Chapter 42 Chapter One

At this moment, the 634 highland is indeed silent. Lin Hongsheng, the leader of the 9th Company's platoon, led a platoon running quickly in the bushy depression on the west side of the 632 Heights.He was half-bent, his sweaty military cap was lifted to the top of his head after a long journey, and there were bean-sized beads of sweat on his high and round forehead. He unbuttoned all but the last button of his clothes on his chest, and the submachine gun strap was hung on his right side. Shoulder, left hand gripping the lower handguard of the gun, right palm tightly gripping the gun stock, index finger weakly grasping the trigger, two long legs nimbly jumping between rocks and bushes, a pair of deep sunken eyes staring wide open, blinking Unblinkingly pay attention to the 634 highland in the southeast direction, not letting go of any suspicious movements.

Not only did Liu Zongkui who stayed on the southern leg of the 631 Heights think that there were no enemies on the 634 Heights, but now Lin Hongsheng also believed that there were no enemies on the 634 Heights.Among the cadres of the entire company, he was the only one who participated in the border war in the spring a few years ago. That war not only gave him many unforgettable memories, but also gave him a lot of battlefield experience.In his view, today, first, because the Seventh Company and the Eighth Company have occupied the 632 and 633 Heights, if there are enemies on the 634 Heights, it is difficult not to be discovered or to expose themselves; secondly, the 634 Heights are located behind the 632 and 633 Heights, Under the double firepower of the enemy from Tianzi Mountain and Jade Ridge, it is tactically meaningless for the opponent not to send troops to guard the above two highlands but to guard the small highland in isolation.During the run, he was not so much worried that his platoon would be attacked by the enemies from Height 634, but more worried about the reaction that would be evoked in the hearts of the enemies at Tianzi Mountain and Jade Ridge after occupying the high ground, and how they would be attacked by the enemies at these two places. Can you hold on to the firepower pinch!

Lin Hongsheng was born 28 years ago in a railway worker's family in a certain city in southern Yunnan. His father was a railway switchman with little education, and his personality was upright and strong. Lin Hongsheng was educated with a ten-centimeter-wide cowhide belt from childhood; My mother is a housewife with no job and no culture.Lin Hongsheng is the eldest of the seven brothers and sisters. His father's "education method" made him suffer the most. At the same time, he also subtly inherited most of his father's temperament early on: upright, straightforward, stubborn, jealous of evil. But it hides a soft, kind, and sometimes even indecisive heart deeply.

At the age of eighteen, his purpose of joining the army was not so much to defend the motherland, but rather to escape from his father and find an independent life and personal dignity in the outside world.Among the recruits in the same batch, Lin Hongsheng was the earliest to be promoted to squad leader, but the latest to join the party and be promoted to a leader.Every time the party group meets, his questions are "disunity with people"; "look down on the leadership".Everyone knew what these two sentences meant: he was too skeptical to tolerate even the slightest bit of shameless behavior from anyone, so he had to come into direct conflict with the company and even the battalion chiefs.

Lin Hongsheng didn't join the party until the border war and was promoted to platoon leader. The reason was that he and his squad performed very well, and the battalion and company commander who had prejudice against him before the war was transferred away.After the war, Lin Hongsheng wore a third-class medal for meritorious service on his chest, and returned home in glory. He soon married a girl from his childhood.The girl's name is Zhuyin, and she is the daughter of her father's colleague.It was the first time for the bride to visit relatives in the team after marriage. Her beauty, like a camellia that just bloomed, made the whole team a sensation.

After that, Lin Hongsheng did not get further promotion.Life in a peaceful environment is different from that in a war environment. To live well, people must have more scheming and scheming, which Lin Hongsheng could not do.Family life also began to torture him, and he and Zhuyin also encountered the problem of not having a house to live in after marriage.Before the daughter gave birth to Zhuyin, he could live in guerrilla style with her mother's family for three months and her husband's family for two months. After her daughter was born, this state could not continue. When he went back to visit relatives, he wanted to take the child to a hotel to open a room.Lin Hongsheng approached Zhuyin's leader, and the leader said it should be resolved, but there was no house.Lin Hongsheng admitted his death: Since he would not be able to get a house if he did not change his job, he asked to change his job.The job change report was returned as soon as it was sent to the company commander: Don't mention it, you are the "combat backbone" explicitly reserved by the superior document, how can I let you go?

Two years later he was able to leave, but his wife got a house in the work unit. Getting a house is a good thing.Lin Hongsheng realized that another man appeared in the woman's life. After finding out the man's name and unit, he didn't act violently, which seemed strange to others, as if he was a different person.Not long after, he did another foolish thing that ruined his reputation—he got involved with a romantic widow named Qian Guifen near the residence. No one understands how it all works unless he has a deep insight into the mysteries of life.The reason why this strong-tempered man swallowed the most unbearable bitterness was: 1. He couldn’t grasp the real connection between his wife and that man; 2. If he accepted the fact that the man existed in his wife’s life, he had to admit Own incompetence——Zhuyin got another man because she couldn't find a house.Zhuyin was wrong about this matter, and his fault was even bigger.He has never been able to tolerate ugliness in other people's lives, and now that ugliness happened to him, of course it is even more intolerable.He wanted to divorce Zhuyin, but Zhuyin refused.In a daze, he did that stupid thing and was discovered by the troops.The chief was very annoyed and gave him a warning and asked him to grow vegetables on a farm a hundred miles away and wait for his job to be changed.

After arriving at the farm, Lin Hongsheng wrote a letter to his wife asking for a divorce.He didn't make any mistakes in the past, and Zhuyin didn't want to get a divorce, but now that he has made mistakes, Zhuyin has no reason to refuse him.Deep down in his heart, he already regards himself who has made mistakes as extremely vulgar and ugly, so what excuse does Zhuyin have for not getting a divorce?He didn't expect that things would not develop according to his imagination: Zhuyin came with her daughter, cried a lot, didn't explain anything, and only gave him a simple answer: never leave!No matter what serious crime you have committed, you are our family, and we will not leave you!

After Zhuyin left, Lin Hongsheng realized what a big mistake he had made.Zhuyin's crying made him understand her repentance for the mistakes he had to make and her unchanging love for him; it also made him see clearly that only Zhuyin really saw the reason for his depravity.But he himself has completely despised himself, he has become a shameless person, he doesn't know how he will live with his wife and daughter in the future. At the end of last year, the army expanded before the war. No one thought of him, but he automatically sent a report and asked to join the war.Many people were surprised: how good it is to stay on the farm and wait for a job change, what kind of battle are you going to fight!However, Lin Hongsheng knew that he had abandoned life by doing so.Instead of going back to another job and living with contempt for himself, he would rather go to the battlefield to experience fighting and death!Looking back, ten years of enlistment in the army, that is, a period of life and death in the last border war, did not make him feel oppressed, he felt that he lived a proud and valuable life, and every breath was comfortable and free!

... Lin Hongsheng was running in the depression on the west side of the 632 hill.Since he came to the Ninth Company as a platoon leader, he didn't feel happy because he was able to participate in the war as he wished.He couldn't understand Cheng Ming and Liang Pengfei's various behaviors, especially their suspicion and distrust of the company cadres, and he still had to conflict with them from time to time. But it was different now. As he walked forward, some thoughts flashed in his mind: In fact, whether he was on standby in Heifengjian or on the way to the 632 highland area today, his mood was excited.The screaming shells flying over the battlefield, the gunshots resounding fiercely in the vast space, and the strange smell of death coming to his face while walking in the enemy's minefield all made him have a kind of kindness of returning to his hometown. feel.All these are challenges to the courage of the soldiers. Lin Hongsheng is not afraid of these challenges, but he has every reason to be keen on taking part in them.

Now he has entered the west side of 633 Heights with a row of valleys crossing the junction of 632 Heights and 633 Heights.The depression under the feet gradually sank, and finally became a gully less than 200 meters wide; dense bushes, wormwood and thorns grew in the gully; But it rises into a beam ridge.The 634 highland, which was half hidden in the southeast of the 633 highland just now, showed its true face little by little: the first thing Lin Hongsheng saw were many boulders the size of lying cows at the foot of the northwest side of it. The tall thatch, the prickly branches of honeysuckle protruding from the thatch, clusters of snow-white flowers blooming wantonly under the clear sky in the morning of spring and April; On the steeper mountain, there are almost no trees, and only some low shrubs and thatch grow on the surface of the rock and soil layer; after running for a while, he saw another one at the top of the mountain about 200 meters high. The solitary and upright main peak is more than ten feet high, surrounded by steep cliffs, with wild vines and other vines hanging upside down from the high cliffs, and the small cliff top stands abruptly high in the remote and remote Under the measured sky.Lin Hongsheng felt a "click" in his heart. He felt that the main peak, which was inserted straight into the 634 highland, was like a huge warning exclamation mark!When he set off, he believed that the 634 highland was not defended by the enemy. At this moment, he finally saw the whole picture of the 634 highland clearly. With his keen intuition, he realized that there might be an ambush on the 634 highland! His pace did not slow down.This is war, the thought flashed through his mind.Even the palpitations that suddenly hit your heart from time to time are familiar and long-lost, he thought again.But the feeling of panic did not disappear as he expected, on the contrary, it was greatly enhanced: he was running at the front of the row, only the last 50 meters away from the saddle between the 633 Heights and the 634 Heights, and the 634 Heights Now he can see more clearly the importance of the gully: the gully under his feet goes south through the west side of the 634 highland and circles to the southeast. However, once our army breaks through here and drives straight in, the opponent's entire defense system in the vast area of ​​​​Tianzi Mountain and Jade Ridge is in danger of completely collapsing.Lin Hongsheng thought for a moment of the upright main peak on Height 634—it is almost impossible to climb tactically, but if the enemy transforms and uses it in advance, Height 634 will become the place to guard the junction of the enemy's two major defensive areas. A door that is hard to knock on! Also—he thought again at this moment—even if it is purely for purely defensive purposes, the enemy should lay mines in this gully that goes directly to the depth of its defense to prevent our army from penetrating here.Such serious omissions in battlefield defense are unimaginable! So there was something more in his consciousness: Not only might there be enemies ambushing on the high ground, but there might also be minefields buried in this gully! His steps slowed down.At this time, he may make a variety of choices: stop advancing, report the situation and judgment he found to the company commander, and wait for new orders before advancing; Minefield; Considering that there may be an enemy ambush on the high ground, it is necessary to deploy the troops while changing the running forward into a search forward, aiming the machine gun at the high ground, covering the search for the advancing troops, and so on.All these options just flashed in his mind, and he gave up all of them, because they all contradicted the order of the deputy commander "to quickly seize the 634 heights"; We must stop accordingly. At present, the enemy's high-level and flat-purpose machine guns on Yingzui Peak in the southwest have not yet targeted them. Once it notices this team that directly threatens its defense depth and shoots condescendingly at the entire company, the casualties must be great!But it’s not okay to continue running forward in a swarm of bees without doing anything. If there are real enemies on the high ground or landmines in the gully, it will still cause heavy casualties.In a very short period of time, Lin Hongsheng made a decision that was the most threatening to him, but he felt that he could best show his personality: let the troops behind slow down and keep a distance from him. He wanted to go forward bravely alone. See if there are any enemies on the high ground, and if there are really mines in the gully! He stopped at this moment, smiled at the first squad leader behind him, and gestured to them to wait a while before moving on. Then he took a big step, wading through the grass, and walked to the front alone! There was still a dead silence on the heights!Only the mountain wind turns the grass leaves and honeysuckle at the foot of the mountain in waves.The silence and the safety of the first few steps had a calming effect on Lin Hongsheng's spirit. "Maybe there are no mines in the gully," he thought, "and there are no enemies on the high ground. . . . Strange things like this often happen on the battlefield. The commanders ignored the important mountain passes that should have been heavily defended; Mines were buried at the bottom of the ravine, but the mines were buried on the path between the mountainsides..." His eyes were suddenly attracted by a few clumps of thatch on the ground a step ahead.Around them, all the grass leaves are green and green, only the leaves of these few clumps of thatch are yellow, drooping and drooping, without any energy.The squad leader who followed him a dozen steps away noticed that he raised his head and looked towards the high ground vigilantly for some reason.He felt that the platoon leader's glance was completely subconscious, but immediately there was a clear gunshot!Lin Hongsheng's upper body shook, his right foot staggered forward, and finally fell down. At this moment, under his feet, two mines exploded one after another! Lin Hongsheng fell face forward.His last thought: The enemy still panicked.He only realized that the landmine was in the soil layer under the withered yellow thatch in front of him, and when he looked towards the high ground, the enemy lost his composure and shot him.After two explosions of land mines, he had turned over and was lying face up, eyes wide open, staring blankly at the sky above the canyon.His life has disappeared, so he can no longer feel the pain of the body, but the remaining consciousness in his mind is like a thin cloud, floating in strands. "...I still did something for the victory. I discovered the enemy's minefield, and others would not step on it....I let the enemy be exposed in advance. The battle of the whole company today is another way of fighting It's gone." Suddenly all this became unimportant, and the wife's face resurfaced. "...I am finally freed...I came here to be freed...I am freed, and Zhuyin is also freed...I use this method to free myself from shame, which is good..."