Original title: More than 3,000 meters above sea level, they patrol the snow They use their lives to guard the mountains and rivers of the motherland.
The Beita Mountain Ranch of the Sixth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is located on the Sino-Mongolian border. Among them, the No. 14 duty point is the highest altitude and the lowest temperature among the 20 duty points on the Sino-Mongolian border, with an average altitude of more than 3,000 meters. When heavy snow blocked part of the mountain, the local militia cavalry company could only patrol the border on horseback, and along the way, the wind rolled up the snow like sand and gravel, slapping the faces of the cavalry company border guards from all directions.
19-year-old Tabs Bek Khan is the third generation of border guards in his family, and the family has been herding and guarding the border since his grandfather's generation. Tabs Bek After Hadley Khan became a border guard, his mother gave him a red cotton jacket that he wore on his border patrol to protect him from the cold, and embroidered the word "China" with yellow silk thread on the chest of the cotton jacket. Tabs Bek Khan always kept in mind his mother's teachings and took practical actions to patrol the border and defend the country.
In addition to Tabs Bek Khan, there are many young border guards in the cavalry company who took over the baton from their fathers, with the boundary monument as the companion and the youth as the song, loyally guarding the peace of the national border, and writing the chapter of the era of defending the country with blood and youth.
Reporter Su Meng Li Qiang).
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