After entering November, the weather in Hunan officially began to get cooler. Chenzhou is an important city in which Lingnan enters the Yangtze River basin, but it is north of Lingnan. Even after November, Guangzhou is still hot and humid, and there is no problem in wearing short sleeves. In Chenzhou, you need to wear a long-sleeved shirt, and a military uniform jacket over the shirt will not feel very hot.

After firmly occupying Guangdong for several years, the military industry department of the Liberation Army was finally able to provide a large amount of olive green dye, and the more than 200,000 troops were all uniformed in green military uniforms. The color, texture, and style of Zhou Jinguo's military uniform are no different from those of the soldiers. In addition to his chest, there are two pockets that can hold pocket watches, pens and other tools used by officers. The so-called four pockets and two pockets are the biggest difference in clothing between the officers and men of the Liberation Army.

Of course, you have to get very close to see it clearly. From a distance, all the officers and soldiers were in uniform green uniforms, with octagonal hats with brims, and the difference between these fighters was completely indiscerning. It was completely different from the Hunan army or other Qing armies, where officers and soldiers were distinctly separated.

The regiment commander ordered Zhou Jinguo's troops to sweep and dismantle the camps set up by the Hunan army along the river, and if they encountered resistance from the Hunan army, they would adopt new tactics to solve the Hunan army as much as possible. The Hunan army obviously had no intention of leaving people waiting for death, and Zhou Jinguo swept more than a dozen stockades, all of which were empty. When the farthest stockade was set on fire, Zhou Jinguo stood there and looked in the direction of his hometown for a while.

The road in front of him is vaguely familiar, over two mountains, around three big bends, only need to walk more than a day, only need to walk more than eighty miles, Zhou Jinguo can return to his hometown, back to his home. Zhou Jinguo finally suppressed the urge to bring the troops home. First of all, as a battalion commander, without the consent of the political commissar and the staff officer, he did not have to consider taking the troops to act privately. The regiment commander repeatedly explained before setting off that the troops were not allowed to run far. Secondly, even if you act privately, once you return to the Liberation Army, you will have to be stripped of your military position if you don't die. In the purge a few months ago, not to mention a battalion commander, the division commanders who claimed to be Hunanese were dismissed from their posts and sent to military academies to study.

Everyone is not stupid, and more importantly, the Liberation Army does not hide these things. Opposition to "regionalism" is not a joke, and if you stick to this reputation, even the most capable officers will be removed from their posts.

After looking in the direction of his hometown for a long time, Zhou Jinguo led the troops back to Chenzhou in frustration.

It took a total of three days to go back and forth, and when he arrived at the camp in Chenzhou, Zhou Jinguo immediately found the military doctor and asked, "Doctor, how is it?" ”

The military doctor clearly remembered what Zhou Jinguo had said about studying gunshot wounds, and he replied: "Many of these bullets are one shot or two eyes, but not many of them remain in the enemy's body." I took a closer look at the wound that had penetrated it, and the residue in it ......"

Zhou Jinguo endured it at first, but after listening to the military doctor's long discussion of the characteristics of the bullets of the Guangfu Army, he finally couldn't help it, and said to the military doctor very politely: "Did the wounded Hunan army I give the doctor to you, have you recovered?" ”

Listening to Zhou Jinguo's question, the military doctor thought for a while, "Oh? Oh! The wounded! He was lucky, the bullet hit a penetrating wound, and it didn't hurt the vital point or bone. It's just that the treatment level of the Hunan army is too poor, and if it is treated in time, I am afraid that the amount of blood loss will be limited. But I don't know what luck this kid has taken, the injury is not too serious, and in a few days, as long as the wound does not suppurate, he will be able to run all over the ground. ”

Zhou Jinguo hurriedly asked, "Can I talk to him?" ”

"You have to ask the guard, that person is the Hunan army and not our Guangfu army. Naturally, someone looked at them, and I said that nothing counts. The medic replied.

Zhou Jinguo was a little confused at first, but he understood in an instant. The military doctors in the Guangfu Army have a great say, but for a group of Hunan army prisoners, it is naturally impossible for the Guangfu Army to treat the Hunan army prisoners in the same way as comrades. So Zhou Jinguo ran directly to see the guards, and soon saw Lu Shangyang on the hospital bed sleeping with his eyes closed. I've seen the wounded, I've seen the unconscious, I've seen the dead. Zhou Jinguo could see at a glance that although Lu Shangyang was lying there very weakly, he was not the kind of person who was thrown on the straw mat like a pile of rags when he saw him a few days ago, and he was now sleeping comfortably on the hospital bed.

Sitting over and waking up Lu Shangyang, Lu Shangyang opened his eyes in a daze, stared at Zhou Jinguo sitting next to him for a while, and Lu Shangyang said weakly: "I remember you a little." ”

"I'm Zhou Jinguo. We've fought in the village before. After Zhou Jinguo finished speaking, he paused for a while before adding: "I know your sister Lu Yufeng." ”

Lu Shangyang had completely remembered the past, and he gasped and said, "You...... You are the fifth child of the Zhou family! ”

Seeing that Lu Shangyang recognized him, Zhou Jinguo's heart was also a lot more relaxed, and he then asked, "Is there any change in our Yongxing?" ”

Lu Shangyang wanted to speak and stopped, and under the urging of Zhou Xingguo, he said after a while: "You can go back and see for yourself." ”

Such an answer made Zhou Jinguo feel that something was wrong, and he lowered his face and said, "Could it be that something happened to my family?" ”

Lu Shangyang didn't expect Zhou Jinguo to be able to guess a lot of things, he could only say: "After the Cantonese bandits left from Yongxing, the Qing army followed the Cantonese bandits. After our family returned to the original place, we only knew that the officers and soldiers were burned everywhere, and we didn't see your family after that. ”

"What?" Zhou Jinguo roared angrily. Of course, he thought that his life might not be very good, but he didn't expect that there would be no one in his house. In a fit of rage, Zhou Jinguo grabbed Lu Shangyang's collar, glared at Lu Shangyang and shouted: "Don't lie to me, is it your family who has poisoned my family." ”

"Ahem!" was grabbed by Zhou Jinguo by the collar and shook the wound, Lu Shangyang couldn't help coughing, coughed for a while, Lu Shangyang finally took a breath, and said in a weak voice: "Old Zhou, cough cough!" My family ran away early when I passed the army, and you don't know it. Ahem! Ahem, ahem! When we went home, our house was robbed, and I don't know who set a fire that burned down half of my house. Ahem! Our villagers, our family was tossed so badly, how could we kill your family? ”

Zhou Jinguo listened to Lu Shangyang's explanation, but he also felt that there was some truth. He let go of Lu Shangyang's collar and continued to ask: "It's been seven or eight years, hasn't my family come back yet?" You are all in the Hunan army, don't you know anything? ”

"We have passed a few soldiers in Yongxing, the Taiping army is gone, and the Guangxi soldiers, Hubei soldiers, Guangdong soldiers, and Guizhou soldiers have come, and our family has passed a stubble of Guizhou soldiers after returning to Yongxing. Why should my family be a Hunan army, if it is not a Hunan army, foreign soldiers will be so stubble after stubble, and they will grab stubble after stubble. Without our Hunan soldiers guarding Hunan, who can withstand it! Lu Shangyang explained the reason why he became a Hunan army, and as he spoke, he also remembered the previous days, and he couldn't help crying.

Looking at Lu Shangyang's sincere tears, Zhou Jinguo also believed it. Even so, he still threatened: "It won't be long before we can fight back to Yongxing, if I let me know that my family is under the hands of your Lu family, I will kill your whole family at that time." ”

This threat did not frighten Lu Shangyang, Lu Shangyang gasped and said: "My second brother was killed by your Guangfu Army in Fuzhou, and the third brother was killed by Cantonese bandits in Sanhe. Ahem, you almost killed me too. How many lives do you owe to our family. Kill if you want, don't find any reason. ”

Seeing Lu Shangyang's appearance, Zhou Jinguo snorted, turned around and left the military hospital.

Back at the camp, Zhou Jinguo first ran to the regiment commander and asked the regiment commander to give the order to conquer Yongxing. If Yongxing cannot be conquered, Zhou Jinguo will not be able to investigate his whereabouts. According to Lu Shangyang, no one in the Zhou family was in their hometown in 1853, where did the family go? At that time, the Zhou family chose to join the Taiping Army only Zhou Jinguo, and there were thirteen men and women in the Zhou family at that time. These thirteen people said that if there is no, there will be no more? Zhou Jinguo didn't believe it at all.

The head of the regiment did not agree to Zhou Jinguo's request, even if Zhou Jinguo cried and requested, it was useless. "Now the troops have not received orders to go north. Without orders, we cannot be dispatched. ”

"Commander, I beg you, even if we don't fight Yongxing, can we send some people to investigate?" Zhou Jinguo pleaded.

Hearing this request, the regiment commander sighed, "I can only ask the division commander." However, Battalion Commander Zhou, no one is allowed to act without an order. Now we are very strict in grasping discipline, and you must pay attention to observing discipline. ”

Zhou Jinguo knew this, and after coming out of the regiment commander, he wrote a letter to the governor Wei Ze. The last letter was not answered, and Zhou Jinguo did not have much confidence in this letter.

Contrary to what Zhou Jinguo had thought, his letters were sent to Guangzhou along with those of other people, and after being examined by special personnel, these letters became various summaries. Zhou Jinguo wrote to Wei Ze on November 9, and Shen Xin, the trusted director of the political department, went to Wei Ze to report the situation on November 16 with a report.

Handing over the statistics and the corresponding content classification to Wei Ze, Shen Xin introduced: "Governor, now many comrades from Hunan in the army are asking to liberate their hometowns as much as possible. Some are looking for people, others just want to go home. The letters of the comrades were very emotional, especially those who were only a step away from their homes, but could only obey orders and did not move on. I wanted to cry when I read the letter. ”

Wei Ze shook his head helplessly, he could imagine the feelings of these comrades. When Guangxi was liberated, a large number of local comrades in Guangxi, including Wei Changrong, tried their best to find out the situation at home. When I checked the letters sent to the front, I found that many of them were asked by familiar comrades who had marched into Guangxi to inquire about the news.

Guangxi is good to say, after taking it, it will have no impact on the entire strategic situation. Hunan is a different story. Hunan is the base camp of the Hunan army, and most of the officers and soldiers of Hunan nationality in Wei Ze's army come from half of Hunan. If everyone's needs are met, then the whole of Hunan can only be won.

But now is not the time to take the whole of Hunan. Too many brothers in the Liberation Army were born in the Taiping Army, so no one wanted to bear the reputation of destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Moreover, according to the latest information, the Hunan army has besieged Anqing for more than half a year, and it seems that they are determined to conquer Anqing. Even if the Guangfu Army captured Chenzhou, the Hunan Army had no intention of returning to the division.

Let the Manchus and Hong Tianwang fight to the death, when the Manchus killed Hong Tianwang, it must have been a big injury, and the prepared Guangfu army at that time will go out to level the Qing army in one fell swoop. This was the wishful thinking of the upper echelons of the Guangfu Army, so Shen Xin didn't dare to persuade the troops, he just said: "Governor, since we have entered Hunan, we can't do this." I think we might as well engage in political propaganda in Hunan. Publicize the policy of our cultivators having their own land in Hunan. In this way, Hunan can always be differentiated first. When we officially marched into the army, the local people in Hunan also knew why they wanted to follow our Guangfu Army. ”

No one urged Wei Ze to enter the army, and Wei Ze felt a lot better in his heart. Regarding Shen Xin's strategy, Wei Ze suddenly remembered another question, "Can you also investigate the situation in Comrade Hunan's house?" ”

"Yes!" Shen Xin replied cheerfully. R1058