diskusbooks Chapter 253 "So I'm the one with connections?!"
Chapter 253 "So I'm the one with connections?!"
Go into the house.
Jiang Chen immediately noticed the general's uniform hanging on the hanger.
It’s not that his eyesight is very good, but the long string of medals on his clothes is really too dazzling.
Even in a dimly lit room, it still shines brightly.
Ever since he appeared in front of people wearing this general's uniform that day, the old man never put it away as he did before. Instead, he hung it openly in the house, and even did not take off the medals of honor on the clothes.
He was waiting, waiting for his grandson to come back.
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Everyone is selfish, and the old man is no exception.
It would be fine if no one in the family wanted to go into the military.
When the old man dies, he will take all of this, along with his hidden past, into the grave.
but!
Now, Jiang Weiguo’s grandson has returned and told him in person that he wants to stay in the army and continue his development.
and so……
Pulling Jiang Chen to the hanger where the general's uniform was hung, the old man reached out and gently stroked the officer's woolen coat that he had hidden for more than 30 years and would only take it out of the closet to take a look at it in the dead of night.
"Are you really curious about your grandfather's past?" The old man said with a smile on his face, in a tone almost like coaxing a child.
"Hmm."
Jiang Chen turned into a little fanboy and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Just like every father wants to be an idol that his son admires all his life, grandfather Jiang Weiming is no exception.
Since he chose to reveal this past, he naturally wanted to enjoy the admiring gazes of his children and grandchildren.
The old man reached out and took off the first medal on the chest of the general's uniform and gently placed it in Jiang Chen's palm.
"You are a soldier now, so let me test you. Do you recognize this medal?"
Jiang Chen looked at the silver-white medal with a deep red five-pointed star in the center and the word "August 1st" engraved on it, and nodded quickly, "I know, it's the third-level August 1st medal!"
While speaking, Jiang Chen subconsciously thought of the introduction of the August 1st Medal of Honor.
The August 1927st Medal is an honorary medal specially awarded to soldiers who made meritorious contributions in participating in the revolutionary war from 1937 to .
There are three levels in total.
The first-class August 1st Medal was only awarded to cadres at the division level and above during the revolutionary war period.
The Second Class August 1st Medal was awarded to cadres at the regimental and battalion level and above at that time.
The third-class August 1st Medal is awarded to cadres and soldiers at the company level and below who have served in the army for two years or more, or who have been disabled due to combat injuries for less than two years.
The old man reached out and stroked the medal, his eyes full of reminiscence.
"I was just fifteen years old at the time, and I lied about my age in order to join the main force..."
The old man spoke in a storytelling tone about his past that he had hidden for nearly forty years, and the medals of honor hanging on his general's uniform seemed to be the anchor that connected these stories.
Behind the third-level August 1st Medal is the story of the old man's transformation from an ignorant boy into a soldier when he first joined the army.
The 25,000-mile Long March was the beginning of the successful revolution and also the prelude to the growth of an ignorant boy into a soldier defending his country.
The Medal of Independence and Freedom represents the old man's passionate legend as a soldier who devoted himself to defending his country and fighting against Japanese pirates.
What shocked Jiang Chen even more was that in the old man's story, he heard many terms that were extremely familiar to him in his previous life.
Northwest Shanxi, 129th Division, 386th Brigade, Independent Regiment, New st Regiment, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, the iron triangle of Northwest Shanxi...
"This general's uniform was given to me as a gift by my old commander, General Li Yunlong, after I was promoted to regiment commander..."
The old man's story was still going on, and Jiang Chen next to him was completely numb at this moment.
He thought that the old man's hidden past might be very legendary, but he never thought it could be legendary to this extent.
As for the appearance of the iron triangle of Northwest Shanxi: Li Yunlong, Kong Jie, and Ding Wei, Jiang Chen was not that surprised.
After all, I heard the names Xu Sanduo and Chengcai at the train station more than a year ago, and later I heard about the Wolf Fang Special Forces from Li Gang in the reconnaissance company.
Jiang Chen has already prepared himself mentally for the peculiarities of this world.
only……
He never imagined that his own grandfather had served in Lao Li's independent regiment and had fought in the famous "Battle of Ping'angle", a turning point in World War II, with Lao Li.
His immediate superior was still the Second Battalion Commander whom Lao Li called "Second Battalion Commander, where's your fucking Italian gun!"
Listening to those familiar yet unfamiliar stories told by his grandfather, Jiang Chen couldn't help but feel dazed.
Turning his head to look at the general's uniform in front of him again, Jiang Chen finally understood why the old man left the army quietly and lived in anonymity for more than 30 years.
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At the same time, in the office of the commander of the C Army, a major general with wheat ears on his shoulders sat behind his desk, holding a document in his hand and looking at it carefully.
After a long time, the general slowly exhaled, put down the documents and looked at the three phones on the desk, his eyes a little vague.
After about four or five minutes, the general stood up and reached for one of the phones.
"Hey, that one."
A young man's voice came from the other end of the line.
"I'm Li Jian. Has Uncle Kong rested?" the major general asked softly.
"The old man is waiting to watch the news broadcast. Do you need me to tell him?"
"It's troublesome."
"General Li, please wait a moment..."
About three or four minutes later, an old man's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Xiao Jian, what's the matter with calling you at this time?"
Li Jian looked at the document in his hand, calmed his breath a little, and slowly explained: "Uncle Kong is like this..."
Just a few days ago, after repeated verification and comparison, and after confirmation, the information about Jiang Chen's grandfather Jiang Weiming was compiled into a document and sent to the desk of Li Jian, the current commander of the C Army.
Looking at the information described in the document, Li Jian, a major general in charge of an army of tens of thousands, rarely showed an expression of surprise and joy.
He sat in his office and read the documents in his hand over and over again, and even called the officer in charge of the matter to confirm.
As for why I contacted the old man...
Because Jiang Chen’s grandfather is not only Li Yunlong’s old subordinate, but also Kong Jie’s old subordinate.
Independent regiment.
What a distant memory.
As Li Jian spoke, Kong Jie seemed to have returned to the war-torn era decades ago.
At that time, Lao Li was demoted to the position of director of a clothing factory for disobeying military orders. Ding Wei, who went to Yan'an to study, was urgently transferred by the general to serve as the commander of the New 1st Regiment.
He was stationed in Yangcun, not far from the headquarters...
I thought that after so much time had passed, he had almost forgotten all these things.
But when those familiar names and times slowly came from the other end of the phone, everything became so clear.
"Haha, this guy is quite good at hiding. When the news about Lao Li spread to the army, he, as the commander of a main force regiment, didn't know how to appease his soldiers. He left a letter and ran away without saying a word.
For so many years, I thought he had died in some mountain valley!"
Hearing the scolding coming from the other end of the phone, Li Jian did not dare to interrupt. He just held the phone until the old man's tone on the other end calmed down. Then he asked tentatively: "Then Uncle Kong, do you want to..."
Kong Jie knew what he wanted to say. After thinking about it, he finally refused: "Don't bother. He is already old and half of his body is about to be buried. What difference does it make if I don't see him or not?"
Having said that, Li Jian still heard some expectations in the old man's tone.
All old people are the same. When they get older, they like to reminisce about the past.
Not to mention the old people like Kong Jie and Jiang Weiming who have lived through the war years.
In fact, it’s not just Kong Jie.
As Li Yunlong's eldest son, Li Jian was already seventeen years old when his father passed away.
Having grown up in a military compound, he was naturally familiar with Uncle Jiang, who could have been promoted to division commander long ago but refused the promotion because of a word from his father and rebuilt the old independent regiment that had been wiped out.
After more than 30 years, he has grown from a naive boy who only knew how to talk back to his father and get into trouble to a general who commands tens of thousands of people.
Li Jian also wanted to meet his father's former subordinate, Uncle Jiang from his childhood memories.
only……
Looking at his military uniform and thinking about the age of Jiang Chen's grandfather, Li Jian finally gave up the idea.
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Jiang Chen returned to his room and rarely entered the dream space for training. The things the old man had just said kept echoing in his mind.
Although he seemed calm at the time, it was impossible to do so if you think about it.
He was just numbed by the series of things the old man said.
After returning to his room and lying on the bed to digest all of this, Jiang Chen gradually came back to his senses.
Then, he was completely enveloped by an inexplicable emotion.
There is shock and excitement...
The shock, of course, was the old man's legendary past.
Not to mention the excitement.
As a time traveler, an adult.
Jiang Chen is very clear about the old man’s past and what it means to him now.
Although he did not want these petty villains to tarnish the old man's achievements, reality is reality and it will not change because of his will alone.
Of course, Jiang Chen wouldn't have any psychological burden because of this.
This is a great thing that many people wish for but cannot obtain. All you have to do is ensure that your future actions are worthy of the country and the people and that you have a clear conscience.
No sleep for one night.
At six o'clock the next morning, although Jiang Chen had tossed and turned until the late night before falling asleep, the biological clock trained in the army still woke him up on time.
Even at home, Jiang Chen did not relax himself. After folding the quilt according to the military's housekeeping standards and simply tidying up the room, Jiang Chen changed into a sports suit and went out.
Jiang's mother had already gotten up and was cleaning the yard.
The old man didn't seem to be affected at all. He was feeding the chickens in the chicken coop with a handful of corn, leaning on a crutch.
"Xiaochen is up, are you going out?"
Grandpa Jiang sprinkled the corn in his hand evenly in the chicken coop, clapped his hands and said with a smile.
"Well, go out and exercise. I'm used to it in the army. If I don't exercise for a day, my body will itch."
Jiang Chen walked over and supported the old man.
"Well, soldiers have to train more, sweat more in peacetime, and bleed less in war!
Don’t think that you don’t need to exercise just because you have good equipment. Even the best weapons and equipment still depend on who is going to use them!
Thinking back to the 1940s, the Japanese were well-equipped, and Chiang Kai-shek’s American-equipped divisions were awesome. We still beat them to a pulp!”
After speaking out the things that had been suppressed in his heart for many years last night, the old man seemed like a different person.
To be precise, the old man now is more like a normal old man who likes to brag to his grandson.
Although, Jiang Chen knew that the old man was not bragging...
Just saying these seemed not enough, so the old man started talking about his past.
"Back then, I followed the old regiment commander across the Yalu River..."
Jiang Chen listened silently, and the image of Kong Jie in the TV series unconsciously appeared in his mind.
It seems that Captain Kong is the only one among the Northwest Shanxi Iron Triangle who has been to North Bang. It seems that the old man had a lot of things that he didn't have time to say last night.
"Just like those traitors in South Korea, they were making a lot of noise, shouting slogans loudly, and they also called the White Tiger Regiment, but what was the result?
How did Mr. Chen come up with that sentence... Right! Let's make dough!
A class of thirteen people wiped out his regiment headquarters in one fell swoop!"
“I don’t envy anything else, I just envy the logistical supplies of those foreign devils!
Damn it…”
As Li Yunlong's subordinate, the old man is naturally not a cultured person, and his every word is filled with banditry.
This is also the usual style of behavior of the veterans from the independent regiment.
"We didn't even have potatoes to eat, but those foreigners had all kinds of canned food, chocolate, and more chewing gum, coffee powder, and cola than I could finish. They even had cigarettes...
However, there are also some people whose food is not very good, like those South Koreans who pick up other people's leftovers every day and eat them, and even say it's some kind of military hot pot. It's a pity they came up with this idea! "
As Jiang Chen helped the old man walk out, he couldn't help but feel curious.
How did South Korea offend the old man? I didn’t see him so angry when he talked about the Japanese yesterday.
"I heard that group of shameless people said that the Dragon Boat Festival belongs to them?"
"Ah? Grandpa, how did you know?"
"Humph, old man, I'm just old, not deaf. It's all on the news broadcast... Besides, don't we have that so-and-so website now? An An has been talking about it since she came back from school. It means that the country needs stability and development now. If it were decades ago, when I rode a tank into their so-and-so Seoul, they would have had ten thousand guts..."
It must be said that the old man is worthy of being someone who has fought in wars with Captain Li, his temper is exactly the same.
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The grandfather and grandson walked and talked all the way from home to the village. The old man was a little tired, so he took the initiative to let Jiang Chen help him sit on the stone pier next to the big tree at the entrance of the village, and watched Jiang Chen exercising beside him.
They ran around the field a few times and performed two sets of military boxing. The old man beside them gave them some instructions from time to time. It was not until eight o'clock in the morning that the grandfather and grandson slowly walked back.
When I got home, my mother had already prepared the meal. My younger sister Jiang Anan was squatting at the door, brushing her teeth with a porcelain cup in her hand, with a dazed look on her face. In her pocket were a few packets of snacks that Jiang Chen had bought for her when he came back yesterday.
Because of this incident, Jiang's mother kept talking about Jiang Chen during breakfast.
"I asked you to buy her so many snacks that she couldn't keep her mouth shut last night and she didn't even eat properly in the morning!"
After complaining to Jiang Chen for a few words, Jiang's mother turned her head and glared at Jiang Anan.
"Eat quickly. If there's any left, I'll confiscate all those snacks from you later!"
Jiang Anan lowered her head and said nothing until her mother turned around to busy herself. Then she carefully raised her head. After making sure that her mother was not paying attention to her, the little girl shrugged her nose at her mother's back and made a face.
Jiang Chen, who was watching this scene, was also amused by the little girl's cute expression, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.
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