In 1924, a man survived in a ruin in eastern Poland. He took the matchbox out of his arms, took out the match and rubbed it gently, only to hear a "sigh" and the match was lit.
In the dim light, he groped for something on his body. After a while, a worn-out yellowed letterhead appeared in his hand. He slowly opened the letterhead, moving very lightly and slowly, for fear that he would accidentally break the letterhead. After opening, a series of Juanxiu fonts came into view, and under the dim light of the fire, the corners of the man's mouth raised a slight smile.
He cleared his throat and read the letterhead in his hand in frustration. This sound is particularly prominent in the silent air, which contains a strong sense of love and thought. It was a letter from his fiancée, and if nothing else, they should have been married long ago and should now have a child, a family of three living happily together.
World War I broke out and the Russian army was forced to get involved
The war broke out in 1914, and the man thought as he touched the marks left on the wall with his hand, and he took the stone and drew another horizontal line on the wall. This is so that I can know the time outside in this dark day.
In 1914, the world was in a turbulent stage, and every country sought to leave its own mark in the history of the world, especially the European powers, who sharpened their knives to pigs and sheep, the first to bear the brunt of germany at that time.
Germany became more and more radical, and the other powers certainly did not let people get their own interests, so the contradictions between the two sides gradually intensified, reaching an irreconcilable point, and the First World War broke out. At that time, Tsarist Russia was also forced to get involved in this war, and later joined the British and French allies. Tsarist Russia took the opportunity to attack Germany, and no one expected that the road would be extremely smooth, until it reached the vicinity of Berlin, Germany.
Germany counterattacked fiercely, and the Russian army suffered consecutive defeats
After the crisis in the capital, the German army on the front line reacted and immediately mobilized heavy troops, full of firepower, ready to catch the Russian army off guard. Unexpectedly, the Russian army saw the German army and met the cat with the rat, completely vulnerable. The Russian army was constantly surrounded and blocked by the German army, and it was exhausted.
At that time, the Russian army was beaten by Germany and fled all the way to the west, and seeing that they were about to be driven back to their hometown by Germany, the Russian soldiers wailed and cried, worrying about their lives every minute and every second.
But there was one exception, and that was Ashalyov, who had received a letter from his fiancée, which made Assaliov the happiest man in the army, and at this time he had begun to fantasize about retiring from the army and returning home, marrying and having children with his fiancée, and living together as a family.
Thinking of this, Asarev felt very happy, and at that time he was even more in love with his fiancée's letters, and when he was idle, he liked to take it out and look at it from time to time, and he usually loved it extraordinarily. Unlike everyone else, his greatest wish was to live to see his fiancée again. He didn't want to fight at all, he just wanted to live in peace.
At this time, Asharev naturally did not think that he would be buried deep underground for nine years, and he would not think that this letterhead would be his only straw.
Troops blew up the quartermaster depot and the Russian sentries were trapped for nine years
Asharev was a sentry whose duties were to guard an underground quartermaster depot. In the darkness, Asharev slowly lowered his head between his knees, and after half a moment slowly raised his head to warn his surroundings. Although you don't have to go directly to the battlefield, this task is very torturous.
One day, as usual, he arrived at the point and walked toward the depths of the mountains. When he reached the entrance of the quartermaster depot, Asarev found that a large number of explosives were piled up at the entrance, which made him frown and beat a drum in his heart. However, soldiers should not ask what they should not ask, and they should be more careful what they should not know.
He still walked into the quartermaster storehouse, but at the last moment of crossing the military quarters, Alyoshav looked up at the sky and always felt that the blue sky and white clouds were very beautiful, and the birds flew around in the sky.
If you had thought more about life at that time, or temporarily went to the toilet, would you have now lived the life of a hot kiln for your wife and children? Assarev in the darkness couldn't help but smile and shake his head, holding his hands tightly, as if this would bring warmth and comfort himself a little. With tears in his eyes, he remembered that he would never forget the explosion.
Assharev counted the supplies at the request of the commander, and then shuttled back and forth through the observation points to guard the surroundings. After a circle, Alyoshav sat down between the tables and chairs and rested for a while. He took out his fiancée's letterhead and read it carefully, his face hung with a vision of a happy life, and the hope in his eyes was even more eager to penetrate.
Suddenly, a landslide explosion resounded through the clouds, followed by a scorching stream of air, which directly stunned him alive, and the surrounding air was filled with sand, rubble, and loess, and the candles in the warehouse were even more shaky, and in a few moments they were all extinguished, and at the same time the shaking stopped.
If it weren't for the explosion, he wouldn't have been stunned, and he wouldn't have missed the opportunity to ask for help, Asarev couldn't help but purse his lips.
The explosion was ordered by the people above, and under the pressure of defeat and retreat, the soldiers had to bring important materials back to the country, blow up those who could not return home, or bury them on the spot, so that after a rectification, they could make a comeback. The general need depot was blown up in one fell swoop, so that the Germans could not find them and would return in vain. It was just that this order came down too "anxiously", and the guards hurried away, leaving Only Asharev in the warehouse to not know the truth in the cave.
Before the fuse was lit, the guards at the entrance to the munitions depot shouted inside, but unfortunately no one responded. In fact, this also blames Asharev for carrying a little ear, plus the munitions depot is too big. Finally the guards lit the fuse, only to hear a loud rumble, and Asharev was buried alive.
The Russian sentries were trapped in despair, desperately calling for help to no avail
I don't know how long it took for Asharev to slowly shake his mind from his coma, and he first moved his body slightly, and found that there was no light in the warehouse, and the surrounding area was even more frighteningly quiet.
Letterhead! Suddenly flashing in his mind, he hurriedly got up and prepared to grope, found it in his own hands, and his heart was suddenly relieved, so he did not care about the pain on his body, he folded the letterhead carefully, put it into his clothes, and then took out a box of matches from his pocket, groped all the way to find a candle and lit it, and slowly walked towards the tunnel entrance with the lit candle.
The road was full of mud, sand and weeds, and the tunnel was so quiet that even his own heartbeat could be heard clearly, and the closer Ashalyov got to the entrance, the more drumming he became, and he did not come for a moment of panic, and finally stumbled to his destination. The scene in front of him made his emotions of fear, confusion, and despair come to fruition, only to see the loess and rocks overlapping intricately, without the slightest gap.
Ashalyov was completely panicked, and he had to go home and marry his fiancée! His family is waiting for him to come home! He slammed into the solid earthen wall, slapping it desperately, his mouth pressed against the earthen wall, roaring outward, and his hands began to frantically pull open the rubble, trying to let the people outside know that there were still people trapped inside.
I don't know how long time has passed, Alyoshav is unsteadily holding on to the loess and rocks, even if he can't stand anymore, he is still insisting, his hands are also cut by the rocks and bloody, and the nail slits are full of loess and small rubble, but he still has an obsession in his heart, he must live, he must go home. However, because the munitions depot is so deep, every time the sand is dug up a little, there will be new fall. In the end, Asharev was unable to dig the exit.
At the beginning, Asarev simply could not accept that he was trapped in this square inch, shouting upwards every day, hoping that the well-wishers who had passed by would hear the voice and rescue himself. However, every time he got a dead silence, he was the only one in this underground, and he seemed to have been forgotten by the whole world. Each time he roared to exhaustion and had to make Asharev accept this harsh reality.
The Russian sentry regained hope in life through the letterhead
He remembered the last time he came to the mouth of the tunnel, that day, as if he had completed the task, he numbly ended asking for help, and he collapsed on the ground tired, he stared at this solid earthen wall in a daze, did he really have to sit like this and wait? Natasha? By the way, Natasha was still waiting for her. Asharev put his hand into his clothes and groped for the worn-out letterhead, and looked at the letterhead that Natasha confided in herself, and her heart burned with the belief that she must live.
At this time, as soon as Assarev changed his previous decadence and straightened himself out, his stomach was already hungry. Only then did Assarev realize that the dry food he was carrying had already been eaten. He got up slowly and walked all the way down the tunnel back to the warehouse, ready to find something to eat.
At this time, the warehouse was even more chaotic, full of sand and loess, and even the air was dusty, and Asarev carefully avoided the large rocks and walked out of the warehouse. Ashalyov stopped in front of a pile of black sackcloths in the center, lifted the sackcloths vigorously, and found many wooden boxes neatly arranged here.
With his intuition, Asarev was sure that this was the supplie he needed. After a sharp tear, sure enough, it was filled with biscuits and fried noodles, as well as boxes of canned meat. Assarev looked at the mountains of food, his eyes glowing with gold, and although he was already hungry enough to have difficulty standing, his instinct to survive revived him. I opened the can and devoured it.
Soon, Asharev was full of food and drink, and through the strength of eating, he also found tens of thousands of sets of military uniforms and daily necessities. Great, I can live here! Ashalyov looked up to heaven with another wave of thanks, thank God, and at his last moment he did not think of abandoning himself.
After that, Assarev became more aggressive, and in order to maintain the gas exchange in the warehouse, he dug several ventilation holes in the wall. Just when he thought everything would be smooth sailing, water became his biggest problem. The only source of water on his body was the military kettle he had brought down from the ground, but after this explosion, his kettle had long been destroyed.
In order to survive, Asharev began to search for water. Based on his many years of military experience, Asarev found traces of groundwater on a damp stone wall, which made him excited, so he followed the stone wall and chiseled a small pit with sharp stones below, and used this small pit to accumulate groundwater left on the stone wall.
Since the explosion produced a lot of dust, the water was black at first. Over time, the groundwater became cleaner and cleaner, and Asharev survived alone in the ruins of the ground for nine years.
Although everything is fully prepared, life underground is far from as easy as imagined. Every time Asarev was about to lose hope of his life, he pulled out his precious letterhead and read it over and over again, imagining that he might walk out of here tomorrow and return to his hometown, and his fiancée would marry himself in a beautiful way.
This beautiful fantasy gave Assarev great encouragement, and again and again pulled him back from the cliffs of life and death, so that his dry and lonely heart was once again irrigated.
In order to be able to greet his fiancée at any time with the best appearance, Asharev judged the day and night of the day through the light and dark changes of the ventilation holes, changed his military uniform every day, and then arranged for himself to exercise appropriately, while also carving out the past days with horizontal lines on the stone wall.
Stranded here alone, with no one to talk to for a long time, Acharev tried to name some items in order to alleviate boredom. These items became his "good friends" and had nothing to nag about. Among these objects, there is also his "wife", Asarev desperately shouting his wife's name, only in this way can he maintain a normal human mind. If you change someone, I am afraid that I will have committed suicide a long time ago.
With this strong emotion, Asharev survived nine spring, summer, autumn and winter in the underground ruins.
Nine years later, I saw the light of day and embarked on the journey home
In 1924, a major in the old Russian army named Porlensky led a team to identify the munitions depot at that time in order to be able to show himself to the Polish authorities after the defeat.
After hundreds of people digging together, the entrance to the tunnel finally saw the light of day. However, how could the protagonist Asarev not hear such a big movement? As soon as he heard a loud noise, he immediately got up, held the barrel of his gun in his arms, bent down all the way, and shouted low in the direction of the tunnel entrance. Although nine years have passed, Asharev is still holding on to the warehouse, and he has not forgotten the mission of a soldier.
Just as the two sides were about to begin the firefight, Ashalyov saw dozens of soldiers in strange uniforms holding guns at him, and Alyoshav looked at them like a savage, with a beard and dirty hair, in addition to wearing an unusually clean military uniform.
Asharev was surprised by this, learning from the other side that his country had long been a thing of the past, but the duty of the soldiers allowed him to expel these soldiers who were trying to invade his territory, and finally the arrival of Pollens made him completely believe in this fact.
With their help, the rejuvenated Asharev stepped onto the train home. No one knows what the outcome was, only that Asharev persisted for nine years, and this perseverance is admirable. And his sincere feelings with his fiancée are also extremely enviable.