Chapter 17 Chapter Seven Jiuli Mountain (2)

Zhou Dayong asked about the attack on Jiulian.He asked ten soldiers to take the captives back to the remote ravine where the troops had hidden.Then he said to the soldiers: "Comrades! The Ninth Company is stuck with the enemy, let's go for reinforcements!" Zhou Dayong took his troops and ran to the place where the artillery fire was fierce.He slammed the enemy from the flank and relieved the enemy's pressure on the Ninth Company. At dawn, Zhou Dayong asked the correspondent to contact the commander of the Ninth Company, preparing to take advantage of the enemy's uncertainty and coordinate a counterattack to push the enemy into the ditch so that they could retreat.But several attempts to make contact failed.

The commander of the Ninth Company led the Ninth Company to fight and retreat, and when it was almost dawn, he got rid of the enemy. After dawn, the soldiers of the first company and the sixth company under the command of Zhou Dayong did not get rid of the enemy due to the unfavorable terrain.Thousands of hundreds of enemies, with powerful artillery fire, approached them step by step. The arduous battle has begun, and the average battle for each people's soldier to withstand dozens of enemies has begun! Zhou Dayong led the soldiers and fought until noon, when the situation became worse.Three enemy fighter jets braved the bad weather to come to help.The strength of a regiment of the enemy was all on Zhou Dayong and his soldiers.

Zhou Dayong and the others fought and retreated; when they retreated to a mountain ridge, Zhou Dayong saw: the front is the enemy, the back is a big ditch that cannot be seen to the bottom, the right is a cliff, and the left is still a cliff.There is no way out!This situation did not shock Zhou Dayong who had gone through various tests.He was full of confidence and composure.When Wei just saw the unlucky terrain, he became irritable, gasping for breath, his face flushed red.He jumped three feet high and shouted: "Fight with these traitors! Fight!" He was about to rush forward desperately.

Zhou Dayong ordered Ma Quanyou to lead the first company to withstand the enemy, while observing the surrounding mountains with binoculars.Combat experience told him that now it is especially necessary to have a clear mind and calm thinking.He turned his mind a few times, and a plan flashed in his mind: Twist the soldiers' backpack ropes and straps together to form a thick rope, and let the soldiers slide down the ditch one by one by pulling the rope.However, he thought about it again, no way - during the day, even if everyone slipped down the ditch, the enemy would press down with their heads covered!Before dark, only a part of the team can retreat first.Zhou Dayong asked Wei Gang to collect the straps and backpack ropes of the soldiers and twist them into a thick rope.He said: "Wei Gang, you take the Sixth Company down--" Wei Gang shouted as if he was on fire, "You all go, let me stand up to the enemy, let me stand up to the enemy!"

"Don't speak! Listen to the order!" Zhou Dayong shouted. "You take the Sixth Company down and find a cold mountain ditch to hide." He pointed to the west—the mountain behind the enemy and said, "As soon as it gets dark, you take the soldiers to move from the small ditch to the enemy's back, and attack the enemy Sudden attack. Remember: KMT soldiers are most afraid of gunshots behind their buttocks; and in night battles, a few people suddenly and bravely attack, which is very powerful. Go! Be careful and use your brains. Go! You are the last breath left , but also to complete the task!"

Now the number of the company is very small, so Wei Gang led the soldiers to pull the rope and quickly slipped down the cliff. Zhou Dayong thought: "Persist until dark, persist until dark! This mountain ridge is very narrow, and the threat of artillery fire is great, but the enemy's forces cannot be deployed!" Zhou Dayong ordered the soldiers to strengthen the fortifications, resist desperately, not retreat an inch, and buy time! During the half-day fierce battle, Zhou Dayong was always in a happy mood.And as the intensity of the battle increases, this happy mood becomes more and more intense, because the enemy will soon taste the gunshot behind him!

The enemy not only attacked from west to east along the mountain ridges, but also Zhou Dayong and his group were bombarded with various artillery fire from the distant hilltops to the left and right of Zhou Dayong and his group.On our army's positions, shell craters were next to each other, and the loess was burned to black soil. The faces of the soldiers were as black as the bottom of the pot from the smoke.Zhou Dayong saw Ma Quanyou, Ning Jinshan, Li Yuming and other soldiers were bombed and buried in the soil, but they got out of the soil again.Zhou Dayong thought: An old soldier is more powerful than ten people with no combat experience!In his eyes, his fighters became very tall people.Zhou Dayong's resolute shouting and cheerful tone gave the soldiers a wonderful sense of peace of mind.

The enemy continued to bombard with artillery fire and charge continuously.When they approached our army's position, Zhou Dayong commanded the soldiers to kill and injure the enemy with concentrated sudden firepower and grenades. Every counterattack victory, even a small victory, even killing an enemy, made Zhou Dayong more confident and more courageous. It was more than half an hour before dark.The layers of black clouds in the sky are getting thicker and thicker! At this time, Li Yuming, the squad leader of the first squad, was sitting beside Zhou Dayong, wrapping his neck wound with first aid.

Zhou Dayong asked: "Yu Ming, can you support me?" "Okay, Battalion Commander." Li Yuming took out something from his pocket and said to Zhou Dayong: "Battalion Commander, I'll pay you the five thousand yuan. If I don't come down, this will be the last time I pay the party dues." Zhou Dayong did not take the money that Li Yuming handed him.In the past, before the battle, such things often happened: soldiers handed their diaries or beloved things to the instructors, saying: "Leave these things to the party as a souvenir!" "Please pass them on to Chairman Mao!" Now Zhou Dayong couldn't remember how the instructor Wang Chengde used to deal with such things, but when he saw Li Yuming leaving his things as the last party dues payment and leaving them as relics, he was not moved, and he didn't want to encourage him. not happy.He wanted to say in his usual blunt temper: "Yu Ming, take your money back. I won't let you do this!" But he suppressed his emotions and kept the words from coming out of his mouth.He lay on the ground and asked, "Well, Yuming! Why pay the last party dues now?"

Li Yuming said: "Battle Commander, no one's head is covered in iron. There is no guarantee of war! I have paid the party fee now, and I will not regret it if I sacrifice it!" Zhou Dayong shook his head and said: "You are wrong! You must always believe in your own strength: I can beat those American lackeys, they can't beat me. --Look, the position of Erzi Ning's machine gun is very important. --Yu Ming, you must have such confidence: I can destroy the enemy, I can return to pay party dues, and I can participate in the celebration party after the war. At the celebration party, comrades and villagers pointed at me and said: Look, he is a Shaanxi Gan Ning's disciples. --What are the enemies shouting about? --Yuming, you have made a contribution once, and our company has also won the banner of bravery and tenacity four times; remember your glory!

Remember the glory of our company!Look, Yuming!The enemy rushed up..." It was getting dark. The enemy knew that night was not their world, so they concentrated all their strength and quickly overwhelmed them. Zhou Dayong has fewer and fewer fighters at hand.For this, not only did he not panic, but he became more confident.Because the number of people is small, but the burden is even heavier-on average, one person can withstand more than a hundred enemies, which shows that the enemy with American weapons is weak, but Zhou Dayong's fighters have been tempered in the war and mastered it. Ability to hit the enemy. The enemy launched a charge in turn.Violent explosions, flying bullets, shaking ground, scorching air, louder and louder shouts... make people dizzy and nerve numb. Ma Quanyou's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and his eyes seemed to be on fire.His dry and stiff body has endless tenacious strength.At the moment, he looks exceptionally sharp, shrewd, and brave.He said: "Battalion Commander, take some soldiers down. Give me some soldiers so that I can withstand the enemy. In the end, there is no way..." He looked at the deep ditch behind him. Zhou Dayong said: "Jump off a cliff? You want to be evil! You are not a soldier, nor a platoon leader, but an acting company commander. You have to think about the whole company. --Look, how did Ning Jinshan climb and shoot in such a place How about it? Quickly, let him move to the right.--Everything, hold on for another ten or twenty minutes, and we will retreat together!" Zhou Dayong fought with the soldiers. He did not command the soldiers at all, but "man-made wars". The soldiers who could raise their heads shot and dropped bombs desperately. The old wound on Zhou Dayong's head was open, and blood dripped down his face. He tore off his hat and wiped the blood, and dropped bombs with the soldiers again.Zhou Dayong quickly picked up the grenade thrown by the enemy, and threw it at the enemy.These grenades that fell over all exploded as soon as they were shot, but a real hero can seize this second when danger is saved. Suddenly, a heavy artillery shell exploded on the left side of Zhou Dayong, and he quickly jumped into the crater that had just been exploded. In a blink of an eye, several shells fell on the place where he lay down just now. Zhou Dayong is due to his rich combat experience, due to his firm determination, and due to his concentration of will.Because of the tense command, because of the thought of saving his fighters and killing the enemy, he did not feel the possibility of sacrifice at all.His emotions became more and more excited, his energy became more and more abundant, his thoughts became more and more simple, and his actions became more and more calm.It was as if he had become a giant who was so powerful that he could lift this mountain ridge with one hand. The battle, the fiercer battle every second, tests the will of every fighter. The bullets came densely, and the artillery shells fired by the enemy screamed and exploded, covering the sky with smoke.In this risk of hundreds of sacrifices every minute, every soldier's thought, will, and strength are exerted to the highest level of tension; every soldier's heart is the most intense and tense small battlefield: determination, hatred, anger , Desperately... It seems that at this juncture of life and death, the soldiers concentrated ten years of vitality into one second to use! After repelling more than 20 attacks of the enemy size, each soldier only had three or five bullets left, and some soldiers only had one grenade left. It seemed that in a few minutes, they would have no hope of surviving! Ma Quanyou became more and more angry, and his mind was buzzing.He raised his eyebrows and raised his eyes, his face became very fierce and terrifying.He shouted: "Hit hard, hit hard!" Zhou Dayong ran forward a few steps quickly, and shouted to the soldiers: "Comrades, we are the heroes who defend the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao! We will never take a step back!" At this moment, the voice of the commander is the voice of the working people, the party, and Chairman Mao. A huge force rose from the hearts of the soldiers. They got up, raised their bayonets, and met the rushing enemies. ... In the dark, all kinds of birds flew in a hurry in the sky, and the fire was shining in the distance.The sound of heavy cannons, rumbling and rumbling. Ma Quanyou said: "Battalion Commander, Wei Gang's move may not be effective. You take a few soldiers and pull the rope and get down first!" Zhou Dayong held the grenade, looked at the enemy's position, looked at the dark hill behind the enemy's position, and did not move. Ma Quanyou said, "Go down, I'll cover you!" Zhou Dayong still didn't say anything.How anxiously he waited for the sound of the gun behind the enemy! "Oops! Wei Gang probably didn't seize the opportunity!" Zhou Dayong asked the soldiers to bury the comrade's body, and then lowered the wounded to the bottom of the ditch with straps.He said: "Ma Quanyou, you take two soldiers to support for a minute or two, and I will take the soldiers there, and you will come down immediately!" "Ma Quanyou said: "Yes.You go, you go! " Zhou Dayong gathered the soldiers and was about to grab the rope and slip down the ditch when the enemy took advantage of the gap and rushed from the center of the position; Zhou Dayong and Ma Quanyou were intercepted by the enemy! Zhou Dayong saw it clearly: he had few fighters under his command, but Ma Quanyou had only two fighters under him.Seeing that Ma Quanyou and the others had come to a dead end, Zhou Dayong felt irritated and irritable for the first time in today's battle. In the dark, you can still see things ten steps away.Zhou Dayong and his soldiers fired, trying their best to catch up with the horses who had retreated to the left cliff.But when Zhou Dayong led the soldiers to attack the enemy.But Ma Quan couldn't feel their movements.He thought: "What's wrong, something went wrong?" Suddenly, gunshots sounded from behind the enemy, and in the blink of an eye, there was another dense grenade explosion.The enemies panicked, turned around and ran, bumping into each other, yelling, like the sky falling and the earth falling. "Ah, gunfire!" Zhou Dayong jumped up and shouted. "Comrades, chase! Chase!" The soldier chased west along the mountain ridge. Many red and green signal flares fired by the enemy rose in the sky; many flares hung in the sky, dazzling people's eyes.While it was bright, Zhou Dayong saw groups of panicked enemies; he also saw enemy corpses, backpacks, bullet boxes, grenades, door panels, wooden rafters, single-man bunkers, machine gun fortifications, artillery positions everywhere on the mountain ridge... . The soldiers put their guns on their backs and held the American submachine guns they had snatched from the enemy in their hands. They fired at groups of panicked enemies.What a beating! Zhou Dayong led the soldiers to chase several hills, and met Wei Gang and the others head-on. Wei Gang hugged Zhou Dayong violently by the waist, and shouted: "Battalion Commander! Happy, happy, happy! We beat the enemy to pieces. Night battles, night battles are really delicious! Battalion Commander, I met many guerrillas, and they said, There are dozens of guerrillas, just like us, burrowing into the enemy's belly. Hey, Battalion Commander, let's hurry up and pursue them!" Zhou Dayong said: "I can't chase anymore. Gather the soldiers immediately and prepare for the enemy's counterattack!" He thought for a while, and then said: "Without the cooperation of the guerrillas, how could we have disturbed the enemy so much? But let's go back quickly Go, the wounded are still under the cliff over there." Thinking of this, his heart twitched suddenly, because during the pursuit, he did not see Ma Quan and them following up. Zhou Dayong, Wei Gang and the others returned to the mountain ridge where they fought, but they did not find Ma Quan.He thought: Maybe they went down the ditch!He led the soldiers down the rope pulling the wounded.It's dark and dark, and I can't see anyone on the other side. It's hard!They went down for a long time, and they came down to a cliff. Everyone's clothes were torn by thorn needles, their palms were worn out, and their feet were hot from rubbing!At first glance, there is still a cliff in front, and the bottom of the ditch is only further down.Zhou Dayong reckoned: "We have been down for so long, how high can the cliff be?" He threw a stone down to find out that it was really not high.He led the soldiers to jump down. ... Ya, the cliff is more than three feet high! After Ma Quanyou and Zhou Dayong were cut off by the enemy, he led two soldiers to resist the enemy.Fortunately, the small mountain that Ma Quanyou occupied was surrounded by ditches on three sides, and the enemy could only press from the front, and they couldn't deploy their troops, nor could they encircle them; but it was difficult for three soldiers to withstand thousands of enemies. thing. The enemy approached Ma Quanyou and the others, and the situation became very dangerous. ... Ma Quanyou, Ning Erzi and Liang Zhiqing lay on the ground and shot and dropped bombs at the enemy desperately. Finally, they retreated to the edge of the cliff!The grenades and bullets are all gone, and in the blink of an eye, all the tension in my heart is condensed: honorable sacrifice or stretching my neck to let the enemy kill!Ma Quan clenched the gun tightly with both hands, gritted his teeth, grinned, and stomped his feet. A blood-curdling thought flashed through his mind: "Jump off the cliff!" Soldiers Ning Erzi and Liang Zhiqing tightly grasped Ma Quanyou's arm.Ma Quanyou stood upright, staring at the enemy.He thought, how useless it is to die like this, and if there are bullets, he will have to change a few more.He shouted: "Drop the bolt!" Two soldiers unloaded the bolt with a clatter and threw it into the ditch.Ma Quanyou grabbed the tip of the gun and swung it violently to the ground, but the gun didn't break.He turned his head abruptly, grabbed Liang Zhiqing's shoulder, and asked, "Are you a party member?" "Yes, Captain." Ma Quan shook his head, pointed his eyes at the cliff behind him, and said, "The Party needs your loyalty." Liang Zhiqing stared at Ma Quanyou for more than ten seconds.Then, he took a few steps towards the edge of the cliff and shouted: "Company Commander!" He rolled down and went down! ... Ning Erzi suddenly hugged Ma Quanyou by the waist, and said: "Company commander, company commander! We will be together for life and death, and we are together..." Ma Quanyou pushed Ning Erzi, ignored him, and just used blood red eyes, staring at the enemy. Ning Erzi hugged his head, stomped his feet, and rolled down the cliff! At this time, the enemy shot, shouted, and rushed forward.Ma Quanyou stood there upright, until the enemy approached, and then threw the broken spear at the enemy. The enemy was startled, and suddenly fell down.Ma Quanyou retreated to the edge of the ditch, turned around, jumped up like throwing water, and threw himself down! ... In the dark night, gunshots rang out one after another.The strong wind blows down the ditch, carrying the heroic news, flying over thousands of mountains and rivers and plains, shaking the doors and windows of every house to tell people: In such a dark night.What happened to the motherland! Qi Zhou Dayong jumped off the cliff and fell into a coma for a long time.After he regained consciousness, he led Wei Gang and the soldiers to the cliff where Ma Quan and the others jumped, and found the dead comrades and the severely injured comrades alive.Then, they touched the valley on the east side of Jiuli Mountain. There are enemies to the north, and there is a mountain leading to Dachuan in Qingjian County to the south.They groped out from among the enemies. They turned into a ditch and found several cold caves.Hey, there are many fellow villagers who have fled in the cave. It is true that there are relatives in the mountains! The villagers are busy boiling water and cooking for their troops.They feel that if they live with their troops, they will not be afraid of the sky falling.Judging from their joyful faces, this army will live with them forever and will not leave. Zhou Dayong took Ma Quanyou and other wounded to the cave, and asked Wei Gang to go out to set up guards. He sat on the ground in the cave, took out a piece of paper from his body, and prepared to write something.The small oil lamps of the fellow villagers are about to go out.He shouted: "Commissioner, bring the flashlight that picked up the enemy!" The correspondent's injured right hand was bound with a bandage.He approached Zhou Dayong and said, "The flashlight is broken!" Zhou Dayong leaned his head against the wall, closed his eyes slightly, and said weakly, "Didn't you pick up some wax heads?" The correspondent lights a wax head.He is sitting on the left of Zhou Dayong, holding a wax head. Zhou Dayong wrote for less than half a minute, the correspondent dozed off, his head touched Zhou Dayong's shoulder, and the wax head went out. Zhou Dayong shouted: "What are you doing?" The correspondent quickly lit the wax head again.Zhou Dayong just wrote two sentences, the correspondent fell asleep again, and the wax head went out again. Zhou Dayong was very angry, but he didn't wake up the correspondent.He rubbed his eyes fiercely, beat his head with his fist a few more times, and went to greet the wounded. Zhou Dayong put on a lamp and looked at the wounded: there were four wounded lying side by side on the grass; Ma Quan sat with his back leaning against the wall, his upper body stiffened, his eyes closed, his face still fierce, as if he was after a quick march, Sit down and sleep temporarily for a while, and soon go to fight.Zhou Dayong's heart skipped a beat, he really wanted to hug Ma Quanyou and shout a few times: "Everything! Everything!" But he didn't shout or hug him.He just looked into Ma Quanyou's eyes and said, "Speak up! I'm Zhou Dayong." Ma Quanyou clenched his teeth and didn't say a word. Zhou Dayong leaned his face on Ma Quanyou's shoulder and said, "Speak up! Look, we are always together, always together!" He grabbed Ma Quanyou's hand vigorously, as if he was afraid that he would leave. Ma Quanyou was sweating profusely, the flesh on his face protruded, and the scars on his cheeks became more obvious.He gritted his teeth loudly, but he didn't make a sound. Zhou Dayong put his head next to Ma Quanyou's and asked, "Can you hold on?" Ma Quanyou squeezed out a word between his teeth: "Yes." He indicated with his eyes, and asked him to stuff something into his mouth.Zhou Dayong stuffed a handkerchief into his mouth.Ma Quanyou bit the handkerchief tightly, neither moving nor moaning! Zhou Dayong looked at Ma Quanyou's body like a steel frame full of loyalty and tenacious strength in every pore, and looked at the unchanging force on his face, feeling very sad.But looking at the injuries on his body, Zhou Dayong was relieved again: Ma Quanyou's life is not in danger! Zhou Dayong looked at the other wounded. Some of the trousers on their legs were ripped off from the knee down. Some of their clothes were full of holes pierced by bullets. The smell of gunpowder rushed straight to the person's nostrils. Zhou Dayong thought, Liang Zhiqing died, but why did Ma Quanyou and Ning Erzi survive after jumping off such a high cliff?In fact, this is also the same as the "strange incident" that often occurs on the battlefield: it turns out that although the cliffs that Ma Quanyou and Ning Erzi jumped were more than ten feet high, they were not as straight as a knife.Some places protrude in the middle of the cliff, and some places are recessed.When they jumped they fell over those ledges and rolled over to another ledge-- If it keeps falling, it's all over! Only soldier Liang Zhiqing died!Because when he jumped off the cliff, he hit his head on the stone and left the world forever! Zhou Dayong and several wounded were lying side by side on the grass.Outside the kiln is the dark night. He listened to the roar of the wind and the howling of wild animals in the ditch.Thinking of Wei Gang and the soldiers standing guard outside, thinking of the fierce battle during the day, thinking of the commander of the Ninth Company and the soldiers of the Ninth Company...the head is always pounding and a little dizzy. It was late at night and the weather was gloomy.The branches and leaves of the trees in the ditch rustled in the wind. As soon as Zhou Dayong closed his eyes in a daze, Ning Jinshan came in and shouted, "Battle Commander, do you remember Uncle Li Zhende?" Zhou Dayong got up and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter, none of us can remember him!" Ning Jinshan said: "Battle Commander, when I went to scoop water just now, the villagers surrounded me and asked questions. Suddenly, I saw Uncle Li's wife - Li Yushan's mother. Battalion Commander, you know, she The old man is my savior!" Zhou Dayong said: "Ah! How can her old man come here?" Ning Jinshan said: "No, I think so too!" Someone lifted the straw curtain hanging on the kiln door and came in.Zhou Dayong stood up and saw that it was a thin and small old mother. It seemed that the wind could blow her down.Behind her were several women, some of whom were holding children. Ning Jinshan supported the old mother and said, "Old mother, this is our battalion commander!" Zhou Dayong sat on the ground.The old mother sat cross-legged in front of Zhou Dayong.She looked at his face for a while, then touched his hand, and said, "Ah, you are Zhou Dayong. Yushan's father often talks about you!Alas, wherever we flee, the White Army will follow. I'm a person who is about to enter the earth, and I can't live in peace yet! "After that, she took out a steamed bun from her bosom and put it in Zhou Dayong's arms. The old mother's body temperature was still on the bun. Zhou Dayong rubbed his hands gently, not knowing how to say some homely words to comfort the old mother. The old mother pointed to a woman who was nearly 30 years old and said, "Battle Commander, this is my eldest daughter. She was married to Jiuli Mountain. A few days ago, my family and I escaped to her house to hide from danger. Everyone is plotting The Bai army can't fight here. Our family fled here just three days ago, and the Bai army, who was hacked into pieces, is catching up! Battalion commander, how long will it take to end this battle? !” The old mother sighed with a sad face. Zhou Dayong asked the old mother's eldest daughter and several other women to sit on the nearby straw.He asked, "Where's Uncle Li?" The old mother said: "He is here. He brought my family here and left with the guerrillas. He said that he came to visit his family every few days, but once he left, he disappeared without a trace!" Nowadays, there is a shortage of food, and there is no next meal for the last meal; eight out of ten families use ice pots and cold stoves. Today, at dawn, I sent someone to Qianchuan to look for Yushan's father. Alas, after all, Even if we find him in front of us, what can he do! He is also a person who eats every day! When people get old, they have no way to live. He, for a while, can't speak three words, just blowing his beard and staring I can't stand the filth! Battalion Commander, you should recognize my big boy Li Yushan! He has no news for several months, and he doesn't know where he has gone.My second boy, nicknamed Man Man, also joins our army.Young people, with one foot higher than the other, who knows what dangers will happen!One child and one heart!The flesh and blood have been separated for a while..." The old mother wiped away her tears one by one. Next to the old mother was a twenty-eight or nine-year-old woman holding a nursing baby. She said, "Mom, your old man can't finish talking; Battalion Commander Zhou is tired after fighting all day!" The old mother said: "What are you afraid of talking to Commander Zhou? He is a member of our team, not an outsider." She turned to Zhou Dayong, pointed at the woman who blocked her, and said, "This is Li Yushan's aunt That one," she said, pointing to a young daughter-in-law who had just turned 20, "is my aunt. I married her before, and within five months, the world will be in chaos!" Zhou Dayong looked at old mothers, women, and children, all staring at him eagerly.He thought, these villagers are his relatives, their suffering is his suffering; they need his protection!He said: "Old man! Soon, the enemy is about to collapse!" Li Yushan, don't miss him.He is a brave and shrewd man, and he can't suffer.You said that Manman joined the army, and Uncle Li also sent me a letter, entrusting me to find Manman.Old man, what is the full official name?Knowing his official name, I will try my best to ask you.If I ask about my whereabouts, I will send you a message. " The old mother thought for a while, and asked Man Man's aunt: "What is Man Man's official name?" The full mother-in-law hid behind her sister-in-law and said shyly, "Li Yuming!" Ning Jinshan asked: "Li Yuming? Didn't he have a mole on his upper lip?" Surprised and delighted, the old mother hurriedly asked Ning Jinshan: "Where did you meet him?" The woman next to him and Li Yuming's daughter-in-law all cast their eyes on Ning Jinshan's face.They waited helplessly for Ning Jinshan to reveal the whereabouts of their relatives. Zhou Dayong said: "Didn't you tell me earlier! Li Yuming is in our first company." The old mother held her hands in a daze, and asked herself: "Could it be a dream!" After a while, she turned her eyes to the wounded lying on the grass.The other women also cast their eyes on the wounded.Li Yuming's daughter-in-law was even more panicked and scared! Zhou Dayong thought about it again: "Is there such a coincidence? Maybe Li Yuming of our first company has the same name and surname as her son-there are so many such things!" He asked: "Old man, that Li Yuming from our company, when he was filling out the military registration form, said his father's name...what's his name?" He rubbed his forehead with his hands. "Ah, my name is Li Laoqian." The old mother said: "Well, his father's nickname was Li Laoqian back then, and later he took the official name Li Zhende. But there are not many people who call him by his official name!" Zhou Dayong said: "Ning Jinshan, you go to the mountain to watch, let Li Yuming come down quickly. In addition, you told Wei Gang that you need to worry more about putting on guard. " Zhou Dayong walked outside the kiln and stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the sky and the ravine in front of him. It was getting darker, and there was no one on the other side.The stream in the ditch was gurgling.The wind blowing from the desert roared on the top of the mountain, and a few sparse trees on the hillside were swaying. He put his hands in front of his stomach, pressing down on his clothes, which were swollen by the wind.He felt very cold, and thought: "It must be a few months in the beginning of autumn!" Zhou Dayong inspected the guards and came back to lie on the grass, feeling very disturbed.He had already sent a soldier and invited three fellow villagers to contact the commander of the Ninth Company, but there was no news yet.He heard the old mothers and women talking to Li Yuming in the cave next door, and the conversation was lively.He also wanted to go and talk to fellow villagers.Suddenly, a tall old man came in without saying a word.He walked up to the lamp until Zhou Dayong recognized him as the old man Li Zhende. Zhou Dayong jumped up and said, "Old man, I never expected to see you again here!" Old man Li Zhende's eye sockets became deeper, and he looked very tired.But his stubborn appearance, straightforward and stubborn temper have not changed.He said, "Dayong, hello!" He squatted on the ground, set up a pipe for tobacco, and struck a sickle. "Dayong, wherever I go, I meet you!" Zhou Dayong smiled and said, "Old man, wherever I go, I meet you there!" Old man Li was smoking, and the pipe creaked. "We have to walk the road we didn't take three times! Look, we have taken refuge in this barren mountain and cold ditch again!" After a while, he said again: "I came here to plan to take the people who took refuge here to Nanchuan. For a while, the situation changes from time to time, and no one can tell where there is peace!" Zhou Dayong said: "Old man, I received the letter you typed!" Old man Li didn't say a word.Like those who are old, he has a dull brain.He continued according to his own thoughts: "If the enemy doesn't call us Ansheng, he's almost finished. I came back from Yushan today. Yushan and the others gathered two or three thousand guerrillas in the north of Qingjian City. They said that the enemy retreated Come down and tell him not to leave." Zhou Dayong said: "That's right, we want to get rid of all the enemies and let them know: Northern Shaanxi is not an easy place to come, and the people of northern Shaanxi are not easy to mess with! " Old man Li seemed to be remembering something important, his eyes were moist and his face was bright.He said: "Dayong, Yushan saw our Chairman Mao in Beimianchuan a few days ago!" Zhou Dayong proudly puffed up his chest and asked, "Really? Seriously?" Old man Li said: "Seriously. Our Chairman Mao even had a conversation with Yushan for a while. Yushan, when he mentions that he has met our Chairman Mao, he will explode with joy!" Eight Zhou Dayong closed his eyes dazedly.Immediately he was back in the cannon-fiery life.An enemy charged at him with a bayonet, he dodged the enemy's bayonet, hugged the enemy, rolled around, rolled down the ditch... down, down... The wind was roaring in his ears... He was startled, opened his eyes, and his heart was still beating wildly.But in front of him is another scene: Li Yuming's mother and three old mothers are busy under the lamp: Some sewed shoes for the soldiers, and some sewed the tattered trousers for the wounded.old mother-- Li Yuming's mother took off Zhou Dayong's shoes with exposed toes, and sat at Zhou Dayong's feet to mend.The shoes were full of mud and the needle couldn't pierce through. She kept grinding the needle on the white hair.Her eyesight was weak, and she rubbed her eyes while nailing her shoes.Sometimes, the twine on the needle fell off, and she had to thread the needle for a while.It seems that it is quite difficult for her old man to do needlework at night.But she sewed it stitch by stitch, stitch by stitch, as if, her own flesh and blood -- her son was going to go thousands of miles away, and she wanted to sew it firmly with thousands of stitches; stitch by stitch to sew her mother's wishes and instructions , Stitched with mother's thoughts and words, so that the son who is fighting in the mountains, south and seas, is safe, strong, and always thinking about his mother.Sometimes, she stopped her hands and looked at the wounded for a long time, listening to their groans in their dreams.In her dazed eyes, there were tears, and indescribable love and pity! There were bursts of gunfire from the north.The sound of artillery in the northwest was like thunder. The cold autumn wind lifted the straw curtains of the cave dwelling, and the light tongues the size of broad beans wobbled. The old mothers sometimes put their ears to each other and said something. They spoke softly and slowly, for fear of disturbing the soldiers.In this cold and silent broken cave, there is a warm feeling flowing.Oh, how much strength and how much life this feeling that flowed from the mother's great and benevolent heart gave people in the time of suffering! Zhou Dayong looked at the old mothers without moving.He felt as if he were in the midst of domestic life and felt peaceful and caressed.At the same time, there was a slight sound that shook his eardrums. This sound was like the sound of a spinning wheel in a farmhouse at night.Sometimes, he closes his eyes and wants to sleep again.He was so tired that his joints ached and his head was swollen, but he couldn't sleep well.He recalled thousands of white-haired mothers.He - Zhou Dayong, in the North China Plain, in the Daqing Mountains, on both sides of the Yellow River, in the north and south of the Yangtze River, how many fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers have met!In those difficult days in the past, some of them sacrificed their sons or husbands to save Zhou Dayong, and some saved a Communist Party member with their family's life.What are they doing?In their struggle to get rid of hunger, poverty and oppression, Zhou Dayong and his comrades were willing to go up the mountain of swords and never leave them until they were dying. Late at night.Li Yuming's mother straightened her thinning hair and told the other old mothers: "Take your steps lightly and don't disturb the children. Alas, they are exhausted!" They walked out of the cave lightly. "Bah! Bah!" Two shots rang out on Beishan. "Enemy--" a woman in her thirties yelled and ran in from the kiln door, holding a child and carrying a burden.She said out of breath, "Something's wrong! In this cold kiln in the ravine, the enemy is coming!God! "Then, many villagers poured into the cave. Zhou Dayong stood up suddenly and said, "My fellow! Don't be afraid, we will support the sky if it falls!" He twitched his eyebrows, made some calculations, and walked out of the kiln with his pistol in hand. Suddenly, a person rushed in the door and met Zhou Dayong face to face.It turned out to be a warrior.He reported: "Battle Commander, the comrades from the Ninth Company are here. Our ten comrades who guarded the prisoners also came back with them. Did you hear the gunfire? We almost had a misunderstanding with them." Last night, after the commander of the Ninth Company commanded the troops to get rid of the enemy, he sent people to contact Zhou Dayong and the others six times, but to no avail.Later, he knew that Zhou Dayong and the others were stuck with the enemy, so he led the troops to reinforce at dawn, but the enemy pushed back after several reinforcements.After daybreak, they had no choice but to hide in the ravine where the ten soldiers guarded the captives.That night, the commander of the Ninth Company sent another squad to contact Zhou Dayong and the others. They searched all night, but they couldn't find anything.When the rooster crowed, the commander of the Ninth Company led the troops to move to this remote valley, and happened to meet Zhou Dayong and the others. 九连连长带的战士们和营长周大勇带的战士们一见面，就挤在一块，说不尽的喜欢说不尽的话，仿佛他们不是分手一天一夜，而是一两年。 九连连长拨开人，三跷两步，走到周大勇跟前，挺起胸脯敬了礼，叫了一声："营长！"就什么话再也说不出来。 卫刚从山头上跑下来，一进窑洞门就喊："王连长！你们回来啦？真不简单！给你说，咱们周营长真有几下子哩。他说：经历的危险越大，获得的胜利也越大。千真万确，一点不错！" 周大勇指着身边站的李振德老人说："同志们，瞧，这不是李振德老伯伯！" 卫刚猛地转过身，两只手拉住李老汉的两只手，看老人那方脸、高颧骨、闪闪发光的深眼窝和那花白的胡子，说： "老人家，你越发硬朗了！" 李振德老人说："我算什么哩？瞧，你是多磁实的小伙子！" 李老汉把手从卫刚的手里抽出来，又说："你把我这一把老骨头都捏酥了。哦，力气出在年青啊！" 周大勇兴奋地说："卫刚，咱们第一连的战士李玉明，就是李老伯伯的儿子。李老伯伯一家人都在这里。" 卫刚两手一拍，说："嘿！这就太巧了。刚才宁金山给我说了这件事情，我还半信半疑。" 天明前的黑暗，慢慢地消退着。周大勇告别了李振德老人和老乡们，带上战士们和俘虏，绕道向九里山地区走去。Nine 今天是九里山阻击部队，日夜猛烈进行阻击战斗的第七日。五六万敌人，在两三千人民战士用智慧、勇敢和意志筑成的铜墙铁壁面前，不但不能前进一步，而且碰得头破血流。 被我军阻击住不能逃跑的敌人，大批地被杀伤击毙，饿死、病死、逃散的也不少。 敌人快垮了，也更疯狂了，从昨天黄昏到今天早晨恶战一直没有停止。敌人整营整团地向坚守九里山的我军举行轮番冲锋。我军从敌人手里和敌人尸体上夺来子弹，还击敌人。 我军，不分什么营、团指挥所，不分什么战士、干部，统统直接参加了战斗，在投弹、射击，在向敌人举行反冲锋。 我军阵地左翼的一个山头，是第一营昨天晚上从敌人手里夺过来的，现在他们坚守着。敌人集中了一个整编旅的火力，向这个小山头上作毁灭性的轰击。整团、整营的敌人向一营的阵地连续冲锋。到吃午饭的时候，第一营的战士们连续击退了敌人七次攻击，山坡上横七竖八地摆着敌人的尸体。 敌人伤亡惨重，但是并不死心，还在继续不断地猛攻：不讲什么队形，没有什么组织，士兵们在督战队的机枪扫射下，一窝蜂一样地向上拥。战斗一分钟比一分钟激烈。 教导员张培，勇猛地指挥战士向敌人反扑。汗水从他那瘦棱棱的脸上流下来；眼眉直立，脖子上发紫色的血管一条一条暴起来。他抡起驳壳枪呼喊着，带领战士们，反击突破我军阵地的敌人。 战士们又一次击退敌人攻击以后，张培和王成德跳回战壕。张培衣服敞着，手里提着驳壳枪。他脸上汗水混着泥土，看来，刚强、威武、有力，动作迅速而机敏。现在，他这样子跟举动与他平时的温和、文雅和腼腆的神态比起来，简直前后是两个不同的人。他说："王成德，我们把敌人打惨了！" 他看看手里的驳壳枪，又说："我这驳壳枪可真利索！一连打了七八梭子子弹也没出故障！" 王成德说："你给枪筒里再倒点油！" 张培说："冲锋枪比驳壳枪更好，以后打仗，我要使冲锋枪！敌人上来，用冲锋枪哇哇哇扫一梭子，嘿，真痛快！" 王成德悦："嗨，你脖子上流血了！" 张培用手擦了一下，说："小意思！王成德，再坚持半小时，天黑，我们就完成任务了！"他把驳壳枪别到皮带上，拿起镜子望着说："敌人又动了。看，左前方那个山头……""嗖--嗖--嗖--咣--"几颗重迫击炮弹在他俩身边爆炸。烟雾、泥土，吞没了他俩。 张培手一扬，把镜子摔在一边，跌倒在王成德脚边。 王成德一骨碌爬起来，抱起张培。张培脸色煞白，软瘫瘫地靠在王成德肩头，慢慢地又溜下去了，仿佛，他没有力量支持自己的身体。 王成德紧紧地抱住张培。他仔细一看：张培并没有负伤，只是被炮弹掀起的气浪摔倒以后昏过去了。 王成德说："教导员！教导员！"张培半闭着眼，一言不发。王成德紧紧搂住张培。他觉着，只要教导员不倒在地下，也就不会有什么危险。 突然，张培身子一挺，坐直，用手捂住心口，说："扶我一把！扶我一把！" 王成德把教导员扶起来以后，张培两手撑住战壕的胸墙，盯着敌人阵地，眼珠子一动也不动，嘴唇抖动："坚持半小时……坚持半小时……"敌人举行天黑前的大攻击。王成德率领战士跟敌人激战。 他们击溃了敌人最后一次攻击，天已断黑。在这一天战斗中坚持下来的人，鼻子、耳朵都让炮弹震得出血，脸让硝烟熏得漆黑。 王成德跳到战壕里，只见张培还站在那里，胸脯靠在战壕的胸墙上，头低着。 王成德扶住张培的头，叫："教导员！教导员！" 张培昏昏迷迷地说："坚持半小时……坚持半小时……"不晓得什么时候，他已经负了重伤，胸前和腹部满是鲜血…… 王成德手一招，有几个担架队员跑上来，把张培抬到救护所里去了。 团政治委员李诚从九里山下来，顺沟渠朝团司令部驻的村子里走。他浑身是泥巴，裤腿和衣袖让酸枣刺扯成一溜一溜的。他走到团部驻的村边，正好碰见代理营长周大勇。 "我们的三个连队都回来咯。"周大勇把几天来在敌人中间活动的情形简单地报告了一番，末了，说："真是兵败如山倒--敌人没有东西吃，士兵成群地逃散。我们回来，光是在路上拣的敌人士兵就有二百多名。" 李诚说："你们像孙猴子一样钻到敌人肚子里乱搅，给九里山正面阻击敌人的部队可帮忙不小啊！刘邓大军和陈赓兵团在中原打得很急，蒋介石像疯了一样要胡宗南抽兵增援中原；可是胡宗南说：增援中原？我连我都保不住！嘿，蒋介石和胡宗南也许一辈子都忘不了九里山。" 周大勇说："蒋介石忘不了九里山，我们更忘不了九里山，特别是九里山的人民。我们插到敌人中间，碰见了多少游击队啊！没有他们，我们是夺不住这九里山的。" 李诚说："我们所以有力量，是因为和群众在一块；离开人民群众，我们便一事无成，一钱不值。" 他俩肩挨肩顺山沟的小河边走去；警卫员和几个通讯员机警地跟在后边。 天黑得伸手不见拳。枪炮声，断断续续。敌人打起的照明弹，照亮了远处的山头。东北面黑糊糊的天空，忽闪一亮，炮声像打雷一样滚过夜空。 李诚说："敌人怕夜战，一到夜里就头痛！" 小河里的水哗哗哗地向东流去。他俩像散步一样，慢慢地走着，好像还边走边听小河的流水声。 李诚说："你走了以后，旅长经常给我打电话，问你回来了没有。他生怕你出了岔子！" "是咯，他总说我太年青！李政委，旅长这几天瘦了没有？ 你要见了他，就劝他多爱护身体。我本想去看他，同时把这意思告诉他，可是我不敢去，怕他克我。"周大勇咕咕地笑了。 李诚把周大勇的两个手腕摸了又摸，站在河边，不声不吭。 "政委，摸什么？什么也没有变呀！" 李诚说："你的心脏按照怎样的规律跳，那倒是永远不变的。可是，我觉得你瘦了！" 周大勇说："我想，说不定你的脸又瘦成三角形咯！"停了一阵，他又说："很多战士成了夜盲眼，晚上看不清东西！" 李诚问："你也成了夜盲眼？" 周大勇说："我呀，夜盲眼比别人更厉害！" 李诚说："我不信。你是有一副好体格的！"他转过身又说："到团部去，我让警卫员给你打盆热水，好好洗一次脚，然后再睡一觉。" "不。我准备马上回到营里去。" 李诚说："你的家你自然很想啦！回去吧，回去把卫刚、马全有、宁二子他们的英雄事迹写成材料送来。拿这些英雄事迹教育我们，教育战士！" 周大勇问："张教导员到医院去了？" "嗯。伤势很重！" 周大勇站在河边，望着那黑乌乌的九里山。他眼前出现了第一营教导员张培那个子不高而身体单薄的形样，那瘦棱棱的脸膛，晶亮的黑眼珠，温和的笑容，和张培往日战斗中那英勇刚毅而机敏的姿态。 "哦！陈旅长说，部队今晚十二点就出发。"李诚想起了这事。他把拳头提到胸前猛地向下一击，说："大勇，你快回去！我们要执行新任务：步步埋伏，节节阻击，把敌人埋葬在陕甘宁边区！"