Author: Mountain Wild Idler
I have lived in the Xuanhua Artillery Academy (the first artillery school established by our army in 57 years, equivalent to the corps level) for more than ten years, and there are many things that have been forgotten by the passage of time, but there is one thing that happened in elementary school that I remember vividly.
It was when I was in fifth grade at the Cannon Yard School, and I can't remember if it was extracurricular activities or Sundays. A few naughty students who we often play together on weekdays, (I can't remember who they are, but I won't forget one, I'll see when I see the back) are all boys, and they meet to go to the north wall of the artillery yard to play.
The north and west sides of the fortress are all using the original old city wall as the wall of the fortress (the wall wall is about 10 meters high), and the tall old city wall is so thick and vicissitudes that it is full of temptation and attraction to me. Let me, who is full of fantasy, often do some stupid things. One is: I sometimes climb up along the outer side of the city wall, because the outside of the city wall it gradually closes inward, each layer closes inward about three or four centimeters, the whole wall is inclined inward, if the human arm strength is good, it is able to pick the brick crack to climb up, every time I come to play, I try to climb up, but every time I climb two or three meters high, I will be scared and give up halfway. The second is: I always think that one day I can find the objects left over from historical wars or the footprints of my predecessors in the broken bricks and tiles on the ancient city wall, or in the cracks of the bricks, how good it would be! Although I have been disappointed again and again, my curiosity always makes me full of hope and expectation for the next exploration.
A few of our restless children came to the north city wall, wandering aimlessly for a while, feeling that it was not interesting and boring, we felt that we had nowhere to vent and could not lift our spirits, and later we found that there were sand dunes outside the city wall 100 meters west from the north gate (all of them were formed by the sand blown by the northwest wind for many years), and the distance between the top of the city wall and the top of the sand dunes was about three meters, and several of us came to be interested, and said: Let's compare and see, see who is brave, and see who can jump to the sand dunes accurately.
At that time, everyone also didn't expect what the consequences would bring, and the ignorant were fearless. We jumped down from between the battlements of the city wall with the boldness, God bless, the first two were very smooth, and landed accurately on the soft sand dunes, but it was Hao Jie's turn to jump and have an accident, he just jumped on the sand dunes and covered his feet and screamed, it seemed that he twisted his feet, and people couldn't move anymore, everyone saw that something bad was wrong, and I forgot who hurriedly called his father, and pedaled a tricycle, (his father's work unit is the Gun Yard Printing Factory, three or four miles away from the place of the incident)) pulled his son away, and didn't say a word about us, what a good father。
In fact, we also feel deeply remorseful, how good it would be if we didn't ask him to jump or not call him to come, cough! There is no regret medicine in the world.
Xuanhua Artillery Yard
A recent photo of the author