Literary Master 1983

Chapter 80 Cat Ear Cave (Part )

It turned out that a young soldier named Li Hai was lucky enough to be selected. He represented other vanguard troops in the rear to connect to the performance site. This soldier had just been promoted to acting platoon leader and platoon leader, and was currently undergoing adaptive training for the Laoshan operation.

When his superior asked him who he wanted to talk to, he chose "Yu Qie" without hesitation.

why?
The young soldier said, "Last year I wrote a letter to Teacher Yu Qie, and he replied, telling me to come back and enroll in university. I always remember what he said to me... He cared about me like a brother."

"Now ask me what my regret is? My regret is that I didn't get to see Yu Tangent."

Yu Qie immediately ran to connect with Li Hai. He still remembered this 19-year-old soldier with a high school diploma.

In fact, the consolation performance did not only take place in Laoshan, but also in other places. Everyone tried their best to take care of all the soldiers. There was a person who specialized in singing revolutionary songs in Fakalin Mountain. He recorded the live performance and played it to other positions by phone.

At some positions, where there was neither sight nor telephones, they would listen to recorded broadcasts on the radio, and when the electricity ran out, they would read newspapers - really, they even tried to have fun in the midst of hardship and made a "Cat Ear Hole Newspaper" and got playing cards for the soldiers to play with.

The TV station also has the video so that it can be broadcast to other follow-up troops in the future.

The call was connected, and the other end asked, "Is this Teacher Yu?"

"I'm Yu Qie, don't call me teacher, I'm probably only two years older than you."

Li Hai's voice was particularly immature and shy: "That's also a writer teacher. I heard that you were reading stories to the Seventh Company at the front line, but it was a pity that you didn't come to our side... They told me that you rewrote "The Letter from Your Fiancée" and gave a happy ending. I really want to know..."

"I didn't rewrite the ending. This is what really happened in our army. It's a true, loyal love! I'll read it to you right away!"

Yu Qie immediately called Gong Xue over, and the two of them jumped directly to the last few sentences, re-enacting the part where the injured staff officer and his fiancée expressed their love.

"Among thousands of lights, there is always one left for you... I will love you forever..."

"——Li Hai," Yu Qie asked, "Did you hear clearly? My story is fake, but this love is real."

There was a harsh noise from the other end of the phone, and Li Hai could only say intermittently: "I heard... it! Not only me... they all heard it..."

“——Sizzle——”

The sound was like a frequency-hopping radio wave, and Yu Qi wanted to throw the phone away.

Damn, he failed at the critical moment.

The instructor on the scene was quite embarrassed and explained, "Our army lags behind the Vietnamese army in communications, especially in the beginning. Our radio stations, walkie-talkies, command machines and other communication equipment were more than two generations behind the international advanced level..."

Yu Qie said: "Hasn't the war lasted for several years? The President of the United States has come to our country for a state visit. Could it be that he didn't get any advanced equipment from the West?"

I vaguely remember that we suppressed the enemy in terms of information afterwards. During the two-mountain battle, due to sufficiently effective electronic suppression, the Vietnamese command system fell into chaos and it was difficult to organize a counterattack.

"Of course there is, but such valuable equipment will not be used here," the instructor added.

It turned out that I usually use domestic equipment. The call lasted for more than a minute, and finally Yu Qie understood. At this moment, Li Hai was very excited. He was showing the soldiers on his side, who applauded and cheered enthusiastically because they heard Yu Qie's voice.

Those crackling sounds are distorted cheers.

"Bang!" The phone hung up.

Gong Xue said: "I just heard Li Hai talking about love?"

"Did he talk about love?" Yu Qi was stunned. Wasn't it me who said that...

"It seems, it seems..." Gong Xue was not sure.

Yu Qie thought for a moment, then looked up. OK… This small communication tent was already crowded with people. Liu Jiaju and others from Military Literature and Art were also here. Liu Jiaju winked at Yu Qie: “I’m an editor and a war documentary writer. I’m half a reporter.”

Yu Qie asked the commander and Liu Jiaju: "Can I go directly to see Li Hai? You see, as a writer, I should learn as much as possible."

"Feng Gong, Zhu Shimao and others have to go to other places to perform. I am not an actor. Although I won't perform anymore, I should use my feet more often and walk around more."

Liu Jiaju was of course willing, but the instructor had no say, so he reported the matter to his superiors one level after another, and finally found the highest-ranking division commander Jin, who said cheerfully, "Of course you can, but the conditions there are tough, so you might have to think about it again..."

"Can it be more difficult than this?"

"They live in the cat ear cave. Do you want to go?" said Commander Jin.

Moreover, Commander Jin persuaded Yu Qie: "For a novel, you have to go to the cat ear cave to collect inspiration. It is not only tiring, but also dangerous. Although the possibility of being attacked by the enemy is very low, we will not let you go to those places... But you slipped, fell off the cliff, were washed away by the mountain spring, or you were unlucky enough to be killed by sporadic cold artillery... It's hard to say."

Cat ears pierced?

Yu Qie had heard about the hardships of living in the cat ear caves. There were cat ear caves everywhere in Laoshan, both those of the Vietnamese and ours, all over the mountain, from the front positions to the rear... There were also some behind the positions, because the Vietnamese army would bombard from time to time, so everyone hid in them... There was almost no sunlight in the cat ear caves, and the humidity in the caves was high, which easily bred bacteria and viruses and caused skin diseases.

The soldiers took off their pants and were completely naked. Some shy soldiers cut their clothes into strips and tied them around their waists for a simple covering.

Commander Jin said: "We were at the foot of the mountain, and they had been confronting each other on the top of the mountain for many years. This Spring Festival, the superiors led female college students from the rear to the Laoshan front to express their condolences... When the soldiers saw that it was the leaders and female comrades, they were so scared that they immediately picked up their clothes and hid in the cat ear cave. When the leader saw this, he scolded the commander at the front, saying that he was a bad leader and had a bad style!"

"Even though you're a man, if you go in, you'll probably be scared!"

This incident really surprised Yu Qie. If the female students in the rear areas didn't know about the "Cat Ear Cave", a mountain wonder unique to the karst cave landform, even the military leaders didn't know about it, which showed that the publicity of this matter was far from adequate.

Division Commander Jin added: "Our artillery battles only started to intensify this year. Before that, who would have thought that we would have to live in caves? We just started to publicize this."

"Comrade Yu Qie, I have already introduced the situation to you. Do you still want to go and offer condolences?"

Yu Qie gritted his teeth and said, "I want to!"

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(End of this chapter)