An Yi followed Hans and the captain to the bow of the ship, the captain put down the binoculars and gave a series of orders loudly, Hans explained to An Yi in a low voice that there are at least more than 3,000 armed troops on the dock now, and there are many flags fluttering in the morning breeze, I don't know which force is the troops, and what they want to do.

An Yi vaguely remembered that a division stationed at Hukou was supposed to belong to General Zhu Peide's Third Army, while a division of Li Zongren was stationed at Jiujiang, west of Poyang Hukou, which was still nearly 20 kilometers away. An Yi thought about it and didn't dare to be sure, turned to Lin Yaodong to pass through the binoculars, and saw clearly that it was the banner of the Third Army, and immediately relieved.

General Zhu Peide's generosity and righteousness are well known in the army, and when he shouted [***], he only gave away gifts from the territory he occupied, closed the offices of trade unions and peasant associations, and did not carry out bloody suppression like the Hunan army.

Before leaving Nanjing and returning, An Yi had instructed Chen Yu to send a telegram to Lao Dao in old Nanchang, An Yi guessed that after the news of the heavy casualties in the department was reported, Lao Dao and the brothers would rush to Hukou to greet him, but he didn't expect so many officers and soldiers of the Third Army standing on the dock, and in his heart, An Yi wondered if the battle in Nanjing was imminent, and the military and political axe controlled by Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and He Yingqin sent the elders to mobilize Zhu Peide to aid Nanjing, so they would gather at the wharf and prepare to board the ship at any time.

The brothers on the Belgian merchant ship behind him also walked out of the cabin one after another, standing on the foredeck and on the port side and looking at the Hukou wharf, An Yi's gunboat went upstream to inspect it, and also returned to the wharf to dock slowly, and anchored next to the Belgian merchant ship.

Before the ship came to a stop, I saw a general wearing a general's uniform striding towards him surrounded by a group of generals and colonels, and the officers and men on the dock stood solemnly, the military appearance was neat, and the battle flag was waving and the military horn was sounding in unison, which looked very grand.

The captain saw An Yi beside him bowing to the general below with gratitude and respect, and knew that he was coming to greet An Yi's army, so he ordered to put down the springboard and politely say goodbye to An Yi and Hans and others.

After the guests disembarked, the gunboat's escort was completed, and they would turn around and sail straight to Shanghai.

An Yi strode off the springboard, came to General Zhu Peide, who was not confused, and bowed deeply again, Zhu Peide, who was full of spring breeze, stretched out his hands, stopped An Yi from saluting, looked at Lao Shoudao who was wearing a robe beside him and smiled, turned to An Yi and asked unhappily:

"Brother An, as a soldier, how can you perform this civilian courtesy? You are a famous general of the Northern Expedition, what kind of system do you become? ”

"Senior, please call the junior An Yi or Xiao Yi, the senior and Uncle Lao are the same age, they are both the elders of the younger generation, and they have already made the younger generation scared for three hundred miles!"

An Yi said humbly, and then explained: "The seniors may not know that the juniors have been disarmed and engaged in business, and they will no longer be soldiers from now on, and for this reason, they have greatly offended the original old commander, General He Jingzhi.

In a fit of rage, General He led 2,000 elite troops to the Xiaguan camp where the juniors and more than 1,000 wounded brothers were temporarily sheltered, to engage in military justice for the juniors and the officers under his command, and to disarm my scarred soldiers. ”

Zhu Peide and the generals around him were all taken aback, although An Yi said it so politely, but Zhu Peide and his generals knew what it meant to engage in military law and disarm as a whole.

Zhu Peide, who was full of heaven and square of the earth, asked with some annoyance: "How can He Jingzhi, the commander of the first army, act so recklessly?" Not to mention the great military exploits made by the virtuous nephew since the Northern Expedition, just to say that the current great enemy is now the time to unite and hate the enemy, how can he be so confused? ”

An Yi was surprised when he heard Zhu Peide suddenly call himself a virtuous nephew, but he smiled slightly:

"Senior, this matter is a long story, and the younger generation should report in detail when I return to Nanchang. Seniors, please move, juniors to introduce...... This is Mr. Hans, the general manager of the Far East region of the German Lulin firm, and now all the business of the Lulin firm in China is under his control...... This is Mr. Hans's assistant Raut, a China expert, who speaks better official language than me, haha...... This is Mr. Kreuzer, the chief medical expert of the Keats Hospital opened by the German Church in Nanjing, and this time the little nephew led the dying remnants to flee back to Jiangnan, all relying on the rescue of Mr. Kreuzer and dozens of his colleagues, so that more than 300 angry brothers escaped from the ghost gate.

This time, when the juniors came back, Mr. Kreuzer and his colleagues were not at ease, and more than 20 people worked tirelessly to protect them all the way. ”

Zhu Peide was born in the family of the eunuchs, scholarly family, the ancestor was the border general of the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty, from a young age both civil and military, graduated from Yunnan Wutang, ten years ago to participate in the revolution, from Yunnan all the way to Guangdong, become a good general under the command of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, ten years of conquest and meritorious service, seniority, before the Northern Expedition was appointed as the commander of the Third Army, last year in Guangzhou held the Northern Expedition oath meeting of the review commander-in-chief, is served by Zhu Peide.

Strictly speaking, Zhu Peide is a knowledgeable and open-minded and polite Confucian general, and under An Yi's introduction, he saluted and greeted the three Hans very politely, without any pretensions, which made the three Hans very moved.

In today's revolutionary army, there are only a handful of generals, not to mention that Hans knows very well that Zhu Peide in front of him is not only the commander-in-chief of the Third Army and the Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, but also the chairman of Jiangxi Province appointed by the two national axes of Ninghan and Han.

At the same time, Hans, Raute and others were also very keenly aware that the relationship between An Yi and Zhu Peide was by no means ordinary, and the young An Yi could get such a powerful and dominant general, which surprised Hans and the others and thought deeply, how did they know that An Yi was also as surprised as them.

After everyone saw each other, they were just about to walk to the troops together, when they heard a desperate wail from the river, followed by a loud "bang", which frightened thousands of soldiers on the dock to exclaim in unison.

An Yi turned around in surprise to look at the river where the loud noise came, only to see a gunboat shake a few times, and then drive downstream at high speed, a steamboat less than 20 meters away from the berth was smashed into pieces, the high raised half of the bow with a deformed machine gun, crashed down, stirring up a large area of bloody waves, dozens of revolutionary officers and soldiers on the ship all turned into the water, floated their heads, desperately shouted and swam to the shore, rumbling away on the gunboat, more than a dozen devil officers and soldiers were happy to dance and laugh.

An Yi and the surrounding generals, as well as Hans and others, looked at the river in great shock, they knew that it had long been commonplace for the warship to wantonly provoke and rampage along the Yangtze River and the coastal areas, and that as early as the beginning of the year, the Jingjiang ferry was hit and sunk by the warship of the warship, killing more than 300 Chinese people, and in April, the warship maliciously rammed and sank the grain ship of the Wuhan army in the lower reaches of Hankou, and in early June, it also rammed and sank the supply ship of the 44th Army in the section of the Wuhu River, causing the bodies of hundreds of officers and men to sink at the bottom of the river and there was nowhere to seek redress. Now that he saw with his own eyes that the warship of Yueben had maliciously collided with the surface guard ships of the Third Army under the noses of thousands of revolutionary officers and soldiers, how could he not make An Yi angry and heartbroken.

Suddenly, there were several roars from the Belgian ship moored below, Gu Changfeng yelled "Brothers, copy guys", and rushed into the cabin, Xia Jian, who was wrapped in his left hand on the deck, shouted to the adjutant "Bring Lao Tzu's gun", Ding Zhicheng and Zhan Huanqi had already led the brothers to rush into the cabin to find weapons.

Seeing this, An Yi suddenly came to his senses, and rushed towards the Belgian merchant ship, shouting loudly as he rushed: "Don't move!" No one is allowed to move—"

The brothers who rushed out of the cabin with all kinds of weapons were all stunned when they heard An Yi's loud order, how could they not understand that the boss who had revenge would prevent him from taking revenge on Xiao Yuben, who was driving downstream, and with a slight hesitation, An Yi had already rushed to the gangplank to the deck, stared coldly at Gu Changfeng and the others, and ordered sternly:

"Put the weapon back for Lao Tzu, who dares to act rashly if you don't obey the order, don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless!"

"Big brother! Look at it, look at it......"

Xia Jian, who was holding the flower machine gun in one hand, pointed to several corpses of brothers in the Third Army who were slowly sinking upstream, pointed to the fragments of the steamboat on the river, and shouted:

"The dog said, Xiao said that he hit it on purpose, Lao Tzu can see it clearly, big brother! Can we not avenge the unjust deaths of our brethren? ”

An Yi yelled: "Shut up!" All of them are for Lao Tzu to go back to the cabin to stay, if anyone dares to show off his might on the ship with a weapon, Lao Tzu will kill him!

You don't open your eyes and take a good look, where are you standing now, even if you don't have this scruples, can you carry the cannon of a warship with a few broken guns in your hands? As long as you shoot out, not only will you not be able to take revenge, but it will also bring great trouble to our Belgian and German friends who are full of goodwill to us, and more importantly, as long as you fire this shot, you will be firmly remembered by Xiao Yueben, understand?

In the current situation, what do we use to fight hard with warships? It's not that this revenge is not avenged, but the time has not yet come! ”

After An Yi finished speaking, he turned around and strode off the boat, ran to General Zhu Peide and the generals of the Third Army and the Ninth Army on the upstream shore, and saw that dozens of brothers who knew the water had already sent back the wounded officers and soldiers in the river in a panic and salvaged the bodies of his brothers, An Yi's heart was full of anger, and his chest was undulating.

However, at this time, An Yi could only grit his teeth and swallow this heavy shame silently, in his heart, this is not only the shame of the Third Army, but also the shame of the Chinese people, but also the shame of the entire nation, he must avenge this revenge, and he will double the blood debt!

A warm welcome ceremony turned into a tragedy full of sorrow and anger, Zhu Peide was so angry that his face turned blue and his beard trembled, and the surrounding army commanders and deputy army commanders such as Jin Handing and Wang Jun were all full of grief and indignation, and they scolded loudly, and the formation of thousands of officers and soldiers had dispersed, and the scolding was full of anger.

Lao Dao walked up to An Yi's side, gently pulled him to the back, stroked his long beard and whispered in relief: "Yes, it's much more mature, it's good!" I was relieved. ”

"Lao Tzu's heart is full of money! Alas......"

An Yi complained in a low voice, and when he saw Hans and Lauter shouting that the accompanying doctors would get off the boat and come to treat the wounded who had been fished up, An Yi patted Lao Dao's arm and turned around and rushed to Zhu Peide's side:

"Don't be too sad seniors, this revenge will be avenged one day, let the brothers form a team, wait for these foreign doctors to finish first aid, carry the wounded brothers onto the Belgian merchant ships, and live with the wounded soldiers under the command of the juniors. The medicines on the ship are complete, and when they arrive in Nanchang, they will be immediately sent to the old Nanchang Hospital for the younger generation, and the younger generation will definitely take good care of it. ”

Zhu Peide nodded, sighed heavily, and pulled An Yi towards the old way:

"Let's go, Brother Dao, let's all get on the Belgian ship and go back together, the three hundred miles of waterway will take a long time, just so let's talk together, some things have to be mentioned as soon as possible, this bird spirit, brother, I'm fed up!"

(To be continued)