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One day in early 2010,
A ninety-year-old man who lives in Wanzhou, Chongqing, suddenly feels unwell after lunch.
Although the elderly are in good health all year round, there is no disease or disaster,
But after all, people who are still old can't afford to lose a little,
So his children, after consultation, sent the old man to a nearby hospital for a comprehensive examination.
In the afternoon of the same day, the doctor of the hospital found the family of the elderly with the examination report.
And conveyed a bad news in the simplest and most straightforward language.
"The old man has lung cancer, and it is already advanced, and it is likely to survive this year."
The doctor's tone was serious and serious, with a hint of helplessness.
"Really Doctor?" Is it possible to misdiagnose or something else? ”
The children obviously could not believe such words, their fathers were in good health for so many years,
How can it be said that advanced cancer is terminal cancer?
"Unfortunately, we are very sure of the results of this examination,
If you still don't believe it, you can go to the big hospital and check it again. ”
The children were stunned to hear this, they never thought that their father's life would end in such a way.
"Boss, boss! Here you go! ”
The old man's call to his eldest son came from the house,
At this time, he had not yet come out of the shock of his father's terminal cancer.
He didn't even know how to tell his father.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Where are you uncomfortable? ”
"No, no, you sit first, I want to tell you something."
"You say." The old man's eldest son sat down in front of the hospital bed.
"Did they mean I was going to die?"
The boss was confused by the sudden question of the old man, and he was not ready to explain it to his father.
"Nothing... No, the doctor said that a few more days of observation would be able to discharge. ”
"Isn't it obvious that you lied to me less and called you all out alone?"
You don't have to hide from me, I'm in my 90s, and my life is over, let's be honest. ”
Looking at the unusually calm old man, the boss had to endure the pain in his heart to give the truth out,
But how can it be expected that the old man's emotions do not have any ups and downs and waves,
He just nodded and then told the boss:
"You go home first, and come over from under my bed a small suitcase, the one with the lock,
I have something to tell your brothers and sisters. ”
Seeing the old man speak the boss does not dare to be sloppy, who knows if this sentence will be the last words of the old man?
He went out and hailed a taxi and rushed back home, quickly taking out what the old man had called the small suitcase.
When he returned to the hospital, the other siblings had also arrived.
When the old man saw that the boss had returned with something, he immediately sat up,
He took a brass key from the pocket of a jacket he had brought,
The lock on the suitcase was then opened.
The children watched intently at the old man's every move,
And always pay attention to the situation in the trunk,
I saw that this small suitcase listed many beautiful and bright military merit badges at first glance, there were more than 20 pieces.
And what is even more incredible is that these medals not only contain the medals of our party,
It was also interspersed with several medals with the distinctly Kuomintang logo.
At this time, the children immediately inhaled a cool breath,
Where did my father's medallions come from?
Why are there medals of our Party and our army as well as medals of the Kuomintang Army?
What's going on here?
The old man did not care about the surprised looks of his children and said to himself:
"I knew my limit was coming, but before I died I had a request,
Let me go back to the 38th Army and let me see how the old troops are doing. ”
The children have not yet recovered from the shock they have just had, but they are frightened again by the words of the old master,
They had never heard of their father fighting as a soldier.
Now it is the Medal of Merit and the 38th Army,
How many secrets has this father not told himself?
"Dad, you..."
Before the children could ask for an exit, the old man answered:
"Remember the story I told you about the battlefield before?"
That's not a story, it's all your dad's real experience. ”
The children suddenly realized that when they were young, they always listened to their fathers tell stories of the revolutionary war.
But every time I ask my father if this story is true or not,
But the father smiled and told himself that he had listened to others,
It turns out that this "other" refers to himself.
"Then what about these Kuomintang medals?"
The old man looked at the medals, and then he smiled and said:
"Then the story is a bit long..."
Scratch the ding
According to the old man himself,
He was an ordinary farmer in Chongqing, the capital of Chongqing.
However, the sharp turn of events in the War of Resistance Against Japan invisibly changed the trajectory of his life.
For the front-line armies have to eat food,
The peasants in the rear will be plundered by the National Government for a great deal of grain and money.
And the elderly's own families have also suffered.
In order to be able to fill your stomach,
He and the other children in the village also had to do some side hustle to supplement the family.
The most common of these is to go up the mountain to cut firewood,
But it's on this road of chopping wood,
The old man accidentally ran into the Kuomintang conscription team.
The recruiters approached him under the pretext of purchasing firewood and supplies, and then took his word for it.
"Where are the people?"
"Just our Wanzhou Xiongjia Town."
"Oh, Xiongjia Town, what's your name?"
"My name is Hei Taishin." He answered truthfully.
"How old is this year?" There are 20? ”
"Born in the 9th year of the Republic of China, this year is 21 years old."
"I have the strength to be a soldier, don't you want to be a soldier?"
Ping Taixin was confused by this sudden question,
He wanted to resign, but when he saw the recruiters involuntarily start touching the gun, he didn't dare to say much.
So he "voluntarily" joined the Kuomintang army and became an ordinary soldier.
Coincidentally, the unit he joined was not an ordinary Kuomintang unit.
This is a contingent that has just been selected by Chiang Kai-shek to prepare for the formation of the Chinese Expeditionary Force to fight in Burma.
Ping Taixin, who originally did not want to leave home, was so confused that he was pulled abroad.
Fight to the end
After coming to the Burmese front, Ping Taixin was greatly shocked,
Most of the houses here were burned down by the Japanese army, and the people here were slaughtered by the Japanese army.
He, who had wanted to take the opportunity to slip away, suddenly wavered.
He originally thought that the Japanese army's innocence was just the slogan of the Kuomintang government for the purpose of conscription propaganda.
I didn't expect it to be true.
He suddenly remembered his family,
He was thinking at this time, if everyone like him was always thinking about his little home and running away,
Isn't that devil like a nobody? Whose home will not suffer at that time?
Thinking of this, Ping Taixin no longer wanted to be a deserter,
At this moment, he made a vow that he would fight the Japanese to the end!
After several months of baptism of fire, Hei Taixin escaped from death many times,
After the tempering of actual combat, Ping Taixin's combat experience became more and more abundant,
And the accumulation of these skills and experiences also finally laid the foundation for him to build meritorious service.
Time blinked and Ping Taixin had been enlisted in the army for more than a year,
On this day his company was instructed by his superiors to capture a high ground occupied by the Japanese army.
The brave and skilled Ping Taixin was selected as a member of the commando team that attacked first.
He carried a Czech machine gun and four magazines and lay in bunker,
After seeing the charge signal issued by the command, he picked up his machine gun and rushed forward,
He pressed the Japanese troops on the hill to buy time to charge for his comrades behind him.
Due to the proper coordination and the defenselessness of the Japanese army,
The offensive of our troops went very smoothly.
In just a few minutes, the Hiraishin commandos rushed to the front of the Japanese position.
At this time, our army and the Japanese army are wrestling together,
In the white-knife battle, the machine gun that made Ping Taixin brave and invincible became a burden.
He was heavy and could not engage in hand-to-hand combat,
For a while, Ping Taixin's situation was very passive, and it didn't take long for several devils to surround him.
At this point he had to throw away his machine gun and pick up the rifles of his fallen comrades to fight the Japanese.
However, Hirai Taishin, who had already exhausted his physical strength during the charge, had no chance of winning the wheel battle with many Japanese troops.
His left leg was stabbed by a Japanese soldier and he immediately lost the ability to fight back.
When he was ready to pull the grenade and die with the Japanese,
Subsequent large troops rushed to the hill, and these Japanese troops were annihilated by the large troops.
Once again, he escaped death.
After this battle, Ping Taixin returned to the rear to recuperate and was awarded a medal by the Kuomintang government.
And his heroic performance this time was also seen by the superiors,
When he recovered, his superiors directly transferred him to Ramga, India, for training.
Since then, he has entered Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops.
The Nationalist army reorganized at Ramga
Heroes of the people
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ping Taixin thought he could return to his hometown.
But who knew that he had just returned to China and his own unit, the New 6th Army, was sent to the northeast by Lao Jiang as a bottom card.
Along the way, the soldiers of the New 6th Army relied on their own merits in Burma to do evil everywhere.
And the superiors also remembered the merits of these veterans and turned a blind eye,
Such an act made Ping Taixin very unhappy,
He repeatedly stopped the behavior of grass-roots fighters from oppressing the people, but was reprimanded by his superiors.
In a fit of rage, Ping Taixin led his troops out and defected to the former Eighth Route Army troops that were assembling in the northeast.
During this period, our army suffered defeats everywhere, and even Yan'an was captured by the Kuomintang army.
Even the Kuomintang shouted the slogan of ending the war in three months.
During this period, the Pingtaixin Department, which resolutely defected to our army, can be described as sending charcoal in the snow.
Moreover, their abandonment of the dark and the surrender of the light also indirectly proved the situation in which the Kuomintang army would be defeated.
Because the Chinese who can really fight a good war and have a conscience are on the side of our Communist Party.
After entering the combat sequence of our army, Ping Taixin found the enthusiasm of fighting devils in those years.
and made many meritorious contributions in battle,
One of the most impressive battles for the elderly was during the Battle of Pingjin.
According to the old man's own recollection,
That night he had just left the line to go to the toilet in a place where no one was on the side of the road.
I saw a man squatting in a ditch under the bridge smoking a cigarette.
Hei Taixin didn't think much of it and rushed to the man's side.
How to expect this man's smoking addiction is quite large, a cigarette can not satisfy him,
When he took out his second cigarette and prepared to light it, he found that he had run out of matches,
At this point, he set his sights on Hirai Taishin.
"Dude, give it a fire?"
Ping Taixin heard this voice like shanxi,
Almost all of his troops are northeasterners,
And he heard that Fu Zuoyi himself was from Shanxi,
Could it be that the people around him are the Kuomintang Fu Zuoyi clique?
Thinking of this, his heart was hairy, but he still said:
"Wait, I'll look."
He took off his hat the moment he pulled out his match,
He faintly saw the badge on the man's chest and the badge on his helmet through the faint light of the fire,
This was indeed a member of the Kuomintang army.
He already had the bottom in his heart, if the ordinary warrior might solve the problem at this time,
But Ping Taixin did not, and he continued to talk to this person.
I wanted something out of his mouth.
"Brother, I came down in a bit of a hurry, where are our troops?"
The man saw that Ping Taixin's Sichuan accent was not very suspicious,
They all know that Shino is a northeasterner,
Eighty percent of this Sichuan accent is a member of Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army.
"The Central Army's? Then you are a little far behind, so you go and ask our commander in a moment, he should know. ”
"Where is your chief?" Far away? ”
"Not far, cross the bridge and go west, in the grove."
Ping Tai immediately got up and left after thanking him, and immediately caught up with the large troops to report these situations.
And with the intelligence of Ping Taixin, he quickly found a Kuomintang army station,
Ping Taixin's company came up and surrounded this group of people without saying a word,
Since this enemy is mostly sleeping without any vigilance,
A company of Ping Taishin captured an entire battalion of enemy troops.
During the Korean War, In order to cut off the retreat of the mechanized army of the US army,
Personally led a small army to risk death to cross the river and blow up the bridge,
Directly contributed to the realization of the operational intention of completely annihilating the enemy forces,
It can be said that it is a great achievement.
After the dust of the war settled, Hirai Taishin retired from the army and returned home,
At this time, it has been 20 years since he was arrested and left his hometown.
Everyone only knows that Ping Taixin will not return for 20 years,
No one knows that he went abroad twice in these 20 years to fight for the people.
No one knows what he has experienced in the past 20 years.
Ping Taixin did not say much, he went home and worked hard, once again became an ordinary farmer,
In fact, this is the life he has always wanted to live, an ordinary life.
postscript
After learning about his father's heroic story,
The children of Hei Taishin wanted to help their father fulfill his wish to return to the 38th Army.
But as a patient with advanced cancer, he could not stand the bumps of a thousand miles.
In order to fulfill their father's last wishes, they began to seek help online.
Finally, through netizens, the chief of the 38th Army and the soldiers who retired from here were contacted.
In order to fulfill the wishes of the old man Ping Taixin, they spontaneously organized a Chongqing comrades-in-arms meeting of the 38th Army.
A large number of retired soldiers and some active officers and soldiers jointly congratulated the elderly Ping Taixin.
Half a year later, the old man Ping Taixin passed away,
The commander of the 38th Army rushed to Chongqing to mourn,
Until these chiefs in military uniforms appeared at the farewell ceremony of the old hero's remains,
Ping Taixin's relatives and friends found out,
It turned out that the amiable old man still had such a glorious past.
Note: The image comes from the Internet