At three o'clock in the afternoon on the fifth day, the exhausted An Yi's third company finally arrived at the pavilion on the south side of Hengyang East Station. He left Yin Jinan to lead the team to rest, and strode towards the station with Hu Hu to find the military representatives.
Halfway through, An Yi was pleasantly surprised to see a group of students from the fifth phase of Huangpu gathered on both sides of the station, as if waiting for some order. An Yi and Hu Hu, who were so energetic, did not bother to say hello to the familiar brothers and strode towards the station.
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As soon as the two stepped onto the steps, they saw Zhang Zhizhong, the commander of the military academy's officer corps, and several other instructors walking out of the door. An Yi stepped forward and loudly reported: "An Yi, commander of the third company of engineers of the second division of the First Army, Hu Jialin salutes you, sir!"
Zhang Zhizhong stopped in surprise when he saw it was An Yi: "An Yi, instructor Hu Jialin...why are you still here?"
"Sir, due to the shortage of vehicles and the enemy's sneak attack on the railway bridge to the south, our company had to come from Chenzhou on foot, haha... Sir, even if I found the organization when I saw you, more than two hundred of our people were missing all the way.
It’s so miserable without food and supplies! All of them are naked except for the piece of cloth in front of their trousers. They cover their bare buttocks and hide under the pavilion over there, not daring to come out and be embarrassed. How desolate!”
An Yi saw his beloved and good-tempered commander return to his playful smiling face after a few words, causing Zhang Zhizhong and a group of instructors to laugh happily.
After Zhang Zhizhong finished laughing, he looked up and down at An Yi and Hu Hu. When he saw that their clothes were tattered but still neat, he said kindly: "Take us to see your soldiers and set off with us in an hour. Our soldiers
The two conscripted regiments had just arrived at the station an hour ago. The train transporting us returned to Chenzhou to pick up the main troops of the Second and Third Armies. We had to wait for the train from the direction of Changsha before we could leave. The Military Representative Office said that the train's cover was loose and it was estimated that it would not be able to leave.
It’s no problem to fuck you.”
The meticulous Zhang Zhizhong turned around and whispered a few instructions to the adjutant, who immediately walked into the station to contact the Military Representative Office.
An Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and felt resentful when he remembered that he was refused boarding at Hengnan Station in the morning. After walking across the repaired iron bridge, more than two hundred exhausted brothers watched the trains rushing by one after another.
I couldn't stop, but when I arrived at Hengnan Station, I was not allowed to get on the train. The reason was that there were no military representatives at this station, and the orders of Commander Tang of the Eighth Army were strictly followed. No one could be allowed to board the train to go north without permission. Because of this, I was full of food.
The angry An Yi led the brothers for a long time. Along the way, more than two hundred brothers who were full of resentment saw the train passing by and once again greeted all the eighteen-generation women of Tang Shengzhi.
Thinking of this, An Yi's old habit of being frivolous and impatient relapsed. He forgot the identities of the instructors around him and cursed loudly: "Those grandsons at Hengnan Station are too damn damaged. They would rather empty the train than let us two."
When more than a hundred brothers got on the bus, it was useless for me to bring out the certificate from Chenzhou Military Deputy Chief Wen. Those grandsons who only remembered Tang Shengzhi didn’t recognize it at all. I was so angry..."
Zhang Zhizhong frowned, adjusted his glasses and glared at An Yi, who quickly shut up.
Zhang Zhizhong strode towards the pavilion without saying anything. More than two hundred officers and soldiers of the Third Company quickly lined up at Yin Jinan's command, and trotted to Zhang Zhizhong and the former instructors to report in detail.
Looking at a group of engineers and soldiers who were naked but standing upright, Zhang Zhizhong and the instructors felt sad and full of apologies. A group of instructors inspected this group of unlucky officers and soldiers from beginning to end, and returned to the front of the team to sigh.
After greeting the officers and soldiers kindly, Zhang Zhizhong ordered his subordinates to immediately prepare a hot meal and bring it to the platform so that these engineering and soldier brothers, who had worked hard but had been forgotten, could be well fed and given priority to get on the train.
After Yin Jinan and Hu Hu led the group of ragged brothers to the platform, Zhang Zhizhong stopped An Yi and asked him to find him in the officer's compartment in the middle of the train after the entire team had boarded. He had something to talk to An Yi about.
Zhang Zhizhong, who graduated from the Third Class of Baoding, went south to follow Sun Yat-sen nine years ago. He successively held positions in the Yunnan Army, Guangxi Army, Guangdong Army and Sichuan Army that supported Sun Yat-sen. He successively served as company commander, battalion commander, and division chief of staff of each army.
In the early days of the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, he served as the captain of the enlisted students, the chief of staff of the Eastern Expedition Headquarters, the chief of staff of the Guangzhou Garrison Command, and the commander of the Whampoa Military Academy's officer corps. He happened to be the leader of the fourth batch of enlisted students where An Yi was.
He cared for An Yi who was in a special situation and attached great importance to it. It can be said that he was the most caring officer for An Yi in the entire military academy except Lao Jiang and Li Jishen. In addition, Zhang Zhizhong and Li Jishen had a teacher-student relationship. Under Li Jishen's
He was entrusted with a lot of encouragement and encouragement for An Yi in all aspects, so the relationship between teachers and students has always been good. Another point is that Zhang Zhizhong and An Yi are very similar. Both of them are centrists who work in the cracks between the left and right factions, so they understand each other.
Although they have not communicated about their respective political beliefs, they have a deep understanding of each other's tacit understanding.
An Yi's younger brother with a different surname, Luo Shaodong, was admitted to Whampoa through supplementary registration. It was the result of Zhang Zhizhong's stroke of a pen. Zhang Zhizhong did not blame An Yi for taking the back door. Instead, he said that he could rest assured about the people An Yi introduced and would wait until the results of more than 600 students who took the supplementary examination were released.
Dongzi ranked first. After Zhang Zhizhong learned about it, he thanked An Yi for introducing such a talent to the revolution. An Yi was so grateful that he didn't know what to do. He finally believed that there were indeed people in the revolutionary ranks who believed in Mr. Sun's "the world is for the common good".
, a noble man who devoted himself wholeheartedly to the revolution.
At around 11 o'clock in the evening, after reporting on his situation in the past three months and being lectured by Zhang Zhizhong for more than five hours, An Yi took advantage of the train pause to bid farewell to his mentor respectfully and with a face of shame, walked out of the carriage and ran to the platform.
After urinating in the toilet next to him after holding in his urine for five hours, he quickly caught up with the slowly starting train and jumped on the No. 2 carriage where his company was located. As soon as he got on, he drove away the two brothers in the fifth row and sat by the door.
I smoked a cigarette and stared blankly at the dark world outside the car, recalling word by word my mentor's sharp criticism and sincere teachings just now.
"Impetuous temperament and lack of cultivation", "taking credit and being arrogant and letting things go", "talking nonsense like a man in the market", "what is the style of a revolutionary", "how can the moral cultivation passed down for thousands of years and the humility and benevolence that maintains the entire traditional norms be reflected"...
In the tightly closed box, one sharp criticism came out of Zhang Zhizhong's elegant mouth, and each of the questions was so severe. Finally, Zhang Zhizhong gave An Yi a detailed analysis of each problem.
The harm caused to An Yi and the huge hidden dangers it brought to An Yi's future life made An Yi, who had just woken up from a dream, full of shame and regret.
For a long time, An Yi, who acted willfully, has been adhering to the habit of lawlessness and loss of both faith and moral norms in his previous life. Although after such a long period of adaptation, he has greatly restrained himself under the influence of hearing and seeing, but he is still in line with the general trend of this world.
Principles and moral norms are incompatible. Now, he realizes that no one has reminded him for so long because his words and deeds make people feel novel and funny, and they can satisfy people who can only think about it but never dare to express their inner rebellion.
and the need to suppress emotions, or maybe his teachers and friends were caring and magnanimous to him and didn't care about these little details of his. But today, after his teacher Zhang Zhizhong pointed them out one by one, An Yi woke up and for the first time, he realized what he was doing.
His words, deeds, and character were deeply analyzed, and his soul was even whipped and tortured. This process made him extremely painful but unable to groan.
Before this, he really had no idea that his frivolous words, deeds, and foul language would leave a bad impression on so many people. He never thought that he would be viewed as uneducated, incompetent, and lacking in skills by many military officers.
He is a well-educated man who can charge into battle and make full use of it. Many times, he is complacent and proud of his so-called eagerness and sense of humor. Now, all of this turned out to be so sad and cruel. The cruel results almost made An Yi miserable.
Shedding tears, he finally realized that there was such a big difference between himself in reality and the person he felt about himself, that he lacked so much and did so badly.
The noisy and swaying train panted and crawled on the dark earth like a tired caterpillar. An Yi's young heart was like a lonely climber facing danger, anxiously searching for a way out on another cliff in his life.
Struggling, ruminating painfully...
Hu Zi and Yin Jinan were very surprised when they saw the expression on An Yi's face through the light that occasionally came in. It was the first time that they saw An Yi so calm and confused, but they couldn't see the deep pain and intensity in An Yi's eyes.
Due to the inner world of fighting, no one dared to disturb him at this time. He could only sit behind An Yi after checking the conditions of his brothers, and smoked silently against the rusty inner wall of the carriage until he fell asleep from exhaustion.
At dawn the next day, the train came to a slow stop at Zhuzhou Station. The temporary duty officer blew the whistle to inform all the troops to get off the train and have a meal. A large amount of rice porridge was prepared on the platform, and companies one after another got off the train and lined up to receive the food.
After completing the formation of the team, Yin Jinan handed over the work to the platoon leaders. He looked at An Yi's back and walked to the faucet outside the station leader's room. He was shocked when he saw An Yi turning around after washing his face:
"Brother, what's wrong with you? Oh my god... your mouth is full of blood blisters, what happened?"
An Yi blinked weakly, licked his cracked lips and smiled forcefully: "Jinan, you and Hu Hu should work harder. Look at the brothers. I'll get in the car and take a nap. I feel a little tired."
"Brother, why don't you have a bowl of porridge before getting in the car! I'll get you some panax notoginseng powder to wipe your mouth later." Yin Jinan was very worried when he saw An Yi's red eyes and confused look on his face.
As if he didn't hear anything, An Yi walked to the open door of Car No. 2 alone, climbed up onto the livestock car like a sleepwalker who didn't wake up, climbed onto the haystack behind the door and fell down to sleep. Yin Jinan thought
Without thinking about washing his face, he ran to Huzi and pulled him away from the team, whispering for a while.
Huzi looked at a pair of dirty feet exposed at the door of the No. 2 car, pondered for a moment and whispered: "Xiaoyi felt very strange when he came back from the executive car last night. He must have encountered something. If he doesn't want to tell us, let's ask
It's no use, just let him sleep for a while. Anyway, we will go to the Changsha camp at noon and settle down. He has been too tired in the past twenty days. Brothers just sleep when they are tired, but he can't do that. Don't look at him.
He can handle things easily, and can arrange everything big and small in just a few words, but he has more things on his mind than any of us, and he is probably going to be overwhelmed at this time, so we should just let him rest more and share more of the burden between the two of us."
Yin Jinan nodded and said nothing. He drank a bowl of rice soup casually and organized the brothers to get on the bus. He took out an iron bowl with two spoons of boiling water, carefully poured in some panax notoginseng powder and stirred it evenly. He dipped it in gauze and gently wiped An Yi's cracks.
There were cuts on the lips, and he kept sighing in his mouth.
An Yi, who was sleeping, was unconscious and exhaled heavily from time to time, as if there was a huge boulder pressing on him in the dream, struggling to support him...