As Churchill said, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies in the world, only eternal interests.

In 1969, due to the needs of the international situation, my unit was sent to the depths of the Kunlun Mountains for construction. Due to the harsh environment, the progress of the project was slower than expected. In three years, dozens of commanders and fighters were on the construction site. Sacrifice, yet we are only two-thirds of the way through building this military installation.

At this time, the world situation was reshuffled. In 1972, Nixon visited China and Sino-US relations thawed. China's strategic deployment has undergone large-scale adjustments, and the projects in the Kunlun Mountains have been stopped. Those of us engineers who became monks halfway have been reorganized into the battle order of the field army and are affiliated with the Lanzhou Military Region.

Day after day, year after year of training, drills, drills, study, and reviews. Life in the military camp is not only monotonous, but also difficult. A few years later, the Cultural Revolution ended. The Party Central Committee promptly brought order to the chaos, and the Gang of Four was crushed. After ten years of catastrophe, social order finally returned to normal.

But the military is a special environment that is out of touch with society. I didn't feel any big changes in the military camp. I just don't need to recite Chairman Mao's quotations as soon as we meet as before. But whenever new recruits enter the camp, , we still need to provide them with revolutionary education.

This morning, I just came back from a meeting at the battalion headquarters. Correspondent Xiao Liu ran over breathlessly: "Report to the company commander, there is a platoon of recruits to report today, but the instructor went to the military area to study, so I ask you to go and tell the recruits Revolution, talk about tradition.¡±

Talking about revolution and tradition is actually telling the recruits the history of the company. I am really a layman about these things, but I am now the leader of a company and the instructor is not at home, so I have to bite the bullet.

I took these more than 30 recruits into the company's honor exhibition room, pointed to a banner embroidered with the words "Heroes" and told them that this was the honor won by our seniors of the Sixth Company in the Battle of Huaihai. The title has been retained to this day. I recounted the story of that tragic battle with added embarrassment, how our Sixth Company saw red with bayonets, and how we used bayonets to repel the Kuomintang reactionaries even though we were running out of ammunition and food. The whole regiment's crazy attack gloriously completed the blocking mission assigned by their superiors.

Then I pointed to a black and broken iron pot in the glass cabinet and told the recruits: "Comrades, don't underestimate this broken pot. On the battlefield of the Huaihai Battle, our revolutionary predecessors from the Sixth Company They ate pork stewed with vermicelli cooked in this broken pot, and then went to the battlefield to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service. You see, the cracks in this pot were exploded by the reactionary artillery fire of the Kuomintang reactionaries. To this day, it remains. Still silently telling the deeds of the heroes and the brutal behavior of the reactionaries.¡±

That's all I can say. After all, I am not professionally responsible for ideological work, but I think what I said is pretty good, and it is more than enough to fool these new recruits.

I dismissed the recruits and went to the cafeteria to eat. I walked behind them with Xiao Liu. I asked Xiao Liu: "How was the level of my company commander's lecture on revolution and tradition just now?"

Xiao Liu said: "Oh, company commander, what you said is so good, it made me laugh. When can we learn from the revolutionary martyrs and improve the food, but also eat pork stewed with vermicelli?"

I swallowed my saliva and flicked Xiao Liu's head: "I haven't heard anything about the revolutionary tradition. I just heard about pork stewed with vermicelli. Go and get me some food in the canteen. The canteen seems to be eating today." Baozi, if you go late, you will be snatched away by the new recruits. I order you to run forward."

Xiao Liu agreed, walked away and rushed towards the cafeteria. Suddenly I remembered the most important thing I had forgotten to tell him, so I quickly shouted from behind: "Pick some big stuffings for me!"

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I was lying on the bed, eating steamed buns, and reading the letter that had just been sent from home. Everything was fine at home, and nothing important was mentioned. After reading it twice, I put the letter aside and picked up the broken book that was passed down from my family. Those experiences in the past few years made me very interested in the knowledge of Feng Shui, so I took it out and read it when I had time.

Because this book mentions a lot of terms such as Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, such as Jiayi wood in the east, Bingding fire in the south, Wuji earth in the center, Gengxin gold in the west, Rengui water in the north, Gan, Kan, Gen, etc. There are many things that are confusing about Zhen, Kun, Dui, Li, Wei, etc. Over the years, I have found a lot of related books and read them. Although my education level is limited, I can still understand about 30% to 40% of them.

The sixteen characters in the Beidou Chengxiang Burial Sutra refer respectively to: heaven, earth, humans, ghosts, gods, Buddhas, demons, animals, deterrence, suppression, escape, matter, transformation, yin, yang, and emptiness.

I don¡¯t know what age this book is from, nor who wrote it, but the content inside is very profound. The sixty-four changes of Fuxi¡¯s Bagua should actually be sixteen hexagrams, which were passed down to the Yin and Shang Dynasties, because these sixteen hexagrams were leaked Half of the heavenly secrets were wiped out by the gods, and even the remaining hexagrams were incomplete. But those who can understand one or two points are already very powerful. I think Zhuge Kongming, who knows a little bit, can keep Liu Bei strategizing and dominate the world. Liu Bowen can only understand three points, so he assists Zhu Hongwu in building the Ming Dynasty. A century-old foundation. But I don¡¯t believe this. Can it really be so evil?

The only regret is that this book only has half of the book that talks about the layout and structure of tombs with Feng Shui and the Five Elements. The other half, the number of Yin Yang, Bagua and Tai Chi, has never been available since it was handed down to my grandfather. When reading the fragmentary copy, some contents are incoherent, and the text is obscure and difficult to understand, making it difficult to understand its deep meaning. I think it would be easier to understand if it were the complete text.

Suddenly, a burst of three long and three short rally horns sounded, piercing the quiet air in the military camp. My first thought was: "Something must have happened. The whole camp would never assemble in an emergency in broad daylight for no reason." I Stuffing the remaining two buns into his mouth, he jumped up from the bed and rushed out the door.

Columns were lined up neatly. I saw not only our battalion gathering, but the entire regiment. Junior officers like me are not qualified to know what the action is. We can only obey orders and obey the command. The order we received was to go to the train station to stand by and set off with the brother troops.

There were more than 10,000 people, like mountains and seas. The military train station was crowded with tens of thousands of soldiers. From a distance, it looked like a green tide. It looked like the entire division was mobilized. At that time, it was incredible that every division was mobilized. Well, the establishment of a main division like ours is very large, with three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a tank regiment, plus the division's organizational logistics troops, there are almost more than 20,000 people. What is the purpose of such a large-scale operation? It's probably not for disaster relief. I haven't heard of any disasters near here recently.

We were dragged by the tin truck all the way to the Yunnan border in a daze. Only then did everyone realize that this was going to be a war. Many people cried at that time...

At the same time, Deng Xiaoping, who was visiting the United States, made a shocking statement at the White House: "Children who are disobedient should be spanked." He also publicly admitted that Chinese troops were massing on the Sino-Vietnamese border.

In the early morning of February 17, 17 divisions of 220,000 People's Liberation Army launched an all-out attack all the way to Lang Son. On March 4, China announced its withdrawal.

My company was the sharp knife company of the main division and bore the brunt. After ten days of fighting, more than half of the casualties were suffered. During another march, we were ambushed by Vietnamese agents. They used women holding children as cover and threw explosive packets into our vehicles. The armored personnel carrier, eight of my soldiers, were all killed in the armored vehicle. At that time, my eyes became red. I killed three of them and captured alive the remaining two Vietnamese militiamen, one old and one young.

They are an old Vietnamese man in his fifties and a Vietnamese woman in her twenties. It seems that they are a father and daughter. One of my subordinates told me that this woman disguised the explosive package as a baby in her arms and threw the explosive package into the armored vehicle as it passed by. It definitely looks good, she did it.

What I fear most is watching my comrades die in front of me. In a fit of rage, I completely forget about the Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention as well as our army's policy on treating prisoners. I asked someone to take a dynamite bag and tie it under the Vietnamese woman¡¯s buttocks, and let her fly on a clay plane. Then he tied the old man tightly and threw him from the cliff into the minefield.

This incident seriously violated the discipline of the army and even alarmed Mr. Xu of the headquarters. If my family had not had a strong background in the military area, I would have been sent to a military court long ago. My military career was forced to end, and I returned to my hometown with a demobilization order.