Tips: People know that the volunteers fought hard in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and defeated US imperialism with "millet plus rifles", but there is another thing that is the most powerful food on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea: fried noodles
The information is extracted from the Internet: Zhang Wei "Fried Noodles: The Most Powerful Food on the Battlefield to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea"
During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army drove away the wolf of US imperialist ambition by "handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow" and "fried noodles and rifles" in a foreign land. ”
Some people say that fried noodles are the great heroes of the volunteers to win the war.
Hungry and without food, it became a problem for the volunteers to eat
As the old saying goes: before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. Eating is a problem that any army must solve first. The problem of food cannot be solved, and no matter how good an army can fight, it will not escape the fate of destruction. Back then, when hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers stepped out of the country, they immediately encountered the big problem of how to eat, and there was an unavoidable reality that "if you bring rice and white noodles, you need to raise the fire to cook rice." As soon as the smoke rises, it will attract bombing and strafing from enemy planes. If the steamed steamed bread pancakes are delivered, they will freeze like iron in the temperature of minus 30 degrees. "The problem of food has become a big problem for the volunteers.
According to the memories of veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea: At that time, in order to avoid enemy planes, they could not light a fire and cook during the day. After breakfast in the morning, when taking the wounded up the mountain to defend the air, everyone loaded some boiled potatoes and fried noodles, and compressed biscuits were very few, mainly reserved for the wounded to eat. In the winter of minus thirty or forty degrees, the potatoes quickly freeze into a "hard stone", which is quite difficult to gnaw, and the frozen potatoes taste bitter, and the comrades do not like to eat them. Even this kind of bitter and hard food is often eaten without the next meal.
Nie Li wrote in the book "Mountains and Waters: Memories of His Father Nie Rongzhen" in Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House: Peng Dehuai once sent a telegram, and the message was only 6 words: "Hungry and without food, cold and without clothing." When my father saw it, his heart was heavy. During that time, he had the most dealings with Yang Lisan, director of the General Logistics Department, and Lu Zhengcao, commander of the Railway Corps. In order to send things up, they thought of a lot of ways.
The issue of food is the first and most important issue faced by the soldiers of the volunteers.
Li Jukui, processed fried noodles and sent them to the front line
The soldiers were "hungry and had no food", and the quartermaster was more anxious than anyone else, and often held meetings to study this.
At a meeting, someone brought up chow mein.
Chow mein is easy to carry, non-perishable and sweet and delicious, and is a traditional food in the northern part of the mainland. It is made of millet seeds, kidney beans, corn, barley, beetroot, wheat, soybeans, and sorghum rice. After frying, it is ground into flour, which is a fried mein that can be eaten at any time.
The headquarters sent a telegram to the motherland and asked the rear to make samples of fried noodles.
When he mentioned fried noodles, Li Jukui, then director of the logistics department and political commissar of the Northeast Military Region, had a bright heart, and he remembered that when the Western Route Army was broken up by the enemy and returned to Yan'an, he had eaten a kind of fried noodles given by the people along the way, which was easy to eat and easy to keep, so he asked the Logistics Department of the Northeast Military Region to process fried noodles and send them to the front line.
Subsequently, Li Jukui sent a sample of fried noodles to the headquarters of the Volunteer Army. Commander Peng Dehuai and several deputy commanders were very happy after tasting the fried noodles samples, and immediately sent an urgent telegram to China: The fried noodles samples sent are very good......
On the eve of the second battle, Commander Peng Dehuai asked Deputy Commander Hong Xuezhi to send a telegram to the Logistics Department of the Northeast Military Region, telling them: "Send dry food, grind it into flour and put salt in it, wash it first when frying, and send it in large quantities." ”
Later, Commander Peng Dehuai asked Deputy Commander Hong Xuezhi to draft a report to the Central Military Commission and the Northeast Military Region, which pointed out: "Due to the sabotage of enemy planes, it is not easy to make fires and cook day and night, and all the troops are quite grateful to the Northeast for sending fried noodles to the front. Please send you yakisoba made with soybeans, rice, and salt in the future. ”
Premier Zhou, stir-fry fried noodles with your own hands
According to the needs of the Korean battlefield, the Northeast People's Government issued the "Several Regulations on the Implementation of the Task of Fried Noodles", requiring all systems and units to have a daily fried noodles task of no less than 138,000 catties, and a total amount of fried noodles within 20 days of no less than 2.76 million catties. Under the leadership of leaders at all levels, the Northeast region quickly set off a craze of men, women and children going into battle together, and every household fried fried noodles.
Men, women, and children are all on the battlefield, and every household is crazing fried fried noodles
According to statistics: before and after the second campaign launched by our army, 14.82 million catties of fried noodles were provided to the volunteers every month. The Northeast region can only solve 10 million catties at most, and the rest must be solved by all parts of the country.
After Premier Zhou Enlai learned of this, he immediately instructed the Government Council to arrange it in the northeastern, northern, and central and southern provinces, mobilize the masses, and fry fried noodles in every household.
Premier Zhou Enlai also personally inspected the situation of fried noodles in some organs in Beijing, and personally started to fry fried noodles with comrades in the organs. Led by Premier Zhou Enlai, the central party, government, and military leaders all took time out of their busy work to personally fry fried noodles with the cadres of some units in Beijing and the masses of the people.
The news that the central leaders had personally fried fried noodles for the volunteers spread to the Korean front, giving great encouragement to the commanders and fighters of the volunteers. Chow mein accompanied the commanders and fighters of the Volunteer Army in bloody battles and won many battles. The soldiers were grateful that Chow Mein had solved the great difficulties and shouted the slogan of "meritorious service for the people of the motherland" in order to repay the concern of the people of the motherland. ("Interpretation of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", Jiang Tingyu)
The head of the Central Committee also made fried noodles for the volunteer soldiers on the Korean front. "What a glorious thing that was at that time!" The veteran Zhu Xianchen was very happy, and when he distributed the fried noodles, the name of Deng Zihui, the head of the Central Committee, was written on the fried noodles bag in his hand.
On the battlefield, a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow
In the days of the war in North Korea, the volunteer soldier Pei Dongzhu and the soldiers each carried a heavy load, and in addition to guns and ammunition, the things on their backs were a noodle cloth bag, which contained his daily food ——— fried noodles.
Under the enemy's frantic shelling and bombardment, the mountains and rocks were shattered, the trees were scorched, and the winter snow turned into "black snow", and there was no water on the position, so what should I do when I choke and cough after eating a bite of fried noodles?
The soldiers had their own clever plan, they climbed to a place where there was snow in the distance, spread out towels, put snow powder on them, and then grabbed two handfuls of fried noodles and sprinkled them up, put them on their chests and brought them back to the position, the heat evaporated by the human body melted the snow, so the fried noodles were soaked soft, and they could eat again. The fighters called it "steamed fried noodles", or "fried noodles ice cream".
Grab the snow and put it in your mouth first, then eat a few bites of chow mein
According to one veteran, "Fried noodles have become our daily meal. There are many ways to eat fried noodles, some fighters mix snow and fried noodles together, but I am the most popular way to eat, first grab the snow and put it in your mouth, and then eat a few bites of fried noodles, so that it is easy to swallow and not choked. ”
"Everyone eats chow mein in different ways. Each has its own characteristics, and some people scoop the snow from the mountains into an enamel jar, add fried noodles, stir and eat. Some eat a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow at the same time. My way of eating is to first squeeze the snow into a fist-sized snowball, and when eating fried noodles, take a bite of the snow ball first, and when your mouth is moist, the fried noodles will naturally not be dry and hard to swallow. ”
"My comrade-in-arms Zhang Yulan's eating method is the most distinctive, she put fried noodles and snow together, formed a large snowball, and put it in the pocket on the outside of the cotton clothes, so that it will not melt, and it will not freeze too hard, when the army walks, it is particularly convenient to eat, she is called "assorted rice balls" ......"
A handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow played a triumphant song of unity and progress in the front and rear, and composed a good story of hard struggle to defend peace.
Volunteers, fried noodles are really powerful
The allegro poem "A Handful of Fried Noodles and a Handful of Snow" vividly reflects the life of a volunteer soldier: it is really convenient to march and fight with a bag of dry fried noodles on your back. The people of the motherland care about us and send them to the front line thousands of miles away. The fried noodles are fragrant, the fried noodles are sweet, a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow, and the pillow covers the sky with stones. Hard struggle is glorious, destroy the enemy and move forward bravely!
"Chow mein is your own dry food, and bullet grenades are dry food for the enemy. When they have eaten their own dry food, they will send dry food to the enemy, so that they can eat one by one with their backs facing the sky. ”
"In the War of Liberation, we won a big victory with millet and rifles, and in North Korea, we fought with fried noodles and rifles and fought with the US army, and we still won the war. It's not easy to think about!"
"After hitting the 38th line, mix fried noodles with cold water. ”
A witty joke tells that fried noodles were really powerful at that time.
Of course, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's commanders and fighters ate fried noodles only as an expedient measure to make it difficult to supply the frontline in the early days of the war, but with the continuous improvement of the Volunteer Army's supply system, the supply of front-line commanders and fighters gradually improved.
Volunteer soldiers eat
In the Spring Festival of 1953, the vast number of commanders and fighters on the front line ate meat-stuffed dumplings for the first time since they entered the DPRK. Since then, the frontline troops have basically eaten fritters and drank soy milk for breakfast, and each meal can guarantee two dishes and one soup. The soldiers all said happily: "Sichuan mustard has gone to North Korea, the Yellow River carp has gone up the mountain, and life has been constantly improving, and the logistics are really not simple!"
Looking back at that period of history now, we cannot but feel our heartfelt admiration for the officers and men of the Chinese Volunteers who defeated the well-equipped "United Nations Army" under such difficult and difficult material conditions and won a great victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and we are extremely proud that New China has such a heroic army and soldiers!