Arsenal Military Academy
Episode 35
Where are you going?
I will bet all my savings on Song.
This is a rare opportunity
to make a big fortune!
Ji Jin.
That’s right!
Wait for me!
Ladies
and gentlemen!
The highlight tonight
is about to start.
The challenger tonight is
a young boxer with eleven wins and three defeats.
His name is Yellow Cricket.
Yellow Cricket!
The rival of Yellow Cricket is
a strong man from Russia,
who can kill a bull with one blow, Andre!
Andre!
Let’s warmly welcome
Andre to the stage!
On the life-and-death arena,
your life depends on
the will of god.
My friends.
The bet for the match is on.
Bet more and win more.
Let’s wait and see.
Who will be the winner, the strong man
from Russia or the young man Yellow Cricket?
My friends.
Lay your bets!
Andre!
Whom do you bet?
Andre!
Come. Whom do you bet?
How much? Tell me!
Where are you going?
They cheat!
His rival shouldn’t be him!
But the match has started.
What should we do?
I don’t think they are simple.
Even Mr. Mu isn’t afraid to offend us now.
I don’t think
this matter can be settled easily.
Let’s watch it first.
We can act according to circumstances.
If it gets worse, we will intervene it.
The first round!
Go!
Song!
Great! Andre! Andre!
Andre!
Hit him! Hit him!
Good!
Get up! Andre! Get up!
He won! He won!
Song, you are awesome!
Song!
Xie Liangchen!
Song!
What are you doing? Get out!
Yellow Cricket!
Get down!
Andre!
Move!
Wait.
Yellow Cricket!
Andre!
Song.
Andre!
How is it?
You killed him!
What?
You murderer!
What?
Let him go.
What are you doing?
Let him go!
Cheers!
Come. Come.
Don’t you drink?
Junshan can’t drink.
Drink it.
Why did you cheer if you don’t drink?
I’ll drink for him.
Guys.
It’s so thrilling today.
Drink!
Well.
We left after the match.
Was the man truly killed?
Mr. Mu said it.
The life depended on the will of god.
Don’t worry about it.
Right.
He lost the match indeed.
Is it right?
Do we…
Do we cause any troubles to Mr. Mu?
Huang Song.
You are so silly.
They found such a strong man to fight you.
They didn’t have good intentions.
Do you still worry about them?
You...
Drink. Come on.
Drink. Drink.
Xiaoyu.
The boat arrives.
Xiaoyu.
You did a great favor for us this time.
It’s just a fluke.
I thought it would have been hard to get it.
You are modest.
For these weapons,
I know
you have taken a great risk.
I will report it to the superiors.
If it had not been you,
our work in the north would have been very hard.
I will try to get rewards for you.
No need.
I help you
merely out of my conscience.
Take care of yourself.
Don’t take the wrong way.
Don’t worry.
We will live up to your expectations.
Xiaoyu.
It’s ready.
OK.
Leave now.
Be careful on the road.
Cheers!
Why are you so happy?
Xiaoyu.
You don’t know.
Song fought in the life-and-death boxing today.
And he defeated his Russian rival.
Life-and-death boxing?
Siege it!
You can act according to circumstances.
Xiaodao. Liu.
You three follow me out.
What’s going on?
I don’t know.
Captain He.
Why did you do this?
Ms. Huo.
A gang of men committed a murder in Douwei Club.
Pretend to cooperate with me.
They killed a Russian,
and injured others.
We received reports that
they were hiding in your tavern.
We need to go inside and search.
What do you mean?
Our guests are high officials and nobles.
If you offended any of them,
my business would be ruined.
Unless you have undeniable evidence,
I won’t allow you to come in.
Ms. Huo.
Don’t force me to be rude.
It was a Russian that was killed.
A Russian? So what?
If you wanna get in,
you must step over my body!
Captain He.
You are so majestic today.
Are you alright?
I’m fine.
Put the guns down.
Sergeant Guo.
What brings you here?
I’m telling you.
This matter has been handed over
to Arsenal Military Academy.
I’ll explain it personally
to the police station tomorrow.
This is the order from the Director.
Do you wanna intervene?
Your Director seems so idle.
He even deals with an underground fight
in person.
Now it is intervened by the military.
We’d better go back.
I can do nothing.
We are disappointed!
Go back!
Why did you come here?
These bastards caused such a trouble to me!
Director.
This matter is very troublesome.
If it had been good to us,
the police would have robbed it.
How could it come to me?
It isn’t an ordinary matter.
It’s simple to arrest them.
But
it would be troublesome after that.
Others are easy to deal with.
But Chu Yunsheng
is said to be from Rong Mansion.
Though we are not ruled
by an emperor any more.
But Lord Rong
has connections both in the military and the politics,
which shouldn’t be belittled.
The Commander doesn’t straightly take actions to him.
He may also have misgivings in this aspect.
This sly fox!
All the benefits have been occupied by him.
He just leaves me this crap!
Director.
Can we postpone
this matter
and then pass it to others?
Report!
Come in.
Liangchen.
What?
Aren’t you satisfied?
You killed him in the underground boxing.
The Russians have reported it
to the Commander.
You have caused such a great trouble.
Do you still dare to complain about it?
For the life-and-death boxing,
the death is determined by god.
What does it matter to kill him?
But it’s a foreigner!
Do they stick to the rules?
I tell you.
Don’t be bad-tempered here as a childe.
The AMA is not an entertainment club.
If you don’t want to stay,
get out of here right now.
Continue.
My back is aching all over it.
The body seems to fall apart.
It’s not bad.
At least we have the beds to lie on.
For Song,
he is still in confinement now.
Sergeant Lv showed no mercy at all.
Alert Alert Alert
The Black People Were Enslaved
Let’s see it.
The Red People Were Extinct
While The Yellow People Are Not Awake Yet
Don’t Rely On Enemies
Don’t Drink Poison For Thirsty
Don’t Take Disasters As Shows
Eight Hundred Million People
Are Troubled In the Same Trap
Awake Awake Awake
Alert Alert Alert
Descendants Of Fuxi And Xuanyuan
Disciples Of Confucius And Mencius
-The Saints Passed Away With Nothing Left - So reasonable.
So reasonable.
Foreign Enemies
Harassed The Nation
Don’t Be Slaves
Fight Against It
The Long Centuries Are Like A Long Night
Awake Awake Awake
Alert Alert Alert
The Country Has Been Suffering In Silence
It’s Time For Compatriots To Revolt
Yell To Frighten Enemies
Don’t Be Their Running Dogs
Be Kind To Your Own People
Don’t Be Intimidated
Be Awake And Waken Others Up
Take Your Own Responsibility
Awake Awake Awake
Nice song!
Sergeant Lv.
I slightly modified this song,
Be Alert and Awake,
and gave you as a gift.
Is it good or not?
Tell me!
The Arsenal Military Academy
is a place to train soldiers.
Soldiers,
are the sword of the nation,
and the shield of the people.
It’s nothing to kill several foreign enemies.
From now on,
I’ll repel all the foreign enemies
out of the country.
Good!
Good! Good!
Good speech!
Yeah.
Gu Yanzhen.
Your patriotism impressed me today!
Don’t touch me.
Lv Zhongxin.
If what you want is a gang of toadies,
without integrity
and without spirit,
then you can arrest all of us.
Otherwise,
you release Huang Song now.
Huang Song.
Get in.
Do you come here?
Hit me!
Come!
You are...
Liangchen.
Why were you prisoned?
Ask him.
Huang Song. Give me a massage.
Gu Yanzhen.
He is so bold
in advantage of his father.
Hello.
Lv Zhongxin.
Yes.
I’ll handle it as soon as possible.
Director.
The Commander urged it again.
Director.
These troublesome students can be saved.
It’s the time to test them.
We can give them one opportunity
to make up for their wrongdoing.
If they succeed,
we can account for it to the Commander.
And they can stay at the AMA.
If they fail,
there is Gu Zongtang.
Even if they make some troubles,
it won’t endanger their lives.
Yanzhen.
How do you feel?
Is it painful here?
It’s comfortable, right?
I tell you.
I learned it from my master
when I was at home.
Be gentle.
OK.
Be gentle.
Is it alright now?
Is the strength OK now?
Your neck seems...
Take it.
This is a list.
It records the opium traffickers
who trade opium
against laws around the province.
They are also the largest
opium dealer gangs as we know.
They all have decent jobs,
stable families,
and a legal identity background.
And some even work for the government.
They are cunning.
They have contacts both in the underground and the authority.
The police wanna to arrest them,
but they don’t have concrete evidence.
Even the Commander can’t rashly arrest them.
Thanks to you,
we got this detailed name list
of traffickers this time,
because the one who supplied goods to them
was the Russian
who fought with you in Douwei Club.
The police followed this clue
and found the names out.
What do you want us to do?
Each one of them
has lots of blood debts.
They can’t pay it
even though they die hundreds of times for it.
But the government has its own rules,
and it can’t arrest them without evidence.
Particularly, there are foreigners involved in it.
So,
they hand over the case to us.
Sergeant.
Do you want us to find the evidence?
You’re not the police.
The investigation for evidence is the police’s work.
You are soldiers.
Your work is to obey orders
and slain the enemies.
It can’t be called as a task.
You can say so.
The task this time is special.
Due to many aspects involved,
the academy will not directly intervene
or give you any assistance.
Once you fail,
it will be defined as
your voluntary vengeance,
which has nothing to do with the academy.
So innocent the academy is.
So you can choose to refuse it.
But, in view of your repeated violations of the academy rules,
if you refuse it,
you will be expelled from the academy straightly,
and never enrolled again.
You are forcing us to do it.
I said you could refuse it.
Believe me.
I am glad to see that.
Alright.
I have made it clear.
Make your decisions now.
If you choose the task,
you can leave.
If you choose to reject the task,
stay here.
I’ll notice your family
to help you drop out of school tomorrow.
What should we do?
I’m going first.
Liangchen.
Will you go or not?
Sergeant.
We are not in the same boat.
Your theft is even worse than what they did.
If Sergeant Guo hadn’t interceded for you,
you could have been expelled from school.
Sergeant. I didn’t steal anything.
They framed me.
It’s up to you to go or not.
Sergeant.
I told you. Go. Go.
Wait! Wait!
Wait! Buy some wine to drink.
Bro!
Please.
Bro!
Is this what they said
no any assistance?
They don’t give any guns to us.
How can they drive us out in the midnight?
You want a gun?
Sergeant Lv deliberately drove us out.
In this way, if something wrong goes with us,
they can say that we escape from school in the midnight
and our actions have nothing to do with the academy.
Lv is so sly.
What should we do now?
We have no weapon.
The traffickers’ information isn’t detailed either.
Even the Commander Zhang dares not to deal with them rashly.
If we act recklessly,
it’s just suicide.
About weapons, we can solve it later.
Where is the list?
I have it.
Here.
Pass it on.
Let’s distribute the work.
No matter what the method is,
within three days,
we need to get their detailed information.
Don’t you come here?
If I get together with you,
I am afraid to be killed by you.
Come! Come!
Again!
I’ll bet this.
Large! Large!
Come! Come!
Lay the bet!
Large or small?
Small!
Large! Large!
Large or small?
Open! open it!
Large! Large!
I won!
Large!
Lay the bet.
Large or small?
Large! Large!
Take hands away when you decide.
I’ll open!
Come! Come!
Lay the bet!
Take hands away when you decide!
Do you wanna bet it?
Anyone else?
Take hands away when you decide.
Small! Small!
Small!
This is Shi Hu.
His brother was Shi Long,
who was killed in a gang fight two years ago.
Shi Hu survived with a narrow escape.
But his two fingers on the right hand were broken.
At present, Shi Hu controls forty percent
of smuggling channels in Feng’an.
He controls military necessary supplies
such as drugs, arms and others.
In the Wanzhou Battle, he provided
the army with a large quantity of drugs.
He was even awarded by the Commander.
Of course,
he made a big fortune by it.
Shi Hu runs two casinos
and one restaurant.
But the most profitable business is opium.
Before the ban of opium,
Shi Hu owns up to twenty opium stores
around the three provinces.
After the ban of opium,
he apparently closed the opium stores
and operated the hotels alternatively.
In fact, the opium is still sold
in the hotels.
Sergeant LV said
they couldn’t find the concrete evidence.
I won’t comment on that.
But if his crime can be convicted
by his opium business,
then I can catch him selling opium several times each day,
and without any mistakes.
This man
is very meticulous.
He has several houses
at Yellow River Street,
Civil Road and Nanshikou.
His three concubines
live in these houses respectively.
I have been following him for three days.
But I still don’t know where he lives at night.
If we intend to kill him at his residence,
the success rate isn’t high.
This is Chu Yunsheng,
whose English name is Cruz Robert,
a Chinese-British.
He is a leather businessman apparently.
In fact,
he is the largest tipster in the far east.
He has a gang of professional intelligence personnel,
being close to the famous British mercenaries,
Gurkha Mercenaries.
There is a legend in the intelligence community.
In the first Sino-Japanese War,
Jiyuan Vessel and Guangyi Vessel
escorted three thousand soldiers to Inchon.
One week before the war,
the news spread widely in the market.
Finally, the intelligence was sold to the Japanese at a high price.
The seller of the intelligence was Chu Yunsheng.
He is secretive in his movements,
with many bodyguards.
And he is extremely cautious.
He has a house in Shunyuan,
with a few servants inside.
He hardly goes back there.
By the way,
Shi Hu’s sister-in-law
is Chu Yunsheng’s nominal daughter.
Shi Long has been dead for two years.
The woman did not remarry
and still lived in Shi Mansion.
It is supposed that she has lived with Shi Hu.
But these aren’t confirmed yet.
Wen Jingze.
Forty-two years old.
One of the children studying in the United States at the end of Qing Dynasty,
graduated from Yale University,
majoring in Civil Engineering.
He works as a technical consultant in the Commander’s office.
Besides,
he is a professor
at St. John University and Beiyang University.
From the information,
it’s hard to believe that
he is the manipulator behind the opium trade in the three provinces.
But many people don’t know that
Wen Jingze is an addict,
greatly addicted in opium.
From this, it is speculated that
Wen Jingze got addicted to opium
and then controlled by Shi Hu
and became the agent inside the Commander’s office.
Wen Jingze is undefended.
It’s easy to kill him.
But he has high prestige in academia,
and owns excellent reputation.
If we kill him,
I’m afraid there will be chaos.
Junshan.
What about you?
Petrovic,
is a famous Russian opium dealer,
with about twenty bodyguards,
living on the second floor of Jinhua Hotel.
Shi Hu sent another twenty men to protect him,
and reserved all the rooms on the first floor.
He seldom goes out,
and mostly stays in the hotel.
Their business has completed now.
He will leave Shunyuan two days after tomorrow.
It means
if we wanna take actions,
only two days are left.
So I suggest
we can start from him
if we want to take actions.
But the problem is that
we don’t have any weapons.
How can we fight against
thirty heavily armed men?
Don’t worry about this.
I have an idea.
Junshan.
Are these all yours?
It’s my hobby.
Well.
It’s
unbelievable!
Take it easy.
You shouldn’t take us here.
He can speak to others,
as long as he is bold enough.
With these weapons,
we can go anywhere
even in the most dangerous places.
What are you thinking about?
Jinhua Hotel is next to the police station and the gendarmerie.
And there are heavily armed security guards
at the gate.
With these guns,
can you come out alive?
Well.
Shengping Theater is opposite to the Jinhua Hotel.
We can go to the roof
and snipe him from a long distance.
No.
The two buildings are too far apart.
It is out of range of sniping.
Well.
What should we do?
What to do?
Do you have to kill by a gun?
Jinhua Hotel was built in the Eleventh Year, in the Guangxu Era of the Qing Dynasty
by Russian designers.
There are one hundred and forty-six standard rooms,
sixteen luxury rooms and six ultra-luxury rooms in the hotel.
There are also restaurant, concert hall,
club, chess and cards room, library,
billiard room and so on.
The interior decor is of European style.
It is constructed by reinforced concrete wholly,
whose walls are hard.
Even machine guns can’t shoot through.
The Room No.1 on each floor is ultra-luxury,
with the same decor,
and the same interior furnishings.
There is an independent stairway,
dedicated to
chefs and servants for this room.
It is difficult for outsiders to enter.
The security level is very high.
Reservation is not available.
It only serves for government officials
and high-ranked persons.
And our target
is on the third floor.
Petrovic,
a Russian,
with Dutch blood,
was born in an aristocratic family.
In the thirty-first year of Guangxu,
the revolution broke out in Russia.
Military police fired at civilians,
causing more than four thousand casualties.
To appease the public anger,
their emperor
took the Petrovic Family
as a scapegoat,
and Petrovic’s parents were killed.
He survived the disaster,
and was exiled in Britain.
He met Chu Yunsheng there,
becoming a stable business partner of Chu Yunsheng.
He has extreme fastidiousness,
and doesn’t eat mustard.
He can’t even stand the smell.
What’s the matter
with his dislike of the mustard?
Do you want to poison him?
He has many foes.
According to the intelligence I bought,
he dominated at least
twice assassinations against the tsar.
Do you think he hides in the hotel
to avoid from the arrest
by the incapable police?
His meals
are checked more than three times every day.
Only a fool like you
may try to poison him.
This man has many bodyguards,
and he is vigilant.
Even if we get the chance
to lead him out,
it’s risky to kill him.
And the rate to succeed is low.
What should we do now?
He must have a solution.
Just listen to him.
Mr. Song.
Is the room ready?
Yes, sir.
I’ll lead you up.
Wait for me.
Mr. Song.
Where should I place your suitcase?
Put it aside.
OK.
What else can I do for you?
Leave.
Thank you, Mr. Song.
Captain He.
Captain.
Do you want to see me?
What’s up?
The Russian in Douwei Club
was killed by me.
Hello.
The man who killed Andre was found?
Where is he?
In the police station.
Go.
There are goodies!
Sorry! Sorry!
I didn’t mean it.
Mr. Peter.
I’m sorry. I’m sorry.