On October 14, 1949, the largest city in the south - Suicheng was liberated, and the victory was pursued, and the pursuit was advanced to Ning City, Guizhou Province. Our military university also followed suit, and the military university could have taken the train from north to south to go straight down to Suicheng, but because the iron bridge was bombed somewhere in front, we had to walk.

Before leaving Shaoxian, the troops carried out discipline rectification, and each of them carried out self-criticism in ideology and action in accordance with the discipline inspection of the military academy, especially in the aspect of observing the discipline of the masses. Each class also invited the local people to participate and listen to their opinions. Comrades who did not carry out well made a thorough examination.

There is a comrade in our class named He Huimin, who was born white, spoke like a woman's voice, screamed and squeamish, and was very shy, plus he took such a woman's name, everyone often joked about him, saying that he was Zhu Bajie reincarnated in the wrong fetus - a woman changed, so he called him "Yin and Yang Man".

During this discipline rectification, he took out a palm-sized blue cloth and said sadly:

"This was stolen from the store, because there were a lot of blisters on my feet, and my shoes and socks were torn every day on the march, and I wanted to wrap my feet with this cloth, but I violated the discipline of the troops." I cried as I spoke.

"What a fucking evil door, a man cries a ball, and loses the face of the army!" Deng Xiaolin blasted him.

Everyone looked at He Huimin's sour appearance and couldn't help laughing, and the pockmarked squad leader suddenly bluffed his face and said, "Everyone be serious!" The older shopkeeper hurriedly said: "A small rag is not worth a copper, there is nothing wrong with this comrade, the army sheds blood and sweat for the revolution, and it is also for the revolution to wrap its feet and walk." ”

"Yin and Yang Man" Xiao He stood up and saluted and apologized to the shopkeeper, and there were words in his mouth: "I'm sorry for you, I only thought of myself, I forgot that I was a soldier of the army, I destroyed the discipline of the masses and disgraced the army, and this will never happen again in the future." "We wanted to laugh again, but we didn't dare to laugh, so we had to cover our mouths with our hands.

On the day of the opening (3 November), the local citizens presented a pennant to the troops, which was embroidered with the eight characters of "spotless soldiers." We are working on the "Learn from the Army!" "Salute to the Great Army!" In the sound of slogans, he left Shaoxian County and ran towards Ying County.

On the 6th, they arrived at the pineapple pit in Yingxian County, and because there were too many troops, they all slept in the open. Here we saw pineapples for the first time, and there were golden ripe pineapples everywhere, so we stayed and bought a lot of them. Many people eat it for the first time and don't know how to peel it, and some eat it without even peeling the thorns of the pineapple eyes, and as a result, they have a stomachache and make a lot of jokes.

The troops advanced along the railway line, and found in a bungalow at a railway crossing, the bodies of three soldiers assassinated by bandits, the red collar badge was still there, the hat was missing, and it was estimated that they had slept too hard at night and lost their vigilance, so that they died. This has aroused our high vigilance, and we must not be left behind during the day.

Going south along the railway, passing through a tunnel, something was both ridiculous and sad: a cadet accidentally kicked a small paper bag during the march, and with a bang, several silver dollars rolled out, and he hurriedly picked it up and put it in his arms, and was inadvertently seen by the person walking in front, and the person walking in front said, "Give me a point?" The person behind refused, "Why didn't I see it when I walked in front, when I was backing!" ”

When he arrived at his destination, he reported the matter to the captain, who talked to the man who had found the money, and the comrade paid only four silver dollars and kept one privately. As a result, it was reported again, so I had to hand over the last one. After the troops arrived at the pineapple pit, they discussed the matter, and the conclusion was: selfishness is too heavy, greed for money, and bad moral character. The person who reported it, with impure motives, should also be criticized.

The person who picked up the silver dollar was still not convinced, and quibbled: "This is not seized, but I picked it up, and there is an essential difference between picking it up and seizing it. This classmate really learned theory at home, learned a set of sophistry, and can drill words.

In view of his awareness, he was given a serious warning. When the troops went to Yangcheng to rectify discipline, they took this incident as a negative example and criticized it in the whole school.

On November 7, he arrived in Ba County and slept in the rough. The Ba River is a small river, the river is thirty or forty meters wide, and there was a railway bridge on the river, which was blown up by the reactionary army, and I saw that a certain engineering company was rushing to repair it. Due to the shortage of rails and sleepers for repairing the bridge, and the depth of the river, it is difficult to repair it all at once. In order to repair the iron bridge as soon as possible, after we arrived, our superiors told us to return immediately to find materials to build the bridge.

Everyone packed their backpacks and took immediate action, walked more than ten miles along the railway line, and found many sleepers, rails, brackets and other materials for building bridges. Carrying and carrying, a steel rail is twenty or thirty meters long, and it takes twenty or thirty people to carry it back, everyone sweated a lot, and a lot of bridge building materials were recovered, and the bridge sappers were happy, and then we helped to erect the railway bridge.

We use the sleeper to erect the base of the "well" shape as the bridge pier to sink to the bottom of the water, and then fix each sleeper with a nail, each bridge pier is left and right, and is supported and fixed with sleepers and rails, and many people go into the water to transport the rails to the south bank, and put the rails on the bridge piers at the same time with a shout.

In order to be firm and solid, foolproof, first lay 20 steel rails on the bridge pier, then lay a layer of sleepers, then lay the rails, and then lay the sleepers, so that a total of three layers are laid, and each layer is repeatedly tied and fixed with grasping nails and iron wires, so as to support the heavy train. With everyone's hard work, the iron bridge was quickly repaired.

A locomotive on the south bank, the commander of the engineer company held a small red flag, guided the front of the car to move slowly to the bridge, the front of the car crawled like a snail, take a step to see a step, when the front of the car drove on the bridge pier, heard the sound of the bridge pier squeaking, everyone's heart was raised, the head of the engineer waved the small red flag downward, the front of the car immediately stopped, and the front of the car immediately retreated to the south bank. The sapper soldiers inspected the wooden pier and found that the foundation of the pier had sunken, which was really unlucky, and the steel rails were also out of place.

The chief of the engineer gave the order to "dismantle the bridge piers and rebuild them", and all the troops who participated in the emergency repairs rushed into battle without saying a word. To sum up the last experience, it is necessary to dig the pier foundation deeply, and then widen the pier area to increase the stress area.

Fortunately, the river is only more than two meters deep, the soldiers rowed a boat, put three or four meters long steel rails into the bottom of the river, surrounded a bridge pier with a diameter of six meters, and then surrounded by iron sheets, drained the water, excavated the sediment of the bridge pier, laid a layer of sleepers at the bottom, and supported the pier sleepers with steel rails all around, so that the pier base is four times the original, layer upon layer, forming a tower-shaped pier with a large bottom and a small top, and then supported by rails left and right, forming a herringbone bracket, generating a resultant force, and not displacing it left and right.

Then the bridge deck is erected on the pier, and finally the rail docking is corrected, and the second test run is carried out.

The train roared and slowly moved towards the bridge pier, and thousands of eyes stared at the tall wooden pier "monster", and everyone was extremely nervous. The driver gripped the brake handle, roared again, and slowly moved towards the north shore. It was almost time to reach Jiangxin, and the driver stretched out his head from time to time to look forward, backward, left, and right, and we also pinched our sweat, thinking, just don't have an accident. The front of the car slowly moved forward, and when the front of the car passed the last pier, everyone opened their eyes again, staring at the bridge deck and the bridge pier, the bridge pier was as stable as Mount Tai, and the front of the car passed smoothly and reached the north bank!

At this time, the troops and the masses on both sides of the strait were jubilant: "Long live!" "Hooray!" Loud in the sky. The locomotive, once again went back to test whether the bridge was strong and firm, the locomotive roared, accelerated the speed, crossed the bridge again, and proved that the bridge was strong and stable through repeated pressure test experiments.