It was already nine o'clock in the evening when the third company arrived at its temporary station in the south of Chenzhou City, and the heavy rain also stopped at this time. The cooking squad hurriedly set up a stove to make a fire, and half of the brothers in the fifth platoon who served as a guard went to look for dry firewood, and no one moved back the dry firewood, which made Han Fugen, the leader of the cooking squad, jump in a hurry.

An Yi, who was leaning on the door of the broken ancestral hall and smoking, stood up, kicked a creaking door across with one kick, pointed to the ground, turned around and left.

Old Han immediately carried the door panel and walked to the temporary room by the door, raised the axe and slashed it violently, until midnight, when the tired and hungry brothers swallowed half of the hot meal, and did not care about anything, they just found a dry place and fell asleep.

"Report to the company commander: The battalion headquarters has urgently informed us that our company must rush to the railway station before 8:20 a.m. and take the train to Changsha with the 6th Regiment and a friendly battalion."

Xia Jian, the second squad leader of the fifth platoon, who was on duty, came to report.

An Yi opened his tired eyes, looked at the table below, the time was just after six o'clock in the morning, and nodded immediately: "Got it, blow the assembly whistle." ”

"Yes!"

More than 200 officers and men were busy for a while, packed up their bags within 10 minutes, and ran to the railway station in three columns to the west of the city.

"Oh, why are you here now? Xiao Yi, take a look, look at this train wagon, all of them are crowded, even the roof is full of people, no matter how crowded you are, there is no way to do it. The First Company and the Second Company stayed on the edge of the station last night, and if it weren't for the help of the brothers of the Sixth Regiment to grab the next wagon, they wouldn't have been able to get up sooner! ”

An Yi looked at his watch and it was only 8:5, and more than 200 brothers behind him ran here without breakfast, and they got such a result, An Yi was also anxious:

"Battalion commander, what should we do with the third company? You can't leave behind more than 200 brothers! Also, I should have been paid before leaving, but now I can't see a penny, and in the past 20 days, I have all driven to Chenzhou to do easy work, leaving behind our three companies and more than 200 brothers sleeping in the wilderness and camping without life, and the supplies once every three days are very few, and we almost eat ourselves! ”

"What's the use of you telling me this? I can't help it, a little battalion commander! You can only wait for the afternoon or tomorrow's train, alas! I didn't expect it to be like this, you have been tired for so many days, and I, as the battalion commander, have failed to take care of you, I am really ashamed! It's happening again today...... Xiao Yi, don't worry, I'll go to the front carriage to find the quartermaster who followed the Sixth Regiment, and try to help you get some military supplies back, otherwise how will you spend the past two days? Camp Commander Kuang turned around and left.

An Yi strode up and caught up: "Battalion commander, what about them?" ”

"Left at four o'clock in the morning, Deputy Army Commander Wang requisitioned two double-head lengthened trains overnight to drive all the friendly troops down, and our 1st Division, 2nd Division, 4th Regiment, 5th Regiment and all divisional units left together, so the friendly troops robbed our car boxes today, alas...... Wait for me, I'll be right there. Camp Commander Kwong sighed and trotted away.

An Yi, who had no choice but to come back, let the brothers sit in the corner of the dirty platform to rest, and shook their heads as they watched the old and dilapidated stuffy tank wagons squeezed like sardine cans.

This is not counting, the brothers of the Fifth Army are lying or sitting on the roof of the car, and they keep calling for the brothers who can't squeeze under the car, many people take off their shirts and knot them into ropes and put them down, and drag the panicked brothers who are afraid of being abandoned onto the roof of the car, and a few brothers who really can't hold back take off their pants regardless of it, take out the black second brother and pee down from the roof of the car, the whole station is full of people, and the eyes of An Yi and Brother Sanlian are straight.

Waiting left and right to see Camp Commander Kuang come back, but waiting for the whistle of the train departure, An Yi was startled and jumped up and chased after the front of the car, and when the beard saw this, he chased closely, An Yi almost chased to the end of the platform, only to see Camp Commander Kuang struggling to squeeze out his head from the crack of the airtight open door, and with difficulty stretched out his hand and threw down a tied paper tube.

An Yi quickly stepped forward and copied it in his hand, looked at the train that was going away and sighed, untied the rope of the paper tube in his hand and opened it, and suddenly wailed in pain.

"What's wrong?"

Hu Zi rushed to An Yi's side and asked anxiously.

An Yi opened a roll of banknotes in his hand and almost cried: "Huzi, this is the money issued by Song Ziwen, which can barely be used in Guangdong, but the people of Hunan don't recognize it!" Now we have fifty oceans left, in case of a change, how will our two hundred brothers live? ”

The beard sighed: "Why don't you bring more ocean?" If you are too heavy, let me carry it. ”

"It's not that I don't want to bring it, but I made a private agreement with Lao He of the Quartermaster Department, I asked him for the ocean, he will give it, how much is no problem, just go back and settle the accounts and give some interest, what is Lao Tzu doing with such a heavy piece of broken copper and iron with him? Who knew it would come out? Again, as long as I get to the big city, I can get money, and if I don't have a foreign bank, I can get no less than a thousand oceans by a telegram back to Guangzhou, so I don't have that much money with me. Originally, it was said that they would be paid before departure, but now they don't have a penny, you know, the brothers are too tired along the way, and they are all stationed in the barren mountains and mountains where there is no village in front of the village and no shop in the back, in order to save more strength, they have spent a lot of money to buy chickens, ducks, fish and meat to improve and improve, and now it is better...... Grandma's! Annoyed Lao Tzu and sold guns, Yang Zhi also sold knives! I call his ancestors ......"

The more An Yi spoke, the more angry he became, and he scolded on the platform, and the people at the station saw the two heavily armed captains looking violent, and they were all so frightened that they all turned around.

Annoyed, An Yi took more than 200 of his brothers, led eighteen inferior horses with heavy loads and walked out of the platform, looked left and right, and ran to the largest restaurant diagonally opposite. The shopkeeper was obviously afraid of being exploited by the soldiers, and tremblingly greeted him and said that he was going to close his business, and asked the chief to take a look elsewhere.

An Yi obviously saw the steam curling in the back room in the lobby, and the smell of meat was overflowing, where could he be deceived by the shopkeeper? explained kindly at the moment, and asked Dong Yanzi to take out ten oceans and pay the shopkeeper for the meal first, and the shopkeeper believed that this was the revolutionary army from the central political axe in Guangzhou, and immediately put on a smiling face and greeted him.

The hall is not small, more than 200 brothers barely sit down, about an hour of fragrant rice buckets on the ground, Hunan-style stir-fried pork pork belly intestines into the water a lot, by seven or eight men, women and children, cooks and mothers-in-law take turns to serve, but also let the brothers eat with relish and refreshed, a checkout shopkeeper only received eight oceans, and truthfully told An Yi that the price of small local dishes in Chenzhou is not expensive, and the pig is even cheaper, and it is already embarrassing to accept the eight oceans of the chiefs. An Yi said that since this is the case, you will return me a big ocean, the shopkeeper was so anxious that he wanted to hang himself, and saw that An Yi was joking, so he wiped the sweat beads from his head and smiled, but the hand that grabbed the eight oceans was tightly clenched white, and it had already reached into the crotch of his big pants.

An Yi led the team back to the platform to rest, until three o'clock in the afternoon, there was still no shadow of the train, the brothers had already cleaned up the deposits in their bodies under An Yi's instructions for a long journey, but now their stomachs are croaking again.

An Yi thought that it was wrong, and called Yin Jinan to walk into the station office together, and luckily met the representative of the station army of the Northern Expedition Headquarters who had just returned, An Yi and Yin Jinan immediately saluted and explained their situation for help.

Colonel Wen, the representative of the army, told An Yi helplessly: "I have just received a report that the railway bridge 37 kilometers south of Hengyang was secretly attacked by two companies of Zhao Hengti's division loyal to the direct warlord Wu Peifu. ”

"What about the special train that left at half past eight in the morning? Did you arrive safely? ”

An Yi was not worried about his situation at this time, but worried about the brothers of the First Company and the Second Company and the Sixth Regiment.

Colonel Wen said with a smile: "I have arrived in Changsha safely, but I can't come back, I estimate that you need to march to Hengyang, which is one hundred and seventy-nine kilometers to the north, is the best policy, and it is convenient to go to Changsha when you arrive in Hengyang, you can go directly to the station to contact our station representative." In addition, my radio station here will only be repaired and sent back next week, and I will not be able to contact the First Army for you for the time being, according to my estimate, even if I contact your military headquarters or division headquarters, it will be the same treatment. ”

"So, can Chief Wen issue a certificate to the lower officials? Otherwise, it is a violation of military orders for subordinates to be transferred without authorization. An Yi's cautiousness was not affected by the sudden changes.

Colonel Wen thought for a while and readily agreed: "We have the right to deal with it on the spot, not to mention that your rank is not high and there are not many people, I can issue you a certificate, otherwise it will add a lot of burden to you here." ”

Colonel Wen is a real person, there is no sour excuse, he takes out a pen and paper and skillfully writes down the proof, and finally strictly follows the procedure and takes out the large seal of the Chenzhou Military Representative Office of the Military Commission and stamps it clearly.

An Yi thanked him wholeheartedly and saluted his farewell, returned to the brothers and immediately explained the situation as a team, and decided to set off now to determine the camp according to the specific situation.

Although the brothers were disappointed, they had no complaints, especially a group of brothers from Hunan, who wanted to take a walk to see how their long-lost hometown had changed in recent years.

More than 200 brothers of the Third Company marched north along the road on the west side of the railway, and because of the heavy rain yesterday evening, the sand and muddy road was pressed out of the grooves by heavy wagons pulling guns and ammunition, and the stagnant water everywhere was even more muddy.

Han Lai, the elder of the cooking squad, came to report that there was not enough rice, and An Yi immediately sent a few brothers from Hunan to buy food from door to door, if they could sell some bacon, chicken and duck or something, it would be better, who knows that every household will not open the door no matter what you call it, and several brothers from Hunan who were originally full of confidence returned to An Yi with shame on their faces.

An Yi stood up and walked around with his hands behind his back to think of countermeasures, originally he thought that as long as he had money, there would be no shortage of food, and he also kept in mind the military regulations not to disturb the people, so he only ordered the brothers to build a grass hut on the edge of the land temple at the entrance of the village for the night, but now seeing that the villagers did not have any revolutionary consciousness regardless of the feelings of the villagers, he pointed to the land temple that can live hundreds of people in anger and shouted: "Lao Lu, take your brothers in the fourth row to empty the things in this broken temple for Lao Tzu, and live in it tonight...... Lao Han, if the firewood is not enough, the doors and windows will be demolished casually, and Lao Tzu will not believe that he will not be able to eat a hot meal! ”

"Yes!"

After sending the order, An Yi walked to the edge of the small river on the left side of the land temple, unbuttoned his pants and put water into the river, and half of the urine An Yi laughed, and hurriedly called the beard for a while, and the beard nodded and called the five platoons and three classes of brothers who carefully selected him to form a combat team, and ordered the twenty-seven strong brothers to take off their essence, and the beard took out a smoking grenade like a trick and threw it into the river, a muffled sound stirred up a column of water several meters high, and more than 20 ** brothers who were so frightened that they were lying on the ground jumped up and all jumped into the river, After a while, there was a burst of excited laughter.

An Yi, who was sitting under the pillar of the temple gate, took out another cigarette and lit it with the leftover cigarette butts, humming a little song very comfortably, and the old Han laughed and ran to An Yi and reported loudly:

"Company commander, look, this grass carp weighs at least five catties! Hu Lian's grenade went down, and white flowers floated on the water, at least hundreds of catties of fish! Haha......"

An Yi laughed: "This fish is good, old Hantou, continue to make the boiled fish fillet that you were good at last time." ”

"What a ......"