The expeditionary force began to dominate Southeast Asia by recruiting defeated soldiers

Soon, a sound of light footsteps was heard in the distance, gradually approaching.

Along with the sound of footsteps, Zhang Chi heard unbridled laughter and conversation mixed in, which was the Fuso language.

Zhang Chi vaguely saw a small team moving slowly along the river bank through the sparse branches and leaves covering the Sherman tanks. Through the dim light in the rainforest, he could make out the attire of the first three people. They were Japanese soldiers wearing shit-yellow uniforms, butt curtains on their heads, and steel helmets.

Zhang Chi noticed that behind these Japanese soldiers were escorting a group of Kuomintang prisoners who were obviously haggard and ragged.

Dozens of prisoners were tied up with ropes, walking with their heads down with wooden expressions. They seemed to have almost exhausted all their strength, and everyone showed a numb feeling of indifference.

Zhang Chi felt both irritated and pitiful towards them. He was angry at their lack of resistance. If dozens of them had risen in resistance, even with bare hands, a few Japanese soldiers would have been crushed with a single blow. He also felt pity for their misfortune. Their sallow complexions and gaunt bodies revealed they must have starved for days in the rainforest. These distinguished men of the Qian Kingdom, elite soldiers of the expeditionary force, had met such a fate.

The Japanese soldiers escorting the prisoners seemed nonchalant. In their minds, these Qian people had been defeated by them a few years ago, allowing them to occupy half of the country. Now in Pegu in Southeast Asia, they were once again defeated and forced to flee in panic.

Now, the rainforest in Pegu is their world, and there is no need to be vigilant at all. In this way, the few devils did not realize that they had fallen into Zhang Chi's ambush.

The escort team was not long, and soon the tail of the team appeared in front of Zhang Chi. Two short Japanese soldiers carrying Type 38 rifles walked at the end of the team, laughing and beating and kicking the prisoners at the end of the team for fun.

"Damn it, shoot them." Zhang Chi, who witnessed the insult of the Qianguo soldiers, was already furious. When the Japanese completely entered the ambush circle, he immediately blew the whistle and ordered to open fire.

Instantly, gunfire rang out, and dense bullets were fired from all directions, breaking the tranquility of the rain forest. The Japanese soldiers were caught off guard, and the three Japanese soldiers in the front of the team all fell down.

The two Japanese soldiers at the end of the team immediately turned around and fled, but ran into the White-Faced Owl Squad that was finishing up. Xiao Dongbei picked up the M3 submachine gun and fired two rounds of precise short bursts, breaking both legs of the two Japanese soldiers. The two running Japanese soldiers immediately fell to the ground.

The surrounding soldiers rushed forward, took away all the rifles in their hands and the grenades on their bodies, and then tied them up with ropes.

The rainforest returned to tranquility again, with only the smell of gunpowder in the air and the corpses of Japanese soldiers on the ground reminding people of what had just happened.

Zhang Chi quickly scanned the battlefield, confirming that all enemies had been eliminated. He turned and nodded to the soldiers, who quickly sprang into action to free the bound KMT prisoners. He then rushed to the two captured Japanese soldiers, hoping to pry their mouths open and inquire whether there were any more large Japanese forces active nearby.

"Which unit are you from? Are you from the 56th Division? Are there any other main forces operating nearby?" Zhang Chi asked anxiously in the Japanese language granted by the system. "Whoever answers first will be healed and let go."

Although the two Japanese soldiers were surprised to hear Major Qian Guo speaking fluent Japanese with a metropolitan accent, they were still cursing and did not answer any questions because they were brainwashed by Bushido.

"We are all warriors of Tiannao Heika. We will not surrender to the cowardly Qian people. You can beat us or kill us as you please!"

"Kill me! Kill me!"

The meaningless howling of the two Japanese devils made Zhang Chi feel very annoyed. He suddenly thought of a joke he saw on the Internet before traveling through time, and a plan immediately came to his mind.

"Xiao Dongbei, cut off the head of the devil on the left, quickly."

Xiao Dongbei didn't say a word, pulled out a dagger, walked forward with a cold face, and stabbed the dagger into the devil's throat without expression. Then he cut around the dagger and took off the devil's head.

Xiao Dongbei, who was originally from Fengtian, didn't care about the bloody scene he created, because he knew that what these devils did in his hometown was even more excessive.

Zhang Chi took the Japanese head and placed it in front of the Japanese captive on his right. He grinned and said, "I heard that in your culture, the dead who lost their heads will get lost in the Santu River. You don't want your soul to stay in Pegu and be forever damned, do you? Then your relatives won't be able to find your soul when they visit your tablet. Come on, tell me everything. If you tell me, I will leave you with an intact body."

The little Japanese soldier was actually frightened by Zhang Chi's threats and confessed everything in a trembling manner.

It turned out that the Japanese were soldiers from the 1st Company, 2nd Battalion, 147th Infantry Regiment, 56th Fuso Division. The entire battalion, over 900 men, had dispersed throughout the area, capturing scattered remnants of the expeditionary force and the John people. The main force of the 147th Infantry Regiment, meanwhile, was pursuing the remnants of the expeditionary force towards the Sindhu border.

Zhang Chi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the news. As long as there weren't any large enemy forces around, it was good. He already had a Sherman Organ Tank in his hands, so he wouldn't be afraid of a small enemy force of a few hundred men.

"Keep an eye on this prisoner and don't let him die. Bring up our brothers who we rescued." Zhang Chi gave the order.

After a while, the frightened expeditionary prisoners were brought over.

"I'm Major Zhang Chi of the 66th Regiment of the 5th Army's newly formed 22nd Division. Which unit are you from?"

A sergeant, a captured Kuomintang soldier, looked up, his eyes filled with gratitude and surprise. He trembled and said, "Sir, we are from the 64th Infantry Regiment of the 22nd Division. My name is Qi Quan. Great, we are brothers. Let us go with you, sir."

"You are like this, and you are still soldiers of the elite 64th Regiment? Dozens of you were forced to walk by a few Japanese devils, and you didn't dare to resist. What? If they dragged you to the river and shot you all, you would cooperate? You are bringing shame to the men of Qian Country." Zhang Chi said angrily.

"There's a Japanese soldier over there. I'll give you a rifle with a bayonet. Each of you has to stab him. If you stab him right, I'll think you're still a man. You'll get canned food and can come with me. If you don't dare to stab him wrong, I'm sorry, I can only leave you here alone to fend for yourself." As he said that, Zhang Chi pointed to the canned rations piled up like a small mountain at his feet, and then pointed to the Japanese prisoner tied up under the tree.

"There are no cowards in my team. You can handle it yourselves." Zhang Chi didn't care about the frightened eyes of the Japanese prisoners. He left after leaving these words.