Author: Pan Hongyu November is a beautiful season, after the sowing of spring, the cultivation of summer, and the harvest of autumn, we finally ushered in the collection season of winter. November is a time of high clouds, soft sunshine, golden colours, and intoxicating. In Yugan County, Jiangxi Province in November, the sky is blue, the clouds are white, the wind is warm, as if the air is sweet, and the traffic in the streets and alleys is passing through, adding a beautiful scenery to the county in early winter, which is refreshing and pleasant. November is the season of thanksgiving, and it is also a beautiful time for our comrades-in-arms to gather!When people reap the fruits of their labor, we are also reaping the deep friendship of comradeship!
In the winter of the southern country, there are no fallen leaves fluttering in the sky, but we have the feelings of comrades-in-arms who fly to distant places. Autumn goes to winter and comes again, at this time some places in the north have been frozen for thousands of miles, thousands of miles of snow drifting, and the winter climate is covered in silver, but here in Yugan County, Jiangxi Province in the south, it is still pleasant in autumn, the winter sun is warm, and the sun is warm and sunny like spring. On November 19, 2023, nine of our comrades-in-arms, including Mao Rutian, Fang Shaoxin, Xu Jinxiu, Lu Ming, Luo Hesheng, Yang Dehui, Liu Changde, Tang Jiangbin and Pan Hongyu from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Hubei, drove to the beautiful and rich Yugan County of Jiangxi Province to visit the respected old company commander Wu Tiansheng, and started a romantic journey in winter. I didn't have a long time in the car company, but I went through 4 company commanders and 3 instructors. It also witnessed the development and glory of Wu Tiansheng and Zou Nanfeng in the more than four years of being in charge of the automobile company. Instructor Zou is intelligent, good at writing and martial arts, happy and active, with infinite charm and cohesion;Although Company Commander Wu is not tall, he has a loud voice, is solid and capable in his work, and has a particularly good exemplary role, and has won the respect and love of the vast number of commanders and fighters. It can be said that the cooperation between the two is a natural harmony and a perfect match!As for the old commander Li Jinxi of our 1st Artillery Division, he was the instructor of my recruit company and the first company commander I respected after joining the army, which I will never forget!The joy of life is to meet your dearest and beloved comrades-in-arms!When we saw the old company commander Wu Tiansheng and the old minister Li Jinxi, our mood was turbulent, full of emotion, warm embrace, once again condensed the enthusiasm of our comrades-in-arms, called for the vitality of life, felt the deep affection of comrades-in-arms, and experienced the excitement of life!In the banquet that night, there was a warm and joyful atmosphere, our comrades-in-arms sang and laughed, chatted and laughed, toasted together, drank heartily, and complained to each other. Smell the fragrance of friendship, taste the beauty of life, share the happiness of life, and seek future development. In this Yugan County, which is full of different city styles, we spent a beautiful night, leaving a beautiful page of life, and enjoying the full happiness of a comrade-in-arms meeting, everything is warm and beautiful!The old company commander greeted him warmly in front of the hotel
The old company commander's banquet:
At the home of Company Commander Wu and Minister Li:
Comrades-in-arms salute the old company commander with a cup:
Nanchang, known as the "Hero City", is famous all over the world, because of the history of the August 1st Uprising, it has added a bit of heroism. On 1 August, the clarion call for the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was sounded, and it resounded throughout the land of China. The barracks are a place for quenching and tempering and achieving heroic dreams;The military is a time for good men to sweat and show their pride. For me, a person who has loved the "Red Five Stars" since I was a child and walked out of the campus singing "The Red Star Follows Me to Fight", the "place where the military flag is raised" is the holy place I seek!Forty-seven years ago, I joined the army out of a burning sense of enthusiasm for the "1 August" military flag, out of admiration for the soldiers, and out of loyalty to the motherland. On November 21st, we finally realized our wish to visit the "First Museum of Chinese History". Entering the solemn, solemn and majestic August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall, the first thing that catches your eye is a very shocking sculpture of a powerful hand holding a gun straight, she symbolizes the magnificent spirit of the warriors who fought for New China!Through the first and most important in the museum, I saw the sickles, shell guns, straw sandals, backward ** and daily necessities used by the predecessors, and the combat maps of the time were hung on the walls, etc., I really felt the incomparably difficult revolutionary conditions of that year, and brought us into the era of loud military songs and wars!
That's because China at the beginning of the nineteenth century was a fragmented, fragmented, and bloody ChinaIt is a China with internal and external troubles, frequent wars and turmoil, and poor livelihood for the people;It is a devastated and scarred China that is at the mercy of others. The broad masses of toiling people are always living in hunger, cold, and misery. In 1927, when the Northern Expedition was won one after another in the Northern Expedition with the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei launched counter-revolutionary "Qing Communists" in Nanjing and Wuhan in April and July, killing more than 310,000 revolutionary masses and 260,000 members of the Communist Party. At this critical moment, the Chinese Communists were not intimidated, and in order to save the revolution, they resolutely decided to carry out an armed uprising in Nanchang. On August 1, 1927, Ye Ting, ** and others led the Nanchang Uprising, occupied the whole city, fired the first shot of armed resistance against the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, and announced the beginning of the Communist Party of China's independent leadership of the revolutionary armed struggle and armed seizure of powerIt was announced that a new type of people's army had begun to appear on the stage of history, and under the leadership of the party, it began to paint a magnificent picture of the history of the people's army. Since then, the flame of China's armed revolution has been ignited in the north and south of the motherland, inside and outside the Great Wall, and through a series of arduous struggles such as the Northern Expedition, the Long March Strategic Shift, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation, the "three mountains" pressing on the heads of the Chinese people have been overthrown, and a new China in which the people are masters of their own affairs has been establishedIn the last exhibition hall, I saw the statue of Fang Zhimin, the revolutionary martyr we admired, and the immortal poem "Lovely China" written by him in prisonSuddenly, I felt a sense of the history of the Nanchang Uprising more than 90 years ago!I am even more in awe of the ancient city of Nanchang!In this red land, there was once the blood of countless revolutionary martyrs, who did not hesitate to shed their blood, fought bloody battles, dedicated their enthusiasm to the great cause of national liberation, and wrote the most magnificent and inspiring revolutionary chapter with their own lives!
Without the fall of the fighters, there would be no fluttering of the red flag. The Nanchang Uprising showed the "August 1 Spirit" of "firm faith, perseverance, courage to open up, and courage to do things", and the military characteristics of "a gun, a battle, a ballad, and a trail". Of the more than 20,000 people who participated in the uprising, only 1,024 were named, and 474 of them died in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Later, in the uprising of 550 people, there came out of the founding premier of New China, *** and **, and other 7 marshals, as well as 4 generals, 6 lieutenant generals and 6 major generals, which is the most colorful page in the general record of the republic. "August 1st" is not only history, but also a spirit, a strength, a stance, a direction, and an innovative spirit that dares to smash the old world and build a new ChinaIt is a kind of loyal mission and indomitable spirit of struggle;It is a great practice and invincible spirit of victory. This spirit is the source of our strength to overcome all difficulties and move forward bravely. Today, the Chinese nation can stand proudly in the east of the world, and the people can live a happy and peaceful life, all of which were bought by the heroic struggle and sacrifice of thousands of martyrs!We must bear in mind the dedication and sacrifice of those unsung heroes, and never forget the place where the "1 August" military flag was raised and the glorious chapter of the 1 August uprising!The "red tour" of Nanchang is of far-reaching significance, which once again deepens our re-understanding of the history of the founding of the army, allows us to deeply understand the spirit of the Nanchang uprising that shines in the annals of history, relive the advanced deeds of a revolutionary martyr, cherish the great achievements of the revolutionary predecessors, undergo the baptism of the soul, and get the spiritual sublimation. As a member of the motherland and a retired serviceman, we must bear in mind this glorious history of the people's army, never forget the way we came, keep in mind the original aspiration of the revolution, live up to the glorious mission, cherish the good life, and continue to learn from the Xi, propagate and carry forward the good tradition of patriotism and support for the army and the great "1 August" revolutionary spirit!
Hero's Nanchang City - Where the military flag is raised:
Salute to the military flag:
Time flies, time flies. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, constantly changing, there is no return. Decades have passed, and the comrades-in-arms who used to get along day and night let us form an indissoluble friendship in this life!The past has gathered a deep military friendship!More than 40 years of parting, parting with our strong friendship!I recall that in the days of the automobile company of the 1st Artillery Division, our comrades-in-arms from all over the country ate the same pot of rice, lived in the same company, Xi, worked together, trained together, had fun together, helped each other, felt like brothers and sisters, and were like brothers!So far, our hearts are still like a tide when we miss, and when we meet, there are always endless words, endless love, and endless beautiful youth ......Comrades-in-arms are the bloom of the flower of life, and comrades-in-arms are the surging of youthful blood. When we were young, we fought side by sideWhen we are old, we all want to get together and have fun!This trip to Jiangxi is not only a trip to find old leaders, but also a red trip. It left us with a precious memory and insight!Let us take this opportunity to once again wish the two respected old leaders a happy life, blessings such as the East China Sea, and longevity than Nanshan!I wish all our comrades-in-arms all the best, a happy family, a long and healthy life!Let us appreciate the weight of life and the beauty of life at the same time, and then stand at a new starting point, take a new step, draw a more brilliant picture for life, and pursue a more gorgeous life in old age with the spirit of loving life!Pan Hongyu was warmly received by Yang Dehui's comrades-in-arms when he was in Changsha on November 22, 2023:
Guangdong comrades-in-arms went to the holy land of the revolution - Jinggangshan: