The third and forty-ninth chapters of the deep-seated grievances
Chapter 349 The grudges deep in my heart
An Yi followed Hans and the captain to the bow of the ship. The captain put down his telescope and issued a series of orders loudly. Hans explained to An Yi in a low voice that there were at least 3,000 troops with live ammunition on the dock, and there were also many flags.
Flying in the morning wind, I don't know which force's army it is and what it wants to do.
An Yi vaguely remembered that one of the divisions stationed at Hukou should belong to General Zhu Peide's Third Army, while one of Li Zongren's divisions was stationed in Jiujiang, west of Poyang Hukou, which is still nearly 20 kilometers away. An Yi thought about it
Not sure, he turned to Lin Yaodong and asked for the binoculars. He saw clearly that it was the flag of the Third Army, and he was immediately relieved.
General Zhu Peide's generosity and loyalty are well-known in the military. For example, when he shouted anti-communism, he only sent gifts out of the territory he occupied and closed the offices of trade unions and farmers' associations. He did not launch a campaign like the Hunan Army.
Bloody suppression.
Before leaving Nanjing and returning, An Yi had instructed Chen Yu to send a telegram to Lao Dao in old Nanchang. An Yi guessed that after the news of the heavy casualties in the unit was reported, Lao Dao and his brothers would rush to Hukou to greet him, but he did not expect to stand on the dock.
Looking at so many soldiers of the Third Army, An Yi suddenly wondered if a war in Nanjing was imminent. The military government controlled by Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and He Yingqin sent veteran mobilization Zhu Peide to help Nanjing, so they gathered at the dock to prepare.
Board and disembark at any time.
The brothers on the Belgian merchant ship behind him also walked out of the cabin one after another, standing on the front deck and port side and looking at the Hukou Pier. The gunboat where An Yi was on went for a tour upstream, and then returned to the pier and slowly docked, and berthed at the Belgian merchant ship.
beside.
Before the ship could stop, I saw a general wearing a general's uniform striding over, surrounded by a group of generals. The officers and soldiers on the pier stood solemnly, their military appearance was neat, the battle flags were fluttering and the bugles were blaring, which looked very impressive.
grand.
The captain saw An Yi next to him with a face full of gratitude and bowed respectfully to the general below. Knowing that he was coming to greet An Yi's army, he safely ordered to put down the gangplank and politely greeted An Yi, Hans and others.
Say goodbye.
After the guests disembark, the gunboat's escort mission is completed, and they will turn around and sail directly to Shanghai.
An Yi strode down the gangplank, came to the nearly forty-year-old General Zhu Peide and bowed deeply again. Zhu Peide, who was full of spring breeze, stretched out his hands to stop An Yi from saluting. He looked at each other and smiled at Lao Shoudao, who was wearing a robe next to him, and turned to An Yi.
He asked happily:
"Brother An, as a soldier, how do you perform this civilian courtesy? You are a famous Northern Expedition general who is famous all over the world. How do you behave?"
"Senior, please call this junior An Yi or Xiao Yi. Senior and Uncle Lao are about the same age. They are both elders of the junior. They have already made the junior fearful by being so humble to welcome him three hundred miles away!"
An Yi finished speaking humbly, and then explained: "The seniors may not know it yet, but the junior has been disbanded and engaged in business. From now on, he is no longer a soldier. For this reason, he has greatly offended the original senior officer, General He Jingzhi.
In anger, General He led 2,000 elite and fully-armed soldiers to the Xiaguan camp where the junior and more than a thousand wounded brothers were temporarily staying. He wanted to impose military justice on the junior and his officers, and disarm my scarred soldiers. Fortunately, I got to Nanjing.
Tens of thousands of students interceded with the people, and finally the juniors were allowed to lead the remaining troops back to old Nanchang to cultivate."
Zhu Peide and the generals around him were all shocked. Although An Yi said so politely, Zhu Peide and his generals knew what it meant to engage in military law and to disarm all.
Zhu Peide, who had a full heaven and a square pavilion, asked angrily: "How could He Jingzhi, a dignified commander of an army, act so recklessly? Not to mention the great military exploits made by his nephew's troops since the Northern Expedition, only that the enemy is now a formidable enemy.
Now is the time when we are united to share the same hatred, why is he so confused?"
An Yi was surprised when he heard Zhu Peide suddenly call him his nephew, but he smiled slightly:
"Senior, this is a long story. I will report it in detail when I return to Nanchang. Senior, please move on. I will introduce you... This is Mr. Hans, the general manager of the Far East District of Lulin Trading Company in Germany. Now Lulin Trading Company is in our country.
All business is under his control... This is Mr. Hans' assistant Lauter. He is a China expert and can speak Mandarin better than me, haha... This is the chief medical expert of the Keats Hospital in Nanjing run by the German Church.
Mr. Luze, this time my nephew led the dying remnants to escape back to the south of the Yangtze River. Thanks to the all-out rescue efforts of Mr. Kruse and dozens of his colleagues, more than 300 brothers who were as energetic as a thread escaped from the gate of hell.
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Mr. Kruse and his colleagues are worried about the junior coming back this time. More than 20 people worked tirelessly to keep it safe. This junior is deeply touched."
Zhu Peide was born into a scholarly family of officials. His ancestor was a border general of the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty. He studied both civil and military arts since childhood and graduated from the Yunnan Lecture Hall. He joined the revolution ten years ago and moved from Yunnan to Guangdong to become Mr. Sun Yat-sen.
He is a good general under his command, has made many meritorious deeds in ten years of war, and has deep qualifications. He was appointed commander of the Third Army before the Northern Expedition. The commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition Oath-taking Ceremony held in Guangzhou last year was Zhu Peide.
Strictly speaking, Zhu Peide was a knowledgeable, open-minded, and courteous Confucian general. After An Yi's introduction, he saluted and greeted the three Hans very politely without any pretense, which moved the three Hans very much.
There are only a handful of generals in the revolutionary army today, and Hans knows very well that Zhu Peide in front of him is not only the commander-in-chief of the Third Army and the Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, but also the chairman of Jiangxi Province appointed by the two national governments of Ninghan and Han.
Seventy percent of the tungsten sand shipped back to Germany by Lulin Trading Company every year is produced in Jiangxi.
At the same time, Hans, Lauter and others were also very keenly aware that the relationship between An Yi and Zhu Peide was by no means ordinary. The fact that An Yi, at such a young age, could be so valued by a powerful and dominating general made Hans and others
They were surprised and thought deeply, but they didn't know that An Yi was as surprised as them.
After everyone had met, and just as they were about to walk towards the troops together, they heard desperate wailing from the river, followed by a loud "bang", which scared thousands of soldiers on the dock to scream in unison.
An Yi turned around in surprise and looked at the river where the loud noise came from. He saw a Japanese gunboat swaying a few times and then heading downstream at high speed. A steamboat less than 20 meters away from the berth was hit to pieces.
The raised half of the ship's bow, with its deformed machine gun, crashed down, stirring up a large bloody spray. Dozens of revolutionary officers and soldiers on board all fell into the water, raised their heads, screamed desperately, and swam to the shore, rumbling away.
On the Japanese gunboat that was leaving, more than a dozen Japanese officers and soldiers danced happily and laughed loudly.
An Yi, the surrounding generals, Hans and others looked at the river in shock. They knew that Japanese warships had been a common occurrence in the Yangtze River and coastal areas. As early as the beginning of the year, the Jingjiang ferry was rammed and sunk by a Japanese warship, killing more than 300 people.
In April, Japanese warships maliciously rammed and sank a grain transport ship belonging to the Wuhan Army in the lower reaches of Hankou. In early June, they rammed and sank a supply ship belonging to the 44th Army in the Wuhu River section, leaving hundreds of officers and soldiers dead at the bottom of the river. There was nowhere to redress the injustice.
Such a tragedy happened, and now he saw with his own eyes that a Japanese warship maliciously crashed into the surface guard ship of the Third Army in front of thousands of revolutionary officers and soldiers. How could An Yi not be filled with anger and his liver and gallbladder were about to burst.
Suddenly, several roars were heard from the Belgian ship moored below. Gu Changfeng shouted, "Brothers, copy these guys!" and rushed into the cabin. Xia Jian, who was wrapping his left hand on the deck, shouted to the adjutant, "Bring me my gun." Ding Zhicheng and
Zhan Huanqi has already led his brothers into the cabin to search for weapons.
Upon seeing this, An Yi suddenly woke up and rushed towards the Belgian merchant ship, shouting loudly as he rushed: "No one is allowed to move! No one is allowed to move -"
The brothers who rushed out of the cabin with various weapons were all shocked when they heard An Yi's loud orders. They couldn't understand that the boss who had a vengeance stopped him from taking revenge on the little Japanese who was heading downstream.
After hesitating, An Yi rushed up the gangplank to the deck, stared coldly at Gu Changfeng and others, and gave a stern order:
"Put the weapons back for me. If anyone dares to disobey orders and act rashly, don't blame me for being merciless!"
"Brother! Look, look..."
Xia Jian, who was holding a flower machine gun with one hand, pointed at the slowly sinking corpses of several Third Army brothers upstream, pointed at the fragments of the steamboat on the river, and shouted loudly:
"What a fool. Little Japan bumped into it on purpose. I can see it clearly, brother! Can we not avenge our brothers who died unjustly?"
An Yi yelled: "Shut up! Let me go back to the cabin. If anyone dares to show off with weapons on the ship again, I will kill him!"
You don't open your eyes and take a good look. Where are you standing now? Even if you don't have this scruple, can the few broken guns in your hands be able to withstand the cannon of the warship? As soon as your gun fires, not only will you not be able to avenge,
It will also bring huge trouble to our Belgian and German friends who are full of goodwill towards us. More importantly, as long as you fire this shot, you will be firmly remembered by little Japan. Do you understand?
Under the current circumstances, what can we do to fight against the warships? This revenge is not that we will not avenge it, but that the time has not yet come!"
After An Yi finished speaking, he turned around and strode off the boat, and ran to General Zhu Peide and the generals of the Third Army and the Ninth Army on the upstream shore. He watched dozens of brothers who were in the water rushing back to the injured officers and soldiers in the river in a panic.
After recovering his brother's body, An Yi's heart surged with anger and his chest heaved.
However, at this time, An Yi could only grit his teeth and silently swallow this heavy shame. In his heart, this was not only a shame for the Third Army, but also a shame for the Chinese soldiers, and a shame for the entire nation. This hatred
He must take revenge, and he will recover the blood debt twice as much!
A warm welcome ceremony turned into a tragedy with screams and anger all over the place. Zhu Peide was so angry that his face turned blue and his beard was trembling. The surrounding commanders such as Jin Handing, Wang Jun and other commanders and deputy commanders were all filled with grief and anger, and they cursed loudly.
Thousands of officers and soldiers had dispersed, and there was a lot of curses and resentment.
The old man walked up to An Yi, gently pulled him behind, smoothed his long beard and whispered happily: "Not bad, he is much more mature, very good! I feel relieved."
"I feel so useless! Alas..."
An Yi complained in a low voice. When he saw Hans and Lauter shouting for the accompanying doctors to get off the boat and come to treat the injured people, An Yi patted the old man's arm, turned around and rushed to Zhu Peide's side:
"Senior, don't be too sad. This revenge will be avenged one day. Let the brothers form a team. After these foreign doctors have finished the first aid, they will carry the injured brothers to the Belgian merchant ship and live with the wounded soldiers under the junior's command. The people on the ship
The medicines are more complete, and when we get to Nanchang, we will send him to the old Nanchang Hospital of the younger generation immediately, and the younger generation will take good care of him."
Zhu Peide nodded, sighed heavily, and pulled An Yi towards the old road:
"Let's go, Brother Dao, let's all get on the Belgian ship and go back together. The three hundred miles of waterway will take a long time. Let's just talk together. Some things have to be put on the agenda as soon as possible. This birdiness, brother