Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 386 Undercurrents of War
On a small slope on the Luodian battlefield.

Wang Yi, who had consumed his own cultivation and body, and made himself emaciated, almost skin and bones, sat cross-legged.

Breathing in and out towards the rising sun, a breeze blew, and Wang Yi's long gown swayed in the wind, as if it was hanging on a clothes hanger.

In front of Wang Yi, a pile of empty cans formed a small hill.

Beside Wang Yi, Guo Rugui, the current acting brigade commander, watched Wang Yi breathe in and out facing the rising sun. There was no wind around him, as if a vortex was formed, and even the air was vacuum for a few seconds.

Wang Yi, who was emaciated just now, was now filling up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As Wang Yi finished breathing, he went from being skin and bones to being malnourished. Although he still couldn't be compared with his condition three days ago, at least he didn't look like he would be blown down by the wind at any time.

He opened his eyes, and a gleam of light flashed in them.

"Thank you, Brigade Commander Guo."

"Boss Wang, it's too polite to say that. If you hadn't used your tricks, I would have to watch my brothers and sisters die on the hospital beds, or live a life worse than death. Now they can still carry guns in the camp and fight the Japanese again. Although it may be a bit cruel to say this, for them, dying on the battlefield is better than going back to be a cripple who can't do anything.

A little bit of food captured from the Japanese is really nothing. But Boss Wang, you really scared me just now. I guess these canned beef are also rare goods in the Japanese. A class of almost a week's worth of food, you ate it all by yourself, and the amazing thing is that your belly is not bloated. Ha, I really thought that you who have practiced immortal skills to become famous are not worldly. "

There is no fighting at the Luodian battlefield for the time being, so Lao Guo is not too worried about the construction of fortifications, as the Central Army's civil engineering system is guaranteed in this regard.

He could take some time out of his busy schedule to chat with Wang Yi, wanting to learn more about the situation in the circle of extraordinary people.

After all, everyone is basically in the dark about the circle of extraordinary people. They know that there is such a group of people and that they have some incredible and magical methods, but if they really want to explain them, it is really difficult for them. The circle of extraordinary people is still very closed, backward and feudal in this regard.

"Not eating worldly food? Haha, Brigade Commander Guo, we are just like everyone else, with two eyes, one nose, one mouth and two ears. How can we not eat worldly food? Not to mention that I have cultivated to this level, even the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain has to eat three meals a day after finishing his homework. But for those of us who practice skills, we can't rely on eating more to practice. We need to fill our stomachs with three meals a day, and practice with the essence of the sun and the moon, and the Qi of heaven and earth.

As for some martial arts families, who practice hard skills to strengthen their muscles and bones, they not only have to eat more, but also eat well, and have to take medicinal baths from time to time. It is right to be poor in literature and rich in martial arts. For someone like me who has lost his body due to saving people, the best way is to take medicinal food to regulate his body, and then supplement it with the essence of the sun and the moon, the qi of heaven and earth, and rest for more than half a month, so that he can barely adjust his condition back to the state when we met before. Now it is helpless. "

As he was speaking, Wang Yi heard a sound in his stomach. He took out a palm-sized rice ball from his arms and stuffed it into his mouth. After a while of chewing, the whole thing went down his stomach.

The canned beef piled up like a small mountain was just a side dish. The rice balls taken from the Japanese positions and the hands of prisoners were the staple food. Without these high-carb foods, he would have to suffer for a while longer.

"So that's how it is. I didn't expect that practicing immortal skills would have so many twists and turns."

"That's why they say that a penny can make a hero fall, and learning the arts of literature and martial arts can make a fortune in the imperial family. Today, Brigade Commander Guo saw me as if I were a living god, but if I hadn't been picked up by my mentor when I was a child, I would have become someone else's meal, and there would be no today."

"That's also because Boss Wang is blessed by heaven. However, Boss Wang has all these magical skills. I think our master is no less capable than the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain."

"Ah? My master, um, is actually just like those people that I and Brigade Commander Guo respected that day. He can be considered a scum. Apart from murder and arson, he has been doing fraud and deception for most of his life. He has been living freely because of his good skills. Half of my skills were taught by him and the other half were developed by myself. I hid them under his nose for several years before I dared to expose them. It made him realize how many mistakes he had made and how he ended up like this.

But he was lucky, he passed away in the 14th year of the Republic of China. Otherwise, with the national crisis at hand, I would have to personally send him to his death. After all, he was my mentor, so I couldn’t be so cruel. "

Wang Yi's answer made Lao Guo awkward. How could his nice words hit the nail on the head? He quickly changed the subject.

"The Japanese have been silent for three days this time. I don't think about whether the reinforcements can catch up. I have also consulted with other troops. They are basically harassing, not attacking. Boss Wang, you scared the Japanese so much when you rushed to the river that day."

"You can scare them for a while, but not forever. Rather than saying they were scared, I think they are thinking about how to deal with me, a difficult guy. As long as they can hold me back, won't it be easy to take over Luodian?"

"Boss Wang, do you mean that there are also experts in the headquarters over there?"

"I saw two of them that day. They could be my grandfather in age, but those of us who practice martial arts become better fighters as we age. If I really fight these two old guys now, I won't get any advantage in a short time. If I were in my prime, it would take some effort to kill them.

And this is just what I saw. I don’t know if they have any other masters hidden.”

"Then Boss Wang, among the experts here, besides you, are there any others?"

"Yes, there are. Among all the people, there is a guy who is of the same age as me and is equally strong, but he is far away and cannot attack at will. There must be a support for him and me. The closer ones are the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain and the head of the Three Ones Sect in Fujian, but their identities do not allow them to move out and participate in this battle as easily as I can."

"We don't have to rely on masters like Boss Wang to take action. I don't need martial arts masters to clear the way for us, even if they can just assassinate us. I know the Japanese are powerful, but without the top brass to command the army, it will be a mess. We may have a chance to turn defeat into victory."

"Commander Guo, that's not how it works. China and Japan are like two bosses betting their fortunes on a gambling table. We are the big boss, with many banks and workers, but each bank owner has his own little thoughts and doesn't want to transfer all the money in the bank. After all, whoever loses the bet will not affect who they work for.

Our circle is a bank under the Chinese boss. I am just an independent, but that does not mean I can drag my circle to bet my fortune on the boss, especially since our current boss is a heartless, weak, cowardly, and cowardly person who betrays his master and usurps his power. Commander Guo, if it were you, would you follow such a master and bet your entire fortune?"

Listening to Wang Yi's sharp comments about the National Government that he ostensibly worked for, Lao Guo looked embarrassed, and for a moment he couldn't figure out Wang Yi's pulse.

Wang Yi did not delve into this topic further and continued talking about the current situation between China and Japan.

"As for our opponent, Japan, there are not many banks, but they are united in the desire to swallow us all up. They are not attacking right now, but they just want to find out whether our Yiren bank is going to gamble with our big boss, and they still say that I am the only one working alone.

If they bet everything together, they will mobilize their foreign bankers to bet everything together, but if I am alone, they can just cut the meat with a blunt knife, increase the stakes little by little, the longer it takes, the better for them, these three days are enough for them to figure it out, and most importantly, I don't have many cards to play."

A calm analysis of the current situation on both sides also left Lao Guo speechless.

This is the fact. Don’t look at Wang Yi’s good record on the front battlefield.

But there is only one Wang Yi, and the battlefield is a large one. Wang Yi is winning on the Luodian battlefield, but he is losing in other places.

The Japanese wanted to use Luodian as a breakthrough point to expand the landing area and then march forward with a large army. Daladian was the best choice.

But it does not mean that the only option is to attack Luodian. If the Japanese turn their guns and attack from other places as a breakthrough point, what will Wang Yi do? Will he just ignore Luodian? Wang Yi's words are thorough. Lao Guo is also a soldier and understands the current situation.

But when he heard Wang Yi say that in this war that almost determined whether the National Government and even the Republic of China would retreat or advance for a long time in the future, only Wang Yi and his troops were fighting alone on this battlefield, he still felt unwilling and puzzled.

"Don't those who practice like you, Boss Wang, have any sense of family and country at all?!"

"Family comes first, country comes second. But this is not their fault. They have already experienced it once when the Qing Dynasty entered the country. Now the world is in such a mess, the people are living in poverty and the people's hearts are withered. Even if we want them to join, someone has to tell them that this is not about taking sides and protecting themselves. It's about choosing between being a Japanese dog or being a Chinese. So I am here, and that's enough."

The sun rises and the autumn wind blows.

The two of them sat on the slope, looking at the rising sun, and looked at each other in silence.
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Just as Wang Yi said, no matter whether it was Wang Yi charging into the battle line alone three days ago and displaying supernatural skills to destroy the flagship Izumo, or Quan Xing members sneaking into the base camp in disguise as a Japanese alien group and exchanging their lives for the lives of a group of middle and low-level Japanese commanders, they were actually not enough to scare the other side.

The command system that was once in a vacuum was quickly filled. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japan had sufficient manpower, and this sudden attack actually had little impact.

The reason for them to suspend the attack was that the Japanese high-ranking officials were discussing whether to continue the Maoluodian battlefield or divide their troops to attack from other places.

Both sides had their reasons. One side thought that even if there was an extra hero unit like Wang Yi, it would not be a big deal. They did not think that Wang Yi could continue to replicate the operation of charging into the formation to block the shells, so they just rushed forward and took a gamble.

On the one hand, I feel that it is unnecessary. What if Wang Yi goes crazy and insists on exchanging a few with them? As long as you are not the one who dies, it will be fine, right?

After all the arguments, the final decision had to be made by the top commander Iwane Matsui.

And this Class A war criminal, the mastermind behind the massacre, did not make a decision immediately, but left the meeting room and went to a room next door.

There were five people in the room. The common feature was that they had gray hair and wore ordinary clothes. Two of them were the two Japanese masters that Wang Yi saw when he was charging into the battle.

Obviously, the Japanese side was well prepared for the Battle of Songhu, and they also understood what chain reaction would occur if the senior officials were assassinated by Chinese aliens, so they directly assigned five masters to this group of senior officials.

They don't need to fight on the front line like Wang Yi and run around all the time. They just need to stay in the base camp and protect the safety of these senior officials. Other things are not their responsibility.

This is indeed the case. If Wang Yi had not arrived and rushed all the way to the fleet and destroyed a ship, these Japanese masters might not have had a chance to take action during the entire Battle of Shanghai.

The old devil Matsui Iwane did not make a decision at the first time, because he, an expert on China, wanted to seek the opinions of these five extraordinary masters.

"Gentlemen, please clear up your confusion."

"Commander, I heard that you are an expert on China. You should know that the best way right now is to change the direction of attack. Even we can see that the Chinese army is determined to defend the Luodian battlefield. It is an unwise decision to waste the soldiers of the Empire of Japan in this place."

"So Priest Tsuchimikado believes that Wang Yi is still in the condition that stopped the cannon three days ago?"

"Here, only Takeda-kun and I fought him, and that was after he blocked the cannon and threw it back. At that time, Takeda-kun and I had no confidence that we could stop him. This Chinese alien named Wang Yi, I'm afraid only the leader of our Shintoism or the monk of Satokono can deal with him, but you know that the leader and the other one will not leave Japan easily."

After hearing this, Matsui Iwane was silent for a moment, then expressed his thoughts.

"Since Priest Tsuchimikado knows that I am an expert on China, I think you must have heard the saying that attacking the city is inferior, while attacking the heart is superior."

"what do you mean?"

"Through the camera guns hung on the planes of the flying squadron, I can understand the other side's thoughts. That is really not the attitude that humans should have. To be honest, I really want this Wang Yi to be a Japanese, because his existence is a banner that will make the soldiers of the Empire of Japan more morale-boosting, but unfortunately he is not, so this has further strengthened the determination to occupy China. This land is too rich and too vast. Only such a vast land can give birth to a strong man like Wang Yi.

If our Great Japanese Empire can occupy it, in time, we in Japan can also give birth to such a young strong man. But he is Chinese, so I have to consider one thing. If the Chinese army continues to resist stubbornly under the morale-boosting effect of Wang Yi's frontal battlefield, it will be a great obstacle to the advancement of the empire's troops.

Songhu is only the first stop of our attack on East China. The longer we delay in Songhu, the greater the loss. Even if we take it, what should we do next? As long as Wang Yi is alive, he will repeat what happened before in the next battlefield. The longer the battle lasts, the more disadvantageous it will be for us. "

"Commander, this is different from the agreement we made before under the witness of the Emperor. We are only responsible for protecting your safety, not for battlefield affairs!"

The priest Tsuchimikado interrupted, but the old devil Matsui Iwane fought back with even more extreme words.

"But the other side has already made a move, an assassination, a hearty beheading on the battlefield. China is vast, and if those aliens like Wang Yi also join this war, the rise of the Great Japanese Empire may fall short! You and I will both be sinners of the Great Japanese Empire, and we will not be able to face Amaterasu after death!
But if we can kill Wang Yi on the front battlefield and hang his head in front of the battle line, imagine the scene, gentlemen, the youngest and most powerful alien in China cannot stop the army of the Great Japanese Empire. What about those alien families and sects that are not as good as him? How can the Chinese army continue to resist tenaciously? "

"But he is very powerful. At least I don't think the five of us can kill him."

"But he can't kill you either. You can hold him back until we capture Songhu. Also, we can set a trap, a trap that will force him to stay there and let us surround and kill him until he dies."

"What kind of trap could hold such a being?"

Matsui Iwane said nothing, but walked to the picture of begonia leaves hanging in the room and pointed to the capital of Nanjing where the national government was currently located.

Looking at these five people, he opened and closed his mouth and revealed a plan that he had hidden in his heart, which he had not yet told the Japanese command.

After hearing the old devil's thoughts, the five people were stunned for a moment, and then the priest named Tsuchimikado chose to agree.

"If that's the case, Commander, I will cooperate with you unilaterally on behalf of the Shinto religion and the leader. Takeda-kun, Mitsui-kun, Oda-kun, I hope you can help me. After the success, Shinto religion will reward you handsomely."

"Tsuchimikado, are you planning to restore the glory of Shintoism?"

"If the commander's action is successful, I think the entire city of Jinling will be more than enough, and this glory will not be enjoyed by our Shintoism alone!"

"Okay, we'll help you."

(End of this chapter)