Local people's governments and people's organizations organize condolences and gatherings for the families of local garrisons, military personnel, and martyrs.

Emphasis is placed on praising the merits and discipline of the military, and improving the help to the army, military families, and martyrs' families.

At the grand military-civilian gathering, not only the government held a propaganda campaign to support the army, but also the army held a propaganda campaign to support the government and love the people, and held a party with local residents, organs, organizations, schools, and factories.

Literary and artistic groups and workers in various localities have actively prepared short scripts, lyrics, songs, New Year paintings, Spring Festival couplets, and so on, set up booths in towns and distributed them to the masses free of charge, and have also selected and sent cadres to rural areas, factories, and troops to help the masses carry out creative and performance activities.

It's a grand and prosperous time.

The whole country celebrates.

Firecrackers and fireworks rang off from morning to night, uninterrupted, after the firecrackers went off, the waiting children rushed up, Xia Yuan looked at all this, as if he had returned to his childhood.

Walk along the bustling crowd and crowd forward.

Most of the clothes people wear are the same, black cotton jackets, wide cotton pants, black tones and gray tones are the mainstream of this world, and there is a little girl wearing a red cotton jacket, which is very conspicuous.

Xia Yuan has rarely seen such a lively scene since the new era.

He felt very novel, just like Grandma Liu visiting the manor, looking left and right.

Selling breakfast, sugar gourd skewers, and pinching candy people, everyone spits white mist with a smile on their faces.

Hu Shunchun's 335th Regiment did not stop in the town, they had tasks assigned by their superiors.

Elder Liu carried a black pot on his back and asked, "Instructor, that kid is a good seedling to be a soldier, why did you give up." ”

Hu Shunchun said: "He is the only boy in his family, I took him away, who will plant the land in the family." ”

After speaking, he sighed a little: "If there are two boys, I will take one and the other." It's just him, forget it. ”

"Instructor Hu, Instructor Hu."

As the troops walked forward, someone suddenly shouted behind them.

"What's wrong?" Hu Shunchun turned his head, and a soldier with a gun on his back ran here.

"Go and see, there's a kid looking for you." The warrior gasped.

"There's a kid looking for me!?" Hu Shunchun was startled, followed the soldiers to the back of the team, and sure enough, he saw a familiar face, it was Xia Yuan, surrounded by a group of soldiers.

"Why are you keeping up, your father?" Hu Shunchun ran over and pulled Xia Yuan aside.

"It was my father who asked me to follow, and he said that this is a team that seeks happiness for the people." Xia Yuan's face was innocent.

"No, you kid has to go home." Hu Shunchun said.

"If I don't go back, my father will let me follow you." Xia Yuan shook his head and sat on the ground, obviously not planning to leave.

I finally caught up with the troops, so I just went back, how could it be.

"You." Seeing that the team had gone away, Hu Shunchun sighed, "You follow first, but let me tell you, coming to the army is to endure hardships." ”

"I'm not afraid of hardship." Xia Yuan stood up with a smile on his face.

What bitterness he has not suffered.

Back in the team, Elder Liu saw Xia Yuan and looked very happy: "Why are you still chasing after you." ”

Xia Yuan said: "I want to be a soldier. ”

Elder Liu smiled: "He is stubborn and conscious, Instructor Hu, this kid is a soldier." ”

Hu Shunchun was helpless, "Then let him follow you first." ”

Elder Liu nodded: "Hey." Stinky boy, can you endure hardships. ”

"Yes, my father said, don't follow the army if you can't suffer losses, the army is not a place to enjoy happiness."

Xia Yuan nodded, looking as a matter of course.

Elder Liu took off the big black cauldron behind him and buckled it on Xia Yuan's body, "Your father is right, carry this pot on your back first, and try how far you can run." ”

Xia Yuan grabbed both sides of the black cauldron and tied it with a rope, "Then I won't stop running until you are tired and can't run." ”

Elder Liu said: "I can only talk big, but I can't, I have to show some real skills." ”

Xia Yuan didn't speak.

They had to rush to the railway station, and the distance was at least more than 40 miles, more than 20 kilometers, and they had to walk for several hours.

Hu Shunchun saw that the elder Liu let Xia Yuan carry the iron pot, and couldn't help but say: "Elder Liu, he is only 16 years old, you let him carry such a cauldron." ”

Xia Yuan tightened the black pot on his body, and smiled honestly: "Instructor, don't get in the way." ”

From the mouth of the elder Liu, he knew that the team he joined was the training team, and it usually trained the skills of the soldiers, and the elder Liu was the leader of the cooking squad of the training team, and he was not young, forty or fifty years old, and he was the oldest in the army.

"And when will I be able to touch the gun?"

"Touch the gun? Later, you learn how to cook first. ”

“.”

This walk is more than 30 miles, and the elder Liu thought that Xia Yuan would cry and cry tired, but he didn't expect that this kid was carrying a big black pot on his back and walking with a tiger, but many of their soldiers were a little powerless.

"Hey, this kid's physical strength is so good?"

The eldest Liu was a little surprised and asked him, "Are you not tired?" ”

"I'm not tired, that's the way." Xia Yuan shook his head and asked with a smile, "Squad leader, are you tired?" ”

"Tired fart, keep walking." The eldest Liu stiffened his neck, not wanting to admit that he was tired.

The commander in front shouted, "Stop moving forward and rest in place for ten minutes." ”

Elder Liu sat on the ground and took off his hat, "It's hot enough in this winter." ”

He glanced at Xia Yuan and motioned for him to sit down and rest.

Xia Yuan put down the big black cauldron, and then sat on the ground to rest.

"Where are we going?"

"Go and reclaim the wasteland."

"Huh?"

Xia Yuan thought they were going to suppress the bandits.

I didn't expect to go farming.

A force has a mission for a force.

Under the leadership of the Red Party and the Chinese people's government, and in order to strive for a fundamental improvement in the state's financial and economic situation, the troops, like the people of the whole country, have launched political, economic, and cultural construction in full swing.

Hu Shunchun's unit, which belonged to the 38th Army, except for the 113th Division, was ordered to triumphantly go north to the Taoyuan area of Nanhu after the end of the Southern Yunnan Campaign, and cooperate with friendly forces to carry out the task of suppressing bandits.

The main force of the army rested and recuperated in the area of Xinyang in the Nanhe River, and at the same time formed a production committee and accepted the task of clearing the land on the spot for production and transporting grain.

This is also the task of many troops, after the founding of New China, in addition to suppressing bandits.

Open up wasteland, grow grain and farms.

The most fundamental problem is that after the founding of New China, the remaining enemies were still arrogant and sabotaged the construction of New China in all aspects.

The most representative of these is the bald head.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1950, Chiang issued a letter to his compatriots: "Although I am in the Bay of Free China, my heart is always in touch with you, but I have never left you for a moment...... I and my compatriots in the free zone, in the near future, will use action to save you! ”

However, within a few days, Chiang personally ordered 17 B-24 bombers to bomb over Shanghai in four batches, dropping about 70 bombshells.

In an instant, large swaths of densely packed houses were drowned in flames, and the sound of shells was deafening, mixed with the miserable cries of children.

Shanghai's largest power plant, the Yangshupu Power Plant, was completely blown up, and the whole city of Shanghai was without power.

542 innocent civilians died in the bombing, and the fireworks of that year's Chinese New Year will never be seen again.

More than 800 wounded people survived this difficult Spring Festival in hospital beds.

Beginning in June 1949, Kuomintang planes carried out indiscriminate bombing of Shanghai, causing thousands of civilian casualties.

The bombing before the Spring Festival in 1950 was the heaviest loss of all the bombings in Shanghai.

Secondly.

The hostile elements and unscrupulous capitalists in Shanghai and other large economic cities, as well as speculators, firmly believe that the price of rice will rise before the Spring Festival, and even if they borrow usury, they will hoard rice in order to use the methods of the old society to drive up prices.

At one time, they had a monopoly on food in the big cities.

It is an attempt to bring down the newly established New China economically.

For a time, food shortages broke out in these cities. In order to smash the enemy's conspiracy, the higher authorities demanded that the troops transport the grain that could be transferred from the local area to support the grain market in time.

At the call of the Central Military Commission, the whole army launched a race to get grain in full swing, pulling the grain scattered in the countryside in horse-drawn carts, pushing it with ferry carts, carrying it with a burden, carrying it on its shoulders, and even using military trousers as grain bags.

Grain was delivered to stations and water terminals in every possible way to support the economic struggle of the people in Shanghai and other cities.

At the same time, in order to lighten the burden on the state, the Central Military Commission organized troops to open up fields to grow grain on a large area of barren land in the Yellow Flood area, and set the task of handing over grain to each of the troops.

Each army had troops involved in the task of clearing wasteland and growing food.

The 335th Regiment was no exception.

"What a glorious task it is to reclaim wasteland and grow grain to reduce the burden on the country and to make more people have food."

Elder Liu told Xia Yuan as he walked.

Xia Yuan listened, his gaze floating in his surroundings.

The forest is dense, and you can see the village after walking a while, most of them are thatched houses, mud walls, few brick houses, and people wear gray and black cotton jackets, and their faces are dusty.

Passing through the village and entering the plain, the endless plain, Xia Yuan used his eagle eye to see the village in the distance, like a model.

In 1950, when the People's Republic of China had just been founded, the living conditions of the people were very simple.

The situation in the big cities is fine, but in the countryside, unless it is a village with a mountain, the walls will be made of stone, and there are more thatched houses on the plains, and the villagers live a simple life, and the fields can be seen everywhere.

When you come to the town, thatched houses are rare, they are brick towns, and some houses are erected on tripods, and work is suspended on the first day of the new year.

As soon as the troops arrived in the town, they heard lively shouts from the front, firecrackers, gongs and drums.

The townspeople of the town, waving small colorful flags, rushed over, and it was the children who were running fast, waving small red flags, and running frolicking.

Before everyone could react, peanuts and melon seeds began to be stuffed into their arms, as well as eggs, steamed buns, and bread.

Hu Shunchun tried his best to stop it, his voice was hoarse, but he still couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the people, and he stuffed a lot of things in his arms, and he couldn't pick it up, and he didn't pick it up.

There are also a few female dolls, which make many soldiers have a big red face.

After entering the town, it was only two or three miles to the railway station, and everyone walked for several hours, and it was almost dark before they arrived at the railway station, where thousands of people gathered in the square of the railway station, and many people were crowded around.

The commander of the 335th Regiment shouted with a loudspeaker, and the people were too enthusiastic to resist their enthusiasm, like a flame.

The regimental commander's voice was hoarse, so he asked the regimental chief of staff to continue shouting.

The cold wind was howling, and everyone's hearts seemed to be stuffed with a fire, warm and dry.

They don't have anything in their hands, more or less.

Xia Yuan stuffed peanuts and melon seeds in his pockets, and held two white-flour steamed buns in his hands, plus a hard-boiled egg, and his heart was full of warmth.

The people are too simple.

White flour steamed buns, his family still eats steamed buns made of sorghum noodles for the New Year, there are too few white noodles, and he is reluctant to eat them himself, so the old father made the few white noodles in the family into steamed buns and handed them to the village chief.

Everyone in the village is like this, leaving the few white-flour steamed buns at home to their own people's soldiers.

Unable to withstand the enthusiasm of the people, seeing that the train was coming, the regiment commander hurriedly beckoned the soldiers to board the train.

The stuffy tank train, with a layer of straw on the ground, is very different from when they entered the court, they are not a secret mission, and when the train passes through the train station, everyone will come down to rest.

One was huddled in a stuffy jar, and after a while, the originally cold stuffy jar carriage warmed up.

The train was running anyway, and everyone was lying on the ground.

Sleeping on the streets last night, many people were half asleep and not very comfortable.

After a day of rushing during the day, I was tired and had some pain all over my body, and when I got into the car, after a while, I snored loudly.

In the past, when I was fighting, I could sleep soundly under the rain of bullets and the noise of artillery. Now that peaceful life has arrived, besides, the train is the wheel of peace, and everyone naturally sleeps more soundly.

Xia Yuan was half asleep, and in a daze, he felt the shaking train slowly stop.

The muffled canister train door opens.

Night falls, and the cold wind howls.

Outside the station, it was brightly lit, and the red lanterns hung were particularly festive, and the people of the town crowded into the station, as if waiting for their arrival.

As soon as the train stopped, a noisy sound was heard.

"It's coming, it's the liberation warriors who are coming."

"But I waited for them."

"Hurry up, get the stuff out."

Many people have not yet come from their sleep, and when they saw such a scene, they were startled, and they were thrilled by the people who rushed up, and they woke up instantly.

Elder Liu bit a piece of hay, his cloudy eyes glowing brightly, "Who would have thought that we would be able to establish a new China, who would have thought that our team would be so popular." ”

Hu Shunchun was moved and said: "This is the weather of more than ten degrees below zero, and the people are facing us in the cold winter, and it is late at night." ”

Xia Yuan didn't say anything, but he was moved in his heart.

The people supported the army in this way.

When they arrived on the battlefield, they were not afraid of the enemy, nor were they afraid of death.

(End of chapter)