On July 13, the "Decision on Defending the North-East Frontier Defense", the Military Commission ordered the transfer of the main forces of the four fields, the 38th, 39th, and 40th Corps of the 13th Corps, and the 42nd Army, which was already passive, to form the North-East Frontier Army, four corps.

An important reason why the 13 th Corps was selected was that a few months ago, the 13 th Corps was a national defense mobile force, and it was deployed in the Central Plains region in the belly of China and could be mobilized at any time.

In order to prepare for border defense, the leadership of the 13th Corps has also been adjusted.

At the same time, the 1st, 2nd, and 8th artillery divisions, as well as four antiaircraft artillery regiments, three automobile regiments, and two engineer regiments, together with the 13th Corps, a total of about 255,000 troops were deployed on the Sino-DPRK border to guard against contingencies.

The order was given to the 13th Corps.

At this time, the 13th Corps was still distributed in the Central Plains, carrying out the task of reclaiming wasteland.

The 338th Regiment of the 39th Army is in the Yellow Flood area.

In July, the rice in the fields grows happily, about half a person high, the yellow ears are full of grains, the wind blows through the fields, and the yellow wheat waves are churning like mountains and seas.

There are warriors busy in the fields, looking for pests.

Half a year has passed since the disarmament and return to the field, far away from the battlefield filled with gunpowder, everyone has basically adapted to the busy days in the field, coupled with the previous ideological work, many soldiers do not reject demobilization and return to the local area to carry out production tasks.

Except for soldiers like Da Lao Liu, their homes have long disappeared in the flames of war, and the troops are their home, and the troops are their final destination.

But this kind of fighters occupy the majority of demobilization, and the main reason is that their hometowns and relatives have long been destroyed in the war, and when they arrive on the battlefield, in the face of the enemy who destroys their hometowns and kills their relatives, they are born with a ruthless energy, dare to fight and dare to rush, even if they face dozens of enemies alone, they will not be intimidated at all.

Because of this, the proportion of such soldiers killed and wounded on the battlefield is very high.

After the war, even if they recovered from their injuries, the bodies and bones of such soldiers were relatively weak, and more people were demobilized. However, there are many such fighters who have no home and no relatives, and refuse to be demobilized.

In July, after receiving the order to form the North-East Frontier Army, Commander Liang summoned the commanders of all divisions to a meeting to discuss the matter.

The commander of the 112th Division said: "I said before that I would be demobilized, and the political work cadres have done a lot of ideological work for many comrades who are about to be demobilized, and they have also made everyone accept the task of returning to the local area to participate in production, and even many comrades are looking forward to such a day, after all, the war is over, the era of peace has arrived, and the good day that everyone has been thinking about has finally come." Now tell them that not to be demobilized and to prepare for the North East is easier said than done. ”

In the conference room, the atmosphere was relatively dull, and many people were silent, obviously the words of the commander of the 112th Division reached everyone's hearts.

This is similar to the principle of moving from thrift to luxury, and from luxury to frugality.

This is equivalent to another problem for the comrades who had previously done the political work of mobilizing veterans and demobilization. Those veterans who were ready to be demobilized were just happily preparing to go home yesterday, and today they will be mobilized to stay in the army and go to the north and east to defend the border. ”

The opinions of the people are more or less similar.

The meeting lasted for a whole day, and all units did research, and finally decided that "the bell must be tied to the bell," and whoever mobilizes and demobilizes will still be mobilized to stay in the team.

After all, political work cadres do this kind of work.

Hu Shunchun received the task, and fell into deep thought, and suddenly stopped the demobilization work before, and he realized keenly that there must be a new task, but he never expected that the new task was that the mobilized soldiers stayed in the army and went to the north and east to defend the border.

It can be said that Instructor Hu relieved himself of the worry of staying in the team for the eldest elder Liu, but he felt embarrassed for the work of all the demobilized veterans to stay in the team.

Fortunately, there is a typical example of the elder Liu, at the mobilization meeting, Instructor Hu talked about the idea of the elder Liu taking the army as his home, and when the elder Liu heard it, he didn't have to leave the team, and happily bared his big teeth: "Stinky boys, we will cook for you in the future." ”

The soldiers of the cooking class were overjoyed.

Most of the soldiers in the cooking class are relatively young, only seventeen or eighteen years old, and the eldest Liu is forty or fifty years old, taking care of their training, eating, and living every day, and is considered half of their father.

Everyone has a good relationship with Lao Liu.

Knowing that the elder Liu was about to be demobilized, everyone was very sad, as soon as the elder Liu left, the cooking class had no backbone, and the deputy squad leader was about the same age as them, but he joined the army early, and it was difficult to take on the big responsibility.

They don't know how their lives will be if Da Lao Liu is gone.

Now I hear that Da Lao Liu does not need to be demobilized and go home, which is undoubtedly a good thing.

There is nothing harder than the applause of the comrades in the cooking class.

Instructor Hu went on to talk about the US imperialist invasion of Korea, who the DPRK was, and that during the War of Liberation, their comrades, whether for the sake of their comrades or for the security of the country's border defense, also dismissed the idea of returning home.

In addition, there were more soldiers from the North East, and more commanders and fighters participated in the liberation of the North East, and the ideological work of returning to the North East was relatively smooth.

The meeting was a success.

Two days after the ideological mobilization ended, a new order from the higher authorities came down, and when everyone went out to exercise, they saw a donkey cart pulling a cart of weapons and ammunition into the village.

When the run was over, the team did not pull back directly, but stayed in the playground.

Elder Liu said: "This is about to be shot, Xia Yuan, aren't you eager to have a gun of your own?" I'll get one for you later. ”

He smiled and said, "Happy no." ”

Xia Yuan smiled happily, "Of course I'm happy, I've been in the army for a few days, and now I can finally touch the gun." ”

He also knew in his heart that touching the gun meant that they didn't have much time to stay here.

It won't be long before you head north to the northeast.

Ammunition for the guns was quickly distributed to the companies, each soldier armed with ten grenades, fifty rounds of ammunition, plus a rifle, and a bayonet.

The soldiers who touched the guns again had happy smiles on their faces and couldn't help but wipe the barrels with their sleeves.

When the gun was fired, Xia Yuan was not given bullets, perhaps he was a recruit, considering that he had not touched the gun.

In addition, it was not the first time to go to North Korea to be stationed in the North East, and there was still a period of time to be stationed in the North East region for training.

The commander of the third company, who had gone home to visit his family, also returned.

Everyone sat on the ridge, holding the gun, and the commander of the third company said briefly: "The gun has been fired, but the production task still has to continue, the departure time has not been issued, and the work of maintaining the crops in the field is still the same, and Instructor Hu will arrange it." ”

The commander of the third company, surnamed Sun, was a big beard with a beard on his face, and the elder Liu told Xia Yuan that the commander of the third company was very good at fighting, and he had practiced martial arts, whether it was marksmanship or fighting, he was very powerful, and he once singled out four or five reactionaries, and he did not fall behind.

Xia Yuan looked at the back of Company Commander Sun, who was tall and big, five big and three thick, and he was indeed a good fighter in battle.

"I heard that there was a little soldier in the cooking class, so I came to see it."

After training the soldiers of the company, Company Commander Sun took Instructor Hu to the cooking class.

The cooking squad had mobilized a few to go home, leaving only seven or eight people, and everyone sat at the door, and when they saw Company Commander Sun coming, they stood up one after another.

Xiao Heping pointed at Xia Yuan, "Company commander, where are you?" ”

Company Commander Sun glanced at Xia Yuan's size, "Yo, how old is such a small person." ”

Xia Yuan's body is indeed inferior to the body of the Jinling massacre, this body is severely malnourished, not tall, one meter and more than six, and has a feeling of being weak and windless.

Instructor Hu looked for Xia Yuan and wanted him to go home, what Instructor Hu didn't expect was that Xia Yuan was small and weak, but he contained huge energy in his body, and his thoughts and concepts were even more peculiar.

Then the demobilization process was halted.

"This child is sixteen years old, and he can work in the fields and cook diligently." Elder Liu hurriedly said.

"In the past, Xiao Heping was the youngest in the company, and when he was liberated two years ago, he was only fifty-six years old, and now he is finally not at the bottom." Company Commander Sun quipped.

"Hey, hey, hey." Xiao Heping smiled.

"So, you have to protect your brother in the future." Company Commander Sun didn't say anything about driving Xia Yuan away, the cooking squad was relatively safe, and he was in the rear of the army, responsible for lighting a fire and cooking for the company.

The soldiers in the cooking class are relatively young, seventeen or eighteen years old, many of them have just joined the company not long ago, Xiao Heping has only been in the company for a year, the tail of the war has been touched once, and I have seen the sacrificed soldiers, but they have not been on the battlefield and have felt the rain of bullets.

The battle of the Liberation War was much easier to fight, and the ranks of the Kuomintang were defeated like a mountain, and as soon as they fell, they were a large area.

In addition, the Red Party's ranks had a very good reputation, the policy of giving preferential treatment to prisoners was very perfect, and some Kuomintang officers even directly pulled a whole contingent to surrender to the Red Party, and under such circumstances, the war of liberation did not last long and ended in victory.

After a brief speech, Company Commander Sun patted Xia Yuan on the shoulder, and then left with Instructor Hu.

Xiao Heping smiled: "Xia Yuan, you can stay in the company, you will be the last in the future, we finally don't have to be the oldest." ”

Xia Yuan smiled, didn't speak, and wiped it carefully with the gun.

It doesn't matter how old the ranking is, what Xia Yuan thinks is that as long as he can enter the court safely, everything else is easy to say.

As for the time of entering the DPRK, it should be around October.

The crops in the fields are growing well, and it won't be long before they can be harvested.

Now that the guns have been fired, it is obvious that there is a task, and the superiors have rearranged the daily time, and the task of daily duty in the fields is carried out according to the shift system, and the soldiers of each squad are lined up for one day, and most of the rest of the time is training.

Early in the morning, the sky was bright, and the assembly whistle sounded.

The weather in July was a bit hot and dry, and everyone was dressed relatively coolly, and not long after the assembly whistle sounded, the soldiers got up from the bed, tied their leggings, put away the bedding, and quickly ran to the courtyard to gather.

Xia Yuan ran out with the elder Liu and found that a large number of soldiers were gathered on the playground used to run in the past.

It's time to go!

He tightened the thin futon on his back.

The playground was quiet, there was no sound of talking, only the noisy footsteps of running, the sound of weapons and equipment colliding, and heavy breathing.

Before the team gathered, Xia Yuan, who was looking around, saw the battalion commander and battalion chief of staff of the battalion headquarters coming.

Company Commander Sun took Instructor Hu and ran over with the others, and he hurriedly saw that many people were not prepared.

There are already quite a few teams gathered here, and there are still many soldiers who have not yet completed the assembly are gathering towards the center point, looking for their own team in a panic.

Xiao Heping rubbed his eyes, looking surprised: "What's the matter, I started to gather early in the morning, and the sky hasn't dawned yet." ”

Another little soldier in the cooking class, named Zhou Mao, "It must be a mission, otherwise what would you do if you gather so early." ”

"Listen to the arrangement of your superiors, don't talk."

The surroundings were very quiet, and Elder Liu put away all kinds of thoughts at this time and told the other soldiers in the cooking class.

The surroundings quickly quieted down, the battalion commander walked to the front of the first battalion, quietly looked at the soldiers who kept running out of the village, his face was a little gloomy, no one came out of the village, he said coldly: "Each company, report the number." ”

"In the first company, there should be one hundred and forty-seven people, but it is one hundred and thirty-six, and the rest are demobilized."

"In the second company, it should be one hundred and thirty-three, but it is actually one hundred and twenty-one, and the rest are demobilized."

"In the third company, it should be one hundred and fifty-one people, but it is one hundred and thirty-two, and the rest are demobilized."

“.”

The team quieted down, and the commander of a battalion stepped forward and said: "The days of peace have been too long, and the team has lost discipline and subjective initiative, I hope that this situation will not happen again in the future. ”

"If there is a war, will the enemy give you time to get dressed?"

The team was quiet, there was no voice of rebuttal, and they quietly listened to the battalion commander's lecture.

The battalion chief of staff reminded the first battalion commander and motioned for him to pay attention to the time.

The commander of the first battalion glanced at the time and said, "Let's go!" ”

They have been living a life of plowing the land and farming for too long, and suddenly they have ended demobilization, guns, and training, and it is very likely that war is coming.

At this moment, there seemed to be a layer of mist in the forest, and the 335th Regiment began to set off for the city railway station with each battalion as a unit after a simple formation.

Walking out of the village, the mist dissipated, a gust of wind blew through the fields, the crops planted after several months of hard work, with the wind swaying, the parting soldiers looked at the crops in the fields, and couldn't help but shake their heads, they thought that the next days would be peaceful, but they didn't expect that it would be long before the founding of New China, and the war burned on the border of New China.

They were going to the North East to form a North East Frontier Army to defend the frontier.

"I don't know, when will it be when I will come back next time." Xiao Heping looked at the field and realized that he might not be able to come back if he went.

The people have lived here for half a year, and the fields are all cultivated by them from the barren land, and the rice swaying with the wind in the fields is also planted by them with hard work.

Seeing that the harvest season was approaching, they headed north again.