At three o'clock in the afternoon of the fifth day, the exhausted An Yi Third Company finally rushed to the pavilion on the south side of Hengyang East Station, he left Yin Jinan to lead the team to rest, and strode towards the station with his beard to find the military representatives.

Halfway through, An Yi was pleasantly surprised to see the student group composed of the fifth phase of Whampoa gathered on both sides of the station, as if waiting for some order, An Yi and Huzi, who were in high spirits, didn't care to greet the familiar brothers, and strode to the station to see who led the team and how to arrange their itinerary and train number.

As soon as the two stepped up the steps, they saw Zhang Zhizhong, the head of the military academy officer corps, and several other instructors walking out of the door, An Yi stepped forward and reported loudly: "An Yi and Hu Jialin, the third company of the engineer of the second division of the first army, salute the commander!" ”

Zhang Zhizhong saw that it was An Yi, and stopped in surprise: "An Yi, instructor Hu Jialin...... Why are you still here? ”

"Report to the sir, due to the shortage of vehicles and the fact that the railway bridge in the south was attacked by the enemy, our company had to rush from Chenzhou on foot, haha...... Sir, even if I find the organization when I see you, more than 200 of us have not been fed and taken care of all the way, bitter! All of them are not covered by clothes, only the piece of cloth in front of the crotch is complete, one by one they cover their bare feet and hide under the gazebo over there, and they dare not come out and be embarrassed, desolate! ”

An Yi saw his beloved good-tempered chief, and after a few words, he returned to that hippie smiling face, which caused Zhang Zhizhong and a group of instructors to laugh happily.

Zhang Zhizhong finished laughing, looked An Yi and his beard up and down, and saw that although the two of them were in tattered clothes, they were quite neat, so he said kindly: "Take us to see your soldiers, and set off with us in an hour, our two enlisted regiments have just arrived at the station for an hour, and the train transporting us will return to Chenzhou to pick up the main force of the Second Army and the Third Army, we have to wait for the car from the direction of Changsha to go, the Military Representative Office said that this train has loose wagons, and it is estimated that it will be no problem to carry you." ”

The meticulous Zhang Zhizhong turned around and whispered a few words to the adjutant, and the adjutant immediately walked into the station to contact the military representative office.

An Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and remembered that he was denied boarding at Nanmian Hengnan Station in the morning, and he was angry. After walking across the repaired iron bridge, more than 200 tired brothers watched one train after another pass in a hurry, but when they arrived at Hengnan Station, they were not allowed to get on the train, on the grounds that there were no military representatives at this station, and they strictly implemented the orders of Commander Tang of the Eighth Army, and no one could be allowed to board the train to the north without permission. Because of this, An Yi, who was full of anger, led the brothers for most of the day, and more than 200 resentful brothers along the way once saw the train passing, and once again greeted Tang Shengzhi's eighteenth generation of female surnames.

Thinking of this, An Yi made the old mistake of being frivolous and impatient again, forgetting the identities of several instructors around him, and scolded: "The grandsons of Hengnan Station are also too damn bad, and they would rather empty the wagon than let our more than 200 brothers get on the car, and it is useless for Lao Tzu to take out the certificate of the chief of the Chenzhou Military Agency, and the grandsons who only remember Tang Shengzhi don't recognize it at all, and they are angry......"

Zhang Zhizhong's brows furrowed, and he glared at An Yi with his glasses, and An Yi hurriedly shut up.

Zhang Zhizhong didn't say anything and strode towards the pavilion, and more than 200 officers and soldiers of the third company quickly lined up under Yin Jinan's command, and trotted to Zhang Zhizhong and the instructors in the past to report in detail.

Looking at a group of unclothed but standing straight, Zhang Zhizhong and the instructors felt sad and apologetic, and a group of instructors reviewed this group of unlucky officers and soldiers from beginning to end, and returned to the front of the team and sighed.

After greeting the officers and soldiers kindly, Zhang Zhizhong instructed the following to immediately prepare a hot meal and carry it to the platform, so that these hard-working but forgotten engineer brothers could be well fed and give priority to getting on the train.

After Yin Jinan and Hu Zi led the group of ragged brothers to the platform, Zhang Zhizhong stopped An Yi and asked him to go to the officer car in the middle of the train to find him, he had something to talk to An Yi.

Zhang Zhizhong, who graduated from the third phase of Baoding, went south to follow Sun Yat-sen nine years ago, and successively held positions in the Yunnan Army, the Gui Army, the Guangdong Army and the Sichuan Army that supported Sun Yat-sen, and successively served as the company commander, battalion commander, and division chief of staff of each army. He attaches great importance to An Yi's care for the special situation, and it can be said that he is the most concerned officer of An Yi in the entire military academy except for Lao Jiang and Li Jishen, plus Zhang Zhizhong and Li Jishen have a teacher-student friendship, and under Li Jishen's entrustment, he has given An Yi a lot of encouragement and encouragement in all aspects, so the relationship between teachers and students has always been good. Another point is that Zhang Zhizhong and An Yi are very similar, both of them are centrists who are torn between the left and right factions, so they also understand each other's suffering, although they have not communicated on their respective political beliefs, but they have a deep understanding of each other's tacit understanding.

An Yi's younger brother Luo Shaodong was admitted to Huangpu for the supplementary registration quota, which was the result of Zhang Zhizhong's big stroke of the pen, Zhang Zhizhong did not blame An Yi for going through the back door, but said that An Yi introduced the people he assured, and waited for more than 600 make-up examination students to come out Dongzi ranked first, Zhang Zhizhong also thanked An Yi for introducing such a talent for the revolution, so that An Yi was so grateful that he didn't know what to do, and finally believed that there was indeed such a noble person in the revolutionary team who took Mr. Sun's "world for the public" as his purpose and devoted himself to the revolution.

At about 11 o'clock in the evening, An Yi, who had been taught by Zhang Zhizhong for more than five hours after reporting his situation in the past three months, took advantage of the suspension of the train, respectfully and shamefully said goodbye to his teacher and walked off the carriage, ran to the toilet next to the platform to sprinkle a soak of urine that had been held for five hours, quickly caught up with the train that started slowly, jumped on the No. 2 wagon where his company was located, and drove away the two brothers in the fifth row as soon as he went up, sat by the door, lit a cigarette, stared blankly at the dark world outside the car, and recalled the sharp criticism and earnest teachings of the teacher just now.

"The surname is impetuous and lacks self-cultivation", "the pride of merit and laissez-faire", "the mouth is full of nonsense like a street outlet", "what is the demeanor of a revolutionary", "how can the moral cultivation inherited for thousands of years, and the humility and benevolence that maintain the entire traditional norm be reflected"...... In the tightly closed box, sharp criticisms came out of Zhang Zhizhong's elegant mouth, and the interrogation was so severe, and finally, Zhang Zhizhong gave An Yi a detailed analysis of the questions one by one, and pointed out the potential harm and the huge hidden dangers brought to An Yi's future life, so that An Yi, who had just woken up from a dream, was full of shame and remorse.

For a long time, An Yi, who has taken the lead in his surname, has been adhering to the habit of lawlessness in his previous life, the double loss of faith and moral norms, although after such a long time of adaptation, he has been greatly restrained by hearing and seeing, but it is still incompatible with the common principles and moral norms of this world. Now, he knows that no one has reminded him for so long, because his words and deeds make people feel novel and funny, and can meet some people's needs that can only think but never dare to express their inner rebellion and suppressed emotions, or that his teachers and friends care for him and are magnanimous, and they don't care about his subtleties, but today after being pointed out by his mentor Zhang Zhizhong one by one, An Yi woke up, and for the first time, he analyzed his words and deeds and surname into the bone marrow, and even whipped and tortured his soul. The process was painful for him, but he couldn't moan.

Previously, he really didn't know that his frivolous words and deeds and foul words would leave a bad impression on so many people, but he didn't expect that he was likely to become a living treasure who did not learn and lacked cultivation in the minds of many military commanders, but he could charge into battle and make use of it, he was complacent many times, proud of his so-called impatience and humor, and now, all this was so sour, and the cruel result made An Yi so painful that he almost shed tears, he finally knew, The difference between the real self and the self-feeling is so big, what I lack is so much, and I do so badly.

The noisy and swaying train wheezed and crawled on the dark earth like a tired caterpillar, and An Yi's young heart was like a lonely mountaineer who climbed high and was in danger, anxiously searching for a way to survive on another cliff in his life, desperately struggling, regurgitating painfully...... Hu Zi and Yin Jinan were very surprised to see the expression on An Yi's face through the occasional light, it was the first time for them to see An Yi so calm and confused, but they couldn't see the deep pain in An Yi's eyes and the inner world of fierce fighting, so they didn't dare to disturb him at this time, so they could only sit behind An Yi after checking the brothers' condition, leaning on the rusty inner wall of the wagon and smoking silently until they fell asleep from exhaustion.

The next day, the train slowly stopped at Zhuzhou Station, and the temporary duty officer blew the whistle to inform the subordinates to get off the train for dinner, and a large amount of rice porridge had been prepared on the platform, and one company after another got off the train and lined up to receive food.

Yin Jinan, who had completed the whole team, handed over the work to the platoon commanders, looked at An Yi's back and walked to the faucet outside the stationmaster, and was startled when he saw An Yi who turned around after washing his face:

"Big brother, what's wrong with you? Oh, my God...... A mouth full of blood blisters, how did you do it? ”

An Yi blinked weakly, licked his cracked lips and smiled: "Ji Nan, you and the beard work harder, look at the brothers, I got in the car and slept for a while, I feel a little tired." ”

"Big brother, why don't you drink a bowl of porridge and get in the car! I'll get you some notoginseng powder to wipe your mouth later. Yin Jinan was very worried when he saw An Yi's red eyes and confused face.

An Yi walked to the open door of car No. 2 alone as if he hadn't heard it, climbed into the car with difficulty like a sleepwalker who hadn't woken up, climbed onto the grass pile behind the door and fell asleep. Yin Jinan thought about it for a while, didn't care about washing his face, ran to his beard, pulled him out of the team, and whispered.

Hu Zi looked at a pair of dirty feet exposed at the door of the No. 2 car, pondered for a moment and whispered: "Xiao Yi came back from the chief's carriage last night was very wrong, it is estimated that something happened, if he doesn't want to say that it's useless for us to ask, just let him sleep for a while, anyway, I'll go to the Changsha camp at noon and settle down." He has been so tired in the past 20 days, the brothers sleep when they are tired, but he can't, don't look at him to deal with it easily, big and small things can be settled clearly in a few words, but he has more things in his heart than any of us, at this time it is estimated that he is about to be crushed, or let him rest more, let's just share more. ”

Yin Jinan nodded and said no more, and after drinking a bowl of rice soup and organizing the brothers to get into the car, he took out a foreign iron bowl with two spoonfuls of boiling water, carefully poured in some notoginseng powder and stirred well, dipped it in gauze and gently wiped An Yi's cracked lips, and sighed in his mouth.

The sleeping An Yi was unconscious, and exhaled heavily from time to time, as if he was struggling to support a boulder on his body in his dream......

(To be continued)