Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 6: Gambling on Life to Seize the Ship

As they were talking, everyone lined up in the yard. Aoki Ryokazu said loudly, "Today I will take you to pledge allegiance to the empire. If something goes wrong..." Aoki Ryokazu said as he slammed the whip on the ground, making a "snap" sound, and then shouted, "You know the consequences."
Soon, Japanese soldiers came and divided the prisoners into ten groups, each with a guard. Everyone left the prisoner camp and walked towards the dock. Soon they came to a dock. The Japanese soldiers shouted at everyone to sit on the ground, and then stood around and chatted. Aoki Ryokazu happened to be standing next to , chatting with another officer. Lin Fei pricked up his ears and listened, only to hear the officer laughing and saying, "Mr. Aoki, there is a new Kabuki theater in Nagasaki. Why don't you go with us?"
Aoki Ryokazu smiled and said, "Matsuda-kun, I am engaged to Miss Chiyomika and will not go to the Kabuki theater anymore."
The officer laughed and said, "Just because you're engaged, you can't go to the Kabuki theater? It's not like you're going to a brothel. Isn't Miss Chiyoko the daughter of General Chiyo? You don't have to be a 'henpecked man'!"
Aoki Ryokazu put away his smile and said seriously: "Mika doesn't like me looking at other women, and I promised Mika that I would not go to places like Kabuki Theater."
At this moment, a gentle voice was heard from a distance: "Aoki-kun."
Lin Fei secretly looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old, accompanied by four maids, walking over. She was wearing a light pink kimono, with long black hair scattered on her shoulders, and her eyes were filled with indescribable tenderness. Lin Fei was staring at her in fascination when the soldier guarding him shouted fiercely in Chinese: "Lower your head!"

Lin Fei lowered his head hastily. At this time, he heard Qing Mulianghe smiled and said, "Mei Xiang, why are you here?"
Chiyomika said softly: "Mika wants to see Aoki-kun, and wants to go to the park with Aoki-kun to see the flowers later..." After saying that, she lowered her head slightly, with an indescribable shyness on her face.
At this moment, a soldier ran up to Aoki Ryokazu and said loudly, "Lieutenant Aoki, the ship has entered the port and is expected to arrive at the dock in ten minutes."
Aoki Ryokazu nodded, turned around and said to Chiyo Mika, "Mika, we are about to unload the cargo. Go behind the row of soldiers that separate the prisoners from the civilians. Be careful that the prisoners are rude to you."
Chiyomika and four maids walked behind the row of soldiers. Aoki Ryokazu pointed at the prisoners and said, "Hurry up and make them stand up and prepare to unload." The Japanese soldiers shouted at the prisoners to stand up.
Lin Fei looked into the distance and soon saw a mast appearing on the sea and sky line. Gradually, the mast became longer and longer, and the sails hanging on the mast also appeared, followed by a smoking chimney. In this era, some ships would use both sails and steam engines. Soon a large ship appeared in front of everyone.
The ship slowly approached the dock. A special device on the bow caught Lin Fei's attention. The device was shaped like a turret, but the muzzle was equipped with a thick harpoon with barbs in front. Lin Fei thought to himself: "This turret should be used to launch harpoons. Judging from the size of the harpoon, it must be hunting big fish like whales. The Japanese have a tradition of hunting whales. This ship should be a whaling ship."
While Lin Fei was thinking, the ship approached the dock. As the dock was not big, the ship did not use the method of anchoring, but tied the cable to the buoy in the water. The buoy is a mooring tool for ships. Its lower end is a heavy iron block fixed to the seabed, and there is a buoy on top with a ring. The ship can stop by tying the cable to the buoy ring.
The ship tied up the buoys and lowered the gangway. The captain and the crew got off the ship. Aoki Ryokazu came forward and said, "Captain Yamamoto, what was the harvest this time?"
Captain Yamamoto laughed out loud, "What a huge harvest! We killed two blue whales alone! There is an incalculable amount of whale meat and whale oil. Let's get them down quickly."
Aoki Ryokazu nodded and waved to the soldiers. The two teams of soldiers ran up the gangway and stood in two rows from the deck to the cargo hold, leaving a path in the middle. Then they took out their guns and pointed at the middle path. Aoki Ryokazu shouted to the prisoners in Chinese: "Get on board and move your things."
Li Mingbai and other infantry prisoners were closest to the ship. They went up first, carried down long boxes, and then put the boxes on the dock on the side. The boxes were very heavy and made a loud noise when they were placed on the ground. The captain on the side shouted, "Be gentle, be gentle!" The Japanese soldiers were also shouting, and the scene was very noisy for a while.
Lin Fei took this opportunity to whisper to Yu Xier in front of him in Chinese: "You are the chief engineer of the Zhiyuan ship. Can you start the steam engine of this whaling ship?"
Yu Xier whispered, "The structures of steam engines are all similar, so there will be no problem in starting them."
Lin Fei then said to Liu Daming beside him: "You are the torpedo mate of the Zhiyuan ship. You are in charge of the torpedo boat of the Zhiyuan ship. You should know how to turn the rudder and how to sail the ship away from the dock, right?"
Liu Daming said, "Of course I understand! Lao Lin, why are you asking this?"
Lin Fei lowered his voice and said: "Seize this whaling ship and escape from Japan!"
Liu Daming exclaimed, "Are you crazy? There are devils everywhere, how can we take it?"
Lin Fei glanced at the girl in the distance and said, "She is the general's daughter and Aoki Ryokazu's fiancée. Taking her hostage is our only chance."
Liu Daming asked in surprise: "How do you know she is the general's daughter?"
Lin Fei replied: "I understand Japanese and listened to their conversation."

Liu Daming was even more surprised: "When did you learn Japanese?"
Lin Fei did not explain, and said: "You have to be prepared, listen to me." After that, he took a deep breath. Liu Daming saw that he was going to take action, and hurriedly said: "She is more than fifty steps away from us, and there are two layers of Japanese guards in between. How can you hold her hostage?"
At this time, a Japanese soldier noticed that Lin Fei had been talking, and came over and shouted, "Quiet!"
Lin Fei smiled at the Japanese soldier, and suddenly hit him on the neck with a palm knife. The Japanese soldier groaned and fell to the ground. Just as the Japanese soldier dodged a gap, Lin Fei rushed over and rushed straight to Chiyo Mika. Chiyo Mika was about 50 meters away from Lin Fei. There was a row of Japanese soldiers holding rifles standing 30 meters away. With Lin Fei's physical fitness, it only took him three seconds to run 30 meters.
Three seconds, almost in the blink of an eye, the Japanese soldier had no time to shoot and could only raise his gun instinctively, using the bayonet on the gun to stop Lin Fei. Lin Fei was prepared. He watched the bayonet raised, used his arm to push the bayonet facing him, and then used his body to hit the Japanese soldier. The Japanese soldier could not withstand Lin Fei's collision and fell to the side with a scream.
There were twenty meters left, and Lin Fei rushed to Chiyomika in just two seconds. He put his left arm around her neck and pressed his right fingers on her eyes, scaring the girl so much that she screamed and the four maids collapsed to the ground in fear.
It only took seven seconds for all this to happen. The Japanese soldiers finally reacted and pointed their guns at Lin Fei and the prisoners. The sound of bolts being pulled suddenly rang out on the dock. Lin Fei shouted in Japanese: "Aoki Yoshikazu, let the prisoners get on board, or I will dig her eyes out!"
When Aoki Ryokazu saw Chiyomika being held hostage, he was so frightened that he didn't have time to think about why Lin Fei knew Japanese. He walked a few steps to Lin Fei, pointed at him and said in a trembling voice: "What do you want to do?"
Lin Fei shouted, "Let the prisoners get on board."
Aoki Ryokazu said: "If you hurt her, none of you will survive!"
Lin Fei gritted his teeth and said, "Then you should order the shooting. She is the general's daughter, a noble lady, your fiancée, and we are a group of insignificant Chinese prisoners of war. Let's see whose life is more valuable."
As Lin Fei spoke, he pressed harder with his fingers, pressing down on the girl's eyes. The girl cried out in pain and wailed, "Please, don't dig my eyes out."
Aoki Ryokazu said hurriedly: "Let her go!"
Lin Fei shouted: "Let your people get off the boat and let our people get on board!"
Aoki Ryokazu frowned, looking very embarrassed. At this time, the officer named Matsuda stepped forward and said, "Mr. Aoki, you can't let the prisoners go! Give the order to shoot."
Aoki Ryokazu said angrily, "Shut up! If anything happens to Miss Mika, how are we going to explain to the general?"
Matsuda was speechless for a moment, and the scene was extremely quiet. For Aoki Ryokazu, he was faced with a dilemma. If he listened to Lin Fei and let the prisoners escape, his position and future would be lost; but if he killed Lin Fei and the prisoners, the general's daughter's eyes and even her life would be in danger, and the general would definitely vent his anger on him, and his position and future would still be lost!
After much deliberation, Aoki Ryokazu finally said to the Japanese soldiers: "Follow my orders, everyone get off the boat!"
When the Japanese soldiers on the boat heard this, they put away their guns and walked down from the boat. Lin Fei shouted, "Old Liu, Old Yu, move." Liu Daming and Yu Xier started to walk towards the boat. Several Japanese soldiers raised their guns to stop them. Lin Fei pressed the girl's eyes hard, and the girl screamed, "My eyes, my eyes!"
Aoki Ryokazu gritted his teeth and shouted angrily: "Let them get on board!" The Japanese soldiers put away their guns in dismay. Liu Daming took the prisoners on board the whaling ship, and the captain of the whaling ship shouted heartbreakingly: "That's my ship!"
Lin Fei pressed the girl's eyes and dragged her towards the boat step by step. The Japanese soldiers' bayonets were all around him. Lin Fei sneered, "Come on, I will exchange my life for the eyes of your general's daughter!" Aoki Ryokazu shouted loudly, "Everyone be careful, don't hurt the general's daughter!"
Lin Fei dragged the girl to the gangway and walked up the gangway step by step. When Aoki Ryokazu saw that Lin Fei was going to take the girl away, he didn't care that Lin Fei would dig out the girl's eyes. He pointed at Lin Fei and roared: "Catch him, don't let him get on the boat."

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