Lao Tzu is also a person who has been a soldier, and we have never seen any formation. Life and death, isn't that what it is!

- Second Uncle Quotes

One

When the second uncle was a soldier, it was the honeymoon period of the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. The Red Army's Long March triumphantly reached northern Shaanxi, and its ranks began to grow continuously. When the Japanese drove straight into Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, and other big cities one after another, and at a time when the country was in peril, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party decided to cooperate for the second time and unanimously with the outside world after negotiations. As a result, the former Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army.

In order to resist Japan, the Eighth Route Army sent small units to go deep behind enemy lines to establish anti-Japanese revolutionary base areas. All the way, they drove to the hinterland of Shandong and Hebei and launched a vigorous anti-Japanese movement. At that time, the Kuomintang troops were also arranged around these borders, that is, there were three armed forces coexisting at the same time - the Japanese, the Kuomintang troops, and the ranks of the Eighth Route Army. The situation was a little chaotic, and the Eighth Route Army took advantage of this chaos to open up a base area.

My father and second uncle were soldiers together at this time.

The Eighth Route Army came, drove the team to the village vigorously, and painted the famous slogan with white lime on the earthen wall of the village - carry out the anti-Japanese resistance to the end!

Next, the Eighth Route Army mobilized the young students in Zhuangli to sign up for the army.

That year, my father was seventeen years old and my second uncle was fifteen. Sixteen or seventeen-year-old half-grown children can be regarded as young children. They became the targets of the Eighth Route Army, and first the people of the Women's Relief Society found the brothers.

The director of the Women's Rescue Association is Zhao Xiaohua, the daughter-in-law of Liu Er of Zhuangshang. Liu Er became a platoon commander in the county brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhao Xiaohua was not idle, she was enthusiastic about the revolution, she was an activist who supported the army, and later became the director of the Women's Rescue Association. Mobilizing young people to join the army is the main work of the Women's Relief Society.

That day, Zhao Xiaohua led a female soldier of the Eighth Route Army to find her father and second uncle.

My father and second uncle were basking in the sun under the wall.

The weather in early spring, everything is lazy and the sun shines well. While basking in the sun, my father and second uncle reached out to catch lice in their clothes, caught one, and threw it away, like playing a game.

Zhao Xiaohua and the female warrior blew in front of their father and second uncle like a gust of wind.

Father and second uncle are two brothers who depend on each other, grandpa died early, and soon after the second uncle was born, grandpa died of a cold. Grandma relied on odd jobs for large families, dragging her father and second uncle, and lived a miserable life.

When my father was ten years old, my second uncle was eight years old, and my grandmother was no longer good. Another wind and cold disease made my grandmother sick for more than half a year, and finally ran out of oil and dried up, and fell headlong in the yard. At first, the 10-year-old father and the 9-year-old second uncle had to beg for food. At that time, the Japanese had not yet come, and the days were quite peaceful, and it was not difficult to beg for a stutter for a day of travel. After a few years, when they were able to work, they left their begging bowls and started working as part-time workers. Life can go on.

In early spring, the day of planting is approaching. My father and second uncle recuperated in the sun, ready to do a great job in the spring season.

Zhao Xiaohua and the female soldiers of the Eighth Route Army stood in front of the two people, Zhao Xiaohua pursed her lips and said to her father and second uncle with a smile: Two stones, bask in the sun.

My father didn't have a big name, and neither did my second uncle, so when I was born, my grandmother called my father a big stone, and my second uncle called a small stone.

In front of the living, the father and the second uncle were a little embarrassed. looked at the female warrior behind Zhao Xiaohua with a virtual look, and the faces of his father and second uncle turned red.

Zhao Xiaohua looked at the two people and continued: This is a comrade of the Eighth Route Army, a clerk in the regiment, called Shuqin.

The female warrior Shuqin glanced at the two stones, and for some reason her face turned slightly red. She is the same age as her father and second uncle, that is, fifteen or sixteen years old.

Zhao Xiaohua squatted down and said as if singing: Two stones, join the army to resist Japan, right? Liu Er of my family is on the team, drive the Japanese devils out, and we will live a peaceful life.

At this time, the second uncle asked indistinctly: Does the Eighth Route Army manage the rice?

Zhao Xiaohua hurriedly said: Of course, how can you resist Japan if you don't eat.

The second uncle said again: Do you wear it?

Zhao Xiaohua glanced at the female soldier Shuqin behind her and said: Look at the Eighth Route Army, aren't the clothes well-dressed, how energetic.

The second uncle swallowed his saliva fiercely, and his heart was eager to try.

It was still his father who was calm and sophisticated, he stabbed the second uncle on the side with his arm, looked at Zhao Xiaohua and the female warrior virtually, and then bit his lip and said: In this way, you let the two of us think about it.

Zhao Xiaohua said: That's okay. You two stones, just think about it, one person can join the army, two people join the army, and the Eighth Route Army is welcomed with both hands.

With that, he led the female warrior away with a smile.

The father watched Shuqin's young figure disappear from his sight, and somewhere in his heart moved slightly, and moved again, and his heart was confused, and he couldn't figure it out.

The second uncle shouted: Brother, should we go or not?

My father's eyes were still blank. His spirit has been taken away by the female warrior Shuqin.

After a while, my father came back to his senses and said to the second uncle in a dry voice: Go, why don't you go.

The second uncle hesitated and said: If I can eat the bun, I will admit it.

My father and second uncle haven't eaten steamed buns for a long time. When I think of buns, the roots of my teeth are a little itchy.

Two days later, Zhao Xiaohua and the female warrior Shuqin appeared in front of her father and second uncle again.

Zhao Xiaohua asked as if singing: Two stones, have you thought about it?

The father turned around the second uncle twice with his hands behind his back, and raised his right hand as a parent: We have thought about it, become soldiers and join the Eighth Route Army.

When he said this, his eyes were firmly looking at the female warrior Shuqin behind Zhao Xiaohua.

More than ten years later, his father became the commander of the People's Liberation Army.

When the troops entered the city, he finally got his wish and married Shuqin. That's all for later.

Two

's father was a soldier for Shuqin, a female soldier of the Eighth Route Army. The second uncle went to join the army in order to eat steamed buns. Although both of them became soldiers, because their purposes were different, they had different results.

The second uncle, who had just become a soldier, did not eat the bun as he wished. At that time, the life of the Eighth Route Army was even more bitter than that of the common people, although it was a base area, but the Japanese devils came out of the stronghold twice in three days to sweep, some in autumn and some in spring. The spring sweep does not allow the people to plant crops, and the autumn naturally does not have a harvest. Without food, the Eighth Route Army would not be able to build a base area, and without a base area, the Eighth Route Army would have to get out. Even if the crops are planted, the Japanese still have autumn sweeps waiting for them. The Japanese snatched the ripe crops into the city, but they couldn't take them away, and they burned them down, and they didn't leave them for the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, the Eighth Route Army at that time had eaten the last meal but did not eat the next meal.

After my father and second uncle joined the army, the first meal they ate was boiled wild vegetables in clear water. A large pot in the field, steaming wild vegetables. When the time came for the meal, the officers and men of the Eighth Route lined up, regardless of their positions, put a bowl of wild vegetables with soup and water in front of the pot, squatted on the ground, and ate and drank the soup in a sucking manner.

The second uncle was holding a bowl of wild vegetables, and his face turned green. He looked at his father sadly and said, "Brother, why don't you have a bun?"

My father said, "You can eat it as you go, and you don't have any bread to eat at home."

Although his father was not satisfied with eating wild vegetables, he still had a spiritual support. His spiritual pillar is Shuqin, the clerk of the regiment headquarters. At that time, my father's head was pulled like a rattle by Shuqin's figure.

The second uncle has no spiritual support in his heart, and his life is miserable.

Because of his young age when he joined the army, and because he was seriously malnourished since he was a child, although he was fifteen years old, he didn't look much different from a twelve- or thirteen-year-old child. As soon as he enlisted in the army, he was sent to the regimental headquarters to raise horses.

The regiment headquarters had several horses, including the regiment commander and the political commissar, and of course the deputy regiment commander and the chief of staff also had horses, adding up to four or five. The second uncle became a stableman. When he first joined the army, he didn't have a military uniform, but everyone was issued a hat of the Eighth Route Army, and when he wore it on his head, he had a military symbol. The hat is big, and the second uncle's head is small, so it looks a little funny.

The second uncle ate wild vegetables, fed the horses, and was worried all day long. When he was fine, he went to his father. At that time, my father was a soldier in the combat squad, and he had a gun in his hand, which was an artillery, and I don't know which farmer's house it was requisitioned, and it was badly damaged, and the surface of the gun was rusty. When my father had nothing to do, he took a cloth of unclear color and wiped the old gun.

As soon as the second uncle found his father, he pointed to his stomach and said: Brother, I can't stand it anymore, I pee all day long, and I can't walk. I can't stand this soldier anymore.

My father rolled his eyelids and said, "Little stone, what do you want to do?"

The second uncle was silent, sighed for a long time, and his face was green and sad.

Soon after, the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang troops held a meeting.

Since the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated, the troops of the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang were called friendly troops, and they were all stationed in the same territory, and from time to time they would ventilate and study the current war situation and situation together.

In this way, the second uncle accompanied the leaders of the Eighth Route Army, of course, and the people of the guard class, and went to the Kuomintang camp. Because he had to take care of the horses, he went with him to the meeting.

This was the first time that the second uncle walked into the Kuomintang camp. As soon as he walked in, his two eyes were not enough, and he was so neat to see what other people were wearing and using, he was so envious in his heart. In my heart, I said to myself: Look at other people, this is like an army.

Because of the meeting, the Kuomintang entertained the Eighth Route Army and his party for dinner. The leaders of the Eighth Route Army accompanied the Kuomintang officers to sit in the house and eat, with wine and meat. The second uncle and several guards were also entertained in the courtyard. There was a large iron basin with vegetables and a basket of steamed buns. The bun was snow-white and snow-white, and the second uncle almost stretched out his eyeballs after eating. My stomach was so swollen that I was almost walking sideways.

Just because of this meal, the fate of the second uncle was changed.

When he returned to the second uncle of the Eighth Route Army, his soul was lost. He told his father a thousand times about the meal with steamed buns and vegetables, and while he drooled, he said to his father: "Oh, look at what people eat and use, and then look at us."

The second uncle couldn't swallow the bowl full of wild vegetables.

He couldn't stop reminiscing about the meal that haunted him.

He finally made up his mind to leave the Eighth Route Army. He thinks so, they are all anti-Japanese troops, where is it not anti-Japanese? If you can eat steamed buns and wear good clothes, won't the anti-Japanese momentum be greater?

So, late one night, taking advantage of his father's job, he found his father.

He said, "Brother, are you still standing guard?"

The father replied: You don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing here?

The second uncle hesitated for a long time, and finally said: Brother, you put the gun here, you and I should go to the Kuomintang.

The father's eyes widened and he looked at the second uncle aggressively in the dark night.

The second uncle said: Look at what I'm doing, it's weird and scary. If you don't go, I can go.

You are not allowed to go.

The second uncle was still bending over to speak at first, but when he saw his father say this, he simply straightened his waist and said what he had thought of: Brother, you heard me say that the Eighth Route Army resisted Japan, and the Kuomintang also resisted Japan. If you don't go, I'll go by myself.

After speaking, the second uncle bowed his waist and walked into the dark night.

My father shouted, "Little stone, you come back to me."

The second uncle replied without replying: Brother, I won't reply. If you don't worry about me, go with me.

Father is not leaving, and there is still his spiritual pillar Shuqin. He was hardened and was not going anywhere.

My father said, "Little stone, if you don't come back, I'll shoot."

When the second uncle heard his father's words, he bent his waist lower. He bent his waist and galloped forward. He knew that his father would not shoot, that his father and mother died early, and that the brothers had grown so big with the top of the pack that they regarded each other as their only relatives.

The father looked at the second uncle who was gradually moving away, and tears blurred his vision.

Early the next morning, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters knew that the little stone feeding the horse had deserted. The Eighth Route Army has a principle, being a soldier to resist Japan is completely voluntary, leaving as soon as you go, coming when you come, and not forcing it.

After a short career in the Eighth Route Army, the second uncle plunged into the Kuomintang troops and became the groom of the commander of the Fifth Division of the Kuomintang Jizhong Division.

Three

The second uncle, who was born thin, seems to be only worthy of being a groom. When he participated in the Eighth Route Army, he worked as a groom for the Eighth Route Army, came to the Kuomintang troops, and worked as a groom for Division Commander Yan.

The Fifth Division of the Kuomintang was stationed in a large family, with many houses, two courtyards in front and back, and the office and accommodation of Division Commander Yan were in this courtyard. Master Yan is a person with a strong sense of family, no matter whether he is marching or fighting, he always takes his family with him. At this time, Master Yan was no exception. He has two wives, the original spouse and the partial house. The original match is naturally older, and it seems to have been brought out of the countryside of his hometown, and he dresses and speaks a little rustic. Needless to say, the young and beautiful appearance of the partial house looks very Western. Master Yan is very good to the side room, and he always likes to sit in the side room and talk for a while. But the second uncle found that Master Yan was also very affectionate to his daughter Xiaowan and the child who suffered from polio. Xiaowan can't say that she is beautiful, nor is she ugly, she looks like an ordinary little girl. Xiao Wan looked like she was fifteen or sixteen years old, because she had polio and had some difficulty walking, so she stayed in the house for a long time, or stood at the window and looked out. The second uncle saw Xiaowan through the window.

Master Yan came to see Xiaowan every day, holding hands and taking Xiaowan out of the house. Xiao Wan crutches her legs, swayed behind Master Yan, and walked around the courtyard. This may be the happiest time of the day for Master Yan and Xiao Wan.

Since joining the Kuomintang team, the second uncle finally got his wish to eat steamed buns, although steamed buns are not eaten every day, but compared to the food of the Eighth Route Army, it is already heaven and earth. Every meal has vegetables and food, and there is still oil in the dishes, which is enough to make the second uncle happy for a while.

The second uncle is Master Yan's groom, so he is naturally the person who works next to Master Yan. Master Yan has many staff around him, such as cooks, guards, drivers, grooms, and so on.

Master Yan usually takes a car, a four-wheeled car, which buzzes and runs faster than a horse. But a car is a car after all, and it is difficult to move an inch without a road. Therefore, Master Yan not only had cars, but also horses. A tall and sturdy jujube red horse, waiting for Master Yan to ride at any time.

Although the second uncle works beside Master Yan, his status is still the lowest one, and those cooks, guards, and drivers don't take the second uncle seriously at all. Not only because he was born skinny, but mainly because of his identity - a groom. A groom is a groom, and in any case it cannot be compared to a driver. Every time he eats, others are sitting, he can only squat, hold a bowl of rice, pour some vegetable soup in the rice, and eat it with a sigh. After eating, the second uncle with the empty bowl was not in a hurry to leave, and he had a pair of small eyes, looking at this and that. He was waiting for someone else to eat the leftovers. When the people put down the bowl and left, he rushed over and pulled all the leftovers into his bowl. After a gust of wind, he burped and put down the empty bowl.

The second uncle has never eaten a full meal since he remembered. The second uncle was hungry and afraid, and he wanted to be well fed and eaten, so he defected to the Kuomintang troops. Although I am angry here, I can occasionally eat steamed buns. It can be said that the second uncle is happy.

The second uncle's job is mainly to feed and walk the horses. Horses are war horses, they are full of food and drink, and if they don't take a walk, they will waste their leg strength. When the second uncle walked the horse, the second uncle was in front and the horse was behind, and the thin second uncle ran like a mouse being chased by a cat, which looked very ridiculous. The second uncle sometimes rode on horseback and whipped the horse. The second uncle is no stranger to horses and cows since he was a child, and he has a natural affinity for them. After all, Master Yan's horse is a war horse, running with the sound of the wind, and it looks very magnificent.

The second uncle had never seen a horse running so fast. He put his arms around the horse's neck, put his face on the horse's mane, and let the horse gallop forward. The horses are running around, and their leg strength is growing day by day.

After walking the horse, the second uncle took a turn in the yard, swept here and picked up there. The second uncle's nature is to work hard, and he can't be idle. Sometimes he passed by the window where Xiaowan was standing by the window. He glanced at Xiao Wan, who was pale, and immediately closed his gaze, and his heart was pounding for a while, so he went to busy with his own business again.

One day, Xiaowan suddenly pushed the window open and shouted to him: Hey, feed the horses.

At first, the second uncle didn't react, raised his eyes, and looked at Xiao Wan suspiciously.

Xiaowan said: Don't call you anyone, do you see that there are others in this yard?

The second uncle tilted his head and looked left and right, and sure enough, there was no one else.

Xiaowan asked him: Feed the horse, where are you from?

The second uncle replied in a trembling voice: Zhao, Zhao Zhuang's.

Xiao Wan pursed her lips and looked the second uncle up and down. She naturally didn't know Zhao Zhuang, she just asked, the lonely Xiaowan needed someone to accompany her, so she locked the object of companionship on the second uncle. She glanced at the second uncle again, a sneer flashed at the corner of her mouth, and then said: You stand there and don't move, wait for me.

Xiao Wan limped out of the house.

The sun outside was so good that Xiao Wan even squinted her eyes. The second uncle saw Xiao Wan's eyes squinting like this, it was still very good-looking. The second uncle's mood was a little happy, he looked at Xiaowan with wide eyes, not knowing what she was going to do.

Xiao Wan ordered: Take me out for a walk.

Xiao Wan is the daughter of Master Yan, and what Xiao Wan says is an order.

The second uncle didn't dare to slack off, so he accompanied Xiaowan out for a walk.

They went out of the courtyard of the division headquarters and went to the town. There are more soldiers in the town than ordinary people, some patrolling, some loitering, Xiaowan asked the second uncle to take her directly outside the town.

There is a small river outside the town, and the willows hang low on the riverbank, and there is still some scenery.

Xiao Wan looked very happy. She asked the second uncle to go down to the river to touch the fish for her, and the second uncle touched it in the river in real and fake. Sure enough, the second uncle really touched two small fish that were inches long. This time, Xiao Wan was even happier, snorting her voice and cheering for a while.

It wasn't until the sun was about to set that Xiaowan asked the second uncle to send her back.

They returned to the courtyard of the division headquarters, only to find that Division Commander Yan was firing at the guards. The reason is that Xiao Wan is gone, and the guards can't tell where Xiao Wan is going. At this moment, the second uncle came back with Xiaowan.

Master Yan, who had a false alarm, was naturally overjoyed, took Xiao Wan's hand, looked up and down, and didn't find any damage, so he let go of his hanging heart.

Seeing his daughter's happy appearance, Master Yan was also happy in his heart. He is such a daughter, although she walks a little crutches, but after all, she is her own flesh and blood.

In the end, Master Yan realized that Xiaowan's happiness was brought by the second uncle, and he took the second uncle seriously for the first time. Since the second uncle walked into this courtyard, he hadn't seriously looked at the second uncle.

Master Yan's gaze made every hair of the second uncle stand up. He didn't dare to breathe.

Master Yan looked at the second uncle harshly, and then waved his hand and said: After you take care of the horse in the future, you will come to accompany Xiaowan.

Since then, the second uncle has one more task. After he finished walking the horse, he came to accompany Xiaowan.

The second uncle has been in contact with Xiaowan for a long time, and he finds that Xiaowan is quite pitiful. Since she contracted polio at the age of three, she has rarely had the opportunity to get out of the house. At first, she lived in the countryside with her mother, and it wasn't until her father became the head of the regiment that she brought her mother and son out next, and then she fought in the south and the north and hid in Tibet. It can also be said that Xiaowan has not lived a good life for a few days since she was a child.

Xiaowan also said that every time her father led the team to fight, she and her mother would burn incense for her father day and night, begging him to come back safely. It wasn't until her father stood in front of them again that she and her mother let go of their hearts.

Because of this, Xiaowan developed a nervous and suspicious problem. She asked her second uncle to take her out to play, and when she didn't like it, she lost her temper at her second uncle. The second uncle didn't understand why Xiao Wan was angry at him.

The second uncle endured every time in the face of Xiao Wan's anger, and he had no choice but to endure. As soon as Xiaowan got angry, the second uncle thought, it's not easy for her. Bear with it, and it's over.

Although Xiaowan was angry, the next day, she still asked her second uncle to take her out.

The second uncle sometimes brought Ma and Xiaowan out together. He let Xiaowan ride on the horse, he led the horse, walked here, looked there.

As soon as Xiao Wan got on the horse, she couldn't see anything wrong with her. The second uncle looked at Xiaowan on the horse, and thought to himself: The little girl just has some problems with her legs, except for her legs, she is still very good.

The second uncle thought so, so he swallowed his saliva fiercely.

The second uncle, who has eaten a full meal, is no longer so thin, tall, and strong, and his face is still a little flushed. The previous clothes were worn on the body, and they were already clearly one size smaller.

The second uncle has become a standard young man. He had already seen this in Xiao Wan's eyes. He noticed that Xiao Wan was always wandering when she looked at him.

The second uncle has a story with Xiaowan.

Four

The story is naturally related to war.

The 5th Division of Jizhong fought with a Japanese wing for a while, but the battle was not successful. The Japanese surrounded the division headquarters of the Fifth Division, but in fact, the Japanese did not know that the division headquarters of the Fifth Division was completely a mistake by a small group of enemies, which led to such a defensive battle.

Division Commander Yan led the team to fight with the Japanese on the back mountain outside the town, leaving only two platoons of troops to protect the division headquarters, and the second uncle was also within the scope of protection, although the second uncle had been a soldier for two years, but he was a horseman, and he rarely even touched the gun. The job of fighting a war is not his turn at all.

The strength of the two platoons encountered a small group of Japanese devils who had entered the town. The gunfire was like a burst, and the **** of the Japanese fell outside the courtyard of the division headquarters and exploded. It's scary.

Before the gunshots rang out in the town, the second uncle was playing chess in the courtyard with Xiaowan. Chess is chess, the same chess that Commander Yan often played with his officers. Xiao Wan usually taught the second uncle to play chess when she was idle, and after three days, the second uncle accompanied Xiao Wan to play chess and accompany her to pass the loneliness.

Division Commander Yan led the troops to fight, and Xiaowan lit incense in the house as usual, and then asked the second uncle to accompany her to play chess. Listening to the faint sound of gunfire in the distance, the two of them played chess without a match. After all, the troops are fighting, Xiaowan is worried about her father, she is playing chess, and she says: The troops are coming back soon, and the battle should be over.

When she said so, the second uncle went to see the sky. At this time, the sun had already set in the west, and he had now learned to speak according to Xiao Wan's thoughts. So, he said: It's almost time, and Senior Commander Yan should come back with the team before dark.

The two men were talking in unison, when a dense burst of gunfire rang out in the town, and two shells exploded not far away. While the two of them were stunned, about a squad of soldiers rushed into the courtyard, and they came to greet the division commander's family to transfer.

A man who looked like a squad leader shouted at the second uncle: Mafu, don't take the division commander's horse quickly, the Japanese have entered the town.

The second uncle woke up. He immediately ran to the stable and pulled out the division commander's mount. Just when he looked around blankly, he saw the panicked Xiao Wan. Xiao Wan looked very helpless at that moment, at least the second uncle thought so.

The second uncle led the horse to escape, but he saw Xiao Wan at a glance, and without thinking too much, he decided to run with Xiao Wan. He said to Xiaowan: Get on the horse, I'll take you away.

Xiao Wan's mind was blank at this time. A squad of soldiers rushed in rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the division headquarters, and the retreat looked quite hectic. Xiao Wan didn't think much about it, and ran to the second uncle with her body up.

She was easily lifted to the horse by her second uncle.

At first, it was the second uncle who was running with the horse. As soon as they ran out of the division headquarters, they saw the devil, the devil was killing from the side of South Street, and more than a dozen guards and the second uncle were fighting and retreating to the north.

Immediately Xiao Wan was in a hurry. After all, Xiao Wan is the daughter of Master Yan, and she is well-informed, so she calmly shouted to her second uncle: Xiaoshi, get on the horse quickly.

The second uncle also reacted, turned over on his horse, hugged Xiaowan tightly, and ran towards the north with a whip.

The Japanese apparently spotted them as well, and while shooting at them, they chased after them.

The second uncle knelt down and used his body to protect Xiao Wan. The two men were almost lying on their horses.

The devil's bullet "whizzed" past them, hitting the dirt in front of them, and sending up a cloud of smoke and dust.

The division commander's war horse really went through the wind and rain, and he carried the second uncle and Xiaowan in one breath to leave the Japanese behind.

The horse finally ran into a wooded field before slowing down. The second uncle, who came to his senses, let the horse stand, jumped off the horse first, and then turned around to take Xiaowan off the horse. This startled her, Xiao Wan's face had long been bloodless.

She got off the horse and collapsed in the arms of her second uncle. The second uncle could only passively hug her. After a while, Xiao Wan let out a long breath, grabbed the second uncle's hand and said: Look at what scared me.

Her hand grabbed the second uncle's hand and pressed it on her chest. The second uncle felt her chest pounding like a small drum. In an instant, the second uncle's chest also sounded like a drum. This is the first time he has been in such close contact with the opposite sex, and he is the baby daughter of Master Yan. For a while, he was in a fog and didn't know what to do.

The love between the second uncle and Xiaowan was quietly born at this time.

When the two calmed down and saw each other's gestures, both blushed and let go of their hands at the same time.

Until the next morning, when the gunfire in the town calmed down, and there was no gunfire in the direction of the back mountain, the division commander's war horse carried two people and cautiously returned to the town.

Division Commander Yan had already led his men back to the town before this, and the guard platoon had stubbornly resisted and saved the division headquarters at the cost of more than a dozen dead. But Xiao Wan and the groom were nowhere to be found, and Master Yan was already in a hurry and was about to send someone to find Xiao Wan.

At this moment, Xiao Wan and the second uncle came back.

Xiao Wan threw herself into her father's arms, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

Master Yan, who has experienced a hundred battles, is not afraid of death or bloodshed, and the last thing he can see is his daughter's tears.

Xiao Wan and her father sighed for a while.

When Master Yan knew that the person who saved Xiaowan was the second uncle, Master Yan sighed again.

The next day, Division Commander Yan issued an order to promote the second uncle to the second lieutenant platoon commander.

The second uncle was promoted to platoon commander, which meant that he could no longer be a groom. He will leave the division headquarters and be sent to the regiment. The second uncle didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, but as a soldier, he could only obey orders.

The second uncle took the letter of appointment from the operational staff officer, and then went to say goodbye to Xiaowan.

When Xiao Wan heard that the second uncle was leaving, her face turned white. She looked at the second uncle in a daze: Little stone, you can't go.

The second uncle raised the letter of appointment in his hand: I have an order, and it was the division commander who let me go.

I'm going to my father. After Xiao Wan finished speaking, she went to the division headquarters with a pair of legs.

Master Yan didn't expect Xiao Wan to come to him for the appointment of the second uncle.

Master Yan realized something, and he paced around the room a few times with his hands behind his back. He loves Xiaowan, Xiaowan's illness is also his heart disease, she is eighteen years old, thinking of her life's events, Master Yan is anxious. Unexpectedly, Xiao Wan would intercede for a groom, it seems that Xiao Wan's feelings for this groom are not ordinary.

Master Yan has already begun to pay attention to the second uncle. The current second uncle is not handsome, but he is also dignified and has good facial features. At this time, Master Yan thought that if this groom named Xiaoshi could have something with Xiaowan, it might be a good result.

Division Commander Yan didn't think about it further, so he gave a new order to the second uncle, appointing the second uncle as the second lieutenant platoon commander of the division guard platoon, and at the same time taking care of the war horses.

In this way, the second uncle is a second-lieutenant stable.

Since then, his love affair with Xiaowan has been justified.

Five

People are matched with clothes and horses, and the second uncle wears the uniform of an officer of the national army, and the person is different all of a sudden, he is the second lieutenant platoon commander of the guard platoon of the division headquarters, and he has a demeanor.

Xiao Wan faced the new second uncle, and her heart was also full of flowers. Xiao Wan, who is nourished by love, is delicate and lovely, her dark eyes are shining, from the inside out, the whole person is like a stimulant.

She has a reason and more time to pester the second uncle and let the second uncle take her out to play.

The second uncle led the division commander's war horse, and Xiaowan sat on the horseback. Two people, one on a horse and one on a horse, slowly walked forward in the setting sun, leaving a pair of lyrical silhouettes.

When everyone saw it, they talked about the second uncle. The people who talked about the second uncle were all those young junior officers.

A company commander said: This little stone, Yan Fu is not shallow, and it actually soaked in the daughter of the division commander.

Another lieutenant said: Look, it won't be long before this kid will get a company commander or battalion commander to do it, what the fuck.

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The second uncle couldn't hear these discussions. The young officers were all respectful to him on the surface, but they were still sour when they spoke. When people saw the second uncle, they said: "Big platoon leader, when will you invite us to eat candy?"

The second uncle was stunned, he was not a particularly smart person, but he was not stupid. Xiao Wan is good to him, he knows it clearly, Xiao Wan has that meaning to him, and he is also like a mirror, but Xiao Wan has never said that she wants to marry him. From the second uncle's heart, if he can marry Xiaowan as his wife one day, it will be because of the smoke from his ancestral grave. Although Xiaowan's leg is disabled, she is the daughter of the teacher after all, and how can he be where he is today without the daughter of the teacher. The second uncle's account is still clearer than anyone else.

The second uncle is a person who looks at the present and also values the benefits, when he used to be a groom, the two months' military salary added up to only one ocean, and now he is the second lieutenant platoon commander, and the monthly military salary is three oceans. No wonder so many people want to be officials, only if they can be officials, can they make a fortune, the second uncle now finally knows that promotion and wealth are linked.

The love between the second uncle and Xiaowan, Master Yan has long seen it in his eyes. In these chaotic and turbulent days, Master Yan had a very worrying life, and Xiao Wan's leg disease made him worry about him for more than ten years. As Xiao Wan grows up day by day, his concern is increasing day by day, Xiao Wan is his only daughter after all, and it is his father's greatest wish that his daughter can have a good home. As a soldier, Commander Yan knew that his life was tied to the handle of the gun, and the hero would inevitably die in battle, which was the fate of the soldier. Xiao Wan really has a happy home, and her father's hanging heart is also put down.

Master Yan then found Xiaowan, and this was the first time that the father had a serious conversation with his daughter.

Father said: Girl, you are eighteen years old this year, and you are not a small boss, what is that little stone, you let me have a number in my heart.

As soon as the second uncle's name was mentioned, Xiao Wan blushed and her heart beat, her head lowered, and she felt like a deer in her arms.

The father looked at his daughter, and his eyes suddenly lit up: Girl, if you think that little stone is good, you can do it. In the future, I will cultivate the small stones, and I will make a group of deputy cadres, and there will be no problem. Why can't I let my daughter marry a big soldier?

Xiao Wan suddenly raised her head, already in tears.

When the father saw his daughter like this, his heart was hot, so he hugged his daughter to his chest and muttered: Girl, who made us sick.

Although his father was unwilling, what he valued was reality.

Master Yan soon made an appointment with the second uncle alone.

This is the first time in the second uncle's life that he has walked into the division commander's office, and it is also the first time he has faced the division commander alone. His legs were a little weak and his eyes were a little flowery.

The second uncle faced Master Yan tremblingly.

Master Yan didn't speak immediately, he walked around the house twice with his hands behind his back, and then stopped in front of the second uncle, stared at the second uncle's eyes and said, "Boy, you look into my eyes."

The second uncle glanced at the teacher in confusion, but immediately avoided his gaze again.

The teacher said: Boy, I handed over my daughter to you, you have to be good to her, if your kid has any fancy intestines in the future, you just run to the edge of the sky, and I will take you down!

The second uncle was suddenly stunned by Master Yan. Although the division commander's words were very serious, it revealed a message, that is, the division commander accepted him as his future son-in-law. This is a great thing that the second uncle has always dreamed of. The second uncle was dizzy, he couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, his legs were weak, and he knelt down for the division commander with a "plop". The second uncle said with a wet voice in his throat and eyes: Dad, don't worry.

This "Dad" made Master Yan's eyes moisten.

Then, everything fell into place.

On a sunny day, the second uncle and Xiaowan got married ceremoniously.

The teacher's daughter got married, and the scene can be imagined, the whole division took a day off, and slaughtered pigs and sheep for a day.

After a day of tossing, the second uncle, who walked into the new house, was still stunned and couldn't believe everything in front of him. He faced Xiao Wan, who had become a bride, and tears flowed in his eyes. He choked up and said: Xiaowan, I am only good to you in this life, you can rest assured.

The second uncle wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Xiaowan, but he thought it was inappropriate, so he held back. He picked up Xiao Wan's legs, although those two legs were long and short, thick and thin, all of them were nothing.

The second uncle on the wedding night thought a lot. He remembered the days of begging, remembered joining the Eighth Route Army in order to eat bread, and finally remembered his father. Since leaving the Eighth Route Army, he has not seen his brother again. Since childhood, the two brothers have never been separated, and this is the longest time they have been separated.

Soon after the second uncle got married, he became a lieutenant and company deputy, and his job remained the same, he still fed the horses for the division commander, but his external identity was the lieutenant and deputy company commander of the division guard platoon. Military salaries have risen to four oceans a month.

The second uncle missed his father very much in his happy days.

In the autumn of that year, the Japanese devils carried out an autumn sweep.

The Eighth Route Army fought several encounters with the devils, and the Fifth Division of the Kuomintang Jizhong, where the second uncle was located, also fought with the devils. The reason is that no one wants to give away the crops to the Japanese in the face of the crops that are about to be harvested in the autumn, and food is the foundation of the team's survival. For the sake of food, the 5th Division fought a fierce battle with the Japanese, and both sides suffered some losses. After the team withdrew from the position, the second uncle met with his father on the north mountain.

When the Fifth Division and the Japanese fought fiercely, the Eighth Route Army also came to participate in the battle, and finally the two teams withdrew at the same time.

The second uncle met his father in the camp of the Eighth Route Army.

My father was already a platoon commander of the Eighth Route Army. The second uncle first informed his father of the news of his marriage, and his father's eyes widened in surprise. The father who reacted was really happy for the second uncle, he held the second uncle's hand and said excitedly: Little stone, you can do it.

The father then saw the lieutenant badge on the second uncle's shoulder, and the father was a little envious.

The second uncle knew his father's envy, so he took the opportunity to say: Brother, come to us to do it, I now have four ocean miles a month.

After listening to the second uncle's words, the father slowly put down the second uncle's hand.

My father said sternly: Although we are allies now, each of us is its own master. You became a deserter in the Eighth Route Army, but you can't do that.

The hope that lit up in the second uncle's eyes dimmed, and he really hoped that his brother could abandon the darkness and turn to the light. He did not have a higher consciousness, but he knew that in the ranks of the Kuomintang, eating well, dressing well, and earning more were enough to make people happy. Unexpectedly, his wish was shattered by his father's words.

The second uncle said again: Brother, you can think about it.

The father waved his hand at the second uncle: You take your Yangguan Road, and I take my single-plank bridge.

After his father had finished speaking, he walked towards his camp.

The second uncle swallowed his saliva, looked at his father's back, his eyes were moist, and he shouted in his heart: Brother-

Six

The second meeting between the father and the second uncle was after the surrender of the Japanese devils, and the location was Baoding, Hebei.

Baoding is the base camp of the Japanese in Jizhong. Before the Japanese surrendered, a large number of troops were stationed here, and a large number of military supplies, munitions and other materials were hoarded.

After the surrender of the Japanese, both the Kuomintang troops and the Eighth Route Army scrambled to receive the supplies left behind by the Japanese. At that time, on the issue of surrender in World War II, China, the Soviet Union, and the United States signed an agreement, and it was Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang who signed the agreement on behalf of China. Therefore, after the Japanese signed the surrender document, they recognized only the Kuomintang troops. In this way, it brought great difficulties to the Eighth Route Army to take over the surrendered Japanese.

After the Japanese announced their surrender, the Eighth Route Army rushed into the city as soon as possible to take over the Japanese camp. But they still came one step later than the Kuomintang troops who were one step ahead.

Kuomintang troops had taken over the Japanese depot first. They took off their old cloth shoes and put on Japanese suede shoes, and some even wore Japanese military coats. The military uniforms of the Japanese devils are all made of tweed, and when they are worn on the body, they look very spiritual. Of course, at the same time, they also threw away the weapons they did not have in their hands and replaced them with Japanese guns.

The second uncle had been promoted to major battalion commander at this time, and he took over a warehouse of the Japanese with a battalion of troops. There were munitions in the warehouse, as well as supplies such as bedding. The second uncle's battalion had already armed everyone with the clothes worn by the Japanese, and at this time, there were still a large number of supplies in the warehouse.

At this time, the second uncle put on a Japanese officer's coat and held one in his arms, and he wanted to give it to his wife Xiaowan. Since the second uncle got married, he has tasted the warmth of the family and felt the beautiful love. Because the troops often fought, he had to be separated from Xiaowan for three days. Xiao Wan transferred with Master Yan's division, and the second uncle was relieved, but he couldn't help the worry in his heart. As long as he has time, he will think of his wife Xiaowan.

The second uncle was promoted from the platoon commander to the position of the battalion commander in a very short period of time by taking off the rocket, and the second uncle knew that all this was due to Xiaowan. Without Xiaowan and Master Yan, there would be no him today. The second uncle is not an ungrateful person, as soon as he thinks of Xiao Wan, his heart is warm, and there is a trace of things that are constantly being unreasonable and chaotic in his heart. The second uncle all boiled these things down to love.

The second uncle gave Xiaowan the military coat of the Japanese, so that Xiaowan could also feel the joy of the Japanese after surrendering, and this kind of liking is not only spiritual, but also material. He had already ordered two boxes full of Japanese military cans to be filled and sent to the home of the division headquarters.

While the second uncle was contentedly wandering down the street, he saw his father leading a troop of men and horses into the city.

My father was already the company commander of the Eighth Route Army at this time, and he rushed to Baoding with his company, but he was still one step behind the Kuomintang troops. My father saw that many Japanese camps and warehouses had been taken over by Kuomintang troops, and they were being shipped out of the city in large and small boxes. My father was in a hurry, and his eyes were already red-eyed at this time, like a fly without a head, scurrying around the streets. At this moment, he and his second uncle met unexpectedly.

The second uncle was taken aback when he saw his father in Baoding. At this time, both of them were already men, and compared with a few years ago, they were not only taller and stronger, but also had stubble on their faces. But they quickly recognized each other.

The second uncle shouted first: Brother, why are you here?

Father glanced at the second uncle's dress, his cheeks suddenly burst into sour water, and his father scolded and said: Damn, the Kuomintang, you have robbed all the good things, our Eighth Route Army is considered to be a white resistance this day, and still drink the northwest wind.

The second uncle asked, "Brother, what's the matter?"

My father didn't want to waste time here with his second uncle, and he wanted to urge the troops to continue their search to see if they could find something Japanese.

The second uncle grabbed his father: Brother, don't be busy. It's all that should be received by our troops, and it's gone.

The second uncle saw his father's disappointed eyes, and then looked at his father's dress at this time, and felt a little uncomfortable. My father's uniform looked full of holes, especially the toes of the shoes on his feet. The second uncle glanced at the soldiers under his father again, all of them were not as dressed as his father, his heart froze, and his voice trembled a little: Brother, why did your Eighth Route Army look like this?

After speaking, the second uncle waved his hand at the guards behind him: open the warehouse door.

The second uncle said to his father: Brother, you can take someone to move. I can move as much as I can, and I have the final say here.

The father looked at the second uncle with wide eyes, looking disbelieving.

The second uncle said again: Let you go, you will go. After a while, I will come up to check, and I can't move it.

Father quickly glanced at the second uncle, didn't have time to think about it, and waved his hand at the soldier behind him: Then move it for me.

A company of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, like hungry wolves, rushed into the warehouse guarded by the second uncle, and soon retreated with their shoulders on their shoulders.

The father was the last to come out, carrying a cannon on his shoulder. When the second uncle saw it, he said, "Brother, why are you doing this?"

Father grinned at the second uncle: Brother, thank you. This thing works better than anything else.

The second uncle looked at his father and felt a little distressed, and hurriedly stuffed the military coat in his arms into his father's arms. The father glanced at the tweed coat, and stuffed it into the arms of the second uncle with his backhand: I don't wear Japanese clothes, so you should keep them.

The father grinned happily and walked out of the warehouse gate with a cannon on his shoulder.

The second uncle shouted: Brother-

The father stopped and looked at the second uncle again.

The second uncle said, "Brother, the Eighth Route Army is so good?" Why don't you come here, and I will take you to see Master Yan.

Father glanced at the second uncle: Master Yan is your father, not my father, what am I doing when I see him?

After my father finished speaking, he walked away without looking back. After walking a few steps, he happily turned around and shouted: I thank you for the Eighth Route Army.

The second uncle opened his mouth, as if he had something to say to his father, but his father just left.

The second uncle looked at the open warehouse door and stood there stunned.

Those Kuomintang soldiers also looked at the second uncle in a daze, they didn't understand, why did the Eighth Route Army move these things?