Chapter 14 Chapter Four

Life, you say, is as light as wind, as light as water, sometimes as thick as oil, as strong as wine, especially when compressed into a cat's ear hole.Big life contains many true tastes of ups and downs, sweetness, bitterness and saltiness, but bitterness is listed as the main course of cat's ear piercing. Thanks to the word bitterness, there is an appropriate metaphor for cat's ear piercing life from form to content. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that it is the gall of life. The soldiers said that one year in the cave had exhausted the hardships of a lifetime. This statement is true.

Death is extremely painful.At the beginning of entering the cave, every second may be the end of your life. Zhang Shaofeng (acting company commander of the first company of the Laoshan Main Peak Regiment): When I was first in the field, I was the acting field leader of the volunteers. Our field was isolated and was only 200 meters away from the Vietnamese army camp, and the closest to our own field was more than 400 meters away.On the fifth day of the defense, April 28th, three years after Laoshan was recovered, the Vietnamese army began to shell sporadically at 4:00 p.m., and at 0:40 p.m., the shelling was intensive, and 280 rounds were dropped in ten minutes. , The number one and number two posts were lifted.A reinforcement class was divided into three groups to outflank it. Xiao Liu, who was on the 2nd, found out first and cried and reported that the devils were coming up. I also panicked.On the 4th and 5th, we also discovered the enemy's situation. We immediately detonated directional mines in several directions, ordered the artillery fire to circle around the position, and then used small cannons to hang in the middle. It took more than 20 minutes to subside.The enemy came up again at four o'clock, a big explosive package knocked off the No. 6 post, and the Vietnamese army went to the top of No. 7. Our people rushed out, cross-fired, and killed the little devil in 18 minutes. At 5:30, the enemy The third time to grab the corpse.Eight Vietnamese soldiers were killed that time.I made an exception from the volunteers and promoted the deputy company commander.

In the cat's ear hole, let alone anything else, even the fear is unbearable.One night, when it was windy, rainy and thundery, the agent touched a position of our company and saw a perforation by lightning, and then a burst of bullets shot in with lightning, and one soldier in the hole was injured and one was killed.Others let the agents dig out the hole along the telephone line. Rong Jiuhua (Training Staff Officer of Infantry Regiment D): I am on the second old mountain.Last time, in August 1984, 22 colleges and universities of the whole army organized a thousand graduates to go to the front line for internships. As soon as I was mobilized, I also signed up. As a result, I, a non-Party member, was the first to be approved.There was no time to prepare anything, so I set off in a daze.It was originally mentioned that the military department was conducting a period of training before the battle, but the army said that the war was urgent and went down immediately, and they were pulled on the playground like new recruits, loaded into a large truck, and then pulled to the front line.The few of us crowded in the car, we didn't know whether it was the cold, the bumpy road, or fear, and we were shaking so badly that we couldn't control it.If I just sacrificed like this, I feel such a pity, such a pity. The road of life has not yet begun, and the ambitions full of heart have not yet been displayed. I am really afraid that I will not be able to go back.Arrived at the regiment headquarters in the middle of the night, and then walked forward. At four o'clock in the morning, we arrived at the position, in Maoerdong, less than 100 meters away from the Vietnamese army.

At that time, the casualties were heavy, and one-third of them were killed or injured in three consecutive months.One of our students, Ni Hongru, was blown up by a shell. After searching for a long time, we found an arm and half a leg.There is also Su Jingzhou. When the train arrived in Zhengzhou, his fiancée was waiting to see him off on the platform. The girl was wiping tears while they were talking, and we were still laughing at them on the train.Car development, the girl kept crying, talking about the letter from the front.But we went to the military headquarters in the afternoon and went to the battle at night. Early the next morning, he died as soon as a shell came over, without writing a letter or leaving a word.We came back to Zhengzhou and saw that girl waiting on the platform again, so we tried our best to hide inside.She didn't find out until she chased him to school later, and she almost went crazy.

Death is good, suffering is hard.This famous saying was relayed by Lao Shan from Koolin Mountain and Faka Mountain.There is no pain in dying, but for those who are not afraid of death and do not want to die, they are always on guard against the god of death, but it is extremely painful.On the days when they are not attacking, the key to accumulating life for the Maoerdong people is to stare at the entrance of the cave, even blinking. There is a hole in the enemy, and there is an enemy in me, it is almost like two swarms of bees mixed together.The hole in the dark face is like the smile of death, maybe a hand will appear at any time, handing in a grenade, a bunch of grenades, and a blasting tube that are smoking.The chirping sound, the chirping sound of the mouse, the hissing sound of the boa constrictor, the swishing sound of the fox, all kinds of miso, swish, swish, chacha, chirp sounded together, and the black variations echoed day and night outside the cave.The temple-like splendor of the university gate, the solemn and solemn gate of the military academy, the dazzling colorful ballroom gate, the white goal of the green field, and every milestone-like gate on the ladder of life are pushed far away in an instant, and The black door at the end turned into a cat's ear hole to welcome the death god, and the highly concentrated life was suddenly drawn to the eyes.A thick life textbook, the person with cat ear piercing has to turn it upside down and read it from the last side of the last lesson.The young fighters who survived the cat's ear piercing are qualified to say to all the people in the rear: people can live twice in a lifetime.

Position 322 is in the middle of the Nala battlefield. Two-thirds of the hill is occupied by the Vietnamese army, and one-third is occupied by several outposts of our side.This is the position with the most fierce competition, the most lost and recovered positions.In June 1985, in order to retake the No. 1 post of this position "at all costs", more than 100 soldiers were built at once, and the several holes on the 322 had their own characteristics. Hole No. 2 is Paizhi, crawling down for more than ten meters and turning three or four turns before reaching the end.The inside is full of stink, foul smell, sour smell of sweat, musty smell, rotten smell, mouse smell, kerosene smell, smoke smell, gunpowder smoke smell, all ten smells are delicious, and you can smell a little smell when cooking. Can't eat, just want to vomit.Kerosene lamps in the wider hallway, rice sacks of kerosene next to the stove to the right, and rows of cans to the left—full of shit.This is a common sight for cat ear piercings.For the holes far away from the enemy, the feces can be processed overnight as long as they are stockpiled overnight, while those close to the enemy need to be accumulated for a long time. After the military industry delivers cans, the next part of such cans will be shipped. If there is no time to ship them, they will be handed over to the Many of the friendly troops who took over the positions have a considerable number of old stools passed down from generation to generation.The things in these boxes are often a delicious meal for the rats. They not only eat them, but also carry them everywhere. When climbing in and out of the second hole, this substance is indispensable on the knees and elbows.Once the second platoon leader was lying naked, and a Mr. Rat steadily crawled across his belly, leaving a fresh yellow trail exuding a peculiar smell.He was so angry that he raised his hand to hit but stopped in the air, and saw that the little animal was all yellow, and even his beard was stuck to his cheeks.When it rains, the excrement fills the hole and floats. After the water recedes, they protrude above the quilt and rice bag.A pipe leads to the outside of the hole, and a wine bottle with the bottom knocked off is fixed at the end of the pipe. This is the place for urinating. When urinating, people have to lie on their side, and if they do not get scratched by glass balls, it will cause inflammation.It is the happiest thing to go out of the cave to perform tasks. The No. 2 sentry chief Jia Zhengbao, after he got into the cave, closed his position at night and set up an ambush to come out several times.Of course, others came out even less. Jia Zhengbao said that he hadn't seen the sun or breathed fresh air for 105 days.

Hole No. 4 is called Water Prison.Soaking in hot springs is also a common sight in cat's ear caves. No matter whether it is a rock cave or an earth cave, there are almost no leaks or irrigation.Only some of the water is more than ten minutes or feet deep, and some are poured to the head of the cave and flood the neck; some of the water can recede after more than ten hours, and some can be soaked for several days or even ten days in a row.Even if there is water, you can't leave the cave, and you must stick to it.The man with cat ears pierced squatted and knelt in the water, tied his gun to his shoulder, and put the radio on his head.Unable to bear it any longer, he fell asleep in the water, his head drooping into the water, and was suddenly awakened again.When the water receded, the whole body was white and wrinkled, and the skin and even the limbs did not seem to be his own.

Cave No. 1 is not a hole, but a triangular gap in the rock wall, and the outside is built with woven soil.The lower opening can rub a thin person more than one meter deep, the bottom is 60 centimeters wide, and the triangular space is less than 0.3 cubic meters.It is too small, except for two naked little soldiers and a short weapon, there is no room for it. It cannot lie down, sit up, or squat down. Position, two people need ten minutes to complete the action together.This cave is changed every two to three days, and the whistle chief Xiao Zhao once persisted for five days and five nights.No matter how many days you are on the No. 1 hole, you cannot eat, drink or defecate.If you have to pull it, just pull it on your trousers, Xiao Zhao said.Cave No. 1 was only four meters away from the Vietnamese army’s cave, so they couldn’t talk or make any noise. After staying in Cave No. 1, some soldiers who snored stopped “playing music” while sleeping.It is impossible to fight in such a hole. People huddled inside, relying on the firepower of other positions to cover, and kept shooting around the No. 1 hole.A long gun is not allowed in time.Xiao Yi said, I was looking out through the crack that night, and the high plane of our Pianma firepower team hit a shuttle, and I saw that it looked like a group of fireflies were coming towards me, so I quickly shrank my head, puff puffs were hitting the knitting By the side of the bag, bang my face was rocky, almost killed me, so terrified.A post like Cave 1 has little military value, but it has political significance.People with cat ears pierced must stick to it.

After the most costly counterattack on the Laoshan battlefield in the past five years, the Vietnamese army blocked it violently with artillery fire, and the remains of the martyrs could not be transported down.It was the hottest rainy season, and the soldiers on the corpse field gradually turned into a suffocating atmosphere.The higher-ups issued a death order, and each party member would never come back unless he snatched two corpses!A small military worker who had just joined the party went up.Climb down the "Ghost Gate", pass the "Plum Blossom Pile", jump over the "triple jump", enter the "Tiger's Mouth", move over the "Ghost Seeing Sorrow", and rush to the end of the thousand-meter life-and-death line. The small military worker carried a corpse on his back Climb back.He was exhausted.The shells exploded in front of and behind him, and the bullets from the high-speed aircraft slashed in front of his eyes, he didn't care about these anymore. "Let's change, I'll be a martyr and you can carry me for a while." The little military worker said to the martyr on his back while climbing.When he crossed the thousand-meter life-and-death line for the second time and came to the martyr, he himself lay down.He didn't know how long he had been panting, but he felt that he should go back and return to the living comrades.As soon as he pulled the martyr's shoulder, Hula came down with a handful of flesh.He pulled again, and another piece of meat came down.He got up on his knees and used his hands to peel off the rotting flesh of the martyr's body one by one. "Good brother, I'm sorry for you, you have to accompany me to die again, I'm sorry, please forgive me, after I come back alive, I will burn incense for you every year..." Xiaojungong kept on blankly Tears, while putting the bones into the bag one by one from the paste-like pile of meat, he saw that there were still martyrs beside him, so he picked up a pair with his hands again.

This time, Xiao Biangong carried down two remains at a time. No one knows that cat ear piercings lack water.Life is inseparable from water, everyone knows.The lack of water intensifies the concentration of life. The No. 4 position was attacked by the enemy for three consecutive nights from May 2nd to 4th. On the first night, two of the three outposts were destroyed. Four of the seven buckets of water stored were blown away. All three buckets of water were used to put out the fire.There was still a small half of a soldier's water bottle. Seeing that the platoon leader's command contacted him, his voice was hoarse, so he poured it for him, but he refused to drink it.Wang Yongchao was shot by shrapnel in multiple places including his chest, and drank a sip of water while taking medicine.On the afternoon of the 3rd, the instructor Wang Ruyan led 17 party members to break through the artillery blockade and forcibly transport ammunition to the fourth hole. The platoon leader took out the half tank of water, and no one in the transport team was willing to drink.On the fourth day, the party member transportation team delivered construction equipment, but no one drank the half tank of water.On the night of the 4th, the enemy detonated a pile of ammunition points with more than 100 shells. Chen Yonggui was wounded and took medicine. He was the second person among the 14 comrades in the whole formation to drink a sip of water in three days and three nights.

In 1987, the per capita daily water supply standard for the front-line "material supply positions" was 1 to 1.5 liters, which was the best period in history in the Laoshan battlefield.Two or three catties of water per person per day, of course, can only be used for cooking, cooking rice and steamed buns is not acceptable, porridge and soup are just a luxury, can only cook dry porridge or paste noodles.But the effort standard of two or three catties is just an ideal.Certainly not in many cases.In the direction of Nala, in the initial stage of defense in some positions, three people used one bag of water (less than forty catties) for ten days, and the three people in position No. 29 were supplied with one catty of water a day.One hundred and sixty milliliters of water per person per day is only equivalent to one eighteenth of the normal human demand.But one eighteenth of this is still the normal supply, not counting the continuous shelling and combat. The soldiers at the 322nd position said that they only remembered one time when they took a sip of real water instead of eating. It was a malaria medicine that was given out. Fill a lid with water.When it rains, you can use a woven cloth to catch some water. The next half of the tank of water is covered with a layer of mouse feces, which cannot be wiped off even if you skim it. After a little precipitation, there is a layer of yellow mud underneath, and the remaining soup is in your mouth. The smell of gunpowder can also choke people's tears out. On the No. 72 position in front of the old mountain, it was not until the rainy season that people washed their faces and rinsed their mouths in the rain for the first time. There was a continuous shelling for half a month, and there was no water on the fifth day. After receiving the dew, I can pick up a small handful in one night, dry gnawing on compressed dry food, my mouth is full of bubbles, and my throat is like sand and saw foam.The recruit Wang Hongbin was thirsty, the squad leader saved half a jug of water, and asked the platoon leader to let him drink it, but he was embarrassed to drink it.Another six sentry positions were passed, but he didn't move a mouthful. He was standing guard at night. Xiao Wang was so thirsty that he shook an iron bucket and heard a water bottom inside. It was only when he realized it was kerosene that he was rolling all over the floor, foaming at the mouth.In the end, he drank the half jug of water to wash his intestines. Wang Xiaojing, the leader of regiment B, went to the front once, and the cave was as hot as the alchemy furnace of the Supreme Lord, at least forty degrees or even fifty degrees. As soon as Wang Xiaojing, who was wearing big underpants, went in, the sweat pores on his body immediately burst out. There was a big bead of sweat, and then dozens of streams rushed down, his whole body was like the front windshield of a car driving in the rain.He looked at the company commander's instructor, gasping for breath with his bare mouth covered in blood, and no sweat on his naked body.The head of the group thought to himself that apart from the blood and some water in their muscles, the rest of them were all dry.After turning around a few positions, he didn't sweat himself.When walking back, he reached a company headquarters in the back. He drank two jugs of water in one go, and the sweat immediately came off his body.After another company headquarters, he drank another pot of water, sweated all over again, and went to the battalion headquarters to drink hard again. Only then did Wang Xiaojing feel as if he had woken up after heatstroke. In 1985, a deputy division commander quietly went to Nala at night. The company had been without water for five days, and only half of the water was left in the five-jin plastic bucket that the company commander guarded day and night.The platoon leader called and said that a soldier was wounded in the chest, moaning and thirsty, and asked the company commander to saliva, but was refused.Seeing this, the deputy division commander said, I beg you on behalf of that soldier: spit on him.The company commander said: That's not okay, who knows how many days the shelling will continue, and no one can move until a sip of water saves a life.The deputy teacher said: Then I kneel down for you... Thirst makes people with cat ear piercing urinate less than once a day on average, and defecate once every seven to ten days, which can last up to half a month.Li Guochen at post No. 6 couldn't defecate for 27 days. The health worker gave him medicine, but he still didn't defecate. Later, the military doctor gave him another medicine, and finally he pooped out a little bit, small grains like sheep feces, which knocked the cans out. bang bang.Hu Yuhai, the leader of the eighth squad, said that every time he defecated, he felt a burning pain, and he couldn't pull it out. Every time he pulled it, it was like the last time he was tortured. It was also very uncomfortable to urinate. It lasted more than ten minutes at a time, and he couldn't get it out. The iron bar was stabbing, a little came out, it hurt like hell, and there was blood... In the Stone Forest Scenic Area to the north of the war zone, there are shellfish fossils for sale at the stalls, each for two yuan, and the explanatory text next to it reads: This is a fossil formed in the Permian period 270 million years ago. These fossils also show that , At that time, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau was a vast ocean... Fossils are biological remains or imprints preserved in rocks, a book written in stone that records the history of life from ancient times. How long does it take for a human to become a fossil?Our distant ancestors, the Pekingese, are fossils.That's half a million years.Modern science and technology have been able to shorten this process to about one half-millionth of a second.The atomic bomb that exploded in Hiroshima, Japan, with its ultra-high-temperature light secondary shot, instantly printed the final body of a person on the granite and turned the human body into a wisp of green smoke. This may be the latest fossil——preservation Imprints of life on rocks. Maybe there will be a cat's ear tunnel archaeology in the future, when people may use more advanced means to decipher and extract the information of life activities sealed in the rock formations under the red soil.People in the future may be puzzled: Human beings who claimed to have reached a high level of civilization in the 1980s actually still have people with cat ears pierced, and they still have such a harsh living environment and living conditions.At the same time, future generations may respect the ancestors. The elasticity of life has been compressed to such a degree that it is close to zero. Under the conditions equal to or even lower than that of animals, the tenacity and tenacity of the vitality embodied by the cat-eared people make people People are amazed.