Chapter 11 Chapter 5 Great Wall Online (2)

A footprint is covered in sweat, and a piece of land is covered with blood.The fierce and brutal fighting continued until ten o'clock at night. Zhou Dayong ordered the soldiers to bury the bodies of their comrades-in-arms, set up the guns of the sacrificed comrades, and burn them together with the captured enemy weapons. When soldiers are used to seeing bloodshed, blood can no longer move people! Soldiers are used to seeing life suddenly leave, they have no more grief! The soldiers have only one thought: go forward!fighting!revenge! Zhou Dayong shouted to the soldiers in a low voice: "Comrades, break out! Go! Fight! Comrades, we have a working people's heart in our stomachs, and we hold weapons in our hands. With it, we will overwhelm all enemies!"

He counted the numbers: besides the seven wounded, there were now only forty-five men capable of fighting. Zhou Dayong pulled out a dozen soldiers to carry the wounded on their backs, ready to leave. The seriously injured Zhao Wansheng said: "Company commander, you go, I will not drag down the comrades. I... I... I will cover!" Zhou Dayong stomped his feet and said, "Zhao Wansheng, you are a member of the Communist Party, you have no right--" Zhao Wansheng crawled on the ground and said, "Company commander, I can't do it. My blood is about to run out, you go!  … Comrades, I died before you, and there is nothing better for me now. Comrades, I did my best. . . . Go, comrades, fight! . . . " Zhou Dayong shouted indiscriminately: "Ning Jinshan, carry him on your back!"

Ning Jinshan rushed forward and just hugged Zhao Wansheng's waist when more than 20 enemies rushed out from the collapsed house on the left.Zhao Wansheng suddenly got up on his knees and knocked Ning Jinshan down.He kicked Ning Jinshan and said, "Go!" Before Ning Jinshan could get up, Zhao Wansheng fell and crawled towards the enemy.In the blink of an eye, more than twenty enemies with bayonets rushed to Zhao Wansheng.Zhao Wansheng shouted: "Come on!" He fired a few grenades in his arms, and with the flash of the explosion, Zhao Wansheng fell down along with five or six enemies.Some of the other enemies fell into the fire; some were blinded by the smoke, and shrank into the dark corner; some ran around and rushed into each other.

Ning Jinshan ran over and hugged Zhou Dayong's waist, crying, "Company commander!..." Zhou Dayong shook, as if someone had torn a piece of bloody flesh from his heart.His lips trembled, and he called out in a low voice, "Zhao Wansheng!" The soldiers leaned close together, silent.Each of them was dry-mouthed and their ears were ringing; they were doing what they were supposed to do mechanically. Zhou Dayong stomped his feet fiercely and ordered the soldiers to throw a row of grenades.With a wrong mouth, he squeezed out the words fiercely from between his teeth: "Come with me!"

Zhou Dayong led the soldiers to shoot while walking.The soldiers pressed the password and continuously threw platoon grenades. Zhou Dayong and his heroes fought a bloody path and protruded from the thick fireworks.Dense bullets passed him from front to back, left and right.The enemy continued to counterattack. Zhou Dayong led the soldiers to run for more than half a mile and occupied favorable terrain.On the one hand, he asked the soldiers at hand to withstand the enemy, and on the other hand, he sent people to gather up the soldiers who had run away.Then, he jumped off a ridge and searched everywhere, as if he was looking for someone, or he seemed to be planning some important and urgent matter.Suddenly, taking advantage of the firelight, he saw Tiger Wang walking along the ridge.Look, Wang Huo is walking steadily and steadily, step by step, as if he is afraid of trampling the earth over.His unhurried appearance made Zhou Dayong angry and shouted: "Lower your posture!" Wang Huhu didn't hear him.He also pulled out a handful of grass and wiped the mud from his hands as he walked.He walked up to Zhou Dayong, felt something under his feet, threw away the grass in his hand, bent down, and picked up a plate of bullets.Wipe the bullets on the clothes a dozen times and put them in the pockets of the clothes.

Zhou Dayong looked at Wang Huohu, and immediately turned his complicated thoughts into this simple sentence: "Tiger, you take a platoon as a cover!" Tiger Wang nodded.Fire shone in their faces.Zhou Dayong and Wang Huhu looked at each other for a few seconds.Zhou Dayong had a strong idea: he wanted to say many warm and heroic words to Wang Huo, but he couldn't; he wanted to express his gratitude, but he didn't know how to thank Wang Huo, because Wang Huo didn't think of danger and death at all. Put it in your eyes. Zhou Dayong explained the task to Wang Huhu, then hugged his shoulders tightly and said, "Tiger! It's hard to be a hero in this situation!"

Wang Huo said: "Let's go, company commander. The enemy has two legs, and we also have two legs; the enemy has a gun in his hand, and we are not holding a dog stick. Don't worry, we can withstand any danger!" "He showed a generosity that is usually unimaginable!Zhou Dayong carefully explained the rendezvous location to Wang Huo, and he retreated with the soldiers. Wang Huo led fourteen soldiers to resist the thousands of enemies who rushed in front of them.After they repelled the enemy and charged three times in turn, the enemy threw thousands of mortar shells and heavy artillery shells at the position they held.The position Wang Huo and the others stood on was ablaze!

The enemy was advancing step by step, and Wang Huo led the soldiers to retreat to the northwest while fighting. Wang Huo was calm and determined, and his movements were agile.He didn't yell or bark, but gave orders in a few words. Ning Jinshan crawled along the ridge, pulled Wang Huhu, and said: "The company commander led the troops and retreated to the southeast. Why did you lead us to the northwest?" His voice trembled: "You, you...platoon leader, platoon leader! You're going in the wrong direction!" Wang Huhu said: "You think I'm phlegm and my mind is lost? I-still-want-to-west-north-direction-to-retreat!"

"why why?" Looking at the direction in which the company commander retreated, Wang Huo said slowly, "Why? We carry the enemy on our backs, and our company commander can break through safely." He also wanted to say, "When necessary, trade your life for time. !” But the words got out of my mouth and then swallowed.Because, from Ning Jinshan's uneven breathing, he felt: Ning Jinshan's heart was beating in a panic, and his face was twitching nervously.A burst of uncontrollable excitement controlled Tiger Wang.He said: "Jin Shan, don't be sad! Right now, we are in great danger, but the company commander and comrades will be saved. Don't be sad!"

Ning Jinshan said: "Platoon leader, then we're just going to do it! Then we'll... never... never go back!" "What?" Tiger Wang raised his head suddenly, staring at Ning Jinshan and asked.His face was bright and strong; his bright eyes were astonishing, as if, for the first time in his life, he had stared at someone with such sharp eyes; it seemed that all the deep emotions that were usually suppressed in his heart spurted out from his eyes.However, he immediately suppressed his churning emotions and tried his best to maintain his usual mental state.Because, from years of combat experience, he knew that loyalty, bravery, and wisdom were all about these days: to keep a clear head;Only in this way can we grasp the tiny hope of survival in the shadow of great danger.

He thought: "It's nothing to complete the cover mission, and I have to bring the soldiers back!" A strong sense of responsibility controlled Wang Huo. Wang Huo shot.Five bullets were fired and three enemies were brought down.He enthusiastically said to a soldier beside him: "Killing one enemy is enough money, knocking down two earns one, knocking down ten, twenty... Hey, it's not worth it!" He took advantage of the flare Bright, look to the left: Ning Jinshan wipes his eyes with his sleeve. Wang Huo wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and said heartily: "Soldiers can still squeeze their noses and runny water? If you don't shed tears, the field is damp enough! Don't be afraid, if there is me, there will be you. Jinshan, come, follow me." I'm lying together." As he said, he was concentrating on a problem and thinking: "Get rid of the enemy!" He considered the situation before him, recalled his past experience, and flashed through his mind various ways to prepare for retreat. When the battle lasted until midnight, Wang Huo led the soldiers to repel the enemy's more and more fierce attacks. He had only nine soldiers and five wounded under his command.The enemy continued to attack with a small group of troops. It is better to say that it is an attack than to attract our army's attention.Wang Huo turned his mind: "Is the enemy up to something?" He observed carefully: except for the enemy's machine guns spewing out flames, darkness covered the position.It's strange, the enemy doesn't fire flares or signal flares anymore; besides, there is no such crazy and chaotic shouting in the enemy's position as before.Are they gathering greater forces and using the old methods to launch a more violent frontal attack? No.The enemy must have changed the way of attack--to hold a large-scale encirclement.Retreat, tell the soldiers to retreat quickly!Wait a minute.What if the judgment is wrong?If as soon as we leave our favorable position, the enemy takes the opportunity to press directly, wouldn't we be fooled?He was undecided when he suddenly saw a flashlight flashing far to the left.There is no doubt that the enemy is moving on the flank of our army. Wang Huo's determination immediately turned into an order: "Retreat! I will take four soldiers to cover, and the deputy platoon leader will take the wounded and other soldiers and go first!" The deputy platoon leader climbed up to Wang Huhu and said, "Why did you let us go first? Die, let's die together!" Wang Huo said: "Dead? Have you lived enough? We have just learned to fight, our career has just begun, and we are living a good life. No more mushrooms, hurry up!" The lieutenant put his face into his arms.Wang Huo talked to him, but he ignored him. Wang Huo jumped up, grabbed the clothes on the deputy platoon leader's back, and said, "I entrust the lives of the soldiers and the wounded to you. If you lose any of them, I will shoot you. Go!" ’ he spoke mercilessly, harshly, terribly, and urgently. Because, only he knows how the enemy is trying to clamp our army's iron tongs and is closing them hastily.He explained the retreat route to the deputy platoon leader, and then exhorted: "Don't take the main road, take the small road, and go where it is difficult to go. Remember!" After the deputy platoon leader took four soldiers and five wounded down, Wang Huo, Ning Jinshan and the other three soldiers fired for a while, then quietly left the position and quickly disappeared into the darkness. Wang Huo led the four soldiers, walking around in the direction of the deputy platoon leader's retreat.After walking for a while, he slipped into a dry river channel along a channel.Ah, the river channel is full of enemies, so black and dense, I can't tell how many there are; holding guns, squeezing around, presumably they want to insert from the back of our army's position and destroy our army.Let these idiots go for nothing. Wang Huo and his comrades squeezed through the enemy group, squatted in a small ditch for a while, and then climbed up a ten-foot-high earth cliff.I went up and saw that there was an open field.At the left rear, near the position that Wang Huo and the others held just now, the enemy was still shooting, but there was no sound except for the howling of stray bullets overhead.The comrades breathed a sigh of relief and continued to move forward.Unexpectedly, dozens of enemies ran over. An enemy approached Ning Jinshan and asked, "Who is it?" Without waiting for an answer, he shone a flashlight on Ning Jinshan's face.Ning Jinshan knocked down the enemy with one butt of his gun. "Ah!" the knocked-down enemy yelled, and the other enemies were confused for a while, shooting blindly.In a blink of an eye, many enemies surrounded him from all directions.Flares and flares went up one after another.The gunshots and shouts were drowned in the smoke from the grenade. Wang Huo thought: "If you fight hard, the fish will die or the net will be broken!" He led the soldiers with bayonets to rush towards the oncoming enemy.Hand-to-hand combat begins! Wang Huo is usually sticky and steady, and seems to be inflexible, but now any of his movements are agile and agile. Like a whirlwind, he stabbed two enemies to death in one breath.Suddenly, he fell to the ground as if he had been hit by something.He knew that he was injured, but he still couldn't feel where he was injured, and he didn't want to think about it.He got up, knelt on the ground and threw the last four grenades.He mustered all his strength, holding a bayonet, and taking advantage of the smoke, he rushed left and right to kill.The bravery of the hero stunned the enemies who were greedy for life and afraid of death.Taking advantage of the light of the rising flares, Wang Huo jumped in front of a machine gun that was spitting out flames. Two enemy machine gun shooters dropped their machine guns and were about to turn around and run away. Tor took down another enemy.The enemy commander used guns to force the soldiers who were running around to surround them.Wang Huo was surrounded by more than a dozen enemies alone.He had run out of grenades and bullets, and a dozen bayonets were aimed at him, forming a circle.Wang Huo rotated left and right with the bayonet in his hand.The hatred of the whole body, the tension of the whole body, are all concentrated on the tip of the bayonet.The enemy stared at him in horror.They have bayonets, grenades, and bullets, but they cannot cast: The bayonet dared not approach, and the gun was afraid of hitting their people.Wherever Wang Huo pointed the knife, the enemy hurriedly dodged back.The enemy commander shouted and fired into the air, threatening the soldiers, but to no avail.Wang Huo persisted with the enemy like this for four or five minutes. During these four or five minutes, Wang Huo arched his left leg, straightened his right leg, held the gun tightly with both hands, and clamped the butt of the gun tightly in his armpit, like a man made of iron.The flashes of light shone on his iron-like calm face and piercing eyes.During these four or five minutes, Wang Huo's life force was at its peak.A feeling flashed through him that he had never been aware of: pride that despises everything.In the past, when I didn't become a hero, I didn't say anything, but I encouraged myself, and I often brought the idea of ​​being a hero into my dreams.When you become a hero, you are covered with honor, but compared with other heroes, you are nothing; in the ranks of the great collective, you are just a small point, neither taller nor shoulders wider than anyone else .But now, when the enemy is facing him face to face, with a dozen bayonets aimed at his chest, all the meritorious deeds in the past have become the most extraordinary things.For the first time in his life, he felt that he was a hero, a hero, as if he was ten times taller than the enemies around him. He didn't move his head, glanced left and right, thinking: "I'll put two of them down again!" With all his strength in his arms, he clenched the gun tightly, slammed the blade of an enemy, and stabbed it with his backhand. The other enemy was stunned, and he stabbed another one back; the third enemy parried a few times, but he also stabbed him to death on the ground.He jumped a few steps forward and stabbed at another enemy. The enemy stepped back and fell to the ground on his back. Wang Huo clenched the gun tightly in both hands, with the point of the knife pointing down, and stabbed down fiercely. The bayonet pierced through the enemy's body. The stomach was inserted deeply into the ground.He took a step forward, stepped on the enemy's chest with one foot, and pulled out the bayonet forcefully. Unfortunately, the bayonet fell out of the gun!Unexpectedly, a tall enemy rushed up from behind him and stabbed him in the back with a bayonet.Wang Huo hurriedly dodged sideways, and the enemy flew into the air.In a hurry, he turned the gun upside down, grabbed the tip of the gun with his right hand and swung it vigorously, hitting the enemy hard on the head, causing the enemy's brains to splatter.He hurriedly picked up the dropped bayonet from the ground and put it on the gun.At this time, a group of enemies rushed head-on; an enemy ran ahead with a bayonet in his hand.Wang Huo rushed over, and quickly stabbed the enemy in the chest with a false knife, which caused the enemy to move away. Before the enemy could retract his gun, he stabbed suddenly and pierced into the enemy's stomach.Just as the other enemy turned around, Wang Huo's bright red bayonet pierced the enemy's left arm again.The other enemies ran away in a panic. Wang Huo heard the shout from the west, so he flew to the west, taking advantage of the light of the enemy's flares, he saw King Ning Jinshan fighting the enemy with bayonets.Ning Jinshan was probably exhausted and couldn't hold on anymore.Regardless of the enemy rushing behind him, Wang Huo stabbed vigorously at the back of the enemy who was about to stab Ning Jinshan.The enemy screamed and rolled around on the ground.At this time, five or six enemies rushed from behind Wang Huo.He turned around, and an enemy stabbed him viciously with a bayonet.Wang Huo swung the enemy's bayonet and stabbed at the ghost.Unexpectedly, the enemy shrank his head, and Wang Huo fell to the side of the ridge, and the gun was also broken.At this time, an enemy jumped down from the ridge and stabbed him in the chest with a bayonet.The will of a hero gives people infinite power. Wang Huo mustered up his strength and exerted his last strength to grab the enemy's bayonet that he stabbed fiercely with both hands. The enemy pulled back violently, and Wang Huo split his palms. Two blood holes.When the enemy was about to stab Wang Huo with the second bayonet, Ning Jinshan and the other three soldiers rushed forward and finished the enemy. Wang Huo heaved a sigh of relief, only feeling that his whole body was so numb that he could not control himself, and his mind was in a coma.But he immediately thought that he had come to rescue Ning Jinshan.Is Ning Jinshan safe?He called: "Ning Jinshan?" Ning Jinshan climbed up to Wang Huhu and said, "Platoon leader, platoon leader!" Wang Huo pulled Ning Jinshan and was about to speak when he heard footsteps and shouted, "Enemy!" Ning Jinshan led several soldiers, turned around and rushed towards the enemy. "I want to get up! I want to get up!" Wang Huo called for his strength.The whole body is soft, and sparks are shining in the eyes.He gritted his teeth and was climbing up when suddenly an enemy jumped down from the ridge.This enemy jumped on Wang Huo impartially.Wang Huo summoned all his strength to turn over, put his knee against the guy's chest, freed his hand, and ruthlessly poked two fingers into the enemy's eyes, and the enemy screamed like a slaughtered pig.Tiger Wang pinched the enemy's neck with both hands, keeping the guy cold and rigid. In the middle of the night, the old north wind blew.On the side of the Great Wall, on the positions where the heroes fought, there are only a few lights and sporadic gunshots.six After Zhou Dayong led the soldiers out of the enemy's encirclement, they continued to insert towards the southeast. They got rid of the enemy by a long distance, because Wang Huo carried the enemy on his back in the opposite direction. They passed village after village, but there was no one there.I don't know where the horrors of war have driven the villagers!After a whole day and night of fierce fighting, the soldiers were exhausted, and their legs were swollen and swollen, as if there were thousands of worms wriggling inside.Thirst, hunger, fatigue and cold haunted the warriors.Right now, everyone only thinks about one thing: whether it is by the side of the field or in muddy water, as long as you can lie down and sleep for three to five minutes, that is the best thing in the world! When Zhou Dayong broke through, a heavy artillery shell exploded beside him, and he was buried in the blasted soil with bruises on his head and passed out.Li Jiangguo asked the soldiers to carry him on their backs. They ran southeast for more than ten miles and saw a small village.Before the soldiers entered the village, Li Jiangguo went into the village to investigate.There was no movement in the village, not even a dog in sight.He felt cold and hairy all over his body.Suddenly, he saw a faint light coming from a window in a yard.Li Jiangguo groped into the courtyard lightly, leaned on the window, poked a small hole in the paper of the pane with the tip of his tongue, and saw: An old man and an old woman sat beside the Kang.Next to them sat a woman in her thirties holding a nursing baby.There is also a child crawling on the corner of the Kang.A door panel was placed in the middle of the kang, and a dead woman was lying on the door panel, her face covered with paper, and a lamp was lit next to it.The dying light shone into the tearful eyes of the old lady.After Li Jiangguo set up a guard, he carried Zhou Dayong to the fellow's house.Zhou Dayong sat against the wall on the ground under the old kang, bleeding and exhausted, which made him unconscious and pale. After resting for a while, Zhou Dayong slowly woke up.He felt that the sky was turning and the earth was moving, his eyes were dark and his heart was burning, and his seven orifices seemed to be on fire and smoke.After a while, he felt the damp cold penetrating into his bones again, and his whole body trembled, as if shaking.My mind is chaotic: all kinds of strange shapes, fragmented memories, contradictory and unclear feelings.The fellow villagers hurriedly helped Li Jiangguo wash the blood off Zhou Dayong's face, and poured several sips of boiling water on Zhou Dayong. Zhou Dayong slightly opened his eyes.His eyes met Li Jiangguo's.Ah, Li Jiangguo!Is there anyone closer in the world than Li Jiangguo? Li Jiangguo asked Zhou Dayong to lie down.Zhou Dayong frowned, expressing his refusal. Zhou Dayong propped his hands on the ground, his nails dug into the ground.Clouds of black mist rose before his eyes, and a sharp thought flashed through his mind: "Why am I sitting here?... My soldiers need me so much..." Exuberant life force burned throughout his body.He opened his eyes and sat upright against the wall.He felt that the most important thing now was to stand up straight and sit upright. The fellow and Li Jiangguo carried the body of the woman on the kang to the ground.The old lady cleaned the kang and spread the quilt.They were going to move Zhou Dayong to the Kang. At this moment, Zhou Dayong's mind was completely brightened, and the first thought that came to him was: "Has Tiger Wang come back?" He asked Li Jiangguo.Li Jiangguo said that he had already sent someone to contact him. Li Jiangguo and fellow villagers supported Zhou Dayong's body and wanted to carry him onto the kang.Zhou Dayong shook his head and said, "No, it's fine for me to sit here." Li Jiangguo knew the company commander's temper, so he quickly let go and stood aside.But the old man and the old lady did not let go, insisting on carrying Zhou Dayong to the kang to sleep.The old man said, "Oh! Is it okay to lie down on the ground?You see, the quilt has been laid out for you. " Zhou Dayong shook his head, refusing to be carried. The old lady said helplessly: "Look at your bloody rivers of blood, alas! Go to bed quickly. People often say that a full stomach does not know that it is difficult to be hungry. We are poor people who have nothing to eat, and we know the suffering of people in difficulties!Hurry up and sleep on the kang! " Zhou Dayong was deeply moved by the old lady's kind voice and his heart of sympathizing with others in the midst of suffering, but he still refused to go to sleep on the kang.He looked at the benevolent faces of the villagers and said, "I, if I lie on the kang, your quilts will be stained with blood!" He looked at Li Jiangguo's impatient face and said, "You can't give it to the villagers. The quilt was stained with blood!..." Li Jiangguo was so anxious that his eyes burst into flames, and he said: "Company commander, go up the mountain to collect firewood, cross the river and take off your shoes, and talk wherever you go. Look, the situation is so tense now, and you It has become like this... I can't figure it out, you--" Zhou Dayong interrupted him, and said with difficulty: "You, Comrade, this is an enemy-occupied area. The people here are from us. Our Party and Chairman Mao. You..." He gritted his teeth, collected himself, and said, "Why are you in such a hurry!...Why are you frowning..." He moved his nose a few times, and the corner of his mouth twitched. Sweat a lot.He closed his eyes and leaned his head against the wall, breathing short and urgent.His own words stirred his emotions. Li Jiangguo said impatiently: "As long as the green hills are there, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. Now, as long as you are healthy, you don't have to worry about falling down that day. But you always ignore yourself—" Zhou Dayong got angry: "Thinking about yourself? It's not worth it. ...you..." He clenched his teeth and turned his head away, as if he was angry at Li Jiangguo, as if he was full of words and couldn't say anything, and also as if he was gritting his teeth to endure the pain of a wound! The old lady stared blankly at Zhou Dayong, tears streaming down her face.After a while, she sat on the edge of the kang, wiped her eyes with the skirt of her jacket, and said, "You have suffered such a serious injury, and you still miss us, and you are afraid that we will be disturbed. Alas! There are always good people in the world! From ancient times to Today, who sheds tears for our poor days!" The old man squatted on the ground, knocked on the ground with a dry pipe, and said, "Go to sleep! Don't say such disgusting things again! It's not the first time that the People's Liberation Army has come to our village. Why do you have to be so foreign?" !" Zhou Dayong said: "I can't say it, I just won't. Elderly people, don't be sad... I know your kindness... A poor person's quilt is the life of a family!" Zhou Dayong gritted his teeth continuously, sweat dripping from his head.He endured the pain with all his might. No matter how the old man tried to stop them, the old lady still told Zhou Dayong their misfortunes and pains.Zhou Dayong has heard these cries thousands of times: land rent, taxes, errands, robbery; The Kuomintang gangsters robbed and burned everything...the hardships are endless, and the blood and tears are endless! Zhou Dayong glanced at the fellow's house, and felt a big stone pressed against his chest.The old lady was short and thin, so thin that she became a bone.On the ground to her left lay the woman who had been raped to death by the enemy security forces.The child sitting on the kang has a big head and arms only as thick as a thumb.The child seemed to be only three years old, but he was six years old.Sitting beside the Kang was a woman in her thirties.She was wearing tattered clothes, unable to hide her shame.The eye sockets are quite deep, and the gall melon growing on the neck is as big as a bowl.She also had a baby nursing in her arms.The child straightened his neck and smacked desperately. After a sip, the woman gritted her teeth and twitched her face.Zhou Dayong's heart was trembling, as if his heart was bitten by that child.He thought, the child must have sucked blood from the mother's nipple, because the mother really has no nutrients to supply him! How did the sun and the moon survive generation after generation?A fog formed in front of Zhou Dayong's eyes, and the bodies of the villagers became blurred, swaying there like grass in the wind. Zhou Dayong shed tears sadly!This house is a miserable world.Right now, whether my own injuries or the brutal battles the soldiers have gone through, they are nothing compared to the plight of this fellow villager's hunger and poverty! Zhou Dayong turned his head, turned his back to the light, and said, "Jiang Guo, let the soldiers take a look at the situation of this fellow...let us remember this pain!" Li Jiangguo said: "Company commander! Don't let the soldiers come to see this house, everyone is just like them!" He turned around and stood facing the door, tears welling up. "There really is such a person in the world!" The villagers looked at Zhou Dayong.They are also grateful and strange.What their ancestors have encountered for generations is: fraud, oppression, hunger, pain, and the poor days and months that cannot see the beginning and the end!Now, people like Zhou Dayong have neither relatives nor acquaintances with them, and they have never known each other, but they are willing to sacrifice their lives for the suffering poor people. Silence, long silence.But how many turbulent emotions and emotions are contained in this silence! Zhou Dayong said: "Li Jiangguo, you immediately send someone to find Wang Huhu and the others. Hurry up, I'm going to die!" Li Jiangguo said: "Send people there earlier, send people there sooner!" Zhou Dayong asked: "Ma Quanyou, Ma Chang beat them?" Li Jiangguo said: "Ma Changsheng and Ma Quanyou led the soldiers to release the alert, and the third platoon leader greeted the wounded in the yard!" Zhou Dayong asked: "Who is the branch secretary now?" Li Jiangguo looked at the fellow villagers and said, "Please sit in the next room for a while, we have something to discuss." After the fellow villagers left, he said, "What's the matter, don't you remember? When Wang Huohu was on the cover mission, You appoint me as an agent!" Zhou Dayong frowned, and the more painful the wound became, the more irritable he was. He said, "You, how can you look like a branch secretary? You stand here like a stone man, for fear that I will die! There are a lot of casualties in the troops, why don't you hurry up?" You must have other good ways to get the party members to take active actions! You, you can't, you don't know what to do when the situation is tight!" Li Jiangguo rubbed his thighs with his hands anxiously, and said, "Company commander, be careful of your wounds. Can you stop talking? I'll just follow your instructions!" Zhou Dayong said: "Get me the branch committee members!" "They are all on alert. Company commander, the situation is very tight, and the cadres can't get out!" Zhou Dayong said: "The branch committee members can't get out, so you get the leaders of several party groups! Quick, be quick!" In a blink of an eye, the group leaders of the five parties rushed into the house.Some of them were panting, and some were staring worriedly at the company commander's face. Zhou Dayong held onto the wall and was about to stand up when Li Jiangguo said, "Company commander, lie down!" "I can't lie down. Nothing, go away!" Li Jiangguo pressed his shoulders and said, "You--" Zhou Dayong became angry: "What? I just lay down with a slight injury? You go away, I want to stand up, I want to stand up stand up!" Zhou Dayong stood up with his hands on the wall.He felt that his head was getting bigger and his legs were limp; patches of black mist swirled before his eyes.However, when he saw the party leaders, he felt a kind of power throbbing in his chest.He said: "You tell the soldiers that I didn't hang any flowers. I got a little scratch on my head, but it's okay. Comrades! We fought hard today. To tell you the truth, Wang Huo and the others haven't come back yet. The situation is pretty good. Dangerous. Perhaps there is a greater battle ahead. You are all agents of the squad cadres; if any of them is killed or injured, you will automatically act as agents." The team leaders still looked at Zhou Dayong's face without blinking, only to see the sweat from the tip of his nose and upper lip rolling down. "Comrades! The Communist Party members are not ordinary people. Without them, China will perish; without them, the working people will never be able to stand up. They will live strong and die heroically. Because they know , What kind of responsibility do they have to the working people!" He looked at everyone's faces. "Comrades, tell every member of the Communist Party; tightly unite all fighters and fight against the enemy! One more enemy that is eliminated, one less enemy of our entire class. Just remember this. Comrades--" Zhou Dayong Suddenly holding onto the wall, Li Jiangguo quickly embraced him. Li Jiangguo hugged Zhou Dayong in his arms, leaning his head on Zhou Dayong's shoulder and crying: "Company commander! You can't have any troubles..." Zhou Dayong opened his eyes, and the team leaders all left.He asked, "I haven't finished my words yet." He turned to look at Li Jiangguo, and said, "Why are you hugging me? I'm not a child. You go to Wang Huhu! You go, you go right away!" As soon as Li Jiangguo walked out, the soldiers who served as cover came back. Zhou Dayong was both excited and worried. He urgently needed to know how the soldiers were fighting.He shouted loudly to Wang Huo, but the noise in the yard drowned out his shouts. "Today is dangerous!" "Danger and victory are always old friends!" "I figured out a big truth: the weaker you are, the more the enemy will bully you, and the stronger you are, the more the enemy will fear you!" "The enemy's casualties are at least five hundred today!" "Hey, rotten hemp is twisted into a rope, and it is very powerful. Don't say that we are still people's soldiers!" "Look at how that fucking dog pays Truman!" Zhou Dayong's heart was pounding, because among so many voices, he didn't hear Wang Huhu's unhurried voice.From the cheerful voices of the soldiers, he guessed that Wang Huo probably had nothing wrong with him.He immediately contradicted himself; "Not necessarily, because no grief can overwhelm the soldiers." Wang Huhu didn't come back, Li Jiangguo wanted to make up a few words to comfort the company commander.But he has never said anything about Xu, and now he just thought about it, his face was flushed, as if he had drunk two catties of shochu.He usually talks in one way, but now he can't even make up a sentence, and he is angry with himself.Well, anyway, I have to like what I like, the company commander's heart is heavy enough! Zhou Dayong was guessing wildly, and Li Jiangguo came in.He straightened up suddenly, and his eyes suddenly fell on Li Jiangguo's face.He wanted to catch Li Jiangguo's eyes immediately and find the answer he was eagerly waiting for. Li Jiangguo turned his face sideways, avoiding the company commander's gaze, as if he was afraid that the scorching gaze would burn him. No need to ask, Li Jiangguo wanted to cover up the bad news that tore people's hearts, but his uncontrollable despondency explained everything clearly.Zhou Dayong's heart was icy cold, the blood all over his body was congealed.Did Tiger Wang die?No, absolutely not.Zhou Dayong wanted to ask, but he didn't dare to ask, but he had to ask, "Where's the tiger?" "Sacrificed!" They were both trying not to make eye contact.For a long time no one spoke.Heavy air flows around them.The broad bean-sized lamp flame flickered flickeringly. Zhou Dayong asked, "Where's the corpse?" "It was probably buried on the spot!" Zhou Dayong shouted loudly: "Approximately! Approximately! You are dizzy!" Li Jiangguo wished he could open his mouth ten times. He said, "Company commander, company commander! How can I say it? I... Company commander, Ning Jinshan said they buried the corpses when they were retreating... I can't see my eyebrows clearly in the middle of the night. ..." Zhou Dayong's mouth seemed to be erupting lead lumps: "What?What?Would his body be unrecognizable?If Wang Huo died, people would recognize his bones after a thousand years. "He was breathing hard. Li Jiangguo rubbed his hands, touched his chest, and said, "Anyway... Anyway, I can't tell for a while, I..." What else can I say?Wang Huhu sacrificed, he was no less sad than the company commander. Zhou Dayong sat with his back against the wall, staring at the edge of the fellow's kang.Ah, isn't this a tiger?The tiger was wounded, lying on a door panel, covered in plasma mixed with sand, unconscious...Suddenly, the scene in front of him disappeared.Zhou Dayong's heart was full of hot grief: "I, I can't take back all the soldiers entrusted to me by the party!" He wants to go out and ask Ning Jinshan himself: How did Tiger Wang sacrifice himself?Li Jiangguo grabbed Zhou Dayong and said: "Company commander, don't move, you..." Zhou Dayong pushed Li Jiangguo away and said: "My soldiers have fallen one by one. What am I afraid of? I Also--" Zhou Dayong supported the wall, walked out of the yard, and heard the voices of soldiers talking inside and outside the wall.They all talked about Ning Jinshan, and Ning Jinshan must have fought well in covering the retreat; some of them must have been brought back by Ning Jinshan.But he felt that the soldiers were talking around Wang Huo.As for Wang Huo, he was still smiling and biting his small cigarette pot, squatting by the wall where no one noticed, quietly recalling the fierce battle and cowardly enemy. 周大勇把和王老虎一块作过战的战士都找来，一个一个仔细问过。他发现他们任何人都不能确切地说出王老虎是怎样牺牲的。战士们带回来牺牲了的同志的遗物中，没有一件是王老虎的。周大勇像作战时分析情况那样，思索了一切细节。一个令人兴奋的判断，投射出一线希望："老虎可能还活着！"但是又有很小的声音向他说："王老虎多半是牺牲了！" 周大勇长叹了一声，猛一跺脚，头靠在凉冰冰的墙上，心里火燎滚油浇："老虎！你当真离开我们啦？"他感觉到一种肢体被割裂的痛苦。滚热的眼泪呼撒撒地从失血过多的脸上淌下来，淌在满是血污的手上，滴在被子弹打破的军衣上，滴在多灾多难的土地上！ 风徐徐地刮着。天空飘着一块块的黑云彩。簌簌簌的树叶，一直在单调而轻微的响着。路边干枯的蓬蒿，也在无声地摇摆。村外高粱地里是一片蛙声！seven 当天夜里三点半钟光景，周大勇带领战士们向东南方走去。战士们用粗树枝扎了一副担架，要抬他走。周大勇坚决反对。开初，他扶着一根棍子走，走了十来里路连棍子也扔了。 后半夜，天气挺冷，风在枪梢上呼啸。天像一片大冰凌一样，缀着很稠的星星。星星闪着清冷的光。 一长溜黑影，沙沙沙地前进。他们带着战斗的创伤，抬着负伤的战友，有时踏着流沙，有时踩着泥水。他们苦战以后，饿着肚子，摸着黑路，顶着星星，披着寒风，艰难地行进，随时准备厮杀。 周大勇从连队行列边往前走，听见战士们低声地谈着各人在这时光的想法。有的战士说，他饿得肚皮贴住脊梁骨了，特别想吃东西；有的说，他想睡一分钟；有的说，他瞌睡得扯不起眼皮想找人抬杠。 周大勇说："同志们，别瞎扯，听我说--"话没落点，尖兵班的代理班长李玉明返回来报告："发现敌人！" 周大勇忙问："好多？" 李玉明说："摸不清底，只见七八个影子在村边晃游，像是巡查哨。" 周大勇一听到李玉明说到"敌人"二字，心里轰地冒起了怒火；胸膛里滚沸着报仇的情绪，身子健壮而有弹性，仿佛从没有负伤也没有昏倒过，更没有连续的苦战过。往日，战士们只有在经过"休整"以后，饱蓄精力出发打仗时，才有这种感觉。 周大勇让李江国指挥战士们顺一条垅坎隐蔽下来。他坐下休息了一阵，就带领马长胜，马全有到前边去"摸情况"。 他们，顺一条端南正北的大路朝南摸去。边走边爬，生怕弄出响声。突然，啪嚓一声，马全有摔了一跤。 周大勇脑子还没转过圈，就把腰里的驳壳枪抽出来了。马长胜踢了马全有一脚，骂："热闹处卖母猪，尽干些败兴事！" 马全有蹲在地下，低声骂："哼，好臭！这些婊子养的国民党队伍，就在阳关大道上拉屎！" 周大勇脑筋一转，心里闪亮。他让马长胜、马全有再往前摸，看是不是还有屎。 马全有说："嗨呀呀，这才是！要再摸两手稀屎，才算倒了八辈子楣！" 马长胜在马全有脊背上捣了一拳，瓮音瓮气地说："摸！连长心里有谱儿。" 他们向前摸去，通向村子的路上都是牛、毛驴和骆驼拉的粪。 周大勇躺在路边的垅坎下，一声不吭。他折了一根小草用牙齿嚼着，仔细盘算。 马全有抓了把土在手里搓着，连长这股磨蹭劲，让他急躁。马长胜知道连长在思量事情，就不吱声地又向前摸去，想再找点别的"征候"，他这人表面上看是个粗人，可是素来心细。他摸到一块石头一根柴棒，脑子也要拧住它转几个圈。周大勇筹思：这季节，牲口都吃的青草拉的稀粪。这稀粪定是今天下午拉的。天气挺热，要是牲口在中午拉的粪，早就干咯。下午打这里过去了很多牛、毛驴、骆驼。这是老乡运货的牲口？兵荒马乱的，老乡们会吃好多牲口赶路？也许，敌人强迫老乡们运粮；也许，前头这村子就是敌人的粮站？"是粮站就收拾它！"他心里这样说。打击敌人的想法，强有力地吸引他，使他兴奋、激动。可是他心里有一种很小的声音在说："就算这里是敌人的粮站，就算这里敌人不多，你还是绕过这个村子快走吧，战士们太疲劳啦！"心里另外一种声音又说："这种想法是可耻的，难道我们能放过打击敌人的机会？难道我们是抱住脑袋逃命的人？这不是给王老虎、赵万胜报仇的时候吗？打吧，打吧！多消灭一个敌人，世界上就少一个祸害！" 马长胜返转来报告："连长，前头路上撒下一堆一堆的小米，还有一头死毛驴。我猜想，这个村子必定是敌人的粮站。" 马全有说："那才不一定！兴许敌人粮站还在这个村子前头的什么地方呢！" 周大勇绕到村南的路上去摸，路上没有遗撒下粮食，只有很少的骡马粪。 他到村子周围看看，这村里的敌人，不像是今天行军后宿营的；也没有电话线从村子里伸出向四下里连接。看来，这个村子是粮站；村子里驻守的敌人是保护粮站的。保护粮食，目前在敌人在我们都是头等重要的事情。 周大勇他们爬回村北部队隐蔽的地方。他召集了班排干部，把侦察到的情况分析了一番，大伙儿觉得这仗可以打。李江国不停地鼓动："连长，干吧！打夜战，拼刺刀，敌人最头痛！" 马长胜说："着啊！夜战，敌人摸不清虚实，啃他吧！" 周大勇浑身是劲，他早就想去跟敌人拼啦。可是敌人巡查哨为什么只注意东边？周围是不是还驻着敌人？村子里有多少敌人？情形怎么样？这数不清的问题，暂时压住了他那青年的英气。 马全有说："连长！下决心！下决心！打仗不冒险还行？猛戳进去，准打他个晕头转向没招架。" 周大勇说："只要判断不错，咱们就端掉这村子里的敌人！" 要打仗的消息，立刻顺着部队行列传下去了。这不是谁说啦，而是战士们感觉到了。战士们，有的绑鞋带，有的收拾挂包、皮带。看来，一股战斗的火劲，按也按压不住了！战士们按压不住的战斗热情，全部流到周大勇心里了。战斗前的紧张，打击敌人的兴奋，成功的希望，英雄的业绩，这一切想法和情绪都在鼓动他。但是指挥员的责任感跟那想立刻去杀敌人的情绪在冲突；慎重和冒险在冲突。这种冲突，忽而倒向这边，忽而倒向那边，一直让周大勇烦乱，发躁。 周大勇嘴贴在宁金山的耳朵上，说："你带个战士去，摸个敌人来，我要查问情况。俘虏要捉来，可是不准打枪，也不准弄出声音来。行吗？" 宁金山说："还能说行不行？你需要个俘虏，就该摸个俘虏来。" 周大勇拍拍宁金山的背，说："看你的咯！" 宁金山带着他的弟弟宁二子，朝村子跟前爬去。 宁金山说："二子，你身上什么东西叮当叮当响哩。" "挂包里装了个磁碗，跟手榴弹磕打着响。" 宁金山说："咳！你收拾精干点！我看你干什么都心眼死得厉害。打起仗，我老是替你操心。处处要留神。你从开阔地往前跑的时光，就要先看看前面有啥地形地物可以利用。你呀，打仗还缺一个心眼！"他摸摸二子的背，又问："冷么？" "冷！哥，冷是小事，俺眼皮拉不起来，瞌睡得要命！" "二子，可不能打盹。你不是要求入党吗？我把你带出来，就有点私心：想叫你立一功。" "哥，你入党的事呢？现在班长们里头，就数你是非党群众啊！" 宁金山说："别提啦！我要知道那回开小差会给我带来这么多的难过，就吃屎喝尿也不干那亏人败兴的事情！人要是能用血洗去自己的过错，我愿意去死！" "哥，听党员们说话的口气，大伙儿都同意你入党。" "就算党员们同意我入党，目下，我也不打算入党！" 宁二子倒抽了一口冷气，问："为什么？为什么嘛？哥，说呀！" "不为什么！"宁金山趴在地下，把脸压在胳膊上。"我自己不答应我自己入党。看看，咱们连队上的共产党员都是些什么人啊！他们浑身是胆，在危险面前连眼也不眨。他们都有很高的想法：不光是让穷苦人有饭吃有二亩地种，还要把穷苦人引到社会主义社会去。我比起他们又算什么呢？我满身是毛病！二子，我有信心按党的路线一直朝前走。可是我的思想不够作个党员，我就不入党，哪怕我心里很难过！"他擤鼻子。 宁二子听见他哥哭了。不伤心不落泪，哥心里该是多难受啊！ 二子后悔他又摸了他哥的伤疤。他掉转话头，说："哥，俺们多咱能赶上主力部队--"宁金山把二子戳了一下，他俩爬到了一个垅坎下边，蹲下，缓了一口气。 宁金山说："二子，你不要操心。咱们部队打仗门道多，你看，连咱们都找不见主力部队，那敌人就更摸不清边儿。我敢保险，不出十来八天，准要打大胜仗。这经验我可多啦！" 宁二子说："哥，俺们部队像刮风一样，忽儿这里忽儿那里，俺们为啥不摆开和敌人干呢？国民党的队伍都是草包，俺们和他摆开打，三天两后晌就把他收拾光啦！" "二子！摆开打？人家几十万，咱们才有多少人？你估摸，这仗给你指挥可该怎么打？我给你说过多少遍，咱们打的是运动战，有利就打，没利就转个地方；看准了机会就收拾敌人一股子；慢慢地咱们就壮大了，敌人就垮了。不过，这仗要打好，可有一条：就是要多走路多吃苦。" "哥，归根结底咱们是为自个儿打仗，苦死苦活也能撑住！ do not worry. " 他兄弟俩爬到村子的围墙边了。 宁金山说："二子，你蹲下，我踏在你肩膀上，爬过墙去。" "哥，你搭个人梯子，让我过去。" 宁金山拉了二子一把，贴住耳朵命令："我是班长，听我的命令！" "命令"二字真灵验，它把二子涌起的感情一下子便压下去了。 眨眼工夫，宁金山和宁二子回来了。 宁金山把背着的沉重东西，咚地往周大勇脚边一掼，说： "二子，把这家伙嘴里塞的东西掏出来！" "唉呀！唉呀！不要打死我……"地下有个东西在哼唧。 周大勇问："嗨！怎么逮了个半死不活的家伙？" 宁金山说："不先给他几下，咋能掐住他？问吧，连长，他的嘴还作用。"他赶紧又补充了一句："连长，这俘虏是二子亲手摸来的！" 宁二子连忙说："连长，俘虏是俺哥抓的。" 周大勇紧紧地跟宁金山和宁二子握了手，就盘问俘虏。原来，敌人增援榆林的整编三十六师进了榆林城没久停，又顺咸榆公路南下，说是去追赶我军。这个村子里扎敌人一个大粮站，还驻一个营，--两个连押运粮食去了，现在村子里只有营部和一个连。一个敌人副团长在指挥。村子周围有不高的土围子，南北都有出口。村西五里路有个村子，驻扎敌人一个团，是今天下晚宿营的。俘虏还说，我军从榆林城郊撤退以后，多一半溃散了，少一半跑到黄河边上，准备逃过黄河，所以，这个村子里驻的敌人浪吃浪喝，很大意。 周大勇估划：一打响，村西敌人会增援。不，夜里敌人一时闹不清情况，不敢乱动。他又思量夜战的特点……敌人最怕迂回、包围……他计算了自己手里的力量：一共只有三十八个人。 于是他让马全有带一个班消灭敌人的巡查哨并担任战斗警戒；又组织了向村子里突击的力量。他想：只要能插进村，胜利是拿定了的。但是他还二心不定：打响容易可是收场难啊！他决定亲自到村边再"摸情况"。他给李江国吩咐了几句话，就带了五个战士向前爬去。 周大勇他们摸到村北，听了听动静，躺在地上休息了一阵，又摸到村东北一条凹道边。这条凹道有六七尺深，中间有条大路一直伸进村子。 周大勇累得手脚都麻木了，头上的伤口痛得像刀子割。他趴在凹道边，把头压在手背上寻思：部队顺凹道接近村子是隐蔽些，可是对这样的交通要道敌人定会特别注意。他正筹思，仿佛听到远处有什么声音。他把耳朵贴在地下听。地很湿，传音不快，听不出什么名堂。他闭住气，伸长耳朵听：当真有声音，而且越来越近。过了十来分钟，一长溜牲口走近了。周大勇和战士们连忙躲进高粱地。他心里正犯疑，又听到有人说话： "我们晚上行动，要多提防点！" "再提防也不能把头用铁包住！" "敌人！"周大勇浑身紧张了。他习惯地摸住冰凉的驳壳枪把子，紧紧地盯着凹道。凹道里过着一连串牲口，前边是一队骆驼，骆驼上骑着些背着枪的敌人，一摇一晃像是瞌睡了。骆驼后边是一长列毛驴。 周大勇脑子闪过一个主意：毛驴可能是老乡们吆着；跳到牲口行列中去，跟上他们摸进村子行吗？他脑子飞转，前思后想，左右为难：牲口行列当间有没有敌人？跳下凹道和敌人干起来怎么办？自己去执行这任务吗？头昏脑晕，双腿酥软，再说，还要指挥部队呀！那么，让战士们去叫李江国或是马全有来吗？不行，等到他们来，饭冷了菜也凉了！派两个战士跳下去么？不行，手边这几个战士经验差；事情太重大，成败就看这一着，打草惊蛇就糟透咯！ 周大勇看得分明：毛驴还在过；不能犹疑，立刻动手。他要身边的一个战士火速返回去告诉李江国怎样插进村子，又给身边四个战士叮咛了一番。 周大勇朝前爬了爬，伸长脖子，眼睛一眨也不眨地盯着凹道里。毛驴一个一个打他眼前闪过。他把头上的伤口摸了摸，咬紧牙，唿地跳下去，四个战士也跟着跳下去。 周大勇一把抓住一个赶毛驴的人，低声威胁："不准喊！" 那人慌了："不，不，我不张声！" "枪？" "我是老百姓，队伍上拉我来吃牲口！" "胡说！" "老总！红口白牙还能胡说？老天在上，我要有半句假话，就不得好死！" 周大勇把他浑身上下搜了一番。这人头上绑块手巾，穿着光板老羊皮袄，腰带上还别着旱烟锅。无疑，是个老乡，周大勇松了口气。 赶毛驴的老乡发热发冷似地抖着。他想不透，咋着，猛不防就从天上掉下来个人？这是啥人？他跟上这帮送粮的牲口去干什么？教人发懵！ 周大勇问："老乡，你是哪里人？" 老乡牙关于圪嘣嘣响，说："榆，榆，榆林城……城边的。" "黑天半夜你吃上牲口乱跑什么？" "我给人家揽工熬活。昨黑间，联保主任派的人生拉活扯逮住我，要我支差，给，给队伍上送粮。" 周大勇摸摸毛驴驮的口袋，果真是粮食。他思量着老乡的话跟那说话的口气。 这工夫，后边一个战士上来报告：后边赶毛驴的都是老乡，每一个老乡吃四五头毛驴；最后还有一队骆驼和一些押运粮食的敌人。周大勇给那战士安顿了几句话，又问赶毛驴的老乡："押送粮食的队伍多吗？" "不多，老总。前边一个班，后边一个班。" "你看我是什么人？" "老总！这，这咱可说不清啊！" "我是解放军！" 老乡思量了一阵，说："呀！想不到你就是解放军。" 周大勇说："老乡！咱们队伍开来一个师，打这个村里的敌人。你放灵动点，带我进村，成吗？" 老乡说："啊……啊……成！我，我可没经过仗火……你当真是解放军？啊……这么的，你把我的皮袄穿上，遮掩遮掩！" 周大勇问："后边赶毛驴的老乡可靠吗？" 老乡说："可靠啊，都是穷人。有钱人面子大，还能挨打受气来支差？" 周大勇说："你去给后边的老乡叮咛：让他们把战士们遮护住！" 老乡说："这能成，这能成。" "不光能成，还要保管百无一失，出了漏子，你们也要受拖累！" "尽力量办！"老乡向后跑去。 周大勇跟上送粮的毛驴走近村边，听见村东打响了。Hi!大概是马全有跟敌人巡查哨接火了。