108281908 Far Eastern madman

"Bringing the South closer together with the North.

A few short whistles sounded, stirring up the silent wilderness.

"Bang bang... Boom, boom..."

The laden train was billowing black smoke from south to north, and the sound of steel wheels crashing against the rails was like a sonorous march that boiled the already jubilant wilderness.

This is not a back-to-back train, this is a military train. It was full of soldiers, but not soldiers as it is commonly understood, but prisoners of war.

To be precise, the cars were loaded with Beiyang officers and soldiers who were captured by the United Front in the southern Henan campaign, and the prisoners of war on this train were not many, but more than 1,000 people, and they will be escorted to Xuzhou in the central Henan region, where there is a large prisoner of war camp, and now prisoners of war everywhere are concentrated there.

As one of the more than 1,000 Beiyang prisoners of war. Zhang Guodong sat in the corner of the stuffy tank carriage. Looking up at the iron bared window, you could see the two human legs hanging out of the window, and the gray cloth leggings on the legs, which were the legs of a United Front soldier escorting the car, obviously. He was sitting on the side of the roof of the car, leisurely admiring the scenery in the western wilderness, perhaps using a rope to secure himself to the roof. In case you fall off the train.

In this hot season, sitting in a stuffy tank car and sweating is indeed not as fast as the roof of the car. Therefore, including Zhang Guodong, almost all the Beiyang prisoners of war were shirtless, and even so, they were very hot and uncomfortable, and they were very envious of the soldiers of the Southern Army who were sitting on the roof of the car.

Looking at the two legs outside the car window, Zhang Guodong reined in his mind and looked at the companion until a companion handed over half a piece of paper cigarette.

"Brother, thank you for taking care of it just now, let's divide this last cigarette equally." The man said with a smile, handing out a cigarette with his right hand and pointing to his leg with his left, where the place was wrapped in bandages.

When he got on the bus at noon, Zhang Guodong had helped the wounded soldier get into the car, and now, he obviously planned to reward Zhang Guodong, and the paper cigarette seemed to be secretly hidden by him.

"Thank you." Zhang Guodong smiled faintly. Take the cigarette. But they didn't have any ignition on them, so after touching them in vain for a while. The two of them put away the cigarettes again.

"Brother, I hear that your accent is from Anhui?" The wounded soldier asked.

"A native of Luzhou, Anhui Province. Listen to your accent, brother, are you from Shandong? I see that you are also like a Shandong person. Shandong Dahan, your body is much stronger than mine, I almost didn't flash my waist when I moved you into the car just now. Zhang Guodong said.

"I am from Dezhou, Shandong, and I originally planned to go to the three eastern provinces to break into the eastern part of the country, but when I was waiting for the ship in Yantai, I met the Beiyang Army recruitment, and the military salary was high.

Brother, how did you get paid for this Beiyang? ”

"Originally, I was going to be a horse for someone, but that man was supposed to release a governor. But later, the official hat was blown away by the imperial court, and as a result, the man did not become a governor, and I did not make a horse, but fortunately, I was a little fellow with that person, and the man sent us horses to the Beiyang Army, and I was paid like this. ”

"Say, where are they going to take us?"

"I don't know."

"Brother, I was captured alive in Xinyang, I am a soldier of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army, which part of the soldier are you? What's it called? My name is Wang Jintang. ”

"The Third Division of the Beiyang Army, Zhang Guodong. He was also captured in Xinyang. ”

Zhang Guodong nodded, but his words were not very accurate, in fact, he was not captured in Xinyang, his real place of capture was near the Loess Pass in the west of Xinyang, and it was not the army of the United Front that captured him, but a group of villagers.

Zhang Guodong was a squad leader of the Third Division of the Beiyang Army, and the Third Division suffered successive defeats in the battle to attack Xinyang, and the morale of the whole army was low, so when the armored column of the United Front was put into battle, the military spirit and military discipline of the Third Division could not be maintained at all, although the division commander Cao Kuan was ordered to merge the Third Division with Wu Peixiang's Ninth Division, but many officers and men of the Third Division still broke away from the unit on their own.

To use a technical term, these scattered soldiers are "deserters", and Zhang Guodong is also a deserter.

Zhang Guodong fled Xinyang with a dozen deserters, due to the tight blockade in the east, they chose to go north in a circle from the west, if they could not walk back to Zhengzhou, then they decided to fall grass in western Henan and become bandits.

However, these deserters were all outsiders, and their eyes were dark in southern Henan, so they quickly got lost, but fortunately they had guns and bullets. This is not a problem to eat and live, and wherever they go, they force the villagers to prepare meals for them. I ate overlord rice.

But this overlord's meal is not delicious, and these deserters did not get away with it for a few days before they encountered a strong enemy.

This fierce rival is called the "Hoe Society", which is said to have been formed by the Hubei Military Government, and it helps each other to cultivate the fields in peacetime. During the war, they were used as village warriors and militia groups, and most of the weapons were cold weapons, but some hoe clubs were equipped with earthen guns,

Gun.

Although there are no hoe societies in northern and central Henan. However, in southern Henan, this kind of rural mutual aid organization has been widely established, and the whereabouts of Zhang Guodong's gang of deserters were soon grasped by the hoe society, so this information was fed back to the superiors level by level, and as a result, a big net of arrest was encircled.

Gong Jiang and Zhang Guodong helped Beiyang Rising Hill to be drunk by the armed personnel of the hoe society at Huang Shiguan. They had more than a dozen rifles in their hands, and their firepower was strong, but they also had earthen guns in their right hands, and the result was such a confrontation, that is, for a day and a night, the deserters were besieged in the house and could not get out, and they were about to run out of ammunition and food, had no water to drink, and their throats and eyes were so dry that they were on fire. Zhang Guodong had no choice but to order surrender, and then they were disarmed by the hoe society and escorted to Xinyang.

The dignified Beiyang Army was captured and captured by a group of villagers. Zhang Guodong felt that he had no face, so he refused to tell Wang Jintang the truth about the capture.

However, Wang Jintang obviously did not doubt Zhang Guodong's words, the more the two talked, the more speculative they became, and when they were discussing to find a time to marry brothers with different surnames, the train had already entered the station and stopped quickly

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The door of the stuffy tank car was pulled open from the outside. The light suddenly became dazzling, making Zhang Guodong and Wang Jintang both squint, and they couldn't see anything clearly for a while, they could only hear someone shouting outside.

"It's here, it's here! It's all out! Lined up! Stand still! The clothes are all on".

Wait for your eyes to adjust to the intense light. Zhang Guodong put on his military uniform and helped Wang Jintang to stand up. and those Beiyang Army prisoners of war lined up on the platform. Because Wang Jintang was injured in the leg, he was carried away on a stretcher as soon as he got out of the car, and Zhang Guodong was separated from this little Shandong man.

"This is Xuzhou, you prisoners of war will receive screening and political education here, and if you behave well, you will be able to be free quickly, and you will be stubborn to the end, then you don't know when you will be able to go home.

Now, all of them, stand upright! I'll take a roll call, and when I read your name, I'll shout, "Yes."

An officer of the United Front walked up to the queue of prisoners of war of Zhang Guodong, held a notebook in his hand, shouted a few times, and then began to roll call, and the train also sounded its whistle, passed through the switch, and headed south.

Without waiting for the RUF officer to finish the roll call. A few more whistles were heard from the north, and another train rumbled into the station, without waiting for it to enter the platform. The Beiyang Army prisoners of war gathered on this platform were already noisy.

Zhang Guodong glanced at the train, and his heart was also shocked, the reason was very simple, because the train that was entering the railway station was the armored train. The iron armor is sonorous, the steam roars, the momentum. I can't forget it with just one eye, not to mention that Zhang Guodong picked up a life from the muzzle of this armored train in the first place, and he can't forget the battle in Xinyang.

"What are you shouting? Give me all the quiet! ”

The RUF officer commanded the soldiers to suppress the rioting prisoners of war, and under the threat of bayonets, the Beiyang Army prisoners of war quickly restored calm and order. But eyes were still on the armored train.

The armored train stopped right on the platform. It is only a few steps away from Zhang Guodong's straight line. The bullet marks on the train's iron armor were clearly visible.

"I wonder what it's like to fight in that armored train?" Zhang Guodong pondered.

Just when Zhang Guodong was stunned, several people walked out of the dispatch room of the railway station, all wearing Republican army uniforms, and one of the officers walked straight up to the RUF officer who was being named, and the two muttered a few words in a low voice.

"You, you, out of the ranks!" The officer on the roll call walked up to the prisoners of war and ordered a dozen pounds of villains. ordered them to go out of the ranks, and Zhang Guodong was among them.

"You, follow this Chief Pan to the waiting room to carry your luggage, don't be lazy and slippery! If you perform well, you will be given extra points, and the higher the score, the sooner you will regain your freedom in the future! ”

The officer on the roll call said a few words to the prisoners of war, and then with a wave of his hand, the officer led Zhang Guodong and the group of Beiyang prisoners of war to the waiting room.

Entering the waiting room, Zhang Guodong was surprised to find that the so-called "luggage" was actually a rifle. Moreover, the Japanese-made large cover guns were the mainstay, which were apparently captured from the Beiyang Army, but the bolts of all the rifles were removed, the grass was packed in baskets, and the bullets were stored separately, so it was impossible for the prisoners of war to have any other thoughts.

The rifles were all bundled one by one, each bundle of nearly a hundred pounds. It was also a little difficult to carry on the shoulders, and the prisoners of war carried all these rifles to the armored train under the command of the officers, and Zhang Guodong quietly counted them, no less than 2,000 shots.

The last rifle was carried by Zhang Guodong to a few small cars, and when he turned to leave, a person rushed in outside the car door, although he was wearing a military uniform, but the style and color of the boat were different from those of the Republican Army. It is the military uniform of Endeavour. The officer entered the carriage and glanced at the bundles of rifles. His face changed, and he looked up and scolded the officer who had commanded the prisoners to carry their guns.

"Pan Kangshi! Why did you move these rifles? Didn't you say that these rifles were given to us Endeavour? Anyway, you were also a member of the Qunzhi Society, why did you forget your own people so quickly? ”

Seeing that the comer was not good, Zhang Guodong hurriedly jumped out of the car, and at this time, he heard the rebuttal of the officer in the carriage.

"Diwang! What self-haired people? What will forge ahead and not forge ahead? Now that we are all revolutionary soldiers of the United Front, what else are we separated from each other? You passed by Xuzhou, you went to Wushengguan to attend a meeting, how to deal with the spoils of war, how to distribute them, this does not seem to be a matter within your purview. ”

At this point, Zhang Guodong finally knew the names of the two officers, and also understood why they were arguing.

"It seems to be an uneven distribution of spoils.

Zhang Guodong smirked, it turned out that the Southern Army was not monolithic.