When I was a child, the place where we lived was called Huanyu, and the railway station was called Dayang qi. The place consists of a forest farm and an overhaul plant, with a small population. Under the management of the Daxinganling Special Economic Zone, it is 350 to 500 kilometers away from the Sino-Soviet border, which belonged to the border area at that time, and for outsiders to enter, they must apply for a border defense permit.
In the summer of 1968, when I was 8 years old, I saw many anti-imperialist and anti-revision slogans on the street wall, heard Soviet soldiers in loudspeakers, often armed provocations in our border areas, detained our fishermen and fishing boats fishing on the Ussuri River, and killed and injured our PLA fighters.
At that time, I didn't know when, even in the middle of the night, there would be a sound of anti-harsh air defense sirens, hearing that sound, our children were frightened and trembling, our legs were not good, there was a feeling of wanting to pee, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out. When the adults heard the alarm, they quickly ran outside the house and looked at the sky to see if there were any planes flying over. It wasn't until the air defense siren was lifted that everyone's hanging hearts slowly calmed down. Every time we see the nervous and serious faces of the adults, we don't know what happened, but we also feel the seriousness of the situation.
One day My father and mother took a few of our brothers and sisters and began to dig a large deep pit in their own vegetable garden, when my father used a pickaxe to plane the soil and dig with a shovel, and my mother took a group of our children to carry the soil outside the pit. On top of the big pit that was dug, it was shed with pine poles, and then put some linoleum paper on it, and then covered it with very thick soil, and after several days of tossing, finally this hole was made, it had an entrance and exit, and it was very dark inside, and a groove was dug in the wall of the cave, and a diesel lamp made of canned bottles was placed inside. Dad told us that this hole was called an air raid shelter, and that if there was a war with the Soviets, their planes would come and bomb our town, and our whole family would have to hide in it. Today, it seems that if a bomb really falls, there is no need to drop the bomb shelter, as long as it explodes near the air raid shelter, the air raid shelter will collapse completely, and the family will undoubtedly die if they want to hide inside.
At that time, each family dug holes of different sizes according to the number of people in the family.
At that time, in order to prevent the bomb from exploding, the shock wave generated shook the glass on the window, and everyone used a kraft paper bag filled with cement, cut it into a strip of paper, pasted the strip on the glass with paste, and pasted the yonago pattern. Each family's bulb also made a lampshade with kraft paper, so that the light does not shine outside, some people also make a curtain outside the window to block the light, while the curtain can also maintain the indoor temperature in winter, my family made such a cotton curtain.
In order to cope with the tense preparation environment, Huanyu Overhaul Factory set up a weapons research and development team, and my father was a fourth-level fitter, so he naturally became a member of the team. My dad and his co-workers were going to learn guns, grenades, and mine-making techniques. At that time, just in time for my summer vacation, I was clamoring to go to the second uncle of Qiqihar to visit the door, and my father was also going to pass through Qiqihar, so he took me with him. We arrived in Nenjiang first, and during the day they went to study, so they put me alone in the guest house and told me not to run around. A few days later, we arrived in Qiqihar, and my father sent me to the second uncle's house, and he went to Gannan County with his co-workers to continue his studies.
I went to the second grandfather's house with my brother, brother and sister to play together very happy, especially when I ate the baked cake made by the Nanwei Hotel, the golden yellow baked cake layer by layer, which was rolled with oil, salt, and peppercorns, which was so fragrant that the taste could not be forgotten to this day.
One evening, the uncle's family bought a few large watermelons, and the second lady said to me; "Xiaoli, there is no watermelon over there, now you will eat more", the watermelon is naturally ripe, not only very sweet but also sandy, I unceremoniously feasted a mouthful. As a result, in the middle of the night, looking for a toilet, looking for a toilet, looking for it can not be found, are about to put people to death, suddenly found a secluded place no one, it was easy to facilitate up, suddenly felt wrong, it turned out to be a dream, with a hand a mattress soaked, broken This is a urine kang. I wanted to lie on the wet mattress and dry it with body temperature, but it would be bright after a while, and I had no choice but to harden my scalp. The next day was a day of shame and didn't know how to face it. After dinner, I sneaked out of my uncle's house and went to the train station alone, ready to take the train back to my house.
After I left, the second uncle also returned home from his work place, Yarse, and he did not see me. He asked me where I went, and everyone said they didn't know, and then when he heard about my peeing last night, the second uncle said, "Broken, this boy is not embarrassed, I want to go home alone, everyone hurry up and go to him."
The 301 train from Qiqihar to the mountains could not depart until after 11 o'clock in the evening, I walked back and forth in the station bored a few times, through the station clock, I knew that it was still early to leave the train time, I also felt sleepy, so I fell asleep on the big wooden chair at the station. I don't know how long later, someone pulled me, I opened my eyes and looked, the second uncle was standing next to me. He said to me, "Let's go, go home and go to sleep, if the children don't pee, don't be shy, wait for your father to come back from Gannan, you will go home together", now think about the scene at that time, it is really a little afraid, if there were traffickers or I took the wrong train at that time, today I really don't know where I will be, although there is still a step to go down. A few days later, dad and they returned to Qiqihar from Gannan, and I returned to Huaiyu in the depths of the mountains with the adults.
Soon, thanks to the efforts of the weapons development team, the Huanyu Overhaul Factory really produced semi-automatic rifles, grenades and mines, and in order to test the performance of these weapons, we can often hear gunshots and explosions. I remember a Sichuan uncle surnamed Liu, who was in the process of making mines, happened to the other, and as a result, he was killed by the exploding mines.
One morning a group of our friends, walking to the east of the railway, saw a three-wheeled motorcycle with a few people, on a relatively flat meadow, spread a large white cloth, and then used the kind of newscom used by Wang Cheng in the movie "Heroes and Children", and kept saying something. At this time, many adults and other children came one after another on the side of the road, and the people in the militia headquarters all carried guns and stopped everyone from approaching.
After a long time, from behind the distant mountain came the roar of the plane, the plane flew over, first circled in the sky, when it flew again to the white cloth above the ground, suddenly jumped out of the plane a few white dots, after a while everyone found that the original jumped from the plane is a few people, the last one to leave the plane The white dot fell very fast, he was the first to land on the white cloth, and then the others also landed safely, these people landed after landing to pack up the parachute, Then I took a big bag and left with the motorcycle that came before. Later, I heard the adults say that this was a skydiving exercise.
Daxing'anling winter is famous for being cold, and the winter of 68 years is even more cold and unbearable, the stove is burning with garlic, the stove lid is burning red, and the house is still not hot.
At that time, my parents asked us not to go out at night to visit the door, telling us that if the agents were caught, we would not want to come back, so we were all afraid, and we could only obediently stay at home. It can really be said that the more afraid the more there is, when the South Mountain does not know when at night, it will rise a few signal flares, what colors are there, and the sound is very large, after a while the North Mountain also raised several signal flares, especially in the New Year's Period when the signal flares appear more frequently, adults and children are panicked, as if they feel that war is about to break out.
Sure enough, in March of '69, the self-defense counterattack on Zhenbao Island, which shocked the world, really broke out, and in this battle we successfully recovered the island occupied by the Soviet army and captured the world's most advanced Soviet-made T62 tank at that time.
As a result of our country's major victories in the war of counterattack, the tense atmosphere of war has slowly been alleviated, and the news of tension is no longer broadcast on the radio, and the signal flares that often appear have not reappeared. Memories of the Post-60s