The elder Liu put a piece of pork full of lean meat and put it in Xia Yuan's bowl. "You have been away from your hometown for so long. Do you miss home?"
"think."
Xia Yuan answered quietly, took a bite of steamed buns, used chopsticks to pick up the vermicelli noodles in his mouth, and then took a hard bite of lean meat, leaving his mouth full of oil and water.
The elder Liu patted Xia Yuan and said, "I want to go home now, but it's too late. I asked you to go back, but you didn't go back. Now that you've come to the northeast, it will be difficult for you to go back."
Xia Yuan ate quietly without speaking.
Xiao Heping sat aside and chuckled: "What are you going to do when you go back? You can still eat pork stewed vermicelli here."
"It's worthless." Old Liu bit into a piece of fat meat and said, "Now the good times are here. From now on, I can eat pork stewed with vermicelli noodles every day."
Everyone was still looking forward to a happy and beautiful life in the future, but they had no idea that danger was quietly approaching.
The Inchon landing was successful and Seoul was occupied on the 28th, allowing MacArthur to gain a large amount of political capital, which made him even more advantageous in the next presidential election.
Ridgway said: "The victory of the Inchon landing brought about a more subtle consequence, which is that people's belief in General MacArthur's consistent correctness has almost developed to the point of superstition."
After the Incheon landing, the day after the U.S. military invaded and occupied Seoul, the U.S. representative to the United Nations read out to the Security Council a letter accusing MacArthur of sending "a large number of battle-hardened troops originally from North Korea" to North Korea. The purpose was to create an excuse to further expand the war of aggression.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of New China issued a statement: The Korean people originally from China participated in the Liberation War, and we will never forget their chivalrous behavior. Now that New China has won, these Korean people who stayed in China have returned to defend their motherland and participated in the war of liberation.
The construction of the motherland is their legitimate right and sacred responsibility. No country can find an excuse to interfere arbitrarily.
He also denounced MacArthur's shameful act of adding Japanese militarists to the invading army.
'The Chinese people neither accept nor fear the accusations of U.S. imperialism and will always stand with the Korean people against U.S. aggression.'
Almost everyone could predict the situation of the Korean War. The war would soon reach the Yalu River, which would inevitably threaten the security of New China.
On October 2, the day after the first anniversary of the founding of New China, representatives of five countries including the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Belarus, and Czechoslovakia proposed to the United Nations that both sides immediately cease the war, withdraw foreign troops, and let the Korean people resolve their own issues.
problem.
Su's purpose was to build the port. Regardless of whether China sent troops or not, the final result would be beneficial to Su.
If the US military withdraws, then South Korea will definitely not be North Korea's opponent. The Korean peninsula is intact. As the people behind Kim, it is not excessive for them to want a port as a military port.
In their expectations, the probability of New China defeating the United Nations forces was 0%.
However, in the face of accusations from all parties, the United States ignored it and not only ordered Rhee's army to cross the 38th Parallel first.
Even on October 9, he commanded the United Nations troops to invade northern North Korea and madly invade the Chinese Super League border. As the war gradually spread to the Yalu River, the reactionaries and all hostile elements hidden in the country became increasingly active.
The thoughts of fearing beauty, worshiping beauty, and loving beauty also followed.
It seemed that the United States was invincible once it entered the war.
In the Pacific battlefield of World War II, the 23 Japanese divisions with more than 400,000 men who once went on a rampage were completely defeated by 17 U.S. divisions commanded by MacArthur after just a few battles, and the entire army was destroyed.
Now it was General MacArthur who commanded this victorious army and invaded North Korea unscrupulously.
Baldy Chiang, who had always wanted to take advantage of the Third World War to counterattack the mainland, began to dream of restoration. Some domestic hostile elements and spies were also ready to take action. Unscrupulous landowners showed their power in front of the peasants, even near the army station.
Reactionary slogans also appeared.
The US military's crazy invasion of the North has greatly fueled the arrogance of domestic reactionaries.
In the face of such a general environment, the ideological and political work that the army had previously done to hate American imperialism came to light. No matter how strong the external storm was, the soldiers continued to train day after day. They were not afraid of the enemy at all. Now
Their training is so that one day they can go to the battlefield and block the enemy's powerful ships and guns outside the country's gate.
However, the brutal facts of the Korean War proved that the US military was not a vulnerable paper tiger.
They actually caused serious disasters to the Korean people and advanced northward unscrupulously.
All the commanders and soldiers could no longer suppress the anger in their hearts and wished they could immediately enter North Korea to stand with the North Korean people and resist the aggression of US imperialism.
There are also people who believe for various reasons that it is not appropriate to send troops to aid North Korea now. We have been fighting for more than ten years, and many people have dedicated their youth and lives to the cause of people's liberation. Now the reactionaries have finally been defeated. With a peaceful day, we can work hard
We should take a breather and build the country well.
What's more, the enemy we face is the most powerful U.S. imperialism in the world. With our weapons and equipment, fighting in North Korea may, as some people say, "put on a raincoat to put out a fire--and lead to a fire."
But more people also saw that the city gate was on fire, affecting the fish pond.
What's more, North Korea is my country's neighbor that is close to each other. The principle of lip-to-bone and tooth-to-bone failure has been explained very clearly in newspapers. Even if we don't fight in North Korea, the flames of war will one day reach the Yalu River.
Is it possible to just watch and do nothing, just like what happened in the September 18th Incident, and allow the enemy to invade and occupy Chinese territory?
Xia Yuan could clearly feel the recent fluctuations in the hearts of the troops. It didn't take long for the first battalion to hold a discussion on "What should we do if our neighbors are on fire?" This metaphor was a lively topic of discussion. At the discussion meeting, it aroused the enthusiasm of the majority of commanders and soldiers.
After his speech, the soldiers competed to discuss it.
There is only one voice for all.
If your neighbor is on fire, you must save it!
If we don't save it this time, the fire will not go out when the neighbor's house is burned down. Instead, it will spread to our house and eventually burn in our house.
The army unified the resistance to U.S. aggression and aid to Korea with the defense of the motherland, combined patriotism with the spirit of internationalism, and greatly improved the political consciousness of all officers and soldiers.
As the whole army held discussions in the days after, Xia Yuan clearly found that the previous anxiety had disappeared, and instead everyone's enthusiasm for joining the Korean War became stronger.
Even the goal of everyone's training has become to strive to one day fight in North Korea and kill more American soldiers.
October 8th.
Just the day before the U.S. military crossed the 38th parallel in large numbers.
The superior is about to issue an order to enter the court.
After receiving the order, the 38th Army held a random meeting.
The leading comrades of the army and division who participated in this meeting were in high spirits. Everyone was glad that the 38th Army was listed as the first batch of volunteer troops to join the war in North Korea. They resolutely stated that they would never let down the trust of their superiors and the people of the country, and they would display military might.
National prestige is coming.
China is not a soft persimmon.
Everyone brainstormed on how to abide by military and political disciplines in North Korea to ensure friendship and unity with the North Korean people and army.
This is the first time that China has been sent to fight abroad since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the conduct and discipline must be properly prepared.
At the meeting, everyone fully estimated the various difficulties that they might face after entering the DPRK. We must be prepared to use our strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses against the U.S. military, which we have never competed with before.
After practical research, everyone's determination to lead the troops to defeat the enemy was greatly enhanced.
After the meeting, the leading comrades of each division divided up to organize the implementation.
Comrades in charge of political work are responsible for ideological mobilization for overseas operations and preparation for wartime political and ideological work.
All members of the 38th Army took action, weapons and equipment were replaced where necessary, and ammunition was replenished where necessary.
The soldiers trained harder than before. Even if they were too tired to stand up, when they thought of the Korean people living under the artillery fire of U.S. imperialism, they still had the strength to stand up and continue to devote themselves to training.
More and more daily necessities such as pork, cabbage, vermicelli, and white noodles were distributed by superiors.
Every meal has meat and white flour steamed buns.
Eat until you are full every time.
During the ideological and political work in the evening, instructor Hu said with emotion: "These cabbage, pork, vermicelli and white noodles are all saved by our people and sent to the army. In order to support us in fighting abroad, comrades, this is our first
When you go abroad to fight, you represent the face of our country. When you encounter enemies, no one should be afraid, use your strength and beat them hard."
"Beat them until they hurt, beat them until they are scared, beat them until they dare not face us, then that is called victory!"
The soldiers clenched their fists and felt hot in their hearts, wishing they could rush to the Korean battlefield and stand together with the Korean people.
Everyone knew in their hearts that New China had just been founded and so many of them were fed and fed. White flour steamed buns and pork stewed vermicelli were eaten until they were full every day. These were saved little by little by the people for everyone.
Even though the country is poor and destitute, it is never stingy in its treatment of its soldiers, and the soldiers of the border guards eat whatever good things they have first.
Moreover, during this period, the number of people coming to the station to deliver supplies has obviously increased.
Clothes, socks, shoes and other daily necessities.
Medicines, money, meat and all kinds of miscellaneous things. Anyway, there are several baskets of things that are beneficial to the soldiers every day.
At home, the life of the soldiers is quite rich, but the chiefs all feel that the biggest problem in North Korea's participation in the war is the problem of food. Therefore, the chiefs repeatedly studied methods with the leading cadres of the military logistics to ensure that under various circumstances, the soldiers can
Have a meal.
In order to solve the new problems faced by the political and ideological work of entering Korea, each division has rotated the political cadres of the regiment, battalion, and company. Peaceful life is hard-won, and the friendly neighbor has been invaded by U.S. imperialism. What's more, the friendly neighbor is
Those who have helped us in the past cannot allow our friendly neighbors to be invaded by United Nations forces.
Superiors require political cadres at all levels to implement the ideological education of the soldiers, especially in the area of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, so that everyone can understand why we want to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea.
At the same time, on the basis of their hatred of U.S. imperialism, all the troops further launched a vigorous signature campaign to resist U.S. aggression, aid Korea, defend the country, and support entry into Korea.
The commanders and soldiers requested to join the war in North Korea one after another. Only the 335th Regiment submitted a letter requesting to join the volunteer army, with nearly 3,000 people.
'Volunteer letters', 'guarantee letters' and 'letters of determination' requesting to lead the vanguard were piled up in each company like snowflakes.
Even Liu’s cooking class responded positively.
"Who said those who resist spoons can't fight? Damn it, grandma, I will still go up and fight the American devils with a spoon!"
When the elder Liu participated in the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, he delivered meals to the troops on the front line, and often fought with the enemy with a gun.
That was because he had fought against Japanese devils and reactionaries.
"We haven't fought against the American devils yet. Hehehehe, we must not miss this opportunity." The elder Liu called on the young comrades in the cooking class to write letters of challenge. "Volunteer to participate, hurry up and write."
After the previous mobilization, everyone's fighting enthusiasm was unprecedentedly high and their emotions were high.
Lighting oil lamps, they sat around the table.
"How to write the characters, please teach me."
"Don't move, I haven't finished writing yet."
"How do you write it? Let me see what you write."
"Then you must be determined to fight the little devil!"
Xiao Heping came over and looked at Xia Yuan. He was surprised when he saw how smoothly he wrote, "You can also write, and your writing is really beautiful."
Most of the soldiers held the pen holder with their fists and poked it back and forth on the paper. With so much force, the paper was punctured and the core of the pen holder was broken.
My strength is weak and my writing is unclear.
Seeing Xia Yuan's smooth writing, the old man Liu, who was smoking a dry cigarette, couldn't help but come over and nodded gracefully: "The writing is decent."
When they were in the revolutionary base area, the Red Party team held literacy courses to eliminate illiteracy in the army and make the vast majority of soldiers literate.
Nowadays, there are very few illiterate people in the army, only some people who cannot write some words.
But it is still rare to write fluently.
Soon, Xia Yuan finished writing an article, only one or two hundred words long, explaining that he was going to North Korea to solve the problem of the Korean people living in dire straits and to fight against US imperialism.
This is a letter of challenge.
In addition, I also wrote a letter of application and a letter of guarantee.
The voluntary letter, as the name suggests, refers to voluntary participation in resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, rather than being ordered by the state.
A letter of guarantee is a guarantee to complete the orders issued by the superior.
After writing three letters, Xia Yuan raised his head and saw everyone staring at him, so he asked: "Don't you know how to write?"
The others looked at each other, and Zhou Mao said: "It's not that I can't write, it's just that I can't write some words."
"Let me take a look." Xia Yuan took a look at the book they wrote, with a smile on his face. Everyone's handwriting was ugly and crooked, but these ugly lines showed that they resisted U.S. aggression and aided Korea, and defended the country.
Determination to defend the country.
Xia Yuan coughed lightly and stood up, "Just write. If you don't know how to write, I'll tell you how to write."
Liu said: "Write the words and let them watch and write. Don't write for them."
"Monitor, I know."
Xia Yuan nodded.
Cooking class writing.
Logistics staff write the same.
This is a glorious mission, and everyone responds positively.
Fighting hero Guo Yonghui, at that time, he and his platoon were little known, just an ordinary combat unit among many companies.