At two o'clock in the evening, Commander-in-Chief Chiang led a group of commanding generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army to diligently discuss military affairs in the camp of the headquarters in the east of the city, and it took more than four hours to make a battle plan for storming Hesheng Bridge:

General Li Zongren served as the commander-in-chief of the front, and led 45,000 officers and soldiers of the Fourth and Seventh Armies with high morale to divide into two routes, closely cooperate, and capture the Hesheng Bridge and go straight to Wuchang City! The 1st and 2nd Divisions of the First Army served as the reserve of the whole army. The main force was scheduled to attack in the early morning of the 29th, the Fourth Army marched along the railway to the main position in front of Hesheng Bridge, and the Seventh Army quickly attacked from the northeast of Xianning, attacking the line of Wang Benxuan and Yuhuaping, where a large number of enemy troops were entrenched, and crushed the enemy army and took Echeng directly.

At the same time, An Yi in the Shuangheqiao camp in the southwest of the city was also in full swing to try the sudden and important case of male thieves and female prostitution, which seriously threatened the healthy development of military-civilian relations.

An Yi sat in the main hall of the battalion headquarters in the courtyard layout, four or five heavily armed brothers on duty brought the two soldiers like chickens, the four brothers just let go of their hands, and the platoon commander Lu Xiong, who was standing on the side, had no time to scold, and the two soldiers who had been frightened and their legs and feet were weak knelt on the ground and begged for mercy loudly.

An Yi, who is very aware of human rights, originally wanted to let the two soldiers squat, but seeing that the two of them were so boneless, they let it go, and were about to drink a cup of tea to moisten their throats and start the interrogation, after sleeping for three hours with a beard and being promoted, Huang Yingwu and Yang Fei, who were full of energy and patrolled the camp non-stop, also rushed to hear the sound, and a group of vigorous fierce men moved to the bench one after another, sitting on both sides of An Yi and Yin Jinan to watch the excitement, and Dong Yanzi also quickly lit two lanterns to illuminate the main hall.

The two soldiers who had long been frightened almost fainted when they saw such a grand posture, especially Lu Xiong, whose arms were thicker than other people's thighs, stood beside him, and the invisible murderous aura exuded from his whole body almost made the two soldiers suffocate with fear.

The sharp-eyed bearded man was taken aback when he saw the nameplates on the chests of the two soldiers in their early twenties, strode forward and took off the lantern and stretched it out in front of the two soldiers, and after confirming it, he laughed angrily:

"The dog said...... Dare to use color to dye the edge of the badge red, at first glance I thought it was a general, grandma's! Lao Tzu is the yellow side of the school officer to this day, and a group of brothers who are fighting and killed are also the blue side of the lieutenant and a black line string of three-dimensional stars of the non-commissioned officer, these two madmen actually made the red side and three three-dimensional stars by themselves, and they are about to catch up with our commander-in-chief Jiang, haha...... Look at these two dogs, they are in their early twenties at most, aren't they afraid of losing their heads if they do this? ”

The brothers gathered around and laughed, and the two soldiers trembled with fright, and their upper and lower teeth knocked together with a "click" sound, and the speed was several times faster than that of the second hand, and An Yi almost squirted out a mouthful of tea.

An Yi saw that the two soldiers looked good-eyed, so he put the brothers back to their seats and laughed: "No wonder Sister Yao'er, who chased more than ten miles for the two oceans just now, looked away, she must have thought that a rich official came to the door, haha...... You two and raise your heads, Lao Tzu knows that you don't understand the regulations of our army, and you want to fill your head together, so you don't let the gendarmes patrolling the city find you, otherwise you will have to peel off your skin if you don't die! Okay, I don't blame you, let's say! Tell me what your name is and what part of it you belong to? First of all, warn the two of you, don't lie to Lao Tzu, or Lao Tzu will really throw you into the gendarmerie. ”

After listening to An Yi's words, the two soldiers were a lot more relieved, and pushed each other twice, and the shorter one on the left confessed:

"My name is ...... His name is Shen Jianping, his name is Tao Xun, and we are both ...... They were all recruits who were forcibly recruited by the Seventh Army in Puqi, and the northern battalion in Puqi had ...... There is an ordnance institute, which was set up by Chen Dujun a few years ago, specializing in repairing guns and cannons for the garrisons in Hunan and Hubei, and we were recruited into the Hanyang Arsenal as apprentices at the age of fifteen.

Two months ago, the Red Party in Puqi was very violent, our ordnance station was stolen more than a dozen guns and more than 30 bolts, Shangfeng then stopped work to strictly check the suspension of salaries, many old people left in a fit of anger, but our brothers thought that they had to get a little money before returning to Wuhan, but they didn't expect to wait and wait, the revolutionary army called, and they couldn't help but requisition more than 30 of our military workers together, and let us help them repair guns.

From Puqi to here, most of our people fled along the way, and we also escaped quietly when we arrived here...... I am a native of Shen Liao Village, twenty miles northeast of Xianning, and I have been familiar with Xianning City since I was a child, and I have no money after I escaped with Tao Xun, so I wanted to ...... I wanted to have a good meal and fled back to the village to hide for a while, but I didn't want to be discovered by the bustard, so I ......"

The brothers shook their heads when they heard this, and An Yi then asked, "What is your monthly salary at Chen Jiamo's armory?" ”

"The regulations are seven oceans, but only four oceans can be sent to the hand, the official said that we eat more and use more, deduct three oceans per month, the monthly salary of several masters is much more, and twenty oceans per month are not deducted, but most of us can't get the ten oceans monthly salary of the second-level workers, in fact, although the two of us are young, we can do the most work, and the technology is not much worse than the master."

Shen Jianping spoke for a while, slowly calmed down, and his body no longer trembled.

An Yi whispered a few words to Yin Jinan, Yin Jinan nodded and left, An Yi said kindly: "Don't kneel, stand up...... When I saw your badge, I wondered, how did you come up with the idea to draw the red border and the three stars? ”

The two hesitated to stand up, Shen Jianping stabbed his partner next to him, and the tall and thin Tao Xun had no choice but to answer:

"When I was in the Guantangyi camp, I saw a middle-aged general who was not tall and accompanied by a group of commanders came to inspect, he was different from most of the other commanders, he could speak official language, and he was also kind, he walked next to me and squatted down and pointed to the machine gun parts in my hand, and asked me if the American machine gun that broke like this can be repaired, I replied that as long as I found spare parts from the Hanyang factory, although the Hanyang factory did not imitate it, but it was able to produce most of the parts, he praised me and left. I talked to a group of chiefs around me for a while in the words of Guangxi, and those chiefs were obedient, so I ...... After I escaped, I painted with the ink and black oil essence that I had hidden in advance, and I saw that the signs on the chests of the chiefs had two or three three-dimensional stars, but I didn't know the difference between the red and blue sides, and I thought ...... I thought ......"

The brothers laughed, and Yang Fei was surprised and said that it must be General Li Zongren, and no one in the Seventh Army was qualified to wear the nameplate with three stars on the red side except him, and An Yi was also very happy.

After a while, Yin Jinan led Zeng Changgeng to bring two heavy cloth bags and put them down in front of the two unlucky eggs, and when they opened them, they revealed two piles of loose parts after the dismantling of the American-made light machine gun and the German-made flower machine gun, as well as two sets of repair tools that were distributed with the guns at that time.

The two unlucky guys immediately understood that An Yi was trying to test whether he was lying, and without waiting for An Yi's instructions, they squatted down one after another to carefully inspect the parts, and the two pairs of focused eyes suddenly lost panic and fear, and became bright and meticulous, making An Yi and the others nod secretly.

Shen Jianping skillfully assembled the flower machine gun, disassembled it again when it was halfway through, and said to An Yi with the two damaged parts of the re-entry part:

"Sir, the most easily damaged parts are these two parts, which usually have problems after seven or eleven magazines in a row. This kind of gun at the end of the year before the Henan Gongxian gun factory has been imitated, but far less durable than foreigners, after the Spring Festival last year they had a few bad guns and these parts to find our Hanyang factory, and finally found my master, my master said that he can't help it, the steel of foreigners is like this, our steel is not good, even if it is made, it is not useful, it is recommended that they leave a few bad guns to try to think of some other way.

After the people of Gongxian County left two bad guns and left, my master took a few of us to secretly cast a few blanks with British bearing steel, selected the best two to polish and put them on, and took them to the factory to let a few technicians try, and the next day a few technicians came back and said that it was okay, and the barrel was red and could still be fired, so from then on, the Hanyang factory made a batch of re-imported supporting parts, but the Gongxian factory was too expensive, and after buying two batches, he stopped buying, and my master was so angry that he didn't say a word for a few days. ”

An Yi nodded with satisfaction: "How old is your master?" How long have you been with him? ”

"I have been with Master for five years, and I have been with him for half a year after entering the factory. His old man is sixty years old this year, Zhang Zhidong Zhang Taibao two years before his death also specially rewarded a gold-inlaid enamel snuff bottle to my master, but my master is not in good health, coughing up blood since last year, he himself said that his lungs are broken, I am very worried about his old man, I don't know how he is now, I want to hide for a while and go back to see his ......"

When Shen Jianping said this, his eyes were red, and his filial piety was overflowing.

No one laughed at him anymore, An Yi wanted to comfort him, and when he saw Tao Xun turning to Zeng Changgeng behind him to ask for machine gun parts, he insisted that Zeng Changgeng must have deliberately hidden it to embarrass him, and said that he had repaired more than 20 such American machine guns, and this gun had fired a maximum of 2,000 bullets, and it was impossible to break on those parts.

The honest Zeng Changgeng looked at Yin Jinan sneerfully, not knowing how to answer.

An Yi looked at the brothers, who were also looking at him, obviously surprised that these two young men in their early twenties had such skills.

An Yi was overjoyed in his heart, he had planned to try his best to dig back a few firearm repair technicians to join his team after taking Wuhan, but now God opened his eyes and let himself meet him by chance in this place, and he was so young, he immediately made up his mind that he would not let go no matter what.

The two unlucky people saw An Yi and the others looking at each other, not knowing what they would do with themselves, and they couldn't help but worry again, standing in the middle of the main hall with their heads bowed and not knowing what to do, they wanted to open their mouths to plead but didn't have the courage, and they reverted to a panicked appearance of flashing and shrinking.

An Yi laughed and asked loudly: "Shen Jianping, and Tao Xun, let me ask you, if Lao Tzu accepts you, are you willing?" Rest assured, the fact that you are deserters has been written off since then, and Lao Tzu will also help you carry the shitty things of pretending to be a general to go to the kiln to cheat and eat and cheat, and also give you both a satisfactory military salary, as long as you open your mouth, Lao Tzu will agree, and immediately give you a month's salary, and after a few victories, I will give you a promotion, how about it? Say yes or no? ”

Shen Jianping and Tao Xun looked at each other in surprise, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

An Yi smiled again, walked up to Tao Xun and pushed him away, took a few hidden parts handed over by Zeng Changgeng, immediately squatted down, and quickly assembled the disassembled light machine gun, one by one under An Yi's skillful and dexterous hands made a crisp metal sound, and finally heard a clean bolt pull, and everyone saw that the machine gun in An Yi's hand had been assembled.

Shen Jianping and Tao Xun, who had been watching from the side, were surprised and extremely admired, and their confidence could not catch up with An Yi's assembly speed, and the little confidence in their hearts slowly drifted away.

An Yi handed the gun to Zeng Changgeng and said to Shen Jianping and Tao Xun kindly: "Don't be surprised, as long as you go through more than three hundred disassembly and assembly training, you can catch up with Lao Tzu's speed, haha!" I won't hide it from you, Lao Tzu did the same business as you before he joined the army, but now that he is an official, he has to take care of the food, sleep, training, and war of his 500 brothers, and he has no time to do his old job anymore.

I am about the same age as you, and I have the same experience, and I am all children from poor families, including this full house of brothers, don't look at all of them, in fact, they are all very kind-hearted, and they are all born in poor families, and they are not even as happy as you were a year ago. The reason why we are here today is because everyone has worked hard step by step, so I hope that you two brothers can also join our big family, and you will experience a new life that you have never had before, and you will be respected, have status and money, how about it? Promised? ”

Shen Jianping and Tao Xun had been moved by An Yi's words and deeds, but they were still afraid of the army, the two discussed in a low voice for a while, and the bolder Shen Jianping asked An Yi timidly:

"Sir, can you give us a month's salary now?"

"Okay! But you haven't told me how much you want a month? An Yi said with a smile.

Shen Jianping thought about it and said boldly: "We don't have the ability of a master, so we need fifteen yuan a month!" ”

An Yi laughed, pointed to Zeng Changgeng behind Tao Xun and said: "Even Chang Geng, a brother who has just joined the army for a month, plus seven plus eight, has a monthly salary of fifteen yuan, don't you look down on yourself too much as you need fifteen yuan?" The salary of ordinary soldiers of our revolutionary army has risen to twelve yuan a month, haha! In this way, the monthly salary of the two of you is set at 20 yuan first, and if you do well, we will be rewarded with additional rewards from our superiors, how about it? ”

"Really?"

Tao Xun's eyes widened in surprise.

"Winter boy, bring forty oceans."

An Yi laughed, and when Dong Lingzi handed over forty oceans, let the two continue: "Take it, Lao Tzu's promise has never been fulfilled, but you can't go to the kiln and don't give money, you are all bitter children, you all know that it is not easy to live in this world now, two oceans in the city are enough for a person's expenses for a month, and in the countryside, the family can live well in a month, so you must remember to save some money, and it is filial piety to help the family." Again, don't smoke and gamble, otherwise the amount of money will not be enough.

Shen Jianping, didn't you say that your home is in Shen Liao Village, twenty miles away? If you want to go home, tomorrow Lao Tzu will send two brothers to send you there, ride our tall horses and put on new military uniforms, and Lao Tzu will equip each of you with a shell gun, and go back generously and spiritually, so that the family and the villagers can take a good look, haha! ”

Shen Jianping lowered his head guiltily with his words, and I deliberately tested you just now, and I'm sorry for you...... Sir, aren't you afraid that we will take the money and run away? ”

An Yi laughed, gave him a punch lightly, and laughed loudly: "Just because of your kid's Taoism, you still want to hide from Lao Tzu?" If you want to escape, take the money with you now, it can be regarded as a fate between us, and we have met in these thirteen places, and when we meet in the future, we will be old friends and friends, haha......"

Shen Jianping and Tao Xun were so moved that they didn't know what to do, stuffed the money into Dong Yanzi's hands, and made an oath to An Yi that they would die as a confidant!

(To be continued)