Chapter 118 Can only be understood but cannot be described in words
Chapter 118 Can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words
The dark, round, rumbling steam locomotive exhaled bursts of thick smoke filled with dust, and pulled the eleven-section mottled iron box with a "huh-huh-huh" sound, crawling arduously from north to south.
This special train was all officers and soldiers of the Second Division of the First Army. Because Jiang Dingwen's fifth regiment encountered hostile enemies before attacking the city and suffered heavy casualties during the battle, they had returned to the Xianning camp in advance to rest and recuperate. This time the troops
The brothers have a lot more space, and the engineering battalion with more luggage is also allocated three wagons.
In the third carriage from the bottom, An Yi and Yin Jinan, who had just recovered from a serious illness, leaned on the special seats covered with blankets by the brothers with thick straw mats. They chatted in a low voice with the bearded man sitting cross-legged on the straw mat opposite, smoking a cigarette and predicting what would happen.
At that time, the battle to advance into Jiangxi was launched, and whether the brothers of the Third Division led by Commander He Yingqin had already started fighting with the troops of another major warlord Sun Chuanfang on the Fujian-Guangdong front line.
At the train door, brothers who had lost a series of bets reluctantly jumped off the slow train, handing cigarettes to other brothers on the two carriages behind, or from the cooking team on the carriage on the rear left.
The brother took the full kettle in his hand, and then quickly caught up with the carriage and ran for a hundred or ten meters before climbing back up and angrily demanding revenge. This unique game also added a lot of fun to the boring journey.
While chatting, the topic turned to the three failed battles to attack Wuchang City. An Yi handed the military cup to Dong Yaozi beside him, told him to drink more water, and turned to Yin Jinan to answer his question in a low voice:
"The question you just asked is difficult to explain. With the excitement of the people at that time, it was necessary to launch the third siege. As for whether there are other reasons, we cannot easily draw conclusions. Huzi just said that the principal took this opportunity to test
The idea of loyalty and combat effectiveness of each department is also reasonable. You must know that from ancient times to the present, which commander has not tested his subordinates through battles? Even we ourselves promote our subordinates through missions and actions, right? So?
Ah, for the further reason, we brothers should not delve into it further. There is no evidence to prove right or wrong, and we can only understand it but cannot explain it, right? In this world, many things are done.
It’s unspeakable.”
"Brother, I don't agree with your last point of view. A man is upright, what can he do?" Yin Jinan still couldn't think about it despite being seriously ill.
An Yi rolled his eyes at him: "When you get married one day, and you and your wife do something in the evening, can you tell us the next day?"
Huzi laughed loudly, and Yin Jinan cursed angrily: "Brother, why are you so dirty? It's really..."
"You're right! It's just dirty."
An Yi did not smile but approached Yin Jinan solemnly: "In the past year or so, you have read a lot of dirty things in the history books. From the beginning of the Northern Expedition to the present, you have also seen a lot of dirty things. If you don't want to talk about anything else, just
It is said that we all secretly started the opium business in order to realize our ideals. You are open to this and strongly support it. Why can't you be open to other things? Damn it!"
Yin Jinan was stunned, slowly leaned on the soft haystack, and began to think painfully again.
"It can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words...it makes sense!"
Beard smiled slightly, stood up and stretched. He leaned over and looked at the bandages on An Yi's left shoulder and behind his head. He was relieved that there were no blood stains. He walked through the crowded brothers and walked towards the open door in the middle of the carriage, continuing to admire
The brothers played a masochistic game of jumping up and down. Seeing the sloppy and clumsy way one row of brothers, Mu Wenjun, jumped onto the carriage, Hu Hu immediately pointed out in detail the mistake he made in the coordination of his steps and waist.
A few minutes later, Huzi was so excited that he could no longer sit still. When the last brother who was following the carriage climbed up panting, Huzi stood by the door to observe the situation in front of him and suddenly jumped down, rushing out of the roadbed in full view of everyone.
After crossing the ditch under the railway, after a few ups and downs, he rushed to the frightened shepherd boy on the gentle grass. He took out an ocean and stuffed it into the dazed child's hands. He cleverly moved a few steps to the side and quickly hugged the boy in front of him.
A big ram weighing more than 40 kilograms ran as fast as flying.
The brothers of the various regiments on the seven or eight carriages at the back had been talking about the train. The brothers of the engineer battalion were jumping up and down after they had eaten and had nothing to do. When they saw a bearded man in military uniform jumping out of the car and rushing so far, he immediately became interested. After being amazed, he pointed out.
They pointed and cheered in unison when they saw Beard holding such a big sheep and running and flying.
Huzi sprinted for more than 50 meters, suddenly jumped up high, crossed the ditch gracefully, and then jumped onto the roadbed more than one meter high. He followed the last carriage forward for more than 20 seconds and quickly returned to the gate of the carriage just now.
In front of him, he jumped onto the train with all his strength. Under the incredulous eyes of the brothers, he handed the big ram in his arms that was "bleating" in fright to the nearest Qu Tongyuan, leaving the words "Mutton stew tonight."
He returned to sit down cross-legged in front of An Yi, took off his wet shirt, revealing his muscular upper body covered with sweat, took the teacup handed to him by Dong Yazi, and drank the tea happily.
Beard's behavior immediately triggered heated discussions among the brothers in each carriage. Liu She and others in the officer's compartment in the middle of the train were discussing the expansion around the square table. After hearing the vivid description of the strange scene by the adjutant, they were also very excited.
Surprised, and then hearing that the well-fed guys who had come from the engineering camp for dozens of miles were jumping up and down behind, Liu She shook his head and said "nonsense" and ignored them.
At this time, Liu She and other bosses, including the brothers from the first train, did not know that Huzi was not messing around, but was seizing every opportunity to train the team according to the secret plan formulated by An Yi, and he would soon be among this group of "mischievous" people.
Among the brothers, the best talents are selected to join the security platoon of the battalion. This capable "guard platoon" has a secret name called "Special Forces". Once formed, training will be stepped up. The "Special Forces" in An Yi's plan
You have to accept the test of actual combat.
In the last convertible, among the forty-two smelly war horses and pack horses, recruit Li Xiaolong was still recalling the bravery of the beard, and admired the amazing combat effectiveness and work efficiency of this engineering unit, but he always felt that he was different from the others.
This is a very strange team that just doesn't fit in.
A full ten days have passed since Xianning joined the Anyi "Model Camp". Li Xiaolong has been with twenty groom brothers every day, serving the horses and transporting various materials and supplies. He has not even had a chance to touch a rifle.
Li Xiaolong, who loves guns like his life, looked eagerly at the cooking squad leaders of each company and the seven fire-headed soldiers at the battalion. Even Lao Chang, who shaved the brothers' heads, had a majestic shell gun hanging on his waist, and he only wore a military uniform and
For this reason, he resented it and was extremely frustrated. He knew that cleaning the battlefield was a lot of work, and there were plenty of guns in the ammunition magazine at the battalion headquarters, but he begged his grandfather and grandma to give him one, which made the hot-blooded Li Xiaolong feel
Until I was discriminated against or even suspected.
Li Xiaolong also discovered that after the Hesheng Bridge was laid, the battalion machine gun platoon, one of the elite engineers of the engineering battalion who was the first to rush to the battlefield to collect valuable items like hungry wolves, acted secretly. More than 60 well-equipped veterans mysteriously escorted a batch of supplies on horses.
When he arrived in Wuhan, he was scolded twice when he asked the soldiers in the machine gun platoon. After asking around, he found out that the so-called military supplies escorted by heavy troops were actually seized opium paste!
This result shocked this outstanding young man who was just and upright and full of revolutionary ideals. At the same time, he was also very disappointed. Li Xiaolong secretly decided to report to his superior, Secretary Tu Zhiyuan, as soon as he arrived in Xianning, and at the same time once again asked to leave this bullshit "model camp". Although he entered
On the second day of the "Model Camp", he quietly went to the Xianning headquarters camp and asked Tu Zhiyuan for transfer but was not approved. But this time he was determined to leave this place that disappointed him extremely. Although this team has
It has amazing cohesion, strict military discipline, hidden powerful combat effectiveness, its own set of tyrannical but very effective management regulations, and generous treatment and military pay that exceeds that of any army.
During the "bang, bang, bang, bang" march, An Yi, who had closed his eyes and fell asleep, was also thinking intensely. Like Yin Jinan who had been thinking painfully beside him, An Yi was also thinking painfully about what had happened and what he had occasionally realized in the past ten days.
everything.
An Yi felt very confused and heavy. He didn't know whether General Li Zongren, the wise and wise general in the minds of all the Northern Expeditionary soldiers, really didn't trust Hu Zongduo, who was not his direct lineage.
He had different intentions, and had been silently and skillfully accumulating his own strength; An Yi didn't know if it was helpless that the Seventh Army that attacked the city in the last two times was violently attacked by the enemy gunboats, but he knew that Hu Zongduo would definitely put his
Remind Li Zongren that Hu Zongduo had seen it himself and the enemy siege troops had also taken precautions. Moreover, An Yi was convinced that Hu Zongduo had a way to deal with enemy gunboat bombardment, because An Yi also had a completely feasible response after thinking hard.
way.
But why the third time the crowds were excited and in the grand siege battle, the Seventh Army suffered the same blow again and was defeated quickly, allowing the enemy to quickly mobilize the reserves in the direction of Zhonghe Gate to reinforce the Fourth Army and its own Second Army
The direction of the division's attack?
Another question, why did the Fourth Army dare to use its own risky tactics but the Seventh Army did not? Could it be that the Seventh Army, which was invincible and invincible on the Northern Expedition and also known as the Iron Army, suddenly became timid? Or did it still have no artillery? No.
!Absolutely impossible! They have the courage and enough artillery.
So what's the reason?
An Yi, who was thinking hard, suddenly thought of a painful possibility: if Hu Zongren's guess that General Li Zongren "takes advantage of the opportunity to attack the city to consume the Hu Zongduo Department that may not be able to lose its tail" is established, will General Li Zongren repeat his old tricks?
How could the third siege be used to waste away the elites of the Fourth Army?
This thought flashed through An Yi's mind and immediately made him shiver uncontrollably. Suddenly a voice in his mind shouted righteously:
Impossible! You have a villain's heart and a gentleman's heart! If so, why did General Li Zongren take the lead in the Northern Expedition and enter Hunan, and use his elite troops to assist General Tang Shengzhi, who had been defeated again and again, to fight back to Changsha and become stronger? If that's true
In this way, how could General Li Zongren command more than 20,000 of his men to fight bloody battles at Tingsi Bridge and Hesheng Bridge, allowing young and brave soldiers to spread their blood on a foreign land? If this were the case, why would General Li Zongren lead his troops?
After pursuing the city of Wuchang, he immediately launched an indomitable siege operation, and suffered repeated defeats. He became more and more courageous with each setback. What is the purpose of such a great general who serves the country and the people and has the world in mind, if not for the fervent and firm revolutionary ideals in his heart?
Another despicable and dark voice in An Yi's mind immediately sounded: People will always change. Why didn't General Li Zongren, who had established a huge reputation through the Northern Expedition and became increasingly powerful, and why couldn't he have other ideas? Since ancient times, when faced with troubled times,
The prevailing righteousness is the unspoken rule of "taking turns to be the emperor of the same emperor". What's wrong with establishing higher life ideals when you have capital? What's wrong with using all means to realize your lofty ambitions? History is written by the victors.
, even though the most unlucky Cao Cao was reviled by thousands of people, he eventually became the founding emperor of the Wei Dynasty. Although he did not proclaim himself king during his lifetime, no one can conceal his great achievements and the fact that he became Emperor Wu of Wei. To put it in perspective,
, why would General Li Zongren use the third siege to consume the elite of the Guangdong army? The two countries are connected by mountains and rivers, one is rich and the other is poor. If you are a poor king of Guangxi, can you tolerate a force more powerful than you around you?
Aren't you worried about being annexed by others? What's more, in the past few decades, there have been constant fierce battles between Guangdong and Guangxi, and there are many grievances and grievances. Today's friends may be tomorrow's enemies. No politician with farsightedness can fail to see this potential crisis.
, your failure to see it only proves that you are a mediocre person! Besides, since ancient times, one general has become famous and thousands of bones have withered. For the lofty ideal, what price cannot be paid? Throughout the ages, which founding emperor has not piled up under his throne
Tens of thousands of bones...
An Yi's heart became heavier and heavier, and an even more horrifying thought suddenly flashed into his chaotic mind that could no longer bear the burden: his principal had profound military knowledge and command experience, and even the revolutionary army's
He also wrote the construction outline. He served as the chief of staff of the Guangdong Army for a long time under the appointment of Mr. Zhongshan. He fought at the forefront of wars against warlords. He also had rich experience in two Eastern Expeditions. It is impossible not to see the two attacks on Wuchang City.
After the tragic defeat of the city, it was impossible not to know the heavy price that would be paid by attacking the city again, but why did we still choose to attack the city?
Furthermore, the enemy general guarding Hanyang resolutely declared his surrender to the revolution after the third failed siege. This proves that the two sides had reached some kind of agreement before that, and only then did the enemy general Liu Zuolong fail when the revolutionary army failed to attack the city.
On the same day, the whole country was electrified anyway, otherwise it would be difficult to understand.
Based on the above two foundations, why is it necessary to launch another futile siege with heavy casualties? Does his principal also have the mentality of consuming the strength of other opponents? At this time, why did General Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of the siege, not try his best to stop it?
, but echoed with one voice? And what about General Bai Chongxi, who is strategizing and far-sighted? If this is really the case, wouldn't he and the brothers of the entire second division also be miserable pawns...
The frightened An Yi suddenly sat up, startling the bearded man in front of him and Yin Jinan, who was gradually getting out of trouble. Seeing An Yi's sweating and frightened eyes, they quickly supported him and nervously asked what happened.
Already?
The sharp-eyed bearded man reached out and gently opened An Yi's clothes. When he saw the blood soaking the white gauze on his left shoulder again, he sighed and complained in a low voice.
The severe pain in his shoulder and the distended pain in his head, coupled with the sound of "bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang."
Then he slowly lay down again, closed his tired eyes and couldn't help but said: If only the master was by our side!
Why did they suddenly talk about Lao Dao at this time? Hu Zi and Yin Jinan looked at each other for a moment inexplicably. When they lowered their heads, they found that An Yi had fallen asleep...