"I am the one in charge of escorting you, you can call me the captain, and from now on all of you must do what I ask. If you feel that you can't do it, you can choose to speak up now or give up being escorted by me, maybe they will arrange another suitable person to escort you out of Tianjin. Lu Yuan, dressed as an ordinary person, looked around at the twenty or so young people in front of him, although some of them were older than Lu Yuan, but none of these students dared to look at Lu Yuan for more than three seconds.

Lu Yuan stood in place and waited for a minute or two, and when he saw that these young students were just looking at him with puzzled faces, but no one chose to ask questions or express his position, he immediately smiled. "Since you all have no objections, well, let's move on to the first one. First of all, I want to check each of your luggage, because we still have a long way to go, so in your luggage, those things that you don't need to carry will only waste your physical strength, and it is better to leave them here. ”

Lu Yuan's words made the twenty or so young students finally move, and one of the tallest male students asked Lu Yuan, "What do you mean by things that you don't need to carry?" In addition to some personal belongings in our luggage, there are only some book notes left, which we can use when we arrive in Yan'an, and we must not leave them behind. The male student's words attracted a chorus of admiration from the other students, but Lu Yuan's expression did not change at all.

"I said that as long as it's not a necessity, you have to stay. Along the way, we may encounter Japanese soldiers, imperial troops, bandits, or local armed forces, and only three people, including the liaison and me, will escort you. If you want to arrive safely in Yan'an under our escort, you must do as I say, or you would better stay in Tianjin. As a final reminder, the outside world is not as safe as you think. ”

After speaking, Lu Yuan turned around and stopped looking at the students, but handed over the matter of checking the luggage to the liaison named Xie Shen, while he himself walked to the operator. "Lao Huang, the radio station is handed over to you, I only have one request for you, no matter when, you must protect this radio station. Without my order, you are not allowed to turn on the phone at will, let alone send a telegram at will, even if it is Xie Shen's order, you don't have to pay attention to it, because I am the captain. ”

Huang Dashan, the newspaper operator sent by the Tianjin underground party organization, looked much older than Lu Yuan, but when facing Lu Yuan, Huang Dashan was very obedient. Seeing that the other party nodded and agreed, Lu Yuan grinned at the other party, and then took out a pistol and two spare magazines from his back waist and handed them to the other party. "This gun is given to you, but unfortunately there are only three magazines of bullets, if you have a chance to shoot on the road, I will get you a pistol with better performance."

The pistol that Lu Yuan gave to Huang Dashan was a Browning women's pistol, and the lady's pistol that could be held in the palm of his hand looked small and exquisite, but it was enough for an operator like Huang Dashan who rarely touched the gun. Huang Dashan was very excited to play with this Browning pistol, and when he looked at Lu Yuan again, his eyes were already full of gratitude and familiarity. Lu Yuan only smiled at this, and in his storage space, there were still more than a dozen pistols seized from the Japanese puppet spies in Tianjin.

Xie Shen carefully checked the luggage of those students according to Lu Yuan's instructions, and quickly cleared out a large number of books and notes, and after cleaning up, the luggage obviously looked much lighter. "Now that everyone has completed the first item, it's the turn of the second item, so I won't talk about the male students, but you female students, you must change your outfit now, at least don't let me see that you are still wearing skirts or shoes with heels. If you could, I wanted you to dress like a normal person, instead of being a foreign student at a glance. ”

"Why? How can we get dressed and you have to agree to it? Lu Yuan's request continued to be refuted by the students, but whether it was Lu Yuan or the Tianjin underground party, they all stood expressionless and did not speak, and after the students quarreled for a while, they had to stop, because Lu Yuan and they didn't explain at all. In desperation, several female students could only follow the landlord to change clothes, and soon, there were a few more women from the village in the yard.

"Well, it's okay, look at the parking like this." Lu Yuan forcibly held back a smile and pretended to turn his head to exchange opinions with the people of the Tianjin underground party, which made the female students very unhappy. "I said, don't glare at me, tell you to change your clothes for your own good. Do you know who the bandits like to rob the most right now? It is a foreign student who goes home to save his family, because the foreign student has money in his family. And the bandits like to rob female students the most, because female students can be snatched back to be the wife of the village. ”

Lu Yuan's ridicule made these female students immediately change their complexions, and several of them subconsciously approached each other, as if the bandits Lu Yuan said were in this courtyard. "Among you people, only one of you is named Chen Xuanpeng's home in Shanxi, so your main purpose this time is to go to Chen Xuanpeng's house as a guest to stay temporarily. No matter what method you use, you must keep this statement firmly in mind, and no matter who asks you, you answer each other like this. ”

About half an hour later, three mule and horse carts prepared by the Tianjin underground party were sent here, and Lu Yuan and the three of them were each in charge of a cart, pulling these twenty or so students to quietly leave the Xunzi who had stayed for four days. At this time, the sky was gradually brightening, and Lu Yuan and the others walked out along the official road outside the village for more than 30 miles, and only then stopped at the edge of a small river to rest at Lu Yuan's request.

"Lao Xie, this won't work, there are too many of us, I'm afraid it won't work with only three big carts, this will tire the mules and horses." Lu Yuan took out a cigarette and talked in a low voice with Xie Shen. "We can't go to the village now, we can't go to the store, we just want to use the money to buy mules and horses, and I'm afraid there is no place, so I think it's better to just take the female students in the car, and the men are all on foot. I also took the opportunity to take a look at the physical condition of these male students, and if there was an accident, we could at least have a number in our hearts. ”

Lu Yuan's suggestion, Xie Shen did not object, before leaving Tianjin, his superiors had already explained to him, and everything along the way must be subject to Lu Yuan's arrangement. "What? Want us to walk? Why? Isn't there a big car? Sure enough, when they were back on the road, when the students heard that the boys had to walk, the students blew up, and their eyes became sharper and sharper, especially when they looked at Lu Yuan.

"What? You don't want to? Lu Yuan smiled and rubbed his nose with his hand, "We only have three big cars now, but the number of people is close to 30 people, if it's just a short distance, forget it." But we are on a long march, and once the mules and horses pulling the cart are tired, it is not a matter of only the boys walking, but all of us have to walk to Shanxi. You are all well-educated students, and although you look at things from different angles, I am sure you all understand what I mean. ”

Lu Yuan only said half of what he wanted to express, and then stopped paying attention to these students, while Xie Shen had no choice but to step forward and persuade them, which could be regarded as quieting these students. Fortunately, the students are not unreasonable people, thinking carefully about Lu Yuan's words and Xie Shen's persuasion, the male students had to honestly follow the bus and continue on the road, in order not to be stared at by these students with angry eyes, Lu Yuan had to take the lead in taking the role of a pathfinder.

From the first time they saw Lu Yuan, the students seemed to be the opposite of Lu Yuan, not only were the students not convinced that Lu Yuan was actually younger than them, but the decision to check their luggage and change clothes made them not have the slightest good impression of Lu Yuan. "Hehe, you've all underestimated the captain." Xie Shen can only explain this with good words. "Don't look at the captain's age, but he is a very capable person, and there are at least hundreds of Japanese soldiers killed by him, otherwise why would the underground party have to ask him to escort you to Shanxi."

"No way, I don't think he's anything special." The students didn't believe Xie Shen's words, in their opinion, Lu Yuan and Xie Shen were both members of the underground party, and they naturally wanted to help each other speak. When everyone was talking about Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan, who was out to explore the way, suddenly stopped, and after about ten seconds, Lu Yuan, who was kneeling down on the spot, suddenly got up and ran back quickly.

"Lao Xie, there may be a little trouble ahead, you and Lao Huang take them down the roadbed to hide for a while, I didn't call you here, you must not come out." Lu Yuan, who came back quickly, was talking to Xie Shen while opening his long box on the cart, and in front of the big family, he took out a mesh rag full of rags from the long box and wrapped it around his body, and then used a dazzling speed to assemble a rifle from the bits and pieces in the box.

"Remember, I will not call you, and you will not be allowed to come out." Finally, after admonishing Xie Shen, Lu Yuan carried the assembled assault rifle and ran towards a small dirt bag on the side of the official road. Xie Shen and Huang Dashan didn't dare to delay, and then instructed the students to drive the cart down the roadbed, and when they looked at Lu Yuan again, they saw that Lu Yuan had quickly crossed the small dirt bag and was running towards the turn of the official road forward at this moment.

Lu Yuan wasn't trying to scare these students, on his all-view map, about 2 miles in front of the official road, there were a lot of red and blue dots. Before figuring out the situation, Lu Yuan could only quickly get closer and observe, he just hoped that he would not encounter Japanese troops above the squad level here.