The leaves are astringent, difficult to swallow, and have little nutrition, and eating them only keeps the warriors from feeling hungry.

Battalion Commander Han sat next to Company Commander Zhang and said, "Now we are in small groups of ten people, taking advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's blockade line to rush outside, and maybe a few more will rush out." ”

Company Commander Zhang chewed the leaves, frowned tightly, swallowed a mouthful of leaves into his stomach with his neck, and said with a sigh: "Battalion commander, this is long overdue, go and organize now." ”

There were not many people left in the third battalion, two groups were organized.

Company Commander Zhang rushed forward with Guo Wenzhi, the head of the team who remained in the battalion, Zhang Chunfa, the correspondent, Liu Xianyu, the hygienist, Lao Cui, the translator, and eight soldiers of the Eighth Company.

The road could not be walked, only the mountain road, and at night, when there was no moonlight, quietly and silently walked along the gap between the enemy's positions, and at dawn it hid in a bush, not moving, and licking the dew when thirsty.

When it gets dark, keep walking.

After walking for more than 20 days, I walked to Dacheng Mountain in the west of Huashan County.

Zhang Chunfa, the correspondent of the investigation, shouted: "The battalion commander is in front!" ”

Company Commander Zhang took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw that more than a dozen people led by Battalion Commander Han were moving in this area, and the joy of convergence did not last long, they needed to consider the problems they were facing next, he was lost, not only lost his direction, but he didn't even know where his current location was.

However, there were not only battalion commanders in the ranks, but also Wang Jinfang, the deputy instructor of the artillery battalion, and the seven of them were North Korean laborers from the upper west.

Company Commander Zhang and Battalion Commander Han observed left and right, and they both felt that this environment was good, Dacheng Mountain, the mountains were high and dense, it was very convenient to hide, it could be attacked, retreated and defended, and the terrain was also quite good.

Battalion Commander Han said: "Lao Zhang, there is no drama in breaking through for a while, I think so, let's settle down here first, wait for the sixth battle to come, as soon as our large army comes, we will immediately join the large army, what's the matter." ”

Company Commander Zhang said: "That's the only way. ”

There's really no good way to do it right now.

As soon as the two of them combined, they planned to stay in Dacheng Mountain to fight guerrillas.

More than 20 people, they set up the D branch, and all the D members held a meeting to jointly elect the battalion commander Han as the secretary of the D branch, and the company commander Zhang and the artillery battalion instructor as the branch WEI members. The troops lived in two ravines, which were interrelated and cared for by each other.

In order to solve the food problem, after settling down, Company Commander Zhang took a communicator, a translator, a health worker, and four soldiers to the fields of a village 10 kilometers away, picked up the corn, beans, and rice left by the local people, and then left an IOU, promising that if he returned to the team in the future, he would definitely return the money to them.

In two days, the harvest is really a lot, enough for everyone to eat for a while.

On the third day, Company Commander Zhang was taking people to the small village to pick up some more.

It turned out to be an accident.

That morning, after Company Commander Zhang got up, he went outside to go to the toilet, and as soon as he squatted down, he heard the gunfire in the camping place, and he was stunned when he saw the enemy rushing towards him, and he was screaming while rushing.

Seeing this, Company Commander Zhang ran quickly up the mountain, running and running, he felt that his right leg was tight, and he felt numb, and then it was like a stick, he didn't have time to see what was going on, and the enemy behind him chased after him tightly and continued to run up the mountain.

The enemy looked at Dacheng Mountain, which was high and densely forested, and did not dare to chase after it.

It wasn't until the gunfire stopped sounding and felt that there was no one chasing him behind him, that Company Commander Zhang fell to the ground, his right leg was dripping with blood, and a bullet hole was particularly eye-catching.

When I returned to the camp, I saw that the correspondent and the hygienist had been sacrificed, and their own guns and the communicator's automatic rifle had also been seized by the enemy, and even the food they had picked up for two days had also been collected, and the soldier Huang Qifu was wounded, and the soldier Li Cai said to him while running: "I will report to the battalion commander." ”

That night, Battalion Commander Han brought people over, and everyone buried the sacrificed comrades-in-arms together, and then carried Company Commander Zhang and Huang Qifu to their camp for treatment.

At night, the moon is sparse and sprinkled with silver on the ground.

Company Commander Zhang felt that he had burdened his comrades, and repeatedly said: "Battalion commander, don't be a scorpion, scorpion, or a tiger, just a thigh piercing an eye, and it will be fine in two days." ”

Battalion Commander Han looked at his wound and said, "We don't have medicine now, and we can't keep up with nutrition, I'm afraid it's not as optimistic as you think, you take good care of me, don't worry about anything, with me." ”

really let Battalion Commander Han tell him, not only did Company Commander Zhang's wound not heal, but his entire leg was swollen, and the yellowing pus flowed.

Company Commander Zhang couldn't act, and Battalion Commander Han took a few soldiers to fight guerrillas, sneak attack the convoy of American devils, and reconnoiter the troops.

Even so, they remained optimistic, and the meetings of Branch D were held every evening to summarize the day's meetings and decide what to do tomorrow.

After several months, it lasted until winter, and the sixth battle was not fought, and Company Commander Zhang said to the Han battalion commander many times: "Battalion commander, you rush outside, just leave me something to eat and burn, and our troops will definitely fight!" ”

Battalion Commander Han said: "Don't talk nonsense, we will never leave you." ”

Even if Battalion Commander Han didn't say it, the comrades would definitely not leave Company Commander Zhang, and if he said it once, no one would listen to his request anymore.

Until one day, Battalion Commander Han said to Company Commander Zhang: "I have decided, prepare enough food for the winter, don't leave, and talk about it after the winter, at that time, the big army should always come." ”

They always firmly believed that one day, the big army would come to fight.

Winter is coming, and heavy snow covers the mountains.

There was no meat, eggs, vegetables, salt, extreme malnutrition, and when Commander Zhang saw that everyone was suffering from night blindness, some people were swollen all over their bodies, and they were all wearing single clothes, shivering in the cold wind, he felt very guilty and felt that he had caused everyone to suffer.

More than a dozen people survived this winter, and the soldiers shaved their beards with bayonets and trimmed their hair with bayonets every day. When it snowed and there was water, they put the water in the camp to melt it, and simply washed their faces and brushed their teeth.

At night, there is still a bit of darkness to cover up, so as not to be so eye-catching.

One day in early January 1952.

Bang bang!

Two gunshots broke the silence on the mountain.

It was the search team of the U.S. military that came, led by the seven North Korean laborers, who had defected to the enemy and brought the enemy to their camp.

Battalion Commander Han led everyone to retreat back to the mountain, and the soldier Wu Jianjun ran up the mountain with Company Commander Zhang on his back. Company Commander Zhang asked Wu Jianjun to put down himself and run away alone, Wu Jianjun didn't stop, Company Commander Zhang broke free of Wu Jianjun with all his might, and rolled down the snowy slope on the back side of the mountain.

Several soldiers led by Battalion Commander Han would rather die than give in, and used the few remaining bullets to fight the American devils, and after killing seven American devils with more than a dozen bullets, they hugged each other and shouted, 'When I get down, I will take you to fight the devils' and 'Long live New China!' ''Victory must be ours!'' The slogan jumped off the cliff.

The wind and snow buried the traces on the mountain beams.

They seem to have been here, but they are not here.

Dacheng Mountain is finally calm.

They waited for months for the sixth campaign, did not wait.

Even though the snow covered the mountains, they ate a bite, and shivered in the cold wind in their single clothes, they did not have any political wavering, and they still looked forward to the sixth campaign, and their large army would fight again, just like the fifth campaign, and beat the American devils to the ground.

Li Mengqi, a native of Guan County, in March 1951, under the call of the state, wore a cotton military uniform, crossed the Yalu River with great dignity, and she belonged to the Field Hospital of the Logistics Department of the 180th Division of the 60th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers.

After the 180th Division was surrounded by the enemy, in order to solve their worries, they let the comrades of the field hospital leave first with the seriously wounded, and Li Mengqi took Lin Qingxue and followed the large force of the hospital to move to the rear, and at 14 o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th, they joined up with the third branch of the military hospital and stationed in the big valley of Mapingli. At this time, the director received an order to break out, under normal circumstances, the hospital has the protection of the troops, and at this time, the troops are making every effort to organize the enemy to surround them, the situation is extremely urgent, it is impossible to rush to protect the wounded, the enemy's encirclement situation has been basically formed, and the hospital can only evacuate on its own.

Fortunately, after the 180th Division's field hospital broke out, the enemy's center of gravity was on the 180th Division, and the enemy's encirclement had not yet been completely sealed.

The director assigned 243 wounded to each doctor, nurse, and hygienist, and asked them to lead the wounded to break through, and shortly after the order was given, a stray bullet from the enemy landed in the ranks of the hospital and exploded next to the director, and the director was seriously wounded.

The gunfire around was getting closer and closer, the enemy was about to come up, Li Mengqi was responsible for the retreat of seven wounded, including a seriously wounded man who was unconscious, and the wounded who had jaw piercing, Comrade Xiao Zhang, Lin Qingxue followed the other doctors to break through outside.

The other five, one soldier lost an arm, one was wounded in one leg, and three were injured in the head, the task was too arduous, but at this time, Li Mengqi experienced the baptism of the battlefield, and she didn't know what fear was, she only had one thought, to take the comrades out!

Thin and delicate, he didn't know where the strength came from, and on his back, he took six people on the road, and her goal was the gap in the enemy's encirclement to the north.

She followed the people of the large army, some people ran fast, some people ran slowly, and soon everyone ran away, walking, a gunshot came from behind Li Mengqi, very close to her, Li Mengqi was taken aback, and when she looked back, it was the dean who fell in a pool of blood, and there was a group of doctors and nurses around her, and everyone was crying.

According to the doctor, it turned out that the dean had lost too much blood after being seriously injured, fearing that he would be captured by the enemy and taken prisoner, and that he was dragging down others, so he resolutely shot himself. Li Mengqi shouted and came to the dean, and the dean recognized Li Mengqi, she was a nurse in the hospital and a reporter from the 180th Division Newspaper, so she was very impressed.

Knowing that he couldn't live anymore, he said to Li Mengqi: "Xiao Li, I handed over the wounded to you, I'm sorry, you're tired. You have to take them out. ”

After speaking, his eyes were closed, he was not breathing, and the doctors and nurses around him were secretly sobbing and sad.

With tears in her eyes, Li Mengqi followed the others to bury the dean, and then she gritted her teeth, picked up the wounded and continued to move forward, the enemy's bullets and artillery fire fell on the breakthrough team from time to time, swishing past, and rumbling and exploding.

In the days on the battlefield, Li Mengqi has practiced a stunt, listening to the sound, she can determine how far the bullets and shells are from her, and when she feels very close to herself, she immediately pounces on the wounded, and when the danger passes, she leads them forward. Stumbling like this, four hours later, they actually broke through four blockades.

Li Mengqi had just placed the six wounded comrades in a hiding place when he suddenly found that the wounded man with a wounded leg had not followed.

Li Mengqi suddenly became anxious, "You wait here first, I'll go find him." ”

After placing the wounded, Li Mengqi hurriedly looked for the road where he came, and just ran out not far away, just a kilometer away, a team of enemies appeared in the distance, they found Li Mengqi, picked up the gun and fired wildly at her, this flexible girl shrewdly dodged, she ran quickly, and finally found the wounded in the impact point of a shell, he was just about to get up on his back, the enemy shot a bullet over, Li Mengqi only felt that his scalp was numb, his eyes were black, and he fell.

I don't know how long it has been, when it was in a daze, Li Mengqi heard a cry, it was the wounded man who was crying, crying very sadly, she asked a little weakly: "What are you crying about?" ”

The wounded man said sadly, "I thought you were dead, you were here to save me."

Li Mengqi showed a miserable smile, "It's my responsibility to save you, tell me when the dean died, let me take care of you, what's there to cry about." Hurry up and get out of here, leave me alone, go to the hospital, find our team. Quick, I order you to go! ”

The wounded man was only seventeen or eighteen years old, very young, with a thin face with black eyes, tears in his eyes, and stubbornly said: "I want to take you with me, I can't go alone!" ”

(End of chapter)