Chapter 121: The Past
The current scene reminds me of the lines that Mr. Guo Degang said in a cross talk paragraph: At this moment, it rains outside the house, heavy rain inside the house, heavy rain outside the house, moderate rain inside the house, medium rain outside the house, light rain inside the house, sparse noise outside the house, ticking inside the house, and occasionally have to go outside to take shelter from the rain when the rain is heavy at home......
After the two of us put all the leaks in the house in the basin, I suddenly remembered something and asked, "Grandpa, are you the only one living in the house?"
This sentence made Grandpa fall into a long contemplation, sighed deeply, and stared out the window, deep and far, as if he had returned to the day he had been......
Grandfather's name Yang Huaien, eighteen years old in his prime, joined the People's Liberation Army when he was in high spirits, determined in his heart to protect his family and defend the country, and grew up with him in the same village.
Unexpectedly, not long after, the Korean War broke out.
The People's Volunteers responded to the party's call to rush to the Korean battlefield, and Grandpa Yang Huaien also became one of them. Knowing that his brother was going to the Korean battlefield, Tian Xiao'e took the initiative to ask Ying to become a member of the logistics force of the Volunteer Army!
Grandpa Yang Huaien remembers the scene vividly:
"That day, I told Xiao'e that I was going to the Korean battlefield to win glory for the country!"
Xiao'e did not hesitate to support me and said: "Brother En, defending the family and defending the country is the true character of a man, and it is the responsibility and obligation of our soldiers, at this moment, we must not retreat, let alone be timid, we must use our sense of responsibility, mission, and justice to defend the dignity of the country!"
"Xiao'e, I'm afraid I can't ......" I was about to say something, but Xiao'e stopped me by covering my mouth with her hand.
"Brother En, I know what you want to say! You can go, don't worry about me, in Xiao'e's heart, there is only Brother En, although we don't have the name of husband and wife, you are always the only person you love in Xiao'e's heart! I will continue to support your decision!"
"You just have to remember that no matter when, there is always someone who loves you and remembers you!"
"You just have to remember that no matter what time it is, you will always be my stupid brother!"
"You just have to remember that no matter when, I will always be the little one who loves you behind you......"
"When you return, it will be the day we are married. ”
The two of us talked for a long, long time, talking about the present, about life, about the future, and about the tomorrow we looked forward to.
......
"However, Xiao'e didn't say that day, she was unwilling to let me go from the bottom of her heart, her worries were the same as mine, she was afraid that I would have an accident on the battlefield, but, in comparison, she was even more reluctant to let me give up the pursuit in my heart. ”
"At that time, I was still stupidly full of hope for the knot after the triumph, and I felt excited to marry Xiao'e, but what I didn't expect was that this time I was separated forever ......"
Speaking of this, Grandpa Yang Huaien couldn't help sobbing a few times, and wiped the tears that jumped out of his eyes with his sleeve.
"Grandpa Yang, what happened then?" I disturbed Grandpa Yang's sadness with sadness.
"On the second day, when we went to North Korea, the family members and lovers of my comrades-in-arms came to see her off, and I eagerly looked for her in the crowd, how I hoped that she could come to see me off, look at me, even if it was to let me see her for the last time, just look at her!"
"Just one glance!"
"However, I never saw her, and this incident once became a regret at the beginning of my trip!"
"I used to make countless excuses for her in my heart, but the only thing I didn't expect was that she actually came to the battlefield in North Korea with me behind my back!"
"She knows I won't let her come, she knows what she's going to face when she comes to the battlefield!"
But she told me that she couldn't bear me to come to the battlefield alone, and that she wanted to accompany me, and joked that it was called a husband and a wife. Speaking of this, Grandpa Yang also showed a happy smile like a virgin.
Even though I wanted to criticize her violently, I was very reluctant to see her coquettish in front of me. Now that the matter has come to this, what is the use of criticism?
"Xiao'e is running on the battlefield with the army medical staff and the large army, and the degree of danger is naturally needless to say. ”
"I thought that after the baptism of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Civil War, our volunteers were full of confidence, firm will to fight, and high enthusiasm for fighting. ”
However, the Korean battlefield was more brutal than anyone could have imagined.
It is said to be a war, but in fact it is a "logistical support" that has been fought. I have to sigh at the absolute superiority of the US military in logistics supply support, and at the same time give full play to this part of the advantage on the battlefield!
During the truce, you can see through telescopes from a distance that the U.S. military can eat fresh meat products, vegetables, luncheon meat, biscuits, and even salads, coffee, juices, and chewing gum that we have never seen before......
The most unacceptable thing is that American soldiers can eat ice cream that we have never heard of on the battlefield where the war is raging and the wind and smoke are filled!!
Know what we eat?
Fried noodles, potatoes, and occasionally compressed biscuits!
None of the comrades-in-arms complained, we all know what our mission here is!
"Fried noodles, fried noodles with eggs?" I asked, stupidly.
"Hehe, grandpa's fried noodles at that time are completely different from the fried noodles in the noodle restaurant now, it is fried corn and soybeans and ground into flour. When eating, you can eat it with hot water or stir well, which is similar to the current sesame paste, but the taste is not comparable. ”
"Mainly because it is easy to eat, easy to preserve, and extremely low cost, it quickly became a natural field food for volunteers. ”
"Except for food, that's the water source. ”
"Fried noodles, potatoes, and compressed biscuits are all very dry, and if there is no water to assist them, they will not be able to swallow them at all when they take the third bite! Needless to say, the hardships in summer are not mentioned, and in winter, it is the most contradictory place for our front-line soldiers. ”
"Winter in North Korea is very cold, snow-capped, and mountains are all over the country! Most of us use a handful of snow with a handful of fried noodles to satisfy our hunger. ”
"In order not to expose the position of the position, and not to allow enemy bombers to bomb the position, we must not light a fire, let alone melt the snow and boil it into hot water to drink. ”
"Of course, this is what makes the fighters most conflicted. ”
"Because--we don't have cotton clothes for the winter! We can't make a fire to keep warm! Although we have snow when winter comes, this natural water source satisfies the desire for satiety, but the comrades-in-arms are so cold that they can't even pull the bolt of the gun!"
Grandpa Yang choked up for a while, and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
"Then why is it so hard? Isn't there a logistical support to send water and food to the battlefield?" I asked, a little puzzled.
"Child, you must know that in the early days of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Volunteers did not have air supremacy at all, let alone fighter planes, and they did not even have an intact air defense gun! Either they were ordinary mountain guns with insufficient firing range; or they were captured and damaged air defense guns, and before we could take aim, the US fighter planes had already blown up all the logistics supply lines and logistics materials, and the comrades-in-arms were starving, so they could only accumulate snow with fried noodles!"
"The U.S. military is well-equipped and has full logistical supplies, but our logistical supplies are much worse, and even three meals a day cannot be guaranteed, more often than not, one meal a day or one meal every two days or one meal every three days!"
"Seeing that the comrades-in-arms who came together fell in front of us one after another, and seeing that the number of combatants in our large army was getting fewer and fewer, and the number of combat casualties was increasing, we were all very sad! Many comrades-in-arms were not killed by the enemy, but were starved to death!
"Whew-war is too cruel......" I exhaled heavily, deeply infected by the story of Grandpa Yang's personal experience and the atmosphere created, and the heaviness in my heart was indescribable.
"Yes, child, how can I know that peace is not easy to come by without the devastation of war? ”
"Grandpa, what happened later? I remember that the book recorded that we won a complete victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea!" I continued.
"Yes, in the later period, with the further development of the war, we have gradually established a logistics support system, the supply of materials has improved in an all-round way, and there is no problem with food and clothing. Moreover, we have discovered in the course of a protracted war that the US military is not invincible, and their will to fight is far less strong than we imagined! When they encounter insufficient logistical support, they naturally believe that the war cannot continue, and their will to fight is much less negative!
"But at this time, it has reached the final stage of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea......
"Ahem!"
Grandpa Yang paused, coughed a few times and adjusted his choked tone, and continued: "Yes, the war was won, but all my comrades-in-arms have left me! The deceased has passed away, but who would have thought that how the living can continue, how can they survive in this world with peace of mind?"
"Every night when I sleep, I can always dream of my comrades-in-arms, my brothers, they smile and say to me, Huai'en, live well, we all look at you!
"Seeing them sacrifice by my side one by one, dying in a foreign land, I always wake up crying in my dreams, shouting loudly, brothers, don't go, don't go! I miss you too!"
"Woohoo......!"
Grandpa Yang, Yang Huaien, a volunteer soldier who once participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, cried loudly in front of me, and the old tears were all over the place!
Grandpa Yang cried for a while before stopping, his comrades-in-arms are still like this, let alone his family, and how should they live?
"There were more than 360,000 casualties among our volunteer soldiers on the Korean battlefield, which is still a very conservative number......
"What about Grandma Xiao'e, how is she?" I asked as I saw my grandfather slowly recovering.
One night, the moon was round.
As soon as the battle ended, everyone rested in the trenches.
Xiao'e suddenly came to me and said that she had found a good place to rest. So, while my comrades-in-arms were asleep, I followed Xiao'e to a cave not far from the position, which was just enough to accommodate three or four people to enter, and I could see the direction of our position by poking my head out.
Xiao'e took out a cloth bag from her body and carefully unfolded it, it turned out to be a potato that I didn't know where to find it, and it was cooked!
I saw Xiao'e smile and said to me, "Brother En, this is the ...... I specially left for you."
I would like to present this article as a gift for the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea!