Chapter 146: Night Raid on Tengchong City

  Okazaki's squad entered the city of Tengchong for the first time, and on the first day, two soldiers died in a non-combat situation due to his indulgence. He was severely scolded by his superior over the phone. If it weren't for his outstanding military achievements, he would have been removed from office long ago.

  Tengchong County is a remote ancient city, with towering city walls and only two gates, east and west. As long as these two gates are closed, ordinary people cannot enter or leave the city. Before the arrival of the Japanese devils, the night guards at these two gates and the city wall patrols were Wang Jinfai's security team.

  Okazaki no Taneo was short-handed, and had to use the security team of ōkō Zaifu to guard the city gate and patrol the city walls. After the incident where Yang Rong killed two soldiers, Okazaki ordered the city gates to be closed at night, strengthened the defense patrols on the city walls at night, and required body searches and interrogations for anyone entering the city during the day.

  Dong Li Mao, accompanied by Hu San and Gou Hao, wore casual clothes and arrived at the outer city of Tengchong after midnight. Seeing that the city gate was closed, the three men quietly approached a section of the city wall and heard footsteps from above. After waiting for a while, they saw the patrol team leave, and then Gou Hao took out an iron hook with a rope and swung it several times before throwing it at the city wall. A loud clanging sound came from above, and the three men held their breath, making sure that the noise had not alerted the patrol team. Only after confirming this did Gou Hao lead the way in quickly climbing up.

  On this side of the city wall patrol, are Wang Jinfai's six security personnel, these people are lazy and accustomed to it, plus each one is addicted to opium, the six men have been yawning continuously, waiting for the next shift to come and change shifts, so they can go home and sleep beautifully after taking a few puffs.

  Dong Li Mao and Hu San followed Gu Hao to quickly climb up the city wall, then retracted the hook rope, crouched down and moved their feet lightly and quickly towards the stairs leading down from the city wall. The direction they were heading in happened to be where six security patrolmen were turning back on their route, just as they were about to reach the bottom of the stairs, the six security guards turned around.

  Fortunately, it was dark at night and a thin fog had risen. Three or four meters away, except for the sound, no one could be seen.

  Dong Li Mao and the other two heard the security guard's footsteps coming and going, and immediately stopped, squatting at the wall battlements, pulling out their daggers. Dong Li Mao pointed to the other side of the wall battlements, and Hu San and Gou Hao quickly moved over there, crouching low. Dong Li Mao didn't know how many people were patrolling, so he had Hu San and Gou Hao go to the other side, first to reduce their target size, second to sandwich the patrol team from both sides. If not, with three people squatting together, they could only take out the person in front, but the ones behind would definitely open fire or run away, which would be bad.

  Six patrolmen, in a snake-like formation, one after another, walked towards Dong Li Mao and the others, with rifles in their hands, which had already become cumbersome, slung over their shoulders. The first one walking in front did not see Dong Li Mao, but was seen by the second one.

  Dong Li Mao didn't want to take action, as long as he wasn't discovered. He didn't want to kill these few running dogs, after all they were Chinese people. In a country that was almost destroyed by war, in order to survive, who wouldn't have some humble and yielding aspects? This is human nature. Although usually they would speak loudly with big words, once they found themselves in that environment, everyone has a selfish side for self-protection, how could they not try to survive?

  The problem was that this security guard should have been absolutely obedient, he really shouldn't have glanced in the direction of Dong Li Mao, if so, perhaps he and his companion would still have had a chance to live for a few more years, but his eyes, however, were what led to the demise of him and his companion.

  Sometimes people shouldn't see things they shouldn't see. Maybe just a casual glance can bring disaster.

  Before the security guard could even let out a shout, Dong Li Mao quickly got up and stepped in front of him, his right hand's dagger slicing across the man's neck from left to right, cutting off his throat. He couldn't make a sound anymore, his mouth wide open and unable to close again.

  Dong Li Mao's movements were too fast, from standing up to cutting off the security guard's throat, in less than a second. At the same time as his sharp blade slashed to the right, the third security guard had not even had time to see what was happening before Dong Li Mao's dagger had already entered his heart.

  Gu Hao and Hu San, almost simultaneously with Dong Li Mao, Hu San was in charge of the last one, Gu Hao dealt with the second to last.

  Although Hu San was not very old, he had been through many battles and had killed quite a few people, but they were all Japanese devils. When killing them, he didn't consider them human beings. Now that he was about to kill a Chinese person, even though this person was working for the Japanese, he still hesitated. As his left hand covered the man's mouth, preventing him from making any noise, his right hand holding the dagger did not immediately cut the man's throat. Instead, he whispered in the man's ear: "Don't move, or I'll kill you!"

  Gao Hao didn't have the courtesy to hesitate, in his eyes, anyone who worked for the Japanese wasn't a good person. He covered the security guard's mouth with his left hand from behind and swiftly slit his throat with his right hand, then immediately released him. Before the other guard could turn around, Gao Hao wrapped his left arm around the man's neck, pulled tight, and twisted outward, producing a crisp cracking sound as he broke the man's neck. Seeing Dong Li Mao insert his dagger into the mouth of the first man, Gao Hao figured they had taken care of everyone. He turned back to see Hu San still covering the mouth of the security guard who was shaking with fear, thinking Hu San was struggling with him. Gao Hao stepped forward and stabbed the nearly frightened-to-death guard in the left chest, then whispered to Hu San, "Let's go!"

  Dong Li Mao, after killing the second one, saw that Hu San and Gou Hao had already succeeded, so he quickly pulled out the dagger from the security guard's heart. Just then, the first security guard turned his head to see what was happening behind him, and saw Dong Li Mao's dagger being pulled out of the other guard's chest. He was shocked, opened his mouth to shout, and hastily reached for the rifle on his back, but he was too slow.

  Dong Li Mao drew out a dagger, saw the person in front of him with his mouth wide open, and his hands were still trying to grab the gun. He took the dagger in his hand and stabbed it straight into the security guard's mouth. This was the best way, which could not only prevent him from shouting but also kill him with one knife.

  In just three or four seconds, six lives vanished like that, with each life lasting less than one second on average.

  Hu San looked down at the six people lying on the ground with some sadness and whispered: "They are Chinese."

  Dong Li Maoru raised his hand and walked quickly towards the steps of the city wall, saying: "They are not human beings, they are dogs who sell their lives for the Japanese devils! Letting these running dogs live will cause more innocent people to die. In the future, we will kill many more running dogs like this who sell their lives for the Japanese devils!"

  The three had just walked down from the city wall when they suddenly heard footsteps coming from their left, and quickly dodged to the right side of the stairs, thinking it was a patrol.

  In a short while, two Japanese devils with Type 38 rifles walked out from the left corner. One of them muttered something and then shouted several times towards the city wall. Not hearing any response from above, the two devils immediately became alert, looked at each other, and ran to go up the stairs to take a closer look.

  These two Japanese devils are here to inspect the post, Okazaki Toshio is well aware that these Chinese traitors like Wang Jinfu are unreliable. They can be used to intimidate people, but if they really need to do something, their own people have to supervise them from behind, otherwise it would be a big deal if they slack off and let the enemy in. So he specially arranged for his subordinates to check the post every hour, supervising Wang Jinfu's security team's nighttime patrol to see if they are doing their job conscientiously.

  Dong Li Mao took a look and saw that there were only two devils, so he made hand gestures to Hu San and Gou Hao, telling them to wait until the two devils walked up the stairs, then take them down from behind.

  Hu San couldn't bring himself to do it just now, but this time was different. The person in front of him was a devil, not a Chinese. His palm, gripping the knife, was sweating profusely as he prepared to pounce forward and stab the devil's heart at any moment.

  After two Japanese devils quickly walked up two flights of stairs, Dong Li Mao waved his hand and the three people rushed out from the right side of the stairs at the same time.

  Killing devils isn't as easy as killing those Chinese running dogs, these two devils have also experienced many battles and killed countless people, of course they are different from those six big smokers. The two devils heard footsteps behind them at the same time, turned around, and just saw Hu San and Gou Hao rushing up, the two devils didn't have time to pull the bolt, so they used bayonets to stab the two men separately.

  This time Dong Li Mao was two steps slower than Hu San and Gou Hao, because his hiding position was at the innermost part of the stairs, so he was preempted by Hu San and Gou Hao.

  As soon as Hu San stepped onto the first step, a bayonet on a rifle shone brightly in front of him and stabbed towards his face. He dodged to the side, avoiding the little devil's straight stab, but didn't expect that this little devil had already thought of a second move. With a swift kick of his right foot, he kicked Hu San in the chest, sending him tumbling down the steps. The little devil took advantage of the situation and rushed down, intending to use his bayonet to kill Hu San.

  Gao Hao dodged the first stab of another little devil, his left hand grasped the gun handle and pulled it down. The little devil was no match for Gao Hao's high martial arts skills, his body was pulled forward by Gao Hao, and Gao Hao's right hand dagger took advantage of the opportunity to insert into his left chest. With a "puchi" sound, almost the entire dagger was inserted into the little devil's heart.

  Hao Dong Li Mao slowed down two steps, otherwise Hu San might have been nailed to the ground by the little devil's dagger.

  Just as the little devil was about to stab Hu San, Dong Li Mao flew up with one foot and kicked the little devil's gun stock, kicking the little devil's gun upwards. The tip of the bayonet scraped past Hu San's face, just a few centimeters away.

  This little devil is quite capable, and at a time when the bayonet was pointing upwards and it was almost impossible to counterattack, he actually used the gun butt to smash Dong Li Mao's head.

  Dong Li Mao was no longer the same person he used to be, having transformed from body to soul into his ancestor Dong Jia Cheng. He didn't dodge and instead quickly stretched out his left palm to support the gun stock that was swung at his head, while his right foot flew up and kicked the little devil's legs. The little devil let out a muffled groan, dropped the gun, and rolled around on the ground, clutching his lower body in pain. Perhaps he was too hurt to even cry out. Hu San, still shaken, was just about to get up when the little devil rolled over beside him. He cursed and stabbed his knife into the little devil's neck, pulling it horizontally, almost beheading him.