Chapter 55 Chapter Fourteen

Zhao Guangming and Zhao Guangliang are a pair of orphans.One winter day seventeen years ago, they were born one after the other in an ordinary farm family in the mountainous area of ​​southern Anhui.The poor and sick mother managed to raise them until they were eight years old and then left. Before leaving, she knew that her husband was stealing, gambling, and not doing business. The two sons could not be raised by him, so she called the older brother Zhao Guangming to the bedside. , put his younger brother's hand in his, and told him that no matter what, the two brothers should be together, and the older brother should bring up the younger brother.As expected by my mother, my father met a widow twenty miles away after half a year, got a marriage certificate with her, and decided not to go home.The village sent someone to negotiate, but he reasoned that he was unable to raise them, and whoever looked at them poorly should adopt the two children.The production team had no choice but to take care of the two orphans, and Zhao Guangming thus became the head of the family.

In the nine years after his mother died, Zhao Guangming always remembered her last words, no matter what he did, he always took his brother by his side.They went to school together when they were in school (the village provided them with education until the fourth grade of primary school), mowed the grass together, grazed the cattle together, and begged together when begging. Over time, Zhao Guangming got used to playing the role of protector. Zhao Guangliang is used to being a protected person.The two brothers also share a common psychology, that is, suspicion and distrust of others and the whole world brought about by their bleak life experience and encounters, as well as the strong sense of self-protection unique to the abused.

Zhao Guangming decided to join the army out of admiration for a green uniform worn by a demobilized soldier in his village.From the age of eight to seventeen, the two brothers did not wear a single piece of clothing. It is not surprising that they have such a wish when they grow up.The village party secretary and head took pity on him, and agreed to his request without trouble, but when he proposed to take his younger brother to the army, the party secretary refused.Even at that time, serving as a soldier in the mountainous area of ​​southern Anhui was still the dream of many young people. The branch secretary thought that it was enough for Zhao Guangming to join the army, and it would be too much to let Zhao Guangming take another spot.No one knew what Zhao Guangming had done to the branch secretary. Anyway, after a while, the two brothers received the notice of enlistment at the same time.

Zhao Guangming's method is very simple and ancient, but it is difficult to say: one night the branch secretary found him kneeling in his yard.When asked why, he replied that after he left, his younger brother would not be able to live alone.The branch secretary and village head made him kneel for two hours, sighed and said: OK!get up!Zhao Guangming used this method again when dividing troops: when they arrived in the army, the whole army had already begun to move to the theater, and the recruits were divided into regiments, battalions, and companies.The military staff decided to separate the two brothers according to the usual practice, but the door was pushed open at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night.Zhao Guangming knelt down with a "gudong", startled him, hurriedly helped him up, and asked the root of the matter.Zhao Guangming cried and explained the reason, and the military staff officer immediately agreed to assign them to a company.The next day, Jiang Boyu, deputy commander of the Ninth Company, came to pick up the recruits. He also introduced the situation to Jiang Boyu and asked the latter to assign the Zhao brothers to a platoon.

Zhao Guangming and Zhao Guangliang came to the Ninth Company and the Third Row together.From the first day, their hearts were filled with grievances and fears.They didn't come to fight, but the army wanted them to fight, which made it impossible for this typical masochistic pair to look at everything around them without alert and deluded eyes.The disciplinary education they received during pre-battle training gave them another very deep memory: Unless you obey the order and go to the battlefield, there is no other way out.They had no choice but to enter the war zone with the whole battalion, and arrived at Heifengjian last night to stand by, but the fact that the war was imminent could not prevent Zhao Guangliang, who had always been protected, from crying bitterly out of fear.Zhao Guangming also made up his mind at that moment: the two brothers had made up their mind (it's unclear what the idea was), anyway, they couldn't let people be beaten to death on the battlefield in a daze!

His first idea was to transfer himself and his brother to the same squad before the battle broke out.This was done easily; the next, more daring thing—such as fleeing (he had been thinking of fleeing since the troops entered the theater of war)—he dared not.He didn't know who said that deserters would be sentenced or even shot when they were caught; after they went to the battlefield, they couldn't do it anymore. There were landmines everywhere, and there were shells and bullets flying around them. They instinctively felt that It's safer to be with Quanlian.However, when the leader of the platoon led the whole platoon to attack the high ground for the last time before dark, Zhao Guangming wanted to hide at the bottom of the mountain: going up the mountain is undoubtedly a death, and the bottom of the mountain is full of grass and rock crevices. I can't find it!

Unexpectedly, as soon as he and Zhao Guangliang reached the end of the line, and were about to gradually widen the distance to hide, he was discovered by the platoon leader!After dark, the squad leader led them to attack the enemy. Even Zhao Guangming, the protector, had no idea in his mind. Desperation and fear made the two of them lose their last bit of calm and self-control.There is nothing but sorrow in their breasts, only tears in their eyes, and only the instinct of self-preservation governs their actions.It was this instinct that made Zhao Guangliang shoot first in a panic, revealing the attacking intention of the whole platoon prematurely; it was also this instinct that made Li Le jump out of the traffic trench and rush towards the enemy's position, but they did not follow; finally, It was this kind of instinct again that made them fire the submachine guns in their hands at the same moment when the gunfire on Shangguan Peak stopped and the enemy rushed towards the traffic trench!

However, whether it was Shangguanfeng's previous heroic blocking, or the fearlessness that Zhao Guangming and Zhao Guangliang were forced out at this moment, they only played the following role: as the enemies pouring into the traffic trench were killed one by one, the countless behind Many enemies seem to suddenly understand: this road is dead!They yelled something to each other, jumped backward from the trench to the platform under the main peak, and disappeared mysteriously with the sound of "cracking" grass!Shangguan Peak soon heard a burst of chaotic footsteps and shouts of "Wah Wa" at the waist of the main peak surrounded by cliffs.Not long after, a heavy machine gun and three or four submachine guns roared down from the top of the main peak!

"Boom boom boom boom—" "Da da da da da—" Since this enemy climbed to the main peak, the dramatic changes in the battle situation caused by Deshui's appearance on the enemy's position are over!The few attackers under the main peak retreated in panic, Shangguan Peak was also driven by the sudden sense of fear, and retreated to the first trench in one breath! In a blink of an eye, the last attack on the high ground by the nine companies and three platoons, which was already in sight of victory, failed again!The enemy not only regained control of the third trench under the main peak with firepower, but also extended the fire coverage area to the second trench.The top half of the Highlands is back in their hands again!

No one after the war could satisfactorily explain the mystery from a tactical point of view: Since the enemy had a heavy machine gun on the top of the main peak, why didn't it work earlier.Due to the unique terrain advantage of the main peak, even after dark, this heavy machine gun can disintegrate the last attack of the third row from the very beginning.This matter is incomprehensible from a tactical point of view, and only from a psychological point of view can a close to the real answer be found.One of the many speculative explanations is that the enemy did not use the heavy machine gun earlier because they had no way out once they were on the main summit.The four walls of the main peak are full of cliffs. It is not easy for the attacker to occupy it, and it is impossible for the defender to escape from it.Unless it is absolutely necessary, the enemy is unwilling to use it; another explanation is: in the offensive and defensive battle that lasted too long between the enemy and the enemy, the opponent could use it at first but did not use it, and then forgot about it in excessive tension. .If it weren't for the three submachine guns in the third row of the ninth company that blocked the way down the mountain, the last batch of enemies would still not be able to climb the main peak.In this sense, the battle between Shangguanfeng, the third platoon leader of the Ninth Company, and his two soldiers in the traffic trench was wrong from a tactical point of view. They should let the enemy flee down the mountain, so that the enemy would not come The main peak is to fight the trapped beasts, and the 634 highland will not return to the enemy's hands again!

At the west end of the first trench, Shangguan Peak stopped and looked back towards the main peak.Suddenly, he realized that his platoon, himself, with the last life force he had gathered for the last attack, had been crushed by the enemy again!