Text/Li Jie
▲ In 1984, the second squadron took a group photo of the left-behind personnel at home
The four corners of the field, which has been separated for half a year, have changed a lot, and it is not becoming more and more beautiful, but it has become full of devastation. The forest burned by the wildfires was pitch black and lifeless, and the mountain road leading to the communication company was full of potholes, and a third of the road was washed away by the rain, and the big trucks drove diagonally on it, so that the people sitting in the cars raised their hearts to their throats.
The veterans He Guangping, Yan Tingping, Liao Xianghu, and Xu Zhiyuan, who were previously on duty together, have all applied for demobilization this year, and they have been replaced by Li Guangzhi, Liu Zhonglong, Xu Mingchuan, and Li Wei.
The squadron arranged me to the bilateral belt, and the detachment leader in charge of the work of the bilateral belt was Li Gang, who was a Dalian soldier, not far from my hometown of Dandong, and even Li Gang's accent was the same as my father's accent.
The bilateral belt station is with the battalion headquarters of the communication station, and the dormitory is the classroom where we used to train and send reports, but now it is divided into two large rooms, the windows of the rooms have long been in disrepair, the glass is broken, the squadron nailed the windows with linoleum, the room is dark, a 15W light bulb is the only light source in the room, it feels like entering a tunnel.
At present, it is the period of demobilization of veterans, the personnel of the second squadron who have returned from collecting firewood, when they enter the house, they are full of grievances and complaints, and the room is full of the voices of veterans telling strange things, and the veterans who are about to be discharged from the army do not care about the impact at all, they can say whatever they want to express, and under the influence of this environment, the recruits who enlisted in the army in 84 have also become sophisticated.
When I returned to the Second Squadron, many people congratulated me when they saw me, which made me a little complacent, especially Ni Xu'an, the deputy instructor of the communication station, who came to the Second Squadron to see me, which made me really a little fluttery.
Li Gang was going to visit his family again, and I heard that this time I was going to Xiao Diao's house to propose marriage, so I got up early in the morning to see him off, and helped him carry a lot of gifts to meet his "father-in-law and mother-in-law".
It's funny to say, when I came back from studying in Qujiang, Li Gang was my platoon commander, but the opportunity for us to meet was not as long as the time he spent with Xiaochuan and Zixun, every time I either went out to study, or he went out to train, this time I didn't get along for a few days, he went to Beijing again, in my impression, although he was my leader, he almost never led me.
▲ A bilateral radio operator who conducted combat radio training in the field in the 70s
The second squadron is roughly divided into two parts: the unilateral belt resides in the communication company (now called the first squadron), which is responsible for receiving and receiving telegrams and tunnel radio station duty; The bilateral belt is responsible for radio liaison under field conditions, and it has to cooperate with the detachment to conduct one or two actual combat drills every year.
Due to the special nature of the work of the Second Squadron and the large mobility of personnel going out, for this reason, our squadron is the unit with the worst accommodation conditions, the worst food, and the most scattered work in the entire communications station......
On the first day of returning to the company, the leader of the communication station sent a task to let all the personnel left behind at home go out to repair the road.
The situation of other squadrons is not optimistic, the veterans are about to be demobilized, the whole barracks are disheartened, the cohesion of the backbone of the company is lacking, and the people who come out to build the road are some recruits, as well as those half-baked veterans (soldiers with a military age of one or two years), this is still in the case of Deputy Instructor Ni personally supervising the battle, if there is no station leader to go out, whether it can be organized is a problem.
The half-baked veterans who reluctantly participated in the labor were also unable to contribute to the work, and only those recruits and those who wanted to work in the army for a long time were willing to work hard. I haven't worked for a few months, and I'm excited to do it, and I'm a direct beneficiary of the key road repairs, so why wouldn't I do it.
At noon, I slept until three o'clock, and it was the squadron leader Xiong Xianwen who came to wake everyone up. The labor in the afternoon was even more bizarre, only I and two Zhejiang soldiers and a few 84-year-old recruits went to build roads, and the others all had various reasons, in the face of these veterans who were about to return home, squadron leader Xiong Xianwen had no choice, and every year in October, it was the most headache for the squadron leaders.
The people who went to Kunming to participate in the actual radio combat drill returned, and there were three more people living in the dormitory, and the space in the room became noticeably more crowded. The bed I slept on was that of Zhou Xixing, a soldier from Sichuan, and now that he is back, I will make room for him.
Together with two Jiangxi recruits, I moved the bed to the top bunk to sleep, and I was the only one who "enjoyed" the treatment of recruits among the 83 soldiers. Ay! I've been a soldier for two years, and I don't even have a stable bed, so it's really sad to climb up and down every day!
About author:Beijing, born in 1964, ancestral home in Dandong, Liaoning Province, online name "Beijing Veteran". He enlisted in the army in October 1982, was awarded a third-class meritorious service in 1984, and entered the Guangzhou People's Liberation Army Sports Institute in 1985. In 1987, he was admitted to the Peking University branch to study journalism, and in 1990, he interned in the sports department of CCTV and participated in the broadcast of the Asian Games.