In Laojun Village, Danshan Town, Yanjiang District, Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, there is an old man in his 90s named Zhang Liangrong. Zhang Liangrong has been rooted in Laojun Village for more than 60 years, facing the loess and facing the sky, diligent and sincere, very kind to people, and is recognized as an old and good person in the eight villages of Ten Mile.
On this day, the old people in the village sat under the trees and chatted as usual. The old people talked about their past, how their children are doing now, and of course, they could not help but talk about national events. When talking about the Taiwan issue, an old man said to Zhang Liangrong with a slight "mockery":
I heard that you used to be a soldier, why didn't you liberate Taiwan that year? You're going to liberate Taiwan!"
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Zhang Liangrong was not angry, and replied in a very serious tone: "
Why not go? When I was discharged from the army, some comrades-in-arms told me that I was going to Taiwan, and I said of course I was going. But the Ministry of Defense didn't give the order, he gave the order, I still have to go. Don't look at my age, my marksmanship is more accurate than most people. Now to liberate Taiwan, as long as the Ministry of National Defense gives an order, I will definitely go! is to die..... I'll go too..."
Zhang Liangrong's words made the old man present dumbfounded. They knew that Zhang Liangrong was kind and kind, but the things he decided, the nine cows could not pull back, and their hearts were always worried about the country. They can't help but recall the scene that happened in 2018...
Zhang Liangrong
The county town registered the veterans, and the old man took out three special merit medals
In 2018, the state launched a plan to find veterans, and the Ziyang Veterans Affairs Bureau actively responded to national policies, dispatched multiple working groups to villages and towns to collect, verify and verify, and established complete archives and information for the sacrificial and living veterans and issued state subsidies.
One day in November of that year, Deputy Director Sun Tao came to Laojun Village to carry out work, and the working group was busy until the afternoon, and it was impossible to drink a sip of water, and finally completed the information collection work of the veterans. Before leaving, Sun Tao asked the villagers present: "
Are there any unregistered veterans?
Everyone shook their heads and said no.
Just as the working group was about to leave in a car, a tricycle came from a distance and stopped in front of the workgroup's car. After the tricycle had stopped, a middle-aged woman walked down with a very old man in her arms. Everyone fixed their eyes on it, and it turned out to be the old man Zhang Liangrong in the village. So someone joked: "
Uncle Zhang, you are so old, what is the hilarity with you?
Zhang Liangrong and volunteers
Zhang Liangrong heard the sound off the string, but he was not annoyed, and then said:
I'm here to register information too
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As soon as Zhang Liangrong's words came out, it immediately attracted a round of ridicule, and the villagers began to talk about "Uncle Zhang, you have lived in the village for more than 60 years, but I have never heard that you have been a soldier" "What is a soldier, is greedy for money to make up the numbers, want to take advantage of the country."
Zhang Liangrong has lived for more than 90 years, and in the face of cold words, he never cared, and this time is no exception. He walked over to Sun Tao, handed him a cloth bag, and said, "I'm 94 years old, my legs and feet are not good, and I have delayed looking for this cloth bag. ”
Sun Tao quickly sat down with the old man, and then opened the cloth bag to take a look, and the contents of it suddenly made his eyes unable to move.
Everyone was aware of Sun Tao's abnormal behavior, so they gathered around to see what was going on, only to see that there were 11 military merit badges of all sizes stored in the cloth bag, of which 3 were very dazzling under the sunlight.
Oh my God, what the hell is this old man! Under the inquiry of Sun Tao, the more than 60 years of zhengrong years behind the elderly Zhang Liangrong once again appeared in front of people.
The Sichuan army is out of the river
Decisive battle in Huaihai, the first time Ronglite and other merits
Zhang Liangrong, a native of Ziyang, Sichuan, was in his teenage years just in time for the Japanese army to launch a full-scale invasion of China. Sichuan, as the rear area of the whole country, in order to save the country and the nation, a large number of good men in Sichuan bid farewell to their relatives, went to the front line, and fought with the Japanese army to the death.
During the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Sichuan had the largest number of soldiers and the largest number of casualties, and the name of the Sichuan army was known to everyone and everyone.
Zhang Liangrong's eldest brother also participated in the War of Resistance, and during the Battle of Baoshan, he was blinded in one eye during the battle and lost contact with the troops. After the war, he was included in the missing list, but his comrades knew that he should have been wrapped in a corpse and died on the battlefield.
After the eldest brother disappeared, Zhang Liangrong wanted to go to the battlefield to avenge his brother, but his parents tearfully told him: "The Zhang family only has one son left, you have to leave, once you go back, the Zhang family will be dead!" In desperation, Zhang Liangrong accepted this reality and stayed in his hometown to fulfill his filial piety for his parents.
One day in early 1948, Zhang Liangrong took the picked mountain goods to the market to sell, and suddenly four Kuomintang soldiers rushed out, punched and kicked him, and snatched his goods. The more Zhang Liangrong returned home, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became."
I want to be the People's Liberation Army!
Zhang Liangrong only had such a thought.
Zhang Liangrong bid farewell to his parents, carried dry food on his back for thousands of miles, and finally came to Henan, joined the People's Liberation Army, and served in the 4th Column and 11th Brigade of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army.
"I am Chief Liu Deng's soldier!" Recalling the scene when he joined the army, Zhang Liangrong in his later years was still excited.
Battle of Huaihai
In November 1948, the Battle of Huaihai broke out.
The Battle of Huaihai was the most important of the three major battles, the most tragic, the most numerous enemy annihilated, and the most politically influential.
In this campaign, the two main forces of our East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army totaled more than 800,000 people, and they fought against 600,000 Kuomintang troops in the Central Plains and Jianghuai area, and the victorious side will grasp the initiative in the entire war, which is of great significance.
It was in this battle that Zhang Liangrong played the highest performance in his revolutionary career!
Nationalist tank unit
After the battle began, the East China Field Army led by Su Yu surrounded Huang Baitao's corps in the Huaihai battlefield, but Chiang Kai-shek was not willing to let Huang Baitao's corps be eaten, and quickly dispatched Huang Wei's 12th corps to rush from the southwest in an attempt to rescue Huang Baitao's corps. This decision was in the hands of Su Yu, who contacted Liu Deng's chief and asked the Central Plains Field Army to block the Huang Wei Corps. Zhang Liangrong's 4th Column 11th Brigade was responsible for blocking the enemy on the first line of Zi Nanping.
The Yellow Wei Corps was an all-American ordnance unit, with tanks pouring out and firing quite fiercely. Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the enemy, the 4th Column suffered heavy losses, and Zhang Liangrong's company fought only a few dozen people in less than a day. Seeing that the position warfare was in a disadvantageous position, Commander Chen Geng decided to organize an anti-tank detachment to blow up the "iron knots" that ran rampant on the battlefield.
As the squad leader, Zhang Liangrong led the whole squad of fighters to join the anti-tank squad and dig a pit and ambush on the only way for the Huang Wei Corps to go north, and destroy it in one fell swoop when the enemy tanks passed.
Zhang Liangrong took the lead, blowing up three enemy tanks by one person, completely paralyzing the enemy's tank troops, and creating an opportunity for the frontline soldiers to surround the Huang Wei Corps.
After the battle, Zhang Liangrong was awarded the special merit and became a heroic model for the whole army to learn.
River Crossing Advance Team
The Battle of crossing the river and making new contributions
After the Battle of Huaihai, according to the instructions of the Central Military Commission, Su Yu began to prepare for the Battle of crossing the river. At the same time, the East China Field Army and the Central Plains Field Army were reorganized into the Third Field Army and the Second Field Army, respectively. Zhang Liangrong's fourth column was reorganized into the Fourteenth Army. The Fourteenth Army was stationed in the Anqing area, and while catching up with ships and trains troops, it formed a confrontation with the Kuomintang army on the south bank.
The victory of the People's Liberation Army is already the trend of the times, but in the face of victory at your fingertips, how to avoid unnecessary sacrifices is the main consideration of the fighters.
At a time when there was no idea, the commander of the army issued an instruction, calling for the establishment of an advance team to cross the river before the battle of crossing the river was officially launched, to cross the river before the main force, to collect enemy information, and to seize the opportunity.
The river crossing advance team consisted of 300 brave soldiers who had experienced hundreds of battles and had excellent abilities, and Zhang Liangrong was one of them.
On the night of April 6, under the cover of night, the river crossing advance team sailed to the south bank in 15 wooden boats, and the lonely boats sailed on the vast river, appearing determined and tragic.
When the wooden boat reached the center of the river, the enemy troops on the opposite bank found them, and for a time the gunfire was loud, and Zhang Liangrong's small boat was pierced. At the critical moment, Zhang Liangrong shouted: "Jump with me!" He then took the lead and jumped into the cold water of the river, and the warriors followed suit. Zhang Liangrong struggled forward, clinging to the stern of a boat in front of him, and was almost swept away by the river several times.
After swimming to the opposite shore, Zhang Liangrong led his warriors to defeat the defenders on the south bank and successfully hidden deep into the mountains. In the following 14 days, the river crossing advance team made contact with the underground organizations and guerrillas in the southern Anhui region and continuously sent back intelligence, effectively ensuring the smooth progress of the battle of crossing the river.
After the battle, Zhang Liangrong once again made a special meritorious service, and was awarded the honorary title of "People's Meritorious Hero" and awarded a certificate of award, which was an infinite scenery for a while.
Zhang Liangrong's military merit badge
The bandits opened up the wilderness, and the heroes returned home
On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded. However, the remnants of the Kuomintang are still stirring up trouble on the land of China, colluding with bandits in the southwest region, burning and looting, and maiming the military and the people, so that the people in the southwest are in danger and miserable. At the call of the Central Military Commission, a campaign to suppress bandits was launched in the southwest.
Bandits are not purged, and the army does not collect troops!
As a member of Liu Deng's army, Zhang Liangrong did not have time to return to his hometown to report the good news of the victory of the People's Liberation Army, so he rushed to the southwest with a large army to suppress bandits. However, in the long-term operation of suppressing bandits, the PLA encountered a big problem: because the front line was too long, coupled with the high mountains and dense forests in the southwest region, the supply of the troops had problems. In desperation, the troops had no choice but to be self-sufficient and open up the wilderness.
Therefore, Zhang Liangrong led the whole class of soldiers to grow grain while fighting, and after the hard work of the soldiers, not only did the whole class eat a full meal, but also gave a lot of surplus grain to other squad fighters. However, the opening of the land is also accompanied by sacrifice, there is a large area of landmines, not only the mines planted by the enemy, but also the mines left by the World War II period, and the slightest carelessness will kill the mines. In his later years, Zhang Liangrong recalled the incident and said with tears in his eyes:
In order to clear mines, many soldiers were blown up and lost their arms and legs, which was very tragic.
Zhang Liangrong made great contributions to the five years of suppressing bandits in the southwest, and in recognition of him, the troops once again awarded him special merit.
In 1955, there were no major battles to be fought in the whole country, and the People's Liberation Army carried out major disarmament. In response to the call of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, Zhang Liangrong took the initiative to demobilize and retire from the army and returned to his hometown of Ziyang.
Do not seek fame and fortune, brilliant harvest
After returning to Ziyang, Zhang Liangrong was organized to work in the danshan town supply and marketing cooperative's distillery. But during the three years of hardship, the grain harvest was not harvested,
Zhang Liangrong did not want to occupy an idle position and receive the salary of the state.
So he resolutely chose to return to Laojun Village and returned to the former "own post" of the peasants, which he had been doing for more than sixty years.
After Zhang Liangrong returned to the village, he met a girl under the matchmaking of the villagers, and after a period of time together, the two were officially married, and after marriage, the two had two daughters, although the life was poor, it was very harmonious and envied. Zhang Liangrong loves his wife very much, but the drawer he locks is always a forbidden place, and even his wife cannot open it at will. Due to his many wounds during the war years, Zhang Liangrong's body left many scars, which could not hide his wife's eyes.
Under his wife's concern and inquiry, Zhang Liangrong told his past, but especially instructed his wife not to speak out.
Zhang Liangrong has insisted on more than 60 years of sunrise and sunset life, and he has never mentioned that experience to others, so when the staff went to the census in 2018, the villagers did not know his identity and ridiculed him for "taking advantage of the country".
Later, the glorious deeds of the elderly Zhang Liangrong were made public, and a reporter came to the door to interview, who did not understand his low profile. Old Man Zhang Liangrong couldn't help but sigh and said, "
I am a hero, and those comrades who died on the battlefield are the real heroes
Zhang Liangrong has hidden his fame for 63 years because he is accustomed to life and death, and a peaceful life is not easy to come by, as for those money, fame, aura, and merit, they are like floating clouds.