After everyone got on the sampan, Xu Shijiu turned around and looked at Hu Jie and said, "Old Hu, you go back."

Hu Jie said reluctantly: "Captain, I'll send you across the lake, anyway, it's not a few days."

"No need, it's been several days since we went back and forth, and more importantly, this is an enemy-occupied area, so there may be traitors going to inform the Japanese, so you should go back to the army quickly." Xu Shijiu patted Hu Jie, then took out the Browning pistol that Feng Shengfa gave him from his pocket and handed it to Hu Jie, "Leave a souvenir."

Hu Jie did not take the pistol, and lowered his head and said, "Captain, why don't I go with you?"

Until now, Hu Jie was still struggling with ideological struggles. On the one hand, he could not cut off the friendship between brothers. In the past year of the 19th Brigade, he had established a deep comrade-in-arms relationship with Xu Shijiu and others. Now he was about to separate, and he was really unable to give up. But on the other hand, he was an artillery after all, and artillery was his ideal.

Now that ideals and reality are in a huge conflict, Hu Jie is in a dilemma.

Xu Shijiu sighed and said, "If you are just a little artillery like a calf, I will take you away without hesitation, but you are not. You are not only an artillery, but also an excellent artillery instructor. Only when you stay in the national army can you play your role. Going to the enemy behind me will only be a waste, and it will be a loss to the country and the nation."

Hu Jie suddenly became excited and shouted: "Captain, are you also an excellent commander? If you go to the enemy's back, you will also suffer losses from the country and the nation? Captain, why don't we go back? Even if the 58th Division doesn't want us, we can also go to other troops. I don't believe that there are hundreds of divisions in the National Army, but we really don't have a place to stay."

Xu Shijiu stopped talking, but just looked at Hu Jie with a dull look. Hu Jie's voice softened, and the excitement on his face also retreated like a tide. Hu Jie knew that Xu Shijiu was still like Gao Shenxing, who was completely desperate about the Kuomintang army. How could he never go back? But to be honest, the Kuomintang army is really desperate. If he was not an artillery, if it weren't for the Kuomintang army, how could he be willing to stay in the Kuomintang army? It was so frustrating.

Hu Jie stuttered a few times, and finally said to Baba: "Captain, take care of yourself all the way."

"Old Hu, go back quickly." The gloomy look in Xu Shijiu's eyes disappeared, and he waved at Hu Jie, then turned around and stepped onto the small sampan. Gao Shenxing, who had been waiting for a long time, held the bamboo pole and pushed it hard on the shore. The small sampan carried more than a dozen remaining soldiers from the 19th Brigade into the lake silently.

Hu Jie chased forward a few steps and shouted: "Captain, Lao Gao, monk Hua, calf, Daozi, Master Jiu, Xiaodanzi... Take care of yourself all the way, take care of yourself all the way..."

The small sampan soon disappeared on the dark lake surface, and only a faint farewell sound came with the cold lake breeze. Hu Jie waved his hand desperately towards the front, and tears had already flowed down.

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Yu Huan sat next to Xu Shijiu and asked softly: "Captain, what happened to Captain Hu, will there be no problem?"

Xu Shijiu bent down and scooped water from the lake to wash his face, saying, "What can happen? Old Hu is also a veteran who has experienced many battles. A dozen Japanese people don't want to leave him behind. Besides, the road from Qinglong Bay to De'an is full of mountains and ridges. As long as you avoid a few important traffic routes, Japanese people will never find him."

Yu Huan looked forward to the future and said, "Captain, where are we going?"

Xu Shijiu shook the water stains on his hand and said, "I'll pass Poyang Lake for the time being. After I cross the lake, I'll decide which direction to go. However, there are several places to go, either in southern Anhui or western Zhejiang, or in southern Jiangsu."

Gao Shenxing said while rowing the oars: "I agree to go to southern Jiangsu, where there are Communist guerrilla activities."

"Will we go to join the Communist Party?" Lu Jiangang was dissatisfied. Although he was completely desperate about the Kuomintang army, it did not mean that he had a good impression of the Communist Party. As for joining the Communist Party, he had never thought about it. He said now, "Wouldn't it be better to ask me to conquer a piece of territory by ourselves and fight independently? It would be better if this party, this government, and that government pointed at us, making us at a loss."

Gao Shenxing looked at Xu Shijiu with his eyes and asked, "Old Xu, what do you mean?"

Xu Shijiu didn't say anything, but took the rowing from the old camel and rowed it one by one. Gao Shenxing stopped asking questions. The two had been together for more than a year, and Gao Shenxing already knew Xu Shijiu very well. Xu Shijiu was unwilling to answer, but in fact it was equivalent to acquiesce. Obviously, Xu Shijiu was also unwilling to go to southern Jiangsu to join the Communist Party.

Yu Huan suddenly said, "We went to southern Jiangsu, and we may not have to join the Communist Party."

Yu Huan naturally hoped to go to southern Jiangsu, and even more hoped to have more contact with the Communist guerrillas, because she had a slight fantasy in her heart, fantasizing that one day she would meet Shu Tongwen in the enemy-occupied area. She secretly joined the national army without telling her family and risked her life to go to the battlefield. Isn’t it just to meet Shu Tongwen one day in the future?

Thinking of Shu Tongwen, Yu Huan remembered her cousin Ye Ruxue, and sighed and said worriedly: "I don't know how my cousin is doing now, but don't be arrested by Fuxing Society."

"Accused by the Fuxing Society?" Xu Shijiu turned around and looked at Yu Huan in surprise, "She didn't return to Hankou?"

A few days ago, Ye Ruxue left De'an and said she was returning to the branch of the Hankou Mile Review and submitted her communication for review. Although Hankou has been occupied by the Japanese, the Japanese have not had any quarrels with Western powers. With Ye Ruxue's public identity, personal safety should be guaranteed. Besides, how could the Fuxing Society go to the Japanese war zone to arrest people?

Yu Huan lowered his head, dared not look at Xu Shijiu's gaze, and whispered: "Cousin, she has gone to Chongqing."

"Have she gone to Chongqing?" Xu Shijiu thought that the headquarters of Miller's Review had moved to Chongqing, and said, "Even if she went to Chongqing, why did the people from Fuxing Society arrest her?"

"I, I, I don't know either." Yu Huan could only talk about him.

In fact, Yu Huan knew that Ye Ruxue went to Chongqing this time to stand up for the 58th Division, especially the Independent 19th Brigade. Ye Ruxue experienced the battle of Niu Shitun, the battle of Dong, Xiguling and the battle of Wanjialing, so she knew better than anyone else that the contribution of the 58th Division in the Wanjialing victory was definitely not inferior to the 5th Pei.

But now, the 58th Division has been treated unfairly, and the 19th Brigade has been tragically withdrawn. As a reporter, Ye Ruxue felt that she had to stand up and do something, not only for the fallen officers and soldiers of the 58th Division, especially the Independent 19th Brigade, but also for the 58th Division's officers and soldiers, who must get the respect they deserve.

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Due to the fall of Wuhan and the Yangtze River channel was blocked by Japan, Ye Ruxue could only detour Yunnan to enter Sichuan. So it was more than a month later when she arrived in Chongqing. After arriving in Chongqing, Ye Ruxue didn't care about going to see her family and directly found the office of the Miller Review newspaper and asked her several battlefield communications to be published in the newspaper as soon as possible.

Mile's Mile's Mile newspaper has always sympathized with the War of Resistance. He spared no effort to promote the anti-Japanese war and expose the Japanese army's beastly actions. However, the two battlefield communications sent by Ye Ruxue this time put the editor-in-chief Powell in a dilemma. Powell has been in China for many years and has a lot of knowledge about the shady scenes within the National Government and the National Army. He knows that this is an untouchable forbidden area. If it is accidentally touched, it may even trigger diplomatic disputes between China and the United States.

So, Powell deducted Ye Ruxue's article.

Ye Ruxue did not give up, and then found several other national newspapers, first Damei Evening News, then declared, and finally even found Da Gongbao. These newspapers praised Ye Ruxue's articles, but when they talked about publishing, they immediately shook their heads. The matter was obvious. Is this just to sing a stage drama with Chairman Jiang?
Chapter completed!