Vol 2 Chapter 8: earthquake

The volcano under the riverbed started to move. Suddenly, everyone caught by surprise and almost fell. I hurriedly climbed up a relatively gentle and sat down to take a few breaths. I was shocked, but I saw that the vibrations in the ground became more and more intense. The mountain wall formed by volcanic rocks may collapse at any time.
Luo Ning said that volcanic eruptions do not necessarily occur, but should only be cyclical activities of volcanoes. The timing of this activity cycle is uncertain. It may happen once every few days, or only once every hundreds of years or thousands of years. There are many types of volcanoes. The common type of trumpet-shaped chimney-shaped volcano was formed after a large-scale eruption. Although some volcanoes are not dead volcanoes, they have not been erupted for tens of thousands of years, and they have been buried deeply underground , Occasionally there will be vibration.
However, no matter how many years it is active, we are unlucky, just in time. I wanted to find an exit along the underground river, but the river below boiled, and I had to turn into dumplings cooked in the pot. It seems that I can't go down. On the occasion of nowhere, my baby is pulling my clothes. , Pointing to the top let us see.
A few hundred meters away from the top of my head, a slender white light appeared, and I could see that my eyes were blooming and my eyes were stinging. What is that? Is it a long-extinct creature?
Luo Ning added surprise: "It's the sky! It's the sky!"
The vibration of the underground volcano triggered an earthquake, and the ground above the head was split with a big crack. It has been a long time since I have seen the sky outside. I have almost forgotten what the sky is like, whether it is blue or white.
I said to the rest of the people: "Comrades, this is a road to nowhere else. Persevere to the end is victory, for the sake of new China, move forward!"
The four people who had been exhausted suddenly saw the hope of escape. They produced infinite strength in the flat, pulled two legs apart, rounded their arms, and desperately climbed up the slope.
The vibration below was getting more and more intense, the heat wave was pressing, and the strong smell of sulfur irritated the head of the man. We were worried that the crack was closed again by the earthquake. Everyone wanted to go out as soon as possible. They all sprinted on the steep of 45 degrees.
The more the volcanic rocks are broken up, some are like sand. It is difficult to stand on foot. Climbing up three feet and falling back two feet, the skin on the hands is worn away, and the teeth are clenched. Pegged with a planer, the height of five or six hundred meters is as difficult as a long march across the snowy mountains. After exhausting all his physical strength, he finally returned to the ground.
The blue sky and white clouds, the mountains on both sides rolling up and down, the place where we climbed is a section of the Kunlun River Valley, which is also the lowest area in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, only a few kilometers away from the non-frozen spring station in Toudaoban.
Luo Ning couldn't do enough physical strength, and Jia Wa had a foot injury. The two of them fell behind at the last minute. I couldn't care about the rest. I hurriedly and the big man stringed the arms of the two people together, and let Luo drop Ning them hold.
The earthquake is getting stronger and stronger. This crack, which is more than one meter wide, may collapse at any time. Luo Ning and Ga Wa can only grasp the strap tightly and step on and slide down one step, even a half inch can't climb up.
The big man and I used to pull up the power of feeding, but no matter how strong the two were, it was impossible to pull them up at the same time. At this time Ga baby let go of the strap and held Luo Ning firmly underneath, plus we pulled on the top, and she was pulled up from the crack at once.
When I wanted to throw the tape down again to save Gawa, a violent shock came, and the earth was brought together again, Gawa was squeezed alive in the middle.
At a temperature of minus twenty degrees below zero, our coats and hats have long disappeared. The three of us have forgotten the cold and only wore thin clothes, crying while digging in vain with the sand and stones with hands and bayonet ...
Three days later, I was lying on the hospital bed in the military area hospital. The chief of staff of the military area held my hand to extend my cordial condolences: "Comrade Xiaohu, you are brave this time. I express condolences to you on behalf of the Military Commission and hope that you will recover soon. , Make new achievements on the road to revolution. How is it? Feeling okay now? "
I replied, "Thank you for your attention, I still ... still ... still ..." I wanted to say okay, but when I think of those comrades who will always leave me, Kobayashi, Gawa, the instructor, the second squad leader, this The word "good" suffocated on his chest, and he could never say it.
As Churchill said, there are no eternal friends and enemies in the world, only eternal interests.
In 1969, due to the needs of the international situation, my troops were sent to the depths of Kunlun Mountain for construction. Due to the harsh environment, the progress of the project was unexpectedly slow. In the past three years, dozens of combatants sacrificed on the construction site However, the military facility we built has just completed two thirds.
At this time, the world situation was reshuffled. Nixon visited China in 1972 and Sino-US relations were unfrozen. China's strategic deployment has been readjusted on a large scale, and the engineering in Kunlun Mountain has been stopped. All of us engineering engineers who have been part of the way have compiled the battle sequence of the field army and belong to the Lanzhou Military Region.
Day after day, year after year of training, the military camp life of exercises, exercises, learning, and commentary is not only monotonous but also difficult. A few years later, the Cultural Revolution was over, the Party Central Committee promptly disturbed the chaos, and the Gang of Four was crushed. After a decade of catastrophe, the social order finally returned to normal.
But the army is a special environment out of touch with society. I did n’t feel much change in the barracks, except that I did n’t need to read Chairman Mao ’s quotations as soon as I saw them, but whenever new recruits entered the camp They still have to educate them in revolution.
That morning, as soon as I came back from the battalion headquarters meeting, the correspondent Xiao Liu ran breathlessly: "Reporting company commander, a platoon of recruits came to report today, but the instructor went to the military area to study, so please go and tell the recruits Revolution and tradition. "
To speak of revolution and tradition is to tell the recruits the history of the company. I am really a layman for these things, but I am also a long-term leader anyway, and the instructor is not at home, so I have to bite the bullet.
I took these thirty or so recruits into the company's honor showroom, and pointed to a pennant embroidered with the words "Spelling Hero Company" and told them that this was the honor our seniors of the Sixth Company won in the Huaihai Campaign , This title has been retained to this day. I repeated that tragic battle after adding fuel and vinegar. How did our six companies get bayonets and how to use bayonets to fight off a whole group of crazy attacks by the Kuomintang reactionaries when they were exhausted. Gloriously completed the blocking task arranged by the superior.
Then I pointed to a black iron broken pot in the glass cabinet and told the recruits: "Comrades, don't underestimate this broken pot. You were on the battlefield of the Huaihai Battle. After eating the pork stew noodles burned in this broken pot, we went to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make merits. You see, the crack in this pot was blown up by the reactionary artillery fire of the Kuomintang reactionaries. Still silently telling the story of the heroes and reactionary beasts of the year. "
That's all I can say. After all, I'm not professionally responsible for ideological work, but I think it's quite good. It's more than enough for these recruits.
I asked the recruits to disband and go to the cafeteria to eat. I walked behind them with Xiao Liu. I asked Xiao Liu: "Just now the company commander talked about revolution and tradition, how good is it?"
Xiao Liu said: "Oh, company commander, he is a good thief, and I can hear the DC Harala. When will we learn the revolutionary martyrs, improve and improve our meals, and eat pork stew noodles?"
I swallowed and swallowed Xiao Liu's brain: "I haven't heard of the revolutionary tradition at all. I just heard the pork stew noodles. I'm going to have dinner in the cafeteria. Today, the cafeteria seems to eat buns. , Go late and let the recruits get robbed. I order you to run forward! "
Xiao Liu promised, shrugged off and rushed towards the cafeteria. I suddenly remembered the most important sentence and forgot to ask him, and hurriedly shouted at the back: "Choose some big stuffing for me!"
I lay in bed and ate buns while looking at the letter I had just sent from my home. Everything was fine at home and no important things were mentioned. After reading it twice, I put the letter aside and picked up the scrap book that my family passed down. The experiences I had in previous years made me interested in Feng Shui. I took it out and read it.
Because there are a lot of nouns such as the five elements and eight diagrams in the book, for example, what is Eastern Jiayimu, southern Bingdinghuo, central Wujitu, Western Gengxinjin, northern Renguishui, what is dry, kan, gen, Zhen, Kun, Kuai, Li, Wei, and so on, there are many puzzles. I have looked for a lot of books in recent years. Although I have limited education, I can still understand 30% or 40%.
The sixteen-character Yin-Yang Fengshui Secret Techniques refer to: heaven, earth, human, ghost, god, buddha, demon, animal, terrible, town, escape, thing, chemistry, yin, yang, and emptiness.
I do n’t know what age this book was from, nor who it was from. It ’s just that the content inside is very esoteric. The sixty-four changes of Fuxi ’s gossip should actually be the sixteenth gossip, which was passed to the Yin and Shang dynasties, because the sixteenth gossip leaked Heavenly machine, half of them were erased by the gods, and even the remaining number of gossip hexagrams was not complete. However, those who can understand one or two points are already very powerful. Thinking of Zhuge Kongming, knowing one or two will save Liu Bei's strategy and reach the world; Liu Bowen will only solve three points, which will assist Zhu Hongwu to build the next big four. A century of foundation. But I do n’t believe this, can it really be so evil?
The only regret is that this book only has half a book about the layout structure of the feng shui five-element tombs, and the other half of the yin and yang gossip tai chi did not exist when it reached my grandfather. The broken text reads, some content is incoherent, and the text is obscure and difficult to understand, and its deep meaning is difficult to see. If it is a full text, it should be easier to understand.
Suddenly, three long and three short assembly horns sounded, piercing the quiet air in the barracks. My first thought was: "It must have happened, and there will never be an emergency meeting for the whole camp during the day. Put all the remaining two buns in your mouth and bounce from the bed and rush out of the door.
Columns were lined up neatly, and I saw that not only were we camping, but the entire regiment had assembled. Lower-ranking officers like me are not qualified to understand what kind of actions, only to obey orders and follow orders. The order we received was to go to the train station to stand by, and set off with the brothers.
There are 10,000 people, like mountains and seas. At the military railway station, there are tens of thousands of soldiers. From a distance, it looks like a green tide. It seems that the entire division has been dispatched. At that time, it was amazing that all the divisions were mobilized. The main divisions like ours are very large. There are three infantry regiments, and they are equipped with an artillery regiment, a tank regiment, and the logistics department of the division headquarters. There can be more than 20,000 people. What is this large-scale operation doing? Shouldn't it be for disaster relief, I haven't heard of any disaster in this neighborhood recently.
We were dragged into the Yunnan border by a tin can, and everyone understood at this time that this was a battle. Many people cried at that time ...
At the same time, Deng Xiaoping, who was visiting the United States, said in the White House amazingly: "Children are disobedient and should be spanked." And publicly admitted that the Chinese army has assembled on the Sino-Vietnamese border on a large scale.
In the early morning of February 17, the 220,000 People's Liberation Army of the 17 divisions attacked across the board, until they reached Langshan. On March 4, China announced its withdrawal.
My company is the main company's sharp knife company, taking the lead, after more than half of the casualties in ten days of fighting. During a march, we were ambushed by Vietnamese agents. They used the woman holding the child as a cover and threw the explosives into our armored personnel carrier. All eight soldiers under my control were killed in the armored vehicle. At that time my eyes were red and I captured two Vietnamese militiamen alive.
They were a Vietnamese man in his fifties, and a Vietnamese woman in his twenties, who looked like father and daughter. A subordinate told me that the woman disguised the explosive bag as a baby in her arms and threw it in when she passed the armored car. Absolutely good, she did it.
The thing I was most afraid of was watching my comrades die in front of me, and fought out in anger, forgetting the three major disciplines and eight attentions and our army ’s policy of treating prisoners.
This incident seriously violated the discipline of the army and even alarmed General Xu of the headquarters. If it were not for my family who had a deep background in the military area, I was sent to the military court long ago, and my military career was forced to end there, holding a paper demobilization order and returning to my hometown.