Chapter 16 Chinese New Year

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The afterglow of the setting sun casts its last rays on the snow. The trumpeter blew a slow melody against the cold wind, it seemed to have an invisible force, the Cangsang that infiltrated the world and the desolation of life and death, evoked the faint nostalgia of the soldiers.

This is the first time I have buried a corpse, and I usually only know that it is not easy to fight, but now I know that it is not easy to bury the sacrificed comrades with my own hands! It's not easy because I never thought a funeral would be so simple.

All we have to do is dig a large pit a few meters deep, first spread a layer of corpses on the bottom of the pit, then sprinkle a layer of soil, then a layer of corpses, and then sprinkle another layer of soil...... It didn't take long for such a simple pit to bury more than 50 volunteer soldiers who died in this battle, some of which were simply fragmentary organs.

When you're done, sprinkle a little melted water to see you off, and put a wooden sign on the edge of the pit to write the number of people. This wooden sign may be crushed by a tank tomorrow, or blown away by a cannonball, and then the heroes in this pit will never be known again.

That's when I realized that the heroes we know as we modern people are actually very ordinary, because people like them are everywhere on this battlefield, and they are just a few who can be remembered for their names and deeds......

The trumpet is over. The warriors stood silently in front of the grave for a moment, and then dragged their tired bodies towards the tunnel.

"Camp Commander Cui! Company Commander Zhao ......, "Soon after entering the tunnel, the instructor gathered several of our cadres together.

There was a slightly larger space at the junction of the tunnels, in the middle of which was a table with ammunition boxes and a map, illuminated by a black kerosene lamp, and beside them were two simple wooden benches, which were our battalion headquarters.

I struggled to find a place to sit next to me, and the burns all over my body made it painful for me to complete this simple movement. Although I didn't hang the lottery in the battle just now, I found that my whole body was in pain after the battle, and when I opened my clothes, I saw that all the parts leaning against the ground were blistered.

"Comrades!" Seeing that everyone had arrived, the instructor waved his hand and said: "Today, every comrade is very brave and tenacious, we have destroyed a large number of enemies and held our positions, and everyone is worthy of being outstanding Communist Party members and Communist Youth League members, and worthy of being soldiers of our Volunteer Army." ”

"But!" After a pause, the instructor continued: "In the afternoon, we lost fifty-seven comrades-in-arms, including the commander of the first company, Huang Chuanyu, and the instructor Ye Chengsong...... They are all good cadres of the party and our good comrades! ”

The instructor's words silenced everyone, and for a moment the tunnel was so quiet that even the sizzling of kerosene lamps could be heard.

"The situation we are facing now is very serious." Xu Feng broke the silence and went straight to the point: "Now there are only one hundred and twenty-five people in the whole battalion, which is not as much as one company at the beginning, and the bullets are almost exhausted in the afternoon battle, comrades must be ready to sacrifice, even if they hit the last person, they must not let the American devils pass our position!" ”

"Yes!" The warriors answered firmly.

"Battalion commander!" Wu Zhong, the commander of the third company, is a small black and thin man who is not good-looking. At this time, after listening to the words of the battalion commander, he stood up and raised his fist and said: "Our volunteers are not even afraid of death, are we still afraid of difficulties?" Without ammunition, we can go to the enemy's pile of dead people to find it, and if we can't find it, we can fight the enemy with stones, and as long as we still have a breath in the position, we can't lose it! ”

"That's right! We have to learn from Commander Huang! ”

"People are in the position!"

……

The fighters expressed their determination to die.

If it was in the past, when I saw a scene in front of me that could only be seen on TV or in movies, I might think it was fake, or maybe it would be very contrived. But now I can clearly feel their inner roar and fearlessness! I know them, they are a simple people, they are a group of people who can give everything and even their lives for their beliefs......

In the past, when I heard the older generation talk about how they stayed at night and didn't pick up the road, I always didn't want to believe it, because I couldn't believe that in an era when the living conditions were so poor, how could there be no thieves, how could there be no thieves and not pick up money when there was money on the ground. But now seeing them, I believe it.

"Battalion commander, instructor!" At this time, Zhao Yongxin stood up and said: "There is a saying that good steel should be used on the blade, and our comrades are all good comrades who are not afraid of sacrifice." I pondered, we can't just talk about not being afraid of sacrifice and not being afraid of difficulties, should we think of a way to let our comrades destroy more enemies and make their deaths more worthwhile! In this way, it will not disappoint the expectations of our superiors for our battalion! ”

"That's it!" Huzi also squeaked beside him: "The superior asked us to hold our positions for three days, and tomorrow is only the next day." Even if we are not afraid of death, won't we all be able to complete the task when we all sacrifice? I'm a rough man, and I didn't want to do anything before, just fight with the enemy! But after following Camp Commander Cui for so long, I understand a truth, sometimes an idea, there are more than a hundred reactionaries on top! ”

"What?" As soon as Huzi said this, everyone turned their eyes to me, and I never imagined that Huzi would point the finger at me as soon as he changed his words, as if I must have a way to deal with it.

"Yes! Camp Commander Choi! Tell us about your experience! The instructor politely handed me a cigarette, then distributed a few to the other comrades, and then lit them one by one with a kerosene lamp, and said in his mouth: "Company Commander Zhao and Company Commander Li (Huzi's name is Li Erhu) are reasonable, we must have courage and the spirit of not being afraid of death, but we must not be brutal, we must have a clear mind and the right direction." ”

After a pause, the instructor lit the cigarette in his mouth, and then said: "Everyone has seen Camp Commander Cui's ability, and I won't say more, so let Camp Commander Cui tell him his opinion!" ”

"Good!" Huzi took the lead and applauded, looking at the excitement in his eyes, as if as long as I was willing to speak, it would be right.

I couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Battalion commander, instructor! Actually, I don't think it's as bad as we thought! ”

"Huh? How so? "I couldn't help but make all the soldiers present stunned for a moment, it is said that we fought in the afternoon battle in a dangerous and dangerous way, if it were not for a few company commanders who rushed through the fire area desperately to bomb the enemy, we would even be in danger of being completely annihilated.

The soldiers were thinking in their hearts that tomorrow as long as the enemy did it again, and our army suffered heavy casualties and the ammunition was almost consumed, it would be difficult for us to hold our position. And I said that the situation was not so bad, which made the fighters look sideways.

"That's what I thought!" I gritted my teeth. Standing up with a pain all over his body, he said: "Although I didn't see how many planes the Yankees bombed us today, the bombing points of the enemy planes were only concentrated on a few highlands at the forefront. Later, I wondered, I guess it's not that they lack ammunition, but that they lack planes! ”

"Lack of planes? Are you saying that the enemy lacks aircraft? The instructor's face couldn't help but show some joy, he knew very well what it would mean to us if the enemy lacked aircraft support.

"That's right!" I nodded, walked over to the table, pointed to the map on it, and said, "Battalion commander, instructor, look! Our troops fought all the way to the Han River, and the forward even approached the 37th parallel, and our supply line was 500 to 700 kilometers from the Yalu River to the 37th parallel! Such a long supply line is our weak point, and we are almost out of bullets until now after being blocked by the enemy, right? But if the enemy wants to block such a long supply line, and it will be bombed during the day and at night, how many planes will it take! ”

"That's right!" The instructor couldn't help but pat his head: "I can't think of it, no wonder the Yankees waited for so long for the plane today!" At that time, I was thinking in my heart, why did the enemy plane come so slowly this time! The feeling is that these turtle sons can't be busy! ”

"Huh?" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, I didn't expect this, as the so-called three stinkers are worthy of one Zhuge Liang, it seems that there is really such a thing.

"If the enemy really lacks planes, then it's easy to do!" Xu Feng only opened his mouth at this time: "Even if there are no bullets, we can rush up and fight with those Yankees with bayonets!" ”

"But Camp Commander Cui!" The instructor quickly added: "Even if this is the case, we can't take it lightly, although this enemy says that there is a lack of planes. But it shouldn't be a problem to transfer it once or twice, and then it will ......."

At this point, the instructor stopped talking, and I knew what he meant later, according to our current situation, if we came again once or twice like in the afternoon, even if we could hold the position, the army would be almost gone.

"If you want me to talk about it...... Huzi interjected as he listened on the sidelines: "The plane is nothing, the most breathtaking thing is the burning one, and you can't go up and fight with those devils with bayonets!" ”

"Huh!" As soon as I heard this, I had an idea, and hurriedly added on the side: "If you don't go up from the ground, we can go from the underground!" ”

"From underground?" The instructor suddenly came to his senses: "You meanβ€”the tunnel!" ”

"That's right!" I looked at the top of my head and said, "We can dig a tunnel from here, not too big, but oblique." The warriors can climb up and make a few exits at the top of the mountain, so that if the enemy comes again like this, we'll climb up and beat him up for the fuck! I just don't know if I can dig this night? ”

"Do it now!" Xu Feng stood up suddenly: "The whole army will not rest tonight, and strive to dig a tunnel to the top of the mountain before dawn." ”

"Yes!" The warriors did what they said, and soon called their respective teams to start working, and for a while they were busy digging for the soil and logging for the logging.

In order to speed up the speed, the instructor also arranged for the first company to dig from the bottom to the top, the second company to dig from the top down, and the third company to be responsible for transporting soil and logging. Originally, I wanted to go out with that sniper rifle and shoot a few Yankee sentries so that they couldn't sleep well, but I thought that if I shot the Yankees with a few shots, a burst of artillery fire would come over...... Although the volunteers can't hurt a few people hiding in the tunnel, if the tunnel being dug collapses half of it by such a bombardment, then I won't be holding everyone back.

So in the end, I still joined the ranks of transporting soil and logging, but the injury on my body hurt my heart after walking a few steps, but when I thought of my comrades who insisted on fighting after their legs were blown off in battle, and remembered their comrades who stuffed bullets into the bullets in their legs, I gritted my teeth and endured them. That's nothing compared to them.

The soldiers were full of energy, and finally in the second half of the night, with the cheers of the soldiers, the upper and lower tunnels were dug through.

For this reason, Wu Zhong, the commander of the second company, also complained: "If it hadn't been dug crookedly in the dark, it would have been dug up a long time ago!" ”

He didn't know that for them who did not have surveying and mapping tools, it was not easy to dig through smoothly with just a few soldiers who had done muddy water to control the angle with bamboo poles and plumb lines.

A few of the warriors were also childlike at heart, excitedly drilling up and down the freshly dug tunnels, and if it weren't for the fear of being made fun of, I think they would all be playing hide-and-seek here.

The next morning, we were awakened by the whistling of airplanes. The first reaction of the fighters was to grab their guns and rush out of the tunnel, but to the surprise of the soldiers, the enemy did not come up, and the planes dropped not bombs, but pieces of paper like snowflakes, rolling and floating, all over the sky.

I picked one up. I was stunned to find that the four big characters "Congratulations to Xinxi" were written on it in traditional Chinese, and the back was written "The New Year is coming, but your wife can't pay the bill at home, and you are likely to die on the battlefield in a foreign country." ”

There are also propaganda posters depicting a Chinese woman with the words: "She can only meditate on flowers alone, because you have been forced to go to Korea as a volunteer to fight for Soviet Russia!" ”

I can't understand it, our volunteers obviously came to North Korea to fight, how did they go to South Korea, but if you think about it, you can understand, maybe the Yankees who designed this poster only know that there is South Korea and not North Korea.

At this time, a soft female voice came from the other side of the mountain, speaking in stiff Chinese: "Chinese soldiers! You have the New Year today, but how hard it is for you to stay in the mountains! I couldn't eat, I couldn't drink, and my feet were frozen and swollen. ”

"We, the UN troops, are here to liberate Korea, and the UN has declared you the aggressors!"

"Surrender! Chinese! ”

……

"Yo!" Hearing this, it took the soldiers a long time to react, and the old squad leader grinned: "Look at us, just remembering the war has forgotten the days of the New Year, and the American devils want to remind ......"

"It's the New Year!"

"It's ...... Chinese New Year"

The soldiers told each other, but none of them knew what to do, because no one had any New Year's goods, and there was nothing good to take out to celebrate, but my heart was sour!

"CCP soldiers, you have worked hard." At this time, there was another female voice from the end of the US army, and to everyone's great surprise, this time the person who shouted spoke in a very authentic Beijing accent: "CCP soldiers, it's the New Year!" You eat fried noodles and drink cold water, and we eat canned food, rice, white noodles, and bread, so surrender and shoot without killing. ”

"CCP?" The old squad leader couldn't help but say suspiciously: "Listening to this name, it's a bit like a Kuomintang drop!" They also came to Korea to fight? ”

"Kuomintang's?" I also felt strange when I heard this, in modern sources, I knew that the Kuomintang really wanted to enter the war, and MacArthur also meant this, but the US Congress did not want the war to expand and complicate it, so it vetoed this proposal. But how could there be female Kuomintang soldiers here to persuade them to surrender at this time?

"Comrades, don't look at it!" Instructor Zhao may have overslept, but then he ran out in a panic and snatched the leaflets in our hands in two clicks: "Comrades, these are reactionary leaflets and reactionary slogans, and we must not read, listen, or pass them on, and we should not be the enemy's volunteer propagandists......

"Instructor!" Xiao Shandong touched his head and smirked: "It's easy to do if you don't look at this, so why can't you listen to it?" ”

"This ......" Instructor Zhao couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"Chinese Soldiers......" The horn on the other side called off again, and I frowned, grabbed my rifle, and walked towards the hill.

"Where is it?" Huzi followed behind.

"Isn't this going for the New Year?" I waved the rifle in my hand and said to the soldiers behind me: "Comrades, let's go to the artillery battle!" ”

"Good! Shoot the cannon to ......"

As soon as the soldiers heard this, they excitedly followed, and climbed up the hill to see that more than 600 meters away there were three jeeps parked side by side, and a big horn hung on the roof of one of them, and the sound came from there.

It's really from the Kuomintang, I looked through the sight, although they deliberately erased the blue sky and white sun logo on the car, but looking at the military uniform, I can't be wrong, I think it's also the one that is playing the side ball.

This is not? They are here for propaganda, not for war!

"Battalion commander!" Huzi urged on the side: "Fight! Look at what's going on, everyone is waiting to see the cannon battle! ”

"Recruits fight." I replied, "Let them practice their marksmanship!" ”

"Battalion commander!" A recruit next to him shouted: "It's too far, it's a waste for us to fight, let's keep the bullets and fight the American devils!" ”

"That's right!" Thinking about it, I picked up my rifle and slammed it a few times, and with a loud bang, a jeep next to me was hit and the fuel tank exploded. Frightened, the people in the other two jeeps jumped out of the car and turned around and ran, one of the women was obviously an announcer, and she was so panicked that she fell several times......

Seeing their embarrassed appearance, the warriors laughed.

"Yo!" The old squad leader grinned: "There are fireworks in this artillery battle, it's beautiful!" ”

Huzi simply opened his voice and shouted to those Kuomintang: "New Year! Brethren of the Kuomintang, happy recruits! ”

The soldiers all shouted along, and the sound of "New Year's ......" resounded throughout the valley!

(Note: The persuasion of Kuomintang female soldiers on the Korean battlefield came from the oral account of Yang Enqi, a volunteer soldier.) οΌ‰