I saw that Yang Zhen took sleeping pills. After Li Yanping and Guo Bingxun glanced at each other, they didn't say anything more. Just told Xiaohuzi to take care of Yang Zhen, and then withdrew from Yang Zhen's place. Let Yang Zhen rest as much as possible in order to regain his energy.

After coming out of Yang Zhen's place, Guo Bingxun looked at Li Yanping, who was also boiled up, and after pondering for a moment, he said, "Political commissar, you are also tired these days, so rest early." I asked Han Renhe to transfer a platoon and set up a guard around the commander's bedroom to ensure that he was not disturbed. Tonight, I'm on duty in the war room. ”

"Although the matter of the expansion of the troops has been roughly decided, the commander has only put forward an outline and a general direction, and some details still need to be carefully considered. If there's nothing going on tonight, I'm going to think about it again and see if there's anything missing. ”

Li Yanping didn't object when he heard this, but said meaningfully: "Lao Guo, there should be nothing to do tonight, and you should go to rest early." The commander and you are the two pillars of the military region. The two of you complement each other and are indispensable. It is with the cooperation of the two of you that we have been able to achieve the extremely advantageous shape we have now. ”

"The way the Commander is now, if you fall, you will kill me. I, the political commissar, will do the same thing for whoever comes to me, but you are irreplaceable in the overall military struggle of the military region. So you have to take care of your body as well. ”

Regarding Li Yanping's worries about his body, Guo Bingxun smiled and comforted: "Political commissar, you don't have to worry about me, I'm fine." Compared to the exhausted commander, my situation is much better. It's just the pressure of work, nothing else. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Bingxun looked at Li Yanping and said with some emotion: "Political commissar, maybe in your heart, the commander and I are irreplaceable. But in our hearts, you are also irreplaceable. It is precisely with the full support of you, the political commissar, that the commander and I can completely let go of our hands and feet at the front. ”

"Because of what? Because as long as you are there, we can devote all our energy to military struggles without distractions. For so long, you have been taking care of the commander and me like a big brother, and even accommodating the two of us. Without your tolerance, how could we be so relieved to play in front? ”

"If you say that the commander is the two pillars of the military region, then in our hearts, you are the earth that has been supporting this pillar in obscurity. The commander can't do without you, I can't do without you, and the military region can't do without you. If you want to complement each other, you and the commander are complementary. Doesn't the commander often say that this military medal has half of ours, and you, the political commissar, should account for most of it. ”

Regarding Guo Bingxun's evaluation of himself, Li Yanping smiled and waved his hand and said, "Old Guo, don't give me a high hat." I can't help but boast about it, and it's easy to think about pride. However, having said that, it is not easy to be a political commissar for you, and it is more tiring than when I was the commander of the Fifth Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. I can't stand this mental endurance and a slight weakness. ”

After that, Li Yanping yawned and waved his hand at Guo Bingxun: "Okay, the commander and you are still young, only in their twenties, and they can stay up all night." I'm thirty-six this year, so I don't have as much energy as you. If I don't sleep, I can't stand this old bone. ”

said that he was leaving, but Li Yanping did not leave immediately. After pondering for a while, Li Yanping looked at Guo Bingxun and said, "Go and see that person." After withdrawing, he asked to see the commander, but I did not agree. It is not a good thing for the commander to go to see him in this state. You all rushed out of the devil's germ warfare base, and it's appropriate for you to meet him. ”

Hearing Li Yanping propose to let him meet that person, Guo Bingxun hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded slightly. Who that person was, Li Yanping didn't say, Guo Bingxun didn't ask, the two of them tacitly.

Seeing Guo Bingxun nodding, Li Yanping patted him on the shoulder and sighed softly. Without saying anything more, he turned around and walked away with the guards.

Looking at the back of Li Yanping's departure, Guo Bingxun smiled slightly, did not stop long, and turned around and returned to the combat duty room. It's just that when he arrived outside the duty room and looked at Chai Shirong, the deputy chief of staff who was supposed to be on duty tonight in the house, Guo Bingxun changed his mind again, and didn't even enter the door of the duty room, just took something, and then turned around and left.

Leaving the combat office, Guo Bingxun came to a separate and isolated heavily guarded house at the headquarters and stood still. After stopping the act of saluting the guards who recognized him, Guo Bingxun did not rush in. Instead, he stood on the steps outside the house, looking at the starry sky of Beiman, which was extremely clean because it had not been polluted in any way, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Guo Bingxun didn't speak, just stood there and watched the night sky. He didn't leave, outside the house, which was not a big building area, but it looked a little weird because it was too heavily guarded, even more than Yang Zhen's residence, and the guards and soldiers with loaded guns did not dare to relax in the slightest. Although the military posture stood straight, his eyes were vigilantly watching the movements around him.

After pondering for a long time, Guo Bingxun gritted his teeth, and after leaving his guards outside, he finally walked in. After entering, Guo Bingxun, who did not hesitate, was led by an internal guard of the house to a room where only one person was detained, but the lights were bright under the situation of power shortage.

The sound of the guard unlocking the lock clearly alarmed the people in the house. With his only hand, he struggled to pull the handcuffs and shackles on his body and stood up. It's just that after seeing that the person who came in was Guo Bingxun, the original surprise on his face was gone, and it was replaced by the numb look he used to have. After being silent for a long time, this person looked at Guo Bingxun and said, "The commander still doesn't want to see me?" ”

After asking this sentence, he laughed bitterly at himself: "It's me who is too delusional." Although Vice Minister Zhang did not die directly at my hands, he died because of my betrayal. I am the murderer of the fiancée who killed the commander, and the commander will never forgive me, so how can he meet me? ”

Regarding his words, Guo Bingxun did not answer him directly, but just shook his head slightly: "You will see him, but not now." When it's time to send you on your way, the commander will go to see you. ”

"I'm here just to ask you, why did you do this? Do you know how much damage you've done to the commander? I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that confession of yours. I can't believe that this is something done by someone who has experienced the struggle of the Japanese army and the bloody battle with us. ”

"The commander will never forgive you for your betrayal, you are not wrong. But have you ever thought that the reason why he will never forgive you is not only because of Zhang Ting's death, but also because of your betrayal and betrayal. You are our old brother who rushed out of the Japanese army's bacteriological base together, and you are a person who was directly killed by the Japanese army. Why did you betray your enemies, your comrades and brothers who lived and died together? ”

"The people we rushed out at the beginning, the sacrifices of sacrifice, the cripples of the cripples, how many people are left in the army now? Each and every one of you commanders and I cherish it, and the loss of each and every one of you hurts our hearts like a knife. ”

"We are soldiers, and it is inevitable to die on the battlefield. But we never imagined that there would be a person in the middle who betrayed his beliefs, betrayed our original oath, betrayed his comrades-in-arms who lived and died together, and betrayed his life-saving benefactor. ”

"You were seriously injured in the battle of Qunce Mountain, and when you were already dying, it was Zhang Tingli who personally performed the operation on you. Forced from the hands of death, saved your life. Even if she is not the commander's fiancée, she is also your savior, why did you betray her whereabouts to the Japanese army? Will your heart be at peace if you do this? ”

When Guo Bingxun said this, although his tone did not have any expression of excitement, it was still as calm as his daily speech. But his words pierced the man's heart like a sharp sword.

When that person heard Guo Bingxun mention the harm he had caused to Yang Zhen, he closed his eyes, two lines of tears flowed down the corners of his eyes, and he said after a long time: "Chief of Staff, I don't want to explain anything?" One misstep becomes a thousand hatreds, the big mistake has been made, and it is useless to say anything else. I don't have any other thoughts right now, I just want to die quickly. ”

Speaking of this, the man raised his head and looked at Guo Bingxun, and said with tears streaming down his face: "Chief of Staff, I don't want anything else, I just hope you can say to the commander, I, Zhang Biao, am sorry for him, and even more sorry for Vice Minister Zhang." I only have one wish, if there is an afterlife, I will also be his soldier and follow him to fight devils. Even though I know that I don't have the qualifications anymore. ”

After hearing his words, and looking at his only remaining arm, Guo Bingxun shook his head painfully and said, "Zhang Biao, you still don't want to tell the truth?" I understand that you are a person, and you will not sell yourself for such a small amount of money because of a woman, and things are not as simple as you said in your confession. I'm not trying to intercede for you, I just want to know the facts. ”

Guo Bingxun's rhetorical question made Zhang Biao sigh and said: "Chief of Staff, you are thoughtful, I know I can't hide it from you." But what if you know? For the sake of your partiality, you will see that we have suffered together in the devil's germ warfare base, and I may intercede for me in terms of my past achievements. Yu Gong, people like me must be killed. If you don't kill, there will be no way for the troops to take it. ”

"If a person who betrays the troops, betrays the commander, and becomes a little devil spy does not kill, what does this make others think of you and the commander? Only when I am dead can I warn others and give an account to the troops. Moreover, death is not a relief for me. ”

Although this person named Zhang Biao looked plain on the surface, the attentive Guo Bingxun still found that his half-crippled left leg was trembling slightly involuntarily.

Guo Bingxun didn't make it clear that Zhang Biao, who looked plain on the surface, had the fear of death in his heart, but just took out a few packs of Hardman cigarettes and a pack of matches from his military pocket and threw them in front of him: "The commander knows that you have a smoking addiction, and you are still very big. I love to smoke the two kinds of cigarettes: Hade Gate and Three Forts. In the prisoner of war camp of the devils, he also smoked the devil's leather whip for picking up the devil's cigarette fart. ”

"In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, you went out of Sichuan with the Sichuan army to resist the war, and after smoking this kind of cigarette in Shanxi, you almost didn't smoke anything else. All your money is used to buy the most expensive cigarettes. This time, when Jiamusi was defeated, the commander specially asked people to find a way to get these packs of cigarettes. The little devil is very strict with the things in the gate, and the three forts and the old knife do not have it, and they only get these boxes of Hademen. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Bingxun stared at Zhang Biao for a long time before saying, "After knowing about you, although it is very painful. But the commander still told me that you Zhang Biaogong is meritorious and deceitful. Even if such a big mistake is made now, there are still military exploits in the past. ”

"Although the sins you have done are unforgivable, you still have to be given the treatment you should give, and you should still be given some treatment in life. He asked me to find an opportunity to sue you that he is a man with clear grievances. The public is public, the private is private, and he will not settle private accounts with you. ”

took a few packs of cigarettes thrown by Guo Bingxun, and heard that these packs of Hademen cigarettes, which were difficult to see in the puppet Manchurian, were actually specially asked by Yang Zhen to get them, especially the words that he Zhang Biao was still meritorious, which made him churn in his heart, and suppressed his tears so that he didn't cry in front of Guo Bingxun again.

Zhang Biao took out a dot and took a deep breath, hiding the pain in his heart through the curling smoke from the cigarette. After a long time, he said: "Chief of Staff, thank the commander for me." I did such an unforgivable sin, and yet he still thinks of me. I'm sorry for him, I'm sorry for Vice Minister Zhang. ”

Guo Bingxun stared at Zhang Biao and said, "Since you know that you are sorry for the commander, then you should not hide it anymore and tell everything." It's not atonement, it's your conscience. Don't forget, we came out of Sichuan together. I know you as a person. I only believe half of what you say in your confession. At least 30% of you are still hiding. ”

After Yang Zhen stopped acting and left the mountain, Guo Bingxun immediately issued an arrest warrant to Chen Bo, the minister of social affairs of the military region. Chen Bo was also very cautious, knowing that this person was Yang Zhen's old brother who rushed out of the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare base together, and attached great importance to these people, whether it was Yang Zhen as the commander of the military region or Guo Bingxun as the chief of staff.

Therefore, the interrogation was carried out immediately after the arrest, but care was taken in the disposition. After receiving the confession, it was reported to the headquarters as soon as possible. Regarding Chen Bo's confession, Yang Zhen did not read it, but approved it to Guo Bingxun, chief of staff of the military region, and asked Guo Bingxun to handle it with full authority.

Due to the tension of the war before, Guo Bingxun, who was busy with Yang Zhen's confession, did not take a closer look. After the battle was over and he returned to the Xingshan Fortress Headquarters, Guo Bingxun, who took the time to carefully read the confession on the side, knew that Zhang Biao was telling the truth in his confession, but he did not tell the whole story. For this person, Guo Bingxun knows too well.

He didn't believe in a man who had taken the lead when he broke through the Japanese bacteriological warfare base. A person who was seriously injured by a Japanese artillery shell in order to cover his comrades in the battle of Qunce Mountain, lost an arm, half a meter of intestines, and even a leg became a cripple, and now there are many pieces in his body that cannot be removed due to conditions that cannot be removed shrapnel, will defect for this reason.

Although people who have experienced the test of life and death may not be able to withstand the temptation of sugar-coated cannonballs composed of money and beautiful women, if he Zhang Biao is also such a person, let alone Guo Bingxun, even Yang Zhen doesn't believe it. ”

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