Chapter 12: Rescue Zhou Weiguo! What a Talent!
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Amid the crowd surrounded and attacked by the enemy, Li Yunlong spotted several familiar figures.
“Hm?” Li Yunlong’s eyes brightened, and he exclaimed inwardly, “Isn’t that Zhou Weiguo and Zhu Ziming?”
“Could it be that these bandits disguised as such are actually the righteous outlaws from Qingfeng Village?”
“But all these people are characters from ‘Snow Leopard,’ aren’t they?”
Originally, Li Yunlong had thought he had merely crossed into a parallel world of the ‘Drawing Sword’ series.
But now it was clear that was not the case at all.
After a moment’s reflection, Li Yunlong realized, “It seems this is a parallel world where various anti-Japanese dramas have merged together.”
“I just don’t know how many familiar faces I’ll run into from now on.”
Snapping back to attention, Li Yunlong’s gaze returned to the battlefield not far away.
Judging by the situation, he quickly matched it to the plot of ‘Snow Leopard.’
“This is clearly the scene where the Japanese army is besieging Qingfeng Village,” he murmured with raised eyebrows. “If the original story plays out, Qingfeng Village will be completely destroyed by the enemy.”
“Afterwards, the Japanese will relentlessly pursue Zhou Weiguo... and right now, Zhou Weiguo is being chased.”
“Zhou Weiguo is quite a talent. If I can seize this opportunity to bring him under my command, our New First Regiment will gain a great general!”
With this thought, Li Yunlong’s eyes grew resolute.
In ‘Snow Leopard,’ Zhou Weiguo was a top graduate of a foreign special forces academy, later joining a central army elite unit as a regiment commander.
His personal prowess and leadership were outstanding, but he suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Jinling, losing faith in the central army.
He then disappeared into the Jianghu, where he met Zhu Ziming.
Zhou and Zhu initially clashed before becoming comrades; upon learning Qingfeng Village was a band of anti-Japanese outlaws, Zhou joined without hesitation.
Soon Qingfeng Village drew the attention of the Japanese and was besieged and destroyed.
In the original storyline, after many hardships, Zhou eventually joined the Eighth Route Army.
But here, Zhou clearly had not reached that point in his timeline.
So Li Yunlong’s hunting instinct was awakened.
Seeing Qingfeng’s bandits and Zhou’s situation growing desperate and perilous, he decided to act.
Although the New First Regiment was positioned well behind enemy lines, the enemy numbered over two hundred, all heavily armed.
This was a force not to be underestimated.
A single misstep could cause the recently recovered regiment to suffer heavy losses again.
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After a moment’s contemplation, Li Yunlong finally ordered the battalion commanders beside him, “I’m going to wipe out this band of enemies.”
“Zhang Dabiao, you lead the first battalion to charge directly out and attack the enemy from behind!”
“Shen Quan and Wang Huaibao will lead the second and third battalions to flank from the hills on the left and right.”
“With the bandits on the front, the enemy will be surrounded on all sides, forced to split their attention and caught completely off guard!”
Upon hearing Li Yunlong’s commands, the three battalion commanders promptly replied, “Understood!”
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On the battlefield.
The situation for Qingfeng’s bandits grew increasingly grim.
Zhu Ziming and Zhou Weiguo led a stubborn resistance, barely holding off the enemy’s advance, but it could not last long.
Soon, Qingfeng Village’s defeat was inevitable.
“This is over...” Zhu Ziming sighed, gritting his teeth, “I never expected the enemy’s fury to be this deadly.”
“Qingfeng Village is doomed; we’re surely going to be wiped out.”
Hearing this, Zhou Weiguo wanted to rally morale.
But as a regular army officer, he saw the dire reality clearly.
Under such circumstances, Qingfeng Village had no way out.
There were simply too many enemies.
“Brother Zhu, it’s my fault,” Zhou Weiguo took a deep breath. “I thought I could lead Qingfeng Village to greatness, but I never imagined we’d reach a dead end so quickly.”
“I have no more plans in this situation.”
“All that’s left for us is to die bravely and sacrifice ourselves!”
“What kind of words are those?” Zhu Ziming glared, serious. “This encounter with the enemy isn’t your fault.”
“Besides, if it weren’t for your command and strategy in leading us to retreat, we wouldn’t have held on this long—we’d all be dead on the mountain by now.”
“Brother Zhou, I truly consider you my brother.”
“But this life is ending here. If you don’t mind, we’ll be brothers again in the next life.”
“Brother Zhu!” Zhou Weiguo immediately changed his address, “We’ll be brothers again in the next life!”
At this moment, Zhu Ziming and Zhou Weiguo were clearly prepared for their deaths.
But just then—
“Charge!” a fierce roar came from behind the enemy lines.
Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao led the first battalion’s soldiers in a sudden assault.
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Bang bang bang bang...
A storm of gunfire erupted, bullets raining down like a tempest upon the enemy ranks.
Many of the enemy were caught completely off guard.
In just a brief encounter, over twenty enemy soldiers fell beneath the guns of the New First Regiment’s first battalion.
The enemy platoon leader, Koichi Yamashita, turned pale.
But Yamashita was a true officer and reacted swiftly, ordering, “Shift all heavy firepower to our rear! Stop the bandits’ reinforcements!”
“Damn it! A bandit group still has reinforcements!”
Enemy soldiers immediately turned their light and heavy machine guns toward the rear.
But just then, Shen Quan and Wang Huaibao charged out from the hills on the left and right.
Bang bang bang...
Rat-a-tat...
The sudden volley caught the enemy off guard once more.
More than fifty enemy soldiers fell on the spot.
The New First Regiment’s full-scale assault instantly put immense pressure on the enemy.
One by one, the enemy fell into pools of blood.
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