As the sky grew brighter, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from the south, getting closer and closer, and dozens of people heard the rattle of the gun bolts pulled by the military masters who were guarding them around, and they all watched for it, and immediately closed their mouths consciously.

In a few moments, two tall horses came to a halt at the wounded to the south, and two big men jumped off their horses, came to a tall young man and saluted, muttering something and leaving quickly, and the whole forest was immediately moved.

Dozens of people shrank into a heap in fright, lest it affect themselves.

Just when all the people were silent, they suddenly saw a tall young man who had just whispered with two big men striding towards him, followed by more than a dozen big men with long and short guns and short knives on their backs, looking fierce and vicious, dozens of people were panicked in their hearts, thinking that this group of soldiers was going to do the work of killing people and destroying people, and they all trembled and panicked and desperate.

Lao Guan was even more frightened to stand up and pull his legs and wanted to run wildly, but he was held down by the powerful big hand of the military master behind him, for a while, Lao Guan was discouraged, and his whole body energy seemed to be drained, and the whole person collapsed to the ground at once, and a pair of powerful big hands reached out at the right time, and helped Lao Guan up:

"Uncle, don't be afraid, you can go back after a few words from the little nephew."

Lao Guan opened his eyes a little dazedly, looked at An Yi who helped him up in horror, his mouth moved and wanted to hum a few words, but he found that he couldn't speak.

An Yi shook the old manager to let him stand up, saluted apologetically, and said kindly:

"Folks, uncle, I have wronged you! We were afraid that the villagers would be excited to go around and let the Zhilu army in the southwest find out our whereabouts, so we had to bring the villagers who had seen our whereabouts all the way here...... The little nephew was in a hurry, and he forgot to introduce himself, the little nephew's name is An Yi, the commander of the Reading Division of the First Army of the Revolutionary Army, because we were surrounded by the enemy in the east of Xuzhou and couldn't come back, so we fled secretly along the way, seeing that there were only more than 100 miles to the Yangtze River, and I couldn't do it carelessly! I'm sorry, please take care of the villagers, the little nephew will leave, thank the villagers for their help! Good bye! ”

An Yi saluted and turned to leave, and all the soldiers followed him, quickly went south, walked out of a hundred meters away and disappeared at the corner of the forest.

Lao Guan and the villagers around him looked at each other, and it took a while to come back to their senses.

A young man exclaimed in surprise, "Oh my God! I thought I was looking at the wrong person, but I didn't expect it to be General An, a famous general of the Northern Expedition! It's exactly the same as the one on the newspaper on my window! It's just a little thinner, and my nose and eyes are very much like ......."

"O iniquity! There are so many wounded soldiers carrying and carrying them, I'm afraid there are more than a thousand people......"

The villagers sighed, the old man took out the hot ocean from his arms and looked at it for a while, his heart was sour, and without waiting for the tears to flow down, he stomped his feet and walked to the side, picked up the plow, led the ox and left quickly, the young man in the same village hurriedly picked up the plow and chased the ox, and asked loudly while chasing:

"Uncle Guan, wait, isn't your third son a plumber in the old Nanchang Rongjun Hardware Factory? In his letter, he said that the factory belonged to General An's reading force, right? Uncle Guan, wait for me...... Hey, why are you crying......"

8:10 a.m., Mazhuang Station.

All the roads in Mazhuang Town were blocked by murderous officers and soldiers, and more than 1,000 people in the town heard a few gunshots from the direction of the station at dawn and then calmed down, and when they opened their doors and saw the patrol officers and soldiers on the street, they were frightened, and they were immediately driven back to the door when they boldly went to inquire, and were sternly warned not to go out, otherwise they would be conceited by casualties, and the cowardly people had already retreated back to their homes and closed their doors and windows to find a corner for their families to hide, so the whole town fell into a deathly silence, Except for the gun-wielding officers and soldiers that could be seen everywhere on the two streets that crossed the north and south, there was not a single idler.

At 8:30, more than 2,000 people marched into the town from the north, hundreds of seriously wounded people on stretchers and wounded soldiers were quickly sent into the humble station, the whole town was full of footsteps and low shouts, the occasional neighing of horses and the sound of horses' hooves made people's hearts palpitate, and many brave people quietly peeked through the cracks in the doors and behind the windows, not knowing what was going on with this scarred Zhilu army.

On the platform, An Yi looked at a few dilapidated iron carriages on the second road, and asked worriedly: "Tiger head, hasn't a train passed by for so long?" ”

"No, the stationmaster and a group of people on the railway have all interrogated, saying that except for yesterday, a train full of cannons headed for Chuzhou Station in the south, no train has passed in the past two days, but there are a lot of cars at Mingguang Station and Bengbu Station, and it is estimated that all of them are backlogged there."

Tiger Head led An Yi into the stationmaster's room with some reluctance, pointed to the enemy captain and the stationmaster who were held to the head by four brothers with guns, and introduced:

"This is a company commander guarding the station, with less than eighty men, all of whom we have killed, leaving only this grandson. This is the stationmaster, I don't know if I ask three questions, I don't have any feelings for our revolutionary army, and I'm embarrassed to beat him, it's so fucking uncomfortable! ”

An Yi nodded, pointed to the telephone on the desktop and asked, "This is less than five kilometers away from Mingguang City, so the enemy didn't call to ask?" ”

"Here, the first time I answered, said that the company commander went to the thatched house, half an hour ago another phone call, I answered with a gun to his head, this grandson is quite interesting, with the report that it is safe and sound...... By the way, what about Lao Ding and the beard? Why didn't you see them? Gu Changfeng asked.

"I guess I'm going to Mingguang, I'll ask them to find a way to get the train back, it looks very difficult, there is really no way, we can only cross the railway and go south into the mountains."

An Yi sighed, looked at the stationmaster who raised his head, and saw the strange flickering in the stationmaster's eyes, his heart moved, and he hurriedly motioned to the two soldiers behind him to remove their guns, and pointed at the two brothers behind the captain: "You two, escort this prisoner out of the area first...... Mr. Stationmaster, my name is An Yi, the commander of the Reading Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army. ”

The stationmaster nodded, raised his square black face and stared at An Yi's face, with a little excitement in his expression:

"I recognize you, I recognized you the moment you walked into the stationmaster's room! There are a few photos of you on the page of the book "Model Camp" that my daughter bought, and although the Zhilu Army is very tightly controlled, the little girl is still carefully hidden like a treasure. ”

An Yi smiled: "I'm a lost dog now, and I haven't shaved my beard for ten days...... Mr. Stationmaster, is there anything you can tell me? ”

The stationmaster nodded and stood up: "General An, you have to kill that company commander before you leave, otherwise I will not be able to save my life." ”

An Yi was overjoyed: "Sir, please say, I, An Yi, remember this kindness." ”

The stationmaster waved his hand: "General An is polite, there are many of my brothers at Xuzhou Station and Liuquan Station in the north, and they have great respect for General An." Well, without further ado, the train returning from Pukou in ten minutes will pass through this station, and since it is a special train for the army, it will not stop at our small station, and General An must quickly send someone to the railway fork a mile or two to the south to warn him, and try to stop the train by all means, and then it is up to the general to decide what to do. ”

An Yi shouted loudly in surprise: "Tiger head, you take one of you for a trip and bring this with you ......"

An Yi grabbed the signal light and signal flag from the stationmaster's desktop and handed them to Gu Changfeng, who was inexplicably excited, and Gu Changfeng rushed out of the office door in response.

An Yi stretched out his hands, grabbed the stationmaster's hand and held it tightly: "Thank you for your kindness!" As long as An Yi does not die, there will be a meeting to say, please ask Mr. Gao's name? ”

"My name is Fang Dewen, a native of Xuzhou, please be polite, the reason why I didn't say it to the general called Tiger Head just now is because I really don't know who you are, I didn't know until I saw the general himself, please forgive me!

The general's prestige is like thunder, and many people feel strange that they haven't heard from the general for so long, but I know that the general is besieged in the north, and I didn't expect the general to be able to kill back in the thousands of troops and horses of the northern army, which is admirable! ”

Fang Dewen smiled cutely, where was the slightest indifference when they first met.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the door, An Yi's face changed, and he hurriedly ran out, and immediately heard fierce gunshots from the northwest.

Hu Zi came to An Yi with a sweaty body, and reported anxiously: "It is estimated that our whereabouts were discovered by the enemy, and the strength of a battalion or so of the Zhilu Army quickly drove over from the direction of Mingguang, and I had to order Lao Ding and Xia Jian to block violently three kilometers west of the town, and just half of the enemy was annihilated, and the Mingguang direction immediately increased its troops, and it is still being blocked." Before dawn, we touched Mingguang, grabbed a small platoon commander on patrol and interrogated, and learned that the enemy's temporary fourth division was on the way to Mingguang, but fortunately, Mingguang only had one regiment of the enemy's 39th division left, and our more than 400 brothers could barely withstand it, but it was a problem here, how could so many wounded soldiers go? Hurry up and get an idea! ”

An Yi was so anxious that his head was full of sweat, his heart was like a drum, and he was just about to answer when he heard the sound of gunshots from the south, An Yi rushed off the platform to look south, saw the smoke of the train, and immediately jumped on the platform and said to his beard:

"The tiger head intercepted the train in the south, and the fight started, so you quickly called dozens of brothers to move the pile of sleepers on the edge of the railway in front of you to the railway, and piled them up vertically, so that the enemy would not dare to rush."

"Great! Now there is salvation! ”

Beard turned around and ran to the gathering place of the officers and soldiers on the platform, and commanded the men and horses to do it.

An Yi turned to Lin Yaodong: "Xiao Jiu, hurry up and inform Deputy Division Commander Yin and Chief of Staff to carry all the wounded and sick to the platform in the south." ”

"Yes!"

"Chen Mian?"

"Here!"

"Kill the enemy captain at the door of the office!"

"Yes!"

An Yi solemnly saluted Fang Dewen: "Mr. Fang, please take refuge in the stationmaster's room, I will let the guards guard for you, you will come out again after we leave, if anyone asks, they will say that they have hid in advance, and there will be a period later!" ”

Fang Dewen stepped forward to shake hands with An Yi, and said excitedly: "Take care, general, there will be a period later!" ”

An Yi jumped off the platform and stood in the middle of the railway, took out a telescope and looked at the south, in less than a minute, the smoke of the locomotive appeared in An Yi's field of vision, through the telescope, An Yi clearly saw Gu Changfeng on the roof of the car waving the flag, and kept passing the flag of "finished".

An Yi was pleasantly surprised, jumped on the platform and shouted, "Herald—"

"Here!" The herald strode in.

"Take a few people to the west of the town, inform Battalion Commander Ding and Regiment Commander Xia to retreat immediately, and order them to leave the pursuing soldiers behind them and withdraw to the station immediately!" An Yi commanded quickly.

"Yes!"

The train slowly stopped on the platform, and Wu Liheng, deputy of the third regiment, led the adjutant and guards to crowd on the front of the train, holding a gun to the trembling train driver, grinning at An Yi when he passed by An Yi's side, and then continued to carry out the coercion mission.

An Yi ran to Gu Changfeng, who jumped off the roof of the car: "Is it smooth?" ”

"Eight brothers died, grandma's! I didn't expect the enemy to be so perverted, and the empty car would be escorted...... Hurry up and get on the bus, I saw a fierce fight on the roof of the car! ”

After Gu Changfeng finished speaking, he saw that the speed of sending the wounded to the wagon gate was very slow, so he rushed to the middle of the train in a hurry and personally commanded.

An Yi turned around and rushed out of the train station, ran to the horses left outside the gate, flew up, and shouted an order to the trumpeters behind: "Blow the trumpet to retreat!" Sound the trumpet of retreat, and let all the brethren who are guarding the junctions withdraw! ”

"Yes!"

The trumpeter unleashed the military horn, and blew it in the sky, and several guards who grabbed the horses flew on their horses, and chased An Yi, who rushed to the battle site in the west of the town, and after a while, he joined Xia Jian and Ding Zhicheng's troops who had withdrawn to the west of the town.

An Yi shouted to the brothers to withdraw to the station at full speed to board the train, untied the rifle behind him, rushed to the corner of the house in front of him in a few steps, and killed the enemy's three officers who were charging on horseback in a row with accurate marksmanship, and the enemy's offensive was slightly halted when he saw this.

Xia Jian commanded more than 100 brothers to throw all the last grenades, and then under the cover of deafening explosions and thick gunsmoke, they rushed towards the station.

9:15 a.m., Myeongguang Station.

The more than 8,000 officers and men of the Provisional Fourth Division of the Zhilu Allied Army, who had just arrived at the station and jumped off the wagon, had not yet figured out what was going on with the fierce exchange of fire coming from the south, and they were ordered by the commanders to get on the train immediately.

An Yi read the strength of the teacher at the Mazhuang station in the south to snatch the returning train and fled south, Shangfeng ordered to get on the train immediately and catch up!

The Wuhe camp in the north is also busy, and the commander Chu Yupu, who hasn't slept all night, has dark circles under his eyes, and his lower eyelids are high and swollen, like two shelled pine flower preserved eggs, and he loudly issued one order after another to his generals:

ordered to call the Bengbu Railway to inform the Chuzhou defenders to intercept the train and eliminate the remnants of An Yi; At the same time, he called Sun Chuanfang and asked him to order the garrisons of Pukou in the southeast, Lai'an in the north, and Quanjiao in the south to strictly defend and defend to the death, and to wipe out the remnants of An Yi on the railway line

(To be continued)