The campaign to liberate Hainan Island was under intense preparations, and at night, on the beach, the soldiers were still carrying oil lamps under the moonlight and hurried to build ships. During the break, Lin Nanhui walked to Wang Hongju's side and asked for a cigarette, and the two of them smoked cigarettes and chatted about family life on the beach. Lin Nanhui was grateful to Wang Hongju for helping him and Gillian, and he felt that a leader like Wang Hongju who adhered to principles and was warm-hearted was a rare good person. Lin Nanhui asked Wang Hongju cautiously: "Instructor, are you married?" ”

Wang Hongju replied: "No." ”

"It's good to have a family!" Lin Nanhui blurted out.

"What do you say? What's good if you don't have a family? ”

Wang Hongju asked, and Lin Nanhui hurriedly put away the words that were still going to be said. He thought to himself that there was something that was not the time to say it.

"What do you mean by that?" Wang Hongju saw that Lin Nanhui didn't reply, and glared at him again.

Lin Nanhui smiled and said: "Our girl in Leizhou is beautiful, I mean you can find a beautiful and virtuous woman to be our wife, if you get married, you won't have a chance!" Lin Nanhui asked tentatively: "Instructor, a tall and handsome man like you must have a lot of girls to pursue, right?" “

"That's it! You can solve your old bachelor first! You don't have to worry about my business! ”

"I'll talk about my personal problems when Hainan Island is liberated, and then I will find a good woman to be my wife and have a lot of children! You give them godfathers. Lin Nanhui looked serious when she said this.

Wang Hongju patted Lin Nanhui on the shoulder and quipped: "It's not interesting to be a godfather, you two might as well have a child of Lian, let me be an instructor for them!" ”

"Yes! It depends on whether my wife has that ability! ”

"Forget it! My wife hasn't had it yet, so I'll brag about it first! ”

Lin Nanhui was called away by the shipbuilding soldiers, Wang Hongju sat down by a coconut tree by the beach, Lin Nanhui's words just now aroused his heart, and he looked at the sea intently.

The South China Sea is deep and silent at night, the tide gently laps the beach on the shore, and the round moon hangs high in the sea and sky, it is like a silver-white plate sprinkled with soft light and shadow on the sea. At the distant intersection of the sea and the sky, the blue-black sea water and the velvety night sky blend together, making it impossible to distinguish which is the sky and which is the sea, and he does not know whether the moon is walking in the sky or floating in the sea. He felt that in the vast sea and sky, everything seemed so unknown and mysterious. Wang Hongju touched the scene, and couldn't help but think of his elderly parents, the lover in his heart, and many past events in Beiping. The Leizhou Peninsula and Beijing are thousands of miles away, and in the years of beacon fire, even the wild goose could not pass on the book. He silently asked in his heart: "How are you now, fellow relatives who are under a round of bright moon?" Do you know I'm thinking about you? Are you missing me, too?

Homesick, Wang Hongju unbuttoned his collar and let the cool and slightly salty sea breeze blow his hot chest, and when his mood calmed down, he stood up and returned to the shipbuilding site to work with the soldiers.

At 7:30 p.m. on 16 April 1950, thousands of combat vessels of all kinds set out to liberate Hainan Island and force their way across the Qiongzhou Strait.

Wang Hongju's company was the first group to set off, and the boat he was riding was built by the company itself, and there were more than 20 people on the boat, and the old fishermen invited from the sea were at the helm. Wang Hongju and some of the soldiers were northerners, although they had spent several hours at sea by boat during training, but they had never really sailed in the sea by boat, when the boat had just sailed into the blue sea, they still felt the novelty and excitement, the wooden boat kept shaking left and right under the shaking of the sea, and after a while on the boat, Wang Hongju and those northern soldiers were seasick. Wang Hongju's head sank like lead, he had a headache and nausea, and vomited the things he had eaten before boarding the ship on the side of the ship, and after vomiting the food, he vomited out acid water and gastric juice, and he wanted to vomit out all the things in his stomach to be more comfortable. The waves stirred up by the bow of the boat drew two white arcs on the side of the boat, and occasionally a few seagulls followed the stern, these scenes were long unappreciated by Wang Hongju, and the boat ride in the sea was a very painful torture for him. Lin Nanhui and Wang Hongju were in the same boat, he looked at Wang Hongju's uncomfortable appearance and said happily: "Instructor, you landlubber can't do it!" When it's time to grab the beach and attack the island, can you stand up? Wang Hongju sat on the side of the boat and didn't speak, he waved his hand at Lin Nanhui and made a gesture that there was no problem.

At this time, several enemy planes "buzzed" from a distance, they flew to the top of the sea crossing army to carry out frenzied bombing and strafing on the ships on the sea, the bombs exploded one after another on the sea surface, the raindrops of bullets stirred up a string of splashes on the sea, the wooden boats were swayed by the waves of the bombs, some ships were sunk, some fighters were hit by the bullets of the enemy planes, at this time all the light and heavy weapons on the ships fired at the enemy planes together, In a short time, the dense fire knocked out and damaged several enemy planes, and one of the downed enemy planes dragged the black smoke monster into the sea with a scream, and almost smashed into the ships crossing the sea. Lin Nanhui hadn't fought for a long time, and he kept shooting at the enemy planes in the sky with a light machine gun in his arms like he was having fun, and suddenly he shouted happily: "It's fighting!" Look, I hit it! At this time, an enemy plane flew into the distance with its wings blazing and its fuselage crooked, and after a while a violent explosion was heard on the sea. At this time, Wang Hongju had recovered a little from the state of seasickness, and he suddenly shouted: "Lin Nanhui played well!" ”

After the enemy aircraft flew away. The enemy's coastal defense artillery came in rows and rows, and the dense artillery fire formed a blockade line on the sea. The PLA warships bravely advanced in the face of enemy fire, one ship was shattered, and the boat behind rushed up again, breaking the ship's board and some soldiers who were killed and wounded floating on the sea.

The boat that Wang Hongju was riding suddenly did not go forward, and turned around on the sea, and when he saw that the old boatman at the helm was covered in blood and fell to the stern, he hurriedly ran over to help the old man up, and took a closer look at the old man who had lost his breath. Wang Hongju put down the man and hurriedly grabbed the helm, the boat swayed back and forth in the turbulent water, and he couldn't hold the helm at all. Lin Nanhui ran over and said, "Instructor, get out of the way!" I got it. After all, Lin Nanhui is a person who was born by the sea, and he has gone out to sea with fishermen, so it is not difficult for him to take the helm. Lin Nanhui held the rudder steadily, adjusted the bow of the ship, and adjusted the direction of progress. He smiled at Wang Hongju: "With me, don't worry!" ”

The ship rode the wind and waves in the dense artillery fire, and the sails were beaten to a thousand holes, at this time, Wang Hongju and the soldiers could vaguely see the vague horizon in front of them by the flickering fire of the artillery fire, and soon the landing and beach grabbing were about to begin, Wang Hongju counted the number of people, two soldiers and one shipwright died on his ship, one soldier was seriously injured and three were lightly injured, and the combat effectiveness was basically not weakened. "The landing operation is about to begin, comrades are ten times more energetic!" At the instigation of the instructors, the fighters all stood up, clenched their weapons in their hands, and were ready to rush to the shore.

The closer the ship got to the shore, the more dense the bullets fired by the enemy, the soldiers on the ship were lying on the boat and returning fire to the enemy with various weapons, only Lin Nanhui couldn't lie down because he was holding the rudder, a bullet hit his shoulder, his hand let go of the bow of the ship, he gritted his teeth and endured the pain to put the whole rudder, and then his body was hit by a bullet, in order not to deviate the bow of the ship from the direction he pressed his whole body on the helm handle, and the stern deck was stained red with Lin Nanhui's blood. Wang Hongju and the soldiers were all nervously staring ahead, and no one noticed that Lin Nanhui was injured.

The boat rushed onto the beach with a "bang", "Rush! With a loud shout, the fighters jumped from their boats into the water and washed up into the beach with a water up to their knees. Lin Nanhui watched the soldiers jump off the boat, he wanted to rush off the boat, but he didn't even have the strength to move. At this time, Wang Hongju, who had rushed to the beach, turned around and saw Lin Nanhui lying on the helm handle without moving, only to know that he was injured, he wanted to go back to the boat and carry Lin Nanhui off, at this moment a cannonball hit, the boat they had been riding in was hit, and the waves that exploded threw pieces of broken boat boards around, Wang Hongju was pushed to the ground by the powerful air waves, and when he looked up again, except for the broken boat board floating on the sea, the ferry boat and Lin Nanhui were invisible, Wang Hongju called out loudly with grief and anger: "Lin Nanhui, you come back for me!" ”。

Ships approached the coast, and PLA soldiers shouted slogans of victory and poured onto the beach to storm the enemy garrisons. Under the fierce offensive of the People's Liberation Army, the enemy troops defending the island had no intention of fighting, they left piles of corpses and were defeated on all fronts, and the powerful PLA troops successfully landed in the northern part of Hainan Island. Subsequently, the People's Liberation Army took advantage of the victory to pursue and successively clear the remnants of the enemy on the island. More than 30,000 Kuomintang defenders on the island were annihilated, and the remaining 60,000 fled by boat.