Walks boundless expanse of the South China Sea Wave - Sha anecdotal
Chinese underwater archaeologists recently discovered in the sea water Nanhaixisha a large number of the Five Dynasties and the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty of ancient porcelain, and then once unarguable fact that the West and the Nansha Islands of China since ancient times namely, the territory can not be disputed . Twenty-seven years ago, the 18-year-old soldiers of the republic, I had the privilege to participate in self-defense is recovering Sha Yong Le combat military operations, will now be following this story WORM to readers.
1, was ordered to set off
Early in 1974, the U.S. military began to withdraw from Vietnam, the Communist Party took the opportunity to aggressively swept south, close to the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam War, near the end. At this point, Sha Yongle of China's territory on the islands are still entrenched by the South Vietnamese puppet troops. CMC believes that now if you do not recover Xisha, when? Chinese New Year Eve, I located directly under the People's Liberation Army Military District Hainan Independent Engineer Battalion received orders from higher levels: within three days along the coast-bound Sanya Yulin staging to prepare for the recovery of Sha Yong Le of the attachment is self-defense combat operations. That day the entire battalion to carry out the pre-war mobilization, replacement weapons and equipment commonly used in reinforcement learning Vietnamese battlefield, such as: Ah Mi! (Stopped!), The old control-Song Ye! (Hand over their guns do not kill!), Cup stack to coax a wide degree of edge! (We preferential treatment of prisoners!), Etc., while the soldiers from the battalion commander to be shaved their heads and killing pigs zaiyang dinner ready to set off. For the first time on the battlefield, whether it is a good fighter successive five veteran squad leader, or just eggs recruits son, feeling very excited and have to write the book strive to FireWire Qingzhan meritorious service to join the party, some comrades have also written a suicide note that there is much "the husband is not one to go Fu also "spirit. I was in engineering a three-row seven to when the soldier is the fourth soldier, who just turned 18 years old, has not yet joined the party, I put Qingzhan application to join the party with the book and handed over to the company branch to send a four-year savings to the Hunan army unit as far away as parents, in the retention of the items on the barracks carefully fill out my name and address of the family made death calmly plans. The third day, the entire battalion except staying in personnel, fully equipped boarding pass and even left the Emerald City to move into the camp from the highway center line of Yulin front arrived at the designated time and place of Yang Lan standby.
2, stand-Yang Lan
Yang Lan and Sanya is located between the ends of the earth close to the current Phoenix International Airport, blue sea, white sand, blue sky, coconut trees, landscape is very beautiful., Is the only Muslim village in Hainan island. Most of the villagers named Ma, beliefs, Islam, in order to shepherd a living, small population, about 300 or so, language is also better than the other nationalities in Hainan to understand. I am Ministry of the village where the West coast windbreak camp, the task is to collect debris in the nearby Rock Hill, in order to build permanent fortifications in the Xisha and ready to prepare materials of construction on the island. During World War II, the Japanese have been in this amendment are the Airport, so the beach remains of Japanese soldiers left over from narrow concrete road. After dinner I went for a walk and his comrades when he picked up cans of Japanese military (the contents of which has become a powder, I wonder if the ashes or food) and the Japanese-specific sub-boots, the soles of neat's foot (big toe and the other parent 4 toe split ends). Hainan's only railway - West line of railroad through from here. The next day we go into the mountains quarrying, put them in the crush grinder, and then transported to Sanya Naval Base into a train wagon. In the loading process, in order to facilitate shipment, we push wagons go, the company commander Li Shaoxing, said: "Tarzan is not a barrier, the leather is not blowing, the train is pushing." Once, a soldier accidentally left in Sichuan foot extension on the right track, the results so that flattened the small wagons mother toe Since then, he was sleeping, blowing: "All I, I was a train at Sai Sha pressure off." demobilization even where his assessment of a "second-class B disability" .
1974 Spring Festival, we are the front line military tents Yang Lan-off, this time Navy and Army field force had completed successfully recovered Xisha Paradise Islands, combat missions, leaving the garrison units, the division moved back to Camp . Heard that most of the island is subject to penalties of South Vietnam puppet army officer, there are some puppet troops, or ethnic Chinese, combined with Saigon North Vietnamese troops had been surrounded by, the military has long been lax, not vulnerable. Only a sea battle, the South Vietnamese Navy, by virtue of the pseudo-American warships have done a little resistance, I have nine sailors heroic martyr. Soon, the front-line command to a command, let me leave for Sha, within the Department on the 2nd, and build permanent fortifications. My entire battalion of troops to immediately go to Sanya Luhuitou naval Bazhai would be combat-ready supplies overnight shipping, ready to set sail. The adoption of the lighter to transport cargo on the melon, as a result between the two ships there is a meter-wide gap, so it was word for word every one-meter cargo ship bound for the child row to pass, remember that darker days, the new mess over inspection of vegetables ship work, do not know if there is gap between the two ships that where the interval between the two men is too wide, the impact loading speed, so they volunteered to standing up, saying that at that moment, "Bang, puff TOM" soon as Our little man mess Wenchang Ji carrying a pistol to fall into the satchel on the heavily-armed sea. Company commander, after hearing the news, they must notify the carriers to open Searchlight search for and salvage organization, and good quartermaster will be water, just being pulled out quite embarrassed when, like a La Tangji. Did not insiders had originally thought that out of a melon, so there will be a mess a term of endearment - "small melon."
Third, can breathe advance
The next morning, the entire battalion each of the company into two, aboard ships and gunboats left for the South China Sea domain Paracel Islands (said such an arrangement is to ensure that our department will not be ordering it in loss). Where I was three rows are arranged by gunboats. On the boat you'll see that the army opened, the boats were recorded Hainan Strait military command posts, equipped with a before and after the guns, two guns and a pricey machine-gun fire, the main task is to defend, captain, or I Hubei villagers. "Ming -" alarm sounding, gunboats sail, and the engine emitting a strong smell of diesel to those of us engineers Xunde disoriented, until the gunboat left the naval port, accelerated speed, the sea breeze dispersed the smoke, we slow Guo Jin years. From the military port in Sanya Luhuitou to Xisha Paradise Islands, about driving for more than eight hours. Way above the high winds and waves, gunboats entered the south cutting through the waves, pitching, left tilt, swing range is often greater than 40 degrees. Standing on the boat in the first Jimuyuantiao saw days of blue, sea blue, sea days, the same color, regardless of Haitian. Sky, seagulls looking for our no traces in tracking chasing fish; nautical miles, silver and white flying fish on both sides of the deck from time to time joyfully flying. Listen to the captain speaking, about one nautical miles in front of the KMT, Taiwan's inspection of rotations of the warships to the Nansha (Spratly Islands at that time the island and other islands of the Kuomintang troops stationed), I took the captain's binoculars for soldiers battle-bit signal to climb a look, Sure enough, saw the front of the ship on the ROC sign, think of the KMT armies in order to protect the country frontier patrol on the same route, can not help but filled with emotion. When approaching freighter Xisha yaw because of two almost dozing on duty to Da Nang in South Vietnam, thanks to the timely discovery was gunboats came back, otherwise I will be the Ministry of 50 percent of the engineers had come to grief Xisha.
Around three in the afternoon we anchored at Sai Sha waters, in the five waves in the rough more than eight hours of engineering are already Tude mess. We each arm forward on the deck, ready to transfer assault boats landing (then Xisha pier has not yet fixed, larger tonnage ships can not dock). While still Yangchun in March, but the sun has been quite sinister Xisha less than 20 minutes, the rubber-soled feet Jiefang Xie has become soft tan, his face tan Zhimao oil Khan, there is a burning feeling.
Sha Yongle Islands, located 113 degrees east longitude, north latitude 16 degrees, thousands of bodies piled up came in. coral made, and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, as is typical coral island. Is comprised of five islands and some reefs composed of names are very nicely: Oasis Hong Kong Island, Treasure Island, the construction of Island Duncan Island and Isle. Island less than two meters above sea level, there are Japanese-style bungalows and buildings in the French one, as well as the Japanese had mined the old phosphate 1, marking the Japanese and the French army had invaded our territory and to encroach on Xisha. The size of the building wall washbasin countless bullet holes, showing the counter-fighting power of our naval guns. Here are only a dozen latitude from the equator, is a tropical marine climate. Island cyclone tree, Ma Fung-tung and wild banana lush, looks very lush. Although these plants are 23 meters high, but are herbal. Covered with thick fossil guano island, giving the island's vegetation provides ample phosphate nutrients. Caine gray birds dancing in the trees, as if to welcome our arrival. When we looked around the control tower standing gunboats - blue sky, sea, trees, Silver Beach. In accordance with the current international tourist attraction factor "3 S" that the sun (the sun), sand (beach), sea (water) to measure, where the tourism resources with their classmates, the United States, Hawaii. Beautiful Xisha as many hearts splendid pearl embellishment in the boundless expanse of blue water in the South China Sea.
That night, I could not even military tents erected at the Oasis on the island, beach when the bed, the blue sky when the room, head forward to the waves of the sea and spent an unforgettable first night Sai Sha.
Before us on the island have been stationed in the Army amphibious tank with a waterway, a reinforced company and the navy air force garrison of a radar, observation stations, the Navy's brothers have just replaced by a gray ribbon non-uniform along the cap and the white under the The new blue sailor suits, one by one as Taishang Senior amp sound fart - an air was not work. Tank company mission is to be completed before use of permanent fortifications, as a flow around the island with heavy artillery and defense. These amphibious tanks frequently in the strait between the islands where cruise, which, after more than half of the body into the sea, disappeared, only the periscope and the turret above the surface, quite good to play. However, in the Xisha at room temperature about 40 degrees when the tanks and soldiers can not feel better, their cages all day sitting in that house edge, there is sun drying, steaming under the hot, almost every day the sauna. An area of the islands are not large, from a rifle bullet hit it at one end there is still lethal, not take 40 minutes a lap around the island on patrol. The sea floating debris on the beach often pushed ashore by the tide, the large diameter of one meter inside the log forests of Malaysia, the small-to-metal cans and plastic beverage bottles, a number of categories. At that time China can not produce metal cans and plastic beverage bottles, rare thing these soldiers have become collector's items.
Fourth, sweat construction
The next day we start from the freighter to the island where the unloading of construction materials, the sea Chung large, like a small hill to a moment in front of the barge used in assault boats on top of the wave, while dumped it into the bottom zone to the unloading operations to become more difficult. As infantry jargon "recruits afraid of guns, machine guns veterans fear," just like sailors are also saying jargon "recruits afraid of waves, veterans fear Chung." This shows that the Bay is far greater than the power of waves. Nevertheless, the engineers are still endured dizzy, smuggled a small quantity Side completed the unloading task.
Hainan Military District in the travel with the team from the Agency's staff are under the guidance of camp, I entered the building tension in the construction of permanent fortifications. Digging the base, we found that a large number of porcelain fragments, according to experts, research, This is the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing era relics, it suffices to prove that ancient times, Xisha the territory of China can not be disputed. Two days before the day did not experience in construction, due to the hot weather caused a large number of non-combat attrition, later converted into a rest day and night construction, the situation is much better, but sleeping in the daytime temperature is high, we Bianba four sides rolled up tents, into something of a pavilion shape, so that the ventilation on all sides, and some classes on top with a row of tents are still used as a summer sleeping mat woven out of coconut leaves insulation layer to reduce the sun's radiation, so as to avoid strong you can go to sleep. Maritime climate corrosive large Medical account, so that everyone points, quilt covered bed. Wake up, the quilt is a wet, sticky bodies are ambiguous, very uncomfortable. Military tents for a week after the use of a hole in a barrel, we are on the island more than 40 days, the average class spent six tents. To move the division back to camp, the logistics sector also dedicated to the comrades on the island each replacement of an Army would be and a really cool uniforms. However, the construction at night there are a windfall, one day at dawn, we are lucky enough to see the colorful underwater world by the composition of the mirage, we drunkenly cheered into the night throwing in behind the fatigue.
5, Bi-Hai Shi Bei
Paradise is all around each island more than 100 meters wide reefs, tide, when no extraordinary roof, at low tide when the average depth of less than one meter, where particularly rich marine resources, with amphioxus, Spanish mackerel, grouper fish, shell fish, star anise fish, flying fish, sharks, turtles, Tai Lam, hermit crabs, lobsters, tiger shell, the nautilus, horseshoe snail, sea cucumber, eel and so on. The surrounding waters are excellent natural fish farms, often Hainan, China and Hong Kong, Taiwan fishing vessels fishing in the past. Experienced smaller typhoon, they hid in sheltered waters Xisha. I work when we are down to the reefs where fishing Zhuoxie, initially did not know the pros and cons to go on with bare feet at noon Guangzhuobangzi a result, make a sharp clam-foot cut was terrible, and shoulders are also sinister a sun tan rub the skin off one, Shengtengshengteng. Days later, we learned the lesson instead of the evening sea, and wearing overalls, pedal Jiefang Xie, hand-held bamboo pole, a mouth with flashlights, the entire child heavily armed. Fishing method is very simple, two people have the nets opened the word children stood stagnant, others he took pole in the water splitting indiscriminately in the direction towards the nets to fight about it, the fish will obediently network in the drill. A network go get him a 100 to jin is common.
Compared to fishing to get some specimens of shells and so much more interesting. Sha sea water salinity higher buoyancy in the water in particular that it would not go on the water who wants to potential really was not easy. The total area of the water is clear translucent, underwater world of colorful splendor, coral, shells and tropical fish, dazzling, dizzying. Tiger grouper, some kind of shell is Xisha Te love, they live at depths of about two meters of the reef, the live shells and the shell often used meat buns in the reefs on slowly moving to sneak into the water wearing a diving glasses to see They, like a mince hedgehog, like quite a scary, a bucket with a stick, they shrink back, and emerged in the beautiful prototype. Our military field rations allotted for each bag can hold more than 20 to return to the island with the banana leaf packet of buried bunkers, dug up a week later, to the sea to wash away the carrion, beautiful shell specimens of tiger grouper you're done. Shell fishing is not everyone doing their homework in, and I grew up in his childhood at the water's edge, of course, goes without saying, but those who suffer, "Hanya Zi" were, they can only craned, looking at me with envy and so extreme is kept constantly busy, there is limerick for the card: "tiger grouper shell out the Xisha, dark blue submarine is the home of wind and waves to well-washed, beautiful colorful place Guanghua. determined to go on the person submersible, painstaking get her, no Zhi coward too timid, dry air evil legislation shore alive. " Of course, there are merciless, once I have, unfortunately, when digging shellfish buried by several Hubei "Hanya Zi" fellow is a glimpse of the month, alas! They will effortlessly steal the fruits of my victory. After demobilization, I brought back specimens of shells from Xisha sent a large handy - it was donated to the first love in front of keepsake lover.
In order to improve the troops food, good comrades of water drawn camps set up a fishing team, first fishing, then the soldiers a taste on the disgusting smell of fish, they changed arrested turtles. Paracel Islands is the best place for sea turtles reproduce, every spring, the mother took advantage of the moonlight sea turtles swim into the reef after another plate, climbed up the beach, first two months before the charge of digging straight through the pits of about 30 centimeters would be nearly a turtle laying their eggs into the pit, and then fill in the hind paw of sand, the mother turtle will go back to step 1 back to the sea. In the warm sand, the Jishi Tian After incubation, eggs became a small turtle. Seems to be a nature, that they hatched a staggering they ran towards the sea. Fishing team players were lying on the beach at night wearing a raincoat, "Shou Beach to be a tortoise", a sea turtle come ashore, but they go up their legs overturned so doubled, on the end of the story, sea turtles only dry thump in envy, even the turtle with eggs are "done a total of army prisoners of war." Xisha sea turtles heads getting bigger, enough to have three or four hundred pounds, not 45 individuals was also resistant to what it can not, its tasty meat than beef, the egg cooked as large as Eluan is difficult. In the presence of more than 40 days Xisha fishing team caught a total of more than 40 sea turtles, it seems that such an act contrary to the "Animal Protection Law", should not be allowed.
6, endure hardship Jiangong
To bring the vegetables from the rear soon finished, and the tender 10 days to time, we open to eat hard tack and compressed vegetables. Compress the size of a pack of toilet paper soaked vegetables to have a big pot, enough for a row of dinner meal. This kinda stuff used in the beginning there is something new to eat for a long time simply Weitongjiaola. Oasis Hong Kong Island, the island has a well because of their name, but the water's taste is not flattered, it is rainwater filtering through the island's guano fossils formed, second only to the extent of their bitter water, drinking must be coupled with sugar and tea. There is simply no way entrance, bath soap will not fight strike, a dozen heads up the body wash on the sticky the more uncomfortable the more ambiguous. Therefore, we, like the modern opera, "Longjiang Hymns" goal of getting water, like mother, every day looking forward eagerly to the arrival of the rear tender in order to be able to drink as soon as possible a true Oasis water.
Paradise Islands, located just below the international aviation lines, often shuttling between national civil aviation flights, just on the island when you do not know the situation, as long as there is a passing aircraft, battalion air defense alarm on the pull. Sha loose soil can not dig air-raid shelter, brothers on a person to go to a reinforced concrete prefabricated air altar where dancing, this one meter in diameter circle around the hot guy buried in the sand on the island, almost airtight, the top two small eyes, a breathable, a fire a gun. Sha spring at room temperature about 38 degrees, up to 40 degrees during the day, stay for 10 minutes inside, wash dry steam sauna when the feeling of immediate moment to find. Although it has been the front-line command to the notice of cancellation of the air-raid sirens, but they form a unique air altar to the left an indelible impression on me, and now see that as long as a sauna room, on the conditioned reflex to think of these round cushion throat clamor of the air altar.
Early in April, strong typhoon early to buy what they Paracel Islands. Received forecast larger tonnage ships on the return to Sanya Naval Base together to shelter from the wind, and we are busy divvying up to the assault boats and small wooden boat to shore, piling a fixed rate, and then put on three to five days of dry food and fresh water, Initial drilling completed in the semi-underground-style defense, engaged the typhoon's arrival. A minute later, Typhoon sandwiched rainstorm, aggressive manner Shaben Camp from the sky dark clouds, sea waves-tao days has really badly, on the island a few hundred officers and men could only parry our blows without being naked. At this moment, feel that human nature side of loneliness and insignificance. People are absolutely afraid to go out walking, one out of the sight of nothing, that is not going to Nicaragua to Guatemala. After a typhoon, the island was sacked as some, a bleak. Clear up after the water is more Bi, vegetation is more green, sand is more white, the sky is more blue.
After more than 40 days of hard work, we have time to complete the construction of national defense missions, take the wheel of the victory million tons of return. After the baptism of Xisha, I was awarded a third-class military medals and honor to join the Communist Party of China. Fort Yulin naval base in Sanya at the Paracel Islands in self-defense war celebration celebration party of the General Assembly, the Central condolences group acts include the revolutionary modern ballet "Red Detachment of Women", and on behalf of the CPC Central Committee Chairman Mao's troops entered the war to each one presented a hardcover " Selected Works of Mao Zedong's "pocketbook, I treasure this book are well preserved.
20 years of ups and downs fleeting, Sha Xiao Mao comrades are still fresh in our memory capacity of the United Kingdom, they are: company commander Li Shaoxing, Guangxi Yulin; the instructors rely on Monju, Guangzhou; the three platoon leader Cai Shi Fu, Lingshui person; mess "small melon" Hainan Wenchang; the seven squad leader Wei Guoqing, Yangshuo, Guangxi; the instruments Hu and health, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province; the Agency's staff, "Ye Shuai", Wuhan, Hubei Province; engineer soldiers Feng Sheng, Hubei Xiaogan people ... ...
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April 8, 2001
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