One body turned to fight for three thousand miles, and one sword once served as a million divisions. ——Wang Wei, "The Veteran General's Journey"
China is now a powerful country, and today China is ahead of the world in both economy and culture. China's achievements today cannot be separated from those revolutionary ancestors who threw their heads and spilled their blood for China's liberation. Those revolutionary ancestors gave their youth for the liberation of China, for the Chinese people to stand up, and some even gave their lives. After the founding of New China, some of those revolutionary ancestors entered the political arena and continued to shine for the development of China, and some hid their merits and fame. The 104-year-old man died, and when the children collected the relics, they found several medals and learned the identity of the old man.
The old man we are going to talk about today is called Xiao Wanshi. Xiao Wanshi was born in 1905 in Hebei, and Xiao Wanshi was born in the era of war, when the War of Resistance Against Japan began. Xiao Wanshi knew that he was Chinese, and he also saw China invaded by Japanese devils. Xiao Wanshi and his brothers joined the anti-Japanese guerrillas, and in the anti-Japanese guerrillas, Xiao Wanshi has always been brave and good at war.
On the battlefield, Xiao Wanshi's eldest brother was brutally killed by the Japanese army, and his second brother also lost his whereabouts, Xiao Wanshi was very sad, his relatives left him forever because of the war, so his hatred for the Japanese army increased day by day.
Xiao Wanshi turned his hatred of the Japanese army into a motivation for him to go into battle and kill the enemy, and he knew that his family had left him, so he was even more unconcerned. On the battlefield, every time Xiao Wanshi did his best, he went to battle without any worries to kill the enemy. Although Xiao Wanshi showed no mercy on the battlefield, he gave the enemy a hard blow every time. But he got along very well with his comrades in the battlefield, and Xiao Wanshi was a very gentle person, and he was very gentle with everyone. Everyone who has been with Xiao Wanshi says that Xiao Wanshi is a gentle and meticulous person. When accepting the task, he tried his best to complete it every time, and Xiao Wanshi was also highly praised for completing these tasks.
Once Xiao Wanshi was tasked with destroying all the poppies. For some people at the time, the poppy was a source of drugs, and for the people who grew them, it was the hope of their lives, and they grew poppies to make money to fill their stomachs. The local villagers begged Shawwan to spare them, leave their poppies, and let them sell them in exchange for some food and clothing. Although Xiao Wanshi wanted to complete the task, he also knew that these people were in urgent need of these poppies, so he took them away. But he found a rich merchant and asked them to give these people a lot of money. This rich merchant made his living by exploiting the people in Japan, and now it is reasonable for him to distribute some of his money to the people.
Xiao Wanshi also did his best in carrying out the subsequent tasks, and every time he used his best to complete the task, he also paid attention to protecting the interests of the people while completing the task. Later, Xiao Wanshi retired after the founding of New China, and after retiring from the army, he did not tell others about his great achievements and has always lived a plain life. And Xiao Wanshi's children never knew About Xiao Wanshi's unknown past, they didn't know that their father was actually a revolutionary hero. It was not until after Xiao Wanshi's death, when his children were collecting his belongings, that they knew that Xiao Wanshi had once been a revolutionary hero and did not know the unknown story of Xiao Wanshi. The 104-year-old man died, and when the children collected the relics, they found several medals and learned the identity of the old man.
epilogue
Xiao Wanshi was not an individual case, in that era, there were many people who gave their youth and even their lives for the development of the country, but they finally chose to hide their merits and fame, such people deserve our admiration.