Chapter 21 The Last Soldier·Watch

When Bai Xue covered the fourteen graves again, Wang Qinggui came.This time he is not going to leave. During the days when he was waiting for the team, no matter where he went, he felt lonely. The days in the army and the familiar faces of those comrades in the platoon always flashed before his eyes. He felt that they had always been Alive, in the depths of his heart and memory. He cut down some trees and built a wooden house on the hillside.The wooden house was only tens of meters away from the fourteen graves. He wanted to make the wooden house closer to the dozen graves, but the slope was too steep.After that, he lived in the wooden house.

During the day, he walked around among the tombs most of the time, sitting in front of this grave for a while, and sitting in front of that grave for a while.After sitting down, he said: Xiao Pan, chat with the platoon leader, do you miss home?Now our troops are going south, when the troops come back, I will give you a certificate of martyrdom, and I will personally send you home. When he said this, he spoke slowly, as if he was afraid of frightening his comrades in arms. He changed another grave and said to that grave: "Xiao Liuzi, how are you, are you still crying?"It's funny to think about your little appearance.I remember when you first came to the platoon and participated in the first battle, you were so scared that you peed your pants, holding a gun and shooting into the sky, I kicked you, do you still blame me?

Sometimes he said it aloud, sometimes he said it in his heart, no matter what he said, he felt that his comrades would hear it, and then he said in his heart over and over again: When the team comes back, I will bring the team leader and comrades to see you.How nice is the head of the regiment, he treats us as brothers, he knows that you have all died here, and you can no longer follow him to fight here and there, he will definitely cry.Thinking of this, his eyes were also hot. The relationship between Wang Qinggui and the group leader Zhang Letian is extraordinary.When he first became a soldier, he was not as tall as a gun. The regiment leader pinched his ear and looked at him for a while, then smiled and said: This baby is too small, and he can’t even hold a gun in a war. Let me be a correspondent. .Since then, he has become the shadow of the leader, even when he sleeps at night, he will roll in the same bed with the leader.The head of the regiment loved to eat fried soybeans. At that time, those who marched and fought had nothing to chew on. Everyone's dry food bag was full of fried soybeans. If they ate too much fried soybeans, people would fart non-stop.At that time, he farted with the head of the group like a competition, one of the head, he also came, and the two of them just looked at each other and laughed.The head of the group stopped laughing and said, "Xiao Guizi, when the revolution is victorious, we will eat pork every day, and you can eat all the fatty meat slices. Then your fart will smell like oil."The leader's words made his stomach growl.

There was another time when he fought a war. At that time, he had no experience in fighting, so he knew how to run around.Once, when he went to check the position with the regiment leader, he heard the whistling of cannonballs coming closer and closer. He still stood there stupidly, looking up to find the cannonballs.The head of the regiment threw him down at once and pressed him under him. As soon as the two of them got down on the ground, the shell exploded less than five meters away from them.It was the captain who saved his life.Later, he learned to fight. He not only learned to listen to shells, but also to listen to guns. He could tell how far the bullets were from him by listening to the sound of guns.Since then, he has not only served as a correspondent, but also as a guard for the head of the regiment. In many cases, he was the one who reminded the head of the regiment to avoid shells and bullets. Soon, the head of the regiment patted him on the shoulder and said: "Little Takako, you are done.Later, he went down to the company and became a squad leader.Not long after, the famous battle to liberate Takahashi started. They participated in the battle with the field troops, and finally he planted the red flag on the water tower, the commanding height of Takahashi.That time he made a great contribution, the head of the regiment was happy, and the whole regiment was happy. He became the hero who liberated Takahashi, and later he became the platoon leader...

The days with his comrades-in-arms are happy. He misses his comrades-in-arms and the commander. At night, looking at the sky full of stars, he shouted in his heart over and over again: Captain, where are you? Little Takako misses you. Every ten days and a half months, he would go to the district, first to inquire about the news of the troops, and second, to receive some rations there.When he came here to live with his comrades-in-arms, he once went to the district. He told his feelings for his comrades-in-arms and his plan. After the troops work, they return to work in the district.Mayor is very

Understand him, hold his hand and say: You go, come to me if you have any difficulties. Every time he went to the district, the district chief would provide him with ten days and half a month's ration.The district chief also told him the latest news about the troops.The district chief told him one after another that the Battle of Huaihai had started, the troops had won, the troops had crossed the Yangtze River, and the troops would march south... Every time the news cheers him up, soon, the whole of China will be liberated, and the 182nd Division should be back.At that time, he will see his comrades-in-arms and the team leader, and that will be the day when he returns to the team. How happy he must be to be with so many comrades-in-arms.

Every time he came back from the district, he would not lose the opportunity to tell his comrades the latest news about the troops.He stood in front of the grave, as if he was facing the soldiers in the queue, and then he was surprised to find that fourteen comrades in arms were divided into two rows around him, neatly.He didn't care so much when he buried his comrades, he just dug pits desperately, and then put them in one by one.At that time, he only wanted to catch up with the team. He stood there and said: Comrades, the whole of China is about to be liberated, and our team is about to return.At that time, I will let the head of the group set off firecrackers in front of your graves, and we will have a lot of fun together.

When he said this, he seemed to be waiting for such a day, and there were tears in the corners of his eyes. In those days, he couldn't sleep all night and night. He stood on the hillside and stretched his neck to look south. In front of his eyes was the black night sky, and at the end of his line of sight were layers of mountains.His gaze seemed to pass through the night sky, across the mountains, and to the south - where there were comrades in arms in the heat of battle.He was looking forward to the dawn, the time to pass quickly, and the early return of his comrades-in-arms.