Literary Master 1983

Chapter 87 April 4 (Laoshan plot ends)

Yu Qie met this commander while lying on the hospital bed in the small tent of the command headquarters' field hospital.

He didn't want to lie in bed, but the field hospital was worried that he had some unknown hidden injuries, so they blocked his sense of pain due to the burst of adrenaline... and gave him a full body examination.

In the past, there were soldiers who claimed that they were "in good condition and just wanted to sleep" after coming down from the assault, and then they started vomiting blood less than half an hour after coming down. It turned out that their internal organs had already ruptured.

Commander Liu was accompanied by some of the death squad members who were responsible for the Laoshan Campaign and the capture of the hilltop.

They took off their hats and saluted Yu Qie. How could Yu Qi dare to accept the title? He jumped up from the bed and said, "Commander, I don't dare to accept the title..."

"He doesn't dare to accept it... He said he doesn't dare to accept it..." Commander Liu looked at Yu Qie, with a sigh on his face. "If you don't dare to accept it, how many people would dare to accept it? What do you think, should we accept it or not?"

Inside the silent field hospital tent, a sudden and violent response rang out: "Dang!" "Dang!" "Dang!"

"There is a Thai commander who is coming to inspect our position. He wants to know why we were able to win. He wants to learn tactics and training... But I think he will never know in his life... Even if he knows, he will just pretend not to know."

Commander Liu's voice rose at this time: "I have something to say to them that is true. Due to political influence, I cannot tell them... But I can tell you that because they are fighting for the nobles, it was wrong from the beginning. How can they fight well?"

"Why should soldiers risk their lives for them? Why should such writers be born? Why should the rear guard unite as one?"

Then Commander Liu changed the subject and couldn't help but say, "I was a cattle herder since I was a child. When I was eight years old, I hadn't been to school yet. You are a writer. What kind of family do you come from?"

Yu Qie said honestly: "My father is a middle school teacher."

"What kind of royal relative is that Li Hai? You, a writer, are willing to carry a bamboo curtain for him."

Yu Qie said, “I don’t know.”

Commander Liu smiled and said, "I inquired about it. He was originally from a poor peasant family. His parents were in poor health and asked him to transfer to civilian work and retire as soon as possible... He submitted a report and said he would stick with it."

"——This bamboo curtain with the word '囍' on it has a hole in it, but I envy it so much. I want to take it away so I can lie on it when I'm old and feel the bullet holes on it. People ask me why I want a broken curtain?"

"I just..." Commander Liu began to choke up. After coughing a few times, he said softly, "I will tell them the story on the bamboo curtain."

"Now I will read and you write..."

These words were not addressed to Yu Qie, but were for the correspondent to write down.

"We are determined to launch a recovery operation of unprecedented scale and intensity under the instructions of our superiors. The main attacking divisions, regiments and infantry officers and soldiers are fully armed and waiting for the attack order! We will never let down the expectations of the hundreds of millions of people in the country, and we will never let down the frontier soldiers and civilians for peaceful production and operations. We not only have the invincible people's army, we also have the help of people from all walks of life across the country..."

“Salute to the people in the arts and literature world, salute to Yu Che, I say it again, salute to Yu Che!”

"Is it appropriate to convey my idea to the army headquarters? Ask them to approve it."

The result was very encouraging: "OK, approved."

A very handsome leader who was good at both literature and martial arts heard about this incident and said, "This young man must be as skilled in martial arts as I am and can beat seven or eight people!"

Yu Qie participated in this swearing-in ceremony and sang with everyone:
"stand up!
People who don’t want to be slaves!

take our flesh and blood,
Build our new Great Wall! "..."

“We are united as one.
under enemy fire

go ahead,

Braving the enemy's fire..."

When he sang the last few lines, Yu Qie couldn't help crying. Scenes replayed in front of his eyes: a group of lovely people, a group of forgotten people... about to brave the gunfire and throw themselves into an unknown battle.

On April 84, 4, just three days after Yu Qie returned from the Laoshan front, at 28:5 in the morning, tens of thousands of troops suddenly launched an attack after 56 days of artillery preparation. 26 artillery pieces fired loud noises, and shells flew towards Laoshan, covering 257 targets including infantry positions, artillery positions, command posts and warehouses in Laoshan and other Vietnamese Tien Phong, Ma Lin, Yang Wan Chuan Tou, Du Long and Jinping. Suddenly, half the sky in the direction of Laoshan turned red.

The artillery fire lasted for twenty minutes. Five hours later, our army captured the main peak of Laoshan. In the afternoon, we began to advance towards Chuantou Village and Balihe Dongshan, occupying more than 10 enemy heights.

It was already late at night, and the soldiers found the body of the killed Vietnamese and the useless radio station again on the northern slope of Laoshan.

It still rings alone:

"The other side... China... Now let me tell you a... popular... "

"Leave the battlefield...Return..."

"Letter from my fiancée"?
You have been physically denied by the author himself, so don't mess around with his reading comprehension.

This propaganda has now become extremely ridiculous.

Who fired the first shot?
If we count from the day Yu Qie opened fire, the battle probably started three days ago.

If we look at the time when the first propaganda loudspeaker was erected, it was shortly after the war began, when the two sides began to confront and carry out propaganda.

Several years of confrontation and more than half a year of persistence in the cave, most of the time was filled with silence, and the ubiquitous propaganda was used to attack or protect the fragile spiritual defenses of both sides.

Songs, novels, poems... all human works are used as new weapons to try to turn the other side. A powerful novel or a pack of cigarettes is more useful than a bulletproof vest.

If no one records it, it will be like an undercurrent under the karst cave formed during the rainy season. No matter how loud the sound was, it will eventually disappear.

After learning the details of the process, the war correspondent decided to write it all down in the Military Newspaper.

However, before he wrote it down, Liu Jiaju's "Laoshan Documentary" had passed the review of "Military Literature and Art" and would be published in early May; Zhu Shimao's "Laoshan Diary" was still being written and he would have to wait a few days to finish it.

The videos and photos shot by Sichuan Provincial TV, as well as the records of the cultural performance, have been published in the Military Daily and broadcast as news on TV.

The "Rat Hole Restaurant" photographed by Wang Min and the "Salute to Comrade Yu Qie" written in the "Note Game" were the most influential and fastest-spreading news.

The Battle of Laoshan was unprecedentedly glorious. The pre-planned combat objectives were achieved in just five hours. On April 4, people saw this news on the second page headline of the new issue of Renren Daily:
In five hours and twenty minutes, our army successfully climbed and captured the main peak of Laoshan!

In the following content, it was written in long dashes and small print: Military writers fired the first shot! Salute to Comrade Yu Qie!
(End of this chapter)