"You have lost a son, I have lost a son, and the glory of their sacrifice, we are all martyrs' families."
In April 1953, Chairman Mao received the mother of Huang Jiguang, a hero of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and he said this when he met Huang Jiguang's mother in his old age. Chairman Mao's words were touching, because during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, his favorite eldest son was sacrificed on the Korean battlefield, which caused a great sensation at that time.
After all, as the leader of the great power, he sent his son to the battlefield, this son was his eldest son, and his favorite son, when he could have left his son by his side. However, in order to resist the United States and aid Korea, he sent his eldest son to the battlefield. The son was sacrificed, and he had the identity of a martyr's family, which is our beloved Chairman Mao.
Under the leadership of Chairman Mao and other revolutionaries of the older generation, the people of that era were very conscious, especially some founding generals, who sent their children to the battlefield during the war.
Especially in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, many senior generals sent their children to the battlefield, and some even had only children. There is also such a scene in the theme of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, "Wreath Under the Mountain", in which Captain Lei is a general who does not rub sand in his eyes, and he resents the flattery and people who take the back door.
Such an upright military commander sent his only son, Lei Kehua (Little Beijing), to the front line, and eventually his son was killed in battle, and he became a martyr. Don't think that this is the artistic display of film and television dramas, in fact, in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, such examples are very common, many generals send their children to the front, such as Commander Lei in the play, in reality there are also prototypes, he is General Zhang Zhixin, who was the commander of the 160th Division of the 54th Army at the time, and the little Beijing in the play is the only son of General Zhang Zhixin.
General Zhang Zhixin joined the Eighth Route Army in 1945 and began his lifelong journey for the country and the people, he participated in the Liberation War, the Battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and later participated in counterinsurgency in Tibet, with great achievements. He had been busy fighting wars, and in his 30s, he had a son, Zhang Li, who was really old at the time.
Zhang Zhixin is very fond of this son, and Zhang Li is also very good, after joining the army is the training pacesetter of the army, the real tiger father has no dog, after the outbreak of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, Zhang Li as a scout, was arranged by his father in the front line, in fact, he is an only child, according to the regulations can not go to the front line. The wife also did not understand her husband's actions, but General Zhang Zhixin said:
"Our children are put in danger in the reconnaissance company, and other people's children are not dangerous?"
Zhang Li made great achievements in the battlefield, and he also joined the party at the front line, but in one operation, Zhang Li was seriously injured, and he was very far from the rear, and he could only deal with it urgently, but he had reached the last moment of his life, and at the last moment of his life, Zhang Li said to his comrades around him:
After his sacrifice, please tell his father that his son did not disgrace him, and advise his father not to be sad, but to take good care of his mother..."
Until this time, everyone knew that he was the son of Zhang Zhixin's division commander, and at about 3 p.m. on the 27th of 1979, Zhang Zhixin learned that his son had died on the battlefield, when he was dizzy and almost fell, but after a moment of relaxation, he said:
"This is a battlefield, a battlefield of blood and fire, and the party and the people have entrusted me with so many outstanding sons and daughters and so many precious lives, and I am responsible for their lives, for their parents, and for this war."
Of course, General Zhang Zhixin was not the only person to send his son to the battlefield, and there was also Mao Xiaodong, the only son of General Mao Yu, who was then the deputy commander of the 41st Army, who participated in the revolution in his early years and served as the deputy commander of the 41st Army during the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and his son Mao Xiaodong was the commander of a company of the 121st Division, and Mao Xiaodong was very good.
He won the second place in the all-army competition, was sent to the military academy for further study, and later graduated and returned to the army, and the counterattack against vietnamese self-defense broke out, and he reached the forefront. During the capture of Heights 809, he was shot and killed. He was the only son of General Mao Yu and could not have been on the battlefield at that time, but General Mao Yu still sent his son to the front.
In fact, at that time, many senior generals of the 41st Army sent their children to the forefront, such as Zhou Kaiyuan, political commissar of the 121st Division of the 41st Army, whose son Zhou Wei was only 19 years old at the time. Before Zhou Kaiyuan did not agree to his son Zhou Wei as a soldier, but Zhou Bing himself signed up to join the army and successfully enlisted in the army, Zhou Kaiyuan also wanted his son to exercise. The counterattack against the Vietnamese self-defense broke out, Zhou Wei went to the front line, in order not to stain his father's light, he went to the 123rd Division, in the battle Zhou Wei died, only 19 years old.
Qu Ningjiang, the son of Qu Kui, chief of staff of the 41st Army, was a recruit who could not go to the battlefield according to the regulations, but he repeatedly asked, coupled with his father's "back door" He finally came to the front-line battlefield as he wished, and in a battle Qu Ningjiang was shot several times in the body, and his left leg and left arm were broken, he still covered his comrades in battle, and finally died heroically. The relic he left behind for his father was a blood-soaked family portrait.
There was also General Jiang Xieyuan, then deputy commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, and his son Jiang Luping was also killed in the counterattack against Vietnam. There was also General Geng Jinfu, who was then the deputy chief of staff of the 150th Division of the 50th Army, and his eldest son Geng Jun and his second son Geng Xiaokang participated in the self-defense counterattack, in which two sons were killed.
Liu Bin, who was the commander of the Baoshan Military Subdistrict at the time, and his two sons, Liu Guang and Liu Ming, both graduated from military academies, insisted on going to the front line and sacrificing on the battlefield, but General Liu Bin sent his son-in-law to the battlefield after the two sons were sacrificed!
At that time, countless high-ranking cadres and disciples participated in the battle, and many became martyrs, such as the martyr Zhao Jiechang, the son of Zhao Zhixiong, deputy commander of the 40th Division of the 14th Army, and the martyr Zhen Ping, nephew of Zhen Wenlin, deputy director of the Political Department of the 55th Army. They all died on the battlefield.
As a general, it was very common at that time to send his children to the battlefield by example, such as Li Heping, the son of Major General Li Desheng, who was the deputy commander of the 36th Division of the 12th Army, and fought very bravely in battle, and was promoted to deputy division commander at the end of the battle. Lieutenant General Wang Bicheng, commander of the Wuhan Military Region, was unable to go to the battlefield, but he sent his son, daughter and daughter-in-law to the battlefield, when his daughter-in-law was pregnant.
There are also the founding generals General Zhang Zongxun, his son Zhang Youxia also participated in the counterattack against vietnamese self-defense, and now he is also a general, there are many examples like this, but the old generals do not want to make their children comfortable, but hope that they will contribute to the country, such as Jiang Xieyuan said when his son was about to go to the battlefield:
To fight a war, you must fight for the front line, you can't be a bear bag, if you don't make a contribution, don't come to see me! ”
Perhaps this is the voice of these veteran generals at that time, sacrificing their children to contribute to the country. The outbreak of war to send their children to the forefront is probably a miracle in the world's military history.
Let us pay tribute to the great martyrs!