Chapter 159: Moths to the Fire, Longing for the Light (1)
Lin Junxiong rushed out of a stone gate at the foot of the mountain with the 89th regiment, and joined the 45th regiment that had already arrived first, Wei Xin looked at Lin Junxiong with a sad face, and then saw that there was no one else behind him, and realized what misfortune had happened to Gao Shang and the 332nd regiment.
When the Japanese pursuing on the mountain ridge transmitted the news back to the division, and the division rushed to the west to intercept it, Lin Junxiong had already led his troops away.
On the way forward, Lin Junxiong was silent, more than 3,500 people in the entire 45th Brigade, less than 1,200 escaped with him, and the 332nd Regiment was wiped out. Although they lost their lives in the battle against the Japanese army, they died in the conspiracy of the Kuomintang against them, and they were labeled as unreliable and distrustful because of themselves.
A wing of the Japanese army followed closely behind them, and twice passed through the Kuomintang defense line along the way, but the Kuomintang army turned a blind eye and allowed the Japanese army to pursue Lin Junxiong's troops under their noses.
The Japanese pursued for nearly 20 kilometers, during which they provided positions for Japanese bombers, causing nearly 200 lives of Lin Junxiong's troops.
Unsure whether the Kuomintang troops would continue to adopt such a laissez-faire posture along the way, Lin ordered his troops to advance at night and hide in the hidden mountains and forests during the day. It took nearly five days for the troops to finally arrive at the Luoxiao Mountains.
After entering Luoxiao Mountain, Lin Junxiong led his troops to Hunan, and after entering Luoxiao Mountain for a day, he finally met Tang Linlin, the leader of the Hunan and Jiangxi border guerrillas instructed by Liao Chengxian.
"Comrade Junxiong, it's been hard along the way."
"Captain Tang, thank you for coming over, and then I have to trouble you to take care of my brothers for a while, I want to go to Yan'an."
"The Party Central Committee has already given instructions, don't worry, and at the same time let me tell you to let you stay in Luoxiao Mountain for half a month to stabilize the mood of the troops first, and then go to Yan'an."
"I understand, I have to trouble Captain Tang in life."
"Let's go, it's been arranged, but the conditions are more difficult, please forgive me with this brother."
"This Captain Tang rest assured, the soldiers I led are not pampered, and they have encountered more difficult conditions than this."
Lin Junxiong and his troops walked for a day in Luoxiao Mountain before reaching the guerrillas' residence, which was already located in Hunan. At the station, Lin Junxiong went to each company to do a good job of pacifying him, and when he saw that the troops did not appear uncomfortable and depressed, he relieved his heart, and he asked Wei Xin to continue to do a good job in the ideological work of the troops, and arranged for jungle training in the mountains and forests.
When he told Wei Xin and Xie Qin that he wanted to go to Changsha alone to meet Xue Yue, both of them tried their best to stop them, after all, the current situation has been very unfavorable to Lin Junxiong, and various accidents may occur if there is a slight mistake, but Lin Junxiong insisted on going to see Xue Yue, but he had some worries in his heart, and at the same time wanted to push the 45th Brigade to the encirclement of the Japanese army through the internal conspiracy of the Kuomintang through the Changsha underground party comrades, resulting in the sacrifice of two-thirds of the 45th Brigade's troops, hoping to pass the pressure of public opinion, Let Chiang Kai-shek return to the front of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to unite against Japan, instead of being righteous and awe-inspiring on the surface, but behind the scenes, there are all kinds of conspiracies.
Lin Junxiong finally reluctantly accepted Wei Xin's suggestion, took Shang Tianen and five shadow team members to Changsha together, and several people caught up with Changsha's largest Mishang on the way, and took a hitchhike to Changsha after a three-day long journey.
After a few people ate in a restaurant at noon, Lin Junxiong took a few people to Fang Shaoyun's residence in Changsha, observed around for a while, and found that some people looked at Fang Shaoyun's residence from time to time, Lin Junxiong and a few people went to the suburbs not far away, found a tavern to live in, Lin Junxiong was going to find a way to enter Fang Shaoyun's residence at night.
At night, Lin Junxiong quietly slipped into Fang Shaoyun's residence, Fang Shaoyun was kneading the old lady, saw Lin Junxiong standing outside the door, and said in surprise: "Junxiong? How did you get in, come in. ”
The old lady opened her squinted eyes and said happily, "Junxiong, you finally came to see me, an old woman?" ”
"Old lady, Toshio has come to see you, are you in good health and have a good appetite?"
"Okay, it's all good, but I can't see you all the time, and I'm panicked, so I want to accompany me well this time."
"Old lady, I'm fighting the Japanese now, I may not be able to accompany you, come and see you, and I'll be leaving again in two days."
"It's the dwarf country, okay, get them out of Chinese soil."
Lin Junxiong accompanied the old lady to talk, and the old lady was a little sleepy before she stopped, and shouted that Lin Junxiong would continue to chat with her tomorrow.
"Junxiong, I listened to your eldest brother about you, and I thought I would never see you again in this life, we women don't understand your men's affairs, but my sister-in-law will always treat you as a younger brother."
"Sister-in-law, Junxiong must have made the eldest brother unhappy this time, but I have a different position with the eldest brother, and there are not many opportunities to see you in the future, but in my heart, I will always remember the eldest brother and sister-in-law, and I will definitely come to visit you again if I have the right opportunity."
"Hey, your eldest brother has always had a stiff face in the past two days since he came back, and no one cares, he should be back soon, and you can have a good chat when the time comes."
"Well, sister-in-law, this jade pendant is your family heirloom, I came to visit you this time, and then I will return it to you, Junxiong can't afford to be so loved by you."
"Junxiong, you keep the jade pendant, even if your eldest brother wants to break off your friendship with you, my sister-in-law still treats you as a younger brother from the bottom of my heart."
Lin Junxiong was pushed back by Fang Shaoyun with the hand that was stretched out with the jade pendant, and at this time Xue Yue walked in with his hands behind his back, he looked at Fang Shaoyun and said, "When did I say that I was going to break off my relationship with him, what did a woman talk nonsense?" I'm going to get some food and drinks, and I'll have a good chat with Toshio. ”
"Big brother, me"
"It's good that you're still alive, how Lao Jiang dealt with you, tell me."
Lin Junxiong told Xue Yue in detail what happened to the 45th Brigade, Xue Yue listened, and after listening, he slammed the table with his fist and scolded: "This must be Dai Li's bad idea, at this moment of national crisis, he actually let the Chinese army be surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese. ”
"Big brother, don't be angry, I still brought out nearly a thousand troops."
"More than 2,000 people, just buried in vain, just for Lao Jiang to keep what he said correct, what the hell is going on, it's too small-bellied."
"Big brother, I want to poke this matter out, so that Lao Jiang will have some pressure, and he will not dare to deal with the Communist Party openly and sabotage the great cause of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to resist Japan."
"You make your own decisions, I don't know anything, and I don't want to know."
"Is the eldest brother still angry with Toshio? I have to hide my identity from you all the time, but I haven't lied to you about other things, and the emotion of seeing you as my big brother is not false at all. ”
"What am I angry about, you are not a three-year-old child, you have your own thoughts, you have your own decisions, you can't let you follow me in everything. It's just that the position is different, and we will still be a pair of brothers on the anti-Japanese battlefield in the future, but I'm worried that when you get over there, you don't know the place well, if you don't get used to it, you will come back, and the eldest brother will call the shots for you! ”
"Big brother, how lucky I am to have such an older brother as you in this life."
Fang Shaoyun brought the prepared wine and food, closed the door and went out after setting them up.
After Lin Junxiong and Xue Yue drank a few glasses, Xue Yue said: "When I just learned that you are a communist, I felt like an iceberg was released, and then I couldn't rest assured when I knew that you were in danger, I thought about it for a long time and figured it out, no matter what the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are, they are all fighting against Japan now, we are brothers one day, and we will always be brothers, this will not change, come, drink!" ”
"No matter what happens in the future, Toshio will not change the fact that he sees you as a big brother."
"Brother, if I persuade you not to go over there, I know you won't agree, but I don't understand, what's so good about the Communist Party, I heard that they are not harmonious internally, and they are obviously weak compared to the Kuomintang, your choice is to be a moth to the fire!"
"Big brother, people will always only see the phenomenon of moths fighting fires, but no one thinks about why moths go out of their way to put out fires, the reason why they are so desperate is because they yearn for the light!"
"Moths to the fire, yearning for the light?"
"Yes, the eldest brother should know in his heart that there are many villains within the Kuomintang, there are many internal factions, and the Nationalist Government is obviously a representative group of the interests of a small number of capitalists, and if Chiang Kai-shek cannot maintain a good balance between them, the final outcome is also conceivable."
"What about the Communist Party? What do you mean by light? ”
"The interests of the working class and ordinary toiling masses represented by the Communist Party cannot support the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation by a small number of people, and only by the joint efforts of tens of thousands of Chinese can there be hope for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Under the rule of the Kuomintang, the toiling people at the bottom of China suffered unspeakably, and they could not even guarantee their basic survival. Although the Communist Party is now weak, its ideology is more in line with China's national conditions today, and it can win the support of more Chinese people, and sooner or later the once spark will grow into a prairie fire. ”
"I know that the four major families of the Nationalist Government control the finances of the whole country, and I know that there are many internal factions, and I also know that Lao Jiang is not broad-minded enough, but everyone has their own choice, and I once made a choice between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, so I can only go down this road and will not look back."
Lin Junxiong sighed for a long time, knowing that it was useless to say anything, no matter how the Kuomintang treated Xue Yue, he would not be the same as himself, he had his insistence, he had his expectations, and the influence of the Communist Party's correct proposition was not enough for him to change his inherent ideas at the moment, maybe one day the situation would develop differently, and he could try it and move him.
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