Chapter 4 Chapter Three A Person Who Was Deliberately Erased

I didn't take the third volume to read, but just paid attention to Bai Su's expression, watching her turn over the manuscript papers one by one, turned to the last page, then let out a long sigh, put her hand on the stack of manuscript papers, He raised his head: "This novel is actually not finished yet." I asked with my eyes, and she said: "The novel only writes about the betrayal, but it doesn't mention why there is a betrayal at all, it just raises a question." I thought about it for a while: "As a writing method, novels can also be written in this way, and there are many examples. Should Hu Fei's knife be cut at Miao Renfeng, it is an eternal mystery.".

Bai Su laughed: "It's different, judging from this story, there is another very important character who may be the one who caused the whole incident to happen. He didn't appear on the stage, but he deliberately avoided it, but because of his important status, there are some clues to be found. -" I didn't wait for her to finish, so I yelled: "Stop talking, that's not fair, you have already finished reading, and I only read a third of it, so I don't understand what you said." Bai Su said "ah": "Yes, I forgot. The author of the novel is also very interesting to separate the behavior of betrayal from betrayal."

I nodded in agreement: "Yes, rebellion and rebellion are just one kind of behavior. Rebellion, rebellion, and rebellion are two kinds of behaviors, so they are extremely despicable. Rebellion is not a bad behavior, as long as it is not carried out in secret." Bai Su raised his eyebrows: "Sometimes, because of the pressure of the environment, you have to do it in secret first?" I shook my head: "I don't know what other people think. What I can't tolerate the most is secretly plotting behind the scenes." Bai Su thought for a while, then handed me the manuscript of the third volume, and I opened it, reading it quickly, because in that volume, half of the writing was about the life of Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng, while the other side was about The friendship between the two of them remains unchanged. Gan Tiesheng was promoted to the head of the regiment, and Fang Tiesheng was the deputy head of the regiment.

After reminding Bai Su, when I was watching, I also vaguely felt that between Fang Tiesheng and Gan Tiesheng, there seemed to be another very mysterious person. , which the author deliberately avoids mentioning. However, what the author wrote is almost all facts, so although he deliberately and carefully avoided mentioning that person, there is still a little sign to be found-naturally, it is difficult to find this point if you read it carelessly. If I look at it alone, I may not be able to see it. Bai Su's heart is as fine as dust, so it's easy to see it. Below, I will give some examples and add my discussion with Bai Su.

Of course, there is no need to give too many examples, otherwise, what you read will not be Wesley's story, but two iron stories. One of the examples is that show. The repertoire performed in the army that time was "Three Heroes in the Wind and Dust". Everyone knows that it is about the house girl Hong Funu, a housewife of the minister Yang Su in the late Sui Dynasty. When she saw Li Jing, a young hero, she eloped in the middle of the night and married Li Jing. Later, he met Qiu Ran, a tycoon in the Jianghu, and the three of them fought side by side, competing for the Central Plains, and fighting for the world. The story of the three heroes refers to Qiu Ran, Hong Fu, and Li Jing.

In that novel, at the end of the second volume, it was written that there was such a performance, and it was said that it was "very important, and formed an inestimable and extremely profound influence on Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng", but he himself Paradoxically: "Whether such an effect has occurred is really not certain." But at the beginning of the third book, it was completely stopped. After reading the six volumes of manuscript paper, I never mentioned this performance again. If the author hadn’t emphasized that such a small plot, compared with many thrilling battlefields and espionage intrigues in the novel, negligible.

However, since the author has attached so much importance to this performance, but after mentioning it again, there is no more follow-up, which is a bit unusual. After I read all the manuscript papers, this was the first question I brought up to discuss with Bai Su. As soon as Bai Su heard that I proposed to discuss this issue first, she agreed, and said: "Don't worry, let's start from the beginning and imagine that we were in this regiment at the time." I pointed to my nose: "I am the platoon leader." Then pointed to Bai Su: "You are the deputy platoon leader."

Bai Su glared at me: "It's imitative." I laughed: "Not all platoon leaders and deputy platoon leaders in the army are the same as those two iron students." Bai Su's expression became serious: "There is no real evidence to prove that the two of them are homosexuals." I laughed loudly: "You, deputy platoon leader, are women disguised as men to join the army, modern Hua Mulan, it's okay." Bai Su also laughed: "Don't talk about it, what would happen if we were present at the fun party that day?" I took a breath: "There are more than a thousand people sitting on the ground, most of them are in the open space near the resident, the stage is built hastily, the stools for the officers are borrowed from the villagers, and the lighting on the stage is at most 'air Dead wind lamps', well, or if the army has its own generators, then there will be electric lights."

Bai Su smiled: "The head and deputy head of the regiment came to the stage to perform, and the officers and soldiers at all levels in the audience naturally had a lively atmosphere." I went on: "This kind of military party, everything can't be too particular. Of course, the music cutscenes are also found among the officers and soldiers. The singers are out of tune, and no one will pay attention. That's really a tense moment. Extreme, a brief pause in a military career where life and death are on the front line." Bai Su took a breath: "I didn't explain what kind of play it was singing."

I waved my hand: "I guess it's Henan opera, because the place names mentioned in the novel are all in Henan province—but it doesn't matter what kind of drama it is, as long as you know it's the Three Heroes." Bai Su said: "In the army, they don't have any outfits, most of them just take off the quilt and put it on their body, just put some oil paint on it." I thought that this kind of simple performance could bring a great pleasure in the bloody and desperate military career, and I couldn't help being a little fascinated: "The red whisk in the hand of the red whisk girl is mostly made of the red whisk of the health team. Mercury water has turned red, but fortunately Fang Tiesheng's beard is ready-made."

After I said this, we both fell silent for a moment, knowing we had gotten to the heart of the matter. Readers should have noticed, of course, that there was a person who should have been mentioned, who must have been there at the time, but he was not mentioned a single word. I spoke first: "Gan Tiesheng's Li Jing, Fang Tiesheng's bearded man, whose red-haired girl is it?" Bai Su waved his hand vigorously: "This is the person, the author of the novel tried his best to avoid not to write, but the person who obviously exists is the person who played the role of Hong Fu that night." Since the author clearly wrote that the performance that night had a very important influence on the two Tie students, I agreed with Bai Su's opinion, and I said: "This person can play Hong Fu, and he is not too old." Big." Bai Su said "hmm", "Is this person a man or a woman?" I hesitated for a moment. On stage, Hongfu is of course a woman, but in traditional Chinese operas, it is customary to "reverse the strings", men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men. There is no rule, so it is difficult to determine the gender of this person. . Originally, if the appearance of this person had a significant and far-reaching impact on the two Tiesheng, then it was more reasonable to be a woman. The combination of two men and one woman can change into countless stories, joys and sorrows, lingering ecstasy, tears, and joy, all of which are included. Almost all things that have happened and things that have not happened in ancient and modern China and abroad can be included. That person should be a woman. However, considering that there may be a homosexual relationship between the two iron students, it cannot be judged by common sense. Homosexuals are not interested in women. If this is the combination of two men and one woman, then there is no problem at all. will happen. But what if one of two men is bisexual?The natural problem is more complicated than the normal two men and one woman. But no matter how complicated it was, it was still more complicated than the three men, all of whom were homosexuals. Because many homosexual men suddenly think of themselves as men and women in psychology, which is unpredictable. The relationship between three such people is so complicated that I am afraid that I can’t figure it out using a computer. Only then can it be calculated clearly. Since the author has so emphasized the importance of this performance, it can be seen that things must have become more complicated in the later stage. Then, it is also possible that a man will play the role of the red girl. I thought for a while, and then said: "It should be said that this person is a man, because it is unlikely that there are women in the army." Bai Su didn't take it seriously: "There will be female nurses in the health team, and there will also be female signal soldiers, maybe, but not necessarily in the army." I said: "If there are still some clues, it should be possible to infer the gender of this person and what role he played between the two of them? I read that paragraph in the fourth book, it is very important." She flipped the manuscript paper and pointed to the passage she was talking about.At that time, I had already read all six volumes of the original work, so I knew the content of that passage at a glance. That paragraph was written after a battle, and it was introduced in the same way as the previous introduction—it should be explained that the previous introduction covered the second book, the entire third book, and the first half of the fourth book. None of them are very important, so they are omitted. Gan Tiesheng was standing on the top of the plateau—it should be said that he was standing in a pit on the top of the plateau. The pit was chest deep. The land on the Loess Plateau was originally bright yellow, but this pit was scorched black and still It stinks disgustingly, for it is the sound of many shells. Two hours ago, when Gan Tiesheng observed this place with a telescope, it was a bunker built by the enemy. And two hours later, under the attack of the Iron Army, the bunker turned into a deep pit. The commander of the Iron Army, as the victor, jumped into the pit and stood upright. All over the high ground, there were shouts resounding through the sky, and it was difficult to tell whether it was cheers or howls.In a word, it is the cry issued by many people after facing death and temporarily gaining life.No one here knows how psychologists analyze this kind of cry, but everyone who calls here knows that they want to scream as much as they want, and let out the joy and sorrow, worry and misery that are suppressed in their hearts. , to vent out together, otherwise, they will explode like a dynamite package after its fuse is ignited, and dissolve into the air and dust. This kind of shouting and howling on the battlefield will not only happen after conquering the enemy's position and winning a victory, but also after a disastrous defeat, when you can retreat to take a breath, and it can even happen in a deep sleep-everyone who is familiar with military life knows Know what the "bombing camp" is all about. ("Bombing the battalion" is a terrible phenomenon. Thousands of soldiers, who can be sleeping soundly, suddenly shout loudly and gather together, like thousands of ghosts rushing out from the depths of hell together. Their utterance The call can be heard dozens of miles away, and it can make people's heart palpitate.) At noon, an order from the division headquarter reached Commander Gan Tiesheng: "Only before sunrise tomorrow, Height No. 7 must be conquered. Anyone who violates the order above the battalion commander will be subject to military law." The No. 7 highland must be conquered. This is something everyone in their regiment knows. Even the old cook kept saying: "Call the heavenly soldiers and generals to level this highland." Whether Height No. 7 can be captured is the key to the victory of this battle.The high ground was in the hands of the enemy, and the choke point controlled by the enemy could not communicate or cross the river. The entire army (two divisions) had to sit and wait for the enemy's superior forces to gather before being annihilated. The enemy's dominant force was marching starry night and rushed to the battlefield. After two days of continuous attack and failed to capture the No. 7 highland, it was extremely reasonable to receive such an order from the division headquarters. Gan Tiesheng was in the hands of the messenger. He took the order, looked at it, and held it in his hand in a daze. He stood in the trench and looked forward. The position he occupied was far from the blockhouse on the high ground facing him. The straight-line distance of the machine gun hole is 187 meters. In theory, it takes only 40 seconds to charge up and climb up to the high ground. Meters did not advance either. The enemy deployed a company of heavy machine guns on the bunker on No. 7 Heights. There were twenty heavy machine guns with strong firepower and long range. Moreover, there seemed to be endless bullets, thin, long and whistling. When they came flying, the long-toothed machine gun bullets that looked like ghosts screaming and devouring people had already taken the lives of more than forty of his soldiers. What's terrible is that those forty or so corpses were spread between the trenches and the high ground. There were seven warriors who rushed out desperately to snatch back the corpses of their compatriots. corpse.Gan Tiesheng knew that the presence of these corpses in front of the troops would be an indescribable blow to the morale of the troops, but he still ordered that no more corpses be collected. The highland is not high, only more than forty meters. It is an inexplicable granite hillock lying on the flat ground. It may be the top of a very high mountain, but the whole mountain is buried under the soil. Then a mountaintop, exposed outside the soil, forms a highland. When Gan Tiesheng led his troops to arrive, he had thought that this highland was formed by unknown reasons many years ago. All kinds of weapons, and all kinds of schemes to attack and occupy, and have held firm and resisted. Now, it was his turn to confront the defenders. After several years, when this situation is repeated, no one will think of him, just like he doesn't know what kind of people were fighting here in the past, and why they are desperately fighting for it.The bunker is not big. Behind the bunker, there is another row of trenches. It seems that the top of the high ground is also dirt. Just like a high ground, guarding the danger and controlling the whole situation. When Gan Tiesheng squinted, with blue veins on his forehead, staring at Gaodi, Fang Tiesheng was beside him (Fang Tiesheng was by his side almost all the time), reaching out his hand to take the order. At this time, Fang Tiesheng already knew a lot of characters and could even read a lot of books. After reading the order, he pursed his lips (because his long beard was too thick, it completely covered his mouth, so this is his habit Others cannot detect the movement of the enemy), and said in a low voice, "We have no artillery support, no air force bombing, and no professional engineers." All of this is the knowledge he has learned after reading many military books. When he said something, Gan Tiesheng responded with "um". Fang Tiesheng's voice was even deeper: "The only way is to go up there with explosives and blow up the bunker." Fang Tiesheng's proposal, if someone else heard it, would definitely laugh "haha" - no one would mention this method, the problem is how to send the explosives up. But Gan Tiesheng didn't laugh when he heard this. He knew that Fang Tiesheng seldom came up with ideas during the war, but if he did, there must be a feasible way. So he withdrew his gaze from a distance and cast his eyes on Fang Tiesheng's incomparably mighty square face. Fang Tiesheng's eyes were piercing: "Take ten people, including me, once it gets dark, attack with all your strength as a cover, feign an attack, and eleven death squads pretend to be dead bodies. Throughout the night, move forward inch by inch, as long as you are two meters away from the high ground, you will be in a blind spot for shooting, and you can rush to the high ground, each with four packs of explosives, and the three machine gun companies on the high ground will be finished." Fang Tiesheng's speech was very concise, and Gan Tiesheng listened to it, while reading quickly, and immediately made a judgment.The attack plan provided by Fang Tiesheng is almost the only feasible plan. There were already more than forty corpses in the open space. After another failed attack, there were more than ten corpses. It was a very natural thing. At night, no matter how vigilant the defenders are, it is not easy to detect, but as long as they reach the blind spot of shooting on the high ground, it can be said that they have won. However, the problem is that the attack must be a real attack. Under the real attack, the defenders must concentrate their firepower to fight back. Those who originally wanted to fake death may become real corpses.Secondly, if you successfully pretend to be a corpse, you must be extremely careful when moving forward. As long as one of them is discovered, the defenders will open fire, and the rest of the fake corpses will also become real corpses. Gan Tiesheng was thinking, Fang Tiesheng already knew what he was thinking: "Eleven people, as long as half of them can pretend to be dead, they will succeed. If there are too many people, it may not be useful to sacrifice in vain." Gan Tiesheng took a deep breath and nodded slowly: "It's a good attack plan, but it doesn't make sense for the leader to lead the Death Squad to charge." Fang Tiesheng raised his chest—he was already extremely burly in stature, but his chest was even more impressive: "If you don't take the lead, how can you lead the army?" Gan Tiesheng was waiting for this sentence, and immediately stretched out his hand and patted Fang Tiesheng's shoulder heavily: "Yes, I am the regiment leader, and I should be the one who takes the lead. You are in charge of commanding the battle after entering the high ground." Fang Tiesheng was tongue-tied, and Gan Tiesheng paused, "This is—" His words, of course, should be "this is a military order", but the word "military order" was not spoken, and someone next to him picked it up: "I will go, I will take the death squad."
When the novel is written here, it can be said that it has sprung up suddenly.The two iron students are a life-and-death friendship. Leading a death squad, they will be exposed to the enemy's firepower net for at least six or seven hours in an open area without shelter, and they must move forward inch by inch, so that they can move to the fire net. A blind spot, at most only half the chance. When they can climb up and charge, although they already have hope of success, the chances of dying under the powerful fire net of the enemy will also increase greatly. It is not an exaggeration to say that such a storm mission is a near-death mission. It was a very tragic scene where the two iron students were vying to be the leader of the team, which showed that they truly had a life-and-death friendship, and each would rather die by himself than take risks for the other. Under such circumstances, someone actually said "I'll go", then this person must not be an insignificant person, at least, his status will not be too far from the two Tiesheng, and he must also be an uncompromising person. In addition, the warriors to be deducted must be people who can freely participate in opinions when the two Tiesheng are discussing military affairs. Has this person been with the two Tiesheng all along?Never seen it mentioned before.So at that time, when I saw this period, I felt a sudden emergence. But the wonderful thing is that the novel did not mention this person before, and it still has not mentioned this person in the future. It seems that he appeared just to say that sentence, and after this person said that sentence, it should be It was originally a dispute between two people, but it turned into a three-person dispute, but there is no more text. Next, I will write about the feint attack. Seventeen dead bodies were found. Please read the next paragraph, you can know where the mystery lies. The gunfire from both sides fell silent.For an instant, there was extreme silence.The attack began at 7:05 and the time is now 7:21. The extreme silence lasted only half a minute, and there was another thrilling whistling sound from the muzzle of the fortress on the high ground. Looking in the dark, the flames from the muzzle of the heavy machine gun were so dazzling that people couldn't open their eyes. Like a torrential rain, it sprinkled on the open field. Gan Tiesheng and Fang Tiesheng, who were lying in the trench, looked at each other. They both knew that the commander of the defenders was a formidable character. He made up another round of shooting to determine whether the attack had really stopped. And this round of supplementary launches may have prevented the development of the entire offensive plan. The two Tiesheng were extremely nervous. They had already counted seventeen more corpses. After a lot of selection and selection, an extraordinary reward was offered-"Two levels of food for one year, promotion for three months of long vacation", there are a total of eleven members of the death squad, of course, all of them are among the seventeen corpses now. Among these eleven people, how many became real corpses?How many are still alive?