Yuan Jie, secretary of the Party branch of Jinhua Pharmaceutical Company, has a different temperament from ordinary people. He stands tall and straight, sits upright, and walks as light as the wind. For a veteran who joined the army at the age of 18 , went to the battlefield, and has ten years of military service, many things have been deeply integrated into the bone marrow and will never change.
Yuan Jie's Front Line Story
1982
, Yuan Jie's Nanjing Military Region Air Force Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment received orders to go to the front line of Guangxi's self-defense counterattack against Vietnam to undertake air defense tasks. From Hangzhou, which is still in the cold winter, to Ningming, Guangxi, which is in the subtropical zone, I walked all the way to reduce my clothes. When I arrived at my destination, my winter clothes had been taken off into vests.
As soon as he was stationed, Yuan Jie, who was the platoon leader of the outside line in the command company, was called to the command post. The head of the regiment ordered that within one month all the 140-50-kilometer backup lines between the defense areas of the whole regiment must be re-laid. Smooth communication is the most important prerequisite for the war. The original line was erected in 1979
, which can no longer meet the communication needs. After receiving the task, Yuan Jie left one shift to watch the house and took two shifts to carry out the task.
Guangxi is mountainous, and the actual distance to be traveled is much longer than the kilometers on the map. Military communication lines must be safe, and most of them have to climb mountains. Every morning, Yuan Jie led the soldiers to carry the wire reel out of the house. He went back to the camp at one or two o'clock in the afternoon after lunch and went out again. He could not rest until dark at eight or nine o'clock. We can't count how many ditches and hurdles we have climbed in those days. However, one of the most impressive places for Yuan Jie is in Friendship Pass.
Friendship Pass is not far from the border between China and Vietnam. It was originally called "Zhennan Pass". It was once a place where the Chinese and Vietnamese people resisted the invasion of French colonists. It was also the main channel for China to fight against the United States and aid Vietnam. At that time, it became the front line of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. The communication line from Pingxiang to Youyiguan straddles the railway and has to be erected on two 10-or 20-meter-high cement poles on both sides of the railway. As a platoon leader and skilled Yuanjie, he stepped forward. The cement pole is too high, the ladder used for stringing is not long enough, and the climbing board has to be used to climb up. In the bright sun climbing homework, it didn't take long for him to sweat like a pig. When the line was fixed and just breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly felt weak and his eyes were black. He quickly hugged the cement rod and did not dare to move. The soldiers on the ground were frightened: "platoon leader, platoon leader, what's wrong with you?" Yuan Jie shouted down with his eyes closed: "Don't come up, I'm dizzy, just have a rest." After a long time of "intimate contact" with the cement pole that was hot by the sun, he managed to recover his energy carefully.
In this way, the outer line platoon took 25
days and successfully completed the task of re-laying the double line. Yuan Jie also received a notice of commendation from the regimental headquarters.
Because the task of the anti-aircraft artillery force is air defense, the barracks and positions are still tens of kilometers away from the border, and there will be no chance of squatting in the "cat's ear hole" and engaging in close combat with the enemy. However, Yuan Jie has two experiences of acting as a local supervisor. Not only are the conditions difficult, but he must also be prepared to face unpredictable dangers at any time.
At that time, the self-defense counterattack was in a stalemate. Although there was no large-scale military operation, Vietnamese planes and agents crossed the border and harassed them from time to time. The Sino-Vietnamese border has a complicated terrain and many radar blind spots. In order to keep abreast of enemy aircraft movements, the antiaircraft artillery regiment has set up ten ground monitoring posts at the most prominent points along the border. As long as enemy aircraft are found coming out of the ravine, it will immediately report to the regiment headquarters: "X whistle has found a boom!" The position was immediately put on alert, and all radars focused on scanning the airspace near the X post. The local surveillance posts all went deep into the Vietnamese hinterland and were dozens of kilometers away from the regimental headquarters. Once outflanked by the other party, the large troops could not support them in time. Therefore, the regimental headquarters arranged ten soldiers for each post, equipped with a light machine gun, ten submachine guns, six boxes of grenades, and a 15-fold command mirror. The radio station was switched on 24 hours to keep in touch.
Yuan Jie's first acting sentry post was on the high side of a mountain, a very simple thatched shed. The boundary pillar was not far away at the hillside, and there was a Vietnamese sentry post on the opposite hillside. You could even see people walking in the command mirror. When he first arrived at the post, Yuan Jie was very worried when he saw the situation. He said what to do if the enemy touched him at night, but the old sentries didn't care: "No, we have a little yellow dog." On the night of the sentry post, it was dark on the moon and the wind was high. Yuan Jie was hiding in the grass near the sentry post, staring closely at the Vietnamese side under the hillside, although he could not see anything clearly in the dark. More than 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, he was sleepy, the little yellow dog suddenly jumped out of the nest and barked. There was a situation! Yuan Jie clenched the loaded submachine gun and thought that no matter what the situation was, he would sweep the shuttle first. The dog barked for about five or six minutes and went back to his nest to calm down, but Yuan Jie did not dare to blink for most of the night. Very not easy at dawn, he complained to the old sentinels that the dog was not reliable at all. The old sentinel thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he saw some beast, and it will bark." Well...
Speaking of beasts, the most common in the post are rats. Because the road is far and difficult, the regimental headquarters can only deliver vegetables once every half month. The weather in Guangxi is hot, and the vegetables will be bad within two days, so most of the potatoes and carrots that are durable in storage are sent. These things are undoubtedly very attractive to the aborigines who live nearby and live a poor life. Therefore, there are often rats in the outpost. They not only run around at their feet during the day, but also crawl around on people at night. Yuan Jie had the experience of being crawled from his chest to his face by rats. Despite the disturbance, Yuan Jie asked his comrades who delivered the food to bring rat poison up the mountain, mixed the rice and put it in the corner of the post. After only one night, there were 20 or 30 dead mice lying on the ground, only more than a foot long, which made people get goose bumps. The soldiers dug the dead mouse and buried it deep, and the night at the post was much more peaceful from then on.
In order to facilitate storage and transportation, the regular food in the post is canned food and compressed biscuits. Eat these every day. In the words of likui jy in "Water Margin", it is simply "a bird fades out of your mouth". As the top leader of the post, Yuan Jie certainly has to find ways to improve his food. We called everyone together to discuss and decided to take out the surplus food expenses and buy some meat in a small town 30 miles away. The glorious task of buying meat fell on Yuan Jie and Jiangxi Bing Xiaofang. I heard that the militia company in the village below the post had a bicycle. They ran to borrow it. Yuan Jie rode the bicycle and set off with Xiao Fang.
Cycling seems easy, but the mountainous areas are full of bumpy gravel roads with many slopes and many turns. They were walking around seven turns and eight turns. They encountered a steep downhill and even made a sharp turn. The car couldn't stop the brake. Before they could see what they hit, they even flew out with the car. I don't know how long it took, Yuanjie crawled out of the grass on the side of the road in a daze, and found the bicycle with the twisted dragon head and the small Fang who was still dizzy in the ditch. The two people with black face and broken skin discussed, "What should I do? The road is still so far away." "What can I do? The brothers are waiting for meat at the outpost." So they broke off the bicycle faucet and the two continued on their way. This trip, 60 miles back and forth, bought three or four catties of meat, ten big fellow eat clean, is to understand the craving.
At the border post, the biggest problem is not only food, but also water. The water at the sentry post had to go to a spring three miles away. The spring was too small, so one had to scoop it into a bucket and carry it back. It is not easy to get water, and of course it is economical to use it. Apart from washing dishes and cooking, each person can only get two or three tea jars of water every day, which are used for washing and drinking. On a hot day, this water is too little to drink, not to mention washing your face and bathing, and it becomes normal to have a peculiar smell on your body. One day, Yuan Jie couldn't help it. He arranged for two soldiers to stand guard. He took the others down the mountain for a long way. Finally, he found a small pond with the size of a palm. Everyone happily took off their clothes and jumped in. But it wasn't long before I felt comfortable, and one by one jumped up grinning-there were leeches everywhere. Very not easy to take a bath, got a red spot, many days to disappear.
As Vietnamese agents often crossed the border at that time, and there was an incident in the rear of the post where villagers were killed during tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival, the regimental headquarters strictly ordered sentinels not to enter the village for fear that some agents would mix in the village-many border residents on both sides had relatives and friends, so it was too easy to hide. The communication lines laid on the outside line have also been cut off from time to time. During the day, it was fine, but at night, he had to be fully armed to check the wires. Yuan Jie usually took four or five veterans together and drove out in a big truck to find the approximate location where the wires were disconnected. In addition to the driver staying to watch the car, the others loaded the bullets and slowly "touched" them, fearing that the enemy would set up an ambush after deliberately breaking the wires.
Acting Sentinel twice, adding up to about three months, Yuan Jie saw enemy planes flying over close at hand more than once. Maintain communication lines and beware of attacks by Vietnamese agents at all times. But these are not as suffocating as the head of the regiment. At that time, the Central Military Commission ordered that if the artillery was fired, the enemy aircraft must be shot down and must fall into Chinese territory. This is because if a wounded enemy plane crashes into the territory of the other side, the other side will make a fuss about China's firing into its territory, resulting in a bad international impact. The enemy also knew this, so most of them rushed into the artillery control area and ran away, repeatedly "touching porcelain". Yuan Jie heard of a real "joke". The enemy planes came to harass and flew into the range. The colonel was furious and waited eagerly for the liaison soldiers to repeat the battle instructions to the position. However, after much thought, the colonel reluctantly dropped the microphone because he could not fire the gun without 12 points of assurance. Yuan Jie said that many pilots in Vietnam were trained by China when the relations between the two countries were good. Some veterans could even recognize who was in the cockpit of the enemy plane. The feeling that they wanted to fight but could not fight was really annoying.
Although it was only a little more than a year on the front line, the experience had a great impact on Yuan Jie. Later, he changed his job and returned to work in the local area. No matter how difficult the work was, he always tried his best to finish it by all means: "No matter how hard it was, can we suffer at the front? We are not afraid to die on the battlefield, but are we afraid of this difficulty in our work?" This tenacity and persistence came from the baptism of war and smoke of gunpowder.
