From the evening of May 22 to the early morning of May 23, 2021, shootings occurred in many places in Ohio, USA, causing many deaths and injuries, including a sixteen-year-old girl and an innocent six-year-old boy.
These children, who should have enjoyed their colorful years, ended their short lives under the cold bullets.
While lamenting for them, we are also extremely fortunate that we were born in China, in a peaceful country, born in a country where gun crime is not hidden.
Why?
Originally, in China, according to the Firearms Control Law of the People's Republic of China promulgated in 1996, it was strictly forbidden for any unit or individual to illegally possess, manufacture, buy or sell, lend or rent firearms.
As soon as the law was introduced, the entire country went around collecting firearms.
The news that an old man in Laiwu, Shandong Province, was holding a gun was soon known to the local government.
The staff came to the home of an old man in Laiwu, Shandong Province, and just about to confiscate it, the old man slowly took out his gun holding certificate and told the staff that these two guns were treated specially and could be legally owned, and one of them was actually given to him by Su Yu, the founding general of the People's Republic of China!
Who is this old man with two guns? How did his gun come about?
Subsequently, the old man stroked the guns that had not faded for many years, and slowly told the staff the story behind the two guns.
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The old man' name is Teng Xiyuan, born in 1925 in a small mountain village in Laiwukou Town, Shandong Province.
There are five brothers in Teng Xiyuan's family, and Teng Xiyuan is the third oldest. The Teng family was not wealthy, and the children often ate the last meal without eating. When Teng Xiyuan was young, China was not very peaceful, wars were raging everywhere, and Teng Xiyuan's family, who grew up at the bottom of society, was in the depths of the water, so Teng Xiyuan planted the seeds of war aversion in his heart from an early age, and also laid the groundwork for him to resolutely go to the battlefield in the future and stop the war with war.
In 1937, under the deliberate provocation of the Japanese army, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out.
Soon, the artillery fire of the Japanese army burned to Teng Xiyuan's hometown of Shandong Province, and these innocent Japanese troops came here, they burned and plundered, like devils in hell, wherever they went, there was no grass.
The Teng Xiyuan brothers could only run east and west to escape the bayonets in the hands of the Japanese army and survive.
When is this kind of life the head? On the one hand, the fierce and vicious Japanese devils with bayonets in their hands, and on the other hand, the embarrassing situation of lack of food and clothing, hunger and frostbite, the Teng brothers, who had been thinking about it for a long time, decided to join the army.
Teng Xiyuan's eldest brother and second brother all joined the troops, they thought, horizontal and vertical are all dead, rather than watching these animal-like Japanese troops burn and loot in their homes, it is better to go to the battlefield to kill a few Japanese soldiers, so that death is more valuable.
At that time, Teng Xiyuan was too young to join the army. After getting a little older, Teng Xiyuan also followed the footsteps of the eldest brother and the second brother to join the army of the War of Resistance.
Because he fled around and starved, Teng Xiyuan looked particularly thin, and with the long blackness of the people, everyone gave him a nickname called Teng Heizi.
Teng Xiyuan did not refute it, and when he heard everyone call him like this, he only scratched his head and smiled sheepishly.
Because for Teng Xiyuan, the name is not important, what is important is to join the army and fight with the Japanese army, defend his hometown, and avenge his compatriots.
By chance, Teng Xiyuan, who had just arrived at the army, showed his skills.
At that time, most of Northeast China and North China had fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, and in order to loot the supplies after the war, the Japanese army would from time to time come to the villages where the villagers lived to sweep up, they burned and looted, raped women, and did all kinds of evil.
It was an afternoon, and the Japanese troops, led by a traitor with bayonets on their backs, came back to the village. As soon as they entered the village, the Japanese soldiers captured two Communists.
Just when these people were in danger, Teng Xiyuan learned the news that the Japanese had once again entered the village to sweep up and arrest their comrades-in-arms.
He and his companions discussed that they would take the Japanese army by surprise and let them drink a pot!
Teng Xiyuan used his advantages in terrain and familiarity with the village to quietly sneak up on the courtyard wall of a family. At that time, the Japanese army was intently scavenging for belongings and supplies in their hometowns, unprepared, and they obviously did not expect that the danger was gradually approaching.
Teng Xiyuan quietly circled around, carefully walked to the rear of the Japanese army, took advantage of its lack of preparation, pulled out a dagger, and fiercely stuck it on the neck of the Japanese army. Blood, still with a warm breath, sprayed on Teng Xiyuan's face.
The white knife goes in, the red knife comes out. The Japanese soldier, who was intent on looting his belongings, cried out for his life.
After this battle, Teng Xiyuan, who had just joined the army, could also be regarded as a small reputation in the army. That year, he was only a teenager and a child.
If you put it in the present, it is still the age of Wenshu in the classroom, but at that time, you have to fight the enemy to the death on the battlefield with real swords and guns.
Teng Xiyuan killed the Japanese in the village, and the Japanese will definitely wait for an opportunity to retaliate. With the help of his compatriots and comrades-in-arms, he fled the village at night.
Leaving the base area where he had always been, Teng Xiyuan did not know where to go.
At this time, he happened to meet Liao Rongbiao, the commander of the fourth detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and Teng Xiyuan joined Liao Rongbiao's team.
Hearing the story of Teng Xiyuan's heroic killing of the enemy, Liao Rongbiao looked at Teng Xiyuan, who was black and thin in front of him, and looked like a child, gave a thumbs up, and told him to do a good job and continue to kill the enemy.
When Teng Xiyuan heard the superior commander praise himself so much, he scratched his head again and told Liao Rongbiao: "It will be!" ”
Under Chiang Kai-shek's policy of non-resistance, the Japanese easily occupied all of northeast China and most of north China. The ambitions of the Japanese were so inflated that they wanted to destroy China within three months.
Everywhere the Japanese army went, they implemented their so-called three-light policy -- killing the light and burning the light to grab the light.
In this way, the flames of war spread to the place where Liao Rongbiao was stationed. Liao Rongbiao's army had many battles with the enemy, and by taking advantage of the terrain, it was impossible to open up.
The Japanese had no choice but to launch a more aggressive attack on our army, advancing towards our army under the cover of heavy artillery fire when they were superior in numbers and weapons.
At the moment of a thousand gunshots, Teng Xiyuan circled to the enemy's side, pressed the trigger on the leading Japanese soldier, and the bullet crossed the chamber of the gun and accurately hit the Japanese eyebrow.
In this way, the Japanese gendarme holding the Japanese flag fell. As soon as the flag fell, the morale of the Soldiers of the Japanese Army was cut by more than half.
Without the command of the leader, the Japanese army suddenly lost its center of gravity and had a temporary loophole. The army led by Liao Rongbiao took advantage of this stall to launch an attack on the enemy.
When the bullets ran out, he inserted a bayonet into his rifle and continued to fight against this group of devils, and Teng Xiyuan's heart was firm in his belief: he must drive these devils out of his homeland.
Under the fight of real knives and real guns, the Japanese gendarmes inserted his cold bayonet into Teng Xiyuan's right arm.
The pain of the drill heart spread to the cerebral cortex, but Teng Xiyuan could no longer care about the physical pain, at this time either you died or I died! Enduring the great pain in his right arm, Teng Xiyuan turned over on one side and plunged his bayonet into the chest of the Japanese gendarmes.
His eyes were already stained a bright red with blood. In this pool of blood, Teng Xiyuan watched the Japanese gendarmes slowly fall. After a brief period of rejoicing, he began to fight another Japanese soldier to the death.
In the end, this very thin-looking Tenghezi survived and annihilated several enemies.
After the war, as the victorious side, Liao Rongbiao led his army to capture equipment on the battlefield. Looking at Teng Xiyuan, who was covered in blood, he praised: "You little Teng Heizi is really good at beating devils!" ”
After the end of the war, Teng Xiyuan was urgently sent to the medical team. The hygienist bandaged him, fortunately, the amount of bleeding was not particularly large, and it did not hurt the body's organs and arteries, and it would be better to rest for a while.
This war can be won, and Teng Xi has made an indispensable contribution to annihilating the enemy far behind. Liao Rongbiao commended Teng Xiyuan, awarded him the honor of first-class merit, and also took out a box gun and presented It to Teng Xiyuan as a prize for his heroic killing of the enemy on the battlefield.
Teng Xiyuan wiped his hand on his chest and slowly took over the box gun, as if he were following a sacred object, and this gun also became a good "comrade-in-arms" who would accompany Teng Xiyuan day and night.
This is the origin of Teng Xiyuan's first pistol, Liao Rongbiao gave him the booty as a war reward. Teng Xiyuan's second pistol came at the peak of his anti-war career.
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After many meritorious deeds, Teng Xiyuan was promoted to an officer in the army, and he also showed more effort in the matter of fighting ghosts.
In 1945, under the circumstances of the defeat of the war of aggression and the international situation at that time. Japanese imperialism announced unconditional surrender, and the War of Resistance Against Japan was a complete success.
After achieving fame, Teng Xiyuan originally wanted to return to his hometown, disarm and return to the field, and become an ordinary person, but it backfired.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek invited Chairman Mao and others to Chongqing for negotiations.
However, this was a feast at the gate, and the two sides reached a reconciliation to a certain extent, but there were still contradictions on the issue of liberated areas. On October 10, 1945, the kuomintang and the communists signed the famous Double Tenth Agreement.
However, shortly after the signing of the agreement, when Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, and others returned to the Shaanxi-Gansu region, Chiang Kai-shek unilaterally tore up the treaty and provoked war, and the Kuomintang-Communist civil war broke out.
Teng Xiyuan, who had just returned to his hometown, received the news that war was about to break out and threw himself into the army again, this time, Teng Xiyuan was transferred to an artillery company in a certain unit of the Seventh Column of the East China Field Army under Su Yu's command as a company commander.
When the war broke out, Teng Xiyuan received orders to encircle and suppress the Kuomintang reorganized 11th Division, which was entrenched in the Nanma area. This army was the mainstay of the Kuomintang army, and its weapons and equipment were first-class.
On the other hand, the Communist Party of China is a ladder behind the Kuomintang in terms of weapons and equipment, and if it cannot win by force, then the strategy is particularly important, and Teng Xiyuan is the leader in the use of strategy.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the army led by Teng Xiyuan has always fought guerrilla warfare. What they are good at is to probe enemy intelligence from behind the enemy and break through each of them when our strength allows, and the war of liberation is no exception.
One day, Teng Xiyuan came to the hillside near the garrison to check the post, but accidentally found that there was an army of more than 200 people below the hillside who was advancing towards them.
At this moment, Teng Xiyuan was only two people on his side, and there were only three grenades, a rifle and a pistol on his body. If you open fire with the enemy at this time, the result is self-evident.
The comrade-in-arms began to panic, and he looked nervously at Teng Xiyuan.
Far from being in a hurry, Teng Xi first signaled the large troops, dropping a grenade down the hillside, and then firing a shot down the hillside, warning the enemy: "You are already surrounded, lay down your weapons." ”
The Nationalist troops watched the flames blown out by grenades in the middle of the road, and the commanders reconnoitred everywhere.
At this moment, the Kuomintang army was located in the center of the hillside, surrounded by rolling hills and lush trees. The commander of the Kuomintang army did not know for a moment whether what Teng Xiyuan said was true or not.
Teng Xiyuan further confused the enemy, and he told his comrades to run to a distance and shoot again.
The Kuomintang troops, who had just wondered if they had been surrounded, saw that there was another war burning on another ravine, and they were convinced that they had been surrounded, but this was only a ploy by two Communist soldiers.
The PLA base area, half a mile away, heard the sound of artillery fire and quickly sent additional troops to support.
In this way, the large communist troops soon and truly surrounded this group of Kuomintang troops. Even at this time, the Kuomintang army found itself in the middle of the plan, but in the case of the disparity in the number and strength of the army, it was powerless to return to the sky.
The Platon Army almost annihilated the elite forces of the 11th Division, opening a brilliant chapter for the final victory of the war.
This time, it was able to effortlessly annihilate the elite of more than 200 enemy people on the battlefield thanks to Teng Xiyuan's plan.
Hearing the battle coming from the front, Su Yu himself was also very curious about the company commander of this artillery company.
At the celebration meeting, Su Yu personally commended Teng Xiyuan. Teng Xiyuan was once again awarded the first class merit, Su Yu also gave a gun to Teng Xiyuan, and praised him as a lone hero, and this year Teng Xiyuan was only 22 years old, which was really a young man!
This is the origin of Teng Xiyuan's second gun. From then on, these two guns became the source of his spiritual strength and his closest comrade-in-arms, accompanying Teng Xiyuan until the victory of the Liberation War.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > old Ji Futuo, aiming for thousands of miles</h1>
Soon, under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China, the People's Liberation Army was united in its efforts, and the war of liberation was like a bamboo, but Chiang Kai-shek's army was scattered and retreated one after another.
Even if Chiang Kai-shek far surpassed the Chinese Communist Party's army in terms of the number of troops and weapons and equipment, he still could not change the direction of history.
In the end, the Kuomintang-Communist Civil War ended, the Communists won a great victory, and Chiang Kai-shek had to flee to Taiwan by plane.
On October 1, 1949, New China was officially established.
At this time, Teng Xiyuan's war career was not over, and after the end of World War II, the United States was not calm and began to send troops to North Korea.
Chairman Mao soon saw the real goal of the United States— the United States was vainly trying to use North Korea as a springboard and then firing at China.
On the one hand, we must support countries that are also socialist, and on the other hand, we must also protect the security of our own countries. Chairman Mao soon made a major decision to slow down the liberation of Taiwan and send troops to resist the United States and aid Korea.
"Majestic and exuberant, across the Yalu River."
It was the middle of winter again, and Teng Xiyuan pinned the two guns, which symbolized honor, sang the battle song, boarded the train, and embarked on the road to the Korean battlefield.
American soldiers were more difficult than the Nationalist army, their weapons were more sophisticated, a large number of fighters were dropped on the battlefield, and tens of thousands of shells fell from the sky. The house trees were all razed to the ground.
The US military flies planes in the sky and tanks on the ground, while our Chinese soldiers can only move forward on their feet wearing cloth shoes;
The US military is holding excellent guns, eating rice, canned meat, fresh milk, while the Chinese army can only be millet plus rifle, in the most difficult conditions, even millet has not to eat, can only nibble the bark in the snow, just a handful of snow, slowly melting in the mouth.
Teng Xiyuan insisted on fighting under such harsh conditions.
In 1953, Teng Xiyuan's unit was on a mission in the Mapingli area of North Korea, and his superiors assigned Teng Xiyuan a very difficult task.
Teng Xiyuan's army was intercepted by a tank on the way forward, and there were still troops waiting for support in front, and it was clear that the roadblock could not be delayed.
All Teng Xiyuan had to do was blow up the enemy tanks. Our army's weapons and equipment are only explosive packs. Teng Xiyuan had to tie the explosive package to the enemy tank and detonate it in order for our army to continue to advance.
During the day, it is certainly not possible, there are people stationed on the tank, if any wind and grass are found, Teng Xiyuan will be killed on the spot. So this thing can only wait until the night when the light is not good.
It was destined to be a sleepless night, and Teng Xiyuan saw a ditch next to the tank, which was just enough to be his hiding point. Taking advantage of the night, Teng Xiyuan crawled to the vicinity of the ditch.
He had just taken refuge in the ditch, just as the enemy's surveillance line of sight came over, fortunately, the enemy did not find Teng Xiyuan lying in the ditch.
Soon, the light of the glance moved in another direction.
Teng Xiyuan took advantage of this loophole, carrying an explosive package, and carefully continued to move in the direction of the tank.
Teng Xiyuan went with the determination to die, and he hugged the two guns in his arms tightly. My heart is very reluctant to give up the land of my homeland.
After the explosive pack exploded, suddenly, the flames soared into the sky, and the orange-red light broke through the silent and dark night sky.
The tank was blown up, and the behemoth that had been blocking the advance of our army was solved by Teng Xiyuan alone, which was really a lonely hero that Su Yu had praised!
With a deafening explosion, Teng Xiyuan opened his eyes again in the ashes. He didn't expect, he couldn't even believe, that he was still alive? The hidden ditch also became the protective umbrella for his life.
Teng Xiyuan was once again famous in the army and was admired by many comrades-in-arms.
It is precisely because there are so many unsung heroes like Teng Xiyuan that even in the case of backward weapons and equipment, our army still won victories in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, supporting the DPRK and defending its homeland at the same time.
After the victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Teng Xiyuan returned to his hometown with the troops of the motherland. He was assigned to his hometown, lived a dull life, and enjoyed the peace of the war, which had been separated for a long time.
And those two box guns also returned to the land of the motherland with Teng Xiyuan unharmed. Even though there was no more war, Teng Xiyuan still took out his pistol from time to time and gently wiped it with motor oil, as if he was nostalgic for his lost youth.
In 1982, Teng Xiyuan was no longer a soldier who needed to go to the battlefield, and he deliberately asked the troops to issue him a certificate of gun ownership. These two guns should be in the hands of heroes, and Teng Xiyuan deserves it!
Although he was no longer in the battlefield, Teng Xiyuan still wanted to do his best to exert his residual heat.
After Teng Xiyuan retired from the army, he began to study, filling in the regret that he had not been able to study because of the war. At the same time, he recorded the battlefields he had experienced with pen and paper.
In 2021, the elderly Teng Xiyuan is already 96 years old, but he still writes "The Battle of Huaihai" under the lamp, hoping to leave more real materials for the process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and also tell these events to future generations.
Maybe one day the hero will be late, but the spirit left by the hero will live on!