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Chapter 432 Reunites for a long time with brotherhood

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon of 30 April, a special train full of officers and men of three regiments and one battalion of the Independent Division slowly stopped at the Tai'an Station; more than 500 officers and men of the logistics offices of the various divisions of the First Army had already prepared food on the platform, and the heavy gates in the middle of more than a dozen stuffy tank wagons were opened one after another, and more than 6,000 officers and men of the Independent Division wearing old-fashioned gray uniforms quickly jumped out of the carriages and urgently assembled. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A captain wearing black-rimmed round myopia glasses excitedly crossed a group of officers and soldiers, came to the only passenger car in the middle of the train, and saluted An Yi, who was talking with the chief officer of the Logistics Department of the First Army on the platform, and reported:

"Luo Shaodong, the captain and staff officer of the quartermaster section of the 22nd Division of the First Army, salutes General An!"

"Fuyuko ......"

"Brother......

An Yi stepped forward and hugged his younger brother, who was half a cut shorter than him, and spun around three times, stopped and let go of his hand and took a step back, looking up and down: "Not bad!" Not bad! The body is strong, the person is a lot darker, and he is no longer a weak little white face, more like a man than when he was at home! ”

The generals who were haunting An Yi smiled heartily, and Major General Huang Shang, the representative of the First Army Party, asked An Yi with some surprise: "Chief of Staff An, is this your younger brother?" ”

"It's closer than a brother! My younger brother's name is Luo Shaodong, graduated from the Huangpu Phase 5 Manager (Baggage) Division, under the command of Hu Zongnan's senior brother, from the younger brother to the engineer company left Guangzhou to the present, this is the first time we met, during the Spring Festival, I thought he could go back to Nanchang, but temporarily he couldn't come back, and I was in a hurry! ”

An Yi introduced Dongzi to Huang Shang, and Hu Jialin, Gu Changfeng and Cheng Chengguang had only heard of Dongzi but had never seen it, so they stepped forward to say hello.

Huang Shang and the others exchanged pleasantries with the generals of the independent division for a while, and when they saw that there was nothing to do, it was not easy to ask An Yi where the troops were going, so they politely said goodbye to An Yi and several generals, and An Yi sent more than ten meters to thank him again and again before returning to the brothers.

Dongzi was talking to Gu Changfeng, and said in surprise, Brother Gu, you look so handsome, where do you look like a bandit leader? It immediately amused everyone.

An Yi took the big steamed buns handed by the guards, and asked while eating: "Dongzi, who asked you to send the broth and steamed buns to the platform for us?" ”

"This is a telegram from the front line sent by Deputy Army Commander Jiang to explain, and Chief Hu specially asked me to send you twenty boxes of 'Hademen' cigarettes, which have been loaded into the last material car...... Brother, what's going on with your military uniforms? We are all wearing new combat uniforms and issued new steel helmets and shoes and hats, and your independent division is still wearing old fashion? Fuyuko asked curiously.

Gu Changfeng explained to him: "We want to cross the Yellow River, and we don't want the enemy to know that the First Army is coming, so we randomly collect some old military uniforms and put them on." ”

Luo Shaodong suddenly realized: "Understood...... Four days ago, when the younger brother went to Xuzhou to pick up the supplies, he accidentally saw the eldest brother of Jinan, who was receiving his clothes at the military warehouse of the headquarters, and the younger brother almost dared not recognize him.

Brother Jinan was half a fist taller than before, grew a beautiful mustache, and wore a general's uniform, very mighty, Brother Jinan was very happy to see the younger brother, and invited the younger brother and more than a dozen brothers in the division to go to the restaurant. Alas...... Unexpectedly, two years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the eldest brothers have become generals, and the younger brothers who met just now felt like a dream. ”

Everyone let out a burst of laughter, Hu Jialin swallowed a mouthful of steamed buns, and pointed to the nameplate on Dongzi's chest: "You're not bad, you graduated from the fifth term, and you became a captain in less than a year, I'm afraid others are still white cards now, isn't it your Master Hu's special care?" ”

Fuyuko shook her head and explained, "How so? This is the little brother's promotion! At the end of August last year, the younger brother caught up with the battle of Longtan, when the battle was really miserable, one afternoon the whole division died a third, and in the evening the enemy suddenly strengthened the attack, and our logistics department also all carried guns up, the younger brother was confused and rushed up with the brothers, his head was confused, and he found out until dawn the next day that there were only 17 people left in the entire position of more than 100 people, and only 11 of the more than 200 brothers in logistics survived, but we withstood it and insisted until a regiment of General Li Mingrui of the Seventh Army killed the position on Wulong Mountain. After the war, the younger brother lay in the hospital, and Chief Hu personally took the new nameplate to the hospital and issued it to the younger brother, and the younger brother knew that he had bid farewell to the white card of the midship......man and was promoted to lieutenant.

"Stop! No wonder I said that I went home during the Spring Festival and regretted it, it turned out that I couldn't go back in the hospital, right? Quick, tell my brother where you hurt? An Yi stepped forward and looked Dongzi's body up and down tightly, but found nothing.

Dongzi pointed to his right chest with some embarrassment: "I was pierced by shnel, and I should have been fine at the end of November last year, but the lobes of my lungs became inflamed again and there was water accumulation, and I was out of breath and was sent to the Army General Hospital. ”

An Yi pulled open Dongzi's placket, saw a scar on his left chest that was twenty centimeters long, shook his head and reproached in a low voice: "You should tell me honestly, the medical conditions in our old Nanchang are much better, such a serious injury, if you don't get it right, you will die, I'm afraid these ribs will have to be broken two or three times...... You hide it so hard from your family, everyone thinks you are really busy, if you do this again in the future, be careful that I clean you up! ”

"At that time, I just arrived in Nanjing to hold the graduation ceremony, and the younger brother was dragged to Changzhou, and later I learned that you and the independent brother were wronged, and the whole brother was very angry at that time, if it wasn't for Sun Chuanfang's army to cross the river, maybe the little brother would have secretly run home to see you, the little brother's injury is nothing compared to the big brothers!" Fuyuko said disappreciatively.

Gu Changfeng patted Dongzi on the shoulder: "There is a kind!" Worthy of our little brother. ”

The whistle sounded suddenly, and the officers and men of the independent division, regardless of whether they were well fed or not, all laid down everything and quickly lined up, without the command of the commander at all, and they lined up in less than two minutes to board the train silently and quickly, and in the blink of an eye there was not a single officer or soldier of the independent division on the platform, and a simple action made hundreds of officers and men on the platform stunned.

Dongzi sighed enviously: "The military discipline is really good, no wonder the independent division is so powerful in battle......"

When the whistle sounded, An Yi patted Dongzi on the shoulder and solemnly admonished: "Write more letters to Uncle Dao, especially Ermao, the family is thinking of you, the second aunt said all day long that she wants to marry you a daughter-in-law, it is estimated that you will all have to drive back after this battle, and if you have time, you will take a leave to go home." ”

"Remember...... Brother, take care! ”

"You are the same, this small body can't learn from others to go to the front line, I'm worried!"

"Brother, what are you talking about? You look down on people, and you have been like this for so many years......"

An Yi shook his head and smiled, jumped on the slowly moving train, and got into the carriage without looking back.

Dongzi stood silently on the platform, watching the train roar north, and suddenly felt empty in his heart, the brothers encountered their own blood and death tests in this war-torn era, and almost separated from yin and yang, although the brotherhood is getting heavier and closer, but can not say a few more words for a while, and the heart is full of melancholy and loss, very uncomfortable.

Before Dongzi turned around, a group of officers and soldiers had already gathered around him to ask this and that, and they were envious of Dongzi's knowledge of such fierce generals as An Yi, Gu Changfeng, Hu Jialin and Lu Guang.

In the carriage, the commanders and deputies of each regiment gathered around the map and listened carefully to the briefing of the chief of staff, Lu Guang:

"Since we jumped 125 kilometers to the north at once, we were not familiar with the situation on the front line, especially the situation on the other side of the Yellow River, and we only knew that a corps led by He Linfeng, a general of the Feng Department, took the initiative to evacuate Liaocheng two days before the Second Army launched an attack, and there was no news of the three divisions of Zhang Zongchang's Zhilu Army, which were originally stationed on the line from Dong'e to the Qi River, that is to say, there are still many unknown situations on the other side of the Yellow River that we are about to go to.

After the division headquarters studied and decided, we would get off at Gushan Station, 25 kilometers southwest of Jinan City, instead of Yangjiazhuang, where the Fourth Army Corps was originally located, so as to avoid the premature exposure of our division's whereabouts.

After getting off the bus, the special brigade immediately launched a routine reconnaissance to the west and south, and cooperated with the first and second regiments to station and blockade Changqing County before midnight tonight.

None of our corps has ever entered Changqing County, but from sporadic intelligence, we know that the defenders of a regiment of the Zhilu Army have fled to the opposite bank, so we must not be careless, the three regiments follow the division headquarters, do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

The brothers answered in unison.

Cheng Guang nodded, and continued to point to the map: "Lao Li—"

"Here!"

Li Fuqiang came to Lu Guang's side.

"From Wudu, 10 kilometers southwest of Changqing County, to Yuqing Lake, 10 kilometers to the north, the reconnaissance and vigilance tasks in the area along the bank of the Yellow River for 20 kilometers have all been entrusted to you, and the reconnaissance detachments of each regiment are responsible for the rest of the areas."

"Yes!"

After Lu Cheng Guang finished speaking, he asked An Yi what his opinion was, and when he saw An Yi shaking his head, he announced that he would rest in place, and the brothers gathered in twos and threes to chat, and the third head Lu Yixuan came to sit down opposite An Yi, took the cigarette handed by the beard and lit it, and asked in a low voice:

"Senior brother, why don't you bring the teaching group to the battle this time? Fortunately, Xiangyun (Zhao Ruizi) took his family to Lao Nanchang before, otherwise he would have to be in a hurry. ”

An Yi smiled bitterly and explained: "If my estimate is correct, after taking Jinan, our First Army Corps will all retreat, leaving only Uncle De's Seventh Division to defend the front enemy's general headquarters, and continue to command other corps to go north, and after our army successfully crosses the river, there will be no more major battles to fight, and our artillery regiment will also drive back to the northern camp of Xuzhou City." ”

The surrounding brothers all looked at An Yi in surprise, and An Yi explained in detail: "A 3,000-strong marine corps of the Japanese army has left Japan and will land in Shanghai in three days, which will seriously threaten our East China, if Jinan fights, the consequences are unpredictable, and the general headquarters is very careful that the Japanese army will take advantage of the emptiness in our rear to open up a second battlefield, therefore, no matter what the situation in Jinan, our first army will retreat south just in case."

Second, if there is no major conflict in the Jinan direction, the other three corps of our First Army, with a total of 170,000 officers and men, are enough to deal with Zhang Zongchang's Zhilu Army, which has only 70,000 horses left, and cross the Yellow River and approach the Beijing-Tianjin area without any problems.

Last night, the envoys secretly sent by Zhang Xueliang, the marshal of the Feng army, had left, and the principal said that he would never stop advancing, but promised that as long as they supported the leadership of the central government in Nanjing, attached themselves to the revolution, and changed their banners, they would not take any more military action against the Feng army. Therefore, there is no need for the artillery regiment and the teaching regiment to continue north. ”

Only then did the brothers know that the situation was so favorable, and the worries in their hearts were swept away, but An Yi was not so comfortable, and his heart had always been concerned about Jinan.