80 comradeship

Just when Li Dawei and Hu Jiesen were eating roast duck at the front door, a welcome banquet was also being held in a canteen at the base.

Yang Guang and four other soldiers of the guard company who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea returned triumphantly. Outside a canteen, gongs and drums are noisy, and firecrackers are ringing in unison. When these five soldiers walked into the passage of a canteen, Deng Feng, Chang Qiankun and the members of the Zhiqi Command stepped forward and shook hands with them one by one, Deng Feng said: "On behalf of the front-line command of the Volunteer Air Force, I warmly welcome you - the heroes of victory and triumph!" Thank you, chief, and thank you comrades-in-arms for your kindness."

Later, five female warriors, including Liu Ying and Donna, brought them big red flowers. At the welcome banquet. Deng Feng poured wine for these five soldiers, then poured his own cup full, raised his glass and said: "You are the pride of the D1 Army of our Volunteer Air Force, and you embody the heroic spirit and high patriotism of the D1 Army of the Volunteer Air Force. Practice has proved that the post-90s generation can not only fight, but also fight very well, and the whole army is kind to a glass of wine, please do it!" The five warriors drank it all in one gulp." Good!" More than 200 people applauded in unison

Yang Guang was the last of the five to return, and after the Battle of Shunchuan Pass, he was loaned to the Political Department of the 42nd Army to participate in the interrogation of prisoners of war. After that, the 42nd Army held a sniper and anti-tank training class, and for the first time received an order from the 42nd Army not to let go, four days ago, the 42nd Army once again received an order from the Volunteer Army Headquarters, so that Yang Guang would immediately return to China and return to the team to have an important task. Before leaving, Yang Guang borrowed a US military field jeep from the Military Political Department, and went to the hill at the pass to bid farewell to his comrades-in-arms who were buried here. He saluted and solemnly saluted the graves covered in heavy snow. Then he came to the grave of Ergou, swept away the snow on the grave of Ergou with his hands, lit three cigarettes and inserted them in front of the grave, and then he took off his military hat and bowed his head in silence, at this time he felt that the whirring mountain wind stopped, the clouds in the sky stopped, the mountains were covered in silver, and his eyes were moist with silence, and he said emotionally: Ergou, my good brother, you are a real warrior, I am leaving now, and I can't go back for you. But you won't be alone, and there are so many comrades-in-arms with you, and I'll go back to see my mother and sister. Rest in peace, I'll come back to see you when I have the chance.

On the second day after returning to the base, he explained the situation to the unit leaders, took two days off to see Ergouzi and his mother, and proposed that the company commander let everyone donate a few old clothes and quilts. For the sake of safety, the guard company specially sent a jeep and two soldiers to accompany him, and he went to the Lantian supermarket in the family area of the base, and used his allowance for the past few months to buy two boxes of instant noodles, and the rest to buy chocolate. He is really poor now, and the money on the card can't be withdrawn, even if he takes it out, it's useless, and he can't spend it. Now it is used on December 1, 1948, when the People's Bank of China was established to issue the first set of renminbi. It was these two boxes of instant noodles that the manager of the supermarket listened to the story of the two dogs he told, and turned over the supermarket warehouse to find the last two boxes. Yang Guang loaded his things into the jeep and set off with two soldiers who accompanied him.

Ergou's home is actually not far from their base, that is, about 100 kilometers, but the road was not good at that time. There were no cars, except for a van not far from the guard circle outside the base. The three of them drove for 4 hours to the township where Ergou was located, and only after inquiring did they know that there was still a 10-kilometer mountain road in Ergou's village, and the communicator in the township said definitely that the car was willing to drive through. There was no way Yang Guang They had to leave one person and ask the township messenger to show the way, the people at that time were real, the messenger didn't say a word and said hello to the township and went with Yang Guang and them.

After walking 10 kilometers for more than four hours, I arrived at the village of Ergou at eight o'clock in the evening. found the village chief of the village, the village chief wanted to take them there immediately, Yang Guang thought about it too late, don't scare the two mothers, tell the village chief to stay in the village peasant association for a night first, and talk about it at dawn. So the village chief was busy boiling water, Yang Guang and the others took out the buns they brought from Lianli and roasted them on the brazier, and the four of them chatted while eating, and Yang Guang carefully asked the village chief about the situation of Ergou's family. Poor, although we have liberated and divided some land, we are mountainous here, and we can't get much grain from one acre of land, and there is no decent labor at home, so we can't even eat half full a year. Ergou, this child, cried and shouted that he wanted to be a soldier the year before last, and people thought he was small. He ran with him when the Eighth Road was opened, and it took three years to go, and his mother was going crazy at that time. In the early autumn of this year, his mother begged me to write a letter to the Eighth Road stationed that year, and I asked Liu Daming to write a letter, but I never heard back. I don't know if I'm dead or alive now, "The village chief is a very talkative and enthusiastic person.

Yang Guang told the village chief: "He received your letter, and Ergou also replied to you, but he died before he could send it out." Is sacrifice death?" The village chief asked. Yang Guang nodded. Ah! Oh my god, how can this keep them alive? This is the second in our village. But that family Ding Wang, brother five. These two dogs are only one. The father of the second dog died early. His mother took two children and begged to raise them so big. That's not easy. Hey, what do you think is going to do with that?" The village chief kept rubbing his hands together." Comrade, if there is one less laundry and cooking in your team, take them away, if the second dog lives, her mother still has a hope, and now it is gone, so they can't live?." The village chief said sadly. I said that you have such a handful of years to remember, how can you talk nonsense" The township correspondent criticized the village chief and said: "What kind of thing is it that the People's Liberation Army has a group of orphans and widows on the team, all nonsense!"

The village chief looked at Yang Guang and said, "Little comrade, don't laugh, we countrymen don't understand policies." How old is Ergou's mother?" asked Yang Guang. The village chief snapped his fingers and counted, "37, Xiaoya is eleven this year, how did he die?"

Yang Guang said: "Ergou is a big hero, he killed more than 20 American devils and three enemy tanks." Can he kill more than 20 American devils in his small way?" The village chief said with some disbelief.

Yang Guang nodded and said: The two of us have been together, I have seen it with my own eyes, the army has rated him as a first-class meritorious service, and it will not be long before the good news of meritorious service will arrive in your county. Your township, he is the glory of your village and your county!" Then Yang Guang told the process of the battle and the heroic sacrifice of the two dog heroes.

All the people present were touched by the heroic deeds of Ergou." I really didn't expect Ergou to become a big hero, and there has never been such a hero in our village. In the future, we will mobilize the whole village, and we will try our best to take care of Ergou's mother and his sister, and everyone will reach out and help with whatever they can."

Yang Guang said: "I will first thank the village chief for his concern and care for the families of the martyrs for Ergou's spirit in the sky, although Ergou is gone, I will also take care of them for Ergou."

The next morning, the three of them drank a bowl of porridge with sorghum rice noodles and ate some pickles at the village chief's house, and the village chief cooked a few eggs for Yang Guang and the township communicator. Yang Guang and the others saw that the village chief's family was not rich, and they really couldn't eat. After the meal, under the leadership of the village chief, I went to Ergou's house.

In front of a one-and-a-half-earthen house at the foot of a mountain, the village chief shouted outside the door, "Ergou, you, you're here!"

A little girl showed half of her face from the hole in the window paper, then turned her head and said, "It's Uncle Liu from Dongtou, who said that our family is here." The village chief shouted as he walked into the house: "Why haven't you come out to pick up relatives?"

Yang Guang followed the village chief into the house, and couldn't help frowning, this room is colder than outside. Lying on the clay kang is a woman who looks to be in her 40s. Cowering in a broken quilt. The little girl also trembled and stretched her feet into the quilt. The window paper was tattered and rattled by the wind.

Ergou struggled to get up from the kang and said, "The village chief is here" "The Ergou team is coming up, people see you are coming," the village chief said to her. The people on the two-dog team? Ergou interrupted the fucking girl and said, "My mother has a cold. "You girl, why don't you hurry up and burn the kang." In the poor rural areas, the children all take on the burden of life too early, as the so-called, the children of the poor are in charge of the family early, and the village chief does not question Xiaoya as a child at all.

Yang Guang said: Forget it, he's still a child. So saying, when he went to the kitchen of the outhouse, he opened the lid of the pot, and saw that the water in the pot had been frozen into ice, and there was a small pile of sorghum poles on the ground.

At this time, Xiaoya ran out and said, "These firewood will be burned at night, and now they won't burn at night, and it's even colder." Is there no firewood at home?" Yang Guang looked at this yellow-faced and thin-skinned child, who looked like he had been malnourished for a long time, and was only as old as a seven- or eight-year-old child in his eleven years old and asked. Yes, it's still in the ground, and I haven't carried it back." Xiaoya said: "My mother has been sick these days, and I haven't taken care of my mother to carry it."

The village chief also came out at this time and stuffed another handful of firewood into the stove pit. He said, "Okay, I'll set up a car and pull a car back for you." Hey" The village chief sighed again and said, "Didn't I tell you two about you, girl, and tell me about something in the village. You haven't eaten yet, so let's make some porridge for your mother."" The water tank is frozen," the little girl said, picked up a broken scoop and put it in a mud basin, wanting to go out to fetch water.

Yang Guang saw the water tank next to the stove, which had a small half-water in it, and thick ice on it. He shook his head, he couldn't imagine how the two of them were doing.