A mighty division must be mighty, and a soldier must have a bloody provenance.

A mighty division must be mighty and soldiers must be bloody. The source is the Army Political Work Conference. The meeting pointed out that in peacetime, soldiers must not be squeamish. Revolutionary soldiers must have a fighting spirit that is not afraid of hardship and death. A mighty army must be mighty, and soldiers must be bloody. This is one of the clear requirements put forward at the conference to cultivate a new generation of revolutionary soldiers with the "four possessions".