Reminiscing my military school classmate Zhang Guantai (Part 1)
Author: Li Yueqi
Zhang Guantai, born on October 4, 1962 in Shiping County, Yunnan Province, Han nationality , was admitted to the mathematics department of Yunnan University in September 1979, and joined the army after graduation in July 1983. He was a student of Class 6, Class 12, Class 83, Guilin Army School, and died in the Highland No. 150, Laoshan Front, Yunnan Province on the evening of November 22, 1984, and was remembered as the third-class merit .
Zhang Guantai in the military academy
According to the joint notice on March 15, 1983, starting from 1983, a group of fresh college graduates have been selected from local universities to the army every year, and after short-term training, they serve as military and political command cadres. This measure was implemented by our army to adapt to the new situation, aiming to gradually change the knowledge structure of military cadres and accelerate the pace of revolutionization, youth, knowledgeization and professionalization of military cadres. The notice pointed out that (these college students assigned to the troops) have been trained in the junior command school for short-term training and served as platoon leaders in the army, and then gradually trained them to be military and political command cadres at all levels according to the situation.
(I) First met Zhang Guantai
On the afternoon of August 21, 1983, two classmates and I took the 80 express train and set off from Kunming to report to Guilin Army School. After arriving in Guilin in the early morning of August 23, the biggest rainstorm of that year fell in Guilin. When we were on the school bus, the person sitting next to me was Zhang Guantai, whom I didn’t know at the time. After arriving at the military academy dormitory, I was already very tired and fell asleep after sitting in the green-skinned hard-seat car for one or two nights.
had not had a few hours of sleep, and at 5:30, the number of wake-up calls rang. We both lacked the "mute call awareness" at this time and did not take it seriously. In addition, the heavy rain still did not stop. We didn't have to have sex in the morning, so we kept sleeping until Feng Jingjing, a classmate who came to report to the same classmate, woke us up and said it was time to have breakfast. We got up sleepyly and looked at each other. Only then did we realize that we were divided into 4th team 12 team 6. Since then, we started our 11-month classmate life (we are used to saying it is one year). The first impression that the official
gave me was that he was medium-sized, round and fair-faced, thin, and soft-spoken, and slow.
The 99 students in the 12 teams we are in are all fresh graduates from 28 local universities in six southern provinces and regions. The student dormitories are different from most military academy dormitories I went to later. They are completely cadre-based home style. They are all yellow bungalows, two bedrooms and one living room with kitchen and bathroom storage, and can be accessed with doors in front and back. Our class is 11 people, including Chen Haisheng, Feng Jingjing, Huang Shaowu, Rao Zhiping, Liu Zhongchun, and 65 people from the Guangzhou Military Region. Bai Zhiji, Chen Xiuhong, Luo Fuqiang, Meng Zuming, Zhang Guantai and I. Guan Tai and four others lived in the largest living room, and the other 7 of us lived in the front and rear bedrooms. The windows in the dormitory are all covered with curtains and are transparent 24 hours a day. It doesn’t matter. Anyway, the whole team is full of "monks" and "boy brother". There is no secret to it, and no one cares about it.
Zhang Guantai and the whole class were at the tactical training ground of Guilin Land Academy. The first on the right in the picture is Zhang Guantai
(II) Speaking like "spot shot"
just a few days after entering the school, the military academy began to educate on the motivation for joining the army, requiring us to complete the "two transformations" within one year, namely: completing the transformation from a local youth to a qualified soldier, and completing the transformation from a qualified soldier to a qualified grassroots commander, emphasizing that this is the need for the modernization of the army.
Instructions for enlistment and political education began, the study of the "Internal Affairs Regulations" followed, and the internal affairs system began to be established.
's first class meeting, the content arranged by the team was to let everyone talk about their personal situation and motivation for joining the army, and to tell the truth. At that time, the newly recruits, such as Guan Tai and I, who had just shaved into buzz heads, were very curious about the class affairs of the army. I learned from the meetings of the army in the movie. The 12 buzz heads (including the squad leader) were divided into three rows, neatly, one sitting straighter than the other, and listened carefully to the instructions of Li Xichen, a squad leader from the grassroots troops. After explaining the theme of the class meeting, the squad leader
asked everyone to take turns to speak attentively.The students in front of them were very enthusiastic and all said they came to the army for the "General's Dream" of being the commander and commander. They said the famous saying of Napoleon , "Soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers."
When it was Guan Tai's turn, perhaps in order to clearly express his thoughts, Guan Tai stood up and spoke in a Mandarin with obvious local accent in southern Yunnan, and slowly said in a soft voice: He is a farmer student in southern Yunnan, with the eldest son, with elders and younger siblings. He is well treated in the army, has a lot of salary, has a high status, and is attractive... The rhythm of his speech was like a submachine gun shooting short, jumping out in groups of two or three words, leaving a deep impression on everyone.
However, Li Xichen, who came from the north, seemed to have not fully understood it and asked the official to repeat it loudly. After looking down at the whole class, he raised his head and raised his chest and cried loudly: "My ideal is to be in the military academy, receive exercise well, and in the future, take root, take the military camp, be at peace, borders, dedicate himself to national defense, serve the motherland..." Everyone couldn't help laughing. After the meeting, the whole class was sorted by age. Luo Fuqiang and I were ranked seventh in the first place, and Guan Tai followed by the ninth in the first place.
Since then, Guan Tai's "point shot" speech once flooded the dormitory, the classroom, the training ground, and the conversation between classmates... But Guan Tai didn't care about it himself and began to concentrate on studying and training.
July 7, 2019, the captain of the military academy and his classmates visited Martyr Zhang Guantai's mother
(III) The body looks like "noodles"
On the first day of entering Guilu, the military academy gave us a review of our health. Guantai was 1.72 meters tall and weighed 52 kilograms. I was 1.76 meters tall and 56 kilograms tall, both of which belonged to the "noodle soldiers" of the entire team. Captain Wang Guang is always strict. In his words, noodles still have muscles and bones. What about you? It’s so soft that I don’t even have any muscles or bones. I don’t have any standing posture, and I don’t have any sitting posture. Let’s train hard.
looks particularly wide and big after wearing the new military uniform, and lacks the unique spirit of the seven or eight military uniform. Especially when standing in a military posture at a high temperature of more than 35 degrees, after 1 hour, 2 hours, or up to 4 hours, it looks like pickled cucumbers, which really damages the glorious image of the People's Army. Everyone laughed at us, completely as listless as the puppet army bandits in the Anti-Japanese War movie.
In order to lay a solid physical foundation for us, the "noodle soldiers" and "bread soldiers" as soon as possible, the military academy attaches great importance to physical training. From the beginning of entering the school, after getting up at 5:30 every morning, 5 kilometers of off-road, queues and military physical training accompanied us, becoming the main theme of the day and a compulsory course that makes people scare every day. The afternoon training for
starts from 3 o'clock. Although I avoided noon, the temperature on the ground was still so high that it was hot. I didn’t do any training and was sweating when I sat in the classroom or stood on the playground. We can't help but complain privately: How can this be an Army school? Look at these bald heads, wearing a white cloth shirt, and adding every day's water spinach , it's completely a "green prison".
This is not counting. After National Day, for "noodle soldiers" and "bread soldiers" like Guan Tai, who are weak and poor in physical fitness, each district team began to form a "military commando" to conduct physical intensive training. It is common to practice until 11 o'clock every night. Guan Tai and I naturally became the first batch of "commands". The daily training standard for
is that, on the premise of completing normal training subjects, strive to complete the "ten hundred" ( single bar pull-ups, parallel bar curved arm support, push-ups, sit-ups, squats and stands, frog jumping , straight bent hands touching the ground, bare hands upside down, flat fist clenched with both hands, and bomb throwing exercises of 100 meters each). , and then go to armed off-road every once in a while to promote the explosive power and endurance deep in our bodies to be fully exercised and balanced.
has such a large training intensity, for us who are completely from local universities, how has we experienced it? How could I bear it? You know, when I first entered the military academy, Guan Tai and I couldn’t even get to practice the first and second of the single and double bars, and we started completely from scratch.Therefore, after less than half a month of practice, Guan Tai, who was sleeping in the upper bunk, had sore lower abdomen and hands and feet that it was sore that it was difficult to even go to bed, and it felt even more difficult to get up and get out of bed.
However, even so, the training intensity has not decreased, including taking single and double bars and Trojans when training in the wild. Just like most "commanders", the only thing Guan Tai can do is to grit his teeth and persevere, work hard and persist, and persist tenaciously... There is only one belief in his heart, which is to temper his will. In order to adapt to the needs of revolutionary, modern and regular construction of the troops, he must now be hard-working, tired of his muscles, hungry, and empty-handed...
Later, seeing that the physical fitness of our group of students was quite different, Captain Wang Guang proposed that each class should carry forward the fine tradition of our army to help each other and actively carry out "pairing" assistance activities, and not let a student fall behind. As the student with the worst physical fitness in the whole class, Luo Fuqiang, who has the best physical fitness in the whole class, was directly "pairing" and responsible for the assistance. Sun Wanying, the district captain who was about to pass the self-study exam, also carried out mutual assistance activities with Guan Tai. Guan Tai was responsible for tutoring the district captain's mathematics, and the district captain was responsible for instructor Tai's military training step by step. The leaders of the
team also listed Guan Tai as the "key trainee" of the entire team, often giving advice and inquire about Guan Tai's training, and promptly encouraging and paying attention to Guan Tai's thoughts and emotions. In the words of the instructor of Tang Huazhong, as long as Zhang Guan is too tired, no one in your class is qualified to be tired; as long as Zhang Guan is too bad, no one in your class is reason to be left behind.
(IV) Thoughts are better than autumn water
In this cycle of long and monotonous and boring training, what we most hope for every day is that it rains heavily in the morning (must be heavy rain), so that we can sleep more without going out of morning exercises, and the temperature during the day is cooler; the second is to watch movies at night, which can reduce the intensity of training; the third is letters from home and love letters (mostly letters of friendship from classmates), which are the greatest spiritual food. As soon as the training that day ended, as long as we returned to the dormitory, everyone was looking forward to sending the documents and newspapers as soon as they were sent more letters, and they were as happy as if they were praised by the team leaders.
, but the official is an exception.
The newspapers and magazines that the military academy subscribed to each class at that time were "People's Liberation Army Daily", " Soldiers Daily" and " China Youth Daily ". "Military Daily" and "China Youth Daily" were the favorites of the officials. Every time a document is delivered to the newspaper, it is different from everyone who is scrambling to find letters. The official always grabs the Military Daily and China Youth Daily first.
At first, I found that Guanta didn't have many letters, and was puzzled. When asked about this, Guanta just smiled and said, "It's okay, it won't be too late, ask for so many letters, and squeezed out and trained. Otherwise, you write me and write a letter, and send it in from outside."
Jingjing laughed and said, "Let's write it to you? Why don't you write it to yourself? It's better to send it to yourself faster." This is also a method of self-adjustment and relaxation commonly used in class after class.
As for reading "China Youth Daily", it is because the style of the newspapers is very contrasting with the intense training environment on the campus we are in. It is also the main channel for us to understand the ideological status of our peers in China at that time. We felt that we could find a sense of identity and be more synchronized with the times, so that we would not be forgotten by the times. I especially like to look at marriage and love themes and ideological arguments, because most people in the class, including the officials, are still blank in their relationship.
Of course, the classmates in the class occasionally quietly talk about female idols in the quilt. When they encounter this situation, too many officials only listen quietly and rarely interrupt. It can be felt that the Guan Tai, who is in his early 20s, has never bathed in the spring breeze of love and experienced the warmth of women...
During field training, books and newspapers are often not delivered to the class in time. Since there is no need to reply so many "love letters", the Guan Tai spends his spare time reading some historical and military books, including "Selected Military Writings of Mao Zedong" and biography of military generals, to enrich his brain. However, the officials rarely cover political arguments, especially controversial articles on suspicion of "mental pollution", and there is almost no interest in it.
official is a math, has good mental arithmetics, strong logical thinking ability, and plays Go well. He can also play bridge . He was originally planning to show us his spiritual taste, learn a few games with us or promote it in his spare time, but because time is too tight, it is difficult to have the opportunity to show off his talents in front of the whole class. Most of the time, I am consciously practicing physical fitness or reading books and studying.
During his time in Guilin, Guan Tai's thoughts were very stable, with few emotional fluctuations and anger. No matter how tiring the training, how strict the management, how high the requirements, how hard life is, how much grievances, he almost never complained, nor ever called hard and tired. The soldiers' sense of obedience, the inner tolerance and the physical tolerance are extremely strong. Life is also very frugal, and I don’t smoke or drink, and I rarely go out to , Guilin city , and daily necessities are purchased from the military academy service club.
This year, we have almost no spare time. After dinner every day, Deputy Captain Lu Xueyong, who was worried about the food standard of 15 yuan/month, started from scratch and was "a tricky trick" to help us. He opened another subject for us - raising pigs, growing vegetables and doing agricultural and sideline production. Every class and even everyone has indicators, saying that this is also a basic skill that grassroots cadres in the army must master it. It depends on our own hands to improve food. At night, I was full of physical training, and I was washing clothes, writing home letters, etc. on Sundays, and I was very nervous and fulfilling.
Of course, Deputy Instructor Wu Zhiqing occasionally organized singing activities and asked us to participate in the "Lijiang Spring" singing competition on behalf of the school, which was the biggest entertainment activity. What's even more rare is that over the past year, the whole class, including Guan Tai, has never thrown a card or played a game of chess. It can be said that the personal entertainment life of young people has completely evaporated during the military academy.
(V) Treating portrait brothers
At the end of 1983, the winter in Guilin was particularly cold.
One day I caught a cold and didn’t want to go to the canteen when I was having a meal. I was sitting on the bed and worried. How to solve this cold lunch? After a while, the official, who was on duty on duty, braved the biting cold wind, came in with a bowl of steaming egg noodles: "Lei Qi, captain, you know you are sick, I specially arranged the cooking class . I cooked it for you, and there is a fried egg on it. Hurry up and eat it while it's hot."
I took the steaming egg noodles from the official who suffered from severe frostbite. Looking at the official, whose face was red with cold in front of me, I felt grateful and guilty. Thank you, we are all in a foreign land, far away from our relatives, and being able to care about others when we are sick makes me feel warm and warm as "true love is seen in times of adversity". The feelings of comrades are really better than brothers; I feel guilty that although I am also a "commander", I sometimes don't respect the officials enough, and even laugh at the "commander" in front of me.
But the official too seemed to care about these things, and his face was still full of sincere smiles. He also told me that if you are sick, don’t take a cold shower. He went to the district captain to talk to me and borrowed the district captain’s hot pot to make some boiled water for me and wash it at night, so that my body will recover faster. This concern and this smile moved me so much that tears were almost coming out, my throat was choked and I couldn't say anything...
Anyone who has been a soldier knows that it is best to stand on both ends of guard, especially for us "commanders", we basically have to finish training until 11 o'clock in the evening, and the first position is completely "benefit". You can leave the training ground early. This is a routine, and most students are looking forward to it.
once, and it was finally the first post of Guanta. When the number of bed at night rang, I reminded the official to take the exercises early and wash up to go to work. But the officialta carried forward his style and said, "My foundation is too poor. I still have one group and haven't finished practicing. I also want to practice more. Let's change it tonight. You can stand at the first post, and you can hurry up, write love letters, or diary." The officialta reader was too serious. I told him: "Now the captain and district captain are not here. Who knows if you practice less? Besides, sometimes I dare to register for 100 when I practice until 80. It's done, and others are the same. Why do you have to be too serious about numbers?" The officialta said, "Don't forget, I am a math, I am a serious one, and the numbers are serious."After saying that, I started practicing the single-item paper again. I was training too seriously. I would not appreciate it anymore and be afraid that the official would be angry. I also understood the official's mood. I quickly put my exercises on the sidelines.
(to be continued)
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