Chapter 5 chapter Five

Because Pan Fusheng helped the "bombardment faction" who had disintegrated the "Royalist Organization", which was at odds with each other in the past, and was evenly matched with them again, the "bombardment faction" were all so angry that they gritted their teeth and were determined to fight to the end. The "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" has developed to this stage, and the rebels have been completely involved in the vortex of power struggle.Regardless of the "bombers" or the "Defenders of the Union", the only difference is that the core figures are all fighting for the so-called "regime", while the masses are all fighting for the so-called "justice".

"Regime" and "justice" are two words with very different connotations. Because of being called and driven by "justice", because the form of struggle has undergone fundamental changes, it is no longer thousands of people fighting against a few "capitalist roaders", but thousands of people fighting against thousands of people. The fight between the "big corps" and the "big corps" is a real battle of who will survive and who will die, so there will be scenes that can be called historical dramas.The indifferent fight seems to have a very solemn color.

The "New Dawn of the Northeast" did not give the "Eastern Red City" even a ray of hope. The death of Uncle Lu, the madness of Aunt Lu, the disappearance of the only son of the Ma family, and the "sheltering" of my elder brother did not put me, a Red Guard, completely out of the "Cultural Revolution".I, who used to sympathize with the "Royalist" Red Guards of the "8th and 8th Regiments", now sympathize with the "Bombarders". Soon I joined the "Bombard" organization in middle school, and I was a staunch "Bombard".

I was seventeen years old, no, I should have been eighteen that year, and of course I didn’t have any political ambitions, and I definitely had no ulterior political purpose in joining the “Bombardment Faction,” who sat in the nascent province’s “revolutionary camp.” The first, second, third, and fourth chairs of the "committee" are all things that have nothing to do with me.Like the Liangshanbo heroes in the film, it is definitely not my turn to be ranked among the top 108,000. It was not a sense of "justice" that led me to join the "Bombers", but a tragic spirit.

The tragic spirit is a kind of human spirit that often considers itself noble.And it often coexists with the destinies of the sad heroes.It works most readily on the minds of adolescents who yearn for romantic tics that display noble qualities.Drive them to be foolish, to go ahead and do stupid things, even to destroy themselves. On the day the "Eighth Eighth Regiment" was disbanded, a meeting of ten thousand people was held in the stadium.The leader of the "Eighth and Eighth Regiment" of the Kazakh military industry read out a harshly worded "ultimatum" from the Central Cultural Revolution.After reading it, the reader burst into tears.

He only said one sentence: "I am sorry to everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me." Then all the people wept.The cry went straight to the sky. I cried too.Crying like a child who has been greatly wronged and has nowhere to appeal. Thousands of people wept and sang: Wild geese flying far away, Please send a message to Beijing, "88" fighters miss Chairman Mao, I miss Chairman Mao day and night... On that day, I felt a tragic spirit that enveloped the venue. Maybe I have read too many literary works of tragic heroism, and they have subtly influenced my spiritual personality.The Decembrists in Russia, the Carbonari in Italy, and the Whigs in England all command my admiration for heroism imbued with tragedy.

The tragic spirit is the invincible spirit of defeated or doomed heroes. In the unprecedented farce of the "Cultural Revolution", like a trained dog looking for traces, I smelled the seemingly noble smell of "tragic spirit", and I went there full of preparation for self-sacrifice. The "Eighth Eighth Regiment" has evolved into the "Defending Union General". For all the old "Eighth Eighth Regiment" departments, starting from being oppressed, they may feel the joy of revenge and pride.But for me, it loses its tragic spirit precisely because of this.At the same time, it lost the appeal enough for me to fight for it.

This is like a contest between two boxers. My feelings can never stand on the side of the winner and share the pride of victory with him.And always standing on the side of the knocked down, wishing to share the pain of his failure.And I was never in the habit of imagining myself a winner in any area of ​​my life, always a loser.The pain of defeat seems to enrich my inner emotions more than the pride of victory.I even think that deep emotions are never born out of the pain of failure.The pain of failure is meant to be a deep emotion in itself.It is the twin sister of deep thought.The pride, elation, excitement, and joy of victory without experiencing the pain of failure are all insipid.I never believe that such victors have any deep emotional and profound thoughts worth discussing.

Between the "Defend the Union" and the "Bombard", I will of course join the camp of the latter. "Defending the Union President" represents a kind of sacred and inviolable power, and the "Bombing faction" represents an unyielding will to challenge.Just because the former is inviolable and much stronger, the latter's will to challenge is especially brave and heroic. The ultimate failure of the "Bombarders" is almost self-evident, so that its heroism shines with a tragic spirit from the beginning.The brave and fearless heroism combined with the tragic spirit without hesitation fit my character so well!I am willing to die for it.I feel that such a death is spiritually noble, and it is undoubtedly a "deserving death".

Several university factories occupied by the "bombardment faction" were besieged. In terms of all the powers it controls and holds, the "Defense Union" not only implements "dictatorship methods" against the "bombard faction", but also affects the family members of the "bombard faction". The grain store stopped supplying food to the families of the "bombardment faction". The hospital does not treat family members of the "bombers" and does not accept their family members to be hospitalized. Elementary schools do not allow children of the "bombardment faction" to enter the school gate.

The street committee does not issue any purchase tickets to the families of the "bombers".Don't do marriage formalities for the sons and daughters of the "bombardment faction".Babies born to the "bombardment faction" are not allowed to register. The "revolutionary committee", the "new proletarian regime", adopted Chiang Kai-shek's blockade policy against the "common areas" against the "bombards". The radio van of the "Defense Union General Manager" drives around in the "Eastern Red City" every day, showing off its might: A handful of gunmen, Nature doesn't change, sharpening the knife day and night, attempting to seize power, We are always ready to fight, Sworn to the death to defend the new regime... The battle song of "Defending the Union General" resounds in the "Eastern Red City" every day. The "Bombardment faction" adopted the "sad soldier strategy" and dispatched "range action teams" to cover family members and children to the "base area" in batches in the dark, and share weal and woe with them. As a result, many citizens gradually began to sympathize with the "bombers". The "Revolutionary Committee" and its "Defenders of the United Nations" were greatly disappointed. The "Bombardment faction" won the sympathy of the people, and changed from "strategic defense" to "strategic counteroffensive". The headquarters of the "Bombardment faction" located in "Ha Yiji" often sends out "range action teams" to provide food, coal, firewood, medicine, vegetables, and children's reading stationery for their soldiers and their families and children.Because "Ha Yiji" manufactures armored vehicles and tanks, when the "Range Forces" attack, armored vehicles and tanks will open the way. Armored vehicles and tanks drove to a certain grain store, coal yard, vegetable market or hospital. The agile and strong members of the "Range Squad" found their heads in a polite but dignified manner, saying: "We are here for the elderly and women. I will borrow food from you for the survival of my children and children." Or "Borrow coal", "Borrow firewood", "Borrow vegetables", "Borrow medicines"... They are like the martial arts teams of the Eighth Route Army back then, with short guns stuck in their waists, how dare they not borrow them? The timid one immediately nodded and bowed, and replied with a low eyebrow: "It's easy to say, easy to say, you can borrow as much as you want! Is there enough manpower? I'm not enough manpower, I will send a few people to help you load the car!..." Those who are daring may dare to ask: "When will I pay it back? I must have an explanation to my superiors!" "When will it be paid back? Wait until we seize power!" This is the usual answer. And he also wrote a "borrow" statement in a serious manner: Today I borrow one hundred bags of flour, one hundred bags of rice, and two barrels of soybean oil from a certain grain store.After the victory of the revolution, it will be returned in full. "Bombard the Faction" 1967 × month × day It is also necessary to solemnly affix the bright red seal of "Bombarding the General Headquarters". I also want to ask: "Don't lose it, keep it well, and when we gain power, use it to find us!" Of course, one hundred bags and two barrels are just symbolic figures. But there is one thing they do respectfully, they don't beat or scold, it's like "borrowing". The "borrowing" certificate says that as much as "borrowing" is written, as much as it is "borrowed", it will be moved.Never greedy. They're gone, leaving a pretty good impression on people.Some people even think that the "bombardment faction" is a well-disciplined "iron army" - "borrowing" things and leaving "borrowing" evidence! Isn't such an organization rare during the "Cultural Revolution"? The Rangers did little harm to the reputation of the Bombers.On the contrary, they painted various legendary colors on them who were attacked as "artillery bandits" by the "Defending Union President", and the common people still like them.The legendary color actually dilutes the seriousness of "class struggle". "The Rangers" brought many new stories to the "Red East".Common people are very interested in this kind of new stories.After tea and dinner, there are materials for the conversation.The common people spoke about these topics in the common people's language.Enrich these topics with their imagination.Romance with these topics. The "Bombardment faction" sometimes made the "Defenders of the United Nations" rush out of various "base areas" unpredictably, gather together and hold demonstrations.It was quite a spectacle: armored vehicles and tanks leading the way and pressing behind.Sometimes three or four vehicles are dispatched, and sometimes five or six vehicles are dispatched.Even their radio vans had welded armor plates.The black barrel of the tank is raised high, ready to fire "angry shells" at any time.The machine guns of the armored vehicles spun back and forth, left and right, staring at them. Although the "Defense Union General" has excellent guns issued by the provincial military region, it does not have armored vehicles and tanks after all.The Provincial Military District also has no armored vehicles and tanks.Therefore, when the "Bombardment faction" held a demonstration, the "Defenders of the Union" stopped their flags and drums, and never dared to have a direct conflict with the "Bombardment faction".The common people waited and watched, applauding his military might.In the minds of the common people, there has generally been quite strong opposition to the "Cultural Revolution".Common people often say to each other: "There is chaos on the left and right, and it is chaos after all. Let's let the 'Bombers' make enough of the chaos! The day when China is so chaotic that the 'Cultural Revolution' can come to an end." ! If there is no end!" In our school, the "Defender of the Federation" is in power.There are only dozens of "cannon bandits".We dare not expose our identities in school.We still have to participate in the activities of "Defending the Union".We can be regarded as the "underground members" of the "cannon bandits"!We often do small damage to the activities of "Defending the Union General Assembly", such as secretly changing the event time they wrote on the "Emergency Notice", hiding their flags, stealing their official seals, and tearing up their big characters Posting big slogans, cutting off their radio speaker wires, writing threatening letters to their leaders’ homes in the name of “bombing the faction”... We do these things, thinking that we are like the witty and brave Communists working underground in revolutionary movies Those who feel that they are fighting against the "white terror" are remarkable. We think that what we have done is still not heroic enough, it is nothing more than some things done by the Children's Corps during the Anti-Japanese War.We haven't even taken the risk that "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" took for the revolution! We yearn to experience real life and death. One day we got together for a meeting, and the heroes agreed—everyone agreed that we should join the Rangers of the Bombers. With a short gun in his waist, he stood on the pedal of an armored vehicle, ostentatiously, ostentatiously passing through the market, and suddenly appeared somewhere, slapped a "borrow" certificate on a table, and said sternly: "With the revolutionary Name! We borrow..." Or say in a stern voice: "Stop following the 'Defending Union President' wholeheartedly! One day our 'Bombardment faction' will gain power!..." What kind of boldness is that? Just thinking about all this makes us all excited!The important thing is not whether the "bombers" will be able to take power "someday".We are not interested in any bird regime at all!Whoever holds the power is the same to us anyway.The important thing is, what better way to show us that we are men of iron than being a "bombard faction squad"? "Range Squad"—much louder than any rebel regiment! So we bit our fingers one after another, and we co-wrote a blood letter requesting to join the "Bombardment Faction Team", which was carried by one of us.That night, I left a note at home - Mom, my comrades and I went to our base.We will fight bloody battles for the existence of our base!Don't be sad if I don't come back.It is a seven-foot man who can sacrifice himself in life and be a hero for thousands of years without returning home. This is a sonorous oath made by me and my comrades-in-arms! I quietly left home and joined my "cannon bandit" partners. After walking for more than two hours, I walked outside the "Harbin Yiji", touched the blockade of the "Defense Union General", and passed a sewer entrance. Chest-deep sewage penetrated into the enclosure of "Ha Yiji". The first "base area" of the "Bombardment faction" is in a state of first-level combat readiness.Four armored vehicles and three tanks stood in front of the gate in two rows, as if they would break through the gate with just one order.Thousands of people wore willow helmets and held big sticks, ready to fight.There were also more than 300 members of the "Range Squad", armed with live ammunition, who were divided into six or seven trucks, all of them had solemn expressions of fear of death, as if an arrow was on the string, and they would not shoot. It turned out that a "Range Squad" of the "Bombardment Faction" was attacked by the "General Defense Force" during the execution of the "special operation", and all of them were captured. According to the "insider" report, they have been tortured for several days and are still imprisoned in the basement of a certain university . They are going to rescue their comrades. As soon as we got out of the sewer, we were discovered and brought to a female leader. She has a handsome face and a heroic posture.Wear a men's cotton uniform with no collar insignia or cockade. She asked, "What are you doing here from the sewer?" We answered in unison: "I firmly demand to join the 'Range Squad'!" She asked again: "You are not the 'Bombers', why did you ask to join the 'Range Squad'?" We told her that we were "bombarders". "Who approved you to join the 'Bombardment faction'?" "No one approves, we sympathize with you, we approve ourselves as 'bombers'!" A partner answered plausibly. She smiled, turned to look at her subordinates, and said loudly: "Did you hear clearly? Even these middle school students sympathize with us! Is our situation really in such a state?" None of her subordinates laughed, and they replied in unison: "I am invincible! I am invincible! I am invincible! Fight in blood! Die!" She turned to look at us again, and smiled confidently: "Did you hear clearly too? The 'Bombers' don't think they are pitiful!" We scrambled to answer her, and it is precisely because the "Bombards" are unyielding under the suppression of power that we sincerely admire the "Bombards"!Since we have defected to the "Bombardment faction", we will never go back!We will fight with them and win together! We handed over the bloody papers to her. She looked at it for a while, seemed greatly moved, and passed it to another person. The person read it and passed it to the third person. Our blood books were circulated one by one in the queue of the "Bombers". Suddenly someone in the queue took the lead and shouted the slogan: "Down with Pan Fusheng! Save my comrades in arms!" The big sticks were held up like a forest, and thousands of people shouted repeatedly: "Save my comrades in arms! Down with Pan Fusheng! Down with Wang Jiajun! Down with the rat soldiers!" Wang Jiadao, the commander of the provincial military region, is also the deputy director of the provincial "Revolutionary Committee", so the "bombers" call the provincial military region "Wang Jiajun". "Han Lian Zong" defended the "Northeast New Dawn", and the word "shu" was derogated by the "Bombardment Faction" as the word "rat", so the "Bombardment Faction" called "Han Lian Zong" a "rat soldier". Our cotton trousers and cotton coats were soaked in sewage from the sewer, and they didn't notice until one of our partners passed out from the cold. She quickly ordered someone: "Take these little devils to the bath to take a bath, and find some cotton clothes for them to change into!" So we were taken to the staff bath of "Hayiji" to take a bath. When we finished the hot bath and changed into the clothes of the "Bombard" children we found for us, we walked out of the bath, and the huge yard was deserted. We asked strangely where did everyone go? The person who took us to take a bath said: "Go rescue our comrades! Today is a large-scale operation for us, and we must give Pan Fusheng a stern warning!" We asked, why not wait for us. He said: "This is no child's play, it is life-threatening! The boss ordered you not to follow!" We came to them just to risk our lives a few times, and we caught up with such an opportunity but didn't let us go!We were regretful and angry, and asked which leader gave the order? He replied solemnly: "It's the order of Mrs. Pan!" "Second Sister-in-law Pan? That Second Sister-in-law Pan from 'Hei Da'?" "Is it the second sister-in-law Pan who once collected donations for the families of the 'Bombardment faction' in front of the provincial 'Revolutionary Committee'?" "Is that the female leader who spoke to us just now?" He told us, exactly. We met "Second Sister-in-law Pan"!And even talked to her!We are all very honored!This slightly made up for our regret because we missed a chance to go through life and death. "Second Sister-in-law Pan" is even more remarkable than "Sister-in-law Ah Qing" in our minds, a heroine of the "Bombardment School" with both wisdom and courage! "Second Sister Pan" is her nickname.She is a student of the Chinese Department of Heilongjiang University.Not married.We don't know why she was called "Second Sister-in-law" by her "Bombard" comrades. Once, the radio van of the "Bombardment Faction" and the radio van of the "Defense Union" met in the downtown area.The so-called "enemies are extremely jealous".But that time the two sides launched a literary battle, not a military one. A male announcer was sitting in the radio car of the "Defense Union President", holding a thick broadcast draft in his hand, and read it out according to the script. Sitting in the radio van of the "Bombardment School" was "Second Sister-in-law Pan", who had no manuscript in hand. One side is a man, one side is a woman, one side has a draft, and the other side has no draft, and the advantage seems to be all on the side of "Defending the Union". Although "Second Sister-in-law Pan" has no manuscript, she is calm and self-possessed; The classics, like the text in the eyes.In a debate that lasted more than three hours from head to head, it was the "Defender of the League" who was willing to win!Citizens standing on the sidewalk on the third floor and the third floor outside applauded the "Second Sister-in-Law Pan". Amid the applause, the radio van of the "Defense Union President" retreated to a corner in embarrassment, turned a corner and drove away.