Chapter 48: The War Ends

In the morning she was awakened by the sound of heavy gunfire, and she came to Korea to experience a battle, and felt that the battle was fiercer today than the last. Everyone in the room went to prepare early, the dean's eldest sister told everyone not to wake her up, and the doctors and nurses tiptoed out to prepare for the operation. As a medical operating table, it is the battlefield, and the sound of gunfire is the order to go to the battlefield. She quickly gathered her thoughts, and ran out as she put on her white coat. The preparations for the surgery are also complete, and the dean's eldest sister is doing the final examination. Seeing Xiaoyu enter the state of work, he cast a look of approval and encouragement at her.

The male doctor and nurse were already standing at the gate of the hospital and took the wounded in as fast as they could. After checking her work, the eldest sister stood in front of the operating table and prepared for the operation herself. There is an unwritten rule in this hospital that the first operation in every war is performed by the director. Xiaoyu stood beside the eldest sister, preparing the surgical instruments.

"Is the body okay?" The eldest sister asked.

Xiaoyu's eyes were a little moist, and she nodded and said, "I can do it!"

Nurse Xiao Liu ran over: "Dean, phone." ”

The dean wanted to comfort Xiaoyu and was about to answer the phone, so he walked on her shoulder and patted her on the shoulder to show encouragement.

After answering the phone, the dean said with a heavy face: "Everyone be quiet! Because the fighting at the front was more tragic than ever, many seriously wounded died before they could be sent to the military hospital. The superiors asked us to support the division and the regimental hospital, and everyone can sign up voluntarily. ”

As soon as the dean's voice fell, Xiaoyu was the first to sign up, and was willing to go to the grassroots regimental hospital. She even naively felt that the closer she was to the front line, the more she had a chance to find Liang Guocheng. The dean has already judged that Liang Guocheng is in danger, and he can understand Xiaoyu's mood, if he doesn't give her all the opportunities she can give, she will never let go!

The registration was very enthusiastic, and the dean adjusted the strength of the branch art according to each person's technique. They set off in two trucks sent by the division headquarters.

The car drove into a North Korean natural village and stopped in front of the courtyard of a large family in this village. This Korean-style courtyard is a bit like a Chinese courtyard house. It is also the main house, the east room, and the west room, because it is the gate of the rich family, and the carriage can enter and exit. The operating room in the west room is a little smaller, the main room is the largest, and the east room is slightly smaller, and the wounded who have been treated in it are resting.

When he learned that the doctors from the military hospital were coming, he was worried that the operating table would not be enough, so he set up a tent operating table in the hospital. In this way, it occupies a large part of the yard, and the yard becomes smaller. There were wounded people waiting for surgery on the ground of the courtyard, and the wounded were brought in one after another, and the scene gave people the feeling of chaos, and they could not get off their feet in the hospital. Xiaoyu and the others are all skilled doctors who have gone through the war, and they quickly became familiar with the situation and entered the working situation.

It turned out that today was July 27, 1953, the last day of the signing of the armistice. In order to compete for more right to speak, the coalition forces mobilized all their reserve forces and launched a campaign of unprecedented scale. The volunteers had no choice but to fight back! Hu Yu's troops, because of the hardships fought in the previous battles and the large number of casualties, were arranged to rest and recuperate. Now that the scale of the war has exceeded expectations, the coalition forces have suddenly expanded the rules of warfare. The Volunteer Army quickly adjusted its personnel deployment nearby, and Hu Yu's troops immediately returned to the front line after receiving the order.

The fiercer the fighting, the more wounded. The doctors were busy until late, and the hot meals were delivered by the nurses, and no one picked them up. Who can bear the wounded wounds bleeding and unbearable pain, and eat with peace of mind. For the seriously injured, a late meal time operation may cause a life to be lost.

The sky has gradually darkened. Xiaoyu had been working on the operating table for a day, and her overwork had slowed her steps significantly. She felt a little pain in her head, and rubbed her temples with her two thumbs. Her legs were also swollen and suffocated, and she knew that it was because she had been standing for too long, and her legs were not well swollen. The assistant advised her to take a break, and she shook her head and motioned for the other wounded person to be lifted onto the operating table. Today's surgery she was highly emotionally stressed, in addition to being responsible for the lives of her comrades; Pay more attention to the face of each casualty. In her heart, she would rather see the wounded Liang Guocheng than hear the news that he was captured or killed in battle.

Therefore, other doctors are physically tired, and the light rain is too tired. At ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, the rumbling artillery suddenly stopped, and there was only a sparse sound of gunfire in the forward positions, and then the gunfire stopped, and the positions of both sides were silent.

On July 28, 1953, the two-year-long Korean armistice talks reached a complete agreement. On 27 July, Senior General Nam Il, chief representative of the DPRK and China, and Lieutenant General Harrison, representative of the United States, and chief representative of the "United Nations Forces" delegation formally signed an armistice agreement at Panmunjom. On the same day, Marshal Kim Il Sung signed the Pyongyang Armistice Agreement. The next day, Commander Peng Dehuai signed the Kaesong Armistice Agreement. At the same time, Marshal Kim Il Sung and Commander Peng Dehuai issued an order to the DPRK and Chinese troops: "From July 22, 1953, that is, 12 hours after the signing of the armistice agreement, there will be a complete ceasefire on the entire front." ”

The soldiers on both sides have been fighting desperately on the battlefield for more than two years, and they have seen a lot of bloody storms. Accustomed to the rumbling of artillery and the strafing of machine guns. After receiving the order, the battlefield suddenly stopped with the sound of gunfire and gunsmoke. Everyone seemed to be unresponsive all of a sudden, threw away the weapons in their hands, stared blankly, looked at the opponent's position, and the enemy soldiers were equally at a loss.

"I'm going home!" someone shouted.

People who have never been on the battlefield will never understand the life and death struggle on the battlefield, especially the understanding of the word "go home" by those who fight abroad! It is as if a mother is calling her son home from far away; It is as if the young wife of her hometown is waiting for her husband to come home; The young children stretched out their little hands and prayed for their father's return.

The position immediately boiled over, and it became a joyous crowd. The soldiers hugged each other, shook hands, chased, and frolicked, and several fighters threw their platoon commander into the air and caught them, while some fighters wept with joy and sat on the ground crying. The current position is not like a battlefield, but more like the Spring Festival in Chinese mainland.

It was another sleepless night, and after treating the last wounded, the sky was bright. Xiaoyu's thin body has been extremely tired, especially at three or four o'clock in the middle of the night, probably because she is too hungry, and she has stomach cramps. She ran outside the operating room and vomited several times but couldn't vomit, and her whole body was sweating in pain. When the doctors saw her face was not good, they all thought she was sick and advised her to rest, but she shook her head and refused.

She felt that the end of the war was an ironclad fact, and she did not want to lose the opportunity to serve the volunteer soldiers in North Korea for the last time, let alone the opportunity to find Liang Guocheng. She endured the discomfort of her body and insisted on finishing the last wounded, and it was already dawn. She clenched her fists and reached behind her back to smash her sore back a few times, wanting to sit on the operating table and rest. Suddenly, someone slapped him on the back and was startled. The eldest sister of the dean brought a bowl of rice porridge in front of her.

Xiaoyu looked at the eldest sister in surprise and said, "Eldest sister, when did you come?" ”

The eldest sister smiled kindly and said, "I've only been here for a while, and I saw that you were all busy, so you didn't bother everyone and made some porridge." ”

When Xiaoyu saw the eldest sister, in addition to being surprised, she had a feeling like seeing a relative. After a few days of hard work, I couldn't find Liang Guocheng's confusion. The war is over, and the troops must return home. Now he can't see anyone alive or dead, if hundreds of thousands of people return to China, looking for a person in the vast sea of people is equivalent to looking for a needle in a haystack.

She lost control of her emotions for a while, hugged her eldest sister and cried. The doctors finished their work and were relaxing and chatting, when suddenly Xiaoyu cried and was startled! The eldest sister came over and understood that Xiaoyu couldn't find the bitterness in people's hearts. She waved her hand to signal everyone to go out, hugged Xiaoyu like a child, and comforted with tears: "Poor child, hard-working child!" ”

In fact, the eldest sister participated in the revolution during the Red Army's Long March, experienced countless wars, and she also experienced the pain of losing her relatives, and the annoyance of not being able to find her relatives. She also knew that if she couldn't find Liang Guocheng for so long, it meant that she had either died or been captured. What's more, Liang Guocheng did not follow the actions of a large unit, and most of the reconnaissance missions were small units or a few people, and it was not uncommon for a small group of reconnaissance troops to carry out their tasks, and it was not uncommon for a single person to come back when discovered by the enemy.

Sometimes hope is the spiritual pillar of people, and the eldest sister's lover was sacrificed more than ten years ago, because the body has not been found, there has always been a hope in her heart. Although she also felt that she might have really sacrificed in her heart, and the old sister who cared about her also advised her not to wait, but in her heart, there was always a voice calling her, and this call was with the end of the Liberation War, and now the end of the Korean War.

Soon the troops will return home; The more urgent it is for the country to enter a period of peacebuilding! It's just that she is no longer a little girl, she has passed through the age of passionate feelings, this poor great Chinese woman who is subtle, simple and conservative and traditional!

She didn't tell Xiaoyu her true hope, although she would be sad because she couldn't find Liang Guocheng, it was better than letting her lose hope without a spiritual pillar to motivate! Seeing that Xiaoyu's mood gradually calmed down, the eldest sister brought the porridge over.

Xiaoyu had some heart palpitations and shook her head and didn't want to eat. The eldest sister took a pulse for her, and her heart beat a little fast, which was a temporary palpitation caused by emotional instability. She persuaded her to drink porridge and go for a walk outside, maybe Liang Guocheng was on the way back, she kindly persuaded her. Xiaoyu is now single-minded, as long as he can find any opportunity for Liang Guocheng, he will not let it go!