Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Great detour for thousands of miles, hit the "Gourd Head" hard

It is Mao Zedong's consistent style to be cautious in the first battle. During the six days from August 18th to 23rd, Mao Zedong called three times to inquire about the preparations for the Battle of Qamdo.It can be seen that the weight of this campaign is in his heart.He instructed to "concentrate absolutely superior forces, surround the enemy on all sides, and strive to wipe them out, so as not to slip through the net."He demanded that when the Tibetan local army was not psychologically prepared, all its active forces should be wiped out, so as to avoid fighting guerrilla warfare and attrition wars with the Tibetan local army all over the mountains and plains in the future.

On August 18, he called the Southwest Bureau to inquire about the situation: Southwest Bureau: You have heard all the news about the march to Qamdo.It would be very good if we can enter Qamdo this year. The questions are: (1) whether the long road from Ganzi to Qamdo can be built with the speed of the army’s attack; (2) whether Qamdo can build an airport and whether it is suitable for airdrops; (3) Is it enough for one division to attack Qamdo? The Tibetan local army seems to have a fairly strong fighting capacity and must be prepared to fight several tough battles. Do you have enough estimates in this regard?We are not clear about the above points, please analyze the telegram for hope...

He Long and Liu Bocheng of the Southwest Bureau wrote a report on the implementation plan of the Qamdo Campaign to Mao Zedong on August 20, answering the questions raised by Mao Zedong one by one.It mentioned that the battle of Qamdo decided to use 4 main regiments and 2 battalions of the 18th Army, with a total of 130,000 combat troops, including 160,000 command organizations, and good firearms, etc. After a sleepless night of deliberation, on August 23, Mao Zedong replied and agreed to the implementation plan of the Qamdo Campaign.The purpose of the Battle of Qamdo was clearly stated: Southwest Bureau, and reported to Northwest Bureau:

Telegram on August 20th. (1) Your plan to occupy Qamdo this year and try to retain 3,000 people to consolidate Qamdo is a good one. You can make active preparations according to this plan. When it is found that the road has been opened to Ganzi at the end of this month and the beginning of next month, you can start marching. Occupying Qamdo in October will be beneficial for fighting for political changes in Tibet and marching into Lhasa next year. (2) Now that India has issued a statement recognizing Tibet as Chinese territory, it hopes to resolve it peacefully without resorting to force.Britain originally did not allow the Tibetan delegation to come to Beijing, but has now allowed it.If the People's Liberation Army can occupy Chamdo in October, it may prompt the Tibetan delegation to come to Beijing to negotiate and seek a peaceful solution (of course, there are other possibilities).Now we are trying to get the Tibetan representative to come to Beijing and make Nehru less fearful.When the Tibetan representatives arrived in Beijing, we planned to use the established ten clauses as a negotiation condition and try to get the Tibetan representatives to sign them, so that the ten clauses could become an agreement agreed upon by both parties.If this is the case, the march to Lhasa next year will be smoother.After you occupied Qamdo, you only left 3,000 people there to spend the winter there. You did not enter Lhasa this year, and you withdrew the main force to Ganzi. From the perspective of the Tibetan side, it may be regarded as a measure of our goodwill to them. (3) Thirty aircraft are under preparation, but it will take time, so you don't have to rely on hope in the short term. (4) 16,000 of you are marching from Ganzi to Qamdo, all food is carried by troops and yaks, 3,000 of you must have food for the winter, and the main force of 13,000 who are going to withdraw must have at least three months to go back and forth As for grain, whether Ganzi has so much grain and whether the troops and yaks have such a large transportation capacity still needs to be investigated. (5) Part of grain and meat can be purchased in Qamdo and other places. Have you prepared a batch of gold and silver and goods needed by Tibetans, such as silk tea, etc.?

Mao Zedong August 23rd In the telegram, Mao Zedong made it very clear that the overall purpose of the Qamdo Campaign was to seek a political solution and liberate Tibet peacefully. In accordance with the spirit of Mao Zedong's instructions, the Southwest Bureau stepped up preparations for relevant parties, reported the preparations in Ganzi to Mao Zedong, and further implemented the deployment of the Eighteenth Army's entry into Tibet, and stepped up supervision and inspection.The Eighteenth Army also checked and implemented them one by one according to Mao Zedong's instructions.

From August 28th, the participating troops of the 18th Army advanced in steps to Ganzi and Batang on the banks of the Jinsha River to carry out various preparations before the battle. While dispatching troops and generals, the central government still did not give up its efforts for peaceful negotiations. Until September 30, 1950, at the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference celebrating the first anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Premier Zhou Enlai once again urged the Kashag government to send people to Beijing in his speech. peace talks.Premier Zhou said that the People's Liberation Army is determined to liberate Tibet and defend my country's border defenses, and we are willing to achieve this through peaceful means.Tibetan patriots welcome the march into Tibet and the peaceful liberation of Tibet. We hope that the Tibetan authorities will stop hesitating so that the issue can be resolved peacefully.

There was no response from the Tibetan side.The Dazas were so imaginative, they really thought that the Jinsha River could block everything. On October 4, the Southwest Military Region issued a mobilization order for the Qamdo Campaign. On this day, Zhang Guohua, Commander of the 18th Army, led Tianbao, Liu Zhenguo, Director of the Political Department of the 18th Army, Le Yuhong, Director of the Office of the Tibet Working Committee, etc., to Yulong Xia Kedaodeng's home.Yulong is a pastoral area with a lot of tents.Among these mushroom-like tents, the blockhouse of the Shaker family is very tall and eye-catching.The watchtower is an imitation of a palace building, with patterns painted on the ceiling and rifles hanging on the surrounding walls.Xia Ke's family has a cloud of servants and employs cooks from Sichuan and Hunan.

Xia Ke received Zhang Guohua and his party according to Han etiquette. Zhang Guohua went to Yulong specifically because he was worried about logistics and transportation guarantees.If this key problem is not resolved, it will be very difficult for our main force to fight across the river from the northern line.After talking for five or six hours, Xia Ke made a very good statement and promised to let a large number of yaks follow. He also gave gifts to Zhang Guohua and his party.In this way, Zhang Guohua finally made up his mind. On October 6, the People's Liberation Army launched the Battle of Qamdo.

The participating troops marched into the theater on September 26. By the beginning of October, the PLA had completed the campaign: starting from Yushu, Qinghai in the north, passing through Dengke, Dege, and Batang in Xikang, and reaching Deqin, Yunnan, along the Jinsha River in the south. The broad front of the Kilometer formed a horseshoe-shaped encirclement of the Tibetan local army in the Qamdo area.About 20,000 troops directly participated in the battle, and 57 cannons of various kinds. According to the analysis of Yin Fatang, the former deputy political commissar of the 52nd Division of the Eighteenth Army, the Tibetan local army guarding the Qamdo area, with Qamdo as the core, deploys defenses west, north, and east on the west bank of the Jinsha River, with one leg extending south to Tranquility ( present-day Mang County) and other places.

For example, Qamdo and its surroundings are regarded as the head, and Tranquility as the feet, much like a gourd lying flat and extending south.Its focus is very clear. Eighty to ninety percent of the Tibetan local army in the "Galabetou" is accounted for.Therefore, Zhang Guohua divided the combat area into two lines, the north and the south, and focused on the north line. On the combat map, the 5th Route Army on the two fronts flew towards Qamdo like sharp red arrows. The northern line is the main aspect of the PLA's offensive, under the unified command of the 52nd Division, and the troops are divided into three groups from the left, middle and right to encircle Qamdo and the subsequent areas.

On the right, the 154th Regiment, Qinghai Cavalry Detachment, 52nd Division Cavalry Reconnaissance Company, and Artillery Company led by Yin Fatang and Li Ming (accompanied by Army Propaganda Minister Xia Chuan) rushed to Enda and implemented a great detour. The middle road, composed of Commander Wu Zhong, Deputy Commander Chen Zizhi, and Zhou Jiading, Director of the Political Department of the 52nd Division, led the 155th Regiment, 156th Regiment, Division Straight, and Army Artillery Battalion. , followed by an oblique trapezoidal deployment, attacking Shengda and Qamdo. On the left side, Su Tongqing, the commander of the military reconnaissance battalion, Wang Daxuan, the director of the political department directly under the army, led the reconnaissance battalion and the engineer battalion, responsible for the frontal clamping task. On the 7th, Yu Gangtuo forcibly crossed the Jinsha River and attacked the Tibetan local army. The southern line was commanded by Miao Piyi, deputy political commissar of the 53rd Division, who was responsible for annihilating the Tibetan local army on the southern line and seizing Bangda and Basu. On the 5th, a battalion of the 126th and 125th regiments of the 14th Army of Yunnan launched a battle in the direction of Yanjing; on the 7th, the 157th regiment crossed the river in three ways and attacked Tranquility. The army marched westward, carrying hopes from the east, and swept away thousands of troops like a mat. Deng Ke is the river crossing point for the right and center troops on the northern line. The Jinsha River is the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.It seems that the river here is blue and clear, very lovely, but the current is fast.Especially in Dengke, the Jinsha River is fifty or sixty meters deep and over 200 meters wide.On the east bank of the river, there is an open river beach filled with pebbles the size of fists among the blooming wild flowers.The river water, like a runaway wild horse, bursts into wildness, neighing and galloping from northwest to southeast. When it encounters a reef, it suddenly stands up, rolling up waves like snow.Some people also tried to enter the water, and the river flowing too fast was like an electric shock, knocking people far away. There are two Deng Kes along the Jinsha River.Dongdengke is a county seat, and Xidengke is a temple called Qingbarley Temple.Now, one side belongs to Sichuan Province and the other belongs to Tibet Autonomous Region. This morning, Dongdengke's family got up to fetch water, and found that the mountains and plains were full of People's Liberation Army.when did they arriveWhy is there no sound at all?The Tibetans talked a lot.An old lady described the situation in the past as follows: "We have never seen so many people since ancient times. They lined up by the river for more than 20 kilometers. They were densely packed like ants. I really can't find the right words to describe them." .” On October 6, the troops on the right side, which were tasked with detours, first crossed the river.They will reach Enda after drawing a semi-arc.Enda is a "gate", no matter which route the enemy fleeing from Qamdo takes, they must pass through Enda.Only by closing this "hole" can we encircle and annihilate the Tibetan local army. The cavalry reconnaissance company of the 52nd Division crossed the river ahead of schedule on October 4, before the start of the campaign, because it was going to join the Qinghai cavalry detachment in Batang, Qinghai. On the 8th, the cavalry detachment went south. The 154th regiment crossed the river on the 6th and went south with the cavalry detachment. According to the instructions of the military department, the 154th regiment will cross the river in Dengke covertly. A platoon was selected from the regiment to carry out nighttime smuggling upstream of the ferry, and it was agreed that after success, they would quickly encircle the Qingke Temple and deal with the fifty or sixty Tibetan soldiers on the other side of the river, and no one was allowed to slip through the net.After the smuggling was successful, three signal flares were sent out, and the large troops crossed the river immediately. The night of October 5th.The soldiers carried the cowhide boats and wooden boats to the ferry.It was the beginning of September in the lunar calendar at that time, and there was no moon. The night was pitch black, and people could not be seen clearly from a few meters away.Indistinctly, the trail is like a piece of white paper pasted on the cliff, with thorns growing on both sides. If you are carrying a boat, you will fall if you are not careful.In order to prevent the enemy from discovering, the regiment stipulated that there should be no fire. Everyone held hands, half-dragged and half-lifted, and moved towards the riverside around the boat.Cowhide boats were the only means of transportation on the rivers in Tibet at that time.It is a scoop-shaped round body with a radius of about 15 meters.Cowhide has toughness after soaking in water.The round body can avoid any unexpected impact.Someone in the People's Liberation Army joked: "The cowhide boat is like a rice bowl, and we are like porridge, scooping from one side of the river to the other side of the river."This row is crossing the river in a cowhide boat.Suddenly, a huge wave hit a cowhide boat in the middle of the river. The boat was lifted several meters high, and then slid down more than ten meters. It was about to hit the reef.At this time, a soldier cleverly used a wooden paddle to touch the reef, and the cowhide boat sailed to the other side. At dawn, three flares rose into the sky. It turned out that the enemies of the Highland Barley Temple had fled the afternoon before. In other words, the troops on the right did not encounter the enemy when they crossed the river. The sky and the earth are like a big canvas. The sun is a master of traditional Chinese painting, splashing ink between the mountains emotionally.The brightness and tone are constantly changing.The mountain looks like it has just been polished by a magic potion. The sun is too bright.The reflection from the snow hurt the soldiers' eyes, and many were temporarily blinded by snow blindness.The eyes were red and swollen, and the pain was unbearable. The troops on the right have the farthest journey, and the terrain along the way is complex and the climate changes greatly.After passing the high mountains, they have been walking on the Batang prairie for the past few times. This grassland is 120 miles from east to west, more than 70 miles from north to south, and the altitude is more than 4,000 meters. The 154th regiment joined the cavalry detachment from Qinghai here.The leader of the cavalry detachment is Sun Gong.The terrain in this area has little ups and downs, but the climate is unpredictable.Sometimes walking in the rain is like falling into the sea with white waves. Everyone is carrying seventy or eighty kilograms of things on their backs, which are all drenched by the rain and become even heavier.Sometimes, the wind blows suddenly, mixed with hail, and some horses are blinded.Just after the wind and rain, followed by silvery white snowflakes.Everyone's eyebrows and eyelashes were covered with white icicles, and their noses and cheeks were numb with cold.The rain-soaked underwear was steaming from the heat, while the outer fur coat was frozen and as hard as rawhide, making a rattling noise when walking. Seeing a small cloud drifting over, there was a shower of rain falling.The sun is all around, shining brightly, and the white rain is pouring down on your head.The rhythmic sound of raindrops is like a chaotic footsteps coming from the sun.Seeing a snowstorm approaching, I hurriedly put on my raincoat. My hands were frozen and I couldn't even fasten the buttons. In the wind and rain, the right troops walked across the Batang prairie. On the night of the 14th, in order to arrive at Nangqian Temple, the 154th regiment had to climb over a 5,000-meter high mountain.When the Qinghai cavalry detachment passed through here, it suddenly encountered a storm, and the sky was so dark that nothing could be seen a few steps away. The 154th regiment was also hit by strong winds and hail here.The heavy snow was like goose feathers, and there was chaos between the sky and the earth, and it was impossible to distinguish things.As soon as the troops reached the top of the mountain, the snow covered their thighs, and it was already dusk, so it was extremely dangerous to go down the mountain.Because there are more than ten kilometers of cliffs on the south side of the mountain pass, if you are not careful, you will fall into the bottomless abyss.The troops were forced to camp on the mountainside. Everyone dug a hole under their feet and slept on the hole with their feet.The people who got up early the next day saw white flowers all around, and there was no one in sight, only the snow was shining like needles, piercing their eyes.After a while, the soldiers were like silkworms, one emerged from here, and the other emerged from there. There is a heroic soldier who never stood up again. He is Zhou Daxing, a soldier of the Red Army.He chose this crystal clear mountain as his cemetery. Zhou Daxing, a native of Bazhong, Sichuan. In 1933, at the age of 11, he arrived in Ganzi as a Red Army soldier, but was forced to stay in Ganzi due to serious illness, and married a Tibetan girl who loved him.When Yang Jun, the political commissar of the 154th Regiment, led the second battalion of the regiment to Deng Ke in May, Zhou Daxing came to him and collected firewood for the troops silently without asking for a penny.Once, a local Tibetan army harassed Deng Ke. Qie Jinwu, the head of the 154th regiment, was worried about not being able to find a guide. Zhou Daxing came to him. From then on, he became a soldier in the reconnaissance platoon.Because he is proficient in Tibetan language and local customs, and familiar with the terrain, he is a rare talent.He was still wearing a Tibetan outfit, but he had a box gun on his waist and a rifle on his shoulder. At the end of June, the reconnaissance platoon was active along the Jinsha River. In a forest, a local Tibetan army was found.Zhou Daxing, who was wearing a Tibetan uniform, was the first to rush towards the Tibetan local army. The Tibetan soldiers mistook him for his own and didn't care. When Zhou Daxing opened fire, the Tibetan local army fled in a panic. At this time, Zhou Daxing had another gun Captured rifles. Seeing that we had few people on our side, the scattered Tibetan local army yelled and counterattacked.Zhou Daxing was hiding under a big rock. When he saw a Tibetan soldier approaching on horseback, he retreated covertly.The local Tibetan army got angry and surrounded them from all directions, determined to capture this young man in Tibetan clothes alive.At this time, Zhou Daxing happened to retreat to the edge of a torrent shaded by trees.The local Tibetan army yelled obscenities and approached him with a bent waist. He touched his body and found that there were only three bullets. He aimed at the nearest Tibetan local army, and the flames hit the two figures in front of him.Then, Zhou Daxing hung the gun on his shoulder, jumped into the rapids, and floated to the bushes by the river to hide. That night, he tied his trousers into a life buoy and swam across the river to return to the army. After the troops crossed the Jinsha River, Zhou Daxing took on many jobs such as guide, translator, scout, and liaison officer all by himself. He was the one who got up the earliest and slept the latest in the army.The leader of the regiment saw that he was so emaciated as if he had been replaced by another person, so he decided to give him a horse to ride, and he gave it to the wounded who fell behind.He hadn't eaten for three days before his sacrifice, his face was swollen and bright, and he was sweating profusely, but he insisted on leading the way for the troops. In the snow, Zhou Daxing's footprints became the road for the latecomers.Due to heart failure caused by a serious heart disease, Zhou Daxing and Bai Xue melt together forever. Among the snowflakes, comrades in arms read such a letter.This was left by Zhou Daxing to his wife Yixi Zema. Dear Yeshe Zema: I can never see you again!If I can return to my team and do something I can do, my wish will be fulfilled!I have lived up to the instructions given to me by the head of the Red Army, and your steadfast feelings for me. Zema, don't feel sorry for me, always follow the Communist Party and do what you should do! Zhou Daxing October 13, 1950 The words are crooked and crooked, which is very difficult.This was written by Zhou Daxing with the last energy of his life.At the last moment of his life, how should Zhou Daxing be attached to his wife and comrades.While reading the letter, someone cried, and the man's crying was the most heart-rending. After the 154th Regiment met with the Qinghai Cavalry Detachment, the infantry and cavalry on the right were divided into two groups, inside and outside, and went straight to Enda. At dawn on October 16, the cavalry detachment approached Zemei, an outpost of the Tibetan local army.There is about 1 Jiaben Tibetan local army stationed here in the seventh generation.The cavalry detachment suddenly launched an attack with the force of two companies, completely annihilating the Tibetan local army that was still in the dreamland, and it took less than 10 minutes before and after. At noon on the 17th, the cavalry detachment came to Leiwuqi.This is a county seat in Kangbei, and it is a key point of the left rear wing of Qamdo.Leiwuqi, translated into Chinese, means high mountain, and it probably got its name because it is located under a high mountain.The main building in this county is also a large temple, which belongs to the Bai religion, and there are dozens of households around it, most of whom are serfs who support the temple.Residents are scattered around the temple, like stars arching the moon.There are many mountains in the north of the city.Stationed here is the main force of the Seventh Generation of the Tibetan Local Army. The Tibetan local army has discovered the Qinghai cavalry detachment in advance.They occupy the commanding heights in the city.The cavalry detachment captured the high ground in the north of the city with the third company; the cavalry reconnaissance company of the 52nd division captured the high ground in the south of the city, and seized the Zaqu Bridge to cut off the enemy's escape route to the south; the first and second companies attacked the county with the support of the detachment's heavy weapons. Liu Guosheng, the deputy commander of the cavalry reconnaissance company of the 52nd Division, grabbed the grenade and led the tenth squad of soldiers, galloping up the hill like a hungry tiger, passing through the thorny jungle, and suddenly appeared in front of the enemy.The enemy tried to escape, but a soldier named Mo Qinhai knocked down a leader of the Tibetan local army, and the others fled in all directions.Later, the cavalry found 6 Tibetan soldiers, a British-made machine gun, and 11 British rifles from the woods and mountain depressions.In the end, about 1 of the Japanese enemies was wiped out.The first and second companies of the cavalry detachment also broke through the defense of the Tibetan local army. Most of the Tibetan local army fled into the deep mountains and dense forests. After the bag was full, the 154th regiment and the Qinghai cavalry detachment were divided into two groups.They advance at almost the same speed as cavalry.On the day when the cavalry captured Leiwuqi, the 154th regiment also captured Jiazangka, another outpost of the Tibetan local army.Jiazangka is a village on the right bank of the Angqu River, and there is a chain bridge on the river.Two Jiaben of the Tibetan local army defended here. Fortifications were built at both ends of the bridge, and obstacles were set up with huge stones on the bridge.The People's Liberation Army was originally scheduled to attack the Jiazangka Bridge at 12:30 on the 17th. From the mountain, you can faintly see various conditions on the east and west of the chain bridge: the enemy barracks are in chaos, and people keep running from the bridge head to the village.Since the regiment headquarters and the battalions were all connected by mobile communication, there was a misunderstanding during the period. The second battalion of the avant-garde, which was in charge of the main attack, arrived at the position in the afternoon, and the artillery in charge of fire support was farther behind.The two sides exchanged fire across the river for several hours, and until the evening, all kinds of firearms of the People's Liberation Army were launched together.The Tibetan local army fled to the southwest. In a panic, they left some guns and ammunition, as well as buttered tsampa. Snow mountains are always connected with glaciers.To climb a snow mountain, you have to cross several glaciers.The surface of these glaciers is covered with ice, but beneath the ice is fast-moving water.It's so cold, especially in the morning, when you step down, a cold current soaks through your body.The trampled ice on the river was as sharp as a knife.The leg was scratched by the ice, and the skin immediately cracked with blood.Once the cowhide boat capsized in the river, and the wind was blowing again.The soldiers hugged their bodies with both hands, so cold that it was hard to support them, and they wanted to get in even if there was a crack in the ground.It was too dark to see anything, so everyone fumbled on the ground with their hands to find some dry cow dung, then dug a hole on the river bank, lit a fire, and stretched their hands to the flames, but they couldn't feel the heat, and their legs stretched horizontally and horizontally. The intertwined blood cuts are like knife cuts when they see water, and itchy to the core when they see heat. After walking like this for more than 10 days and more than a thousand miles, the troops arrived at Jiazangka from Dengke.Starting from Deng Ke, the 154th regiment advanced in the order of the third, second, and first battalions, keeping a distance of one day between each battalion.Just in Jiazangka, Qie Jinwu received an order from the division: he must arrive at Enda on the 20th, count as many people as there are, and count as hours as early as possible.There are still more than 100 kilometers from Jiazangka to Enda, and they have to increase their marching speed. The most tragic march in the world began, the hardest was the 1st Battalion of the 154th Regiment, which walked for more than 40 hours without a break, the regiment headquarters walked for more than 30 hours, and the 2nd Battalion walked for 28 hours. Some people have not taken off their clothes to sleep for days and nights.Speaking of rest, I couldn't even remove my backpack, so I leaned on the side of the mountain in a daze for a while, and left as soon as I said it.Many people seemed to be drunk, with their eyes closed, staggering, and still walking forward.Qie Jinwu, the leader of the group, also dozed off while walking, as if sleepwalking, his body seemed to be torn apart, empty and numb, so sleepy that he didn't know what I was.However, like a bonfire lit in the vast night sky, a strong thought penetrated everyone's body and mind: Hurry up, we must not let the Tibetan local army run away!This idea is like a strong rope, pulling everyone forward.At this time, the human life force has already exceeded the normal state. There are many people left behind.The formation of a regiment is tens of kilometers long.Some people's legs were too swollen to wear leggings, and the regiment ordered everyone to wear breeches.Some people's feet soaked in the water with a layer of white calluses. After the cavalry detachment occupied Leiwuqi, they galloped south overnight. More than 800 horses were exhausted and more than 300 died of exhaustion.The cavalry reconnaissance company of the 52nd Division maintained a good condition. It arrived in Enda in the early morning of October 19, entered the village in concealment, and captured the sentry of the Tibetan local army alive, and captured 19 Tibetan local army alive.They are snoring and swimming in dreamland.Then, the reconnaissance company secretly occupied the commanding heights of Enda Mountain, launched an attack on the Enda Bridge across the Zaqu River, wiped out one of the final copies of the enemy, and built fortifications on the spot, preparing to meet a large number of Tibetans who were about to flee westward. military. And when Qie Jinwu, the head of the 154 regiment, rushed to Enda with his troops, he looked back and saw that there were only five or six hundred people left in the team of nearly 3,000 people, which was sparse.But the "hole" was finally blocked, and the Tibetan local army has become a soft-shelled turtle and can't be caught. At this time, someone shouted that they were hungry and sleepy. What did you eat on the way! The 154th regiment's supplementary food from Yushu, Qinghai was quickly eaten up. The egg yolk wax and food replacement powder ordered by the central government in Chongqing were malnourished due to capitalists cutting corners. In the hands of soldiers, 12 taels is only enough for one meal.Some of the rice shipped from Sichuan was moldy and spoiled due to the wind and rain.There is a shortage of food, and there is a vast expanse of snow along the way. Hunger appears like a wolf.Its eyes flashed green, and it rushed towards it fiercely. Some soldiers were so hungry that they pulled the cotton out of their padded coats to eat, and some ate powdery fine soil, and couldn't defecate after eating, their stomachs swelled like drums, and they rolled on the ground in pain.Some people picked up yak horns and bones, burnt them to a paste, and then pounded them into powder with stones to eat, and they immediately vomited and diarrhoea.Originally there were quite a few horses in the regiment, but they just walked without grazing, and all of them starved to death.Everyone ate horses, first drank horse blood, and then ate horse meat. The horse skin was boiled in water and stored as dry food.Ma is closer than a brother, and everyone sheds tears while eating.The bones of the horse have become a signpost for the latecomers. On July 1, 1999, a Nanjing photographer who claimed to be Cai Rang Tashi appeared on Jiangsu Satellite TV's "Traveling Kyushu".Wearing a checkered shirt and bearded, he is said to have traveled to Tibet 17 times to take pictures.The Tibet he mentioned is very ordinary, and there is only one photo that makes people feel shocking and unforgettable. This is a black and white photo with great contrast. On the black gravel ground, a slender body is lying on the right side, the bright sunlight covers him like a banner, the oil is glistening, the body has been dried like a hard stone, you can feel his hardness and Texture, his right hand stretched out, like a vigorous dry branch.In front of the right hand, less than two or three meters away, there is an iron military kettle.Obviously, he was extremely thirsty, but he didn't even have the energy to hold the water bottle, and his life collapsed at that moment. According to Cairang Tashi, this was taken on his way from Yushu, Qinghai to Changdu on foot. That time, he walked for a full 51 days. We concluded: This must be a soldier who died in the right army.Nature uses wind, water, and light to leave us an eternal statue.