The Bravest

Back to the front, the smoke from the explosion had not yet dissipated. The frightened spies, under Zhao Yilong's strict order, rushed up the shaky stairs to the second floor, and Zhao Yilong himself followed closely behind to supervise the battle. Lin Jie had no way to hide anymore, so he had to stick close to Zhao Yilong like a bodyguard, and fired a few shots at the second floor with his gun, causing Zhao Yilong's mouth to twitch. Several spies fired desperately at the door and rushed in while the smoke was still there.

The tall and thin young man hid behind the counter and exchanged fire with the spies who rushed in. Relying on the cover of the counter, he was able to block the attack of the spies for a while. But when Zhao Yilong brought a few more people to reinforce, he was suppressed and couldn't raise his head. He could only squat down, stretching his gun outside and shooting randomly, hoping to delay a little longer and buy Zhang Wu more time to escape. As for himself, he never thought about surviving.

Zhao Yilong and Lin Jie hid behind the spies and shouted, "Surround them, be careful, catch them alive." The spies kept firing, suppressing the fire while slowly approaching.

In a few minutes, the tall and thin young man emptied his last magazine and the gun in his hand made a clicking sound.

"He's out of bullets, go ahead." A spy shouted, and in order to make a contribution, he was the first to rush forward. Five or six agents followed him. Zhao Yilong was about to stand up when he was pulled back behind the table by Lin Jie. He heard the tall and thin young man stand up and shout, "China will not perish!" He flew towards the surrounding spies with a grenade in each hand. Boom, boom, the two grenades exploded almost at the same time. The huge power tore the bodies of the tall and thin young man and several spies apart. The shock wave of the explosion blew away all the surrounding tables and chairs, and flames gushed out from the windows on the second floor.

Li Shiqun who was in the opposite building was startled. He stuck his head out and shouted to the secret agents outside below: "Hurry, go up and see if there is anyone alive. Go up quickly." After that, he hurried downstairs with Liu Yang and the bodyguards around him.

When Lin Jie heard the shouts that China would not perish, he knew that he was in trouble and the Kuomintang agents would die together. He had seen this in anti-Japanese war dramas. He subconsciously turned around and threw himself on the ground behind Zhao Yilong, holding his head with both hands to protect the back of his head, hoping that Zhao Yilong's meat shield could be of some use.

After the explosion, the teahouse was reduced to ruins. "Cough, cough, cough," after a violent cough, Lin Jie shook his buzzing head and felt someone was pressing him down. He pushed the person away and sat up, only to find that it was Zhao Yilong who was pressing on him. Zhao Yilong was now bloody and had turned into a dead dragon. Lin Jie didn't feel injured, but he didn't hear any sound. The smoke had dissipated, and several secret agents walked in cautiously. They were startled by Lin Jie sitting on the ground, and pointed their guns at him.

"I'm Lin Jie, don't shoot."...

When Li Shiqun and his men rushed in, the first thing he saw was Lin Jie, who was supported by two secret agents. "Where is Section Chief Zhao?" Lin Jie saw Li Shiqun open his mouth, but he couldn't hear clearly. He could only point at his ears and shake his head.

Li Shiqun saw that he was deafened by the explosion, waved his hand, and asked someone to take Lin Jie away. "Is there anyone alive?"

"Director, there are no more. Only one person is alive. He is really lucky."

In just ten minutes, No. 76 lost more than ten people and did not catch a single person alive. Even Li Shiqun, who regarded human life as worthless, felt sorry for them and rushed to

I entered the blown-up dark room to see if there was any gain from Gangcun, who was ambushing in the Suzhou River behind.

Time goes back to fifteen minutes ago. Gangcun and four Japanese soldiers who were good at swimming disguised themselves as fishermen and hijacked a small fishing boat and ambushed it less than a hundred meters upstream from the teahouse. There was a motorboat on standby in the distance, and there was also a motorboat quietly docked in the distance downstream.

On the small fishing boat, a Japanese soldier was steering the boat from the stern. Gangcun and three others were squeezed in the narrow cabin. Gangcun was pointing a gun at a woman with her hands tied and her mouth blocked, threatening the fishermen standing at the bow, "Old man, if someone jumps into the river, you will rescue them. Don't talk nonsense, otherwise you and your wife will have to reunite downstairs."

A few minutes later, Gangcun looked at his watch anxiously, then raised his head and stared at the location of the teahouse with a telescope. At this time, gunshots were heard. Gangcun told the Japanese soldiers behind him to "slowly approach" and then explained to the old fisherman: "Old man, you will be like usual in a while. When you hear gunshots and feel scared, look upstairs where the gunshots are heard and see someone falling into the water, don't take the initiative to save people. Turn around and shout to go quickly. Wait until the person asks you for help, then go to save him/her hesitantly. After saving the person, I will reward you ten dollars. Remember, your wife's life is in your hands."

Let’s talk about Zhang Wu, who opened the rear window and jumped from the second floor into the Suzhou River. He adjusted his posture underwater and slowly half of his head appeared in the cabin. He wanted to observe the situation and was surprised to find that there was a fishing boat approaching him not far upstream, less than 20 meters away. Zhang Wu looked carefully and found that there was only one person on the bow, who was in his fifties, barefoot, and had dark skin. He was undoubtedly a fisherman. The old fisherman stood on the bow and looked up at the teahouse, as if he heard the voice from above, with a look of fear on his face. Then he saw Zhang Wu, became confused, turned back and shouted in a trembling voice, "Go, go."

Zhang Wu originally planned to swim across, but when he saw the fishing boat was getting closer, he hurriedly shouted, "Old man, I am being chased by the Japanese. Can you please help me? I will hide for a while and go to the other side." Zhang Wu didn't know that the agent behind him could not delay for long enough to swim across. Seeing the fishing boat in front of him, he was unwilling to give up, "Old man, there is no one here. No one will know if I get on the boat. Please lead me for a while. I will go ashore and leave. I will give you all the money I have." Seeing that the old fisherman stretched out the bamboo pole in his hand and seemed a little hesitant, he quickly added, "We are all Chinese. Please help me."

When he heard the word "Chinese", the old fisherman, who had already stretched out a bamboo pole to pull people onto the fishing boat under the threat of Gangcun, paused, blinked desperately at Zhang Wu, and pushed Zhang Wu with the bamboo pole in his hand to push him away, shouting, "Come up, come up."

It might be because the river started to be misty after five o'clock. Zhang Wu did not see the old fisherman's eyes clearly and misunderstood that the old fisherman was nervous because he was holding the bamboo pole against his head. He grabbed the bamboo pole with both hands and shouted, "I caught it, give me a hand."

Gangcun, who was hiding in the back cabin and observing through the gap in the curtain, also heard the conversation outside and shouted softly: "Pull him up quickly, or he will die."

Under the threat of Gangcun, Zhang Wu did not understand his own hint, so the old fisherman had to pull the bamboo pole hard. Zhang Wu used the force of the bamboo pole to lean against the side of the fishing boat, put his hands on the side of the boat, and pushed up hard, and jumped onto the fishing boat. Zhang Wu only saw the old fisherman winking at him at this time. He was about to reach his hands to his waist to draw his gun, but Gangcun, who had been prepared, suddenly rushed out and threw him down. He struggled twice, and was held down by the two Japanese soldiers who came up from behind, and the two guns were also put down by Gangcun. He didn't even have a chance to commit suicide. The old fisherman looked at all this blankly, lowered his head and didn't dare to face Zhang Wu's desperate face.

At this time, a tall and thin young man shouted from the teahouse above his head, "China will not perish!" Then there was a violent explosion, and all kinds of debris fell on the fishing boat like rain. Zhang Wu struggled desperately, raised his head, and tried hard not to let the tears in his eyes flow out. His mouth trembled slightly, and he shouted silently, "China will not perish!"

Two motorboats on standby in the distance received the signal sent by Gangcun and rushed over quickly and docked next to the fishing boat. Gangcun captured alive a high-level agent of the Military Control Commission who was lurking in No. 76 and assassinating Li Shiqun. He was in a very good mood. With a smile on his face, he asked his men to throw two dollars to the old fisherman and said, "Yours, a good citizen. Let's go quickly." He then took Zhang Wu to the motorboat with his men, but left the two devils behind. He had no intention of letting the two fishermen go.

After transferring to the motorboat, Gangcun ordered a retreat of more than 100 meters. Only when he felt it was safe did he use a telescope to observe the teahouse. After a while, he saw Li Shiqun standing behind a broken window, looking at the river. "Send a signal to Li Shiqun." Then one motorboat sailed away, leaving another motorboat in the river pretending to search and firing a few shots from time to time.

"Old Liu, let's go." Li Shiqun hurried downstairs with Liu Yang and called a trusted bodyguard over: "You handle the rest. Put an announcement in the newspaper saying that we have uncovered a Chongqing stronghold, killed three military agents, and one is still at large. A reward of 10,000 French francs is offered for his arrest."

The 500-meter-long street downstairs had been blocked off, and more than a dozen bodies were covered with white cloth. Lin Jie sat nearby and looked up at the sky, his mind constantly recalling the final cry of the Military Intelligence Bureau agent, "China will not perish!"

China will not only not perish, but will become even stronger in the future. How strong will it be? How does Lin Jie answer this question? When he loses an argument online, he always says, "We have our own space station." These are things for the future, and Lin Jie certainly knows. But how did the agent still believe in it when most of China was occupied by the Japanese, and resolutely sacrifice his young life for this goal? His cry deeply shocked Lin Jie.

"Xiao Jie, come here and follow me." Li Shiqun saw Lin Jie in a daze and thought that this kid's performance was much better than last time, and he was still worth training.

Lin Jie suppressed his inexplicable sadness, pretended to be frightened, and followed Li Shiqun to the back seat of a low-key car in a daze. Liu Yang sat in the passenger seat and left quietly.