"Taihang Wind and Bone"—— Yang Yunxi's Memoirs 62

Attacked the black lump and was wounded and hospitalized

After the capture of the high ground east of the Black Tuo, there was only the main position of the Black Tuo on the west side of the East Mountain. Shizuizi, Naoma, etc. are all fighting fiercely, and capturing the black lump can relieve the worries of the future. Therefore, our troops wanted to capture the important position of the Black Pass with a fierce fighting spirit. Comrade Zhao And I took a platoon, carried by the former migrant workers to overturn the ditch, climbed up the slope of the loess path at forty-five degrees, and went up the Black Lump Heights.

The Black Lump is a circular highland that approximates a millstone, surrounded by deep ditches, and only a small road in the north extends to the road near Dayingpan, connecting with Taiyuan. There was a high wall on the position, and there were bunker fire points under the wall. Inside the walls were several reinforced concrete group bunkers, with a regiment garrisoned inside, accompanied by a gun group. The troops are equipped with machine guns and grenadiers in particular, and the shells are piled up there to hit at will, and there is an outer trench outside the wall that is 10 meters deep and more than 10 meters wide. Beyond the outer trenches there are tentacle bunkers at each junction. In addition, there was not much room for movement on the high ground, and we climbed up a path on the northwest side.

During the operation, there was a company in front of us, and when we went up to the top of the slope and made contact with the enemy's swimming platoon, there was a battle and the enemy ran. The tracking tracked down to a bunker outside the enemy's outer trench for about 10 meters, which was blocked by the outer trench of the barbed wire. Our guns quickly fell down and opened fire on the bunkers. Two shots were fired, and in front of 40 meters to 50 meters, there were no infantry, and it was really artillerymen who had to fight bayonets. The front could not be chased, and before the rear could come up, the enemy fired. They had a lot of cannons, and the rows of cannons hit the ground with a layer of black smoke, and in the humid temperature of the night, the smoke slowly disappeared like a dark cloud, and the enemy was still firing.

I suspected that the enemy had poisoned him, and returned to report to Comrade Zhao. Just a few steps away, in a small middle of the road, a shell landed on my left side, three or four meters above the ground near the height of my head, and I felt that my head had been exploded, and the smoke of the gunfire burned a little. I estimated that it must be finished, but I did not fall, I was still walking, touched the back of my head with my hand, saw a black hand of blood, I knew that I was injured, I wanted to continue walking as long as I did not fall. Seeing Zhao Overcoming standing on the ground, he reported the situation. The hygienist said, "You come down, I'll bandage you." "I suddenly fell on a curved mound, and the hygienist shook the flashlight and used his hand to feel a piece of elastic skin about one centimeter. He told me to take a look and bandage it quickly. I didn't think the shrapnel was big, so I prepared to go to the gun emplacement. The hygienist said, "Take a break and look at it." Later, it became more and more wrong, and his eyes began to be a little confused, and he also wanted to throw up, he said: "No, you can't go to the front, you have to go to the ambulance station." I said, "You should report to the chief first and ask him to greet the troops." After that, he helped me to the ambulance station in Banpo, and the ambulance station changed the medicine and said, "Hurry up and send me to the hospital!" "Just carry me on a stretcher, vomit for a while, vomit a while, pass the old grave village at the bottom of the ditch, take my coat and quilt at the rear of the company, and the Instructor Chai Qinglu also came out to see me." After that, I was confused, and the next day at about ten o'clock I arrived across the southeast river from Yuci, was admitted to the corps hospital, was unconscious and vomited, could not eat for several days, and vomited only bitter water. After a few days of medication, it slowly got better.

A man lay next to me, and after knowing that I was an artillery company, he said, "Oops! Are you alive? Others say you sacrificed! Everyone said that they had sacrificed a good platoon leader and felt sad. Because as soon as you come, the cannon can be fired accurately, so as to open the way for them. This is good, after being discharged from the hospital, I can be with everyone. "In the future, I can get up, the wounded know that I am sick and difficult, I can help each other, the light wounded help the work with compassion, do more public affairs, and the party committee will give me a first-class merit later."

During the hospitalization, you can hear the sound of guns and explosions on the front line at night, thinking that this is the siege of the city, and asked from the wounded who came down, saying that it was not. At that time, I was afraid that I would not be able to participate in the siege in time.

One night, after having gone to sleep, Instructor Wang Maofa came to see me, asked me about my injuries, and said: "The brigade party committee thinks that you are brave in battle, not afraid of sacrifice, very responsible, and personally participate in every battle, so I decided to restore your party membership!" In addition, it turned out that he didn't know you, so he let Fei Di become a company commander, in fact, you are a party member, the technology is better than him, after going back to pay more responsibilities, as a deputy company commander. "I said that I had no other demands, that as long as I was reinstated as a party member, it would be glorious to sacrifice myself." Before the Spring Festival, I left the hospital to return to the team, and I saw Bai Xichun in the coal kiln, and I only heard the familiar accent but couldn't see clearly, because the concussion vision was too weak. Then, it was the New Year at the coal kiln.