"You're coming back, danger!" You can't go over! Several guards at the checkpoint shouted loudly at a young woman speeding on the Yalu River Bridge, and when the woman saw this, she jumped into the Yalu River.
One day in 1952, when a series of rapid air defense sirens sounded on the China-North Korea border, trained volunteers immediately concentrated their fire on American fighters in the sky.
The scene was tense and scorching, but at this moment a young woman suddenly ran out from behind a bunker and rushed straight through the border checkpoint of the Yalu River Bridge and rushed towards the North Korean border.
The American sentry who was fighting back in the air hurriedly chased after them while shouting loudly: "You come back, dangerous, you can't pass!" ”
At this time, the guards at the North Korean border checkpoint opposite also found the woman on the run and prepared to intercept it head-on.
Seeing that "there was an interception in the front, there was a pursuit of soldiers in the back", the woman knew that once she was intercepted, she would definitely be persuaded to return to the border line, thinking of this, the woman jumped into the Yalu River without saying a word.
At this time, the water of the Yalu River was cold and bone-chilling, and the current was very large, and the woman used all her strength to swim in the water toward the shore of North Korea.
However, due to the inertia of the current, coupled with the thick military coat she wore on her, she soon felt a little weak, but the thought of seeing her longing husband soon, the woman still tried her best to swim toward the shore, until she swam to the shore closest to the water, and the exhausted woman could not support herself and fainted.
When she woke up again, she found herself lying in a farmer's house, with an old mother watching her kindly at the bedside. Looking at the old mother's dress, she knew that she had finally arrived in North Korea, so she smiled with satisfaction.
This woman's name was Zhou Xiaolan, a young Miao woman in rural Guangxi, who had only been newly married for more than a year, and this time she desperately entered the DPRK in order to find her husband Zhang Zhishan who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In October 1950, 20-year-old Zhou Xiaolan and Zhang Zhishan married in a beautiful small mountain village in their hometown of Guangxi, and the whole village drank their happy wine, and parents and friends could not suppress their inner joy.
At this time, the Korean War broke out, and the state called on enthusiastic young people to sign up for the army and defend their families.
The news of joining the army also reached this beautiful small mountain village, and the young people in the village signed up to join the army, and Zhang Zhishan, who had just been newly married for three days, also squeezed into the crowd after consulting with his wife, firmly biting his finger and pressing his own handprint on the registration book of joining the army.
Soon the volunteer army team will go to the Korean battlefield, although Zhou Xiaolan is very reluctant to her newlywed husband, but she knows that a good boy should be determined to be on the battlefield, and should not indulge in the love of his children. She made a purse overnight and let her husband take it with her. Zhang Zhishan looked at the purse embroidered with "Thoughts" on one side and "Victory" embroidered on the other, and choked up: "I will definitely return triumphantly, and you are waiting for my good news." ”
After saying that, he boarded the train heading north with the large troops.
Looking at her husband's distant back, Zhou Xiaolan cried into tears. Since then, Zhou Xiaolan has looked forward to her husband's news every day, looking forward to her husband's early triumphant return, and receiving a letter from Zhang Zhishan every month has become the happiest thing for Zhou Xiaolan.
However, Zhang Zhishan's letter lasted only half a year before it came to an abrupt end.
An ominous premonition instantly surged into Zhou Xiaolan's heart, but she did not want to think in a bad direction, touching her belly that had gradually bulged, and she was even more reluctant to believe that the child had not yet been born, and there was no father. She consoled herself that it was just that the war was more intense and that he didn't have time to write a letter.
Zhou Xiaolan was still filial to her in-laws and quietly waited for the birth of her child. In the blink of an eye, the birth of the child has been a full moon, Zhou Xiaolan can not sit still, she and her in-laws proposed to find Zhang Zhishan. Her mother-in-law advised her: The child is still young, and the place of life is not familiar, you do not know where to find, or wait for news at home, no matter what news, the army will notify the family.
Zhou Xiaolan felt that what her mother-in-law said was also reasonable, so she decided to wait a little longer, and the time passed a year long and fast.
In her sleep, she often dreamed that Zhang Zhishan had returned and made meritorious achievements, but every time she woke up, she found that everything was just a dream, and soon the tears wet the pillow.
This time she decided not to wait any longer, no matter how her in-laws persuaded her, no matter what difficulties she encountered, she would find Zhang Zhishan. The next morning, after feeding and settling her one-year-old son, she said goodbye to her in-laws and embarked on a journey to find a husband.
At that time, the traffic was even more difficult than expected, Zhou Xiaolan walked from Guangxi for 4 days to Liuzhou, and it was difficult to take the green-skinned train north to Dandong, and after 10 days and 10 nights of bumps, he finally arrived at Andong on the border between China and North Korea. However, when Zhou Xiaolan was ready to get off the bus with his luggage, the luggage package was gone, and all the documents and travel expenses were gone.
Anxious, Zhou Xiaolan was helpless at the station, and the station staff took her to the office, let her stay at the station for a while, and gave her some pocket money and living supplies, planning to contact the local government in her hometown and send her home.
Hearing that she was going to send her home, Zhou Xiaolan was shocked in her heart, she had worked hard to come to the border of North Korea, which was only a river away from her husband, and she could not go back no matter what.
So she quietly left the train station and walked along the railway to the Yalu River.
When she saw the Yalu River Bridge, she could no longer suppress her inner excitement and ran straight to the bridge, trying to cross the iron bridge to meet her husband.
The checkpoint guard hurriedly stopped her and asked her to show her passport and documents. Zhou Xiaolan obviously couldn't get it out, so he was persuaded to come back for the first time.
However, this did not discourage her determination to find a husband, and she hid behind a bunker near the bridge and continued to look for opportunities. At night, a large number of volunteers entered the DPRK through the Yalu River Bridge, and Zhou Xiaolan felt that this was a good opportunity, so he took advantage of the night to quietly follow behind the volunteer army and wanted to cross the checkpoint.
Unexpectedly, I was stopped again by the checkpoint guards.
In this way, for 5 consecutive days, Zhou Xiaolan tried his best, but he did not succeed. Until this day, the US air attack, she wanted to take advantage of the chaos to cross the bridge, so there was an opening scene. Because Zhou Xiaolan was wearing a military coat given to her by the station staff, the old North Korean mother who was washing clothes by the river thought she was a volunteer who had fallen behind, so she rescued her home.
Zhou Xiaolan recuperated for 2 days at her old North Korean mother's house and then continued her search for a husband. Along the way she saw many volunteer soldiers, and she followed the army all the way to the front line.
Along the way, she saw that the volunteers needed to load and unload military supplies, and she took the initiative to help. When she fell ill, the volunteers would help her heal and recover.
At the same time, along the way, she witnessed the destruction of ordinary Korean people by the US bombers, and also felt the nine deaths of the volunteers on the battlefield.
Gradually, she discovered the true meaning of volunteers' aid to Korea.
So she decided to find her husband and do what she could for the volunteers.
Once, she was bombarded by the enemy in a car carrying ammunition, and under her precise command, the driver successfully avoided the shells, but the last incendiary bomb landed next to the ammunition truck and instantly hit the body.
At this time, Zhou Xiaolan had no problem jumping out of the car, but in order to cover the ammunition, she used her body to block between the fire and the ammunition, and finally delivered the ammunition truck safely, but Zhou Xiaolan had 80% of the large area of burns on her own body.
In this way, the beautiful Miao family girl of the past is no longer seen.
In the process of recuperating from her injuries, Zhou Xiaolan received bad news that her husband Zhang Zhishan was killed.
Sad, she decided to stay, continue to fulfill her husband's unfinished responsibilities, and became a glorious volunteer soldier, saving lives for the wounded in the war, until the end of the war, she returned triumphantly, and was alone to honor her in-laws and raise her son.
Zhou Xiaolan crossed thousands of miles to find a husband, sacrificed himself all the way to forget death, and composed a chapter that touched the world and the earth, which was really moving.
She has the long-term love of her children, and she has the feelings of home and country of her big husband. She was the true self of that moment, and the most beautiful memory of that era to future generations!