August 28, 1912 said that the God of Wealth was in the East Lunar Month 16 and the God of Wealth was in the North Zodiac Chong Huyi: sacrifices, burials, military taboos: creation, the opening of the market: the southern solar terms: the salute of the Xiaogushan Fort in the summer was fired, the smoke filled the sky white, and the whistle of the warship was as tight as a sound. The sky seemed to be covered by a cauldron, and the clouds were pressed down not far overhead.

The air was suffocating and humid, and the 6,000 soldiers in the Anqing University yard lined up neatly, although they were wearing grass green camouflage summer military uniforms, they were still sweating, and the sweat of beans was dripping down the steel helmets. The mixed brigade of 6,000 men was divided into three phalanxes according to different arms of the army, and heavy weapons such as machine guns, artillery, and mortars were placed in front, and the cavalry led the war horses to stand solemnly. The horses were snorting hot air from their noses and digging at the sand with their hooves restlessly.

Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan stood at the forefront of the team with foreign swords, sending troops to Mobei to recover millions of square kilometers of territory, and Le Shi Yanran sealed the wolf Juxu, which is the unchanging dream of soldiers for thousands of years, and this mission has fallen on them, and the opportunity to shine in the annals of history is ahead.

There was a soft sound of horses' hooves stepping on the sand outside the school field, and the school field suddenly became silent, and Chai Dongliang rode a beautiful and somewhat exaggerated Arabian white horse into the school field quickly. The weather was breathless, but he was wearing a neat lieutenant general's uniform, followed by Lu Kai, He Tianshou, Barnes, Bruce, Fang Qingyu and other officers, each of whom had a straight uniform and shiny medals.

The war horse galloped quickly to the vicinity of the rostrum, Chai Dongliang threw the stirrup off the saddle and got off the horse, threw the horsewhip to the guards, and walked directly onto the rostrum, and everyone's eyes were suddenly focused on him. Chai Dongliang slowly looked around at the six thousand soldiers who were ready to go, and then said in as calm a tone as possible: "The Jianghuai Army was born from the Anhui New Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the goal of this army from the beginning of the army is to resist foreign humiliation??? But that's not our mission! The army is the iron fist of the country and the protector of the people, and our guns can only be pointed at foreign enemies! Hold on to your spears, polish your swords, and let all the enemies who covet our territory and slaughter our people tremble in your roar!

From the moment you set off, there will be destined to be a lot of good men who will never come back, the desert wind and sand and the endless sea are the death places of men, and blocking the enemy's last bullet with their chests in the last battle is the best destination for soldiers! Our sacrifice is precisely for the survival of the nation and the country! The advance army is the pride of the Jianghuai army, the pride of the children of the Jianghuai army, and the pride of the people??? I ask you to show the majesty of the people in the vast desert! Commander Kwong, take the flag! ”

Kuang Haishan is stepping onto the rostrum, leather boots on the steps every step is solid and powerful, just like his calm surname, Chai Dongliang took a rolled up flag from the hands of the guards, and solemnly handed it to Kuang Haishan's hands. After Kuang Haishan saluted with his saber against the bridge of his nose, his expression unfolded solemnly.

An iron-blooded eighteen-star army battle flag fluttered in the air, Chai Dongliang raised his dantian qi and roared: "Freedom and happiness can only be reserved for compatriots, and we only have two words for the enemy: iron and blood!" ”

Battle flag hunting, red is blood, black is iron!

Chai Dongliang snapped upright, lost no time in saluting the military flag, and then turned to the audience and shouted: "Long live freedom, long live the Republic of China!" ”

The soldiers' blood has long been stimulated by the dream of meritorious service, and a little spark can stir up the surging passion in their hearts. The meaning of these two familiar slogans was so different at this moment that the emotions of the soldiers and officers were suddenly ignited, and the six thousand people held steel guns in their hands, allowing the flash of bayonets to imprint a white and bright shadow on their faces, and the six thousand people shouted in unison: "Long live freedom, long live the Republic of China!" ”

The shouts pierced through the sky and did not disperse for a long time!

Secretary-General Gao Ming behind Chai Dongliang, couldn't help but have a cold war, when he first met him, he was in the big school field in Wuhu, with extremely incendiary words to inspire the soldiers of the Wuhu regiment, one hundred and eight horses stepped on Anqing knife and slashed the governor Zhu Jiabao, and at this moment how many stupid boys were excited by his instigation, and voluntarily died in the wind and sand of Mobei.

It's just that Gao Ming can't figure it out, why he clearly saw through Chai Dongliang's mind but was still shaken by his noisy heart? The eye sockets were so hot that it seemed that an old tear was about to fall. knew that he was putting on a show, but he was still moved by him!

Since the beginning of the Daoguang year, Chinese has been defeated repeatedly, and each time it ends with land reparations, the fire of the Old Summer Palace, the desolation of the Beiyang Naval Division on the Yellow Sea, and the iron hooves of the Eight-Nation Coalition in the year of Gengzi??? The humiliation has been said for too long, and this national sentiment that has been suppressed for a hundred years will be a volcano once it erupts, and any force will seem small and insignificant in front of it. The behemoth of the Manchu Qing Dynasty just didn't understand this, so it collapsed overnight and became the first stepping stone for the great rejuvenation of the Han nation!

After the army of 6,000 people took the oath, they marched to the Ximen Wharf 30 miles away, and the people along the way welcomed them, and the students sprinkled flowers into the air, and the rain of petals drifted on the soldiers' grass-green camouflage uniforms in the hot summer wind, as if they were flowers blooming on the grass. The common people stuffed the eggs they were going to change oil and salt into baskets to the soldiers, and when they refused to accept them, they threw them directly into the cart driven by the people. The eldest girl quietly stuffed the insoles embroidered with her name into the soldier's arms, blushing and hiding in the crowd. A few high-nosed and blue-eyed British pilots in the team kept sending kisses to the people on the side of the road.

As soon as the troops arrived at the wharf, the warship's salute roared again, and the Xiaogushan Fort also used a deafening cannon sound to strengthen the Jianghuai soldiers.

Behind the team are 2,000 people in blue coats, the army of 6,000 people must at least the same number of people, Yan Xishan, the governor of Shanxi, recruited a group of people, and when the army arrives in Yanjing, it will join them, and the Jin merchants also helped the Jianghuai army recruit a group in Suiyuan, so only more than 2,000 people were sent in Anhui.

Most of the people were in the prime of life with bronzed skin and rough hands and feet, and there were more than 100 young men of seventeen or eighteen years old. The skin color and dress of these people are the same as those of the others, but the blankness in their eyes cannot be suppressed.

On a transport ship, Xue Zilin climbed the side of the ship and looked north, which was in the direction of his hometown of Shouzhou. After a period of hard labor on the Invalids Farm, the Huaishang prisoners were released, and each of them was paid two yuan for the journey. The others happily went home to reunite with their relatives, but Xue Zilin and the other student army felt that the world was so big that there was nowhere to stay. The Huaishang Army has plagued more than ten prefectures and counties in northern Anhui, and Shouzhou is naturally no exception.

After leaving the Invalids Farm, Xue Zilin saw that the Anhui Military Advisory Office was recruiting people, and he and more than 100 classmates from the student army signed up by magic??? Perhaps, dying in Mobei can only clear the charge of rebellion with blood!

The wharf was crowded with people, and the people of Anqing spontaneously saw off this group of soldiers, and people hooked their faces, put on flower clothes, played waist drums, and played dry boats to cheer for their relatives who went on the expedition. Xue Zilin saw those advance troops wearing grass green camouflage uniforms and steel helmets, and a sadness suddenly rose, if he didn't follow Zhang Huitao but joined such a team, his mood at this moment should also be excited with incomparable heroism!

With a heart to save the country and the people, he was willing to throw out his blood, but in the end he got a rebellious reputation, which cannot but be said to be a huge irony!

The resentment in Xue Zilin's heart was fermented by the hot air, and he really wanted to roar at the sky: "God, you will kill me with a thunderbolt!" ”

"Boom"

A string of rolling thunder exploded as he wished, and a stream of wet water vapor swept across the river, blowing away the stinky sweat from everyone's bodies. Xue Zilin looked at the sky in surprise, only to see a dark cloud as black as ink sweeping across the river from south to north. Around the dark clouds, red, purple, green, and lightning swirled. It was as if there were thousands of monsters dancing in the air.

"Dragon hanging, it's dragon hanging!"

The clouds floating in the sky are like a giant dragon with a mighty head and horns, the dark clouds are the dragon's head, the curved clouds are the dragon's body, and there is a silver column of water falling from the sky to the river in the open mouth. It is an oolong that absorbs water in the Yangtze River.

Clicks, clicks and lightning clicks one after another, the earth trembled slightly, the river seemed to be boiling, and the large and small fish jumped out of the water and writhed in the air with an extremely strange attitude.

There was a snap, and a shiny white object slammed into the transport's teak plywood, bouncing on it a few times before shattering.

"Hail!" A folk man shouted eagerly, picked up a hat and put it on his head, and Xue Zilin, who had just woken up from a dream, also quickly found a clay plate to buckle on his head, and hurriedly ran to the cabin. The people who saw them off on the shore were scattered and fled by the hail, and they all looked for places to hide, discarding the dry boats that were all over the ground and the lion's heads were riddled with holes.

Chai Dongliang stood motionless on the West Gate Wharf, Fang Qingyu hurriedly buckled a steel helmet on his head, and said eagerly: "Governor, avoid it!" ”

Chai Dongliang rudely pushed him away, still saluting and looking at the officers and soldiers who were boarding the ship. The helmets of the advance troops were clanged by hailstones as small as soybeans and as large as pigeon's eggs, but the ranks were still neat and orderly, and they boarded the ships in order of their classes and numbers.

The waterspout swept across the river, and the fishing boats were lifted away, and the wood pulp and fish baskets were swept up to a height of 100 meters. The people on the shore knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the cloud in the sky. Chai Dongliang saw this vision for the first time, and he had a heartfelt awe of Hehe Tianwei. But he also knew that this was just a meteorological change caused by the intense convection of the air in the middle of summer, and it was not like a foolish woman who kowtowed like garlic.

Secretary-General Gao Ming reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said: "The army is marching, and there is a strong wind and rain division, this is a good omen!" ”

His younger brother Gao Chuguan said unceremoniously: "Dudu, the celestial phenomena warn, this trip to Mobei is more auspicious, can you suspend the expedition to Mongolia?" ”

Chai Dongliang shook his head resolutely, and said viciously: "There is no turning back arrow when the bow is opened, and the military spirit can only be drummed up, since God is joking with us, then I will accompany him to play to the end!" Order the fleet and fire in the direction of the waterspout! ”

Boom, boom!

The Haichen's 240-millimeter cannon fired two live rounds in the direction of the waterspout, and the surface of the water exploded into a huge wave more than ten meters high, and a water wall in the shape of a water wall spread out in all directions. The sound of artillery and thunder roared and was deafening.

Strange to say, after a few cannons, the power of the water dragon gradually weakened, and the thunder in the sky gradually faded away, and slowly only a faint muffled sound could be heard. In such an unusual celestial phenomenon, only a few civilians were slightly injured by the hailstorm's blue noses and swollen faces, while the soldiers were unscathed because of the protection of their steel helmets.

There was a rapid crack, and several hard objects fell from the sky and smashed on the deck and dock.

It's raining? No, it's not rain but fish, fish in the living Yangtze River!

Pap, papa, pap, pap, the fish fell more urgently, the lucky ones fell into the river, and the unfortunate ones fell on the warships and docks, and the corners of their mouths were bleeding.

On the wharf, all the people knelt on the ground and worshipped, and the fish, large and small, fell beside them, writhing and struggling, but they didn't see it, just kept kowtowing. There are fish in the sky, which is obviously beyond the scope of their common sense, and they are inexplicably afraid of supernatural powers, for fear of angering the gods.

There was a loud bang, and an object more than one meter long fell heavily in front of Chai Dongliang, and he looked at it and scared him, it turned out to be a Chinese alligator!

The crocodile fell from a height of dozens of meters on the muddy ground next to the pier, and it was not yet dead, and it opened its big mouth that was bleeding and panted slightly.

Chai Dongliang was extremely depressed in his heart, there was a waterspout at the sensitive moment of the army's travel, and what made him even more angry was that he ordered a few shots at the waterspout, and it actually threw down a crocodile to scare himself??? This is really retribution!

Gao Chuguan, who was stamping his feet and didn't know what to do, suddenly felt a thrill all over his body, and he remembered the scene described in the ancient book! He glanced at his brother Gao Ming, and saw that Gao Ming was also full of surprise!

A sentence rose in their hearts at the same time: The Holy Son of Heaven travels, the hundred spirits bless, and the fish and dragon come to the court!

This pig Polong, who is still struggling in the mire and seems to be nodding to Chai Dong, is not the fulfillment of this ancient saying!

They looked at Chai Dongliang with a little more fear and awe in their eyes!

(To be continued)