The night of gunfire finally died down, and the prisoners, who had been stunned by the sound of the guns, breathed a sigh of relief, some of them quickly fell asleep, others stood up, and looked out through the small window inlaid with steel bars, but could see nothing but the sporadic sound of gunfire.

Park Changxiu sighed, and then sat down, until now, he still doesn't know what's going on outside, in the past two days, the city has been gunshots, the sky at night flashes red, obviously there are buildings burning, and you can still hear people's shouts at night, including foreign languages and Korean, but because of the distance, Park Changxiu is also difficult to hear what those North Koreans are shouting.

I've been locked up in this British barracks for several days, Park Changxiu has become accustomed to life here, in fact, there is not much difference here compared to the shack, but there is no need to work, of course, I can't get paid, and the daily food is pitiful, just a few fans, there is no vegetable at all, the sweet potato is not cooked, and it is moldy, many friends are having diarrhea after eating, and the toilet that is only placed in the corner has no cover, so the current cell is stinking, But Park Chang-so has long been used to it.

In fact, this is not a cell, just a warehouse used to store miscellaneous items, which was temporarily converted into a cell by British soldiers to hold those "saboteurs" caught from the dock shed Unfortunately, Park Changxiu is one of these "saboteurs", so how long will he stay here, Park Changxiu is not clear, but one thing is very clear, that is, even if Park Changxiu is found not guilty, I am afraid that he will be repatriated, which the British ** officer has clearly told him.

However, the loan shark he borrowed during the smuggling has not been paid off, and if he can no longer work in the Nanyang area, Park Changxiu will have no way out, and he even thinks of death, but death cannot solve any problems, so now, Park Changxiu is still trapped in a violent conflict of emotions and cannot extricate himself.

If only I had been able to join the anti-Japanese guerrillas back then, and if I had been able to go to China alive, then I would have been able to work in Nanyang in the future, instead of having to borrow usury to smuggle over, and then I would not have to face the current predicament.

After all, according to his limited sources, four of the five young men in his village who participated in the anti-Japanese guerrillas in his village were killed in battle, and the whereabouts of the other are unknown.

Perhaps it would have been better to stay in Northeast China at the beginning, but the wages there were very low, and it was difficult to immigrate the whole family, so Park Chang-so may have had to go to Nanyang to work, but this road was so difficult that Park Chang-so began to wonder if he had made the right choice.

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Just as Park Chang-so questioned his original choice, the wooden door of the cell was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and the harsh sunlight cast in. So that all the people can't open their eyes.

Just when Park Chang-so closed his eyes to avoid the sun. He felt someone grab him by the shoulders and pull him off the ground.

Park Chang-so tried to open his eyes and looked over, and now the person holding him by the shoulder was an Indian soldier, looking at the posture, it seemed that he wanted to drag him out of the cell.

Out of the instinct of self-preservation, Park Changxiu did not want to attack, he shrank back, and the other North Koreans also shrank back, as if the Indian soldiers who walked into the cell were not people, but monsters.

But at this time, a British ** officer walked over, glanced at Park Changxiu's frightened eyes, and then scolded in English, raised his right foot, and kicked Park Changxiu in the belly with the leather shoe on that foot, and the severe pain made Park Changxiu's whole body strength disappear without a trace, and then, he was dragged out of the cell by the Indian soldier like a dead dog.

Park Chang-so was dragged out of his cell along with a dozen other North Koreans, all "sabotage suspects" arrested by the British colonial authorities, who accused them of being involved in a plot to blow up a Japanese merchant ship and reportedly brought them to court-martial for trial or even execution.

Thinking of being sent to a court-martial, Park Changxiu trembled with fright, because he remembered those Japanese military police on the Korean Peninsula, although the military ranks of those military police were not high, but they were very fierce in dealing with North Koreans, and they would use their sabers to greet people's heads at every turn.

The more low-level officers are, the more fierce they are, this is the experience that Park Chang-so gained from the Japanese army, and he instinctively thinks that it is also the same in the British ** team.

However, to Park Chang-so's surprise, although the junior officer of the British Army also looked fierce, he did not kick him again with his leather shoes, but only instructed the Indian soldiers to drag the North Koreans to the playground and ordered them to stand for a "review" by a senior officer.

Many of the "sabotage suspects" were having diarrhea, and the smell on their bodies was certainly not very good, and the senior British Army officer who "inspected" them could only pour perfume with a handkerchief, then cover his nose, and reluctantly walked in front of these North Koreans, counting as he went.

A total of 50 Koreans, all of whom were convicted of "sabotage, including Park Chang-so, who should have been court-martial by the British colonial authorities, but now, the lieutenant colonel officer of the British Army only waved his hand, and then the fifty suspects were escorted out of the barracks by Indian soldiers."

Park Changxiu trembled even more, he didn't know if he would be dragged to be shot, and he looked at the Indian ten soldiers with guns in Bukaizhou. I shivered and wanted to run, but all of them were tied together by a rope, and they could not run at all, and they could be shot.

In this way, with a strong sense of unease, Park Chang-so and his compatriots followed the Indian soldiers farther and farther away, and waited until they had turned a few streets. Park Chang-so suddenly realized a serious problem.

Why didn't you see a single person on the street?

Not only was there no one walking on the street, but the shops were in tatters, bullet holes were everywhere in the doors and windows, and bullet casings could be seen everywhere on the street, shiny and shining golden in the sun. In contrast, there were puddles of blood on the street from time to time, glowing with a dark red glow in the sun.

But without seeing the body, Park Chang-so could not confirm whether it was British or North Korean blood, and he didn't even know what was going on, whether it was a revolution in the city, or if the British enemy had come to fight?

Cut, when Park Chang-so was in doubt. Indian soldiers stopped the North Korean captives.

Park Chang-so looked ahead, and was surprised to see that less than fifty paces away from them, at the corner of the street, stood dozens of British soldiers in tattered uniforms, all barefoot, shivering under the watchful eye of a group of armed men with oriental faces, and the degree of tremor was basically the same as that of Park Chang-so.

At this moment, an armed man with an eastern face on the opposite side shouted, in Korean.

"Korean compatriots, don't be afraid, now exchange prisoners of war, you come over half of the people first, and then we will release half of the British soldiers, exchange hostages in two times, don't panic, come over one by one."

Park Changxiu's heart suddenly relaxed, he knew that he couldn't die.

Thus, the exchange of prisoners of war soon began, and Park Chang-so was the first batch of prisoners of war to be exchanged because he was standing in front.

Wait until the rope on your shoulder is untied. Park Chang-so inquisitively asked the North Korean armed man who had untied the rope for him, and he noticed that the man was wearing a pair of British soldier's pointed boots on his feet.

"Excuse me, are you North Koreans?"

"That's right, man, we're all fresh men! In order to rescue you, we have been fighting with the British ** team for several days, and today we exchanged prisoners of war, so we exchanged you. ”

The North Korean militant smiled and patted Mr. Park on the shoulder, then bewildered him.

"Join us," said Goryeo. Let's fight together for the cause of the independence of the motherland! ”

Park Changxiu was stunned for a long time, and then nodded, to be honest, he didn't have any thoughts at this time, and as for why he nodded, he couldn't say clearly.

The man was so happy that he took out an armband from his pocket and gave it to Park Chang-so to wear on his left arm.

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"From now on, you are us" Goryeo Volunteers. One of them. ”

After putting on the armband, Park Chang-so calmed down a little, and he really wanted to ask the man why the cause of North Korea's independence had anything to do with Nanyang, after all, this is Singapore, the British Straits Settlements, thousands of kilometers away from the Korean Peninsula, and from the analysis of common sense, the armed forces of the Korean independence cause should not appear in the British Straits Settlements under any circumstances.

In fact, just as Park Chang-so was asking his comrades this question, in an office at the Singapore Naval Port, the Governor General of the Straits Settlements of the British Empire was asking the same question to his staff officers.

"Why are the North Koreans pursuing their cause of independence in Singapore? Don't they know that if we hadn't contained them, they would have been wiped out by the Japanese? ”

Mr. Governor's question was very difficult to answer, so all the staff officers and officers remained silent until the arrival of an officer, which broke the silence on the spot.

"Mr. Governor, the Chinese diaspora organization has elected several representatives to submit a petition to you."

"These Chinese Yankees are really unreasonable, the British ** team is suppressing the rebellion, this is to protect their lives and property, why can't they adopt a cooperative attitude? Tell them that they will either side with Britain or with the Koreans, that there is no middle way, and that if they do not cooperate with Britain, it will be regarded as a rebellion, and as for their petition, I will not accept it. ”

Mr. Governor was obviously very annoyed, indeed, in the past few days, the British ** team and the North Korean militants exchanged fierce fire, and there were battles everywhere inside and outside the city, the Governor originally wanted to organize the Chinese bridge people to assist the British ** team to build fortifications, but it was unanimously resisted, and almost all Chinese groups and overseas Chinese organizations refused to cooperate with the British ** team. A small number of leading Chinese figures who were willing to cooperate also quickly became the target of public criticism, and they were too frightened to leave the military port.

"Mr. Governor, I think you'd better accept this petition. Don't forget that at present, among the 500,000 residents of Singapore, Chinese account for 70 percent, without their cooperation, no affairs of the colonial office can be carried out smoothly, and now it is very different from the past, since the outbreak of this war between China and Japan, the Chinese all over the South Seas are as happy as if they were walking through the festival, because now, their motherland is no longer the sick man of East Asia. ”

A colonial official reminded Mr. Governor of a very real problem, that it is true that the Chinese immigrants in Singapore already have an absolute advantage in numbers, and that there is one behind them. A nation-state that is gradually awakening, this country even completely suppressed Japan in a local war in Northeast Asia.

The scattered Chinese are not terrible, what is terrible is the force that can unite them.

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