Early in the morning, open the window, the sky gray, sporadic snowflakes fluttering in the air, the northwest wind rushed the window, the cold air all of a sudden infiltrated the warm underwear skin, seepage of cold airflow makes my chest and arm cold uncomfortable. Sharply closed the glass window fan, flakes of snowflakes, wind into the stifling, drifting down on the floor, instantly also be dissolved into small drops of water. Looked at the north side of the high-rise, early windows are still lit up that a bright light, flickering sparse and bright, baked this dark, cold and snowy start of a new day. Immersed in this full of warmth and quiet beauty, soft and loving let my mind deeper and deeper. Step into the downtown people's rhythm of life, the morning before dinner, or after dinner, to take time out, must go downstairs to complete a warm-up more than half an hour of fast-paced exercise, which has been a habit of their own. Walked through the neighborhood, past the city armed police detachment east of a long alley, has been to the south of the Fengjia Plateau direction of travel, in front of two slow uphill cement road, choose one of them became the beginning of my warm-up exercise. The snow fluttered from light to heavy, and the cold wind began to chill my face, then turned into an ear-freezing discomfort. As the snow got heavier, I turned around early and headed back. Cold accompanied by the first snow before the New Year, became the main tone of the city, white became the main color of the city. Walking, looking at the snow dancing with the dark sky and full of snow, the brain can not help but look up, I remembered that there have been those who touched the snow a little piece of love to come. The more the wind blew, the more the snow danced, the more wild, the more I tried to remember, the more I couldn't break away from the white touch and memory. I shouted out loud the primitive memories of our youthful military service, and searched hard for the fragments of memories that remained in the depths of my brain. At this time, my footprints were covered by a vast blanket of white snow, my voice was also swallowed by the bitter cold wind ...... eyes to see only the white snow in the protection of wrapped tightly walking silhouette. I suddenly realized that this seems to be covered by snow, just from the boring cans of the military train off to go to the military station to eat the crowd. There were teams, groups, and figures squatting in a big circle under the snow to eat. The sky is gray, far from being able to see, only close to be able to see clearly, they turned out to be a doll of recruits who have not yet been eliminated by the elegance of the air. Decades have passed, those days in the border military, has long been deep in my memory years, as long as the light touch that related to the scene of the root string, olive green life will emerge to come ...... That is a minus 30 degrees of snow in the north of the military station, may be standing here to be waiting for the reason of eating, these have just come out of junior high school, high school, baby soldiers, most of them in the middle of the day. Out of the baby soldiers, mostly in the cold snow was frozen rubbing small hands, not just quietly is standing in line waiting to eat, but stood there many recruits feet, legs, or arms, was frozen in the slight shaking. Station staff carried over a small pot of rice, doll soldiers one after another to hand over a dark green teeth brushing small porcelain jar jar, a large rice spoon just to fill a small porcelain jar of rice. I put a hand in the hot still bubbling with the hot air of the dark green porcelain cylinder, the other was frozen trembling a little less flexible hand, quickly in the bun basin grabbed two already cold, because of the alkali and yellowed military steamed bread, bite a big bite of steamed bread, drink a small mouthful of rice, constantly changing the rhythm in the rapid eating, six, seven minutes time four steamed bread into my stomach. Ten minutes to, gather on the train whistle blew. Each team of receiving cadres immediately counted the number of people lined up to board the boring train. We got on the tank train again and continued northward. In the black goo in the space, the long line of this tank military train, every morning or noon only once in the next station temporary parking 15 minutes, the recruits off the collective only ten minutes of meal time, the rest of the receiving platoon leader in the tank box to each person to send a few brought their own food emergency hunger. The biggest disadvantage of sitting in the tank car is that you want to relieve the problem, then the receiving platoon leader will pull the door open arm can reach out to the small gap, so that the recruits stand in the gap mouth to urinate outside, at first, the first three recruits are not accustomed to the urine held back for a long time, can't hold on to it, both hands holding the small stomach to play the report, the platoon leader and the temporary designation of the squad leader, one by one, to help them up and stand in the car door, and then take off their pants for convenience, just a little bit, just a little bit of urine, the first time they are not used to the urine. Take off your pants for convenience, just a little bit of urine, at this time, the platoon leader is playing the Sichuan accent loudly to the recruits lecture: "I told you a long time ago, the matter of relieving themselves to be arranged early ah! They are all male children, but also hard to hold on, but also what shame son? The train traveled fast, and from time to time it also swayed, standing in the doorway of the train, they were so nervous that they could not pee. This scared the receiving platoon leader. Temporarily appointed squad leader, but also very understanding, kept comforting them, the three of them stood in the doorway for a while, gradually also relaxed the tension, and finally a little bit at a time, and finally successfully solved their own problems. The three people's foreign appearance, but also caused the car box of more than forty of the same Zhou original recruits dolls laughed. With this lesson, the platoon leader, squad leader at any time when the temporary stop will urge everyone: "that have a big solution quickly get off, the car stopped quickly get off to find a person can not see the place to solve!" Train in the halfway need to avoid traffic and temporary parking to make way, parking is also up to twenty minutes of time. We also take advantage of this gap, quickly get off the train near the tracks to find a nook and cranny sheltered place to solve the problem of their own big solution. However, only the squad and platoon leaders keep an eye on the recruits getting off the train, shouting and screaming. The next stop stop off, the front ran over to the receiving corps correspondent by car box notification, said there are two recruits in the last stop fell out of the line did not get on the train, the receiving corps head instructed not to get off the car casually, to count the number of people in a timely manner! Later we learned that in this trip to transport more than 2,000 recruits on the military train, the two recruits get off the big relief, did not grasp the point of their own time, the train is away, they reacted, carrying pants running, shouting, but the train is still running it, there is no reaction to stop. They chased a period of time, and ran back to help the nearby train station. Later, after the railroad informed the situation to the previous station, notified the special train on the head of the receiving corps, and the train just stopped at the next station, that lost two recruits platoon leader also got off the receiving platoon quickly ran to the front of the car to the head of the receiving corps to report the loss of new recruits, the platoon leader was more than the head of the receiving corps severely reprimanded a meal. Finally, the head of the receiving corps in charge of the military train to coordinate the railroad department, the two were forgotten by the train recruits, was arranged by the railroad department in the back of the train coaches, so that they take the train coaches to the troops to report. Long time sitting in the boring tank car is lonely and monotonous, receiving platoon leader on the organization of recruits to liven up the atmosphere, to teach singing songs, a will sing a few phrases of the Qinqiang classmates recruits, but also volunteered to sing the hometown of the Qinqiang, the atmosphere is immediately active, there is no moping and desertion, these Zhouyuan out of the young dolls are very excited, but also very active. Tank car in the mountains and mountains through, in the desert Gobi Beach rush, while the tank train of a car box in the song, slogan sound, but long echoed on the railroad. Three days and four nights of the smothered train trip finally came to an end, off the train, full of snow under the platform, a white, has been parked to pull new recruits of the shed trucks lined up in a row, a glance at the edge, estimated that there are a hundred and ten of them. Above the trucks there is a thick deposit of white snow, it can be seen that the vehicles are placed here to wait for a long time. A large truck went up more than twenty recruits, the trunk of the recruits with backpacks on both shoulders stood full. The sky here is still like three days ago from the Zhou Yuan earth we line up on the military column, the gray dark snowy sky, but the landform here is not like the Zhou Yuan home landform characteristics. Although it is the same snow-covered, but, here the landscape without trees, villages, mountainous terrain without the Zhouyuan home mountain range characteristics, but more bare hills and a glance forget the head of the wide wilderness. Receiving platoon leader said that this is the Gobi Desert area, to reach the troop site also need to walk for a few hours. Later, to the Wenzhugou tank unit single recruit training company, only to realize that the army station is still a minority area. Here is separated from the Qilian Mountains, a large Gobi Beach hill area, the periphery of the hill area here, one side of the mountain pass is connected to the Gobi Beach, one side of the mountain behind the desert, the other side of the mountain behind the pasture grasslands of ethnic minorities. Tank unit battalion, company stationed in the two hills between the two broad river beds on both sides to the foothills of the zone, three battalions of nine tank companies of the three tank yards are set up in the battalion quarters of the hills between the cracks, but also set up the relevant protective devices, which is the main force in order to conceal, inconvenient to be detected by the enemy's satellites. Here belongs to the alpine region, the winter climate is cold, more than 30 degrees below zero, the coldest up to more than 40 degrees. The vast Gobi Beach, a glimpse of the edge. Only from the Qilian Mountain snow water washed down to form a wide riverbed, has long been frozen into a white thick ice, both sides of a piece of no green woods, and sporadic pine trees to appear a little vitality, give a person visually comfortable. A battalion camp exit is connected to the desert Gobi. The vast Gobi Beach, a look at the edge, the Yangtze River sunset round, the desert smoke straight. From the Zhou Yuan land came 151 student soldiers, the age of small 17 years old, individual big 20 years old. First came, each can not adapt to the cold climate here for a while, young student dolls, most of the frostbite, but, they all spirit is very high, no one on the training ground lagged behind. Three months of recruit training is over. After the Spring Festival, we were unified these recruits were assigned to the various companies, in addition to the tank battalion company, the regiment also has engineers, chemical defense, armored infantry, reconnaissance, repair, transport, communications and other companies, down to the old company, a day of life training is also on track, and the same as the veterans, get up every morning, drill, eat, finished, began classes, political education, or in accordance with the training syllabus, military theory, field training, vehicle operation, target practice, and the same as the old soldiers. The company's training program, the car operation, target practice, and sometimes also war education, cultural learning, dual-use talent learning, business trips, etc., down to the old company, a day of life and work and rest time schedule is quite tense. In the summer, high temperature and dry, because of the lack of water, the regimental bathhouse a few weeks to be lined up to take a shower, and every day from the training ground back to the tank armor members, from the car out of all full of dust, like a native, wash the problem all by themselves to find a way to get water to solve. Summer, in case of thunderstorms, soldiers are joyfully stripped off the upper and lower outerwear inner shirt, only wearing a pants, and each carry an empty washbasin, hanging a towel around the neck, standing in front of the door, everyone's head like a rattlesnake looking up at the sky, only for a while, thunderstorms drift down from a small gradual, comrades are happy to shout, and in the barracks in front of the door to the courtyard to rinse their heads and upper body, easy and comfortable cozy laughs continually. They very imaginatively called this joyful bathing landscape "heavenly bath", meaning that it was a gift from heaven to them. Comrades said, thunderstorm shower is really comfortable. However, this treatment is not much, a summer or two times, because, here is a cold and arid area. Sometimes, the most difficult for the comrades to accept is, naked just wash with vigor! Suddenly, the sky stopped raining, the rainbow also appeared, they are reluctant to use a towel in the washbasin to play some water, a simple wipe, to cope with a little bit of preaching, or waiting for the regiment's bathing hall of the time schedule and then go to take a refreshing bath. Later, the troops also played a deep machine well, which greatly shortened the cadres and soldiers for a long time can not shower the problem of the troops stationed in the spring, summer, fall, winter are not seasonally comfortable weather environment, summer more than 40 degrees, field training more than 50 degrees, the Gobi Beach reflexes the temperature is also higher, if the field training will make your cheeks on the sun off the skin, and the most difficult to bear is the winter, more than 30 degrees below zero, if the field training is to be more than 40 degrees below zero. More than one degree. Comrades face every day, is the cold and freezing, bitter and tired, night out on duty must also have enough courage. Each warrior in the day and night, have to rotate in the camp and the car park two stand guard, a post during the day, the night also stand a guard. Field ravine of the car park duty stand guard, the night is alone to go more than a mile away from the camp in the field car park to change the guard, to fulfill their own 1 to 2 hours of standing guard of solitude, sometimes in the middle of the night or the night after the night, a person to go to the tanks car park stand guard, inevitably, there are still dangerous things. Yard is a simple ravine flat area, long-term parking of sealed tanks for war preparations, armored vehicles in rows and rows, wrapped in a large bandage. Here there is no fence, the car park around the open, accompanied by the occasional jackals and beasts halfway up the mountainside barking, in this empty car park, can not help but make you a person's scalp numb up. However, such a night life, recruits are also a night and a night to stay up for several years time, recruits have also become veterans, gerbera flowers fall cold wind, thorns and thistles full of wild gentleman know themselves. "The new air spreads the golden watchman, and the cold light shines on the iron clothes". Far from home, in the harsh environment of the Gobi border, comrades bear the grinding, depression, suffering and monotony, thin body, in this hot barracks, a young become increasingly sturdy and strong up, they became qualified tank crew, there are when the tank driver, there are when the gun commander and the commander, some of the military school, was promoted, and was retained by the team was transferred to the volunteer non-commissioned officers. A few years have passed, they should also visit their families, but also almost to the age of discharge. From the army on the road these Zhou Yuan's children, harvesting the joy and applause, but also accompanied by setbacks and challenges, green dreams, personal progress and growth, holding their dreams all the way forward. Four years, five years later they came out of these few bare mountain ditches one after another, discharged back to the Zhouyuan hometown, only a few comrades more than ten years before the transfer back to the Zhouyuan hometown. The end of the year, the troops began the year-end summary of work, the winter discharge time has come. When notified, these comrades from the Zhouyuan enlisted here, one by one is about to leave the barracks here forever, each battalion veterans are tearful parting, sobbing cries and other with the days north and south enlisted here in the battalion, the company's, comrades arms embracing each other, seemingly hard to part with. In such a little bit of sky, with the training, with labor, with the game. On the training ground than kung fu, song contest for the first, blue ball game for high scores, five kilometers cross-country show high and low. In these seemingly ordinary work in the army they have formed a comradeship. Send off the old comrades of the car slowly in leaving the barracks, sand and soil raised the dust of the sky, while sitting in the trunk of these veterans, but one by one, struggling to use both eyes to look at the beloved barracks with deep affection for the last time, everyone's cheeks teardrops dripping. Perhaps, from now on, this life no longer have the opportunity to come here, they want to put this scene in front of them, forever in their memories ...... When the soldiers really leave the barracks and return home at that moment, the barracks in their hearts is difficult to part with. This also makes each veteran comrades emotion, excitement, pain and sadness, parting comradeship so that they lose their temper, that time shed is not tears, is the friendship, is also fondness. I often think that the military is the definition of dedication. In the world, that the most beautiful sentiment is no more than the military, no more than comradeship. They are in everyone's own best years, knowing that it is a short-term obligation for the national defense, but to put their lives on the line to practice the kind of technology that they may not be able to use in their lifetime; knowing that they deduce one program after another, they may not be able to use their own life once, but they have to pour their life's work there; everyone waiting to carry out the orders of the superiors at any time, knowing that the front is surrounded by danger, but also willing to bravely face it, but also to be willing to face it. Each person is always waiting to carry out the orders of their superiors, knowing that the dangers ahead are all around, but also willing to face them bravely, dedicating their own youth, and even sacrificing their own young lives. Gobi barracks snow and Zhou Yuan's hometown snow, seemingly the same and not the same, the snow are swallowed by the bitterly cold sky and snow, the snow is also more and more white, the snow is also more and more under the cold, the snow also outlines a beautiful picture. Under the snow curtain, and the only loss of comrades engraved in the bones of those memories of the remaining fragments, now and then show will make my mood melancholy and hurt. I saw my deputy company commander Qiu Youming, saw me in the division propaganda section of the Office of Public Information to learn, that hand in hand to teach me to take pictures to develop photos of the photography officer Zhao Hongdou, both of them waving at me in the smile to me. Thinking of the helplessness of the sacrifice of the two of them, my ears and vaguely reflecting the sound of the two military wives crying, recalling that they jumped on the remains of their husbands have long been no signs of life on the scene, recalling those martyrs' graves on the pile of clumps and clusters of camel grass and the size of the Gobi sand and gravel, the pain of this mark permanently burned in my heart, this life is difficult to smooth. The sacrifice of my two brothers and sisters in arms has become a lifelong wound. In the border defense, in the army, the sacrifice of soldiers is very common. Anti-aircraft battalion winter target practice in the snow on the way back to cause more than ten soldiers died on the spot special major accidents; and communications battalion field readiness training to pull hanging telephone lines, distant lightning and thunder, but inducted in more than 100,000 volts of high-voltage lines, resulting in the training of more than a dozen comrades were inducted into the high-voltage electricity knocked down, the soles of the thick rubber shoes were mercilessly penetrated, all of them sacrificed... ...And ...... and ...... these sacrifices can be enlisted in the army one, two years of new comrades ah! The youngest was less than 18 years old, and the oldest was 20 years old. The sacrifice of these comrades, may not be the same year and I put on a new uniform from the County Armed Forces Department, and was assigned to go to the southern border defense forces to participate in the battle of Laoshan, the Battle of the Yinshan Fufeng five comrades of the sacrifices of so heroic, but, the southern border, the north of the sacrifice of their comrades, they are all for the protection of national defense and national defense construction, they are not in, but their sacrifice of their bodies reflected in the soul of the military, but Forever in people's minds, let people miss. The names of the martyrs cannot be forgotten, and the souls of the martyrs will be passed on from generation to generation. It is gratifying that in the southern border self-defense counterattacks sacrificed Fufeng nationality of the bones of five soldiers, and later by the Fufeng County People's Government related agencies to move back to the Zhou Yuan hometown, was placed at the foot of the Qiaoshan Fufeng County Martyrs' Cemetery, the martyrs returned to their homeland, but also to facilitate the martyrs' loved ones and comrades in arms of the tribute. However, I was in the northern border, those who sacrificed their comrades? But they are still sleeping in the old army on the desert edge of the Gobi Beach, accompanied by them is the border of snow, is camel grass, red willow, is the date and poplar, and every day to hear the troops out of the drill command sound, the sound of the military bugle and the Gobi iron cavalry armored vehicles powerful super roar. About the old troops in the short video of the environmental situation of the troop site is very attractive to the eye, is not far from the troop site there is a Wenzhu monastery, where there are more Buddhist scripture caves, monasteries are densely distributed, known as the "300 Zen room". When the army came here, I heard that only a caretaker of the Tibetan old man. This monastery is Buddhism after the introduction of China, the earliest missionary to build a temple, is said to be the place of Manjushri incarnation. The caves here are named for the large number of Buddhist scriptures stored in them. I had been there twice during my first year as a new recruit, just standing outside the temple and wandering around. At that time, part of the cave was occupied by the local government's archives department, which stored permanent historical records. In two dry years later, the nation's religious hot a rise, not far from the troops of this religious site has become a believer and tourists of the lively place, the local more than Mongolian, Yugu herdsmen along the wide riverbed to build their own national color tents, but also engaged in tourism attractions of economic development activities. Decades, the old troops and the Gobi Desert, desert, grasslands surrounded by this Wenshugou changes can be really big ah! Years like water, the years wasted, unknowingly forgot a lot. Once those familiar young face, youthful figure, are in the wind of the years farther and farther away, only the remaining unforgettable memory of those fragments of traces, scattered into a patchwork, and never find their yesterday's style and brocade prosperity. Although back to the Zhouyuan hometown for many years, in the border barracks of the joy of the scene, as if slowly faded away, only in the border troops lost brothers and sisters in arms and in their own psychological pain has become the pain of the memory of the afterlife. Often run from Zhouyuan to Baoji, Xi'an, not more things, but more attached. Life is beautiful because of too much experience, and fate is wonderful because we have gathered together in a special environment. Snowflakes are flying, and the gray sky is not visible. These objects will touch my heart, hit the nerve endings of my memory, and this environment in winter, will be every time I hooked the floodgates of memory, those who lost, those memories of the past, those who have given their own hurt, sometimes can not help but let their eyes wet. A person once from the military history is a lifetime of permanent unforgettable experience. When the dedication of youth place, has long been things are not the same, but the strong friendship of comrades is always still there, which can never fade. Only experienced, is the most unforgettable; only lost comrades, is also the most unforgettable pain. A person once from the military history is a lifetime of permanent unforgettable experience. When the dedication of youth place, has long been things are not the same, but the strong friendship of comrades is always still there, which can never fade. I saw the pictures and short videos of the old army taken by the comrades who returned to the old army in the group of comrades, which was very exciting and thrilling. After several military reforms, the old unit has been downgraded from a division to a brigade, and the tank division has been transformed into an armored synthetic brigade, which is a synthetic brigade equipped with drones, helicopter gunships, and other types of weapons, which is also in line with the needs of national defense development. About the old troops short video in the environmental situation of the troops station is very attractive to the eye, is not far from the troops station has a Wenzhu monastery, where there are more Buddhist scripture caves, the distribution of monasteries is dense, known as the "three hundred Zen room". When I first joined the army to come here, I heard that there is only a caretaker of the Tibetan old man. This monastery is the first place where Tibetan Buddhism was built after the introduction of Buddhism to China, and it is said to be the place of Manjushri's incarnation. The caves here are known for their many Buddhist scriptures. During my first year as a new recruit, I visited the monastery twice, but only stood outside and looked around. At that time, part of the cave was occupied by the local government's archives department, which housed permanent historical records. In two dry years later, the nation's religious fever a rise, not far from the troops of this religious site has become a believer and tourists of the lively place, the local more than Mongolian, Yugu herdsmen along the wide riverbed to build their own national color tents, but also engaged in tourism attractions of economic development activities. Decades, the old troops and the Gobi Desert, desert, grasslands surrounded by this Wenshugou changes can be really big, but also become a hot spot for tourism! Only experienced, is the most unforgettable; only lost comrades, is also the most unforgettable pain. We are sighing, sadness Happened around a living life disappeared at the same time, but also in the heart of the feeling of such a group of people, they are using their blood and young life cast the steel military soul, although they sacrificed, they are still permanently live in our hearts, their military soul has been guarding and defending the motherland's borders. The annual Qingming Festival of the soul, but also to my memories of these fragments, dedicated to the defense of the border and for the national defense construction of those who lost their young lives in comrades to pay tribute to their souls!