Chapter 32: The Age

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A few days ago, when Rong Chang was patrolling with the soldiers on horseback, he found that the herdsman Halik's winter nest was too close to Wusun Mountain.

In the event of an avalanche in heavy snowfall, his family's winter nest and hundreds of sheep will be in danger of being buried in the snow.

In order to avoid the tragic scene of herdsmen and animals being flooded by snow, the careful Rongchang specially arranged for Alimujiang, a new soldier who had recently joined the army, to ride a horse to urge the Halik family to move out and return to the adobe house in the village.

Alimujiang blushed and scratched his scalp, and said embarrassedly: "Camp Commander Rong, I met Halik's eldest son Mahmuti halfway, and I told Mahmuti that it was okay, and asked him to go back and inform him of Dadang (father) quickly." ”

"What?! You didn't see Khalik in person? Mahmuti is a twelve-year-old Balangzi, what can he do if he doesn't tell his parents?! Rong Chang was in a hurry, and he sharply reprimanded the perfunctory little warrior Alimujiang.

Rong Chang turned around and took out the whistle from the drawer of the table, blew a few times, and summoned the few warriors to gather urgently.

Looking at the soldiers who were ready to go, Rong Chang left a few soldiers standing guard at the outpost, and ordered Alimujiang and a weak soldier to quickly vacate a room in the barracks to put sundries.

Rong Chang mounted a tall horse and set off with five sturdy soldiers, each of whom led a military horse to the winter nest of the Halik herdsman's house, in addition to the military horse under him.

Looking at the back of the battalion commander Rong Chang riding a horse and traveling rapidly, Alimujiang muttered in a low voice in dismay: "We are soldiers who stick to the border line, what does it have to do with our troops whether the herdsmen move the winter nest or not?" It's really salty and don't worry about eating radishes. ”

"What are you talking about?!" When the deputy battalion commander Rehemaijiang heard this, he reprimanded the unconscious recruit Alimujiang with a black face, "The military and the people are a family, don't you know? You, a rookie egg, don't even know the truth of the military and civilian fish and water conditions, do you still want to be a soldier? Your consciousness is too low, this kind of thinking is very dangerous, it seems that it is time to twist the screw cap in your head! ”

The cold north wind was whistling and howling, like a roaring lion, and even the tenacious weeds on the side of the road shrank in the cold wind, and Rong Chang and the others curled up and rode slowly on their horses.

Under the cover of snow, the field is full of vastness, and Rongchang, who is riding in the front, can no longer distinguish where the road is in front and where is the depression.

Seeing that the battalion commander could not find the way, the Kazakh veteran soldier Elizat shouted at the top of his voice: "Battalion commander Rong, I will lead the way, this horse of mine is familiar with the road of Khalik's house." ”

"The old horse knows the way", Elizati easily opened the reins, clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and the old black horse stepped on the thick snow and walked towards Wusun Mountain.

Since some of the snow was covered with lumps of ice, in order to prevent the horses' hooves from slipping and falling on the ice, the experienced Elizati took out the broken sack pieces from his horse coat and tied the sack pieces to each horse's hooves to prevent them from slipping.

At this moment, at the foot of Wusun Mountain, an avalanche has already occurred due to the thick snow, and Halik's winter nest has long been flooded by snow.

Luckily, Khalik woke up early in the morning to find that something was wrong, and before the avalanche broke out, the family of four panicked and drove the sheep to safety.

Just as Khalik was about to move to the small mountain village with his wife and children, the eldest son, Mahmuti, remembered that one of the foxes he had hunted was still in the winter nest.

Although Halik told his son Mahmuti to leave the fox alone and leave the dangerous place quickly.

Unfortunately, the stubborn child did not feel the slightest danger coming, and rushed towards the winter nest on a white horse.

Just as Ma Hemuti got into the winter nest and picked up the half-dead fox, and was about to get out of the winter nest, an avalanche occurred in Wusun Mountain, and the white snow rolled down the mountains and seas, burying the entire winter nest in an instant.

Looking at the snow that collapsed down as high as more than 30 meters, not to mention the winter nest, even the dozens of pine trees near the winter nest were all submerged and disappeared, leaving only the white snow.

When Halik's daughter-in-law Zhao Juan saw this, she suddenly didn't catch it in one breath and fainted, Halik hurriedly pinched his wife Zhao Juan, and her five-year-old son Yeerboli stood next to him and cried in fright.

The cold air had paralyzed the distressed couple who were leaning on each other in the cold wind and in the ice and snow, and they hugged their young son Yeerboli quietly, and the family of three quietly hugged each other and cried quietly.

Under the white snow, the earth is vast, and the white jade-like Wusun Mountain winds horizontally in the vast and boundless wilderness, curved like white mang, so that the silver-white sky and the white field are integrated, and they are at a loss.

At the difficult moment when the Halik family was shouting that the heavens were not working and the earth should not be right, Rongchang came to them with five soldiers, like gods descending from the sky to rescue their family of three.

After Rong Chang, Elizati and others dismounted, they watched hundreds of sheep bleating in the cold wind, helpless and sad.

The three members of Khaliq's family hugged each other in the face of the avalanche of snow and cried, sad and desperate.

There was only a brown horse beside them, wagging its tail restlessly, neighing incessantly at the snow, and two white whims erupting from its nostrils from time to time.

As everyone knows, Khaliq's family consisted of four people, two horses and hundreds of sheep.

Looking at the scene in front of them, there were only three people, a horse and hundreds of sheep left in the vast world, and Rong Chang and the others understood that the white horse of Mahmuti and Halik was buried deep in the snow.

Rong Chang saw that the snow on Wusun Mountain was still showing signs of loosening and collapsing, and the ice and snow were ruthless, so he had to leave this dangerous place quickly.

Under the decisive command of Rongchang, several soldiers couldn't help but push the three members of the Halik family on the horse, and Elizati took the Halik family to leave the place first.

Rong Chang and the remaining four soldiers rode on horses and drove hundreds of sheep towards the border post.

As soon as a group of people left the place where the three members of the Halik family were standing just now, they heard a loud boom, just to the west of the collapsed snow just now, the snow of Wusun Mountain slowly slid down from the mountain, which looked quite spectacular, but it also showed the cruelty and ruthlessness of the ice and snow, and all the places they passed were buried by thick snow.

Looking at the scene behind them, everyone broke out in a cold sweat and had palpitations, but fortunately, Rongchang was resolute and fast, otherwise everyone would be buried in the snow and would not survive.

Along the way, from time to time to drive the sheep forward, the speed of the advance is much slower, in the vast world, the snow cover of the road in front of the road all the way forward, has been connected with the field in the north, several soldiers drive the sheep against the wind and snow to go back, it looks quite spectacular.

From setting out to rescue Khalik's family to driving the sheep back to the outpost, Rong Chang and others ran back and forth for a day and a night, braving the cold and hunger, and the most unbearable thing was that everyone was riding on horses, with little movement in their legs, and the cold wind penetrated through their trouser legs and into their muscles, and they were cold.

Rong Chang and the other six people were numb in the cold and their legs were numb, and they couldn't get off the horse, and with the support of the officers and soldiers who had been waiting for a long time, several people slowly got off the horse.

The three members of Halik's family and their livestock were safe, but the feet of the six officers and soldiers were frostbitten.

Under Zhao Juan's reminder, the soldiers brought pots of snow from outside into the barracks, and rubbed the numb feet of Rong Chang and the others with the snow.

Life on the frontier was not only hard, but also full of dangers, and after Rongchang and his soldiers rescued the Khalik family, he sent two soldiers to escort the Halik family back to their small village when the snowstorm subsided.

The life of the border guards seems to have returned to calm, the daily patrols have begun again, and Rongchang, who has a high military literacy, has been worried about the weakness of this border line these days.

A branch of the Ili River crosses the Sino-Soviet border, because the riverbed is too low, the barbed wire here is more than one meter away from the river surface, the weather is cold, the river surface is frozen, the distance between the barbed wire and the ice surface is more than one meter, people and livestock can pass through at will, this 100-meter-long space has become the weak point of border guards.

Rong Chang rode a military horse to this weak area again, looking at the messy footprints on the snow, the officers and soldiers present knew that someone on the Soviet side had invaded our territory through this open space.

The patrol soldier in charge of this area turned pale with fright, and muttered, "There were no footprints here the afternoon before yesterday, they should be traces left yesterday." ”

Rong Chang judged from these fresh footprints that they were the traces left by the previous night, and judging from the time, the stowaways may not have gone out, so he ordered the soldiers to hide the horses in a slightly hidden place.

After the officers and men quickly loaded their guns, they all braved the bitter cold and crawled in the snow, waiting for the rabbits.

Sure enough, after about three hours of waiting, three men in gray thick tweed robes walked sneakily towards our country.

Just as Rong Chang and the others were capturing these Soviet smugglers, a man with a gun on the other side fired a shot at the recruit Alimujiang.

Seeing this, Rong Chang blocked Alimujiang with his body, and at the same time raised his pistol and accurately returned a shot at the opponent's shooter.

A bullet was shot into Rong Chang's chest, and the smugglers who attacked our officers and soldiers on the other side also fell in response.

There are often some frictions along the border, but it is still rare for the other side to brazenly smuggle into our territory and shoot our soldiers.

This case of the Soviet side smuggling our border was captured by Rongchang and other officers and soldiers on the spot, but the position of the bullet in Rongchang's chest was really difficult to remove.

Under the tossing and turning, the bullet in Rongchang's chest cavity was only taken out at the Lanzhou Military Region Hospital, and when Rongchang's body recovered, it was the time when the spring flowers bloomed the following year.

When Rongchang returned to Yining City to look for his lover Kong Jia, he learned that Kong Jia had been sent to Beijing to attend a military academy.

Rong Chang returned to the Qiongpola border station with a melancholy and lost mood, and devoted himself to the military career of guarding the frontier.

When he saw Kong Jia again, it was many years later, and Kong Jia was accompanied by a handsome and dashing man, looking at Kong Jia looking at the young man with affection, Rong Chang left gloomily......

At this moment, Rongchang didn't know that when he was lying in the Lanzhou Military Region Hospital for treatment, he learned that Kong Jia, who was in danger of dying and was sent to the Lanzhou Military Region Hospital for rescue after suffering a gunshot wound, was rushing to Beijing to attend a military academy.

Standing at the door of Rongchang's ward, through the glass window on the door, I saw Rongchang leaning on the hospital bed, talking to a beautiful girl with a pale face, and the girl was holding a small spoon to feed Rongchang water.

From the girl's affectionate eyes, Kong Jia saw the girl's deep love for Rongchang.

Kong Jia wasn't sure what the girl who was waiting for Rong Chang in the ward had anything to do with him, so she stood at the door and pondered for a moment, then left the ward and came to the nurse's office with a gift.

The round-faced female nurse smiled and told Kong Jia that the girl who served Rongchang was his lover, because she often saw this beautiful girl kissing Rongchang on the mouth while he was asleep.

The news made the excited Kong Jia feel dizzy, and she smiled bitterly and gave the gift to the nurse, and left sadly.

Kong Jia didn't know that this girl was Mina, whom Rongchang regarded as his own sister, and after Mina returned to Guangren Township during the winter vacation, she went to the Yining Military Region to inquire about Rongchang's whereabouts.

When the person in charge knew that Mina was a student of Beijing Medical University, he told Mina the news that Rongchang was rescued in the Lanzhou Military Region Hospital.

Mina, who loves Rongchang deeply, rushes to Lanzhou non-stop to serve her sweetheart, and whenever Rongchang is asleep, she secretly kisses Rongchang.

Kong Jia, who returned to the military academy in despair, put all his thoughts on his studies and buried his love for Rongchang deep in his heart.

Although Mina is a second runner (mixed race) of Kazakh and Han nationality, she did not inherit the bold and cheerful personality of her father Buick Porati, nor did she inherit the generous and enthusiastic personality of her mother Tian Kunrong.

She was brought up by Mrs. Tian since she was a child, and under the education and influence of her grandmother, she has a more reserved temperament in her bones.

She loved Rongchang beloved, thinking that she had not graduated at a young age, and when she was not yet the person to talk to, she hid her hot love for Rongchang in her heart.

This time, Rong Chang was hospitalized in the Lanzhou Military Region Hospital, and it was Mina's second time to take care of him.

Seeing that Rongchang was a big man who was scrupling about this and that, Mina told him as a doctor that they were just a doctor and a patient.

After listening to Mina's words, Rongchang relaxed a little, but when he urinated, even if it was inconvenient, he would snatch the small basin from Mina's hand, drive Mina out of the ward, and solve it himself.

Sometimes, Rong Chang, who was lying in the ward, would imagine that if Kong Jia was the one who took care of him, then he would be cheeky enough to let Kong Jia personally help him urinate, unlike now, when he held his urine every day and the urine bubbles were about to explode.

Rongchang was finally cured and discharged from the hospital, Mina also returned to school, her mind was full of Rongchang's appearance, she decided, after graduation assignment, she would confess to Rongchang as soon as possible, the man she had a crush on for more than three years.

In the summer vacation of this year, for Yi Lixian of Yining City, there was a headache at home, and the eldest son and eldest daughter hid from him and were admitted to the secondary school and successively assigned to work in the city's financial system and institutions.

He longs for the following three daughters to be admitted to Yili Normal College and become a glorious people's teacher to inherit his mantle, the second daughter is already a student of the Chinese Department of Yili Normal College, and the third daughter is also obedient to participate in this year's college entrance examination, the results are quite good, it is estimated that there is no problem in going to university.