Chapter 5: The Eve of the Battle

Li Lianxiang was accompanied by two other people at the border station, Wen Binglin, a reporter from the Central News Documentary Film Studio, and Wang Yibing, a reporter from the Xinjiang branch of the Xinhua News Agency. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThree reporters suddenly arrived at a border station, which also revealed a clear signal: that is, there may be a new operation on the side of Tierekti. I secretly thought that maybe the people of the whole country would see me in a news documentary that I was making contributions to the motherland.

After August, there were suddenly more political studies and meetings of all kinds, such as small group meetings, squad meetings, party group meetings, and even mobilization meetings. Li Lianxiang and the others happen to have a lot of documentaries about the anti-China atrocities and crimes of the new tsar, and in terms of propaganda and mobilization, there is no need for the leaders to go through a lot of words, and as soon as these documentaries are released, we can see the anti-China atrocities and crimes of the new tsar very real and intuitive, and our hearts are filled with incomparable hatred for Soviet and social imperialism.

Li Lianxiang and I have become very close friends, just like a pair of brothers. He is a student in the Department of Photography, and he has a lot of knowledge and experience, so whenever we have time, we come to the top of the iron hill, look at the scenery on both sides of the iron hill, and listen to him tell many new and interesting stories.

That day, I took Li Lianxiang to a hill near the nameless plateau. It is very close to the Nameless Highlands and has a panoramic view of the Nameless Highlands. He stayed here for a long time, and he also used his camera to point his camera at the nameless heights and looked back and forth, as if he were choosing a spot to photograph the nameless heights.

However, while he was taking pictures of me in front of the Independence Stone with his camera, a Soviet helicopter flew over our heads without noticing. The plane flew so low that we could even see the pilot's face. The helicopter flew around us and left. But it made me feel very uncomfortable, and I always felt that this event was a harbinger of an ominous disaster.

In light of the recent unusual behavior of the Soviet army, I feel that although we have taken some action, the Soviet army is also significantly strengthening its military deployment and military movements. It's as if our actions and plans have been made known to them. As soon as we do something, they react immediately.

Sure enough, at about 10 noon the next day, two Soviet bombers flew over our border station, then turned around, turned around and flew back again. This made everyone in our border post feel uneasy: is it possible that the Soviets are preparing to use bombers to bomb our border station?

Within a few days, more than 10 reporters from our border station suddenly arrived, including those from the Xinhua News Agency, the Central People's Radio, the Jiefangjun Daily, the People's Daily, and the Beijing Television Station. They came to our border station in several cars with all kinds of photographic equipment, and we felt that there would definitely be a big operation here, so our soldiers were very excited and felt that the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions was coming.

As expected, the Xinjiang Military Region and the Tacheng Military Sub-district are going to carry out a major operation with us: to resume patrols along the border line forcibly occupied by the Soviet troops, and to move the boundary pillars that were moved by the Soviet troops to their original positions. No wonder Li Lianxiang asked me to take him to the border line for a field trip for several days, because he had already known the secret of this operation.

In order to hand over a satisfactory answer to the people of the whole country, political study and military training at the border stations have been unprecedentedly intense. After a leader of the Northern Xinjiang Military Region mobilized us, we all began to write letters of petition and determination, and pasted the walls of the dormitory all over the place. It's a scene like the pre-war atmosphere that is often seen in battle feature films.

On 9 October, a small cart came from the Tacheng Military Sub-district and brought three sets of anti-tank weapons. Each platoon is equipped with one set. Our platoon just gave me this set of weapons, because my shooting performance is relatively good, and my performance is usually outstanding. I've never seen this weapon, and no one has taught me anything, so I can only read the instructions and follow them. The platoon commander wants to give me an assistant, so I nominate Yin Qingqi to be my deputy.

This set of anti-tank weapons is a Type 67 70 mm grenade, designed in 1967, which can be used to destroy general medium tanks and various lightly armored targets, as well as field fortifications, etc., known as armor-piercing grenades, with a direct firing distance of 50m, it is said that this kind of grenade has a small muzzle velocity, a short range and a long flight time, so it is not equipped with a large number of troops.

The operation of this weapon is very complex and there is no room for error, and if it is wrong, it can cause the gun to be destroyed. Therefore, Yin Qingqi and I took the gun grenade to the shooting range for three days in a row, and whenever we had free time, we took the grenade to the shooting range for practice. Because of the complexity and danger, we lay on the grass of the shooting range, carefully operated one procedure after another according to the instructions, and practiced one procedure after another. Every time I train, I will have in front of my eyes the scene of the Zhenbao Island soldiers using bazookas to hit tanks, and the words of Chairman Mao and his old man when talking about the battle of Zhenbao Island will echo in my ears, that is, 'see kung fu within 50 meters'. That is to say, if you don't fight at 200 meters, don't fight at 100 meters, and when the turtle shell of the Soviet army enters the range of 50 meters, you will hit it hard and beat it into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron.

However, before our patrol plan and operation could be implemented, an accident occurred. Early in the morning of October 10, a correspondent of the company headquarters went out to the neighboring area on an errand, and was shot dead by a Soviet soldier at a post while passing by the Independence Rock. This is the third time in several months that the Soviet troops have shot and killed our border guards. The deputy commander of the Northern Xinjiang Military Region immediately rushed to the Tielekti Border Station, conducted a detailed investigation into the incident, and reported the situation to the Xinjiang Military Region.

In response to this, the next day, our side hoisted a red flag at the post of Baktu, where the border guard regiment is stationed, where the two sides often meet. This is an agreed signal to invite the other party's chief to come over. However, the red flag was hoisted all day, and the colonels and lieutenant colonels of the Soviet border stations did not show up, apparently deliberately avoiding talks with our side.

In order to protest against the shooting of our border guards by the Soviet troops, and to prepare for the resumption of patrols on the original patrol route, at noon on the 11th and 12th, the border guard station sent a platoon of men to start digging trenches on the patrol line about one kilometer from Independence Rock. Our platoon has been acting as cover not far away.

On the afternoon of the 12th, the Tacheng Military Sub-district sent about 20 more people to our border station, bringing the number of people at our station to more than 100. Among these 100 people, there are as many as 38 recruits from Zhecheng, Henan Province alone. In order to record and photograph this commemorative and historic event and footage, some reporters rushed over and even sent Russian interpreters.

However, the Soviets were not idle, they were clearly aware of our actions, and they were also clearly prepared and prepared. They sent helicopters to hover and fly over our positions and troops for two days in a row. They even sent two bombers over us. By the afternoon of the 12th, we also saw a number of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles assembling at their border posts. All of this really gives us the same atmosphere as on the eve of the battle of Treasure Island.

It is said that at that time, the deputy commander of the Northern Xinjiang Military Region reported the movements of the Soviet troops to the Xinjiang Military Region and requested that the original plan to resume patrols along the original border line on 13 August be canceled. The Xinjiang Military Region Operations Department also felt that the situation was tense and asked the leaders of the military region to cancel the patrol plan, but Long Shujin, commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, said that this was just a threat to the Soviet army. That night, the political commissar of the Tacheng Military Sub-district made a direct telephone call to the Xinjiang Military Region's operational duty room, reporting that the Soviet troops on the opposite side might have major actions. Please ask if the routine patrol for the next day can be cancelled. The staff officer on duty replied that the head of the military region had received your report, but that there were no clear instructions on the cancellation of routine patrols. Since the head of the military region did not give clear instructions on the routine patrol, it is tantamount to saying that tomorrow's patrol will be carried out as originally planned. ”