Traveling through 1937, I came to fight against the Kwantung Army

Lei Tian got up early in the morning.

He decided to go to the rubber plantation today to share this good news with his brother! The new government is a government that is completely for the benefit of the people! He and his brother can do something big!

It is 40 kilometers from Haizhou City to the rubber park, and the road is bad and difficult to travel on, otherwise Lei Tian would have passed yesterday!

He rode his bicycle and carried a bag with two cans of food and a pack of biscuits that he bought with the shopping coupons he had received yesterday, as dry food for the journey!

Just after leaving the old city, Lei Tian was surprised to see that road construction had begun on the road leading south to the rubber plantation!

It was originally a three-meter-wide gravel road.

Now, on the west side of the old road, a new road trench has been dug, which is more than ten meters wide and almost half a meter deep! It has been excavated for one kilometer!

The construction site was busy with the roar of machines. An excavator stopped beside a pile of stones, with its mechanical arm raised high like a giant hand. The front bucket cut into the pile of stones accurately, and as the hydraulic rod contracted forcefully, the bucket full of stones was lifted up.

The driver skillfully operated the joystick, and the mechanical arm turned flexibly, hovering the bucket above the road trench. The bucket slowly opened, and stones poured down like a waterfall, falling into the road trench with a "clatter", stirring up a cloud of dust.

As the road trough was paved with a layer of gravel,

Then, the workers quickly took action. Holding shovels and other tools, they scattered on the stone belt, spread the stones evenly, and carefully leveled the road surface with shovels, rakes and other tools to ensure that every place was paved densely and evenly.

Finally, four rollers lined up side by side and began rolling on the gravel road!

Lei Tian stared at his bicycle, moving forward.

On the roadside, you can often see excavators clearing vegetation and soil piles. There are about seventeen or eighteen of them, and they are all working hard!

After more than five hours,

Lei Tian was so tired that he finally arrived at his brother's rubber plantation. There were dozens of rubber plantations of different sizes in the surrounding area!

The old road has been in disrepair for many years and can no longer bear the weight!

Therefore, the road built from the rubber plantation to the port is also one of the first key projects to be started in Haizhou!

In the room, Lei Zhi was having lunch with his wife Xu Zhiman. Xu Zhiman's belly was already very big and she was going to give birth in two months!

Seeing her husband looking a little worried, Xu Zhiman poured a bowl of soup, handed it to Lei Zhi, and comforted him,

"If Haizhou becomes chaotic, we will go to Kuching, where there are many Chinese people and oil, and it is much richer than Haizhou!"

Lei Zhi sighed and said,

"We have such bad luck. We fled to Haizhou from China and just found peace. I invested almost all my belongings here. I didn't expect Haizhou to make a fuss about independence! What if there is another war? What will happen to all our property?"

Xu Zhiman said,

"I think differently than you do. Haizhou is full of Chinese people. Why should we let the British rule us? I think independence is good. We Chinese can be the masters of our own country!"

When saying this, Xu Zhiman was a little excited and her face turned slightly red!

Lei Zhi shook her head and thought, "You are a woman who has never been to the battlefield, how can you know the cruelty of war?" The words came to her lips, but she didn't say them. She picked up the bowl and just drank the soup!

Outside the house, Lei Tian's loud voice had already started shouting,

"Azhi, Azhi!"

Lei Zhi stood up quickly.

Seeing my brother pushing the door open breathlessly, I said,

"Brother, I was thinking of going to the city to see you today. Wu Zhengping took the pickup truck to the construction site again. What's going on in the city?"

"What's going on? The country has been founded! We have turned over a new leaf!" Lei Tian excitedly recounted what he had seen and heard in the past few days.

Lei Zhi and Xu Zhiman were delighted when they heard this.

“This new government is really good to the people!”

"That's right! The whole Haizhou is undergoing massive construction now, and many people have jobs! My furniture factory received over 50 orders yesterday, which is more than 10 times more than usual!" Lei Tian said excitedly!

Lei Zhi still said with some worry,

"What if the British come back to attack us? Can we beat them?"

Xu Zhiman said somewhat dissatisfiedly,

"Think about it, the Indonesians in the south have driven the Dutch away! Why do we Chinese always have to be bullied by foreigners? When the British come, we will fight them!"

Lei Tian looked at his sister-in-law with admiration.

"Ah Zhi, you used to be a soldier, don't worry, as long as we Chinese can unite, we don't have to be afraid of these foreign devils. We have been bullied by them for more than a hundred years!"

Lei Zhi's frown relaxed, as if the bloodiness deep in his heart had also been awakened.

"Brother, you are right. I heard today that the Chinese army has won many great victories in Korea, defeating the Americans and the British. We are also Chinese. From now on, let's work hard for the independence of Haizhou!"

He remembered that when he was in the Kuomintang army, the whole country was in disarray and the people were living in poverty. When they met foreigners, they wanted to kneel down and cling to their thighs to be their slaves. This made him extremely disgusted, so he thought of fleeing the mainland!

Thinking of the days when he encountered the Communist army in the Northeast and suffered a crushing defeat, Lei Zhi suddenly regained a bit of confidence. Damn, they are just strong. Even the Americans are no match for them. So what if I lose to the Communist army? It's not shameful!

Outside the house, there was the sudden sound of a pickup truck's engine.

Soon, Wu Zhengping hurriedly pushed the door open.

"Boss, it's bad. A lot of Indonesians came to our new rubber plantation construction site. They came and started fighting, asking us to stop working and get out, saying that the land here belongs to them!"

“Indonesian?”

"Yes, they say they came from Saixinlao in the south!"

Lei Zhi said angrily,

"Sai Xinlao? They are still 50 kilometers away from us. How can their hands stretch so far? How are the brothers? Are they all right?"

"Six people were injured. These Indonesians from Sesinlao were carrying guns. What should we do?"

Lei Zhi said angrily,

"Indonesians are so domineering? I want to go and see for myself. Let's go!"

As he said that, he stood up and walked to the bed, took out a pistol from the secret compartment beside him, and held it in his hand!

The pickup truck arrived at the scene quickly. The site has been basically leveled and today is the day of completion!

But now, the construction site was in chaos, with the glass of the excavator and bulldozer shattered into sharp debris all over the ground, flashing cold light under the sunlight, as if silently telling of the violence suffered. In the cockpit, the control lever was hanging crookedly, with glass fragments scattered around.

Not far away, several injured workers were still lying on the dusty ground, groaning in pain. Their fellow workers gathered around in panic, some trying to comfort the injured in a panic. The injured worker's face was oozing blood, and the bright red blood flowed down his cheek and dripped onto his gray work clothes, which was particularly glaring.

Their eyes were full of pain and fear. Their hands, which were usually rough and strong and used to hold tools and work hard, were now trembling weakly and covering their wounds tightly.

The entire construction site seemed to be shrouded in a layer of haze, and an atmosphere of tension and uneasiness permeated the air.

"Where are they?" Wu Zhengping asked.

A foreman said,

"They all left, but they said that if we don't get out tomorrow, it won't be as simple as it is today!"

Lei Zhi looked at the foreman and shouted angrily,

"Quick Blade Liu, you used to be my guard captain! How come you were bullied like this?"

This foreman is called Liu Maocheng, one of the men who followed Lei Zhi to Southeast Asia. He is very good at using a big sword! It is no problem for him to deal with three or five ordinary people!

Liu Maocheng muttered,

"Boss, they have weapons in their hands, more than a dozen long and short guns!"

Lei Zhi was speechless for a moment.

Lei Tian behind him said,

"Azhi, let's go to the city and file a complaint with the new government!"

Wu Zhengping drove a pickup truck and brought Lei Tian and Lei Zhi to the entrance of the two-story building of Haizhou Municipal Government.

Lei Zhi and Lei Tian walked hurriedly and slightly heavily through the corridor. He was filled with grief and indignation at the humiliation of the Chinese people, and only wanted to meet the new mayor as soon as possible to seek justice for himself.

When he finally arrived at the door of the mayor's office and was about to knock, the door suddenly opened and a familiar figure walked out of the office.

The two looked at each other and were stunned at the same time!

"Weiming?" Lei Zhi's lips trembled slightly, and there was a tremor in his voice that he himself did not even notice. The figure suddenly stopped, and his movements were extremely stiff.

A trace of doubt flashed across Lei Weiming's eyes, and then they were filled with shock and ecstasy. "Dad!" he shouted, his eyes instantly red.

Lei Zhi's eyes quickly filled with tears. He rushed forward and hugged his son tightly. His voice became broken with excitement: "Weiming, it's really you! Where have you been these two years? Dad has been looking for you for a long time!"