A strong wind blew, raising snowflakes and hitting Captain Jiao's face, and he woke up suddenly. When people have a big event or a lot of pressure in their hearts, they seem to be sleeping, snoring and falling asleep, and their minds are like movies, living the things they encounter during the day, so they will wake up immediately when they encounter even a little bit of wind and grass. He scratched off the snow on his body, grabbed the snow and rubbed it vigorously on his eyelids, and felt that his brain was much clearer. He tried to stand up, but his frozen leg didn't listen to the command, he tried to stand a few times, and sat down on the snow again. I had to rub my legs, first rubbed the two joints and then my calves for a while, and felt a little hot, and then slowly stood up. I looked at the soldiers who were sleeping horizontally, all of them were covered by snow, and there was no one in sight, only a small snowdrift in the shape of a person. He looked at his watch, and at one o'clock in the morning, everyone had slept for two hours. He felt that he couldn't let him sleep like this, he slept for two hours and his legs were frozen unconscious, and the temperature was even lower in the second half of the night, if hundreds of people were allowed to sleep like this until dawn, some people would freeze to death! Besides, the two ice pads on each person's feet have not been removed, even if they don't freeze to death, they may not be able to walk tomorrow. He began to look for the soldiers, because everyone was sleeping with their heads covered, and he opened the quilt one by one to find someone. When he found the first one, he helped him rub his legs, then pulled him up, walked around, and the two of them looked for it together. When he found all the soldiers, he saw that everyone was unhappy, and he couldn't figure out what he was doing when he woke them up in the middle of the night, so they shrank their necks one by one, rubbing their hands together and waiting to speak.

Commander Jiao stood in the middle of the group and explained: "Everyone, we have only slept for more than two hours, our legs are frozen, and our feet are no longer numerous, let the soldiers sleep like this again, and by dawn, someone will freeze to death!" ”

Platoon Commander Wang asked, "What now?" ”

Captain Jiao said: "Wake everyone up, move, take a walk." ”

"And then?" Platoon Commander Wang asked, "You can't sit all night, can you?" ”

Commander Jiao replied: "Let the soldiers find some branches and wood, make a fire, and melt the ice on their feet first, otherwise their feet will freeze and they will not be able to walk." Then sleep around the fire so that you don't freeze to death. ”

Platoon Commander Wang wanted to say something, but Commander Jiao waved his hand impatiently and said, "This is an order, execute it immediately!" ”

The soldiers were sleeping soundly, and they were called to wake up in a daze, not knowing what was happening, and they were all unhappy, muttering, and some scolding. Some fighters simply ignored the stubble, lay down and fell asleep again. There is no way, and you can't get angry. Platoon Commander Wang woke Liang Guocheng up and told him the actual situation, he didn't say anything, grabbed the snow and rubbed his face, moved his body, and got up to find firewood. Platoon Commander Wang looked left and right at the other carriages leading soldiers, but he was also very helpless and didn't call a few people. After waiting for a while, Liang Guocheng came back panting with a hug of dead branches, stalks, and corn stalks. Platoon Commander Wang happily took the firewood and piled it up with Liang Guocheng and lit a fire. The firelight instantly illuminated the recess, and the soldiers who had been woken up in the various carriages saw the firelight and gathered around. The first to squat around the fire in a circle, the whole body can be roasted; Those who arrived later could only stand behind others, stretching out their hands and roasting.

Soon Platoon Commander Wang and Liang Guocheng were squeezed out of the circle by more and more soldiers, Liang Guocheng turned around and wanted to look for firewood, Platoon Commander Wang also followed, and the other soldiers also went separately to find firewood. It didn't take long for dozens of fires to light up in the entire recess, looking like a fire dragon from a distance.

There were more fires, and the people dispersed, and the soldiers who woke up from behind also gathered around. It is also difficult to bake a fire in a night when the storm is more than 30 degrees below zero, although the young man is strong and recovers quickly, and his face is flushed after a while, and his back feels very cold; On the other hand, it was cold after roasting the back and chest, especially the two feet that were frozen into big ice pads, and the snow quickly melted when they were placed by the fire, because they had been frozen for a long time, and they couldn't warm up. Some of the warriors' feet were so close to the fire that the soles of their shoes were burned, and their feet still had no sensation. Gradually, the warriors were roasted by fire and fell asleep again.

At five o'clock in the morning, Captain Jiao woke up from freezing. The fire has been extinguished at some point. Last night the soldiers slept around the fire, and the fire roasted the snow into snow water, which unconsciously flowed under the lower fighters and froze, freezing the soldiers and the quilt together, and covering them with another layer of snow. When he ordered the assembly, the frozen warriors could not stand up. The soldiers helped to smash the freezing, and they were trembling in the line with ice chips hanging on their bodies. During the roll call, it was found that there were two seriously wounded soldiers, who had died in the middle of the night, and their bodies had stiffened. The joy of the troops' safety in the letter cave was like a basin of cold water poured from head to toe, and as soon as it fell to zero, everyone's face was clearly depressed and uneasy. Commander Jiao looked at the frozen corpse of the soldier, his face was unhappy, and he complained in his heart that the leader of the soldiers had not fulfilled his responsibility; Ji'er thought about it, he dug a cave all night last night, and marched in a snowstorm for a day today, without much rest, and he fell asleep, not to mention these young soldiers who led the troops?

The troops set off against the wind and snow, and Commander Jiao was worried that some soldiers would slip and roll off the cliff, so he ordered the troops to line up in two columns and march on the inner side of the mountain. The uneven mountain road is buried by the neck-deep snow, you can't see the concave and convex there, and someone falls down after walking a few steps, but fortunately, although the road is slippery, the snow is empty, so as not to break people. It was easy to go up to the top of the mountain, and the wind was stronger, rolling up bursts of snow flakes, as if someone was taking a snow ball and deliberately falling on people's eyelids. The warriors' eyes couldn't be opened, and their faces ached. Turning the mountain, the wind seems to be a little lighter when going down the mountain, but on the way down the mountain, people leaning forward to keep their balance and the body will inevitably lean back, so there are more people who fall. When encountering a steep slope, people can't stand at all, so they sit on the ground and slide down, and accidentally roll down. When they got down the mountain, they all rolled into snowmen, and they couldn't even see a single green color in their military uniforms. The wind under the mountain is much smaller than on the mountain, and the snow is smaller, not a big snowflake, like a small Xiaoice particle. Captain Jiao raised his hand and looked at his watch, it was past one o'clock, and he arranged for everyone to rest and eat on the spot, worried that he would fall asleep, and after half an hour, he urged him to go on the road again. He looked up at the sky, worried that the snow had stopped. It is said that those who lead troops are willing to lead soldiers to have good weather, easy roads, and fast marching speed. However, on the Korean battlefield, the volunteers did not have air supremacy, and if the weather was clear, US planes could bomb them at any time. In particular, after the start of the US military strangulation operation, the volunteers had no front and rear, and any place could be a target for bombing. For example, if he took a few hundred people, if he went down the mountain and walked to an open and flat place, the team walked in the snow, and from the air, it was a black line, which was easily discovered by US military planes; If they can't find a place to hide, the fighters become live targets for the aircraft. Commander Jiao took the telescope and looked into the distance, and the troops had to walk several kilometers down the mountain to a semi-hilly area, but in fact, they had now lost the concealment of the mountain, and could only speed up the march. He urged his troops again and again, and when the terrain was flat over the hills, he felt that the speed would be faster, but the speed was slow, and finally stopped. He hurried to the front of the troops, wanting to see the situation, and called all the soldiers all the way, these people were the objects he relied on. When I got to the front, I saw that the soldiers were all sitting in the snow, and those who followed behind were also sitting down. He didn't know what was going on, so when he asked the soldier with a helpless face, he said, "The soldiers really can't walk." ”

Commander Jiao was angry, and if he didn't carry out the order, he was a big slack in the army, and if the recruits could tolerate it, he couldn't forgive the soldiers. He said, "That order is resting, why don't you stop it and see what kind of place this is to rest?" ”

The soldiers were also a little angry, it had been two days and two nights, the soldiers had not rested for a few hours, they had not eaten a decent meal, they had been marching in the snowstorm for two days, and they could not stand the iron beating. A little angry, he said: "The soldiers are tired and lie down, and I didn't let them rest." ”

Commander Jiao was even more angry, and he talked back when he did something wrong, pointing to the open field and saying: "In such a flat and empty place, there is no place to hide, in case the US military plane bombs, we are all live targets!" ”

Only then did the soldiers feel the seriousness of the matter, and they lowered their heads and stopped talking. Commander Jiao looked at the soldiers behind him and slowly came over, stood in the middle of everyone and said affectionately: "Comrades! It's been almost two days and two nights since we were stuck in Handong, and we haven't had much rest or a hot meal. I also know that everyone is tired, and I am also tired. I would love to give you a break, but we can't rest in this open area now, because the Coalition forces have been carrying out a kind of strangulation against our troops since the damned Stilwell was put in command, bombing our troops day and night, and now our troops are in danger of being bombed by enemy planes from time to time, regardless of the front and rear. Our current position is in the open area of Pingchuan, there is no place to hide, and if the enemy planes bomb, we will all be live targets for the enemy planes. Therefore, I ask everyone to carry forward the spirit of our army, which is particularly capable of enduring hardships, and continue to move forward! ”

The warriors dragged their tired bodies to their feet and slowly walked forward. The snow stopped, the wind did not decrease at all, there was no shelter in Pingchuan, and the wind raised the snowflakes on the ground, splitting the heads and faces of the soldiers. The slower the marching speed of the troops, the more anxious Commander Jiao became, and after the snow in winter and the rain stopped in summer, it was the most likely time period for US planes. He held a telescope and searched the front and the air from time to time.