The island in the lake is 3.5 kilometers long, hundreds of meters to about 1.5 kilometers wide, the forest is luxuriant, a stretching soil slope of more than 40 meters high and more than 800 meters long on the island is in the northeast and southwest direction, the hillside is lush and green, the pond under the mountain is connected, in the meantime, the Bihe Manbo Han is in full bloom, if it is not full of wild grass and the surrounding endless lake surface is slightly desolate, as long as it is slightly tidied up, and then there are more pavilions and pavilions, it can also be regarded as a paradise of paradise on earth to recuperate. This small island is also called Daxingtan, which is probably named after the green reeds and lotus leaves around the gentle lake.

The remnants of An Yi's division were stationed on this narrow island, and they used two stolen steamboats more than 20 meters long to tow more than 200 large and small wooden boats, and slowly drove here from the corner of Dongzui, where they had rested for most of the day, and it took another four and a half hours. Along the way, they walked dozens of kilometers of waterways with trepidation, fearing that they would be discovered by the enemy's reconnaissance planes and attract air raids, and when they saw the land, they all breathed a sigh of relief, so they all landed and set up a grass hut at the foot of the mountain in the north.

Gu Changfeng, who lost his beloved horse, finally grabbed more than 30 good horses and transported them here, and before he could see the selected mount clearly, he was ordered by An Yi to slaughter five heads, more than ten brothers used large knives and daggers to dismember the skinned horse meat, and other brothers randomly found some stones to make a cutting board, chopped the horse meat, and threw it into the only four cauldrons, so as to stew the broth for the wounded and sick to replenish nutrition. The rest of the hundreds of brothers cut out sticks, skewered all the fish they had gathered, and roasted them around a dozen roaring fires.

Xia Jian sat on the big stone at the foot of the slope, quietly watching the more than 300 brothers under his command digging trenches and air raid bunkers along the forest at the foot of the mountain.

Xia Jian patted his head with some regret, snatched back more than two million yuan of foreign and gold, silver and jewelry from Taiping Town, and even brought back a lot of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, but he didn't remember to grab some medicine and salt back, and as a result, he took a boat all the way down to talk to each other, only to suddenly find that there were no basic necessities of life, but with a lot of money that could not be eaten or drunk, which made people very troubled.

Yin Jinan, An Yi and all the brothers did not blame Xia Jian, at that time, they were full of anger and only thought about revenge, who still remembered these gadgets like Yanba? The more you come into contact with something in your daily life, the easier it is to be overlooked.

Shen Fengdao is worthy of being a master, this guy who has never been exposed to anatomy, after the boat left Taiping Town, under the light of the faint light of the torch, he used two self-made clips made with guns to help Cheng Guang pinch the bullet from his right lung, and cleaned the wound with herbal boiled water on Dongzuijiao Island, and used the sewing needle and thread that the soldier brought with him to suture the wound.

After emergency rescue, although Cheng Guang did not wake up, his breathing was much calmer, and there was no sign of high fever under the careful care of the adjutant and personal guards.

Shen Fengdao couldn't be idle after showing this unique skill, and together with his apprentice Xiao Langzhong, he worked from Dongzuijiao to Daxingtan, from the boat to the bottom of the boat, from dawn to now, and the eighteen brothers of the only intact division medical team were also very tired.

The most painful thing is Gu Changfeng, as soon as he arrived on Daxingtan Island, he was ordered to dig a pit with more than 200 brothers and bury the 149 brothers who were seriously injured and died on the way to escape, An Yi and Hu Zi also waved the sapper shovel to help without saying a word, and Yang Bin, who was not well from his foot injury, assisted Yin Jinan in cleaning up the corpses and writing down the names of each brother who died.

After burying the dead brothers, the sun had already set, and the more than 2,700 brothers who could walk were all neatly lined up behind An Yi and the others, kneeling and kowtowing silently.

None of the brothers shed tears, and the continuous vicious battles and deaths made the nerves of every exhausted brother become insensitive, and there was only bitter hatred in everyone's hearts, only deep nostalgia and primitive survival**.

There was a person at the bottom of the north slope who cried, crying very sadly, she was the sixteen-year-old beautiful girl Cui'er who fled here with An Yishi, because she was worried about the revenge of the remnants of the Xu family, An Yi had to evacuate the Cui'er sisters and brothers, who were so kind to him and his brothers, among the wounded, and he didn't have time to ask if the girl was willing? Who else is in the family?

The seven-year-old pillar clung to the corner of his sister's clothes, looked at the more than 2,000 men in ragged clothes who were kneeling and kowtowing, and asked timidly in a low voice: "Sister, there are many uncles who have died, right?" ”

Cui'er wiped away her tears, gently hugged the pillar's head and responded, "Hmm." ”

"Sister, when will we go home? My father and mother said that they would come to the town to visit us, and they would be anxious if they couldn't see us. The pillar asked, pouting.

Cui'er Xing had tears in her eyes and shook her head slightly: "I'm afraid I won't be able to go back for a while, we are now more than two hundred miles away from home, your Uncle Xiaowang is right, if we go back, Xu Sanye, who led the troops in the city, will not let us go easily, he will not only kill us to vent his anger, but also affect my father and mother." ”

Zhuzi looked at his sister in panic, and asked for a while, "Sister, where are we going?" Further on, we are getting farther and farther away from home. ”

Cui'er swept away the messy hair with tears on her face, shook her head and whispered: "Sister doesn't know, let's follow the uncles for the time being, wherever you go." They are very good to us, especially your Uncle Xiaowang, who has been holding you and protecting your sister all the way, and there is no more considerate than him. Also, since we fled, the other uncles were reluctant to eat themselves, so they gave us delicious food, and let us take the largest boat and the same boat as General An...... They were the best army, as the town was rumored, the nationally known Anjia Army. ”

"Sister, the uncles are here."

"Don't run around, sister has to go to the grass shed to see the injured uncle, and your Uncle Xiaowang will come to see you later."

"Hmm."

More than 1,000 men stripped naked on the beach more than 80 meters in front of the straw hut, this was the first time in many days that they had the opportunity to take a bath, and the hot summer caused many scarred brothers to suppurate their wounds, and almost no one was without scars.

The brothers washed their heads and bodies, then washed their tattered military uniforms and shoes in the clear water of the lake, and then returned to the campfire naked** carrying the washed clothes, shoes and hats, and dried them while eating.

Cui'er watched the wounded come out of the grass hut and inadvertently witnessed all this, her face flushed, and her heart pounded.

The only woman on the island hid behind the hut, sitting on the grass with her head buried in her legs, not daring to lift it for a long time, and half an hour later, hearing the painful moans of the wounded in the hut, the beautiful and kind Cui'er couldn't sit still, and bit her lip and went back to the hut to help, although most of the wounded here were also naked.

Beside the bonfire under the big tree, Ding Zhicheng and the brothers of the special brigade had already finished their equipment, and they had to row a small boat out overnight to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and they also had to get back as much first-aid medicine and salt as possible.

An Yi and Yin Jinan and other generals walked in front of the brothers, and the soldiers looked at each other silently, their eyes firm and fearless.

Yin Jinan kept grabbing out the ocean of white flowers from the big cloth bag carried by the two brothers behind him, and each time he distributed it to a brother, he said "strictly abide by military discipline and pay for the goods", and each brother whispered yes, silently put the money into his pocket, and then puffed up his chest.

In the middle of the night, the battery of the transmitter was completely scrapped, the ticking radio station finally fell silent, Zhan Huanqi and the communicators sweated profusely for more than half an hour and finally gave up, and the hand-cranked generator weighing more than 40 pounds became an ornament.

An Yi summoned the brothers above the company commander to report on the complicated situation, and asked Zhan Huanqi to put away a large number of telegrams sent by the General Headquarters and Lao Nanchang, and said to the brothers who were full of confusion and extremely sad:

"Brethren, the Commander-in-Chief has decided to go down...... The headmaster said that he couldn't do it anymore, and that the last telegram he sent to us in the afternoon was obviously a farewell telegram, which meant that from now on, no one could save us, and no one could save us.

From now on, it's all up to us! The new political axe has not yet been formed, and even if it is, no one will dare to break through the enemy's hundreds of miles of defense to save us, so please dispel the idea of relying on anyone from now on. ”

"Hmph...... Lao Tzu never hoped that the generals above would find a way to save us, and it was a big deal to continue to occupy the mountain as the king. Gu Changfeng said indifferently.

Xia Jian hurriedly opened his mouth to correct: "Tiger head, you are wrong, we are now in the vast Hongze Lake, we can only choose to be water thieves, and the dozens of meters high ridge behind us is not a mountain at all." ”

The brothers laughed softly, and the solemn atmosphere was shattered at once.

Yin Jinan raised a practical question: "It doesn't matter if there is someone to save us, it's just that we don't have much ammunition in reserve now, I made a rough count in the afternoon, the average of each gun is less than 50 rounds of ammunition for long and short guns, and the average number of magazines left for 77 light machine guns is four and a half, basically only one blitzkrieg can be fought, and more will not work."

The most important thing is that the 800 wounded soldiers and brothers urgently need medicine to rescue, all of them need to eat, they can't eat fish and snakes all day long, and they have clothes to get together and barely have a dress for each person, so the solution of the logistics problem is the first priority, and everyone may wish to discuss more on this issue. ”

"I'm in charge of the defense and security issues, and if you put your mind to the logistics, we have to fix it in at least two or three days, and no matter what the next step is, we need at least two or three days of rest, otherwise the brothers won't be able to slow down." Hu Jialin said loudly.

After everyone had discussed it, An Yi then expressed his thoughts: "I think that the shorter our stay here, the better, more than 300 seriously injured brothers need to be treated, otherwise they will not survive." As we all know, more than half of these more than 300 brothers are battalion and company platoon commanders, and they are the pillars of our readers. ”

Hundreds of brothers sat solemnly and looked at An Yi intently, An Yi stood up and motioned for the brothers to sit closer, paused for a while and said firmly:

"Brothers, this is the most difficult day since the founding of our army, so far, no team of the revolutionary army has experienced such a cruel situation as ours, not even half of our hardships, but despite this, we are still standing on our backs and not lying down.

Maybe some brothers are aggrieved and angry, and even tired of it, and don't want to be soldiers anymore, I understand very well, but if you don't want to fight, you have to kill them, and talk about it when you get to a safe place, otherwise you can leave the army tomorrow, and I, An Yi, will give enough money to those who leave, and send them safely to the east, west, and south shores.

When you go back later, you will tell your brothers that if anyone wants to leave, please mention it, this is not a joke, but my An Yi's heart, I An Yi is ashamed of everyone, and I am ashamed of any brother. ”

"Master, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Qu Tongyuan, the commander of the second battalion of the Reading Regiment, loudly expressed his dissatisfaction, Lu Xiong and other battalion company commanders also made a fuss, and hundreds of brothers quarreled to the end, and even said that An Yi looked down on them.

An Yi raised his hands, signaled everyone to be quiet, smiled apologetically and said loudly: "I understand the trust of the brothers, but the soldiers are different from our officers, we must respect them, just like our own brothers, and slowly you will understand my feelings."

Okay, let's not talk about that, just talk about my plans, everyone, don't interrupt! Brethren, don't look like rats crossing the street, but as long as we survive and go through this greatest test of life and death, we will rise again and be stronger than we were in our heyday! ”

An Yi's whole body exuded confidence and firm will to win, his body was straight, and his eyes were shining:

"Why do I dare to say that? Because we are not an ordinary army, since the Northern Expedition has been tested by blood and fire again and again, forging our own ideals and beliefs, we have vast contacts and huge wealth potential, as long as we do not die, we can easily grow stronger, and even easily establish ten readers with the spirit of a model battalion, continue to defend our homeland, defend our dignity, and when the country and the nation need us most, we will make contributions and leave a name for eternity! ”

"Master, my little brother has followed you in this life! The younger brother said what he thought in his heart with a sentence from his hometown of Guilin: If you die, you will not die for thousands of years! ”

Huang Hanqian, an instructor in the engineer battalion, shouted excitedly, causing the brothers to burst into laughter.

An Yi scolded angrily: "Huang Hanqian, the dog said, when Lao Tzu just said that he was excited, you interrupted, so it's up to you to talk about it!" ”

The brethren laughed again, and the depression in their hearts disappeared in an instant, and once again they were as relaxed and confident as every routine post-battle summarization.

(To be continued)