Wu Songfeng is painting. Photo by Chen Changhong.
In a certain frontier regiment of the ** Qamdo Military Division, Senior Private Wu Songfeng is not famous. Since joining the army for more than a year, he has used his spare time to paint the stories of many comrades-in-arms.
Wu Songfeng loved painting before joining the army and liked to record life in this way. When he first arrived at the company, he was busy adapting to the life of the company and getting familiar with the environment of the unit, until a collective birthday party and listening to the story of the squad leader Li Honghao, he began to pick up the brush again.
That year, Li Honghao participated in the patrol for the first time. When climbing a steep slope, facing the "Knife Back Mountain" with abysses on both sides, he carefully raised his feet, stepped steadily, and moved his feet again, and slowly climbed upward. After a while, he felt tired and grabbed a piece of wood to rest. Unexpectedly, the wood suddenly broke, and seeing that Li Honghao's whole person was about to fall off the cliff, the company commander who followed him was quick and grabbed the corner of his clothes, and he was spared.
It turns out that the border pass is not only beautiful, but also unpredictable dangers. Wu Songfeng couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.
In 2022, after graduating from university, Wu Songfeng gave up his high-paying job and took the initiative to choose to serve in the ** frontier defense. In fact, he likes military-themed film and television dramas, and he already has a dream of joining the army in his heart. When he was a junior in college, he listened to a teacher's introduction to the best customs and customs, and he deepened his yearning for the snowy plateau.
Severe cold, lack of oxygen, information blockage, and difficult travel ......Everything about the first frontier defense was only flashed in Wu Songfeng's mind before, but Li Honghao's experience gave him a new understanding of this piece of high heaven and thick land. On that day, Wu Songfeng painted a painting based on Li Honghao's description and named it "The Speed of Life and Death". Since then, whenever he hears wonderful stories about border veterans, he will "record" them with a paintbrush.
As the number of paintings gradually increased, Wu Songfeng's understanding of border defense became deeper and deeper, and the patrol road that stretched under his pen broke into his dreams from time to time. "I'd love to go on a patrol!The desire in his heart ignited Wu Songfeng's passion again and again. But he knows that patrolling the border is not about lingering in the mountains and rivers, snow-capped mountains, swamps, glaciers, dense forests, and everywhere you want, you may lurk a trap that kills you. If you do not have excellent military qualities and extraordinary courage, it will be difficult to obtain the qualification to patrol.
Opportunity has always favored those who are prepared. Wu Songfeng knows this very well, and works silently for this purpose, and is strong and powerful. In September this year, after a year of "accumulation", Wu Songfeng finally passed the assessment and embarked on the patrol road. This time, "Knife Back Mountain", "Tiger Mouth" and "Desperate Slope" are no longer the nouns in the mouths of veterans and the shape of his artistic creation, but the real challenges in front of them. As he walked, he looked and thought, and these natural creations were far more colorful than his writings.
Walking to a dangerous bridge, the instructor quickly formed a team and shouted to the valley: "Wang Enyin!"All the officers and men replied in unison: "Here!."At that moment, Wu Songfeng, who was standing in the team, was a little unsure and could only follow Ying He, but the power that roared out of his chest was enough to make him tremble with excitement.
Later, it was learned that this was the place where the company soldier Wang Enyin died. During a patrol in 2010, the road was cut off by a mudslide due to heavy rain, and Wang Enyin took the initiative to invite Ying to participate in the road rush. Unexpectedly, during the construction, he was hit by a large stone that suddenly rolled down and died heroically. Later, every time they patrolled there, the officers and soldiers of the company would shout Wang Enyin's name to remember the hero.
Sometimes, a person's growth is in an instant. Leaving the dangerous bridge and heading towards his destination, Wu Songfeng suddenly felt that he had grown up and matured - not only the magnificent mountains and rivers that constituted the colorful border passes, but also the officers and soldiers guarding here, the stubble, the clusters of "green" with infinite vitality.
The footsteps continued to walk, and the boundary monument was close at hand. On the top of the high mountain and in the depths of the dense forest, a bright "red" suddenly bloomed -- Wu Songfeng and his comrades-in-arms unfurled the five-star red flag and swore loudly: "I am on the border, please rest assured that the motherland and the people are at ease!"”
During that time, Wu Songfeng was tasked with painting a picture of the cultural wall of the camp. He said that before participating in the patrol, he was more curious and expectant, and after returning from the patrol, he finally understood why the patrol road was full of dangers, and the soldiers on the border still chose to go forward rain or shine.
After pondering for a moment, Wu Songfeng picked up the paintbrush, but saw that on the white wall, a soldier with a steel gun in his hand, standing upright on the border line, guarding the lights of thousands of homes behind him.
*: Medium ** network.