Chapter Fourteen Blood-stained Demeanor(1/2)
Chapter 14 Bloody Style
"Captain Cui!" Li Yuying shook hands with me, and said with admiration on her face: "I have heard of you from the back and I have always wanted to see you, but because you are fighting on the front line, our art troupe cannot come up casually without receiving the task, so..."
"We Commander Li!" Another female soldier from the art troupe said at this time: "We Commander Li heard that the division arranged for the art troupe to come up to comfort the heroes who fired cold guns, so he rushed to sign up without saying a word. The soldiers all said that the front line was too dangerous and she refused to let her come up, so she refused!"
"Well? Have you heard of me for a long time?" I couldn't help but wonder. I originally thought that Li Yuying had heard of me because of my cold gun, but thinking about it was just this morning! And from their tone, it seemed that I had heard of my "daming" before!
"One more!"
"One more!"
...
At this time, the soldiers saw that they had not been on the show for a while, so they all started to make noises.
Li Yuying simply smiled at me, and without saying a word, he took a erhu and pulled it up. The melodious music of the erhu quickly began to remember in the tunnel. I felt a little familiar when I heard it, and suddenly I remembered that the melody was the song "Green Flowers of Military Camp" that I taught the comrades from the 538th Regiment some time ago.
Sure enough, Li Yuying sang in a clear, clear and round female voice for a while;
The cold wind blows the fallen leaves
The army is a green flower
Dear comrade, don't miss home
Don't miss mom
...
I didn't dare to watch it seriously when I shook hands with Li Yuying just now, so I took advantage of her singing and observed her carefully for a while.
I have to admit that Li Yuying's dress is very old-fashioned, and is the most rustic one, especially the two small braids on her head (but it seems that this hairstyle has been popular in this era). But this rustic outfit cannot conceal her beauty. Her face is white and red, her slender willow eyebrows gradually become thinner and faintly hidden into her temples. Every time a pair of big eyes flashes, the slightly upturned long eyelashes jump up and down. When singing, the dimples on her cheeks are hidden and sometimes appearing, sometimes deep and sometimes shallow. The movements of pulling the erhu are also free and easy, making people feel refreshed.
After the song was sung, the silence of the last time I sang this song again appeared in the tunnel. The soldiers seemed to be inspired by this song and their longing for their hometown, relatives, and lovers. All of them had a little wet eyes.
This big sigh is the difference between modern songs and revolutionary songs!
Although the songs from the 1940s and 1950s are more real and more chaotic, they are more inclined to folk songs and folk songs. The purpose is mostly to promote. Military songs are mostly to inspire or describe soldiers fighting bravely, such as "Railway Guns" and "My Turntable Guns and Grenades". Especially the songs created during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aggression, they are basically expressing the friendship between the Chinese and Korean people or arousing the soldiers' shared hatred of the enemy. For example, the last time I heard at the party at the party, "Save North Korean Children" and "Volunteer Army and Ah Ma Ni"...
Modern songs tend to be more professional, and the melodies and lyrics written by professional composers tend to be able to sing the listeners' voices and resonate with them. Therefore, from the perspective of infectiousness, modern songs are incomparable to songs from the 1940s and 1950s.
Isn't this? As soon as this song was sung, it took only a few minutes to bring the soldiers' noisy and cheering state into their deep homesickness.
"Sing well! Do it again!"
"Do it again!"
...
After a long silence, the soldiers applauded.
"Comrades!" Li Yuying shouted to the soldiers in her beautiful and high-pitched voice like a nightingale: "Do you know who sang this song? That's our Captain Cui..."
"What? Is it sung by Captain Cui?"
"Captain Cui can sing?"
...
Hearing this, the soldiers all cast doubtful eyes at me, and they only looked at me with embarrassment. In fact, this song was not sung by me, and I didn’t even know the original author of this song. But now the soldiers mistakenly thought it was my work, so they naturally felt like they were stealing other people’s works.
"Captain Cui!" Li Yuying walked up to me and smiled, "I learned this song from the soldiers of the 538th Regiment. I don't know if it was sung correctly..."
"Oh!" I realized that she had heard of me. It turned out that the reason she had heard of me was because of this song.
"Yes, that's how she sang!" I nodded quickly. In fact, what she sang was much better than what I sang.
"Captain Cui! Otherwise, you sing it to us?" Li Yuying looked at me with expectant face: "When I was learning, the soldiers sang some of the sounds inaccurately. Can we listen to you sing it? It's also possible for us to learn and learn!"
"Ah? This..." I was stunned for a moment when I heard this.
"Comrades, please welcome our Captain Cui to sing us a song "Green Flowers in the Military Camp"?" Regardless of whether I agree or not, Li Yuying pulled me to the center of the venue without saying a word.
"Okay!" the soldiers shouted loudly in unison.
"Captain Cui!" At this time, I found Wang Yuehan in the front row. At this time, he was gloating and cheering: "We all know that you can fight, but I didn't expect you to sing! I still want to see if our Captain Cui sings are as loud as he shoots!"
The soldiers all laughed.
"Captain Cui! Erhu..." Li Yuying diligently brought me a wooden chair, and then gave me an erhu without saying anything: "I heard from the soldiers that you know how to use the erhu!"
Damn! Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but curse in my heart. The comrades from the 538th Regiment have all been tricked! It's too thorough to "betray" me!
Sitting on a chair, holding the erhu and posing, I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
Or sing "Green Flowers in the Military Camp"?
Li Yuying just finished singing this song, how can I compare with her at this level? If I sing this song again, it would make the soldiers laugh! And more importantly, this song doesn’t seem to be suitable for pulling on the front line. The last time it was a party in the rear, but this time it was on the front line. If you sing such a song several times on the front line, the soldiers would think too much about home thinking, which is easy to be distracted on the battlefield...
Otherwise... I'll be more passionate!
The erhu sounded again. Although the sound was still a bit difficult to reach the level of elegance, it could barely be heard.
Then I quickly noticed the surprised expression on Li Yuying's face, because she had already heard that what I was pulling was not "Military Camp Green Flowers".
I smiled softly. It has always been my style of playing cards without following the norm. It is easy for you, a little girl, to lead the nose, then I am not Cui Wei!
While thinking about it, I started singing with music:
"Maybe I say goodbye and will not come back, do you understand? Do you understand?
Maybe I fall and will not rise again. Do you still have to look forward to it forever?
If so, don't be sad, the flag of the Republic has our blood-stained charm..."
That's right, although the song "Bloody Style" is also a modern song, it is set in the background of the Vietnam War hero. I still remember the name of the Vietnam War hero Xu Liang. When I was a child, I was moved to the point of hearing this song for the first time at the Spring Festival Gala! Since then, I have vowed to join the army to become a hero after growing up... But things don't go as expected, but in the future, I will go to elementary school, middle school, university step by step because of reality, and then to work...
But now it seems that I have realized this wish.
"Maybe my eyes can't be opened anymore. Do you understand my silent feelings?
Maybe I will be unable to wake up forever. Do you believe that I have turned into a mountain range?
If so, don’t be sad, is there the love we give in the soil of the Republic?
If so, don’t be sad, is there the love we give in the soil of the Republic?
If so, don’t be sad. The flag of the Republic has our blood-stained charm!”
"Comrades!" I stood up and shouted to the soldiers before they could applaud, "The person who sang this song is a combat hero. His class was the only one who came back alive in a heroic battle with the enemy. But unfortunately, he was seriously injured and could not stand up again. He sang this song "Blood-stained Style" in a wheelchair! He inspired us in a wheelchair to use his own blood to dye the five-star red flag of the motherland red!
"Use our blood to dye the five-star red flag of the motherland red!"
"Use our blood to dye the five-star red flag of the motherland red!"
...
The soldiers shouted one after another. At this time, the party was no longer a party, but more like a oath-taking ceremony. The soldiers were all shouting slogans passionately, over and over again. As long as a soldier took the lead in shouting, all the soldiers would raise their fists and shout.
I regretted it when I had known that the effect would be so good, so I would have sang this song before the war! There is no war now, and the soldiers are all so excited. I think even if they are asked to charge at the enemy who is ten times more than theirs at this time, they will not frown...
Li Yuying is also worthy of being the head of the art troupe. She also often does propaganda work for the troops. At this time, she organized several subordinates to sing the march of "We Are the People's Liberation Army". Soon all the soldiers sang: "We are the People's Liberation Army, we are the soldiers of the people. We use the enemy's weapons to arm ourselves and liberate the suffering people..."
The singing was bright and masculine, which attracted the American shells, but the soldiers were not moved by the sound of these cannons at all. Everyone's faces were fearless, and they all sang loudly without changing their faces. The song even overshadowed the rumbling cannons outside the tunnel. The evening party reached its climax among the enemy's cannons and the soldiers' songs!
"Captain Cui!" After the party, Li Yuying immediately took her art troupe soldiers to find me.
Seeing Li Yuying take out the paper and pen, I originally thought they were here to ask me for lyrics and scores, but soon I realized that I was wrong.
"Captain Cui! Can we have an interview with you?" Li Yuying's two lively big eyes flashed with anticipation. This look reminded me of the child seeing his beloved lollipop...
Damn! What are I thinking about here?
"Why... didn't you come to ask me for the music score?" After calming down, I asked in confusion.
"You want a music score?" Li Yuying asked in confusion: "Didn't you sing it just now? I've already recorded it all!"
"Did you remember them all?" I was stunned when I heard this.
If you can remember the lyrics by listening to it once, then I still believe it. After all, the lyrics of this song are very simple and easy to remember, but if you listen to it once, you can remember the score...
"Yes!" Li Yuying smiled and revealed two dimples: "Why don't I sing it again, please listen to it, right?"
As I said that, I sang it generously before I could answer. As expected, I sang "Bloody Style" without missing a word. What surprised me was that I didn't go out of tune at all! I felt a little ashamed when I listened to it. Compared with what she sang, my duck voice was really in the sky and the ground.
"Okay!" After Li Yuying finished singing, the art soldiers applauded. A female art soldiers who looked a little older looked slapped Li Yuying's shoulder intimately and praised: "Our Yingzi is famous for having a good memory! She will sing any song immediately after listening to it once, and she will never make any mistakes! And she is proficient in all kinds of musical instruments. Whoever married such a good wife as her! That would be blessed!"
With a coaxing sound, the soldiers all laughed, making Li Yuying blush.
I couldn't help but sweat! Why did I hear the words just now feel a bit like introducing the object...
"Didn't you say you want to have an interview?" After laughing for a while, I nodded and said to Li Yuying: "Tell me what the interview is!"
In modern times, I always interview others, but I didn’t expect that someone finally came to interview me now.
"Well, this..." Li Yuying looked a little nervous, or she hadn't come back to her senses from her comrades' joke just now. After thinking for a while, she continued to say: "Captain Cui, that's right. In addition to arranging performances for the soldiers, the mission we came here this time also wanted to hear about your heroic deeds of shooting cold guns. The superiors asked us to arrange a drama about shooting cold guns as soon as possible, which would best reflect the key points of shooting cold guns, and then quickly promote them to the entire army, so that the soldiers of other troops could learn from your experience of shooting cold guns!"
"Oh!" I understood the truth after hearing this.
It seems that the art troupes of this era are not only playing a role in entertainment, publicity and morale boosting, but more importantly, it is a means for volunteer soldiers to spread combat experience. For example, "The US Tanks Are Ten Fears" was edited and spread to the Volunteer Army.
Volunteer soldiers have extremely lack of communication equipment and communication tools, so they always have a lot of combat experience that cannot be quickly shared with other troops. For example, the fortifications of the reverse slope tunnel I proposed before have been proposed for several months, but until now some soldiers do not understand and do not know how to use them!
Isn’t this? Isn’t it still here to teach us the experience?
To be continued...