The three of them simply finished breakfast, put away the tent, and the fat man looked around with a telescope for a long time before saying: "Yes, that's right, it is to cross the national border to the west, you see, the mountain in front, although after so many years of rain erosion and changes in the earth's crustal movement, is still very similar to the Eagle Head Mountain marked on the ground." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" the fat man said happily.

Lin Tao took the telescope and looked in the direction pointed by the fat man, and sure enough, a stone mountain in the distance was very similar to the eagle's head drawn on the map. At the same time, there seems to be a building in the mountain forest next to it, quietly sitting there, quietly.

Lin Tao turned his head and wanted to hand the binoculars to Xiangxin for her to look at too, but found that Xiangxin was hiding in the shade of a tree, smearing sunscreen on her face, and it didn't matter if the route was correct or not.

The fat man took out the GPS and operated it back and forth, and it took a while to mark the location of Eagle Head Mountain: "This doesn't seem far, but in fact, we have to walk for a day." The fat man looked at the roadmap on the GPS and sighed.

"Da Tao, you see, we must pass through a border outpost of our country on the way, but I estimate that it is only a small point, the number of people should not be much, usually it is patrolling, and the others should not be too big a problem, as long as we reach Eagle Head Mountain smoothly, we can reach the Mongolian border after crossing, and then we will study the route according to the map." The fat man said and took the GPS to Lin Tao to take a look.

After discussing the route, the three of them put on their backpacks and walked out onto the soft barren meadow. It took most of the day to walk to the bottom of Eagle Head Mountain, looking at the mountain in front of me,

Xiangxin sat on a pile of wild grass and couldn't walk anymore: "I'm tired, let's take a rest." Considering that Xiangxin was a woman, the two set up a tent under the surrounding rocks to prepare for rest.

Looking at the Eagle Head Mountain that was close at hand, and seeing the fat man and Xiangxin lying tired and resting in their tents, they didn't want to come out, so they had to explain and explore the way to the mountain.

The night gradually darkened, Lin Tao walked alone towards the mountain, the towering trees and waist-high shrubs blocked the afterglow before the sun set, just as Lin Tao was about to turn on the flashlight, there was a sudden sound of a gun loading in the bushes in front of him.

Lin Tao immediately squatted under the bushes and listened cautiously, could it be that the poachers were planning to hunt some rare animals in this mountain and sell them for money?

Seeing that there seemed to be four or five people stopping to rest in the place where the sound came out just now, Lin Tao breathed a sigh of relief and quietly crawled in that direction.

Through the bushes, Lin Tao saw four border guards wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying a bayi bar sitting under a big tree to rest, the surrounding bushes had been cleared, and a circle was formed around the bonfire in the middle, it seemed that they often rested here.

At this time, the mountain wind was blowing, blowing the bonfire in front of the four of them back and forth, so that Lin Tao, who was hiding under the bushes not far away, saw these immature border guards. After thinking about it, these border guards in the style of a few children may have been assigned to this place where there is no village and no store after the group training.

At this time, one of the border guards with a tanned face said to the person leaning against the tree and with his back to Lin Tao: "Squad leader, it's not too early, do we have to go up on patrol." The little dark-faced border guard said with some concern.

The squad leader leaning against the tree straightened up after listening to his words, looked at the night sky at half a star, stared at the bonfire in front of him and said, "I see that it is not early today, let's rest here for a while and go back." After the squad leader finished speaking, he wrapped his coat and leaned against the tree again.

After the squad leader finished speaking, several small border guards glanced at each other, and their faces bloomed with joy. But only the little border guard with a dark face showed a worried look after being happy for a while.

cautiously approached the squad leader's side: "Squad leader, but the company commander said that there have been a lot of poaching during this time, so let us come out to patrol carefully, but after a while, we will go back directly, if the company commander finds out, will we be punished." ”

The squad leader seemed to have taken into account the words of the little border guard, shook his coat and stood up and walked to the bonfire, sighing while leaning against the fire and saying, "It's not that I don't want to go, it's really that the time comes, we can't go." ”

At this time, Lin Tao also saw this squad leader, his face was tired, he was at least in his thirties, and he had to take a few children to guard in this deep mountain and old forest, no wonder he was so old.

Several small border guards were very strange when they heard the squad leader's words, and they all gathered around the squad leader and asked, "Squad leader, what's wrong with you." ”

The squad leader seemed to remember something and talked about it, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed them to a few people, lit it himself, took a deep breath and blew it out, as if he was releasing all the words that had been accumulated in his heart.

The squad leader smoked a cigarette, then lit one, looked at the recruits sitting in front of him and said: "When I was a recruit like you, my brother and I came with my hometown were assigned here, and we both stayed here for two years, but because our families were relatively poor, we both chose to stay in the team as non-commissioned officers." The squad leader said and took another hard puff of his cigarette.

"Ten years ago today, he and I had just been selected as non-commissioned officer squad leaders, and we were young and vigorous and took two recruits to patrol Eagle Head Mountain. At that time, the sky was the same as today, the night was dark and the stars were scarce, except for the sound of the wind, all the other animals were silent today, didn't you notice? The old squad leader said and blew a puff of smoke into the air, which quickly drifted away with the night wind.

"When we first came, our squad leader told us about a story, about this Eagle Head Mountain, which is also a legend of our border station." The old squad leader said, the cigarette butt in his hand touched his fingers and he didn't feel it, as if he had fallen into a deep memory, and several small border guards all gathered around the old squad leader and listened carefully.

After a long time, the old squad leader spoke in a slightly dry voice.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, that is, when our border station was built, the first company commander Wang Biao led a squad of soldiers to make patrol manuals along the border line, which happened to be today. When they reached Eagle Head Mountain, they found a dilapidated mountain temple, but sometimes it was too late and it was raining heavily, so the company commander Wang Biao took the soldiers to spend the night in this mountain god.

At that time, the rain was very urgent, and everyone didn't notice that there was a sign at the door that read: Mountain God Forbidden Land, trespassers die.

At that time, the company commander arranged for two soldiers who were on vigil to squat at the door and found the sign, and quickly gave it to the company commander, because there were many superstitions in that era, so the company commander did not make a sound, and quietly let people burn it. But I didn't expect that this burn would burn the whole class and their own lives.