It looks like there ﻿are dozens of Japs.
﻿This is a reorganized ﻿Japanese platoon.
﻿Their standard staffing is 70,
﻿including a machine ﻿gun crew, a grenade crew
﻿and two rifle crews.
﻿Both their strength and firepower
﻿are ten times better than ours.
﻿They can be up here in 10 minutes.
We ﻿have to transfer ﻿the students right now.
﻿We meet those ﻿Japs right next to our base.
﻿What a coincidence!
﻿Old Xu, I'll give you a soldier
﻿and you protect those students to
﻿retreat down the back of the hill.
﻿Walk northwards ﻿till you get to the cornfield
﻿and don't lose ﻿any time hiding there.
I'll ﻿cover you from here.
﻿Okay, remember ﻿to pull out at the right time.
﻿Go, be quick.
﻿Tractor. Yes.
﻿You follow Old Xu ﻿to retreat down the back of the hill
﻿and don't lose ﻿any time hiding in that corn field.
﻿The others stay ﻿with me and get ready to fight.
﻿Squad Leader, I want to stay.
﻿Stop babbling. ﻿Go and protect those students.
﻿Leave your grenades with me.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿Squad Leader, ﻿please give us some guns.
﻿We want to shoot the Japs.
﻿Right or you ﻿can give us several grenades.
﻿Let's die together, ﻿if we're going to die.
﻿Nonsense. Give you guns?
﻿Have you ever touched a gun?
If we fight later
﻿will we protect you, ﻿or shoot the Japs? Just go.
﻿The others, get ready to fight.
﻿Wait, Squad Leader Zhao.
We ﻿just have a few people
﻿and no advantages
﻿to fight a well-equipped ﻿Japanese platoon.
﻿How long can we survive?
﻿Can we hang on for 10 minutes?
﻿Besides, even if ﻿we can hang on for 10 minutes
﻿how far can those students run?
﻿Can they make it out ﻿of range of the Japanese Army?
﻿Who on earth are you?
﻿How do you know all these?
Squad Leader Zhao, ﻿give me your telescope please.
Squad Leader, I heard someone
﻿call him Regiment Commander.
It looks like he's from the NRA.
﻿We should be cautious.
﻿Tell me the truth, Old Xu.
﻿Who on earth is he?
﻿Squad Leader Zhao,
﻿before the students ﻿run into the corn field
﻿we can't let the ﻿Japs reach the top of that hill.
﻿Right now we ﻿have two advantages.
﻿First, we're not discovered
﻿and we can keep hiding.
﻿Second, the terrain ﻿here is good for us,
﻿so we can catch ﻿them on the wrong foot.
﻿Squad Leader Zhao, give me a gun
﻿and give him one, too.
﻿Here, guns.
﻿Squad leader Zhao, I also need 10 grenades.
﻿What are you going ﻿to do with so many grenades?
﻿You'll know later.
﻿Grenades.
﻿Weiguo, watch out.
﻿Go, Huzi. Okay.
﻿Huzi, you stay here with one man.
﻿Remember, when our fight begins
﻿you work with us to draw their fire.
﻿Also
﻿shoot the Japs' grenade launchers
﻿and machine guns first.
﻿Got it?
﻿Where are the grenades?
﻿Here.
﻿You know what to do.
﻿Got it. Leave it to me.
﻿What does he ﻿want us to prepare for the Japs?
﻿A booby trap.
﻿A booby trap? What's that?
﻿A present for the Japs.
﻿Yamamoto-kun,
﻿supervising these wild regions
will ﻿really wear you down.
﻿Kameda, ﻿we're from the same region
﻿so don't stand on ceremony.
﻿To tell you the truth
I have had nothing to do
I'm bored to death.
﻿since I came to Laiyang County.
﻿So I came here today to
﻿patrol and provide ﻿law and order with you
﻿and also to relax ﻿little at the same time.
﻿Yes. And you're welcome.
﻿Those darned ﻿guerrilla forces of the CCP
﻿keep harrying
﻿the logistics ﻿support of our imperial army
but they never ﻿fight with us above board
﻿forcing me
a ﻿Field Division Major
﻿to patrol out in the countryside.
﻿Since Yamamoto-﻿kun came to Laiyang County
﻿there have been no guerrilla attacks
﻿in this area.
﻿Maybe those
﻿shabbily equipped ﻿CCP guerrilla forces
﻿are frightened of the Field Division
﻿of our Royal Japanese Army.
﻿Kameda-kun, ﻿let's not talk about this any more.
﻿There is an old saying in China.
﻿For better sight ﻿go up to the next level.
﻿Let's go to that ﻿mountain top and have a look.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿Let's fight.
No hurry.
﻿I have to shoot the commander first.
﻿There's a Major. Let me shoot him.
Wait.
﻿The platoon leader ﻿is a Second Lieutenant.
﻿Let me get him first.
﻿I'll shoot the ﻿Second Lieutenant first
﻿then you get the Major.
﻿Wait for my command. ﻿Machine guns, cover us.
﻿Charge!
﻿Darned.
﻿Old Liu and the others ﻿should be in the cornfield now.
﻿Tell everyone to retreat.
﻿Retreat.
﻿Brother, the Squad Leader
﻿and the others have pulled out.
﻿Be quick, set the ﻿grenades. We'll pull out, too.
﻿We'll meet in the green field.
﻿You see, here's ﻿the best area for firing.
﻿Later on the Japs will have to
﻿set their machine guns here.
﻿We just need to ﻿wait and listen for the bomb.
﻿This will really ﻿put the Japs through it.
﻿Alternate coverage. Charge.
﻿The Chinese are running away.
﻿Be quick. Take the high ground.
﻿Danger!
﻿Brother, you're amazing.
﻿You trapped the Japs.
﻿Don't get too happy.
﻿There are still dozens of Japs.
﻿You fool. Count our men quickly.
﻿Major, we have 7 ﻿dead and 4 badly injured.
If the medical soldiers are counted
﻿there are 41 in fighting condition.
﻿Our machine guns are destroyed.
﻿Let the medics ﻿take care of the injured.
﻿The others, give chase with me.
I ﻿must wipe out ﻿those hateful Chinese.
﻿Target: the cornfield downhill.
﻿Come on, let's go. Be quick.
﻿They're back.
﻿How's it going?
﻿We killed more than 30 Japs
﻿but we figure ﻿there are about 40 left.
Where are they now?
﻿Rest assured
we ﻿left them far behind.
﻿Maybe they're still ﻿fooling around on the hill.
﻿This time, ﻿we must thank your brother.
﻿He really is a dead shot.
﻿Of course, he's ﻿famous a marksman.
﻿Really?
- ﻿Are you OK? - I'm fine.
﻿The best medicine ﻿for him is killing Japs.
﻿I'm afraid the Japs are coming.
﻿Check our ammo, ﻿and be ready for a fight. Hurry!
Old Zhao, how far is it from here
﻿to our destination?
﻿A dozen Li away ﻿from here is the village of Yang.
﻿That's our base.
﻿We can't go now.
﻿We'll be easily discovered.
﻿How about we wait until dusk?
It may get dark within 2 hours.
﻿I'm familiar with this place.
﻿I have no problem ﻿getting out of here in the dark.
﻿Great.
﻿Stay hidden.
﻿Don't move or talk.
﻿We're not going to be discovered ﻿hiding here.
﻿But...
﻿What?
﻿Old Zhao, ask your men to ﻿cut all those corn ﻿stalks with their bayonets.
﻿Why?
Be ﻿quick.
﻿Come with me.
﻿Stop.
﻿Light it!
﻿How many bullets ﻿do we have now?
﻿20, maybe more. What's up?
﻿Ask the students ﻿take out their school bags
﻿and form 2 rows behind us.
﻿Empty the school bags
﻿and fill them with stones.
Hurry up. Quickly!
﻿- Strafe them with ﻿machine guns. -Yes.
﻿Should we retreat?
﻿No, the corn stems are burnt out.
﻿We'll be discovered if we move.
﻿Then what should ﻿we do? It's too early for dark.
- Brother. - Old Xu.
﻿Brother...
I'm fine. Don't move.
﻿Let me see.
It hasn't reach ﻿the lungs. It's just a ricochet.
﻿But we need to stop ﻿the bleeding, or he won't make it.
﻿Doctor Fan, listen.
﻿We'll charge later
﻿and at that time, you take Liu Yuan
﻿and the students and go.
- ﻿Huzi, fix your bayonet. - Yes.
﻿Huzi, we charge ﻿when I count three. Okay.
﻿Fix bayonets.
Get down.
﻿Get down. Fire!
It's our men.
﻿Brothers, charge.
﻿Grenades.
﻿Charge.
﻿Grenades.
﻿Huzi.
﻿Stop.
﻿Who are you? ﻿How can you shoot them?
﻿Didn't you see
﻿they unloaded?
﻿Our Eighth Route ﻿Army treats captives well.
﻿Open your eyes ﻿and look. Are they captives?
﻿They're enemies ﻿until they drop their guns.
﻿They unloaded in order
﻿to not hurt their own men
﻿when they fight with bayonets.
﻿My name is Yamamoto
I'm ﻿the commander of this troop.
I ﻿apologize to you
﻿for the cruel behavior
﻿of that soldier.
﻿But you shot ﻿my soldiers who unloaded
﻿and were ready ﻿to fight with bayonets.
﻿Such despicable acts are against
﻿the spirit of Bushido.
﻿Major, do not forget that
I am ﻿Chinese
In ﻿my eyes, there are no so-called
﻿samurais among you
﻿but only aggressors.
﻿All I have to do
﻿is to find every possible way
﻿to kill you.
﻿Your opinion is really absurd.
﻿The Japanese ﻿Imperial Army came to China
﻿to set up a Greater ﻿Far East Co-prosperity Sphere
﻿to save you from
﻿the slavery of western countries.
﻿How could we be aggressors?
﻿According to what you said
﻿you Japanese kill ﻿people and set fire to China
﻿for the sake of China, eh?
﻿Major,
﻿do you say this ﻿because you're afraid of death?
﻿What you just said
﻿is the worst possible ﻿insult to a samurai
I wish to duel with you.
﻿Before we duel ﻿tell me your real name.
﻿Zhou Weiguo.
﻿Do you dare to duel ﻿one-on-one with me?
﻿Yes.
﻿Jap, come on.
﻿Does anyone object? Step forward.
﻿You cowards.
﻿Don't you look ﻿down upon the Chinese?
﻿Aren't you invincible?
Don't you believe in Bushido?
﻿Why don't you dare to stand up?
﻿Does Bushido teach you
﻿to be a coward?
﻿Only four of you are men.
﻿Help, help.
﻿Weiguo, help me!
﻿You settle them down.
﻿Okay.
﻿Come with me, boys.
﻿How about Old Xu, ﻿is he in danger?
We ﻿don't know yet.
﻿Doctor Fan is now ﻿cleaning the wound.
﻿Company Commander Xu
﻿don't worry. We'll wait and see.
﻿Chief of Staff, let me introduce you.
﻿This is Zhou Weiguo, and this is Xu Hu.
﻿This is Li Yong, ﻿our regimental Chief of Staff
﻿and this is our Company ﻿Commander Xu Guangrong
Nice to ﻿meet you, officers.
﻿Nice to meet you, too.
﻿All of you came all the way here.
﻿Take good care of them.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿Chief of Staff.
﻿Xiaoyu, how is it going?
I've cleaned the wound
﻿and he is out of danger for now.
﻿But the bullet is still in his body.
﻿What should we do, then?
﻿Send him into town
﻿and find a hospital ﻿which can operate
﻿to remove the bullet.
﻿We have comrades in Yuezhou.
﻿How about we ﻿send him to Yuezhou
﻿and ask comrades ﻿in the underground party
﻿to arrange for a hospital?
It would be the best, ﻿but it must be quick.
﻿Let's waste no time. ﻿I'll send them there.
﻿Wait, you can't go.
﻿You have to take ﻿care of the Third Company.
﻿Send another comrade.
﻿That will be fine.
﻿You have a good rest.
﻿Take care of them.
﻿Yes.
﻿We don't have a ﻿Zhou Weiguo or a Xu Hu on our list.
﻿Why are they here?
I ﻿don't know, either.
-Look into it. -Yes.
Come in.
﻿Here we are.
You two ﻿live here for now.
- ﻿Have a good rest. - Okay.
﻿Come here.
Come in.
﻿Though the living ﻿conditions here are tough
﻿I told the landlady, Aunt Liu
﻿to bake you pies for dinner.
﻿Squad Leader Zhao
﻿the Company ﻿Commander wants you
﻿to have a meeting.
-﻿Got it. You can go now. -Yes sir.
﻿So that's it.
﻿Brothers, have a good rest.
﻿Regimental Commander ﻿we're not going to
﻿stay and become ﻿ERA soldiers, are we?
﻿Thanks to Zhou ﻿Weiguo in this battle,
without his leadership
we ﻿wouldn't have had
﻿such a victory.
﻿We couldn't even have ensured
﻿the students' safety.
﻿About the battle in Heishan Hillock ﻿we've known all about it
﻿so you don't have ﻿to say anything more.
﻿The only problem now is
﻿Zhou Weiguo and Xu Hu.
﻿Has Xu Shucheng told you
﻿who they are?
I've asked him about this.
﻿He just said they were friends.
﻿Friends?
﻿So did Old Xu tell you
﻿what they did?
﻿Old Xu said when he reached
﻿the Tiger Head ﻿Mountain Base Area
﻿he would report ﻿to the leaders himself
﻿He wouldn't tell ﻿me even though I asked him.
﻿Why? Is there anything wrong?
﻿Nothing
We ﻿just want to know
﻿some information ﻿about this Zhou Weiguo.
﻿Squad Leader Zhao, can you recall
﻿during the whole convoy
﻿if Zhou Weiguo
﻿did anything weird or abnormal?
At ﻿the beginning, he had a fever
﻿and was in a coma.
﻿When we reached ﻿the Heishan Hillock
﻿he woke up.
﻿But then we came ﻿across those Japs.
﻿He suddenly became lively
﻿and it was just like ﻿he turned into another person.
﻿He suddenly became so feisty.
I haven't figured out why
'til ﻿now.
﻿On Heishan Hillock
﻿did Zhou Weiguo tell you anything
﻿about himself?
No.
I ﻿didn't pay much ﻿attention to him all the way
and I didn't talk to him much.
﻿Right, Fan Xiaoyu ﻿took care of him all the time.
﻿She may know better than me.
﻿How about
﻿we call her here
﻿to get some information?
-﻿Go. -Yes sir.
﻿Where do they live now?
﻿I've settled them ﻿in at Aunt Liu's house.
﻿Keep an eye on their behavior
﻿and avoid them ﻿walking around in the village.
﻿This...
﻿We need to be alert.
-﻿Call Fan Xiaoyu here. -Yes sir.
﻿You planned
﻿the whole convoy.
﻿We didn't have much trouble
﻿until we had almost ﻿reached Tiger Head Mountain.
﻿You knew
﻿when we would arrive
﻿so you should have come to our aid.
﻿Right. Yes, yes.
﻿Xiaoyu is right.
﻿I've already asked ﻿the Party to punish me.
﻿Also, Company Commander Xu.
﻿And we accept ﻿comrade Xiaoyu's criticism
I ﻿don't dare to criticize ﻿you two leaders.
﻿So is there anything else?
﻿Otherwise, I'll go back
to ﻿take care of the wounded.
﻿Wait. Xiaoyu.
﻿Let's put this succinctly.
﻿Xiaoyu
we ﻿do have something to ask you.
﻿We want to know about
﻿Zhou Weiguo and Xu Hu.
﻿They were not
﻿in our troop
﻿but they saved me in Xuzhou.
﻿Zhou Weiguo should be
﻿Old Xu's friend.
It seemed he also ﻿had saved Old Xu.
﻿At that time, Zhou Weiguo's
﻿injury worsened again
﻿so Old Xu decided to take
﻿him back to Tiger Head Mountain.
﻿Our comrades were not happy
﻿about it at the time
but thank God ﻿we had brought him along.
﻿Without him
﻿we, don't know ﻿what would have happened ﻿on Heishan Hillock.
﻿Xiaoyu
﻿we know about all this.
﻿We just want to ask you
﻿whether Zhou Weiguo has talked
﻿about anything he did before
﻿or about his past?
They are also soldiers.
﻿Soldiers, that's right. Go ahead.
﻿They also fought ﻿against the Japanese
﻿and they were in ﻿the Defense of Nanjing
I ﻿heard Xu Hu called Zhou Weiguo
"Regimental Commander".
﻿Regimental Commander.
﻿Right. "Regimental Commander".
﻿So they are the officers of the KMT.
﻿What's wrong with ﻿officers of the KMT?
﻿We're currently carrying out
﻿Kuomintang-Communist ﻿Cooperation
﻿and Anti-Japanese ﻿National United Front.
﻿Haven't you seen Brother Zhou ﻿fight against the Japs?
﻿Well...
﻿we're done here, Xiaoyu.
﻿You must have ﻿lot to do. You can go now.
﻿Let's finish here.
﻿Okay, I'll go now.
Idiot. What the ﻿hell was Zhao Jie doing?
﻿How can he bring KMT officers?
﻿Old Li, don't be angry.
How can I not be angry!
﻿Don't you know ﻿how much I hate the KMT?
﻿And how many of our families
﻿and comrades ﻿in arms were killed by them?
﻿Yes, I know.
﻿But now we are carrying out ﻿KMT-Communist cooperation
﻿and fighting together ﻿against the Japanese ﻿aren't we?
﻿Nonsense. What cooperation!
﻿Do you believe ﻿the cooperation?
﻿Does the KMT have any sincerity?
﻿We're fighting separately.
﻿Why do they want to come to Tiger Head Mountain?
﻿Zhao Jie is really confused.
﻿The two men are dangerous.
﻿Guangrong, I feel upset.
﻿How about we go and check?
﻿How is it going? Did you eat well?
We ﻿live a hard life here
﻿and the living conditions are bad
﻿so just make do.
It's not that bad. ﻿You're being too modest.
I want to thank you for this.
﻿You saved our ﻿comrades. It's a great thing.
﻿I'll report it to our superior officers
﻿and we should thank you so much.
﻿Don't bother.
It's our duty to fight ﻿against the Japs.
﻿Good point.
It's late
﻿so have a good rest. I am ﻿leaving now.
﻿I'll buy you some wine another day.
﻿Huzi, how about going for a walk?
﻿Great, let's go.
﻿Old Zhou, where are you going?
﻿We're going for a walk.
It's late now. Go back and sleep.
﻿What're you doing?
﻿Commander, ﻿what do they want to do?
﻿What do they take us for?
﻿We can't be confined like this.
﻿Commander, where should we go?
﻿Look and see.
﻿Brother Zhou.
﻿Doctor Fan.
It's late now, why don't you sleep?
﻿What're you doing outside?
I ﻿couldn't sleep, so I ﻿wanted to visit you.
﻿Where are you going?
﻿We are not welcome here.
﻿Not welcome? ﻿Who doesn't welcome you?
If not ﻿why would they bother to get two ﻿men and confine us?
Confine you?
﻿You're thinking too much. It's not confinement.
Instead, you are special
﻿so they want to make a decision
﻿after the investigation.
﻿Investigation?
﻿We fought the Japs ﻿for you, and saved your lives
﻿and this is the way ﻿you award us, huh?
﻿Commander, what should we do?
﻿Doctor Fan, just let us go.
﻿Brother Zhou,
﻿you can't leave ﻿the village of Yang like this.
﻿Rest assured. ﻿There's only a few sentries.
﻿They won't get in our way.
﻿But it will turn for the worse
﻿if you come into conflict.
﻿How about I send you out?
﻿I'll go back and get some things.
﻿You wait here for a minute.
﻿Commander, what if she...
﻿What?
﻿Brings some men to arrest us?
﻿She won't.
﻿Brother Zhou, I can only send you out here
Inside is some food and money.
﻿Take it with you. You'll use it.
﻿Thank you.
﻿Thank you, Doctor Fan.
﻿Then we're leaving now.
﻿Take care.
﻿Commander, that girl is nice.
﻿You like her?
﻿Report.
﻿What's up?
﻿Just now I sent a quilt ﻿to Zhou Weiguo
﻿only to find that they are gone.
﻿What? They're gone?
﻿Good, you ﻿you even can't ﻿keep watch on one person.
﻿How did they run away?
When I went in,
﻿I saw a big hole in the roof
so I ﻿figured out they ﻿escaped through the roof.
It's no use to say anything else.
﻿They must have ﻿come to our Tiger Head Mountain
﻿with a special mission.
I'll ﻿take a platoon
to ﻿protect
﻿our confidential information.
﻿You, Guangrong
﻿take the Third ﻿Company to search the periphery
﻿and be sure you get them back.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿Commander, ﻿we made a lot of trouble.
﻿What should we do?
﻿Leave it alone.
﻿We have to get ﻿out of Yang before dawn.
﻿They want to catch me? No way.
﻿You're a dead dog, aren't you?
﻿Can you stop that?
﻿Commander, ﻿where are we going now?
﻿We'll go where we can kill Japs.
﻿Didn't they say our KMT armies
﻿withdrew westwards?
﻿How about we go westwards?
﻿So we can run across our army.
﻿Good. But we ﻿have to find something to eat first.
﻿Right, I'm starving to death.
﻿Report
How i﻿s it going?
﻿We searched the whole area, but...
﻿Pass my word, mobilize all the troops
﻿and be sure to ﻿catch these two men.
﻿Yes sir.
﻿Chief of staff, these two men
﻿may be out of our control area now.
If we keep searching, we may
﻿run into the enemy lands.
We ﻿might suffer losses.
﻿You, come here.
﻿Sir, sir. Raise your hands.
﻿Where are you going?
I'm ﻿a refugee, and I'm going to
﻿my relative's over there.
Go.
﻿Thanks, sir.
﻿Come, be quick. Raise your hands.
﻿Are you together?
﻿Yes, of course. We're cousins.
﻿Okay. You can go.
﻿Thanks, sir.
﻿Commander, what do they want?
﻿I don't know. ﻿Anyway, they didn't come for us.
﻿Let's get away while ﻿have the chance.
﻿All of you, stop.