NFBE Chapter 199 City Gate
Chapter 199 City Gate
"Get out of the way! All of you, get the fuck out of the way!"
At the south gate of Liaoyang City, a hundred or so heavily armed men on horseback, their faces fierce, were driving away the people queuing to enter the city.
The people scattered and fled, and those who were slow to react were whipped.
After the crowd dispersed, the group of people led twenty or thirty horse-drawn carts toward the city gate. The carts were very heavy, piled high with sacks of grain.
"Pah! Traitorous dog!" A ragged young man stood at a distance, spitting and cursing as he watched the scene unfold.
"Shut up! Don't you want to die!" The old man next to him quickly pulled his son back.
On the city gate tower, a Japanese lieutenant colonel nodded in satisfaction and turned to the burly man beside him.
"Sun Sang! You did a great job. I'll report this to the division commander. You'll definitely be rewarded handsomely!"
"Lieutenant Colonel Komura, you're too kind. This is what I should do. It's my honor to serve the Imperial Army!" Sun Haipeng bowed and said with a fawning smile.
"Yes! Very good!" Yukio Komura nodded.
This Sun Haipeng was a bandit recruited by the intelligence agency, and within three years he defected to the Imperial Army. With the support of the Imperial Army, his followers grew to over a thousand.
In the past two years, Sun Haipeng has worked extremely hard in the battles against the Russian army. He not only gathers intelligence for the Imperial Army but also raids small Russian units. He also frequently collects various supplies for the military headquarters.
Now that the Chinese army is launching a major counter-offensive, its logistics are extremely difficult. I never expected Sun Haipeng to procure so much grain again. He's truly loyal to the Imperial Army!
"Stop!" The carriage below stopped at the checkpoint at the city gate. The leading man dismounted and strode forward.
"Mr. Kameda, it's us!" the leading man said, bowing and scraping to the Japanese squad leader who was conducting the inspection.
"Yoshi! Xie-san, what good stuff have you guys gotten your hands on this time?" Lieutenant Kameda nodded and asked. Clearly, the two were very familiar with each other.
"Hehe! Lieutenant Colonel Komura said the Imperial Army is short of food, so my brother sent me out of the city to get 20,000 catties of grain for them!" Xie Yong nodded and smiled obsequiously as he took out a cigarette and handed one to Lieutenant Kameda. He then lit a match for him.
"Yoshi! Xie-san, you have a really good conscience!" Lieutenant Kameda exhaled a puff of smoke and gave Xie Yong a thumbs-up in praise.
"Hey! We're all serving the Imperial Army!" Xie Yong bowed and nodded obsequiously.
"Mr. Kameda! Hurry up and check! We need to get him into the city as soon as possible."
"Yoshi!" Lieutenant Kameda waved his hand, and more than a dozen armed Japanese soldiers ran out and began to inspect the area.
Even though we're all old acquaintances, we still need to get checked out.
Japanese soldiers began inspecting the drivers and the sacks on the horses. One soldier then plunged his bayonet into one of the sacks. Xie Yong's eyes twitched at the sight, and his smile froze.
The Japanese soldier withdrew his bayonet, and wheat gushed out of the gap.
"Damn it!" Lieutenant Kameda roared and slapped him twice across the face.
"Be gentle during the examination, don't be so rough!"
"Hey!" The Japanese soldiers were slapped until their faces were red, and they stood at attention and bowed their heads.
With the fighting at the front intensifying and logistical supplies extremely strained, the Japanese army has begun reducing the daily rations for its soldiers, and Kameda dares not waste any food.
Kameda walked through the caravan, only glancing around casually. The bandits on horseback were all familiar faces.
"Clear the way!" Lieutenant Kameda waved his hand, and the Japanese soldiers quickly lifted the roadblocks.
"Let's go into town!" Xie Yong wiped his sweat and shouted.
The carriage started moving and slowly made its way into the city gate. The bandits on horseback followed beside it, walking in together.
The long queue stretched for over a hundred meters, with the people in front already inside the city and a long line still behind them.
"Mr. Kameda, you've worked hard! Here, have a smoke." Xie Yong pulled Lieutenant Kameda aside and handed him a cigarette. He then slapped the whole pack of cigarettes in his hand into Kameda's hand.
"Yoshi!" Kameda nodded in satisfaction. Although he was a second lieutenant, the Japanese army's pay was not high. This kind of cigarette from Shandong was quite rare for him.
Just as the two were talking with their heads down, a dozen or so smoking iron lumps suddenly flew out from the carriage procession.
"Bomb!" A panicked scream erupted from the Japanese soldiers in the fortifications on both sides, and they all turned to hide.
"What?!" Kameda looked up toward the source of the voice.
"Boom boom boom boom..." A series of explosions rang out, leaving the Japanese soldiers on both sides of the entrance disoriented.
Xie Yong had already moved behind Kameda, dodging the explosion while simultaneously drawing a dagger. He plunged the dagger into Kameda's back!
"What's going on?" Komura Taro, who was on the city wall, was startled by the explosion and quickly craned his neck to look down through the crenellations.
He happened to see a scene of chaos at the city gate below, with grain sacks pushed off several horse-drawn carts, revealing heavy machine guns mounted inside.
Lieutenant Colonel Komura was about to shout when he felt himself being lifted into the air!
"Get down here!" Sun Haipeng grabbed Komura Taro's belt and threw him down from the top of the barricade.
After throwing Komura Taro down, Sun Haipeng didn't stop. He threw two throwing knives with both hands, and the two guards from Komura clutched their necks, their mouths wide open, unable to make a sound.
Sun Haipeng crouched down, and two Mauser pistols appeared in his hands. He fired "bang bang bang" at the Japanese soldiers on both sides, instantly killing five or six of them.
He took his four bodyguards with him to the city wall and dealt with the Japanese soldiers around him. Ten Mauser pistols fired a hail of bullets, causing nearby Japanese soldiers to fall to the ground one after another.
"Grenade!" Sun Haipeng rolled several times to the front of the city gate tower!
The two bodyguards quickly threw a grenade to each side. "Boom!" Two explosions rang out, causing the Japanese soldiers who were running over to scream and howl.
"Retreat into the city gate tower!" Sun Haipeng fired two shots, taking down two more Japanese soldiers who were about to fire. He then covered everyone's retreat into the city gate tower.
"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat..." At the city gate, heavy machine guns on three horse-drawn carts fired in bursts of fire, forcing the Japanese soldiers behind the fortifications to keep their heads down.
The "bandits" on horseback had already dismounted and were now charging towards the fortifications on both sides, firing their weapons as they went.
Under the cover of heavy machine gun fire, more than a dozen grenades were thrown into the fortifications. Before the smoke from the explosions had even cleared, the "bandits" charged in with guns.
The heavy machine gunners, positioned on higher ground, immediately ceased firing!
Explosions and gunfire erupted throughout the city. The brothers who had already entered the city began their assault on the city walls to support their leader.
There was only one company of Japanese soldiers at the city gate, and they were quickly wiped out.
"Pah!" Xie Yong stood up from the ground and spat out a mouthful of saliva.
"Get the carriage out of the way and clear the path!" Xie Yong walked to Guitian's side and turned him over.
Kameda was already dead, but his eyes were still wide open.
"You died with your eyes wide open! Heh heh! Remember not to come to China in your next life!" Xie Yong sneered, reached out and pried open Kameda's hand, took the cigarette back and put it back in his pocket.