At 8 o'clock in the morning of August 10, 1968, when we were preparing for the students in the classroom, Teacher Cen, Uncle Lan and Aunt Lotus walked into the classroom wearing neat school uniforms.

The trainees stood up and shouted, "Instructor! Good morning! ”

The instructors shouted: "Hello students! ”

They walked to the podium, and Teacher Cen said, "Students! Sit down! ”

Everyone sat down neatly.

Teacher Cen said, "Students! From this day onwards, you will begin to develop your skills and take a different path in life! Through these ten days of study and training, the seeds will be planted for you to become iron warriors and strong people in life! No matter how many skills you learn in these 10 days, you will have more confidence and ability to face the challenges of life and work in the future! All men are created equal, and there is no distinction between high and low! But, God, favor those who are diligent, brave, confident, and wise! We want you to stand out from the crowd! Become a dragon among men! Become a hero who overcomes all difficulties and obstacles and defeats a stubborn enemy! ”

Everyone applauded enthusiastically!

Teacher Cen said, "Students! These 10 days of training and training have been very difficult for everyone! However, we don't have any more time for everyone to grow in learning and training! Good seeds take root when they encounter sunlight and soil! A good apprentice will become a dragon and a phoenix when he encounters the master's ignition, just like a spring breeze and rain! I hope you are all good seeds! Good apprentice! School! ”

Uncle Lan said, "Students! I'm going to give you the first lesson of school! All students stand up! Bring your notebooks to the gun room! There we will explain how firearms work, disassembly, assembly and daily maintenance! ”

Then, with pencils and notebooks, everyone followed the three instructors to the classroom and went to the gun room.

When I arrived at the gun room, there were fifteen ** tables, and machine guns, rifles and pistols were placed on each workbench, which were some discarded old guns that had been overhauled and used for teaching in the past.

First of all, we stood and listened, Uncle Lan explained on the color wall chart that the firing principle of machine guns, rifles, pistols and other firearms has been key components and wearing parts. He demonstrated the disassembly and assembly of the object.

Then, we returned to our workbench and disassembled and assembled according to the demonstration, and the three instructors were on patrol to guide us in the operation.

Through a morning of repeated practice, we basically mastered the working principle of the three firearms, disassembly, assembly and daily maintenance.

Uncle Lan said, "Students! These firearms are very safe! In the future, you can come here often to practice! Then, start the blind dismantling, blind installation! Be sure to achieve the integration of the gun body! In battle, it is your only reliable companion! That's why we all call them "guys"! In the afternoon, we will send real guys to do live shooting training! ”

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At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, we were at the indoor shooting range of the former military academy to conduct a live-fire practice with real guys. The mechanical handlebars and sound-dampening ear cups can also be used, so teaching and training are very convenient!

Uncle Lan is not only an excellent hunter, but also an excellent instructor, he first gave us the shooting experience of 10 rounds each, and then he explained the shooting principles and shooting operation essentials.

Through Uncle Lan's patient guidance, we have basically mastered the basic essentials of three types of shooting: crawling, standing and half-squatting! Everyone began to put on sound-muffled earmuffs and practice shooting in three positions in their own isolated shooting position!

Uncle Lan said, "Students! Don't worry about running out of bullets! There are more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition of all kinds! These bullets are about to expire when they are not used again! In the future, as long as I'm here, you can all come here for shooting practice! Only by practicing more, your marksmanship will be accurate! In order to achieve the unity of the gun body! ”

We don't know how long we practiced, but there was a lot of gunfire and smoke in this shooting room!

Our hands were numb from the real guys!

However, we are finding the feeling of shooting more and more, and we are hitting more and more accurately!

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We practiced until it was almost dark, then we cleaned up and cleaned up the shooting range and went to the cafeteria to eat.

In the cafeteria, Mr. Cen was very happy to see such diligence and hard work!

He and Aunt Lotus prepared a sumptuous dinner for us, including fried dried beans with bacon, fried green peppers with luncheon meat, stir-fried wild vegetables, tomato and egg drop soup and rice.

We sat down at two tables for men and women, and everyone chatted while eating!

Teacher Cen smiled and said, "Okay! It's hard to get started! Just get off to a good start! Training later becomes easier! The kung fu here is the capital for you to face life and society in the future! You must know the importance of these skills, and you will definitely study and practice hard! Sweat more in peacetime, and bleed less in wartime! ”

Brother Tie Dan smiled and said, "Teacher Cen! These guys are so much better than our shotguns! What a place to go! ”

Uncle Lan said, "Yes! Our vintage shotguns come in powdered black** and sandballs! Its explosive power is certainly not as powerful as the explosion of nitrocellulose and the power of steel bullets! Modern firearms have a fast rate of fire, the bullet flight process is rotating, and the flight trajectory is very precise! Moreover, the repeatability and stability are excellent! And the old-fashioned shotgun is a shotgun loaded with sandballs! Bullets are flying! What if the ** is damp and the flight distance of the scattered bomb is uncertain?! Therefore, it is difficult to get it right! ”

Everyone laughed!

After dinner, the older siblings went to the grass of the playground to chat.

I, Yanfang, Xiaoda, Sister Wenjuan and Sister Caiyan, a junior student, went to the back of the kitchen, by the stream on campus to chat in the shade.

Yanfang, Xiaoda and Sister Caiyan told everyone about their family backgrounds and future plans.

Yanfang said: "Alas! You're all locals! My dad was an orphan from a young age! He doesn't even know where he is now! When my father was young, he fled to Daling Town, and Mr. Cen saw that my father was literate and took him in as a teacher! Although, now, my parents are teachers! But in the future, I don't know what to do? ”

I said, "Yanfang! It doesn't matter! In the future, as long as we have food to eat, you won't go hungry! When we grow up, let's do business together and make money! As long as we are diligent and use our brains! I will definitely be able to live a good life! ”

Xiaoda said: "Alas! My dad used to work under Teacher Cen and was a regimental leader of the town's self-defense army! He will only fight and teach! And now, Mr. Cen can only make a living by watching feng shui, and my father can only hunt! My mother is Mrs. Cen's hometown and college partner! My parents were married by Mr. Cen and Mrs. Mao! My parents don't have any roots in the local area! I don't want to stay in the mountains all the time, I want to live outside the city and see the world! In the future, I'll mess with you! ”

Sister Caiyan said with tears in her eyes: "Alas! Life in the mountains is really too monotonous! Nothing! A few years ago, my mother had a high fever due to a cold and had no money for injections and medicine, so my mother left us like this! Poverty is terrible! ”

Sister Wen Juan comforted Sister Caiyan and said, "Caiyan! This time we're back in town, so come with us!" You live in our house, I sleep in a bed, I teach you to read! I'll let Mama Wei teach you to do business! Buy the mountain goods here and take them to the city! ”

Sister Caiyan said: "Now, it's not good! We still have a few acres of paddy fields at home! If there is no one to farm, my dad and my brothers will have nothing to eat! They are hunters, who only go up to the mountains to hunt, not to farm! ”

Xiaoda said, "Yes! We are all women farming, men hunting and doing business! Sister Caiyan, my father has thought about it, in the future, we will rent the family's land to others to cultivate, so that the tenants will give us some rations every year, and it will definitely be no problem to eat! You can do the same in your family! Living in the city is much better than here! ”

We talked late at the creek until Brother Jing came and told us to go back to the dormitory to rest.

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Since, with clear learning goals and motivation! In the next few days of study and training, we overcame all kinds of psychological and physical difficulties, and stubbornly survived these arduous ten days!

During the teaching and training time on August 11, in the morning, Aunt Lotus explained to us in the classroom about human anatomy, physiology and hygiene and human kinesiology.

In the afternoon, on the playground, Uncle Lan explained to us the basic essentials of martial arts, grappling, and equipment fighting, and began to teach us a full set of warm-up activities to prevent tendon strain, as well as basic movements and routines such as fighting, grappling, and instrument fighting. These technical movements were taught to me by Mr. Cen, and after Uncle Lan knew, I quickly mastered them!

Because my movements are standardized, proficient and accurate in attack, Uncle Lan often asks me to demonstrate my movements!

During the teaching and training time on August 12th, in the morning, Mr. Cen explained to us the chemical principles of the first class, the principle of directional blasting, and the use and operation procedures of the first class.

In the afternoon, Uncle Lan was at the outdoor blasting simulation test site, teaching us to conduct operational training and testing of directional blasting simulation.

During the teaching and training time on August 13, Mr. Cen explained to us the principles of individual and group cooperative operations in the classroom.

In the afternoon, Uncle Lan conducted simulated confrontation training for individual soldiers and small groups at the outdoor special warfare simulation training ground.

During the teaching and training time on August 14, Mr. Cen explained to us the principles of intelligence collection and transmission, and explained the working principles, operating procedures, installation, repair, maintenance and daily maintenance of modern scientific and technological supplies such as telephones and radios.

This was the first time I knew that the telegram messages were encoded in Morse code and transmitted through the radio waves of the station. The other party's message is on a fixed radio channel, which is received, manually monitored, and recorded by a radio wave receiving device, and then the corresponding message is translated through the code book.

This realization made me have a strong interest in radio and the operation of sending and receiving telegrams!

In the afternoon, five sets of radio stations, as well as two sets of hand-cranked generators, charging and power supply devices, were installed in the training room.

Here, Mr. Cen explained to us the principle of dot and stroke coding of Morse code, as well as the Arabic numerals from 0 to 9 and the 26 English mothers and symbols, the permutations and combinations of dots and strokes, and so on.

Aunt Lotus turned out to be a transmitter and receiver of the Self-Defense Army, and she introduced to us the role of the transmitter host, power supply, antenna, and code key, as well as the operation process and operation essentials of the operator, such as installation, connection, start-up, frequency modulation, reception or dispatch preparation, and gave us a demonstration.

Finally, she introduced the role of the code key to send the code, and then sent each of us a code key for practice, let us use our right wrist as the fulcrum, and use the middle finger, index finger and thumb to hold the code key and quickly click the "tick" code sending experience.

Aunt Lotus said that the "dot" called it "drop" is a short code, and the press is 0.1 seconds, which is equivalent to the moment of a quick blink, and the "scratch" is called "answer" is a long code, and the press is 0.3 seconds, which is three times longer than the "drop" time! You need to practice for a long time to find your senses and to be proficient in sending and receiving messages. ”

She gave us "drop" and "answer" successively, let us listen carefully to the buzzer sound, to feel and distinguish the "dots" and "strokes", and then, she carried out a clear code message ticking operation, let us record the signal string by listening, and translate the message to the Morse standard code, and we quickly got it right!

In this way, we began the arduous training of sending and receiving telegrams, and in the following evenings, we basically soaked in the radio room and practiced sending telegrams.

We quickly memorized the sound characteristics of Morse code Arabic numerals and twenty-six letters, and how skillfully they were sent!

During the evening self-study time, the instructor asked us to listen to the public channel through the radio and record the code, which was carried out through the Morse standard coding rules, and the English message was translated.

Because Brother Jingtian, Brother Wenchang, Sister Lifen, Sister Wenjuan, and I are all very good at English, therefore, we know a lot of big things happening around the world, as well as various business situations!

We are very excited about this news!

Brother Wen Chang and Sister Wen Juan are hooked on the radio news in their hometown of North Vietnam, and they want to know about their parents!

Therefore, I, Yanfang and Xiaoda were on the radio, constantly searching for the North Vietnamese channel, and recording and translating these messages!

However, we found that some messages could not be translated, and Aunt Lotus told us that these messages were written with a special codebook, and that it was impossible to translate them without a codebook!

During the teaching and training time on August 15th, in the morning, Mr. Cen explained to us the principles of special operations such as sneak attack, surprise attack, attack, blocking and holding in a special environment, as well as the division of labor among team members, code language, sign language and light language and other mutual contact and communication methods. Then, Uncle Lan gave us groups and action tasks to conduct simulated confrontation training.

In the afternoon, Uncle Lan led us to the outdoor physical training ground to carry out extreme physical training such as crawling forward with weights, crossing and climbing over obstacles, rope climbing, cliff freehand, high-altitude canoe bridge walking, and high-altitude jumping!

For our children growing up in the mountains, this is a daily routine. In addition, we have so many morning exercises, and everyone's physical fitness has been improved.

With the exception of freehand climbing, high-altitude walking, and jumping, which require overcoming psychological fear barriers, everyone else can be successfully completed. Sister Leanne didn't finish these three things, she stood on the fifteen-meter walking platform and cried faint! With my encouragement and psychological help, Yanfang successfully completed these three panicked tasks!

During the teaching and training time on August 16, in the morning, in the medical rescue room, Aunt Lotus explained to us the basic knowledge of physiology and hygiene, explained the pathogenic principles of common diseases in the wild, as well as the pathogenic principles, epidemic prevention and treatment of epidemic diseases, and explained the emergency rescue methods and operating procedures for sports injuries, impact injuries, knife wounds, gunshot wounds, etc.

In the afternoon, in the medical rescue room, Aunt Lotus taught us the operation exercises of emergency rescue such as hemostasis, wound dressing, wound transportation, artificial respiration, and cardiac pacing, and taught me to carry out wound treatment, disinfection and suturing, and taught me to use conventional medical methods such as thermometers, stethoscopes, pulse measurement, anti-inflammatory drugs, and painkillers.

During the teaching and training time on August 17, in the morning, in the classroom, Mr. Cen explained to us the basic knowledge of supply and security, the principles and operating procedures of material procurement, transportation and storage.

In the afternoon, Mr. Cen and Uncle Lan took us to the warehouse and explained to us the process of material warehousing and inspection methods and methods; Principles and methods of classified storage and storage of materials; Warehouse management operation procedures such as material delivery procedures, as well as material recovery.

Everyone felt that this course was very helpful for us to do business in the future!

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During the two days from August 17th to August 18th, all our students conducted strict assessments for each individual item!

We carry out dismantling, assembling and maintenance of firearms; shooting three indicators; Grappling Fighting; radio installation, commissioning, maintenance, sending and receiving telegrams; Individual and group simulated operations; blasting simulation operation; Seven individual abilities; emergency medical care; Testing and assessment of nine major training items such as support and material management.

I, Xiaoda, Yanfang, Sister Wenjuan and other four people passed all the tests and assessments with honors;

Only Sister Li'an failed the physical fitness test and assessment;

Brother Tiedan, Brother Shi, and Sister Caiyan failed in the test and assessment of the radio station, and the others only passed, but did not reach the best;

Brother Zu Xing, Brother Lan Feng, Brother Jingtian, Brother Wenchang, Sister Lifen and Sister Caixia will do well in the test and assessment items!

After passing the ten days of training and assessment, we have all become black and thin!

However, our brains, bodies, self-confidence, and willpower have all been greatly enhanced!

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At 8 a.m. on the 19th of 1968, we held our graduation ceremony in the classroom.

The students all sat neatly in their positions, and Teacher Cen, Uncle Lan and Aunt Lotus also stood on the podium in neat clothes.

Teacher Cen said, "Students! Today, you're graduating and leaving this school! During these 10 days, we used all the teaching resources of the school to educate and train you! You have all graduated through tenacious struggle and hard training! Among them, Qin Jingcai, Lan Xiaoda, Tao Yanfang, Qin Wenjuan and other four students won the title of full honor students! Other students also received excellent results in each individual item! This shows that everyone has maximized their existing potential! Now, Uncle Lan and Aunt Lotus will present awards to everyone! ”

After everyone applauded, Uncle Lan and Aunt Lotus presented us with awards!

All the students each received a piece of the old school custom gold steel waterproof luminous watch! It is embossed with the Chinese traditional Chinese words "Produced by the Great Spirit Self-Defense Army".

All the top students will be rewarded with a gold mahogany fountain pen each! Two ounces of gold bars for one! Our prizes are all in delicate little boxes, this is the first time I have seen gold bars and I am very happy, I know that gold bars are the most valuable thing!

Everyone was very happy after winning the award! Congratulations to each other! Cheers and hugs!

After the ceremony, Sister Wenjuan and I were worried that these valuable gifts would be lost, so we handed them over to Sister Lifen for safekeeping.

In this way, everyone began to pack their luggage and belongings, etc., and prepared to leave the campus and return to the Lan family.

When we were getting our bags ready to leave the school, Uncle Lan called me and Xiaoda to Teacher Cen's office.

Teacher Cen said, "Ah Cai! In the future, you and Xiaoda will be responsible for the management of firearms, ammunition, radios and other materials! We are going to put these things in Nali Village, Grandpa Jia Yongxian! Grandpa Jia is our own person! In the future, these materials will not be used without my approval! Do you understand? ”

I said, "Got it!" I already know Grandpa Jia! ”

Then, Xiaoda and I took my brothers to the warehouse and radio room to pack and pack all the items and supplies here, count them, and load them into the carriage.

Uncle Lan Hu brought two more carriages, so that we had four carriages, enough to transport these things and daily necessities back to the Lan family.

Teacher Cen asked everyone to take away all the bedding and daily necessities they used. These things are not used here, and they will rot after a long time, so that the brothers and sisters don't need to buy new ones when they go to the county seat to study!

Everyone was busy until noon, and finally moved the things that needed to be carried to the car.

Classrooms, dormitories, warehouses, cafeterias, and studios are cleaned, garbage is incinerated, traces are removed, and camouflage is disposed of as necessary.

After finishing the work, we lined up to list the number of people and received the instructor's final lecture.

Teacher Cen said, "You 14 students! It's time to come to school! After walking out of this gate, you have become ordinary people again! You can only remember this learning experience in your hearts! Don't mention it to anyone else! In the future, you must unite sincerely, help each other, and keep the team secret! When necessary, do things to protect the hometown and land, and eliminate violence and peace! However, don't do it on your own! You can't do anything that violates the law and discipline! Do you understand? ”

We said in unison, "Instructor! Got it! ”

Then, we disbanded and followed the four carriages out of the school gates!

After everyone left the school gate, Teacher Cen and Uncle Lan closed the door, and we reluctantly left this place where we could grow!

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