Original introduction:
There used to be a group of majestic elephant soldiers in Xishuangbanna. The so-called elephant soldier is an army riding an elephant to fight. Compared with cavalry, elephant soldiers can not only play a mobile and fast role, but also split the enemy with their long noses, trample the enemy to death with their hooves and directly participate in the battle. A large group of elephants pounced on the enemy like an avalanche, with dust rolling and roar overwhelming.
1943, Japanese invaders invaded Myanmar, and they entered the Xishuangbanna border town of Rhoda, just across the river from Myanmar. Elephant soldiers fought the Japanese invaders on the banks of the Rhoda River. The fighting was extremely fierce, and the gunfire, fighting sound and elephant roar were earth-shattering; The devils dropped more than 70 bodies in the Rhoda River, and all our more than 80 elephants were shot to the ground, and the river was dyed red with blood.
After the battle, the opening credits dug a pit more than 20 meters wide by the Rhoda River, buried the fallen war elephants solemnly, and erected a monument on the pit: the Tomb of Hundred Elephants.
When the migrant workers in Manguangnong Village were carrying the body of a war elephant, they accidentally found that a male elephant was still breathing, his neck was cut open by a knife, and a machine gun bullet passed through its front leg, covered in blood, but it was still alive. They carried it back to the stockade in eight wagons. This is the surviving war elephant named Gacacao. The kind villagers were cured and raised.
There are bullet holes in the elephant saddle, and there seems to be blood stains, mixed with a strange smell of leather, smoke, war dust and blood; There is a lotus-shaped cushion in the center of the elephant saddle, surrounded by a circle of silver bells and apricot ears. Twenty-six seasons of wind, frost, rain and snow have worn out, but they still look heavy and luxurious. Gacao wears an elephant saddle, which adds to his heroic spirit.
"What does it want to wear an elephant saddle for?" I asked, puzzled. "I'm afraid this is not a good sign." Bononding frowned and said sadly, "I think it may leave us to attend the elephant funeral."
Bononding and I waited patiently until the east vomited white, and then we got up the courage to look in the pit. The pit is about 3 meters deep. Kaka lay at the bottom of the pit, with his face sideways, his nose bent on his leg, his eyes wide open and staring at the sky.
It is dead. It didn't go to the elephant tomb left by a mysterious ancestor far away. It dug a hole next to the elephant tomb and buried it with its companions who had fought side by side.
As an old war elephant, it found the best home. There is a rotten smell in the pit, and the remains of war elephants buried 26 years ago can be seen. In the red soil, it seems that white ivory is still exposed. The teeth were worn out by sand because of digging holes, and they shone luxuriously in the morning light.
Bonodin grinned with a toothache and said with a bitter face, "We are here to pick up ivory. I'm afraid that building Hsinchu Building will catch fire and buying roe deer cattle will be killed by tigers!" "Yes, it will be retribution." I said.
Looking at the noble body of the war elephant, I feel that my soul is obscene. Bononding and I pushed the soil into the pit together, filled it up and tamped it, and then dragged our tired bodies back to the stockade empty-handed.
This article is taken from The Last Elephant of War by modern Shen.
Extended data writing background:
The Last Elephant in the War is a novella in Shen's collection The King of Animal Novels. In 2008, 1 1 was published by Zhejiang Children's Publishing House and belongs to children's novels.
The reason why animal novels are more attractive than other types of novels is that this theme is the easiest for people to see through the shell of human culture and the hypocrisy of civilized society, and can directly show the original ecological life in which ugliness and beauty are integrated.
A war elephant about to step into the grave, struggling to put on the elephant saddle of that year, waded across mountains and rivers to the Baixiang Tomb and was buried with his comrades who fought bloody battles together. Clever hunters covet hundreds of priceless ivory in the tombs of hundreds of elephants and quietly follow the old war elephants all the way. In the twilight, the old war elephant exhausted the last strength in his life to meet his companions and meet this land that was once full of blood.
About the author:
Shen, formerly known as Shen, was a writer in the 8th China Writers Rich List on 20 13. 1952 10 was born in Shanghai Pavilion, and his ancestral home is Cixi, Zhejiang, Han nationality. ** * party member. University culture. The second level of literary creation with professional titles. 1982 10 joined the provincial writers association, and1985 joined the Chinese writers association in September.
1968 graduated from junior high school and went to Xishuangbanna Dai village to jump the queue to settle down. 1975 was drafted into the army as Minister of Propaganda. 1992 transferred to the workshop of Chengdu Military Region.
Shen is best at animal novels. Known as "the king of animal novels in China". His representative works include: Fox Hunting, The Seventh Hunting Dog, Being Deceived by the Fox Again, Dream of the Wolf King, The White Elephant Family, The Flying of the Impala, The Last War Elephant, The Encounter of the Carver, Neighboring the Crow, The Wild Dog Queen, Bird Slave, and Half-Blood.