"There's the border ahead, and according to the map, the post we're going to is on that high ground." Night Pine pointed to the cliff road that stood high in front of him.

"I'll go! Isn't it embarrassing to build the outpost on such a high position! ”

"This was once a disputed area, and the occupation of the commanding heights is extremely important."

"Well, the vantage point is really important, but how do we get there? You can't climb rocks, can you? Looking at the outpost located on the top of the mountain, Dou Miao suddenly felt a little worried.

"How to get up, of course it's up the steps!"

Dou Miao looked around and said in surprise: "Where are the steps?" ”

Ye Song said: "I want to feel the strategic importance of this outpost, so I chose this angle to watch, and the steps are in the other direction. ”

Dou Miao's face was full of incredulity, swallowed and said, "Do you really think you're traveling?" There is even a leisure and elegance to enjoy the scenery. Grass! How did I get a teammate like you? ”

Ye Song sneered: "I don't think our journey is too boring, so I want to change my mentality and adjust it." ”

"Let's go, if you want to adjust, you can't adjust here. Let's complete this so-called 'search mission' as soon as possible, and return to the mainland to adjust as we want." ”

……

When she came to the steps, Dou Miao suddenly felt that her legs and feet were weak.

I saw that these concrete steps stretched like a long dragon on the mountain, and there was no end in sight. Some of the steps were covered with thick moss, and many were damaged.

"Night Song, is there any other way to go?" Dou Miao asked sluggishly.

Ye Song spread his hands and said, "You also saw it just now, this outpost is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and the steps are the only passage. ”

Doumiao took off her hat and scratched her hair indiscriminately and said, "What is this!" Either it's the 'road of life and death' or this kind of 'ladder'. ”

"Hey, little comrade, you're really right, the nickname of this outpost is indeed called 'Heavenly Ladder Outpost'."

Ye Song and Dou Miao looked behind them at the same time, and saw several soldiers with swollen backpacks walking out of the mountain road, and it was a lieutenant officer with glasses who spoke.

Night Pine and Dou Miao saluted and introduced themselves at the same time.

"Hello, I am Ai Chuan, the platoon commander of the border regiment here, and on behalf of our regiment, I welcome you to the 3197 outpost."

“3197？ Is this a codename? ”

Ai Chuan said as he walked: "3197 is the number of steps leading to the outpost, and the outpost is named for this. ”

"3197 steps? This is equivalent to the total number of steps in Songshan Mountain. Ye Song looked at their backpacks and said, "With these almost thirty or forty kilograms of materials on your back, your leg skills are not weaker than those of Shaolin monks!" ”

Ai Chuan laughed and said: "Compared with Shaolin Temple, we naturally admit defeat in fist and foot kung fu, but if we compare this leg skill, we are very confident." On this mountain road, we have to go up and down three times a month at most, and we also carry seventy or eighty pounds of supplies. It's still relatively easy to walk, and when the snow covers the mountains and we deliver fresh meat and vegetables, it's really deadly. ”

Ai Chuan recalled: "When I just graduated from the military academy, I carried a bag of 100 catties of rice on my back when I went up the mountain for the first time. ”

"Military academy graduates came here to work as porters, and the blow was really big." Ye Song said sympathetically.

"However, this palm-sized post has a steep terrain, with a slope of 70-80 degrees in some sections. It is said that the vertical height of this highland is not high, only 500 meters, but there are nearly 3,197 steps here, and many sections have been abandoned due to decades of freezing and snow immersion, snow and water washed away, countless repairs and constructions. In addition, there are often natural disasters such as landslides, mudslides, and landslides, so that our officers and soldiers here are called 'sentinels on the tip of bayonets'. ”

"However," Ai Chuan said again, "compared to my comrades-in-arms who were stationed here in the past, I am still happy. How difficult their life was back then, because the outpost was located on the top of the mountain, the terrain was small, there was no water source, and the draft depended on the back of the mountain. A person can only carry a bucket of water a day, and the backs of the soldiers at that time often have blood marks on the backs of the buckets. No electricity, no fresh vegetables, monotonous spare time...... The post is now connected to water, electricity, closed-circuit television and satellite telephones. The old barracks and wood-paneled observation posts are a thing of the past. ”

Ai Chuan said with emotion: "The predecessors built the road and the people walked later, which is convenient for those of us who come after us!" It took five years for the officers and men of the company to finally build the road. In addition, due to the needs of war preparedness, the original civil and wooden outpost was to be rebuilt into a reinforced concrete outpost, and all the building materials had to be carried up to the top of the mountain on the back of people. Local migrant workers can only carry 30 to 50 catties at a time, and the freight fee has increased from 1 yuan to 3 yuan per catty, but even so, the migrant workers later refused to carry it. At present, the outpost is carried to the top of the mountain by the officers and men, carrying a stone, a grain of sand, and a steel bar. ”

"Huh? Platoon Commander Ai, why are there people on the other side of the mountain? Doumiao looked into the distance.

"Your eyes are good enough. That's right, there is a sentry post in the opposite half of the mountainside, and when the weather is good, you can even clearly see the other party's every move. ”

Ye Song looked through the binoculars and did see someone moving on the other side, who seemed to be preparing for a meal, and I didn't know if they were eating curry.

"At that time, they took advantage of the fact that our country was busy with the war on the eastern peninsula and had no time to look west, and sent troops to invade and occupy most of our southern Tibet. Later, in repeated battles, our army advanced 8 kilometers to the south, and has been holding on to this day. ”

Ye Song clenched his fists when he heard this, and suddenly he had a strong sense of mission.

Ai Chuan saw that the two of them suddenly fell silent, so he said again: "Although they are also guarding the outpost, the conditions of our outpost are far from being comparable to the other party. In recent years, bathing equipment has been installed at the outposts and computers have been distributed. Now, the soldiers of our outpost 'do not go down the mountain to know what is going on in the mountain', and they can study together with the officers and men of the company on the mountain, and carry out various online battles and other activities. In their spare time, they also carried out interesting military competitions such as 'mountaineering to capture the red flag' and 'treasure hunting in the dense forest', which not only enlivened the soldiers' thinking but also enhanced their physical strength, so that the outstanding problems of the soldiers' physiology being affected by the environment were alleviated. ”

Ai Chuan said with a smile: "This outpost can be said to be full of talents, there is a veteran who uses the limited open space to grow vegetables, and the vegetable self-sufficiency rate of the outpost in the peak season is 60%. The former commander of the outpost was strict with himself, and last year he became the first soldier to be promoted to the outpost with excellent results in military and political excellence. In addition, there are those who teach themselves guitar, calligraphy, and cooking, and it is a place where dreams come true. ”

The rainy season here lasts for more than 200 days, and the average sunshine hours are no more than 2 hours, but Ye Song sees the sunshine in his smile, and this sunshine is the belief of climbing the ladder all year round to "loyally defend the country".

Thinking of this, Ye Song smiled slightly, he could make his heart sunny in the desolate and lonely outpost, and he would definitely be able to live a more sunny life in other places in the future.