Chapter 41
On the other side, the furious Cao Jun took a dozen strong men to simply treat their wounds, and then all of them took up their weapons and walked towards the office area with great momentum.
They searched for offices one by one and soon found Ma Gaoyuan's office with the door closed.
Cao Jun roared: "Break the door open for me! I'm going to cut that woman named Yang into pieces!"
A dozen strong men said nothing, all holding sticks, and kicked and smashed the door with all their might.
The loud sound of kicking the door made the female educated youth pale and tremble. "What should we do now? There are so many of them. We can't beat them."
"We have to fight even if we can't win." Yang Qiujin threw Ma Gaoyuan, who looked like a dead dog, in front of Zeng Dairou and several other female educated youths, "They will rush in soon. You use him as a shield to block the knives for you. The others go and look in the drawers of the desks to see if there are any pens or knives that can be used as weapons. If they want to break in, you should show weakness first, then look for an opportunity to stab their eyes or other vulnerable places with a pen, and then wait for an opportunity to escape."
After a pause, she said solemnly, "Girls, we have reached a life-or-death moment. Cao Jun and his men are desperate and obviously want to kill you so that you can die without any evidence. You must be brave and risk everything to find a way out for yourselves."
"Comrade Yang, is there no other way?" Zeng Dairou, who looked delicate and weak, asked with tears in her eyes.
"Yes." Yang Qiujin smiled sarcastically at Zeng Dairou's expectant eyes, "If you are willing to give yourself to them and serve them well, they may see that you are well-behaved and spare your life."
"I would rather fight them to the death than commit myself to anyone and ruin myself." Long Yanli, who was standing aside, thought of the greasy and disgusting feeling of Ma Gaoyuan pressing on her. She vomited a few times in physical discomfort. She turned around and saw Ma Gaoyuan's dead pig face. She walked over and kicked him hard to vent her anger.
Su Hong, who looks cold and beautiful, was furious: "How dare they do such abject things to us? Aren't they afraid that we will sue them and call the police to arrest them?"
Ren Ying had come to her senses by this time. "They have the support of the District Revolutionary Committee. They expect us to be humiliated and not dare to resist for the sake of our reputation. We will endure the humiliation and live in hiding, so they will attack us. If they really succeed, we will not dare to resist. After they succeed once, they will attack us a second time, a third time... Then we will become their playthings, and they will trample on us at will until we can't stand it anymore and either commit suicide or escape. They will not be punished at all."
The other female educated youth were all shocked. They were all between 15 and 20 years old, simple-minded, and had just stepped out of the campus and into society. When they encountered such a heartless thing, they all couldn't believe it and were shaking with fear.
Yang Qiujin looked at their terrified expressions and sighed silently, "Let me ask you, if we get out alive, I will make a big fuss and kick Cao Jun, Ma Gaoyuan and a bunch of other corrupt officials out of our farm. If I need you to stand up and testify, do you have the courage to stand up?"
Is it possible to kick out all these bad officials? The female educated youth expressed deep doubts.
They might as well die here if they testify and these bastards don't get the punishment they deserve and instead get beaten up and retaliated against, and are subjected to all kinds of rumors and strange looks.
"I will not force you to testify, but I will risk my reputation and make this matter a big deal. I will make these bastards accept the punishment of the law and get out of our farm. I will turn Tianshan Farm into a pure land, and such things will never happen again." Yang Qiujin seemed to see through their thoughts and promised them.
Ren Ying believed in her character and was the first to stand up: "Sister Yang, as long as we escape from here, I will do whatever you say. I would rather sacrifice my own reputation than allow these scum to stay on the farm and bully us educated youth. I want justice for myself!"
These words inspired a bullied female educated youth, who cried, "My innocence has been destroyed by these beasts. My life is over. It's just a testimony, and it's just being stabbed in the back. Even if I die, I will let them cushion my back before I die!"
Seeing how determined the two of them were, the other female educated youth were also encouraged and expressed their support for Yang Qiujin and their determination to testify together.
Seeing this, Yang Qiujin said nothing more and told them to quickly find suitable weapons.
The female educated youth frantically searched everywhere, but only found two discarded pens, some tattered notebooks, some badminton rackets, hand strings, skipping ropes and the like. These were all performance equipment that had been placed in the office and not cleaned up.
Yang Qiujin asked each female educated youth to take one thing, no matter whether it was useful or not, and hold it in their hands, ready to risk their lives.
The office door had been kicked open by the crazy Cao Jun and others, and fire was burning everywhere in the cultural center. They had no intention of putting out the fire. Just as Yang Qiujin guessed, Cao Jun wanted to use the fire to kill all the female educated youth, and then be burned by the fire so that there would be no evidence.
Yang Qiujin looked at the shaking wooden door and said coldly: "Cao Jun, Deputy Director Ma is in our hands. I advise you to leave quickly, otherwise..."
"What else? Kill Ma Gaoyuan?" Cao Jun sneered, "He was just a piece of trash sent by my uncle to the farm to pave the way for my promotion. He's dead, so what? Do you think I will surrender to him? Don't dream! I told you, none of you can escape today!"
"Deputy Director Ma, it seems that you are of no use at all." Yang Qiujin looked at Ma Gaoyuan sarcastically.
"Don't, don't kill me, don't kill me!" Ma Gaoyuan shrank into the corner of the wall in fear, and did not forget to curse the people outside: "Cao Jun, you son of a bitch, I usually treat you well, you beast, you actually want me to die..."
Before he finished cursing, the wooden door of the office was kicked open with a bang, and Cao Jun and a dozen strong men walked in from outside with murderous intent.
Yang Qiujin tightly grasped the dagger in her hand and smiled soothingly at the trembling female educated youth, "Girls, it's time to fight for your lives. Whether you live or die depends entirely on yourself. I will block some of the attacks for you, and the rest depends on you."
At the same time, at the snow-capped outpost of Nark Mountain, which is located at one of the northernmost boundaries of the Tianshan Mountains and is about 4,000 meters above sea level, Chen Shengqing suddenly woke up from his dream, sat up, and looked around with lingering fear.
He slept on a simple camp bed, covered with five thick quilts and a woolen blanket, but still felt cold.
The house he lived in was not big, about twenty square meters, and was built with local materials, mountain rocks. The gaps were filled with mud, and the whole house was covered with thick snow all year round. If the snow was not cleared from time to time, the house would be as cold as a cellar.
There were two side-by-side military beds against the inner wall, with two tables, chairs and benches in the middle. Military emblems, troop quotations, portraits of great men, and some old newspapers were posted against the wall. Daily necessities were placed under the wall, and there were several hooks on the wall with several thick army green coats hung on them.
There was a glass window near the door with thick ice on it, but there was a chimney facing outwards next to the window with an iron stove underneath.
The stove was supposed to be burning coal briquettes to make the room less cold, but now the coal stove was out and the other cot was empty with no one sleeping on it.
Chen Shengqing sensed something was wrong, so he got out of bed, quickly put on his clothes, put on his army green coat, picked up the rifle and gun he had been holding while sleeping, took out a military flashlight, strode to the door and opened it.
A gust of cold wind wrapped in snow blew in from the door. Chen Shengqing closed his eyes and endured the painful wind and snow that scraped his face like a knife. He looked around in the dark night outside and shouted, "Peng Zhuo, Hu Guoqing, where are you?"
"Woof!" He was answered by the barking of a dog.
Chen Shengqing looked in the direction of the barking sound. In the pitch-black night, on a steep rocky mountain not far away, a shadow with two green eyes was running towards him quickly.
At the same time, a young voice called out, "Captain, I'm in the toilet! Hu Guoqing got up to urinate in the middle of the night, and he slipped and fell down the snow slope. I'm bandaging him."
At this time, a German Shepherd with a black back, black ears, lush fur and snowflakes all over its back ran up to Chen Shengqing.
It jumped up and down by grabbing his legs with its two front paws, wagging its tail and making low whimpering sounds to show its affection to him. When it saw that he didn't respond, it remembered its training responsibilities as a military dog, and sat obediently in front of him, looking at him with shy eyes and barking at him.
"Good dog." Chen Shengqing reached out and touched its head, pointing: "Lightning, take me to find them."
"Woof!" Lightning turned and walked towards the distant mountains, turning his head from time to time to see if Chen Shengqing was following him.
Chen Shengqing carried the gun on his back and followed the lightning, walking on the uneven rocky road towards the steep mountain peak about 100 meters high.
Nark Peak is just one of the peaks in the Tianshan Mountains. The outpost is located at two-thirds of the height of the peak. The entire mountain is nearly 6,000 meters above sea level. The back of the mountain is the Soviet Union.
The conditions here are terrible, with snow all year round and steep mountains and endless rain. Even with five quilts, you still feel cold when you sleep, and the air you exhale in the morning will freeze into ice.
There were only two people guarding this outpost. About ten kilometers away from their outpost, there was a squad of soldiers stationed on another mountain. The mountain there was closer to the Soviet Union and more dangerous.
Normally, the soldiers at these two outposts would take turns on patrol. This time, a new recruit was assigned to the company, and Chen Shengqing assigned him to the Nark Mountain outpost, which was slightly less dangerous. He and two-year veteran Peng Zhuo were in charge of him.
Who knew that this new recruit was such a coward that he could even fall down the hillside while peeing at night.
Chen Shengqing quickly followed the lightning to a steep rock, where a flashlight was lit and a rope was tied to a huge rock, hanging down.
He shone the flashlight downwards and saw a protruding rock about fifty meters away from where he was. Peng Zhuo, a short man, was stopping the bleeding and bandaging Hu Guoqing, who had fallen and had a bleeding head.
"Peng Zhuo, how is Hu Guoqing?" Chen Shengqing climbed up the rope and quickly slid down to the protruding part of the rock to check on Hu Guoqing's condition.
"It's not good. He fell down directly. Although there is thick snow here to cushion the impact, there are sharp rocks under the snow. A hole was smashed in his brain. He lost too much blood and became unconscious." Peng Zhuo said seriously.
Chen Shengqing glanced at him and said, "You were standing outside on duty for half the night, and he, a new recruit, went out to fight. Didn't you remind him to be careful?"
"I reminded him. When he got up, Lightning followed him." Peng Zhuo was a little speechless: "Who knew that this kid would be quiet once he was released? It was not until Lightning came running over to call me that I realized he had fallen. By the way, Battalion Commander, you are always alert. You can wake up at the slightest movement at the sentry post. This kid got up to pee, didn't you hear it?"
"I seem to be haunted by a nightmare. I dreamed that your sister-in-law and your nephew were injured. I didn't hear him get up." Chen Shengqing rubbed his brow tiredly. "Tie him to my back. I will carry him on my back. He must be sent to the hospital as soon as possible."
"yes!"
Chen Shengqing is a head taller than Peng Zhuo and has better physical fitness than Peng Zhuo. When Chen Shengqing wanted to carry someone on his back, Peng Zhuo did not argue.
Peng Zhuo untied the rope he was carrying, helped the semi-conscious Hu Guoqing up, and tied him to Chen Shengqing's back, where he had taken off his coat.
For safety reasons, Peng Zhuo first climbed to a flat position above, fixed the rope tied to the rock, and then pulled the rope himself, so that even if the rock fell, he could still hold on to the people.
Chen Shengqing carried Hu Guoqing on his back, climbed up the rope with his muscular arms, and gritted his teeth to carry Hu Guoqing up step by step in the harsh weather with flying snowflakes and strong winds.
Shandian saw Peng Zhuo pulling the rope and wanted to go over to help bite the rope to pull the person in, but he was afraid of breaking the rope, so he was anxiously circling around Peng Zhuo, looking down at Chen Shengqing below from time to time, barking non-stop.
Fortunately, Chen Shengqing carried the man up safely without any danger. Without taking a rest, he asked Peng Zhuo to put a thick coat on Hu Guoqing on his back and ordered Peng Zhuo, "Send a radio to the No. 4 post immediately and ask them to bring the health workers and the jeep to wait for me at the foot of the mountain. I will go down the mountain immediately."
Peng Zhuo put his coat on him and said, "Captain, it's dark and the roads are slippery. Be careful on the road."
"Well, you have to work harder tonight and cheer up to stand guard all night. I will let other people take over Hu Guoqing's shift tomorrow, and you can rest later." After Chen Shengqing gave the instructions, he carried the people down the mountain on his back.
Lightning saw him leaving and instinctively wanted to follow him, but Chen Shengqing shouted at him, "Lightning, go back!"
Lightning is an old military dog. When Chen Shengqing was still a rookie in the company, his squad leader handed the adult dog to Chen Shengqing, and he guarded various border checkpoints with him for several years.
The border defense forces in northern Xinjiang have military dogs at many outposts, accompanying the border guards to guard the outposts.
Since the late 1950s, the Border Defense Department has been training military dogs. Most of the trained military dogs are relatively intelligent breeds such as Border Collies, German Shepherds, local border dogs, hunting dogs, etc.
Border conditions are harsh, and many checkpoints are manned by only one or two border guards. When they patrol, they are bound to encounter sudden dangerous situations.
At this time, having a well-trained military dog by your side can not only improve the efficiency of border defense missions, but also effectively reduce the danger of the border defenders' missions and save the lives of border defenders at critical moments. Almost wherever there are border defenders, there are military dogs.
Lightning and Chen Shengqing have a deep relationship. Even though Chen Shengqing later went to the Soviet Union for a mission and disappeared for several years, when he came back and Lightning saw him again, he recognized him at a glance and cried to him, as if asking and crying about where he had been. He missed him very much, and from then on he was more attached to him than other warriors.
After being scolded by him, Shan Dian knew that he could not go with him. He whimpered and returned to the sentry post aggrievedly. He squatted beside Peng Zhuo. The man and the dog watched Chen Shengqing leave in the wind and snow.
The way down the mountain is not easy to walk on. The mountain is high, the road is narrow, and the altitude is high. It is difficult for most people to breathe when walking alone, let alone carrying someone on their back and walking down the mountain against the howling wind and snow.
But Chen Shengqing is not an ordinary person. From the first time he came to the Tianshan border, he was surprised to find that he did not suffer from altitude sickness and was very adaptable to the plateau climate. His superiors discovered this characteristic of his and without hesitation assigned him to the border defense department and focused on his training.
He carried Hu Guoqing on his back, and walked down quickly and with difficulty in the dim light, holding a flashlight in one hand as the snow fluttered in the air in the cold wind.
During this time, Hu Guoqing woke up in a daze and asked him: "Battalion Commander, my head hurts so much, am I dying?" Then he cried weakly on his back like a child.
The 17-year-old boy joined the army before he reached adulthood. Chen Shengqing did not scold the recruit harshly as usual for not thinking before doing things. Instead, he comforted him gently: "You will not die. I have asked Peng Zhuo to contact the health workers. They are carrying you down the mountain as quickly as possible. You will be treated soon. Don't cry. Save some energy and keep your strength. Don't faint again. Your mother is waiting for you at home."
"Wuwu, thank you, battalion commander." The devil battalion commander who used to have a stern face and trained the recruits like dead dogs in the army barracks, now comforted him so gently and patiently. Hu Guoqing couldn't believe it in his heart, but also felt a little warmth. He leaned obediently on the battalion commander's broad shoulders and gradually stopped crying.
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The Farm Cultural Center was filled with thick smoke, and Ma Gaoyuan's office was in chaos.
When Cao Jun and others broke into the house, Yang Qiujin and other female educated youth tacitly pulled Ma Gaoyuan in front of them to block the first wave of attacks from the strong men.
When Cao Jun jumped away from Ma Gaoyuan with red eyes and tried to stab Yang Qiujin with a knife, Yang Qiujin started a circling and sawing war again.
The other female educated youth pretended to be afraid and huddled together. When the strong men underestimated the enemy and surrounded them with smears on their faces, the educated youth suddenly jumped up, took out various weapons made from performance props, and stabbed the strong men's eyes one after another. When the strong men covered their eyes and screamed in pain, they obeyed Yang Qiujin's command: "Run!"
All the female educated youth rushed out desperately, but the cultural center was burning everywhere. The red light burned their skin and the thick smoke made it impossible for them to open their eyes.
Fortunately, each of them was holding a piece of cloth to cover their noses. The desire to survive made them not afraid of the flames, and each of them rushed towards the door of the cultural center with all their might.
When they finally ran to the door, they found that Yang Qiujin, who was holding the key, had been caught by them. The strong men, with blood all over their faces, chased after them with hatred on their faces.
The female educated youth crowded at the door, trembling and crying. Are they destined to die here today?
At this moment, they suddenly heard a group of horses stop at the entrance of the cultural center, and then loud voices rang out from the cultural center: "Is there anyone inside?"
"Yes, help us!" The female educated youth heard the voice and desperately called for help: "The door is locked, we can't get out."
"Everyone, step back two steps. We will rescue you immediately."
The female educated youth retreated as instructed and heard several gunshots outside. The lock of the cultural center exploded, and the door was opened from the outside. A group of soldiers in green military uniforms and holding guns appeared in front of them like gods.
When the female educated youth saw the soldiers, they burst into tears and ran out, saying in front of them: "Liberation Army comrades, go in and rescue the people. There is a group of farm cadres colluding with bad elements inside, and they want to rape and kill us!"
"Yes, Comrade Yang Qiujin from our farm was captured by them while trying to protect us. Her life or death is unknown. Please go and save her."
When Ruan Xiangming heard that Yang Qiujin was still inside, his face sank. He turned around and waved his hand: "The cadres of Tianshan Farm colluded with criminals to kidnap the wives of soldiers. We have reasonable suspicion that they are engaging in counter-revolutionary and espionage activities. Let me get in. Anyone who dares to resist will be shot on the spot!"
"Yes!" Two squads of soldiers rushed in with guns in hand.
At this time, Han Yongxin also rushed to the cultural center with a group of militiamen. They saw thick smoke in the cultural center and Yang Qiujin was not among the female educated youth. Chen Tianyou learned that she was still inside. He was not afraid at all. He shouted "Mom" and rushed in with a slingshot.
"Kid, come back!" Ren Ying wanted to catch him but failed.
Seeing this, Han Yongxin also called the militia to rush in to rescue people.
Yang Qiujin was captured by two big men. She fought desperately, but the dagger in her hand was snatched away by the men. She was no match for the strong men and was kicked to her knees by Cao Jun. She was kicked twice in the stomach and slapped twice in the face. Her head was buzzing.
"Run, keep running!" Cao Jun stretched out his hand and grabbed her neck, gritting his teeth and saying, "You damn woman, you're seeking death by fighting me."
Yang Qiujin's face turned red and she had difficulty breathing, but she had a weird smile on her face and said with difficulty, "Be careful."
"Bang——" The sound of a gunshot echoed throughout the cultural center.
Ruan Xiangming, who had rushed over, hit Cao Jun on the shoulder. As Cao Jun was wailing on the ground, holding his bruised shoulder, other soldiers rushed in quickly with guns raised, aiming their guns at other strong men who were ready to make a move: "Don't move! Anyone who moves will be treated as a spy and shot on the spot!"
Cao Jun turned pale and saw the soldiers coming in with guns, as well as Han Yongxin who was also leading the armed militia. He knew the situation was over and felt cold all over. He said firmly, "Do you know who my uncle is? If you dare to touch me, I will let my uncle kill you, raid your homes, and make you divorced and your families destroyed!"
His answer was a marble hitting his mouth accurately, and a small figure rushed over, punching and kicking him: "I'll beat you to death for bullying my mother. I'll beat you to death."
Han Yongxin grabbed him and said, "Okay, Tianyou, the fire here is too big and we can't control it. Help your mother out."
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