As Churchill said, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies in the world, only eternal interests.
Due to the needs of the international situation, my unit was sent to the depths of the Kunlun Mountains for construction. Due to the harsh environment, the progress of the project was slower than expected. In three years, dozens of commanders and soldiers died on the construction site. However,
We are only two-thirds of the way through building this military facility.
At this time, the world situation was reshuffled again. In 1972, Nixon visited China, and Sino-US relations thawed. China's strategic deployment underwent large-scale adjustments, and the projects in the Kunlun Mountains were stopped. Those of us engineers who became monks halfway
The battle order of the field army was reorganized and it was affiliated to the Lanzhou Military Region.
Day after day, year after year, training, drills, drills, studies, and reviews. Life in the military camp was not only monotonous, but also difficult. A few years later, the Cultural Revolution ended. The Party Central Committee promptly brought order to the chaos, and the Gang of Four was crushed.
, after ten years of catastrophe, social order finally returned to normal.
But the army is a special environment that is out of touch with society. I didn't feel any big changes in the military camp. I just don't need to read quotations as soon as we meet as before. But whenever new recruits enter the camp, I still feel
They must be given revolutionary education.
This morning, I just came back from a meeting at the battalion headquarters. Correspondent Xiao Liu ran over breathlessly: Report to the company commander, there is a platoon of recruits to report today, but the instructor went to the military area to study, so I ask you to go and teach the recruits about revolution.
, talk about tradition.
Talking about revolution and tradition is actually to tell the recruits the history of the company. I am really a layman about these things, but I am now the captain of the company and the instructor is not at home, so I had to bite the bullet.
I took these more than 30 recruits into the company's honor display room, pointed to a banner embroidered with the words "Heroic Company" and told them that this was the honor won by our seniors of the Sixth Company in the Battle of Huaihai.
The title has been retained to this day. I recounted the story of that tragic battle with added embarrassment, how our Sixth Company saw red with bayonets, and how we used bayonets to repel the Kuomintang reactionaries even when we were running out of ammunition and food.
The whole regiment's crazy attack successfully completed the blocking mission assigned by their superiors.
Then I pointed to a black and broken iron pot in the glass cabinet and told the recruits: Comrades, don’t underestimate this broken pot. On the battlefield of the Huaihai Battle, our revolutionary predecessors of the Sixth Company
, who ate the pork stewed with vermicelli cooked in this broken pot, and then went to the battlefield to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service. You see, the cracks in this pot were exploded by the reactionary artillery fire of the Kuomintang reactionaries. To this day, it is still there
Silently telling the deeds of the heroes and the brutal behavior of the reactionaries.
That's all I can say. After all, I'm not a professional responsible for ideological work, but I think what I said is pretty good, and it's more than enough to fool these new recruits.
I dismissed the recruits and went to the cafeteria to eat. I walked behind them with Xiao Liu. I asked Xiao Liu: How was the level of my company commander's lecture on revolution and tradition just now?
Xiao Liu said: Oh, company commander, what you said is so good, it makes me laugh. How can we learn from the revolutionary martyrs and improve the food, but we can also eat pork stewed with vermicelli?
I swallowed my saliva and gave Xiao Liu a thumbs-up: I didn’t hear anything about the revolutionary traditions. I only heard about pork stewed with vermicelli. Go and get me some food in the cafeteria. The cafeteria seems to be eating steamed buns today. , if you go late, all the new recruits will be snatched away. I order you to run forward.
Xiao Liu agreed, walked away and rushed towards the cafeteria. Suddenly I remembered the most important thing I had forgotten to tell him, so I quickly shouted from behind: Pick some big stuffings for me.
I was lying on the bed, eating steamed buns, and reading the letter that had just been sent from my family. Everything was fine at home, and nothing important was mentioned. After reading it twice, I put the letter aside and picked up the letter passed down by my family. This incomplete book, as a result of several experiences in the past few years, made me very interested in the knowledge of Feng Shui, so I took it out and read it when I had time.
Because this book mentions a lot of terms such as the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, such as Jiayi wood in the east, Bingding fire in the south, Wuji earth in the center, Gengxin gold in the west, Rengui water in the north, Ganzhenliwei, etc. , there are many things that I don’t understand. I have read a lot of related books over the years. Although my education level is limited, I can still understand 30% to 40% of them.
The sixteen characters of the secret technique of Yin and Yang Feng Shui refer to the human, Buddha, and object, the Yang and the sky.
I don’t know what era this book is from, nor who wrote it, but the content inside is very profound. The sixty-four changes of Fuxi’s Bagua should actually be sixteen hexagrams, which were passed down to the Yin and Shang Dynasties, because these sixteen hexagrams were leaked Half of the heavenly secrets have been wiped out by the gods, and even the remaining hexagrams are incomplete. But those who can understand one or two points are already very powerful. Think of Zhuge Kongming, who knows a little bit. To keep Liu Bei strategizing and ruling the world, Liu Bowen could only understand three points, so he assisted Zhu Hongwu in building the Ming Dynasty's 400-year foundation. But I don't believe this. Is it really possible to be so evil?
The only regret is that this book only has half a book that talks about the layout and structure of tombs with Feng Shui and Five Elements. The other half, Yin Yang Bagua and Tai Chi numbers, has not been available since it was passed to my grandfather. When reading the fragments, some of the contents are incoherent. Moreover, the text is obscure and difficult to understand, and it is difficult to understand its deep meaning. I think it would be easier to understand if it were a complete book.
Suddenly, a burst of three long and three short rally horns sounded, piercing the quiet air in the military camp. My first thought was: something must have happened. The whole camp would never assemble urgently in broad daylight for no reason. I left the rest He stuffed the two buns into his mouth, jumped up from the bed and rushed out the door.
Columns were lined up neatly, and I saw that not only our battalion was gathering, but the entire regiment was gathering. Junior officers like me were not qualified to know what the action was. They could only obey the orders and obey the command. We received the His order was to go to the train station and wait for orders, and then go out with the brother troops.
There were more than 10,000 people, like mountains and seas. The military train station was crowded with tens of thousands of soldiers. From a distance, it looked like a green tide. It looked like the entire division was mobilized. At that time, it was incredible that every division was mobilized. Well, the establishment of a main division like ours is very large. It has three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a tank regiment, plus the division's organizational logistics troops, there are almost more than 20,000 people. So The purpose of this large-scale operation is probably not to provide disaster relief. I haven't heard of any disasters near here recently.
We were dragged by the tin truck all the way to the Yunnan border in a daze. Only then did everyone realize that this was going to be a war. Many people cried at that time.
At the same time, Deng Xiaoping, who was visiting the United States, made a shocking statement at the White House: Children who are disobedient should be beaten and openly admitted to mass gathering on the Sino-Vietnamese border.
In the early morning, the 220,000 People's Liberation Army of the division launched an all-out attack and fought all the way to Lang Son. China announced its withdrawal.
My company was the sharp knife company of the main force division. It bore the brunt of the attack and suffered more than half of its casualties after ten days of fighting. During another march, we were ambushed by Vietnamese agents. They used women holding children as cover and threw explosive bags into the
Our armored personnel carrier, eight of my soldiers were all killed in the armored vehicle. I was so jealous at that time that I killed three of them and captured alive the remaining two Vietnamese militiamen, one old and one young.
They were an old Vietnamese man in his fifties and a Vietnamese woman in her twenties. It looked like they were a father and daughter. One of my subordinates told me that the woman disguised the explosive pack as a bomb in her arms.
Baby, she threw the explosive package into the armored vehicle when it passed by. It definitely looked good, she was the one who did it.
What I feared the most was watching my comrades die in front of me. In a fit of rage, I completely forgot about the Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention as well as our army’s policy on treating prisoners. I had someone tie an explosive pack to the
The Vietnamese woman let her ride on a local airplane. They tied the old man up and threw him from the cliff into a minefield.
This incident seriously violated the discipline of the army and even alarmed General Xu of the headquarters. If my family had not had a strong background in the military region, I would have been sent to a military court long ago, and my military career was forced to end.
With a demobilization order, I returned to my hometown. Book Alliance
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