Eight Thousand Hunan Girls Go to Tianshan

In the early 1950s, Xinjiang was peacefully liberated. New China's policymakers ordered 200,000 officers and soldiers stationed in Xinjiang to reclaim wasteland and farmland, and took root in Xinjiang, determined to change the situation in which land reclamation lasted only one generation since ancient times, so as to achieve the strategic goal of long-term peace and stability. At that time, the vast majority of the 200,000 officers and soldiers stationed in Xinjiang were not yet married. If this problem is not solved, the historical tragedy of "enduring one generation" of reclamation will happen again. Therefore, policymakers decided to recruit female soldiers to solve this problem. Under the call of the Party Central Committee to build Xinjiang, a vigorous wave of joining the army swept across Hunan, Hunan and four rivers. For a time, passionate Hunan girls flocked to the ancient capital Changsha to sign up to join the army. Eight thousand Hunan girls, represented by the twin sisters Cai Ling, Cai Wei, the maid Ximei, and Qiu Yunjie and Zhuang Chuyu from Zhounan Girls' Middle School, with the good wish to build the frontier and the sacred dream of youth, bid farewell to relatives and friends, and rushed to Xinjiang in the dust. Along the way, the Hunan girls went through a lot of hardships. On the way to Xinjiang, they encountered a car rollover accident, and Cai Ling died gloriously. After witnessing this tragedy and feeling strong homesickness, Qiu Yunjie deserted, but fate brought her back to the army. At that time, bandits headed by Mustache were still entrenched in Xinjiang. They were waiting for opportunities to rob food and people, seriously threatening the troops entering Xinjiang. The women of Hunan are unfortunate and