The veterans of the Southwest Service Regiment went west into the past - eight thousand miles to the youth

Source China Military Network - People's Liberation Army Newspaper Southwest Service Corps Veterans Westward Journey Past - Eight Thousand Miles Road To Youth ■ Chang Haiyan My father Chang Qi was a veteran of the Southwest Service Corps of the former Chinese People's Liberation Army, who passed away last year. In June this year, several comrades-in-arms who knew my father well received the commemorative medal of "50 Years of Glory in the Party", and they were excited and regretted, saying to me how happy it would be if my father could also witness the centenary of the founding of the party alive. When my father was alive, he often told our children about the past of their group of enthusiastic young people who threw themselves into the revolution and joined the Southwest Service Corps, and taught us that we should have lofty ideals in life and strive for them all our lives. Shortly after the victory in the Battle of crossing the river in 1949, the Second Field Army was ordered to liberate the southwest of the great southwest, and before the expedition, the party Central Committee decided to select and transfer a number of cadres from the central authorities and the old liberated areas, and at the same time recruited college and middle school students and young workers from Shanghai, Nanjing, southern Jiangsu, Anhui and other places to form the Southwest Service Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. As soon as the news came out, a "southward fever" was immediately set off in the relevant regions, and more than 10,000 progressive young people actively signed up to participate. Father was one of them. In May 1949, his father, who studied at the Wusong Merchant Marine College in Shanghai, returned to his hometown of Langxi, Anhui. Hating the corruption of the Kuomintang and being influenced by progressive classmates, his father was determined to join the revolution and enter the School for Revolutionary Cadres in Southern China. After learning that the school wanted to select teachers and students to participate in the Southwest Service Corps, the young students were deeply inspired by the slogan of "Marching into the Great Southwest and Liberating All China", and they were full of revolutionary passion and wrote down applications one after another. The enterprising father was fortunate to be selected and arrived with the team in Nanjing, the headquarters of the Southwest Service Regiment, and was incorporated into the five major teams of the Yunnan detachment. Before the expedition, Liu Bocheng, commander of the Second Field Army, and Deng Xiaoping, political commissar, made reports to the Southwest Service Corps, strengthening the conviction of these young people to go to the southwest and serve the people. On October 1, my father and comrades-in-arms participated in the celebration of the founding ceremony at the former "Central University" sports field. Late the next night, they rushed to Pukou, boarded a "stuffy tank truck" to go to Wuhan, and a few days later transferred to Yueyang, Hunan. Later that month, the Yunnan detachment rested and expanded in Changsha, and organizationally mobilized cadets who were not suitable for long-distance marches to return. Father was determined to continue to move forward and follow the team to the southwest border to exercise and grow. In mid-November, the Yunnan detachment set off again from Changsha. After arriving in Xiangtan, because of the road conditions, the Yunnan detachment decided to change the remaining 3,000 miles to a walking march, taking the road taken by the Red Army that year. Everyone was carrying backpacks, carrying large guns on their shoulders, sunny and sunny, rainy and muddy, and they helped each other to practice a pair of iron feet. Located in the southwest of Hunan Province, Xuefeng Mountain was the first high mountain crossed by the Yunnan detachment during its march, and was named after the perennial snow on the summit. Huang Zhiheng, the leader of the five major brigades of the Yunnan detachment, was an old Red Army soldier who lived a simple life and loved soldiers like a son, and organized the marching horses he was equipped with, which he used to carry everyone's backpacks and packs, or let the frail comrades ride. When crossing the Xuefeng Mountain, Huang Zhiheng's wife was pregnant with Liujia, and he encouraged her to drag her horse's tail and turn over the mountain with difficulty. After arriving in Kunming, his wife gave birth to a lovely daughter, whom everyone affectionately called "horsetail girl". In February 1950, the Yunnan detachment arrived in Zhanyi County, Yunnan Province, and held a meeting meeting with more than 7,000 people, including the first part of the Erye Fourth Corps, the first part of the Fifth Corps, and the local rebel troops. In late February, they reached Xiaoshiba on the outskirts of Kunming and ended their march. This "little long march" of walking and learning not only tempered the physique of their fathers and comrades-in-arms, but also forged their conviction of loyalty to the party and the people, participated in the work of military takeover, grain requisition and suppression of bandits, and the elimination of reactionary remnants with greater enthusiasm, and together with local cadres, contributed to the establishment of the people's government in the southwest region and the development of economic construction in the future. His father and several comrades-in-arms were responsible for taking over the government of Yanxing County at that time, and the first task was to collect grain. At the beginning of the peaceful liberation, the tide was still surging in the mountains of Yunnan, and the Kuomintang's hidden agents, remnant bandits, and reactionary landlords secretly colluded with the mountains as a barrier. In their work, my father and my comrades-in-arms continued to accumulate combat experience, wrestled with the enemy with wits and courage, and gradually grew into a qualified revolutionary cadre. More than 70 years have passed. When my father was alive, every time he recalled the past of participating in the Southwest Service Corps, he was proud. He often said that although the Southwest Service Corps did not exist for a long time, its historical mission was an integral part of the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people, and his father and comrades-in-arms also regarded themselves as the first "young volunteers" in New China to support the western region. He never regretted dedicating his youthful enthusiasm to the southwest frontier, but was extremely proud of his passionate years of writing and writing. China Military Network - Jiefangjun Daily Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:33:44 GMT makes reading a pleasant reading http://www.81.cn/yd/2021-10/30/content_10103492.htm source China Military Network - Jiefangjun Bao let reading become a pleasant reading ■ Ye XiaohunYue reads unconsciously The night is deep, an inch of time and an inch of gold. From ancient times to the present, yue readers can always find a quiet place in the hustle and bustle of the world, sitting in a precarious position, holding a good book, precipitating the soul, tasting the vitality between the lines, listening to the author's inner true feelings, and feeling the wisdom given by books. Weng Sen's "Four Hours of Reading Music" has a good interpretation of "reading": "What is the joy of reading? The grass in front of the green window is not removed. The joy of reading is endless, and the Yaoqin comes to the wind. The joy of reading is pottery, and the bright moon frost is high. Where to find the joy of reading? Count the plum blossom heaven and earth center. People who love to read pay attention to a "yue" word, and its "yue" not only refers to the entertainment brought to the reader by the text content, but also the peace and pleasure of the reader and the author when they have a spiritual dialogue. This is the deeper level of reading, and it is also the charm of reading. When I was a child, I was already memorizing many Tang poems and Song poems backwards, and I was familiar with them. In reading aloud, I felt the charm of the ordinary and humble, marveling at the words and sentences of the ancients, but the perception of the text only stayed on the surface and failed to go deep into it. The source lies in the fact that it is only a shallow taste of reading, rather than a retrospective reading. Therefore, they can only read their forms, but they cannot understand their gods. "Those who know are not as good as those who are good, and those who are good are not as good as those who are happy." With poetry as a pleasure, repeated reading, we can find a point of convergence with the author's interest in the collection of good sentences, and appreciate the lake and mountain colors of Jiangnan Water Town in "The White Heron Flies in Front of Xisai Mountain, Peach Blossom Flowing Mandarin Fish Fat"; envy the magnificent and majestic nature of the border desert in "The Desert Is Lonely and Straight, the Long River Sunset"; and feel the acacia expectations in "Only wish the king's heart is like my heart, and I will not live up to the lovesickness". It is the joyful reading that makes us wander around with fascination, appreciate the picturesque and beautiful artistic conception, feel the mellow and fragrant leisurely feelings, and taste the profound and brilliant history and culture. From Tang poems and Song poems to Yuanqu miscellaneous dramas, from the four famous works to the red classics, the pinnacles of literary history are like the mountains on the great shore, from the visual to the heart. In addition to admiring the rich cultural heritage of his predecessors, he also immersed himself in the literary world for a long time. Reading not only enriches our spiritual world, but also broadens our horizons and enhances the pattern. By reading the literary classics left by our predecessors, we work hard and increase our talents in "The Heavens Will Descend on the Si People"; in "Under the Eastern Fence of Picking Chrysanthemums, Leisurely Seeing the South Mountain", we naturally adapt and return to the truth; in "The characters seem to be blood, ten years of hard work is unusual", we read the Red Chamber and taste life. Watch "The Getaway" "Water strikes three thousand miles, and the one who shakes the rock is ninety thousand miles"; listen to "Pipa Line" "The warbler is slippery in the middle of the pass, and it is difficult to flow under the ice of the pharyngeal spring"; smell "Plum Blossom" "Remotely know that it is not snow, for there is a dark fragrance"; touch the "Absolute Sentence" "Wet apricot blossom rain, blowing noodles are not cold willow wind". It is the pleasure of reading that makes our hearts bright and emotionally full. Times are evolving, and the way you read is changing. From the development of paper books to e-books, the form of books is changing and changing, and the original intention of reading has not changed. In the busy city, the quiet lanes, and the green barracks, no matter how fast the pace of life is, how much work pressure is, how intense the training is, it is still pleasant to read. With the infiltration of reading, we are willing to take books as companions, books as friends, books as teachers, in the busy gap, holiday leisure, may wish to sort out several cases, turn the pages, think quietly, let reading become pleasant reading, meet a better self. China Military Network-PLA Daily Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:13:47 GMT