Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Captured by the Communist Army

The heavy snow finally stopped in the second half of the night, and what stopped was the singing of the Communist Army.Lao Dan gave up the command post to the wounded and sick, and huddled in the trench with his second son.When he woke up early in the morning, he felt as if he was sleeping in milk, and there was nothing but whiteness in front of his eyes. He rubbed his almost frozen eyelids, but they were still white.He was startled, thinking it was the glaucoma that the medical soldier said, so he quickly turned his head to see that the trench was foggy, the charcoal was turned into ashes, and there was no human voice.He knew it was the heavy fog after the snow, the bad weather of this dog day was endless, and he didn't know when he would be able to see the sun.

The weather is still crisp and cold, and the time can't be seen on the left or right.Lao Dan really wanted to sleep for a while, but his heart was too uneasy. What kind of opportunity is such a thick fog to attack?He sighed and got out of the quilt as hard as a coffin.The second son bounced back and returned some hot porridge. Lao Dan grabbed the snow beside the trench and washed his face. Seeing that the battlefield was covered in snow for thousands of miles and the communist army was silent, he said to the second son, "Let everyone get up and check the weapons." "Everyone got up early, and everyone was too hungry to sleep." The second son broke two biscuits and put them into the porridge.

"Did you say the communist army would attack today?" Lao Dan grabbed the gun and said. "Today? No. You think the communist army isn't cold? You see, the girl who shouted the horn stopped talking, her mouth must be frozen." Lao Dan was amused by him, and wanted to take a puff of cigarettes, only to realize that the shredded tobacco had long since run out.He filled the lunch box with some snow and drank it hot. His whole body warmed up, and he took his two sons to inspect the trenches.A heavy machine gun was covered with frost, and it was being dismantled into pieces and roasted by the fire.Lao Dan asked them to fix it immediately, otherwise he would stuff the machine gun into his crotch to keep warm.

"The heavy machine guns don't go off, and the communist army came up and you pissed on them? The dick is frozen into mung beans, how far can you shoot?" Lao Dan said with a stern face.The second son wears a blindfold and looks like an executioner when he is silent.The fighters hurried to speed up, most of them knew he was right.Lao Dan saw that the soldiers had white beards and hair, and their steel helmets looked like frosted old wax gourds, and knew that they had endured another night that almost froze to death.They wanted to smile to themselves, but they couldn't. They only squeezed strange bloody faces. Like themselves, they couldn't bear it anymore.

"Commander, when will we break out?" said the platoon leader who lost one ear from the cold.His eyes were yellow and his face was swollen like a blister. "I'd rather die in battle than freeze to death or starve to death." The platoon leader shook the gun in his hand, wanted to stand up, but sat down after a while.Lao Dan looked at his feet, which were wrapped in blankets, pus and blood flowed out between the toes, and the toes were already black. "Old Battalion Commander, I have traveled half of China with my feet. I was injured and bitten by a poisonous snake, but I didn't die. Now I can't keep it. If this continues, I will be useless."

Lao Dan could only pat him and glance at the second son.The second son hurriedly took out half a pack of cigarettes and distributed them to everyone. "It's coming, it's coming..." Lao Dan knew they didn't believe it, "Either we rush out, or they call, it must be coming..." Lao Dan continued to move forward, and saw that the pile of corpses had risen again. Because they were watered deliberately, the ice and snow froze them into a lump, head to foot, foot to head, so frozen that the cannon might not be blown to pieces.Looking at the bodies and faces of those queens of ice, Lao Dan thought of looking at the fish frozen in the ice in the Daizi River in winter.After he saw some familiar faces, he felt scared in his heart.If I had been shot or ate a cannonball, I would have been bleeding here, waiting for the spring to bloom, melt and stink, overgrown with fat maggots, and rot into an indistinguishable pile.

Lao Dan and Er Zi went all the way to the end of the trench.It is said to be the end, and it is also a connected trench, but there is Laobai's 4th Battalion defense area.Lao Dan wanted to go over to say hello and order some shredded tobacco, but he saw that the passage between the trenches was full of sacks, and when he kicked it, it turned out to be porcelain solid soil. "What do you mean?" Lao Dan was puzzled, and he asked the nearby soldiers, "When was it blocked?" "It should be last night, I fell asleep..." the soldier said tremblingly.His platoon leader came running over, also surprised by the sack wall.The second son ran up the trench in a few steps, and looked over there with his back bent. He stared blankly, his lips trembling.

"Brother Dan, there is no one in the 4th Battalion..." Er Zi turned his face away and shouted softly.Lao Dan's head was dizzy, and his eyes darkened. Regardless of the enemy's snipers, he climbed up and stood watching. Sure enough, the trenches of the 4th Battalion were empty, and there were dead bodies, and the weapons were gone.Lao Dan didn't receive any order to retreat, so where should he retreat?Behind is his mother's brigade and division headquarters, and the supervising team has all mounted heavy machine guns.Lao Dan was numb all over, turned around on the spot, pointed to the platoon leader and said, "Hurry up and report to the regiment headquarters...Second son, you go and call the 2nd and 3rd companies... Lao Bai, this bastard, has defected to the enemy! "

After saying that, Lao Dan viciously drew out his gun. "Brother Dan...it's too late." The second son grabbed him, his face was whiter than the snow all over the world, and his finger was pointing at the Communist Army, this was the first time Lao Dan saw his hands shaking like this.Lao Dan looked into the distance, the fog was receding, densely packed small dots floated on the horizon, and he could not see the end on both sides. They made a sound like a tree sparrow, and ran over quickly. "The communist army is attacking! Prepare to fight!" Er Zi shouted towards the trench.

Lao Dan felt a flash in front of his eyes, and the horizon suddenly lit up, as if the sun was hidden underground.Lao Dan dragged his second son down and shouted to the soldiers holding guns in the ditch in a daze as he ran, "The communist army is firing, go into the hole, everyone go into the hole!" Lao Dan ran quickly, pushing the brothers who were dazed from the cold into the cave.The battlefield was trembling, and it was as if a monster was drilling underground, about to emerge from the trench.There was a terrible sound in the ear, it was the scream of countless shells flying.Lao Dan grabbed a heavy machine gunner who had been deafened by the explosion, and saw a wall of fire hundreds of meters long suddenly erected in front of the position. They filled the space between the sky and the earth. .Lao Dan and Er Zi hid from the gunfire, got into their own cave, shook the phone, and sure enough it was disconnected.The number of cannonballs flying was unprecedented for Lao Dan. He knew that this ditch could not be defended, and his life probably could not be saved either.

"Brother Dan, we're done." The second son stood at the door, looking at him with one eye, as if saying goodbye. Lao Dan also looked at the second son, and was about to say something, when he heard a huge shell smashing towards him. The sound of tearing was unbiased, like a huge tank flying straight.When it landed, Lao Dan flew up against the dirt wall, and heard the bomb burrowing into the dirt, creaking, spinning and burrowing into the hole.Lao Dan only heard himself calling his second son, and the explosion overturned the hole, and the surroundings were pitch black. Lao Dan's head bumped around and rolled inside like a ball. The warm soil covered him and filled his bloody Mouth half opened.Before he fainted, Lao Dan heard his brothers crying for their father and mother, no matter how experienced the veteran was, he was like an ant in such an extinct artillery fire, with nowhere to go. Is it dark?Is spring coming too?Lao Dan heard a voice asking, and it took him a long time to realize that the voice came from his heart.He saw seeds sprouting in the soil, saw earthworms crawling through holes, and felt spring water rushing past his ears.He was sinking, and beneath him was the black unknown.But he wasn't afraid, he just felt a rare relaxation, so relaxed that he wanted to pee.If it's a dark one, that's fine, the memory floats up and flashes before my eyes like lightning, Lao Dan shakes his head to stop it, keep it, keep it, I don't want to see it again.He opened his arms, just wanting to sink like this. Something held him, he sank, the force tugged.He wanted to contend with this power, but felt that it was irresistible.He felt being picked up, dangling in mid-air, unable to distinguish up, down, left, and right.The stomach was also churning, and the pain rushed to the throat.He resisted it, and when he was about to bear it, he was suddenly pulled out of the darkness by that force.The shells exploded in his ears again, and he sucked in a mouthful of bloody and gunpowder-smoke air, and when he opened his eyes, he saw himself vomiting like a waterfall. "Brother Dan, hurry up, you can't keep it!" The second son let go of his hand, his blindfold disappeared, and his collapsed eye was filled with blood and mud. Lao Dan vomited cleanly and became sober.He threw himself to the edge of the trench and saw that the communist army all over the mountains and plains was only a few hundred steps away from the position.He looked at both sides again, the trenches were in disrepair, so he simply climbed up to the edge of the trench and looked on both sides. The trenches were rotten beyond repair, and the machine gun positions and fortresses disappeared.The brothers crawled or sat, cleaning up the people who were blown up all over the floor.There were not many intact corpses, and the smoky soil was red and black, half covering countless stumps and broken arms.In the past, after the shelling, there were always people screaming in pain, but this time they were only dying.Lao Dan knew that any order was useless, and this veteran barracks that had gone halfway across China ushered in its final doomsday. Those strong bodies were either frozen into ice or shattered into pieces of meat. "Brother Dan, come down quickly, come down quickly, the communist army is coming up." The second son pulled out a light machine gun from the soil, threw away half of his hand holding it, and shook the soil to find a shooting position.Lao Dan walked down slowly and touched his whole body, it was so evil that he was not injured.He helped up a soldier who was crooked in the trench, his nose and eyes were all messed up, his face was only bloody and his mouth was open and closed, and he gave up.The second son was fiddling with the machine gun, seeing that he didn't give an order, and just looked at the brothers slowly, he froze there. The communist army stepped on it, and they came over in a dark way.This time it was very strange that the communist army did not yell. Maybe they felt that after such artillery fire, there was no need to yell?Lao Dan stepped over a pile of corpse fragments and a large bomb crater.The soldiers in this platoon were hit directly by the shells, and they were blown up in a radial pattern. A rotten intestine wrapped around two necks, and someone else's head was drilled in the stomach of the other.A broken car on the side of the trench was blown several feet away, belly up, and the only remaining wheel was spinning with smoke. Several uninjured brothers looked at him with guns in their hands, waiting for orders, as if they were waiting to say goodbye.Lao Dan walked on his own, and closed the eyes of a brother whose legs had been blown up. A heavy hand came from behind, which frightened Lao Dan quite a bit.He only had half of his face, and the shrapnel was like a sharp kitchen knife, cutting off that half obliquely, and the torn muscles and scalp hung tremblingly over the ears.The left eye stared at him eagerly without an eye socket, his body was riddled with holes, his right leg was bent back like a chicken, his cotton-padded clothes were blown into a big strip of cloth, his waist and abdomen were open, and the broken ribs were bleeding yellow of fat.Lao Dan struggled to identify him, and finally recognized this distinctive ear. "Wu Baisheng! Is it you?" Lao Dan hurriedly hugged him, and a brother next to him handed him a first-aid kit. Lao Dan shook his head quietly, "My good brother, don't be afraid, this injury is fatal." Lao Dan looked at this unlucky Guangdong brother, not knowing which wound he should cover, gestured up and down, there were at least four or five fatal wounds.The wound on his chest was bleeding like a faucet, staining the soil under his body black.Wu Baisheng looked at him panting, with pleading and sadness in his eyes.Lao Dan knew he wanted a gun, so he took it out.When pulling the bolt of the gun, he saw Wu Baisheng's flagon dropped not far away, so he hurriedly asked someone to pick it up. The flagon was pitted, but not broken. "Brother, take a sip of wine! Drinking a sip of wine will give you strength! Drink all the wine in your house, don't be reluctant." The jug was stuffed into Wu Baisheng's mouth, which he couldn't close, and he couldn't swallow, as much poured out from the hole on one side.The fine wine dripped onto the wound, Wu Baisheng twitched in pain, the pain made his gloomy eyes shine.He flickered his mouth and spat out blood bubbles, but when the words reached his mouth, they turned into a strange grunting sound.He gave up, just stared at Lao Dan, and forced out a smile that could no longer be exaggerated. The communist army ran closer and closer, and they could hear their panting.A brother looked up, then looked at Lao Dan, and wanted to run away, but was pushed by the second son. "What are you doing?" Er Zi glared at him with his machine gun sideways.Lao Dan glanced at them and nodded to Er Zi.The second son didn't do it, and pushed the soldier back, "I haven't run away yet, are you going to run away?" Wu Baisheng couldn't live anymore, but he just didn't die, spitting blood, and he couldn't close his eyes without their sockets.Lao Dan put back the pistol, hugged him and stopped talking, shaking it gently like coaxing a child.Wu Baisheng is notorious for being a bad soldier. When sharing food and drink, he is in the front, and when fighting and charging, he is in the back. No matter how old Dan scolds, Wu Baisheng always has a flattering smile.He often used Xia Qian's cigarettes to honor Lao Dan, and used Lao Dan's chocolate to curry favor with the medical officer, taking advantage of people's unpreparedness to blame himself for the Communists killed by others.When arresting peasants in the village, he doesn't care about other soldiers arresting people. He only chats with village girls who are dying or living. Occasionally, he will be emotionally accompanied by tears. Some village girls have sex with him while chatting. Kang, and some were really moved. The veterans looked down upon this fellow extremely.When the soldiers entered the Central Plains, there was a shortage of supplies, and everyone was pale and thin, but this guy's face was full of oil, and he was white and fat, which was quite enviable to the ignorant soldiers.He would also gutter capsize.Two months ago in Xuzhuang, facing the village girl who was robbed of rice noodles, hens and men, Wu Baisheng repeated his old tricks, talking about the chaotic world without virtue, involuntary, his chest was pounding loudly, and he said that he would definitely find him. Menlu took care of her man.Satisfied, Wu Baisheng wore a trouser belt in one hand, and carried an old hen in the other, walked out of the courtyard humming a little Cantonese tune, and ran into a group of gendarmerie leaders grabbing dead soldiers.The gendarme nearly broke his leg with a cane.If Lao Dan hadn't pulled his boss to come forward, because of the accuracy of this little steel cannon, he would have been killed at that time. At this moment, Lao Dan thinks more of Wu Baisheng's cuteness.He never complained in difficult times, and he could be scolded by any one person. Even Yang Beiwan, whose dick hair hadn't grown fully, used him as a punching bag.He didn't resist, and happily accepted everything.Another great thing is that half a year ago, Wu Baisheng could have stayed in the rear, but he followed the army into the battlefield. He wanted to find his brother who had been separated for four years.There is only a little wine left in the jug, and no one will give it away, saying that it is for brothers!In the middle of the night, a greedy brother wanted to steal. Wu Baisheng, who woke up, almost fought him desperately.This jug was left by my younger brother when we broke up. He said that my younger brother is a good pot maker. Yang Beiwan got out from nowhere, unkempt and blood-stained, but judging by his posture, the blood was not his.He ran over to look at Wu Baisheng, then at his brothers and Lao Dan, and shouted: "Battle Commander, Bai Sheng is dying, let's go." He almost deafened Lao Dan, this kid must have something wrong with his ears.Lao Dan gave him a slap in the face right away. "Damn you! Who said he was dead, his heart is still beating! You run? Run your mother! Can you run? Several of your brothers are on the side of the Communist army, you still Run a ball?" Lao Dan looked at the seven or eight people around him, and shouted, "Throw down your guns and go to the trench and raise your hands for me!" The brothers didn't move, and the second son didn't move with his gun.Yang Beiwan jumped up first, climbed up the trench, and knelt down facing the communist army.He raised his hands high and shouted words that no one could understand. Wu Baisheng finally died, stabbed Lao Dan's shoulder and died.Lao Dan wanted to let him go, but felt that he was growing on him.Wu Baisheng's arms hugged him completely stiff.Lao Dan simply picked him up and walked to the edge of the trench, walked up to the screaming Yang Beiwan, and sat down with a plop.Surrender is fine, but kneeling is not.The shining bayonets of the communist army reflected the light of the snow, getting closer and closer, and the sun rose behind them.God is really teasing people, I thought this foggy day would last for a month. The second son and brothers came to him and sat cross-legged one by one.The second son was quite unhappy, and carried some treasures in his pocket. "Can you run or not, and if you get caught, will you have a good fruit to eat?" Lao Dan ignored him.The sun pierced his eyes and softened the bayonets.He wondered why he wasn't afraid.In the past, hundreds of devils rushed up and peed in fright, sweating and trembling with fright.Now that tens of thousands of communist troops are rushing, I feel that this is nothing more than that.The bloody journey will eventually have a brilliant end, in the sunshine, under the enemy's bayonet, and in the arms of comrades.He looked at Wu Baisheng, his eyes were fixed on the military medal on his chest.This guy hugged him so tightly that Lao Dan was almost out of breath.Lao Dan could only free one hand, took out his precious comb, and combed the messy hair on half of Wu Baisheng's head.Blood oozes sticky from the gaps in the comb, and freezes into ice in the blink of an eye. The communist army arrived in front of them, all wearing ridiculous padded jackets.Those who rushed in front only gave them a sideways glance and ran over. They didn't even bother to pay attention to these surrendering national troops.Many of them are actually holding the American-made submachine guns that the national army is proud of. Could it be that they are the 4th battalion that ran over last night?Dogs wouldn't bite people in their hometown so quickly. Did they give the communist army the lead? But this is just a guess. Lao Dan looked at those faces and felt that this was not an arrogance that could be pretended. They just took the guns of the national army and used them. The 4th Battalion was not so lucky. At this time, they must be squatting on the ground to listen to the lecture. Woolen cloth. "Hands up! Hand in your gun and don't kill!" A small communist soldier stood in the sun, pointing at his bayonet glowing red.The bayonet is attached to the submachine gun with a rope.The Communist Army had hemp rope tied around his waist, felt boots on his feet, and tight leggings tied under his fat cotton trousers, which looked like a woman spinning a shuttle.His cotton hat was full of white steam, and the big brim was flickering up and down, just like the top of Qipin county magistrate.His face was very black, not ordinary black, as if it had been painted with kang ash, and there were a pair of small eyes on the high cheekbones, but they were piercing, and Lao Dan could still see these eyes even when he was behind his back.He stared condescendingly, as if to flatten the string of prisoners. Seeing this weird communist army, Lao Dan almost laughed out loud.After joining the army for so many years, he was captured by such a wretched man?Still want to raise your hand?Lao Dan sneered, then lowered his head to comb Wu Baisheng's hair. "Brother, where are you from? Return your bayonet with our gun? Isn't it the right way?" Er Zi said with a smile.The communist soldier frowned and swiped his bayonet in front of his face. The second son hurriedly waved his hands, "I'm joking with you, don't take it seriously, is the gun good? You won't need it even after we surrender..." "Besides, use it now, you are a one-eyed boy!" The communist soldier was angry. "Don't stop, it's a waste of bullets. If you don't kill the prisoners, otherwise you will be punished. It's written on the flyer you gave us." But the smile was also cold, and it even attracted the bayonet.Lao Dan squinted at the communist soldier, and opened the bayonet that was about to hit his nose. "What are you doing?" the communist soldier shouted, Yang Beiwan hurriedly crawled over, stood in front of Lao Dan, raised his hands straight and shouted: "Your army forgive me, your army forgive me, this is our battalion commander." Lao Dan spat, too lazy to scold.There was still some wine in Wu Baisheng's jug, Lao Dan picked it up and shook it, it shouldn't be wasted.He glanced at the communist army contemptuously, and raised the pot to pour it.The communist soldier stopped him, his bayonet firmly pressed on Lao Dan's arm, and he circled him half a circle like a cat seeing a rabbit, looking over and over at the wine pot in Lao Dan's hand, and then turned his face to stare at Lao Dan.He held his breath, as if Lao Dan was an impermanent ghost who came out in broad daylight.Lao Dan was actually taken aback by him, and he didn't know what went wrong.The communist soldiers used bayonets to push away Yang Beiwan, who was in the way, and snatched the flagon with his hands. "Where did you get this jug? Where did you get it? Tell me now, or I'll kill you!" The little soldier of the communist army became hideous and pulled the breech of his gun with a bang.Several soldiers of the communist army saw something strange here, and came over with their guns in hand.These few looked like veterans, and they all looked like they would kill without blinking an eye.The second son hurriedly pointed to Wu Baisheng in Lao Dan's arms: "His, the pot is his." The communist soldier walked around in front of Wu Baisheng again. He looked down, threw the gun, and rushed forward on his knees, helping Wu Baisheng to look up and down. He held up the half-remaining face and wiped it with his sleeve. He picked up Wu Baisheng's hand to look at the blood on it, Wu Baisheng had a big wart on his palm.He stared blankly at this hand, opened his mouth as if taking a deep breath, and cried tearfully: "Boss, boss, wake up! I'm Azai! How could you be like this? Boss..." Lao Dan was very surprised. Although he didn't understand well, even a deaf person could know that this communist army was Wu Baisheng's second younger brother whom he had been looking for for many years. The two unexpectedly met here! Lao Dan sat on the snow in a daze, as if frozen.The second son was so startled that he had already stood up, and crouched down again with his head in his arms.The Wu Baisheng brothers had not heard from each other for four years, and finally reunited on the battlefield.Everyone looked at each other across a trench for more than a month, and in just ten minutes, Wu Baisheng was already dead in the artillery fire from the communist brother's side.Wu Baisheng's blood has been drained, his body is freezing hard, his body is in the arms of his painful brother, and his soul may have flown to his distant hometown.Wu Baisheng's younger brother cried bitterly while hugging him, shouting birdsong that Lao Dan could not understand.The last Huawan rice wine gurgled out of that ugly jug, which melted the ice and snow and seeped into the blood-red ground, but still wafted out bursts of fragrance. Yang Beiwan didn't quite understand that this idiot went to persuade Wu Baisheng's younger brother to help him up.Wu Baisheng's younger brother who was crying like crazy pushed Yang Beiwan down. He stood up abruptly, cursed viciously, picked up the bayonet and stabbed him in the head.His blood-red eyes were full of murderous intent, and the bayonet went straight to Yang Beiwan's forehead with cold air.Immediately, the child was out of his wits, and his stool and urine collapsed.Lao Dan was startled and jumped on Yang Beiwan.The bayonet was firmly stuck on Lao Dan's back, and even though he was wearing a thick military overcoat, Lao Dan still felt the blade penetrate into his body.He yelled in pain: "Brother, spare your life! Forgive your life! We and your elder brother Wu Baisheng are brothers, and this kid was saved by him. I beg you not to kill him... His brothers are all here with you!" In the army! I didn’t protect your brother well, if you want to kill me, kill me, just spare him..." "Brother, you can't help it. Your brother was killed by your cannons. If you persuade him for two days, we might surrender too..." The second son also came up to stop him, but was kicked to the ground by two other Communist soldiers.Holding up their submachine guns, they stared at the national troops and stopped Wu Baisheng's younger brother. "What are you doing? Wu Er Er, what are you doing? Want to make a mistake? Put the gun away!" A man with a thick voice came, followed by a dozen communist soldiers.The bayonet that pierced Lao Dan's flesh didn't go down any further, and Lao Dan understood that it was because it was tied to the submachine gun with a straw rope, and he couldn't eat it.But he was so frightened that he was paralyzed, and his cotton-padded clothes were soaked in cold sweat.Yang Beiwan, who was under him, passed out, and the stench in his crotch was overwhelming. "Platoon leader, this is my elder brother. He was killed by our artillery! Platoon leader, I'm just such a big brother! I'm just such a big brother! He came here just to find me. How can I explain to my mother? Ah? How can I explain to my mother?" Wu Er Er fell down crying again.This incident was even more shocking than Wu Baisheng's death.Looking at Wu Lao Er's bloody elder brother, everyone fell silent and stood around silently, letting Wu Lao Er scream like crazy... "Take them to the back! Hurry up!" the platoon leader ordered. The national army's artillery fire came late and covered Lao Dan's position, which showed that the division headquarters had admitted that the front line was lost, and artillery fire coverage was the last resort.Can't stay here.Lao Dan wanted to carry Wu Baisheng's body, but Wu Er Er pushed it away.He carried his brother on his back and walked back.Lao Dan pulled up Yang Beiwan, who was still a little dizzy, and told his brothers to follow quickly.The communist army that crossed the trenches began to attack the 14th Army's second encirclement position fiercely. Lao Dan looked back and saw the sound of killing there, and I don't know how many brothers fell. When they arrived at the Communist army position, Lao Dan and Er Zi squatted on the ground. There was a large group of national troops squatting here. They didn't know anyone from the 4th Battalion. Most of them were silent, but some were chatting and laughing.Next to it was a barracks of the communist army, and there were some officers of the national army lined up at the door. Yang Beiwan tremblingly looked at the glaring communist army around him, his hands trembling in fright. "Old battalion commander, are you going to shoot us?" He asked. "Shooting won't do it. It's a waste of bullets. The communist army uses knives to chop. I heard it's still a guillotine." The second son took out a cigarette as if conjuring, and said seriously. Hearing this, Yang Beiwan's child's face turned to paper with fright. "Don't frighten this kid, return the guillotine? Do you think you are cutting pigweed? Why do you still have private goods, take them out!" Lao Dan stretched out a big hand to the second son.The second son reluctantly reached into his bosom, and took out a half-pack of deflated cigarettes. "I see the posture of the Communist army. We are probably going to be thrown into a prisoner-of-war camp. We will either starve to death or freeze to death." The second son said dejectedly. "Hey! You guys!" A soldier pointed at them and said, "Tell me! Dig a hole here and bury this brother!" Lao Dan hurriedly stood up and walked to the side of Wu Er Er who was hugging Wu Baisheng, he knelt down and patted Wu Er Er, Wu Er Er struggled a bit, Lao Dan continued to pat him.He raised his head, saw Lao Dan's eyes, and let go of his hand.Lao Dan picked up Wu Baisheng, put him into a bomb crater, and then looked at Wu Baisheng.Wu Er Er nodded, and Lao Dan dug the surrounding soil with his hands and filled it into the hole.The topsoil loosened by the gunfire was still hard, but Lao Dan dug resolutely, and his fingertips soon bled.The brethren also gathered around and bulldozed the ground.Wu Baisheng's terrifying face disappeared, and he disappeared after a while.Lao Dan's heart was sore, after ten years of war, he was finally buried under the soil in humiliation, Wu Baisheng dug a hole and buried him, who can dig a hole for himself?Wu Baisheng and his brother reunited, this is called death.And if he leaves, who would think that there are still lonely women and children in his family?Yulan asked him to go home, how could he go back?Every home cannot be kept, and every home cannot be returned.Even if one dies, one life is not enough, and in one's life there is only a wandering, wandering like this, still can't escape being beheaded.Lao Dan piled up the last handful of soil, and when he saw the snowflakes falling again, he felt unspeakable pain in his heart, and his eyes were wet. Seeing that Lao Dan's hands were covered with blood and his eyes were red, several communist soldiers picked up some shovels and handed them over.The second son buried a lot of dead people, so he made the bag round and round.A few soldiers of the communist army desperately dragged Wu Erer to prevent him from going, this guy was about to lose his temper.Lao Dan put the jug on Wu Baisheng's grave, pressed it hard, and stood up.They let Wu Er Er go, and he jumped on it and burst into tears. This scene is unforgettable in this life, this kind of thing happens often in the army, this is the first time Lao Dan has witnessed it.Brothers joined the army one after another, some voluntarily, some were forced, some were in the national army, and some were in the communist army.During the war, the news was cut off, and Yang Beiwan couldn't even find his brothers in the national army, let alone between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.Half a year ago, a platoon leader of the national army shot and killed several guerrillas of the communist army. When he gave the order to shoot, he felt familiar. The older brother went mad at the time, and a day later he sat in front of his younger brother's grave and pulled a grenade near his head.As a brother, is there anything more fucking unlucky than this? "Get out of the way... stand at attention!" A soldier with a gun came, followed by a group of people without guns. A dozen feet walked to the side of the grave, and someone and two soldiers asked a few words and found out what was going on.A person said to Lao Dan who was still kneeling on the ground: "Are you the leader of this battalion?" "I am." Lao Dan replied without raising his head. "Stand up and talk!" a voice next to him shouted.Lao Dan didn't move, he just looked at Wu Baisheng's grave. "Forget it, bring the three of them here and find out about the situation." The officer turned his head and left after speaking.A gun hit Lao Dan's back, and Lao Dan stood up holding his breath, pulled Er Zi and Yang Beiwan, and followed behind the group of people. "We're done playing." The second son said. "Just finish it." Lao Dan said with his hands behind his back. In the barracks stood two soldiers with guns, and three untied soldiers sat.The man who brought them in said, "Ask, it's opposite us." After that, he went straight to the back and sat down, holding a glass of water and looking at the map on the wall. "What unit are you in?" the officer in the middle asked. "Report sir, the 3rd Battalion of the 386th Regiment of the 14th Army of the National Revolutionary Army." Lao Dan stood at attention. "Oh? I have admired your name for a long time! It took you so many days to get it down, you are not small!" The commander of the communist army leaned back in his chair, neither yin nor yang.Lao Dan didn't know how to answer, so he simply stood still.The commander of the communist army was wearing a padded jacket and trousers that were as fat as the soldiers. Although there was little dirt on his face, he had yellow teeth.He had no badge of rank, and apart from a bigger belly, it would have been indistinguishable among the chiefs. "What's your name?" asked someone next to him. "Report to the officer, Lao Dan!" Whenever an officer asks questions, this is the most embarrassing time. "Old what?" Chief Yellow Fang turned his ears. "Dan! It means ball." Lao Dan gritted his teeth and said. These people laughed, one was about to drink water, and spit it out in one gulp. "Your name is really rare...Why don't you run away? You don't have any missing arms or legs? There are more than 80,000 people behind you." Lao Dan kept his mouth shut, he was not afraid of death at this point, he didn't want to be humiliated and tortured. An officer took off the bag that Lao Dan was wearing, and shook it off on the table. The comb that was about to become bald and several military medals fell down with a clang, causing the soldiers with guns to click their tongues.Chief Huangya picked it up casually, and then took out the blue sky and white sun, and asked, "Have you been a soldier for many years?" "Ten years." Lao Dan didn't hate him. "Where is the blue sky and white sun, where did you get this chapter?" "I can't explain clearly." Lao Dan really didn't speak clearly. "What about this one?" The officer picked up another National Glory Medal. "This one is in Changde." Lao Dan will never forget it. "Oh, Huben's soldiers, no wonder they are so tough! The accent is from Henan? Where are they from?" Chief Huang Fang gently put down his badge. "Yes, my home is in Banzi Village, Hexi." Lao Dan said. "What about you?" Officer Huang Fang suddenly asked the second son. The second son was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "We are from the same village... My name is Xie Erzi. I have served in the army with Lao Dan's battalion commander for ten years, and now I am his deputy battalion commander." It was clean, but the officers were not surprised, "Sir, you must know what's going on in our village now?" Chief Huangya looked at him, hesitated for a moment and said, "Is it in the northeast of Henan? According to the district plan, your family should have been liberated... We are a combat force, and I don't know the specific situation. You should It was flooded, but it should be at the edge of the Yellow Flood Area, and the damage was not serious. Because our anti-Japanese armed forces have been operating there, they know it best." "Will the folks there be dragged to fight?" Lao Dan raised his head and asked, he naturally thought of this question.Chief Huang Fang stopped his hand, put down his pen and crossed his arms and said, "You see the tens of thousands of migrant workers behind you, right? Yes, they are all poor people in the liberated areas, but no one forced them, no one chased them away, They all came here voluntarily. When they had land and food, they volunteered to help. Apart from stealing a few chickens and ducks from ordinary people’s homes, and relying on American planes to lay a few eggs to feed you, what else do you have? " "I was arrested..." Yang Beiwan interjected.Lao Dan glared at him, and was seen by Chief Huang Fang. "What are you staring at him for? What he said is probably true." Chief Huang Ya looked at Lao Dan dissatisfied, and said, "You are considered a hero over there. You have contributed to fighting devils, but why are you fighting this civil war? Since If you want to go home, why don't you take the whole battalion and surrender? Like your 4th Battalion? Knowing that you can't fight, you would rather let your brothers blow up, starve to death, or freeze to death?" Officer Huang Fang's tone changed. "I have been fighting for so many years, and I have never thought of surrendering." Lao Dan said stubbornly.The second son stabbed him and said: "Sir, the army has a death order, and the supervising team is watching from the front line. It is not easy to surrender." "Sophistry! How did the 4th Battalion do it? I'll ask you to talk again." Chief Huang Ya didn't buy it, and said to Lao Dan, "You used to beat devils, so of course you shouldn't want to surrender. But what you are facing now is why The Communist Liberation Army, where the poor are fighting the world, why are you so obsessed with your obsession? Come here a day earlier, and your brothers won’t be smashed to pieces by our cannons! You diehard reactionary!” Officer Huang Fang was a little angry, he took a sip of water, and pressed He asked angrily, "How many casualties did your battalion have?" "I didn't count, it looks like it's about 80%." Lao Dan lowered his eyelids. "Hundreds of lives were ruined by you just like that!" said the officer next to him, pointing at Lao Dan. Lao Dan stared at him angrily, but didn't speak. "The two soldiers you were going to run over a few days ago, why did you kill them?" Officer Huang Fang raised his eyebrows and shouted. "That's not my order, it's the gendarmerie!" Lao Dan straightened his body. "Listen to me, sir, those two brothers were beaten to death by the gendarmerie. The battalion commander beat up a major to save them. Seeing that he was about to be punished...Sir, my three brothers are all on your side. Chang has long thought of letting me come over!" Yang Beiwan became alert, and he could see that this kid had lost his mind. "Three older brothers? Are they all on our side? That's strange!" Officer Huang Fang said. "That's right, sir, they were all from the 110th Division of our 85th Army. Didn't they all surrender here?" Yang Beiwan stretched his neck and asked. Several communist army officers laughed, and they looked at each other proudly. "Stupid boy, why surrender? That division commander of yours told us to lead the army to revolt!" Officer Huang Fang said. “长官他们还都活着么？我的哥哥们还都活着么？我家穷得连锅都没有，我愿意和他们一块去帮穷人打仗。”一说到兄弟，杨北万立刻哭起来。 "what's your name?" "My name is Yang Beiwan. My eldest brother is Yang Dongwan, my second brother is Yang Xiwan, and my third brother is Yang Nanwan." 众人觉得有趣，今天这几位的名字着实稀罕呢。 “去和四纵那边的同志联系一下，找一找他说的这几个人。”一直在看地图的军官回过身，端着茶杯走过来说，“这二位说的都是实情，老旦，六七年不见，别来无恙啊！”