The beacon of youth

After several days of railway transportation, Li Yong and his soldiers arrived at Shanhaiguan, the throat of the Northeast.

Under the expectant eyes of the soldiers, Brigadier Li Da, who had finished preparing for the cold, had no choice but to briefly introduce Shanhaiguan he knew to everyone.

Shanhaiguan was called Yuguan in ancient times, and was later renamed Shanhaiguan. The city is not big, with a bell and drum tower in the middle, and four gates on the four walls. nomads), the east gate is called Zhendong Gate (to deter foreign enemies in the northeast), and the west gate is called Ying'en Gate (facing the direction of the imperial city of Beijing).

The local residents of Shanhaiguan also have a simple algorithm for calculating the distance between the inside and outside of the pass called "Li Qiwai Ba", which means that Shanhaiguan is [-] li away from Beijing and [-] li away from Shenyang. Later, after research, this statement is basically correct.

The train stopped for nearly an hour, and set off again after adding water, coal, and maintenance. After leaving Shanhaiguan, it was considered the Northeast, and the climate in the Northeast was completely different from that inside the pass.

Before going out of Shanhaiguan, it is called Guanli, and after going out of Shanhaiguan, it is called Guanwai. This is a very common name. What surprised the soldiers is that when they didn’t go out of Shanhaiguan, they felt that the temperature dropped, but once they went out of Shanhaiguan, the ground was covered. Snow white.

It is snowing in the Northeast, and the temperature is below freezing during the day and drops to more than ten degrees below zero at night.

We all know that it is cold in the Northeast, and it is understandable that it snows. What is incomprehensible is why there is snow outside the pass but not inside the pass.

The locals couldn't explain it either, it was so strange anyway.The common people said that it was arranged by God. The inside and outside of the pass seem to be two worlds, not only the climate is different.Even people's personalities are different, including accents, eating habits, ways of thinking, and so on.

Once out of Shanhaiguan, the distance to Shenyang is only over 400 kilometers. According to the current driving speed, it can be reached in less than ten hours. The time does not seem long but the taste is very uncomfortable.Everyone finally knew why Li Yong had to prepare more cold-proof equipment.

The cotton-padded clothes had already been put on, and the soldiers on the flatbed truck put all the thick tarpaulins down in the cabin of the truck.Block the cold wind that comes in through the gaps when the train is running.

The north wind carried snow particles into the car through all the holes that could be drilled in, and blew in from the gaps that could not be seen by the eyes. The soldiers cursed in a low voice, this damn snow.How does it feel like it is pervasive.

At this time, the passenger car is another scene.The coal-fired boiler with an independent heating device was ignited, the heating pipes under the feet were hot, and the temperature in the compartment was also kept at about [-] degrees.

More than 60 soldiers can be placed in the carriage, that is to say, only one-third of the guard company can survive the cold, and the rest can only contend with the cold wind outside.

Inside the bus was a row of guards, and the row leader San Niu muttered, this snowy day is really frustrating.Comrades in the second and third platoons have suffered.

Suffering had to be tough, and the running train made them want to rotate in to warm up.Li Yong used the walkie-talkie to tell the second platoon Chang Xiaocheng and the third platoon Chang Ning Erzi who were with the soldiers to ask the soldiers to stand up and move around instead of sitting in one place all the time.

The two platoon leaders asked the brigade commander to rest assured that it was nothing serious. They couldn’t survive the cold so what kind of troops were they called, and what kind of Northwest aces were they called? I don’t know how many times they have endured a more difficult environment than this. Now it’s just a trivial matter. .

Li Yong thinks about it too. It is now December, and January and February are the coldest seasons in Northeast China. That is to say, the temperature is not too low before the coldest time. What can go wrong.

The train ran overnight, and arrived at Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China, at about ten o'clock the next morning.

Shenyang is the largest city in Northeast China. Its ancient names were Fengtian, Shengjing, etc. It was also the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of the three eastern provinces. Later generations built the largest railway hub and civil airport in Northeast China. It was also the front line for North Korea. A distribution center for various material support.

Finally someone was in charge of receiving them. The large military station picked up Li Yong and the soldiers from the car, and prepared a lot of hot food and hot water, even hot water for bathing.

I was frozen for more than ten hours on a train with no heating device at all. I can’t tell how comfortable it is to soak in hot water at this time. It’s so cool. take a shower.

A large number of reception staff came, and the person in charge told Li Yong that they would have a whole day of rest in Shenyang. Besides eating, sleeping, and resting, they had to change their clothes, and they had to change the style of their clothes into the clothes of the volunteers, that is to say, they had to change their clothes into the clothes of the volunteers. The military uniform of the People's Army is similar.

The efficiency of the military station is fast, supplying more than 200 troops is just a trivial matter for them, and the soldiers have finally seen what it means to pile up materials and ammunition. To put it in the tone of the soldiers, that guy looks so I have never seen so many supplies before.

The Northwest Field Army is the poorest of the several major field armies. The soldiers are used to suffering. Seeing too many supplies is indeed like Grandma Liu entering the Daguanyuan.

Shenyang is responsible for the food and drink of the hundreds of thousands of troops in North Korea. Of course, there are more supplies. Li Yong understands that these supplies look a lot, but they are incomparable with the US military. The supplies of the Americans are the real ones. The rich family is the real landlord and old fortune.

After eating and drinking enough, they took another hot bath, and after waking up, they put on new military uniforms. The soldiers' spirits immediately came to life, and they were laughing and joking in the military station.

Several persons in charge of the reception knew that this small unit had a special mission, and everything could be done in the best possible way. The station master also introduced to Li Yong that the unit would start at noon the next day. After several hours of operation, , Arrive at the border city of Andong between China and North Korea in the evening, and then cross the river by night.

Li Yong told the person in charge that the ammunition supply is fine, and there was no fighting along the way when they came, but it is best to replenish some food.

The person in charge told Li Yong, this is nothing, if there are enough things, it depends on whether they can move them away, as long as they can move them away, they can take whatever they want, and give them as much as they want.

The webmaster's answer made Li Yong suspicious, and there is still food to take?It is said that the Northeast is rich, but it is not so rich.

Seeing his doubts, the station master explained with a smile that we have to send a large amount of supplies to North Korea every day, but it would be good if half of these supplies fell into the hands of the frontline soldiers. The plane was blown up, knowing that they were troops on the front line, wouldn't it be possible to carry them with them to save on resupply?

Li Yong thinks about it too. What the station master said is not unreasonable. As long as more than 200 of them arrive in North Korea, all logistical support must be reared.

It was another night of sleep, and at dawn everyone was refreshed, and the soldiers were full of expectations for their departure to North Korea.

After lunch, I boarded the train, and under the watchful eyes of the staff, the train started slowly and gradually ran faster and faster. The tall chimneys in the urban area of ​​Shenyang shocked the soldiers of the guard company again. Li Yong told everyone, The Northeast is known as China's Rhine Industrial Zone, and Shenyang is the central city of the Northeast. It is a city based on heavy industry. Tall chimneys are indispensable. You can see other cities along the way, and most of them are based on heavy industry. base city.

The distance from Shenyang to Andong is more than 300 kilometers, which is about the same as the distance from Shigatse to Lhasa, but the transportation conditions are far worse. The Northeast Railway has been completed a long time ago, and the troops and materials going to the front line are basically transported by rail. .

More than an hour after starting from Shenyang, I saw another city. The name of the station was Xixi, and along the side of the railway was the Xixi Iron and Steel Plant. The huge scale of the site made the soldiers dizzy. God, there is such a big factory? ?How many people do you need to work in it?

This kind of problem still needs to be told by Brigadier Li Da, because other people don't know it at all, and Li Jia, a cultural person, can't do it either.

Li Yong told everyone that Xi Iron and Steel Works is the most important steel production base in our country. The scale of the factory is very large, and the total number of workers has reached 10.

10 people working in a factory?Including Li Jia, the soldiers were all dumbfounded. The soldiers who came from the remote countryside in the Northwest couldn't imagine what it was like to have 10 people working in a factory, and they couldn't even think about it.

Li Yong then told everyone that this is nothing, the Xi Iron and Steel Plant is not the largest, they can also see a bigger factory along the way, the Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, and the total number of workers in the Anshan Iron and Steel Plant has reached an astonishing 30+ Ten thousand, this is really a scary number.

Everyone knows the miraculousness of brigade commander Li Yong. He built the entire independent brigade by himself, so it is not surprising that the brigade commander is well-informed, and he is used to asking the brigade commander for advice when he has any problems. Not everyone is like this, and the pretty girl Li Jia feels more and more strange.

Li Jia didn't come from the countryside, so it's not easy to be fooled. He is a student who has studied for many years, and he is from a big city. Before joining the PLA, he followed the 36th Division of the Kuomintang to travel all over the world. He went to many places. She didn't know anything. But the Brigadier can handle things like a joke?

However, Li Jia is not like He Cuihua who can't hide things in his stomach. Seeing the surprised eyes Li Jia looked at when he was introducing the soldiers, Brigadier Li had no choice but to pretend to be confused. Anyway, I just don't say it, you girl It's not Lao Tzu's superior chief, what else can I do? (To be continued..)