The days in the army were rather boring. Other than training, there was only training. Tian Baoguo and I were in the same row, but not in the same class. The training was indeed very tough, but we were all children of farmers and were used to it. No matter how tough it was, we could still endure it.
The first three months were difficult. One day, a few big shots came up and said that they were going to review and select the backbone of the reconnaissance company. Therefore, everyone straightened their spirits and tried their best to perform. In the end, two people from our platoon were selected, and one of them was Tian Baoguo. In fact, we performed almost the same in all aspects. Fighting, long-distance running, cross-country running, loading guns, water blocking, repairing cars…We were both considered top-notch in the team, but when it came to shooting, especially in the 200-meter long-distance shooting, Baoguo was the only shooting king in the team. He almost hit the target with 100%.
Just like that, Baoguo was selected to join the reconnaissance company and transferred out of our team. I lost my closest buddy and comrade, but I soon made new friends. The comrades in the class got along very well. The class leader, Yang Zhifeng, was from City F, Guangdong. He was very like a big brother and took care of us. He got along with me and Shan Guoyu the best. Shan Guoyu, nicknamed " Fatty," was not tall but had a lot of meat. He was from Shanghai. He heard that his father had moved to the south for work, so his whole family followed him here. I asked, do people from the city also join the army? He laughed and said that his father wanted him to train in the army.
I train every day and occasionally do farm work. In a flash, it has been more than two years. In a few months, I will be able to retire after three years. My teammates cherish the days together. It is indeed fate to be able to gather together from all over the world.
One day, the higher-ups suddenly received an order to pull our entire army to Yunnan for training.
Everyone was in an uproar. After more than two years, they hadn't moved. Finally, they had the chance to travel to other provinces. Everyone treated it as a trip before they were discharged.
In the evening, Yang Ban, Guoyu and I chatted quietly. Guoyu asked Yang Ban, do you know why you are going to Yunnan this time?
"Isn't it a training? Maybe we can go out and see the world before we get discharged.”I answered first.
" You, what do you know…" Guoyu moved his mouth closer to the class monitor and me." We might be going to the real battlefield."”
"What?"
"We might have to go to South Yue to fight…"
"Go to Yue Nan to fight? There are more than 40,000 people in the entire military training this time. Can the China-Vietnam border tolerate it?" Yang Ban was a little puzzled.
"It's not just our army. There are also troops from other military regions that have been transferred over!”
" Don't listen to him. You're not Uncle Deng. Nonsense. I'm sleeping…" I turned my head and ignored them. I fell asleep.
But this time, Guoyu was right. After entering Yunnan for a month, the regiment commander held a pre-war mobilization meeting. They announced that they could not go home for the Spring Festival this year. As the South was instigated by the Soviet Union and constantly harassed the people on the border of our country, it seriously endangered the safety of the lives and property of our people. For this reason, our country is prepared to teach the South a lesson for the Communism and carry out a punitive self-defense counterattack. Everyone must be prepared to rush to the battlefield to win glory for the country...
This time, everyone's enthusiasm was ignited. It was indeed a pity that they couldn't go home for the Spring Festival, but when they thought about the opportunity to go to the real battlefield, everyone was still very excited. It should be known that in a peaceful era, after more than two years of training, they had lost their enthusiasm. It was rare to hear such exciting news. To be honest, no one had imagined the cruelty of the battlefield at that time. Their minds were filled with how to kill the enemy for the country and how to return home with a certificate of honor... The soldiers of that era could be considered the real Ah Jiao-"too stupid and naive".
I remember that it was in the middle or late February of 1979 when our regiment entered Yue Nan. But it was very strange. The entire regiment was rushing to the vanguard. Some of the battalions were even arranged to infiltrate. Only the ten people from our class were left behind as logistics.
We still have to carry out the orders. Our squad will be responsible for pulling the ammunition and ensuring the safety of a section of the supply line. The class monitor divided our class into two teams. Each team had five people. The class monitor led one team, the vice-class led the other team, and Guoyu and I were in the class monitor's team.
The mission was boring, and every day was the same as usual. Every day, we listened to the gunfire at the front line, but we were in the rear to maintain the safety of the convoy route. At that time, everyone felt a little cowardly.
But that day, at noon on the fifth day after we entered Yue Nan, half of us, five people, sat behind a mound for lunch after patrolling the route. We ate sweet potatoes that had just been cooked with clay buns. Suddenly, I saw a figure in the grass 50 meters away. I immediately threw away the sweet potato in my hand and lay down. At the same time, I called out softly,"There's a situation…"
Thus, they immediately lay on the ground and looked in the direction I was looking at. In the distance, five or six children crawled out from the grass and slowly walked towards us. Their clothes were ragged, and they looked at us timidly. It seemed that they were starving. They smelled the fragrance of the sweet potatoes we were cooking and came to find us.
"It's fine now," the class monitor smiled.
We got up and our comrade, Xiao Dongzi, picked up a few sweet potatoes from the ground and brought them over with the squad leader to share with a few hungry children. At that time, Shan Guoyu, I, and another old comrade stayed by the mound to continue our lunch.
"The class monitor and Little Dongzi are really a busybody. They don't eat their own lunch and even care about the enemy's children.”Shan Guoyu muttered as he ate his sweet potato.
"You fatty, you only know how to eat." The old man was also eating and squeezed out a sentence.
Xiao Dongzi and the class monitor seemed to be talking to the children. They were too far away and didn't pay attention. Suddenly, I saw the group of children run away. Only Xiao Dongzi and the class monitor stood there. The class monitor suddenly shouted,"Throw it away, quickly…"
Before I could finish, there was a loud explosion. The direction I was sitting in happened to be facing the class monitor. With the explosion, something flew towards Guoyu's head. I didn't have time to shout, so I rushed forward and threw Guoyu to the ground. The thing that flew towards me was stabbed into the ground with a " Huo " sound. It turned out to be a gun. The butt of the gun had long exploded. A bloody broken arm was still hanging from the strap of the gun barrel. I didn't know if it was the class monitor's or Xiao Dongzi's.
After a while, we came back to our senses. Guoyu grabbed his gun and rushed in the direction of the little kid. The old man and I followed behind. When we passed the location of the explosion, we only saw pieces of bloody meat, intestines, and meat paste. The two heads were so exploded that we couldn't tell who was who.
After chasing for a while, I saw a few kids running in front of us." Da da da ", the angry Guoyu started shooting at the kids. In a short while, he took down a few of them. My eyes were red, so I didn't think much about it. I opened fire at the two kids running in the other direction. This was the first time we fired in YueNan. The first time we fired, we killed someone. Guoyu rushed forward and shot a few more shots at the two kids who were still alive. I walked over to take a look. There were two children, black and thin, about eight or nine years old. They rolled their eyes and were already dead.
The old man caught up and looked at it. He shook his head gently and said nothing.
Suddenly, the grass in the distance moved, and a wimp ran into the depths of the forest. Guo Yu immediately took the lead and chased after him. The old man and I ran behind. Although Guo Yu's nickname is "Fatty", he runs like the wind and is not inferior to us at all.
After running left and right in the jungle, a few straw huts suddenly appeared in front of us. The wimp quickly entered one of the huts.
Guo Yu didn't say a word. He swept the straw hut with a " Da " sound. At the same time, he rolled on the ground and changed the shooting point to prevent anyone in the house from shooting back at him. When the old man and I heard the gunshot, we immediately lay on the ground.
In the midst of the gunshots, the door of a room suddenly opened. An old woman rushed out, ignoring the blood on her arm. She rushed out of the room and raised her hands high. She said something to us in southern Chinese. Before she could finish, a bullet shot from Guo Yu's side and hit her in the middle of her eyebrows. The old man turned his head away, not daring to look.
Guoyu and I carefully walked to the thatched cottages and kicked the door open. A six or seven-year-old girl was dead in the room. In another room, other than the woman who had just been killed outside the door, there were two other women lying inside. One had her head blown off, and the other was an old woman who had only been shot in the foot. She was not dead. Guo Yu walked over and shot her in the head.
Finally, we searched a few straw huts and confirmed that there were no unborn before we left.
On the second day after returning to the battalion headquarters, the political commissar looked for us to talk separately. I insisted on not telling the whole story. I only said that I was attacked by Xiao Tong Nan and was forced to defend myself. However, it was probably the old man who leaked the truth. After two days, Shan Guoyu and I were locked up. The rules stated that prisoners of war who surrendered could not be executed on their own, let alone ordinary civilians. Killing civilians was equivalent to killing people in the country. We had to be tried by the military court.
Guoyu and I were locked up separately in the prison at the back. The political commissar talked to me a few times and hinted that I could take over the entire matter. I had no objections and immediately signed it. However, from the conversation between the political commissar and me, I learned that Guoyu was also very loyal. He firmly took everything on himself and refused to let go.
One night, my comrade who was guarding me told me that you would be fine soon. Guoyu had already been sent back to City G.
I said, are you kidding? We haven't even gone to court yet. Don't tease me.
That comrade lowered his voice mysteriously. You don't know? The news has spread. Who is Guo Yu? The old man was the deputy commander of the GZ Military Region. Your entire team is already on the A-list, so why is your class the only one left? Hehe, wasn't it the old master's idea?
I thought about it and finally understood. So Shan Guoyu had such a background. No wonder he had so many insider secrets and had been hiding them from me.
After being locked up in the so-called prison for another two days, the political commissar came to ask me to rewrite the report again. He wanted me to write it like what I said at the beginning, that it was self-defense and killing the enemy. After signing my name and adding my fingerprint, I was released in a few days. However, I would no longer stay in the military camp. Instead, I would be sent directly to my hometown and immediately be discharged.
Just like that, I wore a tattered military uniform and returned to the village where I was born and raised. It had been three years, and everything was the same. However, I had grown taller...
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