Chapter 239

I thought he would live to be an old man of 80 or 90

On the afternoon of June 24, 1940, when it rained all the time, the Japanese army did not launch an air raid, and the whole mountain city was silent.

The news of the fall of Yichang came from the radio.

A few days ago, the newspapers were already in a pessimistic mood. It seemed that they had expected that this battle would not be won.

Qiao ruochu felt uneasy. She sat on the sofa and read for a while. She was sleepy. She heard the sonorous steps in her confusion. She was shocked. Suddenly she stood up from the sofa and looked out of the window.

Separated by layers of rain and fog, Qiao ruochu did not really see Wei Tongsheng's stout figure.

They're back.

Qiao ruochu opened the curtain and rushed directly into the rain, shouting in a clear voice: "Junmai."

No familiar voice answered her.

"What about the others?" Qiao ruochu went through the rain curtain and rushed to Wei Tongsheng,

The heart pulls to ask.

Wei Tongsheng didn't open his mouth and cried first. If Qiao saw him like this for the first time, he felt dizzy and fell into the rain.

Fortunately, being held by Tang Gu, she just managed to stand firm, "did he... Die in battle?"

"Madam, junzuo is still alive. It's commander Shen's old man..." Tang Gu couldn't go on, wiped a tear and said, "junzuo, let's pick you up to Shen mansion."

Qiao ruochu recovered a little, and tears immediately came out. He asked in a tone of silence, "how can Jun mai not protect his father?"

Wei Tongsheng stretched out his hand and slapped himself in the face. "Madam, it's our incompetence. It's our greed for life and fear of death. It's none of our business. You can blame us if you want to..."

Shen's mansion is a gloomy place.

Shen Lunan is dead.

In the middle of June, when Lin Junmai's army was covering the evacuation of his brother's army, it was heavily attacked by Japanese artillery. Two thirds of the soldiers were killed, and the reinforcements were intercepted by another Japanese detachment. They saw that they had no hope to live

I went back.

Shen Runan and his former subordinates, Lin Junmai's division commander Zhong Yi, have a secret discussion about taking 1000 people to hold down the Japanese army after severing. The others immediately withdraw into the surrounding mountains and detour back to the Jiangxi national army. Knowing that Lin Junmai would not agree with him, they ran through two adjutants, Wei Tongsheng and Tang Gu, forged an intercepted Japanese intelligence, and took advantage of Lin Junmai to lead his troops to move in a safe direction in order to "attack" the enemy.

Lin Junmai knew that the direct fighting was no longer the enemy of the Japanese army. He did not think about the "strange strategy" of his subordinates for a long time and agreed. He led the army very fast. He walked out 50 miles at a time, but there was no shadow of the Japanese army. However, there was another layer of blood over the place where he fought with the Japanese army before, and he realized that he might have been cheated by Zhong Yi.

He ordered his troops to turn around and fight back, but it was too late. Division commander Zhong Yi and his 1000 men and horses were all killed. Shen Runan was injured and captured. That night, he assassinated several Japanese soldiers and escaped into the nearby mountains.

After the Japanese army burned the forest, Shen Runan hid in the cave and survived.

A few days later, he climbed down from the mountain and was killed by voluntary Anti Japanese volunteers

The team found that Shen was full of gunshot wounds, knife wounds and fire wounds. The wounds were festering and dying. When the volunteers saw that Shen was not dressed as a national army, but wearing a long shirt and breeches, they thought he was a guerrilla of the underground Communist Party, so they sent him to the local Communist Liaison Station.

Because the local medical conditions were really limited, after the local Communist Party gave Shen Runan a simple treatment of the wound, they sent people to escort him to the National Army station overnight. When the people of the National Army saw that it was Mr. Shen, they immediately informed Lin Junmai to send people back to Chongqing for treatment.

Unfortunately, Shen's condition deteriorated before he left

As soon as Qiao Ruochuan stepped into the Shen residence, he saw Lin Junmai kneeling in front of his father's body. He knelt straight and didn't find anyone coming in. His handsome and resolute face was full of sadness.

"Junmai." Qiao ruochu went to him and knelt down to the body. Seeing that Shen's face was full of wounds, he could not open his mouth any more. Tears rolled down like beads with broken threads.

A week later, Shen Yue came back to Chongqing from Switzerland via India. He lay on the urn and lost his voice. The other members from all walks of life who came to the Shen residence to mourn were not sad

Already.

Chairman Chiang Kai Shek proposed that Shen Runan be buried in Yutai mountain of Chongqing. Later, he and general Zhang Zizhong, who died in the battle, were neighbors. Lin Junmai refused to bury Shen Runan in Xiangcheng on the ground that his last words were common things before nun he Miaoyi became a monk.

For fear that the ashes of abbess Miaoyi would be bombed and her whereabouts would not be known, Shen Lunan's ashes were eventually taken to Switzerland by Shen Yue for temporary placement, and then returned to Fengan, the prime minister, according to his last words.

Shen Lunan's death completely hit Lin Junmai's heart. He said to Qiao ruochu the day after the funeral: "he saved me. Originally, I had planned to ask Wei Tongsheng to bring someone to send him back. I didn't expect that his strategy was better than mine. Even if I refused to recognize him all my life, I had to convince him. "

Qiao ruochu's crying eyes were red and swollen, and her voice was hoarse. She snatched his cigarette from Lin Junmai's hand. "You've been smoking all day and all night. Go to sleep.

Lin Junmai looked at the pile of cigarette ends in front of him and continued quietly: "I always thought that he would live to be an old man of 80 or 90 years old, with eyes and a civilized stick. He walked slowly and often blew his beard and glared at who..."

Qiao ruochu heard Lin Junmai say so many things about his father for the first time. She listened carefully and put her head on his arm. Her clear and bright eyes were staring at his lips.

So nestled for a long time, he no longer spoke, dark pupil covered with a layer of water mist, bow and her eyes intertwined.

"Ruochu." Lin Junmai looked at her and gave a low cry. He leaned back to the sofa and said, "one day I will go his old way, you must not be so sad..."

"What are you talking about?" Qiao ruochu stretched out his hand and pinched his mouth. His body trembled a little. "I know that your position, as long as you don't deliberately die for the country, will not die."

"Today's situation is getting worse day by day. If it's early, you need to be prepared." Lin Junmai wanted to say this for a long time, but she couldn't find a chance. She was afraid to say it suddenly, and she couldn't bear it.

In recent days, he learned from the radio that the Japanese occupied Vietnam and intended to attack British Burma. He predicted that China's only material source channel, the Yunnan Burma Road, would be threatened. If the supplies, weapons, gasoline and other things could not be transported in, the domestic campaign would be even harder and fiercer.

"I can't do it." Qiao ruochu "whooshed" from his body, grabbed his wrist and shook, "promise me, you won't die."

"In the early days, it was fate and integrity for soldiers to fight." When Lin Junmai saw that she was overreacting, he had to say something grand. In fact, he used to read military books and thought that only generals with insufficient ability would always talk about their death in battle. Those who could really command thousands of troops would only win by surprise and never put themselves in danger.

"Junmai," Qiao ruochu shook his head in horror, "with your talent, it's not sincere to say such words."

It is better to know a husband than a wife.

Lin Junmai sighed, "this time, that time."

In the future, if the material needs for war become more and more scarce, the fighting confidence of the troops will be greatly weakened. At that time, maybe only a few more people like General Zhang Zizhong died for the country and blocked the way of surrender, can more ordinary soldiers be summoned to follow suit to a certain extent. The so-called mourning soldiers will win.

Lin Junmai knew that Qiao ruochu couldn't understand this idea, and he didn't understand it either

You can say it directly.

"I don't care. I want you to live. If you die for your country, I'll follow you, and I'm not afraid of death. " Qiao ruochu's eyes were firm, and he didn't say "I'm dead, you should live well." Wait for a chance to talk beautiful.

Lin Junmai saw that she was so firm and speechless that he only looked at his wife's face like clouds.

For a long time, he was unable to say: "we still have Lin an."

He took out the photo Shen Yue brought back when he returned home from his pocket. "He is over three years old. We've only been with him for a few days. If you and I go together, he won't even know about his father and mother in the future. "

Qiao ruochu saw in the photo that Xiao Lin an was sitting on the lawn with a foreign schoolbag, smiling brightly. There was Lin Junmai and her shadow between his eyebrows, and tears came down. "For him, don't just talk about me, you also have to live, me and him, don't carry the God card of loyal orphans."