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

On February 14, Zhang Chi disguised himself as an inconspicuous second lieutenant and slowly walked off the plane, feeling excited.

After traveling to this world for over half a year, this was his first time setting foot on the land of Qian Nation. (Zhang Chi's controlled areas, such as Xinpingyang and Jiangxinpo, were ceded to Pegu Nation, John's colony, when the joint anti-Japanese agreement was signed in 41 AD.)

At this moment in Spring City, it has been less than two weeks since the New Year, and the streets are still crowded with people, officers and soldiers shuttling around, appearing busy and tense.

Despite his mixed feelings, Zhang Chi took a deep breath of the cold air and hurriedly left the airport.

Since he came secretly this time, he was only accompanied by two synthetic tank crew members as bodyguards. Although these people looked like ordinary soldiers, their physical qualities far exceeded those of ordinary people. (In the game, they can change tracks and rub gun barrels with their bare hands)

Walking on the streets of Spring City in military uniforms, the three men quickly blended into the crowd of soldiers and no one paid much attention to them.

Their goal was clear, and they were heading towards an industry owned by the Zhang family in Chuncheng.

Chuncheng, as an important rear base during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, gathered a large number of merchants and troops at this time.

With the arrival of the White Eagle Air Force, the frequency of the Japanese bombings decreased significantly. The nearest Japanese army was blocked by the Nujiang defense line hundreds of miles away, so the city seemed unusually peaceful at this time.

The faint smell of gunpowder that often filled the air turned into the aroma of snacks in the market, and the sound of gunfire that never stopped day and night suddenly turned into the shouting of vendors in the market.

The feeling of peace made Zhang Chi, who had spent more than half a year in the Pegu war zone, feel particularly uncomfortable.

Not long after, the three of them entered a cloth shop.

Zhang Guangsong, who had flown to Spring City the previous time, secretly held a stake in this cloth shop, and it was currently considered Zhang Chi's property. While managing these businesses, the members of the committee's security department also gathered intelligence from all walks of life in Spring City.

In fact, through the Zhang family's network of relationships, Zhang Chi had already spent a lot of money to secretly purchase a large number of properties in Chuncheng.

After entering the cloth shop, the shopkeeper led them to a dark room. Zhang Chi was very satisfied to find that the committee's security department had run this intelligence point in an orderly manner under the training of the White Eagle intelligence instructor.

Those White Eagle intelligence instructors would never have imagined that these intelligence agents, who were originally intended to be trained to infiltrate the big city of Pegu, were instead sent here by Zhang Chi.

After dressing up again in the cloth shop, Zhang Chi changed into a long gown and a mandarin jacket, and took a rickshaw to the warehouse area outside Chuncheng.

This warehouse was purchased in advance by Zhang Chi's chief secretary Zhang Guangsong.

Zhang Guangsong, who was wealthy and powerful, used green United States banknotes to buy a lot of properties and mansions for Zhang Chi in Chuncheng.

Compared with the constantly depreciating legal tender, the purchasing power of dollars and ocean dollars in Chuncheng is obviously higher at this moment.

Zhang Chi, who was still worried about finding a 100-square-meter house in the 21st century, now owns a building complex covering an area of ​​100 acres in the suburbs.

On the one hand, these buildings are used to house the veterans abducted from the shelter during the transfer process, and on the other hand, they are preparations for the current big business.

The huge warehouse was empty at this time, and seemed no different from usual.

However, in this quiet place with no one else around, Zhang Chi stood still with a determined look in his eyes, ready to display his greatest secret - the system space.

He took a deep breath, and then materialized the supplies stored in the system space one by one.

Inside the warehouse, a mountain of supplies suddenly appeared. Huge wooden crates and metal oil drums were neatly arranged, blocking the entire warehouse—1 barrels of gasoline, 5000 cases of White Eagle military canned food Class C rations, 2000 cases of Camel cigarettes, and 500 cases of Coca-Cola. These were the supplies Zhang Chi had purchased from the military supplies page in the system mall, intending to exchange them for gold. (Yes, Coke was also a military supply during World War II; Hans even had Fanta to rival it.)

In addition, 6 Matilda II infantry tanks picked up from John's warehouse, more than a dozen Japanese infantry guns and mountain guns of various types captured in the battle, dozens of light and heavy machine guns, dozens of grenade launchers, thousands of Type 99 rifles and matching ammunition, 12 M13 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns purchased at a price of 700 Silver Lions each, and 12 LVT-A1 amphibious tanks purchased at a price of 700 Silver Lions each were also materialized.

In the current war-torn situation, these military supplies are like the keys to wealth. Holding them in your hands is enough to pry open the underground trading network in Chuncheng.

Zhang Chi knew clearly that if he chose to send these arms to the city defense headquarters through Chief of Staff Tan Zhijie's Whampoa connections, he would get tens of thousands of veterans in urgent need of reinforcements in return.

However, if these materials were sold on the underground black market, he could exchange them for a large amount of gold, silver and other rare resources. (During the Anti-Japanese War, the black market was really open to trading anything, from sulfanilamide to infantry artillery, as long as you had it, you could sell it. Even the Osaka Division was stunned.)

In times of war, any material has value as long as you can find the right buyer.

However, the transaction of huge amounts of materials will inevitably be spied on and coveted by countless people.

However, Zhang Chi had to do it.

Although he gave the task of formulating the three-year plan to Bai Hongsheng and other young intellectuals from Nanyang who supported him, as the boss, Zhang Chi had to personally raise the start-up funds for the three-year plan.

After all, if we only rely on mining gold and selling cotton and rubber from the land, it will take a long time to build a small steel plant with an annual output of 5 tons of steel and develop a fertilizer industry to feed millions of people.

Zhang Chi, a time traveler who knew about the world nearly 100 years later, knew very well that the South China Sea was a key channel connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and also had the Strait of Malacca, a key waterway. Once the Japanese surrendered, both the old colonial empires, the Johns and the Gauls, and the emerging hegemonic powers, the United States and the Russian Bear, would set their sights on this piece of fat meat.

If he wants to take root in Southeast Asia, he must take advantage of the current world war when everything is being reshuffled and the bosses have no time to spare, and develop rapidly.

Not only in the military, he needs to rely on the War Thunder system to quickly build a small but elite army, navy and air force to protect the more than 10 million Qian people in Southeast Asia and make the malicious hungry wolves afraid to act rashly.

Economically, he also needs to quickly build a set of light and heavy industries that can benefit more than 10 million Qian people in Nanyang. Otherwise, even if his military strength is strong, how can he maintain his authority if the people under his rule cannot even afford to eat?

After all, as a young man of the 21st century, Zhang Chi can't be an Afro-Karabakh "benevolent king" like Amin, Bokassa, and Mobutu, right?

Wouldn't that be too embarrassing for other senior time travelers?

This is also the reason why he took the risk and came to Chuncheng in person. Among his forces, he is the only one who can transport large amounts of supplies quickly and in a timely manner because he has the system space.

After the goods were delivered, the rest of the business was up to Secretary Zhang Guangsong and Chief of Staff Tan Zhijie to take care of. Due to the sensitive nature of Zhang Chi's identity, it was not appropriate for him to meet with people with a military background in Chuncheng.

After staying in the warehouse area for one night, the next day, a group of armed officers and soldiers from the 212th Division led by Chief of Staff Tan Zhijie also arrived on a transport plane.

With them, the '212th Division Chuncheng Liaison Office' was officially established on the land that Zhang Chi had purchased.

Zhang Chi himself went straight to a mansion in Chuncheng.