This is a heavyweight article by Liu Yazhou. It is about war, soldiers, love and sex—not even love. In those short days, between Wang Renxian and the woman, what happened was only Hormones, in the face of death, sex, how unworthy of mention, in the face of war, sex, how light!
Liu Yazhou wrote truthfully, with flesh and blood and bones, and he wrote about human nature from the perspective of human nature. The original name of the article was “Wang Renxian”, but the Jilin Daily changed it to “The Dog-Fxxking Sex “, and some people changed it to “In the face of death, sex is so trivial; in the face of war, sex is so light!” “, there is no sense of grandstanding, it is because there is no other word to express my love for this article, it is the kind of love that I can’t put it down.
As Professor Francois Rogge of the First University of Rennes in France said: “The war between arrows and fire is also a war between emotions and desires.”
Liu Yazhou: You all know that I wrote an article called “Wang Renxian”. This article had a great response. Wang Renxian was a deputy company staff officer of the Forty Division of the Fourteenth Army, a native of Kunming, and a child of military cadres. Before the war, he was punished for violating discipline, but later sacrificed. Some people think he is not a hero, I think he is a hero, and a great hero. At that time, the commander of the 14th Army ××× once said: “I heard that Wang Renxian is to be written? He does not write about so many heroes in the 14th Army, but writes such a person?” When someone passed this to me, I only contemptuously twisted my mouth.
Hugo has long said that there is absolutely correct humanitarianism above the absolutely correct heroism. Wang Renxian’s story is a model of humanitarianism and at the same time a model of heroism. Wang Renxian had with a girlfriend in Kunming, but when the troops moved to Laoshan, the girlfriend broke up with him.
After the troops drove into the Laoshan area, they were stationed in a place called Luoshuidong. Wang Renxian lives with a few cadres in a Hmong farmer’s home. The hostess is a very beautiful Hmong girl. She has a baby in her infant shortly after she got married. This woman is very unrestrained and strong.
Most girls from ethnic minorities have this characteristic. Unlike the Han women, who dare not love nor hate. The Han nationality is the least in love. Even though the Han nationality has the largest population in the world, it has no love. Foreign countries can have wars because of love, can China do it? Wu Sangui is considered to be a man who fought for love, but he was also a traitor. After seeing Wang Renxian, the Hmong woman in Luoshuidong fell in love with him immediately. Wang Renxian is handsome, with a height of 1.8 meters. It is said that his mouth is always pressed tightly, like Takakura Ken. Wang Renxian disregarded her at first. Rural women, they are poor at home. Although she looks good, she already had a child.
Before the troops went to the Laoshan Mountain, the Hmong woman filled all the soldiers who lived in his house with water, and specially added sugar to the pot of Wang Renxian, adding so much sugar that it was as sweet as honey.
In the evening, the Hmong woman came to Wang Renxian’s house with her baby. She used the most primitive method for Wang Renxian: untie her clothes and feed her baby. They just sat in the room like this. Wang Renxian smokes desperately. He was resisting.
But finally did not resist. Why not? This is a prerequisite, and the prerequisite is that the troops would go to Mount Laoshan tomorrow. This way, he may be “honorable”. He was a bloody man, he had never touched a woman. He must be unwilling. This is human nature. They made love in the pigpen at that time.
The next day, the situation changed abruptly and the attack was postponed. The battle plan is postponed, and love has already arrived. Everything was the same, there was the first time, there would be the hundredth time. In those days, Luoshuidong left the shadow of their love everywhere. Of course, quite a lot of times were still in the pigpen. Wang Renxian smoked every time he finished his work, one by one, so fierce. The Hmong woman was happy and sang in the pigpen. What a woman with character! Later, her husband found out and asked her who she was with. If she didn’t say anything, he sued the army. The 14th Army felt that this was an incident that severely undermined the discipline of the masses, and the Commander XX ordered a strict investigation.
The army gathered all the officers and soldiers who lived near the Hmong woman’s home, lined up, and called the woman to recognize her. This woman was so stubborn, and today I think of it in awe. She walked up to Wang Renxian, pointed a finger, and said, “It’s him!” I said something again, I couldn’t learn it, meaning that I like him, I love him. The security chief said: “I guessed it was Wang Renxian a long time ago. I saw high-end cigarette butts thrown everywhere in the pigsty. Only him smoked the filter cigarette company.”
Wang Renxian was punished and demoted from deputy company to front row. On the day of the attack on Mount Laoshan, the regiment sent Wang Renxian to the front line. On July 12, a fierce battle between a Vietnamese army division and our army took place in the Mount Laoshan area. The artillery fire continued. As Luoshuidong is close to the front line, you can see a fiery red sky.
The Hmong woman sits at the head of the village, looking in the direction of Mount Laoshan. Her husband beat her hard. Her head and mouth were bleeding, and she didn’t move. Wang Renxian was on the high ground in the forefront. He was an artillery staff officer and reported more than 1,000 information to the rear artillery in time. Our artillery fire fell on the enemy’s head like eyes. I climbed Mount Laoshan in August, and when I look down, I can still see many bones. Those were all enemies that were killed on “July 12”. Later, the enemy discovered that this place was famous, and concentrated artillery fire here. Wang Renxian sacrificed. His comrades-in-arms said that he was leaning on a tree to die at the time. He died standing up. After the troops came down, they still passed through Luoshuidong.
The Hmong woman stood at the head of the village, looking for them one by one. The officers and soldiers passed by her, all bowed their heads as if they had made a mistake. They have all rectified Wang Renxian, and at this time they completely changed their moods.
Finally this woman learned about Wang Renxian’s sacrifice. What do you think she is going to do? She sold her family’s property, bought two fairly high-end filter cigarettes, and went to Wang Renxian’s grave, took apart the two cigarettes, lit them one by one, and inserted them on the head of the grave. The head of the grave was full. At that time, I was very touched. When I arrived at Mount Laoshan in 1984, Wang Renxian’s tomb was already erected. At first, the army didn’t intend to credit Wang Renxian. Later, at the strong request of our group of writers, he was recorded credits, probably first-class credits.
I went to the Martyrs Cemetery to find his monument and found it. Just like this woman, I tore open a pack of cigarettes, lit them all for him, and stuck them on the grave. At that time I was the deputy battalion officer of the Air Force Liaison Department. Fifteen years later, in 1999, I served as the director of the Political Department in Beikong, and I took Wang Chunbo and Liu Panzhi to the Malipo Martyrs Cemetery. Mount Laoshan remained verdant. This time I specially brought alcohol and tobacco from Beijing, poured the alcohol on him in front of the grave, and lit the cigarette for him. The chief who followed me was in tears. They said, director, you still have such a deep feeling for this place! After I arrived in Chengkong, I hadn’t gone yet. Of course I was going.
Thousand-year tombstones can speak. There are thousands of tombstones in Malipo, and approaching it is approaching every soul. Entering the Malipo Martyrs Cemetery, the muddy water in my heart no longer exists…
In 1984, border conflicts broke out between China and Vietnam in the areas of Mount Laoshan and Zheyin Mountain in Malipo, Yunnan. A group of military writers came to the front to interview, and I was among them.
I was investigating the marriage problem in the army and wanted to write a paper on it. When it comes to participating troops, I also focus on this aspect of investigation. When I went to many units, I was surprised to find that most of the officers and soldiers who had fiancées in the fighting forces had broke up before the war. A female college student wrote this sentence in a letter to her fiance: “My parents said: You are going to sacrifice it. What if you break a leg or lose an arm?” There is a company. The offensive battle was extremely tragic, and more than 30 officers and soldiers including the instructor died. The body of the martyr was carried down, and the letter of dismissal from the instructor’s fiancee happened to reach the army. The company commander assembled the surviving officers and soldiers, and read this letter of rejection in public, while lying quietly beside the instructor’s body. All the soldiers cried.
I have served as a soldier in a company, and I know that soldiers talk about women. But in Malipo, the situation has changed drastically. For all the troops that will go into battle, the officers and soldiers will not talk about women, as if they had an appointment beforehand. I only heard one exception: a company organized a commando team. The company commander and the instructor clashed to lead the commando team to charge. They couldn’t help but argue. Finally, the company commander got angry: “I was married and touched a woman! I’ll go!”
It was in this situation that I heard Wang Renxian’s story.
Wang Renxian was a deputy company commander and a cadre’s son. He was born handsome and tall. Before the war, his girlfriend who had been with him for five years left him. His company will attack the main peak of Mount Laoshan as a sharp knife company. He led a platoon in a small village at the foot of Mount Laoshan. The landlord is a young woman named Ayan, married, with a baby in swaddling clothes. As soon as Ayan saw Wang Renxian, he fell in love with this handsome young man and sent him a lot of surprises.
Although Wang Renxian has lost his lover, he may not be attracted to Ayan. After all, one is the child of a cadre and the other is a rural woman. There is a gap between them. Ayan is a woman with a very personality, and insisted that she will not let go. She used her imagination to the extreme; she made Wang Renxian the best food to eat every day; boiled his footwash every night; and washed all the clothes for Wang Renxian. She did not hide her feelings for Wang Renxian even in front of her husband.
When Wang Renxian returned from training, she was able to leave her husband who was talking, greet Wang Renxian, and wipe his dust away. Wang Renxian was resisting Ayan at first, but with Ayan’s fierce attack and the fierce battle at Mount Laoshan, is it also heavy with the clouds of love that enveloped the company’s officers and soldiers? In short, his resistance gradually weakened.
On a certain day in June, it was determined to attack Mount Laoshan the next morning, and the battle order was issued. At that moment, the company was dead silent. Wang Renxian came to say his final farewell to Ayan. Ayan filled Wang Renxian’s military kettle with a full pot of water. Wang Renxian took a sip, alas, it’s sweeter than honey. Ayan didn’t know how much sugar was put in the pot. She thought the sweeter the better. Wang Renxian’s eyes are wet. At this time, Ayan used the last and most primitive method: to lift the clothes and milk the child. She opened her whole heart to the man she loved so much. In Wang Renxian’s heart, all the Great Walls collapsed. He walked towards Ayan trembling.
The fire in the stove was burning. They are also burning. The next day, the situation changed suddenly and the attack time was postponed. Whenever there is a first time, there will be a hundred times. The dike has breached and is surging. Thus, at the foot of Mount Laoshan, by the village, in the woods, and even in the cattle pen of Ayan’s family, an old love story was given new content.
Every time after the two were done, Wang Renxian always said nothing, smoking cigarettes one by one with his head stuffed. As for Ayan, she always laughed and giggled. She was happy. She got what she longed for, just as Liu Bei got the world. Such things can be hidden from the world, not from the husband. Ayan’s husband reported to the troops. He did not say who it was. I don’t know if the husband is really unclear, or he refuses to say it.
If something like this disrupts the discipline of the masses, it’s not bad. The army attaches great importance to it and investigates it at all levels. They found many cigarette butts with filters in the bullpen, and they suddenly knew that Wang Renxian did it, because he was the only one in the company who smoked this type of high-quality cigarettes with filters. The company commander talked to Wang Renxian. Wang Renxian refused to admit this. The battalion commander also looked for him, but he didn’t talk about it yet. The battalion commander was on fire and ordered: “All companies gather!” Then Ayan and her husband were invited to identify.
On the threshing ground, a company of officers and soldiers stood upright. Ayan and her husband came to the front of the queue.
Later, the instructor of the company told me: At this time, Ayan, it does not seem to have committed anything wrong. The instructor said: “So I thought, she would definitely check around and say that there is no one! That would be a hundred.” Unexpectedly, Ayan went straight to Wang Renxian, pointed at him and said, “It’s him!”
In an instant, the air solidified. A needle could be heard when it falls on the ground. Wang Renxian looked at Ayan coldly, while hundreds of other eyes looked at Wang Renxian coldly. Ayan’s second sentence shocked the company even more: “I ache for him!”
The locals speak of “ache” as “love”. This is a naked declaration of love. The whole company turned their gaze to her. She bravely met the officers and soldiers of the entire company, tears gradually welling in her eyes.
Three days later, the regiment issued a disciplinary decision against Wang Renxian: downgraded to platoon leader, and a serious warning from the party. A few days later, the offensive began. The company started. Ayan burned another pot of water with sugar in it, and went to find Wang Renxian. The company refused to let Wang Renxian see her. At the entrance of the village, the troops rushed forward, and Ayan stood under the big tree and looked anxiously. Some officers and soldiers talked contemptuously when they passed her, and even spit on the ground. Ayan didn’t care. Wang Renxian came over and didn’t glance over here. After walking past, he never looked back.
That night, Mount Laoshan fought fiercely through the sky. The fire light reflected the sky of southern China. From the first gunshot to the final silence. Ayan has been sitting at the head of the village, looking at Mount Laoshan’s direction for a moment. Her eyes gleamed in the darkness. Her husband dragged her back to the house, but she refused. The husband was so angry that he beat her. The start is very heavy. The braids were opened, and the hair fell out, covering half of the face. Blood and tears flowed together. She sat all night.
After the troops conquered Mount Laoshan, Wang Renxian was quickly dispatched to the forefront of “Li Haixin Heights.” The battalion commander said afterward: “I just want to send him to the most dangerous place. Who will not send him?” On July 12, the opponent counterattacked with a strengthened division. The fighting was cruel to the extreme. Wang Renxian was very brave and destroyed a tank. More importantly, he used the telegraph to report more than a thousand incidents to the rear artillery, making our artillery look like eyes. Mount Laoshan is unreliable.
A few months later, when I boarded the “Li Haixin Highland”, there were still bones in the grass. The opponent spotted Wang Renxian on the “Li Haixin Highland” and attacked with all his strength. All the soldiers died in battle. Wang Renxian lighted the last one and shouted to the radio: “I’m leaving!” Then he was hit by a shell. Twenty-five years old at the time of death. The whole company witnessed Wang Renxian bravely rushing to death on the main peak of Mount Laoshan, and was deeply moved. When he died, everyone took off their helmets.
One month later, the company withdrew from Mount Laoshan and returned to the village of Ayan to rest. As soon as the troops entered the village entrance, they saw Ayan. She stood like an acacia tree in the place where the troops were sent away. The company officers and soldiers still filed past her, but somehow they changed their moods, and none of them were silent. Even the battalion commander hurried past with his head down. After all the troops are over, the sky is already dark, and Ayan’s figure is still in the twilight. According to Wang Renxian’s performance in the battle, the regiment reported him for first-class merit, but the superiors refused to approve it, and they also issued a message: “What merit is this kind of person?” The company was in an uproar.
Wang Renxian was buried in the Malipo Martyrs Cemetery. On the day when the tombstone was erected for him, all the officers and soldiers of the company came to the cemetery. From a distance, they saw the figure of a slender woman shaking in front of the grave. Only when I got closer did I see that it was Ayan. They were stunned by the scene before them: Wang Renxian’s tomb was densely packed with cigarettes, all with filters. All white, as if Dai Xiao. Later, they learned that Ayan had sold the only farm cow in the family and bought a dozen high-quality cigarettes that Wang Renxian liked to smoke. She wept and said, “Let you smoke enough.”
When I came to the front line of Mount Laoshan, Wang Renxian’s company was again stationed at Mount Laoshan. I insist on visiting. It was midsummer and there was a severe drought. It has not rained in Mount Laoshan for two months. Malaria was rampant on the ground, and the army sent two female military doctors with medicines to go up the mountain with me. After the “three turns”, the sky gradually changed. Dark clouds rolled, lightning and thunder. As we approached the main peak, it rained heavily. Source