At the same time, crossing the border of China and traveling more than ten kilometers towards the direction of Vietnam, on the rolling mountains, if you look carefully, you will find some black shadows moving slowly, with a slight firelight, not bright, but enough to disperse some dark.
Groups of people were wearing dark green camouflage uniforms. Some were sitting by the fire, warming themselves by the fire. Some were eating cold, hard dry food that was choking their throats, swallowing it with difficulty. Some of the injured were bandaging their wounds. The pain was so painful that veins popped out, and he grimaced, but remained silent.
They are a company belonging to the 149th Division of Yun Province, Huaguo. This is their temporary rest station on the march.
"Everyone, take a good rest and refresh yourself. After twenty minutes of rest, we will continue our journey. We must arrive at Highland 798 before 11 o'clock tomorrow morning."
Order soldiers shuttled among the crowd, conveying instructions from above.
"Xiao Su, what are you doing sitting here!" A figure nervously patted the young man sitting in an open space, "What if the enemy detects this?"
"No, Brother Zhang." The young man turned around and smiled. The bright moonlight shone on his face. His facial features could not be seen clearly on his face painted in camouflage, but his eyes were astonishingly bright.
This person is none other than Su Congwen, who is remembered by his family.
"I've seen it. Although it's relatively open here, the mountains over there are blocking it, so I can't see it at all." Su Congwen explained, "I just want to sit here for a while."
"Oh." The man he called Brother Zhang sighed and sat down next to him, "Xiao Su, are you homesick?"
"Brother Zhang, don't you want to?" Su Congwen asked.
"Why don't you want to?" Brother Zhang carefully took out a photo from his pocket and handed it to him, with a look of pride and pride on his face. "Look, this is my daughter. When I left, she had just learned to speak. She could also speak... Call me daddy."
After finishing speaking, he paused and put on a sad expression, "I don't know if I can go back? Will my daughter still remember me after I go back?"
"I will go back." Su Congwen affirmed, "Brother Zhang, we must have confidence that we have the upper hand in this war. From the current situation, Vietnam has already shown a decline."
Although at the beginning of this war, China occupied more than 20 important cities and counties and towns in northern Vietnam in a short period of time, and claimed victory within a month.
Then the Chinese troops began to systematically destroy the infrastructure in northern Vietnam and then withdrew from Vietnam. After the Vietnamese People's Army withdrew from China, they also declared victory in the war. This further worsened the relationship between China and Vietnam, reaching its lowest point, and the war is far from over.
Brother Zhang waved his hand, "Xiao Su, I'm just a rough guy. My family is poor, so I chose to be a soldier. I'm not like you. You are a student at a military academy with a bright future. You shouldn't be like us." Get up and fight hard.”
The students who participated in the war at the Spring City Army Academy were divided into various companies. Su Congwen was the only military college student in their company. At first, people in the company only thought that Su Congwen was a weak scholar with no strength. It can be seen that After his brave performance of always rushing to the front, everyone changed their views.
"You are knowledgeable, educated, and understand a lot. The company commander has said that you are a high-level talent. You don't have to work so hard. You can just stay behind and make suggestions."
There was a look of envy in Brother Zhang's eyes, "If you work hard, maybe you can become a general in the future. We are different. We only have this fate in this life."
"Brother Zhang, whose life is not life? There is nothing different between you and me." Su Congwen looked into the distance with a smile, "No matter what the reason is for going to the battlefield, we have only one purpose, to defend Our country, protect our people."
Su Congwen applied to rush to the front line by himself. He is not a timid person. Now that he is here, he will not let his comrades stay in front of him.
"Besides, don't generals fight on the battlefield?" Su Congwen put his hand on his shoulder, "Brother Zhang, try your best to kill the enemy. Maybe you can do it too."
"That's true." Brother Zhang chuckled, "If I could become a general, my ancestors would be able to see smoke coming out of their graves. No, my ancestors could probably crawl out of the ground directly."
Su Congwen couldn't help but smile.
"By the way, Xiao Su, do you want to take a look at this?" Brother Zhang took out something like a magic trick.
Su Congwen's eyes widened, "Telescope? Where did you get it?"
"Yes." Brother Zhang looked excited, "The company commander said there is nothing wrong now. Let us take a look at the telescope we collected before. In just a few minutes, I snatched it from the hands of so many of them. Hurry up. "
"Aren't you homesick?" Brother Zhang pointed forward, "More than ten kilometers ahead is the border. I think we can see something."
Su Congwen was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Brother Zhang, the straight-line distance this telescope can see during the day is only 7 or 8 kilometers, not to mention it's still night, so it can't see that far."
"How will you know if you don't try?" Brother Zhang didn't understand this and put the telescope directly into his hand. "Let's take a look. Just think about it. Get as close to home as possible."
Su Congwen paused, "Okay."
He also wanted to be closer to home, even if it was just self-deception.
Su Congwen picked up the telescope and looked around. He thought it was just darkness, but in the darkness, he saw some spots of light, red, green, yellow, blue...
What's this?
Su Congwen was stunned. In his pupils, he saw those light spots rising into the sky, blooming, and falling.
This is...fireworks! Huge swaths of fireworks!
"Did you see anything?" Brother Zhang asked curiously.
Su Congwen put down the telescope, turned to look at Brother Zhang, his throat was stiff, and he asked impatiently: "What day is today?"
"What?"
"I said what day is today!"
"What day? Today is February 15th?" Brother Zhang was confused when he was asked, and then his expression suddenly became clear. He thought of something and his eyes widened to their maximum size, "February 15th, February 15th, today is February 15th." It’s New Year’s Eve!”
"New Year's Eve, it's Chinese New Year!"
Brother Zhang couldn't help but scream, but he still remembered to suppress his throat, but his face showed uncontrollable excitement.
It’s Chinese New Year? Su Congwen's expression was dazed and a little confused. Is it the New Year?
During the days of marching and fighting, for them, there was only one most important thought, which was to survive and return home alive.
It turns out that inadvertently, the New Year has arrived.
"Show me, show me." Brother Zhang anxiously took the telescope and raised it to look, "There are fireworks, they are really fireworks!"
As he spoke, his excited voice had a hint of crying.
The mountain breeze blows, and a long border separates people who miss each other, separated by more than ten kilometers.
Su Congwen took out his small notebook from his pocket. The corners of the notebook were frayed. He slowly wrote a line of words.
On February 15, 1980, New Year's Eve, at the China-Vietnam border, I looked at my hometown, and my heart went over the mountains.
