The beacon of youth

One morning in the early spring of [-], at a training base of our army, company commander Li Yong was leading a group of recruits who had just joined the army to conduct basic training.Our army has already replaced the new melon-style grenade, but there are still a considerable amount of wooden-handled grenades in stock that have not been destroyed. These old-fashioned grenades are used by the troops to conduct live-fire training for recruits.

The place where the grenade was thrown was on a mountain not too far from the army station. The mountain was not too high, but it had to be 700 meters. It was the spring season, and the grass and trees on the mountain were green. There are also some unknown wild flowers blooming on the slope, in various colors of red and white.

Li Yong was not in the mood to look at the scenery. He directed the recruits to dig a trench and let the recruits lie down in the trench and throw grenades down the mountain. This method of throwing is the most labor-saving and safest, because it is thrown down from the mountain. So no matter how far the grenade is thrown, it will roll down the mountain. This is a training method that is not dangerous at all, and it is also the laziest and stupidest training method.

Li Yong, the company commander, didn't bother to look at these recruits. He leaned on the side of the trench and thought about his own thoughts. He went to the military academy and struggled in the school for four years. 22.But he is still a small company commander, and the group of guys who graduated with him are all in the main battalion, and some of them have even been promoted to the deputy regiment.Another kid sent me a wedding invitation yesterday, but what about me?I have been in the position of company commander for several years, and there is no movement to go up, and I have talked to many people, but none of them are good. After getting married, I can't do anything at home and blow it up with myself.Hey, why are these girls so realistic?Think about it, if you are also a human being, why is there such a big gap?

When he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Company Commander, I threw the grenade behind me." Li Yong was shocked for a moment, and took a look, it was not a grenade smoking on the top of the trench.Now let’s talk about the throwing method of the grenade. Unscrew the safety cover, take out the fire wire, put the fire ring on the little finger, and then throw it hard. At the same time, the little finger also brings out the fire ring, and the grenade is pulled When it is on fire, it explodes with a delay of 3.6 seconds.It seems that this recruit was too nervous, he didn't grasp the essentials and threw the grenade behind the trench. Li Yong has also seen the accident of throwing the grenade behind. Anyone who has been a soldier knows that when the grenade is thrown out, it will get worse. The more nervous you are, the easier it is to go wrong, but Li Yong has never seen such a thing happen while lying in the trenches and sneaking down the mountain.

Li Yong cursed: "The gun is broken." Then he pressed his left hand on the edge of the trench, rolled over with a cartwheel, and kicked the smoking grenade down with his foot. It exploded at the same time, and the recruits in training were all lying on their stomachs in the trenches, so nothing happened, but Li Yong couldn’t do it anymore. When the grenade exploded, he had no time to lie down, and Li Yong felt his eyes go black. I don't know anything anymore, and at the [-] second before fainting, I was still thinking: I can accompany you now.At this time, there was a sudden thunder in the overcast sky, and then it began to rain.

I don't know how long it took for Li Yong to wake up from the coma. He felt his head was groggy and he couldn't remember anything. Minutes later, I felt myself gradually waking up.What's wrong with me?Isn't it training with recruits?After thinking and thinking, I finally remembered that I was injured in an explosion to save a recruit who was throwing a grenade.

It seems that he was not killed by the bomb, his life is really big enough, he must have been seriously injured, otherwise his body would not be so heavy, as long as he is not dead.Thinking of this, Li Yong's head understood, but he couldn't open his eyes, but he could hear voices and felt that there were many people around him.I must be in the hospital now, why is the hospital still in such a mess?I am a seriously wounded person, so I must be in special care. Why are there so many people in the special care ward?Thinking about it, the sleepiness came up again, no matter what, let's go to bed first, Li Yong fell asleep again.

I don't know how long this sleep has passed. Li Yong woke up from his sleep and felt that his energy was much better. Looking around, I feel that my head is not enough after looking at it. Where is this special care ward?It's not much better than Dazayuan. Why are there so many wounded?Wouldn't they all be as unlucky as themselves?Was also bombed by a grenade?

Why are the wounded in the hospital and the nurses running back and forth wearing clothes different from those of their own troops?Look carefully again, isn’t this the KMT’s military uniform in movies and TV? I understand, these people should be making movies or TV or something. This should be a performance scene, but there is still something wrong, even if it’s a movie. Or TV can't treat a seriously injured person as an extra?

While Li Yong was thinking wildly, a beautiful little nurse wearing a Kuomintang military uniform and a white trigram came over, looked at Li Yong's opened eyes and said, "Oh, are you awake? It’s been several days since I slept.”

Li Yong opened his mouth and said, "Hello, what is this place? How did I get here?" This little nurse didn't seem very old, she was probably around 2 years old, and when she heard Li Yong talking to her like this, she immediately Said: "Oh, it seems that your brain is really confused. The person who sent you said that you are from the Third Division and the Ninth Regiment. Of course this is a field hospital." Li Yong could not say anything for several minutes, and asked again. He said: "Which third division and ninth regiment is it? Who is the highest commander of our army? How did I get injured?"

Hearing this, the little nurse was delighted, "Seeing that you are quite energetic, you don't seem to be stupid. Why don't you know anything? Of course our highest officer is Commander Hu Zongnan. You were killed by the Communist Party when they attacked Yan'an." The gunfire from the army hit his head and hurt him." Hearing this, Li Yong pinched his thigh hard, and it hurt a lot.I didn’t dream, so I should be awake now. After thinking about it, Li Yong said to the little nurse, “Can you please find me a mirror?” The little nurse immediately said, “Look at you, what does a big man look like? Mirror? You were hit on the right side of the head by a shell, and you will get a scar if you recover, and you will be fine when your head grows out. You don’t have to be afraid if you don’t lose your face.” After speaking, he laughed.

The little nurse took out a small mirror from her pocket and said to Li Yong: This is my own, you can use it.Li Yong took a picture of himself with a small mirror, the person in the mirror was a young man, he seemed to be around 2 years old, he looked good but he was a little thinner.Seeing this, Li Yong understood everything. It seems that he died in the explosion. He probably died in that grenade explosion. After death, his soul traveled through time and space for some unknown reason. Before liberation, he was attached to a wounded Kuomintang soldier who was killed by the bombing. In the words of the old man, he was resurrecting his soul from the corpse.

But this time it came before liberation. The year Hu Zongnan attacked Yan'an should have been March 1947.Thinking of this, Li Yong returned the small mirror to the little nurse and said, "Have you taken it down in Yan'an?" The little nurse said: "I'm leaving, you have a good rest, I have other things to be busy." After she finished speaking, she turned around and left. After walking two steps, she turned her head and smiled at Li Yong and said, "You won't change your last name. What do you mean you don’t know anything? If you really don’t know, just look at the card next to your bed.” After speaking, he smiled and left.Li Yong immediately turned around and looked at the card beside the bed, and saw that it said, Li Erdan, male, 3 years old, 8nd Battalion, 19th Regiment, 3rd Division, military rank: Private, it seems that his name is Li Erdan now.Although the surname is also Li, but this name is really not very good, one can tell at a glance that it is a rough man who has never studied, and he must change it in the future if he has the opportunity.

But the most important thing now is to recover quickly, and then find a way to escape. I am a party member and a company commander. Although he is almost the oldest company commander in the regiment, he is still the company commander of our army anyway.Counting from the year when he entered the military academy, he has already been a veteran with 13 years of military experience. Since he was a soldier, he sacrificed himself, but he did not expect to come back to our army before liberation. Hu Zongnan's Kuomintang troops who attacked northern Shaanxi were still injured in the head by our own artillery fire when they attacked Yan'an. I lived once, since God let me live again, I must live like this, but don't be so useless as before, I didn't even have a daughter-in-law in my 30s.

Thinking of this, Li Yong slowly went down to the ground, went for a walk outside, exercised more to eat more, and his body recovered sooner.After going to the ground, I feel that my current height is not too low, about 1 meters, but I am a little thinner, and my physical fitness and strength are far worse than before.

In the past, I was a great guy with a height of 1 meters and a weight of 81 kilograms, and my military quality was even worse.There were a lot of wounded soldiers outside the room, and Li Yong went to the most chaotic group, and listened to these wounded talking about the situation of the attacking troops. The defensive positions on the outskirts of the army began to attack Yan'an directly.

The defense of Yan'an in the history of our army was fought for 5 to 7 days. After killing and injuring a large number of the enemy's vital forces, we took the initiative to retreat. After the retreat, the Northwest Field Army under the command of Mr. Peng used guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare for more than three years. Time not only wiped out the main force of the Kuomintang, but also liberated the entire Northwest.

After thinking about that period of history, Li Yong made up his mind to return to his own army. If he wants to run out, he must hurry up. It will be even more difficult to find our army that mainly focuses on mobile warfare in the future. Time is running out, I must run out to join my own army, and figure out what is going on in the Kuomintang army. In a few years, the Kuomintang will be finished, and the whole country will be liberated. If you use the strengths of history to do something good, you have to act quickly, otherwise it will be very difficult to run away after the Kuomintang occupies Yan'an, but it is not so easy to run away, at least you have to have something to eat, or it was sparsely populated before liberation The Northwest can only starve to death.

The next morning when the nurse made his ward rounds, the same little nurse came, and Li Yong secretly said to the little nurse, "Can I trouble you if I have something to do?" He also changed into a washed military uniform. The wounded Kuomintang soldier who was bombed by the bomb was still quite handsome. If he didn't wear military uniforms in future generations, he would be a sunny boy.

The little nurse looked at it and said, "I didn't expect you to be very handsome, no wonder I borrowed the mirror and said something." Li Yong said in a low voice: "The food in the army is not very good, I can't get enough to eat. , can you think of something for me?” The little nurse thought for a while and said, “This way, the monitor of the cooking team of the health team is my fellow villager, so I’ll ask you two extra pancakes every day, what do you think?” Li Yong thought to himself Overjoyed, what I want is big pancakes, what else do I eat when I run?Thinking of this, I hurriedly said to the little nurse: "Thank you, sister, you are my own sister." The little nurse smiled and said: "Sister is not a sister, you are a glib person, I should be called sister when I am older than you. Ten, one year older than you, remember to call me sister from now on." After speaking, she smiled again.Li Yong patted his head and remembered, he is not 31 years old now but 19 years old, of course he should call this little girl sister, but I always feel strange in my heart, it should be my actual age and the age in my heart It has a bigger relationship than this girl.

I can't control that much, my sister is my sister, as long as she can ask for big pancakes, I can call her grandma.Li Yong whispered to the little nurse: "Sister, what's your name? My brother will repay you in the future." Unexpectedly, the little nurse who loves to laugh said awkwardly: "My name is Hu Xiaoling, you will call me later." Sister Ling is fine." Li Yong also felt a little funny, calling a 2-year-old girl sister, thinking about how shameless he really is.

Five days later, the stitches on the wound on Li Yong's head were removed, and his body basically recovered. Li Yong knew that it was time for him to leave. For the past few days, Hu Xiaoling brought him two big pancakes every day, and she secretly saved two. There are already more than a dozen big pancakes wrapped in his torn military uniform. The relationship between Li Yong and Hu Xiaoling has also warmed up sharply. It is also very easy for Li Yong to call her sister. One is envious, every time Hu Xiaoling brings him pancakes, the other soldiers start booing: "Look, my sister is looking for a lover."

At this time, Hu Xiaoling would stare at those soldiers: "How about just looking for it? I just like him, and you all want to go if you have a way." Li Yong also likes this cheerful and smiling girl very much, and feels that he is with her. I am very happy together, and the two talk a lot when they are together, could it be that I really like this little girl?Is it possible in just a few days?No matter what, you have to leave. A man should first establish a career and then start a family. Now is not the time to think about this issue, and he is not qualified to think about it.But if I just leave like this, I really feel sorry for others. It can be seen that Hu Xiaoling also likes me very much, so I have to find a way. No matter what, I am still a man. , but this kind of psychology cannot be brought to the present.

After dinner, Li Yong invited Hu Xiaoling to a forest by a small river near the residence. The vegetation on the mountain in northern Shaanxi was not very good, the trees were not tall, and most of them were low and disorderly trees. Hu Xiaoling's face was not too red. Knowing what he was thinking, Li Yong was also very confused. He had talked to many people before, but he didn't feel like being with Hu Xiaoling. He chose a place where the two of them sat down for several minutes without talking. After rationalizing the thinking in my mind, I slowly said to Hu Xiaoling: "Xiaoling, what do you think of the current situation of our country?"

Hu Xiaoling was stunned and thought: Why did you tell me this when you asked me out?I am neither Chairman Jiang nor Commander Hu, so I don't know any major national affairs.Thinking of this, he said to Li Yong: "I am just a little nurse. I have studied in a health school for two years, and I know about important national affairs there." Li Yong said slowly: "Our country fought the Anti-Japanese War for 14 years, and so many died. People, finally defeated the little devil, now we are fighting a civil war, and the dead are all Chinese, although it seems that the Communist Party has the upper hand now, but it is not certain who will rule the world in the future."

Hu Xiaoling said strangely: How could it not be sure? **How ​​much power can it have?Isn't Yan'an about to be taken?Wouldn't Yan'an be defeated once it was taken down?Of course, we are the ones who will rule the world.Li Yong smiled and said to Hu Xiaoling: "It won't be so simple. ** people are not fools, they are very smart. I have read **'s On Protracted War, and the writing is too clever. To be honest, I don't think* Who in the world can write such a good book, including our Generalissimo Jiang."

Hu Xiaoling went on to say: "What can I do if I can write a book? Can it prove that ** can rule the world?" Li Yong said: "Although writing a book can't explain anything, it can always prove that ** is a genius military strategist , Can such a talented military strategist give up so easily? Moreover, the ** is very united, and the internal cohesion is very high.

If you look at us again, the bureaucrats of the government and the army are intriguing and reborn. If such a government can be maintained in peacetime, it will be enough in wartime. You know the Soviet Union, before the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, Stalin Carry out a big purge in the army, all the officers who are dissatisfied with him and who have opinions on the current policy are purged, and the officers who remain are those who are accommodating and obedient to Stalin. Most of these officers usually rely on catering to their superiors. An officer who wants to be an officer has a lot of flattering skills, but he has no real skills. He usually doesn't see much, but it was only after Germany attacked the Soviet Union that he realized that most of these officers who climbed up by boasting were fools with poor military quality.

Therefore, the Soviet Red Army suffered a great loss, and more than 100 million were captured at the beginning of the war.Stalin also saw the root of the problem through the facts. In the later period of the war, a large number of capable commanders were promoted, including Zhukov, Chuikov, and Marshal Balagmyan, who were not optimistic before.As a result, the war has gradually improved, and our ** is now everywhere. People with connections are promoted like flying. It doesn’t matter if you have great skills. There are a lot of phenomena, and now this phenomenon is not only not getting better, but it is getting worse. How can we defeat the Communist Party with such troops?If you look at the army of ** again, I heard that the officers and soldiers of the army of ** are treated the same. Can the army be defeated by us? "

Speaking of this, Li Yong is a little strange, why is this girl silent?Turning his head to see that Hu Xiaoling was looking at him intently with his chin in both hands, Li Yong hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with you, silly girl? I don't have any flowers on my face, why are you looking so hard?" Hu Xiaoling shook her head and said, "Two But where did you know so many things? Why do you know everything about foreign countries, is it true or not?" Li Yong hurriedly said: "Of course it is true, what's the use of me lying to you about these things? Xiaoling, my friend The injury is basically healed, and I'm about to leave."

Hearing that Li Yong said he was going to leave, Hu Xiaoling hurriedly said: "Erdan, you are a big soldier. You have to go to the front line when you return to the army. You can easily be killed. Didn't you see those wounded soldiers? As long as you can stay a few days longer Are you willing to leave? Don’t be too stupid. You can stay in the health team for a few more days. Maybe in a few more days, Yan’an will be taken down, and you will be fine after the battle is over.” Li Yong said to Hu Xiaoling moved "Thank you Xiaoling, I will take care of myself, don't worry." Hu Xiaoling suddenly seemed to remember something and said to Li Yong: "Erdan, what's the matter with you today? Either you call me Xiaoling or you are stupid Girl, you haven’t called me sister yet, are you planning to rebel?” Li Yong hurriedly said: “I’m sorry, Miss Lingling, I forgot, and you must pay attention next time, I have a note for you here, you can come back tomorrow morning Look, burn it when you see it, remember?"

Hu Xiaoling said: "What is so mysterious?" Li Yong hurriedly said: "It's nothing, you will know after reading it, Xiaoling, you go back, I want to sit for a while." Hu Xiaoling said: "Well, I'm leaving. "While walking back, I thought: What happened to Li Yong?He asked a girl out, but he talked about a lot of important national affairs. I really didn't understand what he meant, so I just went back and said it.

When I got back to my residence, I couldn't help but take out the note, what is Erdan making it so mysterious.I opened it and saw that it said: Xiaoling, I am leaving. I feel that the Kuomintang will not grow. I will go my own way to vote for the Communist Party. Thank you for taking care of me these days. If I don’t die, I will definitely repay you , and finally tell you a secret, my real name is Li Yong.

Regardless of Hu Xiaoling's reaction, Li Yong waited for Hu Xiaoling's figure to return to the barracks, and immediately slipped out from the back hill along the path. At this time, Li Yong had a military water bottle on him, which he brought back from the front line when he was wounded. There are also more than a dozen large pancakes wrapped in torn military uniforms.I walked all the way north, kept walking, and when I felt confused, I looked at the Big Dipper in the sky. After walking for a whole night, I felt that at least I had walked out of a mountain road with dozens of miles. When it was dawn, I couldn’t walk anymore. After he got down to rest, he ate half a pancake and drank a few sips of water. After regaining some energy, he found the direction and continued walking. Li Yong knew that he had to go as far as possible. The farther he walked, the less likely he would be caught back. The more secure you are.

After walking for several days, Li Yong's heart gradually relaxed. He knew that the place where he lived was a field hospital of the Kuomintang army, and there were no combat troops nearby. Not much, as soon as my heart relaxes, it slows down.After walking for another three or four days, it is estimated that at least more than 200 miles of mountain roads can be covered. When Li Yong's big pancakes were almost finished, he finally saw a village.

Seeing someone, Li Yong let go of half of his mental calculations. If he doesn't see anyone for another two days, he will starve to death before he finds the troops.When I got closer, I found that it was a village with more than 100 households. Northern Shaanxi is vast and sparsely populated. More than 100 households is not a small village. Li Yong found a yard near the village and knocked on the front of the yard. With the sound of Li Yong knocking on the wooden door, an old man walked out of the cave. This old man was tall, with a gray beard, and he walked very tough.He looked at Li Yong and said, "What are you doing? What's the matter?" Li Yong knew that the villagers in northern Shaanxi were very vigilant, so he made a fool of himself and said, "Master, I am the scout of our team." , I’m out on a mission, I’m wearing the clothes of a Kuomintang soldier, I can’t walk anymore, and I’ve run out of dry food, can I have a rest and something to eat?”

scout?The old man looked at Li Yong, then let me ask you: "Which unit are you from? What's the name of the commander of your unit?" Li Yong hurriedly said: "Master, I am from the 2nd Column of our Northwest Field Army, our commander His name is Wang Zhen, and he was the former commander of the 359th brigade, the one that opened up wasteland in Nanniwan. Our column was formed on the basis of the 359th brigade, and we are now called the 2nd column." The old man was happy when he heard it: "Good boy If the enemy doesn't know so much, hurry up and enter the house." After speaking, he let Li Yong in, and then called the old woman to cook quickly, and some comrades from the team came.

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