The warm sun of winter is extraordinarily warm.

After last night's farewell, everyone was extremely tired, and this stop was dead or alive.

Outside, the voices of other fighters sounded: "Comrades, come out quickly, there is no one outside." ”

Hearing this sound, the heads of the soldiers popped out of the carriages.

Outside the station, firecrackers rang out and the sound of fireworks rumbled.

The station was relatively quiet, except for the hanging lanterns, not a single person was visible, and the fighters who got off the station had their hands on their cuffs and spat white mist.

"There's really no one outside, come down and go to the bathroom, suffocate to death."

The fighters ran outside one after another, basking in the sun, and going to the toilet.

Elder Liu pulled a few comrades from the cooking class and walked outside: "Go to the toilet." ”

The voice of the commander came: "Rest at the station for ten minutes, board the train and leave in ten minutes!" ”

It doesn't take much time for them to go to the toilet, there is a wild field outside the station, most of them solve it on the spot, and the sanitation discipline of Fangjun is relatively strict, and everyone will bury it with soil after solving it on the spot.

Ten minutes later, hop on the train and continue your journey.

In 1938, the Huanghuakou embankment of the Nanhe River was damaged, and the water of the Yellow River flowed into the Yinghe River and the Xiqi River along the Jialu River into the Huai River, flooding 44 counties belonging to the three provinces of Nanhe, Hui'an and Sujiang.

These areas have been devastated and left behind vast areas of barren land.

The task of many troops is to reclaim barren land and grow food.

By train, besides, after a day and a night, they finally arrived at the terminal, and there were no troop carriers, and they still had to walk to their destination.

After walking for most of the day, they finally stopped in front of a low village.

The houses in the village were badly damaged, and many of them collapsed.

The fighters gathered in groups of three or five, and the company commander and instructor were called to a meeting.

Not long after, Hu Shunchun came back, took the city wall of the training team to the north corner of the village, and met with the civilian cadres of the military department, "You are the training team, this is your house, you should be here for the time being." ”

The civilian cadres gave them three rooms for the training team.

There are not many members of the training team, only about two platoons, plus a cooking class.

For example, some fighters have good marksmanship, some fighters are outstanding in physical fitness, some fighters are strong in fighting, and some fighters have strong bomb throwing ability.

Fighters with good marksmanship work in the direction of sharpshooters.

Fighters who excel in combat and physical fitness work in the direction of scouts.

Those with strong bomb throwing capabilities will work in the direction of long-range fire support.

"Repair the house first, if it rains, I guess it's raining heavily outside, and it's going to rain lightly inside the house." Elder Liu put the pot behind Xia Yuan on the ground, looked at the messy houses, and the roofs that showed through the sky, and said to Hu Shunchun.

"The superior gave everyone two days to repair the house, and the mattress and stove should be done." Hu Shunchun nodded and signaled everyone to get busy.

"The most important thing here is yellow mud, get some yellow mud, and mix it with straw."

"I'm going to get some wood."

Everyone quickly got busy, Xia Yuan was not idle, and followed everyone to stir up the yellow mud.

The soldiers of the 335th Regiment were arranged in batches in the village, and there were no other tasks in the afternoon, and Shangfeng asked them to repair the houses.

Otherwise, I'll freeze to death when I sleep tonight.

The yellow mud was made, and with the stones he had picked up, he pasted it on the collapsed walls.

After a while, everyone was sweating profusely, taking off their clothes and working hard.

By evening, the four walls of the house were almost repaired, and the roof needed timber, and there was less timber around, and it had to be pulled from a long distance.

As night fell, a cold wind blew across the vast land.

The warriors covered themselves with futons and fell asleep.

The next day, it was another busy day.

Shangfeng's new document order was issued again, requiring that all guns and ammunition be stored in a centralized manner, and that troop transport vehicles be used to develop agricultural tools.

When handing over the guns, many soldiers were a little unbearable, they had been with the guns for many years, eating, drinking, and sleeping without leaving the guns, and now the guns were handed in, and everyone's hearts were empty.

A series of reforms down.

The guns and cannons of the troops were kept in a centralized manner, the gun carriages were changed into beam trucks, and pack horses and horses were used to transport grain, or to plough the fields.

Turn in firearms, reclaim wasteland, grow food.

The fighters stood there with their hands on their cuffs.

In this situation, they suddenly realized that the war had passed.

Dedicating strength to the peaceful construction of New China has become their only thought, and food has become the direction of everyone's efforts.

However, the sudden shift of the troops from many years of intense and arduous combat life to peaceful construction has taken a major turn in ideology and living habits; although it is not like the victorious divisions in the past, 'swords and guns are put into storage, and horses are released in the south mountains,' the task of building the national defense force cannot be carried out for the time being.

On the third day after handing in the guns, the vigorous movement to reclaim the heavens and the earth began in full swing.

In the barren land, thousands or even tens of thousands of warriors with hoes and rakes poured in.

Sweat slid down his cheeks and rolled down the dirt.

Dusty.

The fighters had their backs to the sky, and the dry was in full swing.

Such days, as long as they last, are more than a month.

The reclamation of wasteland has achieved results, and acres of fertile land have taken root in the barren land under the hard work of the soldiers.

The comrades who brought the water dug up the canals and brought the source of life into the fertile fields.

Night falls.

Xia Yuan saw Instructor Hu sitting at the door, with a sad look on his face, and stepped forward and asked, "Instructor, what's wrong?" ”

Instructor Hu waved his hand, "It's nothing." ”

"Oh."

Xia Yuan didn't continue to ask, and when he walked into the house, the eldest Liu was boiling hot water, and when he saw Xia Yuan walking in, he greeted: "It's really time for the stinky boy to come, the footbath." ”

Xia Yuan took out the footbasin under the bed and stared at the room: "Squad leader, what about the others." ”

"Oh, to the company." Elder Liu gave Xia Yuan a basin of hot water, "Wash it quickly, finish washing the quilt." ”

"Oh." Xia Yuan nodded, took off his shoes, soaked his feet in water, felt the warm water wrapping the soles of his feet, and asked curiously: "Squad leader, is there a letter from home?" ”

"Hmm."

Elder Liu glanced at Xia Yuan and said with a smile: "Homesick? ”

"It's okay." Xia Yuan fell silent.

He didn't miss home much, he used to run outside a lot, and he didn't go home for a year.

Elder Liu naturally regards Xia Yuan's state as a sign of homesickness.

"Homesickness, normal, whoever comes out for the first time is homesick." Elder Liu sat next to Xia Yuan, "I'll teach you a way, when you are homesick, go outside to look at the sky, don't look at the home, but the sky is the same, especially at night, the stars in the sky are very similar to those at home." ”

He smiled and said, "And the moon, and the moon too." ”

Xia Yuan had a smile on his face, "Squad leader, I didn't expect you to be quite comforting." ”

At this time, a young soldier in the squad ran over, looking a little anxious.

Xia Yuan recognized him and called him Xiao Heping.

"Squad leader, Chang Zhenyu wants to be demobilized." Xiao Heping ran in with urgency on his face.

"What, demobilization?"

Demobilization, for them, is a very distant word.

Demobilization means that they leave the army and return to their hometowns.

In front of the company department, many soldiers gathered, and the sound of noisy shouting came far away.

Elder Liu ran over and saw the soldiers of the cooking squad surrounding Chang Zhenyu.

Chang Zhenyu squatted on the ground, crying bitterly, holding a letter in his hand.

"What's going on?" Elder Liu ran over and pulled away from the crowd.

A soldier from the cooking squad said: "I have a letter from my family, and I want to be demobilized and go home. ”

Elder Liu looked at Chang Zhenyu who was squatting on the ground, blinked, and stared at the others: "What about you, what do you think?" ”

The others lowered their heads, obviously Chang Zhenyu's demobilization behavior had a great impact on others.

Someone said: "Squad leader, there is no war now, my father asked me to go home and get married." ”

Elder Liu didn't say much, and simply asked: "You are gone, who will build the motherland." ”

Someone picked up his words and said: "Back in our hometown, we can stay in our hometown and build the motherland." ”

Elder Liu didn't say anything more, just said: "The superiors agree, I don't have any opinion, now that the battle is over and the era of peace has come, I approve of your choice, this is not too much to ask." ”

The eldest elder Liu turned around and left, he was a little irritable.

Xia Yuan walked up to him and asked, "Squad leader, what about your family." ”

Elder Liu took out a dry cigarette, struck a match and lit it, he took a sip and spit out the smoke: "Home, the army is my home." ”

Passing by the door, the elder Liu stopped and looked at Hu Shunchun.

Hu Shunchun was still sitting at the door, looking up at him, the elder Liu sat down next to Hu Shunchun, looked down at the cigarette butts under Instructor Hu's feet, held back the boredom in his heart, and asked, "Instructor Hu, it seems that you know in advance." ”

"After the battle was over, the troops settled down, and letters from home came one by one." Instructor Hu said: "The situation of our company is not bad, most of the people in the company came out of Xiguang and Nanhe, which are far away from here, and they are all sent by mail, and some family members have come to visit the army in Hui'an." ”

"The first thought of the establishment of New China was to let their children go home for the New Year, get married after the New Year, and have a child."

Instructor Hu said slowly: "Actually, it's okay, it's okay, New China has been established, and the era of peace has come, it's time to go home to accompany your family and deal with family affairs." ”

Elder Liu smoked a dry cigarette, "Chang Zhenyu went home to demobilize, which is the meaning of the company commander." ”

Instructor Hu nodded: "Yes, let's take a look at the situation first, and the superiors are also preparing for related matters." ”

Elder Liu smiled and said, "That's a good thing." ”

Instructor Hu smiled and said, "Then you still smoke." ”

Elder Liu pointed to the cigarette butt on the ground: "Aren't you the same." ”

Instructor Hu said: "It's just emotional, we are all born and died together, running out of the rain of bullets, like brothers, this time to go home and demobilize, I don't know if we will meet again." ”

"Yes, I wish they all went home, and going home proves that our sacrifice was not in vain."

Elder Liu knocked on the dry tobacco on the ground, knocked off the ashes left by the tobacco, and said, "This is a good thing." ”

"yes."

Xia Yuan listened from the sidelines, quite emotional.

Elder Liu turned his head to look at Xia Yuan: "You kid, listen so carefully, you can understand what we are talking about." ”

"We're not stupid, why don't we understand."

During the period of reclaiming wasteland, the cadres and soldiers thought about the future life a lot, and they began to think about how to arrange the next step of the work. In the past, in order to overthrow the reactionary rule of Chiang Bald and fight for freedom and liberation, they voluntarily joined the revolutionary ranks.

The vast majority of the soldiers sacrificed their youth in the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, and now that New China has been founded, there is no war to fight, and some want to stay in the army and participate in the building of the National Defense Force.

And some want to listen to the advice of their families, demobilize professionally, and go back to the place.

During this time, letters from home were sent to the army one after another, and the elderly and wives who came to the army to visit their relatives came one after another, asking the soldiers to return to their hometowns, start a family, and live a peaceful life of 'two cows per acre of land, and hot kang heads for wives and children'.

Demobilization has become an item that the higher authorities attach great importance to.

In addition, there are also some marriages of cadres.

However, most of the cadres, especially those at and above the regimental level, have been fighting with the troops for many years, and they are not young, and they used to be busy with the war and liberating the whole of China, so they did not have time.

Now that the days of peace have come, the family is urging marriage to fall on the head one by one.

Some cadres are busy courting and getting married.

In the long years of fighting, everyone understood that a country cannot exist without driving out the enemy, and that without a peaceful country, there can be no stable home.

Therefore, many cadres have made a vow that 'if you don't liberate the whole of China, you will never start a family!' 'The oath.

Now that the People's Republic of China has been founded and the era of peace has arrived, they have begun to think about having a family.

This demand is not excessive, and has even been highly supported by the leading organs of the military, which demand that the organizational departments at all levels shoulder their responsibilities in this regard.

Someone humorously said to them, "It's time to send a wife." ”

During the war years, the troops implemented a supply system, whether it was guns, artillery, bullets, or silver dollars, they all had to rely on the superiors to distribute them.

Commander Liang of the 38th Army is also anxious about the marriage of his subordinates, Commander Liang is known as a tiger general, and he is a blacksmith, he acts vigorously and resolutely, and looks very rough, but as soon as the cannon stops, he thinks very carefully for the cadres below.

Therefore, in organizing the marriage of cadres, Commander Liang put a lot of effort into it.

At the same time, at the request of the higher authorities, the troops are also being adjusted to prepare for the arrival of the era of peace and the reduction of some aspects of the army.

Demobilization is a very good resolution.