Chapter 7: The Phoenix and the Pheasant
A small-scale Sino-Japanese war that took place in the "ghost house" ended in a crushing victory for the Chinese side, and Ouyang Yun was lucky to become the last yellow bird to appear. Thinking about it in hindsight, he regretted that he didn't attack earlier and sacrificed a few compatriots in vain, but thinking about it again, these compatriots came for the purpose of destroying him, which is a good reason to comfort himself.
The car at the door was Japanese, and Ouyang Yun was most worried that someone would run away and expose the secret of the "ghost house". I had the heart to inquire and confirm that it stopped there early in the morning, thinking about the five big men on the other side, just squeezing a car, there should be no one left last night. There is nothing polite to the Japanese, and he naturally laughs at this old Ford.
The surrounding neighbors have heard the name of the ghost house for a long time, and they are very worried that he is a young man who dares to serve ghosts alone, and the kind-hearted uncle and aunt suggested that a master be invited to exorcise evil spirits, and introduced a large number of fake monks and pseudo-Taoist priests who are messing around, Ouyang Yun has the intention to joke and tell them: There are indeed ghosts in the house, but I have discussed with them, everyone should not interfere with the river water, and they should live in peace. Many of the uncles and aunts were frightened by the "hanged ghost" pretended by the white tassel, and their old faces turned pale when they heard it, and they muttered for a while that maybe the young man was yang, so the ghost didn't dare to get on his body, and some uncles also asked smartly: "Young man, are you still a virgin?" It made him laugh and cry.
The car couldn't drive into the yard, Ouyang Yun drove it into an alley and hid it, and when he went back, he didn't wake her up when he saw Bai Tassel sleeping soundly. What happened last night obviously hit her hard, her face was still stained with tears, the sheets under her cheeks were wet, and it seemed that even in her dreams, she was still crying for a long time. Looking at the scar on her face, he sighed softly if he could remove it like an earthworm.
God is always unfair, or the world is impermanent, so before the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the land of China has always regarded itself as the kingdom of heaven, and the emperor is called the Son of Heaven, but since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the world has been turned upside down, not to mention the so-called barbarians in the West, even Japan, a small country, can even ride on the head of the giant as a prestige. If Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and even Genghis Khan and others had spirits in the sky, I don't know how Lu Dao would feel!
The girl in front of her, I don't know how gorgeous she is before she has no scar on her face, how many girls she envies, and she arouses a little lovesickness of the opposite sex, but a scar makes it all go away from her, and now she is called a saltless girl, and it is estimated that even the original saltless girl has an opinion: It's good that we look ugly, but that's the reason for my parents, what is she? Acquired miscustody.
Putting soy milk and buns next to the bed, he was about to leave, and the white tassel opened his eyes.
He said softly, "Promise me not to run around, and I'll help you untie the rope." β
Her eyes moved away from the soy milk, and the dazedness and sadness in it were gone, leaving only deliberate hatred: "I won't run around, but I will kill you!" β
"Yes, if you are able enough," said help her untie the ropes, gather everyone's bodies into the hall, and then put the sheets on her bed over the corpses of her compatriots. Then he put the sack and the crate back in the cellar and closed the closet.
The white tassel witnessed all this coldly, put his left hand into his waist several times, and took it out after the most, and sighed faintly, picked up the bowl with his left hand, picked up a bun with chopsticks with his right hand, and started breakfast.
"We buried them in the evening," Ouyang Yun said, sitting down in a chair and quietly watching her finish breakfast.
The white tassel's gaze fell on Shen Jian, her eyelids became more and more red and swollen, she rubbed it vigorously, and couldn't hold back her tears.
Ouyang Yun looked at the tears on the sheets, and said in his heart that women are really made of water, and these tears are as deep as a sea, so he stood up and walked out. At this time, letting her cry for a while will be beneficial to her mental health.
"Thank you, thank you for breakfast," Bai Tassel said, and closed the door with a "whoosh".
Ouyang Yun smiled, and he was a little more confident in winning the jackpot - he was determined to get that money, not to buy a supercomputer, nor to build a hope primary school, just to drive away the Japanese.
After killing a few Japanese in the early hours of this morning, he finally understood the true intentions of the two old men, and finally knew what he should do and what he could do.
Lying on the bed, he didn't feel sleepy at all, took out the handheld computer, and slowly checked it.
On April 25, 1935, when I pressed the confirmation button, a literary and historical record in the form of a journal appeared on the screen - at this time, Beiping was still in the hands of the Nationalist Government as a special city, and the garrison was the Third Regiment of the Military Police headed by Jiang Xiaoxian. However, with the imminent signing of the "He-Mei Agreement," the 3rd Military Police Regiment, the 51st Army of the Northeast Army Headquarters stationed in Tianjin, and the 2nd and 25th Divisions of the Central Army stationed in other parts of Hebei will all be evacuated along with the Kuomintang organs, and at that time, Song Zheyuan's 29th Army will enter Hebei at the invitation of the Beiping Army Branch and become the de facto master of the Pingjin region. After that, until the July 7 Incident, Beiping will have a rare period of calm.
At the beginning of the 77 Incident, the Japanese army did not have an advantage in the Beiping area, if Zhao Dengyu's troops could have annihilated the besieged Japanese army at that time, and the Lugou Bridge would not have been lost, then which fork in the road would history go to?
In the historical materials recorded in the notebook, the Pingjin War caused by the July 7 Incident ended with the Kuomintang 29th Army withdrawing from Hebei and abandoning Pingjin. In the final analysis, although there are reasons for China's defeat, there are reasons for strength, but the decisive role can be attributed to two people, one is Song Zheyuan, the commander of the 29th Army, and the other is Pan Yugui, the director of Song's administrative department.
History still has a very high evaluation of Song - a famous anti-Japanese general, saying that he is very accomplished in military affairs and governing people's livelihood, which is not necessarily true. In the Battle of Xifengkou, the 29th Army did have a backbone and a majestic style, and at that time, it was not an exaggeration to call Song Zheyuan a famous anti-Japanese general. But from the moment he entered Chahar, the aura of this famous anti-Japanese general was a little eclipsed.
However, if you read the growth history of Song and the 29th Army carefully, it is not difficult to understand why he had such a change. After the 29th Army formed an army in the Central Plains, it was a reintegration of the crippled Northwest Army. It is precisely because of the experience of the Central Plains War that Song deeply realized the suffering brought to the country and the people by the civil war, so at the beginning of the founding of the army, he clearly put forward the slogan of "not fighting a civil war, but the muzzle of the gun is external", and was unanimously supported by all the generals under his command. Subsequently, Chairman Chiang tried several times to transfer the 29th Army south to suppress the Communists, but Song shirked it on various grounds. It was precisely because of the extreme fear of Chiang's skill in turning his hands into clouds and raining in the warlord melee that Song had always been suspicious of the Nationalist government at his helm, which affected many of his later important decisions, and was also the main reason for the false friendship with the Japanese during the reign of Chahar and Beiping.
Because it was not Chiang's descendant troops, at the beginning of the formation of the 29th Army, it was subjected to many difficulties in terms of military expenses and equipment, and life was extremely hard, and the soldiers were all in rags, as if they were called flowers, and even had to march at night when they moved to Chahar, for fear that they would be seen as bandits by the common people during the day and frighten the people. As a result, the cold weapon of the broadsword has become the necessary equipment of the 29th Army, so the 29th Army's broadsword tactics are not so much Song Zheyuan's innovation, but rather his helplessness. And the 29th Army in the Xifengkou victory cut out the prestige with the broadsword, which is also a miracle.
The situation of the 29th Army did not improve until 1932, when Song Zheyuan was appointed chairman of Chahar Province, and the 29th Army finally got a place to recuperate.
Half a year later, the Great Wall War of Resistance broke out, and the 29th Army fought the Japanese Suzuki and Hattori brigades in the bloody battle at Xifengkou, using broadswords and grenades to fight against the advanced weapons of the Japanese army, annihilating 5,000 enemies, and becoming famous in the first war, but it also suffered more than 10,000 casualties and suffered great losses. However, because the People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army organized by Feng Yuxiang in Chahar was banned by Chairman Chiang and had to be disbanded, the 29th Army was able to pick up its wisdom and get a new lease of life - the whole army was expanded to four divisions, with more than 60,000 people, and at the same time, it also received a large number of weapons and equipment from the Anti-Japanese League, including more than 30 mountain artillery pieces of the former Northeast Army Tang Yulin's department, which really became a military force that could influence the situation in North China.
That period was also the most beautiful day for Song Zheyuan and the 29th Army, with the news film recording the 29th Army's Xifengkou battle broadcast in major cities across the country, the composer Mai Xin also specially composed the "March of the Broadsword" for this purpose, and the 29th Army Broadsword Team and Song Zheyuan became famous all over the world.
It is precisely because of this large gap between the before and after that Song deeply realized the role of a piece of territory in stabilizing an army, so he held his tail between the Kuomintang and the Japanese, hoping only to keep his own territory.
However, people are not as good as heaven. The Japanese were too ambitious, and the Nationalist Government was too entrusted.
After the 77 Incident, Song pinned his hopes on a political settlement in order to keep the 29th Army's last turf, so he still blindly compromised when it was clear that the army was superior, and sent his staff Pan Yugui to communicate with the then commander of the Japanese North China Garrison, Kazuki Kiyoji.
Pan Yugui was an out-and-out traitor, betraying Song at a critical time, so that the deployment of the 29th Army was completely controlled by the Japanese army. Therefore, in the subsequent Battle of Nanyun, the 29th Army was passive everywhere and backward in recruitment, and it was inevitable that it would lose in the war in North China.........
"Pan Yugui! Pan Yugui ......" Ouyang Yun whispered the name of this traitor several times, and his heart moved to kill. If Pan Yugui is killed now, will the history of the 29th Army be rewritten? No, it's not that simple, as long as Song Zheyuan is bent on "political settlement", there will be a second or third Pan Yugui. Kill Song Zheyuan? This is not a result that his little butterfly can bear, in case the 29th Army splits, that- he closed the computer, took a cigarette and lit it, took two puffs, and coughed violently. This cigarette is now a stall product, and it is not comparable to similar products in the 21st century, and I choke to death.
Shaking off the cigarette fiercely, Ouyang Yun began to smile bitterly: What do you want to do so much, take one step at a time, a little butterfly, what can you expect it to do? Go to bed!
"Big brother, I often hear you read Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts", and I don't understand it very well, but now, I understand...... The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon and bow your head to think of your hometown. Big brother, did you have long expected that such a day, we, the wanderers of Sichuan, would have to die in another country after all...... I'll bury you here, and you'll see the moonlight often. It's good that I'm accompanied by a blind mouse and a bear, but I am left alone......" Bai Tassel sat on a new piece of earth in front of the window, looked up at the moon in the night sky that was a little rounder than last night, and said quietly.
Ouyang Yun opened his eyes in a daze, shook his somewhat heavy head, touched the bed with his right hand, touched the emptiness, was startled, and sat up. The moonlight was bright, and through the window, the bed was faintly visible, and nothing was missing, except for the laptop.
"How could I sleep so long? It must be a ghost made by a saltless woman.,Hey.,Why am I so careless.,This girl was originally born as a female ghost! Thinking like this, he hated it in his heart, and he didn't wear shoes, and when he jumped to the door of the room, he heard her whispering, and said that he didn't expect this woman to like Fengyue, and remembered that people were sad, sighed, walked to the gate, and sat down on the threshold.
There are three more new graves in the courtyard, there is a small wooden sign standing in front of the grave, and there are paper flags floating on the grave, which are faint and faint under the moonlight, and seem to have an aura. This courtyard originally had the name of "ghost house", but now there are three new tombs, but the house is as its name. He looked at the inside of the hall, it was empty, a little surprised, and asked, "What about the Japanese devils?" β
"In the pit!"
"Maokeng, eldest sister, you are ruthless enough!" Ouyang Yun gave a thumbs up and walked to the pit, saying in his heart that it still had to be buried, exposing the trouble. When they got there, they didn't see any bodies. "Did you really throw it in the pit?"
"Yes."
"Is this pit deep?"
"I'm incorporated."
"Cremation?"
"Do you want some bone etching powder?"
"Bone etching powder?" This seems to be something that only exists in martial arts novels, Ouyang Yun has always thought that it was all made up by the author, but now he realized that this poisonous thing really existed, and he couldn't help but shudder, "No, no, you can keep it for yourself." By the way, what about my notebook? β
"What notebook?"
"It's just a plastic box."
"I took it."
"Oh," I don't know what Lu Dao is for, but after confirming this matter, Ouyang Yun breathed a sigh of relief, "Give me back, if you are interested, I can teach you how to use it." β
"That's precious, isn't it?" The white tassel's voice is rustling, magnetic, and pleasant to sound, although it always feels cold.
"Priceless, of course!" Ouyang Yun said proudly, and immediately regretted it after speaking, because he saw her take it out of the dirt next to the grave with the words "Tomb of Big Brother Shen Jian" written on the wooden plaque, and rub it into his arms.
"My day, prostitute?! Fortunately, I'm not a big girl, otherwise my belly would have been prostituted by you! β
"What nonsense?! Do you still want this thing? The white tassel was so angry that the earthworm on his face began to squirm, very murderous!
"Don't want it," I don't know what she wants to exchange, Ouyang Yun first pressed the price low.
"Don't want it?" The white tassel blinked his eyes, a little surprised.
Ouyang Yun turned around and walked towards the house, "Hey, I slept for so long this night," his mouth grinned, revealing two rows of big white teeth, and said in his heart that he wanted to trick me, hum, no way.
"Then I'll throw it into the pit," the white tassel said lightly, and his body moved lightly.
Ouyang Yun was shocked, "Don't" blurted out, turned around and saw the corners of the girl's mouth curled, revealing the first smile since they met, he knew that he had been fooled, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head and said: "I really can't see it, you are actually a master negotiator, let's say, what to exchange?" β
"Help me send all the sacks and wooden boxes to Nanjing," Bai Tassel said, took out his notebook, and added, "If you don't promise me, throw it into the pit immediately." β
The notebook can't get into the water, and if you really throw it in the pit, it will be wasted. In desperation, he said, "I promise you." β
"Alright, I'll give you this box when you deliver it."
"Really?" He grinned, flicked his right hand, and the needle flew out.
When Bai Tassel saw his smile, he felt that something was wrong, his body flashed back quickly, but it was still a little slower, and a white light pierced her waist, and she only had time to scold the word "despicable", and the person immediately softened and lost consciousness.
A few minutes later, Bai Tassel opened his eyes and found himself lying on the bed, moving his hands and feet, very freely, unexpected surprise, jumped out of bed, felt that the weapon was still there, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: the heart said that this traitor was careless, and he didn't even search for my weapon. Holding a short sword in his right hand and a throwing knife in his left hand, he slowly walked to the window.
The night was already deep, the moon was getting brighter and brighter, the insects were singing, under the moonlight, incense was burning in front of the three new graves, Ouyang Yun stood in front of Shen Jian's grave, saluting the military salute: "...... Life is a hero, and death is also a ghost. Brother Shen Jian, you relax, Sister Ling has me to take care of you, your unfinished business will be completed by me, go all the way! β
Bai Tassel originally hated in his heart, and he was willing to kill him alive, but when he saw him like this, he became a little ignorant: "Life is a hero, and death is also a ghost-" She groaned softly, a little stupid for a while.
Ouyang Yun sincerely saluted the martyrs, and didn't have too many twists and turns, seeing her, he said sincerely: "Miss Shen, I'm really sorry, I lied to you just now, but this box is too important to me, soββ"
"My surname is Bai, not Shen, your name is Ouyang Yun, isn't it?"
"Yes."
"Does what you just said to my brother count?"
"Of course, people can deceive others, but they can't deceive ghosts, besides, Brother Shen is still a ghost!"
"Okay, then please send these sacks and wooden boxes to Nanjing," Bai Tassel said, looking at him without blinking, like two moonlights on the river, very clear and cold.
Ouyang Yun smiled, and sighed more and more in his heart: If there was no earthworm, just such a pair of eyes would have fascinated many men? "Miss Bai, I think you misunderstood me. I don't think Brother Shen's career is just to send these things to Nanjing, and you still don't know about his grand ideals to this day? It's a shame that you've been with him for so many years. β
Bai Tassel thought about it, the color in his eyes darkened, brightened again, and his tone became cold: "Do you want to play tricks?" Or do you have a crush on those richesβ" Her voice suddenly sharpened, "If it weren't for you watching these riches, how could my eldest brother have died?!" Thief, taste my brother's life! As soon as he squatted, his feet jumped out of the window and threw himself at him, his left hand shook in mid-air, and the flying knife shot into his heart, and the short sword in his right hand followed suit.
The two of them were no more than a grave away, Ouyang Yun was caught off guard, and was stabbed by a flying knife and a short sword at the same time. If he didn't have body armor on his body, it was estimated that there would be two more holes in him immediately - even so, his chest hurt badly, which really aroused his anger - no matter how good his temper was, he couldn't stand the woman repeatedly provoked, and couldn't help but shout: "You woman is too unreasonable!" Taking advantage of her momentary moments, he grabbed her right wrist and bent her left knee against her abdomen.
The white tassel obviously didn't expect that he would do it with all his might, and he couldn't even poke him, and the two legendary terms "King Kong cover, iron cloth shirt" flashed in his mind, and he was stunned for a while, forgetting to resist.
Ouyang Yun was not polite to her, put her to the ground, kicked the flying short sword, quickly pulled out the belt, tied her hands, and said, "I requisitioned that batch of stolen money!" β
Bai Tassel sat on the ground and looked at him hatefully: "You kill me, otherwise, one day, I will take revenge." β
"Stupid woman, if you're not afraid that your eldest brother will die underground, you can just try."
Thinking of Shen Jian, the girl was silent, she just got into the horns for a while, or the blow was too big, she didn't want to use her brain more, thinking about it deeply, she also knew that the enemy of the eldest brother of the Dao was actually dead.
"Woman, you have two choices now, leave, or follow me to kill the Japanese."
The merchant girl raised her head and looked at her, her gaze was complicated: "What part are you?" Is it? β
Ouyang Yun shook his head and asked, "Are you a Kuomintang?" β
The woman hesitated for a moment and said, "Agent 'Phoenix' of the Beiping Branch of the Blue Coat Society, what about you?" She thought: Is it a colleague?
"Blue Coat Society?" Ouyang Yun blinked a few times, rushed into his room, and after a few minutes, after getting detailed information from the computer, he came out and said: "It's funny, aren't you responsible for 'overcoming the crisis of Japanese invasion and stopping the corruption and degeneration of the Kuomintang'?" How did you become a thief now?! 'Blue Coat Society', I said, why is everyone dressed in blue clothes and blue pants. β
"You are the thief, we are raising money for the 'Second Revolution'."
"Cutting feudal domains to unify the country, rearmament to resist the war, banning smoking, fighting corruption, reviving the countrysideβ"
Hearing him recite the purpose of the "Second Revolution", Bai Tassel was taken aback and asked with some trepidation: "Who are you?" β
Ouyang Yun touched his chin, where some hairy beards grew. If the "Blue Coat Society" can really become big in the Kuomintang, it may be a good thing for the Japanese to fight against Japan, but the problem is that the "Blue Coat Society" was born out of the German "Black Shirt Party" and advocates the worship of leaders, and Chairman Chiang has too much influence in it, if he cooperates with the "Blue Coat Society", will he indirectly help Chiang Kai-shek?
Bai Tassel looked at him with a blank eye, and suddenly remembered that Shen Jian had said that the headquarters would send someone to accept this batch of property recently, could it be that Ouyang Yun was the commissioner? So he groaned abruptly: "But I don't see the same in Kyushu." β
This is a poem in Lu You's "Shi'er", which is the joint code they agreed upon, if Ouyang Yun is really a commissioner, he should answer "Don't forget to tell Nai Weng about the family sacrifice". If it is an impostor, most of them will follow the original sentence to answer "Wang Shibei sets the Central Plains Day", and the smarter ones may answer "Death knows that everything is empty".
Ouyang Yun won the lottery again, and he immediately realized that Bai Tassel had something to say after participating in the counter-espionage training, but Du Fu's poem forgot all about it, and his mouth opened to want to take the next sentence, but what came out was the last sentence: "Don't forget to tell Nai Weng about the family sacrifice." β
The code was on the top, and the white tassel face, which had been in sorrow, once again showed a faint joy, "Pheasant! β
Pheasant?! At first hearing this code name, Ouyang Yun almost collapsed. Hey, think you're unlucky, he said, "Phoenix?! "Go up and help her untie her belt and help her up.
"It would be nice if you came a few days earlier," Bai Tassel said melancholy, looking at Shen Jian's tomb quietly.
Patting her on the shoulder, he said: "Mourn, the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard!" There's more to do. β
"As for your documents, confirm them at the last time, and I'll hand them over to you here."
"Lost."
"Lost?" The white tassel turned to look at him, his eyes widening.
Ouyang Yun didn't panic, and said tentatively: "You can send a telegram back to the headquarters to confirm." β
Bai Tassel frowned, in North China, Tianjin is the main area of activity, there is only a radio station there, but there is no in Beiping. She regained doubts about his identity.
Ouyang Yun saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly said: "Chen Jiayao, you have seen it, as soon as I arrived in Beiping, I met her and was kidnapped, in order to save her, the result was ......."
She had heard about this, thought about it and asked, "You came here, did the faucet have any explanation?" β
Ouyang Yun didn't answer, there is such a clause in the counter-espionage manual: When you are not sure whether a question is true or false, then try to remain silent.
This question is indeed used by the white tassel to continue to test him, and the "Blue Coat Society" has no dragon head at all. Maybe she hadn't recovered from the grief of losing her beloved, or maybe she was too tired, so she didn't dwell on Ouyang Yun's identity, but decided to leave. The reason why she participated in the "Blue Coat Society" was because of Shen Jian, but now that Shen Jian is dead, she has no reason to stay. "Pheasant, I'll leave it to you," she said, and she walked into the room.