Chapter 67: The Hundred-Man Slashing Jap Scared Out of His Wits, Global Wanted Order, Su Changqing's Hit List

With a hand gesture from Monk Wei, the sounds of gunfire and grenade explosions ceased simultaneously.

At his signal, two special operations team members flanked around from a different direction.

"Ensure the battlefield is cleared thoroughly. For any Japanese soldiers who are heavily wounded and still breathing, shoot them from a distance."

"Aim for the head!"

"Only advance to search the area after confirming the little Japanese bastards are completely dead."

"This is a strict order from the Commander. Every single one of your lives is worth a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times more than these animals."

"Do you understand?"

"Understood, Captain!"

During the early stages of the War of Resistance, those Japanese soldiers brainwashed by the Bushido spirit were often utterly fanatical.

Being captured was simply unacceptable to them.

Let alone soldiers!

Even if a nurse stepped forward to help, there was a high possibility these crazy Japanese would detonate a grenade to perish together.

Not to mention snipers or hidden ambushes.

When dealing with beasts!

One must exterminate them completely, making certain they are beyond dead, before stepping forward to investigate.

This was the ironclad rule laid down by Su Changqing. Every commander and soldier had to repeat it to their troops after every engagement.

If any soldier failed to carry this out,

once the war was over,

if they were still alive, they would face the most severe punishment.

Su Changqing had no use for living Japanese prisoners, unless they were international friends who had not stained their hands with the blood of the citizens of the Great Xia Nation, who voluntarily surrendered and turned their guns against other Japanese.

Of course, such individuals could no longer be called Japanese.

Take, for instance, the only Japanese soldier buried in the Great Xia Martyrs' Cemetery.

Because he opposed the Japanese Empire's war of aggression against Great Xia, he had provided 100,000 rounds of ammunition and other supplies to the Great Xia Anti-Japanese United Army, wrote a posthumous anti-war letter, and then took his own life.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!!"

As the gunfire died down, the struggling Japanese soldiers on the verge of death were picked off one by one.

Only after this was done did the soldiers step forward to search.

"Captain! Captain!"

"There seems to be a big fish here! A big fish!"

A special operations team member called out excitedly to Monk Wei, the leader of the team.

Monk Wei strode over and looked at the map in the team member's hand.

He immediately unfolded it!

This was a detailed topographic map of the capital of the Great Xia Nation.

Its level of detail and clarity far surpassed any existing map in Great Xia.

This showed just how deeply the Japanese coveted Great Xia.

Without spies mapping the terrain meticulously in person, a map of such detail could never have been produced.

"Are there any other items? The Commander mentioned that something extremely important might turn up in this area."

"He told us to search this sector thoroughly. Something the Commander values this much is definitely not ordinary."

"There are these two things as well!"

"Captain, look!"

With that, the team member handed a copy of the "Clearing Operation" order, issued by the Japanese Empire's Shanghai Expeditionary Army, to Monk Wei.

At the same time!

There was also a copy of the *Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun* retrieved from the pocket of this Japanese aristocratic commander—the very newspaper where embedded Japanese journalists photographed and documented the atrocities of the two beasts, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, as they slaughtered the citizens of Great Xia.

The *Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun*, predecessor to the Japanese *Mainichi Shimbun*, had tracked and reported on the killing contest initiated by two second lieutenants of the 3rd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 16th Division of the invading Japanese army—Tsuyoshi Noda and Toshiaki Mukai—during their advance from Shanghai toward the Great Xia capital. The reports detailed their slaughter of Great Xia citizens in places such as Tangshuizhen, Changshu Station, Danyang Benyangzhen, Liyang, Lukou, and Jurong County.

These reports included clear dates, locations, explicit murder processes, death tolls, and accompanying photographs...

While serving as the leader of the Special 1st Division's Special Operations Team, Monk Wei had been forced by Su Changqing to study for a long time in the military training literacy classes.

Combined with the bloody images printed on the newspaper,

Monk Wei's eyes turned bloodred in an instant.

A murderous aura!

Radiated from his entire body.

The hands holding the newspaper trembled violently.

His voice choked with emotion.

The veins on his hands bulged from gripping the paper too tightly.

"Beasts!"

"Beasts!!"

"These damned beasts deserve to be hacked into a thousand pieces, skinned, dismembered, and boiled in oil."

He forcibly suppressed his rising fury.

The previous battle had ended extremely quickly; dozens of Japanese soldiers were annihilated here in the blink of an eye.

However, Monk Wei knew that the fighting that had just taken place

would inevitably draw the quick attention of the main Japanese forces.

Therefore, this place must not be lingered in for long.

Monk Wei walked over to the terrified, shivering female students and said, "We are the Eighth Route Army of the Great Xia National Qing-Tian Party."

"Are you willing to return to the capital with us?"

The female students huddled closely together, looking at the heavily armed special operations team members of the Special 1st Division.

They felt an indescribable sense of security.

They nodded, indicating their willingness to return to the capital with Monk Wei and his men.

As for why Monk Wei and the others appeared in this area: first, Su Changqing wanted to hone his blades, testing the practical combat capabilities of the special operations team while wiping out more Japanese;

second, to acquire the Shanghai Expeditionary Army's orders held by the Japanese aristocrat Fujiwara Koizumi, as well as the newspaper in his possession.

The order for mass slaughter!

Although already made public by Matsui Iwane, it was restricted to the upper echelons of the Japanese military.

After all, the Japanese knew that once the Great Xia side learned of this,

it would inevitably cause a sensation.

As for the Japanese *Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun* reports on the "Hundred-Man Killing Contest,"

they were circulated widely within the Japanese home islands, while information to the Great Xia domestic public was heavily blockaded.

Only a small portion circulated among the Japanese high command, aristocratic officers, and young-radical officers.

This was meant to inspire those Japanese officers to "learn" from the two beastly soldiers.

Su Changqing had learned that Fujiwara Koizumi possessed these items thanks to a prompt from his system.

Now that the special operations team's mission was complete,

there was no need to stay here any longer.

Soon, Monk Wei brought back the two pieces of intelligence that Su Changqing valued so highly.

Upon receiving them, Su Changqing immediately wired the intelligence back to headquarters.

Headquarters attached extraordinary importance to the intelligence sent back by Su Changqing.

That very day!

The news of the hundred-man killing contest recorded in the Japanese newspaper appeared on the front pages of major newspapers across Great Xia.

However, regarding the news that the Japanese would launch a massive slaughter in the capital, Su Changqing, after consulting with headquarters, chose not to leak it.

After all, the capital had a population of hundreds of thousands. If the news leaked,

before the Japanese even arrived, the panic and chaos among the hundreds of thousands of citizens would create a human flood

powerful enough to completely disrupt Great Xia's army of two hundred thousand.

By then!

The Japanese wouldn't even have arrived, and the capital would already have fallen.

Following careful deliberation by headquarters and incorporating Su Changqing's suggestions,

a large batch of comrades with rich political work and organizational experience quickly rushed toward the capital.

The Qing-Tian Party's organizational and evacuation capabilities were an absolute mess.

Having witnessed the disastrous retreat from Shanghai, Su Changqing held not an ounce of hope for the Qing-Tian Party.

The only things he could rely on were the Party organization and the strategic maneuvering of the headquarters commanders.

Of course.

In response to the arrogant Japanese "Hundred-Man Killing Contest" plan,

led by Su Changqing, Whampoa-faction generals defending Nanjing and commanders of various regional armies

jointly published a news statement in the newspapers of Great Xia.

Targeting the two Japanese beasts—Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda—

the Great Xia military issued a global first-class kill order.

Any Great Xia soldier who laid eyes on these two Japanese

was instructed to capture them alive by any means necessary.

And then torture them!

Both physically and mentally, making these two Japanese endure the most agonizing punishments known to the mortal world.

And then!

Execute them through the most brutal and terrifying methods imaginable.

Once this order spread, the previously arrogant and brazen Japanese beasts—Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda—

turned pale with fright and instantly adopted a low profile, their arrogance and insolence vanishing completely.

After all, these two beasts were also afraid of death, and if they became the primary targets of opposing fire on the battlefield,

one could easily imagine their chances of survival.

However, for Su Changqing, Toshiaki Mukai, Tsuyoshi Noda,

and a whole batch of Japanese beasts slated for the history books were already long since placed on Su Changqing's must-kill list.

What awaited them was simply a matter of when they would die!

And how agonizingly they would be tortured to death!

Nothing more!