After everyone got on the sampan, Xu Shijiu turned his head to look at Hu Jie and said, "Old Hu, go back." ”

Hu Jie said with some reluctance: "Captain, I will send you across the lake, anyway, it will not be a few days." ”

"No need, it's going back and forth for several days, not to mention that this is an enemy-occupied area, and there may be traitors and lackeys to tell Little Japan, so you better hurry back to the troops." Xu Jiujiu patted Hu Jie, then took out the Browning pistol that Feng Shengfa gave him from his pocket, handed it to Hu Jie, and said, "Let's keep a souvenir." ”

Hu Jie didn't go to pick up the pistol, lowered his head and said, "Captain, why don't I go with you?" ”

Until this moment, Hu Jie is still in the ideological struggle in his heart, on the one hand, he can't cut off the friendship between brothers, in the 19th Brigade for more than a year, he has established a deep comradeship with Xu 19 and others, and now he is about to separate, and he really can't give up, but on the other hand, he is an artillery after all, and operating artillery is his ideal.

Now there is a huge conflict between ideals and reality, and Hu Jie is in a dilemma.

Xu Jiu sighed and said: "If you are just a small artilleryman like a calf, I will not hesitate to take you away, but you are not, you are not only an artilleryman, but also an excellent artillery instructor, you can only play your role if you stay in the national army, and it can only be a waste to go behind enemy lines with me, and it is a loss for the country and the nation." ”

Hu Jie suddenly became excited, and said loudly: "Captain, aren't you also an excellent commander?" If you go behind enemy lines, isn't it a loss to the country and the nation? Captain, why don't we go back, even if the 58th Division doesn't want us, we can go to other troops, I don't believe it, there are hundreds of divisions of the national army, and there is really no place for us."

Xu Jiu didn't speak anymore, just looked at Hu Jie with gloomy eyes, Hu Jie's voice became softer, and the excitement on his face also retreated like a tide, Hu Jie knew that Xu Jiujiu was still the same as Gao Shenxing, completely desperate for the national army, how could he not go back, but really speaking, the national army is really desperate, if he is not an artilleryman, if it is not because the national army has artillery, how can he be willing to continue to stay in the national army? It's so embarrassing

Hu Jie's lips twitched a few times, and Zuihou only said one sentence to Baba: "Captain, take care all the way." ”

"Lao Hu, go back quickly." The gloomy color in Xu Nineteen's eyes disappeared, waved at Hu Jie, and then turned around and stepped onto the small sampan, Gao Shenxing, who had been waiting for a long time, took a penny on the shore and slid the small sampan into the lake silently with a dozen remnants of the Nineteenth Brigade.

Hu Jie chased a few steps forward and shouted: "Captain, Lao Gao, Flower Monk, Calf, Knife, Ninth Master, Little Madman...... Take care all the way, take care all the way......"

The small sampan soon disappeared on the dark surface of the lake, only a faint goodbye was sent by the cold lake breeze, and Hu Jie waved desperately ahead, tears already pouring down.

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Yu Huan sat beside Xu Shijiu and asked softly, "Captain, nothing will happen to Company Commander Hu, right?" ”

Xu Shijiu bent down and washed his face with a handful of water from the lake, and said: "What can happen, Lao Hu is also a veteran of a hundred battles, don't want to keep him when you are idle for a dozen little Japan, besides, the road from Qinglong Bay back to De'an is full of lofty mountains, as long as you avoid a few traffic arteries, it is impossible for Little Japan to find him." ”

Yu Huan looked forward to the future, and said, "Captain, where are we going?" ”

Xu Shijiu shook off the water stains on his hand and said: "For the time being, let's cross Poyang Lake first, and then decide which direction to go after passing the lake, but there are a few places where you can go, either southern Anhui or western Zhejiang, or southern Jiangsu." ”

Gao Shenxing said while shaking the oar: "I am in favor of going to southern Jiangsu, where there are communist guerrilla activities. ”

"Are we going to defect to the Communist Party?" Lu Jianbang was not happy, although he was completely desperate for the national army, it did not mean that he had a good impression of the Communist Party, and he had never thought about defecting to the Communist Party, so he said at the moment, "Wouldn't it be better for me to say that we will lay down a piece of land by ourselves and fight the war independently?" Save this party, that party, this government and that government pointing fingers at us, making us at a loss. ”

Gao Shenxing looked at Xu Shijiu with his eyes and asked, "What do you mean, Old Xu?" ”

Xu Shijiu didn't say anything, just took the rocking oar from the old camel's hand, and rowed it up one by one, Gao Shenxing didn't ask anymore, the two got along for more than a year, Gao Shenxing already knew Xu Shijiu very well, Xu Shijiu was unwilling to answer, in fact, it was tantamount to acquiescence, obviously, Xu Shijiu was also unwilling to go to southern Jiangsu to join the Communist Party.

Yu Huan suddenly said: "Let's go to southern Jiangsu, and we don't necessarily have to defect to the Communist Party." ”

Yu Huan naturally hopes to go to southern Jiangsu, and even more hopes to have more contact with the communist guerrillas, because she has a trace of fantasy in her heart, fantasizing that one day she can reunite with Shu Tongwen in the enemy-occupied area.

Thinking of Shu Tongwen, Yu Huan remembered his cousin Ye Ruxue, so he sighed and said worriedly: "I don't know how my cousin is now, but don't be arrested by the Fuxing Society." ”

"Arrested by the Renaissance Society?" Xu Shijiu turned his head and looked at Yu Huan with some astonishment, "She didn't go back to Hankou?" ”

A few days ago, Ye Ruxue left De'an, saying that she was going back to the branch of the "Hankou Miller Review" and sending her communication for review, and now although Hankou has been occupied by Little Japan, Little Japan has not made enemies with the Western powers, and with Ye Ruxue's public identity, personal safety should be guaranteed, and how can the Fuxing Society go to the Japanese war zone to arrest people?

Yu Huan lowered his head, not daring to meet Xu Shijiu's gaze, and whispered, "Cousin, she went to Chongqing." ”

"She went to Chongqing?" Xu Jiujiu thought that the headquarters of Miller's Review had been relocated to Chongqing, and said, "Even if she goes to Chongqing, the people of the Fuxing Society will want to arrest her?" ”

"I don't know." Yu Huan could only talk about him left and right.

In fact, Yu Huan knew that Ye Ruxue went to Chongqing this time, in fact, she was fighting for the 58th Division, especially for the 19th Independent Brigade, the Battle of Niu Shidun, the Battle of East and West Guling and the Battle of Wanjialing, Ye Ruxue had all experienced it, so she knew better than anyone that the 58th Division's contribution to the victory of Wanjialing was by no means below the 5th Pei

But now, the 58th Division has been treated unfairly, and the 19th Brigade has been withdrawn tragically, as a reporter, Ye Ruxue feels that she must stand up and do something, not only for the 58th Division, especially the dead officers and soldiers of the 19th Independent Brigade, but also for the living officers and soldiers of the 58th Division, they must be treated with due respect.

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Due to the fall of Wuhan and the blockade of the Yangtze River by Little Japan, Ye Ruxue could only make a detour to Yunnan to enter Sichuan, so when she arrived in Chongqing, it was already more than a month later.

Miller's Secret Commentary has always been sympathetic to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and has spared no effort in its reports on propaganda against Japan and exposing the brutality of the Japanese army, but the two war newsletters submitted by Ye Ruxue this time have put the editor-in-chief Powell in a difficult situation, Powell has been in China for many years, and knows a lot about the shady scenes within the Nationalist Government and the Nationalist Army, and knows that this is an untouchable forbidden area, and if accidentally touched, it may even trigger a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States.

So, Powell withheld Ye Ruxue's article.

Ye Ruxue did not give up, and then found several other national newspapers, first the Damei Evening News, then the declaration, Zuihou even found Ta Kung Pao, these newspapers praised Ye Ruxue's article a lot, but as soon as it was published, he immediately shook his head, the matter is obvious, this is simply to sing against Chairman Jiang.

Ye Ruxue ran for several days, but found that no newspaper was willing to publish her article, and when she arrived in Zuihou, Ye Ruxue gritted her teeth and decided to find the Eighth Route Army office in Chongqing, because she knew that the CCP had always pursued an independent anti-Japanese war strategy and did not buy much of the instructions of Chairman Chiang and the Nationalist Government, and perhaps the Xinhua News Agency was willing to publish her article.