The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

The train from Seoul to Jemulpo was packed with people.

However, there were no ordinary passengers. This tram was carrying a Japanese squadron with live ammunition.

Outside the tram, two daring snot-nosed kids who were talented in arts pulled open the rear door window and hung on the tram with their feet on the steps of the rear door.

Because there is a section where tram tracks and train tracks run parallel, this behavior is dangerous.

A Japanese soldier saw the snotty baby's proud face and shouted through the window: "Baga, get down quickly."

Another Japanese soldier said: "You stupid and dirty children, when the train comes, you will die miserably."

Not only were the two snot-nosed babies not afraid, they stuck out their tongues and made faces at them through the car window.

Simply put, this tram did not intersect with the train.

These two snot-nosed kids had done this before, and the trams and trains were not very fast, so they were very brave.

By the time the train arrived at Jemulpo, the hands of the two snot-nosed kids were numb.

I jumped out of the car and ran away without moving my hands and feet to let the blood flow.

…

The Japanese military's martial law had its limits.

At least the streets are still bustling.

The snot babies at the dock are rotated every day.

This is a good job, because Mr. Zhao comes ashore from time to time, and there are always benefits to be gained from working for him. Zhao Chuanxin's salary is generous enough for them, and at the worst, he will make them happy.

"Xiao Ronner ate the scones bought by Mr. Zhao yesterday. When they were freshly baked from the kiln, they were crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. They were steaming hot and delicious."

"What's this? Mr. Zhao also said that he would let the workhouse take us in and we would have a place to live and food to eat every day from now on."

"Will Mr. Zhao come today? Don't let it be our turn. Mr. Zhao won't come to the shore."

"It will come. I've always been very lucky."

Just as he was talking about Zhao Chuanxin, Zhao Chuanxin boarded the dock.

In the whole world, the easiest thing to bribe is children.

A piece of candy, a piece of meat, a bowl of soup, a piece of cake, or even just a word of encouragement, they can go through fire and water.

It doesn't get much cheaper than this.

These two children were indeed lucky today. After Zhao Chuanxin came ashore, he asked: "What exactly happened? Can you tell me?"

"Mr. Zhao, there is a man named Li Xiuji who was captured by the Japanese."

"Do you know where you caught him?"

"He was taken to Kaihua Island, where the Japanese troops were stationed."

Zhao Chuanxin kept the confidentiality secret very carefully. He didn't tell anyone about Ares Island. He just asked everyone to come to Jemulpo, and then his all-pervasive "eyes and ears" could find them.

The recruitment work has been carried out in an orderly manner these days, and various tricks to deceive others are emerging one after another.

He was not afraid of what Li Xiuji would reveal to the Japanese army, because Li Xiuji knew nothing.

Li Xiuji's usefulness can be said to be great or small.

It doesn't matter whether he is saved or not, but Zhao Chuanxin wants to play the same trick as the Japanese army this time, "buying horse bones for a thousand gold", and show off his muscles among the Ares Team and the volunteer group represented by Li Xiuji.

Zhao Chuanxin sat on the dock, waiting for the God of War team to arrive.

He asked a child next to him who had sores on his face: "What's wrong with your face?"

"Mr. Zhao, my face is frozen in winter."

Zhao Chuanxin nodded, and he had a bottle of "Shiseido" cream in his hand, and handed it to the child: "This is the little devil's skin care product. You can rub some on it after washing your face every morning, maybe it can cure it."

This is an ancient brand that has appeared in the last century, but the study of "cosmeceuticals" is only a matter of this century.

Moreover, it does not fall into the scope of "daily chemicals". It is a skin care product blended with Chinese herbal medicine.

The snotty baby held the delicate little iron box in his hand, looking very curious.

His little friend winked, and the two opened the box. One of them used the tip of his dirty finger to carefully dip some in it and wipe it on his equally dirty face.

In fact, people who have never used this product will find it uncomfortable when the oil sticks to their face.

But as long as you look at the exquisite and beautiful little iron box and the pattern of a woman with narrow eyes drawn on it, you will feel high-end and your face will not feel uncomfortable.

Another child seemed to feel that his companion had benefited, but he was still empty-handed, and he felt a little depressed.

Zhao Chuanxin took out a small notebook that he had picked up while shopping at the Lantern House. Inside the notebook was a thin piece of peony petal that had lost its moisture as a bookmark. He didn't know which spring the dried flower came from.

In this way, both of them were smiling, both had things to compare the value of, and discussed how to show off the rewards in front of other snot-nosed babies.

Not long after, the members of the God of War team circled on the sea and rocked the oar to this small pier.

After landing, they silently went to an inconspicuous place nearby, squatting or standing, trying not to show their sharpness.

After waiting for the boats to send all the people away, Zhao Chuanxin stood up and patted the two snot-nosed kids on the head: "You guys are playing here, I'm leaving."

He waved, and hundreds of people came out of the corner one after another and stood in front of him silently.

Zhao Chuanxin said: "Shenglie, you will lead a team in a moment and ambush at the entrance to Kaihua Island. I will pick up the people. If the Japanese army chases them, kill them!"

Park Seung-yeol nodded, looked back and said to the members: "Did you all hear that? This is the first time our God of War team has shown its face in front of the Korean people. Who the hell dares to hold back and embarrass the God of War team? Don't blame me for being rude."

Seeing the cautious but not fearful faces, Zhao Chuanxin nodded: "Okay, I'll take the first step. You guys will divide into several groups and get in position one after another. Try not to attract the attention of the Japanese army."

Going to Kaihwa Island and passing through the bustling streets of Jemulpo, Zhao Chuanxin changed his clothes several times, sometimes wearing a traditional Korean white shirt, sometimes wearing a suit and leather shoes, and occasionally wearing a Qing Dynasty gown.

Gwangjin Fish Market, which was full of fishy smell, and Buyeo Station, a train that was under construction, took a long trip to Kaehwa Island.

Kaihua Island has coal and copper mines and will become a heavy industry center in the future. But at this time, it was only the beginning, mainly developed by the Japanese as a military garrison.

There is a landmark building here - Kaihua Sign Tower.

This tower is a typical stick wooden structure lighthouse that dates back to the Silla period.

Later, it was reinforced several times and increased in height to three stories.

I don’t know how many ships have been guided to the port safely in the long years.

It has weathered many storms and become a survivor in the torrent of history. Standing on the golden beach on the east coast, it is low-key but cannot be ignored.

Zhao Chuanxin boarded the lighthouse, which was covered with dust. Apparently it had lost its original function for a long time.

From the lighthouse, Zhao Chuanxin took a rough look at the terrain.

There are not only Japanese military garrison here, but also villages of local Korean people.

In this village, every household hangs its painted wood carvings drying at the door, and the air is filled with the natural sour smell of lacquer.

Zhao Chuanxin stole the experience from the weapon arsenal.

Of course he didn't know where Li Xiuji was taken, but he discovered at a glance where the Japanese weapons depot was.

Japan is mountainous and forested, and their buildings are usually made of wood, which can easily catch fire.

Therefore, with the advent of the era of self-heating weapons, their awareness of fire prevention is particularly important.

First of all, the arsenal is definitely very low-key, without any features, and looks ordinary. There are no large windows, so direct sunlight cannot come in, but there must be vents. Buildings are generally double-storey, also for fire protection.

Where the weapons depot is located, multiple fire isolation zones are usually set up taking advantage of the difference in terrain height.

Generally there are not many defenders, because too many will clearly tell the enemy that this place is important.

When they invaded China, they also built many underground military facilities, complete with vents, firefighting facilities, and escape routes. This was generally along the same lines.

Various characteristics allowed Zhao Chuanxin to discover this arsenal at a glance.

Zhao Chuanxin grinned: It just so happens that there are more people but fewer weapons, so we can replenish arms.

Then, he temporarily forgot about Li Xiuji and sneaked behind the Japanese weapons depot...

Lee Soo-gil is very tough.

The Japanese interrogated him why he was looking for Zhao Chuanxin, and he said bluntly: "It's not for anything else, just because I admire him for standing up for his compatriots and resisting public hatred. It's a pleasure."

This public enemy is naturally the Japanese.

Therefore, the interrogator was furious and slammed the table: "Do you know where you are?"

"Haha, I, Li Xiuji, still dare to say this even in front of your emperor."

"Hmph, do you know where Zhao Chuanxin is? Do you have any accomplices?"

"I don't know, and I don't have any followers. I just look around because I admire him personally."

"If you don't eat the toast, you'll be fined with wine. Come on, I'll be punished!"

The methods of execution were simple and crude. One was to hang them up and whip them, and the other was to use silk bags dipped in water to perform waterboarding.

Li Xiuji gritted his teeth, but he had no accomplices after he bit him to death, and he didn't know where Zhao Chuanxin was.

However, he was also in pain, his face was red and his neck was thick, and he shouted: "I am not convinced, I want to appeal, you are abusing lynching!"

The interrogator seemed to be looking at a fool: "What you are about to contact is the number one public enemy of our Empire of Japan. He has never given us a chance to appeal."

Li Xiuji: "..."

He was actually speechless.

At this time, chaos suddenly broke out outside the interrogation room.

The chaos was so loud that the situation was so urgent that they ignored the fact that they were still interrogating the prisoners.

"Someone stole the weapons cache."

"Someone's calling."

The interrogator frowned and glanced at Li Xiuji who was hung up. The interrogation was interrupted and the effect was greatly reduced. It would give the prisoner time to rethink his lies.

He left the interrogation room without saying a word, grabbed someone and asked, "What happened?"

"I don't know. I heard that when someone went to the weapons depot to get weapons, they found that the weapons depot was empty."

"Hey, can't you please keep your voice down? I'm interrogating a prisoner."

"Perhaps you don't know the seriousness of the matter. The weapons and ammunition of the reserve team of more than 2,000 people in Jemulpo are gone. If the enemy attacks, do you want us to use whips and silk bags dipped in water to fight?"

"Ah this..."

As he was talking, gunfire suddenly rang out.

Their expressions changed suddenly.

In the interrogation room, Li Xiuji also heard gunfire from outside through the thick walls.

He was actually desperate, and it was a great gift for him to be tried in a normal process.

Hearing the gunfire didn't cheer him up in the slightest.

But the gunfire gradually became louder, penetrating the thick wall, and the sound echoed dullly in the interrogation room.

Suddenly, the interrogation room was pushed open.

Li Xiuji narrowed his sealed eyes and looked at them.

He was a little short-sighted, and the pair of glasses had been discarded somewhere.

I just vaguely saw a tall figure emerging slowly under the dim electric light.

He was in a daze until he heard a familiar, somewhat cynical, yet rich and reassuring voice.

"Crap, so you are here."

Zhao Chuanxin kicked open the interrogation chair that was polished by his buttocks, took out the elf carving knife, and with a steady sideways movement of his wrist, the blade of the knife accurately cut across the rope.

Li Xiuji's legs were weak and he couldn't support his body, so he suddenly knelt down.

Zhao Chuanxin took a step back and said, "I'll thank the Lord for His kindness when I get out. Now come with me. Don't wait for me to help you. It's so bloody and disgusting."

Li Xiuji grinned. This tune was definitely Zhao Chuanxin's.

This meant that he was not dreaming because he was beaten.

"Miao...Mr. Zhao, I really didn't expect that you would break into the Japanese military base to rescue me."

Zhao Chuanxin didn't talk nonsense and walked out of the interrogation room first.

When Li Xiuji went out, he saw a Japanese tied up next to the door, looking at Zhao Chuanxin with hatred.

He said: "Now that you have found the person, can you let me go?"

Zhao Chuanxin imitated the hypocritical solemnity of the Japanese, nodded slightly with a straight face, and then said: "You Japanese are very bad. I, Zhao Chuanxin, am sorry today. Because, I have to break my word. .”

He raised his hand and fired.

To death, the Japanese had a look of astonishment on their faces.

Li Xiuji: "..."

A generous and tragic person like him with lofty ideals would never be able to do such a thing as Zhao Chuanxin.

In the enemy's lair, he was still joking like this. Maybe no one else in the world could do it except him, Zhao Chuanxin.

Zhao Chuanxin filled some sand in the secret realm.

At this time, he held the gun in one hand, put on the mud trowel in his left hand, mixed out the sand, condensed a stone wall, and pushed it towards the stairs.

Even though he was short-sighted, Li Xiuji was still calmed by this hand.

There were guards coming from the front, and they started a fierce battle with Zhao Chuanxin at the top of the stairs.

Behind Zhao Chuanxin, Li Xiuji's heart beat violently as he listened to the fierce impact of bullets hitting the rocks.

He has courage, but after seeing the real battle today, he found that he doesn't have much courage.

A single round of bullets was empty, and the Japanese soldiers in front were either dead or hidden and did not dare to show up.

Zhao Chuanxin pushed him boldly, shouting: "I am Zhao Chuanxin from outside the Pass, who dares to fight to the death with me?"

Arrogant voices were approaching, and the Japanese soldiers were under great pressure.

After looking at each other, someone said: "Let's withdraw first..."

They do not lack the courage to fight to the death, but they have to separate their opponents.

If faced with a group of Russian soldiers, they would even dare to fight with bayonets.

But in the small battle, against the legendary Zhao Chuanxin, it was purely a one-sided death.

Therefore, Li Xiuji saw a shocking scene.

He was familiar with "Three Kingdoms", and the most thrilling scene was not Zhuge Liang's verbal battle with the Confucian scholars, but the third master Zhang on the Dangyang Bridge who drove away one hundred thousand Cao soldiers with one word.

Today, he saw Zhao Chuanxin defeating the Japanese troops intercepting him in front of him just by saying "I am Zhao Chuanxin".

This kind of heroism made his hair stand on end and his skin crawled.

Zhao Chuanxin accepted Shi Qiang and said, "Let's go out first."

Outside the building, there were Japanese soldiers intercepting him. They used bags filled with sand as bunkers and waited for Zhao Chuanxin to come out.

Zhao Chuanxin looked at it briefly with his eyes closed, and then took out the Krupp 75 field gun.

In the hall of the building, he first took out the field gun, and then surrounded the gun barrel with a stone wall to resist bullets, because at this time, the Krupp 75-caliber field gun had not yet been equipped with a bullet deflector.

Slowly adjust the angle of the field gun and load the shells.

boom……

Li Xiuji covered his ears, and his eyes were filled with white smoke that exploded.

The high-explosive shells of the field artillery were triggered by contact seals. When they collided with the Japanese bunker, as the fire flared up, the shock wave pushed open the sacks, and the warhead fragments flew out, damaging all the surrounding Japanese troops.

The flame retardant effect it produced also ignited the dry sack flakes, causing a small spark.

Zhao Chuanxin opened the back hall, took out the cartridge case and threw it aside, then dropped it on the marble floor with a pleasant clang sound.

The bullet casing bounced near Li Xiuji's feet. He glanced down, his head buzzing.

It turns out...this is called war!

Zhao Chuanxin stuffed another cannonball, loaded it as quickly as possible, and adjusted the angle a little.

boom……

Two artillery shells passed by, and the Japanese troops intercepting outside were either killed or injured.

Only a few escaped from the explosion range and ran away without looking back.

Wait for the roar of artillery fire to gradually subside in your ears.

Zhao Chuanxin shouted to Li Xiuji: "Follow me, or don't blame me if you die."

Li Xiuji followed step by step and naturally did not dare to stay away.

He saw the remains of severed limbs outside, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. His chest was churning violently, and he tried his best to resist the desire to vomit.

Looking at Zhao Chuanxin again, it seemed that he had been used to it for a long time. He took out his cigar, lit it in the sea of ​​blood and corpses, and took a long puff.

Thanks to Zhao Chuanxin's advance in acquiring the Japanese army's weapons arsenal, the Japanese reserve team was now unarmed and they did not dare to come over and die.

There were not many people outside to intercept.

However, when he took Li Xiuji to the ambush location of the God of War team.

The God of War team was fighting a Japanese army that came from nowhere.

The opponent used French Hotchkiss heavy machine guns to suppress the firepower of the Ares team.

Zhao Chuanxin has played with many types of machine guns and is very sensitive to the rhythm and gunfire of various machine guns. He can directly hear what type of machine gun it is.

In the secret realm, he also had a Hotchkiss heavy machine gun gathering dust in the corner. It was originally seized from a French retired soldier in Fengtian.

Li Xiuji became nervous: "Mr. Zhao, give me a gun and I can fight."

Zhao Chuanxin casually handed over a Mosin-Nagant rifle loaded with bullets: "Take it and play with it."

Li Xiuji held the rifle in his hand, not knowing where to start.

He only played with revolvers.

Zhao Chuanxin did not teach him how to use it and took out the field cannon again.

This place is far away from the Japanese heavy machine gun position, fully one thousand meters away.

If it were another gunner, it might be difficult.

The effective range of the Krupp 75-caliber field gun can reach 10,000 meters.

The theoretical accurate range of high-explosive bombs is almost 3 kilometers away.

However, to the naked eye, people 3 kilometers away look like ants. If a person stands upright, he may not be able to hit the ants on the ground with marbles, let alone a field gun?

After Li Xiuji stumbled to load the rifle, he stopped shooting when he saw the distance was so far. Even if he could shoot that far, he wouldn't be accurate.

Seeing Zhao Chuanxin "transform" into a field cannon again, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "Mr. Zhao, can this hit?"

Zhao Chuanxin raised his head slightly, visually checked the distance and elevation angle, raised the field gun and moved it to calibrate the ballistic trajectory of the field gun.

He held a cigar in his mouth and said calmly: "Please remove the 'm'."

Li Xiuji: "..."

Zhao Chuanxin fired.

boom!

The Japanese heavy machine gun positions burst into flames.

The heavy machine gun fire stopped abruptly.

Li Xiuji was stunned: "..."