The country has difficulties, the pirates have responsibilities, the country has difficulties, and the pioneers are the first.
This is the most sincere and warmest heart of the Chinese people for the motherland, and from ancient times to the present, it has not changed.
This has been the case since the countless Red Army stories we have read as children, and it is precisely because of the existence of those revolutionary ancestors and those heroic deeds that our thinking has had a profound impact on generation after generation.
And in these Red Army stories, there are many young figures that can be seen - those young heroes!
But what is immature is only their age, in many familiar anti-war deeds, their performance is not inferior to that of adults, just like many teenagers in the film and television drama "Chicken Feather Letter" and "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" that many post-80s children watched.
Little boy, fearless, little boy, heroic and tenacious.
Xiang Xuan was such a young boy, he was the youngest Red Army soldier, he joined the Army at the age of 7 and the Long March at the age of 9, and his uncle was also a well-known founding marshal.
Little boy, fate is bumpy
Xiang Xuan was born in 1926 in Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, and when he was still in his womb, his mother He Mangu took him up the mountain to fight guerrillas, and He Mangu was not only the fifth sister of Marshal He, but also one of the earliest military cadres and women cadres of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolution in western Xiang'e.
Unfortunately, when Xiang Xuan was 2 years old, such a revolutionary female fighter was captured and brutally killed by the revolutionary regiment because she was outnumbered, and fortunately, Xiang Xuan and his brothers and sisters were rescued by his great aunt He Ying.
Since then, after being rescued, Xiang Xuan has lived with He Ying and learned martial arts together, and in his usual practice, he never dared to relax himself, so he could already shoot pistols when he was three or four years old.
Unfortunately, in those turbulent times, death was always a surprise.
In 1933, He Ying was surrounded by guerrilla garrisons because of traitors, and during the battle, she sacrificed heroically, before the sacrifice, she asked Xiang Xuan to go to his uncle Marshal He, and gave Xiang Xuan a cloth bag wrapped in 2 gold rings, 5 silver dollars, and a small pistol.
And it was because of this cloth bag that Xiang Xuan, taking advantage of his familiarity with the terrain, gritted his teeth and endured his leg wound, threw off the enemy's pursuit, and found his uncle Marshal He a few days later, and was able to join the Red Army.
Due to the wound on his leg, Xiang Xuan was treated by The Minister of Health He Biao for about half a year before gradually recovering, and after recovering from his injuries, Liao Hansheng led the Red Army to kill him, and within a few days the traitors were executed.
At the age of 7, in today's peaceful and prosperous world, it is the age of carefree and innocent, and for Xiang Xuan, who was also the same age at that time, he chose to join the Red Army and served as a commander and correspondent in the Red Army Headquarters of Marshal He.
It should be said that he became the youngest Soldier of the Red Army, and thus took on the burden of defending his family and defending the country.
And Xiang Xuan, who grew up in a revolutionary atmosphere since he was a child, did not ask for special treatment because of his young age, and in those years in the army, he always did what he could for the soldiers.
Xiang Xuan did his best to exert his strength, so not only did he become a Red Army soldier at a young age, but also because of his enthusiasm for revolutionary work, the Party Central Committee approved him to become a party member, and his military age was calculated from April 12, 1933.
At the age of 9, he joined the Red Army's Long March with his troops.
During the Long March, he ran around with the troops, never complained and never complained, and he also ate the bark of grass roots and trees with others, and every time he was able to complete the tasks arranged by the organization, and under the eyes of the enemy, he transmitted intelligence for the Red Army again and again.
Xiang Xuan was the youngest of the Red Army's Long March team at that time, and at that time, he participated in the Long March with two older children, although these three were already Red Army soldiers, but after all, they were still children, so Marshal He specially equipped the three of them with a horse.
But Xiang Xuan didn't ride a horse much, according to his words: "If you hurt your leg, you have to move more, and marching is the best activity, so I can ride without riding." ”
The young Xiang Xuan not only has high standards and strict requirements for himself, but also is willing to take on more responsibilities, in several tasks of standing guard, he always takes over the guard task that originally belonged to the other two children and completes it alone.
Due to his outstanding performance along the way, only 10 years old, Xiang Xuan, who was quick-witted, had become the deputy squad leader of the communication squad, and at this time, Xiang Xuan looked at his young age, but he was already an "old Red Army" with more than a dozen combat experiences.
During his tenure as deputy class leader, he learned to write in his spare time, from the primary school in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border District to Yan'an Kangda University.
The spirit that goes deep into the bone marrow has far-reaching effects
Xiang Xuan, who grew up in the strong atmosphere of the Red Army revolution and under the influence of the communist ideology, became the commander of the engineer company of the 358 Brigade of the Northwest Field Army during the Liberation War.
At this time, Xiang Xuan was only a young man of about 20 years old, but he had a wealth of combat experience that did not match his age, and injuries were more commonplace.
One of the most serious was in 1948, during the attack on the northern Shaanxi base area launched by Hu Zongnan, Xiang Xuan was unfortunately hit by an enemy grenade, and was wounded in 26 places on his body, blinded in his right eye, and some shrapnel has not been removed.
Losing his mother since childhood, Xiang Xuan, who threw himself into the revolutionary cause under the influence of his elders, almost devoted most of his life to the revolutionary cause, he was like a person born for the revolution, and the great spirit of the revolutionary cause also baptized and influenced him, all of which has penetrated into Xiang Xuan's marrow and become an indispensable part of his life.
Anping Shengshi is still concerned about the country
After the founding of New China, Xiang Xuan, who always had the people in mind, has been making contributions to the party and the country and doing his part.
In 1955, Xiang Xuan was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, promoted to colonel in 1960, and in December of the same year, he was appointed deputy chief of the Ordnance Section of the Logistics Department of the Chengdu Military Subdistrict, and in 1978, he was appointed deputy director of the People's Armed Forces Department of the Xicheng District of the Chengdu Military Subdistrict.
In December 1982, Xiang Xuan, who had been a horseman, officially retired.
A few years before his retirement, General Liao Hansheng, who had "avenged the snow hatred" for him in his youth and killed traitors, took time to visit Xiang Xuan when he went to Chengdu to inspect his work.
The two old friends with revolutionary friendship met again after decades and were full of emotions, and in the small talk Liao Hansheng learned that Xiang Xuan, who had long been promoted to colonel, enjoyed treatment equivalent to that of a major at this time, and he was a little puzzled and prepared to report to the relevant departments.
However, this move was strongly prevented by Xiang Xuan, and the reason he gave was that there were not a few people like him in the whole army, and he did not want to make himself special.
These words and such a style of handling make us can't help but think of when we were teenagers, Xiang Xuan, who suffered a leg injury, was still dutiful and strict with himself when he knew that he had a horse to ride.
brief summary:
There is an old Chinese saying that three years old looks big, and seven years old looks old.
This sentence is particularly prominent in Xiang Xuan, who has struggled for the revolutionary cause and the motherland all his life, and the precious spirit and quality in him are still consistent after so many years of secular baptism, but after the changes of the times, not only has not changed at all, but it has made him deeply rooted in his heart, accompanied by his youth, and accompanied him to grow old.
It is gratifying that although Xiang Xuan's elderly family has reached the age of 94 so far, his body is still strong and his spirit is strong.
And this spirit of his is also where our young generation needs to learn, in this era of materialistic desires and anxiety, it is a rare and precious thing to maintain the original intention of good quality and maintain consistency!
But those revolutionary ancestors have set an example for us in the footsteps of history that have passed, and they have bowed down to the motherland and the people in their own unique ways, and they have died and died for themselves.
Although in today's era of Anping and prosperity, we no longer need to live a life of gunfire and knife shadow and fighting and fighting, we can do our part for the motherland in a way that is suitable for and belongs to this era, so that the achievements of the efforts of our predecessors can continue.