Source: Learning Corps , Chinese Army Number Author: Jiefangjun Daily reporter Chen Dianhong Li Haoran Special reporter Jiang Boxi Tang Shuangshan
Iron heart to the party, Xiangjiang guardian army flag red
-- The young officers and men of a certain brigade of the Hong Kong Garrison firmly held up the flag and cast their souls to faithfully fulfill their mission
■ People's Liberation Army Daily reporter Chen Dianhong and Li Haoran
Special correspondent Jiang Boxi Tang Shuangshan
Officers and men of a certain brigade of the Hong Kong garrison returned from training. Easy to set the camera
Shenzhen Wutong Mountain, the first rest of the rain, the wind and the sun, the sun is red.
Looking across the water from Wutong Mountain and connected to the New Territories of Hong Kong, the traffic is busy and the tall buildings are clustered.
A brigade of the Hong Kong Garrison was stationed in the New Wai Barracks south of the New Territories. On the hill behind the camp, a huge stone inscribed with the words "Looking North to Shenzhou" stands majestically. From here, the buildings and bustle of Shenzhen are clearly visible.
Guard the Xiangjiang River and look north to Shenzhou.
This heroic collective, which was born in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, was one of the earliest companies of our army's "branch built on the company"; under the leadership of the party, it fought bloody battles and repeatedly made great achievements, and was awarded the title of "Loess Ridge Meritorious Artillery Company".
In the past 95 years, from Jinggang Mountain to Taihang Mountain, from Loess Ridge to the banks of the Xiangjiang River, the party will go wherever it is called, and the party will fight wherever it goes, which is the red blood and strong army code that this heroic company inherits.
Guarding The Xiangjiang River for 25 years, the company insisted on using the party's innovative theory to cast the soul and cultivate people, unswervingly listened to the party's words, followed the party, comprehensively forged the Xiangjiang guards who firmly raised the flag and cast the soul, and composed a youth answer sheet worthy of the times. In recent years, the company has been awarded the collective second-class merit once, the third class meritorious service three times, 18 times commended as a "grass-roots construction pacesetter unit," "comprehensive construction of advanced units," and "'four irons' advanced units," 11 times rated as a "military training first-level unit," the company party branch was commended as "the whole army's advanced grass-roots party organization," and the company regiment branch was commended by the Communist Youth League Central Committee as the "National May Fourth Red Flag League Branch." The officers and men of the company used their youthful strides to stir up the surging spring tide of striving to strengthen the army in the new era.
Youthful undertone
-- Persist in using the party's innovative theory to cast the soul and cultivate people, and cast a firm iron heart to the party's rock-like belief
"As an honorary company with outstanding military achievements, we must strengthen the 'four self-confidences' in the great practice of 'one country, two systems,' strengthen the ideological understanding of loyalty and safeguarding the core, and consciously be the heroes of the new era who guard Hong Kong's prosperity and stability..." On the eve of the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, a special theme education class was held in the honor room of a company, and Zhao Shuli, a historian and a senior soldier, was the main speaker.
Who would have thought that Zhao Shuli, who now cherishes Lian Shi, was once a "star chaser" who was only interested in entertainment stars. At first, she came to the Hong Kong garrison with a thick stack of star posters, thinking that when she arrived in the international metropolis of Hong Kong, she would often have the opportunity to go out and meet big stars.
On February 8, 2021, it was the first day that Zhao Shuli came to the company, the first thing she saw was the plaque of "Loess Ridge Meritorious Gun Company", and the first stop was the company honor room.
"The 94th generation of the 'Loess Ridge Meritorious Artillery Company'!"
"To!" Zhao Shuli said, "At that moment, I suddenly felt a new identity. ”
In the honor room, in the face of honor battle flags, honorary medals, and heroic model character stories, the words of instructor Liu Jun constantly echoed in Zhao Shuli's ears: "The company has come all the way from the smoke of war, has continued to grow, and has repeatedly made new achievements, relying on the iron heart of generations of officers and men to the party. ”
At that moment, Zhao Shuli's heart was like an electric shock: "They are the 'stars' I should chase the most!" ”
Since then, Zhao Shuli has changed. She replaced the star posters in the cabinet with books on party history and military history, honorary history study notes, and volunteered to become a commentator on the history of lianhe.
The closer you get, the more shocking you are, and the harder you try, the more successful you are. For more than a year, she consciously aligned herself with the company's predecessors, sprinkled the sweat of her youth on the training ground, and was not only rated as a model of honor guard training, but also reached the "special third level" standard in military sports.
Zhao Shuli's transformation is the result of a company that continues to arm its mind with Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army and uses red genes to train officers and soldiers.
"Stationing troops in the 'one country, two systems' environment has a higher standard of loyalty to the party and stricter requirements for resisting erosion." Liu Jun said that the company insisted on studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army as a basic project for strengthening faith, continued to use red genes to cultivate officers and soldiers, constantly cast officers and soldiers with an iron heart to the party's rock-like belief, and polished the loyalty of officers and soldiers.
Ideals are the banners that are held high, and faith is the torch that is passed on. There is such a tradition in the first company: The leading bodies of party branches are adjusted and handed over to the "traditional class" first, cadres pass the "traditional pass" before they take office, and the "traditional soul" is cast first in the development of party members.
There is such a system in a row: monthly theoretical classes such as "Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army Illuminate Me Forward" are organized, a series of activities such as "Theoretical Breakthrough" and "Experience Exhibition and Evaluation" are carried out every week, and the "Theoretical Learning Star" evaluation is organized normally. In the past five years, more than 60 officers and men of the company have been appraised by their superiors as "advanced individuals in theoretical study."
"The sweat dripping from the fingertips and the diffuse smell of sweat are the best interpretation of the struggle of youth." After listening to President Xi Jinping's important speech at the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Youth League, Dawa Dolma, a female Tibetan college student soldier, stepped onto the podium of the company's "Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army to Illuminate Me Forward" theory to share her learning experience.
From a small town in the southwest to a large city in Hong Kong, from not being able to write Chinese characters well to speaking fluent Mandarin, bathed in the sunshine of the party's innovative theory in the new era, Dawa Dolma changed feathers and flew high to realize the dream of youth, became a pacesetter in the theoretical study of the company, stayed in the team to turn to a sergeant, and became a squad leader.
"Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Army is the banner, and the deeper the theoretical roots are rooted, the more firmly the soul of loyalty will be cast." The leader of the brigade said that the predecessor of the company has undergone the reorganization of the three bays, and is a heroic collective that has followed the party's banner all the way; the company has loyally safeguarded the core, continued the red bloodline, and strengthened theoretical armament; and the officers and men have always maintained a high degree of political sobriety and the firm political conviction of "one red heart will always go to the party."
Youth Officer
-- Engraving the elite and strong ability in the heart and sharpening it into a sharp knife for the garrison's defense force
In June 2021, a range in Hong Kong was like a fire.
The "Gun King Championship" of the troops stationed in Hong Kong entered the decisive moment, and more than 80 sniper masters competed for the title of "Gun King". A company of senior soldiers Yu Qiao Ran calmly walked onto the field, holding his breath, looking like a torch, pulling the trigger... In the gun target, she pressed the crowd to win the title of "Sniper Gun King".
Female soldiers, superior soldiers, honor guards, armored soldiers, Yu Qiaoran's "cross-border gun king" counterattack road is not smooth.
As the only conscript in the participating team, at first many people thought that Yu Qiaoran was just a foil for the competition. In the face of doubts, she secretly resolved: "When you enter the door of the Hero Company, you must be like a hero company." The soldiers of a company, horizontal and vertical, are all one, and they must seize the first place, and they must not disgrace the meritorious artillery company! ”
If you want to be a good sniper, you must have good psychological quality, excellent physical fitness and superb shooting skills. "Shoot every shot, let every bullet be empty." As soon as Yu Qiaoran had time, he studied and pondered the "temperament" of the weapon in his hand, took the initiative to carry out targeted intensive training, solidified the action into muscle memory, and smoothly controlled the gun from 3 minutes to 30 minutes, and then broke through 1 hour... On the podium, Yu Qiaoran received the medal and cried with joy.
"The red gene of being strong in martial arts and daring to fight and win has long been integrated into the blood of officers and men." At the company's deeds report meeting with the theme of "Striving for Youth and Setting Sail", Yu Qiaoran expressed his example of progress: In the battle of forcibly crossing the Dadu River in May 1935, Zhao Zhangcheng, the gunner of the company, used the only 3 remaining shells to accurately remove the enemy's fire point and support the seventeen warriors to raid the river crossing; In the Battle of Loess Ridge in November 1939, Li Erxi, who was only 18 years old, killed Japanese Lieutenant General Norihide Abe in one fell swoop, becoming a well-known "sharpshooter" of the whole army...
"Fight like heroes!" You Qiaoran's Jingwu story is the epitome of a series of Jingwu strength. Generation after generation of young officers and men regarded their mission as heavier than Mount Tai, and they engraved their elite and strong abilities in their hearts and sharpened them into sharp knives for the garrison's defense forces.
In a company, the battle flag is "one", the medal is engraved with "one", and the song is sung with "one". "When you see the first, you are red, when you take the first, you become popular, and when you lose the first, you blush." This is a phrase often said by officers and men of a company.
Wang Zhongmeng, the leader of the first squad, was slightly injured and could not get out of the competition field, completed 5 subject assessments, and won the first place in the armored communications major of the whole brigade; Female squad leader Wang Jinyu, who was sick at the beginning of his illness, participated in the competition and won the gold medal of the whole brigade;" Sergeant Liu Jian won the title of "Sharpshooter" in the garrison competition for 4 consecutive years...
On the Loess Ridge that year, the ancestors of the company used several mortars to make a name for themselves in one fell swoop. Nowadays, the descendants of the hero company have integrated the soul of the "hundred shots and hundreds of shots, the threat to shock the enemy's guts" and the value pursuit of winning the first place, into the blood and infusion of the soul.
In November 2017, the company was reorganized and reformed. The training of armored professionals was reduced by one month throughout the year, and the professional training of honor guards was only one month in the whole year. The party branch of the company set up a branch committee "demonstration class" and a "backbone attack team" to practice step by step, one move at a time, one move at a time, one exercise and one style, practice and verify on the training ground during the day, and collectively tackle key problems in the conference room at night.
Get out of the sense of the strong military era and run out of the transformation acceleration. Three months later, the company successfully completed the flag-raising ceremony for Hong Kong citizens to visit the camp. Five months later, he participated in the evaluation of the garrison's armored professional skills, and the excellent rate of officers and men of the whole company reached more than 90%, ranking first in the whole brigade. In less than half a year, many honor guards became the main force in the competition to win gold and silver.
When youth met Xiangjiang, a company of officers and men used their fine martial arts to show their youthful responsibility and compose a new legend of the defenders of Xiangjiang in the new era.
In December 2021, the whole brigade was equipped with new armored equipment, and the company took the initiative to ask Miao to undertake the trial training task of new equipment. In just 2 months, the company collected and sorted out more than 120 training data, and sorted out and compiled 3 sets of operation manuals. Four months later, the garrison organized an emergency dispatch capability assessment of the combat detachment, and the comprehensive score of the first company was all excellent, and the whole brigade ranked first. In the past five years, 38 backbones of the company have been rated as the top military training, and dozens of them have won gold and silver in record-breaking competitions.
Stationed in Hong Kong, the strength is the most excellent youth responsibility. A company of people has regularly carried out real-combat confrontation training in a down-to-earth and hard-hitting manner, and once a week, all the staff are fully equipped and urgently assembled, 1 motorized maneuver in the camp area, 1 command and communication drill, and 1 emergency handling drill is not moving, and it always maintains a high state of alert that can be pulled out and can go up.
Youth business card
-- The special window displays a first-class image, and each officer and soldier is a business card
On the eve of this year's Spring Festival, a remarkable national flag-raising ceremony was held at a military pier in Hong Kong. A company of female soldiers who participated in the ceremony heroically guarded the five-star red flag.
As soon as the news was released on the network, the number of hits exceeded 120 million times, and netizens liked and left a message: "Cool heroic posture honor guard, awesome!" ”
"Every appearance is a manifestation of strength." Gazing at the national flag waving in the wind, female soldier Tang Xiaoxiao looked proud, "The land under my feet is China, the place I guard is called Hong Kong, we are the 'business card' that shows the image of the mighty and civilized division of the people's army, and we must be shocked and wonderful." ”
The self-confidence of a soldier shows the self-confidence of a unit, the self-confidence of a country, and the self-confidence of an era. The college student soldier who joined the army as a graduate student has now tempered the confidence of a defender of the Xiangjiang River.
The image display of the mighty civilization comes not only from the perfect display of the honor guard, but also from the confident declaration of defense capabilities.
That year, the garrison organized a demonstration of military courses for the first time at a comprehensive training ground, and more than 500 guests from all walks of life in Hong Kong and nearly 30 media observed the scene.
During the demonstration, a company of 3 armored vehicles suddenly opened fire, and the audience applauded warmly. The next day, various media in Hong Kong reported on it at great length and received high praise.
Strength is the most eye-catching business card, and ability is the hardcore image. In the 25 years since entering Hong Kong, the mighty civilization has become the youth business card of a company of officers and soldiers, and it has also become a window for Hong Kong citizens to understand the Chinese army.
An opening event of the barracks brought tens of thousands of Hong Kong citizens to the public. When a company of officers and men performed a gun exercise performance, suddenly heavy rain poured down, raindrops blurred their eyes, and rain poured down the legs of their pants into their boots... Just when the citizens thought that the activity would be suspended and prepared to get up and leave, they found that the officers and soldiers seemed to be unaffected, and the changing gun drill formation was like a bauhinia flower blooming in the rain. In an instant, the applause on the scene was thunderous.
Liu Jun said: As far as the officers and men of a company are concerned, the flower of youth must not only bloom on the honor guard field, but also bloom on the training ground.
In the autumn of 2018, Typhoon Mangkhut crossed the border, causing a large number of trees to fall and obstruct traffic on the mountain road across the New Territories to Tuen Mun. A company of officers and men was ordered to make an emergency dispatch to clear the roadblocks and clear the roads, and the Hong Kong citizens praised one after another: "Thank you to the People's Liberation Army, praise for the People's Liberation Army!" "Over the years, in activities such as voluntary tree planting, free blood donation, comforting the elderly and loving children, and military-civilian friendship, a company of officers and soldiers have displayed a mighty and civilized youth business card, in exchange for more and more Hong Kong citizens' warm responses.
The company has participated in the holding of the Hong Kong Youth Military Summer Camp and the Hong Kong University Students Military Life Experience Camp for many years, with more and more rich contents, and has become an important platform for Hong Kong college students and young people to receive patriotic education and national defense education, and thousands of Hong Kong students enthusiastically apply to participate every year.
The feelings between the military and the people have been continuously sublimated in open exchanges again and again. Chen Guo, a platoon leader of the first company, said: "With these activities as a bridge, we have shown the image of the People's Liberation Army's mighty and civilized style of loving Hong Kong and being close to the people in front of the eyes of the Hong Kong citizens, which not only enhances the friendship between the military and the people, but also strengthens the emotional identity." ”
On 1 July 2021, the company held a flag-raising ceremony for the first time for Hong Kong's Xiangdao Secondary School. After the ceremony, many Hong Kong citizens rushed forward to take photos with the officers and soldiers.
The weather was hot, and the officers and men were sweating like rain, but they never moved. At this time, a little girl came out of the crowd, holding a tissue in her hand to wipe the sweat of the female soldier Zhao Shuli. Over the past few years, the officers and men of the company have carried out tasks such as opening the barracks and raising the national flag for honor, and often Hong Kong citizens have taken the initiative to shade the officers and men from the sun, rain or sweat.
"Relying on the mighty image to shock people's hearts, the civilized image to inspire people's hearts, and the sincere payment to impress people's hearts." Company Commander Fan Jingsen said, "We are the guardians of this prosperous land in Hong Kong and the blessings of this prosperous land, winning the trust and recognition of more and more Hong Kong compatriots." ”
In the past 25 years since it was stationed in Hong Kong, the First Company has given full play to the role of young officers and men, exchanged sincerity for sincerity, exchanged hearts with actions, and completed more than 200 exchange and friendship activities, winning praise from Hong Kong citizens and effectively demonstrating the good image of our army as a mighty division, a civilized division, and a victorious division.
Let youth bloom in the struggle for a strong army
The times are different, and the youth is in the same vein. As the descendants of the heroic company, in the environment of "one country, two systems," the officers and men of the first company firmly raised the flag to cast the soul, continued the red bloodline, strengthened the theoretical armament, and always maintained a high degree of political sobriety and the firm political conviction of "one red heart will always be toward the party." The red gene is integrated into the blood and soul, and it has not lost a single point due to the passage of time, nor has it lost a point due to changes in the environment.
Guarding the banks of the Xiangjiang River for 25 years, a company of officers and men shouldered the heavy trust of the mission of Rushan, unremittingly tempered the ability to win battles, everyone fought bravely to be the first, with strong military strength, vowing to be the first, daring to fight and win, "put on the ceremonial military uniform, step by step, tiger and tiger are full of style; Boarding the infantry chariot, everyone charging into battle, and bravely becoming the vanguard of iron armor" not only shows the image of the mighty division, civilization division, and victorious division of the troops stationed in Hong Kong, but also embodies the responsibility and spiritual outlook of young officers and men in the new era.
The most beautiful youth should be with the motherland and resonate with the times. "Only when youth is highly compatible with the cause of the party and the people, will the spectrum of youth be broader and the energy of youth can fully burst forth." The vast number of young officers and men have a heavy responsibility on their shoulders, the stage for displaying their talents is incomparably broad, and the prospects for realizing their dreams are incomparably bright; like a company of officers and men, they must integrate loyalty into their lives, carry the mission on their shoulders, forge ahead with vigor and courage, and let the youth blossom in the struggle to strengthen the army.
(Produced by Learning Corps and Chinese Military)