Chapter 20 Purple Thunder (II) "Bang! ”

He Dingcheng only felt that he was hit head-on by a huge iron hammer, and before he could figure out what was going on, he was beaten upside down by an iron fist and flew four or five meters away, falling heavily to the ground.

This person who flew over like a cheetah and snatched back Ling Weicheng's life in the hands of a few traitors was, of course, Lei Zhen!

Lei Zhen tightly protected Ling Weicheng with his right hand, he lowered his head and quietly looked at Xie Jinyuan who was lying on the ground, and a trace of deep sadness suddenly rose in Lei Zhen's eyes. Soldiers like Lei Zhen and Xie Jinyuan, who have experienced the most brutal wars and are accustomed to seeing life and death, clearly understand that with Xie Jinyuan's injuries, he has no skills to recover.

"Lei Zhen, get out of the way, did you hear it, I want you to get out of the way, Zhongmin is bleeding, he is bleeding, he needs to be treated, he needs to be bandaged......"

Ling Weicheng was really going crazy at this time, she hit Lei Zhen with peace, kicked desperately, she used her head bag, and bit with her own teeth, but Lei Zhen was in front of her, like a heavy mountain, standing in front of her, so that no matter how hard she attacked, no matter how desperate she was, she couldn't cross the forbidden place he drawn. Ling Weicheng really didn't understand why Lei Zhen would stop between her and Xie Jinyuan, and even let her help Xie Jinyuan, at least she could use her two hands to hold down the wounds on her husband's body, so that his blood would flow more slowly, so that he would have a chance to survive until he was sent to the hospital!

Of course, Xie Jinyuan understood what was going on now, and his gaze slowly swept over He Dingcheng and the other four soldiers, and finally fixed on Lei Zhen's body. In Xie Jinyuan's eyes, there was no fear of facing death, nor was there the sadness of being betrayed by his subordinates, he just stared at Lei Zhen and his wife Ling Weicheng who was protected by him with a deep calm.

Xie Jinyuan tilted his head sideways, looking at Lei Zhen as if he wanted to say something, but his lips squirmed a few times, but he finally didn't say anything.

A large, hot, red bead of blood slowly trickled down from the corner of Xie Jinyuan's eyes, and after drawing a meandering curve on his face, it finally fell fiercely to the ground under him that had been covered in blood, and once again splashed a small blood-colored wave.

Whether this is a drop of blood flowing from a head wound, or a heroic tear from Xie Jinyuan, or both, no one in this world will know except Xie Jinyuan.

"Ambition dies before it is rewarded, and heroes often burst into tears...... Hurry, too hurry......"

With such regrets, with full of pride, and with the heroic soul of the Chinese people, Xie Jinyuan finally slowly, slowly, and forever, closed his eyes in this military camp that condensed too much love and hatred, too much hope and disappointment.

Xie Jinyuan no longer has to look at the snobbish eyes of the White Russian soldiers, no longer has to listen to the dictates of the Ministry of Industry and Bureaus, no longer has to be aggressive by the intelligence agencies, no longer has to be angry at Wang Puppet Political Axe and those traitors who annihilated the country, and no longer has to worry about this country with broken mountains and rivers.

He...... Finally liberated!

"No !!"

The fierce sorrow resounded in the sky, at this time Ling Weicheng only felt shortness of breath, she didn't even have the strength to support her body, she really didn't think about it, if one day she lost Xie Jinyuan's husband, what should she do!

"Isn't he a hero? Don't all of you say he's a hero? In the novel, in the romance, the heroes of the world are invincible and immortal, since he is a hero, how can he die so easily, he has a wife, a son, a daughter, and a father and mother to raise, how dare he die? ! ”

There was no strength to attack Lei Zhen, Ling Weicheng lay on Lei Zhen's back, if it weren't for this, she would have already fallen to the ground, she slapped Lei Zhen weakly, and the blazing tears that came out of her eyes poured on Lei Zhen's body, making Lei Zhen's whole body tremble.

There was a sound of tearing and beating in the field, and twenty or thirty soldiers from the lone army battalion rushed up and pressed He Dingcheng and the other three thugs who were hit hard by the thunderstorm and almost lost their ability to resist to the ground. Looking at the familiar faces, Ling Weicheng gasped and hissed: "It's them, it's them, it's them who killed the people, they are the executioners, they are the murderers!" Kill them! Kill them!! Kill them!!! ”

Everyone's eyes were on Lei Zhen, and at this time, under the leaderless dragons, Lei Zhen already had a decisive influence in everyone's minds. Ling Weicheng soon discovered this, and she shouted into Lei Zhen's ear, "Lei Zhen, what are you still doing in a daze?" It was they who killed your master, you watched them kill your master, if you still regard Xie Jinyuan as your master, if you still respect him and are willing to remember his kindness to you, then you will kill these executioners and use their blood to pay tribute to the heroic souls of the Chinese people! ”

Of course, Lei Zhen wanted to kill the four traitors, but after he picked up a dagger, he drew a deep horizontal line on the ground.

"No matter who you are, you are absolutely not allowed to cross this horizontal line without my approval, otherwise, you will be killed!"

No one dared to ignore Lei Zhen's warning, let alone the dagger in Lei Zhen's hand that was still stained with Xie Jinyuan's blood. Lei Zhen stretched out his hand and hugged Ling Weicheng, no matter how she screamed or struggled, his gaze swept over the faces of everyone present, and when he met his gaze, almost everyone's hearts trembled.

Lei Zhen suddenly raised his voice and said, "Yu Decai is out of the ranks!" ”

"Yang Yushui is out of the ranks!"

"Zhang Hao is out of the ranks!"

"Li Min is out of the ranks!"

…… Lei Zhen's voice was not loud, he was not even a soldier, and of course he had no actual power, but when he heard his order, the people who were named quickly walked out of the queue one by one and stood in front of Lei Zhen.

"Master is dead, dead by the sword of his own people." Lei Zhen looked at the dozen or so people in front of him who were named by him, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know how many such traitors there are in the barracks, but I believe that with your character and conduct, no matter what kind of coercion and temptation you face, you will not give up your dignity." ”

Under the silent gaze of more than a dozen people, Lei Zhen said word by word: "So, I put the life of the master and the safety of the master in your hands!" ”

The platoon commander Yu Decai, who was the first to be named by Lei Zhen, nodded fiercely and said, "Regiment leader, even if the two big brothers have found you, they respect you as a great hero for the country and the people, and they will definitely not force you." Leader, at this time, you must not have left yet, right? ”

"Sister-in-law has us watching and protecting, here I Yu Decai swear to you, no matter who wants to harm my sister-in-law, you must first step on my Yu Decai's corpse, otherwise, don't think about going to sister-in-law!"

Speaking of this, Yu Decai, a man who charged forward on the battlefield and was unmoved in the face of enemy troops several times his size, raised his neck and hissed and cried: "Regiment Commander, if you are still willing to believe in our old subordinates and our brothers, you can go with confidence!" ”

Under the leadership of Yu Decai, more than a dozen soldiers from the lone military camp arched Ling Weicheng's side in an arc-shaped layer, and several soldiers guarded all the entrances and exits of Xie Jinyuan's room, in this case, no matter who wanted to hurt Xie Jinyuan's son, it was impossible to avoid the eyes of these protectors.

It wasn't until Ling Weicheng and her children were protected enough that Lei Zhen let out a long sullen breath. It may be a bit ruthless to say it, and it may seem too realistic, but only an orphan like Lei Zhen who has experienced the destruction of his family will truly understand that protecting the living is more important than protecting a corpse or protecting a wounded person who has been fatally injured and whose survival probability has been infinitely zero.

Lei Zhen carried the dagger and strode in front of the four thugs, he looked down at the traitor who was pressed to the ground and had given up the struggle, and after a little silence, he asked: "Why do some people want to be dogs?" ”

The other three remained silent, only He Dingcheng turned his head sideways and let out a low snort full of disdain, and he even spat heavily on the ground in front of Lei Zhen. Seeing that He Dingcheng could still throw out such a presumptuous action after committing such an angry atrocity, everyone in Yang breathed heavy all of a sudden. But Lei Zhen frowned slightly, he could see that compared with the other three traitors who were lying on the ground silently, but their bodies were trembling slightly because of fear, He Dingcheng was much more courageous.

Lei Zhen really doesn't understand why a man like He Dingcheng, who is not afraid of death and has the potential to become a hero, can be bought by the intelligence agency and become a traitor who betrays the country for glory!

"Those who sell the country for glory may be able to gain momentum for a while, but He Dingcheng, tell me yourself, in this history, how many people who have climbed up by selling the country for glory can get a good end?" Lei Zhen looked at He Dingcheng and said in a deep voice: "Don't forget, in front of Grandpa Yue Fei's tomb, Qin Hui is still kneeling there, being scolded by thousands of people!" It's okay if you're shameless, but what right do you have to insult your ancestors? I really don't understand, why would God give you a human skin, and what qualifications do you have to become a five-foot man? ”

"Hmph, it's worthy of Xie Jinyuan's apprentice, he doesn't know how much you have learned in other skills, this trick is better than singing, you have learned it to the fullest!" He Dingcheng finally spoke, he turned his face, looked at Lei Zhen obliquely, and said: "Don't tell me anything big about the country and the people, Lao Tzu has been hit by artillery on the battlefield, and he has fought with bayonets and played with his life, and he is worthy of this country." Don't tell me anything like Xie Jinyuan is a hero, he is willing to be a hero, willing to do it, that's his own business, why does he drag us along? Don't say anything about grievances or anything like that, he is at least famous, and now when it comes to Xie Jinyuan, who doesn't know that he is a hero of resistance? But what about us, we are desperate, bleeding, staying in this kind of ghost place every day, not getting military salaries, not to mention eating pig food, and working hard in that factory, and our Xie Da Hero has donated a lot of our hard-earned money, and has a good reputation of being loyal and unyielding and being able to do what others can't. But when it comes to these brothers in the barracks who are really working hard with me and working in the factory, which onion are we?! ”

Lei Zhen's face sank, and in the face of such a person who even had a distorted heart, he only said one sentence, "Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty!" ”

"Hahaha......"

Looking at the dagger that Lei Zhen had already raised, He Dingcheng suddenly laughed out loud.

"Good, good, good, that's a good point!" At this time, He Dingcheng was really laughing so much that tears flowed out, he glared at Lei Zhen, and shouted while laughing: "Lei Zhen, do you know what I did before the Battle of Songhu?!" ”

Of course Lei Zhen didn't know. He Dingcheng didn't give Lei Zhen a chance to guess, he laughed loudly and shouted: "I'm a tea and egg seller!" I'm a stupid country boy, a big idiot who dares to go up stupidly when he sees the train carrying [***], in order to earn so many extra cents so that he can save money for his mother's medical treatment! ”

"I've never been to Shanghai, and I've never dealt with Yue himself. What can I do if I come? My mother has been sick for so many years, coughing every day, often coughing up blood, but we have never had money to treat it; The roof of our house is leaking, and when it rains, it is a heavy rain outside, and it is a light rain inside, and we must put pots and pots inside to catch the rain, but we dare not put tiles on the roof, at most we can only paint some yellow mud, because according to the soil rules of the township, if you add tiles to the house, you have to pay taxes! Every year before the Chinese New Year, creditors will come to the door, and I have to keep kowtowing to get through the New Year...... Our words are already like this, even if we come, what can our words become? With a change of master, maybe you can live a better life! ”

"Of course, [***] in my eyes, there is nothing, as long as they don't rob us, and they are willing to pay for my tea eggs, I don't care which battlefield they want to go to, which battle they fight?!"

Lei Zhen was silent, what He Dingcheng said, isn't it the truest portrayal of the kind of personal self-sweeping snow in front of the door and taking care of the frost on the tiles of others when he was a child? Looking at He Dingcheng, who had a hideous expression on his face, Lei Zhen also vaguely guessed his experience.

"I held the basket and asked them to pick the tea eggs, but a platoon leader asked me to lift the basket a little higher, and I lifted it a little higher. He asked me to lift a little higher, so I stood on tiptoe and lifted the basket a little higher, and suddenly he reached out and grabbed my arm and dragged me onto the train, and before I could figure out what was going on, he had his men put on my uniform. Then he told me that he had arrived in Shanghai, and that they were going to Shanghai to support, but the number of troops was not enough, so they had to replenish on the spot, so they dragged me onto the train. ”

Speaking of this, He Dingcheng suddenly raised his voice, "Lei Zhen, ask the people present, how many of them were forcibly arrested as soldiers like me?" Now that there are wars everywhere, who would want to take a gun and use it as cannon fodder for someone else if they have a choice? Is this world said to be his own, or is it Chiang Kai-shek's, and what does it have to do with us ordinary people? But this incident made us bump into each other, without asking us if we were willing or not, and without asking if there was anyone in our family who needed to be taken care of, we put on a tattered military uniform and bought our lives, if we escaped, we would be deserters, and even if we were not shot, we would be hung up and pumped violently, to show how majestic our military law was, and our lives were so worthless?! Everyone says that they are bad and ruthless, but in my eyes, these [***] officers are worse and more ruthless than themselves! ”

Lei Zhen was really stunned, the people he had the most contact with were soldiers like Xie Jinyuan, Ma Lan, and Yang Ruifu, but it wasn't until this time that he heard another voice in the barracks.

"After the platoon commander pulled me onto the train, he told me that as a soldier, I had eaten the soldiers' rations, and as long as I didn't want to run away and worked hard, I would be able to get my military salary every month and get the ocean of white flowers. I thought about it at the time, anyway, I can't run away if I want to, if the big gun can't hit me, I will get a military salary every month, and it will be the same as selling tea eggs. Wouldn't I be able to send money to my wife, let her see a doctor, and let her help me save money so that I can marry a daughter-in-law in the future? But I didn't expect that I met Xie Jinyuan and met such a hero of the world! ”

"He has to guard the Sixing warehouse, this is an order from above, even he, the regiment commander, has to stay, and we little soldiers naturally have nothing to say. The above has agreed to retreat, but he Xie Jinyuan has to defend it, he wants to be a hero, he wants to die vigorously, we are also gentlemen, and he really fought for a few days with a hot blood, and felt that even if he died, it was worth leaving a good reputation. But in the end we were thrown into such a ghost place by the British, that we could have slipped out, but he insisted that we stay here and perform like monkeys for others to see every day. We eat the same thing as pig food here, tired and tired of work every day, but we can't get a copper, he Xie Jinyuan's wife and children are here, eat and drink well and there are people waiting for them at night, but what about us? If I don't have money, what can I do to treat my wife? Even my wife was seriously ill and I wanted to ask for leave to go home to take care of her, but Xie Jinyuan did not approve, saying that this is an extraordinary time, and soldiers should put the country first. ”

Speaking of this, He Dingcheng's eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted loudly: "I'm bah! I'm a fucking soldier who should be the public of the country, I'm just a kid who sells tea eggs, I've never treated myself as a soldier! They pulled me onto the train and forced me and Yu to admit it desperately, and I admitted it as a game like eating pig food, but I worked so long every day, why couldn't I get the money for my mother's treatment, my mother was seriously ill, why couldn't I go home to take care of her? ”

"Lei Zhen, tell me, if your wife is about to die of illness, I found you and gave you a chance to choose whether to be loyal or filial, facing a country that you don't have any good feelings about at all, facing an old lady who gave birth to you, raised you, and loved you, which one do you choose?"

Taking advantage of the fact that the strength of the person holding him was a little loose, He Dingcheng suddenly broke free of the clamps, he stretched out his hand and pointed to his chest, and shouted: "Anyway, I chose my own wife!" What's wrong with Han Jian, if Han Jian's mother can save me, I just want to be Han Jian, I just want to sell this tattered and tattered military uniform, with a military uniform that is actually a rag jacket, I want someone else's life, and I want others to be obedient like a dog Broken country! ”

Reaching out and pulling off his clothes, revealing his chest, He Dingcheng shouted: "I admit that Xie Jinyuan is a hero and a man who dares to act, but I, He Dingcheng, am not a bad seed!" I killed him, and I was ready to pay for his life. Lei Zhen wants revenge, so he stabs me in the heart, and if you are fast enough, it is best to dig out my heart before I die. I bet that my heart is still red, do you bet or not?! ”

Lei Zhenxin!

He Dingcheng is a traitor, a traitor who killed the hero of the Anti-Japanese War, Xie Jinyuan, but in this world, things must not be judged only by right or wrong. From a person's point of view, as a son, a man who was forcibly conscripted into the army, and even his wife can't take care of him, He Dingcheng really didn't do anything wrong!

"Lei Zhen, do it. If you don't do it now, we will soon be taken away by the British who have disappeared, and I have promised us that I will find a way to put pressure on the Ministry of Industry to 'rescue' us back to the Hongkou Concession, and at that time, even if you want to kill us again, it will not be so easy. ”

He Dingcheng glanced back at the other three accomplices with contemptuous eyes, and said indifferently: "It is precisely because of such a guarantee that some people who were originally bandits and addicts are willing to take this 'big deal'." ”

Hearing He Dingcheng's words, the other three accomplices really changed their faces.

"Lei Zhen, hurry up, remember to aim a little and start quickly."

He Dingcheng said: "I killed Xie Jinyuan for the 20,000 yuan bonus they gave and to cure my mother's illness." If I can't pay for his life, go to Yu himself to eat and drink spicy food, and live a good life, then I will really be an out-and-out traitor. ”

At this moment, suddenly an officer let out an exclamation: "The regimental commander is not dead!" ”

Hearing this, Lei Zhen's first thought in his heart was: "Impossible!" ”

Judging from the multiple fatal injuries suffered by Xie Jinyuan, it is absolutely impossible for him to survive until now, let alone survive. The only possibility is that the officer, in the case of excessive nervousness and anticipation, made a wrong judgment on Xie Jinyuan's corpse.

In this impossible situation, He Dingcheng's body suddenly pounced fiercely, hearing the officer's shout, and Lei Zhen, who was in deep thought, was caught off guard, and watched He Dingcheng pounce next to Xie Jinyuan's body, grabbed a dagger thrown on the ground, and stabbed Xie Jinyuan's body four times!

"He Dingcheng!"

Hearing Lei Zhen's soft call, when He Dingcheng subconsciously turned around, a sharp dagger silently pierced his chest and pierced his heart. Lei Zhen hugged He Dingcheng, feeling the rapid loss of vitality from his body, in the last twelve seconds of He Dingcheng's life, Lei Zhen said in a low voice: "Your life must be left!" However, I want to say that you dare to act, although you don't have a long-term vision and can't be called a big husband, you are still a well-known man! ”

Listening to Lei Zhen's whispering, a pale smile slowly rose from the corner of He Dingcheng's lips. In history, he is destined to leave behind infamy through the ages, but as a son, he lives frankly and dies without regrets. He really didn't expect that when he was going to die, he would find someone who understood him. And this person turned out to be Xie Jinyuan's apprentice!

(To be continued)