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Not long ago, a certain Guantong brigade of the Eastern Theater Navy held a "New Year Tea Party, and in a lively atmosphere, New Year's greetings from the families of officers and men appeared on the big screen, and the finale was zou wei and Fan Zhengjun, two first-class sergeant majors who had recently left the unit.
In the shot, the two men are dressed in military uniforms without rank decorations, smiling and sending affectionate blessings. On the long coastline where the brigade was stationed, there was a warm applause from the military camps that participated in the event through video synchronization.
How long is 30 years? It can be 10,950 days and nights, it can be 15,768,000 minutes, it can be a person's youth, or it can be the affectionate watch of two veterans.
A few days ago, Zou Wei and Fan Zhengjun met through video and chatted about the past 30 years of military service.
The two soldiers of the same year in the same unit have met countless times in the past 30 years. 2 months before retirement, taking the opportunity of equipment inspection, the two made an appointment to meet on the island, and Fan Zhengjun said that he must take Zou Wei to visit the island.
Unexpectedly, on the day Zou Wei went to the island, Fan Zhengjun received a new task to leave the island. The two hurriedly made a face-to-face meeting, leaving only a group photo.
No need for tedious etiquette, no need for superfluous words. Their love for the troops, their dedication to their posts, and their attachment to the mountains and seas are like twin brothers.
In the past 30 years, although the two have met a small number of times, they have witnessed the transformation of the dirt road into a kangzhuang avenue in different locations, undergone equipment replacement and renewal, and personally experienced the reshaping of the troops.
They suffered the same thing. What kind of feeling "5 months of fog, 4 months of wind, 3 months of lack of water" is, many people do not know, but the two Guantong veterans know.
They have the same watchful eye in their eyes. Whether it is a lofty mountain or a deep blue island, where the five-star red flag is flying, there is the persistence of Chinese soldiers. In those places where people can see or can't see, they silently watch the lights of thousands of homes.
Although the island is remote, the mission is a boat; although the mountains are far away, faith opens the way.
Veterans of 30 years of military service, for the long river of years, but a drop in the sea, but all of them are their horses.
Veterans are not old, they will pass on the spirit, the experience into a book, oral teaching, pen and pen passed on. They know that there are always new recruits coming, there are always veterans leaving, and there are always people in the mountains and seas.
Goodbye veterans, Shan Hai had the honor of having met.
Thirty years of Looking at the Sea——
I'm on this side of the mountain
■ Zhang Rongyao, a special correspondent of this newspaper
The young man who looked up to the hero has now become an example for young people to look up to
On the day of the Lantern Festival, in the small town next to the Yalu River, every household is full of joy. Zou Wei shuttled through the crowd, suddenly attracted by a burst of gongs and drums, stopped to see that it was the town's gong and drum team that was rehearsing.
Listening to the noisy sound of gongs and drums, Zou Wei's thoughts could not help but drift back to the 2021 that had just passed.
In December 2021, at the top of the high mountain in southern Fujian, in the depths of the dense forest that was originally lonely, a deafening gong and drum suddenly sounded, accompanied by a loud cry that resounded throughout the valley: "The battle position has me, please rest assured!" There is me in the battle position, please rest assured by the squad leader! ”
Flocks of birds flew in amazement and circled around the mountains for a long time. On this day, Zou Wei was going to leave the mountain where he had stayed for 30 years.
The car drove away from the gate of the camp, the hoarse cries of comrades-in-arms were heard in his ears, his wife Li Xiu sat on the side and held his hand tightly, and Zou Wei remembered the scene when he first went up the mountain.
Zou Wei's grandfather was a veteran of the Liberation War, and his uncle was also a navy. Under the influence of his family, Zou Wei signed up for the army just enough to enlist in the army.
On September 14, 1992, at 4 p.m., Zou Wei, who had been in the army for less than a year, set foot on this mountain, a day he will never forget in this life.
On that day, the sky was drizzling and gray. The truck circled down the mountain road, causing him to spit out all his bile. After reaching the top of the mountain, looking at the dilapidated barracks and potholed dirt roads in front of him, Zou Wei's heart was half cold at that time.
When he first arrived at Guantong Station, Zou Wei was not satisfied with the water and soil, and he could not lift his spirits at work.
The squad leader kept talking to him. Zou Wei liked to listen to stories, and the squad leader "threw himself into his favor" and told him about the history of Guantong Station. When hearing the heroic deeds of the first-class meritorious mao Hanmin squad leader, Zou Wei's blood boiled, and a thought quietly planted a "seed": "I also want to become such a hero and defend the country." ”
With a goal, there is hope. Gradually, Zou Wei fell in love with the mountain, and he wrote in a letter to his family: "I am very good here, the sky is the room, the ground is the bed, and the fog is the mosquito net." ”
With the mountains as his home, Zou Wei stayed for 30 years.
At the retirement ceremony held by the brigade, Zou Wei choked and said, "If the fog on the mountain blows when I close my eyes, I think I can smell it." ”
The simple and simple sentence made the officers and men of the whole brigade blush.
In the brigade historical material room, Zou Wei's name, photos and deeds are now hung high on the honor wall for everyone to visit and study.
The young man who looked up to the hero has now become an example for young people to look up to.
Our eyesight has dropped in order for radar to see farther
Remembering the past, Zou Wei rubbed his eyes that were a little red.
30 years ago, Zou Wei's vision when he joined the army was 1.5, and now his vision is 0.4.
Staring at the radar screen for many years, visual impairment is inevitable, but Zou Wei said with a smile: "Our vision has declined, in order to see farther on the radar." ”
In ordinary life, Zou Wei's dark face is always full of bright smiles, but as soon as he sits in the duty room, he will transform into a "black-faced judge".
In the past 30 years, Zou Wei has experienced the upgrading of multi-type equipment, and every time he is the "first person to eat crabs".
That year, a certain new type of radar was installed in the brigade, and some comrades-in-arms were not used to using it. Zou Wei issued a military order: The new radar forms combat effectiveness according to the time node!
During that time, Zou Wei stayed in the pit for more than ten hours a day, repeatedly combing and comparing various targets, and carefully analyzing the echo changes in the size of rice grains on the fluorescent screen...
Later, the new equipment undertook the task of combat readiness as scheduled, and the experience and practices summed up by Zou Wei were also popularized among the Guantong troops.
Zou Wei said: "There are a total of 41 steps on the duty road, and 660 steps can enter the battle position. "The numbers that seem to be blurted out are behind decades of perseverance, and the meticulousness of walking on thin ice every day."
That year, Zou Wei participated in a certain type of radar seminar for the first time. There were more than 60 scholars, professors, and engineers in the expert group, and they were all a little surprised to see Zou Wei, who carried the rank of non-commissioned officer on his shoulder.
When it came to the demonstration and discussion session, Zou Wei's performance surprised them: combined with years of practical experience, Zou Wei proposed a key problem in the system, directly making the system overturned and restarted.
After this "service," Zou Wei's name as a "soldier expert" was called open.
For so many years, hearing the name Zou Wei, many manufacturers are very "headache", because this soldier is too good at "finding stubble". However, the manufacturer is very willing to deal with him, because Zou Wei's "stubble" is accurate and well found.
Others admired Zou Wei's decades-long drilling power and learned from him. Zou Wei's answer was: "I am a soldier, and I just want to do a good job and do the ultimate in the things that a soldier does." ”
"I miss my comrades-in-arms so much, I miss 'home'."
Memories always let time fly by.
Looking up again, Zou Wei had already walked to the door. Pushing open the door, the lover is humming a little song to clean up, the elderly father is sitting on the sofa watching TV, the son is writing winter vacation homework... A quiet time.
If the soldier is a mountain, the family is a silent mountain that supports the backbone.
Zou Wei and his lover Li Xiu met at the end of the 20th century. At that time, in love, lovers still communicated through letters. When it comes to writing a letter, Li Xiu smiled and said: "The preface of the letter he wrote does not match the afterword. ”
Zou Wei scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Those two pages took me a few days to write." ”
Just such a person who could not write a letter to his lover, but wrote more than 20 kinds of teaching materials, accumulating hundreds of thousands of words of information. Perhaps, Zou Wei does not know how to express love in love letters, but he knows how a soldier should perform his duties.
In 2002, his son Zou Dexuan was born, bringing joy to the family and also bringing a little sadness to the couple. Li Xiu not only has to take care of her elderly parents and in-laws, but also to take care of newborn children, who have a headache in the family, she runs before and after running alone.
1 year after the birth of the child, Zou Wei was once again faced with the need to stay, and relatives and friends advised him: "Come back, after so many years in the mountains, you have also suffered a lot, come back to live a good life with your wife." ”
Thinking about his wife's hardships, Zou Wei hesitated for a while, called home to ask for advice, Li Xiu was silent for 1 minute and said: "Stay, I know you are reluctant to your mountain." ”
This time, time flew by for another 19 years.
On the day of Zou Wei's retirement, Li Xiu was invited to the mountain to witness the last glorious moment of her husband's military service.
These days, Zou Wei's mood is particularly happy. The wife knew that what made her husband most happy was the news from the army. No, Zou Wei's apprentice Yu Ren Xi Rong made a third-class meritorious service, and the first good news call was made to him. Putting down the phone, he muttered to himself, "I miss my comrades-in-arms so much, I miss my 'home'..."
The veteran wants to "home", and "home" is also worried about him. At this time, Zou Wei's mobile phone rang again, and it turned out to be a call from the propaganda department of the unit, and he wanted to ask the old squad leader to help record a blessing video.
Zou Wei, who put down the phone, was excited like a child, and immediately pulled out the military uniform in the closet and put it on.
"You see I'm dressed mentally don't you?"
"You look the most handsome in military uniform."
Thirty years of guarding the island——
I'm on the other side of the sea
"Clouds and mist drift around the mountains, and the sea surrounds the reef"
At the beginning of the new year, a family in Yiyang, Hunan Province, wafted out fireworks and cooking incense. Only to see the peppers in the pot emitting a seductive color, the chef Fan Zhengjun wielded the spatula and gently hummed the song that had long been carved into his bones: "The clouds are full of mountains, and the sea is around the reef..."
His wife Tan Lijun chose dishes while listening to songs and smiling shallowly.
It was the most relaxed moment in their 20 years of marriage — the day when Fan Zhengjun, who had taken off his military uniform, officially returned to his family.
In 1991, Hunan Wa fan zhengjun enlisted as a soldier and became a glorious guard of the island.
As the birthplace of the popular military song "The Soldier's Second Hometown", this small island is famous both inside and outside the military. After going to the island with full anticipation, Fan Zhengjun saw a desolate eye: except for the stone is thatch, the only thing in sight is the endless sea.
In those days, it was common to "turn on electric blankets in the summer and flashlights during the day." There is a saying on the island: "Pigs are in a daze, dogs jump into the sea." "6 words, the road to the hard life of the island.
On the first night of his stay on the island, Fan Zhengjun covered himself with a damp quilt, listened to the whistling sea breeze outside the window, and spent a sleepless night. He really couldn't associate the island with the word "hometown."
The more barren the soil, the more tenacious seeds can be spawned. On this island, in addition to the indomitable pride of the soldiers, there is also the revolutionary optimism of "making pleasure in suffering and taking pleasure in suffering" that has been handed down from generation to generation.
At that time, salaries were still paid in cash to every officer and soldier, and Fan Zhengjun and his comrades had a rather interesting activity: drying money.
On a rare sunny day, everyone will take out their own wages to dry, with the class as the area, neatly arranged in rows, pressed with small stones, and it is spectacular.
From a physical point of view, this prevents the banknote from being damp and moldy for a long time. From a psychological point of view, it is a thought, a thought of home. Thinking of going home on vacation and improving the lives of their families with these salaries, many people will unconsciously show a happy smile, and Fan Zhengjun is no exception.
There is a rather steep "Cow Nose Peak" on the island, about 20 minutes walk from the camp, which is also a secret corner belonging to Fan Zhengjun.
On that day, Fan Zhengjun climbed to the top of the peak, holding a letter from his lover Tan Lijun, the last sentence of the letter read: "You are doing a good job in the army, I am waiting for you." ”
The distant fishing boat floated, the seabirds skimmed lightly, thinking that the vast sea in front of him was guarded by himself, thinking that the island was guarding the family and guarding her, Fan Zhengjun suddenly felt a sense of pride in his chest.
"The clouds are full of mountains, and the sea water surrounds the reef..." Fan Zhengjun faced the sea and couldn't help but hum this moving song.
"Now that I finally have time, I want to spend more time with my family."
There was a knock at the door. Opening the door, it turned out that the refrigerator in the next door neighbor's house was broken, and he had long heard that Old Fan was "repairing machines" in the army, so he came to ask for help.
When he arrived at the neighbor's house, Fan Zhengjun solved the refrigerator failure by dividing two by five, and the neighbor was impressed and praised his good skills.
For 30 years, as a radar technician, Fan Zhengjun needed to be on standby for 24 hours. No matter when and where he is, as long as there is a problem with the equipment, he must rush to the battle position at the first time.
The moss gradually crawled over the reef as he grew older, and the perennial humid environment on the island made Fan Zhengjun's joints swollen and painful, and he even had some difficulty walking when the rainy weather was severe.
That summer, it was raining continuously, and a certain type of radar at a nearby Guantong station failed, and it was the peak of the mission, and Fan Zhengjun was ordered to rush to the station immediately to repair the radar.
Seeing Fan Zhengjun walking with a limp, the station leader wanted to change people, but Fan Zhengjun refused. He smiled in pain and said, "My 'stone' is very hard!" ”
In recent years, as long as the manufacturer sends people to the island to maintain equipment, Fan Zhengjun, who is nearly fifty years old, will circle around the technicians like a primary school student, letting them draw clear lines and mark problems on their notebooks. Among the technicians, there are many young men in their 20s, who admire Fan Banchang's "study" momentum.
In the period before his retirement, Fan Zhengjun had to go to see the equipment from time to time, and only by listening to the sound of the normal operation of the radar did he feel solid.
Don't sleep without fixing your gear. With this tenacity, Fan Zhengjun has been rooted in the island for 30 years, and has been awarded the second class merit once and the third class merit 3 times.
In April 2019, Fan Zhengjun participated in the "Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Navy" party. The program team invited out the "mysterious guests" who came specially - his wife Tan Lijun, fan Zhengjun, who usually speaks little, and excitedly hugged and cried with his wife on the stage. Until they stepped off the stage, the hands of the two were still tightly held together.
After retiring, Fan Zhengjun fell in love with cooking. He said: "Now that I finally have time, I want to spend more time with my family and make up for the arrears of these years." ”
The most memorable thing in this life is to join the army, and the most regrettable thing is to be a soldier for a lifetime
After retiring home, the first thing Fan Zhengjun did was to clean his daughter Fan Xinyuan's room inside and out.
Fan Xinyuan went home from vacation to prepare for the sixth level of English, and pulled her father to read and study with her every day. Fan Zhengjun also sat happily at the table every day, and the two quietly enjoyed the rare father-daughter time.
While reading the book, my daughter suddenly said, "Dad, when you retired, I didn't go to the ceremony because I thought you would cry, and when I saw you cry, I would cry too." ”
A sentence from her daughter pulled Fan Zhengjun's thoughts back to the island.
On that day, Fan Zhengjun wore a big red flower and choked up: "The most memorable thing in this life is to join the army, and the least regret is to be a soldier for a lifetime." ”
After the retirement ceremony, Fan Zhengjun took the name plate customized for him in the station and walked to the "Veterans Memorial Wall".
It's a tradition at the station – the names of every officer and soldier who have served on the island for more than 5 years are engraved on stone tablets. Their names will be with every sunrise and sunset on the island.
Sitting on the military vehicle, the driver specially pressed the speed of the car very slowly. Fan Zhengjun stuck his head out of the window like the day he went to the island, and carefully looked at the grass and trees, bricks and tiles on the mountain.
Winding down the small island mountain road, every resident seen along the way will warmly greet Fan Zhengjun, and some people will run to the car to shake hands with him and say goodbye.
If you want to ask how deep the water situation of the military and civilian fish in the past 30 years is, the "honorary islander" certificate carried in Fan Zhengjun's arms is the best proof.
The time of parting finally arrived, and as the ship sounded the whistle of the ship, all the officers and men lined up in a row. "Salute to the old squad leader!" At the sound of an order, the officers and men raised their hands in unison, and the noisy dock was instantly silent, leaving only tears and waves flying...
Shortly after returning home, Fan Zhengjun received a video call from his comrade-in-arms Zou Wei.
Fan Zhengjun picked up the phone, and Zou Wei's cheerful voice came from the other end of the phone: "Old Fan, did our unit also let you record a blessing video, what are you going to say?" By the way, I tell you the good news, don't be jealous, my apprentice Yu Renxi has made a third-class merit this year! ”
Fan Zhengjun smiled and said, "I said Old Zou, don't be complacent, tell you, my apprentice Zhao Wenjie also made a third-class merit this year!" ”
The two laughed heartily, flew over the mountains and seas across the mobile phone, through their 30 years of military service.
Figure (1): Zou Wei stood at the top of the mountain and gazed deeply into the distance. Zhou Xin
Figure (2): Fan Zhengjun stood next to his stone carvings painted in red and saluted solemnly. Photo by Zhao Mingli
Picture (3): Beautiful island, my home. Fan Gang (■ Special Correspondent of this newspaper, Zhang Rongyao)
(Jiefangjun Daily)