As Churchill said, there are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies in the world, only eternal interests.

In 1969, due to the needs of the international situation, my unit was sent to the depths of the Kunlun Mountains for construction, because the environment was too harsh, so that the progress of the project was unexpectedly slow, in three years, dozens of commanders and fighters died on the construction site, but the military installation we built has only just completed two-thirds of the way.

At this time, the world situation was reshuffled, and Nixon's visit to China in '72 led to a thaw in Sino-US relations. China's strategic deployment has been readjusted on a large scale, the projects in the Kunlun Mountains have been stopped, and we, the engineers who have left home halfway, have been reorganized into the battle sequence of the field army and are subordinate to the Lanzhou Military Region.

Day after day, year after year, training, drills, studying, and commenting. Life in the barracks is not only monotonous, but also hard. A few years later, the Cultural Revolution ended, the Party Central Committee promptly put things in order, the Gang of Four was crushed, and after a full decade of catastrophe, social order finally returned to normal.

However, the army is a special environment that is out of touch with society, and I did not feel much change in the barracks, except that I no longer need to recite Chairman Mao's quotations as soon as we meet as before, but whenever new recruits enter the barracks, they still have to be educated in the revolution.

This morning, as soon as I returned from a meeting at the battalion headquarters, the correspondent Xiao Liu ran over out of breath: "Report to the company commander, there is a platoon of recruits who come to report today, but the instructor is going to study in the military region, so please go and talk about revolution and tradition to the recruits." ”

Talking about revolution and tradition is actually telling the recruits about the history of the company. I'm really a layman about these, but I'm also the head of a company now, and the instructor is not at home, so I have to bite the bullet.

I took these more than 30 recruits into the honor exhibition room of the company, pointed to a pennant embroidered with the words "Heroic Couplet" and told them that this was the honor achieved by the predecessors of our Sixth Company in the Huaihai Campaign, and this title has been retained to this day.

Then I pointed to a black broken iron pot in the glass cabinet and told the recruits: "Comrades, don't underestimate this broken pot, on the battlefield of the Huaihai Campaign, the revolutionary predecessors of our Sixth Company went to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions after eating the pork stewed vermicelli noodles that were burned in this broken pot. You see, the cracks in this pot were blown up by the reactionary artillery fire of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and to this day, it is still silently telling the deeds of the heroes and the brutality of the reactionaries. ”

That's all I can say, after all, I'm not professionally responsible for ideological work, but I think I'm pretty good, and it's more than enough to get these recruits.

I asked the recruits to disband and go to the cafeteria to eat, and I walked behind them with Xiao Liu, and I asked Xiao Liu: "Just now, the company commander talked about revolution and tradition, how did he speak?" ”

Xiao Liu said: "Oh, company commander, the thief is good, I can listen to it, when will we learn from the revolutionary martyrs, improve the food, and eat pork stewed vermicelli?" ”

I swallowed my saliva and played Xiao Liu's brain: "I haven't heard the revolutionary tradition at all, just the fucking I heard the pork stewed vermicelli, go and get me to the canteen to eat, today the canteen seems to eat steamed buns, and if you go late, you will let those recruits snatch up their eggs." I command you, run forward. ”

Xiao Liu agreed, shook off his stride and rushed to the cafeteria, I suddenly remembered the most important sentence and forgot to tell him, and hurriedly shouted behind: "Pick a few big stuffing for me!" ”

I lay on the bed, eating steamed buns, while looking at the letter that had just been sent from my home, everything was fine at home, and nothing important was mentioned. After reading it twice, I put the letter aside and picked up the remnants of my family's ancestral book, which I had a great interest in the science of feng shui in the past few years, so I took it out and read it when I had time.

Because this book mentions a lot of nouns such as the Five Elements Bagua and Easy Numbers, such as what is the East Jiayi Mu, the South Bingding Fire, the Central Wu has soil, the West Gengxin Jin, the North Non Gui Shui, what Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Kun, Dui, Li, Wei, etc., there are many incomprehensible points, I have found a lot of related books over the years, although the level of education is limited, I can still deal with it and understand three or four percent.

The sixteen characters of Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Art refer to: heaven, earth, people, ghosts, gods, Buddhas, demons, animals, deterrence, town, escape, matter, transformation, yin, yang, and emptiness.

I don't know what age this book is, and I don't know who wrote it, but the content inside is very profound, the sixty-four changes of Fuxi gossip should actually be sixteen hexagrams, and they were transmitted to the Yin Shang period, because these sixteen hexagrams leaked the heavenly secrets, and half of them were erased by the gods, and even the remaining hexagrams of this gossip were not complete. However, people who can understand one or two points are already extremely powerful, thinking that Zhuge Kongming, knowing a little bit about one or two, can ensure that Liu Bei is strategizing and dominating the world, Liu Bowen will only solve three points, and he will assist Zhu Hongwu to build the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for 400 years. But I don't believe in these, can there really be such an evil call?

The only regret is that this book only talks about the layout and structure of the five elements of Feng Shui, and the other half of the book of Yin and Yang Bagua Taiji has not been available since it was passed into the hands of my grandfather. Some of the content of the fragment is incoherent, and the text is obscure, making it difficult to understand its meaning. I think it would be easier to understand if it was the whole book.

Suddenly, a three-long and three-short assembly horn sounded, piercing the quiet air in the barracks, and my first thought was: "Something must have happened, and the whole camp will never be urgently assembled in broad daylight for no reason." I shoved the remaining two buns into my mouth, bounced off the bed and rushed out the door.

Columns were neatly arranged, and I saw that not only our battalion was assembled, but the whole regiment was assembled. A junior officer like me was not qualified to know what the action was, but only to obey orders and listen to commands, and we were ordered to go to the railway station and stand by and set off with our brother troops.

There are more than 10,000 people, like mountains and seas, in the military railway station, crowded with tens of thousands of soldiers, from a distance it looks like a green tide, it seems that the entire division has been dispatched, at that time a division was mobilized, it is very large, like ours The main division is very large, under three infantry regiments, equipped with an artillery regiment, a tank regiment, plus the logistics troops of the division headquarters, there can be almost more than 20,000 people. What exactly is such a large-scale operation going to do? I don't think it's going to the disaster, I haven't heard of any disasters around here lately.

We were dragged to the border of Yunnan by the tin can car in a daze, and then everyone understood that this was going to be a war, and many people cried at that time......

At the same time, Deng Xiaoping, who was visiting the United States, made a surprising statement at the White House: "Children who are disobedient should be spanked." And openly admit that there is a massive build-up of Chinese troops on the Sino-Vietnamese border.

In the early morning of 17 February, 220,000 PLA troops from 17 divisions attacked all the way to Lang Son, and on 4 March, China announced its withdrawal.

My company, the knife company of the main division, bore the brunt of the attack, and after ten days of fighting, more than half of the casualties were lost, and on the march again, we were ambushed by Vietnamese agents, who used women holding children as cover to throw explosive packs into our armored personnel carriers, and eight of my fighters were killed in the armored vehicles. At that time, my eyes were red, I killed three, and captured alive the remaining two Vietnamese militiamen, one old and one young.

They are an old Vietnamese man in his fifties and a Vietnamese woman in his twenties, and it seems that they are father and daughter. One of my subordinates told me that the woman had disguised herself as a baby in her arms and threw the bag into the armoured vehicle as she passed by. Definitely looks good, she did it.

What I feared most was to watch my comrades die in front of me, and in a fit of rage, I forgot all about the three major disciplines and the eight points of attention and our army's policy towards prisoners. I had someone take a bag of explosives and tie it under the Vietnamese woman's buttocks, and let her sit on a dirt plane. Then he tied the old man up and threw him off the cliff into the minefield.

This incident seriously violated the discipline of the troops, and even alarmed President Xu of the headquarters. If it weren't for the fact that my family had a deep background in the military region, I would have been sent to a military court long ago, and my military career was forced to end here, and I returned to my hometown with a demobilization order.