Chapter 57: A Family

The cadres of the 335th Regiment were very anxious because of the lack of food and water on the position, and the ammunition they urgently needed could not be transported, making it even more difficult to get food.

In order to solve the problem of feeding the troops, they decided to raise food on the spot, and they thought of Feng Baoguo, the old head of the democracy movement, who had been left behind to take charge of the containment work because of a temporary problem with his eyes.

As soon as he received the order, Feng Baoguo hurriedly returned to the regiment, and Director Liu of the Political Department told Feng Baoguo about the situation on the mountain.

"All the officers and men of the 335th Regiment fought fiercely with the enemy, and the enemy blocked our logistics, and there was no ammunition and no food. Ammunition can still be captured from the enemy, but food is not good, and even if it can be captured, it will not be enough to eat, and the soldiers of some companies have not eaten for several days, and the situation is urgent."

Feng Baoguo thought to himself, this is right, fighting a war is inseparable from the work of raising food at any time, but he remembered the discussion before going abroad, and said humorously: "Hurry up and send a telegram to call the plane to drop it."

Those present laughed dumbly.

Director Liu said, "You, you are still thinking about this in your heart, everyone has thought about the problem simply, underestimated our enemy, now let's not say that it is the air force, even if there is an air force, it will not reach the level of airdrop."

When they first entered the DPRK and fought with the US military, they understood that in dealing with a modern army like the US military, they had to use the old traditions of our army to promote their own strengths and overcome the enemy's shortcomings, and this was also an important factor in the victory of the enemy.

Although Feng Baoguo said this, he had already begun to think about the method in his heart.

He thought to himself, how can the troops fight without food? This is something that cannot be done, if you want the soldiers to win the battle, you have to let the soldiers have enough to eat.

After saying goodbye to Director Liu, Feng Baoguo hurriedly set off with the liaison, they ran to Shutang East Station, looked into the ditch, and found many lead miners' dormitories, and they found the chairman of the workers' committee to explain the situation.

When he heard that the volunteers had been fighting in the mountains for several days and nights and had nothing to eat, he immediately asked someone to make porridge and send it up the mountain, while he ran home by himself and killed the family's cattle with an axe.

Feng Baoguo didn't expect Chairman Jin to be so anxious, and he didn't have time to stop it, looking at the ploughing ox that had fallen to the ground and swallowed his breath, he was very upset in his heart: "How can this work, this is a ploughing cow."

"To tell you the truth, we have no food, and the volunteers gave up their lives to help us, shouldn't they kill a cow to condole? The life of an ox is worth anyone's life, let alone so many people."

Speaking of this, Chairman Kim's voice was a little choked, the country is in trouble, and it is possible to have such a good friend to lend a helping hand when they are in danger, and even send their children to their country to help them fight against foreign enemies, for which many people have stayed on the land of North Korea.

If they don't even give up a cow, that's chilling.

Everyone's thinking is still simple, ploughing cattle in China, but the family eats the guys, now they say kill and kill, Feng Baoguo insisted on keeping the money on his body, he persuaded: "Thank you, if you don't even want money, then even if we accept this cow, the soldiers will not eat it."

Chairman Kim reluctantly put the money down.

Then he began to beckon everyone to divide the oxen, he divided the cattle into three sections, asked everyone to cook beef soup in a large pot of 6 mouths, and then put the boiled beef into straw bags, and put the soup into jars, the men carried on their backs, and the women carried them to the position.

The enemy's artillery fire blocked the crossing, but the Korean people were undaunted and walked towards Feihu Mountain in the face of the artillery fire.

Several men and women strode through the enemy's artillery blockade, as if the surrounding artillery fire had no effect on them, and more like passing through a quiet intersection.

No one was afraid of being hurt or afraid of death, and when one was wounded, the people behind took the things and continued to send them forward, and in the end, only two Korean comrades climbed up to the position and sent fresh beef soup and cooked beef to the soldiers, although the amount was not much, but it was enough to soothe the hearts of the soldiers, and also made the soldiers more determined to resist the enemy and recover the land of the Korean people.

......

The headquarters of the first battalion is located in a lead mine cave only about 80 meters away from the 622.1 high ground of Feihu Mountain

Hiding in the lead mine are many fleeing North Koreans.

They hid in the lead mines, lived in isolation, were quite alien to the volunteers who suddenly appeared and spoke a language they could not understand, and even felt scared and frightened, and did not dare to approach.

Xiao Li, the liaison officer of the battalion headquarters, took the initiative to approach them, talked with them, publicized the discipline of the Chinese volunteers, emphasized that the volunteers did not take a stitch from the masses, and also came to help them fight against foreign enemies.

So Xiao Li can't help it.

Feng Yuxiang said: "Be patient with the masses, when we were not victorious in the past, the troops moved to other places, and the people there were used to being bullied by the soldiers, and they were afraid when they saw those with guns, and locked their doors, even if we explained it, they still didn't want to believe it."

Xiao Li asked, "Battalion commander, what about then."

Feng Yuxiang said: "Later, the troops stayed in that town, found a hill, built a base, after a long time, the people in the town found that those soldiers on the mountain seem to be different from the soldiers in other places, they will give money when they take things, they will call comrades when they see people, and grandparents who encounter a lot of things will also help, whose house is broken, they will help repair it, and when the soldiers and bandits come, they will drive the soldiers and bandits away, and the people say that those soldiers on the mountain are their guardian saints, how can there be any guardian saints, it is our comrades who are good, the policy is good, Beloved."

Xiao Li thoughtfully, raised his head and said, "Battalion commander, I understand."

With that, he ran away.

In the following days, Xiao Li surrounded the North Korean people in the lead mine, and Xiao Li helped to meet their needs as much as possible.

One day, he approached an old man in his sixties, who was wearing a small gauze hat and a long robe, sitting in the faint candlelight and thinking about something. The wind speed in North Korea is that men in their 60s are accustomed to wearing gauze hats, and elderly people in their 70s have two cap wings on their gauze hats, which are similar to the gauze hats worn by county officials on the stage.

Xiao Li took the initiative to talk to him, and also talked about the third company commander saving the child near the stadium, which became a model deed of the whole battalion.

Xiao Li was obviously stunned for a moment, and told him that he handed it over to the third company commander and handed it over to the old guide who led the way.

When Xiao Li was still talking endlessly, the old man's tears actually flowed down, and he couldn't cry and said, "It would be good if you came a few days earlier."

Later, Xiao Li learned that the young woman who was killed by the American plane was the old man's child.

Because of this incident, the North Korean people in the lead mine cave began to gradually understand the volunteers, took the initiative to approach the volunteers, and sometimes helped take care of the wounded.

One day, the little soldier of the battalion headquarters shook the bag of dry food, grabbed the only handful of raw corn, and chewed on the spring water.

The little soldier said boldly: "For the sake of the Korean people, it doesn't matter if you don't eat for a few days, it's enough to eat this."

In the past few days, the Korean people have been moved and puzzled when they see that the volunteers are amiable and that these people only fight and do not eat.

A middle-aged man surnamed Jin walked up to the camp instructor with guilt and sincere feelings, and said, "You guys are working too hard, if you have any difficulties, come to me!"

The camp instructor was very grateful: "Comrade, we don't work hard!"

Lao Jin suddenly asked again, "It's been three days, why haven't I seen you eat?"

The camp instructor took out a sugar cube from his pocket, and ate the remaining half of the sugar cube, with tooth marks on it, apparently planning to eat a sugar cube several times. He said, "Eat this,"

"If you don't eat, how can you fight!" Old Jin became more excited, looking at the wounded young wounded in the lead mine cave, they were all staying up like this, what kind of scene those soldiers on the battlefield had, Lao Jin couldn't imagine, he said, "We have a way, we can't let you go hungry!"

With that, he hurried to the depths of the cave.

After a while, Lao Jin and a middle-aged woman led more than a dozen women and a few old men to come.

Some of them carried cans on their heads, some carried small bags, and the old man also carried a back clip on his shoulder, as if he was going down the mountain to find food for the volunteers.

Outside the cave, enemy planes swirled around their heads like green-headed flies.

Artillery fire blocked the road down the hill again.

The 'oil picks' strafe and drop bombs back and forth.

How can they venture down the mountain! The soldiers hurriedly stopped the villagers and said, "The artillery is so heavy outside that you can't go."

The middle-aged woman said firmly, "You are not afraid of shedding blood and sacrificing for us, what are we afraid of when we go down to cook."

The battalion instructor said, "It is our sacred duty to protect the Korean people, and it is nothing to shed blood and sacrifice, but you really can't go out, because the enemy outside is rampant now, and when the evening comes, the situation outside will improve at night."

Lao Jin saw that it was difficult to handle the matter without explaining it, so he hurriedly took the hand of the camp instructor and introduced, "I won't tell you anything, I am the chairman of the labor committee here."

Then, he pointed to the middle-aged woman next to him and said, "Her surname is Li, and she is the chairman of the Women's League."

"Chairman, Workers' Party!"

When the soldiers heard this, they were very happy, and the battalion command post immediately became active, and the battalion instructor tightly held Chairman Kim's hand and said, "Well, with the Workers' Party of Korea and the support of the Korean people for the battle at Feihu Mountain, victory will be more certain!"

Chairman Kim burst into tears with emotion in his eyes and said, "Comrade, it is the responsibility of our party and government to support you in your fight!"

The camp instructor smiled gratefully.

Chairman Kim was afraid that he would stop him again, so he immediately waved his hand to the people behind him: "Baribari, Kaga! (Quick, quick, go!) )」

Dozens of figures ran out of the cave in a smoke, and they ran farther and farther through the smoke cloud of artillery fire, stepping on the scorched earth that had been plowed by artillery fire.

The correspondent Xiao Wang and the liaison Xiao Li also ran down the mountain with them, and the two of them separated with the Korean masses, and the correspondent Xiao Wang led a few women to Sanfeng to find a few large iron pots and prepare firewood, and the liaison Xiao Li followed Chairman Jin and a few male comrades to the workers' food supply station at Kowloon Station.

The door of the food supply depot was open, and the rice inside had long since been looted by the enemy.

However, the U.S. military has always been arrogant, and they don't bother to clean up the rice that falls on the ground, so on the ground in the grain station, the board is sprinkled with white rice.

They took the jar and began to clean up the rice that had fallen from the ground, and when they packed up a jar, they sent a jar over.

Several jars and baskets were filled, and there was quite a lot of rice on the ground.

Xiao Li was very excited: "With this rice, the wounded can eat white rice."

Chairman Kim said, "The enemy has taken away a lot of grain here, and a lot of rice has been hoarded here."

Xiao Li said, "Enough, enough, enough rice fell on the ground for us to eat."

Every grain of grain is not easy to come by, Xiao Li is very excited, not to mention rice, that is, the white-faced people have not seen it for a long time, especially when it comes to the Korean battlefield, after the food in the grain strip is eaten, many soldiers rely on water to satisfy their hunger, and the lucky soldiers can touch some food from the enemy's corpse.

Those who are not lucky can only go hungry.

When they had almost collected the rice on the ground and ran into the ravine, the cauldron for cooking rice had already been prepared, the fire was lit, the pot was hot, and the women were quick to cook rice.

Enemy planes in the sky were flying between the mountains and ravines, and soon they found the smoke rising from the ravines, and they were even more frantically strafing and dropping bombs, but they couldn't find the right point, and the smoke rose into the sky and dispersed, and these US pilots also knew that someone was cooking in the ravine, but they just couldn't find the exact location, so they could only do it in a hurry.

When the meal was ready, the North Korean villagers rushed to deliver the meal to the command post.

The women, carrying a jar of rice on their heads and three full bottles of water in glass bottles, passed through shrapnel-neighing nets to deliver hot meals to the command post.

The cadres of the command post smelled the aroma of white rice and screamed in their stomachs, but there were still many wounded in the lead mine cave who were hungry, and the fighters on the front-line positions were still hungry

stomach, enduring hunger, ordered the battalion headquarters communications corps to send white rice to the front.

Seeing this, Chairman Kim hurriedly said, "Let's go!"

"You don't know the way."

"We know the way, we can't be wrong." As she spoke, the chairwoman ran towards the position with her white dress stained with mud and water.

Seeing this, the battalion instructor hurriedly ordered the signal corps to help.

In the crowd of food deliverers was a woman named Park Hyo-nam, who struggled to Feihu Mountain with a wooden basin, cannonballs whistling above her head and exploding around her.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a cannonball exploded not far from him, and she fell to the ground, blood staining her long white dress. When I woke up from a short coma, I saw that the rice in the wooden basin had not been spilled, and I was about to walk forward with the wooden basin, when suddenly I felt a sharp pain, and my eyes went black, and I fell to the ground again.

She looked at the blood on her body and realized that she was injured. Park Hyo-nam bit the ribbon on her dress, held the wooden basin in one hand, and held the stones on the mountain with the other, and climbed up the mountain step by step with difficulty, the blood stained the stones and grass red, she fainted and woke up, and finally delivered the meal to the position.

Her name and that precious wooden basin are still in the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution today.

Free to read.