In the spring of 1936, Lin Weixian, the battalion commander of the Red 28th Army Special Battalion who was fighting in Dabie Mountains, was injured in the leg and organized the battalion headquarters communications squad leader Li Bin and a nurse to take care of Battalion Commander Lin for rest. The place to rest is in the rear, and the so-called rear is a farther and more remote deserted mountain.
If you talk about scenery, this mountain cannot be called deserted. It is six or seven hundred meters high, with peaks and ridges, green mountains and green waters, pine waves, green grass, streams, steep cliffs, beautiful mountain scenery and pleasant scenery. In the words of Captain Lin, life in the mountain is a semi-immortal and has endless fun.
Is it impossible to verify whether living in the mountains for a long time? Captain Lin originally saw the two young comrades' faces dark and said casually, with the purpose of amusing, and he never considered scientific. But after laughing, the two caretakers still frowned.
No pot, no stove, no bed or bed, they seem to have returned to primitive society. Supply, that is, food, very little. The battalion department said that they would take special care, and in the end the three of them gave eight or nine kilograms of brown rice . When will this rice be eaten? I didn't say that it might take ten days or one or two months. Anyway, it's just this little rice, so let's eat it first.
Other daily necessities, as far as the standard of eating, this is quite complete, with iron buckets to boil water and cook rice, flint fire knife can make fire, and bowls and chopsticks.
The more headaches are the medicine, two pairs of plasters, a handful of broken cotton, and then there is nothing left.
But that's the case. Red 28th Army was strictly blocked by the enemy and frequently encircled and suppressed. It was not easy to get these things for several months. Thinking about the difficulties of the troops, they can only try their best to overcome the difficulties that are coming.
Fortunately, this kind of "mountain life" is harmonious and harmonious, with no lack of laughter and joy. Although Li Bin is only sixteen or seventeen years old, he is also an old subordinate of Battalion Commander Lin and is familiar with each other. The nurse is a new girl of eighteen or nineteen. She is not tall, has a long braid, has a beautiful face, is generous, and likes to talk. Within two days after coming, she was very familiar with Battalion Commander Lin and Li Bin.
Battalion Commander Lin is the wounded and the core of the three. He thought about everything very thoughtfully, especially liked to tell stories, saying that he had many joys when he lived in the mountains, which always made Li Bin and the female nurse laugh.
They live under a cliff rock stretching out from the hillside. There are two or three feet tall thatched around it, which is very hidden. Below the cliff rock is a flat slope that allows you to move freely. Sitting under the cliff, calm down and look up and down the mountain. The scenery of spring is indeed impressive. The spring breeze is pleasant, the pine trees are lush, the grass is green, and wild vegetables are lined up to emerge from the dry thatch, waiting for them to pick them every day.
But when you look away from this mountain, the scene becomes a little desolate. It is the busy farming season, and no one is seen farming in the surrounding rice fields and wheat fields. What is lush in the fields is not crops, but green grass. This reminds them that this is the place where the enemy once raged, and they have not seen any trace yet, but will come at any time.
This bad premonition became a reality on the fifth day after the three arrived.
At noon that day, they were chatting as usual, and suddenly they heard gunfire at the foot of the mountain. They immediately became alert and prepared to deal with the enemy's possible search of mountains. Where should the enemy get the news? I know that there are Red Army wounded soldiers recovering from the mountain, but their news came a little late. Just when Battalion Commander Lin came, there were still many wounded people here, but in the past few days they all left one after another. Now there are only three of them on this mountain.
Li Bin quickly ran to the hidden observation point and looked down at the mountain. But what he saw made him a little confused. The enemy fired the gun but did not climb up the mountain. Only a few enemies walked towards the mountain with torches that were emitting black smoke, and then threw the torches into the pile of thatched trees.
What is this to do? Li Bin was puzzled. After a while, he saw the black smoke rolling and the fire was rippling at the foot of the mountain. He suddenly understood that the enemy was going to burn the mountain.
He ran back to Battalion Commander Lin. They seemed to know that the enemy was burning the mountain.
Li Bin asked Battalion Commander Lin anxiously what to do. Although he didn't say it clearly, his meaning was very clear. He had to find a place to hide while everyone had not yet burned.
But Battalion Commander Lin said, "You can't move now. The enemy's intentions are very obvious, but you still need to observe for a while."
Li Bin thought about it and felt that the battalion commander was right. The enemy is watching online at the foot of the mountain, and they will tell the enemy to discover it as soon as they move. After burning for a while, the enemy will naturally get out of here when they find that there is no movement.
Things were progressing as Li Bin thought, not long after, the enemy did not see any signs of someone moving on the mountain, and they gradually ran away. But a big problem arises. The flames at the foot of the mountain have rolled toward the mountainside. The dense thatch on the mountainside, the dead branches and leaves piled up, dead trees, and the low oil pine are ignited with the fire, the fire surges sharply, and the flames soar.
The terrifying momentum of the fire made the three of them suddenly nervous. Li Bin was very anxious. He wanted to rush out. Maybe he could defeat a few more enemies, but what should the battalion commander do? The female nurse cried in a hurry.
Seeing the panic between them, Battalion Commander Lin said, "Don't be afraid. If the enemy burns all the trees on the mountain, can the stones on the mountain be burned? After burning this mountain, there is still a mountain behind it. The Red Army cannot burn all the fire."
Li Bin understood the battalion commander's meaning. He was warning them that if it was the Red Army, don't be afraid of the enemy, let alone the fire they set. The two of them calmed down slightly.
The fire became even bigger, and the crackling sounds of explosions were endless. The flames everywhere were like countless poisonous snakes spitting their letters, surrounding them from all directions.
Li Bin felt that it was not a solution to sit and wait like this, so he said to Battalion Commander Lin anxiously: "Let's carry you to a safe place."
Battalion Commander Lin immediately rejected his arrangement: "You two can't lift me, you can go first. When the fire comes, I have my own way."
Li Bin didn't believe this. If there is a way, how could the battalion commander ask them to leave first? Their duty is to take care of the battalion commander and not leave him alone. If you have them, you must have a battalion commander.
The female nurse was even more excited, scratching her head and jumping her feet, and tears fell down. She said, "If you don't leave, we won't leave." The battalion commander
smiled and said, "Don't be childish, don't burn you two just because I'm alone. You must leave." The situation in
was a bit stalemate. The fire is getting closer and closer, and if this continues, the situation will be out of control.
Li Bin and the female nurse retreated aside and discussed in a low voice. Both of them felt that they could not wait any longer and had to carry the battalion commander out immediately. In which direction should
be lifted? Li Bin also thought about this clearly, and he wanted to rush out against the wind and face the fire and go to the place where the fire burned. Apart from that, there is no safe place on the mountain.
These two soldiers, one is the correspondent , a sixteen or seventeen year old, and the other is a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old. At this time, it seemed that they were facing monsters that devour everything, and the previous nervousness seemed to have been shaken off because of this decision.
The two turned around and acted, opened the quilt and lifted Battalion Commander Lin up. Battalion Commander Lin was reluctant and asked them to put them down, but they no longer cared about his statement, pulled the two corners of the quilt and walked forward. Li Bin was in front, carrying the battalion commander's upper body and the female nurse lifted her lower body. This arrangement was because the upper body was heavy, and Li Bin was stronger than the female nurse.
But just two steps were taken, they had to stop. The tongue of flames rushed from all around, the smoke made people unable to open their eyes, and the heat waves made their faces hot. But these are not the reasons why they stopped, they are worried about the fire belt in front of them. The flames rose more than one meter high, and the fire belt width was less than thirty meters. They couldn't rush out such an amazing fire array in one breath. If you break in rashly, the consequences will be very serious. What to do if
? He glanced at the pine tree next to him and suddenly thought of a solution. What if a way out of the fire is opened? He put down the battalion commander and climbed up the pine tree and broke a few large pine branches. He held the pine branches and caught fire with the female nurse. He was surprised to find that it was really effective. The fire that was blown out immediately or becomes smaller. Continue to blow, and a path will flash out temporarily in the middle of the fire. They took the opportunity to drag Captain Lin forward and then continued to pounce.
just hits one by one, drags one by one, drags one by one, moving forward step by step in the sea of fire. Seeing that the two of them were so tired, Battalion Commander Lin insisted on crawling by himself.The embers of the path that were opened were not destroyed, and there was still a little red light. The feet were so hot that they were hot when they stepped on them. The two of them did not agree, but they could not help but Battalion Commander Lin's repeated requests, so they had to agree to him to try.
Battalion Commander Lin crawled two steps and couldn't move. The two carried him back to the sheet and continued to drag forward. Captain Lin was dissatisfied and asked the two to rest more. When it comes to rest, they really want to stop and sit aside, not to say anything else, just take a breath of fresh air. The two of them were so smoky that their eyes were so smoky that they burst into tears, their throats were hoarse, their lungs seemed to explode, and their hands were so hot that they could blister.
But now is not the time to rest. As long as you stop, the fire around you will come here. They will waste all their efforts and put them in irreversible danger again. Besides, the path is getting farther and farther away, and you can enter an overfire place just a little distance away. How can you stop here?
Not only did the two of them not rest, they were fighting desperately. One step, two steps, three steps... Finally, they rushed out and dragged Captain Lin to the side without fire.
Three people lay down on the dark ground, expressing endless joy. Li Bin and the female nurse gasped like a bellows, and it took a long time to calm down.
Li Bin asked Battalion Commander Lin: "Does the wound hurt? Didn't he hurt the wound just now?"
Battalion Commander Lin did not answer him, but said with some regret: "You are so tired."
The two of them were talking on the side, and the female nurse suddenly became high-pitched, sighing there: "This place is so good, it's so good to sleep here!"
What a good place is this, the ground is covered with black ashes and charcoal chips, and the burned plants and trees exuded an unpleasant smell of burnt. But neither Li Bin nor Battalion Commander Lin disturbed the female nurse's interest. They were both people who survived the disaster. They even thought the female nurse was quite reasonable.
When the two of them get up from the ground and look at each other with Battalion Commander Lin, they can't help but laugh. Who have they all become? They are all black from head to toe, and their ten fingers are like ten small ink sticks. Even the Zhang Fei with black faces on the stage is inferior.
They had a rare time of tranquility. The sky gradually darkened, the stars flashed, and the earth was vast. The fire was extinguished, but the embers were even more burning. The surroundings were extremely quiet, and the mountain wind blew up pine waves.
But such tranquility makes people feel a little annoying, because their hungry belly reminds them that the fire burns their pitifully small food and they are out of stock.
Maybe you can try your best to find some mushrooms and wild vegetables, but what should I do if a wounded person like Battalion Commander Lin? Without food, his wounds will only accelerate. After thinking for a while, Li Bin told Battalion Commander Lin and the female nurse that he wanted to go down the mountain to see the situation and find food by the way. This is also the solution that there is no way now, and they agreed.
After going down the mountain, for safety, he found a village with only two or three families. Seeing that there were no suspicious people around him, he walked into a straw shed and happened to meet an old man.
He looked at the old man, and the old man looked at him. The old man didn't speak, but he should have recognized who he was at a glance.
He walked forward and said that he was the Red Army who was behind and hadn't had dinner for two days. He asked the uncle to give him some food.
The old man sighed and said that the food had been eaten up long ago, and all the fish in the pond were asked to be taken away by the militia. But after looking at Li Bin for a while, he said he would look for it again.
This kind-hearted old man finally gave Li Bin more than two kilograms of rice, and Li Bin took it back to the mountain as if he had obtained a treasure.
The grain is for Battalion Commander Lin. Li Bin and the female nurse dig wild vegetables every day, cook wild vegetables, and eat wild vegetables. Battalion Commander Lin often deliberately left some porridge. You asked me and I asked you. Later, no one ate it, so he left it for Battalion Commander Lin to eat next time.
Li Bin also continued to go down the mountain, either to inquire about the situation or to find food for the battalion commander.
days pass by day. Sometimes the female nurse would suddenly cry and say that she missed her mother, and Li Bin and Battalion Commander Lin would tease her and ask her to sing. The female nurse likes singing very much. She is from Hubei and sang the Hubei minor tunes and tea-picking songs very well. The female nurse was happy as soon as she sang, and all three of them were happy.
They just persisted and guarded each other until more than twenty days later, the environment improved, and the camp sent someone to take them back.
