When he was awarded the title in 1955, although he was only a major, the record he set was unsurpassed
As the saying goes, "There is an old family, if there is a treasure", the same is true in the army.
When New China was awarded the title in 1955, four of the founding marshals and generals were already in the year of Hua Jia, of which 69-year-old Zhu Laozong was the oldest. But in fact, there was another major, who was already 77 years old at the time, and could be called a living fossil of the revolution.
Who is this Major? It is Jiang Weiping.
Jiang Weiping was born in the fourth year of Guangxu, that is, in 1878, 8 years before Mr. Zhu. In the beginning, Jiang Weiping served as a soldier under the warlords, from Li Hongzhang to Yuan Shikai to Duan Qirui, and at the highest time, he also served as a regimental commander. It is worth mentioning that when he was a soldier fighting in the war, six of our ten marshals had not yet been born.
However, Jiang Weiping really did not like to fight and kill, so in the end he left the regiment leader and did not do it, and returned to his hometown to become Langzhong. It was not until later that the Japanese invaded China in an all-round way that Jiang Weiping decided to throw his pen from Rong to the battlefield. At that time, he was already 60 years old.
It is naturally unrealistic for the 60-year-old man to carry a gun to fight, so what did Jiang Weiping do? He used his many years of experience in practicing medicine to dig up herbs everywhere to treat the wounded of the Eighth Route Army, which was really a charcoal in the snow for the Eighth Route Army, which was in short supply of medicines at that time.
Later, during the Liberation War, Jiang Weiping served as the branch president of the Bethune International Peace Hospital, led all the medical staff to work tirelessly into the emergency casualty rescue work, and was rated as a model company, a model worker and a combat hero several times. In his own words, "The hospital bed is my battlefield, the people, the positions!" ”
At the age of 77, Jiang Weiping was awarded the rank of major when he was awarded the order in 1955, and five years later he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. At the age of 88, I am afraid that few people in the world can do it!
After retirement, Jiang Weiping still often helped others to see a doctor for free, and even went to the patient's home for treatment until his death in 1964. This is called bowing out, and then dying!