When the first rooster crow of the new year sounded in the morning light with the crackling of firecrackers, the snow had stopped last night, and only a thick layer of snow was scattered on the ground, as if to indicate that the new year was another good year.

In the first rays of the morning, the Su family had already set off firecrackers symbolizing the removal of the old and welcoming the new, and the women also listened to the sound of firecrackers and got up to prepare dumplings for the first day of the new year.

Although Su Chenyu slept very late, he got up very early, in addition to the thunderous exercises, he also had an important thing to do - New Year's greetings to the elders.

Of course, Su Chenyu had to kowtow to his grandfather and grandmother first, and the two old men looked at their four generations and smiled from ear to ear, and took out a pile of tickets from the plastic bag at the bedside and gave it to Su Chenyu - this is a lot of New Year's money.

Next, Su Chenyu kowtowed to his grandfather, grandmother, second grandfather, second grandmother, and parents all the way, and of course the harvest was not cheap.

Although Su Chenyu has a lot of money in the bank - he is a rare rich man in this era, but he cherishes the New Year's money given by these old people very much.

After eating the dumplings, naturally the family went out to climb the heights, and Su Chenyu and the others went to Longshan, which was the closest to Sujia Village, which was actually a relatively high hill.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Su Chenyu and the others had already returned home, and the dinner on the first day of junior high school was nothing else - dumplings.

After dinner, the Su family came to visit the house more and more, and these brothers and sisters all liked to play a game at Su Zhenbang's eldest brother's house -- playing cards, chatting, and watching TV.

In this era, the night sky of the New Year is decorated with no fireworks and fireworks, and there are only sporadic cannonballs and the second kicks and thunders that drill into the sky from time to time.

Children naturally have a good way to play at night, and make good use of the unexploded artillery battles that they picked up from the front of each house during the day -- and the "fish that slipped through the net" with a lead are naturally very rare, and those artillery battles without a lead are left to be "skinned".

Although they didn't have the colorful fireworks in later generations, Su Chenyu and them had a lot of fun in this era when materials were scarce.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, everyone naturally has the "task" of visiting friends, Su Chenyu's family has to visit grandpa and grandma's house first, and many of the married daughters choose to go home on this day to pay New Year's greetings to their parents.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, of course, Su Chenyu's family did not forget the invitation of Tian Mingli's family, they were going to Tian's house.

At Tian's house, Su Chenyu also met Tian Xiaojun, who had been heard of for a long time, a very strong and steady young man, who looked even more heroic in a decent military uniform. Although Tian Xiaojun did not have a military rank on his uniform, Su Chenyu knew from Tian Mingli that he was a platoon commander.

Su Chenyu has a good impression of Tian Xiaojun, of course, he is not the only one who has a good impression of Tian Xiaojun, Su Zhenbang and Feng Ying also have a very good impression of Tian Xiaojun.

Of course, one thing that surprised everyone was that after Tian Xiaojun saw Su Zhenbang, the first thing he did was to give a standard military salute, and then said: "Good old chief." ”

Su Zhenbang was stunned, but as an excellent soldier, he immediately returned a standard military salute. In fact, Su Zhenbang couldn't help but be stunned, even the Tian family was also stunned, Tian Xiaolu also smiled and said, "Brother, are you stupid?"

Su Zhenbang also looked at Tian Xiaojun puzzled, looking like he wanted to know the answer, and the others were also staring at Tian Xiaojun looking forward to his answer.

Tian Xiaojun didn't whet everyone's appetite when he saw everyone's appearance, and said slowly: "Old chief, were you in the Hero Regiment of the XXX Division of the XX Army when you were a soldier?"

"yes. Of course, Su Zhenbang couldn't forget his hero's old troops, so he replied immediately.

"Report, Tian Xiaojun, platoon commander of the Heroic Regiment of the XXX Division of the XX Army, saluted the veteran. Tian Xiaojun stood up again and said formally to Su Zhenbang.

Only then did Su Zhenbang understand the significance of Tian Xiaojun's actions just now, so he also solemnly stood up and returned a military salute to Tian Xiaojun, feeling a sense of comfort in his heart.

At this time, everyone understood, and then Tian Xiaojun explained: "Uncle Su is definitely a hero in our division and our army, and our division commander said that in that counterattack, one of Uncle Su's companies carried a brigade of monkeys on the high ground for three days. That even everyone was a battle hero, and when reinforcements arrived, they couldn't believe it was real. ”

Tian Xiaojun said with reverence: "The division commander once said that if it weren't for that incident, with his exploits in the war, now this division commander would have to be Uncle Su, and he might even be the army commander." ”

Looking at Su Zhenbang, Tian Xiaojun said with respect: "Uncle Su, why did you leave the army at that time?"

"Xiaojun, why do children ask so much?" Yu Yuexiu said sharply to Tian Xiaojun, she still remembered the last time Tian Mingli mentioned this matter at the dinner table, Su Zhenbang's face was full of pain.

Tian Mingli also echoed and said: "Yes, be a good soldier to protect your family and defend the country, where are there so many problems?"

Looking at the appearance of his parents, Tian Xiaojun wanted to know more about it, but he knew that every time the division commander talked about Su Zhenbang, he had a look of respect, but he just didn't want to mention it.

Tian Xiaojun recognized Su Zhenbang when he first entered the door -- it was almost exactly the same as the photo of the honor room of the army, but it was more mature.

Tian Xiaojun, who was thrilled by this unexpected joy, felt that this was a good opportunity to figure out what was bothering him and his comrades-in-arms - and the two families were so close that he was determined to find out.

"Uncle Su, did you make any mistakes. Tian Xiaojun saw that Su Zhenbang didn't speak, and asked without giving up.

"Xiaojun, alright, let's do this here. ”

This time, Tian Mingli shouted to stop Tian Xiaojun, and he found that Su Zhenbang's hand taking out his cigarette was a little trembling.

Su Zhenbang took out a cigarette with some trembling, but he couldn't strike a match, Su Chenyu hurriedly went up and lit a fire for Su Zhenbang.

After taking a few puffs hard, Su Zhenbang seemed to want to calm himself with nicotine stimulation, and looked at Li Yuhan with painful eyes. Li Yuhan also seemed to notice Su Zhenbang's gaze, and called "Dad" in a low voice.

Tian Mingli saw Su Zhenbang's gaze and knew that this matter must be related to Li Yuhan, and then looked at Su Zhenbang's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, so he said: "Xiaolu, you take Xiaohan and Xiaoyu to the house to watch TV, what do you children listen to when adults chat." ”

"I'm not going, I'm going to listen to Uncle Su's story. Tian Xiaolu was obviously reluctant.

This time, Tian Mingli said a little angrily: "Why are you disobedient?

"Xiaoyu and your sister went to the house to play. Feng Ying knew that this matter was related to Li Yuhan, she only knew the things in the back, but he didn't know in the front, she only knew that Li Yuhan was the child of Su Zhenbang's sacrificial comrades.

"Okay, Sister Xiaolu, I wrote a new book again, do you want to read it?"

Of course, Su Chenyu knew Li Yuhan's life experience, and he also knew the whole story of this matter. In the previous life, this matter was not told by Su Zhenbang until Li Yuhan and Su Chenyu got married, and Su Chenyu still remembered that Su Zhenbang, who was close to the age of sixtieth birthday at that time, cried like a child.

"You've written another book, I'll see, I'll see. As a female literary youth, Tian Xiaolu was immediately attracted by Su Chenyu's words.

"Sister, let's go inside and watch TV. Su Chenyu ignored Tian Xiaolu at all, took Li Yuhan's hand and walked into the house.

Tian Xiaolu hurriedly followed Su Chenyu to the inner room: "Wait for me, wait for me, show me the book." ”

As if he didn't see Li Yuhan and Su Chenyu leaving, Su Zhenbang took another puff of cigarette, and then said in a trembling tone: "I ...... this matter I...... Only with Xiaoyu's grandfather...... Said. ”

Taking out another cigarette and lighting it, Su Zhenbang took another puff and calmed down for a while before saying: "The tragedy of that war back then may only be comparable to the North Korean War, and the front line is full of fallen our soldiers and the other side's soldiers. ”

"The other side was trained by the military academy of our army, so our early offensive was very fast, and in a few days we advanced to Lang Son, an important border town in the northeast of Hanoi, the capital of the other side. All of us thought that we would be able to attack Hanoi directly, but we received orders from above to withdraw our troops. ”

Su Zhenbang's thoughts seemed to return to that war-torn era.

"It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. Since the order was to withdraw our troops, the speed at which we withdrew our troops was also very fast, but the Vietnamese government did not repent. Not only were we recruited nationwide, but many of our people died in the mountains and forests as we withdrew. ”

Speaking of this, Su Zhenbang was already in tears, he didn't care about the handkerchief handed over by Feng Ying at all, and continued: "Those brutes of the Vietnamese army can't be regarded as real soldiers at all, they not only attack the soldiers, but even the unarmed health team. ”

"At the end of the whole army, we retreated with the divisional health team, and many of the nurses were seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls who were on the battlefield for the first time. They are completely incapable of protecting themselves, they are just a bunch of unarmed doctors. But the beasts on the other side ...... them ...... them one by one All of them are cruelly ...... Brutal killing. ”

Speaking of this, Su Zhenbang couldn't cry anymore.

"When we arrived at the health team's site, we were shocked, even if we had been on the battlefield. The floor was littered with naked female nurses, and their bodies were covered in bloody wounds and cuts. Some even had their heads cut off, some even died, and their bodies were still stuck with bayonets. ”

After Su Zhenbang clenched his fists and finished speaking, Tian Xiaojun's face was already flushed with anger, and Tian Mingli was also clenched with his fists gurgling, and Feng Ying and Yu Yuexiu were shocked with tears in their eyes.

"Dozens of us buried them in tears, and everyone was silent. Su Zhenbang said: "When I proposed to fight back to find this enemy to avenge them, even Xiaohan's father, my good brother, and instructor Lao Li agreed. Therefore, our nearly 100 people ignored the order to retreat from above, and followed the traces for several long times in the mountains and forests. ”

Su Zhenbang's face was slightly pale.

"Finally, we found the brute troops, an artillery brigade, and we had so few men that we could only hunt each other in the shadows. At first they didn't notice it, but as more and more people went missing, they began to notice that there was a group of people hunting them in the shadows. Therefore, in this case, we can only choose to attack the other party's headquarters, and when their brigade and regiment command structures are all destroyed, our whereabouts are also discovered. In the case of fighting and retreating, dozens of us led more than 1,000 of them around in the mountains and forests, and finally turned around and blew up all the cannons they were equipped with. Su Zhenbang said that everyone was excited, as if they were there.

"Okay!" Tian Xiaojun even shouted excitedly.

"But what followed was a frenzied retaliation from the enemy, and the Vietnamese troops in the entire mountains and forests were looking for our small group. In the absence of any other option, we had to retreat in the direction of Hanoi, fighting not only the pursuers behind, but also the enemy guerrillas along the way. At that time, almost all the people of Vietnam were soldiers, so as long as it was Vietnamese, no one remained, but even in the case of extreme anger, we only attacked men, and would never do anything to unarmed women and children. Su Zhenbang lit another cigarette, and then continued: "At that time, he even crossed Lang Son directly and directly entered Hanoi, making a mess of the whole Hanoi, and many military and political officials at that time were assassinated by us. ”

"But when we were almost venting our anger, we found a serious problem - we are now in the territory of N N. Everywhere we were capturing our pursuers, and although we escaped from several encirclements, we lost many of our comrades. Su Zhenbang said with tears in his eyes: "Even Lao Li also died in the mountains and forests of the other party's border, I hate, I hate that I can't even bring back his bones, so I can only let him sleep in the underground of a foreign country with his brothers who died in battle." ”

"When we retreated to the station, only a few of the nearly 100 people were scarred, and the rest were killed in the mountains and forests of a foreign country. Of course, the other side was not comfortable, and one brigade in hot pursuit was basically disabled, and finally completely annihilated by our brother troops. Su Zhenbang said heavily.

As a matter of fact, Su Zhenbang did not know that the blow dealt by their group to the morale of the entire Vietnamese army was incomparably huge, and in particular, their assassination dealt a heavy blow to the Vietnamese military and political leaders, and they were like a sharp knife inserted into the heart of the enemy -- the knife is deadly.

"After coming back, we were greeted not only by the respect of our comrades, but also by the order of the commander to meet the boss. Battlefield disobedience could be shot on the spot at that time, and when I was ready to die, I went to see Mr. Xu. The boss didn't say anything, just told me to take off my military uniform. Su Zhenbang said with a solemn face: "Before leaving, the boss gave me three bottles of wine and a sentence: 'As a man, Lao Tzu admires you, you kid has a kind, but as a commander of a war, your kid disobeys orders on the battlefield and is a derelict soldier, and he should be shot'." ”

After Su Zhenbang finished speaking, everyone was speechless, and the atmosphere in the entire living room was unusually solemn......