A squadron leader made the old man Sun Xiaozhong burst into tears.

He hadn't heard that in years.

At the critical juncture of the nation in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when the whole country was destroyed, the Nationalist Air Force started with a squadron of six planes at the beginning, and then became a squadron of six planes, and finally some squadrons still retained their squadron establishment as long as they had two planes.

At the beginning, Sun Xiaozhong's squadron had 24 planes, and when he was promoted to squadron leader, there were still seven planes left in the entire squadron, and by the end of the war, only four were left.

After the end of the war, Sun Xiaozhong was transferred to a civilian position, and after he was separated from the pilots in the original squadron, the title of squadron leader was almost no longer called.

Han Zili on the other end of the phone was also full of tears, memory loss is a painless torture for older people, more and more people and things are forgotten by themselves, when people ask in front of them if they still remember him, whether they still remember something, Han Zili always feels extremely lost, because many people and things he really racked his brains and couldn't remember, which made him feel ashamed of many people.

In the past few years, he himself can't remember much about the Anti-Japanese War, and many things are not as much as his son remembers, so when Sun Xiaozhong just said the name, he couldn't remember the details about the name, but this name seemed to be full of different meanings in his subconscious, and this huge contradiction made him particularly painful.

Fortunately, when Sun Xiaozhong talked about the number of the troops that year, the old man's memories of struggling at the bottleneck suddenly poured out, and those clips, those pictures, those people, and those things about the year also poured into him like a tide, and he knew that the voice on the other end of the phone came from the squadron leader Sun Xiaozhong, which made him so excited that he couldn't add it.

Han Zili still thought that he was dreaming, and the old captain Sun Xiaozhong, who had disappeared for decades, would call him, and he couldn't help but ask again: "Squadron leader, is it really you?" I am Zili, are you really Sun Xiaozhong?"

"It's me, Zili! I'm Sun Xiaozhong!" Mr. Sun repeated over and over again, and then sighed while wiping his tears: "I heard that you went to Taiwan in 50 years, but their volunteers told me that you were in Sichuandu, why did you go to Sichuandu?"

Mr. Han also choked up and said: "I also heard that you gave up the opportunity to go to Taiwan, I had already arrived in Taiwan at that time, and I wanted to send you a telegram to persuade you to come over, but they said that your regimental headquarters had been withdrawn, and there was no way to send a telegram to contact, I wrote you several letters, and asked people to send them to Yunnan Province but did not find you, at the end of 49, many pilots who followed the past fled back in a plane because they were homesick, and I was also homesick, and at the end of 49, I found the opportunity to escape back......"

Mr. Sun sighed: "You are really amazing, if I were you, I might not dare to escape, if I was shot down, I would not even be killed!"

Mr. Han wiped away his tears and said: "The old captain is still amazing, you directly gave up the opportunity to go to Taiwan for the sake of your wife and children, I am not strong enough, I left my wife and children and ran away, ashamed!"

Mr. Sun comforted: "I don't blame you, they must have told you at the time that they would take their wives and children over to join your group afterwards, right?"

"Yes, at that time, they told me that they would take their wives and children over to meet me after a while, but I went to find out that at that time, the wife and children could not get along at all, and it was then that I knew that I was fooled, and staying there means that I must be separated from my wife and children, I don't know what year and month I can reunite, so how can I stand it, so you are still the old captain, you are amazing, and you can see it more thoroughly than me......"

Mr. Sun nodded, and suddenly fell silent in front of the phone.

At this time, Mr. Han's son hurriedly whispered a few words in his ear, Li Mu had spoken to him on the phone before, persuading the old man to go down the mountain, and he needed Mr. Han's help.

After a minute or two of silence, Mr. Han said on the other end of the phone: "Old captain, let's meet! I don't know how long I can live, I can see you again before I die, and I will die without regrets!"

Mr. Sun said without thinking: "It's to meet, it's to meet, you give me an address, I'll go find you!"

"I'm not close to you, old captain!" Mr. Han said: "I heard from other volunteers that they will take us old pilots to Spring City for a reunion after a while, let's just meet you in Spring City, and we can revisit the old place before we die! Maybe we can meet other old comrades-in-arms!"

Mr. Sun said: "I just heard that Paul Crawford is still alive and will come to China in a while, do you remember him?"

"Who is Paul Crawford, why is the name so long?" Mr. Han's memory was not completely recovered, and he couldn't remember who this person was for a while.

Mr. Sun said: "Have you forgotten? Paul, the American who flew the No. 99 Shark P-40 in the Flying Tigers, once your plane was wounded, I covered your retreat with him, and you even invited him to drink with him afterwards. ”

Mr. Han was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized and said, "I remembered the person you said!

Mr. Sun smiled: "Neither of us is dead, why can't people live." ”

Mr. Han also smiled and said, "That's right, but they are all so old, this may really be the last time we will meet, old captain, you must be there then!"

Mr. Sun immediately promised: "Don't worry, I will definitely arrive!"

When they heard this, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that for the old man, his own health, better living conditions, and hopeful family affection could not prompt him to leave this thatched house, but the established comradeship played a decisive role.

Liu Xin turned his head excitedly to quietly wipe his tears, and at the same time quietly glanced at Li Mu, no one thought of persuading the old man to go down the mountain by helping the old man find his comrades-in-arms, if Li Mu didn't come over, maybe he had already reached a stalemate in the end of the persuasion just now, and the final result was likely to be that the old man was still unwilling to go down the mountain, and he could only retreat in a gloomy manner, and then find a way to help the old man find the whereabouts of his relatives, and then use family affection to persuade the old man.

While Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly felt a blockage in his heart, walked to Liu Xinxin's side, and whispered to him: "I'll go out to smoke a cigarette, and the old man will work harder to make him agree to go with us today." ”

Liu Xin nodded slightly, Li Mu had quietly retreated from the thatched house, and when he came out, he found that dozens of villagers had already come to the door, if it wasn't for Chen Chengwu to let a few soldiers stop him, I am afraid they would all rush in to see the excitement.

Walking up to Chen Chengwu, Li Mu took out a cigarette and handed him one, saying, "Come on?"

Chen Chengwu looked at Li Mu in surprise, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Li, you also smoke?"

Li Mu smiled slightly: "Very occasionally, one pack a month." ”

Chen Chengwu nodded, took out the lighter and lit it for Li Mu first, Li Mu was also very polite, stretched out his right hand to protect the flame, and after the cigarette was lit, he gently put a little on the back of his hand, and said thank you.

Chen Chengwu was even more surprised, smokers have smokers' rules, others light cigarettes for you, if you give the other party, you must protect the fire out of politeness, but if the other party's status is obviously higher, it is understandable not to protect the fire, in Chen Chengwu's opinion, with Li Mu's identity, he is so tall and boundless than himself, and he is so polite, I really didn't expect it, which further increased his good impression of Li Mu.

Li Mu took a puff of cigarette, and only then did he ask him after he came out, "Why are so many villagers here?"

Chen Chengwu said: "The old village chief went door-to-door to inform these villagers that they heard that the old man was an anti-Japanese hero, and they all wanted to come and see it. ”

After speaking, Chen Chengwu asked Li Mu: "Did the old man agree to go down the mountain?"

Li Mu nodded: "I agreed, it's really not easy to persuade him to agree!"

"I heard. Chen Chengwu said: "I said earlier that the old man didn't want to go down the mountain when he died, and just wanted to stay here, how did you persuade him?

"Well, it's hard to put into words. Li Mu said: "The photographer has taken it, and I will show you the film when I go back, I'm afraid you will cry after watching it." ”

Chen Chengwu said: "I shed tears once when the old man saluted us just now, and I feel uncomfortable when I think of the old hero who fought with the Japanese devils in the sky in the sky. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Chengwu looked at Li Mu and said seriously: "Mr. Li, what you did is of great significance, if it weren't for you, even I, a soldier, would never have imagined that there would be such a group of veterans living such a miserable life......

Li Mu said: "My greatest wish is to make the whole society pay attention to the life of these veterans in their old age, they not only need us to give us help materially, but also need us to give enough recognition spiritually, the old man has done such a great thing, but no one cares for decades, everything is hidden in the stomach, that feeling is really sad." ”

Chen Chengwu nodded again and again, and then asked, "By the way, can the old man follow us today?"

Li Mu said: "I'm asking Xinxin to continue the work, to see if I can convince the old man to go with us today, it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

Chen Chengwu said: "This ghost place can't even drop a helicopter, the old man and we are afraid that we will suffer a little offence when we go out of the mountain, when we come, our soldiers prepare folding stretchers, and take turns to carry them out of the mountain when the time comes." ”

Li Mu said: "Then it's hard for you, if you can get out before dark today, let's rest in the town for one night, and then I will ask Xinxin to contact an ambulance from Yun Province to come over, and take the old man directly to the hospital tomorrow morning." ”

Chen Chengwu hurriedly said: "No, go to our military region's sanatorium, next to the military hospital, communicate with us before the novelty, the chief and his old man mean that as long as it is a veteran within the coverage of the Yun Provincial Military Region, it can be sent to the military hospital and sanatorium, and all expenses will be borne by the military region!"