his robbery

Huo Xiangzhen walked forward along the simple road, his black cloak was blown by the cold wind.The hem of the cloak was fluttering, wrapping around Li Tianbao's calf softly.Li Tianbao was wearing thin clothes. He didn't expect it to be so cold today, so he walked bouncing all the way, and his feet in long riding boots also took small steps.

Outside the gate of Qing Mansion, Huo Xiangzhen had a few words with the officer in charge of guarding, and then walked directly into the house.The foreign stove in the bedroom has been installed long ago, and the fire is raging. The iron pipe goes up the corner of the wall, circles half a circle along the ceiling, and finally sticks out from a round hole in the wall.Dayang stove, the effect is similar to that of heating. The air in the room is warm and depressing. It cannot be said to be smelly, but the composition is complex, full of human smell, and it is also a lazy person who lingers on the bed. The smell of sweat was mixed together and covered in the blanket.

Standing in front of the big iron bed in the cold air, Huo Xiangzhen lowered his head to look at Gu Chengxi.Gu Chengxi opened his eyes, his cheeks were so thin that his cheeks were sunken, and his eye sockets were also constricted. His face was like dirty white silk, thin and dry, stretched loosely on his cheekbones.Looking up quietly at Huo Xiangzhen, he didn't say a word, only groaned.

Huo Xiangzhen looked at him carefully, and felt that he was indeed very hungry, which showed that the hunger strike should be real.Leaning over with his hands behind his back, he asked, "Gu Chengxi, what are you messing with?"

Gu Chengxi tremblingly raised one hand, and loosely grasped his military uniform collar: "I have a request..."

Huo Xiangzhen let him hold on, and did not dodge: "Say it."

Gu Chengxi seemed to be utterly weak, and he spoke angrily: "I don't live here, I want to go to the city... I will live wherever you live... You can't leave me here... I just want this one request, I I want to live with you..."

When Huo Xiangzhen heard this, he pulled his hand away expressionlessly: "I can't agree to this request."

Gu Chengxi closed his eyes, and sighed slightly: "Huo Jingheng, I didn't expect you to be so nostalgic."

Huo Xiangzhen waited patiently, wanting to see if he had any novel arguments.But Gu Chengxi paused for a moment, then said in a low voice: "I can't stand this kind of life. If you don't agree, I have no choice but to fight to the death."

Huo Xiangzhen thought for a while, then suddenly asked: "Want to die?"

Gu Chengxi nodded slightly.

Huo Xiangzhen lifted the quilt from his body and said at the same time: "Okay, I will fulfill you."

Huo Xiangzhen hugged Gu Chengxi by the waist, turned around with big strides and walked all the way to the door.Gu Chengxi lived under the blanket all day long, wearing only a thin layer of underwear, and now suddenly saw the cold wind, and immediately the cold penetrated into the bones.Looking up at Huo Xiangzhen inexplicably, he tried not to ask questions in surprise.And Huo Xiangzhen carried him out of the gate, and asked several guards to follow along the way.When they went around in circles to a piece of wild grass behind the mansion, Huo Xiangzhen gave an order to the guards: "Go get some shovels and dig a big hole for me."

In order to imprison Gu Chengxi, the guards dug a lot of trenches in this area, and tools such as shovels and picks are naturally available.At this time, the guards took the order and went away, and within a moment, they brought back the shovel and started working.

Gu Chengxi was thrown into the dense grass by Huo Xiangzhen, turned over and sat up, he hugged his shoulders tremblingly, first looked at the guards, then at Huo Xiangzhen, his heart was agitated, he didn't know what Huo Xiangzhen was up to.And Huo Xiangzhen stood still calmly, seeing that the guards had already dug the pit to a certain size, then he lowered his head and said to Gu Chengxi at his feet, "Go down by yourself."

Gu Chengxi stuttered, his face turned even paler: "Get down, get down?"

Huo Xiangzhen looked at him condescendingly: "Don't you want to die? Go down if you want to die. I'll bury you."

Gu Chengxi raised his face and stared straight at Huo Xiangzhen—after staring for a moment, he stood up staggeringly, and jumped into the pit with a big stride.Panting and sitting on the wet and cold ground, he shouted upwards: "Bury it! You bury it!"

Huo Xiangzhen indifferently raised his hand to the guards by the pit: "Bury."

The guard shoveled the loose soil with a shovel, and began to fill the hole one shovel after another.The loose soil first buried Gu Chengxi's legs, and then buried it up to his waist and chest.Gu Chengxi gradually felt suffocated, a shovel of soil fell from the sky, sprinkled his head and face.He shook his head, and suddenly felt like waking up from a dream, with uncontrollable fear.

Standing up with his hands and feet on the planer, he started to climb up the edge of the pit, but he had been hungry for five days on and off, and he felt dizzy when he moved a little.The bottom of the pit was paved with soft soil, and the edge of the pit was also piled with soft soil. He wanted to grab a clump of weeds to use his strength, but after grabbing a handful, it was dirt, and another handful was still dirt.

At this moment, Huo Xiangzhen knelt down and reached out to hold his hand.

Huo Xiangzhen's clean and warm hands grabbed him, and he grabbed him at the same time.He looked up angrily, and at the same time he heard Huo Xiangzhen ask himself: "Are you still dead?"

He was so out of breath that he could only shake his head, and then Huo Xiangzhen raised his hand and pointed at the tip of his nose, and said with disgust, "I knew you were bluffing!"

Half an hour later, Gu Chengxi took a shower, changed his clothes, squatted beside the bed and drank rice porridge with a big bowl in his hand.The porridge was too hot, and he had to drink it in circles, blowing while drinking, and put down the bowl halfway through, he blew his nose hard with toilet paper, then picked up the bowl and continued drinking.I thought that this time I could bargain with Huo Xiangzhen and try to get out of this isolated ghost place, but I didn't expect that Huo Xiangzhen's heart was as hard as a stone and would not accept his tricks.Thinking of this, he glanced out the window—this place is really terrible, there are many trenches and checkpoints, and if his people want to come to the rescue, they have to fight a big battle, and if there is a big battle outside, they will naturally Someone dealt with him inside, no matter what he did, he would have no way out.

It would be different if he could enter the city; but the hunger strike was useless, so what should he do next?Is it pretending to be sick?I'm afraid it's still useless.After thinking about it, he suddenly became anxious again - just now Huo Xiangzhen said that he was defrauding him, but who knows if it was really a deceit?If he persisted until the end, would Huo Xiangzhen really bury him alive?Dare to bury him alive, you are quite courageous. Could it be that he won't be needed in the future?Has his army changed?

Thinking of this, Gu Chengxi's face seemed to be submerged in water, and his internal organs burned.Porridge tasteless in the mouth, and it hurts every bite.This kind of pain is more difficult than any kind of torture. Holding a big bowl in one hand, he looked up at Huo Xiangzhen without warning. His eyes were hot and sticky like porridge. When he poured out a bowl, he seemed to be able to take revenge. It's scalding to death.

Huo Xiangzhen could not understand him - the more he could not understand him, the more he would play a few low-level tricks, as if he was afraid that he would change his opinion of him.Huo Xiangzhen had no choice but to treat Gu Chengxi like this.Seeing that Gu Chengxi drank most of the bowl of porridge in silence, he expected that this person must have no desire to die, so he said coldly: "You have been busy enough these years, and now you stay here to cultivate yourself. benefit."

Gu Chengxi rolled his eyes at him: "Don't be mad at me, can you?"

Huo Xiangzhen saw his reaction, and suddenly remembered what Ma Congrong wrote in the letter - "My heart is very painful", "It is also very painful", which is probably not wrong to describe Gu Chengxi's emotions at the moment.

Frowning disapprovingly, he immediately stood up: "You rest."

Gu Chengxi didn't say anything, he didn't have anything to say, he was too lazy to say anything.

Huo Xiangzhen thought that Gu Chengxi had a brain, and there must be a reason for everything he did. This time, he was able to play the bitter trick to such an extent that he must have a plan.So the more Gu Chengxi wanted to enter the city, the more he refused to let him go. Not only did he not let him go, but he also sent an additional team of guards around the Qing mansion to patrol day and night in shifts.

He went back to Huaining by car, and he planned to go to the military camp again according to the original plan.Unexpectedly, he was not ordered to go to the barracks today, and the car drove to the door of his house, but was stopped by Li Kechen again.

When Li Kechen was under Huo Pingchuan, because his colleagues didn't care about anything, as the chief of staff, he was forced to have the ability to see all directions and listen to all directions. Now that there is no secretary-general in the army, he is more and more like a Like a big housekeeper, omniscient and omniscient.As Huo Xiangzhen entered the office in the house, he said, "Marshal, there are people from the south."

Huo Xiangzhen thought it was the Nanjing government who wanted to urge him to send troops south, but Li Kechen immediately added, "It's from Shanghai."

Huo Xiangzhen was a little confused: "Shanghai? Who?"

Li Kechen carefully answered his words, "It's...Mr. Wang's."

Huo Xiangzhen was silent to Li Kechen for a long time, and finally asked, "Mr. Wang? Wang Zhaoming?"

Li Kechen nodded: "Yes."

Huo Xiangzhen, because she was too surprised, opened her eyes wide: "Isn't Mr. Wang in France?"

Li Kechen smiled and said, "You're back."

Huo Xiangzhen raised his hand to touch the newly shaved short hair, and smiled abruptly: "Is Mr. Wang also joining the battle? This is really chaos."

Huo Xiangzhen has lived for more than 30 years, and has rarely admired anyone from the bottom of his heart, but when it comes to Wang Zhaoming, he really admires him.He has never had direct contact with Wang Zhaoming, but when he is mentioned, he must be called Mr. Wang.He admits that he was an old warlord in the past, and now everyone else is a new warlord. He only thinks that Mr. Wang is different.

Huo Xiangzhen would be willing to regard Mr. Wang as the leader of the country, and he would not accept it if it were someone else.For this unilateral worship, Huo Xiangzhen met with the special envoy from Shanghai.

After a meeting, the envoy secretly left Huaining.As soon as the special envoy left, General Shi's personal adviser came again; before the adviser left, the Nanjing government sent an urgent telegram, urging Huo Xiangzhen to send troops again.

Huo Xiangzhen didn't pay attention to He Bogao, but He Bogao did have soldiers, and he formed an alliance with Yan Feng. Worship, but not to the extent that you want to work hard for Mr. Wang.The Nanjing government comforted him while urging him to lead troops into Jiangsu and gather at Pukou to stand by.

The three parties met in Huaining, and Huo Xiangzhen didn't have the ability to predict, so he was very hesitant and couldn't make a decision.While he was procrastinating to think, someone in Nanjing leaked the wind to him—it seemed that Jiang Zhongzheng knew about his private dealings with Wang Zhaoming.

Knowing the consequences, the Nanjing government will implement a "forced solution" against him. If he wants not to be solved, he can only immediately lead his troops to leave Anhui and go south.

The situation immediately became critical, Huo Xiangzhen called Xue Bing and others over, wanting to hear their opinions.Sun Wenxiong stood firm and refused to go to Guangdong; Li Kechen frowned and said nothing; Xuebing waited until Sun Wenxiong had spoken before opening his mouth in a low voice: "Marshal, we have been in Anhui for half a year. There is no shortage of recruits, and no shortage of salaries." At this point, he pointed to Sun Wenxiong, called the other party's watch and continued: "Zizhan has a division, and the number is equal to three divisions, plus my soldiers. , and the Cavalry Brigade and Artillery Regiment, there are a total of 8 to [-] people. With our strength, I believe that we can judge the situation and choose our own path.

Huo Xiangzhen nodded, feeling very comforted in her heart, because these trusted subordinates were all in touch with her, which saved her a lot of trouble and words.

A week later, Huo Xiangzhen finally made up his mind and made up his mind.

Wang Zhaoming set up a new central government. No matter Yan Feng in the north or Guijun in the south, they all accepted the commissions of his new government. Huo Xiangzhen was no exception, and became the commander-in-chief of the First Route Army.

He received the letter of commission in secret, and did not disclose it to the outside world; at the same time, he followed the order of the Nanjing government and mobilized the army to Jiangsu.He has always had resentment towards the Nanjing government, so if he does not oppose it, he will do it. Once he opposes it, he will turn it upside down.As for the scattered Gu Jun, he also drove them on the road - even if this group of people can't fight, it's good to hold their own.Besides, with Gu Chengxi in their hands, how dare they not fight?

The outside world has changed, and the Qing mansion has also been affected.This morning, Gu Chengxi had breakfast, and as usual, went to bed and squatted under the covers.With his hands in his sleeves, he held a small note between his fingers, which was brought in among the cutlery.In the end, Chief of Staff Wang had a way of buying a guard outside the Qing mansion into a messenger.

If it weren't for these little notes that come and go every now and then, Gu Chengxi wouldn't have hunger strike in a hurry last time - Chief of Staff Wang was in a hurry to save him, and he was about to die of anxiety; Birds can't easily fly in, so how can people save them?

While there was no one outside the window, Gu Chengxi hurriedly read the words on the paper, then crumpled them into small balls and threw them into the ashtray.A heart thumped up, he didn't say a word, just waited.

After waiting all day and midnight, he was invited out of bed by an officer in the early hours of the morning.Wrapped in a padded jacket and went out, he yawned and got into a car.Huo Jun came out in full force this time, and he may not return to Anhui in the future, so Huo Xiangzhen ordered someone to bring Commander Gu with him.

If he hadn't read the little note during the day, Gu Chengxi would have suspected that Huo Xiangzhen was going to take him to the execution ground; but now that he had the external news at the bottom, he was quite confident at this moment, knowing that Huo Xiangzhen was still reluctant to kill himself easily.