Chapter 20 When the nest collapsed, Li Mingrui narrowly escaped from the dead; Yu Zuobai sobbed and chanted "Emperor Shunzhi became a monk"

Li Mingrui rushed out of the encirclement of the pursuers in Daxu Town with a dozen or so followers, and ran towards the dense forest in the southeast.The bullet hole pierced the dense rain, bursting out a quenching sound-"wow, wow, wow, wow" flying in the ears. At this moment, there is only one thought in his mind: I can't die!He couldn't die in such a useless manner at the hands of his most trusted subordinate!To live!You have to kill Huang Quan, this unfamiliar bastard with your own hands! The forest is full of darkness, which makes people feel that it is more dangerous, but it may also be their safest hiding place-to take these remnants and defeated soldiers who escaped from the fingers of death, and give them a chance to breathe calmly. recovery and rearrange their own destiny.

Behind the forest is the precipitous and precipitous green bamboo peak, which is so quiet, gloomy and mysterious, which is both daunting and tempting: either to be saved or to die! The forest was silent, and greeted them neither warmly nor coldly.Some of the dozen or so entourages kept falling down, whether they were hit by bullets or exhausted their last breath; the rest followed the deputy commander of Chiang Kai-shek who had lost his military power and rushed into the forest frantically. In the wild panting, they didn't care whether their hearts would burst, or whether their bodies would be hit by locust-like bullets. The open land of only three hundred meters seemed so far away and difficult to them, as if it would never happen. Can't run to the end.This kind of speed, which is better than the 100-meter sprint of an athlete on the track and field, is shown in these extremely hungry fugitives, and it can be called a miracle of human survival.Exhausted from jumping over a ditch, they fell to the ground one by one, unable to get up again!They crawled deep into the grass like lizards, crawled, crawled!They smelled the musty smell of dead branches and rotting leaves, the faint smell of fishy bird droppings, and the tender smell of tree roots sucking soil emulsion. They finally entered the forest!

For a moment Li Mingrui couldn't figure out how he led his followers to break out of the encirclement.When he received the urgent telegram from his cousin Yu Zuoyu, he thought with disapproval that Huang Quan would definitely not have malicious intentions towards him.It wasn't until Huang Quan blatantly electrified and defected to Chiang Kai-shek in Guiping, and sent pursuers to arrest him, that he woke up like a dream, but his mind was suddenly darkened by a black whirlpool, and he could no longer hear his own roar And groaning, couldn't hear what was shouted to the entourage.I felt like sinking into a black whirlpool, slightly feeling its fluctuation and floating.

Now, he felt somewhat clear-headed: still in the chaos before dawn, there were rapid gunshots around Daxu Town, and the pursuers shouted: "Catch Li Mingrui alive, and you will be rewarded with two thousand dollars!" The pursuers sent by Huang Quan have surrounded the town.At this time, his guard platoon leader—Zeng Kui, who claimed to be the "fifth generation heir of Zeng Guofan's patriarchy" and was also nicknamed "the blue-faced beast", took his waist knife without any explanation, put on his windbreaker, and strode across. Get on his horse, cup his fists to say goodbye to him, and say: "Please allow me to call you big brother, and I will be the commander for you!" After saying that, he led a dozen brothers and rushed to meet the shouts of the pursuers.

Zeng Kui, my good brother, my good brother!His heart was crying blood, sobbing, calling!However, Zeng Kui never returned to him.From nowhere came the neighing of war horses.There was a burst of surprise in his heart: it was my war horse that was barking!Zeng Kui is back!But it was just a pleasant surprise, and his clear mind told him: That is not your horse, nor Zeng Kui.The neighing of the horse came again.He still listened quietly, and every time he heard the majestic, wild, and majestic neighing of the war horse, it aroused his endless reveries: Abandoning the edge of the body, is life safe?Parents don't care, why say son and wife?The names of strong men are not allowed to be self-serving.Sacrifice your life to go to the national disaster, and see death as home!

This is the "White Horse" poem written by Cao Zijian, the "White Horse" written by Wei Cao Zijian of the Three Kingdoms Dynasty, which he had memorized by heart when he entered the Shaozhou (now Shaoguan, Guangdong) branch of the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall at the age of fifteen.With the lofty ambition of "dedicating his life to the disaster of the country", he marched south and north, and was well-known throughout the army for his illustrious military exploits.At that time, his creed was: Xiao Lai wanted to serve the country, not love to be a marquis.However, he later discovered that he was just a knife wielded by the leader of the warlord.The battle of the old warlords is over, and the battle of the new warlords has begun again.Seeing those hungry people crying to the sky with tears on their faces, he asked himself: Who are you fighting for?Who are you fighting for power and power?Who pushed the Chinese people into the abyss of misery time and time again?The melee between warlords is like a meat grinder. People of the Chinese nation, regardless of Zhao Qian, Sun Li, men, women, young and old, regardless of indiscrimination, are all drawn into this meat grinder and turned into powder!Ah, Haohao Shenzhou, there are many complaints, people are dying, are you saving all living beings from fire and water, or are you pushing all living beings into deeper suffering?

Thinking of this, his fiery ambition suddenly turned cold.Whenever he thinks that he has his own hand in pushing countless innocent beings to the blade of war and disaster, he feels a deep pain in his bones.At the time when Jiang Gui was fighting fiercely, he and his cousin cleverly resorted to tricks, and a man came who first overthrew Gui and then rebelled against Jiang, thus ruling Guangxi.Who would have thought that this time when he raised his troops against Jiang, he ended up with a poor commander before he left the army. Even if he couldn't serve the country in case, what face would he have to go back to see his father and fellow countrymen?

He was gasping for breath roughly, but he felt his body limp like a frivolous cloud drifting away and melting in the bloody sunset after the thunderstorm stopped. The neighing of the war horse was getting closer and clearer.He squeezed the trigger on the Browning.I vaguely heard a familiar shout coming from far and near, from small to large, and from small to large: "Li-Si-Ling--" "Li-Si-Ling--" "Li-Si-Ling--" He slowly raised his head. what!It was Li Qian, deputy captain of the Fourth Security Brigade. "Zhong Wu (character by Li Qian), Zhong Wu" he called out sadly and pleasantly.A silent whimper followed.

Tears poured down.More than 20 war horses came out of the dense forest and slowly drove along the Cuizhufeng Canyon where the lone sword cut through the sky and pierced the sky.Li Mingrui rode a green-maned horse, and Li Qian rode a bay red horse in bridle. The sound of horseshoes is crisp, like a piece of music played by snare drums and maracas... Late at night on October 12, gunshots erupted in downtown Nanning. Zhang Yunyi commanded the mutiny troops to carry out raids on the first, second, and third garrison brigades, separating and dismantling them.Xu Tingjie, the former chief of the garrison brigade, was originally a direct descendant of Huang Shaohong. After being demoted by Yu and Li to serve as the first captain and the second captain, he harbored a grudge and waited for an opportunity to take revenge.When it was learned that Lu Huanyan, Yang Tenghui, and Huang Quan had defected one after another, they conspired with Xiong Hao, the captain of the third brigade, to mutiny, and got in touch with Huang Quan's department in an attempt to suppress the fourth and fifth brigades, occupy Nanning in one fell swoop, and welcome Lu, Yang, and Huang Quan. The Ministry entered the city.

Xu Tingjie's most greedy eyes are the guns and ammunition in the armory that are enough to equip two armies.That's a huge deal!As long as you get it, you can not only recruit soldiers and buy horses to control a party's hegemony, but you can also exchange for gold, opium, women, and everything in this world for yourself! Xu Tingjie sent his subordinates to supervise the armory on the grounds of strengthening the security of the armory.But Zhang Yunyi, the commander of the security, would not allow him to intervene. He had already sent heavy troops to seal the armory tightly.If one plan fails, another plan will be born.Xu Tingjie and Xiong Hao secretly negotiated: If they can't get it, the third brigade will organize fire attackers to blow up the military depot with mortars and plunge Nanning into a sea of ​​​​flames.

But Xu Tingjie never expected that Zhang Yunyi would strike first and take over his lair!It wasn't until late at night that there was a lot of gunfire outside the camp, and there was a lot of killing, and a shuttle of bullets shot through his window, and he desperately shook the phone and shouted to the Xionghao Department stationed in the south: "Bear pick! Bear pick! Mortar! Mortar" As soon as the gunshots rang out, the cunning Xiong Hao didn't put up a desperate fight. His mortars fired randomly into the urban area and then fell silent.He led the brigade to flee to the northeast of Kunlun Pass and Wuling. Seeing that the general situation was over, Xu Tingjie hastily pulled up his guards and rushed to Xiong Hao's department. As the night was getting thick, the gunfire gradually subsided, and the whole Nanning city was in a depressive silence.In the cool autumn wind, there was the sound of waves rolling from the Yongjiang River, "Wow—————" It sounded like the moans of a sick old man. In the sea of ​​suffering, he lay down on the deck chair, his eyes slightly closed, motionless, only the muscles on his jaw and cheeks trembled convulsively from time to time, and he concluded that he was in a false sleep state that seemed to be half asleep and half awake.When he heard the rush of gunfire and the sound of mortar bombing, he also remained motionless, as if he didn't hear it.It seemed that even if a shell landed beside him, he would not move again. At this moment, he may think: You don't need to ask about anything, and you don't need to worry about it anymore!You are nothing now, nothing!Guangxi no longer belongs to you, Nanning no longer belongs to you, even this house, this small building, and even the chair you lie on no longer belong to you! Oh, his lips were pursed, and there was a sticky thing hanging by his cheek, which was frozen.Listen carefully, what exactly is he humming about—a century-old world event, a three-shift dream, a game of chess in thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.Yu opened Jiuzhou and Zhou defeated Zhou, and Qin swallowed the six kingdoms and Han ascended the throne.There are many heroes in ancient times, and the north and south hills lie on the earth and mud.Now I let go of my hands and go to become a monk, rabbits and birds fly all kinds of things. what!How familiar, how sympathetic, and what a comforting and enlightening verse!This is Emperor Shunzhi's renunciation gatha! Come on, come on, come on, as the king of a country, Aixinjueluo Fulin saw through Chao Gang early on, let go of his hands and became a monk, took off his yellow robe and changed into cassock.As the parent officer of the lord of a province, what can't you think about?As the saying goes, the three poor and the three rich will not grow old, how many people will rise and fall in ten years.All this is God's will, God's will! He hummed the verses of Emperor Shunzhi's renunciation, and a sad sense of fate gave him a ray of masturbation relief from all kinds of decadent thoughts. Oh, it’s not just Emperor Shunzhi. Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty escaped from Nanjing after his uncle Zhu Di seized the throne. He shaved his hair and became a monk.Today there is still a plaque on the gate of the temple as evidence: Baohua, the south of the city, and Naseng's house in the depths of Cuiwei. Thinking of this, the frustration, loneliness, sentimentality and troubles that filled his chest seemed to have disappeared. He lit the half-cut cigar in the ashtray and smoked it slowly, a trace of calm and peace appeared on his face. "Does Yusheng have any news?" He suddenly asked Chen Haoren who walked in quietly. Chen Haoren shook his head and did not answer. "Yusheng...Yusheng...it's my brother who hurt you! Brother, I'm sorry." He propped himself up from the recliner, moaning in a choked voice, and patted the armrest of the chair with regret, his body trembling and shaking It fell down like half a stake. "Chairman Yu, take care of your health and sleep for a while." Chen Haoren comforted softly. "Don't call me Chairman, I'm just a grassroots man now, a defeated crane quail and a spoiled chicken" He lay with his face up, staring blankly at the ceiling, as if there was a God looking down on all sides, He was pouring out his heart to God. "I don't know if Yusheng is dead or alive, I can't sleep!" The sound is so sad! When Yu Zuoyu accompanied Li Mingrui, Deng Bin, Li Qian and others to step through the door, Yu Zuobai opened his eyes suddenly, "Teng—" his body seemed to be bounced off the chair by a spring! "Ah! Yusheng!" He hugged Li Mingrui's arm, so surprised that he couldn't speak for a while. Li Mingrui's eyes were wet, and he was covered in mud, looking very embarrassed: "If it wasn't for Li Qian's deputy team leader leading his brothers to rescue me, if Zeng Kui hadn't been my substitute for my life, I wouldn't be able to come back today. " Yu Zuobai beat his chest and stomped his feet, regretful: "It's all because I was blind! I was blind." He walked over and held Li Qian's hand tightly: "Brother Zhongwu, I will repay the favor of saving you in the future!" He held Deng Bin again Feeling extremely guilty, he said: "Brother Deng Xian, I really regret that I didn't listen to you and Zhu Junjing's advice, I feel deeply guilty!" Deng Bin said: "Chairman Yu, the matter is over, let us start from the beginning and make a comeback!" Li Mingrui said: "Thanks to Deng's foresight and clever arrangements on behalf of them, otherwise, our meeting against Chiang would have ended in a worse situation. Not only would there be no hope of making a comeback, I'm afraid it would be difficult to find a place to stay." Deng Bin took out his pocket watch and looked at it. The hour hand pointed to 4:00 in the morning, so he said to Yu Zuobai: "Lv Huanyan is leading his troops to Nanning. He can't wait to take over your position immediately and replace him; Yang Tenghui and Huang Quan also led their troops to come Nanning, the situation is very serious." Yu Zuobai shook his head remorsefully: "It seems that I can't stay in Nanning any longer." Deng Bin said: "We have decided that brothers Yusheng and Comrade Zuoyu will lead the fifth garrison brigade and a section of the teaching corps to escort Chairman Yu to Longzhou." "What about you?" "We will go to Baise with the Fourth Guard Brigade and the Teaching Corps One. That is to say, we will regroup and break new ground in the Zuojiang and Youjiang areas. What's Chairman Yu's plan?" "Good! Good! It's really a clever strategy!" Yu Zuobai repeatedly praised, but immediately there was a look of stinginess on his face, "We are leaving, and the only thing I don't want to part with are the weapons and ammunition in the armory, most of which are The fast guns and fast guns made in Britain, Germany and Italy purchased from Hong Kong are the painstaking efforts I have been waiting for for many years!" Yu Zuoyu said to him excitedly: "Please don't worry, brother. We will take away all the weapons and ammunition, not even a single bullet case or fuse!" Yu Zuobai nodded: "Your hands and feet are really fast!" Deng Bin said: "Time is running out, we must quickly evacuate Nanning."