Chapter 7 A scene from the night march

(Written on September 9, 1936, see diary on October 25, 1934) It has been eight days since we set out, and because we often march at night, although we have time to sleep during the day, I still feel that sleeping at night is not as interesting, and perhaps not as beneficial as sleeping at night.As a dead sleeper, I can fall asleep anytime and anywhere, but I can't help being entangled in some things during the day. On average, of course I need to sleep less time, and I dozed off a little today. We set off again at 6:00 p.m., and as soon as we left the door, the herald sent an order with the sound of "report":

"...In order to gain the advantage of the first opportunity, we will implement a forced march from today. No matter day or night, every five hours of marching, we will rest for four hours. After cooking and sleeping, we will continue to advance according to the route ordered yesterday..." Immediately I became nervous, and of course I "obeyed my orders." Shorty Lin was a little anxious: "I'm sure I'll doze off today, we need to chat more on the road!" He suggested to me after reading the order. "Of course, I will also doze off, you rambunctious talker!" I answered him in agreement.

"I'm not afraid." The instructor stepped forward as if confidently. "I never doze off on the road, I'm going to camp today to beat the local tyrants..." Shorty Lin suddenly remembered that he often stumbled all the way no matter day or night, so he said sarcastically: "It's not that I'm sleepy, it's just like rolling winter melons during the day and night!" This made the people nearby laugh, and the instructor quickly replied: "It's really short, it's strange." Walking faster ahead, everyone's words and laughter were immediately interrupted. Everyone was walking on the way, and they began to think about the nonsense materials on the way.

In the middle of the night, the Big Dipper is already high above, and thousands of red heroes are still marching under the starlight, making "rustling" footsteps on the ground, and on the comrades, because things collide and grind, they are also constantly "crackling". In the fields beside the road, insects chirped even more, and everything else was quietly passing through the night, and the eyes had already started to conflict with the legs-the tired eyelids often wanted to close their rests, but the legs were still moving towards each other. Walking forward, in order to avoid falling, the eyes had to be forced to open wide, and had to perform its visual task.

Suddenly, the forest dwarf in front of me stopped for no reason, while the person in front of him was still walking.I knew he must be dozing off, so I threw my hand on his shoulder and yelled "Let's go, dwarf!" to startle him. He seemed to have suddenly realized, and said: "Oh! I fell asleep, and I didn't know if I fell behind." As he spoke, he stepped forward and followed. "Let's start talking nonsense, I dozed off too," I said. "Tell me first, I haven't thought of it yet," he said. "You often talk a lot, but you can't speak today? Or should you talk first."

"You talk about it first, I want to talk about it well." The instructor behind wanted to deliberately embarrass the dwarf, so he ran up and started chatting nonsense with him: "I saw a camel and a pig at the home of a local tyrant yesterday. The camel was tall, and the pig was short. The back of the camel is not as high as the camel's butt..." Because he deliberately laughed at him as being short, he couldn't help himself, and laughed out loud.So Lin Shorty got angry: "You treat me like a pig!" I couldn't stop laughing, everyone laughed, and the comrades behind laughed too.

Just these few words drove our sleepy bugs away. It was two o'clock in the middle of the night, and because there were no houses on the road, I couldn't rest, so I had to continue walking to a place with houses.At this time, I can't help myself, and I don't like talking nonsense anymore. Everyone wants to sleep. Although my legs are walking continuously, my eyes are already closed, and I start to have hazy dreams.I suddenly walked to a lower place and stepped down. I was really surprised, as if falling from the sky, my eyes opened quickly again, and I continued walking. With a sound of "crash!", the instructor fell down again and squatted on the ground, "Ouch! Ouch!" He cried out in pain, "Oops! Bleeding!" He touched the painful place and said so.

This is the opportunity for the dwarf to take revenge, and he happily said: "You don't know how to doze off, why did you fall, and why did you feel the pain?" The instructor was so angry that he got up quickly, neither laughed nor cried, and still followed.But the legs are a little lame. The people before and after all laughed: "It's such an old fall!" Arriving at the resting village, the team stopped by the road before the houses were assigned. I suddenly found a small bush, so I immediately fought for this good sleeping position, and quickly lay down. caught.

When they walked away, they deliberately did not call. When some comrades called me up, they were already laughing in front of me, celebrating their victory.When I caught up, they had already entered their respective rest houses. Of course, I am very happy now, and now I can sleep until it is time to eat.As soon as I entered the room, there was nothing, I found a straw mat, and began to sleep, without taking off my shoes and socks, and without a blanket, for fear that I would not be able to sleep well.This is really more delicious than sleeping on a steel wire bed. When I was falling asleep, I seemed to hear someone call: "Little friend, eat wine!" Then I felt that someone woke me up.When I opened my eyes, it turned out to be Li Jiugui.Holding a cup of wine in his hand, he said with a smile: "Drink, the instructor beat up the local tyrant and asked you to eat chicken." This really made me laugh and angry, so I had to reply him: "Which one will eat? You guys?" These guys don't even sleep after eating, and they have to leave after four hours!"

Don't care about anything, close your eyes immediately, and sleep like a dead until everyone wakes up, only to be awakened by the wake-up call in the dream.From the time I fell asleep until I woke up, I didn't even move.