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Chapter 65 Green hills before the war and bald scoops after the war
Another day, another year.

Early in the morning, while others were enjoying their holidays and sleeping in, the miserable Chen Yiming was already in the taxi. He had to take the earliest flight to Suicheng.

Deputy Director Sun had made an appointment for him in advance to go to the sanatorium on the outskirts of the city to visit the only living old hero among the "Eight Warriors of Tianma Mountain" and the closest prototype to the first protagonist of "1951", the former 2th Division of the 5nd Army in Higashino. Li Yucheng, a soldier of the 14th Regiment.

Chen Yiming found a place to have a "noon tea" in Suicheng, and arrived at the Sanatorium on time at 1:[-] pm, a large sanatorium built on the mountainside.

After submitting the letter of introduction issued by the Magic Shadow Factory, Chen Yiming was led all the way in by a young lady in military uniform and stopped in front of a single-story villa.

After passing through the gate of the villa, there was a small vegetable garden on the right. Chen Yiming saw at a glance an old man wearing a big straw hat squatting in front of a piece of green onions and digging the ground.

The guide girl left Chen Yiming behind, walked up to the old man, gestured twice, and then pointed at Chen Yiming at the door.

The old man stood up slowly and turned his head to look over.

Under the straw hat is a face with criss-crossed grooves, and the wrinkles are so dense and deep that it is impossible to even estimate what he looked like when he was young.

The height is estimated to be about 1.7 meters, and the skinny figure looks like it could be blown away by a gust of wind.

He was wearing an old-fashioned green military uniform without military rank, a pair of mud-stained liberation shoes on his feet, and a pair of white thread gloves on his hands. He looked exactly like an old farmer working in the fields in the countryside.

The young lady in military uniform waved to Chen Yiming, who quickly walked over.

For a moment, he didn't know how to say hello, so he simply stood up and shouted, "Hello, Squad Leader Li."

He had considered in advance that the old man was somewhat deaf, so the volume was quite loud, but the old man still had no reaction.

The young lady explained, "Commissar Li is deaf in his left ear and has only weak hearing in his right ear. He needs a hearing aid to communicate with others. You wait for me to get it."

Chen Yiming didn't want to stand there stupidly, so he simply followed him and continued to understand the situation.

"Is it because of the injuries sustained during the Peninsular War?"

"Half of it has to do with it. I heard that Political Commissar Li only had hearing damage when he returned from the peninsula. It has improved after treatment. However, he suffered another injury in the border war, and the two superpositions are more serious."

"Except for his hearing, does Political Commissar Li have any injuries that have not yet healed? I will communicate with him later. Is there anything that needs attention?"

"Others are some common diseases of the elderly. As long as the time is not too long, they won't have much impact. I will notify you when the time for visiting guests is up."

The two returned to the vegetable garden, and the old man was still digging the ground.

The young lady helped Li Yucheng hang up his hearing aid and introduced Chen Yiming's purpose.

Li Yucheng still didn't speak. He looked Chen Yiming up and down, coughed and walked straight into the villa.

The young lady waved her hand for Chen Yiming to follow, then gestured towards him as if making a phone call, and left on her own.

Chen Yiming followed Li Yucheng into the hall, turned into the west corridor, and entered a large room at the end.

The interior is very simple, with two rows of bookshelves, a table and a chair. There is a stack of books, a pen holder and a stack of paper on the table, and nothing else.

Li Yucheng walked to the bookshelf, pointed to the stacked books on the bottom shelf and said, "Tianma Mountain, all my reports are here."

After saying that, he ignored Chen Yiming, walked to the table, sat down, took a pen and started writing and drawing on the paper.

Chen Yiming couldn't bear to be surprised at Li Yucheng's cold attitude. He picked up the top book and found that it was the "Compilation of Defensive Operations in the Peninsular War" compiled by the military in 1963. The book was very worn and had rough edges.

A very precious edition and one print, with great collection value. Unfortunately, it was of no use to Chen Yiming. He had already seen it.

The following books include "History of the 5th Higashino Division", "Military History of the 40th Group Army", "Summary of Experience in Counter-Autumn Offensive Operations", etc. Chen Yiming has read them all.

He raised his head and scanned the two bookshelves briefly. There were not many books on the shelves, even less military ones, and none related to the Peninsular War.

Chen Yiming had no choice but to walk to the desk, raised his voice and said, "Mr. Li, I have read several books on the bookshelf, including the manuscript of your lecture tour, and I have also read it carefully.

I came here today because I want to hear from you personally what happened in those days, mainly the details of the battle that are not in the book, especially the last day. "

After Chen Yiming finished speaking, he stood there blankly. He felt that this was not a conducive atmosphere for communication, but facing an old man with a weird temper, there was nothing he could do.

Li Yucheng raised his head and glanced at him coldly, then lowered his head and continued to draw, asking vaguely.

"Why do you need to ask about that?"

Chen Yiming secretly complained in his heart, what exactly did Uncle Sun communicate with? Couldn't a phone call to the nursing home be regarded as completing the task?

Looking at Lao Li's posture across from him, he seemed to have no idea what "1951" was about.

Chen Yiming had no choice but to slow down his speech and explain the ins and outs of the movie in as much detail as possible, especially mentioning that topographic surveying was already underway at the location, and the engineering corps would start digging next week.Hearing that the engineering corps was building a position, Li Yucheng had a slight reaction. He put down his pen, leaned back on his chair, and closed his eyes.

Chen Yiming stood at attention in front of the desk, waiting quietly without saying a word.

He knew that visiting the veterans would not go well, but he never thought it would be so bad.

Yesterday he was still showing off behind the desk, and today it was his turn to stand in front of the desk.

From this perspective, Lao Li can be regarded as avenging Xiao Liu.

After a long time, Li Yucheng finally spoke.

"Then let me tell you, if you came to me when I was alive and confused, it would be considered a friendship."

Lao Li suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Chen Yiming closely, and the words in his mouth seemed to have a hint of cruelty.

"It's easy to talk when you have friendship, so don't mention the old man's name in your movie.

I don't care whether you talk about friendship or not, but I don't recognize them all when you step out of this door.

Do you understand? "

Chen Yiming replied in a deep voice, "Understood! Don't worry, Mr. Li!"

He took out the recorder from his pocket, pressed the record button and placed it on the table in front of Lao Li. He looked at Lao Li with a questioning look.

Li Yucheng ignored it, just raised his head and frowned in thought, and started his story after a while.

"Tianma Mountain is a hilltop with an altitude of 550 meters. There are two hilltops of more than 400 meters apart on the left and right sides about half a mile apart. The three hilltops are connected to form a triangle, and a company is placed on each hilltop. This is the first line position of our regiment.

There are two more than 400 meters of hills on the outside, which are slightly farther away. They are set up as warning positions, and only one platoon is placed.

I am actually not from the 9th Company, but from the 8nd Platoon of the 2th Company. Because Tianma Mountain is the largest and the most forward, our platoon was strengthened to the 9th Company and was responsible for defending the main position on the uppermost level of the main peak together with the 9th Company's firepower platoon.

The three platoons of the 9th company were further forward than us, with one platoon in the trench halfway up the mountain, one platoon on the side peak, and one platoon in the trench in front of the main position.

I heard someone say before that the Nut Rat has great firepower, so we worked hard to repair the fortifications as soon as we went up.

The Tibetan soldiers' tunnels were dug to a depth of more than ten meters. The trenches were 1 and a half meters wide and more than 2 meters deep. It was easy to walk straight up with ammunition boxes. The anti-gun tunnel was 2 meters deep and had two turns. All tunnel exits were reinforced with logs.

Everyone's morale is very high. They all say that for such a strong fortification and such a steep mountain, the leader arranged for us to come up and perform meritorious service. "

After saying this, Lao Li opened his eyes, glanced at Chen Yiming, who was still standing upright, and asked.

"You said you've read all those books, but do you know what big guys Nut Rat used in that battle?"

When it comes to the weapons and equipment of both sides in the Tianma Mountain battle, Chen Yiming starts talking.

“According to combat history records, the 1st Cavalry Division attacked Tianma Mountain and used three 3mm howitzer battalions, one tank battalion, and one 105mm Long Tom heavy howitzer battalion.

By the way, there are also F-86E Saber fighter-bombers providing air support. "

Li Yucheng's expression remained unchanged, "I memorized the book well, but I can't remember it so clearly.

I don't know how many artillery groups and cannons there are on the opposite side. I only know that the cannons on the opposite side keep firing from white to black, even if the troops line is pushed up, the cannons will not stop, and the cannonballs will not stop flying to the back of the mountain.

On the third day of defense, only large pits were left in the 2-meter-deep trenches. Three of the four tunnels were bombed. Only the deepest main tunnel could still hide from the shells and contained more than ten or twenty people.

But there weren’t that many people to hide at that time.

We opened the tunnel entrance on the reverse slope and side in advance to avoid being directly hit by the rockets of the oil picker. It proved to be useless during the attack, because the tunnel entrance could not carry heavy artillery shells.

The shells of heavy artillery shells are more than half a meter long. When they hit the ground, there is a large pit within a dozen meters. The entrance of the tunnel reinforced by logs will collapse after two rounds.

A reinforced company with 1 platoons of 5 people went up the mountain. On the first day, only 200 person was injured. On the second day, 1 people were sacrificed and more than a dozen people were injured. On the third day, more than 3 people were sacrificed and injured, not counting. On the fourth day, less than 20 people were left. , on the fifth day there were only about thirty people left who could breathe.

打到第六天，主阵地外围的3个排只抢回来2个重伤员，主阵地上的2个排加上9连连部统共剩下15个人，8个轻伤3个重伤，动弹利索的连我一共4个人。

When we were building our position, Tianma Mountain was a lush mountain, and the thickest tree was as thick as two people hugging each other.

When we got off the battlefield, Tianma Mountain was a bald gourd with a bald top. There were still a few grasses halfway up the mountain, and there was no green at all on the top of the mountain. "

(End of this chapter)