The wonderful clip of Paul and the railway repairman in How Steel was Tempered. (2~3 articles)

It snowed heavily all night. It is reported that all construction sites in Bo Iarca were blocked by heavy snow. The project stopped. People are clearing the snow from the road. Today, the provincial party committee decided that the first phase of the road construction project must be completed before 1922 1 month 1 to pave the road to the edge of the logging yard. It is said that when this decision was conveyed to Bo Iarca, tokarev's answer was: "As long as there is only one person left, we will finish it as scheduled."

No news from Paul. Strangely, he should not be accused like pankratov. I still don't know why he doesn't want to see me.

65438+February 5,

Gangsters attacked the construction site yesterday.

The horse walked carefully in the soft snow. Horseshoe occasionally stepped on the dead branches under the snow, and the branches broke and crackled. At this moment, the horse snorted and dodged, but after getting a butt on his sipping ear, he hurried to catch up.

About ten people rode across a rolling hilly area, in front of which was a long black area that was not covered with snow.

They bridle the horse here. The stirrups collided and made a local sound. The leading stallion shook his body hard, and the long journey made him steaming all over.

"There are many of them," the leader said in Ukrainian.

"Let's give them a hard scare. The big boss ordered that all these locusts must be released tomorrow. See this help smelly workers will get wood ... "

They lined up in a single line and walked along both sides of the light rail to the station, slowly approaching a clearing next to the forestry school. They hid behind trees and were afraid to come to the clearing.

A burst of gunfire broke the silence of the night. Snowballs like squirrels rolled down from white birch trees dyed by moonlight. Short barrel guns stuck to trees, spewed fire, bullets hit the wall, soil fell to the ground, and the glass windows they shipped from pankratov were smashed.

The gunfire woke the people sleeping on the concrete floor, and they jumped up at once, but they all fell down at the sight of bullets flying around the room.

Someone is above others.

"Where are you going?" Du Bawa grabbed Paul's military coat and asked.

"Get out."

"Get down, fool! It was knocked down as soon as it appeared. " Du Bawa whispered anxiously.

They hid next to the door. Dubawa clung to the ground, holding a pistol in one hand and reaching for the door. Paul crouched, fingers nervously touching the slot of the revolver, which contained only five bullets. He felt the empty slot and turned the wheel.

The shooting stopped suddenly. Then there was an amazing silence.

"Comrades, all people with guns should come here." Dubawa whispered to the person who fell to the ground.

Paul opened the door carefully. There is not even a figure in the clearing, only snowflakes slowly falling to the ground.

In the forest, ten men whipped their horses and ran away.

At lunch time, a rail car came from the city quickly. Zhu and Achim got off. Tokarev and Kholyava met them on the platform. Unload a Maxim machine gun, boxes of machine gun bullets and 20 rifles from the car.

They hurried to the construction site. The hem of Zhu's coat rubbed against the snow on the ground, leaving a zigzag curve. He walks like a bear, swinging from side to side. Old habits can't be changed: legs are always spread apart like compasses, as if the deck under your feet is still bumpy. Azeem is tall, striding, and can keep up with Zhu He and tokarev. After a short walk, he will run a few steps to keep up with them.

"The bandits attack-or secondary issues. There is a mountain bag lying across the road ahead, please. It's fucking bad luck for us to meet such a big guy! You have to dig a lot of earthwork. "

Tokarev stopped. He turned his back, folded his hands, like rowing a boat, blocked the wind, lit a cigarette, smoked twice quickly, and went after the person in front. Achim stopped to wait for him. Zhu didn't slow down and walked on.

Achim asked tokarev, "Can you repair this branch line on schedule?"

Tokarev didn't answer immediately. After a while, he said, "you know, brother, it can't be repaired on time in general, but it won't work without it." The problem is so obvious. "

They caught up with Zhu He and the three of them walked side by side. Tokarev went on excitedly: "This is the problem. Patoshkin and I are the only two people on the construction site who clearly know that the conditions in this place are so poor and there are so few manpower and equipment that it is impossible to finish it on time. However, at the same time, all road builders know that it is absolutely impossible not to finish the project on time. That's why I said last time: as long as one of us is still here, we will definitely finish the task. Now you can see for yourself! We have been digging here for almost two months, and the fourth shift is about to expire, but the basic members have not changed shifts, and they are completely supported by the vitality of youth. Half of these people have caught a cold. It really hurts to look at these boys. They are priceless ... someone will die in this terrible place, and more than one or two people. "

Since the station, a kilometer-long railway has been repaired.

Further on, it's about one and a half kilometers. It's a smooth subgrade. A slot is dug on it, and a long row of wood is covered in the slot. It looks like a fence that was blown down by a strong wind.

This is a sleeper. Go on until you reach that hill, which is a new smooth road.

Working here is pankratov No.1 Road Construction Team. Forty of them are laying sleepers. A farmer with a red beard, wearing a pair of brand-new tree shoes, unhurriedly unloaded the wood from the sled and threw it on the roadbed. A little further, there are several such sledges unloading wood. There are two long iron bars on the ground to level sleepers instead of rails. In order to tamp the subgrade, axes, iron bars and shovels were used.

Laying sleepers is a meticulous work, which takes a lot of time. Sleepers shall be laid firmly and stably, so that each sleeper bears the same pressure on the rail.

Lagutin, the foreman of the road, is the only one who knows the paving technology here. Although the old comrade is 54 years old, he has no white hair and his black beard is parted from the middle to both sides. He always stays voluntarily, and now he is in Class 4. Like young people, he endured hunger, cold and hardship, so he was widely respected in the road construction team. Every time the party organization holds a meeting, it invites this non-party comrade (he is Talia's father) to attend and invites him to sit in the honor seat. To this end, he was very proud and vowed never to leave the construction site again.

"You say, how can I leave you alone? You made a mess as soon as I left. You need someone to take care of this place and practical experience. I have dealt with sleepers all my life in Russia ... "Every time I changed shifts, he said this kindly, so he stayed again and again.

Patoshkin trusts him very much and seldom comes to his workshop to inspect his work. When Zhu and the three of them came to the working crowd, pankratov, sweating and red-faced, was chopping down the sleeper slot with an axe.

It is difficult for Achim to recognize the dockers. He has lost a lot of weight, his two big cheekbones are prominent, and his face has not been washed well. He looks black and haggard.

"Ah, the big shots in the province are coming!" He said, and gave his warm and wet hand to Achim.

The sound of the shovel stopped. Achim saw that everyone around him was very pale. People take off their coats and fur coats and put them on the snow beside them.

Tokarev said a few words to Lagutin, then took pankratov and accompanied Zhu and Achim who had just arrived to the mountain. Pankratov and Zhu walked side by side.

"pankratov, you tell me, you in Motovilov card purge against staff is how to return a responsibility? Don't you think it's a little too much for you to hand over all their guns? " Zhu asked the silent docker seriously.

Pankratov smiled shyly and said, "We agreed that he would hand over his gun. He asked us to do it ourselves. The young man agrees with us. We told him the truth, and he said,' Comrades, I have no right to let you tear down doors and windows. Comrade dzerzhinsky has an order prohibiting the theft of railway property. The stationmaster here has made enemies with me. This bad guy is always stealing, and I always interfere with him. If I let you take away the doors and windows, he will certainly sue and I will go to the revolutionary court for trial. You'd better shoot me first and then take the things away. The stationmaster will be fine if he doesn't sue. "So we did as he said. We didn't pull the doors and windows to our house! "

Pankratov saw the smile in Zhu's eyes and said, "Comrade Zhu, punish us if you want! Don't be too hard on that young man. "

"This matter even if in the past. You can't do this again-it's against discipline. We are fully capable of crushing bureaucracy through organizational means. Ok, now let's talk about more important things. " So Zhu He came to ask about the details of the bandit attack.

Four and a half kilometers away from the station, road builders waved shovels and stormed the hard frozen soil. They want to split the mountain ahead and build a road.

Around the construction site, there are seven people on guard. They carried Kholyava's carbine and pistols of Paul, pankratov, Du Bawa and Khomutov. All the weapons of the road construction team are here.

Patoshkin sat on the slope, writing numbers in his notebook. He is the only remaining engineer on the site. His assistant, Vakulenko, afraid of being killed by bandits, would rather be brought to justice than work here, and deserted early in the morning and slipped back to the city.

"It will take half a month to dig this mountain bag, and the ground is frozen." Patoshkin whispered to Khomutov in front of him. Khomutov is a slow-moving, woebegone and taciturn person. Hearing this, he bit the tip of his beard angrily and replied, "All projects are limited to 25 days. You plan to spend 15 days digging mountain bags alone. How can this work! "

"This deadline is unrealistic." Patoshkin said. "Yes, I have never repaired a road under such conditions in my life, nor have I worked with such road builders. Therefore, I may have miscalculated before and missed it twice. "

At this moment, Zhu, Achim and pankratov approached the hill. People on the slope found them.

"Look! Who is here? " Petya Trofimov, a turner in the railway factory, a young man with squints, poked Paul with his elbow exposed in rags and pointed to the newcomer under the slope. Paul didn't even put down his shovel and ran down the slope at once. His eyes smiled warmly under the brim, and Zhu held his hand tightly for longer than anyone else.

"Hello, Paul! Look at your clothes, big and small, I can hardly recognize you. "

Pankratov gave a wry smile.

"You didn't see his five toes, how consistent, all exposed.

Not to mention, the deserter stole his coat. Fortunately, okunev belonged to their same commune and gave him his tattered coat. But it doesn't matter, Paul Fu Lusha is a warm-blooded young man. He can lie on the concrete floor for a week, with or without hay, and then go into the coffin "The dockers disgruntled said to Achim.

Okunev, whose eyebrows were slightly tilted, narrowed his eyes mischievously and retorted, "We won't let Paul Fu Lusha die. We can recommend him to the kitchen and Adal Card as a backup fire brigade. If he is not a fool, he will have food and a warm place-a Adal card on or next to the stove. "

A burst of laughter drowned out okunev's words.

This is their first laugh today.

He Zhulai inspected the mountain, then went to the logging field by sleigh with tokarev and Patoshkin, and then returned. People on the slope are still digging persistently. Zhu He came over, looked at the people who were working hard and bent down, and whispered to Achim, "There is no need to hold a mass meeting, and no one here needs further mobilization. Tokarev, you are right. These people are priceless. This is how steel is made! "

Zhu He came and looked at the diggers, his eyes full of joy, love and solemn pride. Not long ago, on the eve of counter-revolutionary rebellion, some of them once picked up steel guns and went into battle. Now, they have a * * * same goal, to spread the steel artery to a treasure trove of firewood. People all over the city are eagerly looking forward to these firewood to bring them warmth and life.

Engineer Patoshkin politely but unquestionably proved to Zhu He that it was impossible to open a path on this mountain without two weeks. Zhu thought while listening to his calculation.

"You remove the people on the slope and move to the front to build roads. We will find another way to build this mountain. "

Zhu stayed by the telephone at the station for a long time. Kholyava guards at the door. He heard Zhu say gruffly in the room: "Call the Chief of Staff of the Military Region immediately in my name, and ask him to immediately transfer the levski delegation to the road construction site. Bandits in this area must be eliminated. In addition, an armored vehicle and several bombers were sent from the army. I'll arrange the rest myself. I will go back at night. Letek will deliver the car to the station before twelve o'clock. "

In the hut, after Achim spoke briefly, Zhu He went on to say. He had a cordial conversation with everyone, and an hour passed unconsciously. Zhu He came to tell everyone that the original plan cannot be changed, and the first phase of the project must be completed before 1 month 1.

"From now on, the road construction team should be organized according to the wartime state. All party member were organized into a special squadron, and the squadron leader was Comrade Dubawa. All six road construction teams accept fixed tasks. Unfinished projects are divided into six sections on average, and each team undertakes one section. All projects must be completed before January 1st. Teams that finish their tasks ahead of time can go back to the city to have a rest. In addition, the Presidium of the Provincial Executive Committee will also report to the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine and award the Red Flag Medal to the best workers in this team. "

The team leaders have been appointed: the first team is Comrade pankratov, the second team is Comrade Dubawa, the third team is Comrade Khomutov, the fourth team is Comrade Lagutin, the fifth team is Comrade Kochagin, and the sixth team is Comrade okunev.

"The captain of the road construction team, the general manager in charge of ideological work and organizational work," Zhu said at the end of his speech. "Or Anton Nikiforovich tokarev, who belongs to him."

As if a flock of birds suddenly flapped their wings and took off, there was a burst of applause. A smile appeared on a determined face. Zhu has always been serious, but his last sentence was kind and funny, and all the people who had been paying attention to his speech laughed easily.

Two dozen people surrounded Achim and Zhu and put them on the rolling car.

When He Zhu came to say goodbye to Paul, he looked at his overshoes filled with snow and said to him softly, "I'll get you a pair of boots. Are your feet not frozen? "

"It seems to be swollen with cold." Speaking of which, Paul remembered the request made a long time ago, grabbed Zhu's sleeve and pleaded, "I want some pistol bullets from you." Can you give them to me now? " I can only use three rounds here "

Zhu Laihe shook his head apologetically, but when he saw the disappointment on Paul's face, he resolutely took off his musket.

"This is my gift to you."

Paul couldn't believe at first that he would get an expensive gift he had been waiting for for for a long time, but Zhu had hung the gun on his shoulder.

"Take, take! I know you're already jealous. But you should be more careful not to bump into one of your own. This gun is still full of three bullets, and you are here. "

Envy eyes immediately shot at Paul. I don't know who shouted, "Paul, let's switch." I'll give you a pair of boots and a jacket. "

Pankratov gave Paul a push on the back and jokingly said, "Shit, change your felt boots. You can't even live for Christmas if you wear those shoes again! "

At that time, He Zhu stepped on the pedal of a rolling car and was issuing a gun license to Paul.

In the early morning, an armored car rumbled past the turnout and pulled into the station. Velvety white steam cloud bursting is like a blooming hydrangea, and immediately disappears in the fresh and cold air. Several people in leather clothes got out of the armored car. A few hours later, three bombers from armored vehicles buried two large dark blue pumpkins in the slope and connected them with a long fuse.

After the signal gun was released, people left the hill that has now become a dangerous place and dispersed and hid. The match touched the fuse and the phosphorescence flashed.

In an instant, hundreds of people's hearts were lifted. One minute, two minutes, waiting was so hard-finally ... the earth trembled, and a terrible force exploded the hill and threw huge clods into the sky. Then, the second shot rang again, more powerful than the first shot. The terrible roar resounded through the dense forest, and the rumble of landslides echoed in the forest.

There was a big pit just now. Tens of meters away from Fiona Fang, in the snow as white as sugar, covered with clods produced by blasting.

People rushed to the blasted pit with pickaxes and shovels.

Zhu He came and went, and the competition on the construction site was fierce in order to finish the task first.

It was still early in the morning, and Paul got up quietly without disturbing anyone. He dragged his feet frozen on the concrete floor and walked to the kitchen. Boiled a bucket of tea to wake up the members of his team before going back.

When the other teams woke up, it was already dawn outside.

While having breakfast in the shack, pankratov squeezed into the table of Dubava and his Arsenal partner and said angrily to him, "Look, Dmitry, it's almost dawn, so Paul called his gang together. By now, they have paved about ten feet. It is said that all the people in their railway factory are stretched tightly by him, and they are determined to finish paving their lot before the 25th. He wants to show us some color. But, sorry, let's wait and see! "

Du Bawa gave a wry smile. He understands why the action of the team in the railway factory will make the league secretary of the freight station so excited. Even Du Bawa was beaten by his good friend Paul: Paul challenged the teams without even saying hello.

"Friends belong to friends, and smoking is true-there is a question of' who wins and who loses'." Pankratov said.

It was almost noon, and Kochakin's team was in full swing when suddenly a gunshot interrupted their work. This is a sentry standing next to a pile of rifles. He found a group of cavalry in the Woods and fired warning shots.

"Gun, brothers! The bandits are coming! " Paul gave a cry, dropped his shovel and ran towards a tree with a rifle.

The whole team immediately took up arms and lay prone on the snow by the roadside. Several riders in front waved their hats, and one of them shouted, "comrades, don't shoot!" One of our own! "

Fifty cavalry came running along the road, all wearing Buqiongni hats decorated with red stars.

It turns out that this is a platoon of Puzyrevski regiment, visiting the road builders.