Obey the party's command, strive to strengthen the army, and bravely move forward, and dare to compete for the lead on the road to a strong army

Source: People's Liberation Army Daily

The Karakoram Mountains in autumn are dressed in silver early. In the snow and wind, several gun trucks stood tall in the sky at a training ground at an altitude of more than 5,400 meters.

As the signal bomb dragged its tail flames through the long sky, the artillery position of a certain composite regiment of the Xinjiang Military Region "dare to fight and dare to fight with knives and sharpened companies" was full of flames, and the first live-fire shooting of a certain type of new self-propelled howitzer began.

"The first hit! First group coverage! Effectively destroyed! Seeing that the shells accurately hit the target, the company commander Li Yumo could not hide his joy. Walking off the training ground, he briefed reporters that the company was born in the flames and smoke of the Battle of Zhiluo Town, and was formerly a trilateral guerrilla unit of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In the past few years, the ancestors fought bravely with the enemy more than a hundred times, effectively resisting the "sweeping" of the base area by the Japanese army, and the company was transformed from a guerrilla unit equipped with large knives and spears to a cavalry company.

In a battle in 1946, the company and friendly neighbors surrounded a group of enemy groups. The enemy, who was in a desperate situation, stubbornly resisted, and in the rain of bullets and bullets, the company, which was responsible for the main offensive task, took the lead in launching a charge, and the officers and men quickly tore open the enemy's defense line like sharp knives. After the battle, the company was awarded the title of "Dare to Fight and Dare to Fight The Sharp Company".

The years change, the spirit is eternal. This fearless spirit of daring to fight and dare to be the tip of the knife has inspired generations of Red Army generations to forge ahead. In previous years, the company had installed new equipment. In order to master the new equipment as soon as possible, the then company commander led the officers and men to relive the glorious history of the war and understand the spirit of "daring to fight and dare to fight with the sharp edge of the knife" from the deeds of the ancestors. In a confrontation exercise not long after, the company achieved a good result in the first hit and achieved the goal of "forming combat effectiveness in the same year of receiving and loading."

Today, the company's regiment has been transformed from a traditional motorized infantry to a synthetic infantry. In the face of new challenges, the officers and men of the company were highly motivated and threw themselves into training and preparing for war.

Due to the high degree of informatization of a new type of equipment newly issued, Yu Shenghong, the third-level sergeant major of the company, who was previously called "artillery all-rounder" by his comrades-in-arms, frequently made mistakes in the first practical operation. However, he was not discouraged, and together with his comrades-in-arms, he repeatedly studied the teaching materials, consulted the materials, consulted the coaches, sorted out the operation process specifications of the type of equipment, and promoted it throughout the regiment. Talking about his own experience, Yu Shenghong said: "In those years, the spirit of daring to be the first inspired the ancestors to gallop on the battlefield and dare to fight and win; on the road to a strong army in the new era, we must also dare to fight and dare to fight and bravely move forward. ”

Recently, the regiment was ordered to carry out the task of studying and practicing new tactics in a certain alpine mountainous area. Faced with a brand-new problem, the officers and men of the company took the initiative to apply for the pilot task and took the lead in advancing to the Karakoram Mountains, which are higher in altitude and have a worse environment... (Li Guizeng, Li Zhiqiang, Yan Shiqiang)

(Source: Jiefangjun Bao)