This sentence became famous all over the world together with the Huaihai Campaign, and became the most vivid portrayal and endorsement of the unity between the China People's Liberation Army and the people.
During the Huaihai Campaign, the four liberated areas in East China, Central China, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and Central China dispatched 5.43 million migrant workers, 206,000 stretchers, 880,000 vehicles, 305,000 shoulder poles and 767,000 livestock, and * * * transported more than 6,543,800 tons of ammunition and 960 million Jin of grain to the front.
Linhuan Town, Suixi County, an important battlefield of Huaihai Campaign, has been circulating such a touching story for decades: a former migrant worker found his shoes broken on the way to deliver goods to the front. In order not to affect the task, he pushed a unicycle barefoot to the front line, and the materials were finally delivered to the position, but his feet were frozen with four toes. The soldiers looked at the frozen feet of migrant workers and lovingly held them in their arms to keep warm. The soldiers didn't know that what migrant workers sent by cart was actually military uniforms and cotton shoes for their winter!
/kloc-in the winter of 0/948, thousands of former migrant workers in Qian Qian pushed wheelbarrows like this, holding the mentality that "the last handful of rice was used as rations, the last foot of cloth was used as military uniforms, the last old quilt was covered on a stretcher, and the last flesh and blood was sent to the battlefield with tears", risking their lives and risking heavy snow.
"The army wins the battle, and the people are the backers". The victory of Huaihai Campaign is the most profound footnote of this sentence.