After waiting for dawn, the three elderly people insisted on going to the scene to participate in the search and rescue work.

At this time, Wushan realized that there was an old man in his sixties in the crowd.

walked up and whispered, "Wushan, secretary of the Hefeng County Party Committee, who are you?" ”

He hahahale: "I have long known that you kid, I am Xiao Quanfu, the commander of the Victorian Provincial Military Region, why don't you go directly with me and let the three chiefs rest?" I'm so old, I didn't sleep at night, and I ran straight here. ”

"General Xiao, please wait, I'll try!" Wu Shan patted him on the back: "It's best for you to rest here, the years are not forgiving, more than sixty." ”

He didn't know what to call it, anyway, the commander of the Victorian Military District was at least a major general.

"Xu Shuai, Chairman Xian Nian, Vice Premier Yang," Wu Shan pushed away the guards and said to them in a deep voice: "When it comes to search and rescue in complex situations, here, I dare to say that I have the most experience." The three of you went over not to help us, but to cause trouble for us. Think about it, at such an age, so many planes were sent together. Not to mention the burden on the Uyghur Provincial Military Region, even if we are peaceful, it also makes people panic. Before retiring, I believe that my predecessors knew what I did. ”

Xu Shuai blew his beard and glared: "Stinky boy, you dare to say that about us?" ”

"Humph!" Wu Shan glanced at him: "I understand your feelings. If you really want to have three long and two short things here with me, Commander Xiao and I will not be able to run away. The climate in the desert is complicated, don't look at the snowy weather, who knows if there are sandstorms there? In an emergency, I can skydive in under a second, and I don't believe you can be so agile at your age. ”

Yang Yun smiled bitterly and played the warm card: "Xiaoshan, after all, we were insiders back then, so I couldn't feel at ease." I heard that the old comrades-in-arms and brothers are still alive, and they have done it with the great man, and they ran over overnight. ”

"No, Grandpa Yang." Wu Shan went over and put his arm around the old man's shoulder: "I'm begging you, okay?" The old squad leader we have to bring it over, firstly because only he can know the specific situation of the Dao, and secondly because they have been fighting against the harsh environment for forty-four years and have adapted to the climate here. I dare say he's in much better health than all three of you. ”

That's true. Qu Longbiao came out of it just now, and his body was full of tendon meat.

Although they were reluctant, the three old men also knew that Wushan was telling the truth.

Chairman Xiannian smiled bitterly and said to the other two: "It seems that this is the case, just listen to the arrangements of the local comrades." ”

Don't look at each one in a high position, unambiguous in big things. When it comes to comradeship. All of them are like children. They also knew how much pressure it would bring to Xiao Quanfu and Wushan if they really wanted to go.

Commander of the Victorian Military District. Whatever you say, you have to go over with everyone.

For the same reason. I couldn't persuade him at all.

annoyed his eyes, and his neck stiffened: "Husband Ma Leather Shroud, you are not afraid of being so young, what am I afraid of?" ”

"Okay," Wu Shan was not pretentious: "Helicopter combat, don't look at you as a commander." Not as familiar to me. From now on, you go and declare that I am going to take over that batch of planes until the end of the search and rescue. What are you crossing? If you don't obey the command, you won't be allowed to go. And you have to be on the same plane as me. ”

Seeing that Xiao Quanfu was also deflated. The three old men laughed happily next to them.

Wushan didn't talk nonsense to him, so he picked up the phone directly and dialed the front desk: "Let Political Commissar Wang answer the phone!" ”

"Is it the secretary? What's the indication? "Wangjiashan's blood is boiling.

Speaking of which, he used to be the commander of the 184th regiment and never participated in the campaign. Last time, the security work of Hefeng County was taken over by the Ouluotai Military Division, and the boss in his heart was not happy, and he had already worked hard.

"Political Commissar Wang, now I order you to let your right-hand man go to the twenty-eighth floor." Wu Shan accentuated his tone: "Remember, real guns, no matter what reason anyone has, as long as they don't have the consent of the above, they will be killed!" ”

Even Wang Jiashan, who had never been tempered by war, was furious when he heard this, and he hurriedly agreed.

The public security bureau could only be responsible for the periphery, and the secretary of the county party committee ordered him to investigate all suspicious people in Hefeng County until the order was lifted.

The next call was to Wang Yongqing.

Either way, he was the head of the county government. I didn't let him go to the limelight last time, but now he is much more honest, and he has never had anything to do with Zeng Yingkai again. Although he was sentenced to death in his heart, he still had to be allowed to perform his duties during his tenure. This is what a county magistrate should do, Wushan is gone, and he is the full person in charge of Hefeng County.

Solely? Let's just take care of the day-to-day things, so to speak.

Of course, I still have to knock him: "I have put the comrades of the Armed Forces Department and the Public Security Bureau in charge of the matter here at the Buxel Hotel, there is nothing to do, don't come here." Because the death order has been given, anyone who comes up without permission will be killed! ”

Today's weather is very good, there are no clouds in the sky, it is blue.

However, the red sun shone on the body, and there was no heat at all.

In the helicopter, through the glass window, there was still some warmth.

At the last moment, let Wang Jiashan hand over the command to Li Kaijun, because he was the head snake in 1841. Don't talk about Meng He, even the current secretary of the 184 Commune, Gou Jianjun, can't be familiar with him.

The plane flew very low and specially handed over the telescope to Qu Longbiao.

In the past, during the war years, he occasionally had the opportunity to touch this high-tech thing, but most of the time, it was the chiefs who made it, and he just secretly took it and took a look.

Forty-four years have passed, and today's telescopes have improved a lot in terms of accuracy and distance.

Qu Longbiao is a qualified veteran, and after just a few fiddling sessions, he slowly became familiar with it.

"Ahead, yes, it's where there are some small black spots in the stone pile, go from there." The old squad leader is in command.

It's a pity that it can only be conveyed by Wu Shan next to him, and he also wears a telescope and keeps issuing instructions in his mouth: "Turn about 30 degrees to the north, then 10 degrees to the east, and go forward, 30 degrees to the south." ”

The old squad leader admired this young man who had spoken out in front of the three old leaders at first, from the beginning of his suspicion to the present. He knew that he had been isolated from the world for so many years. Maybe you can aim and shoot a gun or something, but it can't keep up with the current pace of war.

Finally, I saw a small lake that was almost dry up in front of me. Next to the small lake, about fifty acres of land, there are signs of artificial labor.

"Old squad leader, isn't that little lake there!" Wu Shan asked in a deep voice.

Qu Longbiao couldn't cry anymore: "Yes, that's it." Brothers, I'm here to take you home! ”

There was a lot of noise on the plane, and there was no shouting, so I couldn't hear it clearly.

His words themselves are mumbled. Wushan, who was close at hand, didn't know what he was muttering.

Fortunately, with a megaphone with them, the veterans crouched in the grass were nowhere to be seen in the binoculars.

"Comrades-in-arms, we are the people's army led by the GC Party. I have come to your rescue. Wu Shan took the loudspeaker on the helicopter in his hand and shouted: "Please don't make drastic moves, the old squad leader Qu Longbiao is back with us." ”

Those veterans lurking. Motionless on the ground.

"Speak." Wu Shan handed the megaphone to Qu Longbiao: "Press and hold the buttons on both sides, and people outside the plane can hear your voice." ”

It's a pity that Wushan still ignored one thing, most of the voices made through the loudspeaker were the same, and they were heard in the ears of the veterans. Still can't believe it.

The plane stopped about 400 meters away from the veterans, out of range of the old rifles.

Qu Longbiao's image has changed a lot now, but he is still firmly in front.

He raised his hands high: "Two dogs, old oil." It was I who finally got in touch with the party. ”

One, two, and there were constant veterans coming out of the lurking point.

After all, they have been together for forty-four years of comradeship, and they believe in their brothers.

When they finished talking about the old days, Wu Shan walked over with the soldiers and the clothes, shoes and hats that had been prepared for them.

Most of the Red Army soldiers of that year came from the south of the Yangtze River.

Now everyone's face is like a plateau red, full of chapped mouths.

On the face of every veteran, old tears were crossed.

The soldiers who came with them all turned around involuntarily.

It's miserable, eighteen veterans, all without clothes. Because the clothes that were worn back then have long been impossible to wear. The preserved gray military uniforms were not dared to be touched with their hands, and only the five-pointed stars with some red paint peeling off could still be identified as the military uniforms of the regular Red Army.

It's really hard to imagine that this group of veterans with wrinkled faces picked out the ground with their hands and lived in it.

Farming with sticks and stones, living a primitive life. Fortunately, it was harvest season when I fled, and along the way, I dug up some peanuts from the fields of the common people, broke some corn and put them on, and these seeds saved their lives.

The place where they slept was thatch that they had found in the field.

The entrances to the nests are covered with thatch, which is used to ward off the cold wind outside.

Fortunately, this is Victorian Province, and if it were in the south, the heavy rain would have been soaked by the rain.

A few pieces of gravel were piled up, and it was a stove, and the helmets they had seized from the Kuomintang were used as pots to cook and eat.

Unfortunately, helmets also have a service life. I can't use it after that.

It's hard to tell that it's a steel helmet.

"At first, we dug a hole by the small lake and lived," Qu Longbiao slowly fell into his memory: "When I got up in the morning, I found that the water had soaked in, so I had to stay away from the lake. ”

"There were still a lot of wolves back then!" An old soldier next to him recalled: "At one time a pack of wolves, more than 200 of them, first picked with bayonets, and then all the bayonets were bent. After that battle, there were no big wolves around. ”

"Why don't you shoot with a gun?" Wang Jiashan asked curiously.

The veterans did not speak, and Wu Shan had to explain to him: "Ammunition is the life of a soldier." In this unknown environment, every bullet saved means an extra life. ”

In order to preserve the fire, the southerners knew that the fire was covered with ashes and a piece of wood was stuffed inside.

That is, there are no cooking tools, and what the veterans eat here is burned out of the fire.

Fortunately, the water here has a certain amount of salt. If it's all fresh water, it's probably not as simple as glaucoma.

"I don't know how long it's been since we've eaten something cooked in a pot." Qu Longbiao's face was full of brilliance: "Secretary Wu, you are very experienced, and the food I give me is liquid food." Back then, we heard these things from military doctors. ”

Wu Shan waved his hand: "I have also been a soldier, just some ordinary common sense." It's just in the south, where you can eat everywhere. Now, let's all get on the plane and go back with us. ”

The young soldiers, who didn't know what to call Wushan, only vaguely replaced them with chiefs. Because before coming, the commander had already instructed to listen to this chief in the process of search and rescue.

Xiao Quanfu didn't come for anything? was held there by Wushan with a hand knife, and his role was to introduce the young county party secretary and soldiers to each other.

It is said that when the people of the Zephyr Armed Forces carried the unconscious Commander Xiao up, they frightened the three old men. God knows if they insist on coming over, this daring boy will do the same to himself.

Wushan took a look at the time, and it took more than three hours to get here from Zefeng.

At present, the speed of military helicopters is about 200 kilometers per hour, that is, this place is about 500 miles south-east of 184.

At this point, he pulled his camera out of his satchel like a trick.

"Old squad leader, you stand here, I want to take a picture of you!" Wu Shan shouted at Qu Longbiao with a grin.

The time is fixed at 12:31 on January 15, 1981, and on January 15, 1982. (To be continued......)