The youngest Red Army soldier, 7 years old joined the army at the age of 9 years old, enjoyed the treatment of deputy military rank, and was alive at the age of 94
On the road of China's great war of liberation in modern times, the blood of countless revolutionary martyrs was soaked. Our happy and fulfilling lives today were built by them with flesh and blood. And most of these heroes who gave their lives for the cause of Chinese communism are great and ordinary martyrs without names. But history will always remember them, we will not forget their sacrifices, and they will forever be recorded in the glorious annals of the Chinese nation.
In that turbulent era, countless "little heroes" also embarked on the road of revolution and began to fight for the cause of communism in China, and Xiang Xuan was one of them.
Xiang Xuan is a native of the Tujia family,
Born in 1926 in Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, his mother was Marshal He's fifth sister, He Mangu, so Xiang Xuan was General He's nephew.
When Xiang Xuan's mother was pregnant with Xiang Xuan, she had already joined the revolution and went up the mountain to fight guerrillas everywhere. When he was two years old, the rear guerrilla group led by He Mangu to cover the wounded and sick was attacked by the landlord regiment of Luoyu in Sangzhi County, and the breakthrough was transferred to Duanjiatai in Yongsheng County and was betrayed and arrested by the traitors of the peasant association.
Xiang Xuan, his 5-year-old third brother Xiang Chucai, and his sister, who is a few months old, were all imprisoned in the darkness. On the fourteenth day of the eighth lunar month in 1928, the enemy tortured and killed Xiang Xuan's mother, He Mangu Ling, in a terrible way, even before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. In order to rescue xiang xuan's three brothers and sisters, Xiang Xuan's aunt He Ying managed to buy off the prison guards.
Since then, Xiang Xuan has lived with He Ying and called He Ying's mother. Xiang Xuan learned martial arts with He Ying since childhood, and he was able to shoot pistols at the age of three or four.
However, in the war-torn years, it was so difficult to save his life, and He Ying was also a soldier who sacrificed his life for the revolution at any time, and later in a battle, He Ying unfortunately died and died, leaving Xiang Xuan alone.
The young Xiang Xuan had no one to rely on, and just as her aunt was dying, she told Xiang Xuan, who was only seven years old, that he must find his uncle.
After He Ying's death, with the help of He Ying's former comrades-in-arms, Xiang Xuan found his uncle. In Xiang Xuan's impression, his uncle was a man with great revolutionary enthusiasm, and he was an outstanding communist fighter. He pursued the truth all his life and devoted his life's energy and painstaking efforts to the party and the people. During the war years, for the cause of the people's liberation, he endured hardships and dangers, escaped death, and persevered. In peacetime, for the sake of socialist construction, we have worked hard, bowed to the best of our ability, and died after death.
Since then, the seven-year-old Xiang Xuan has followed his uncle to the road of revolution, but because Xiang Xuan is only seven years old and too young, there are many inconveniences in following the revolution. To this end, he deliberately applied to the Central Committee, hoping that the Central Committee would let Xiang Xuan break through the rules and join the party, follow the Red Army in practice to enhance his ability and enhance his ideological awareness.
After deliberation, the central leaders considered Xiang Xuan's special status, so they decided to let the seven-year-old Xiang Xuan join the party. Throughout the history of our party, Xiang Xuan is not only the smallest Red Army, but also
The youngest member of our Party
。
Because Xiang Xuan was influenced by his mother and aunt from an early age, coupled with the power of his uncle's example, Xiang Xuan, who was only seven years old, had a very high revolutionary enthusiasm. Although Xiang Xuan is young, he has the perseverance not to lose the adults, in order to become a better Red Army soldier, Xiang Xuan has made a lot of hard work in the army.
When Xiang Xuan followed the Long March of the Red Army, he experienced hardships, but neither the bad weather nor the harsh environment was enough for the young Xiang Xuan to lose. Later, Xiang Xuan recalled this arduous long march road, saying,
"When we crossed the snowy mountains, our correspondence class was full of little ghosts, and the organization took care of us, giving our youngest 3 people a mule and taking turns riding every day."
Due to the lack of food and materials on the Long March, many comrades-in-arms failed to survive. The father of one of Xiang Xuan's comrades-in-arms cooked for everyone, and his father always gave priority to protecting his comrades-in-arms, but in the end he died of hunger. After walking through the snowy mountains, many comrades-in-arms were left in the snowy mountains forever, and Marshal He and Ren Bi were very sad and could not even eat.
Xiang Xuan joined the Red Army and became a glorious Red Army soldier.
Xiang Xuan served as a service clerk and messenger at the Headquarters of the Red Army of Helong, and ran with the troops during the Long March, never slacking off a little and doing things conscientiously.
Xiang Xuanping removed the firing pin from the small pistol so as not to injure his comrades by mistake and reinstall it during the battle. In 1936, the Red Second and Sixth Armies and the Red 32nd Army formed the Red Second Front, and Xiang Xuan became the deputy squad leader of the communications squad, who lived up to his mission and was diligent and earnest.
In the summer of 1948, in the Battle of Libei in Dali County, Shaanxi Province, Xiang Xuan led an engineer company to attack the enemy, and the enemy returned fire with guns and grenades.
Xiang Xuan suffered 26 injuries on his body, his right eye was blinded, his neck, back, waist, buttocks, knees, right foot surface and other injuries were injured, and the shrapnel was never removed from his body.
He was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1955 and promoted to colonel in 1960. Since then, Xiang Xuan has been working conscientiously and responsibly in his post. In December 1982, he retired to enjoy the treatment of deputy military rank, and in his later years he rested in the dry rest house of Shima Lane in Chengdu, Sichuan Provincial Military Region.
Xiang Xuan's whole life has been fighting for the cause of communism in China, his life has been bumpy and arduous, and the scars on his body are his glorious testimony. A heroic warrior like Xiang Xuan is someone who really deserves our admiration.