Whether in the revolutionary years or in the construction period after the founding of the People's Republic, it is precisely because of those people who are willing to make selfless contributions to the country that New China can be established and socialism with Chinese characteristics can enter a new journey of the times.
The soldiers of the country who survived the revolutionary years, under the orders of the party and the state, took off their military uniforms and began to stick to the posts of national construction.
Of course, there is also a category of people, who silently return to the grassroots after shedding their military uniforms, and with the passage of time and the precipitation of the years, the former "Thirty Meritorious Names" will return to dust and soil.
The story takes place in the last century.
The protagonist's name is Xiao Wanshi, born in 1905 in Xingtai, Hebei. Because of his family's poverty, Xiao Wanshi dropped out of school early after completing private school to join his parents' team of farmers, from Xiao Wanshi, who ate chaff vegetables and nests, to worked in the fields for several years in a row, so he also developed a good muscle and good courage.
However, because of his lack of knowledge and recklessness, especially the money of his parents' labor was not enough to subsidize the family, under comprehensive conditions, Xiao Wanshi did not have a marriage partner at the age of 32. At that time, when the all-out War of Resistance broke out, the entire Central Plains region was faced with the devastation of artillery fire and the shroud of gun smoke.
Seeing the zhuang ding of the same village rushing to the battlefield one after another, Xiao Wanshi, who was in his 30s, could no longer hold back, and when he heard that he had entered the army to manage food and eat, he joined the local anti-Japanese guerrilla group with his two brothers. Soon, because of the Japanese army's sweep of the village, Xiao Wanshi's family was all buried in a fire.
Xiao Wanshi swore that he would avenge them, but how many enemies could he kill if he sneaked around in the guerrillas? With this in mind, Xiao Wanshi found the local Eighth Route Army and decided to join the army to resist the Japanese.
Soon the time came to kill the enemy and take revenge, Xiao Wanshi, who was holding a large knife and spear and carrying a gun, inadvertently found a Japanese army squad of more than a dozen people, he first sent soldiers to kill the Japanese sentry, and then took up the submachine gun to secretly detour behind the Japanese army, facing these dozen people was a shuttle, and for those Japanese troops who did not lose their breath, it was a spear poke, and finally solved the problem.
Not long after, in a battle to raid the stronghold of the turret, Xiao Wanshi, who was the squad leader, took only one soldier and broke into the enemy's turret without a life, taking advantage of the enemy's lack of reaction, the two picked up the machine gun and fired a strafing, this battle can be regarded as a big profit, the two of them actually eliminated 19 enemies.
At that time, the Japanese army built a number of wartime airfields in the Central Plains, and it happened that Xiao Wanshi received orders from his superiors to destroy a local airfield, and Xiao Wanshi, who was the squad leader at the time, had only a few people under him, but there were dozens of ghosts responsible for defending the airport.
However, this operation, as in the past, did not have much pre-war planning, and also rushed up in a rush when the enemy was not paying attention, and there was nothing that Xiao Wanshi could not solve without rushing up. With the combat strength of a squad, seven or eight Japanese aircraft were successfully destroyed, and the transfer of the main force was successfully bought time.
In 1938, a soldier was not accustomed to the arrogance of the captured Japanese army, and stabbed him with a bayonet, our army has always advocated preferential treatment of prisoners, and Xiao Wanshi, who was the platoon leader at the time, was very sympathetic to this soldier, so he took it upon himself to ask his superiors to remove him from his position as platoon leader.
Fortunately, in a raid not long after, the heroic Xiao Wanshi once again led a soldier to raid the Japanese stronghold, and while the ghosts were asleep, the two men used a large knife to erase more than a dozen ghosts, so his platoon leader was not removed, and the soldier who went to carry out the mission with him was also promoted to squad leader.
In short, during the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Xiao Wanshi made countless large and small contributions, and the deeds described above are more prominent. In addition, Xiao Wanshi, a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, also experienced most of the famous battles during the Liberation War, and even after the liberation of Nanjing, he also went south with his army to liberate Nanchang, Xichang and Yunnan.
Some people have counted the merits made by Xiao Wanshi, probably 10 times of first-class merit, 12 times of second-class merit, in addition to these, there are dozens of medals left. According to Xiao Yalin, Xiao Wanshi's son, "My father received fifty or sixty medals in his lifetime, but unfortunately they were confiscated during the special period. ”
With the heavy merits made by Xiao Wanshi, he was fully qualified to take on a decent job, but the reality was that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the nearly 50-year-old Xiao Wanshi was only arranged to be the head of the local grain station, and there is also a saying about the origin of the matter, that is, because he broke through a lot of disasters during the revolutionary period.
During the liberation of Yunnan, Xiao Wanshi was responsible for harvesting Zhaotong's opium, but in the process of work, he was obstructed by an old woman, who begged Xiao Wanshi to leave some for her, because the woman was old and could not do without this kind of thing, Xiao Wanshi finally failed to withstand the test and left the opium to the woman.
In addition to this incident, Xiao Wanshi once held a gun to the head of the future old man and forced the old man to marry his daughter to himself. Fortunately, after that, he changed his attitude and pleaded with the old man again, and the old man was relieved to hand over his daughter to him.
However, these two things were eventually punished by their superiors for making up their own minds, and in addition, after the founding of the People's Republic of China at that time, there was still a chance for Xiao Wanshi to make meritorious contributions, so when assigning posts, he could only "sentence" him as a grain manager.