Chronicle of the Republic of China

The fire season in 1939 was extremely hot, and the sun in July scorched the earth, scorching people.

Meng Xisheng was hiding in a pothole, eating a blackened white-faced steamed bun. His face was sunburned by the wind and dust for days, and even his delicate eyebrows were covered under the dirt.

"What time is it?" Someone saw a watch protruding from Meng Xisheng's wrist, looked closely, and found that the time was wrong, and the minute and second hands stopped. "Fuck, break the watch."

"Get lost." Meng Xisheng beat him away and looked down at his watch.

This watch has stopped since he woke up on the swaying black boat.Strangely, he didn't change the battery, and let the time stop on the dial, just at the moment when he and Fang Wuyu parted.

On the opposite side, gunfire started again, and the dust in the pothole was blowing.

Meng Xisheng and the others exchanged fire with the people on the opposite side for several days, but they didn't even know who they were.

After the awning boat docked, he finally arrived in Chongqing after several twists and turns, and lived for a year. Before Fang Wuyu arrived, he was captured by a group of rogues.

The rogues claimed to be the regular National Revolutionary Army and wanted to go to the front to kill the Japanese.They pulled two rusty cannons in red clothes, and they didn't know where they came from. Later, Meng Xisheng heard that these two cannons were not young. Those who used to be British and French allied forces, but now the heroes are late, and they have become two squibs. Pulling them is just a front.

A educated gentleman in the team, like Meng Xisheng, was also selected as a young man for no reason.He teased and said, with the officer's appearance of a beast in clothes and clothes, it is necessary to use these two squibs as a front?

This is true.

Meng Xisheng never thought that the leader of this group of bandits pretending to be the National Revolutionary Army would be Commander Gu.

I haven't seen him for a few years, that handsome man with a short beard and a military uniform is still tall and slender like a gun, but he is no longer surrounded by those beautiful concubines, the Fang's house that he took so hard to snatch. The house also didn't seem to be able to shelter him.In private, Mr. Shu called him Yumian Shura, and said that Shura was maimed by the real National Revolutionary Army. He ransacked his family property and was once in a state of desperation. Unexpectedly, after the war broke out, he took advantage of the chaos and struggled for a while. The gang, under the guise of the regular army, did the same thing as the devils, burning, killing, and looting along the way, and took the opportunity to recruit young men to fill their own troops. In this troubled world, they lived aboveboard and lived happily.

Meng Xisheng followed this group of exiles to the south, going farther and farther, and now the footsteps have stretched thousands of miles.

It's not that he never escaped, every time he escaped, he was caught once, and when he was caught, he was beaten up.The gentleman sighed and advised Meng Xisheng not to run away, since he himself had already given up.

In fact, the two of them were not the only ones who were pulled into the strong men. Many people cried for their father and mother at first, but after doing a few robberies with that jade-faced Shura, they slowly tasted the sweetness from it. Huobi, or in a precarious world, eat the last meal without the next meal, use a gun to scare a few ordinary people, and you can grab food and wine, so you can get something for nothing, which naturally saves a lot of effort.

Therefore, most people are in the same boat, calling themselves a contemporary Liangshan hero. Of course, Commander Gu is much more beautiful than the black-faced Song Jiang, but his method of winning people's hearts is better than Song Jiang's. Everyone looks up to him, regards him as a god, and calls him It's just that Commander Gu himself doesn't know what kind of officer he is in charge of.

The scholar is very disdainful, this sour Confucian is full of people, and he never wants to do robbery, but he dare not run away. Whenever he wants to do bad things, he always falls at the end. more uncomfortable.

Mister did not expect Meng Xisheng to be tougher than him. He is a man of the mean, wise and safe, but Meng Xisheng is a warrior who dares to be the first in the world, because he has the courage to snatch them away during the robbery. The gun in your hand, or spread your arms to protect those injured civilians.

Such behavior attracted malice, and even almost harmed his life.When the matter reached Commander Gu's ears, Commander Gu ran over with great interest to see which psychopath is so righteous these days, but after wiping off the dirt between Meng Xisheng's brows, he said with a smile, "So it's you."

When he was in Yuncheng, Meng Xisheng sang plays for him, and he even felt overwhelmed by Meng Xisheng's good-looking appearance. If it was a woman, she would have already become his countless concubines.Commander Gu simply didn't like Nanfeng, no matter how good-looking the other party was on the stage, but thinking that he was a man through and through, and his body structure was exactly the same as his own, made Commander Gu feel sick.

Commander Gu jokingly said: "Sing a few words, and I won't kill you."

Meng Xi sang, he twirled his orchid fingers, and came up with breath: "You ask me who that thief is, I just need to tell you about his evil nature. He is wearing a big red robe, and he is domineering in broad daylight. He robs people." Money hangs on the treetops, heart is like a tiger, a wolf, a ghost. He will be rewarded for his misdeeds, I am afraid that he will not escape the justice of God. It seems that he is unfaithful, filial, benevolent, unrighteous and unrighteous. He is in vain in this day wearing human skin!"

The scholar almost blurted out his words, but in a blink of an eye, he saw that jade-faced Shura's face was dripping with ink, and his icy cheeks were sinister and terrifying.

Meng Xisheng received dozens of whips and was soaked in salt water, but he was not beaten to death.The master stole the medicine to rub it on him, and sighed that the jade-faced Shura wanted to let you go, maybe he wanted to torture you slowly.Meng Xisheng was so hurt that he was dizzy and couldn't hear what he said clearly. He only had several dreams during his drowsiness, and each dream was related to Fang Wuyu.

Meng Xisheng really didn't have a good life in the future, but he didn't say a word when he was suffering, he didn't move when he was looting, and he didn't bend his knees even if he risked his life. , Meng Xisheng's life became more and more difficult.

It wasn't until they started fighting the group of mysterious people that Commander Gu's focus finally shifted from him.

Meng Xisheng didn't know where he was. He was a homeless boy, and he and his grandfather had walked many ways, but he had never traveled so far.The husband said that this is in the area of ​​Jiangxi, but even he couldn't tell the real place name.

Commander Gu fell in love with this place, backed by mountains and rivers, without Japanese invaders making trouble, the people are still living relatively well-off, enough for him to scrape off a few times.He had walked enough and prepared to settle here, but he didn't expect that less than half a month after setting up camp, a group of soldiers came to raid his old nest. Commander Gu was surrounded by people and besieged on all sides, so he had no choice but to fight.

But the opponent was obviously very combat-ready, and he consumed a lot of Commander Gu's strength within a few days.The group of rogues led by Commander Gu is completely different from the army he used to be a warlord. It took him a lot of hard work to build an army capable of attacking cities and villages, but they were all wiped out by the National Revolutionary Army. He knew how strong the team was, so he avoided the Japanese invaders and the regular army along the way, and only picked unarmed ordinary people to attack.

But the group opposite was not a regular army, nor were they Japanese invaders. Commander Gu guessed where they came from, but he didn't say anything to the others, and his expression became increasingly depressed.

Meng Xisheng was forced to exchange fire with the group of people in the pothole, although so far, he has not fired a single shot.

Not long after eating that steamed bun, he started having stomach pains again.They were besieged to the point of desperation, and even the steamed buns were picked up with great difficulty by the husband.His stomach has always been bad, and even a little bit of dirt will feel uncomfortable.Not only the stomach, but also how much torture I have suffered along the way, and the pain in the waist and legs has never been better.

Meng Xisheng stayed alone in silence, enduring the pain and not saying a word.At some point, Mr. moved over, covered his ears, and secretly told him the secret.

"Do you know who we are fighting?"

The husband made a horoscope with his hands, and Meng Xisheng looked at him in surprise, forgetting even the stomachache.

"Are you sure?" Meng Xi asked.

The master said: "Eight to nine out of ten. Look at how long that jade-faced Shura's face is stretched. I heard from his personal servant that Shura has been having nightmares these past few nights. Whenever he has a dream, he shouts eight. Demonic barrier."

Meng Xisheng's eyes that were flickering due to the pain gradually became focused, and he boldly leaned down to the edge of the pothole and poked his head out.The people on the opposite side were hiding extremely well, and he couldn't see their figures clearly.

A curse came from his head, someone greeted him on the forehead, and knocked Meng Xisheng to the ground.

Meng Xisheng was lifted up by his husband, he gritted his teeth, lowered his head, the hair on his forehead covered the light in his eyes, and slowly he began to think about it.

Meng Xisheng found a chance to escape on the third night after that day.Days of challenges made them exhausted, many of them fell asleep in the potholes, and even those who watched the wind squinted their eyes.

Meng Xisheng slowly crawled out of the pothole. He crawled forward, looking back from time to time to measure his position.His whole body tensed up, with a heart in his throat.Not only was he afraid that the people behind would kill him, but he was also afraid that the people in front would find him and shoot him without explanation.

After climbing seven or eighty meters away, Meng Xisheng finally stood up and ran towards the opposite side with his hands raised high.

He closed his eyes and ran wildly. When the gunshot was heard, he couldn't tell whether it was the front or the back. He was so nervous that his blood was rushing, and his heart was burning like fire.

Meng Xisheng fell down, and when he opened his eyes, he was pointed at by several guns, and he kept shouting, "I'm here to surrender, I'm here to surrender."

Meng Xisheng was brought in front of an officer who was wearing an unclean military uniform, but neatly tucked the corners of his clothes into his trousers. He was a real officer different from Commander Gu.

The officer is a platoon leader, surnamed Helian, in his 40s, and seems to be a reasonable person.Meng Xisheng traveled all over the world, and he was considered to have good eyesight. Any kind of person can get a general idea at a glance.He told platoon leader Helian in detail about his situation. He felt that the other party believed it, but he didn't explain it, because whether he believed it or not ultimately depended on whether the information he brought was true.

Meng Xisheng drew a picture, telling Gu Commander's deployment in full.Platoon Leader Helian took a look at him and sent someone to take him to the tent where he was camped, where he slept soundly with a pillow on his face.

Although the other party sent someone to watch him, they ate and drank every day, and they didn't starve him or embarrass him.He didn't know how the fight was going outside, but he didn't have much worry in his heart.In fact, he knew that it didn't matter if he came or surrendered, Commander Gu's failure was just a matter of time, he was just adding a handful of firewood.

A few days later, this platoon of only 20 people relied on guerrilla warfare to completely eliminate Commander Gu's nest.It's a pity that Commander Gu is cunning, this soldier who has survived the hail of bullets in his teens knows how to protect himself, and under such circumstances, he still let him escape.

All the people under Commander Gu were imprisoned, and after interrogation one by one, many people insisted that Commander Gu pulled them up, and that they were forced to follow Commander Gu to do evil. Of course, the platoon leader is not stupid. , have been punished.

Only the gentleman whom Meng Xisheng had mentioned was acquitted along with Meng Xisheng.

The platoon leader Meng Xisheng and Helian became friends. The platoon leader appreciated Meng Xisheng's tenacity and compared him to a bamboo.Such a personality seems to be born to serve the country and the people, and shed blood on this yellow earth.

When he said this, the platoon leader saw the dazzling light in Meng Xisheng's eyes. He knew that this young man who had only turned 20 was not afraid of death.It's not that he hasn't seen a young man who wants to shed his blood, but Meng Xisheng is different. His tenacity is not youthful spirit, but a deep-rooted nature. For such a person, even if he drinks ice for ten years, it will be difficult for him to cool his blood.So Platoon Leader Helian asked Meng Xisheng to stay with him and fight against foreign enemies together.

But Meng Xisheng refused.

The platoon leader looked at him unexpectedly. He saw so many surging emotions behind the young man's eyes that he couldn't describe them in words.

"I want to go back to Chongqing, there is someone waiting for me." After a long time, the platoon leader heard him muttering this sentence.