August 1st Army Day, the most solemn festival in the army, is also the day when a hundred newlyweds in the Yunnan Military Region get married.

As soon as the sky was dawn, one hundred brides began to dress up in the dressing room. As Du Han’s friend, Song Ran helped Du Han put on makeup, made some simple matches and left, waiting with Qin Yu and others at the wedding scene. This wedding was not followed by traditional bridesmaids. They were each other’s bridesmaids in their wedding dresses. Waiting for the handsome groom, looking forward to entering the marriage hall with them, so that everyone can see the most beautiful selves today.

Although with the popularity of "Soldier Assault", many soldiers met Qin Yu in the military camp. Xu Feng, Guo Kun and others who were training with them and filming also came to him to reminisce about the past, but today, Qin Yu was destined to be the protagonist in this venue. Major General Qiu, the political commissar who presided over the wedding in the army, was not the protagonist. The protagonist is these hundred pairs of newcomers, and these hundred pairs of newcomers who delayed their wedding in order to defend the motherland.

At ten o'clock in the morning, accompanied by cheerful music, one hundred couples were linked together. The handsome groom wore neat military uniforms and held the moving bride in hand. He stepped on the carpet full of petals and walked through the arches full of flowers. The couple showed bright and happy smiles on their faces.

As the witness, Major General Qiu read out his testimony and blessings to these 100 newlyweds.

As the groom and the representative of the bride, Qin Yi and Du Han read out the "Farewell Letter" and "Instruction Letter".

"Du Han, if I want to go to the battlefield tomorrow, I will leave a letter to my relatives..."

"Qin Yi, from today on, I will be a glorious military wife. As a military wife, I must not hold you back. You can protect everyone, I will guard the small family, and I will wait for you to come back to watch the romance with me..."

The "Farewell Letter" of soldiers, the "Instruction Letter" of relatives, the "Condolence Letter" of the people, and the "Letter of Request for War" of veterans who "if there is a war, they will be called back", are collectively called "Three Letters and One Letter". They are an attitude, a responsibility, and a spirit for the army to always maintain a wartime state. They are also an important measure to guide officers and soldiers to face war correctly, understand war, and think about war.

Of course, for all the officers and soldiers of the army, listening to the older generation of revolutionary soldiers telling the past of the war is also an important part of ideological education.

After the collective wedding was held in the morning, in the afternoon, in the auditorium of the Provincial Military Region, Qin Hanjiang and several old Red Army members from Yunnan and the Eighth Route Army, together told the revolutionary past of the Red Army's Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the War of Liberation.

Among them, two old men and Qin Hanjiang belong to the same army, but they are just comrades in different companies. After meeting each other, they can get closer to each other through people they know each other, but most of these familiar people have passed away, and they all sigh after mentioning it.

Qin and Hanjiang were the last one to tell the story. What he was talking about was not the familiar War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Liberation War, but the even more cruel Korean War.

"I am a soldier, a soldier older than you. Today I will tell you about the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea that I have participated in." Qin Hanjiang was not the oldest among the old revolutionaries, but he was the best in health. Even his voice was more energetic than theirs.

"I followed General Chen from Hunan Province to Yunnan Province in December 1949. As the southwestern border of our country, after the liberation of Yunnan Province, we all thought that the revolution was about to succeed. We can finally release Ma Nanshan, swords and guns into the warehouse, and build a new China happily. Who knew that the Korean War broke out for a few months before the end of the day."

"I left Yunnan Province in August 1950, and in October, I followed the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army to enter North Korea first."

"We were deeply moved by what you said now, 'If there is a war, we will be called back'. At that time, we were deeply moved by this sentence. Most of our company was veterans who were ready to go home to live after the victory of the Liberation War. At that time, we had just won the Liberation War and were in high morale. In our opinion, the millions of Kuomintang troops equipped with the US military were beaten to pieces by us, and the United Nations forces led by the United States would definitely be no longer a problem. We even thought about ending the war before the Spring Festival and maybe going home to have a meal of dumplings."

Listening to Qin Hanjiang's optimistic attitude, the soldiers below couldn't help but smile, but Qin Hanjiang on the stage looked serious and sad.

"Only by knowing yourself and your opponent can you win a hundred battles. This is an eternal truth." Qin Hanjiang couldn't help but shake his head: "We regard the US military on the opposite side as an enhanced version of the Kuomintang army. Unexpectedly, as soon as we entered the Korean battlefield, we suffered a big loss."

"As advance reconnaissance companies, in addition to exploring the safety of the way forward, we are also responsible for clearing the spy of the enemy's reconnaissance units. At the moment when the Qingchuan River contacted the other party's reconnaissance company, we knew that we had encountered a tough problem. They were far higher than us in terms of weapons and equipment and tactical qualities. They were just eight people in a small team, equipped with semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns and light machine guns. We couldn't raise our heads at all when the first wave of fire suppression."

"At that time, our reconnaissance company was relatively good, that is, the American rifle seized from the Kuomintang army, the 38th hood captured from the Japanese, and a Czech-made light machine gun. But we lost three soldiers when we first met, the youngest of whom was only nineteen years old. I still remember that he said to me the night before, when he crossed the Yalu River, "Company Commander, can you take me a meal of pork and green onion dumplings after the war? Unexpectedly... Unexpectedly... He stayed there forever the day after entering North Korea."

Qin Hanjiang wiped the corner of his eyes with a tissue and continued, "A advance team of more than 40 people finally paid the price of five deaths and five injuries to annihilate the other side's team with only eight people. This also reminds us that the opposite side is really not the Kuomintang's idiot army that is defeated and shabby."

"The war is cruel. No one who lives in a peaceful era can imagine the tragic tragedy of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea and how much we paid. Take the Battle of Changjin Lake for example. At that time, our first Qingchuanjiang Battle caught the US military off guard and suffered a great loss. Therefore, in the Battle of Changjin Lake, the elite US troops in North Korea, the Eighth Army of the US Army, including the First Marine Division and an ace force."

"It was the temperature in North Korea at that time that the temperature was more than 30 degrees below zero. The US military was cotton coats, leather jackets, whiskey, and canned meat. Our soldiers wore thin clothes and simple weapons, hungry, charged endlessly in the biting cold, braved the fierce bombing of the Americans and the dense rain of bullets, and moved forward bravely. That was a kind of belief, a revolutionary belief that no one else cared about the huge bleeding and casualties... "

The Battle of Changjin Lake was the second battle experienced by the volunteers after entering the Korean battlefield. It was also the first large-scale battle, which was even more tragic than the later Battle of Shangganling.

The Volunteer Army invested a total of 150,000 troops in this battle, and the US and UN forces opposite also had more than 100,000 troops.

The Volunteer Army, which is still a standard weapon of the 38th National Base, showed its style in the face of the United Nations Army with excellent weapons. Moreover, most of the Volunteer Army directly transferred from the southeast battlefield and the southwest battlefield to the Korean battlefield. It was seriously insufficient equipment. In addition, the sudden cold wave on the Korean battlefield, nearly 20,000 people were killed in this battle, and nearly 30,000 people were frozen to death and frostbite, and the number of people was directly reduced by more than one-third.

However, it was also this battle that made the US military face up to the existence of the Chinese army and put aside its contempt. MacArthur's idea of ​​ending the Korean War before Christmas was shattered. Through this battle, the volunteers recovered the vast eastern area north of the 38th parallel in one fell swoop. It reversed the battlefield situation in one fell swoop, becoming the turning point of the Korean War, and laid the foundation for the victory of the later armistice negotiations.

After Qin Hanjiang finished his story, he recalled the past again, which made him feel a little excited. He trembled and raised his right hand to salute everyone present. He saluted an extremely standard military salute.

"Everyone stands up...salute!"

More than a thousand officers and soldiers responded to a military salute to Qin Hanjiang in unison, which was the greatest respect for the veteran.

Then the theme song of the movie "Heroic Sons and Daughters" sounded in the auditorium at the right time. "Heroic Songs" sung by thousands of soldiers present brought the tragic atmosphere of the entire auditorium to a climax.

"The war rolls and sings the hero,

Listen to the green mountains on all sides, listen to the ears on the ears

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