Our ranks gradually approached the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters. Under the headlights of the tanks, one by one, the ragged and exhausted Japanese soldiers stood up, raised their hands, and cheered loudly at us. Then, a man who looked like an officer stood up and shouted something in gibberish at us. Although I didn't know what he was saying, I guessed he was asking for our unit number or something. We were prepared for this, so as not to give ourselves away to the Japanese. Zhang Zhizhong urgently transferred five officers from the German-equipped divisions who could speak Japanese to join our army as a precaution. These officers were in a rather aggrieved situation; in their original units, they were either majors or lieutenant colonels, but after joining our army, they could only s
