﻿Listen for my order.
﻿Get ready to attack.
﻿Yes, sir.
﻿Regimental Commander!
﻿The Japs are ﻿mounting a full-scale attack.
﻿They have twice ﻿as many men as we do.
﻿Twice as many? ﻿We'll fight back, regardless!
﻿Yes, sir.
﻿Commander! Commander!
﻿Orders from headquarters
﻿retreat immediately!
﻿Out of the question!
﻿We'll keep fighting!
﻿The Japs have ﻿taken the Guanghua Gate.
﻿They're getting into Nanqing! ﻿
﻿What did you say?
﻿Nanjing is lost!
﻿Attack!
﻿Commander! Let's retreat!
﻿Before it's too late!
﻿Weiguo! ﻿Retreat, before it's too late!
﻿Who says retreat!?!
﻿I'll shoot you ﻿if you dare repeat that.
﻿Commander, look at our soldiers.
﻿Anyone who is ﻿still alive, come with me.
﻿Let's go! Retreat!
﻿How many soldiers are left?
﻿Thirteen.
﻿Find shelter.
﻿Commander, ﻿we can't hold out for long.
﻿Let's get back into the city.
﻿Isn't your girlfriend in the city?
﻿Shengli!
﻿Yes.
﻿Go into the city!
﻿Stand there.
﻿Chinese army!
﻿Miss Xiao, come with us.
﻿The Japs have entered the city.
﻿There isn't ﻿much time left for you to get out.
﻿Retreat with the NRA.
﻿You go first.
﻿I promised my fiance.
﻿I'll be here, waiting for him.
﻿Relax. It's okay. Just go.
﻿You must take care of yourself.
﻿We're leaving now.
﻿Just go.
﻿Ah Tu, you must return safely
﻿I'll be waiting here for you.
﻿Go.
﻿Where is she?
﻿There!
﻿Capture her.
﻿Don't get any closer.
﻿I'll shoot you ﻿if you come any closer.
﻿Stop where you are.
﻿Let me go. Let me go.
﻿Let me go. Let me go. Let me go.
﻿Don't move!
﻿Help! Help! Let me go!
﻿Fire!
﻿Let me go. Let me go. Let me go.
﻿Let me go. Let me go.
﻿Help!
﻿Xiao Ya. Xiao Ya.
﻿Weiguo!
﻿Fire!
﻿Help me, Weiguo!
﻿Weiguo, ﻿save me! Save me, Weiguo!
﻿Let me go. Let me go. Let me go.
﻿Xiao Ya! Xiao Ya!
﻿Weiguo!
﻿Let me go. Let me go.
﻿Xiao Ya! Wait for me! Xiao Ya!
﻿Commander, let's go! Now!
﻿Xiao Ya!
﻿Weiguo, Just go! ﻿Don't worry about me.
﻿Xiao Ya, wait for me.
﻿Xiao Ya, I'm coming for you.
﻿Let me go! Xiao Ya!
﻿Weiguo! ﻿Just go! Do you hear me?
﻿Weiguo! Just go!
﻿Leave me alone! Just go! Weiguo!
﻿Xiao Ya!
﻿Let's go.
﻿Commander! Let's go!
﻿Let's go, commander!
﻿Let me go!
﻿Regimental Commander.
﻿Let me go!
﻿Let me go! ﻿Fang Shengli! Go away!
﻿Regimental Commander!
﻿Commander! Commander!
﻿Get him in.
﻿Commander! Commander!
﻿Commander!
﻿Commander! Commander!
﻿Xu Hu, ﻿retreat with the commander.
﻿I won't leave you here.
﻿Retreat with the commander, first.
﻿No.
﻿We won't make it if we go together.
﻿You go with him first.
﻿I'll buy you some time.
﻿No.
﻿That's an order.
﻿No.
﻿Xu Hu, I'm entrusting ﻿the Commander to you.
If anything happens to him
﻿I'll come after you. Understand?
﻿Okay.
﻿If Commander Zhou ﻿loses one hair from his head
﻿you won't see ﻿me alive next time. Okay?
﻿Weiguo,
﻿if we both die ﻿in the battle tomorrow...
﻿Do you miss home?
﻿How about you?
﻿I miss...
﻿I miss my mother.
﻿We have to protect Nanjing
﻿so you can ﻿go home to see your mother.
﻿So I can go home to get married.
﻿You're an officer.
﻿What kind of ﻿example are you setting here?
﻿Commander, how are you?
﻿Why are you so hot? Commander!
﻿Commander, ﻿I'll get some water for you.
﻿Wait here for me. Don't move.
﻿Just wait for me.
﻿Is there anyone here? Hello?
﻿How are you feeling? Does it hurt?
﻿Huzi. Go on alone.
It's not going to work.
﻿Go on, you.
﻿Commander, don't worry.
It's okay if you can't walk
﻿I can carry you.
﻿Let's put some ﻿villagers' clothes on you
﻿and the Japs won't recognize us.
﻿Then we can ﻿hide in some villager's home
﻿for a few days.
﻿You'll recover.
﻿Huzi, I really can't walk.
﻿My condition's getting worse
﻿I'm a burden to you.
﻿No.
﻿No. You have to keep living.
﻿You can only avenge our soldiers
﻿if you're alive.
﻿You have to ﻿stay alive to avenge Xiao Ya.
﻿Huzi.
﻿The Japanese are coming.
﻿We'll die together ﻿if you don't go now.
﻿I promised ﻿Battalion Commander Fang.
﻿Don't forget ﻿he gave up his life for us.
﻿I promised him ﻿that I'd take care of you.
It's okay if you can't walk.
﻿Let me carry you.
﻿Huzi, we're brothers ﻿who can sacrifice for each other.
﻿Promise me you'll go on.
﻿No. I won't go, even if you kill me.
﻿Then let me kill you.
﻿No no no! ﻿Be careful with your wound!
﻿Fine! I'll go. Okay? ﻿
﻿I'll go. Lie down.
﻿Go.
﻿Take care of yourself. I'm going.
﻿Hello. Anybody home? Hello?
﻿Hello. Anybody home?
﻿Who is it?
﻿Friend, please open up.
﻿Please open the door.
﻿Who are you...?
﻿My friend
﻿my brother ﻿and I escaped from Nanjing.
﻿Could we rest here?
﻿Come in. Come in.
﻿Yes. Lay him down here.
﻿Be careful.
﻿Raise his head. Thanks.
﻿What happened to him?
﻿He was shot by ﻿the Japs as we were escaping.
﻿We need to heal him.
﻿You can stay here, ﻿if you don't mind.
﻿You can go after he recovers.
﻿Thank you, uncle.
﻿Wait here.
﻿I'll get some herbs for him.
﻿Thank you, uncle.
﻿Take care of yourself.
﻿I'm okay.
﻿Sit here. Have a rest.
﻿Be careful.
﻿Huzi
thank you for what ﻿you've done for me, these days.
It's nothing.
﻿I'll do anything, ﻿as long as you recover ﻿.
﻿I'm almost recovered.
﻿Yeah. It's been quick
﻿but you are still a little weak.
﻿You need some more rest.
﻿How long have we been here?
It's been months.
﻿How is it out there?
How to say...
﻿The Japs have ﻿taken Yangzhou and Taizhou.
﻿Anyway, they've ﻿taken most of Jiangnan.
﻿But I've also ﻿heard some good news.
﻿Several days ago
﻿when I went out to ﻿buy some medicine, I heard
﻿that we've won ﻿a great victory in Taierzhuang.
﻿We killed ﻿tens of thousands of Japs.
﻿The Generalissimo is serious now.
﻿He's mustering ﻿over a million soldiers
﻿to fight two ﻿Japanese divisions in Xuzhou.
﻿Really?
It's the biggest ﻿victory since the war started.
﻿Huzi.
﻿Let's go.
﻿Where?
﻿To Xuzhou. Let's find our army.
﻿No.
﻿Commander, you must know
﻿that we're ﻿hundreds of kilometers away.
﻿Rest for a while longer.
﻿We can go after ﻿you're completely recovered.
﻿I am recovered.
﻿Pack up. Let's leave tomorrow.
﻿Quickly.
﻿What's going on here?
﻿Excuse me.
﻿Why are the Japanese here?
Xuzhou was seized ﻿by the Japanese two days ago.
﻿The NRA troops have all retreated.
﻿Wasn't the plan ﻿to fight against the Japanese?
﻿Why did they retreat?
﻿Fight?
It's chaos in the city.
﻿Everyone is fleeing.
﻿Where did they retreat to?
﻿I don't know.
﻿Maybe to the west. I'm not sure.
﻿Commander, what should we do?
﻿Let's go into ﻿the city and get some rest.
﻿Excuse me.
﻿Where can we find a hotel?
﻿Go west, then turn ﻿north at the third crossing
﻿and you'll see a hotel
﻿but I'm not sure ﻿if it's still open in all this chaos.
﻿Maybe you can check it out.
﻿Okay. Thanks.
﻿You're welcome.
﻿Let me go!
﻿Help! Let go of me!
﻿Let's take a look.
﻿Let me go. Let me go.
﻿Help! Let go of me!
﻿Ouch! Ouch! Stop!
﻿Open your mouth.
﻿Commander, the Japs are coming.
﻿Commander, ﻿let's go, or it will be too late!
﻿Come with me. Hurry!
﻿There! Get them!
﻿Be careful, commander.
﻿Be careful, commander. Come on.
﻿Old Xu.
﻿Come in.
﻿What's wrong?
﻿On my way ﻿back from the pharmacy
﻿some Japs tried to molest me.
﻿Thank God ﻿these two brothers were there
﻿to save me.
﻿Ah Wen!
﻿Big brother!
﻿Commander! Commander!
﻿What's wrong?
It must be ﻿his old injury, from before.
﻿Go. Let's go. Come on.
﻿Be careful. Go.
﻿Watch the door.
﻿Help him up. Unbutton him.
﻿Okay.
﻿How is it?
﻿Take care of him,
﻿I'll fetch something.
﻿What happened?
﻿We were beaten in Nanjing.
﻿When we went back to ﻿the middle school, to save Xiao Ya
﻿we fought with the Japs.
﻿The Regimental ﻿Commander was shot.
﻿He hadn't recovered
﻿when we saw ﻿the Japs molesting the girl
﻿who was here just now.
﻿And he...
﻿Nanjing?
﻿Wasn't Xiao Ya ﻿also in Nanjing? Where is she?
﻿Weiguo.
﻿Come on. Let me.
﻿How is he?
It's not good.
﻿His wound was healing
﻿but today's ﻿incident busted it back open.
﻿We're short of medicine here
﻿I don't have any good solutions.
﻿Then what should we do?
﻿How about this, Xiao Yu?
﻿You sew up his wound,
﻿I'll try to find some medicine.
﻿Okay.
﻿Who is it?
﻿Bright moon in the sky.
﻿Where is Old Zhao?
﻿He is inside.
﻿Old Xu, come on in.
﻿We're ready. ﻿When should we set out?
﻿Let's set off tomorrow.
﻿I want to bring two more people.
﻿Who?
﻿Don't ask.
﻿Just bring them when we leave.
﻿By the way, one of them is injured.
﻿Old Xu
﻿the superiors ﻿charged me with the mission
﻿to escort these ten students.
﻿We only have ten ﻿soldiers to accomplish the mission.
﻿We're passing through ﻿Japanese occupied territory.
﻿I'm afraid I can't ﻿protect any more people.
﻿The operation won't be ﻿safe if we bring more people along.
﻿Then let me do it, if you can't.
It's not about who will do it
﻿I didn't receive ﻿the order from my superiors.
﻿Do they know about this?
﻿I'll report it to them later.
﻿Fine. But you have to tell me
﻿who they are.
﻿Are they reliable?
﻿Old Xu, this secret ﻿escort mission is very important.
If our information is divulged
﻿the situation will be unpredictable.
﻿Old Zhao, it's rather ﻿inconvenient to tell you the details
﻿but we have ﻿to bring them along tomorrow.
﻿Then I absolutely disagree.
﻿I'm here to inform you
﻿not to discuss the matter.
﻿I don't need your permission.
﻿Right. You are ﻿the leader of this mission.
﻿But don't forget ﻿that you are a communist.
﻿You must follow ﻿the organization's orders.
﻿What orders?
﻿What's wrong with communists?
﻿Communists should ﻿stand by and watch as others die?
﻿Let me tell you
﻿those two people are my brothers.
﻿They've saved my life before.
﻿I'll bring them even if I have to die.
It's my decision. ﻿You have to carry it out.
If you have a problem
﻿report to your superiors ﻿on Tiger Head Mountain.
﻿You...
﻿Commander Zhao, ﻿may I say something?
﻿I'm a doctor.
﻿Doctors have principles.
﻿We save dying lives.
﻿First, from the ﻿standpoint of personal feelings
﻿I wouldn't be able to return
﻿if it were not the two of them.
﻿They saved my life out there.
﻿Second, as you said
﻿they might be under suspicion.
﻿But you have so many people.
﻿Can't you ﻿take care of the two of them?
﻿Aren't you useful at all?
﻿You...
﻿These two are Old Xu's friends.
﻿You don't trust Old Xu?
﻿He is a first-generation communist.
﻿We should not ﻿go to extremes, like this.
﻿Remember, ﻿be careful in those spots.
﻿Tell them to stay alert. Okay.
﻿Don't let the students ﻿get hurt, understand?
﻿What are you looking at? Go!
﻿Alright. Stop.
﻿Let's take a rest here.
﻿Come on. Have a rest.
﻿Help him up.
﻿How is he?
﻿He has a terrible fever.
﻿Set him down.
﻿How is he now?
﻿His physical condition is not bad.
﻿There shouldn't be ﻿any serious problem
﻿but his spirits are low.
﻿That is not good for his recovery.
﻿What happened to him?
It's a long story.
﻿We escaped from Nanjing.
﻿His relatives and friends all died.
﻿Okay. Let's go.
﻿We are still in Japanese territory.
﻿We can't stay for long.
﻿Let's go.
﻿Wait.
﻿You two, help with the stretcher
﻿I'm talking ﻿to you. Can't you hear me?
﻿Go.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿Squad Leader Zhao
﻿we're in Jap-occupied ﻿territory. You know that
we have to speed up.
﻿Now that they're on our team
﻿they're one of us.
﻿You can't leave them alone.
﻿You can report ﻿this to your superiors later.
If you have a problem
﻿but these two men have ﻿to be sent to Tiger-Head Mountain.
﻿And I'm telling you
﻿that these two fought in ﻿Nanjing and protected Nanjing.
﻿They are soldiers ﻿fighting against the Japs.
﻿And this wounded man
﻿his relatives died in Nanjing.
﻿We are all Chinese.
﻿We should ﻿have Chinese sympathy.
Take it easy.
﻿Come on. Let me help you.
It's okay. ﻿Take care of the students.
It's okay.
﻿I was rude the other day.
﻿Don't take it seriously.
﻿I'd forgotten it, ﻿before you mentioned it.
﻿We're comrades. ﻿Why are you saying this?
﻿He's my best friend.
﻿We grew up together.
﻿He saved my life before.
﻿Now he is badly injured
﻿and his relatives ﻿and friends are gone.
﻿How could I do nothing?
﻿Old Xu,
﻿you should have told me all this.
﻿You knew?
﻿How could I say no if I knew this?
﻿Good.
It's good that you understand.
﻿Go.
﻿Where am I?
﻿Old Xu, he is awake.
﻿You are awake.
﻿Brother,
﻿why do they call you Old Xu?
﻿Xu Shucheng ﻿is the name I use now.
﻿The mountain up ahead ﻿is too steep.
﻿You won't ﻿be able to carry him over it.
It's okay. I'll carry him.
﻿Then let's go now.
﻿Okay.
﻿Where am I?
﻿On the way ﻿to Tiger Head Mountain.
﻿Tiger Head Mountain?
﻿Where is that?
It's a base of the ERA.
﻿We'll cure you there.
﻿Huzi and I ﻿need to find our own army.
﻿Let's go, Huzi.
﻿No.
﻿We're already here
﻿I have to send ﻿you to Tiger-Head Mountain.
﻿Rest and recover there.
﻿I'm not interested in your ERA.
﻿Huzi, let's go.
﻿No.
﻿Report!
﻿We've found some ﻿Japs at the foot of the mountain.
﻿Go!