Chapter 50 50. A eulogy for the living

People thought You Jianhua was dead. His fellow villagers spilled the first glass of wine on the ground to mourn the demining heroes from their hometown. The fathers and folks in my hometown were distraught. At the end of June, You Jianhua went to Malipola to pull corrugated steel. He met fellow villager Xu Qinxinmin in the parking lot. When he saw You Jianhua, he followed a few steps forward as if he couldn’t see clearly. up. You Jianhua stepped on enthusiastically, but he stepped back: "Aren't you dead?" You Jianhua didn't answer, just stretched out his hand, but he didn't dare to shake hands, his expression was no less than seeing a person walking out of Malipo's tomb.

It seems that his death was expected, but his life surprised so many people. The comrade-in-arms laughed heartily: "Even the cremation team said you were dead, and you cremated yourself." You Jianhua did not laugh, saying that he died, which is not true, but the body of the cremation team is real. It was Mao Jianxin, an engineer who died not long ago. You Jianhua and him are fellow villagers in Jiangsu. You Jianhua: Mao Jianxin and I were in the same room in the training team. He practiced blindfolded until he caught a handful of gunpowder, which was exactly two taels, and a handful, which was exactly half a catty.

We visited the house together before joining the war, and the girl insisted on marrying him, but the family didn't agree. At that time, we introduced a carpenter to the girl, and she went to Jianxin's house.They got a marriage certificate, and it was very simple. We returned to the team together, and Mao Jianxin bought me a train ticket to Zhengzhou. On the bus, I wanted to give Mao Jianxin the money for the ticket, but he didn't want it anyway. Seeing that I insisted on giving it, he said, "When we come back triumphantly, can you buy me a ticket?" I agree, I mean what I say, and I will buy the ticket when I triumph.

Now it's time to triumph, and Mao Jianxin is gone, can I still buy this ticket?If I don't buy it, I will feel even more uncomfortable. I feel sorry for my comrades-in-arms. This is mental torture!But if you want to buy it, the person is gone, and the ticket is burned, what is this? Mao Jianxin’s hole was too close to the enemy, so he couldn’t go out to defecate. On the first night, he accidentally knocked over the basin he used to relieve himself. He was too embarrassed to admit it, and several soldiers scolded him. This matter was checked by the whole group. He died the next day, and the soldiers wept bitterly: "I took him for a check-up yesterday, so he just left!"

That was when enemy shells knocked down their post, injuring three out of five men.Sixth squad leader Wu Lin came to bandage Mao Jianxin, and Xiao Mao said, "There are still two people inside." After the squad leader finished bandaging the two comrades-in-arms, he found out that Mao Jianxin's leg had been blown off and he was bleeding profusely. He bandaged himself, but he was unable to tighten the bandage, and the blood was dripping. If Xiaomao is rescued first, maybe... His lover sent him a letter: "Whether I have a boy or a girl, the child will be named Aijun."

He had died when the letter was received. On this day, Liu Xuegong, chief of the publicity section, brought war reporters to You Jianhua's regiment, which is the main peak of Laoshan.They came to learn about You Jianhua's deeds. He was taken aback when he heard the intention, and then said: "No way, You Jianhua just came back from a mission." When You Jianhua came, he himself felt it was funny, his eyes were swollen from crying seeing the familiar Section Chief Liu, who didn't know that he had just touched the nose of King Yan and came back.Maybe it was the little soldier who was following him on a mission and thought he was dead, and cried so sadly that the caller had already sent the cry over.

It was in the early morning of May 20th. You Jianhua led two soldiers to the edge of the 40-meter cliff. The enemy was on the other side of the ditch, and the perforation was very clear.In order to cut off the sneak attack route of the Vietnamese army agents, it is necessary to go down to the bottom of the cliff. They carried eight backpack straps, and You Jianhua tied one to his waist and the other to his legs so that he could be lifted upside down.There was a small tree on the cliff, and the other end of the strap was wrapped around the tree, and the two soldiers dragged it down bit by bit.

The enemy also set up landmines on the cliff. If you slide down with your head up, your body will hit the mines, so you can only go down with your head down and your feet up, hanging down with the backpack strap.One hand must support the body and slide down little by little, while the remaining hand holds the lightning probe and probes forward one needle at a time. There are mines in the grass and stone crevices on the cliff. When you stick out, you bite the mine trip wire with your teeth and clear it with the other hand. The body was hung by the rope, swaying, the swaying range was too large, and the teeth had to be released from the trip wire quickly, otherwise it would really explode.

After stabilizing for a while, he bit and rowed again. He operated in mid-air with one hand. The movement seemed very clumsy. His strength was really exhausted. The thorns on the cliff and the sharp stones scratched his body everywhere, and his face was covered with blood. The rope was tied around his waist as if it was going to break, the first aid kit was tied around his waist, and the glory bullet was around his neck.Now my head is facing down, I can’t breathe, my stomach seems to be pouring out, everything is upside down in front of my eyes, the rocks at the bottom of the cliff are facing the top of my head, I always feel that the rope is no longer there, my head is in Falling down quickly.

He lined up eight thunderbolts in a row before going down to the bottom of the ditch. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stood firm, the enemy's artillery came over. The two soldiers above were very anxious, thinking that the enemy had discovered You Jianhua, that You Jianhua had been hit by a shell, and if he was "glorious", they should quickly pull him up, and they must not let the enemy take away the body. The two soldiers tugged hurriedly, exhausting all their strength, and the rope was quickly reversed in their hands, and You Jianhua, who was below, soared into the air, unable to support the cliff. Like a hanging bucket tied to the cliff, it bumped against the cliff, bumped against each other, and rubbed against the countless hard branches and sharp stones. It hurt him so much that he couldn't hide even if he wanted to. One foot climbed wildly in mid-air, and two hands scratched wildly, unable to grasp anything, and the hands were cut.

He was so angry that as soon as he was dragged up, he shouted: "I'm not dead!" He really wanted to scold the two soldiers, but when the two soldiers saw him, they rushed forward and hugged him, crying Get that sad, as if he really died. "I'm not dead!" he shouted again. The two soldiers still didn't let go, as if they were afraid that he would die. "Put it down, put me down again!" So he hung him down again, this time his head became dizzy, his eyes became blurred, and his heart became confused, as if the rope had been let down too fast. It was so dangerous that when he landed, there was a Soviet-made suppressing mine between his two hands supporting the ground, and he almost lost his head.At that moment, cold sweat broke out all over his body, and he became limp as if falling apart. I remember that when he first took over the defense, he first took five people to the field as trainees, and was assigned to the second platoon and fourth squad of an engineering company in a certain unit. When eating, he found that the whole platoon had only cooked for a few people.What about people?No one answered, and it was only after the meal that they learned that there were twenty-seven engineers lined up, dead and wounded, including a trainee, and only seven remained. Most of the dogs raised on the battlefield also had lightning wounds.A white dog in Sanlian saw a soldier come out to relieve his hand, thought there was something wrong, and rushed out, but was hit by a mine and became a "poliomyelitis". Once when You Jianhua was on a mission, the fog was so thick that he couldn’t see the road clearly. At an intersection, the dog stopped walking. When they saw that there were several tripping mines in front of them, and they were still connected with blasting tubes, if the dog didn’t come out today , maybe hit a mine. Later, he saw more lightning injuries from comrades-in-arms, which made him feel a sense of dereliction of duty in his heart. People rush forward with a sense of pride and responsibility, and he relied on this sense of dereliction of duty. Do risky things, but I'm afraid, so I have to go on. Needle by needle, he shortened seven steel probes, worn out eight pairs of liberation shoes a year, and discharged 1,101 Vietnamese army mines. That time when they set out, they passed through the minefield. It was too late to open up a path like the soles of the shoes. They could only dig out a hole in the mouth of a bowl, one hole per meter, and they walked on this kind of hole. The hole is small, and the heel cannot touch the ground. Otherwise, there is a danger of being struck by a mine. He stepped on this small pit with one foot, and a recruit stepped on the small pit over there. After reaching out, he wanted to hand him the directional mine, but he was only one meter away. Just one more step, You Jianhua He shouted, "Don't move!" The recruit stopped. He used a mine probe to pierce the ground, trying to find a place where he could land his footsteps, took the directional mine over, and discharged three landmines at the place where the palm of his foot was, and the recruits stood there too frightened to move. up. You Jianhua only landed on the front of his feet, and he couldn't take it anymore. His body was shaking a little. He wanted to put his heels on the ground and stand more firmly. But he knew that in such a minefield, he couldn't just drop his heels casually, and his eyes seemed to see that there were mines under his feet.First use the lightning probe to pierce the heel area, and you will feel it as soon as you pierce it. If there is thunder, first expel the thunder. You can see that he didn't move his feet, but he discharged seventeen landmines where his hands could reach. The recruits didn't dare to look at it, and covered their eyes with their hands and cried: "Platoon leader, we can't do it anymore, can we still come out?" You Jianhua said: "Don't panic, you can't make a wrong move, and thunder can't blow a hair on us." When the two of them stepped out of the last foot socket, they really had the feeling of stepping over the threshold of the Palace of Hades. That day, Section Chief Liu went to the regiment headquarters and officially heard the news of You Jianhua's sacrifice. He was extremely sad, and first scolded like crazy: Why didn't you protect him earlier?Could it be that he can't be a complete demining hero?He arranged so many mines and let him go in to take risks, is it because he is honest?After scolding, he cried, and after crying, he wrote a poem "Mourning You Jianhua". The next day, I took war reporters to interview martyr You Jianhua's deeds. It was You Jianhua who received him.