Great times call for great spirits, noble causes need to be led by example, and there is a force called example. Today's protagonist is a "great hidden warrior", he is Xiao Wanshi.
In China at the beginning of the last century, the aggression of conservative imperialism, the country's mountains and rivers were broken, the people were displaced, and the entire Chinese nation was in dire straits. At that time, people with lofty ideals in China were all seeking the road to save the country and survive, but only after the Communist Party of China did our nation see the dawn of coming out of this deep and fiery water. Xiao Wanshi was born in such an era.
Xiao Wanshi was born in 1905 to a peasant family in Xiyou Village, Xingtai County, Hebei Province. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, under the influence of his eldest brother and second brother, he joined the local guerrilla team and became a member of the Hebei guerrilla death squad. In 1937, the traitors betrayed them, and under the guidance of the traitors, the Japanese army washed the village of Xiyu in blood. Xiao Wanshi's parents and sister, as well as all the villagers in Xiyou Village, were burned alive by the cruel Japanese army, his eldest brother Xiao Wannian also died gloriously in the process of resisting the Japanese army, and the second brother Xiao Wangui's life and death are unknown. The hatred of the national enemies suddenly poured into Xiao Wanshi's mind, and he vowed not to share the heavens with the Japanese devils, and in order to avenge the death of his relatives and fathers and fellow countrymen, the only way to kill more devils was to do more.
In order to "avenge the Japanese devils", he had to join the right team, so in July 1937, Xiao Wanshi joined the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army with the integration of the guerrillas. At that time, the Eighth Route Army lacked equipment and materials, and Xiao Wanshi, who had just joined the Eighth Route Army, did not even get a gun, he only received a large knife. As the old saying goes, "an inch is long and an inch is strong", Xiao Wanshi felt that the big knife was too short, so he made a spear by himself, and from then on he began his "journey of revenge". One day, Xiao Wanshi led four or five soldiers in reconnaissance, and suddenly found a Japanese squad of more than 10 people bathing in the river, he sent someone to secretly solve the Japanese sentry, took away the Japanese clothes, and then pointed at the Japanese troops in the river was a shuttle of bullets, the Japanese troops in the river were suddenly killed and wounded, even if there were people who could climb to the shore, they were stabbed to death with spears.
Xiao Wanshi is the well-known "no life" of the army, just as the so-called "only those who are not afraid of death deserve to live", it is precisely this "no life" momentum that makes him repeatedly make battle achievements and at the same time be able to retreat in danger. Once, Xiao Wanshi sneaked into the devil's turret with only one warrior, and the two cooperated with each other to kill 19 devils in a row. During the sneak attack on the Japanese airfield, he led a squad of troops to blow up seven or eight Japanese aircraft. I thought that this kind of thing would only happen in the "anti-Japanese drama", but who knew that the facts were more wonderful than the comedy, and Xiao Wanshi was the absolute protagonist of this drama. One day in April 1938, the frenzied Japanese army launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army garrison, and Xiao Wanshi's unit was trapped in a small village. After several days and nights of fierce fighting with the encircling Japanese army, a team of several hundred people finally highlighted the Japanese encirclement with only fifty or sixty people. Xiao Wanshi was also seriously injured in the process of breaking through, he was shot in the chest by his comrades-in-arms from the pile of dead people, at that time there was a shortage of medical supplies, the doctor did not have anesthesia when operating on Xiao Wanshi, so the doctor tied his hands to the chair, and in the absence of anesthesia, he used a metal wire to pick out the shrapnel and clothing fragments remaining in Xiao Wanshi's chest. In ancient times, there was an allusion to the Second Master scraping his bones to heal his wounds and read the Spring and Autumn Period, and Xiao Wanshi was also a "cruel man" like Guan Erye.
It was such a person who killed the enemy without blinking an eye, but he could not see the suffering of the poor, and he joined the Communist Party and was punished for violating discipline. When Xiao Wanshi and his troops collected opium in Zhaotong, Yunnan, some elderly and infirm old people had already developed a huge dependence on opium, and they used opium as a painkiller to relieve physical pain, and confiscating opium meant that they could not escape the pain caused by the disease in the future. Therefore, these old and infirm old people begged Xiao Wanshi bitterly, hoping that he could leave them some opium, and Xiao Wanshi could not bear to see these old people suffering from disease at the end of their lives, so they left a little opium for them, and as a result, they were punished because of poor harvesting. In the 1960s, when there was a large-scale famine in the country, Xiao Wanshi was serving as the director of the grain station in the urban area of Leibo County. A worker ran to the grain store to steal food because there was no food in his home, and was arrested. After Xiao Wanshi learned about the situation, he was extremely sympathetic and insisted on letting people go, and he did not hesitate to eat punishment for this, and sure enough, there was another punishment in his file.
Throughout his life, Xiao Wanshi was indifferent to fame and fortune, never mentioning his previous glorious deeds to anyone, but when he talked about his dead comrades-in-arms, he couldn't help but shed tears. Just as the so-called "boy has tears, not flicks, but not to the sad place", the cruel war has made Xiao Wanshi into a steel-like figure, but the iron man finally has tenderness, and his extreme compassion has made him more charming. On April 2, 2009, the elderly Xiao Wanshi died of illness at the Second People's Hospital of Liangshan Prefecture at the age of 104. In a file of the elderly provided by the Organization Department of Leibo County, there is such a record: 10 first-class merits and 12 second-class merits. This is the real "big hidden in the city"! Although Elder Xiao died, history and the people will remember him.
The people's hero is immortal, he should not be forgotten, he is Xiao Wanshi!
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