The work of treating the wounded was busy until it was completely dark, and although Li Keji worked hard, he still only treated a small part of the wounded. In Xu Xiangqian's opinion, he has made a great contribution, but he himself doesn't see it that way, he can't treat them all, and he always has some regrets in his heart.

The matter was not grasped, but Li Keji had to put it aside for the time being, after all, they still had more important tasks, and the matter of treating the wounded could be put later.

After the sky darkened, Zhang Guotao sent someone to invite Wu Hao to the banquet, saying that it was for him to catch the wind and wash the dust. At this point, Xu Xiangqian, as the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army, was very ashamed, and did not arrange for Wu Hao and others today, but instead let those who were guests greet him with a meal of Yeyu Battle rations.

As a soldier, Xu Xiangqian was full of praise for the Yeyuzhan rations, he never thought that there could be so many ways just on the dry food, and he didn't care about the taste and calories, mainly because the self-heating method was very interesting to him, and he asked Li Keji on the spot about the specific principle.

Li Keji didn't know how many times he had answered this kind of "old hat" question, and this time he took the trouble to repeat the explanation, which made Xu Xiangqian stunned.

Because they were eating in a temporary hospital, the rations carried by Li Keji and the others were only enough for one person to share a little, and although he was able to deliver enough food, it was too appalling now, so he had to divide the rations carried by more than 30 people, so that for the first time in more than two months, the Central Red Army relived the feeling of being hungry.

After eating the dry food they carried, Wu Hao and Li Keji had to go to Zhang Guotao to eat and drink, and by the way, they also wanted to see what tricks Zhang Guotao could come up with after half a day.

In order to welcome Wu Hao and Li Keji, Zhang Guotao set up the banquet at the temporary headquarters, which is where they met during the day today. Since the Fourth Front Army has basically eaten the last meal and has not eaten the next meal, the dinner is very simple, and the only people who attended the banquet were Zhang Guotao, Chen Haiquan and Xu Xiangqian, who represented the Fourth Front Army.

When Xu Xiangqian brought Wu Hao and Li Keji back, Zhang Guotao had been waiting at the door of the temporary headquarters for a long time, and after seeing the two of them, Zhang Guotao greeted him warmly and said: "Vice President, you have been here for a day, and I have only now prepared a dinner party to receive the wind and dust. ”

"The family doesn't talk to each other, the current situation of the Four Front Army, how can I still be in the mood to eat a reception meal. But Guotao has already prepared, so I won't refuse. After a few polite sentences, Wu Hao and Zhang Guotao approached the temporary headquarters together.

After entering the temporary headquarters, the five of them were divided into two groups and sat on both sides of the dinner table, Chen Haiquan said while helping to serve tea and pour water: "There is no wine in the army, so we can only use the butter tea of the local Tibetan people to entertain the deputy chairman Xi Xi and Mr. Li." ”

"Now that the army is in difficulty, it is already hard for you to have a bowl of tea, and Xiao Li and I are not people who pay attention to diet." Wu Hao smiled and took the butter tea handed over by Chen Haiquan, and then said, "The central government just hopes that the Fourth Front Army can return north in time, and when the time comes, it will also be able to support the Fourth Front Army nearby, so that it will not be trapped and die in the wilderness." ”

"What the deputy chairman said is that this time we went south to underestimate the enemy, which is why we have caused the current situation. The central authorities did not blame the past, and sent the deputy commander to the south to persuade us to return to the north, and the whole army of the four fronts was naturally grateful. When the condition of the wounded in the army has improved, our army will return north at a certain speed to join the center. Seeing that Wu Hao talked about the problem of returning to the north again, Zhang Guotao stood up and said at the moment, took a small bowl filled with butter tea, bowed to Wu Hao and continued, "Everything is that I was confused for a while, so I will replace the wine with tea here first, and admit my mistake to the vice chairman." ”

Although Zhang Guotao had uncharacteristically self-criticized this morning, the other four did not expect that he would take the initiative to admit his mistake to the central government and offer tea to Wu Hao.

Chen Haiquan and Xu Xiangqian were both surprised, and couldn't figure out what he wanted to do this time, Li Keji on the side was expressionless, and his heart was full of sneers, only Wu Hao stood up with butter tea and said: "No one is wrong, knowing mistakes can be changed, good is great, since Guotao admitted his mistakes to the central government, I drank this cup of tea on behalf of the central government." ”

After speaking, Wu Hao and Zhang Guotao raised the bowl and touched each other, and drank the butter tea in the bowl in one go.

After sitting down again, Chen Haiquan continued to beckon: "Don't talk about it, eat vegetables and eat vegetables, although it is a little inferior, it is still sweet and delicious." ”

Li Keji was not used to the deceit at the dinner table, so he could only fill his stomach first, although his body was as strong as a superman, and the calories he needed to consume were several times that of ordinary people.

At noon, he was hungry all the time, and when he was concentrating on his work, he didn't feel it, and when he stopped, he always felt like his heart was close to his back.

It's just that there are too few things on the dinner table, and it's not enough to even stuff his teeth, and there are other people around, so he can't solve it all by himself without grace.

While Li Keji was concentrating on filling his stomach, Chen Haiquan suddenly interjected into the topic and asked: "I heard that the deputy chief Xi Xi and Mr. Li went to the temporary hospital today, I don't know how much time it will take for our wounded to recover, and they can't walk the grass with serious injuries." ”

"Director Chen rest assured that the central government will never leave a single wounded, so Xiao Li and I have already discussed that when we drop food tonight, we will transfer an extra batch of medicines to us, and we must treat all the wounded and sick in the shortest possible time." Chen Haiquan mentioned the wounded, Wu Hao naturally knew what he wanted to say, in the past, the workers, peasants and the Red Army lacked medical care and medicine, and the wounded were kept in place as much as possible to hide and recuperate, although everyone knew that their chances of survival were very small, but in order not to drag down the main force, these wounded and sick were left on the road of the Long March.

Xu Xiangqian, as the person who accompanied Wu Hao and his entourage throughout the whole process today, added in a timely manner: "After seeing Mr. Li call for airdrops today, I also believe that the central government can completely heal all the wounded and sick. ”

"The overseas organizations represented by Mr. Li are really the hope of the revolution, and it would be good if you could come back as soon as possible, otherwise the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army would not have been driven out of the Jiangxi Soviet District." For some reason, Zhang Guotao suddenly came up with such a sentence.

Facing Zhang Guotao, Li Keji sneered in his heart, put down his chopsticks and said slowly: "It's not that we don't want to come back early, but the results came too late." There is also a special circumstance, Zhang Zhuxi did not know, when the overseas section was destroyed, the core members were almost all wiped out, and all that remained were peripheral members, and there was no party member. In this case, how do we contact the Party Central Committee, and the rest of us at that time did not know that the Overseas Section was an underground organization under the leadership of the Party, so we could only work silently according to the original mission goal, hoping that the higher authorities would take the initiative to contact us. It was not until our overseas organization finally achieved success and rescued the only remaining core members from prison that the comrades knew that they were an organization under the leadership of the Party. It's a pity that the old political commissar was already dying when he was rescued by us, so he could only ask us to get in touch with the Party Central Committee as soon as possible, and at this time, the Central Committee had already begun the Long March. ”

"Hey, I can't imagine that all the party members of overseas organizations are in trouble, and what is even more commendable is that the remaining peripheral members still secretly work hard when they don't know their identities, so that there are today's overseas organizations. Mr. Li, for your spirit of hard work and not being afraid of difficulties, I, Chen Haiquan, would like to toast you. After listening to Li Keji's account of the hardships of overseas organizations, Chen Haiquan was very excited, and immediately poured butter tea, stood up and toasted tea to Li Keji.

Although it was a nonsense that he had thought of a long time ago, Li Keji didn't expect to win Chen Haiquan's tea, stood up and respectfully took it, and then drank it all.

After Chen Haiquan finished saluting, Xu Xiangqian also picked up the butter tea and stood up and said to Li Keji: "Mr. Li, I also toast you for the wounded and sick of the Fourth Front Army." ”

The future marshal offered tea to himself, and Li Keji naturally took it.

Seeing that the left and right both of them gave Li Keji a bowl of tea, Zhang Guotao was naturally not far behind, and after pouring full of butter tea, he toasted tea with Li Keji that he was about to bring assistance to the Four Front Army.

In his heart, Li Keji didn't want to drink Zhang Guotao's bowl of tea, but it was not easy to refute his face at the dinner table, so he had to take it.

After the tea, the two groups chatted and ate very harmoniously, and because the sensitive topics of the Central Committee and the Fourth Front Army were difficult to mention, they shifted all the topics to Li Keji, from overseas customs to the organizational work of these years, Li Keji rarely demonstrated his "inferior" language ability.

When he was about to eat, a person suddenly came to the temporary headquarters, it was Zhang Guotao's henchman Xu Kexun.

Seeing Xu Kexun, except for Zhang Guotao, everyone else was stunned, wondering why he appeared at this time.

I saw Xu Kexun with a smile on his face, and apologized to everyone first, and then said: "The main seat, the room for Wuhao's deputy chairman and Mr. Li Keji to rest has been prepared, I don't know when you will rest." ”

"Really? Ready to get started? Zhang Guotao first asked Xu Kexun, then turned to Wu Hao and asked, "Deputy Chairman Xi, do you want to continue to chat with us for a while, or are you ready to rest?" ”

"It's not too late, I'll talk about it here, Xiao Li is flying a plane again today, and he is helping to treat the wounded, so he must be tired." Wu Hao looked at Xu Kexun and Zhang Guotao, put down the chopsticks in his hand and said.

Li Keji also put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, stretched his waist and said: "Deputy Chief Xi Xi doesn't say that I don't think I feel it yet, I am indeed a little tired today, and I haven't treated the wounds of so many wounded for a long time. ”

"In that case, that's all for today's dinner, Kexun will help me send the vice-chairman and Mr. Li back to rest." Wu Hao and Li Keji both said that they were ready to rest, and Zhang Guotao got up and prepared to send each other.

Speaking polite words, Li Keji and Wu Hao got up and followed Xu Kexun out, and Zhang Guotao also followed him, but after only taking two steps, he suddenly fell to the ground, and everyone shouted in shock: "Chairman Zhang......"