Chapter 5 I'm Back
These donation funds on the dock square are set up by the remnants of the army.
Among the more than a dozen divisions in the Nanjing Defense War, it is probably difficult to determine which unit fought the most heroic. However, if we want to say which unit fought the most cowardly, it is definitely the army.
The Japanese army had just arrived at the city of Nanjing and had not yet officially launched an attack. Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the army and commander of the RR division, left the troops and fled alone. The officers and soldiers who had lost their command could only fight on their own. In the end, the commander of the brigade Zhu Chi and the commander of the 4th Brigade Gao Zhisong died one after another, and the army was almost destroyed.
However, some officers and soldiers of the RR Division fled across the river and retreated to Jingzhou with the 74th Army.
After Sun Yuanliang fled to Wuhan without any damage, he had no time to contact the remnants of the army, and his bad deeds of running away alone were revealed. Chairman Jiang had no way to protect his confidant general this time, so he could only order Sun Yuanliang to be arrested and imprisoned and handed over to the military court for trial.
When Sun Yuanliang was arrested and imprisoned, the remnants of the army immediately became a group of orphans without fathers and mothers. The 74th Army had the commander Yu Jishi, Wang Yaowu and Feng Shengfa, who were both commanders, and life was tight. It was easy to imagine what kind of treatment the army would have. It was not much better than the 19th Brigade.
The Military Commission has never concluded whether to abolish the military's organization.
As a result, hundreds of remnants of the army could only survive in Jingmen and Shashi. They did not allocate food and wages to the top, and they could not rob them. There was no way, so they could only reach out to the people of Jingmen and Shashi, but the fundraising was not legal. In addition, the people here were poor, and the income was only enough for hundreds of remnants to make a living.
Now seeing Shu Tongwen fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the people of Jingmen and Shashi. In half a day, the supplies from the donation office of the 19th Brigade had already piled up like mountains, and there was still half a basket of oceans next to them. Seeing these, how could the remaining defeated generals of the army remain calm?
Their mother, you 74th Army had food and pay, and they even came to pick food from our army. They were deliberately trying to force our army to the dead. You guys don’t want us to live, so you can’t think about it. The remaining defeated generals of the army were red in an instant, and soon gathered more than a hundred people, picked up the guys and came over.
Seeing more than a hundred soldiers wearing ragged clothes and fierce eyes coming, the nearby people walked away one after another.
Yu Huan, Su Mu and more than a dozen Wu University students plucked up their courage to try to stop them, and they were soon beaten to the ground by these defeated soldiers who were red-eyed. Yu Huan and Su Mu were also furiously imprisoned by several spears. Yu Huan's forehead was broken, and his face was covered with blood. These defeated soldiers were really able to take action.
Shu Tongwen became a human sandbag and was almost irritated by the defeated soldiers.
The defeated soldiers vented fiercely. Before leaving, they snatched all the materials and money that Shu Tongwen had finally raised. Shu Tongwen struggled to get up and grabbed the half basket of oceans. A defeated company commander became popular, and the reversal box cannon came on the back of Shu Tongwen's head and recorded it. Shu Tongwen fainted immediately.
When Shu Tongwen woke up from his coma, there was only a mess left at the scene. All the supplies and money had been looted. Many people pointed at each other. Faced with the internal strife and fire of the Kuomintang army, they were at a loss. The dozen or so students did not leave and were helping to clean up the overturned wooden stand and photos.
Shu Tongwen was in tears and was so excited that he would raise funds again at this time. I was afraid that there would be no gains. Thinking that there were more than 100 brothers in Guandi Temple waiting for dinner, Shu Tongwen was even more heartbroken. He had no money or supplies. How could the more than 100 brothers in the 19th Brigade survive? How could he live?
Seeing Shu Tongwen sitting there in a daze, Yu Huan felt inexplicably distressed. He stepped forward and squatted down in front of Shu Tongwen, took out his handkerchief and gently wiped off the blood stains on Shu Tongwen's face. He asked with concern: "Hey, are you okay?"
Shu Tongwen got up at a loss as if he hadn't heard it, and walked towards the Jingjiang River embankment in a daze.
A small steamer was spewing black smoke and slowly climbing up the Jingjiang River.
Xu Shijiu stood solemnly on the bow of the boat with his hands on his waist, looked at a stone rock that suddenly reached into the river in front and said to Gao Shenxing beside him: "Shenxing, that should be Guanyin Rock, right?"
Gao Shenxing nodded and replied, "It should be."
Xu Shijiu said: "Supering the river and stifling the water momentum, it is worthy of being the best rock in the world."
However, compared to watching the magnificent river view of Jingjiang River embankment and Guanyin Rock, Xu Shijiu was more anxious to arrive in Shashi earlier to meet with the officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade as soon as possible
After leaving Yangzhuang with Gao Shenxing, Xu Shijiu and Gao Shenxing did not cross the Yangtze River north, but went west and arrived at Jiujiang without any danger. Then they took a boat from Jiujiang to the Yangtze River and headed straight to Wuhan. After arriving in Wuhan, the two soon found out that the 74th Army was in Jingmen and Shashi was reorganized, and then they rushed to Shashi without stopping.
The little steamer barely approached Guanyin Rock and saw a figure jumping into the river.
"No, someone jumped into the river." Xu Shijiu did not hesitate at all, quickly took off his military uniform, and then jumped into the cold river water. The river water was very cold, but Xu Shijiu could still hold on in a short time. He was struggling to swim towards Shiji. At this time, someone on the rock found out and reminded Xu Shijiu loudly, "This is here."
With guidance from the shore, Xu Shijiu quickly found the person who jumped into the river, then grabbed his collar and swam to the shore hard. Finally, with the help of the people on the shore, he dragged the person up. In just over ten minutes, Xu Shijiu was almost exhausted. After the last time, his body had not recovered completely.
Shu Tongwen went to Guanyin Rock at a loss, closed his eyes and jumped forward. The next moment, the cold river water surrounded him. Shu Tongwen had already had ambition to die and did not even struggle. Just the rolling river rolled up and floated up, sinking and floating again, and then slowly lost consciousness.
I don’t know how long it took in nothingness, but Shu Tongwen slowly regained consciousness.
Opening his eyes blankly, Shu Tongwen saw a familiar face. It was the captain. It turned out to be the captain. It seemed that he was really dead this time. Otherwise, how could he see the captain? Shu Tongwen was sad and said tragically: "Captain, I have let you down. I failed to take good care of my brothers. I am useless."
"Awen?" Seeing that the person he rescued accidentally was Shu Tongwen, Xu Shijiu was both surprised and happy. He was happy that he finally saw the brothers of the 19th Brigade again. He was shocked. Why did Shu Tongwen commit suicide? Could it be that Awen and the others had an accident on the way to retreat, and all the brothers were gone?
"Awen, it's okay, it's okay, I'm back, I'm back." Xu Shijiu was worried and wanted to ask about the situation of the 19th Brigade, but the words were all about comforting Shu Tongwen.
Just as he was just in relief, the little steamer had already landed, and Gao Shenxing also jumped up.
Seeing that it was Shu Tongwen, Gao Shenxing's cold face finally showed a hint of excitement. At this time, Shu Tongwen also saw the sad female student behind Xu Shijiu, and pinched his thigh hard, which was so painful that Shu Tongwen was a little confused for a moment. Could it be that he was not dead?
"Awen is fine, I'm back, it's fine."
A familiar voice sounded in my ears again, Shu Tongwen was finally sure that he was not dead yet and the captain was not dead either.
In an instant, a huge sense of happiness completely filled Shu Tongwen, but then Shu Tongwen felt sore in his nose and hugged Xu Shijiu's thighs and started crying loudly, and cried in tears without any image. That look, that situation, like a child who suffered countless grievances and finally found his parents.
"Captain, captain, you are back, you are back, you are back, you are back, howl..."
"I'm back, it's okay, I'm back." Xu Shijiu patted Shu Tongwen's shoulder lightly over and over again, and repeated the words of comfort over and over again, "I'm back, it's okay, it's okay..."
In Guandi Temple, Ergua was lying in the straw pile and catching fleas boredly.
Li Mu lay beside him, staring at the beams and pillars above his head with a blank eyes, while weakly saying to Heixiazi not far away: "Brother Heizi, I'm hungry, I'm so hungry..."
Heixiao sighed silently, with 500 French dollars in his pocket, but unfortunately he couldn't exchange half a kilogram of rice. In the past six months, the National Government has begun to print legal currency crazily. The legal currency has depreciated seriously, and the depreciation speed is getting faster and faster. The price comparison between legal currency and silver dollars is almost one price a day. Now small vendors everywhere dare not collect legal currency at all.
Now I can only count on Shu Tongwen. If he can't help but raise supplies, everyone will be starved to death.
Without any warning, Xiao Hei, who was lying on the side of Guan Gong's statue, suddenly raised his head. Then, Shu Tongwen rushed into the Guan Temple Hall like crazy, shouting: "I'm back, I'm back, hahaha, the captain is back, brothers, the captain is back, come back."
Hei Xiaozi sat up, Ergua, Li Mu and six veterans also jumped up like springs, Cao Jiao and Gu Yaqin rushed out of the side hall with shock, and were already hungry and dizzy. More than 100 wounded soldiers who were left with half breath also opened their eyes, especially the dozen wounded soldiers of the former 19th Brigade, who were full of surprises.
Everyone's eyes turned to the gate in unison, and then Xu Shijiu and Gao Shenxing appeared.
"Swoosh" A black shadow first rushed out of the hall and rushed towards Gao Shenxing behind Xu Shijiu. It was the military dog Xiao Hei. Xiao Hei rushed to Gao Shenxing like lightning, stretched out his front paws to put on Gao Shenxing's body, and then stretched out his tongue to lick Gao Shenxing's face. This beast is really spiritual, and he still remembers Gao Shenxing who really saved it.
Chapter completed!