To the north of the Kunlun Mountains, there is a post called Setura. The outpost has spectacular views over the whole of Xinjiang, yet it is located in a remote and harsh environment. With an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, it is covered with snow all year round, and many creatures cannot survive here.
However, since the Qing Dynasty, our elite soldiers have been stationed here, and they have the will and perseverance beyond ordinary people to endure such a difficult environment. During the Qing Dynasty, British soldiers ruled here for a short time, but after Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, in order to defend against other invaders, he selected more than 100 elite soldiers, carried grain and grass, and trekked over the mountains and mountains for a month before coming to Setula and establishing the highest outpost.
These Qing Dynasty soldiers have been stationed in the cold wind, holding primitive **, firmly defending the borders of the motherland. When ** is established, for this important military site, of course, troops will be sent to garrison. When they crossed the mountains and mountains to the Setura outpost, they found Qing troops with braids and dressed in Qing costumes. Due to the lack of information, they didn't know that the Qing ** had perished, so they could only stand silently.
With no one to provide them with supplies, they had to find food in the snowy mountains, or endure cold and hunger. They were skinny and unkempt, and the Qing Dynasty military uniforms on their bodies were tattered, and the seams were patched and mended, and I don't know how many years they had been worn. When they saw the ** with the **, they showed a puzzled look and asked what about your braidsWhy didn't you change the guard until now?
After some explanation, they learned that the Qing ** had perished for many years, and their hearts were full of sadness. But whoever comes, they have to guard the place. Solemnly agreed to them. However, their fate is about to be the same as that of the Qing army. They were required to regularly patrol the Karakoram border line, which is 800 kilometers long. It takes half a year to complete this round, and the remaining half a year can be spent in the outpost.
Although the people regularly send a batch of food and daily protective equipment every year, and send people to change the guard every year, the life of the soldiers is still very difficult. These supplies do not fill the stomach. So the soldiers began to try to grow some hardy crops in Setura, but the harvest was not satisfactory. But fortunately, there are regular supplies that can barely survive.
However, in 1946, the Kuomintang was so busy fighting the PLA that they forgot about the Setula outpost. When it was time to change rooms in the second year, the ** soldiers stationed at the Setula outpost looked into the distance expectantly, but they waited for a long time and did not see anyone come to change houses. This puzzled them, but they still stuck to their posts, and they stayed there when no one came. Their duty is to defend this important line of defense for the country.
From time to time, these soldiers would look into the distance while standing guard, hoping that a soldier would appear who had changed guards. At this moment, they seemed to be the soldiers of the late Qing Dynasty, waiting for the appearance of the rotating soldiers day after day, just hoping to wait for the new soldiers to change the guard as soon as possible, but in the third year, they still couldn't wait for the soldiers to change the guard, they looked at the gradually increasing mound next to the outpost and felt painful in their hearts, and the brothers who had fought with them were buried underneath!It's been a long time since they've been able to go home to see them, and they haven't been able to see their parents, wives and children before they die!Facing the fear of death day after day, these ** soldiers never thought of escaping, and always put the security of the motherland's frontier in the first place!
It wasn't until 1950, when the People's Liberation Army patrolled here, that 8 ** soldiers with yellow faces and thin muscles were found. And only after the answers of the PLA soldiers did they know that New China had been established at this time!The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army looked at the few ** soldiers and felt distressed, and they didn't know how to comfort them!
In the end, I patted him on the shoulder and said that you have worked hard!Go and read the order to the brothers. The director summoned the ** soldiers and slowly spoke: From the beginning of the order, we will break away from the Kuomintang and officially join the Chinese People's Liberation Army to accept the leadership of the Communist Party of China!The soldiers looked at each other in amazement, and then asked with trepidation: Won't you take us away?The People's Liberation Army said that as long as you don't do things that violate the country and the people, no one will arrest you, not to mention that you have been guarding China's territorial security, you are great heroes
Only then did everyone relax and break down and cry. You say a word and I have said the experience of these years, they have always stuck to their posts, this belief has nothing to do with parties and camps, they just want to defend every inch of the motherland's territory, from ancient times to the present, the spirit of hard work to defend the country has never changed!(*Network, if there is any infringement, please contact to delete).