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

Several young men were talking loudly as they walked slowly towards the checkpoint. They looked a little tired from the journey, but they were unaware of the approaching danger.

The soldier standing guard at the checkpoint immediately locked his eyes on them and blew his whistle. Then a group of soldiers armed with weapons rushed out of the tent and surrounded the young men.

The soldiers had alert faces and fierce eyes, pointing their guns straight at the young men and shouting at them not to move.

The young men panicked instantly, their relaxed expressions transformed into terror. One of them instinctively took a step back, his voice trembling as he asked, "What...what are you doing?" As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier stepped forward, grabbed him by the collar, slapped him hard in the face, and said viciously, "Stop talking nonsense! Follow us!"

Another young man tried to break free from the soldier next to him and shouted, "We haven't done anything wrong, why are you arresting us?" Before he could finish his words, the soldier hit him hard on the back with the butt of his gun. He screamed in pain and his body instantly bent like a shrimp.

Without further ado, the soldiers handcuffed the young men's hands behind their backs and tied them tightly with thick ropes. The young men struggled and shouted, but their resistance seemed powerless in front of the soldiers who were as ferocious as wolves and tigers.

The soldiers dragged them to the tree, their movements swift and ferocious. One soldier grabbed one of the men with his rough hands and slammed him against the trunk. The man's body hit the tree with a dull thud, and he gasped in pain, a look of agony on his face.

Then, the soldiers took the thick, hard rope and twisted it around the man's body again and again, rubbing against his skin and leaving red marks. The man struggled desperately, twisting his body in an attempt to free himself from the ropes, kicking the ground with his feet, stirring up clouds of dust. However, the soldiers were incredibly strong and quickly tied him tightly to the tree, the ropes tightening so much that he could barely breathe.

Seeing this, the other young men's eyes were filled with fear and despair. Some of them shouted, "Let us go, we have done nothing wrong," with tears in their voices; others waved their arms in vain, trying to resist. But it was all in vain. The soldiers were like wolves and tigers, dragging them one by one to the tree and tying them tightly with ropes.

Each man was tied tightly, his body pressed tightly against the tree trunk, unable to move. Their hair was soaked with sweat and stuck to their foreheads, and their eyes were full of helplessness and anger.

The wind blew gently by the roadside, but it could not blow away the fear and despair in their hearts, it only made the ropes tighten, making their pain more obvious. At this moment, they were like lambs to be slaughtered, and could only let fate take its course.

The road from the checkpoint to the city,

Although it's only a few hundred meters away,

But in Yumiko Watanabe's eyes, it was like a path to an unknown hell. She held her son Jiro Watanabe's hand, and her pace unconsciously slowed down. Every step felt like stepping on her own heartbeat, heavy and panicky.

She was horrified to see that along the way,

The thick trees on the roadside seemed to have turned into ferocious monsters at this moment, with many young men tied up in all directions on them.

Their bodies were tightly bound with thick ropes, leaving shocking blood marks. Their skin was worn and blood oozed out, mixing with the dust to form a disgusting dark red.

These young men's hair draped across their faces, obscuring their terrified and desperate eyes. Some struggled desperately, twisting their bodies like trapped animals, their hoarse cries echoing across the empty road, yet receiving no response. Others, exhausted, slumped against the tree trunks with their heads lowered, their bodies slumped, as if the flame of their life were about to be extinguished.

Yumiko's breathing became rapid and heavy, and her throat seemed to be blocked by something. She felt her heart was tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and every beat was accompanied by sharp pain.

Jiro beside her clenched his hands tighter and tighter, his body shaking uncontrollably, his eyes full of fear and confusion. He raised his head and asked in a crying voice, "Mom, what happened to them?" Yumiko opened her mouth, but no sound came out, tears welled up in her eyes.

There was a rumbling sound on the road.

A Haizhou armored vehicle approached like a steel behemoth. Its massive, sturdy frame gleamed with a cold sheen in the sunlight, its tracks rolling over the ground with a dull, rhythmic sound, like the footsteps of death. The black muzzles of the machine guns on the turrets, like evil eyes, coldly stared at everything around them, sending a chill down your spine.

Yumiko subconsciously pulled Jiro behind her, shielding him tightly with her body. She felt like she and her son were two helpless ants, ready to be crushed at any moment in this cruel world.

After the announcement of the end of the war, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces who were resisting laid down their weapons one after another. Some surrendered to the Allied forces, while more changed into casual clothes and hid at home!

Even so, the number of prisoners captured by the coalition forces reached 120 million!

The coalition forces advanced rapidly and quickly controlled some large and medium-sized cities along the main transportation routes.

Because the occupied territories only had 16 people, Ding Shan directly issued a cruel order: all men between the ages of 50 and were to be arrested and strictly interrogated, and anyone who had served in the military must be dealt with! However, when this order was being implemented, it began to go awry. Many troops only cared about arresting people without conducting any interrogations!

This is the case with the 2st Battalion, 1nd Brigade of the Kaishu Marine Corps stationed in Ibaraki Prefecture!

Battalion Commander Chen Yuanfu captured many young men in this city in just two days. However, he neither interrogated them nor released them. Some of them were killed on the spot, while the others were forced to work as laborers to build settlements around the city!

These settlements were all built with simple wood, and were almost like cow sheds.

Chen Yuanfu didn’t know why these cow sheds had to be built, he only knew that it was an order from above!

To date, in just two days, they have built 3 settlements within 12 kilometers of the city. Each settlement has a wooden wall and dozens of cattle sheds!

However, after the construction was completed, the number of captured young laborers had decreased by more than 7000 due to fatigue, hunger, cold and disease!