Red Army Division

A Red Army division of the Xinjiang Military Region was founded and led by the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries such as Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, and Xi Zhongxun in March 1932, and the only remaining Red Army unit in the army. On April 29, 2014, President Xi visited the Red Army Division and urged the leaders of the army to integrate the red gene into the blood of officers and soldiers, so that the red gene can be passed on from generation to generation.

After 90 years of wind and rain, the officers and soldiers of the Red Army Division moved to the nine western provinces and regions, and gradually grew in the smoke of gunpowder and war, creating a heavy division soul of "traveling all over the new (Xinjiang) West (Tibet) Lan (state) and listening to the call of the party". Formed the spirit of "loyal to the party, firm faith; long attack, good defense, brave and tenacious; hard work, pioneering spirit; love the people, it inspires the descendants of the Red Army in the new era to continue to write a new glorious chapter in this vast frontier land.

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In March, the Karakoram Plateau was still covered with ice and snow, and the assassination training of the "three Tiger companies" of a Red Army regiment of the Xinjiang military region was in full swing in the bitter north wind. Liu Wei, the company commander who organized the training, has served in the regiment for more than 10 years.

Liu Wei's grades ranked high when he graduated from the Military Academy. Originally, he could choose to go to a big city with good conditions in the south, but he resolutely decided to return to the Red Army Division. He said: "The Red Army Division is my root. I want to go back to the place where I was trained."

There are many more officers and soldiers who have similar experiences with Liu Wei. Ya Ho-fu, deputy director of the division's political work department, has served in the Red Army Division for 28 years. Yahe Fu said: "From an ethnic minority soldier who has not learned Chinese to a colonel officer, my growth originated from the cultivation of the party and was also the result of the nurturing of the Red Army division."

The feelings of the officers and soldiers for the Red Army Division reflect the mental process of generations of officers and soldiers of the Red Army Division who are "loyal to the party and firm in faith. At the beginning of last year, Jing Xiangyuan, a staff sergeant and technician of a regiment of the division who had just received a marriage certificate with his wife Ma Jing, learned that the army was going to the plateau for training, and he could not stay at home on vacation. The company cadres advised him to go up the mountain after the wedding, but Jing Xiangyuan felt that the training time was long, the troops moved a long distance, and the security task was heavy. He patiently persuaded his wife to rush back to the company ahead of schedule and lead his comrades to overhaul all vehicles and equipment.

During that mission, the unit maneuvered for more than 3000 kilometers from a long range, and none of the company's vehicles and equipment broke down.

At the beginning of last year, the Red Army Division received orders from its superiors to go to the Karakoram Plateau, which is more than 4500 meters above sea level, for training. The harsh natural environment could not stop the officers and soldiers of the Red Army Division from advancing. Thousands of people and thousands of vehicles overcame the lack of oxygen on the plateau. The officers and soldiers of the whole division traveled through wind and rain, and all the staff arrived at the designated position according to the time node.

"Listen to the party's words and follow the party with heart." Over the past 90 years, under the encouragement of the "spirit of the Red Army division," the officers and soldiers of the whole division have kept their mission in mind and waited for their lives. They have tempered the blood of soldiers who dare to fight tough battles in one task after another, and have developed excellent skills to defeat the enemy.

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In the military parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Red Army division "Long Attack and Good Guard Hero Group" and "Brave and Tenacious Hero Group" were selected into the battle flag team and accepted the inspection of the motherland and the people.

"Why is the battle flag picturesque, the hero's blood stained it red." In many years of warfare, the Red Army Division fought in the northwest and the southwest of the garrison, participated in more than 3420 battles, wiped out more than 130000 enemies, and emerged 190 heroes and models and 69 meritorious collectives.

　
In the Yan'an Defense War, the predecessor of the Red Army Division fought a bloody battle against Qinghuabian, fought a fierce battle against Wazi Street, swept through Luo Bureau Town, and won seven battles and seven victories.

On August 25, 1949, the most brutal Lanzhou campaign in the northwest battlefield began. Seven thousand warriors and Ma Jiajun, the executioner who brutally killed our West Route Army, fought a fierce battle to the death in Shenjialing. In the battle, the sound of bayonets and sabres fighting resounded through the sky.

After 33 repeated contests and 14 hours of bloody fighting, we finally got through the lock and key of Lanzhou City. In that battle, more than 660 officers and soldiers including Li Xigui, political commissar of a Red Army regiment, and Wang Xueli, commander of a Red Army regiment, died heroically.

Li Zhenchao, a veteran who took part in the war at that time, could not forget the battle, "That place was very small, and the pass was very narrow. It was quite difficult to go one meter ahead. The mountains in Shenjialing were all bald mountains at that time. After the battle, the whole mountain was two meters shorter."

Red gene gave birth to the Red Army descendants, Red Army descendants continuously red story.

In 2017 and 2019, the Red Army Division participated in two international military competitions and competed with multinational teams on the same stage.

In Korla in August, the heat wave hit people. In a high temperature environment of 40 degrees Celsius, the officers and soldiers of the Red Army Division staged "Speed and Passion" in the Gobi Desert ". Participated twice and won all the gold medals in the "Clear Sky" portable air defense missile team and the "Safe Environment" nuclear, biological and chemical reconnaissance team.

In the competition, some foreign players have been on the battlefield, some are veteran players with many years of experience in participating in the competition, and the officers and soldiers of the Red Army Division participated for the first time. Regarding the extraordinary performance on the field, Ding Weichang, the platoon leader who won the championship of the "Clear Sky" portable air defense missile team competition, said: "As a member of the Red Army division, we must inherit the Red Army division commander's offensive, defensive, brave and tenacious spirit. No matter how powerful the opponent is, we must let go."

In the wave of reform, the equipment of the Red Army division was fully updated. The new equipment is installed across generations. Under the circumstances that there is no training experience to follow and no training backbone, Jin Jiye, the commander of the second company of armored infantry of a certain regiment, set a battle letter to the whole battalion, so that the new equipment can form combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time.

Jin Jiye quickly formed a research team to analyze and study the equipment one by one, and soon led the team to understand the teaching materials and instructions and draw up a good training plan. In less than three months, he and the officers and soldiers of the whole company were proficient in mastering new equipment and overcoming various shooting problems in plateau and alpine conditions. The shooting methods they summarized were promoted throughout the regiment.

jin jiye was the representative of the officers and men of the red army division. According to reports, the new equipment installed by the division from the factory to the training ground, all equipment are installed in the same year, the formation of combat effectiveness.

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In the spring, the Karakoram Plateau is cold and windy, dripping water into ice, while the Red Army Division's barracks are warm and warm. The officers and soldiers who returned from the training breathed the air with the same oxygen content as the plain area. The diffuse oxygen generator was neatly placed at the entrance of their dormitory. It only took 30 minutes to increase the indoor oxygen concentration to the same as the plain area.

Since going to the plateau for training, the party committee of the division, based on the actual environment and existing conditions, has organized officers and soldiers to build sunny plank houses, dig fresh vegetable cellars, drill fresh water wells, and install dispersed oxygen machines, thus solving many problems such as heating, eating vegetables, using water, inhaling oxygen and so on.

Suffering does not mean suffering, but struggle to solve it. Over the past 90 years, the high slope of the loess, the snow-covered plateau, the desert Gobi ...... The officers and soldiers of the Red Army Division have measured the land of the motherland with their footsteps and faithfully guarded the great rivers and mountains.

In the last century, the Red Army Division moved from the roof of the world to Turpan, Xinjiang. With no room or tile, the officers and soldiers of the Red Army Division started from scratch and worked hard. In the teacher's history museum, 2930 silver dollars were neatly stacked in the exhibition windows, which were accumulated by the previous party committees of the teacher's history. In recent years, the conditions of the army in all aspects have become better and better, but the officers and soldiers have not lost the background of hard struggle. They are careful in their calculations and insist on using their limited funds on the cutting edge.

Zhou Bing, financial assistant of a regiment of the Red Army Division, said: "as a revolutionary soldier in the new era, no matter how his living conditions improve, he should not lose the fine tradition of 'thick family, 'and be willing to live a 'hard life', and the habit of extravagance and waste should not be touched. We must always maintain the original character and fine style of hard struggle."

Over the years, the division has allocated special funds to build an information-based combat center, a smart barracks, an intelligent gallery, an intelligent sand table, an intelligent combat system, and a large number of information-based "products" have made a new appearance.

Nearly a hundred science and technology studios play the "yeast effect", officers and soldiers in the combat readiness, training, management, education, security and other fields to touch the pulse of the most cutting-edge science and technology.

Since they rushed to the plateau, all the officers and soldiers of the division have been preparing for war all the time. The whole division kept a close eye on the combat requirements, studied and practiced training methods and tactics, innovated combat modes, and organized various types of equipment to conduct fire efficiency damage assessment under high altitude and cold conditions in accordance with the requirements of hitting all kinds of bombs, fuze, weather and terrain.

Over the past 90 years, generations of officers and soldiers have inherited and carried forward the spirit of hard struggle, pioneering and enterprising spirit of the Red Army division. They have no lack of spirit, and they have to work hard. They have written a brilliant chapter of patriotic dedication on the snow covered plateau.

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One day not long ago, there was a lot of people in the courtyard of the village committee of Ali Ri Tu Village in Tibet. In the surprised eyes of the villagers, officers and soldiers of a Red Army of the division lifted boxes of learning materials, daily medicines, and daily necessities from the car. Down.

This day was the day when the regiment organized officers and soldiers to go to Ritu Village to carry out "Rural Revitalization" activities. The arrival of the officers and soldiers made the small village more than 4500 meters above sea level lively. In the village square, officers and soldiers to carry out free medical examination and medical delivery and other services. In view of the characteristics of severe cold and lack of oxygen and strong ultraviolet rays on the plateau, officers and soldiers specially came to the local school to provide children with drugs to prevent frostbite and plateau skin cream.

Over the years, wherever the Red Army Division is stationed for training, the activities of military-civilian joint construction and rural revitalization have been carried out. Branch assistance, industrial assistance, cultural assistance, and pragmatic measures have been pushed forward. With the help of officers and soldiers of the Red Army Division in more than 10 villages, including Qinggedahu Village and Liyang Village, the villagers have a better life.

Generations of descendants of the Red Army have integrated the red gene of "loving the people and willing to contribute" into their blood. In recent years, the Red Army division has participated in the construction of optical cables in southern and northern Xinjiang 16 times, and "transporting gas from west to east" in Lop Nur, the "sea of death" three times. The barren hills around the army station are covered with green clothes, and the officers and soldiers abide by the mass discipline without offense ", the good story of" Hami melon land does not take shoes, grape trellis does not have a complete crown.

In March of Yangchun, the top of a snow-capped mountain at an altitude of more than 5100 meters was covered with snow. Chen Daiquan, a post -95 Red Army soldier of the division, and his comrades-in-arms held steel guns and braved the low temperature to lie in the snow for latent training.

It is called "the forbidden zone in the forbidden zone of life". The thin oxygen makes the lips of officers and soldiers purple and black, and the strong ultraviolet rays burn their faces. Chen Daiguan and his comrades have been training here for more than 500 days.

After the plateau training started, a certain Red Army regiment of the division maneuvered from the Turpan Basin at a negative altitude to the snow-covered plateau at an altitude of more than 4500 meters. As soon as the troops arrived at the training site, they received a new task and selected 20 comrades to carry out training in the snowy area at an altitude of more than 5000 meters. Upon learning the news, the officers and soldiers handed in their invitations.

"I don't need you to know me, I don't want you to know me, I melt my youth into the rivers of the motherland ......" Today, the descendants of the Red Army in the new era are fighting fiercely on the snowy plateau, and the officers and soldiers are raising their missions above their heads and shouldering their responsibilities, with the spirit of "never failing to live up to the predecessors who shed their blood on the battlefield, never ashamed to the descendants who carry on the past, and be the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the Red Army, we will blend our youth and blood into the snowy plateau and continue to write a new chapter in strengthening the army.

 

Source: China Youth Daily