ushernet Chapter 480 High Morale
Chapter 480 High Morale
The battle begins.
Although the 772nd Regiment was small in number and had poor weapons and equipment, they were in high spirits and fought bravely, and they managed to block the Japanese attack.
Zhang Ling led the charge, the Mauser pistol in his hand spewing flames of anger, and every bullet carried the rage of revenge.
"Brothers, hit him hard! Avenge Xiao Wang! Avenge our dead compatriots!" Zhang Ling's roar resounded throughout the battlefield.
The soldiers of the 772nd Regiment rushed towards the enemy with a roar as if they were injected with chicken blood.
The battle was extremely brutal, both sides were bloodthirsty, corpses were everywhere, and blood flowed like a river.
Zhang Ling had several wounds on his body, but he ignored them and continued to fight bravely. He was like a wounded beast, biting the enemy madly.
A Japanese officer rushed towards Zhang Ling with a command knife in hand.
"Go to hell, you Chinese pig!" The Japanese officer grinned and swung his knife at Zhang Ling.
Zhang Ling dodged sideways, kicked the Japanese officer in the stomach, then snatched his command knife and chopped off his head with one blow.
The Japanese officer's blood splattered on Zhang Ling's face, making him look even more hideous and terrifying.
At this moment, Zhang Ling suddenly felt a sharp pain. He looked down and saw a bayonet piercing his abdomen.
"Captain!" Seeing this, Lao Hu shouted, rushed over and stabbed the Japanese soldier to death.
Zhang Ling staggered a few steps and fell to the ground, with blood staining the ground red.
"Captain! How are you?" Lao Hu asked anxiously.
"I'm fine..." Zhang Ling gritted his teeth, enduring the severe pain, "Quick...quickly go...fight..."
Old Hu nodded with tears in his eyes, turned around and continued to fight.
Zhang Ling lay in a pool of blood, his consciousness gradually blurred. He seemed to have returned to his previous life, back to that battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke...
He saw Xiao Wang lying in a pool of blood, and countless compatriots being massacred by the Japanese army...
"No... I can't die... I still want revenge... I still want to stop Unit 731..." Zhang Ling shouted in his heart, trying desperately to open his eyes.
Suddenly, a white light flashed in his mind again, and a new memory fragment emerged...
He saw a man in a white coat, standing in a laboratory, holding a test tube filled with green liquid...
"This is... a poison gas bomb..." Zhang Ling was shocked and suddenly opened his eyes.
He struggled to get up and shouted with all his strength: "Lao Hu! Hurry... Hurry and stop them... They are going to use poison gas bombs..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Ling fainted again...
In the distance, a Japanese squad was quietly setting up several mortars, aiming their muzzles at the positions of the 772nd Regiment... The mortar shells were painted with eye-catching green markings...
Zhang Ling stared at Sato Ichiro as if he was looking at a lamb to be slaughtered. The fragments of memories of Unit 731 were like a red-hot knife, stirring repeatedly in his mind. Those cruel experiments, those compatriots who were used as guinea pigs, their wailing, their despair, surged like a tide, almost drowning him.
His clenched fists were shaking, his nails dug deep into his palms, almost piercing his skin. He felt a strong nausea, his stomach was churning, and he almost vomited.
"Take him away." Zhang Ling's voice was hoarse and filled with suppressed anger. "Lock him in the dungeon. Don't let him die."
Old Hu was stunned for a moment, scratched his head, and bared his yellow teeth: "Captain, you're not going to kill me anymore?"
"No." Zhang Ling closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to calm his surging emotions. "I want him to live and watch how our 772nd Regiment drives him out of Xiaoxiao Island!"
Although Lao Hu was puzzled, he still carried out the order. Watching Sato Ichiro being dragged away, Zhang Ling slowly opened his eyes and looked into the distance. The sun was setting, and the sky was blood red, just like the heinous crimes committed by Unit 731.
New fragments of memory emerged again, the island woman in military uniform, the document in her hand, the eye-catching words "experimental plan"... Who is this woman? What is her relationship with Unit 731? These questions entangled Zhang Ling like a poisonous snake, making him uneasy.
He had to figure this all out!
"Old Hu," Zhang Ling suddenly said, "bury Xiao Wang in a good place."
Old Hu sighed and patted Zhang Ling on the shoulder: "Captain, I am sorry for your loss."
Zhang Ling nodded without saying anything. Xiao Wang's death was like a thorn that pierced his heart deeply. He swore to avenge Xiao Wang and make all the island invaders who participated in this war pay with blood!
As night fell, the 772nd Regiment's base was silent. Zhang Ling sat alone in the room, using the dim oil lamp to carefully study the documents he had found on Sato Ichiro.
The documents were all in Japanese, which Zhang Ling did not understand, but he recognized the eye-catching Chinese characters - "Unit 731".
He flipped through the pages, his brows furrowed more and more. The documents contained data on human experiments, which were shocking and outrageous.
"Beast!" Zhang Ling slammed the table hard and cursed with gritted teeth.
Suddenly, his eyes stopped on a name - "Ishii Shiro".
He had seen this name in Xiao Wang's diary. Xiao Wang wrote in his diary that Shiro Ishii was the head of Unit 731 and a ruthless demon.
"Ishii Shiro..." Zhang Ling muttered to himself, with flames of hatred flashing in his eyes, "I must find you and tear you into pieces!"
At this moment, there was a rapid knock on the door.
"Report to the leader, there is a situation!"
Zhang Ling immediately became alert and picked up the gun on the table: "Come in!"
A soldier pushed the door open and walked in, looking panicked: "Captain, we caught a woman from an island, she said...she said she knew you!"
Zhang Ling was shocked. Could it be the woman in the memory fragment?
"Bring her here!"
Soon, the soldiers brought a woman in a Kojima military uniform in. The woman was tall and pretty, but her eyes were unusually cold and full of hostility.
"Zhang Ling," the woman spoke, speaking fluent Chinese, "Long time no see."
Zhang Ling looked at the woman in front of him and felt like he had seen her before, but he couldn't remember where.
"Who are you?" Zhang Ling asked in a cold tone.
The woman sneered: "Why, you don't remember me? I'm Chiba Meiko, your...old friend."
Chiba Miko! This name, like a flash of lightning, cut through the fog in Zhang Ling's mind.
He finally remembered that this woman was the woman on the island in his memory fragments!
"You...how come you are here?" Zhang Ling asked in disbelief.
Chiba Miko's lips curled up into a strange smile: "I came to you, of course, for... cooperation."
Cooperation? Zhang Ling was full of doubts and vigilance. This woman was from Unit 731. What was her purpose in seeking cooperation?
"How do you want to cooperate?" Zhang Ling asked tentatively.
Chiba Miko walked up to Zhang Ling, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "I know you want to destroy Unit 731. I can help you."
Zhang Ling's heart moved. Could it be that this woman was really here to help him?
He looked at Chiba Miko with complicated eyes, his heart full of contradictions and struggles.
He knew that if he tried to get the skin of a tiger, there would be trouble. But in order to destroy Unit 731 and to avenge Xiao Wang, he was willing to take the risk.
"Okay," Zhang Ling took a deep breath and made a decision, "I agree to cooperate with you."
Chiba Miko smiled, her smile was charming and yet chilling.
"It's a pleasure to work with you, Zhang Lingjun."
Just then, there was a burst of gunfire outside the door, followed by the soldiers' shouting.
"What's going on?" Zhang Ling's face changed and he asked sternly.
A soldier rushed in, covered in blood: "Report to the commander, the Japanese sneak attack!"
Zhang Ling thought to himself, this is not good, it seems like this is a trap!
He turned back suddenly, only to find that Chiba Miko had already taken out a dagger and put it against his neck...
Zhang Ling stared at Sato Ichiro, and the images of Unit 731 flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern. The screams of his compatriots who were dissected alive, injected with viruses, and amputated due to frostbite seemed to turn into sharp blades, cutting his heart again and again. His clenched fists trembled slightly, his knuckles turned white, and veins on his forehead bulged.
"Take him away!" Zhang Ling's voice was low and hoarse, like the roar of a wild animal. He finally failed to pull the trigger. This was not only because of the mysterious island woman in his mind, but also because he realized that Sato Ichiro was more valuable alive than dead.
Although Lao Hu was puzzled, he immediately called two soldiers to drag Sato Ichiro away. Sato Ichiro kept begging for mercy, like a stray dog, with tears and filth.
"Captain, why do we keep this damn thing? It's better to shoot it to death!" Lao Hu spat with a look of disgust.
Zhang Ling did not answer, but walked to the table, picked up a pot of wine, tilted his head back and took a sip. The spicy wine flowed down his throat, like a fire, burning his internal organs.
"731... I will make you pay with blood!" Zhang Ling gritted his teeth and spoke word by word.
The island woman in his mind was wearing a neat military uniform, holding a document labeled "Experimental Plan" in her hand, and her face was hidden in the shadows, so he couldn't see it clearly. Zhang Ling felt that she was like a poisonous snake, lurking in the darkness, spitting out scarlet tongues, ready to deliver a fatal blow at any time.
"Who is this woman?" Zhang Ling rubbed his temples and felt a headache. After his rebirth, in addition to his obsession with revenge, he also had many fragmented memories in his mind. These memories were like fragments scattered in a puzzle box, disorganized and confusing for him.
"Commander, these are the documents captured from the Japanese." At this time, a soldier walked in with a stack of documents.
Zhang Ling took the document and quickly flipped through it. Most of them were unimportant military transfer orders, but one document caught his attention.
"Progress report on the 'Plum Blossom Project'..." Zhang Ling whispered the title on the document, and his heart sank. "Plum Blossom Project"? What is this?
He continued to read on, and the contents of the document shocked him. The "Plum Blossom Project" turned out to be a secret experiment of Unit 731, the purpose of which was to develop a new type of biological weapon that could infect a large area of people in a short period of time, causing large-scale deaths!
"Damn you!" Zhang Ling threw the document on the table fiercely, burning with anger. He finally understood that the crimes of Unit 731 were far more serious than he had imagined!
"Old Hu!" Zhang Ling yelled.
"Here!" Lao Hu rushed in immediately.
"Immediately convene all cadres above the rank of company commander to hold an emergency meeting!" Zhang Ling's tone left no room for doubt.
"Yes!" Lao Hu turned and ran out.
Zhang Ling paced back and forth in the room, constantly thinking about countermeasures in his mind. He knew that he had to act quickly to stop the implementation of the "Plum Blossom Plan", otherwise the consequences would be disastrous!
As night fell, the lights in the meeting room of the 772th Regiment were on. Zhang Ling stood in front of the table, looking at everyone present with a serious expression.
"Comrades, we have just intercepted an important piece of intelligence!" Zhang Ling said straight to the point, "The Japanese are secretly conducting an experiment called the 'Plum Blossom Project', the purpose of which is to develop a new type of biological weapon!"