In the spring of that year, the whole of China was shrouded in the clouds of war. The Soviet Union deployed three army groups totaling more than 1 million troops along China's northern border, and China's close neighbor India also had constant friction with China's border guards.

Sensing the threat of international hostile forces, the top echelons of the Chinese Government have constantly readjusted their strategic arrangements, expanded their armed forces, prepared for war and famine, dug deep holes, and stockpiled grain extensively.

When I went back to the city to visit my family, I was told inside that my parents' problems would soon be clarified organizationally, proving that my grandfather was not a landlord, he was a middle peasant, so it was only a matter of time before they were released.

My father's comrade-in-arms, Uncle Chen, was the chief of the general staff of the military sub-division, and when the Ninth Corps entered the Korean War, more than 100,000 volunteers surrounded the first division of the most elite Marine Corps of the US Army on the icy and snowy Gaima Plateau......

In that brutal battle, my father braved the low temperature of minus 40 degrees Celsius to carry the seriously injured Uncle Chen out of the pile of dead people, and when they arrived at the ambulance, their bodies were frozen together by the blood on their bodies, and the nurse used scissors to cut the skin and flesh before separating. The friendship between them can no longer be measured by the words "friends of life and death", and the historical problems of my parents are almost solved, and now it is not difficult for a divisional chief of staff to arrange for the son of an old comrade-in-arms to join the army. In a sense, the Chinese developed the habit of going through the back door first in the army.

Uncle Chen asked me what kind of soldier I wanted to be a soldier, and I said that I wanted to be an air force, and I heard that the pilots had good food. Uncle Chen smiled and gave me a brain adze: "How can a fighter be so easy to drive, you kid will send me to the field army, train hard for a few years, and then transfer you to the military region to work." "I said that I would go back to work in the agency, forget it, I am still willing to stay in the grassroots army, and I am not used to staying in the office.

I wanted to go back to the Ganggang camp and say goodbye to the little fat swallow, but time did not allow it, so I wrote a letter to them, and I felt that I was sorry not to go, and I went to the army to be a soldier, leaving a good friend to cut the queue in the ravine. But I didn't have this feeling after three months, and then I realized how comfortable it was to be an educated youth in the mountains.

I was platooned by the conscription office to a unit that was about to be reequipped with an armored division, but I didn't expect that by mistake, after three months of hard work in the recruit training camp, the Central Military Commission ordered this unit to be transferred to the 62nd Dao Squad Station in Kunlun Mountain Pass on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the whole division was reorganized into an engineering unit.

In fact, it is not surprising to say this, the situation at that time was that the troops of the whole country were digging holes to engage in civil air defense construction, all kinds of holes, air defense, ammunition reserves, strategic concealment, and so on, and there were almost no troops in the whole army that did not dig holes, the difference is that my unit has changed from amateur digging to professional digging, and our task is a first-class secret, to build a huge underground combat readiness facility in the depths of Kunlun Mountain, although the soldiers are not clearly told the purpose of this facility, but people with a little brain should be able to guess it. There are secrecy regulations in the army, so everyone never talks about it. It is also rumored that after completing this engineering mission, we will be assigned back to the sequence of the field army.

Kunlun Pass is also known as Kunlun Pass, 4767 meters above sea level, from a geological point of view, it belongs to the "permafrost desert landform" is composed of complex metamorphic rocks that are strongly corroded in ancient times, we are taught from top to bottom, in addition to digging trenches, we don't know anything about civil engineering construction, so the army sent a lot of engineers and technicians to guide the work, and conduct intensive training for the commanders and fighters for a period of five months. Our task was to find a suitable hidden location for construction.

"Unfrozen Spring" is located on the north bank of the Kunlun River, also known as Kunlun Spring, granite slabs circle the pool wall, the clear spring water in the pool keeps gushing out for thousands of years, even in the cold winter it never freezes, no one knows where the spring leads underneath. The higher authorities conveyed discipline and ordered the soldiers not to bathe here, because the local Tibetans regarded the "unfrozen spring" as a sacred spring and often worshipped the spring. In the past, when Tibet was just liberated, the Tibetan army passed through this place, and at that time these regulations had not been issued, and three soldiers bathed in the spring, and they were all drowned in the spring, and the cause of death was said to be because the spring water contained a large amount of sulfur, and their tombs were placed at the military station not far from here, and the last supply station of our detachment was also located there.

Finally entered Kunlun Mountain, almost all of them had severe altitude sickness, everyone's faces were purple, and their eyes became blurred, and they seemed to hallucinate in our eyes. And our team of more than a dozen people is not as good as a small ant in this majestic mountain range.

On the way to the march, I remembered the book handed down by my grandfather, which once said that the Kunlun Peaks and Five Thousand Peaks are the ancestors of the dragon veins in the world, and these mountains from the ancient times to the present, I don't know how many secrets are buried in them, and according to legend, the mausoleum of King Gesar, the hero king of Tibetan myths and legends, and the gate to the demon kingdom are hidden in these undulating mountains.

(In ancient Tibetan customs, sky burial is not the highest treatment, the highest specification is tower burial)