Chapter 51 United in Their Hatred of a Common Enemy

  A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America, flapping its wings several times, may set off a tornado in Texas two weeks later - this is what American meteorologist Edward Lorenz called the Butterfly Effect.

  Ouyang Yun, this little butterfly flapped its wings in Tianjin, resulting in a small personnel change within the Japanese North China Garrison.

  The deputy chief of staff who was in charge of formulating the surprise attack training camp and "North Ping Autonomous" plan was directly recalled to Tokyo, and several participating staff members were demoted to lower units. The face of the Japanese Imperial Army is the most precious, and the matter of stealing a chicken without losing rice cannot be made public, however, with the sudden death of over 400 imperial soldiers, not giving an account to the people is not feasible. As a result, this account was attributed to those staff members who were held responsible for the failure.

  Of course, for the "Anti-Japanese Heroes" especially Ouyang Yun, all Japanese military and secret service personnel hated him to the bone. Mezawa Kojiro, Sakai Ryu, and Doihara Kenji were even more secretly sworn, no matter how great the sacrifice, they must quickly kill this Chinese who dared to mock the Great Japanese Imperial Army! As a result, the big and small devils and traitors in the Pingjin area all took action, and Ouyang Yun had just appeared in Beiping, an invisible net had already been cast.

  Today, there were six people involved in the sneak attack at the Kui Mansion. The leader's name was Kobayashi Tarō, the person in charge of the Utunomiya Special Agency's Northern China region.

  Kobayashi had been operating in Beiping for many years and had already arranged informants in various industries. As soon as Li Tieshu and others entered Tsinghua University, before the public trial began, Kobayashi received news from his subordinates and reported to Doihara in a timely manner.

  Ishi Tomosuke was an indispensable pawn in Tōjō's "North China Autonomous Movement", which had invested a considerable amount of capital in him. Tōjō was reluctant to see this crucial pawn discarded, so he hastily contacted Ba Maw, trying his best to rescue Ishi Tomosuke.

  Mei Jiang learned from Tofi's mouth that the 25th Division Training Class had become the 29th Army Student Brigade, and Ou Yangyun became the brigade commander. He was so angry on the phone that he scolded "Ba Ge Ya Lu" without stopping - he felt that he had been fooled by He Yingqin and his men. The existence of Ou Yangyun's student soldiers posed a threat to the Japanese army's next move in North China, and they must be eliminated! After exchanging with Tofi, he realized the importance of Shi You San and quickly called Song Zheyuan, requiring him to guarantee Shi You San's safety with both soft and hard means, while threatening that if there were people like Ou Yangyun who were extremely hostile to the Great Japanese Empire in the 29th Army, the North China Garrison would reconsider its attitude towards the Northwest Army!

  Song Zheyuan has been a bit ambiguous in his relationship with the Japanese since he returned to Tianjin for recuperation. He is well aware of the Japanese attempts to win him over and knows that his dismissal was actually orchestrated by the Japanese, but due to his complicated relationship with Chiang Kai-shek, he does not want to have an open confrontation with the Japanese from a self-preservation perspective.

  So, when Ouyang Yun came to report the decision on how to deal with Shi You San and others after beheading them first, he would lose his composure like that. If Ouyang Yun had delayed for ten minutes, it is estimated that Feng Zhi An's troops in Beiping would have set out to raid Qinghua University.

  The connection between the training class and the student army made the Japanese feel deceived, and Ou Yang Yun becoming the leader of the student army was even more unacceptable to them. Kobayakawa Tarō didn't know about this at first, but as Tachibana's headquarters issued an order to each branch to "eliminate the 'anti-Japanese duo' with all one's might for the great Japanese Empire", he finally found out that his arch-nemesis had actually appeared right beside him.

  Kobayashi's first reaction to the news was surprise! Then, in broad daylight, he began to have a beautiful dream - if he could kill the "Anti-Japanese Heroes", especially that Ou Yang Yun, then... he seemed to see glory and power beckoning him.

  Then, the next thing is easy to explain. Kobayashi's spirit was refreshed and mobilized all his strength, after confirming that Ouyang Yunye would stay in the haunted house, he carefully selected five skilled subordinates, brought the strongest weapons they could find, and began to strive for their beautiful dreams to come true.

  Machine guns, hand grenades, only lacking a mortar, in Xiao Lin's view, just one machine gun was enough to take the lives of those so-called "anti-Japanese heroes". After quietly laying down the "heavenly net", he still felt some regret that Chu Tian Ge hadn't been with Ou Yang Yun together - if they could simultaneously eliminate the "anti-Japanese heroes", what kind of glory and power would this achievement bring him?!

  Gu Lianyun's appearance is a variable, but it doesn't matter, she's just a woman!

  Kobayashi crouched behind the mound, suddenly saw the woman's beautiful face, and involuntarily shook his head, saying silently: Flower girl, what a pity! Then, he waved his hand and gave the order to attack.

  "Bang!" A burst of gunfire erupted from the ambushers hiding behind the wall, followed by the rattle of machine guns - everything seemed to be under his control.

  However, as the explosions rang out one after another, people in the hall were flying about, and Kobayashi slightly felt a bit unexpected, while also being unable to help but feel a little excited: "The Anti-Japanese Heroes" are not ordinary people, their skills are not weak. However, it can only be like this, to show that this achievement is extraordinary. At this time, he was secretly hoping that Ouyang Yun could kill off a few of his subordinates, the most ideal being to get rid of everyone except himself, and then have his head chopped off by himself! He thought ruthlessly, his left hand touching the samurai sword behind his back, quietly preparing to abandon his gun and use his sword.

  Poor Kobayakawa Tarō, he still doesn't know that he has become a pawn for others. If he knew that ōyama Kumo and Gu Liànyún were using their lives as stakes in a killing game, who knows if his "romantic" fantasy would be able to save ōyama Kumo's life.

  Gu Lianyun watched as Ouyang Yun disappeared into the next room, her brow furrowed slightly. As she listened to the explosion just a few feet away, she suddenly darted out of the door.

  With a thud, she had just made contact with the ground when a bullet whizzed past her back.

  A Japanese gunman next to Kobayashi pulled the trigger of his gun and shouted something loudly. The two Japanese men under the window immediately threw in two hand grenades.

  Gu Lianyun's body suddenly shrunk and then sprang back, her figure flashing past the gate as she raised her right hand, a streak of white light shooting out.

  The Japanese gunman was about to fire another shot unconsciously when he suddenly felt a pain in his forehead, and then everything around him fell into darkness.

  Kobayashi was shocked and fired two shots in a row: "Bang! Bang!"

  The machine gunner on the roof had just replaced a magazine and immediately swept towards the gate, the muzzle of the wall moved slightly but did not fire - the best time to shoot had passed, that Chinese woman was really not ordinary cunning, reasonably using the wall next to the gate.

  Two grenadiers quickly exchanged opinions, one suddenly jumped through the window into the house; another threw a hand grenade rapidly towards the door.

  Kobayashi nodded slightly and muttered to himself, "Not bad, it should be like this."

  With a loud "boom", the hand grenade at the entrance exploded, and in the flames and smoke, a red line flashed, the grenadier under the window let out a dull hum, and fell head-first.

  Ouyang Yun finally moved, and he even opened the infrared sight. As a result, he had just shot one grenade launcher with one shot, immediately attracting the machine gunner's and sniper's crossfire.

  Inside the house, just as the grenade thrower landed on the ground, he threw a hand grenade into the main room. Then, to his surprise, he found a woman crouching in front of him with her left chest stained red with blood. The woman was very beautiful, especially those big eyes, which seemed to have an inexplicable charm - he instinctively wanted to draw his gun, but before he could do so, the corner of the woman's mouth twitched slightly, a flash of white light passed by, and he only felt a severe pain in his throat before losing all consciousness.

  The grenade that exploded at the door was too close to Gu Liyun, and although she quickly reacted by falling into the inner room, she was still hit by a shrapnel in her left chest.

  The machine gunner and the sniper seemed to have hit their target accurately, as Ou Yang Yun immediately fell down. However, what made them feel unbelievable was that at the same time Ou Yang Yun fell down, two red lines bit onto their heads, and before they could react, their heads were pulled by a great force, losing their ability to think - after a brief pain, both of them fell down simultaneously, with the machine gunner rolling down and the sniper hanging on the wall.

  In the blink of an eye, Lin Meng hadn't woken up yet, and his five subordinates were all dead. Everything seemed to be developing in the direction he had hoped for. The difference was that Ouyang Yun hadn't lost his fighting strength. This Japanese man with several holes in his chest slowly got up and walked towards him.

  Under the moonlight, Ouyang Yun walked with some difficulty, the continuous gunfire still made him feel unbearable pain.

  Kobayashi was stunned for a moment, at a loss for what to do. In his plan, this was the time when he should have gone up and slashed the opponent's head with a knife. But for some reason, he became afraid and thought it would be safer to use a gun instead. So, he stood up and continuously pulled the trigger until all the bullets were fired.

  At this time, Ouyang Yun walked step by step to a place about two meters away from him. Between the two people, there was only one grave.

  "Hachigatsu!" Little Lin let out a loud roar, summoning up his courage, and drew out his samurai sword. With one leap, he swung it down towards Ouyang Yun's neck. However, just as the sword was about to strike, a white light flashed over and precisely lodged itself in his throat! Little Lin looked incredulously at the trail of the white light, and saw the woman he had been pitying just moments before. Then, he heard the man opposite him let out a bitter laugh and say, "He was originally mine!" Before falling to the ground with a thud, limp on the grave mound.