A few minutes after the guard platoon commander Shi Chahai arrived at the hospital, Gao Ya, who was in charge of performing the bomb removal operation for Yang Longfei, lifted the white cloth curtain and walked out of the temporary operating room set up in the pavilion. The cadres rushed up and gossiped, but the questions they asked were almost the same, and the first words of everyone present were: "How is our regiment leader?" ”

Gao Ya's face turned pale, she pursed her lips and asked, "You are all soldiers of the Independent Regiment?" Is the commissar there? ”

Xiao Zhiyuan said: "I am, I am political commissar Xiao Zhiyuan, what do you call me?" ”

Gao Ya wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and his voice was a little weak: "My surname is Gao, my name is Gao Ya, and I am the dean here, let's call each other comrades." ”

"Okay, Comrade Dean, I want to know the current situation of Head Yang, is the operation going well?"

Gao Ya shook his head: "It's not going to be smooth or not, the operation is over, and we have taken out all the shrapnel, a total of fifteen." In addition, I don't know if Political Commissar Feng told you that the two wounds on the left chest and the outside of your left leg have been infected, and they should be local tissue lesions caused by contact with blood after shrapnel strained the skin, and the spread of infection can be temporarily alleviated through medicine. However, at present, there is a shortage of medicines in all aspects of our hospital, and if it is convenient, I still hope that Political Commissar Xiao and all comrades can provide us with some necessary assistance. ”

"Tell me, Comrade Dean, what do you need, I will hold a meeting after I go back, and I will do my best to help you and the hospital solve the problem." Xiao Zhiyuan agreed without thinking about it.

"Wait a minute, I'll open the list for you. Of course, if you can get the best, you don't have to be reluctant if it's really difficult, these years, everyone has their own suffering, and it's not easy, but I still want to thank you, Commissar Xiao ......" Gao Ya smiled.

Before Xiao Zhiyuan could speak, Xie Dacheng preemptively asked, "Doctor Gao, when can we meet our head of the regiment?" ”

"Wait a little longer, his wounds are almost all over his body, the nurse is bandaging him inside, it will take some time, I hope you will be patient. I would also like to remind you that the operation that the wounded have undergone is nothing more than a trip to the ghost gate and returned, and I hope that you will try to avoid quarrels during your visit, and it is better not to come for a short time. Please rest assured, our hospital will send a nurse to take care of him individually, if you want him to recover as soon as possible, don't disturb him too much to rest, he is too weak......" Gao Ya turned and walked away.

Xiao Zhiyuan turned to face everyone and said, "Did you hear it?" Don't be here, just rush here one by one, and don't care about their respective teams? Hurry up, go back to your own station, and go back to your own place. After the regiment commander wakes up, I and Deputy Regiment Commander Zhang will take care of it, so let's go back quickly......" He said and pushed the battalion and company-level cadres in front of him outward.

After the first battalion commander Xie Dacheng broke free from his push, he stubbornly said: "Whoever likes to go, I won't go anyway!" I can't see the regimental leader, I'll sleep here today! ”

"Xie Dacheng, what do you mean? Don't bring that kind of Qiu Ba habit to the hospital, I tell you, this is not comparable to the regimental headquarters, and it is not your turn to play tricks. I really want to let the other brother troops see the joke, you can afford to lose this person, and the regiment commander and I can't afford to lose this person! ”

"Don't come to this set, even if I don't do this battalion commander, if I come to take care of the regiment commander, it's not a big deal to really sleep in the hospital. Your political commissar thinks we're embarrassed, that's your business, the regiment commander didn't say this, don't buckle your hat indiscriminately. Xie Dacheng muttered unconvinced.

"That is, although our gang didn't make much face for the regiment commander, we never did anything to disgrace the regiment commander. Everyone says that we are veterans and like to work on small hills. But who brought this group? Where did the mountain come from? Aren't they all given to us by the regimental commander? Without a regiment commander, how can there be an independent regiment now? The most conscientious thing about being a soldier is that there is nothing wrong with asking the three battalion commanders of us to guard the regiment commander here. What happened to Qiu Ba? Only worthy of their conscience, Qiu Jiu, we also admit it! Qian Liyuan also stood aside and coaxed with a straight face.

The two sang and supported the scene, and the cadres who had just come in not long ago also shouted: "Yes, we won't leave either...... We stayed until we saw the head of the regiment come out...... That's right......"

Dealing with these cadres who clearly wanted to go against him, Xiao Zhiyuan's eyes were full of anger, but his heart was full of the four big words "helpless". He angrily pointed at the "stunned greens" in front of him, and was so angry that he brushed his sleeves away alone.

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According to information received by Cheng Wanli, deputy commander of the regiment, since the beginning of spring this year, the policy of the "grain control order" formulated by former commander of the North China Front Army, Terauchi Shouichi, has spread throughout the entire north China region. Anyone who is in the area of the Japanese Union, whether you are a wealthy businessman or a commoner, must strictly enforce this policy, otherwise you will be escorted to the northeast for hard labor or shot on the spot, so as to show the seriousness and inviolability of this policy. Of course, this article is not aimed at pro-Japanese personnel, and the Japanese army has also set conditions for this: Anyone who can provide information on the underground elements of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party for the Imperial Japanese Army, or who are willing to serve the Imperial Japanese Army, can be provided with rice, white flour and other fine grains for free to survive.

For ordinary people, this condition can be said to be very tempting. Overnight, the entire Japanese unified region of northern China inexplicably had several brigades of puppet army units and dozens of local county government agencies established under the auspices of Chinese. After just a few days of basic training, the newly established puppet army units were sent by the Japanese army in North China to work in various places, either to defend the localities in various counties and towns and suppress the anti-Japanese movement, or to go to the countryside in an organized manner to carry out sweeping activities against the base areas of the Eighth Route Army. On the contrary, the Japanese army's attitude toward the Jinsui Army and the Central Army was rather "ambiguous," and for at least for quite a long time, the Japanese army did not harass or attack the Jinsui Army and the Central Army units in the towns and villages of the Tun Army. According to Deputy Regiment Commander Cheng's analysis, the current situation should be related to the newly arrived commander of the Japanese First Army in Jin, Iwamatsu Yoshio.

Since June this year, the newly arrived Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu has taken over the position of the former commander Yoshio Shinozuka and is in charge of the military and political power of the Japanese army in Shanxi. And this person has a great relationship with the current commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, and has a good personal relationship. It is worth mentioning that this person is not a fanatical militarist, and the China policy he advocates is to achieve the so-called policy of "governing China with China" by luring down the Chinese army and the Chinese government.

Recently, Yoshio Iwamatsu has often made one-way contacts with Yan Xishan, commander of the Second Theater of Operations, through secret telegrams, and then the two sides have further engaged in political negotiations. After several months of secret negotiations, the Japanese side said that it would not attack the Chinese government forces stationed in Shanxi, but the Chinese side must also promise that the Japanese army would not be allowed to provide any military support to the other side in the subsequent operation to clear the countryside of the "encirclement and suppression of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Jinzhong." In the aftermath, a "secret treaty" that has not gone down in history was born.

Tie Haichuan did not comment on the facilitation of this "treaty". His idea was simple: he was a professional soldier, he had no interest in politics, and he didn't intend to put his mind on it. Moreover, although he belonged to the battle sequence of the second theater, he actually obeyed the direct orders of the Chongqing Military and Political Department. In other words, his leader was not Yan Xishan, the commander of the theater, but Chairman Chiang, who was in Chongqing. Tie Haichuan's attitude towards the Japanese army is very clear, whether it is passing by or bumping into it, as long as the whereabouts of the Japanese are discovered, it is one word, fight! But any backbone Chinese cannot be soft on this group of pigs and dogs inferior to the Japanese, if you don't kill him, he will kill you in turn, it is better to start first.

In addition to national enmity, Tie Haichuan's hatred for the Japanese also has a little personal enmity. Just as Deputy Regiment Commander Cheng reported, the Japanese army has increased its control over grain reserves throughout North China, and counties, towns, and townships in various localities have begun to collect or even forcibly collect grain in advance, which will naturally affect the amount of grain collected by other forces. Even Pingyao County, where Tie Haichuan was stationed, could not escape the doom, and even he, the commander of the regular army, was mixed to the point where he could only eat mixed noodles, not to mention those little people.

Tie Haichuan almost didn't vomit when he first came into contact with mixed noodles, he was from Tianjin, he loved to eat noodles when he was a child, and when he was studying in a military academy, three or four white flour steamed buns for a meal were not a matter at all. Even if you don't eat steamed buns, it's better to eat rice, cold noodles, and cold noodles than to eat this shit mixed noodles, right? Not to mention eating, just by smelling it, you can feel a moldy taste, and when you eat it, it is like swallowing a scale, and you can't eat at all, as if your esophagus and stomach refuse to enter this food. What's more serious is that since eating the first mixed noodles, Tie Haichuan has found that his stomach has to turn over the river and the sea from time to time, and several times he has held military meetings, but he rushed to the toilet like a gust of wind in the middle of the meeting, and he can be said to have exhausted his foreign appearance in front of his subordinates. I can only endure it like this, the reason is very simple, just this mixed noodles was bought by him on the black market in the Japanese Tong District. Since the fall of various counties and towns in Shanxi, the Japanese military authorities have also tightened their control over the black market, and even today, even the black market can only sell mixed noodles. As for rice and white noodles, there is no other way than to ask the Japanese for it.

Tie Haichuan, who has always paid attention to the word backbone, swore to the sky that he would never bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and whether he starved to death or was poisoned by eating mixed noodles in the future, he would never compromise with the Japanese in dog days. On the contrary, he also formulated a series of retaliation plans, one of which was most supported by the officers and men of the regiment, that is, to intensify the raids and attacks on the surrounding Japanese strongholds, and to kill all the Japanese prisoners who were caught, regardless of whether the other side surrendered or not, leaving no one alive. As for that bullshit Geneva Conventions, fuck it!

Chief of Staff Liu Binghe also collected two latest pieces of information for Tie Haichuan, one of which was that Yang Longfei was seriously injured when he led his troops to attack the Yuxian stronghold, and has now been sent to a field hospital of the Eighth Route Army for treatment.

Tie Haichuan was stunned for a moment, and asked anxiously, "When did this happen?" How are others doing? ”

"It's what happened today, Yang Longfei led the third battalion of his unit to attack the Yuxian stronghold, and then the devils in the stronghold seemed to be in a hurry, probably planning to burn the jade with the main force of this group of eight roads. But at this time, Yang Longfei himself was commanding the battle at the front of the Eighth Road, and as soon as the devil fired the cannon here, he was overturned by the air wave over there! According to the report of our reconnaissance post, Yang Longfei was seriously injured this time, and although he had barely survived the bomb removal operation, it was only a matter of one breath, and there was no more danger of his injuries worsening or his life directly. ”

Tie Haichuan bit his lip and looked at the black night sky through the window, and said with a complicated mood: "It's a pity, the Anti-Japanese War has just entered a state of stalemate, and such a big thing happened to him." Hopefully, this will be just a transition in his military career. Wouldn't it be a pity for such a brave and warlike person to capsize in the gutter? ”

Liu Binghe, chief of staff of the regiment, put forward his own opinion: "Tuanzuo, I am pessimistic about the future of this person, and I think that even if he survives, he may not be able to make any waves in the future. According to his style of play, which is completely contrary to conventional strategy, even if he does not die in the hands of the Japanese, sooner or later he will be killed by us. ”

"Brother Binghe's words are wrong, this person is known for his eloquence and strategy, but he is just secretive. He is like a fox who always likes to hide his tail, pretending to be kind on the surface, but in fact he has a good heart. If you deal with him for a long time, you will find that this person is not a good person. At least as far as the party-state is concerned, he is likely to become a fierce rival of you and me in the future! Tie Haichuan turned his back to Liu Binghe and said meaningfully with his hands behind his back.

"Tuanza, forgive me for being humble and stupid, whether your evaluation of this person is positive or negative, please show it to Tuanza."

Tie Haichuan turned around and said with a smile: "You can take it as a neutral evaluation, for the Eighth Route Army, having this person is tantamount to controlling a tiger." However, as far as the party-state is concerned, the existence of such an opponent is undoubtedly a huge hidden danger both today and in the future. You must know that there is more than one person like Yang Longfei in the Eighth Route Army, and once this phenomenon spreads, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Deputy Regiment Commander Cheng proposed: "Tuanzao, in this case, do you think you need to send a forward observation post to infiltrate the Eighth Route Army Hospital and solve this scourge on the spot?" Since this man will be our opponent sooner or later, it is better for him to fall asleep and never wake up, lest he have many dreams at night. ”

"Nonsense!" Tie Haichuan scolded unhappily, "I, Tie Haichuan, have always been upright and upright, and never do those shady deeds, let alone assassinate a seriously injured person who is powerless, which damages my reputation." Listen, I don't agree with this today, and I won't agree with it in the future. If any of you dare to go to Yang Longfei's trouble in the name of my 89th regiment, Hugh blames Tie for turning his face and not recognizing people. ”

Chief of Staff Liu Binghe hurriedly changed the topic to resolve the embarrassing atmosphere at this time: "Tuanzao, there is another news, maybe you will be interested in hearing it......

Tie Haichuan relaxed his muscles and bones and said, "Speak." ”

"According to the information sent by the Theater Commander's Department, the Sakurai Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in Linfen will enter the defense area of our 89th Regiment in the next few days, in order to take away the ashes of a total of 75 Japanese soldiers left behind when they abandoned Pingyao four years ago. It is said that this matter has been passed in a high-level secret meeting between the Second War Zone and the Japanese First Army stationed in Jinjin, and Chief Yan hereby sent a telegram ordering us to cooperate with the Japanese military representatives who came this time to complete the task of handing over the ashes of the Japanese army. ”

Tie Haichuan's eyes lit up, and then asked, "Sakurai Brigade?" Is history going to repeat itself again? ”

As soon as these words came out, Deputy Regiment Commander Cheng and Chief of Staff Liu felt a little confused. Chief of Staff Liu asked directly: "Tuanzuo, the history you are referring to is ......?"

"Do you know about the 'Guanganmen Incident' that occurred in July of the 26th year of the Republic of China?" Tie Haichuan was unhurried when he spoke, and seemed to sell Guan Zi intentionally.

Chief of Staff Liu and Deputy Commander Cheng shook their heads after looking at each other, and said frankly: "Forgive me for my ignorance and ignorance, and I hope that the regiment will give advice." ”

Tie Haichuan faced the two of them and told with great interest a historical fact that really happened in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but was not well known: "On July 26, the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Guangbu Brigade of the Second Infantry Wing of the Japanese Tianjin Garrison Army set off from Tianjin and went straight to Beiping, and the troops were drawn from 5:30 in the morning and arrived in Fengtai at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Matsui, Okamura, and other lieutenants and officers of the Japanese special service in Beiping discussed and decided to ask the defenders stationed in Guang'anmen to open the city gate and let them go under the pretext that 'the Japanese embassy guards had returned from a drill out of the city,' but in fact they wanted to take this opportunity to sneak attack Liu Ruzhen's unit of the 679th Regiment of the 29th Army stationed here. The Japanese army sent an adviser Sakurai to liaise with the authorities of the 29th Army, and at the same time, the Japanese Hirobe Brigade changed buses from Fengtai to Guang'anmen, and arrived at 6 p.m. The 679th Regiment decided to lure the enemy deeper, let half of the main force of the Japanese Hirobe Brigade go, and immediately closed the city gate, and adopted the tactics of closing the gate and beating the dog to attack the Japanese troops in the city in the area of the battlements of the castle tower, and killed the Japanese army secretary Shigeru Sato, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, and the Hirobe Brigade was almost completely annihilated. ”

The two listened with relish, and when they saw that Tie Haichuan had stopped explaining, they couldn't wait to ask, "Then what?" According to the nature of the Japanese army, they will not remain silent after suffering such a big loss for no reason, right? ”

Tie Haichuan sneered: "Whether it's protesting or warning, it's all useless. They personally concocted a 'Lugou Bridge Incident', and we backhanded them a 'Guang'anmen Incident', which is called one report and one report. Of course, there are reasons, but even if the Japanese are skeptical, what can they do? In other words, every time they deliberately provoke an incident, they are actually contributing to an all-out war of resistance that may break out at any time. Every policy they have implemented in China, including this so-called "Grain Control Order," will only make the Chinese people hate Japan even more, rather than support it. They confidently think that violence can scare the Chinese, but in fact they are shooting themselves in the foot. ”

Deputy Head Cheng's head also seemed to have an idea: "Tuanzuo, do you want to draw a gourd in the same way and stage the second 'Guanganmen Incident' in Pingyao County?" ”

Tie Haichuan smiled knowingly and said, "That's what I mean, this Sakurai brigade is here to send him to death." There is a saying that 'help people to the end and send the Buddha to the west', since they are here to beg for death, I Tie Haichuan might as well be kind and send them a ride. ”

Chief of Staff Liu put forward his own opinion: "Tuanzao, is this contrary to the order issued by the Theater Commander's Department? After all, Chief Yan is negotiating with the Japanese army, and if there is an incident at this time, I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to our 89th regiment......"

Tie Haichuan specially reminded: "Brother Binghe, I hope you know that although the 89th Regiment belongs to the battle sequence of the Second War Zone, his direct leadership is not the Second War Zone Commander's Department, but the Military and Political Department of the Chongqing Government. Chairman Chiang sent a special telegram to me saying that in the course of fighting the Japanese army, once we found a situation favorable to us, we could cut it off first and then take action, and the Ministry of Military Affairs would handle the aftermath on our behalf. I think it should not be difficult to understand the intention of the chairman, does Brother Binghe have any other questions? ”

Liu Binghe smiled, and he sighed: "In the end, it is our principal, who not only understands the righteousness, but also considers us students everywhere. I don't have any other questions, I'll immediately call a meeting of officers above the company level to deploy......"

"Well, Tuanza, I have a question...... Four years ago, when I was recovering Pingyao, I also heard that there was a house in the city dedicated to storing the ashes of Japanese soldiers, but I was busy with official business and never went to see it. When I remembered it, I heard that the house had been demolished by the soldiers of the engineer battalion, so where did the ashes go? ”

Liu Binghe was also interested when he heard it: "Yes, I didn't take it too seriously at the time, and I forgot about it, but now that I mentioned it, I am also a little puzzled." Do you know where the ashes were placed? ”

Tie Haichuan put his hands behind his back and replied with a full temperament: "Throw it in the back mountain, feed the dogs......"

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In the faint candlelight, Yang Longfei's face wrapped in bandages and gauze disappeared from time to time. Gao Yafu patiently reviewed the documents and reports sent this afternoon at his desk, and from time to time he had to turn his head to look at Yang Longfei who was lying on his bed, and then showed a knowing smile, which was very sweet.

Because of the vacancy of the bed, Gao Ya simply arranged Yang Longfei to recuperate in his room. Even those ghostly nurses seem to see that Dean Gao is very unusual to this injured head Yang, and his care and concern for him are even more meticulous, and he is more intimate than other wounded, it seems that the relationship between the two is not ordinary, and they are like a pair of old friends who have been reunited for a long time.

Gao Ya finally approved the last paperwork, and it was ten o'clock in the night, and after she leaned back in her chair and stretched contentedly, she got up and strolled to the bedside. She sat sideways at the end of the bed, looking at this incomparably familiar man, with mixed feelings in her heart, including surprise, sadness, distress, and anxiety......

It has been 14 years since Yang Longfei went to Guangzhou to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy in 1926, and in these 14 years, the person who comes to Gao Ya's mind almost every moment is him, which seems to have become a habit, and the first person he wants to share when he is happy; The first person you want to talk to when you're sad is him; The first person who wants to discuss when he is confused is him; When he is confused, the first person he wants to find is still him...... When he misses it deeply, even Gao Ya himself will say in the depths of his heart: It's really useless. Despite this, he still couldn't stop thinking about him. It is said that the flow of time can dilute everything, but Gao Ya's feelings for Yang Longfei have become more and more thick over time, and have changed from youthful to mature, that is, in the process of emotional transformation, Gao Ya seems to have suddenly understood what * love is.

Gao Ya just put her right hand on Yang Longfei's right cheek and took it back, she was afraid that if she accidentally touched the wound on his face, it would irritate him and affect his recovery in the future. Gao Ya pouted and looked at the "quiet" man in front of him, and seemed to have reined in his once unruly personality and cynical attitude. Gao Ya had already changed her naïve and naïve thoughts, she knew that the current situation was all temporary, and that sleeping in front of her was a tiger that would never be tamed, and when he was fully recovered, she didn't know how big a wave it would make.

When I think of those youthful years, the corners of my elegant mouth will unconsciously bend upward, what a carefree time it was. Gao Ya closed her eyes slightly, caught in the chase of the past......

Yang Longfei was not a child who loved to read when he was a child, and he did not follow his father who was born in the literati at all. Since I can remember, I have been a master who loves to fight and fight, and is not afraid of heaven and earth. In the huge Beiping City, no one seems to have scared him yet. Gao Ya remembered that once, Yang Longfei once took a few "buddies" to fight with a few local snakes entrenched in the area of Zhengyangmen, the location was near the Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower, both sides were like bloodthirsty outlaws, and they would not show mercy as soon as they made a move, if they were not discovered by the patrol officers patrolling nearby and stopped in time, maybe there would be a fatality. Even Yang Longfei's father, Yang Zhefeng, expressed helplessness to this son, and later simply implemented a "stocking policy" for his son, the little thing has hard wings and can't control it, let him go!

Even Gao Ya himself sometimes asks himself repeatedly, what attracted Yang Longfei, a guy who always likes to cause trouble, attracted him? Not only himself, but even his parents, who are also literati, actually have a love for Yang Longfei that ordinary people can't understand. What makes Gao Ya even more puzzled is that such a well-known "Demon King of the Mixed World" in Sijiu City will be honest like a cat when she meets her parents, as if she has completely changed into a person. You know, even his father Yang Zhefeng can't domesticate this stubborn donkey, so why can he show an honest appearance in front of his parents?

When the two of them got older, Gao Ya found that the relationship between him and Yang Longfei was no longer as simple as being a small and a good friend. After years of baptism, the two have experienced development to maturity both physically and psychologically, and at the moment when they are almost adults, their feelings for each other have become a little delicate. At least that's what Gao Ya herself thinks, she and Yang Longfei have long since left the era of childhood sweethearts and two little guesses. The question before them at this moment is whether to continue the friendship or turn it into love.

For love, Gao Ya has his own understanding. In her opinion, since it is love, it must not be dealt with hastily, although she is a person who hates complicated things. To be honest, she was born in a relatively conservative family, her parents are both scholars, and since the beginning of her elegant memory, her parents have not only worked her education, but also strictly checked and guided her future mate selection direction. According to Gao Ya's understanding of his parents, the second elder would not accept a man who likes to fight and cause trouble as his son-in-law no matter what, but his parents looked at Yang Longfei differently, and there was a lot of intention to recruit him as a son-in-law in his words and demeanor.

Although his own thoughts coincide with his parents' thoughts, what worries Gao Ya is that after more than ten years of separation, has Yang Longfei already empathized with him? It is said that there is no shortage of women around heroes, and with the reputation that Yang Longfei has gained in the northwest of Shanxi over the years, he will always involuntarily make some girls who are in the hazy period of love fall in love with him. Although he is not married and has not started a family, Gaoya still lacks the confidence he should have. After being separated for so long, it is estimated that he may not be able to recognize himself when he wakes up. Gao Ya's thoughts at this time were extremely complicated, she was afraid that she had already been erased from the bottom of Yang Longfei's heart, but she really wanted him to wake up and recognize herself, talk to herself, and listen to her experience in the past ten years.

It was the first time for her to watch the man she had grown up with so closely, and Gao Ya only felt a strange but hazy feeling disturbing her whole body. Her sweet smile added a layer of mystery to the flickering candlelight, and honestly, she enjoyed the feeling of the moment, and just wanted to take advantage of the night to see him again, even if it was a little more precious......