Chapter 116: Soldier's Diary (1)

Da Lao Hei actually handed the diary to Gao Chao, which made Gao Chao feel a little moved, he glanced at Da Lao Hei gratefully, and then took the diary.

This diary, in such a gloomy cave, has been for more than twenty years, but because the cave has been in a constant state of environment, it is still very well preserved.

The red soft plastic cover has a vague five-pointed star pattern on it, and four words: work diary.

Gao Chao gently opened the cover, the paper inside is a little loose, but there is still some toughness, but the handwriting on the paper has become a lot darker, at that time the use of blue pen water, although it mainly became carbon element, but with the passage of time, it will slowly change color, at this moment, it has become a light blue handwriting.

The handwriting on the diary is very neat, the text is beautifully written, and there is a signature in the lower right corner of the first page, which reads: Instructor of the Eighth Company, Zhao Gang.

It seems that this is the name of the owner of this diary, and it also reveals the true identity of the army cadre leaning on the stone wall at the moment, his name is Zhao Gang, and he is the instructor of this eighth company.

Gao Chao took the diary and looked at it, and the big old black was also squatting next to him and watching, at this time, Wang Lianba and the others also noticed their discovery, and they all came over one after another, and everyone was very surprised to see that it was a diary.

So Gao Chao simply sat down, looked through the main contents of the diary, read it briefly, and began to read it from what he thought was of some value to them.

"On July 16th, it was rainy, early in the morning before dawn, Company Commander Zhang and I received an urgent notice, ordering us to immediately tear off the 224 heights, you must know that this is the position that we insisted on fighting for 1 month to take, and now let us tear it off, which makes the comrades feel very aggrieved, Company Commander Zhang has been scolding, but the order is the order, so we urgently assembled, quietly pulled, and the 16th company that replaced us, they were happy enough, the 16th company commander Xue Daxuan, and sneered at us, Said we were going to withdraw to our hometown, and we didn't have to fight the Vietnamese devils anymore......"

The language in the diary is very vivid, and at this moment, reading the contents of the diary, there is silence in the cave, and this diary seems to bring everyone back to the front line in Vietnam twenty years ago.

-- On July 16, 1984, Zhang Bin, the company commander of the 8th Company of the 122nd Regiment of the 41st Division of the 14th Army, together with his instructor Zhao Gang, received an urgent notice from the rear asking them to withdraw from their positions.

Under their tenacious fighting style, it took them nearly a month to snatch the 224 heights from the hands of the Vietnamese devils, but at this moment, because of an urgent notice from their superiors, they were asked to give up the position they had exchanged for their lives to the 16th Liaison Defense, which was simply an insult in the eyes of Company Commander Zhang.

Company Commander Zhang scolded, what is ugly and scolding, but to no avail, the duty of the soldier is to obey orders, so they urgently assembled, and before dawn, they had already pulled down and returned to the regimental headquarters in the rear.

In the regiment headquarters, although Zhao Gang kept pulling Zhang Bin, Zhang Bin's temper still attacked, he actually slapped the table in front of the deputy regiment commander, blew his beard, and had the posture of killing Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu also going back to the front line.

In the end, the regiment commander walked into the headquarters, and he was a lot more honest, but he still raised his eyebrows, and his attitude was not cooperative.

Later, the political commissar of the regiment also entered the headquarters and did some simple ideological work for Zhao Gang and Zhang Bin, which calmed their moods, but when Zhang Bin asked the reason for removing them, the answer he got was ambiguous.

As a matter of fact, the regiment headquarters also received an urgent order from above, asking them to choose a company on the front line that can fight tough battles and endure hardships, and to withdraw from the front line.

It was only at this time that the regimental headquarters received another telegram, asking the 8th Company of the 122nd Regiment of the 41st Division of the 14th Army to retreat in a hurry and go to the rear corps station, where there was already a car transport team waiting for them, demanding that they take immediate action.

After receiving such a task, Zhao Gang and Zhang Bin's first reaction was a little excited, you must know that in that era, a soldier means dedication, and being able to fight for the country is the highest honor of a soldier, and now they suddenly received such an urgent task, for them, it is the country's trust in them, and the head of the regiment was also very surprised by this matter, just briefly instructed Zhang Bin and Zhao Gang, drank a bowl of Zhuangxing wine with them, and sent the 8th company out.

The 8th Company marched all the way to the rear, and arrived at the rear corps station in the evening, and there were indeed several car classes waiting in the station, because of the principle of "two wants and two don'ts" that was required before, so the people of the 8th Company did not even say a word, they got into the car and continued to retreat along the highway.

On July 17, that is, at about 3 a.m. the next day, they arrived at a military railway station in Yunnan, and then they took a special troop train to continue their journey.

The train finally stopped somewhere in northwest Yunnan on the 18th, and when they got off the train, they had someone to receive them, and only then did Zhao Gang and Zhang Bin know that their current operation mission was directly assigned by the Military Commission, and they were not very clear about some details of this mission, but they only knew that they were required to cooperate with the staff of another unit to enter a certain mountain in northwest Yunnan to carry out some research work, and the specific matters still had to wait for them to contact the people of that unit. It's up to the people over there to make further arrangements for them.

However, the person in charge of receiving them also made strict requirements for them and put forward the "three resolutes", that is, at all costs, resolutely ensure the safety of the researchers' lives, resolutely carry out the tasks assigned by the researchers, and resolutely keep the mission confidential and not leaked.

So after a brief rest, Zhao Gang's 8th Company set off again by car, heading towards a certain border in northwestern Yunnan, and arrived at the 1504th Military Station, one of the most remote military stations in Yunnan, on the 20th, where they finally met with the researchers who were about to protect.

The name of this unit is called: 101 Institute of Geology, referred to as 101 Institute, and the total number of people involved in this operation is 7, one of them is a woman, and the leader of the team is a professor in his 50s, named Xia Qiu, and everyone else calls him Professor Xia.

- There is no doubt that this is Xia Qing's grandfather, Mr. Xia, when the diary was read by Gao Chao, everyone couldn't help but look at Xia Qing, she was also a little surprised, obviously even if she knew that her grandfather had been here, but she didn't expect that in this diary, he was mentioned like this.