After traveling all night, the barge arrived at Yongjiang Pier in Nanning City at 10 a.m. the next day. The team took a short supply break and then transferred to two large trucks. After walking for a long time, Fengchen Pupu arrived at the xx Labor Camp Preparatory Headquarters.

At that time, the prison system of New China had not yet taken shape, and there was no such thing as team management of co-defendants or prisoners who knew each other. Therefore, just like the army divided new recruits in the past, these prisoners from Pingxiang were registered one by one and underwent a simple physical examination, and then were all transported by truck.

Pulled to the fifth farm brigade about three kilometers away from the headquarters, which will be the future field headquarters.

While in Nanning, Wei Bizai had been loosened, but the handcuffs were still not opened.

After jumping out of the truck, his hands were finally free. While doing chest expansion exercises to stretch his muscles, he carefully observed his "new home" and found that it didn't look like a prison at all.

There is no wall, only a ring of barbed wire surrounding a few rows of wooden houses and a small square overgrown with weeds. It seems that his first job while serving his sentence here was to pull weeds, build a wall, and build a house.

Dinner was sweet potatoes, corn and minced meat stir-fried with sauerkraut. Although it was a little shabby, what Wei Bi didn't expect was that just like on the way here, all the prison guards ate exactly the same food as the prisoners. Even several brigade leaders also

No special treatment.

This made Wei Bizai, who had served in the Kuomintang army for many years, find it incredible that the food treatment for officers and soldiers was completely different.

It was getting late, so several prison guards brought some dry firewood and lit several bonfires around the square.

After Wei Bi finished eating with the other prisoners, she was ordered by the prison guards to line up in the small square and collectively received a lecture from the team leader, Li Jinhui, who led the team to escort the prisoners in Pingxiang and took up their posts on the spot.

Wei Bizai was not in the mood to listen to Li Jinhui's speech, so he lit up the fire and looked around to count the heads. It was estimated that there were more than 200 prisoners in his brigade and about 30 prison guards.

Li Jinhui talked non-stop for more than an hour before the conference ended. Then, the prisoners were chased away like ducks by the prison guards who were also not used to their new identities. They were divided into groups of ten and rushed into wooden rooms that were lit with kerosene lamps.

In the group, self-criticism is carried out in small groups by sitting on the edge of a wooden bed. Each group has a prison guard responsible for supervision and recording.

Wei Bi was very happy to hear the inmates in the same group express their "blood and tears of self-control" about their crimes. It would be okay for Qing Sheng to be the least guilty person among this group of people, but he was definitely the key target of education.

Some of these people were bandits who stole someone else's daughter-in-law, some were servants of local landlords who accidentally beat poor peasants to death, and all of them were small reactionaries who committed serious crimes but had a good attitude of admitting their guilt, or who had performed meritorious service such as betraying their teammates and could not escape the death penalty.

One of the young bandits, Wei Bizai, was still acquainted with him and was a distant relative of his. However, the two of them had a tacit understanding and pretended not to know each other from the moment they met in Pingxiang.

Among this group of prisoners, only Wei Bi was there. Because of his status as the division commander and adjutant of the National Revolutionary Army, he was caught here. He was considered the prisoner with the highest official position in this room.

Wei Bi was unlucky. On the evening of April 20, 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army launched a cross-river campaign. A million-strong army crossed the Yangtze River and advanced toward the southern provinces. It was almost a foregone conclusion that Taiwan would be the final foothold for the remnants of the Kuomintang.

Bai Chongxi, a Guilin native who was then "Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Presidential Office of the Republic of China" and "Commander-in-Chief of the Central China Bandit Suppression Headquarters", personally ordered a group of outstanding young officers from Guangxi to go to Taiwan in order to cultivate forces in Taiwan to counter Chiang Kai-shek.

Keep your footing, Wei Bizai is one of them.

But this kid wanted to go to Taiwan to say goodbye to his family in person, so he stuffed a handful of silver dollars into the division commander's hands. After getting the division commander's private permission, he sneaked alone from Nanning, where the troops were temporarily stationed, back to his hometown in Pingxiang on the Sino-Vietnamese border. As a result, he was discovered by the revolutionary masses in the town.

Although he was wearing casual clothes at the time, who in the town didn't know that he was a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy and the secretary to the division commander of the elite National Revolutionary Army? His father had publicized this fact everywhere and wished he could have his deeds engraved on the stone tablet in the ancestral hall.

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Our party's guerrillas operating in the local area heard the news, went to the Wei family mansion in the middle of the night, knocked out the servants standing guard, and easily took away Wei Bizai, who was drunk and sleeping soundly.

On December 11, 1949, the Fourth Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army planted the red flag on Zhennanguan (now Youyiguan, Pingxiang City), marking the successful liberation of the entire territory of Guangxi. Wei Biyu was handed over to the Fourth Field by the guerrillas the next day.

The People's Liberation Army suspected that he had been ordered to come back to recruit local bandits, so they interrogated him severely. Of course, nothing was revealed except his true identity.

The leaders saw that Wei Bizai was a talented person and asked him if he would like to join the People's Liberation Army. However, Wei Bizai was a die-hard fan of Bai Chongxi and was also afraid that the military secret agents would secretly retaliate against him and his family, so he refused to agree.

After the leaders gathered together, they decided to send him to prison to suffer some hardships and beat him up before proceeding.

At that time, Wei Bi had only one thought in her mind, to escape and go to Taiwan with Bai Chongxi to enjoy life. Master said, if a single and high-quality young man like him goes to Taiwan where beauties are everywhere, then he shouldn't live among flowers all day long?

He was very confident of escaping because he knew that someone in the family was already paying attention to this matter.

Despite this, on the barge by the Zuo River, when the conceited Wei Bi discovered a cardboard shell under her butt, she took it upon herself to take advantage of the darkness of the night and quietly pulled some cardboard and folded it into a long triangular strip, loosening it.

He opened the handcuffs and planned to pretend to ask to urinate on the side of the boat after the boat sailed, and then jump into the river to escape.

It's a pity that Li Jinhui targeted him out of nowhere...

In the simple cell, when everyone finished scolding themselves, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and there was no time to scold others. So the prison guard ordered everyone to choose their own beds and prepare to wash up and rest.

Wei Bizai secretly winked at her distant relative, and the two silently chose a position close to each other.

There are some simple daily necessities on the wooden bed covered with light yellow straw mats, as well as a set of clothes and trousers that are similar in style to the summer military uniforms of the People's Liberation Army but made of black and gray fabrics, a set of off-white trousers, a vest, a pair of black cloth shoes, and a straw braid.

Pillow and a thin quilt.

After picking up her towel, basin, soap, toothbrush and other daily necessities, Wei Bi and her fellow inmates went to a row of large water tanks not far from the door to wash themselves under the supervision of prison guards.

After he washed his face and feet, he wanted to go to the toilet. After asking around, he found out that the toilet had not been built yet. There was a small ditch dug randomly about ten meters away from the water tank. The ditch was already filled with stench. Wei Bi was walking

I used to go in and think to myself, well, I don’t know which groups are unlucky. They have to dig holes to build toilets tomorrow. Also, it seems that there is no place to take a bath here. I don’t know when I can take a bath?
Chapter completed!