Chapter 25: Like the Past
After the meal was served, Zhang Ya called Wang Ling out of the bedroom, because she had been delayed to go to school these days, and it happened to be the New Year's Day holiday after Wang Ling was discharged from the hospital, and the tragic Wang Ling was strictly required by her mother to self-study at home; It can be seen from the unhappy expression on Wang Ling's face when she was called out by Zhang Ya that the relationship between their mother and daughter has been tense in the past two days.
Because of Mayor Wang's special hospitality, the atmosphere of a table of six people is still very harmonious, Wang Gaoshan, who was noisy after eating, brought Xu Hongwen to his study, Xu Hongwen followed him into the study on the second floor, and saw two large bookshelves at the entrance, the bookshelves were full of books, and there was a word hanging on one side of the wall in the study, "For the benefit of the official and the righteous party", Xu Hongwen's understanding of Mayor Wang is also limited, but from the details, it can still be seen that Mayor Wang should be a clean official.
On the other side, there are many photo frames, which are neatly filled with photos, one of which attracted Xu Hongwen's attention, Xu Hongwen saw a number of group photos of his father in the frame, and his father in military uniform was heroically surrounded in the middle, and two of the people in the photos were full of gunsmoke on his father's face, which should have been taken on the front line.
There are also many photos of the same in Xu Hongwen's home, his father is like a baby and rarely shows people, there is no doubt that his father was once a soldier, but his father was expelled from the military but was transferred to a local place, until later generations Xu Hongwen did not know why, a soldier was expelled from the army, then he must have made a very strict mistake, but his father Xu Jinjun was expelled from the military and was transferred to another job after being resettled, which is a bit unreasonable, and this problem has been bothering him for many years.
Entering the study, Wang Gaoshan saw that Xiao Xu had been staring at one of the photo frames on the wall, and when he saw the photo frames on it, he said with some emotion: "The photos are all photos of me and my comrades-in-arms, and many of the comrades-in-arms in this pre-war group photo are no longer there!" ”
Most of the group photos in the picture frame have Xu Hongwen's father and Mayor Wang when he was young, and there are two group photos of the two of them, no wonder Xu Hongwen felt a little familiar when he saw Mayor Wang in the People's Hospital that day, and it was a group photo of dozens of people along with Mayor Wang, his father sat in the middle, Mayor Wang was next to him, Xu Hongwen knew that his father was the head of a main regiment in the army, and in this photo he could sit next to Xu Jinjun was either a political commissar or a deputy head of the regiment, Xu Hongwen had only secretly taken it out and seen it before.
At this time, Xu Hongwen's heart was very surprised, he didn't expect Mayor Wang to be his father's comrade-in-arms, after looking back, Xu Hongwen pointed to his father in the photo and said: "Uncle Wang, it's my father who is sitting next to you, I really didn't expect you to be my father's comrade-in-arms!" ”
Hearing this, Wang Gaoshan was even more shocked when he saw the person Xu Hongwen was referring to, but he didn't expect that the young man who saved his daughter was the son of Head Xu.
Wang Gaoshan, who was surprised in his heart, looked at Xu Hongwen carefully again, and saw that his eyebrows and eyes really looked like Captain Xu, Wang Gaoshan, who was happy in his heart, hurriedly asked, "Xiao Xu, is your father okay?" ”
"My dad is very tough, but the old injuries on his body will attack when the sky changes!"
"The regiment commander always took the lead back then, and it was common for him to be injured on the battlefield, but it's no wonder, the bullet always avoided your father, and the most serious injury was the leg wounded by shrapnel from a grenade!"
Xu Hongwen, who is a man of two lives, doesn't know much about his father's experience in the army, but when he was a child, he heard from others that his father made great achievements on the battlefield and made big mistakes, and Xu Hongwen, who had some doubts in his heart, said: "Uncle Wang, you are my father's comrade-in-arms, can you tell me how my father left the army!" ”
Seeing the eyes of his old comrade-in-arms' son, Wang Gaoshan, who was emotional, remembered the years when the flames of war were separated.
When the self-defense counterattack war, their regiment was the first to rush to the front line, and when the battle began, as the Sharp Knife Regiment, they rushed to the front, and the enemy they faced at that time was also a division of a hundred battles with the United States after the civil war, and the enemy also occupied the advantage of the terrain, and several high ground in the direction of the main attack of the Sharp Knife Regiment was built by the enemy with trenches and bunkers.
After a stubborn bloody battle, the Sharp Knife Regiment was the first to tear open a hole in the enemy's defense, so that the flanks and rear of the enemy's various units were exposed to the front of our army, causing the enemy's frontline units to be in chaos, and under the powerful offensive of our army, they continued to shrink their defenses until they were defeated.
There are no victorious generals on the battlefield, and two months after entering the front line, there is a battle that is particularly smooth, and the sharp knife regiment that has been driven straight into the enemy country has taken camp and pulled out the village, what they didn't expect is that the sharp knife regiment broke into a front-line command of the enemy, and the successive victories also made the sharp knife regiment more belligerent, and instinctively started an encounter after encountering the enemy, and the sharp knife regiment was almost stunned by the enemy's powerful firepower when the battle started.
At that time, Regiment Commander Xu knew that they had encountered a big fish, how could he be reluctant to let go when he finally got the meat, and the enemy's reinforcements in this deep mountain and old forest could not come so quickly, after analyzing the battlefield shape, Regiment Commander Xu arranged two battalions in front of the enemy to attack and confuse the enemy, and drilled into the enemy's rear to attack and attack according to a battalion, while he led a company to penetrate the enemy's front-line command when the enemy was in trouble, and eliminated the enemy's front-line command post in one fell swoop. However, it also served as the first enemy front finger that our army had lost, which greatly demoralized the enemy.
In case the enemy counterattacked, the Sharp Knife Regiment was immediately transferred after quickly cleaning the battlefield, and after the front finger knew that the Sharp Knife Regiment had lost Yan zhòng, he ordered the Sharp Knife Regiment to withdraw to the rear to rest, and on the way back, he passed by the cemetery where the sacrificed personnel of the Sharp Knife Regiment were buried, and wanted to bring these sacrificed comrades back to China together when they withdrew, but when the Sharp Knife Regiment rushed to the temporary cemetery, they saw that those sacrificed comrades-in-arms were destroyed by the enemy.
The soldiers who saw this scene were furious, and Regiment Commander Xu, who was lying on the stretcher, was even more angry and ordered that only a few valuable prisoners should be kept, and all the others would be shot on the spot; The two sides can fight any way they fight, but the enemy is so mad that he doesn't even let go of the dead, even Wang Gaoshan, who was the political commissar of the Sharp Knife Regiment at that time, did not object to the killing of the captives, and when it is reported, it is enough to say that those prisoners resisted and were killed, and no one will investigate deeply!
On the way back to the rear, the Sharp Knife Regiment encountered a unit that was also returning to the rear to recuperate, and when it found that the other side had prisoners, the 2nd Battalion of the Sharp Knife Regiment, which hated the enemy to the core, snatched their prisoners and broke out all the prisoners on the spot.
Regiment Commander Xu was so angry that he jumped off the stretcher, and he was also kicked the commander of the second battalion to run away; Although the Sharp Knife Regiment is a unit with great achievements, the killing of prisoners is not an ordinary offense, and from the height of politics, it is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, and the requirements of the General Command are severe punishment.
Commander Xu, who was still on the hospital bed, knew the requirements of the commander-in-chief, pulled out the needle and returned to the regiment to protect his subordinates under the pressure above, and took on the responsibility of killing the prisoners, and the head of the regiment Xu, who was going to the military court, was stopped by the commander-in-chief in the end, although there were many military merits and someone to protect him, in the end he was dismissed from the military and expelled from the army, and there were some humane chiefs' instructions to let the local government resettle the expelled Xu Jinjun according to the transfer!
After the head of the Xu regiment secretly left, the military exploits of the Sharp Knife Regiment were wiped out, and Wang Gaoshan, the political commissar who was the only chief officer of the Sharp Knife Regiment at that time, and a group of people of the Sharp Knife Regiment were also promoted.