The dark green Dodge sedan with the license plate of the General Headquarters honked its horn all the way and rushed into the landing area of the Yanziji Wharf, the car made a sharp brake sound, rushed forward a few meters and stopped at the entrance, and the two revolutionary army generals in the car, one strong and one thin, pulled the car door and drilled out, and immediately rushed down the wharf, and the troop transport truck full of guards behind was still desperately chasing at the entrance 50 meters away.

The two generals ran down the steps of the dock and hurriedly saluted Mao Bingwen, the commander of the 3rd Division of the 40th Army of the garrison force, Mao Bingwen returned the salute and shook hands, the short and thin general quickly glanced at the nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers waiting on the dock, and turned to Mao Bingwen with a nervous expression and asked in a low voice: "Brother Ciheng, how is the situation?" ”

"Brother Ci, don't worry, forty minutes ago, Brother Ji Chang (Gu Zhenglun) and Brother Ci Xiu's head Li had already received General An Yi, when the younger brother led his troops to arrive, the ferry had already left Bagua Island and headed downstream, I heard the brothers who stayed here said that the fight was very bad, and in the end less than half of them were alive on the boat, and the enemy at least five regiments boarded Bagua Island to encircle it, in order to prevent artillery shelling and machine gun fire, they could only quickly retreat downstream and then come up along the south bank, and it was estimated that they would drive back along the south bank in a few moments. It's just that the younger brother heard that Brother An Yi's command has suffered heavy losses, and I'm afraid there are less than a thousand people left! Mao Bingwen reported to Chen Cheng sadly.

The stout general on the side took off his military hat and hit his right leg hard: "It's all to blame Lao Tzu for being greedy, I drank a mess last night and was bedridden, if I had known that Xiao Yi was on the other side, Lao Tzu would have asked his artillery brigade to come over to support, hey!" ”

Mao Bingwen explained: "Brother Zhuchen, don't blame yourself, no one knows that General An can fight back, the process is unimaginable!"

As soon as dawn heard the sound of fierce fighting coming from the other side of the river, we immediately mobilized the observation posts along the river to be on strict guard, and found that the two warring sides were wearing the same military uniforms and fighting very fiercely, so we thought that it was a mutiny within the enemy army, and the rebellious troops wanted to escape across the river, who would have thought that it would be An Yi Reading Strength Master? If you know, our whole army will fight to the death, and my 40th Army and An Yi's division in Taierzhuang before the end of the day have lived and died together, and An Yi has a good relationship with our gang of commanders and our military seats. ”

"Report to the master's seat, the ferry goes upstream, six hundred meters below." A colonel came to report to Mao Bingwen.

Mao Bingwen nodded: "Be on full alert, order the second battalion on the dock to empty all idle personnel within a hundred meters, and make all preparations for it!" ”

"Yes!"

Chen Cheng stepped to the edge of the pier in two steps and looked downstream, Cai Zhongwat also followed to watch, the ferry rumbled with thick smoke, and the wide deck of the ferry was full of dense wounded soldiers, which surprised the two.

Chen Cheng grabbed Cai Zhonghu and said loudly: "You go up and make a call, let your artillery brigade drive all the trucks over, and I will ask the adjutant to drive my division's car over, and immediately send Xiao Yi and the wounded soldiers to the Xiaguan Instructor Camp, now only that camp is empty." ”

Cai Zhonghu turned around and ran up the steps, grabbed the adjutant Cai Peiyuan who was watching from afar on the steps, and ordered loudly: "Go and transfer all the trucks, Xiao Yi has too many wounded soldiers!" ”

"Yes!"

Cai Peiyuan rushed to the dock quickly.

The ferry slowly docked, the boatman pulled the fixed cable, Chen Cheng, Cai Zhonghu, Mao Bingwen and other generals strode onto the boat, and Gu Zhenglun, who was sweating profusely, had no time to call and order:

"Everyone, go and arrange the barracks to contact the hospital, the four generals and more than thirty captains are in danger! Find a way to give first aid to the ...... as quickly as possible"

"The place is arranged, Xiaguan Daying!" Mao Bingwen said loudly.

Gu Zhenglun nodded: "Okay!" Tell me that you will quickly lead your troops to clear the way, and we will send these brothers to the camp at once!" ”

"Yes!"

Mao Bingwen turned around and ran off the boat.

Gu Zhenglun turned his head and found that Chen Cheng and Cai Zhongwat were supporting An Yi, who was ragged and glazed-eyed, and asked again and again, Li Xianzhou, whose face was full of gunsmoke, reported a few words to Chen Cheng, and was so sad that he couldn't speak, Gu Zhenglun sighed, stepped forward and pulled the three of them aside:

"Get out of the way...... Brother Cixiu, Brother Zhichen, don't ask, Xiao Yi can hear and can't speak, his voice is hoarse, his lips are all cracked, and there are many small wounds on his body, let's help him first. ”

Chen Cheng and Cai Zhongwat didn't react, Shen Fengdao and the guards had already set up An Yi and landed quickly, and the generals saw one by one the reading teachers and soldiers with broken hands and feet and their bodies bandaged with broken military uniforms, they were extremely sad, the deck was a mess, full of pools of flowing blood, and the more than 400 surviving soldiers who were able to walk alone all pushed away the friendly troops who came up to help, stubbornly lifted up the seriously injured brothers who were unconscious, gritted their teeth and carefully went ashore step by step, such a sad and tragic scene, It made the surrounding generals and colonels and thousands of officers and soldiers on the shore feel shocked and their noses sour.

Half an hour later, 17 artillery trucks, escorted by a convoy of four sedans and six troop carriers, quickly passed through the streets of 40 officers and men under martial law, and galloped through the Xiaguan camp.

The convoy drove across the stone bridge, entered the Xiaguan camp, and slowly drove to the camp to stop, and Fang Tian, the lieutenant colonel of the left-behind unit who had been notified, led the only remaining instructor after the deployment and a battalion of brothers to quickly catch up, and introduced more than 500 wounded brothers into the barracks, and then quickly boiled hot water to cook meat porridge and collect military uniforms and blankets.

At the door of the barracks, An Yi refused the soldier's service, took the wet towel and wiped his face full of scars, and the surrounding generals were sad.

Chen Chengshi, who was sent to the city to contact the hospital to find a doctor, and the brothers from the artillery headquarters returned as soon as they returned, and they all reported anxiously and helplessly:

The military medical department of the General Headquarters had been disbanded two days earlier due to Commander-in-Chief Chiang's dismissal, and almost all the doctors in the city hospital had been requisitioned by the 33rd Army and the 27th Army and the garrisons of Zhenjiang and Changzhou that had suffered heavy casualties a few days ago.

The towel in An Yi's hand fell to the ground, and all thoughts were discouraged in his heart, and Cai Zhonghu, who was usually very arrogant, suddenly asked Adjutant Cai Peiyuan loudly:

"Did you go to the foreigner's Keats Hospital? If they don't want to come, they will tie up Lao Tzu! ”

"I've been there, Commander, my subordinates went in person, only a few old men and women were left guarding the door, and the doctors and nurses of the foreigners were all so frightened that they hid, and they didn't know where to find them!" Cai Peiyuan shook his head sadly.

The generals were embarrassed and helpless, An Yi suddenly rushed out of the barracks arch desperately, frightened a group of generals hurriedly chased out, only to see An Yi, who was covered in gunpowder smoke and ragged clothes, ran to a military truck that was turning around and preparing to leave, opened the door and pulled the frightened driver out of the car, quickly got into the front of the car that was moving forward slowly and suddenly closed the door, more than a dozen guards had already followed, and easily climbed into the carriage like a monkey, An Yi's adjutant Shen Fengdao jumped on the top of the front of the car and disappeared, the truck roared out of the camp, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, I could see that dozens of generals and thousands of officers and soldiers on the field couldn't close their mouths.

Chen Cheng was worried that something would happen, so he ran to his car while shouting to chase after him, Cai Zhongwat and Gu Zhenglun also rushed to their respective cars, and Gu Zhenglun also loudly ordered his regiment commander to bring his brothers to follow quickly before getting into the car.

Shen Fengdao, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw An Yi's car driving so fast, and hurriedly reminded: "Slow down, Xiao Yi, don't worry no matter where you go, this is a busy street with pedestrians and vehicles, and it will kill people if you are so fast." ”

An Yi was unmoved, pressed on the horn with one hand, turned the steering wheel agilely with the other hand, avoided pedestrians and vehicles several times dangerously, and continued to move forward at a rapid pace.

An Yi turned into the household street, walked more than 100 meters and quickly turned right into Taiping Road, drove the car to the intersection in front of him to reduce his speed, and suddenly turned right again and hit a wide cast iron gate in the yard by the roadside, and the car stopped at the door of St. Paul's Church in the exclamation and screams of dozens of foreigners from all over the world in the courtyard.

An Yi quickly opened the car door and jumped out of the car, rushed into the church full of foreigners from all over the world, looked around anxiously, paused and strode to the central almsgiving platform, and pleaded loudly in the face of the more than 200 foreigners who gathered in the church to escape the war:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I need doctors, I need doctors, I need countless doctors to save my soldiers!"

The church was quiet, and the full hall of men and women looked at An Yi, who was heavily armed and anxious, and the guards behind him panicked, and no one could hear the words shouted in An Yi's hoarse voice.

Facing a pair of frightened and surprised eyes, An Yi excitedly waved his black hands covered with blood stains and scald blisters without sleeves, and shouted again in English with his throat open:

"Doctor...... I need a doctor, gentlemen...... I want doctors, my brethren...... I'm dying......"

The full house of men and women finally understood An Yi's meaning, and many people stood up in surprise. Gehr strode up to An Yi, first explained politely in English, saw An Yi's puzzled anxious look, and then repeated it in a rather awkward Chinese with a slight Shanghai accent:

"Dear Mr. Officer, I am the presiding priest here, Thomas. It is very rude for you to smash the gate of the church yard with your car and lead your soldiers into this sacred place without permission, please forgive us, sir, this is a church and not a hospital, if you are looking for a doctor, please go to the hospital. ”

"No, no! No! Pastor Gehr, the best doctors in all of Nanking are in your church, and I know they are all among this group of gentlemen and ladies below, I know, I am sure! ”

An Yi's eyes were red, and he clasped his hands together and begged: "Pastor, you are a kind person, right?" God is fair to everyone, right? You can't stop helping me just because I'm Chinese!

Pastor, I know that we offended you when our revolutionary army occupied Nanking in March, and that the soldiers drove you away and occupied this place, but it didn't take long for our central government to correct its mistakes, right, pastor? Hundreds of my soldiers are now struggling on the edge of hell, and their last glimmer of hope is in you...... Pastor, you are missionaries, and you have traveled thousands of miles to China, don't you just make us Chinese kinder and more loving? Isn't it just to save the suffering? But why don't you save you when you see death now? Why? ”

"This ...... Don't get excited, sir, please listen to my explanation. ”

Geer waved his hand again and again in a panic: "Sir, you are soldiers and not civilians, at this very special moment, I can't let a full house of God's people risk their lives to go out, you also know, the artillery has just stopped, Nanjing is full of danger, please forgive me, sir, I'm sorry!" ”

Several priests and more than a dozen tall foreigners were worried that An Yi was too excited to hurt the priest, and they all rushed to the pastor's side to look at An Yi, An Yi restrained the angry Shen Fengdao and the guards behind him, tears came out of his eyes, and streams of blood flowed from his bitten lips, which made the priest and the foreigners in the hall extremely moved.

In front of everyone's eyes, An Yi turned to the cross hanging high behind him, stared at the crucifixion statue of Jesus for a while, wiped away his tears, turned around and asked word by word:

"Pastor Gehr, if it's Christian brothers who are dying outside, will you not save them because of the danger that may arise?"

"No, no! Of course we will, but it's different...... You...... Sir, you misunderstood, it's not the same......" Pastor Tall Gehr explained anxiously, but the sadness in his eyes had already given An Yi hope.

An Yi smiled miserably, pointed to the cross on Geer's chest, suddenly turned his voice and knelt down heavily in front of the tall statue of Jesus, sighed, suddenly tore open his clothes, pulled out the short sword at his waist, and cried out in a hoarse voice:

"Almighty God, I am willing to convert to Christianity and be your people forever!"

An Yi shouted the tip of the sword and swung it, drew a deep cross on his **'s left chest, put away the short sword and walked to the sluggish Geer, leaned down heavily, and put his head on Geer's feet.

An Yi slowly raised his head, in a pair of eyes full of extreme shock and pity, and in the crying of the brothers behind him who could no longer suppress it, he smiled slightly, raised his head and asked:

"Pastor, my cross is not hung on my breast, but engraved on my heart."

Gehr quickly squatted down and hugged An Yi, who was bleeding from his chest, and shouted "Doctor", and the priest Zieg squatted down excitedly, holding Gehr's hand tightly and saying quickly in English:

"Reverend, is your heart made of iron?"

Gehr held back his tears and hugged An Yi, his robe was stained with An Yi's blood, the two doctors quickly came up to treat An Yi, but An Yi resolutely pushed the doctor away, stared at Geer's eyes sadly, and let the blood of the cross-shaped wound on his chest turn outward gush out. Geer couldn't stand An Yi's gaze and the blood that couldn't stop flowing, and nodded emphatically and promised:

"You have touched God, my child, I promise you, I promise you! But my child, when you have recovered from your wounds, come and thank God for his kindness, and I will baptize you. ”

An Yi's body trembled, and he thanked with a smile: "Thank you, pastor!" I will, I want you to baptize me, as long as my brother is saved, even if it is my life...... Meaning...... Uh, wow......"

A large mouthful of blood spurted out of An Yi's mouth, and the tall body of the young general who had fulfilled his wish fell heavily......

(To be continued)