Even with the super labor of He Xiaojun and Da Niu, the two strong men, as well as the help of the three sisters of Amei and the four sisters of the performing arts, due to the fact that there are many residences under construction, in addition to the new residences of He Xiaojun, Mayor Xie and the sisters of Amei, the residences of the Da Niu couple, Aunt Mei, and the four sisters of the performing arts were also personally selected by He Xiaojun in a safe location and built together with Da Niu, and He Xiaojun's construction requirements are quite high, so this is not a small project, so the two of them have been working for more than three months before they barely completed the main body of the residence. There is still a lot of work to decorate and not do.

Before the completion of the new house, He Xiaojun and others have been living in Chen Village, and He Xiaojun and the four sisters who have no house in Ah Village live in the carved building of the old man Chen Chi.

Among the new houses built, some of the places belonging to the seamount have been lost.

The area under the jurisdiction of Haishan County is not small, especially the sea area, which is several times larger than the land. When the sea area is large, there are of course many islands, and the largest islands in the seamount are the upper and lower roundabouts.

The upper and lower roundabouts are two islands separated by only a few nautical miles, standing in the South China Sea, located at the tail of the Beibu Gulf, each island covers an area of more than 100 square kilometers, is extremely rich in marine resources, and has the largest fishing port and fishing grounds on the seamount.

The upper and lower roundabouts are the necessary places to pass through Guangdong, Fujian and other places to Southeast Asia, as early as thousands of years ago, these two islands have been the post stations of the Maritime Silk Road.

After the invasion of China, because the pace of aggression was not as smooth as imagined, the wild talk of "taking China in three months" was not only unrealized, but the war situation was also dragged into a state of stalemate, so the Japanese army coveted Southeast Asia, which was mostly colonies of various countries, and wanted to take this place first, and then outflank and encroach on China, and control the choke point of maritime communication between the East and the West.

With such a long coastline from Japan to Guangdong Province, the nearest route to Southeast Asia by sea is to pass through the upper and lower roundabouts.

On May 18, 1939, three Japanese warships carrying more than 300 people went to Southeast Asia to investigate.

Later, this group of Japanese troops may have taken a fancy to the importance of the geographical location here, leaving 100 Japanese soldiers to occupy the whole island and entrench it for up to 1 month, conducting various explorations on the island.

During the fall of Shanghuandao, most of the houses in Nim Tsai Ping Village, near Tudi Port and Fishing Port, were burned down, many people were brutally killed, and many women were ruined.

The upper and lower roundabouts were less than 10 nautical miles inland from the seamounts, and motorized ships at that time could travel from the island to the mainland in less than half an hour. In the more than 500 kilometers of coastline of Haishan, there are many inland river outlets, such as the big river that flows next to Chencun Village, which leads directly to the sea, so He Xiaojun was afraid that the Japanese warships would break in from the sea, so he mobilized the people of Chen Village to move away from the village and move all to the settlement on the other side of the canyon.

The people of Chen Village have always respected He Xiaojun, a capable man, so that they also obeyed his words, so the villagers listened to his advice and followed him into the canyon.

The people of Chen Village moved to the customs of Haishan, and in the sixth month of the lunar calendar, there is a big festival to worship ancestors, which is called "Flower Clothes Festival" or "Burning Flower Clothes" locally.

The "Flower Clothes Festival" of Haishan is to burn the colorful paper that symbolizes clothes in front of the ancestors' tablets, representing the meaning of sending clothes to the ancestors underground.

"Flower Clothes Festival" is a major festival in Haishan, in addition to "burning clothes", but also to make a table of nine or twelve exquisite dishes, worship the ancestors, and the whole family to the village ancestral hall to worship, its grandeur is only second to the Spring Festival.

Haishan's "Flower Clothes Festival" is not set on a specific day, but only in the sixth month of the lunar calendar. Anyway, this month, whoever likes to celebrate the festival can do it.

At the beginning of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the people of Chen Village asked the patriarch to return to the village for the festival. The patriarch of Chen Village saw that although the atmosphere was tense recently, it was also calm, and nothing major had happened in the entire county, so he said hello to He Xiaojun and said that he would take the people of Chen Village back to the village to worship their ancestors.

After He Xiaojun and Mayor Xie summed it up, they saw that there was indeed no movement from all sides, and He Xiaojun knew that it was not yet the day when the Japanese army invaded the inland of Haishan recorded in history, so he agreed to the patriarch's request, however, he proposed that the patriarch let him gather the whole village to celebrate the festival at the same time, and it was best to send only one representative from each household back to the village for the festival, so as to minimize the possibility of accidents.

After intensive discussion with the minds of the village, the patriarch accepted He Xiaojun's proposal and chose a day when he personally took the representatives of 70 households in the village to return to the village for the festival.

Among the three sisters of Amei, the eldest sister of Amei is the representative, and the Da Niu family is taken care of by Aunt Hong, but what about the old man Chen Chi's home? Of course, it was his new wife, Aunt Mei, who came out.

On that day, He Xiaojun and Da Niu also wanted to follow, but Ah Mei and Aunt Hong saw that the construction of the residence was still unfinished, and the men couldn't help much about the worship, so they persuaded them to stay.

He Xiaojun didn't have much interest in these trivial worship ceremonies on weekdays, so he didn't insist on following them. However, in order to prevent any accidents, he asked the village's joint defense team members Han Ge and Ah Guang to follow the villagers back, and instructed them to be vigilant, do a good job of arming, and if they find anything wrong, they will immediately fire the police.

The canyon is only a few kilometers away from Ah Village, and it won't take thirty minutes to get there if you run over, and there are most of the county's garrisons and county self-defense forces on this side of the canyon, as long as Brother Han and they can resist for thirty minutes after firing their guns, more than 200 heavily armed combat forces can rush to support.

At the same time, He Xiaojun also specially instructed the sentry posts in the canyon that day, asking them to pay attention to the Chen Village side, and report any movement immediately.

After doing this, He Xiaojun thought that he had taken sufficient safety measures, so he did not take this matter to heart and continued to build his new home.

Just when the patriarch and the others had been walking for about two hours, He Xiaojun and Da Niu's work had already been shot by Chapter 342, which overturned his judgment that the bandits were coming, and made his heart sink uncontrollably. Because, he had already made out that the gunfire was coming from a machine gun.

Having clearly heard the sound of gunshots coming from the direction of Chen Village, He Xiaojun's face couldn't help but change greatly, and a bad feeling was already born in his heart.

Platoon Commander Liu, who rushed to hear the news, looked at He Xiaojun in shock and stunned, so that He Xiaojun could see that he also felt that something was wrong.

Heavy firepower weapons such as machine guns were Platoon Commander Liu's garrison, and they were only equipped with one after the bandits besieged Ningcheng, and he had never heard of any regular troops coming to Haishan, so of course, it was not a good thing that machine guns appeared in this place and at this time.

Estimating the critical situation, He Xiaojun, Mayor Xie and Platoon Commander Liu, two acquaintances, were not polite, and hurriedly ordered Mayor Xie, who had just rushed over out of breath, to transfer half of the Self-Defense Force to move with the garrison, and then asked Platoon Commander Liu to transfer a squad to take a look.

When Mayor Xie and Squad Leader Liu gathered their subordinates separately, He Xiaojun had already taken the lead, and rushed towards Chen Village with a big cow in a hurry.

When He Xiaojun and the others ran a short and half way in the direction of Chen Village at their fastest speed, the sharp-eyed He Xiaojun saw a person hurriedly running in the direction of the oncoming direction.

Seeing that the vigilant He Xiaojun couldn't tell whether the oncoming person was a friend or an enemy for a while, he hurriedly hugged the big ox that was hurrying away, rolled to the grass on the side of the road, and hid himself, preparing to decide what action to take after determining the identity of the person who came.