1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 205 What? Xuemin's death notice has arrived? (Request full subscription)
There is no laughter under the Arc de Triomphe, only endless tears!

The triumphant hero retired on the same day. He left with a whole battalion of vanguard soldiers, but when he returned...

Cheng Xuemin and others lined the road under the Arc de Triomphe that had been built in advance in the camp, looking at the returning heroes. There was no laughter, no applause, no celebration, only endless sobs and roaring tears.

The soldiers of the logistics regiment bought back almost all the Moutai liquor from all the counties along the border!
But our young heroes can't wait.

The martyrs' tombs in Malipo, which were already filled with graves, were added with more than 200 graves.

There was no grand farewell ceremony, no cheering and celebration after a great victory.

……

"Okay, okay, the call is connected! Xuemin and Xiaodong, you can start singing!"

Two days later, Cheng Xuemin's new song "The Wreath under the Mountain", the theme song, also spread throughout the frontier command post, and was sung by comrades and soldiers.

Cheng Xuemin and his delegation also sang songs to express their condolences to the frontline soldiers over the phone in accordance with the arrangements of the frontline command.

The call has just been connected to the command center of a certain regiment on the front line. The call has been connected!
The regiment headquarters on the other end of the phone was using a loudspeaker microphone to target our soldiers on various positions outside.

After hearing the voice on the other end of the phone saying that everything was ready, the political commissar Lao Hu signaled to Cheng Xuemin and Dong Wenhua that they could start singing!

The music of the music band next to us has started.

Cheng Xuemin and Dong Wenhua looked at each other and began to sing into the microphone on the phone.

"Maybe I'll never come back after I say goodbye, do you understand? Do you understand?"

"Maybe I will fall down and never get up again, will you still wait forever?
"If this is the case, don't be sad, we are on the flag of the Republic..."

At the front line of Koulinshan, the consolation song of the General Political Department's southern consolation delegation was rang out for the first time, but in this way, which made the cultural and art soldiers of each team of the consolation delegation feel very bored!

They are also full of passion and hope to go to the front lines to express their condolences to the frontline soldiers face to face.

Instead of singing to the frontline soldiers in the rear through a telephone line like now.

Boring!

Everyone was inspired and encouraged by the songs they sang, and volunteered to go to the front line, to the front line in Kuailinshan, to perform face to face for the soldiers fighting bravely on the front line.

The head of the condolence delegation, Political Commissar Lao Hu, also hid in the Maerlipo Command Headquarters and used a telephone line to communicate with the frontline soldiers. This was not the condolence model of their General Political Department Art Troupe.

Go to the front line, go to the front line!
The art soldiers of the General Political Department's Cultural and Consolation Troupe are also soldiers and can be frontline fighters.

At Lao Hu's insistence, the old military chief no longer refused, but instead fulfilled the request of the condolence delegation to go to the battlefield to express condolences.

At the same time, soon!
On March 1979, 03, the first phase of the counterattack temporarily ended with our victory.

But small-scale frictions ahead continue!

Now Malipo is the front line and Koulin Mountain is the first line, but the first line of the front line is the cat ear cave on the other side of Koulin Mountain.

Cheng Xuemin and his team had already dispersed in Malipo and were heading to various battalion and company troops in Koulin Mountain to give consolation performances. Their team was assigned to the ninth company of the third battalion.

Although most of the companies had withdrawn from the Maoer Cave and were resting on the Koulin Mountain front.

But the soldiers of the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion are still at the forefront of the Cat Ear Cave.

Li Shuanggang and his men wanted to take Yan Weiwen and his men to the Maoer Cave, but they asked Cheng Xuemin to stay at the Koulinshan camp to interview the soldiers who had withdrawn from the army.

"Xuemin, this is the order given to me by Lao Hu! Letting you arrest Lin Shan is our bottom line. You can't go any further!"

"You absolutely cannot go any further!"

Li Shuanggang would definitely not agree to Cheng Xuemin's request to go to Maoer Cave with him to express his condolences to the soldiers of the Ninth Company on the front line.

Originally, Political Commissar Lao Hu and the old chief of the Maerlipo forward command post wanted to keep Cheng Xuemin, a pioneer of reform and opening up, in Maerlipo for interviews and condolences.

We firmly disagree with this reform pioneer who braved the hail of bullets to go to the front line to interview and comfort Ku Linshan!

But under Cheng Xuemin's repeated requests, he agreed to go one step further and visit Koulinshan for two days to interview and comfort the people, and then immediately withdraw.

But now it’s better!

They have been visiting Koulinshan to express their condolences for three or four days. Their team is going to go a little further and enter the Cat Ear Cave to perform a condolence show.

Cheng Xuemin, the battlefield author who should have retreated to Malipo two days ago, not only has he not withdrawn yet, but he is even going further and is going to follow the others into the cat ear cave.

How could Captain Li Shuanggang agree to this?
When we were in Malipo before, Political Commissar Lao Hu repeatedly warned and instructed us to protect Cheng Xuemin, the war zone author, at all costs!
Two days after the consolation performance at Koulin Mountain, they quickly escorted the people back to the Malipo Command Center.

Li Shuanggang had made a promise to Political Commissar Lao Hu that he would definitely protect Cheng Xuemin's safety and would never let him take any more risks.

"Old Li!"

"Teacher Li!"

"Am I a member of our squad? Why can Gong Xi and Squad Leader Han, two female comrades, go up to express their condolences, but a grown man like me has to be sent back and hide in the rear!?"

"Am I, Cheng Xuemin, so afraid of death and cherishing my life?"

Faced with Li Shuanggang's refusal to agree, Cheng Xuemin also refused to agree!
We have already reached the Koulin Mountain line, what else is missing from going through the Cat Ear Cave one more time?

If you don't go to Maoerdong to perform during your visit to the south to offer condolences, can you still say that you have performed at the front line to offer condolences?

"Xuemin, no one said you were afraid of death or cherished your life!" Li Shuanggang was also furious, and then he tried to persuade her, "Xuemin, you are different from us! We are active-duty art soldiers, and we are also real soldiers. We will go to the front line without hesitation!"

"But you are different, Xuemin! Although you have been recruited into this southern consolation delegation, the old leader and his team hope that you will stay in Kunming!"

"Now Xuemin, you are awesome! Not only did you not stay in Kunming, you came to the Wenshan frontline like us, to the Malipo frontline, and now you are at the frontline of Koulin Mountain!"

"Really, Xuemin, you are already great, really great!"

"But next up is our General Political Department's art soldiers' last stop of consolation performance for the soldiers on the front line. You really don't have to go!"

"What's more, I promised in front of Political Commissar Lao Hu that I would never let you go up to the cat ear cave, and I would definitely escort you down in time!"

Li Shuanggang also almost roared like Cheng Xuemin!
"Yes, Xuemin, after passing Koulin Mountain, we will be at the forefront of the Cat Ear Cave. The soldiers are in danger of being 'taken away' by the enemy at any time. As a pioneer author, you really should not insist on doing so. Come with me and retreat!"

Old Yang, the cultural and art officer sent by the old leader, also stamped his feet in anxiety, and then said, "Xuemin, how about this!? I won't take you away either, and we will visit and interview the companies in the camps of Koulin Mountain?"

"Do you know how many of our soldiers are waiting for you to write your manuscript? We are writing it right now at Koulin Mountain and reading it to the soldiers on the spot!"

"Just don't go to the cat ear hole, okay?"

Facing everyone's persuasion, Cheng Xuemin didn't say any more nonsense, and just asked Lao Yang and Li Shuanggang who followed him, saying: "Lao Yang, Lao Li, what do you think of my shooting skills?"

"Uh?!"

Old Yang and Li Shuanggang were both surprised when they heard this. Li Shuanggang replied, "Xuemin, of course your marksmanship is impeccable! The old commander even praised you as a potential marksman!"

"Then Old Yang and Old Li, let me ask you another question. How is my close combat level?" Cheng Xuemin nodded and asked again.

"I know what you're going to say, Xuemin. Your close-combat shooting skills are impeccable, but that was all target practice on the playground, not actual combat!"

"And Xuemin, you've never been on a real battlefield, so what you say is useless!"

Li Shuanggang certainly knew what Cheng Xuemin wanted to say!
When they come to the frontline to give a consolation performance, these art soldiers do not just sing and dance, they also have to practice some frontline self-defense tactical moves!
For example, in terms of shooting skills, Cheng Xuemin and his consolation teams were arranged to have daily target practice, as well as other confrontational tactical action drills.

Nothing said!
Cheng Xuemin, this seemingly quiet and gentle pioneer writer, is actually not inferior to the frontline fighters in terms of tactical movements and marksmanship.

What’s even scarier is!
Cheng Xuemin formed a team with Li Shuanggang and Ge You, and used the "three-three system" tactics, which unexpectedly produced unexpected tactical results.

Not to mention that we won first place in the confrontation drills of all the teams of the consolation delegation.

Even in the confrontation with the front-line fighters, he was not at all inferior, which surprised and shocked the old leaders on the spot.

It was then promoted by the old leaders to the front-line positions, where it also achieved considerable results.

The one point, two surfaces, three-three system of tactics was actually proposed during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and was widely used in actual combat.

But what pushed this style of play to the pinnacle was this counterattack, and the jungle warfare of this counterattack. The three-three system of play combined with the jungle system of the environment really pushed this tactic to the pinnacle.

However, this was the Laoshan counterattack three years later.

As for the first phase of the counterattack, the three-three system has not been rediscovered and used in the jungle warfare counterattack.

Cheng Xuemin also came to express his congratulations for the performance. He read a lot of things about this battlefield in his mind and discovered this detail.

The time when the three-three system was in full swing was three years later in Laoshan, but now...

After knowing this, Cheng Xuemin did not immediately report this to the old chief of the Malipo forward command post, but first teamed up with Li Shuanggang, Ge You and the other two in the confrontation training of the condolence team, and directly talked about the actual "battle results" in the mountains.

After all, who was the first to propose and summarize the three-three system?
The situation in that era was extremely sensitive. No matter how favored Cheng Xuemin was, he did not dare to write a letter directly to make such a proposal.

Good thing!

Cheng Xuemin and his two cultural and art soldiers who had never been on the battlefield had achieved such great "results" in the mountain forest confrontation exercise, which immediately caught the old leader's attention.

Next, this strategy was three years ahead of schedule!
Three years!
Cheng Xuemin only hopes that the Malipo Martyrs' Cemetery will have fewer martyrs' graves than in his previous life!

"Old Li, you said it was just a drill, not a real battlefield!"

"But as a squad leader, I won't go to the real battlefield. You and Xiao Yan Geyou and the others will go with two female comrades?"

"There are six of us in our team, which is exactly two groups. If I don't go, who will team up with you?"

"No need to say more. I have made up my mind. I will not stay here and watch you, Lao Li, take the two female comrades up!"

"Both of the other female comrades dared to go up, why can't you let me go up, Lao Li?"

"Am I not even as good as a woman in your eyes, Old Li?"

"Old Li, I will never abandon you, I will never give up on you. Do you want me, Cheng Xuemin, to be a deserter in the face of battle?"

In the end, Cheng Xuemin swore rudely. This was not the way he should do it. If he retreated like this, how would the comrades from other teams of the entire condolence delegation view him?

After saying that, he just flicked his sleeves and walked out.

Outside, Yan Weiwen, Ge You, Gong Di, Han Qiaoyue and others have made preparations and are waiting for the decision in the house!
"Old Cheng, what's wrong? Why are you arguing again?"

When Ge You saw Cheng Xuemin coming out, he asked in a concerned voice.

"Also, Lao Li, can you ask them if they will allow me to be a deserter?"

Li Shuanggang chased out with a sullen face, looking at all the members of his squad in front of him, and roared: "Okay, Xuemin is right, never abandon or give up, none of us will be deserters, let's go to the cat ear cave together to comfort the soldiers on the front line!"

Accompanied by a roar from Li Shuanggang, he led five other literary and artistic fighters, including Cheng Xuemin, and rushed to the front line of the cat ear cave.

……

Yanjing!

At the same dinner table of the old Feng family, without the son-in-law Cheng Xuemin, the dining atmosphere was no longer there!

Feng Jiayou, who was unaware of the situation, was still counting the days, counting how long her husband Cheng Xuemin had been away!

"Sister, my brother-in-law has been gone for more than 20 days. Didn't he write to you?"

"How's the filming going over there? Didn't they say his part would be given priority and he'd be back in a month or so?"

At the dinner table, Feng Jiamu brought up things that were not relevant. She opened her mouth to ask about her sister, but was met with a big eye roll from Feng's mother.

"How can it be that fast?! The Northwest is still west of northern Shaanxi. Even if your brother-in-law writes back, it will take more than half a month on the road!"

Feng Jiayou soothed her belly and replied to Feng Jiamo with a smile.

"Right!"

"I just feel like something is missing without my brother-in-law at home!" Feng Jiamo nodded and echoed!
"What's missing?"

"I think you're missing the pocket money your brother-in-law gave you?"

Feng Jiayou teased her sister with a bad smile, saying that in the past, her husband, who was her brother-in-law, often secretly gave her pocket money.

This time I'll be away for more than twenty days, and I'll be missing my pocket money for three weeks. It'd be strange if I didn't miss it!

"Hehe, where is that?"

The sister-in-law Feng Jiamo chose to keep silent in annoyance. The other elder sister Cheng Wenxiu also wanted to ask her sister-in-law Feng Jiayou if there was any news about her brother.

After being asked this by Feng Jiamo, the elder sister stopped talking.

After dinner, when everyone went back to their rooms, Feng's mother asked Feng's father with concern, "Old Feng, do you have any news about Xuemin?"

"Big brother, is there no news?"

The eldest brother that Feng's mother mentioned is Feng's father's eldest brother. He is now in the front-line war zone in the south, and is also on the front line.

but!

"My eldest brother is on the front line in Guangxi. I can't make too many phone calls to ask about him. He is actually out of reach!"

“I only heard that after Xuemin arrived in Kunming, he went to the Wenshan front without stopping, and then he came and said he was at the forefront of Malipo!”

Father Feng also spoke in a very nervous and worried tone. In fact, after he got the news, he mentioned it to Mother Feng as soon as he came back.

"Going to Malipo again? That's the front line. How could Xuemin...how could he..."

Mother Feng was already frightened out of her wits, and she didn't even dare to tell her daughter Feng Jiayou about this!

"Maybe we can't keep it secret anymore!"

Suddenly, Feng's father suddenly told Feng's mother, which shocked Feng's mother so much that her face turned pale again. She asked quickly, "Old Feng, what's wrong? Why can't you keep it secret?"

"Could it be that Xuemin...he...he..."

If any news about Xuemin came back at this time, it would definitely not be good news!

Can't hide it!
Old Feng, you must not tell her that the death notice of your son-in-law Xuemin has arrived!
……

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