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Chapter 121 The Difference Between War and Fighting (Additional Update by Alliance Leader You Changge)

Han Hongbing was fiddling with a steel round tube in his hand, which looked to Xuanzi like a scaffolding used at construction sites, and was adding sharp objects such as nails and broken glass into it.

After he finished filling it out, he did not forget to look at Hins who was already dumbfounded beside him:

"You've never seen this thing? When two production brigades in your area fight, don't they use elm cannons to shock and destroy the enemy's morale?"

Xuanzi swallowed his saliva and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead:

"Do you guys need to fire when you fight?!"

Han Hongbing slowly pulled the fuse out from the back and fixed the steel pipe in the box truck that Hins had stolen, his tone full of disdain for Hong Kong Island:
"I was saying that if the mainland had not already driven away the invaders, how come your place has been occupied by the British until now? There are too many cowards. If there were so many militiamen in our county, the British would have been driven away without the government sending troops."

"You say a group of young men come out to fight, and Der is holding a flat-bladed knife that doesn't even have a tip, and he might stab someone to death. With this idea in mind, how can he win?"

Xuanzi's eyelids twitched wildly, and he spoke weakly: "It's just a fight, there's no need to kill anyone, boss, do you always use these things to fight with others?"

"Our hometown in the countryside is not that good. We don't have any heavy firepower. We have to rely on elm cannons, stick cannons and other broken things to start the battle." Han Hongbing did not brag too much about Zhongping's combat strength, and said honestly:

"But when two groups of mining militias in our city fought each other, that was called fighting, and the firepower was sufficient."

Xuanzi looked at the two scaffolding-mounted "Elm Cannons" in front of him. The black muzzles of the guns passed by in front of him, making him want to raise his hands at the first opportunity, and his knees felt a little weak.

In this second brother's hometown, fighting and war are the same thing?

Is this a gang fight?

The two elm cannons in Han Hongbing's mouth were stuffed with sharp objects such as nails and broken glass. In Xuanzi's opinion, these things were just like two shotguns in foreign movies, but they were several times larger than shotguns.

If this is lit and blasted at the crowd, how much will it cost to treat those people with medicine?
In addition to these two cannons, which the makers thought were of insignificant power, there were also a dozen homemade Molotov cocktails made with gasoline and homemade bombs made with gunpowder bought from the fireworks workshop in the walled city.

Not to mention calling a number to help a group of thugs, Hins felt that it would be no problem to drive this broken truck directly into the Wan Chai Police Headquarters building.

Besides, he had no choice but to run away. He was the one who stole the truck that served as the gun mount, and he was the one who bought the gasoline and gunpowder. Even if he didn't fight, he would probably be arrested and imprisoned for many years.

He did not witness the fall of Hong Kong and had no idea about the war. But after he received the news and followed this little brother for so long, he suddenly gained some understanding of the war.

These two men aren’t really fighting;

In fact, after he rushed to report the news, Xie Hushan and Han Hongbing asked him to lead the way and secretly went to the Diamond Hill Golden Harvest Studios. At the closest point, they were less than a hundred meters away from Zhai Yuan.

In the words of Han Hongbing, a fight is about to break out, so why is there no one on guard? Do they have any sense of preparedness?
The two rural production teams were fighting for water and machinery, and they knew to arrange a few sentries to set up checkpoints three miles away to observe the enemy's situation. If the situation was not right, they would immediately send a signal to prepare for battle. How come the Hong Kong Island side tied up everyone, sent people to issue a letter of challenge, and threatened to tear each other apart and start a fight, but they were still able to get so close to them?
That's because he didn't have a rifle, otherwise he would have shot the gangster leader down with one shot at a distance of sixty or seventy meters.

After hearing this, Xuanzi felt that Zhai Yuan was lucky to have saved his life and was glad that these two younger brothers only had pistols.

Moreover, Xie Hushan felt that there was too much turnover among other personnel on the set, most of whom were ordinary people. They were there to eliminate the hooligans and must not hurt others by mistake.

Hins also completely believed what Han Hongbing had said before, that there were no underworld gangs and other feudal remnants in the mainland, and they had been cleared out long ago.

Indeed, how dare the underworld dare to open a gang in such a place where the people are so fierce and willing to shoot their opponents at any time? According to the two men, there are militiamen like them everywhere in the mainland. If they really open a gang, everyone will line up to practice with these so-called gang bosses.

After Xie Hushan and Han Hongbing observed the enemy situation, they quietly left the set, took Hins and the two women with them, and held a pre-war meeting.

First, let the two women help arrange for Abao's family to go to Tsim Sha Tsui Railway Station as soon as possible to catch the last train to Guangzhou in the mainland, and leave in the name of going to the mainland for medical treatment, so as to avoid unnecessary harassment by hooligans.

After the woman left, Xie Hushan asked Xuanzi to take Han Hongbing to get a truck, buy some gasoline, and finally go to the fireworks family workshop in the walled city to buy some gunpowder.

While Hins and Han Hongbing went shopping, Xie Hushan went out for a walk alone.

When he came back, he found out all kinds of information about that big brother Yuan, even the fact that his mother was a Nanwan movie star and now performed at Zhai Yuan's nightclub, sang, took photos with guests, and acted as a mascot.

Afterwards, Xie Hushan told Han Hongbing that it would be better to start the fight in front of the nightclub run by Zhai Yuan. Zhai Yuan’s nightclub was in Tsim Sha Tsui, not far from Tsim Sha Tsui train station. After the fight, they could go to the train station.

He had already visited Tsim Sha Tsui Railway Station and was pleasantly surprised to find an old friend of his and Han Hongbing's.

The Dongfeng tank car that originally brought them here also arrived at Tsim Sha Tsui Railway Station. After transporting the supplies, the maintenance was also completed.

When Xie Hushan was chatting with the staff at the station, he learned that the train might leave early the next morning. Although it was very clean, there was still a strong smell of cow dung on the train, which was suitable for sleeping in after a fight and hiding from police searches. The police probably wouldn't have thought that the two people who built such a big plane were not coming to Hong Kong Island to make a name for themselves, but were preparing to take the train with the pungent smell of cow dung back to the mainland.

And the good thing is that the two of them can take a bus directly back to Sungang Railway Station, without having to sneak back along the same route as they had previously imagined.

Han Hongbing originally thought Xie Hushan was talking nonsense, but Xie Hushan said to him, I went to the carriage where we slept for half a month and took a look around. I saw the words you carved on the door:

Xie Hushan and Dahei's brother took a photo as a souvenir after successfully completing the escort mission.

"Why hasn't he come yet? This gangster leader doesn't take his mother seriously at all?" Han Hongbing arranged everything, opened the back door of the van, and looked towards the door of the nightclub opposite:
"After rescuing my brother, Chief Xie and I will split up. I will be responsible for stealing the dog, and Chief Xie will go to steal books for Uncle Jiao. Hurry up, or it will be difficult for me to catch the train."

(End of this chapter)