In 1942, China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had reached its most difficult moment.
This year, the devils regrouped their forces and launched many harsh sweeps of our army's anti-Japanese base areas.
This sweep was a frenzied counterattack by the devils against the Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and people, and when they could not find the Eighth Route Army, they wantonly killed the common people, and their "kill the light, rob the light, and burn the light" three-light policy brought deep suffering to the Chinese people.
On this day, in a small village below Huailai County in Hebei Province, a middle-aged man wearing a tubu military uniform suddenly broke in. The man's name was Wang Ping, and he was the secretary of the local Communist Party's district party committee.
Due to the severe scrutiny of the common people by the devils during the mop-up, Wang Ping's identity was unfortunately exposed, and he fled here under the pursuit of the devils, and the situation was very critical.
At the moment of the outbreak, a thirteen-year-old boy in the village stepped forward, hid Wang Ping in his home, and deliberately pretended to know nothing, tricking the Japanese devils who came to search for him.
After Wang Ping escaped from danger, he immediately developed a good feeling for this spirited little teenager. "What's your name?" Wang Ping asked kindly.
"My name is Dong Cunrui, don't look at my young age, I am an anti-Japanese militia!" The teenager straightened his chest and replied proudly.
"Be well, you saved my life today, that is, you made a contribution to the anti-Japanese resistance." I see, you are a real little hero of the anti-Japanese resistance! Wang Ping laughed loudly, and since then he and this little teenager named Dong Cunrui have become friends for many years.
Sacrifice yourself to blow up bunkers
In the days that followed, many of Wang Ping's work was carried out smoothly with the cooperation of Dong Cunrui, and he also felt more and more that this young man was ambitious and brave. Soon after, Dong Cunrui smoothly joined the Communist Party under the introduction of Wang Ping.
Unfortunately, Wang Ping was betrayed by traitors in a later operation and died heroically. For Dong Cunrui, Wang Ping was not only his superior leader, but also often took good care of him like his father, and he was deeply saddened by Wang Ping's sacrifice.
He turned grief into strength, and since then he has been more courageous and fearless in battle, making three major meritorious deeds and four small meritorious deeds, and receiving four medals issued by the Party Central Committee.
The medal won by Dong Cunrui
In the blink of an eye, the time came to 1948, and Dong Cunrui participated in the campaign to liberate Chengde Longhua County as the leader of the demolition team.
The battle was very difficult, and the Kuomintang reactionaries built many strong pillboxes and artillery towers in this small county town, relying on the fortifications to resist stubbornly, causing huge casualties to our troops.
Dong Cunrui's company was ordered to capture the Longhua Middle School, which was the key defense of the Kuomintang.
Campaign to liberate Chengde Longhua County
At the beginning, Dong Cunrui led his soldiers to advance step by step, blowing up four artillery towers and five pillboxes on the attack road in succession, and clearing the obstacles for large troops to attack Longhua Middle School.
But just as the troops were about to charge, an enemy bunker in front of the flank suddenly opened fire. The flames of the machine guns firing were about a foot long, and in an instant, the warriors who were launching a charge fell one after another, and the land of the battlefield was stained red by the blood of the soldiers...
The company commander sent out demolition teams several times to pull out this fire point, but the soldiers on duty either fell under the enemy's guns or were suppressed by the ferocious fire, so they had to retreat.
Seeing the comrades around him fall down one by one, Dong Cunrui's eyes turned red, and he picked up an explosive package and rushed out of the trench. Before leaving, he shoved a small note into the hands of the company instructor, which read: "If I sacrifice, this is my last membership fee." ”
Along with the small note, there was also a small paper bag, which contained Dong Cunrui's allowance during this time.
The road to the bunker is not very long, but it seems to be an insurmountable graben. Enemy bullets kept pouring down on Dong Cunrui, and suddenly, a bullet hit Dong Cunrui's left leg, and large streams of blood gushed out.
Dong Cunrui held the explosives bag in one hand and dragged the injured body with the other, and climbed under the enemy's bunker step by step.
The bunker was built in the shape of a bridge, and the enemy's fire point was more than a man above the ground. Because there was no support, Dong Cunrui tried several times to fix the explosive package under the bunker, but failed.
At this moment, the large troops sounded the horn of the general attack, and the soldiers jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the enemy. Dong Cunrui looked at his fallen comrades-in-arms, and then looked up at the tongue of fire coming out of the enemy's machine gun muzzle, and his face showed a look of determination.
Dong Cunrui held up the explosives package in his left hand, tightly pressed against the bottom of the bunker, and his right hand violently pulled the fuse, and a dazzling fire appeared on the lead!
Dong Cunrui is like a granite statue, holding the explosives wrapped in the pattern and not moving. Suddenly, he shouted at the oncoming warriors:
"For the sake of New China, Rush!"
With an earth-shattering noise, the enemy's bunker was blown to pieces. After the fierce shouts of killing, a bright red flag was raised over Longhua City...
Dong Cunrui blew up the bunker
After this battle, the party committee decided to posthumously recognize Comrade Dong Cunrui as a national combat hero and renamed Longhua Middle School, where Dong Cunrui died, to Cunrui Middle School.
The hero Dong Cunrui, the battlefield shows might.
Longhua buried loyal bones, glorious future generations.
Dong Cunrui's sacrifice opened the door to victory in the battle to liberate Longhua County, but it plunged a family of five in Hebei Province into great grief.
CunRui Secondary School
Dong Cunrui's wife, Lu Changling
In 1950, a tall, tall, dark-faced soldier came to Nanshan Fort in Huailai County, Hebei Province, who was General Chen Renqi, the political commissar of Dong Cunrui's former unit.
Chen Renqi had a heavy expression and knocked on the door of an ordinary farmer.
The door was opened by a young woman who looked puzzled at the stranger who had knocked on the door. Chen Renqi took off his military hat and said gently:
"Are you Dong Cunrui's family?" I am his political commissar Chen Renqi, who came to see you on behalf of the troops. ”
Chen Renqi
When the young woman heard these words, her face instantly turned pale, tears poured out of her eyes, and General Chen's words once again aroused her sad memories.
This young woman was Dong Cunrui's former wife, Lu Changling.
That year, Dong Cunrui was fifteen years old. In the countryside at that time, Dong Cunrui had reached the age of marrying a wife and having children. At the urging of his parents, Dong Cunrui met Lu Changling in a neighboring village through a matchmaker, and the two married under the arrangement of the parents of both sides.
The former residence of Dong Cunrui
Lu Changling is three years older than Dong Cunrui, but she feels that her husband is brave and strategic, decisive in case of trouble, no matter what decision Dong Cunrui makes, Lu Changling will firmly support her husband.
Although this family affair was arranged by the parents, the feelings of the husband and wife are very deep.
Not long after this happy life between the two, Dong Cunrui decided to follow the eighth route army to the battlefield to resist Japan. At first, Dong Cunrui's parents resolutely disagreed with their son's departure from the army, but it was Lu Changling who patiently persuaded his in-laws and in-laws and comforted her husband that he would take good care of the old and young in the family and let him fight with peace of mind.
After the bad news of Dong Cunrui's sacrifice came, the whole family fell into great grief, and Lu Changling was even more heartbroken, and he couldn't believe that his newlywed husband had left him like this.
But Lu Changling never forgot the promise he made to her husband before Dong Cunrui left.
She endured grief, taking care of the second elder who had experienced the pain of losing her son, while raising Dong Cunrui's two younger siblings.
Dong Cunrui's relics
Three years have passed, and the family has gradually come out of this grief, but Lu Changling's heart always has a touch of sadness, and when she sleeps at night, the figure of her husband appears in her dream over and over again.
Dong Cunrui's parents were very grateful to Lu Changling, and her mother-in-law advised her many times:
"You're still so young, you still have a long way to go, you can't stay like this forever. Find another good family to marry. ”
Lu Changling cried:
"Mother, if I leave, what can you two do?"
The mother-in-law also blushed:
"You are a good woman, our family is sorry for you, did not let you live a good life..."
Dong Cunrui's parents
Exactly a few days later, General Chen Renqi came to the Dong family, and he looked at the woman who had lost her husband at a young age, and his heart was full of sympathy.
General Chen took out an envelope from his pocket, which contained two hundred yuan of condolence money from the troops, and stuffed it into Lu Changling's hand. He asked softly:
"Is there any difficulty at home?" Whatever it is, the troops will definitely help you solve it. ”
Lu Changling wiped his tears and whispered:
"Dong Cunmei, the younger sister of the family, is about to go to school, but there is no school in the village, and the county town says that it does not meet the conditions for admission."
Dong Cunmei (first from right)
Chen Renqi was very touched, the hero's widow had never considered herself, but had always been worried about the affairs of her in-laws. He quickly promised that he would help them solve the problem of their little sister's schooling.
In the small talk that followed, Dong Cunrui's mother pulled General Chen aside and quietly said:
"We all hope that Changling can find another good family, but she will not agree, you are the leader, help us persuade her."
Chen Renqi nodded and agreed, and he advised Lu Changling that the army would definitely take good care of Dong Cunrui's parents in the future, she was so young, she could not live alone in the future, even if she remarried, she was still a relative of the Dong family, and she could go home at any time to see.
Under the persuasion of her mother-in-law and General Chen, Lu Changling agreed, but she proposed that she must give Dong Cunrui three years of filial piety before considering remarrying.
In this way, Lu Changling stayed in the Dong family for a few more years, and has been raising Dong Cunrui's younger siblings, which is why he married a young man who worked in the local factory.
On the day of the marriage, Dong Cunrui's parents prepared a dowry for Lu Changling, and sent Lu Changling to the other party's home like a daughter. The second elder said to Lu Changling:
"If you want to come back later, come back, the Dong family is your second home!"
After getting married, Lu Changling often returned to Dong Cunrui's house to help the second elder do some housework and often chatted with them.
Not long after, Lu Changling gave birth to a daughter for her current husband.
But she fell ill because of this birth, and has been bedridden ever since, and unfortunately died a few years later.
Former residence of Dong Cunrui
Dong Cunrui's parents and siblings
Dong Cunrui's father was named Dong Quanzhong, and he and his wife Sun Zhen were simple peasant families.
In 1945, Dong Cunrui was already a squad leader in the army. On this day, Dong Cunrui's troops happened to be on a mission near Huailai County. Dong Cunrui took an opportunity to ask the platoon leader for leave and came to his home to visit his parents and wife who had been separated for a long time
Due to the busy task, Dong Cunrui could only stay at home for a short time, which coincided with Dong Quanzhong doing farm work outside, and just when Dong Cunrui and his mother and wife said goodbye, his father Dong Quanzhong returned home.
Dong Quanzhong
In fact, Dong Quanzhong initially disagreed with Dong Cunrui leaving home to join the army, but at this time, seeing that his son was full of energy and had grown from a half-sized man to an independent man, Dong Quanzhong's lips trembled for a while, and finally he just said:
"Be careful when you are outside, the enemy's bullets do not have long eyes, win more battles in the troops, go home early..."
He knew that his son had been unafraid since he was a child, and when he was a child, he joined the children's regiment as the leader of the regiment and helped the troops fight the devils. What parent would bear to have his son risk his life out there to fight?
But Dong Quanzhong also understood that his son fought with the revolutionary contingent not only for his own family, but also for thousands of ordinary people like himself.
Dong Quanzhong and his wife would never have imagined that Dong Cunrui's departure was actually a farewell between his son and them.
After the news of Dong Cunrui's sacrifice came, Dong Quanzhong and his wife burst into tears and could not cry, and his wife Sun Zhen could not accept the fact of her son's sacrifice, and once fainted.
Dong Quanzhong, as the head of the family, soon woke up from his grief. Since then, Dong Quanzhong has worked harder, working greedily in order to support his family.
After Dong Cunrui's deeds spread throughout the country, Dong Quanzhong and Sun Zhen were also respected by the people of the whole country as the parents of the heroes. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Dong Quanzhong also participated in the condolence group for aiding Korea as the father of a hero to encourage and cheer up the soldiers of the volunteer army.
After that, Dong Quanzhong was successively elected as a deputy to the People's Congress of Huailai County and Hebei Province, and he once traveled all over the country as a family member of the martyr to publicize Dong Cunrui's heroic deeds to the people, call on people to learn from Dong Cunrui, and make important contributions to establishing a good atmosphere in society.
After retirement, although the state paid Dong Quanzhong a generous pension every year, he has always maintained a simple life. In his later years, Dong Quanzhong lived with his son Dong Cunjin and personally went to the street to buy vegetables until he was 90 years old.
In 1992, Dong Quanzhong died at home at the age of 92, and although his life was plain, he was always upright and lenient, and eventually raised heroic descendants such as Dong Cunrui.
Aren't the heroes and heroes of the Party and the country born in such a simple and good family?
Dong Quanzhong (right)
Dong Cunrui also has a younger brother and a younger sister, named Dong Cunjin and Dong Cunmei respectively.
When Dong Cunrui died, his younger siblings were still six or seven years old.
After Dong Cunjin grew up, as the only man in the family, he took the initiative to take care of his parents, he used to kill pigs and sell meat for people in order to make a living, and also sold watermelons at roadside stalls, which was once very difficult at home.
Dong Cunjin
However, Dong Cunjin never sought benefits for himself because of his status as a martyr's family, but kept a low profile and earned money by relying on his hard work to support his family.
It was not until a year later that the Dong family's difficult living conditions attracted the attention of the organization, and Dong Cunjin was assigned to work in a local flour mill.
Although this job was very tiring, it provided a living guarantee for Dong Cunjin's family, and Dong Cunjin also successfully married and had children after that, and also bought a house in Huailai County, bringing his parents from the countryside where they had lived for decades to the city to live.
Dong Cunjin worshipped his brother Dong Cunrui
Dong Cunjin always followed the example of his eldest brother, who often took a share of his meager salary and donated it to the local Hope Project, which, although not much, showed the spirit of selfless dedication of a martyr's family.
Dong Cunjin gave birth to four children successively, the eldest son Dong Jixian grew up to serve as the director of the Huailai County Wine Bureau, the eldest daughter Dong Jiying served as a teacher at Cunrui Middle School in Longhua County, where Dong Cunrui was sacrificed; the second daughter, Dong Jihong, served in the Armed Police Hospital in Beijing; and the eldest daughter Dong Jihua later served as the president of the court in Zhuolu County, Hebei Province.
Dong Cunrui's sister Dong Cunmei did not live up to the hopes of her sister-in-law Lu Changling, she solved the enrollment problem with the help of the organization, maintained excellent results in school, worked in the national civil affairs department after graduation, and finally married a PLA soldier.
Dong Cunmei
The glorious deeds of his nephew Ai Dong
It is worth mentioning that Dong Cunrui's nephew, that is, Dong Cunmei's son Ai Dong, is also a great party member who sacrificed his life for the country.
When Ai Dong was very young, Dong Cunmei told him about the deeds of his uncle Dong Cunrui and warned him that in the future, he must take his uncle as his life model and be a person who serves the country and the people.
Young Ai Dong firmly remembered his mother's words. After growing up, Ai Dong did not hesitate to choose to enter the public security organs and became a conscientious people's policeman.
In his work, Ai Dong always insisted on rushing to the front line, successfully completed every work task, and was unanimously praised by the local people. In his heart, the great image of his uncle Dong Cunrui has always inspired him.
Ai Dong
In 2020, the outbreak of the new crown epidemic swept through most of China in a short period of time.
As a people's policeman, Ai Dong has been sleepless for several days, fighting on the front line of the fight against the epidemic and handling nearly 10,000 people's demands.
On February 15, Ai Dong suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage on his way to work and died six days later at the age of 45.
Ai Dong inherited the great spirit of selfless dedication of his uncle Dong Cunrui, and this family of martyrs once again appeared a great hero who sacrificed his life for the country.
The boy does not show his ambition, and he is born with an eight-foot body.
Countless revolutionary martyrs represented by Dong Cunrui exchanged their blood for our beautiful life today, and Dong Cunrui's family inherited his spirit of selfless dedication and shone brightly in their respective posts. We should follow these people's example, be upright, work diligently, and make our due contributions to society and the country.