Chapter 56

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"Brother, why are you here to see me?" Team Leader Ma, with a fawning smile, took out a cigarette and hurriedly offered it. He remembered this time, the fat man only smoked domestic cigarettes, so the Japanese cigarettes he had seized were still kept to show respect to the political commissar, in hopes of getting more soldiers and weapons.

The fat man glanced at it, nodded, it was Da Qianmen, a domestic brand, and took it into his mouth.

Team Leader Ma also put one in his mouth, took out a match, lit the fat man's cigarette, and then his own.

"I need you to help me save someone." The fat man took a puff of the cigarette, exhaled the smoke, and said, "Not bad, domestic cigarettes are really strong, the Japanese ones are too weak."

"Save someone?" Team Leader Ma was really surprised to hear this. The fat man actually asked him to save someone, it was an honor, he would do this kind of thing no matter how many times.

The fat man, with the cigarette in his mouth, walked to the military vehicle, lifted the curtain of the canopy, and Team Leader Ma saw the seriously injured and unconscious Sediao Chan and the wounded Dog Bear, instantly understanding what the fat man meant.

"Without a doubt, take them to the division hospital." Team Leader Ma said, then shouted to Xiao Li, who was trying to persuade the soldiers and looking smug, "Xiao Li, hurry up, find some soldiers to carry the injured brothers to the division hospital!"

"I'll go!"

"I'll go too!"

"Me too, Team Leader, I'm strong and run fast!"

Without Xiao Li even speaking, the surrounding soldiers raised their hands to volunteer. From Xiao Li, they knew this man was a fierce person who had fought his way through the Japanese, and they admired him greatly, especially the company commander who had wanted to tie up the fat man, who was the loudest in volunteering.

Team Leader Ma smiled, not bad, these boys finally knew how to curry favor with the fat man. Even if it didn't move the fat man, at least they had laid a good emotional foundation, and the fat man would eventually come around, right?

Unfortunately, he didn't understand that the fat man had a military background. For the fat man, who was used to freedom, being a soldier in the Eighth Route Army was a "unbearable" memory. Therefore, he didn't take the soldiers' attempts to curry favor seriously at all.

"Can we drive to the division hospital?" Just as Team Leader Ma was about to appoint someone, the fat man suddenly asked him.

"Drive... " Then Team Leader Ma was stunned. Yes, why didn't he think of it? The fat man came in a Japanese military vehicle, using it to transport the injured would be much faster than carrying them. He had been in the Eighth Route Army for too long and was completely at a loss when faced with a bit of "high technology."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go." The fat man rolled his eyes, glanced at the bumpkin Team Leader Ma, and got into the car with the unfinished cigarette in his mouth.

Seeing this, Team Leader Ma hurriedly followed and sat in the passenger seat.

Xiao Li, seeing this, couldn't fit in the front, so he quickly climbed into the back.

Seeing this, the group of Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed forward to get in the car.

"Go away, all of you!" Monkey was unhappy. If so many people crowded into the back, what if they squeezed the second-in-command? Besides, with so many people, how fast could the military vehicle go? Would it not use more fuel?

"Brother, let us in, please." The soldiers begged.

"Xiao Li, please say a good word for us, we want to go too." Since begging Monkey didn't work, they turned to Xiao Li, after all, he was one of them.

"No one is allowed to go, anyone who gets in, I'll shoot!" Monkey, getting angry, pulled out his pistol and said, "If so many of you get in, how fast can the Japanese military vehicle go? More people mean more weight, more fuel consumption. If the car runs out of fuel halfway, how can we save people? You push, I don't want to!"

Monkey, who had been a deserter in the Nationalist Army, knew military vehicles well. Back then, when he tried to hitch a ride, he was scolded by a company commander in the Nationalist Army, and that's exactly how he was scolded.

The soldiers hesitated, helping out was a good thing.

"Alright, everyone, go back with me for training, we're not going." The company commander turned to his soldiers and shouted. He had seen Xiao Li get in the car and hurriedly followed, just about to get in when Monkey's gun was pointed at his forehead.

Monkey's words were beyond the understanding of the company commander, but he felt they were right. He now had a blind obedience, thinking the fat man was a capable person, and those around him should be capable too, so it was right to listen.

If the company commander knew Monkey had been a deserter and fled at the sound of gunfire, he wouldn't know what to think.

Monkey dared to stand at the north gate and fire at over a hundred Japanese and puppet troops with a Czech machine gun, partly out of gratitude and partly influenced by the fat man.

Dog Bear had been with the Sai siblings since he was a teenager, but Monkey was different.

He was a deserter who fled at the sound of gunfire, then joined the army again, fled again, and joined again, repeatedly.

He fled during the warlord conflicts, then during the Nationalist-Communist conflicts. He had been fleeing since he was fifteen, for ten years, and had joined no less than twenty different units.

Whether it was the Beiyang Army, the Hunan Army, Wu Peifu's forces... there were too many, he couldn't even remember them all.

Finally, the Anti-Japanese War broke out. Monkey had intended to continue his life of fleeing at the sound of gunfire and joining the army when the guns stopped.

However, his two legs couldn't match the Japanese mechanized forces. Monkey was shot, and if the Sai siblings hadn't taken him in, he might have continued his life of fleeing at the sound of gunfire and joining the army when the guns stopped.

After fleeing for ten years, he was tired of it. The carefree and unrestrained life of a bandit made him gradually forget this unbearable experience.

However, some things can't be forgotten just because you want to. Everyone has a sense of righteousness buried in their hearts, and a natural disdain for fleeing. Fleeing for so long made him tired of it.

So, he met the fat man, a fat man who was calm and composed even when laughing. After blowing up the Japanese No. 1 warehouse, the fat man's escape was so artistic that it made him see things differently.

Monkey, for the first time, picked up a machine gun to cover the retreat of others, both out of gratitude to the Sai siblings and influenced by the fat man.

The military vehicle was driven by the fat man at high speed. If Team Leader Ma hadn't been in the front seat, the fat man would have attracted bullets from countless Eighth Route Army sentries.

The Eighth Route Army division hospital was located in a village in a mountain valley, in the same place as the division headquarters.

When the fat man drove the Japanese military vehicle onto the hospital lawn, curious Eighth Route Army soldiers and nurses gathered around, and the village children, seeing no danger, also gathered in groups.

After all, it was the first time a Japanese military vehicle had entered the village, and some people were seeing a large truck for the first time, which was quite a novelty.

The fat man, Team Leader Ma, Xiao Li, and Monkey each lifted a corner of the thick quilt where Sediao Chan lay, and carried her into the hospital.

The nurses on duty sprang into action, taking over Sediao Chan with a stretcher, and the doctors were also informed and rushed over.

Wearing a white coat and a mask, Dr. Wang Yi, while putting on gloves, turned to the nurse beside her and said, "Xiao Man, prepare the anesthetic and alcohol."

The fat man's eyes were sharp. Although Wang Yi didn't see him, as soon as she appeared, his small eyes started to wander over her, then froze, still frozen.

"Sister Yi, we only have a little alcohol left..." Xiao Man reminded Wang Yi. This was originally reserved for Eighth Route Army soldiers, how could it be used for an outsider?

"Saving lives is the priority, go get it!" Wang Yi's voice was a bit stern. She was about to check the injured when she happened to see the fat man, and was stunned.

"Okay." Nurse Xiao Man, very unwillingly, went to get the alcohol.

Wang Yi was only stunned for a moment. She didn't expect to see this fat man again. Then, seeing the fat man's lecherous gaze, her anger immediately overcame her reason.

The fat man's small eyes were fixed on Wang Yi, with a predatory look in them.

Wang Yi could feel these hateful small eyes roaming over her body, and thinking of how the fat man had behaved when he carried her out of the city, her anger flared up.

She reached for her gun, but... she didn't have it on her, and she immediately shouted, "Pervert!"

"Ah." The fat man reflexively responded. How could he not respond when his goddess called his name? But he immediately realized it was inappropriate in public... Sigh, it's all because of this name, he was a respectable person.

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