2020 Meet the new faces of
plateau cavalry
★ cavalry charge
when the season turns, the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is about to start another cycle.
is 3900 meters above sea level, and the Dawu grassland is already chilling. At the foot of the majestic mountains in the distance, dozens of cavalry drove their horses and galloped across the grassland, bright sabers leaping in the sun. The sound of horse hoof
sent away the veterans and welcomed the recruits.
The horses galloping on the grassland in the early morning make this land never lack the attitude of charging. Those young faces are becoming cold and mature day by day.
This spring, 23 "post-00" recruits came to the Guoluo Cavalry Company, a brigade of the 76th Army. From the awn seed to the white dew, they are like the sarilang flowers that flourish in the green grass.
Grassland is beautiful because of its vastness; youth is wonderful because of love. Stepping on the horse for the first time, galloping across the grassland for the first time, young lives strive to chase their dreams, chasing "the power of thunder and lightning."
has no born rider, only a sharpened steel knife. Persevere in what you love, love what you insist, let us take the glory of the cavalry, and start a new round of charge from the ground under our feet...
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★Under the sunset, the "back waves" are organizing in-situ stabbing training. However, due to the special geographical environment and mission requirements, a brigade of the 76th Army still retains a cavalry company to perform plateau patrol tasks.
"Squad leader, what does the plateau look like?" Zhang Zhechao curiously asked the squad leader Sang Jiben more than once before the recruits stepped down.
In Sangjiben’s memory, the plateau is high mountains, cold wind, and thin oxygen.
"Only when you are truly on the plateau can you experience its beauty." Sang Jiben told Zhang Zhechao this way, it was a quiet and deep place, a place of pure soul.
Every recruit who came to the cavalry company was the inheritor of the spirit of the cavalry
★Zhang Zhechao took a photo with Rainbow
19 years old, the only child in the family, and has never been to the plateau. In the past years of life, Zhang Zhechao has been living in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River with green mountains and green waters, and his impression of the plateau rests only on the altitude figures.
Sang Jiben comes from a cavalry company and has lived on the plateau for many years. In his dictionary, the plateau is not synonymous with hardship. Naturally, he also deliberately asked the young guy to lay down his burden and go to the plateau, "I really feel it, so I can hold on to it."
Zhang Zhechao remembered the monitor's words. In the imagination of the recruits who have no concept of the word "hardship", the grassland they are about to set foot on is a place "homed by the veterans"... The day after
came to the company, the plateau showed Zhang Zhechao its "majesty". Headache, nausea, chest tightness. This time, altitude is no longer just a number. Riding
is not as majestic as many people think, but is always dangerous. When performing riding training, there will be dangers such as horse shock and stirrups if you are not careful.
In June, the weather became warmer, and the originally yellow-brown grassland gradually became green. High-intensity training made Zhang Zhechao and his comrades in battle every day. Sometimes when training is over, squad leader Wang Zhiyuan will take the recruits up a mountain. In front of
, there is the Dawu River winding in a greenery, as well as the herdsmen’s tents, and the smoke. On the top of
mountain, the monitor took the lead to sing the popular song: "A big river and wide waves..." In Zhang Zhechao's heart, the Saarilang flower in the green grass seemed to be the rice flower in the southern water town; the singing of the monitor was like The name of the father.
Soon after another training was over, the monitor brought Zhang Zhechao and other new comrades to the home of an old herder. The old Mongolian man wore a faded old military uniform.
Zhang Zhechao took the initiative to talk to him. The old man proudly said that he joined the army in 1947 as a cavalry of the 2nd Cavalry Division of Inner Mongolia. On October 1, 1950, he participated in the National Day parade in Tiananmen Square. "That day, rideWhen the troops passed by Tiananmen Square, there was a thunderous cheering in the square, and I saw Chairman Mao..." At this point, the old man's eyes were filled with tears. This exchange of
gave Zhang Zhechao a new understanding of the cavalry unit. Every time he climbed to the top of a mountain, he would think of what the old cavalry said and the heart-warming song. The
squad leader told him that every tributary of the river is a spray in the big river of the motherland; A recruit who came to the cavalry company is the inheritor of the spirit of the cavalry. The
"spirit of the cavalry" has since become the spiritual high ground for Zhang Zhechao and his new comrades. In his heart, there is a reason to stick to the plateau since then, that is "Be a glorious cavalry." After a hailstorm, a bright rainbow hung in the sky. Zhang Zhechao got out of the tent and ran in the direction of the rainbow. He handed the phone to his comrades and left a precious piece of "Rainbow group photo." In the photo of
, the plateau is a bit unreal. What makes Zhang Zhechao gratified is that he looks like a cavalry in the photo. The
plateau winds up, and a team of cavalry charge forward and rush towards the left wing. It was Zhang Zhechao. I saw them driving a war horse, holding a war knife, and billowing smoke and dust, bringing this ancient plateau to life. The way
grows will not be smooth sailing, and there will be rewards with hard work. , Mixed with dense raindrops, hit the cavalry returning to the camp. The sound of rain drowned the rapid breathing of the army horse, and the raindrops dripped along the helmet, cleaning the silt on the recruit Chi Hao.
"Chi Hao, come here. Right! "When approaching the stables, the squad leader Ma Guozheng organized the recruits to sing songs to boost morale for the young soldiers who had just finished training, and also used this way to relax everyone.
"The time has passed, you are no longer the boy you used to be..." Chi Hao Wei raised his head and sang in the face of the wind and rain. This is an Internet celebrity song he often listens to recently.
, a high-ranking soldier who just turned 20, has the ostentatiousness of the Northeast guy, and he can give it to his comrades wherever he goes. Bringing joy. The singing stopped and the stables arrived. The warm applause of the comrades pulled Chi Hao back from his sad thoughts, and his face showed a smile again. Z1z
time goes back to two years ago, and the high school is about to graduate late Hao, was admitted to the ideal university. In his junior year at
, Chi Hao became obsessed with playing games, and spent most of the day in Internet cafes. This year, his mother in his hometown suddenly fell ill and was fortunate to be rescued. Time was not life-threatening. For several months at
, Chi Hao took the train home every weekend to accompany his mother. During the days he was on the go, he understood the hardships of his mother supporting the family alone.
At this time, Chi Hao I saw a red banner on the campus. The words on the slogan remind people of the heat of the barracks and the scenes of fighting.
"Go to the army! Become an indomitable man. "A strong sense of responsibility gave Chi Hao the desire to experience wind and rain for the first time, and his heart flew to the barracks in an instant. "The road to growth will not be smooth sailing. Only when you pay, you can gain. "Z1z
On this day, the company organized a horse-riding training to overcome obstacles. The squad leader gave an order, and Chi Hao rode his horse towards the obstacle course. When crossing the trench, he accidentally plunged into the mud pit from the horse's back. His back happened to hit the obstacle course. On a rock, he couldn't get up for a long time. Because of his injury, Chi Hao failed to participate in training for two weeks, and his riding lessons fell a lot. "Don't be aggressive, take a break! "Squad leader Ma Guo was reminding Chi Hao at the side that he was worried that Chi Hao would be injured again. It is common for
to fall from a horse in the cavalry company. Almost everyone has been thrown by a horse. The new horse does not take control, and the old horse deceives the recruits. In between, as long as there is one element of "new" with each other, it means that a contest between "conquer" and "conquered" is about to begin. How can
protect itself to the greatest extent? The company combines years of training experience to organize "horse wrestling training" "-When a horse is frightened and an accident occurs, quickly hug the horse’s neck, loosen the stirrups with both feet, dismount the horse and roll over with the head to avoid being injured.
is just right, and Chi Hao takes the initiative to request "horse-falling training" As soon as the squad leader’s "fall" command came out, Chi Hao did not hesitate to fall from the horse's back, once, twice... Gradually, he had a deeper understanding of how to control a galloping horse. Ma also became persuasive under his men, and his comrades praised him: "The so-called life is just a matter of accumulation. "Z1z
The road to youth, most of them start from confusion and experience superThe process of becoming more self is like a bird moulting and getting a new life. In the year-end assessment this year, Chi Hao won the crown among several recruits in the company.
got his transcript, and the young man called his mother first. He felt that he was one step closer to the goal of "becoming an indomitable man". The
cavalry gave the soul of the military horse, and the military horse gave the cavalry physique
★ Fei Jiakai’s equestrian skill improved a lot of
sunset rays on the plateau.
The weather was just fine, and the cavalry company organized new recruits to stab and stab the test, and the superior soldier Fei Jiakai drove his horse to the depths of the grassland. Within a hundred meters, he swung a saber like a hand dance and stab left and right, and the knife hit the target. However, when he first joined the company, he didn't have that kind of hard work.
Fei Jiakai is from Zhejiang. He first arrived at the plateau cavalry company. His white and tender skin looked a little out of tune with the dark faces of the veterans. When
first came into contact with military horses, he was "disarmed" by "comrades in arms".
"If it weren't for hiding quickly, the horseshoe would have stepped onto the body." "The lack of oxygen feels very'sorrowful', not to mention training, you can't move on the road, like a heavy load on your shoulders." Fei Jiakai often talked about these complaints, and his thoughts began to "drop anchor."
All this was seen by the monitor Liu Yongjun.
Once, Fei Jiakai returned from herding horses with Liu Yongjun and counted the number of horses in the stable. In the stables, the smell of hundreds of military horses was almost "suffocating", and he couldn't help but ran out of the stables to breathe fresh air. The
horses have not yet been counted. It was time for dinner. Liu Yongjun asked Fei Jiakai to eat first and continued to count the horses by himself.
He said to Fei Jiakai that if you want to be a good cavalryman, you must love your battle position and "comrades in arms": "Stay on what you love and love what you insist on."
love and persistence, there is no contradiction in the beginning. . To get on the horse, you have to work hard. Shortly after the training of the
cavalry began, an in-situ stab movement caused Fei Jiakai's hands to grow cocoons.
In order to hit the target "quickly and accurately" when riding a horse, Fei Jiakai and his new comrades lined up on the grassland after dinner every day, imitating the posture of riding on a horse, and practicing the number of stabs. A hundred times.
For half a month, there were blood holes in his hands, but the training will continue. The old scars are healed and new scars are added. In the end, the scars honed into a cocoon, the arms are more powerful, and the movements are more precise.
"Wear jackets in the morning and evening, and yarn at noon." Even in summer, the climate on the plateau is still very bad. The temperature difference between day and night brings a lot of inconveniences to the training life of the cavalry-it is cold in the morning and evening, sometimes even wearing cotton clothes; You have to subtract the thick clothes and accept the "inspection" of ultraviolet rays.
Fei Jiakai’s partner is the military horse "Chengfeng". After only one training, "Chengfeng" threw him "honestly".
He began to practice equestrianism down-to-earth. At the end of the year, he won a good place in the competition arena, and his friendship with Chengfeng also increased day by day. The company took some of his experiences and experiences into small videos for other comrades to learn from. The
cavalry gave the horse soul, and the horse gave the cavalry body.
"Riding for 10 minutes is equivalent to the effect of ordinary massage 10,000 times, and riding a horse for half an hour is equivalent to the calories consumed by playing a whole basketball game. Long-term horse riding soothes the mood and tempers the will." Today, Fei Jiakai often likes to use a set of data. Express your inner love.
has a sentence in his diary: "Only love can withstand the long years."
★Passionate youth
The sideman tells his own story
sonorous rose fascinating love
author | He Yong Zhang Jun
"Girl, when do you plan to take a vacation? There is a nice boy, see you back!"
"Mom, don't worry about my business!" In the dormitory, Nie Tao is answering a video call from his mother. This is This month, the mother mentioned the topic of blind date for the third time.
"You are 27 years old." Faced with her mother's concern, she didn't know how to answer, her eyes drifting to the distant snow-capped mountains.
In August 2014, Nie Tao, a university graduate, quit his job and joined the army and came to Tibet.
's beautiful plateau poetry really made her excited for a while. But then she discovered that there were no pastoral songs, no flowers, no parents’ company in the depths of the snow-capped mountains... She was in JapanIn the calendar days when the military was discharged, she circled a circle with a red pen, and "leave" became her expectation.
In a shift meeting, the squad leader asked Nie Tao to stand in front of the team and summarize the shortcomings of the week.
"The military posture is not standing well, and the assembly speed is not fast enough..." She truthfully reported, but the squad leader said nothing.
Suddenly, the lights in the dormitory went out, and the company commander and instructor walked in with a birthday cake, and their comrades sang "Birthday Song" for her. This sudden "story reversal" made her tears burst into her eyes...
With the company of her comrades in the wind and snow border, Nie Tao felt warm in her heart. She said: "Exquisite makeup and fashionable dress are good-looking, but I prefer to have a tall body, exquisite short hair and a heroic figure in a uniform in my youth." In the winter of
, Nie Tao and his comrades were ordered to go to an altitude of 3600. Yu Mi's "Snow Mountain Lonely Post" Ridong Post performed the task. Arriving at the post with bumps all the way, she couldn't take care of rest, endured the intense altitude sickness and went to work.
In order to prevent the equipment from getting wet, she erected it every morning, withdrew it at night, and re-erected it the next day. It was freezing cold, and the equipment was withdrawn at night and her hands were frostbitten. She smiled, and briefly dealt with the injury, and still got up early in the morning and threw herself on the ground.
Not long ago, a girlfriend sent Nie Tao a skirt with lace petals on the skirt. During the video call, she was a little embarrassed in her skirt: "My arms are too thick, but I still look good in military uniforms."
"Are you not going to come back? Is the plateau that fascinates you?"
Nie Tao said: "Not here As a border guard, you can’t realize what it's like to stand in front of the border monument of the motherland. This is a magical place, a place where you can’t bear to leave after guarding.” Sergeant
has expired and faced with leaving. Nie Tao did not hesitate to submit an application to stay in the team.
"My girl will become an old girl if she doesn't come back!" Faced with the urging of her mother, Nie Tao smiled softly: "The flowers bloom and the butterflies come, and the sonorous roses will not be loved." Z1z
salutes 5380! They bid farewell to the sky-
The autumn of Karakorum is beautiful because of you
This issue of observation Zheng Qianglong
★Farewell time
at the top of the snow mountain, at the foot of the cloud checkpoint.
This is an ordinary and special day at the plateau outpost. 12 military vehicles honked in unison, the horns resounded through Kunlun, and 50 Kunlun motor soldiers saluted at the same time.
At this moment, under the gaze of the comrades in arms, the four veteran auto soldiers who have fought in Kunlun for 12 years are about to take off their military uniforms and bid farewell to the road they guarded.
In front of the Shenxianwan post at an altitude of 5380 meters, officers and soldiers of an automobile transportation regiment of the Xinjiang Military Region took advantage of the last plateau transportation mission of the year to organize an annual farewell ceremony for veterans.
is the last time the four veterans drove a car in Karakorum. It's hard to say goodbye, the sky in their hearts will always stand in their hearts.
sat in the cab, 30-year-old sergeant Li Gangyang looked at the picture of himself in the cab in front of the Shenxianwan post, and was silent for a long time. Sunlight projected on his face through the car window, and the wind and sand on the plateau left several deep and shallow wrinkles on his forehead.
The destination of this mission, Shenxian Bay, has special significance for Li Gangyang. At the beginning of
soldiers, he carried out his first plateau transportation mission, and the first point he reached was here. Back in the summer of 2008, Li Gangyang performed with the team for the first time. When there was still 2 kilometers away from the Shenxianwan post, snow fell in the sky and the road was slippery and difficult to navigate.
At a critical moment, Li Gangyang suddenly felt headache and chest tightness. He tried his best to park the car at the unloading point steadily, then his eyes went dark and he passed out.
The first time to cross Daban, the first time to repair the vehicle, the first time to successfully avoid danger, the first time to overcome altitude sickness... The moment of farewell, the most memorable moments of life and death in the army’s youth when the auto soldiers overcome difficulties again and again These experiences have sharpened their tough will quality. The veterans said that they were reluctant to give up the road to heaven because they could not give up the comrades who had experienced life and death together.
"This ‘old man’ has been with me for 9 years and has never put me on the road. It is also my close comrade-in-arms!" After boarding the car again, holding the steering wheel with both hands, Li Gang flushed his eyes.
"click", with a crisp shutter sound from the camera, the life of the four veterans and the generals was permanently fixed on the steel checkpoints in Karakorum. On this long Xinzang line, they used persistence to composeThe song of youth; the wheels ran across the plateau and the sky, they used to guard the distant family members, guarding the tens of thousands of lights behind them.
When memories came to my heart, at this moment, tears welled up in the eyes of the veterans. Comrades in
affectionately donated big red flowers to the veterans. The gray-brown mountains in the distance were brightened by the green uniforms of the veterans and the big red flowers on their chests.
"Goodbye Karakorum!" The four veterans said goodbye to the mountains. The
army flag hunts and hunts, the sky is long, here is one scene, one thing, one sand and one stone, and will never forget the persistence of the veterans.
Tribute to 5380! Tribute to the highland car veterans! The autumn of Karakorum is beautiful because of you, and the plateau mountains are magnificent because of you.
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