Original: Liu Weibing
Time was hurried, and in the blink of an eye, we ushered in the twenty-third lunar month, remembering that it was January 17, 1982, that is, the twenty-third night of the Waxing Moon, and the station of the fourth battalion of the 44th Regiment of the Ninth Division of the Railway Corps, which was responsible for the production of the Tonghuo Railway, was outside the Yingge Station of the Right Central Banner of the Inner Mongolia Branch, and the cold was overwhelming.
And the canteen is brilliantly lit, the wine and meat are fragrant, the heads are crowded, the cup of wine is happy, only to see a long table with hand-grilled lamb, whole lamb soup, Tuquan Daqu Gaoli board, the most eye-catching is the pot of red braised wolf meat. How can the twenty-third day of the lunar month be advanced to celebrate the New Year? Only to hear the deputy battalion commander speak to everyone; "Tonight is a special day, set up a banquet for our wolf hero Wang Denggao's comrades-in-arms, let's toast him with a cup of celebratory wine!" Only to see two fellow villagers dressed in Mongolian robes present Wang Denggao with a white hada," Saiyin Bainu, Yihe Baiyi Rila! To the effect: Hello, thank you! They were the leaders of Xizhelimu Sumu and the garrison, and with a deep friendship from the villagers, they sent sheep and Gaoliban Daqu to the troops, thanking the People's Liberation Army for eliminating harm to the herders. At this time, Wang Denggao was a little overwhelmed, thinking that he had not received such a high-standard courtesy when he was so old. Besides, I've never drunk liquor. He bowed to everyone vigorously. At this time, I saw Jin Hongtie, deputy regiment leader and chief engineer, walking towards Wang Denggao with a wine glass. "Xiao Wang only knows that your rail car drives well for so many years, but I really didn't expect that a young man who is usually honest and honest would dare to kill a vicious wolf?" I really admire you. We Koreans like to eat dog meat, but today a poinsettia of wolf meat, hey, it's more fragrant than dog meat. Xiao Wang, leave me a wolf leg, bring back Tongliao during the Spring Festival holiday, let my whole family taste what wolf meat is, and I will return to the regimental headquarters to report to the regimental commander and political commissar on your spirit and deeds of bravely fighting steppe wolves." Wang Denggao listened and said anxiously: "The old chief wolf leg is ready for you, but don't publicize it when you return to the regimental headquarters, don't make a noise, don't kill a wolf, it's not worth publicizing, please." If you really want to publicize it, just publicize my apprentice Lu Zhanli. "My eyes are wet. As everyone knows, he was frightened the night before and did not sleep steadily, and as soon as his eyes were closed, he was fighting with wolves, and he felt afraid in his heart. He was a notorious coward, and many of his comrades in the company were curious to hear the story of his fight with the wolf after hearing the news, and even the media of the Right Central Banner of The Branch came to interview him, but he politely refused. For many years, the story of the People's Liberation Army's night battle against steppe wolves has been passed down by herders along the railway.
Wang Denggao and I joined the army in the same year and were fellow countrymen, and when we repaired the Shatong Line in 1975, we knew each other when he and his master were staying with me. At that time, he was very thin, but he was very energetic, very diligent, and no matter what the master said about him, he always smiled. In August 1982, I reported back to the Huo line company from the Changsha Military Academy to take the rail car he drove back to the Ninth Company, the most remote cloud station in the regiment. Along the way, he talked and laughed, "You haven't been in the company for several years, you have to be mentally prepared, the more you go north on the Tonghuo Line, the more difficult it is, the traffic is inconvenient, the communication is not smooth, you can't eat vegetables, the surrounding area is desolate, there is no place to spend money, can you stand up?" When he said this, I really beat a drum in my heart, and I thought to myself, is it really that hard? The warriors can hold on, and so can I. I casually asked him, is it better to be better in summer than in winter? He said: "The inner Mongolian steppes are a bit like our hometown dams. But there are many wild beasts in the mountains, white felt houses and flocks of sheep, blue skies and white clouds, sand chickens, pheasants and roe deer, and red deer and wild boars," he said, so optimistic. When I heard that this was not very beautiful, I entered the wonderland of the world.
After the troops were rebuilt, I was responsible for the final closing and handover of the Tonghuo Line, Wang Denggao stayed in my section, we spent nearly a year together day and night, he was really kind, whenever night fell, we would nag at home. On this day, I was also curious to ask him why such a big thing as killing a wolf two years ago was afraid of publicity? He said: "The fellow villagers do not hide from you that I have been tugging at this knot in my heart for the past few years, and since I was a child, my mother has taught me to study well, to be benevolent, not to fight, not to curse, not to kill." Unexpectedly, this time we encountered wolves, and we killed a wolf king. Listen to the old man, the wolf is very spiritual, try not to fight with the wolf. Every time I drive through the wolf fighting area, my back always feels numb, especially when driving at night, and I am always afraid of encountering wolves to retaliate." I casually asked him, have you ever seen a wolf before? He said, "I have never seen it, but it is really hateful to always see the cruelty of cattle and sheep bitten by wolves." The Steppe Mongol Wolves are fierce and cunning, and they form groups to besiege their prey. There was a Gacha (Mongolian village or production team) in the south of the Yanwu Station Railway where herdsmen went up the mountain to carry the little wolf cubs home, and as a result, after the wolves surrounded the village for most of the night, when the next day was almost dawn and the people were sleeping, they jumped into the sheep pen and killed all 50 sheep and returned them to stack." My whole body trembled as he spoke. "In winter, the mountains are closed by heavy snow, cattle and sheep are confined, food is scarce, wolves are frequent, and it is common to search for food and plague herders." At this time, I remembered that in the winter of 1982, the wall of our nine-company pigsty was as high as that of a large pig of more than 200 pounds was driven away by wolves in the middle of the night, and when it was found, in the ditch where we were stationed, a big pig ate only the pig's head and four hooves. He said, "The wolf probably smelled the flesh on my car, otherwise the wolf would have rarely been on the railroad." Then he spoke with great interest of the scene that he would never forget.
"It was January 15, 1982, and my apprentice Lu Zhanli, (who was a Fushun soldier in 1982), we installed the fireworks of Kaishan in Tongliao, bought half a piece of pork, 100 kilograms of beef and fish for the camp canteen, and set off from Tongliao at five o'clock, wanting to rush back to Yingge Station early, about ten o'clock in the evening, staring out the window of the car was pitch black, gloomy and so lonely, a little sleepy, when I drove the rail car just past Xizhelimu Station, only to hear the apprentice Lu Zhanli shouted: Master you look ahead, then I opened my eyes and looked at it Suddenly, I found a few green lights in the distance, and I thought to myself, the big night will not be the animals of the common people, right? The car continued to drive for more than 50 meters, only to see two tall and mighty wolves shining a fierce gaze under the illumination of the headlights, the hind legs were slightly bent, the front legs were stretched forward, standing in the middle of the railway, posing a posture of swooping forward to do a battle.
At this time, if they roared, they would attract wolves around me, and I was terrified and my legs trembled. Ask the apprentice what to do? The apprentice said, come master I drove into it, he slammed on the accelerator, slammed into the wolf, two wolves flashed to the sides, did not collide, this angered the wolf, and stood in the middle of the railway, as if to duel with us, Xiao Lu fell backwards a few meters, rushed towards the wolf, resulting in a wolf on the right side was hit by the waist and legs rolled to the bottom of the roadbed, while the other, with sharp teeth, spit blood red tongue, stammered stomach, holding the big tail, straight to the food on the flatbed. The wolf has always been very stubborn and fierce, and the target it has identified never gives up halfway, and it is hungry like that bear, and it must fight to the death. We both had to wrestle with him, at this time, we pulled the rail car back tens of meters, and this wolf followed, and two paws climbed on the window windshield, did it really challenge us? Finally we discussed, kill it! Isn't this the encounter with the enemy on the battlefield, and if you don't kill it, you will be eaten by it. With physical strength, energy, courage and guts, the two of us can't beat a hungry wolf? Lu Zhanli took the car handle and jumped out of the car, and hit the wolf with a heavy iron rod, but the wolf was to no avail and pounced on him. Since childhood I have heard that wolves are brass heads, iron claws, and hemp rod waists. I made a clever move, my eyes widened, I roared angrily, I let you see the king of Yama go, and the two pickaxes went to the waist, only to see the wolf crawl on the rail track and spit out his tongue and scream fiercely, at this time Lu Zhanli looked at the wolf's head again, only to see the wolf stretching out his neck, his eyes were round, and a blood foam in his mouth was motionless. At this time, I saw that there was no movement around, which was a sigh of relief, and we both collapsed on the steel sleeper. It was freezing cold, my body was shivering, and everything that happened in front of my eyes seemed to be dreaming. This is how we fought the wolf. ... After many days, I heard the herders say that the evil wolf we killed was the leader of the wolf group that often plagued the herders. I'm much more comfortable with you today. Since then, I have never heard of the cattle and sheep of the surrounding herders being harmed by jackals. Wang Denggaozun did not kill from his mother's teachings, but he was a righteous act to eliminate harm for the people, and he was a great hero who stood up to the heavens and the earth, and from him reflected the fearless heroism and selfless sacrifice spirit of our railway soldiers.
The author was the former Ninth Railway Division
January 16, 2022
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