Yi Bang looked at the small brick factory in front of him and almost wanted to cry. He never imagined that he, a college student, would actually come to bake bricks. Yi Bang said to the captain who led him, "Captain, can I stop working here?"
I want to join the army."
The captain smiled and said, "You've been talking about it all this time. I told you that working here is also a contribution to the anti-Japanese war. Why don't you listen?"
Yi Bang looked at the brick factory emitting black smoke and couldn't understand what this had to do with the anti-Japanese war.
At this time, the director of the brick factory came out. The director was a gray-haired man. It was said that he was the oldest worker in the brick factory. After the Red Party came to Shaanxi, the director here fled to the south, and the remaining workers
During the election, this man was elected as the director of the factory. Looking at this old man with tattered clothes and dark skin, Yi Bang really couldn't imagine his fate here - he wouldn't have been sold out by the Red Party, and if it hadn't been for noon
While eating, he found that the factory director was eating the same food as him, and Yi Bang really wanted to run away.
This uncle's surname was Feng. It is said that he has been working in this brick factory since he was a child. He has been working in this brick factory all his life and has been called "Old Brick". His real name has also been forgotten. So he simply called him "Feng Lao Brick". Feng Lao Brick said to H
"Baby, just follow me these days and see for yourself for a while first."
Yi Bang nodded and started to follow Feng Laozhuan. Feng Laozhuan took him to a big kiln. Qian pointed to the big kiln in front of him and said to Yi Bang, "Our brick factory is an industry in the township. We divide it according to levels."
After passing the ninth level, each level requires an examination. This is the latest policy. I have been baking bricks like this all my life, and I am a sixth-level kiln worker."
Yi Bang asked curiously, "Is there a big difference in treatment between each level? Mr. Feng, you have been burning kilns all your life, why are you only at level six?"
Feng Laozhuan smiled and said, "It's not the fault of not studying. I heard from the people in the county committee that this high-level job requires not only good technology, but also innovation and summary. Only those of you who have studied can do such things."
Scholars know how to bake bricks, but I, the old man, can only bake bricks, but what I bake is not an ordinary brick."
Yi Bang asked, "Are there any differences among these bricks?"
Feng Laozhuan did not answer, but led Yibang forward to an open space filled with bricks.
Feng Laozhuan said, "Take one and see if it's different from your usual ones."
The brick is light yellow and relatively heavy to hold.
Yi Bang picked up a piece, looked at it, knocked it again, shook his head and said, "It seems that the color and weight are different from ordinary bricks."
Feng Laozhuan smiled and said, "Yes, this brick is called refractory brick. It is the basis of all industries. Without this brick, any industry will be nonsense."
As soon as he heard about industry, Yi Bang's eyes immediately lit up and he asked curiously, "Mr. Feng, why is this related to industry?"
Feng Laozhuan said proudly, "Of course, there are only two or three people in the whole county who can burn this brick. I am one of them. When burning bricks, the heat is the first. It depends on the heat. The eyesight is the first. It doesn't matter."
It won’t take decades of hard work to get out of it.”
Yi Bang sweated after hearing this. After decades, he will be old by then. Listening to Feng Lao Zhuan constantly talking about how difficult it is to bake bricks well, H interrupted and said, "Lao Feng, you still haven't said this.
What does it have to do with industry?”
Feng Lao Brick Bar chirped and said, "This refractory brick is for kiln, this kiln is for making steel, and this steel is -"
Before Feng Laozhuan could finish speaking, Yi Bang shouted excitedly, "Steel? Is this brick used for making steel?"
Feng Laozhuan smiled and said, "I don't know. The blast furnace in this steel plant must be made with good refractory bricks. Only with good refractory bricks can we make a good kiln. With good refractory bricks, we can make a good kiln."
Where is the kiln——"
Yi Bang was no longer too lazy to listen to what the nagging Feng Laozhuang was saying. All he could think about was what Feng Laozhuan had just said: "Steel factory, this is for the steel factory. The Red Party actually has a steel factory." He was excited.
Yi Bang was overwhelmed and said, "Lao Feng, no, master, can I go to the steel factory?"
Upon hearing this, Feng Laozhuang frowned and said, "You young people, why do you like to go to that steel factory? Isn't it the same as our kiln factory? Isn't it all about burning things? I have four apprentices there.
Where is it? Every one of them is like this——"
Yi Bang pulled Feng Laozhuan and said, "Master, do we have a steel factory here? I want to see it."
Feng Laozhuan smiled and said, "You will have the opportunity to know in the future. You should learn to bake bricks first. Only by burning refractory bricks well can you make steel well. And we not only bake refractory bricks, but also ordinary bricks."
The bricks are for water use. I heard from people in the countryside that the county is organizing the construction of reservoirs and other things recently, and they all need our bricks. Alas, the changes are getting bigger and bigger this year."
Steel? Yi Bang recalled everything described in the documentary and nodded quickly: "Master, please teach me. As long as it can help fight against the little devils, I am willing to do it."
Tian Jie on the other side came to a new camp with his classmates who chose to be soldiers. After getting to know everyone's majors and strengths, he was divided into groups again. Because he was good at geometry and mathematics since childhood, Tian Jie was assigned to the new team because he had always been
They were marching at night, and Tian Jie didn't know where his current position was. He just looked at his surroundings and knew that he was still in northern Shaanxi and had not left.
On this day, the team suddenly changed to marching during the day. The team headed west, and Tian Jie finally saw the herdsmen grazing.
"It's great. I couldn't see anyone else along the way, which made me very nervous." After seeing the herdsmen, some team members immediately became active.
But Tian Jie felt that there was something strange there. It was not until the end that he realized that the people he saw along the way today were all young men. When he thought about it, he realized that these people were just whistleblowers.
Tian Jie thought to himself, "Okay, in this case, it means that the destination is almost here."
Tian Jie soon came to a valley. The valley was very large, and many troops could be seen guarding it outside the valley.
The captain leading the team said, "Comrades, welcome to the Red Star Artillery School. Now follow me to the place where you will live for a while."
Only then did Tian Jie realize that his unit was artillery. Tian Jie was secretly happy. Can artillery soldiers hide behind him? This would be great.
The team leader led the team into the valley. They only saw rows of wooden houses in the valley. It seemed that they had not been established for a long time. In the vast playground in the middle, you could see groups of soldiers training.
The slogan resounded throughout the valley.
When he saw a group of soldiers standing in a military posture, Tian Jie couldn't help but frown and thought, "Didn't we agree on the artillery, why are we still standing in a military posture? Does this have anything to do with **?"
Arriving in front of the wooden house, everyone got their bed number and then came to a large wooden house, which is the classroom. After everyone sat down, a soldier wearing an old military uniform came in and said, "Hello, classmates, I'll start with myself.
Let me introduce, my name is Guo Huaruo, and I am the principal of this artillery school. As we all know, the iron hoofs of the Japanese invaders are trampling on our land. I hope that you will use your precious time to learn military knowledge. You know, the faster you learn, the faster you learn.
The better, the sooner you can go to the battlefield. Napoleon of France once said that cannon is the god of war. The better your artillery skills, the more powerful this god of war will be. I hope I can see it on the battlefield as soon as possible.
I see your heroic appearance, classmates, do you have confidence?"
Everyone shouted "Yes!!!"
Maybe it was the first day, but there was no strict training. Instead, some books were given out. Tian Jie looked at them and found "Das Kapital" and "The Communist Manifesto", "Elementary Artillery Tactics", and "Artillery Topography".
"Ballistics" and seven or eight other books.
Tian Jie found that the paper of these books was very good, and the printing was also very exquisite. He loved reading books the most, and his interest greatly increased. What he didn't know was that these papers were all A4 papers from later generations, and the quality was certainly better than the yellow paper of this era.
too much.
At this time, another soldier came in. He looked to be in his thirties, with small eyes and a big nose. After greeting Guo Huaruo, he said, "Hello everyone, I am your class teacher. My name is Zhao Zhangcheng. From now on, you will study with me. Today, I
Let everyone have a perceptual understanding of cannons first, come with me."
Zhao Zhangcheng took the lead and walked out of the door. Other students also followed. They came to the back of the wooden house and saw three yellow flags standing about seven or eight hundred meters away. Each flag was about a hundred meters apart.
, several scarecrows were set up around the flag.
Only Zhao Zhangcheng and a few other soldiers were seen moving out a mortar. Zhao Zhangcheng smiled and said to everyone, "Everyone, let's assume that the flag over there is the Japs' position." After saying this, he saw Zhao Zhangcheng rolling up his clothes.
He held his sleeves straight, stretched out his arms, raised his thumbs, and sang a series of numbers such as direction, altitude, distance, etc. He fired three cannons in a row, and all three of them hit the flag, and the scarecrow next to the flag was blown to pieces.
Tian Jie's mouth opened wide and he was stunned. The other students were silent for a few seconds and then clapped violently.
Zhao Zhangcheng smiled and said, "Do you think it's awesome? No, it's just simple calculation and experience. You can easily do this after learning it. Although learning may be difficult, I believe you can do it.
.And everyone should have seen that what I just used was a crude method like my fingers, while those European and American countries also have bombardment balloons, ballistic rulers, etc. that can achieve beyond visual range strikes. In other words, don’t do what I just did.
You must see the target, but you don’t have to see the target. You can attack the target according to the report from the front. This requires a lot of mathematics and physics knowledge and preliminary preparations. I hope everyone can take advantage of your good foundation during this period.
, to become an excellent artilleryman as soon as possible, you must not only learn mortars, but also mountain artillery, infantry artillery, etc. You can do everything and be good at everything. It is getting late, go have dinner with your captain, and disband."
This kind of face-to-face perceptual understanding made all the team members' interest in the cannon suddenly burst out. Everyone was talking about the cannon on the way to the cafeteria.
The cafeteria is in a large cave dwelling, and there are already many students eating there. Tian Jie took out the lunch box he used along the way, and waited in line to eat. Soon it was his turn. It looked pretty good, and there were two pot helmets.
, fried pumpkin, fried wax gourd sausage and a bowl of egg drop soup.
Although there are very few sausages and the egg drop soup is very thin, it is already an extremely luxurious meal for people of this era. Tian Jie heard the discussion among the students next to him and realized that his meal was so rich because of the subsidies provided by the school.
, Tian Jie was eating and discussing the shelling just now with the classmates around him.
The next day, everyone was pulled to stand up in a military posture. The instructor used a bamboo whip to point out everyone's posture from time to time. Tian Jie was already sweating profusely and was about to collapse after standing for only ten minutes.
At this time, Zhao Zhangcheng came over, looked at everyone and said, "What? Can't you stand it anymore? It's still early. I want to practice artillery. Let's get into the military posture first."
Tian Jie immediately raised his hand, Zhao Zhangcheng pointed at him and said, "Say."
Tian Jie said, "We are studying artillery, why do we have to stand in a military posture? No matter how good the military posture is, it has nothing to do with artillery skills."
Zhao Zhangcheng nodded and looked at everyone and said, "Does everyone think so too?"
Everyone looked at each other and nodded.
Zhao Zhangcheng said, "Well, let me explain to you why we need to stand in the military posture. What does the military posture exercise? It is a person's willpower. What does willpower mean on the battlefield? It means who can stand at the end.
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With that, Zhao Zhangcheng walked to the crowd and continued, "Think about it, artillery is still the natural enemy of artillery. Once we start an artillery battle with the enemy, what will it be like? The enemy's artillery fire is constantly exploding around you. How can you still
You must calmly calculate the position of enemy artillery and launch a counterattack. Do you think you have the willpower required for such a thing? Can you still persist in fighting when enemy artillery fire is everywhere?"
"Yes! Of course I can!" everyone replied one after another.
"Is it really possible?" Zhao Zhangcheng continued to ask with a smile, and everyone's voices gradually became quiet. Yes, at such a critical moment, would he be afraid? Would he become a deserter?
Zhao Zhangcheng continued, "So in order for everyone to persevere at the critical moment of the battle, you must stand in a good military posture. The better the military posture is, the stronger your willpower will be, and your artillery skills will be used at the critical moment."
The better, do you understand now?"
Tian Jie and everyone replied loudly, "Understood!"
Zhao Zhangcheng nodded and said, "Continue to stand in a military posture!"
The first day of training was just basic training. Tian Jie and his classmates dragged their tired bodies back to the dormitory. At this time, a classmate ran in excitedly and said, "Have you heard? We are going to watch a movie tonight."
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When Tian Jie heard this, he sat up and said, "Lao Gao, don't lie to us, watch a movie? Is it real or fake?"
The old man said, "Who am I lying to you? Come out and take a look for yourselves. A show is being set up on the playground. They say it will be shown at eight o'clock on time. It is a new movie that no one has seen."
Tian Jie has never watched a movie since he left Peiping, and he never thought that he could watch a movie in a barren land like northern Shaanxi. He walked out excitedly and saw a white cloth being draped on the playground.
A man was playing with the machine on a set-up stand.
Hey! It’s really a movie.
After Tian Jie finished dinner, he was led to the playground by the squad leader. After everyone sat down as instructed, they saw Guo Huaruo standing in front of the white cloth. When Guo Huaruo saw everyone gathered, he said, "Comrades, I believe everyone can see it."
, Today we are going to watch a movie. To be honest, everyone has caught up with it at a good time. I have never seen anything new like this in so many years as a soldier. Because of the central government’s concern for our school, the movie team came to us tonight.
At school, everyone's usual training is very hard, but while studying military affairs, political and ideological education cannot be relaxed. Everyone should watch this movie with a thoughtful attitude. Finally, thank you to the hard-working comrades of the film team, let's get started."
Tian Jie looked at the screen excitedly, and soon a picture appeared on the screen. At the same time, music also played. Three big characters - "White-Haired Girl" appeared in front of everyone, followed by a scene of a large sorghum field, and an uncle.
Singing and singing while working in the fields.
Tian Jie was gradually attracted by the movie. When he saw Xi'er and Dachun getting along for a long time and falling in love with each other, and the two elders agreed to get married in autumn, Tian Jie also brows happily for them. When he saw the New Year,
When Huang Shiren came to press for debts, Tian Jie slowly tightened his fists. When he saw Yang Bailao committing suicide, Xi'er being defiled, and Dachun being forced to run away, he was moved to tears by the tragic fate of the family. When he saw
When Xi'er arrived in the cave and lived a hard life and her hair turned gray, Tian Jie almost wanted to go up and rescue Xi'er by himself. When he saw that Dachun had joined the Eighth Route Army and returned to his hometown, he suppressed his anger for the sake of the united front against Japan.
When he was about to talk to Huang Shiren about asking for rent reduction and interest rate reduction, Tian Jie couldn't bear it and shouted, "What's the rent reduction? What's the interest rate reduction? Just kill that Huang Shiren."
One word caused a stir, and other students who had already seen it and were filled with anger also shouted, "That's it, kill him! Just kill him, why do you keep such a person?"
Zhao Zhangli immediately stood up and shouted, "Everyone be quiet, you are soldiers, watch the movie quietly. Your name is Tian Jie, right? After the movie, run around the playground three times."
Seeing everyone quiet down, Zhao Zhangcheng sat down. Guo Huaruo next to him smiled and said, "The effect is pretty good. This movie was shot very well."
Zhao Zhangcheng sighed, "I wanted to kill that Huang Shiren after watching it. Which one of us is not from a mud-legged background? Didn't we see less of the story of Huang Shiren and Xi'er in this movie?"
Guo Huaruo nodded and said, "Yes, that's why we want to participate in the Ge Ming."
The movie continued. When they saw the public trial, Huang Shiren was found guilty by everyone, Xi'er was rescued by Dachun, and finally the two were happily together, everyone stood up and applauded.
Guo Huaruo stood in front of the stage again and said, "Everyone has just watched the movie. I believe that we all have many feelings in our hearts. In addition to the old comrades who participated in the Geming, our students here also have new comrades. Our families are all different.
There are poor peasants, rich peasants, businessmen, and workers. I hope that after watching this movie, everyone will think about some phenomena in our society and why these phenomena occur after watching this movie. Okay, now everyone is disbanded and let each party
The squad leader will lead you back to rest. Also, Tian Jie—you go for a run."
As Tian Jie ran, he was thinking about what Guo Huaruo had just said. Some things that he was used to taking for granted kept flashing in his mind, thinking about Xi'er's tragic situation in the movie. He couldn't calm down for a long time. Where are the answers to these problems?
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Chairman Mao from Yan'an nodded after reading a document and checked a book. He only saw that this page was densely written with many schools - artillery school, field medical class, communications special training class, engineering college, etc.
Driving class, health college, medical school, etc., all were checked at the back of each school. Chairman Mao also checked behind the artillery school and started to read another document.
