"Good. Then I'll call you Xiao Yang. Murong Xue said, "I should have been called Yang Xue, and my mother also asked us to take our father's surname, but we sisters have never met our father, why should we follow his surname, so when we went to school, we all took our mother's surname on our own, and my mother couldn't resist us, so we could only agree." ”

"You've never seen your father?" Yang Maode was very surprised.

"Yes. So we all hated him, but Mother wouldn't let us speak ill of him, and she always told us that he was the best and greatest person in the world. Murong Xue sighed, "Anyway, we don't know where his goodness and greatness are." ”

"What does your mother do?" Yang Maode asked.

"I don't know." Murong Xue shook her head, "Her job seems to be very mysterious, sometimes she stays at home for a long time, sometimes she goes out for several days and won't come, and when she is away, there will be a beautiful aunt to take care of us until she comes back." We didn't see her do anything, but she was never short of money to spend, and we grew up and became sensible, and sometimes when we asked her, she just wouldn't tell us. One time I couldn't sleep at night, I got up to look for her, and found her in the basement, shooting with a gun, she saw me, smiled and picked me up, I asked her what she was doing, she said she was drawing, I didn't believe it, she shot a plum blossom on the target with a gun. ”

Hearing this, Yang Maode, who had been a sniper for a while, couldn't help but be taken aback.

"I understand why she didn't tell you."

"I know what you're trying to say." Murong Xue laughed, "Later, she took us to Sichuan, that year I heard that Brother Pao there would be fierce, and people said that it was not safe there, but she still took us there, and it was strange to say, after she went, soon after, the Brother Pao Society there disappeared, and I also asked my mother, did you beat them all to death?" She laughed and said, yes, baby, how do you know? I said that because they are all stupid, they are definitely not as good at marksmanship as their mother. She smiled, nodded my nose, and said don't think about it, how can my mother have such great ability, and my father has this ability. I said that my father was bad, and he patronized and killed bad people, and he didn't come to see us, but my mother laughed and cried, and she said that it wasn't that my father didn't come to see us, it was my father who didn't come to see us in order to protect us. I said I didn't understand, and she said you'll understand when you grow up. But now that I'm older and have learned how to fly an airplane, I still don't understand. ”

"Judging by the pictures, your mother is so beautiful."

"Yes, after all these years, her appearance has not changed, as if time has stood still in her. The last time she came to see me at the base, some people thought she was my sister. ”

"Really. Your father must have looked young, right? ”

"I don't know. However, it is not accurate to say that we have never met him, but my mother once told me that we had actually seen him, but we didn't know that he was our father, and that he had spoken to us, but he never mentioned that he was our father. I'd love to see him now. ”

The two of them talked casually in the temporary hospital in the field, enjoying the good time that belonged only to the two of them. And the two of them don't know that such a good time is destined to be short-lived.

One day in early December 1944, USSR, Ural River Basin.

The cold wind blows the hard frozen soil, the thick snow on the roadside shows no sign of melting, the ice hangs all over the branches of the trees, and the grassland is full of white scenes.

As soon as the day dawned, there was silence in the compound of the Ural Military District, and Samaev, the chief of the security section of the security department of the military district, who was on duty in the duty room, heard a rapid car horn outside the office building, and he ran out of the door to see a jeep parked at the gate.

"Where is this going?" He asked the driver.

"This is the car that Chief of Staff Ilzakarev wanted, and there is an urgent matter to go to the front."

While they were talking, Ilzakarev hurriedly walked out of the office building with a suitcase in his hand.

Samaev hurriedly greeted him: "Chief, are you going to the front alone?" ”

"Why, can't you?"

"No, no...... I'm afraid that the chief's road is not safe, should I send a guard? ”

"Then you don't have to?" Ilzakharev said coldly.

The car increased the throttle and drove out of the military compound, and Samaev looked at the back of the car and fell into deep thought.

Ilzakarev is a typical Russian, of medium height, with a high nose and square face, with curly blond hair and a face that is always flushed. He leaned back in the car seat, his eyes half-closed, and a gentle beam of sunlight shone on his face. The rank of major general on his shoulders was shining. He looked up at the car for a while, and then urged the driver to drive quickly, and his mood seemed restless.

At this time, a jeep was approaching on the road, and Ilzakarev saw clearly that it was a military vehicle, and he ordered the driver to stop the car, and the car stopped with a creak, and the military vehicle on the opposite side also stopped. Ilzakarev jumped out of the car and walked towards the car, and from the opposite car got the commander of the Ural Military District, Markov, with the rank of major general, also Russian. The two shook hands first, and perhaps both sides felt that they were not warm enough, so they hugged each other tightly...... "Comrade commander, where are we going today?" ”

"Go to the county party committee, I've already told them."

Two Jixi cars, one after the other, drove towards Yumin County, along the way, sparsely populated, although the snow on the grassland has not yet melted, you can still see the herdsmen driving the sheep in twos and threes.

The car drove into a village, "The head of the Red Army is coming!" "People ran out of their homes, some played the six-stringed piano, some played the bayan.

"Let's jump! Sing it! Have fun! Ilzakharev shouted and danced the Russian cavalry dance...... "Huh...... Scold...... Scold...... Ay...... Hey...... "People cheered to the rhythm of his dance steps. Then Markov joined in the dance, and as he danced, he took off his military hat and threw it into the air, kicking his feet forward with a loud "click" sound...... When the ball was over, Ilzakarev and Markov had no intention of leaving, and they took vodka and lamb out of the car, and the shepherds cheered again, especially the good things that were hard to see at that time. The herders brought the only bread and cheese they had from home, and they sat around drinking and cooking their meals, and most of all, they wanted to eat their stomachs.

Seeing that the time had come, Ilzakarev glanced at Markov.

Markov stood up and glanced at the crowd, and without finding any cadres from party and government organs, he whispered: "Don't you want to have a full meal?" I've got a way to ......."

"What's the solution? What's the solution? …… Say it......"

People were talking and talking, saying everything.

"Now there is only one way, to China!"

The crowd exploded all at once, and someone said: "Go to China, isn't that treason?" ”

"I'm not afraid of anything else, I'm afraid that the Chinese don't want us!"

"What are you afraid of, the Chinese are not as terrible as advertised! They have always been very kind to our people, and those who have passed will not be discriminated against as long as they swear to renounce social favoritism and be loyal to China! There are hundreds of thousands of our people in China! They are all living very well! ”

Ilzakarev said solemnly: "Whoever wants to go to China can go to the Military Commission to get a pass, and with a pass, he can go to China." ”

Hearing this, the crowd dispersed in a hurry, and they all went to get their passes.

Not far from the county seat there is a port, and below the opposite pass is a gorge, which in the rainy season becomes a rolling river, and between the two passes, there is a pontoon bridge with a new tower.

Early in the morning, hundreds of herdsmen carrying luggage and dragging their children and daughters came to the port and asked to go to the opposite side, and a Red Army sentry asked in surprise: "What are you going to do over there is the defense line of the squadron?" Before his words fell, he immediately attracted a shout and curse, and no matter how much the Red Army soldiers on duty tried to persuade and stop him, it was to no avail. By this time, the number of people who had asked to pass had reached thousands, but there was still a steady stream of people on the highway, all of whom were holding passes in their hands and shouting, "We want to pass!" ”

"We're going to China!"

"Where did you get your papers?" While the Red Army soldiers were checking their documents, several more cadres arrived, and the sound of slogans, shouting, and quarrels rang out...... The officer on duty immediately called the military sub-district in a hurry, and it had already been connected, but the phone was inexplicably disconnected.

Stalin Avenue in the city of Uralsk, with the Ural Military Subdistrict to the north, the district party committee opposite, and the regional party committee at the corner to the east, the three units are not too far away.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Stalin's Street was full of people and orderly, and the shops were open as usual. At this moment, a group of young people came from the street, armed with sticks and poles, and shouted as they went: "Bread! Bread! The guards standing guard at the gate were about to step forward to stop them, but they were knocked down with sticks by several people who rushed in front, so the crowd poured into the compound of the state party committee.

Sticks, bricks, and stones flew in like hailstones, smashing the watchtower, smashing the doors and windows of the communication room, and the cadres of the state party committee were about to go out in a jeep to run errands, but just a few steps away, they were blocked, and the car was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, and someone shouted: "Smash!" Suddenly all the windows of the carport were smashed, and the injured cadres of the state party committee had not yet climbed out of the car, the car had been overturned, and someone shouted: "Burn the car, burn them......

The car's fuel tank was smashed, gasoline flowed out, and someone set it on fire...... At this critical juncture, the guards and several state party cadres rushed forward desperately and rescued the people in the car.

The car was burning, the fire was blazing, and the smoke was billowing ...... At this time, at least two or three thousand people rushed into the compound of the state party committee, many of whom were still holding old-fashioned rifles and shotguns, and "banged" at the state party committee office building...... Bang ......" fired, causing puffs of white smoke to come out of the doors and windows.

The office building of the state party committee is a yellow-colored Gothic building, with a total of four floors, more than 100 cadres in the building, with tables and chairs to hold the door, while guarding and retreating, when the first floor is lost, some cadres from the backyard to the district party committee compound not far from the state party committee, part of the cadres to the roof of the building, continue to hold on.

The rioters looted files and secret documents and smashed the office.

The cadres of the state party committee stood on the platform of the office building and fired at them with submachine guns, but the people below failed to attack after several attacks, and the two sides were deadlocked.

A few hours later, the besieging crowd surrounded the district party committee, not far from the state party committee, and some people in the crowd chanted "Bread!" Don't go hungry! began to smash and rob desperately. At that time, Chadanov, deputy political commissar of the Ural Military District, led a working group to inspect the work in the Urals.

Chadanov stood on the high platform at the entrance of the courtyard and shouted: "Don't be provoked by the bad guys!" It is illegal to storm party and government organs! If there is a request, it can be reflected by level, do not ......"

"Don't listen to him, he's just as 'Cheka' as those who robbed us of our grain!"

"Hit, rush, kill them!" Amid shouting, the crowd rushed towards the gate again, and Chadanov and the cadres of the district party committee were forced to retreat to the front of the office building, and the crowd tore down the iron fence and rushed into the courtyard.

At this time, the Urarkand Divisional Guard Company arrived, and the Red Army soldiers with guns formed a line of human walls to block the storming crowd.

After only a few minutes, the crowd rushed up again, and the guard company began to retreat and strafe, and some people in the crowd opened fire with rifles and shotguns, and for a moment the gunfire rang out.

At the same time, the other sub-districts of the Ural Military District received urgent telephone calls and telegrams from various places, and the local political axes and barracks were attacked and surrounded, and they demanded that troops be sent to support them immediately, but the reply from the higher authorities was that there were no troops, and that all localities should rely on their own strength to prevent the situation from escalating.

At the pass, the crowd became more and more crowded, and many people began to besiege the Red Army soldiers guarding the pontoon bridge, and a group of people pulled down the flagpole, tore the red flag, and rushed to the bridgehead...... At this time, a long car drove in the opposite direction, including buses and trucks...... Someone shouted, "This is here to pick us up!" I want to go to China and rush across the bridge! ”

The crowd squeezed towards the bridgehead almost frantically...... "Bang! Bang! The Red Army soldiers began to fire their guns into the air, but the guns were quickly taken away, the soldiers were squeezed down, and the crowd stepped over the soldiers, like a stream of muddy water flowing into the territory controlled by the Chinese army.

On the office building of the state party committee, an emergency meeting was being held, and it was decided to take decisive measures to break out of the encirclement, and the cadres of the state party committee returned fire with the few submachine guns they had left, and some people were killed, and the besiegers were frightened and began to waver, and they retreated in a sparse manner, and the cadres of the state party committee took the opportunity to rush out.

In the compound of the district party committee, the besieging crowd showed no sign of retreating, and they had already rushed to the front of the building.

The crowd shouted in front of them, and suddenly rushed through the white line, the company commander gritted his teeth, waved his hand, and the soldiers opened fire together, and the crowd box fell when it landed...... It was getting dark, and the highway leading to the ports of the Soviet Union was filled with noisy shouts and the roar of cars and tractors...... There were people who crossed the border during the day, and they ran back again, bringing all kinds of news: "The border over there is already full of brioche bread, and there are milk sausages, no money, eat as much as you want, take whatever you want!" That's where the real [***] is! "The house and tent are also set up, and you can live as much as you want......

The people cheered with joy...... A village party secretary, lying in the middle of the road, said with a handful of snot and tears: "Comrades, you must not leave, we are all Russians, and we will regret going over there!" Sheep that leave the flock will not live, and those who leave the Motherland will not have a permanent happy ......"

No one paid any attention to him, and the people stepped over him and walked forward without looking back.

A car stopped in front of him, and the people in the car scolded him for being a dog blocking the way, and two young men jumped out of the car and dragged him into the car like they were dragging something, and the car started, and the secretary struggled to jump out of the car and fell on the side of the road.

During the day, the Chinese authorities used loud radio sounds to indicate the direction, and at night they turned on searchlights, and pillars of light shot into the territory under the jurisdiction of the Soviet army several kilometers away, and in the following months, more than 167,000 Soviet civilians fled to China, and only a few hundred people remained in some county towns.

Yanjing, Jurentang, Chunfangyuan.

Yang Shuoming sat on a mahogany chair in the study, looking at the map in a trance.

At this time, a guard walked in: "President, the prime minister is here." ”

"Ask the Prime Minister to come over here."

Premier Qu Shuang walked in with a document in his hand: "President, I just received a telegram from the Kazakh Military District, and more than 100,000 Soviet border residents in the Urals have come to our side after besieging the Soviet party and government organs. ”

"Oh......" Yang Shuoming pondered for a moment: "I'm afraid it's the Army Intelligence Department and the Department of Homeland Security again, right?" ”

"Of course, this incident was organized and premeditated, and there was no indication before that that they did a good job."

"There are still signs, it's just that we didn't expect it to be so soon."

"Yes, even the commander of the Ural Military District of the Soviet Union, Markov, and the chief of staff, Ilzakarev, wrote a letter asking to come to our China."

Yang Shuoming got up from his chair and looked out the window at a hundred-year-old cypress: "How many years have they been doing this social favoritism, I don't believe that there will be heaven over there!" I also don't believe that they will liberate all of humanity by doing so! ”

"President, I have already informed the General Staff of the news, in this case, can the second major assault start earlier? We've been preparing for a long time. Qu Shuang said.

(To be continued)