In the chilly spring, the chariots of a Red Army Division in Xinjiang Military Region rumbled and once again marched on the plateau, and the battle flag stood at the top of Karakorum. Sixty-two years ago, the ancestors of the division went to the snowy plateau, lived in tents, wasteland, slept in the wind, climbed ice and lay snow, and fought hard in Tibet for 20 years, defending and building the southwest border defense.
Nowadays, officers and men of the Red Army Division in the new era consciously carry forward the glorious tradition of hard struggle of the older generation, fight for the sky and land, work hard, build camps and drill wells in the snowy plateau; Study new equipment and tactics; Help the resident people, solve problems for the resident village party branch, defend national sovereignty and protect people's peace in the life restricted area with fearless courage.
Life forbidden zone to create "plateau oasis"
In early spring, the cold of Karakorum Plateau is not far away, and the cold wind outside the window is still whistling, dripping into ice.
Scattered in a Red Army division campsite at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, full of green is as warm as spring. Officers and men returning from training are comfortably inhaling fresh air with the same oxygen content as that in plain areas. Rows of decentralized oxygen generators placed at the entrance of the officers and men's dormitory have started to work. Each decentralized oxygen generator can increase the oxygen concentration to more than 90% in a few minutes. It takes only half an hour for a board house of more than ten square meters to increase the oxygen content in the room by more than one time.
Since the training in the plateau, officers and men of the whole division have built their own sunshine board houses, dug fresh-keeping vegetable pits, drilled fresh water wells and installed oxygen diffusers, which have solved many problems such as heating, absorbing oxygen, eating fresh vegetables and drinking healthy water.
If you have pain, don't talk about it, try to solve it. Over the past 90 years, the Red Army Division has moved from a hard area to another area with more difficulties and dangers.
Lei Bin, director of the political work department of the 3rd Battalion of a certain regiment of the division, said: "It was the officers and men who inherited the spirit of' hard struggle' of the Red Army Division, built an' oasis of plateau' in the forbidden area of life and took root in the hardest place."
1979, the division moved from the southwest border to the northwest border. In the early days of entering Xinjiang, there were no houses and trees, so the troops had to dig a nest and stay in private houses temporarily. In the face of harsh natural conditions, officers and men of the whole division started from scratch to build new homes and barracks in the deserted Gobi and the Bailifeng area, which caused earth-shaking changes in the camp environment.
An era has a story of an era, and the spirit is an eternal inheritance. In this mysterious and vast land closest to the sky, today, more than 40 years later, the officers and men of the Red Army Division are following in the footsteps of their ancestors, flying in Dai Yue and listening to the wind.
When I first arrived at the campsite, I was greeted by deserts, Gobi and sandstorms ... In the heart of the third battalion sergeant Zhao, this "tent memory" made him unforgettable for life-
When I first arrived at the plateau, I had to live in a tent because of poor conditions. The wind always rolls sand and stones without warning, and the sand and stones fill the tent. When eating, dust will cover the table through the tent, and white rice will be covered with a layer of light sand. Zhao jokingly said that this is a "local product" given to them by the secret land of western Tibet.
Digging holes and laying foundations, covering houses, drilling wells and repairing vegetable pits ... In this snowy plateau where "the wind blows stones, the oxygen is not enough to eat, the snow falls in June, and cotton-padded jackets are worn all the year round", officers and men fight against sandstorms, cold and hypoxia, and take root in the forbidden area of life with fearless courage.
Blood splashed on the frozen soil and soon disappeared into the soil ... When digging the foundation, Zhao Meng waved a shovel and his right index finger nail was accidentally overturned, but the scene was still quiet and there was no commotion. He went back to the tent alone, coated with iodophor, wrapped in gauze, shouldered a shovel and quietly returned to the "battle position."
Although it is hard, it is difficult to blow out crazy sand when it is not golden. Now, Sanying Camp has a five-in-one dormitory, study room, bathroom, restaurant and oxygen bar. The indoor temperature can be kept around 15 even if it snows and drips into ice.
"Without the spirit of hard work, it is impossible to take root in the Gobi Desert on the plateau." Li Junli, the instructor of the 3rd Battalion, said that from the Gobi Desert to the oasis of life, officers and men overcame altitude sickness and flying rocks and sand, that is, with the spirit of hard work, even if their faces were chapped and purple, their hands were crusted and cocooned, they should stick to the frontier line and take root.
Transformation, Remolding and Sticking to the "Red Family"
Since its establishment, the Red Army Division has always been accompanied by suffering, proud of suffering, and happy with suffering. It has been reorganized 35 times and changed 10 many times. It is more difficult to move from one difficult area to another every time. However, no matter where they go, officers and men are always in high spirits.
More than 40 years ago, the division moved from Tibet to Xinjiang, from the highest roof in the world to the lowest basin, from the cold pole wrapped in silver to the "fire continent" with high temperature and heat. Without tiles, houses and trees, officers and men braved the wind, sand, scorching sun and heat to build their own barracks on the Gobi Desert.
It is reported that the division has undergone 10 adjustment and relocation, and the officers and men of the army must keep their "red family" even if they are in unimaginable difficulties. These silver dollars have been fighting the troops in the north and south, and none of them have been lost or broken.
Entrepreneurship is more important. The officers and men of the Red Army Division have inherited and carried forward the spirit of hard struggle and pioneering spirit from generation to generation, and built the Red Army Division into a flourishing one. Li Lei, chief of the finance department of the division, introduced that in recent years, the division focused on the goal of being able to fight and win the battle, attached importance to promoting training through science and technology, and concentrated financial resources to build a number of training venues such as communication training ground and artillery comprehensive shooting training ground. Since the reform and transformation, the division has spent money on the cutting edge, devoted itself to studying synthetic operations, and established modern operational concepts such as information superiority and system confrontation. After two years of running-in, many problems that restrict the generation of combat effectiveness have been solved.
Entering the division's operational command center, the command interface on the big screen can realize the mutual integration of the command private network, the military-civilian integrated network and the Internet, and can realize the cross-network security integration without connecting the three networks, greatly optimizing the operational command process, improving the command and control efficiency, and truly realizing the combat effectiveness from science and technology.
On the snowy plateau at an altitude of 4500 meters, an attack drill was once held.
"Firepower elements hit the frontier fortifications of the' enemy', and armored assault vehicles quickly cleared the way!" Qian Limin, battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion of a certain regiment of the division, and several battalion-level staff officers commanded infantry, artillery, engineers and other units of more than 10, and cooperated closely to strike the "enemy" accurately.
A year ago, three generations of main battle equipment were installed. How to make new equipment form combat effectiveness as soon as possible has become a new topic for officers and men. Faced with the dilemma of no professional talents, no guidance for group training and no operational norms, battalion commander Qian Limin led the officers and men to actively carry out technological innovation, reform the group training mode and innovate the tactics and training methods. ...
It's already two o'clock in the morning after making the training plan. For Qian Limin, this is just an ordinary night. Since he took office in February last year, he has been brought home by Dai Yue countless times, and the night return illuminated by the stars and the moon has become the witness of his "transformation assault".
According to Qian Limin, in order to do a good job in the training of new equipment, they set up the Kaixuanying Studio, compiled four sets of tutorials in practice, and sorted out many sets of theoretical results of professional training and standardized results of tactical training.
"Reforming and strengthening the army is a transformation and reshaping for the military and a' phoenix nirvana' for individuals. There are still many people in the whole division who are as devoted to training as I am. " Qian Limin is a few treasures: Wang Lindong, the second-class master sergeant of artillery technician, devoted himself to tackling key scientific and technological problems and popularizing and applying many achievements, and was named "Top Ten Model Soldiers of the Red Army Division"; Zhang Kai, the stationmaster of the vehicle management station, devoted himself to studying the performance of infantry fighting vehicles, and the compiled teaching materials for infantry fighting vehicles became an effective guide in training, and won the second class merit last year; Wei Run, a female soldier, was awarded as an "excellent shooter" by the Xinjiang Military Region and her division.
In plateau training, the division focuses on generating combat effectiveness and takes multiple measures simultaneously, which is feasible. A series of actions such as unmanned combat research, weapon effectiveness verification, small system joint training, and "three wars" research are in full swing in the hinterland of Karakorum.
Love the people and be dedicated to writing about fish and water.
On a sunny winter day, the atmosphere in the courtyard of the village Committee of Ritu Village in western Tibet was warm. The villagers are very excited about the joint flag-raising ceremony between the army and the people once a month.
Since the Red Army division went to the plateau for training, it has often organized officers and men to visit the village to deliver medicines, offer sympathy and help, and carry out * * * construction activities.
Not long ago, Lei Shuangjia, secretary of the Party branch of a company of the Red Army Division, took the lead in pairing with the Party branch of Ritu Village. When he visited Ritu Village during his break, he found that party member in Ritu Village was weak and had to participate in the activities of raising the national flag on the first day of every month. The majestic national anthem resounded through the sky, the five-star red flag Ran Ran rose, the villagers paid attention to the ceremony, and all the officers and men raised their hands. The scene is serious and solemn.
Lei Shuangjia found that there were few skill training institutions after receiving the task of helping the construction, so with the consent of his superiors, he used the advantages and characteristics of his company to organize monthly training courses on driving skills and repair techniques to provide free car driving skills training for school-age villagers and improve their life skills.
At the same time, the advanced work experience and system of the army will be passed on to the village party branch, so as to improve its party building work level, gradually expand its comprehensive functions, organically combine party member education, information dissemination, policy propaganda and practical technical training, strengthen the mission of party member, and comprehensively improve the comprehensive quality of league members.
At the end of the year, on the basis of in-depth investigation, the party branch of the company made use of its own advantages and combined with the local situation of the party branch of the recipient village, and put forward several suggestions for construction and development. Through the support of skills and materials, help them gradually move towards the goal of a well-off society.
Ge Sang Shi, a Tibetan villager who got help, said happily, "The People's Liberation Army has come and done us a lot of good things. They are our patrons. "
Between Tibetans and Han people, the language barrier can't affect the sex between them and the resident Tibetans. The officers and men used the language translator to help communicate with each other, introduced themselves to Tibetans, and performed the chorus song "Every inch of land and gold", military boxing and assassination exercises for Tibetans, so that Tibetans could understand the firm determination and belief of border guards in defending the motherland.
"When the Red Army's Long March passed through Tibetan areas, Tibetan compatriots took the initiative to send highland barley, salt and brown sugar to the Red Army, risking their lives to deliver food and materials ..." At the scene of military and civilian activities to learn the theme of party history, Wenqing Wang, an instructor of a synthetic camp, told the unforgettable history of Tibetans and the Red Army, which deeply touched officers and soldiers and villagers. After class, Tibetans presented Hada to their children.
The leader of the division introduced that it is a fine tradition of the Red Army Division to love and help the people. Combining the study and education of Party history to carry out the activity of "loving the people and benefiting the people and entering the Tibetan family" is to inherit the red gene and inspire the enthusiasm of officers and men to serve the people and build military camps.
Wherever the troops go, the joint military-civilian activities will be carried out, which is a fine tradition inherited by the Red Army division.
From April 65438 to April 0996, officers and men of the division participated in the construction of national defense optical cables. The natural environment in the construction area is harsh, and the geology is complex, mostly hard rock, gravel and saline-alkali overburden, which makes the construction difficult. The officers and men of the whole division have their hardships in a difficult environment, and work for more than 14 hours every day. There are blood bubbles in the hands of officers and men, some fingers are deformed, and even chopsticks are unstable.
16 optical cable construction in northern and southern Xinjiang, three trips to Lop Nur, the Sea of Death, to complete the construction task; Help nearly 10 villages such as Qinggedahu Village and Yang Li Village; The barren hills around the army station are covered with green clothes ... The red gene of "loving the people and being willing to contribute" continues to be passed down in the blood of the officers and men of the Red Army Division. During the Shaanxi-Gansu Revolution, people marched and fought, and they were disciplined by the masses. They did not enter the courtyard, entered the house, and did not disturb the people. When you leave, you have to clean the yard of your fellow villagers, fill the water tanks of ordinary people with water, and fill the stoves with firewood, which is deeply loved by the masses. They are stationed in ethnic minority areas with strict military discipline and never commit crimes. "I would rather not sleep than go to the Lama Temple", "Grapes will not be crowned under the scaffolding, and Hami melon fields will not accept shoes" reflect their simple feelings of loving the people.
Over the past 90 years, the Red Army Division has spread its combat footprint all over the nine western provinces and regions, and also spread the fine style of the Red Army troops throughout the western land. Today, these fine styles and traditions are accurately reflected in the officers and men at all levels of the division.
After many storms, there is still a long way to go. In the new era, officers and men of the Red Army Division have taken over the baton of the times and are determined to forge ahead. In recent years, under the leadership of the Party Committee of the Division, a series of major victories have been achieved in tackling poverty, fighting epidemics, and fighting floods and disasters. Many officers and men were commended by their superiors as "model units supporting the government and loving the people", and many companies were commended as "model units supporting the government and loving the people" by the resident double support office.