from the 758th Regiment
﻿so their spirits can continue.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Go now.
﻿Take over the field.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿idiots!
In three days, ﻿we have suffered enormous losses.
﻿If we can't take down Nanjing
﻿how will I report to His Majesty?
﻿Commander, the guard of Nanjing
﻿is the weakest at ﻿Guanghua Gate and in Qixiashan.
﻿I think we should gather our troops
﻿to attack these two places.
﻿The wall of Nanjing is ﻿20 meters tall and 13 meters thick.
﻿Cannons cannot break it.
﻿Commander, I have an idea.
﻿What is it?
﻿Please allow me ﻿to form a special team.
﻿I can sneak into Nanjing
﻿and take over the wall
﻿to make time ﻿for our army to attack.
﻿How will you sneak in?
﻿I lived in Nanjing for a while.
﻿I know there are ﻿sewers under the wall.
﻿We can widen ﻿the sewers and dig a tunnel.
We can send in a special ﻿team of a few dozen of soldiers.
﻿Takeshita-kun, ﻿how confident are you in this?
﻿80 percent.
﻿Good.
﻿Then take care of it.
﻿You sneak in ﻿through Guanghua Gate.
﻿If you can sneak in
﻿cooperate with Takamori, ﻿who will attack from outside.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿This is a deadly battle.
﻿I hope you make it.
﻿If so
﻿I will speak ﻿good words about you gentlemen
﻿in front of His Majesty.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Major, as per your orders
﻿we have formed a special team
﻿to await your next order.
﻿Okay. Let's go.
﻿Go.
﻿Commander.
﻿When will we attack?
﻿Calm down.
﻿Wait for Takeshita-kun's signal.
﻿Do you really think ﻿he can sneak into Nanjing?
﻿What do you think?
﻿I think
﻿he just graduated ﻿from military school.
﻿He doesn't know who he is yet.
﻿He just wants ﻿to show off in front of you.
﻿As far as I'm concerned
﻿you don't know ﻿how terrific Takeshita-kun is.
﻿What's wrong?
﻿Weiguo, just got the news.
﻿Today the war is intense. ﻿Our armies are fighting hard.
It's quiet here.
﻿Other troops ﻿have suffered great losses.
﻿We don't have ﻿any more reinforcements.
﻿But the Japs are ﻿gathering more and more troops.
﻿Are you scared?
﻿Does that help?
﻿I don't believe
﻿hundreds of ﻿thousands of NRA soldiers
﻿can't guard the city of Nanjing.
﻿Weiguo.
﻿If we both die ﻿in the battle tomorrow...
﻿will you miss home?
﻿How about you?
﻿I miss it.
﻿I miss my mother.
﻿And?
﻿Your family ﻿hasn't gotten you married yet?
﻿Not yet.
﻿Don't you have ﻿feelings for some certain girl?
﻿There is one?
﻿You miss her?
﻿Yeah.
﻿Me too.
﻿I miss my father,
﻿my brother,
﻿and my darling.
﻿She's in Nanjing right now.
﻿She's a teacher.
﻿After we win this war.
﻿I'll go back and get married.
﻿Shengli,
﻿we have to protect Nanjing.
﻿Protect.
﻿So you can ﻿go back to see your mother.
﻿So I can go home to get married.
﻿Go home.
﻿Major, the tunnels are ready.
﻿Hikida, you take ﻿the high ground to the west.
﻿Morishige, you take ﻿the high ground to the east.
﻿Go.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿The rest of you, ﻿divide into two teams
﻿and prepare for the attack.
﻿Go.
﻿Yes sir!
﻿Who is it?
﻿Fire off the signal flare.
﻿Yes sir!