ebookland Chapter 156: Save Face
Chapter 156: Save Face
Finally, someone noticed something was wrong. He had just been smiling and greeting the gendarmerie men, but when the gendarmerie men responded, the smiles on their faces were like zombies.
Now these gendarmerie are pointing their guns at them intentionally or unintentionally. What is going on?
"Captain Miyamoto..."
A squad leader of the guard team stood up and was about to go over to ask, but who knew that his action made the surrounding gendarmes raise their guns and aim them.
Captain Miyamoto of the gendarmerie also took out his gun from the side and pointed it at the squad leader.
Everyone around them noticed something was amiss. The guards slowly began to close in. "Have we done anything wrong?" "Are we the target of this mission by the military police? Aren't we supposed to cooperate?"
Many people had a lot of questions in their minds, but at this moment they dared not say a word, because their former colleagues were holding bayonets and their guns were loaded.
Just as they were confronting each other, a car horn sounded at the door.
police?
No, it’s not the police. The police’s uniforms don’t look like this. This kind of uniform is very handsome. If the police also wore this kind of uniform, how could they not see it?
"Yes, yes... from Peking... Li Shaoyi's men."
One member of the escort team was so frightened that he almost stuttered. He had been sent to Peking before and had seen this kind of clothing on the street. The escort team was dumbfounded. Aren't we enemies? We just fought a battle outside a while ago, and it is said that the losses were not small.
Why are all these people here now? Do we have the people they need?
"Captain Miyamoto, what is going on?"
The guards finally couldn't help it and wanted Captain Miyamoto to give an explanation, but at this moment Captain Miyamoto did not give any answer. Instead, he asked his men to keep a close eye on the people in front of them.
"Oh! Have you prepared all this for us? But this won't do. What clothes did you wear when you beat people? You have to wear the same clothes now. If we take these people away, people who don't know will think we are arresting ordinary people. Brothers, if you want to survive in this area, your reputation is very important. We never arrest ordinary people. Don't think that you are our people just because you wear this clothes. Stop insulting our people."
Zhang Maozi got out of the car and immediately understood what was going on. The Japanese did not have the courage to confront us head-on, and were actually prepared to give up these seventy or so people in exchange for our peaceful solution.
Chief of Staff Cui has already called, and the Japanese should not resist. But when you think about it, you will never expect that the Japanese gendarmerie will actually take these people into custody. Isn't their cooperation a bit too much?
"I am the Empire of Japan..."
"Alright, alright, I don't want to know who you are. Anyway, let them put on the clothes they took off. I'm here to arrest Japanese soldiers, not Japanese civilians."
When Captain Miyamoto was about to introduce himself, Zhang Maozi immediately stopped him and said, "Who has the time to listen to you chanting?"
Captain Miyamoto had a look of aggrieved expression on his face. He had thought he was being clever and asking you to take these people away so as not to bring shame to the Japanese Empire, but he didn't expect to be recognized by others.
"We are willing to compensate for the medical expenses, ten thousand dollars."
Many people in Peking say that the Japanese follow rules when doing things, unlike us who always consider personal relationships. They are really not as good as them. Zhang Maozi really wants to pull those people over and ask them to open their eyes and see: Don’t the Japanese know how to consider personal relationships?
If it were a normal time, we could have negotiated something if you gave us an extra ten thousand dollars. This is not a small amount of money and can feed thousands of people in Peking for a while. But now we have come here with a big fuss. You want face and we want face too, but you can't beat us. When both of us are at odds, we can only lose your face.
"You must pay me ten thousand yuan. My brother's father is now dead after being beaten by you. What's wrong with paying him some money now? Let me be frank, hurry up and get them changed. I'll give you five minutes. If they're still wearing the same clothes after five minutes, I'll blow up your office."
While Zhang Maozi was speaking, the brothers behind him had already started to prepare. A 105mm howitzer was towed behind the truck. After hearing the captain's words, the artillerymen opened the canvas and aimed their guns at the office. At such a close distance, they could just fire directly at it.
"Don't mess around, don't mess around..."
The military police had never fought with Li Shaoyi's men, so they were still very aggressive. Seeing Li Shaoyi's men preparing to fight, they loaded their guns, but were immediately stopped by Captain Miyamoto.
When have you bastards ever behaved badly? Is now your time? Can we afford to offend these people? You still have your guns loaded.
If a fight really breaks out, within half an hour, we will be a pile of cold corpses. Can't we see what weapons the other side is using and what weapons we are using?
Zhang Maozi has a pistol on his waist and a German submachine gun hanging on his chest. Look at Captain Miyamoto. Apart from the Nambu pistol on his waist, the only thing left is probably the samurai sword. That thing is useless. It is a very good prop to pull it out to scare the people and talk about the spirit of Bushido.
But if there is a real war, you use cold weapons and the other person uses hot weapons, and you will die as many times as he has bullets in his gun.
Many soldiers in the gendarmerie only knew to take care of a group of disobedient soldiers, but they did not think that they would be handed over to the people from the railway station police station. Seeing the situation in front of them, they also felt a little humiliated in their hearts, but the soldiers who were able to enter the gendarmerie basically knew how to obey orders. Even if they felt uncomfortable, they had to listen honestly.
"Go back and change your clothes."
Captain Miyamoto squeezed out a few words from his mouth, and the gendarmerie forced the guards to change clothes with bayonets. When these people entered the house, the gendarmerie followed them in and blocked them with their bodies, not allowing them to touch their weapons.
"You...you really want to help them catch us?"
The guards spoke unwillingly, but the military police looked away. Silence was better than words at this moment...