It was already nine o'clock in the evening when the third company arrived at the temporary station in the south of Chenzhou City, and the heavy rain stopped at this time. The cooking team hurriedly set up a stove and started a fire. The fifth platoon on guard sent half of the brothers to look for dry firewood.
One person brought back the firewood, making the cooking squad leader Han Fugen jump up and down with anxiety.
An Yi, who was leaning against the door of the dilapidated ancestral hall and smoking a cigarette, stood up, kicked a creaking door across, pointed to the ground, turned around and left.
Lao Han immediately picked up the door panel and walked to the temporary kitchen next to the door. He raised his ax and struck violently. It was not until midnight that the tired and hungry brothers swallowed half of their hot meals and did not bother to find a dry meal.
He fell asleep somewhere.
"Report to the company commander: After receiving an urgent notice from the battalion headquarters, our company must rush to the train station before 8:20 and take the train to Changsha with the Sixth Regiment and a friendly battalion."
Xia Jian, the second squad leader of the fifth platoon who was on duty, came to report.
An Yi opened his tired eyes and looked at his watch. The time was just after six in the morning. He nodded immediately: "I know, blow the assembly whistle."
"yes!"
More than two hundred officers and soldiers were busy for a while. Within ten minutes, they packed up and ran in three columns to the train station in the west of the city. As soon as they arrived at the station, they saw the anxious battalion commander Kuang Shimin walking towards them:
"Oh, why are you here now? Xiaoyi, look at this train. It's all packed. Even the roof of the train is full of people. No matter how crowded it is, there's nothing you can do. The first company and the second company were all gone last night.
I live next to the station, and if the brothers from the Sixth Regiment hadn’t helped grab a train, I wouldn’t have been able to board it no matter how early I arrived!”
An Yi looked at his watch and it was only 8:50. There were more than two hundred brothers behind him who had not eaten breakfast and had to work very hard to get here. They got such a result. An Yi was also anxious:
"Battal Commander, what should we do with the third company? We can't leave more than two hundred brothers behind! Also, we should have been paid before departure, but now we can't see a penny. In the past twenty days, the first and second companies have all
It's an easy job to drive to Chenzhou, leaving more than 200 brothers in our third company to sleep in the wilderness in the wilderness. The supplies are very few every three days, and we almost eat ourselves!"
"What's the use of telling me this? I, the little battalion commander, can't do anything! You can only wait for the train in the afternoon or tomorrow, alas! I didn't expect this to happen. You have been tired for so many days, and I am the battalion commander.
I feel really guilty for not being able to take good care of you! I encountered something like this again today... Xiaoyi, don't worry, I'll go to the front compartment to find the quartermaster with the Sixth Regiment and try my best to help you get some supplies.
We must come back, otherwise how will you spend the next two days?" Battalion Commander Kuang turned around and left.
An Yi strode over to catch up: "Batalion Commander, where are the division commander and the others?"
"We left at four o'clock in the morning. Deputy Commander Wang commandeered two double-head extended trains overnight and drove all the friendly forces down. Our first division, the second division, the fourth and fifth regiments, and all the divisional units all left together, so the friendly forces left today.
Our carriages have been robbed, alas...wait for me, I'll be here soon." Battalion Commander Kuang sighed and trotted away.
An Yi had no choice but to come back and let the brothers sit in a corner of the dirty platform to rest. He couldn't help but shake his head as he looked at the old and dilapidated canned carriages that were packed like sardine cans.
Not to mention, the brothers of the Fifth Army were lying or sitting on the roof of the car, and they kept calling for the brothers who could not squeeze in under the car. Many of them took off their shirts, tied them into ropes and lowered them down, causing everyone to panic.
For fear of being abandoned, the brothers were dragged onto the roof of the car. A few brothers who couldn't hold it in any longer took off their pants and peed from the roof of the car. The whole station was filled with people and a smoky atmosphere, which made An Yi and the brothers from the third company stare.
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After waiting left and right, Battalion Commander Kuang didn't come back, but the whistle of the train's departure came. An Yi was startled and jumped up and chased the front of the car. Beard saw this and chased after him closely. An Yi almost chased to the end of the platform, only to see Battalion Commander Kuang struggling.
He squeezed his head out from the crack of the airtight open door, stretched out his hand with difficulty and threw down a tied paper tube.
An Yi quickly stepped forward and copied it in his hand. He sighed as he watched the train go away, untied the rope of the paper tube in his hand and opened it. He suddenly started to wail in pain.
"What's wrong?"
Huzi rushed to An Yi and asked anxiously.
An Yi almost cried when he opened a roll of banknotes in his hand: "Huzi, this is the money issued by Song Ziwen. It can barely be used in Guangdong, but the people in Hunan don't recognize it! Now we only have fifty yuan left, just in case.
How will we two hundred brothers get along if there is a change?"
Huzi sighed: "Why don't you bring more oceans? If you think it's too heavy, you can let me carry it."
"It's not that I don't want to take it, but I made a private agreement with Mr. He from the Munitions Department. If I ask him for a large ocean, he will give it to me. It's no problem. I just need to go back and settle the accounts and pay some interest. With his words, I still carry such a heavy one.
What are you doing with junk? Who knew this would happen? One more thing, as long as I get to a big city, I can get money. If there is no foreign bank, I can send a telegram back to Guangzhou. If I send a telegram back to Guangzhou, I can get a lot of money.
We are traveling across a thousand oceans, so I didn’t bring so much money. Originally I said I would be paid before departure, but now I don’t have a penny. As you know, the brothers are too tired along the way, and they are all stationed in remote areas.
In the barren mountains and ridges without shops, in order to save more energy, I spent a lot of money to buy chickens, ducks and fish to improve them. Now they are better...Grandma's! If I was annoyed, I would sell guns to survive. Yang Zhi even sold them.
Where’s the knife! I’ll beg his ancestor..."
An Yi became more and more angry as he talked and began to curse on the platform. The people at the station were so frightened that they all turned around when they saw the two fully armed captains acting violently.
He was scolded, but he had to find something to eat when his stomach was empty. Angry, An Yi took more than two hundred of his brothers and eighteen heavy-duty horses out of the platform, looked left and right, and ran to the largest restaurant across the street.
The shopkeeper was obviously afraid of being exploited by the soldiers, so he came up to him tremblingly and said that he was going to close down the business and asked his superiors to look elsewhere.
An Yi clearly saw the steam rising from the back room in the lobby and the aroma of meat. How could he be deceived by the shopkeeper? He explained it pleasantly and asked Dong Yazi to take out ten oceans and pay it to the shopkeeper in advance.
The shopkeeper then believed that these were revolutionary troops from the central government of Guangzhou, and immediately put on a smiling face and greeted them enthusiastically.
The hall is not small, and more than two hundred brothers can barely sit down. In about an hour, buckets of fragrant rice are served on the floor, and a lot of Hunan-style stir-fried pork belly, intestines, and water are served by seven or eight men, women, and cooks.
On the way, the brothers ate with gusto and were refreshed. After the check was made, the shopkeeper only charged eight yuan. He also truthfully told An Yi that the prices of vegetables in Chenzhou are not expensive, and the pig meat is even cheaper. After accepting the orders, the officers
Eight Days was already embarrassed. An Yi said that in this case you should give me back one Dayang. The shopkeeper was so anxious that he wanted to hang himself. Seeing that An Yi was joking, he wiped the sweat on his head and laughed.
But the hands that held Ba Dayang were tightly clenched until they turned white, and they had already reached into the crotch of his pants.
An Yi led the team back to the platform to rest. There was still no sign of the train until three o'clock in the afternoon. The brothers had already cleaned up the sediment in their bodies under An Yi's instructions to prepare for the long journey, but now their stomachs were growling again.
An Yi thought something was wrong and asked Yin Jinan to walk into the station office together. Fortunately, he met the representative of the station army from the Northern Expedition headquarters who had just returned. An Yi and Yin Jinan immediately saluted and explained their situation and asked for help.
Colonel Wen, the military representative, told An Yi helplessly: "We have just received a notification that the railway bridge 37 kilometers south of Hengyang was attacked by two companies of Zhao Hengti's troops who were loyal to the Zhili warlord Wu Peifu. Fortunately, the friendly forces responded quickly and defeated it and saved it.
The main body of the bridge is not seriously damaged, but the rails on the bridge and the roadbed at both ends are seriously damaged, and it will take three or four days to repair and inspect again before it can be opened to traffic."
"What about the special train that left at 8:30 in the morning? Did it arrive safely?"
An Yi was not worried about his own situation at this time, but worried about the brothers of the 1st and 2nd companies and the 6th regiment.
Colonel Wen smiled and said: "We have arrived in Changsha safely, but we can't come back. I guess the best option is that you need to march to Hengyang, which is 179 kilometers north. Once you get to Hengyang, it will be more convenient to go to Changsha. You can go directly to
Contact our station representative at the station. In addition, my radio station will not be repaired until next week and will be sent back. I cannot contact the First Army for you for the time being. According to my estimation, even if you contact your military or division headquarters, the treatment will be the same.
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"So, can Chief Wen issue a certificate to the subordinate? Otherwise, it would be against the military order for the subordinate to transfer subordinates without authorization." An Yi's cautiousness was not affected by the sudden change.
Colonel Wen thought for a while and readily agreed: "We have the right to deal with the situation on an ad hoc basis. Besides, your rank is not high and your number is not large. I can issue you a certificate, otherwise keeping you here will increase the burden a lot."
Colonel Wen was a sincere person and did not make any sour excuses. He took out a pen and paper and skillfully wrote down the proof. Finally, he strictly followed the procedures and took out the large seal of the Chenzhou Military Representative Office of the Military Commission and stamped it clearly.
An Yi sincerely thanked and saluted and said goodbye. When he returned to the brothers, he immediately formed a team to explain the situation, and decided to set off now and determine the camping site based on the specific situation.
Although the brothers were quite disappointed, they had no complaints. Especially a group of brothers from Hunan. They all wanted to take a walk and see how their long-lost hometown has changed in recent years. There is no family in the mountains!
More than 200 brothers from the third company were heading north along the road west of the railway. Due to the heavy rain yesterday evening, the sandy mud road was dug into grooves by the heavy trucks pulling artillery and ammunition. There was water everywhere, which made it even muddy.
The team had only walked twenty-five kilometers, and the brothers were already so hungry that their bellies were close to their spines. An Yi's stomach was growling incessantly, and they finally had to camp on the edge of a small village called Lanping.
Han, the leader of the cooking team, came to report that there was not enough rice. An Yi immediately sent several brothers from Hunan to buy food from house to house. It would be better if they could sell some bacon, chicken, duck or something like that, but every house would not open the door no matter how you called it.
, several Hunan brothers who were originally confident returned to An Yi with faces full of shame.
An Yi stood up and walked around with his hands behind his back, thinking of countermeasures. Originally, he thought that as long as he had money, he would have no shortage of food. He also remembered the military regulations and did not disturb the people, so he only ordered his brothers to build a straw hut at the entrance of the village next to the Tutu Temple.
Forget about spending the night, now that I saw that the villagers had no regard for fellow villagers and no revolutionary consciousness, I was angry and pointed at the Tutu Temple, which can accommodate hundreds of people, and shouted: "Lao Lu, take your four platoons of brothers to destroy this ruined temple."
Clear out all the things for me, and you’ll live in there tonight...Old Han, if you don’t have enough firewood, just tear down the doors, panels, and windows, I won’t believe that I won’t be able to have a hot meal!”
"yes!"
After issuing the order, An Yi walked angrily to the small river bend on the left side of the Earth Temple, unbuttoned his trousers and poured water into the river. After peeing and peeing, An Yi laughed loudly, and hurriedly called the beard and whispered for a while, and the beard nodded.
The leader called the brothers from Squadron 1 and Squadron 3 of the fifth platoon that he carefully selected to form the combat team. He ordered twenty-seven strong brothers to strip naked, and like a magic trick, the leader took out a smoking grenade and threw it into the river bend.
, a muffled sound stirred up a column of water several meters high. Twenty naked brothers who were so frightened that they were lying on the ground jumped up and jumped into the river. After a while, they burst into bursts of excited laughter.
An Yi, who was sitting under the pillar of the temple gate, took out another cigarette and lit it with the remaining cigarette butts. He hummed a tune happily. Old Han laughed loudly and ran to An Yi to report loudly:
"Company commander, look, this grass carp weighs at least five kilograms! When Deputy Hu Company dropped the grenade, white flowers floated on the water. It weighed at least a hundred kilograms of fish! Haha..."
An Yi laughed: "This fish is good, Old Hantou, continue to make the boiled fish fillets you were good at last time."