After transmigrating to 1934, in the Republican era, Lu Zeliang became a notorious wastrel landlord’s son in southwestern Shandong.
Looking at the dozen or so tenant-house guards and militia who could barely hold their guns steady, he was planning to sell off the family estate and flee south when a System alert suddenly rang out in his mind:
[Defend the Nation, Kill the Enemy, and Raise an Army System activated! Kill enemy troops to earn recruitment points, redeemable for elite soldiers and complete sets of weapons and equipment!]
He began by wiping out bandits to earn his first points, then built up his forces step by step from a local defense squad.
After killing collaborators, he used Shandong as his base, secretly assembling a fully equipped German-trained army.
In 1937, the full-scale War of Resistance broke out. The Japanese army drove deep into China and reached the Yellow River, convinced that all of the Central Army’s German-equipped divisions were trapped in Shanghai and that no formidable enemy remained in North China.
Then a steel tide burst from the hillsides
Tiger tanks crushed the fortifications, Gustav aircraft streaked across the sky, and MG42 gunfire wove a deadly web.
The Japanese vanguard colonel was dumbstruck on the spot.
“Nani?! Weren’t all of China’s German-equipped divisions in Shanghai?! How could there be an armored force in Shandong?!”
