At this time, the corridor in Area A of the Army Prison was extremely quiet. The prisoners stared at Zhang Yalan like sculptures.
Zhang Yalan looked at the prisoners around her one by one, "Please tell me, who is Lao Zhang?"
A young prisoner stood in front of her and said viciously: "Miss, you are in the wrong place!"
Zhang Yalan looked at him and said, "I went right. This is where I came. I want to find Lao Zhang. I have something important to say to him. Please get out of the way."
The prisoner gritted his teeth and said, "Miss, if you keep talking nonsense, I will strangle you to death with one hand!"
Zhang Yalan became anxious and raised her voice, "You can't do this. I have something important to say to Lao Zhang!"
At this time, Gao Maolin rushed out of a cell, "Yalan, Yalan, is that you? Yalan!"
Zhang Yalan turned back and stared at him. It took her a while to recognize him. She shouted, "Maolin, you are still there!" She rushed over and hugged Gao Maolin.
One was an unkempt prisoner with dirty and torn clothes, and the other was a neat and tidy female officer in military uniform. The two hugged each other and even kissed each other, leaving the surrounding prisoners stunned.
The young prisoner said loudly: "Gao Maolin, don't make a mistake, she may be a spy who sneaked in!"
Gao Maolin turned back to the prisoner beside him and said excitedly: "She is not a spy, she is one of our own."
The young prisoner said: "Why do you say she is one of your own?"
The prisoner Zhang Yalan and the people around her said, "I am just like you." She said, pulling up her sleeves and giving them to them. Although the whip wounds on her arms had healed, the same whip marks were still clearly visible. She looked around
People, "Do you want me? More."
The prisoners around her looked at her silently. They were all repeat offenders and knew that the whip marks would not fade for a long time and could not be faked. They all took a step back silently.
Zhang Yalan smiled at them and said, "I have also been in the detention center, but the time was not as long as yours. Please believe me, I am one of my own. I want to find Lao Zhang."
An old man came out from behind the prisoner. He was short and stocky with gray hair. He stood in front of Zhang Yalan and said, "I am Lao Zhang. What do you have to say?"
Zhang Yalan turned back to Gao Maolin. Gao Maolin nodded to her. She walked to the old man and whispered: "Old Zhang, I have a few words to say to you alone."
Lao Zhang stared at her and pointed to the cell next to him, "Come here."
Zhang Yalan followed Lao Zhang into the cell. The prisoners in the corridor retreated to both sides.
Lao Zhang turned back and stared at Zhang Yalan, "Okay, if you have anything to say, just say it."
Zhang Yalan whispered: "The comrades outside asked me to tell you that they are trying to rescue the comrades here. There are only two sentences. One is, don't act rashly. The second sentence is, do whatever you are told."
Lao Zhang said: "You mean, you want us to wear this military uniform?"
Zhang Yalan said: "I don't know how to rescue comrades outside, but I feel that wearing military uniforms should be necessary. Please think about it, they want to kill us, there is no need to give us military uniforms. They will not call us these
People go and get them guns to fight."
Lao Zhang nodded, "What you said makes sense."
He walked out of the cell and stood in the corridor and said: "Everyone, put on your military uniforms. It's a bit cold at night. Wearing an extra layer will keep you warmer. Please move quickly."
As soon as the prisoners heard the old man open his mouth, they all returned to their cells and helped each other put on their military uniforms.
Lao Zhang walked to the iron gate and looked at Adjutant Li outside, "Are you the officer in charge?"
"I don't dare. My surname is Li, and I'm in charge of this matter. What's your surname?"
"The last name is Zhang. What should we do next?"
"Please go out quietly. There is a truck in the yard. Please get in."
"Wait a minute, we need a stretcher. One of our comrades is paralyzed, and we need to carry her."
Adjutant Li was surprised. This was something he had not expected. He raised his head, looked at Lao Zhang's firm eyes, and whispered: "Mr. Zhang, can you not take this person with you?"
"No, she is our comrade, we are together whether life or death, we must take her away!"
Adjutant Li hesitated again and again, and finally said: "Mr. Zhang, please take a moment to speak." He asked the soldiers to open the iron gate, let Zhang out, and led him to a deserted corner.
Lao Zhang had already seen him, and Adjutant Li's forehead was already sweating.
"Mr. Zhang, what happened tonight is extremely serious and fatal. I can only tell you."
"Just tell me what it is."
"Mr. Zhang, our division, with twelve thousand men in total, is going to cross the river tonight. Do you understand what this means? You, forty-three of us, are all heavy... heavy..."
"They are all repeat offenders!" Lao Zhang said bluntly.
"Yes, yes. Please think about it. We have to cover up people's eyes and prevent people from coming out. We may have to march, run away, or even fight. Please think about it, there are 12,000 soldiers, and you 40
Three heavy...heavy..."
"Repeat offender!"
"Yes, yes. If so many people are affected because of this paralyzed person...all the efforts have been wasted...Mr. Zhang, can you distinguish the importance?"
Lao Zhang stared at him silently. He already understood this. The army was going to revolt and would take forty-three felons with them. It was hard to say what kind of danger they would encounter. He said: "Sir Li, we
We need to discuss it and then give you an answer."
Adjutant Li said anxiously: "Mr. Zhang, please hurry up, time is running out."
Lin Xiu, the paralyzed young woman, was still lying on her bed. The prisoners sitting next to her had all put on military uniforms. Only she was not wearing one. Everyone had vaguely guessed what was going to happen tonight, and they all
Worried about Lin Xiu who was paralyzed in bed.
Lao Zhang walked into the cell, sat down next to her, and looked at her silently.
Lin Xiu took his hand and said with a smile: "Old Zhang, I have already guessed that you are leaving tonight. I see everyone is wearing military uniforms. I can't walk and leave with you. Please don't do it for me.
Don’t worry, let alone me affecting everyone.”
She was holding her mouth open and her lips were trembling, but she was just trying to hold it back.
Lin Xiu continued: "Old Zhang, there is no need to say anything. Let's take everyone away. The comrades outside must have tried their best and don't miss this opportunity. Let's go, let's go quickly."
Lao Zhang's tears finally flowed out. He said nothing and could not say anything. He walked to the bed silently, hugged Lin Xiu, and hugged her hard. He turned back, wiped his tears and left.
The prisoners in the cell did not speak. They came over, silently hugged Lin Xiu, some even kissed her, and then walked out of the cell silently.
Some things really don't need to be expressed in words, let alone told to others. The prisoners in the corridor all felt this. No one of them spoke, they just walked into the cell one by one and silently hugged Lin Xiu goodbye.
When they came out, they all had tears in their eyes. Some female prisoners had already started crying.
Lao Zhang walked to the iron gate with red eyes and looked at Adjutant Li outside. Adjutant Li already understood his look and opened the iron gate loudly, signaling for them to go out.
There were two trucks parked in the yard. Soldiers stood beside the trucks and helped the prisoners in military uniforms get into the trucks.
The truck drove out of the gate of the army prison. After turning onto a street, the two trucks merged into a huge convoy. The convoy had no beginning in front and no end in rear. The trucks were all filled with soldiers.
Lao Zhang, Zhang Yalan, Gao Maolin, and other prisoners all watched the huge motorcade silently.
In Area A of the Army Prison, Lin Xiu was lying alone in her cell silently. There was a smile on her face, as if she was listening to the silence outside.
A few days later, a million-strong army crossed the river.
The People's Liberation Army troops who rushed into the city quickly took over the Army Prison. They were surprised that there was only one female prisoner in the huge Area A. Her cell was filled with the smell of decay, and the female prisoner was already dying.
Another thing they found strange was that all the remaining prisoners had files. Only this female prisoner didn't have a file, and no one knew what her name was, where she was from, or what was at stake here. What the troops who took over the Army Prison could do
The only thing was to take her to the local hospital.
Lin Xiu stayed in this hospital for half a year. However, during this period, the troops who sent the female patient to the hospital had already moved south, and the Military Control Commission that took over Nanjing was also constantly changing people. Later, people from the hospital went to the Military Control Commission to inquire
I tried several times to figure out how to deal with this female patient. It turned out that no one in the Military Control Commission knew what was going on with this female patient.
Six months later, the hospital sent Lin Xiu to a welfare home in the suburbs of Nanjing. It was a very simple and remote welfare home. Lin Xiu lay on a broken bamboo bed in the corner for three years and became skinny and skinny.
, with sunken eye sockets. Until one day, Li Yunlin found her here.
She asked in an extremely weak voice: "Do you know where the prisoners in the army prison went?"
This was probably the only reason that kept her alive.
The prisoners in the army prison were standing on the truck at this time, excitedly and anxiously watching the long line of trucks, not knowing where they would be sent.
Just two hours ago, the vanguard troops sent by Wang Zhenqing had quietly arrived at the ferry terminal. They surrounded the guard company of the 20th Army and disarmed them almost without firing a shot.
Seven or eight ferries were docked at the pier. But it took two hours to find the boatman. By the time Wang Zhenqing's team arrived at the ferry pier, all the ferries had turned on their lights and started their machines.
When Wang Zhenqing and Du Ziyuan arrived at the dock in his jeep, his troops had abandoned all vehicles and heavy weapons and were boarding the ferry one after another.
The decks of every ferry were filled with soldiers. Their helmets shone coldly like waves in the silver moonlight.
