The truck, sheltered by the canvas shed, seemed much warmer without the strong wind and the cold of the snow in the middle of the night. The fighters sat in the carriages leaning on each other and quickly fell asleep. When the convoy was halfway there, it encountered a US military night plane. After the volunteer car driver entered the DPRK, he developed the ability to deal with airplanes. According to the roar of the plane, it can be so loud as to judge the direction and distance of the plane, if the plane is coming in the direction of the convoy, they all turn on the headlights, increase the horsepower and drive forward, and when the plane is almost to the bomb throwing distance, suddenly brake sharply, and turn off all the lights. The plane was in the air, and it was supposed to dive towards the convoy to prepare to drop bombs, but suddenly lost its target and flew over the roof of the convoy in a panic. After the plane passed, the convoy turned on its headlights and accelerated forward. After the plane made a circle, the convoy flew back and suddenly braked and turned off the lights. After repeating it several times, the plane couldn't lock on to the target, and flew away with a few * thrown indiscriminately.

Captain Jiao arranged for Platoon Leader Wang to take Liang Guocheng and their students in a car. After getting on the bus, everyone quickly fell asleep, and was woken up several times by the roar of the plane on the way, and it was the car driver who was operating the plane to avoid it, and they couldn't help, and they were too tired to fall asleep again. I don't know how long it took, but their car entered a needle pine forest, and the old car kept going down the road. It was not until dawn that he stopped at a flat area the size of half a basketball court, with sentry posts on all sides. There was a young staff officer-like soldier who had been waiting there for a long time, and with a little impatience urged the people in the car to get out of the car and line up, and then rubbed his hands together and ran towards the house with his neck bent. Liang Guocheng noticed that the row of houses built on the mountain in front of him were all rows of needles with thick bowls, although they were rough, but they were particularly neat. Even the chimney in the window is emitting black smoke, but the length and thickness are the same, and it is orderly and orderly. There are always people coming in and out of the door busy, and the door curtain is pouring out a hot smell of tobacco from inside, Liang Guocheng feels that this should be the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, since it is the headquarters, Commander Peng Dehuai should be inside. Peng is always a hero he admires very much, and when he was liberating the nursing school, he heard about many classic command deeds of Mr. Peng. Every time someone came in and out, he stretched his neck and looked in, hoping to see Mr. Peng, but in fact, he didn't know Mr. Peng. At this time, the two warriors lifted the curtain at the same time, and out of the house came a dozen people who looked like chiefs. Hu Yu was the first to walk out, still so public, talking loudly and laughing. Because in this battle, his troops gnawed off the hardest bones of the volunteers since they entered Korea, destroyed the most enemies, and won the commander's commendation.

He walked straight to the front of the recruit team and shouted, "Who is Liang Guocheng?" Dequeue! ”

Liang Guocheng didn't know what kind of chief Hu Yu was, and he had never seen the chief since he was a child, so he replied: "I am Liang Guocheng." ”

Hu Yu looked at Liang Guocheng, who was standing in front of him, one meter eighty-four, sturdy like an iron tower, and was secretly surprised in his heart! Because before the liberation, most people were malnourished, and very few people grew to more than 1.8 meters. Especially Hu Yu was born in the south, and southerners are taller than northerners, and there are even fewer people as tall as Liang Guocheng.

"Where are the people?" Hu Yu asked in a long voice.

Liang Guocheng still didn't know who was talking to him, and asked, "、、、、、、 are you?"

"This is Commander Hu of our army!" The guard who followed Hu Yu said, "Before talking to the chief, you must salute first." ”

Liang Guocheng hurriedly saluted and replied loudly: "I am from Shanxi, a college student, and I responded to the party's call and enlisted in the army!" ”

Hu Yu smiled and said to Li Boru, the political commissar who came from behind: "Our army is tens of thousands of people, and the first college student." ”

Li Boru smiled and nodded, and the two turned around and walked towards the jeep.

The guard said to Liang Guocheng: "You get into our car." ”

Two jeeps came out of the needle pine forest one after the other. Liang Guocheng sat on the open jeep in the back, feeling that it was a front-line army, and his heart was excited. But how far the front line was, where the combat units were, he didn't know at all, and no one told him. He only felt the wind whirring in his ears, and he felt a chill on his body, because his cotton clothes were burned into strips of exposed cotton when he was digging holes in front of him. The car ran for more than two hours and stopped at the army headquarters. Hu Yu was the first to jump out of the car and told the guards to take Liang Guocheng to the quartermaster to change his clothes, and then send him to the artillery regiment and hand him over to Regiment Commander Liu. The guards took him to change his clothes and get into the car, and the car drove forward for more than an hour, and he could hear the rumbling sound of shells exploding in front of him, and he was nervous and excited. The two of them got out of the car and came to a temporary command post, which was built on a temporary tower because of the high mobility of artillery. The guards brought Liang Guocheng to head Liu and introduced the situation. Regiment Commander Liu and several regimental cadres were reading the map around a table with wooden nails, and without raising his head, he said to the chief of staff: "Keep him at the regimental headquarters as a staff officer." Find someone to show him around and get acquainted with the situation. In the afternoon, a reconnaissance squad leader who was about his age, who loved to talk and laugh and claimed to be a veteran, took him with him. He told him that he joined the army at the age of seventeen, fought in the domestic liberation war for two years, and now has been in North Korea for more than a year, and has made a meritorious service; In the past, there was no educated family member, his name was Liu Yitian, and he hoped that his family would have land and land. After liberation, he wanted to enter the DPRK to participate in the war, but it was the political commissar who changed his name to Liu Yuanchao. The family found him a daughter-in-law, and his parents are also old, and now what he wants most is to finish the war earlier and go home to marry a daughter-in-law to honor his parents. Liu Yuanchao talked to him endlessly as he walked. Liang Guocheng listened with interest, his greatest wish now was to see the cannon. He had never seen a cannon, and in his mind it was supposed to be very tall, and the barrel grew to a length he couldn't imagine. Walking all the way to the cannon, Liu Yuanchao took away the covered branches, and when he saw the cannon, he was a little disappointed, the cannon was not as tall and majestic as he imagined, and it was rusty.

Liang Guocheng rubbed the rust on the cannon body with his hands, looked at the cannon in disappointment, and asked, "This is our army's cannon?" ”

Li Yuanchao patted the cannon body: "The treasures of our army are all here!" ”

"It's all rusty, like a pile of broken copper."

Li Yuanchao was not happy, and shouted directly: "This cannon was captured by our army from the Kuomintang troops in the domestic liberation war. After three years of the Liberation War, I have been in Korea for more than a year, and I have made great achievements! You say it's broken copper? ”

Liang Guocheng also felt speechless, and explained: "Seeing that it is rusty, just say a word." ” 。 After dinner, Liang Guocheng entered the court for a few days, and finally had time to sit down and write a letter to Xiaoyu. He remembered what he had seen and heard in the past few days, and what he missed about her; Of course, I wrote a few pieces of paper like a running account that reported good news but not bad news.