Once worn in a military uniform, the blood of a soldier flowed for life.
1993, in
Such a scene occurred at the Gao'an County People's Hospital in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province.
In the corner of the hospital's outpatient hall, an emaciated old man was arguing fiercely with the middle-aged man opposite him, who looked like he had just finished surgery and had a thick veil over his left eye.
The middle-aged man urged the old man to sign the expense reimbursement document, and the old man was very angry and angrily reprimanded his son:
"Can't the family afford this money?" Still want to reach out to the country? Aren't you a communist? ”
In the middle of talking, he snatched the document from his son's hand and tore it to pieces.
The son bowed his head in resignation, not understanding why his father did this. The family's economic conditions are not good,
This medical expense was collected by selling two pigs in the family, which was originally the child's tuition fee and fertilizer money for the next year.
Who is this old man?
Why did he do this?
Just a few days ago, the 73-year-old Chen Xunyang suddenly felt severe pain in his left eye, and soon his vision was blurred, unable to see what was in front of him, and his family immediately sent him to the hospital, after a doctor's diagnosis, this is because he had been injured before and had not been well treated, so it would cause sequelae.
Chen Xunyang
Although the doctor tried his best to treat it, because the old injury was so old, in order to save the other eye, the doctor could only remove the left eyeball in the end. For this operation, Chen Xunyang spent a total of 630 yuan, which was also a big expense at that time.
After learning of the situation of the old man, the town leaders specially sent people to visit and instructed the old man's son, Chen Bagen, to take the bill to reimburse the old man after he was discharged from the hospital, but he did not expect that this move would make Chen Xunyang so opposed.
As for what kind of injuries his father's eyes had been suffered before, Chen Bagen did not know.
Later, the superior came to the village to collect information on veterans, and the staff could not help but be surprised when they collected the information of Elder Chen.
This old man turned out to be a great meritorious man who had made first-class merit twice!
Chen Xunyang received a military merit medal
It was only at this time that Chen Xunyang's true identity was known.
Heroes don't ask for provenance
Chen Xunyang was born in 1920 in a poor peasant family in the big town of Gao'an City, because there were many children in the family, and life was very difficult.
Chen Xunyang was the seventh oldest in the family, although he was young, but in order to reduce the burden on the family, he began to work as a long worker in the landlord's family at a young age, the landlord's family had a hard time, and the young Chen Xunyang suffered all kinds of oppression and hardship.
At that time, China was in flames of war, from warlords to the War of Resistance Against Japan, internal and external troubles made the people live in deep water. Chen Xunyang's family is in such an environment, living a difficult life.
Japan invaded China
However, before there was any hope, disaster ensued. Chen Xunyang's two older brothers were buried in the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese army, and the other brother was captured by the Kuomintang and never heard from again, while his parents died one after another because of the grief of losing their children one after another.
In this way, the good family fell apart, making Chen Xunyang grief-stricken.
In 1948, shortly after the death of Chen Xunyang's father, a group of Kuomintang soldiers came to the village to arrest Zhuang Ding, remembering the missing brother, chen Xunyang came from it. If he also left, there would be no hope in the family, so he begged the Kuomintang soldiers bitterly, begging them to spare him, but where could the soldiers listen, they tied up Chen Xunyang and Yang Wuhua and took him to the battlefield.
And this scene made Chen Xunyang unable to forget it for decades.
The Kuomintang arrested Zhuang Ding
At that time, there were many Zhuang Ding who were escorted to the battlefield with Chen Xunyang, and they were all temporarily captured by the Kuomintang from all over the country, and they were directly sent to the battlefield without any training, and their combat effectiveness could be imagined.
Soon, these innocent people lost their lives on the battlefield. Chen Xun yang had a big life, and luckily picked up a life, but he was still captured by the People's Liberation Army.
Before the war, the Kuomintang army had been brainwashing the soldiers and smearing the image of our army, which made Chen Xunyang think that after he was captured, he would definitely be shot, and he was always very afraid. But what he did not expect at all was that the People's Liberation Army treated the prisoners very kindly, not only did not punish them, but also gave him hot noodles that they themselves were reluctant to eat, which made Chen Xunyang very moved.
He was even more impressed that the PLA did not shoot any of the captives, but made them voluntarily choose whether to stay or go home. They were all poor peasants, and if they chose to go home, the troops would arrange for them to travel expenses and passes to go home.
Chen Xunyang's approach touched Chen Xunyang, and at the subsequent prisoner complaint meeting, Chen Xunyang heard many sad stories of the same experience as him, and he suddenly understood that only by following the Platon led by the Communist Party could the people truly live a stable life and save future generations from the pain of war.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Chen Guanyang finally chose to stay in the army.
With tears in his eyes, he said to the leader of the troops:
"I'm going to stay in the army and avenge my dead brothers!"
In this way, Chen Xunyang became a soldier of the 46th Division of the People's Liberation Army.
Chen Xunyang cherished his days in the army, he actively trained and studied diligently, and soon received unanimous praise from his superiors. The atmosphere of strict discipline and equal treatment of the People's Liberation Army has also given Chen Xunyang an unprecedented sense of belonging, and he is more determined to play a good record and help the people live a good life of truly turning themselves into masters.
Reminiscing about the glory days
After the three major battles, the Kuomintang's power in Jiangbei collapsed, and the People's Liberation Army's million-strong division was like Changhong, but the Kuomintang army headed by Chiang Kai-shek still had delusions and tried to rule by drawing the river.
Therefore, Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu ordered our army to fight across the river, eliminate all the stubborn Kuomintang reactionaries, and truly complete the liberation of the whole country.
Battle of the River Crossing
However, with 700,000 troops, the Kuomintang army held the Yangtze River Graben, coupled with the deep and rapid waters of the Yangtze River, the superiority of the Kuomintang army in numbers and weapons, and the situation facing our army was very passive.
Therefore, the superior instructed the 138th Regiment to select 300 elite soldiers, form a commando team, and cross the river first to occupy the ferry. Although the name is commando, it is actually a "death army", but for the liberation of the motherland, the soldiers have long put life and death aside, everyone has enthusiastically signed up, Chen Xunyang also did not hesitate to sign up for battle.
However, there are three conditions for the registration of the River Crossing Commando:
Party members, southerners, water-aware
Of the three conditions, Chen Xunyang only meets the conditions of a southerner.
However, with great ambitions, Chen Xunyang concealed his ignorance of water, and at the same time applied to the commanders and fighters that if he could come back alive, he would apply to the organization to join the party as soon as he returned. The superiors took into account Chen Xunyang's usual performance and finally agreed to his request.
Soon, 300 soldiers were ready to go, and everyone knew very well that this battle would be a life of nine deaths, and everyone was ready to sacrifice.
In the early morning of April 21, 1949, the Yangtze River was windy and high, and under a single order, the battle officially began.
The river-crossing commando team, composed of these 300 soldiers, rowed their boats together and rushed to the opposite shore. When the ship reached the middle stream, the enemy found that our army was coming, and suddenly, the boat was like an arrow, the war was raging, and the enemy's shells pierced the soldiers' wooden boats, but the soldiers still braved the rain of bullets and bullets and continued to move forward without wavering.
The shells continued to explode, and the river surface was blown up into a column of water, and Chen Xunyang shouted: Everyone cheer up, victory is ahead!
The fighters finally captured the enemy position, but at this time, only 13 people were left in the 300-man team.
With the victory of the commando, the main force also followed, quickly crossed the Yangtze River, and broke into the enemy's base camp like a bamboo.
The Battle of the Crossing River ended with the victory of our army, and Chen Xunyang was also awarded the title of "Hero on the Water" after the war and became a communist as he wished.
Many years later, in the face of reporters' interviews, Elder Chen touched the military merit medal issued to him by the organization after the Battle of Crossing the River, and said with tears: I have never forgotten the fierceness of the Battle of Crossing the River in my life.
After that, Chairman Mao ordered the liberation of the southwest, and Chen Xunyang once again followed the large army to occupy Guiyang and advance into Chengdu.
Marching and fighting, soldiers are fast, running fast and going far, often in order to take advantage of the opportunity. When the troops advanced into the southwest, Chen Xunyang's shoes did not fit, and because he had walked for a long time, there were many blisters on his feet, large and small, and every step was painful.
Chen Xunyang said that at that time, he would rather die on the battlefield than walk.
Later, seeing that he was in real pain, the leader of the unit let him get into the truck, but seeing that the other soldiers were insisting, he jumped out of the car again, because he felt that it was too humiliating!
As the army marched again and again to fight, Chen Xunyang's foot strength also became better and better. The terrain in the southwest region is rugged, steep and difficult to travel, Chen Xunyang insisted, and even later, he could march 90 kilometers with a heavy load in one day.
Because of his outstanding performance, he was also awarded the title of "Model Marcher" by the army.
At the beginning of 1950, Chen Xunyang once again rushed to Yunnan with the troops to suppress the bandits, and it was in this battle that Chen Xunyang was unfortunately injured in the left eye by the bandits. However, he did not retire because of the injury, but persisted until the last moment, and because of this, the best treatment time was delayed, leaving serious sequelae in his left eye.
Bandits in the southwest
Seeing that he was seriously injured, his superiors wanted to arrange for him to go to a safer rear, but Chen Xunyang refused, turned around and followed the troops to the Korean battlefield.
The trauma of war is unforgettable.
Looking at the successive battles, the comrades-in-arms around them have followed each other, but Chen Xunyang knows that they are all for a goal, that is, national stability and national liberation.
The thing is whisked away, and the merit and name are hidden deeply
After the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chen Xunyang was unwilling to cause any more trouble for the country, and with an injury, he was demobilized and returned to his hometown in Jiangxi.
After returning home, Chen Xunyang did not show publicity, but quietly locked all his medals and meritorious certificates into the box, because he always remembered the instructions of Yang Dezhi, the head of the army, before leaving:
The previous credits are over, and we should not be overly proud. After returning to his hometown, he must strictly demand himself as a party member and make new contributions to the construction of his hometown!
Since then, Chen Xunyang has never told anyone about his glorious deeds on the battlefield and has become an ordinary peasant again.
Yang Dezhi
At that time, the whole country was forming primary cooperatives to develop agriculture, and the people in the village handed over their cattle and tools to the cooperative to support production, but because Chen Xunyang had been in the army for many years, the family at this time could be said to be surrounded by disciples, so Chen Xunyang took out the 300 yuan demobilization fee given to him by the army and went to the town to buy two buffalo and handed them to the society.
And the rest of the money, Chen Xunyang did not consider himself, but donated to other poor families in the village, leaving only a little basic daily necessities.
Because of the chief's instructions, he was spurred in his heart every moment.
At that time, Chen Xunyang's hometown was often flooded, and the government intended to build water conservancy projects to control the flood, so Chen Xunyang volunteered and rushed to the front line again.
It should be known that the technical conditions at that time were very backward, and the construction of the embankment basically relied on artificial physical strength, but No matter how much difficulty Chen Xunyang encountered, he always adhered to the first line of construction, and this defense was exactly four years.
Four years later, Chen Xunyang led everyone to build a number of dams for his hometown, and he devoted himself to water conservancy projects, rarely returning home, even when his son was born.
Later, when Chen Xunyang named his children, he used the word "dam", and he was also rated as a "model worker" by the county, and once again became a hero and hero in everyone's heart.
In 1960, after the completion of the water conservancy project, the local government was ready to transfer Chen Xunyang to work in the Huangsha Nursery, which was an "iron rice bowl" and a position that many people could not ask for, but Chen Xunyang refused, he did not want to live on the merit book, but chose to continue to live his peasant life.
Later, the village unanimously elected him as the secretary of the party branch of the brigade, because he was upright, did things fairly, and had a high prestige among the masses, and everyone was willing to obey his command.
In order to improve the backward situation in his hometown, Chen Xunyang made a full investigation, and then led the villagers to plant trees, develop orchards, dredge ditches, and soon transformed the village of Zhoushang, where he was located, into a model village in the whole township, and everyone's life was also booming and getting better and better.
Not only that, Chen Xunyang also set strict demands on his children, and under his influence, the children also developed a spirit of selfless dedication, and the eldest son, Chen Bagen, later became a glorious Communist Party member.
In 1993, the 73-year-old Chen Xunyang had a recurrence of an old disease and had to remove his left eyeball, which led to a fierce dispute between father and son.
Until this time, Chen Xunyang was still convincing his son that everything should be based on the state, and that this little thing of his own would not bother the government without bothering. Since then, the family has returned to an indisputable life, and he has never mentioned the merits of the old man.
Until 2019, when the government was collecting information on retired soldiers, the staff saw the file of the elderly Chen Xunyang, and found that this old man, who was nearly a hundred years old, was actually a great hero who hid his meritorious name and made so many contributions to the country!
At this time, the old man's meritorious medals that recorded blood and tears and smoke were seen by the world.
Because of the war, Chen Xunyang lost his left eye and left his body full of pain, but this was the mark left by the war on the hero and the supreme glory.
Chen Xunyang never flaunted his past merits, nor did he show off his past glory to others.
The first half of his life is a horse, and the second half of his life is disarmed and returned to the field, some people say that this is called "hero loneliness".
But in fact, to endure the cold, do not forget the original intention, this is the true hero of a soldier!
Hats off to Elder Chen! Hats off to the heroes!