In the gray sky, from time to time, lightning thundered and thundered, and there was a scene of black clouds crushing the city and wanting to destroy it.

In the compound of the locomotive depot of the Jinhai Railway Bureau, next to a few stacks of firewood and a mountain-high pile of coal, in a small two-story cement building left by the small cherry blossom country, the secretary of the Duan Party Committee and the head of the Duan Party would walk around the office with a list that had been changed several times, their expressions were serious and a little deep, as if something big was about to happen.

"Should the political censorship of the train drivers on this list be repeated, and other factors such as age and family have been investigated? This matter has been explained by the Party Central Committee, and there must not be a trace of error! ”

"Secretary Ge, from last month to now, the drivers in the section have been selected several times, these more than 300 people, all of them are young drivers with good physique, they can drive, and their learning ability is strong. "

"No, I still have to add it up, the final clapper work is delayed until noon, now at this time it is not important to drive, learning ability is not important, the most important thing is to be bold, have the courage to sacrifice and dare to work hard, the front-line war is not a joke, when the time comes, where the battle line goes, the train will have to go, the logistics supply work is no less dangerous than going to the battlefield to fight with the enemy, and the line of fire transportation must be our party personnel!"

In 1950, just after the founding of the People's Republic of China, all kinds of ruins were waiting to be rebuilt, and the life that the people had been looking forward to gradually arrived, but at the same time, the Korean War broke out, and the US military supported the southern Korea, and just a few days later, it crossed the 38th parallel, and the army of the North Korea was defeated and retreated, and the US bombers bombed China's northeast airport and part of the railway on the Sino-Korean border on the grounds of accidental bombing.

In October 50, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea asked China to send troops to help, and the great leader Chairman Mao agreed to send troops to the DPRK in consideration of political reasons and homeland security.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Li Tieguo, who was holding a wicker wiping cigarette pipe, was a little stunned in his eyes, when the leaders of the party committee talked to him before, his attitude was already obvious, that is, he wanted to go to the battlefield in Korea and serve the motherland, like his father, but for several days, he was not on the pre-planned list that he was inquired about, and even the gang of people who cooked had to go......

"What are you doing, stewed here!"

Just when Li Tieguo was listless next to the big chimney, Wu Laosan, the driver of their car, sat on the train and scraped Li Tieguo with his foot, and then he was still smiling on his face, not serious, Li Tieguo saw his virtue, and shook it off with Liu Security Guard, turned around, and ignored him.

"I went to Duan Li to have a drink with the leader just now, and I instructed them that you must let you go with me in a car, or I won't go anywhere, uncle, and then guess what the leader said?"

"What did you say?"

"Hey, it's done!"

As soon as Wu Laosan's words fell, Li Tieguo immediately turned his head and stared at him, his expression was a little curious, and Wu Laosan then raised his hand and waved it back, looking proud, that posture is not something ordinary people can pretend.

"Really? I've made several trips in the previous run, and the secretary told me to wait for the notice, don't tease me, I'm not in the mood to play with you! ”

"If you don't believe me, ask yourself, remember to invite me to drink at night!"

Wu Laosan saw Li Tieguo's serious look, and he didn't say any more nonsense, and directly pointed to the two-story small building, and although Li Tieguo was suspicious when he heard this, he quickly ran towards the small building.

After going upstairs and seeing Secretary Duan of the Party Committee, Li Tieguo stood at the door, panting, looking a little speechless and stopped, not knowing what to say, and the secretary saw Li Tieguo's appearance, sighed, smiled again, and then took the cup to scoop up the saliva,

"Work hard, alas~ Why are you so active!"

"Ge, Secretary Ge, is Wu Laosan's words really false? Oh, no, no, he said..."

"After careful consideration, the party committee agreed to let the children of the soldiers in the section go, your father organized anti-Japanese activities in the countryside before, and sacrificed, I didn't want you to go, why don't you leave a seed for your old Li family!"

Ge Cunliang, secretary of the Duan Party Committee, looked at the hairy young man in front of him who was not yet twenty years old, and felt very uncomfortable, he had to do his best to complete the tasks assigned by the Central Committee, even if he would be very emotional in some choices, but he had to be like this, these heroic children in Duan, the political trial was the most passable, and the performance was also very good, the most important thing is that they are loyal to the party, let them go, although they will be indebted in their hearts, they are the most suitable!

At this time, after listening to Secretary Ge's words, Li Tieguo stood in place and blinked, then stretched out his tongue and licked his chapped lips, smiled stupidly, and didn't say anything, he actually didn't have any impression of his father, he was not born yet, and his father went to join the army.

That will be the head of the national disaster, the mountains and rivers are alive, the countryside farming is not peaceful, many rural young people simply went directly to join the army, and then in other townships came the news of his father's sacrifice, after his mother gave birth, he followed his mother's family to the south, he was grandma single-handedly pulled up,

"You have a more straightforward temperament, Wu Laosan is more ghostly than you, and he is a driver, after you go to the country, you follow others, discuss with him more, if you can take less risk, you can take less risk!"

After Secretary Ge saw that Li Tieguo scratched it, he didn't say a word for a long time, and then let him drink a sip of water, then turned around and sat back on the chair, and ordered a few words, and Li Tieguo nodded immediately when he heard this, and didn't speak, and then Secretary Ge waved his hand, sighed again, and let him go back,

And after returning to the big chimney, Li Tieguo saw Wu Laosan again, and he was lying on the seat of the main and deputy driver napping, so Li Tieguo woke him up and asked him what the secretary said to him, and when he would enter the Korean war to help.

"Eh, I'm really wondering, I haven't seen you in the south before, this guy is looking for death and life on the front line, why are you in a hurry like a monkey, and you have relatives with Lord Yama?"

After Wu Laosan was woken up by Li Tieguo, his expression was a little impatient, if it weren't for the young people in Duan who had handed in the application for joining the Korean aid war, he might not have worked with a list, after all, he was more than ten years older than Li Tieguo, he had witnessed the war, and he had also participated in the war, knowing that the work of entering the Korean aid war was not a casual joke, it was really playing with his life, in the past, the railway soldiers had died a lot, and the enemy would definitely strike logistics supplies, and the dead man was certain, it depends on who catches up.

And Li Tieguo saw that Wu Laosan didn't say anything serious after waking up, and his mood was not very good, so he pursed his lips, turned around and walked towards the place where he slept, leaving Wu Laosan, who was woken up, with a dazed face, and finally angrily scolded Li Tieguo for being a stubborn donkey!

After dark at night, Li Tieguo leaned against the earthen wall and looked casually in the compound, in fact, the reason why he was so anxious to go to the DPRK to aid the war was not to avenge his father or anything, his father was killed by the Sakura Country, and it had nothing to do with the Americans, and he and his father had never even met, let alone feelings, but since he was a child, because of his father, he has received a lot of praise and honor, and has also been taken care of by a lot of the party，

So now there is an opportunity to serve the country and the party, and those young drivers in the section have gone, but a few special circumstances like him have not been there, he feels very uncomfortable on his face, and he is also panicked in his heart, as if he has been coaxed at a critical moment.

"Small country, pack up, and go to the south to transport supplies in a while!"

Just when Li Tieguo was in a daze, Wu Laosan shouted a few words at him from afar, and then turned around and walked towards the big chimney.

Half an hour later, Li Tieguo climbed into the big chimney, sat in the locomotive, held a shovel, shoveled coal, and asked Wu Laosan why he went to the south, Chaoguo was not in the north, and Wu Laosan didn't bother to tell him, the car checked a few times on and off the car, and then pulled the gate, the steam locomotive roared, and Li Tieguo couldn't hear anything again,

At that time, it was really hard to drive a train, unlike the current electric locomotive, sitting in the locomotive clean and air-conditioned, as soon as the steam locomotive of the founding of the People's Republic of China started, the coal blocks had to be filled in one by one, and they had to scoop water to cool down, and they had to look at the boiler.

Ten minutes later, the train out of the platform, Li Tieguo himself alone around the boiler back and forth, not a big place, busy can not turn away, fortunately after a while Wu Laosan came over, that will be less Chinese trains, steam train speed is also slow, railway discipline is not much, many old train drivers are driven according to experience, it is also safe, basically no accidents, and now they are all licensed, training can only drive the train.

"Where do you go to sit with me for a while, you have been with the car for more than a year, and after entering the court, we will not distinguish between the two of us, tied to a rope, in case I have a bad thing, you have to be able to drive the car back!"

Wu Laosan grabbed the shovel, shouted loudly at the top of his voice, and then pointed to the driver's position, Li Tieguo was stunned when he heard this, and then Wu Laosan hurriedly stretched out his foot and kicked him, saying that he should hurry over, and no one was watching the driver's position.

A trip to the south to transport materials, the whole process down for about ten days, in normal times Li Tieguo is busy with the boiler, or add someone to follow, but this time the boiler work is basically Wu Laosan did, Li Tieguo sat in the driver's position throughout the whole process, both excited and scared, fortunately, Wu Laosan always told him all the way, and he himself also learned a lot in private, at that time the workers were basically working hard to learn, learning something like a baby, in the words of the people, the master took the apprentice, and the thing was learned. That's your own, with the real thing, are you afraid that you won't have anything to eat?

When he returned to the locomotive depot, he fell asleep on the lying car where Li Tieguo was usually directly tired, but this time Li Tieguo was relatively lightweight, and Wu Laosan was much tired, but he didn't sleep directly on the car, but got out of the car and ran into a two-story building.

At noon, Wu Laosan woke up, Li Tieguo also squinted for a while, and then someone came in their room, looking younger than Li Tieguo, but quite tall.

After a while, the young man chatted briefly with Wu Laosan for a while, his name is Zheng Duoyu, he is also from the countryside, he originally wanted to enlist in the army, but after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country will restore a large number of soldiers, so it is basically impossible to join the army, but fortunately, the railway needs manpower at this time, so he followed.

In the afternoon of the same day, the newcomer was sent by Wu Laosan to wipe the big chimney for a long time, that is, the locomotive of the steam locomotive, and when it got dark, Wu Laosan was called to the two-story building to have a meeting, and when he came back, before Li Tieguo asked him, he directly rolled up the quilt and told Li Tieguo that it was time to leave, and tonight their car was going to enter the court along the Jingyi line.

In the middle of the night that day, Li Tieguo followed Wu Laosan and the newcomers, drove the locomotive, pulled more than ten wagons all the way through Shencheng, loaded and unloaded supplies, and arrived in Dandong a day and a half later.

Before entering Dandong, Li Tieguo could already see the fighters flying in the sky from time to time, and when Li Tieguo and they arrived at Dandong Station, the station was already crowded with people, all of them were passing volunteer soldiers and some workers along the railway.

During the dialogue, Wu Laosan learned that these volunteers at the station were originally infantry of the 13th Corps of the Henan Strategic Reserve Corps, and in July this year, their troops were incorporated into the Northeast Frontier Force, responsible for guarding the area around the Yalu River.

In the evening, Li Tieguo, Wu Laosan, and the newcomer were arranged to rest and stand by at a railway reception center at Dandong Station, ready to set off at any time, cross the Yalu River, and rush to the battlefield of the DPRK.

But just before Li Tieguo and Wu Laosan left, there was already good news on the Yalu River battlefield, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army won the first battle, and the sixteen-nation joint forces had been pushed back to the vicinity of Qingchuan.

A few days later, at the beginning of November, Li Tieguo and Wu Laosan drove a train back to Benxi to haul supplies in accordance with the instructions of their superiors, and the whole journey took more than a week.

After another month, the good news came from the front again, the Volunteer Army successfully encircled and suppressed the Sixteen-Nation Alliance, and the American Army retreated for more than 600 miles, until it stopped after the 38th parallel, and regained Pyongyang, with remarkable results, successfully smashing the so-called Christmas Offensive of the Commander-in-Chief of the United States.

And the price is also shocking, according to the legends of some wounded on the front line at that time, there was a division headquarters on the front line, which ran more than 140 miles on their feet in one night, and some soldiers ran and vomited blood and could not stand up again.

By the middle of December, Li Tieguo, Wu Laosan and Zheng Duoyu were finally able to cross the Yalu River Bridge and enter the DPRK to transport supplies according to the instructions.

But just as the train was heading towards Pyongyang, the surrounding mountains, plains, and hills and ravines were getting louder and louder on almost all sides, and the US military was powerful in firearms and had a lot of shells, so after driving another section of the railway, Li Tieguo found that he could already see the sand and soil blown up by artillery bombardment in several directions in the distance.

It was from that moment that Li Tieguo realized the fact that he had entered the range that the US military could bombard, and it was impossible to say that he didn't feel it, after all, Li Tieguo heard the bombardment of the shells very clearly, and Li Tieguo could see the dust in the distance very clearly.

But the train can't stop, the place where the supplies are transported has not yet arrived, and it is easy for the train to travel a few kilometers, but it may take several hours for the volunteers to carry the supplies for several kilometers, and it is more likely to be bombarded.

As smoke billowed from the locomotive's head, the train reached a place near the plain, a dozen kilometers from Pyongyang, and then a convoy of Korean citizens and volunteers began to unload the truck.

At that time, although Li Tieguo and Wu Laosan were drivers, they also ran down to pull things with them, but they didn't communicate much, not because of the language barrier, but because the voice of the speaker was difficult to hear at all, and the ears were full of buzzing tinnitus, and the general communication was based on eyes and facial expressions, simply put, nodding and shaking his head.

At noon that day, Li Tieguo and Wu Laosan completed the task of transporting materials into the DPRK for the first time, and they didn't know what they sent, but when they went back, Li Tieguo smirked at Wu Laosan for a while, and finally Wu Laosan scolded him for being a fool.

At night, Li Tieguo and Wu Laosan were told to stop at Chaoguo Banmu Station near the Yalu River, which should now be called Banmu Station Station, which was particularly dilapidated and several earthen houses at the station were blown down.

Li Tieguo and Wu Laosan had no recruitment, so they could only lie in the car, and when it was midnight, a group of people came to the station, and Li Tieguo and Wu Laosan got off the train to take a look, and then found that they were disabled members of the Volunteer Army.

Among them, several Li Tieguo saw it with his own eyes, and the whole body was full of flesh and skin, although even if he was strangled with gauze, the bleeding still couldn't stop, and then he waited until he arrived at Dandong Station.

Li Tieguo communicated with several female doctors in the car, only to know that the kind of flesh and skin wounds were bombarded by shells, which is different from bullet wounds, after the explosion of the shells of the US army, countless marbles will be ejected, coupled with dust, sand, iron and air currents, once the explosion is at close range, there will be several large pits on the skin and flesh of the body, which are extremely difficult to recover, and even many of them bleed to death on the spot.

Maybe I haven't seen many things and I won't be so uncomfortable, but when I see them, maybe it's more silence and anger, Li Tieguo couldn't scold anything in his mouth at that time, but he knew in his heart that US imperialism is the rule of power, a cruel executioner, and a minions of exploitation.