In the spring of that year, the entire China was shrouded in the dark clouds of war. The Soviet Union deployed three armies of more than one million troops on China's northern border line. China's close neighbor India also constantly had friction with China's border troops. The national army on the island felt an opportunity to take advantage of this situation and was ready to counterattack back. At the same time, the US Seventh Fleet also entered a state of response.

The top leaders of the Chinese government felt the threat from international hostile forces and continued to readjust the strategic deployment, expand the army, prepare for war and famine, dig deep holes, accumulate grain, and the masses actively carry out three-defense drills to prevent nuclear, chemical and air strikes.

When I returned to the city to visit relatives, someone told me internal news that my parents' problems would soon be clarified by the organization, proving that my grandfather was not a landlord and that his element was middle peasants, so it was only a matter of time before they were released. At this time, due to the large number of recruitment of the People's Liberation Army, an old comrade in my father's former army made me an "backdoor soldier" to join the army.

My father's comrade-in-arms Uncle Chen is the chief of staff of the military sub-district. When the Ninth Corps entered North Korea to participate in the war, the snowy Gama Plateau, more than 100,000 volunteers surrounded the First Division of the US Army's most elite Marines. A large number of aviation bombs dropped by the US aviation army solidified the sky in the middle of the night into daylight. Braving the fire barrier formed by the US steel barrage, the volunteers launched wave after wave of charge...

In that cruel battle, my father braved the low temperature of minus forty degrees Celsius to carry the seriously injured Uncle Chen out of the pile of dead people. When he arrived at the ambulance, the two of them were frozen together by the blood on their bodies. The nurse cut the flesh and blood with scissors before they separated. The friendship between them could no longer be measured by the four words of life and death, and my parents' historical problems were about to be solved. Now arranging the son of an old comrade-in-arms to join the army is not a difficult task for a district chief of staff. In a sense, the habit of getting through the back door was the first to start in the army.

Uncle Chen asked me what kind of military service I wanted to be. I said I wanted to be an air force. I heard that the pilots had good food. Uncle Chen smiled and gave me a brain adze: "Warcraft is not that easy to drive. You kid go to the field army and train hard for a few years. After I get it done, I will transfer you to the military district office to work." I said let it go back to work in the agency, but I am still willing to stay in the grassroots army. I can't get used to it.

I wanted to go back to Ganggangyingzi to say goodbye to Xiaopangyanzi and the others, but time did not allow it, so I wrote a letter to them. I felt relieved and went to the army to work as a soldier. I left my good friend to go to the ranks in the valley. I could not feel like I could not be in trouble anyway. But I lost this feeling in three months. At that time, I realized how comfortable it was to be an educated youth in the mountains.

I was arranged by the recruitment office to a unit that was about to be replaced with an armored division. Unexpectedly, by accident, after three months of hard work in the recruit training camp, the Central Military Commission ordered the unit to be transferred to the 62 squadron station of the Kunlun Pass on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the entire division was reorganized into an engineering corps.

In fact, this matter is not surprising. At that time, the situation was that the troops across the country were digging holes to carry out civil defense construction, various holes, air defense, ammunition reserves, strategic concealment, etc. There were almost no troops in the entire army that did not dig holes. The difference was that the troops I was in changed from amateur holes to professional holes. Our task was first-level confidentiality, and we wanted to build a huge underground combat readiness facility deep in the Kunlun Mountains. Although the soldiers were not clearly told the purpose of this facility, anyone with a little brain should be able to guess. There are confidentiality regulations in the army, so everyone never talked about this matter. There were rumors that after completing this project task, we would be compiled back to the sequence of the field army.

Kunlun Pass is also known as Kunlun Pass, with an altitude of 4,767 meters. From a geological perspective, it belongs to the "permafrost desert landform" which is composed of complex qualitative rocks that are strongly corroded in ancient times. We learned from top to bottom. Apart from being able to dig trenches, we knew nothing about civil engineering construction. Therefore, the army sent many engineers and technicians to guide the work and conducted five-month intensive training for the commanders and fighters. One of the classes I was in took the lead in going south through the "Frozen Spring" and entered the deepest part of the vast Kunlun Mountains. Our task was to find hidden places suitable for construction.

"No-frozen Spring" is located on the north bank of Kunlun River, also known as Kunlun Spring. The granite slab circles form the wall of the pool. The clear spring water in the pool is gushing out for many years. Even in the cold winter, it never freezes. No one knows where the spring is located. The superiors conveyed the discipline and ordered soldiers not to take a bath here, because local Tibetans regard "No-frozen Spring" as a divine spring and often worship the spring water. In the past, when Tibet was just liberated, the army entering Tibet passed here. At that time, these regulations had not been issued. Three soldiers bathed in the spring and were drowned in the spring. The cause of death is said to be because the spring water contains a large amount of nitrosulfurs, and their tomb is located at the military station not far from this place. The last supply station of our team was also located there.

Finally entering Kunlun Mountain, almost everyone had severe altitude sickness, everyone's faces were purple and their eyes became blurred. In our eyes, there seemed to be hallucinations. The towering Kunlun hills and valleys were like silver-gray dragons rolling forward. And our team of more than ten people seemed to be inferior to a small ant in this endless mountain range.

On the way to march, I remembered the book passed down by my grandfather. It said that the five thousand peaks of Kunlun are the ancestors of the dragon veins in the world. There are countless secrets buried in these mountains since the ancient times until now. According to legend, the tomb tower of King Gesar, the heroic king in Tibetan mythology and legendary heroes, and the gate leading to the demon kingdom are hidden in these ups and downs.
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