There is such a set of military uniforms in the Airborne Military History Museum, which is the same as the Marshal's dress, and the material is the best pure wool Huada. Except for the middle seam of pants sewn with red floss, the sleeves embroidered with gold thread and golden pine branches, and the collar embroidered with gold five-pointed stars on the left and right sides, the top and bottom are all sea blue. The military hat is a large brimmed hat with a red hat wall and an aquamarine top.
This type 55 military uniform for the first time broke through the traditional single system of the People's Liberation Army, and the first time the military uniform was divided into two categories: regular clothes and dresses, which was a large reform in the history of our military uniform. Whether it is the material, production process or style of military uniforms, they have reached a high level.
This seemingly ordinary but not ordinary military uniform was donated by Qin Jiwei's wife, Tang Xianmei, and it was the dress when General Qin Jiwei was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.
This set of military uniforms witnessed The growth of General Qin Jiwei from a peasant boy to a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army, and is also a vivid teaching material for cultivating the core values of socialism, carrying forward the patriotic spirit, and carrying out revolutionary traditional education.
General Qin Jiwei once wrote in his memoirs: "It is appropriate, neither high nor low. ”
On November 16, 1914, General Qin Jiwei was born in Qinluozhuang, Huanggang, Hubei Province, and like many people of that era, Qin Jiwei's family endured the exploitation of landlords for generations and their family was poor. At the age of eight, Qin Jiwei's father died of the plague, leaving him and his brother alone.
When Qin Jiwei was less than ten years old, his only relative and brother also died, and he was the only one who guarded the broken grass house left by his ancestors. In order to support himself, Qin Jiwei learned to herd cattle, work for short jobs, chop firewood to sell, and dig wild vegetables at a young age.
At the age of thirteen, he joined the Volunteer Brigade and began to dedicate himself to the revolution. Qin Jiwei's first gun was stolen, when Qin Jiwei participated in the war with the Kuomintang Twentieth Army, his weapon was still just a shuttle marker, in order to have his own gun, Qin Jiwei rushed to the enemy army without a life, an enemy soldier was frightened by Qin Jiwei and directly threw away the gun and ran away, so Qin Jiwei got his first Hanyang-made single barrel gun.
It was also in this war that Qin Jiwei was promoted to deputy squad leader because of his excellent performance, and in less than a few months, he was promoted to squad leader and platoon leader step by step.
Qin Jiwei really became the regimental commander after experiencing the difficult Long March, when his Red Fourth Front Army was at the behest of the Central Red Army and crossed the Daba Mountain in the southwest.
Qin Jiwei's memoirs record this experience: "All the way hard, all the way to the frying. "Most of the peaks of Daba Mountain are above two thousand meters above sea level, and at night the snow is flying wildly, the Red Army has no cotton clothes and shoes, and everyone is covered with a bundle of straw, and many Red Army soldiers at that time froze to death at night on Daba Mountain.
Qin Jiwei persisted, he believed that it was the will that made him persist until the end, and it was the faith that gave him tenacious vitality. Qin Jiwei has a mantra: "Never afraid of 'losing the bottom'", he often uses this phrase to spur himself and his children.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the units of the Fifteenth Army to which Qin Jiwei belonged were not included in the list of participants due to their lack of experience. However, Qin Jiwei did not give up on this, but once again "not afraid of losing the bottom", took the initiative to submit an application to his superiors to participate in the war, and finally obtained the qualification to enter the war in North Korea.
In the Battle of Shangganling, Qin Jiwei led the entire Fifteenth Army to turn the tide.
On October 14, 1952, in order to completely seize the Jinhua area, the US military launched the "Gemdale Offensive" to many places in the Five Holy Mountains. As the gateway to the central line of North Korea, once the Five Holy Mountains are lost, the whole of North Korea will face a situation that cannot be defended.
Peng Dehuai once said to Qin Jiwei: "Whoever loses the Five Holy Mountains is responsible for the history of Korea." The position had been captured many times and then retaken, and it was in such a severe situation that Qin Jiwei finally issued an order after careful consideration: insist on fighting in the tunnel.
It was Qin Jiwei's decision to fight in the tunnel that preserved the living strength of the Fifteenth Army, so that our army could continue to fight to regain its position even when it was under full siege.
In the end, the Fifteenth Army annihilated more than 6,000 enemy troops at the cost of more than 2,000 casualties, successfully stopped the UN army's attack on the heights, and took all the surface positions of the UN army.
The Fifteenth Army defeated the United Nations army many times, the American army suffered huge losses that could not be recovered, and the Battle of Shangganling finally ended in the victory of the People's Liberation Army.
To this day, the United States is deeply impressed by this battle.
The Battle of Shangganling was not only a contest of military strength between the two countries, but also involved a contest between two ideological systems and two values, and was an extremely special battle in which we won not only the position, but also the national and military prestige. After this war, the US military did not dare to easily launch an armed struggle against our country, and the DPRK finally won the victory.
The Fifteenth Army was later reorganized into the first airborne army unit of the Chinese army, responsible for garrisoning key areas in the Central Plains, and surviving several disarmaments.
General Qin Jiwei strategized on the battlefield, and the education of his children did not fall behind. General Qin Jiwei had two sons and a daughter, the eldest son Qin Weijiang and the second son Qin Tian were both lieutenant generals, and the younger daughter Qin Zhijiang was also married to Lieutenant General Yang Dongming, the son of General Yang Chengwu.
Figure Qin Weijiang, Qin Zhaojiang, Qin Tian
Qin Jiwei's family can be called a well-known general. General Qin Jiwei's eldest son was named Qin Weijiang, and his second son was named Qin Tian, both of whom are now lieutenant generals.
As the eldest son, Qin Weijiang received a strict education from an early age, and in a documentary about Qin Jiwei, Qin Weijiang once expressed his sincere admiration for his father in an interview.
As a descendant of a generation of generals, Qin Weijiang has shouldered the heavy responsibility of carrying forward the revolutionary spirit and defending the motherland since birth, so Qin Jiwei was very strict with him.
Qin Weijiang's achievements are also based on his own bit by bit, in 1982, Qin Weijiang obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Nanjing Institute of Communication Engineering of the People's Liberation Army. In 2002, Qin Weijiang became the first combat unit of our army and the only military commander at that time to be awarded a military master's degree by the National Defense University.
Qin Weijiang was now a well-known commander, and every time he was trained, he would participate in all the training like an ordinary soldier. He has been working hard to bring out a team capable of fighting, and in order to enable the soldiers to stay in danger, he often organizes and carries out various modes of actual combat exercises.
Qin Weijiang has always paid attention to the combat strategies of other foreign armies and strived to develop his troops in the direction of globalization.
He believes that the world situation has always been changing, and It is not enough for China to rely solely on the military theories of the past, and officers must not only understand combat strategies, but also be familiar with combat technology. In the past, the strategy was more inclined to strategy, but the future will be based on technology, and only strength can truly solve strategic problems.
Therefore, as a senior officer, Qin Weijiang set strict demands on himself, constantly learning more advanced strategic techniques, and giving himself the ability to adapt to the development of science and technology.
Qin Tian was two years younger than his elder brother Qin Weijiang, and when he was sixteen years old, Qin Tian joined the army. In the army, Qin Tian also started from the grass-roots level step by step according to his father's requirements, and steadily made an ordinary soldier a squad leader, a platoon leader, a company commander, a section chief, and a regimental commander...
Comrades-in-arms once commented on him: he is good at all kinds of weapons, his marksmanship is very good, and he is very military-minded. When Qin Tian was the commander of the regiment, he once led his troops to participate in the counterattack against Vietnamese self-defense and achieved great victories. Qin Tian once recalled Qin Jiwei, saying that he was "both a loving father and a good teacher."
And Qin Jiwei's education of his two sons was also very strict, once, Qin Tian resigned with Qin Jiwei on the evening when he was about to go to war, but he was scolded by Qin Jiwei, and Qin Tian felt particularly wronged at that time. Later, Qin Tian learned that Qin Jiwei was telling him in this way that this seemingly common emotion of people would affect the entire unit when placed on the commander.
In a unit, courage and boldness require the commander to pass on to every soldier. In late April 1988, Qin Tian's 235th Regiment successfully completed the eighteen-month round defense campaign against Vietnam, and the whole regiment won the collective second class merit, and Qin Tian himself also made a battle merit.
Since then, Qin Tian has been awarded the second class merit and the third class merit twice, and has served as deputy division commander, deputy director and minister of scientific research department of the National Defense University, vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences, and chief of staff of the armed police force.
In July 2003, Qin Tian was promoted to the rank of major general, and in 2016, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general of the armed police. Today, Qin Tian is already a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army.
Qin Qijiang and Yang Dongming fell in love freely, and the two general families were connected
Qin Jiwei's daughter was named Qin Zhijiang, and unlike the two older brothers, Qin Qijiang did not take the career path, but engaged in business. After obtaining a master's degree, Qin Qijiang chose to go to the sea to do business.
He successively served as the manager of the trade department of China Guangda Group, and later served as vice chairman and deputy general manager of Hong Kong Tianwei Development Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Dapeng Real Estate Company and Guangzhou Longyi Investment Co., Ltd.
Qin Qijiang's husband is Air Force Lieutenant General Yang Dongming. In 1966, the seventeen-year-old Yang Dongming joined the army, and in 1977, Yang Dongming graduated from the Beijing Aeronautical Institute majoring in rocket generators, and has been engaged in air force work ever since, successively serving as deputy battalion commander and deputy commander. Today, Yang Dongming is a lieutenant general.
Yang Dongming's father, Yang Chengwu, was the first general in New China, known to the world as "Zhao Zilong in the army", and was a "hundred battle stars" who were both wise and courageous. During the revolutionary war years, Yang Chengwu was one of the few intellectuals whose families were poor, but who had studied in private schools by smashing pots and selling iron.
In 1929, at the age of fifteen, Yang Chengwu joined the Red Army, and after joining the Red Army, he was given a heavy responsibility and became the secretary of the Third Road Headquarters, and before the age of seventeen, he became the political commissar of the regiment. Yang Chengwu had extraordinary courage and willpower, and as the Red Army climbed snowy mountains and meadows, followed the troops to fight the Japanese Kou, participated in the War of Liberation, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and experienced hundreds of battles.
Neither the dangers of the Long March nor the artillery fire of the war could bring him down, and it was precisely because of rongma's lifelong achievements and outstanding achievements that in 1955, Yang Chengwu, who was only forty-one years old, became the founding general. Among Yang Chengwu's children, two sons and a daughter were generals.
In addition to Yang Dongming, Yang Chengwu's eldest son Yang Dongsheng was also a general and a high-achieving student who graduated from Tsinghua University. After graduation, Yang Dongsheng chose to join the army and took up positions in the Armed Forces Department and the Science and Technology Department of the Central Military Commission. In 1998, Yang Dongsheng was awarded the rank of major general.
Yang Chengwu's fourth daughter, Yang Junsheng, also chose to join the army, and after graduating from the Military Engineering major in Kazakhstan, Yang Junsheng chose to join the Chinese People's Liberation Army to study missile technology in the artillery unit. In 1983, Yang Junsheng entered the Armed Police Force. In 1996, Yang Junsheng was promoted to the rank of major general of the armed police.
Yang Chengwu and Qin Jiwei had no intersection before they formed a family, and although both were in North China, they did not belong to a system.
During the Liberation War, one of the two men was subordinate to the North China Field Army and the other to the Central Plains Field Army, while during the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, one was in the Twentieth Corps and the other was in the Third Corps.
Therefore, although both of them are veterans of the military for decades, in the past, they only knew their names and did not know their people. Qin Qijiang and Yang Dongming were rare free love in that era, and it was such a marriage that closely linked the two general families.