Chapter 21: The Feat After Abandonment
In the early morning, the bright sun shone on the earth, and the Longyan Cave area was in a mess after the fierce battle. Nearby villagers flocked out of their homes and hiding places, and daring children rushed to the banks of the creek to pick up bullet casings or other things that could be sold for money.
"Look! Cars under the bridge......"
"Really? Really a car ......."
"There's someone inside, run!"
The children were so frightened that they ran away, and after a while no one heard the gunshots and no one was chasing them, the two bold children stopped, and after a little discussion, cautiously approached the car again, and lay down on the river bank to look down.
"Brother Fifteen, the people inside will still hum, they may be injured, is it a revolutionary army?"
"Probably, you see, the half-section of the flag hanging next to the car has a twelve-pointed star on it, it must be from the revolutionary army...... Go back and call the three uncles and them, the peasant association in our village helped the revolutionary army transport a lot of wounded ammunition yesterday, and the three uncles and they will know if they come over. ”
"Then you wait for me, I'll go back and call the adult......"
In the midst of the uproar, An Yi opened his eyes in a daze, and was startled when he saw an old face close at hand, but the "old face" looked at him with a smile and asked kindly: "Comrade, are you injured?" It's the Whampoa Army, right? Ah...... Yesterday, the Whampoa Army fought fiercely and walked too fast, and the women's team of our peasant association self-defense force assisted them in cleaning up the battlefield, and the corpses and wounded who died in the battle were sent to the riverside and transported to the Whampoa Military Academy...... If I knew, I would have helped you back to my house when I came home in the middle of the night last night, come, open the door and come down, and see how you are hurting? ”
An Yi wiped off the blood and dust on his face, stretched out his hands and turned them, retracted and squeezed his chest, groaned in pain, stayed with his hands for a while, and then went down until he reached his feet, only to find that a shoe had gone nowhere.
An Yi let out a long sigh, knowing that his sternum was not broken, and his hands and feet were fine, and he couldn't find his shoes when he looked down, so he turned to the middle-aged man with a wrinkled face outside the car, and explained vaguely in proficient Cantonese: "I'm fine, it's just that I was knocked unconscious, and I slept much better." Uncle, yesterday I drove this car into the battlefield with Lao Song of the Whampoa Army Special Service Company, and I don't remember what happened after falling into the river. ”
As the leader of the self-defense team of the peasant association, the third uncle was very happy to hear An Yi's words: "Oops! It turns out that you belong to the spy company, which is amazing! That's the elite of the Whampoa Army! Haha, I'll tell you good news, your troops captured Slender Dog Ridge last night, and they fought very quickly, and the battle was resolved in two or three hours, and thousands of Dian troops fled to the bottom, and the Huangpu Army didn't stop chasing after them at all, and it is estimated that they had already entered the city at this time, and your commander said that it would not take three days to wipe out all the warlords of Yunnan and Guizhou who had occupied Guangzhou and the surrounding areas for many years, and I think this momentum may not take three days. Heck, you have captured countless guns, piled up like a hill, before I returned to the village after delivering ammunition last night, your Director Zhou also awarded us twenty spears from the Longyan Cave Peasant Association Self-Defense Force...... Come on, it's Amitabha Buddha without hurting your muscles and bones, you come down first, I guess you're hungry too, I'll tell the child to go home and bring you something to eat......"
Half an hour later, with the help of the third uncle and a young man, An Yi, who came out of the deformed car door, sat on the shore, the blood on his face had been washed away, several purple-red scratches on his forehead were clearly visible, a piece of black blue with a teacup on the left side of his face did not damage his handsome face, his stomach was also filled with a few balls of rice and a small plate of dried fish, and the rings in his trouser pocket and jacket pocket were still there, but a pair of bare feet were covered with mud, and a pair of rejuvenated eyes flickered.
A group of young men sat in a circle around An Yi under the leadership of the third uncle, pointing at the deformed truck in the river that was riddled with bullets, marveling and regretting, all saying that An Yi's life was blessed, but not a single bullet hit him in so many bullet holes. An Yi didn't feel lucky at all, but felt that he was really unlucky, under the cunning old Song Ji, he worked hard to die all his life and rushed here, and no one stayed to look at him, whether there was merit or not, his grandmother's Whampoa Army had to have someone to see if he was dead or alive! If you are really hit by a bullet that does not have long eyes and still have one breath left, no one cares, wouldn't you let yourself shed blood and die silently?
The anger and frustration of being abandoned is hard for him to let go!
Looking at the truck nailed all over the staircase door panels, An Yi was even more annoyed, and the flattened cab made An Yi more and more angry: Fortunately, the iron sheet of the Yankees' car is still strong, otherwise even if he doesn't die, he won't be trampled flat by those grandsons? It's so fucking boring!
"This ...... Xiao Yi, I see that your car is scrapped, just stay here, just treat it as a bridge pier, it turned out that the good end of the stone bridge was blown up by the Dian army, and now there is this ready-made bridge for temporary use, it is also convenient for us to go up and down in the village, haha! San Bole looked at An Yi he.
An Yi jumped up in a hurry, thinking that it was just a broken car, but how could the thousands of oceans and sixty catties of top-notch tobacco paste that Lao Tzu had worked hard to get under the cushion remain? Lao Tzu risked his life in a daze to help a group of unrighteous grandsons in Huangpu fight, and if there is no credit, the future of Feihuang Tengda will all depend on this hard-won windfall, and Lao Tzu will not hesitate to kill people for this windfall! You are killing Lao Tzu today, and Lao Tzu will also get the car back!
However, An Yi was just about to speak and had a hard time, knowing that the car couldn't be driven, even how to get ashore didn't know yet, now there are chaotic troops everywhere, and you can't carry dozens of pounds of cigarette paste and hold a bag of ocean to swagger through the market, right? In that case, you might get shot a few times just two steps.
The third uncle was also startled when he saw An Yi, who stood up excitedly, with a red and white face: "Xiao Yi, what's wrong?" ”
Seeing the real third uncle's face full of concern, An Yi suddenly had a clear mind, sighed distressedly, and said something moving: "Third uncle, if I can call the shots, it is very good to leave this broken car to be a bridge, and it will cost a lot of money to take it back to repair, and it will be convenient for the villagers to stay here." However, this car is not ordinary! This was donated by Mr. Ou Yaoting, a patriotic wealthy businessman before Mr. Sun Yat-sen left Guangzhou, and Mr. Sun was so excited! Mr. Sun told me to cherish this car and take it as a symbol of the revolution, even if it can't be driven in the future, it must be well preserved, and when the whole country is unified, it will be sent to the Revolutionary Military Museum, so that future generations can visit and remember the revolutionary martyrs. At that time, I was moved to tears, and I secretly made up my mind to defend this car with my life. Now, this car has made great achievements, and Mr. Sun must be deeply comforted in the spirit of heaven, so even if it is carried on my back, I will get this car that symbolizes the revolution back! If you can't do it in one day, it will be ten days, and if you can't do it in ten days, it will be a year, and I will never let down Mr. Sun's ardent hope before his death! ”
"Xiao Yi ......"
The third uncle was so moved that he didn't know how to express his excitement, so he quickly turned around in two circles in place, and resolutely ordered: "Shrimp boy, you immediately go to Shangtou Village, Xiatou Village and our village to gather all the brothers, and pull out all the cattle from the families of the self-defense members of the three surrounding villages!" ”
"Yes!"
The lean shrimp boy carried an old Hanyangzao on his back and left quickly.
The third uncle puffed up his chest and ordered loudly: "Listen, everyone: bring all the hammers and saws in everyone's house here in ten minutes!" Ah Bing, you led twenty brothers to carry those long logs from my yard, even if we shed the skin today, we will carry this car ashore and pull it back to Guangzhou City smoothly!" ”
"Yes!"
More than 140 members of the peasant self-defense associations, who were simple and industrious, and were full of firm belief in the revolution, sweated like rain in unison under the command of the capable third uncle, quickly dismantled the wooden bridge built by the Whampoa sappers, jumped into the knee-deep mud, carried it on their shoulders with oxen and poles, shouted the call of labor, and finally carried the truck weighing more than two tons alive on the west bank with all their strength.
Without taking any breaks, the Self-Defense Forces skillfully tied hemp ropes to the front bumper and corner pillars of the car, and 30 Self-Defense Forces with rifles on their shoulders opened the way, and more than 20 Self-Defense Force members with big knives on their backs drove the nine big bulls, and with a kind of unwavering determination and indomitable determination, they dragged the Chevrolet truck, which was riddled with holes and seriously deformed, toward the city of Guangzhou.
In order to highlight the important surname and extraordinary value of this truck, the third uncle, at the suggestion of the two squad leaders, washed the party flag full of bullet holes and only half left, and stuck a strong bamboo pole high in front of the trunk, and the team marched towards Guangzhou City.
No one thought that Sanbo's move would cause such a huge sensation:
The nine-headed oxen-pulled car team had just left the entrance of the village, but before they reached the big village in the south of the Slender Dog Mountains, the villagers who saw the flag and this special team from a distance were curious, so they went out to watch in twos and threes, and the proud self-defense members immediately enthusiastically introduced their revolutionary actions, and after a while, the news spread rapidly, attracting the people of a village to rush out to watch, and the extremely proud self-defense members were excited, so they widely spread the heroic deeds that An Yi said "drove into the enemy position with Lao Song and caused confusion among the enemy". The content of the heroic deeds was quickly enriched, what braved the rain of bullets and bullets to continuously crash into the pillboxes of the Dian army, crushed the countless Dian troops and so on The legendary plot came into being, the villagers who watched listened to the crowd and applauded loudly, hundreds of good deeds followed the team and talked loudly, full of excitement, and everyone worked together to help the flames when they encountered the uphill slope, so that An Yi, who held the steering wheel in the car, was excited and breathtaking.
As the crowd gathered more and more, hundreds of cheerers followed on both sides of the car door, all vying to see the legendary hero Xiao Yi, seeing An Yi, who had a blue nose and swollen face, looked ahead without squinting and was amazed, what "hero", "young", "beautiful like a famous actor on the stage" and other words came and went, and even the nine diligent and hard-working big bulls who pulled the cart were also stained, and the word "nine cows and two tigers" was once again reinterpreted and has become a widely spread heroic story. An Yi, who was sitting in the car with the steering wheel, was so embarrassed that his head was getting lower and lower, and he really wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into it in regret.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, under the traction and impetus of nine big bulls and hundreds of enthusiastic people, An Yi and his clanging broken car miraculously came to Dongmen Avenue, and it had grown into a huge escort team of more than 3,000 people, which frightened the Wu Tiecheng police force guarding the city gate. After the captain of the police brigade in charge rushed up to talk with the resolute and proud third uncle, he immediately ordered his brothers to divide a squadron to follow the team to maintain order, and generously took the road clearing work on his shoulders.
So, the city of Guangzhou has never had a wonder then appeared, nine big bulls pulled the broken car into the city, An Yi's broken car has not been pulled on the south embankment road by the nine cows, the incomparably spectacular team has developed to tens of thousands of people, "down with the warlords", "long live the revolutionary army", "learn from the heroes of Whampoa" slogans resounded one after another, even the nine big bulls were also dressed in red and hung colors to attract attention, the citizens of Guangzhou who had just been occupied by the revolutionary army to restore a peaceful life heard the sound and looked up, The streets and roads of all sizes were tightly blocked, and the officers and men of the Guangdong army patrol unit who had heard from hearsay also consciously ran to the front of the ranks, lined up in a neat line, and marched forward in unison holding high the national flag and party flag.
The third uncle, who was full of revolutionary youth, was already standing on the right pedal of the rickety cab at this time, holding his head high with an old sleeve on his back, and kept waving to the cheering crowds on both sides of the street, while our protagonist, An Yi, a hero who was hotly discussed and recited in the mouths of tens of millions of people, hung his head on the steering wheel, afraid that acquaintances would see it, but when he was almost at the alley of the warehouse in the backyard of the "Taichang" trading house, he hurriedly called the third uncle, pointed him in the direction, and strongly demanded that it stop here.
Although the third uncle felt a little regretful to end the journey so quickly, he still actively cooperated, and through discussions with the leaders of more than a dozen different parts of the team, it took a lot of tongues to move out of Mr. Sun and Mr. Liao Zhongkai several times to persuade a group of leaders who were not happy to go, and finally sent the car into the backyard of the commercial house, and tens of thousands of people reluctantly dispersed.
A few years later, An Yi, who had achieved fame, made a special trip to the third uncle's house to confess and ask for forgiveness, but he didn't expect the third uncle to care, but said that this was the most beautiful and meaningful thing he had done in his life, which was enough to glorify his ancestors and future generations.