War was the greatest enemy of the people. Whether it was the righteous side or the evil side, to the people, both sides were the source of chaos. There was no point in taking sides.
War would bring hunger and chaos. The root cause was that one could not cultivate the land during the war. The once fertile land could only become wasteland.
Even if you watched so many fertile fields overgrown with weeds, you were still unwilling to cultivate because you didn't know whose food would belong to when you harvested it.
The harvest season had arrived. The Japanese were drooling as they looked at the food. The Chinese army was drooling as well. The Japanese wanted to take it for themselves, but the Chinese army did not want the Japanese to get the supplies. What should they do?
Either the two sides would fight, or they would harvest the food before the other side. As for the people? At this time, the people had the least say. They could only watch helplessly as the food they planted was harvested by others and eaten by others.
Therefore, there were many wastelands during the war. Even if they were once fertile fields, they would now become wastelands. Only areas that were closer to the city and felt that there would not be war were the planting areas where food was concentrated.
Along the way, what Liu Chuan saw most was not wasteland. If war was the biggest obstacle to agricultural development, then war would also bring another group of people, which was refugees.
War would cause countless people to lose their homes. In order to avoid war, they would leave their homes, leave the land they had lived on for decades, and flee to places that wanted peace. They would only return after a war was over.
However, bullets did not differentiate between nationality, and artillery shells did not differentiate between nationality. War was fought for victory, and everything, including buildings, could be sacrificed.
Often, when the people returned to their homeland, they would always find that some of their houses had become a pile of ruins. The houses were gone, and all the property in the family was gone. Even the food in the fields had become scorched earth because of the war. Thus, refugees were born.
Sitting in a truck, Liu Chuan could see countless refugees who had starved to death by the roadside. They were wearing thin, tattered, and dirty clothes, and they had just died by the roadside. Some of them had even died in the fields, and no one had collected their bodies.
The only people who collected corpses were the wild dogs whose eyes were red from eating. They did not care if the person lying in front of them was a human or a beast. They only knew that this could fill their stomachs.
The desolate fields, dead bodies, and red-eyed wild dogs were all telling the dangers of war.
Liu Chuan's eyes were numb as he looked at them quietly. Perhaps at the beginning, he wanted to vomit and his face was filled with discomfort, but after seeing so many things, he became numb.
There were four Japanese soldiers in the truck. They were holding guns and sitting on the carriage board with their eyes closed. There was an injured soldier beside them. He was the soldier that he had personally saved.
His left arm had been blown off, and he was now a hero with one arm. If he was in the future, he would have been awarded a first-class merit or something. He would be called a national hero on the streets and be respected by thousands of people. However, he was now a captive, a captive saved by Liu Chuan.
His face was still very pale. It was obvious that he had lost too much blood. He would need some time to recover. Liu Chuan looked at him carefully. He was fine, but he was a little weak.
"What's your name?"
Since he had nothing to do, Liu Chuan looked at him and asked in authentic Sichuan dialect.
"Are you from Sichuan?"
He didn't answer his name and just looked at Liu Chuan with disgust. However, Liu Chuan didn't care. He believed that every Chinese soldier who had been on the battlefield hated traitors like him.
"En ~ Sichuan people, authentic Sichuan people ~"
"Why did you become a traitor? Are you trying to discredit Sichuan?"
As he spoke, he continued to look at Liu Chuan with disgust. Even though Liu Chuan had saved him, his identity as a traitor could not change his understanding of Liu Chuan.
"I didn't want to either, but Mo Fa, my old man was captured by them. You haven't told me your name yet.”
Liu Chuan said calmly. He was still a little sad. Why did everyone else become Chinese soldiers when they transmigrated? Why did he become a traitor? However, it was only a faint sadness. A traitor had to be a fake traitor who sacrificed himself for the country. He would never be a real traitor.
"Liu Ximing, your old man was arrested? I heard that you're our Master's younger brother?”
Liu Ximing continued to ask. It seemed that he had more questions than Liu Chuan, or he was using topics to overcome his fear of being captured by the Japanese.
"Yes, but now he doesn't recognize me, and my old man doesn't recognize me either.”
Liu Chuan looked out of the truck as he spoke. Both sides of the truck were covered with cloth, and only the rear of the truck could be seen. The truck was not moving fast, and the speed of more than 20 kilometers per hour was a little slow for him. The road conditions were not good, and it was even a little bumpy.
" I can't work for the Japanese. Don't try to persuade me to surrender. I don't want to be a traitor."
Liu Ximing was silent for a while before looking up at Liu Chuan.
Liu Chuan smiled but didn't say anything. Some things had to be done. At least he was now labeled as a traitor.
"You should have let them kill me back then ~"
Liu Ximing said after a moment of silence.
"What can we do now that things have already come to this? Since he was here, he should think about it and do something meaningful.
Even if you don't want to be a traitor, the people will definitely call you a traitor. Why not do something beneficial to the people? Follow me in the future ~"
Liu Ximing didn't speak, but the stubbornness on his face showed his attitude. Liu Chuan didn't expect that his words could change a soldier who fought for the country on the battlefield.
Time slowly passed. Two days later, they finally returned to Xuzhou, the place where Liu Chuan's dream had taken off.
He did not return to his own home, but went to the garrison command center of Xu Prefecture. Although Eternal Turtle Shiro had left Xu Prefecture with the main force of the 35th division, he still left a large group of garrison forces in Xu Prefecture.
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Chiba Yamato was the commander of the Xuzhou Garrison. As a commander of a thousand people, if it was a regular division, the commander of this kind of frontline troops would usually be a lieutenant. There were fewer major lieutenants, but the 35th division was only a B-grade division, so most of the commanders were major lieutenants. There were very few lieutenants.
"I've already received the major general's telegram. From now on, I will assist you with all my might. Please have some self-respect, Sir Liu Chuan. If you can't keep your promise to the Regiment Commander, I will personally execute you."
Chiba Yamato looked at Liu Chuan and said sternly.
"Pfft, whether or not you want to execute me is something that a little major like you can decide. This is something my teacher asked me to do. What does it have to do with you? Even if I can't do it, I'll still be responsible to the teacher. Since when do I need to be responsible to a small major like you?
Your mission is to assist me and protect my safety. My life and death are not up to you to decide."
Liu Chuan sneered and did not care about the major's threat at all. As he said, his life and death were not up to the major to decide. Even if he could not do it, he would be responsible to Eternal Turtle Shiro, not Chiba Yamato.
"You…"
Chiba was speechless. Liu Chuan was right. If he was just an ordinary traitor, he could decide whether Liu Chuan lived or died. However, Liu Chuan was not an ordinary traitor. He was also a student of Yongsheng Guishilang. This meant that this major could not decide his life or death.
"Sir Major, please remember your mission. Protect me, not threaten me. If I am injured in an assassination attempt, I will report your dereliction of duty to the teacher ~"
Chiba Yamato was so angry that he turned around and left his command post. He had never seen such an arrogant Chinese man, but he could not do anything to Liu Chuan at this time.
Looking at Chiba Yamato's figure, Yanagawa pursed his lips."" A major should have the awareness of a major. Do you really think you're a major general?"
As he spoke, he slowly walked out of the garrison command center with his hands behind his back. Now, he was going to the location of the Luxi autonomous government, which was also in the city. Although Xuzhou was not under the jurisdiction of Shandong, Xuzhou's geographical location was important, so it was located in the city.
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