Qingming Festival on April 4, 2007. A veteran of Jiangxi who has passed the age of flower armor comes to the place where he once fought to pay tribute to his comrades who died in battle. But I didn't expect that there was a tombstone of my own standing here. It has his name engraved on it and a photo of himself. It was also written "Immortal", and he understood it when he saw the tombstone. It turned out that it had been "sacrificed" here for more than thirty years. How did a big living man appear in his tombstone in the martyrs' cemetery? Let's take a look at the video we walked into. The veteran of Jiangxi mentioned above is Yan Ligen. Yan Ligen was born in Jiangxi, due to family poverty. He went north to Luoyang, Henan Province, to work in the 1960s and 1970s, when the international situation was unclear and still complex and changeable. In the international context of the Cold War, the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union. Sino-Soviet relations have also been deteriorating. Therefore, joining the Chinese People's Liberation Army at that time was the wish of many Chinese boys. Yan Ligen also had a dream of joining the army. In 1969, Yan Regen decided to join the army. He was incorporated into a company of the 379th Regiment of the 127th Division of the 43rd Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Yan Ligen, who had just joined the army, was organized to work as a guard at the side of Zhang Wannian, the commander of the 127th Division. Comrade Zhang Wannian was appointed vice chairman of the Central Military Commission in 1995. At that time, Yan Ligen was very good at performing in the army. It was highly valued by the division commander Zhang Wannian. Five years later. Yan Ligen, who had already served in the army, was ready to go through the discharge and go home. However, when he was about to leave, he was called back by their regimental commander. It turned out that zhang Wannian had come to the army to inspect the work at that time. Hearing the news that his former guard Yan Ligen was going to retire from the army and return home, he felt a little sorry that he felt that Yan Ligen was a very good soldier.
So Yan Ligen's regimental commander called him back, talked to him, and then decided to stay in the army and continue to serve. This time he was assigned to an engineer battalion by the organization to learn the techniques of mine clearance and bomb disposal. This technology doesn't look like it's usually not very useful. But this skill can be very important when you get to the battlefield. It can prevent many soldiers from being injured or killed. I studied mine clearance and bomb disposal techniques here for two years. Yan Ligen has a flexible mind and mastered this technology quickly. Gradually, he became more and more proficient in the operation of mine clearance and bomb disposal. Became the backbone of this technology. End of 1978. That is, before the outbreak of the war between China and Vietnam. Yan Ligen received orders from his superiors. He was assigned to Kunming, Yunnan. The task is to train new recruits to learn demining and bomb disposal techniques. But with the situation on the Sino-Vietnamese border gradually deteriorating. Viet Nam continues to provoke our border areas. War is poised. At the beginning of 1979. Formal diplomatic relations between China and the United States have been formally established. This made Vietnam, which had long hated China, very angry. Because twenty years ago at the Geneva Conference when the French question of Vietnam was discussed. China, which had gone to war in support of North Vietnam, and the Soviet Union joined forces to persecute Vietnam. Let it sign an armistice with France. Vietnam, which has suffered a dumb loss, has been resentful ever since. Just when Vietnam and the United States were at war. In 1972, China eased relations with the United States. So Vietnam gradually became closer to the Soviet Union. A period of deterioration in Sino-Soviet relations.
The Soviet Union tried to win over Vietnam in order to clamp down on China. It is hoped to control China through a north-south attack. At that time, Vietnam was unified after defeating the United States in the Vietnam War. After defeating the United States, Vietnam declared itself "the world's third-largest military power." See neighboring China as its "number one enemy." The "crazy" domestic forces in Vietnam have also begun to exclude China. It is also constantly provoking and harassing our citizens on the Sino-Vietnamese border in an attempt to tear down border monuments, attack our national territory and encroach on our border land. After repeated interference in the negotiations without any effect, it was decided in February 1979 to launch a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. At that time, he was still in Kunming with recruits. Yan Ligen received orders from his superiors. He asked to follow the original troops and be transferred to Guangxi to participate in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. The whole team was integrated into the Eastern Front Operations Group. Although Yan Ligen has been in the army since 1969. But it was only this Sino-Vietnamese war that allowed him to really participate in the war. After the war broke out, the Chinese People's Liberation Army attacked fiercely, all the way south, continued to win, and captured many enemy positions. Yan Ligen, a technical soldier for mine clearance and bomb disposal, also rushed to the front of the troops. Lead new recruits to clear mines for large troops.
As the saying goes: where are the shoes that don't get wet when you walk by the river? Although Yan Ligen's demining and bomb disposal techniques are skilled and cautious, they are still unable to withstand the danger. In a demining mission. Yan Ligen took mao Yongde, a recruit, to dismantle several mines found. At that time, Yan Ligen looked up. What I saw Mao Yongde stepping on was a thunderbolt. He shouted at Mao Yongde to tell him not to move
Waiting for him to go to dismantle the bullet, the voice had just fallen, but Mao Yongde somehow raised his feet. Then came the sound of an explosion. The recruit Mao Yongde was killed on the spot, and Yan Ligen was also blown far away by the impact of the bomb. He was also hit by bomb fragments. Directly unconscious. Comrades who heard the explosion arrived too late. By then Mao Yongde had been killed. They carried Yan Ligen, who was seriously injured by the explosion, to the local hospital. Shrapnel from his chest and waist had been removed. But during the war years, the treatment conditions were poor. The shrapnel left in his head could not be removed due to medical technology. After the rescue, Yan Ligen was still unconscious. So the superiors decided to send him to the Changsha Military Hospital in Hunan Province, where the treatment conditions were better. After several years of treatment, Yan Ligen was discharged from the hospital. Although discharged from the hospital, the previous bomb fragments have been stored in the brain for too long. This causes compression of the optic nerve and blindness in the right eye. It also left the root of migraine dizziness.
After being discharged from the hospital, Yan Ligen wanted to continue to return to the army. But at this time, his body could not meet the conditions of being a soldier. So the army decided to let him retire and change careers. When applying for a veteran's disability certificate in Yan Ligen. Due to the mistake of the staff. As a result, Yan Ligen's "wounded in battle" was written as "wounded in the line of duty". "War" is written as "Gong", and ordinary people can't see any difference. Not really. The difference in this word in Yan Ligen's view is not only a matter of treatment and honor, but also a defense of himself. Denial of the fact that the country was injured. He couldn't accept the word difference. In order to change this one word error. Yan Ligen dragged his scarred body a lot, found many people, spent a lot of time, and wrote a lot of materials. In the end, I still haven't changed this mistake of that year. He wanted to contact his former comrades to prove it for himself. But many comrades-in-arms experienced the sacrifices of the war. Retired veterans have long been unable to contact. In order to collect information on comrades-in-arms. Travel between Jiangxi and Henan. This rush to correct mistakes is suddenly more than thirty years. During this period, I have already spent all my savings. Constant expenses made his life difficult for a while. Yan Ligen's energy, which had already entered the year of the Flower Armor, had long been exhausted. Because of the wounds that fell in the Sino-Vietnamese war that year, he fell ill. At one point he was forced to want to give up, but he was not willing. He was clearly wounded in the war to defend the country. This is the honor of one's own soldiers.
The time to prepare to give up
Yan Ligen suddenly contacted his former old regiment leader Lei Yuewei. Decided to visit him in Guangxi. When Lei Yuewei saw Yan Ligen, he looked at this old comrade-in-arms with wrinkled faces and blindness in his right eye, but he refused to believe it, "Why did you come at this time, I have burned paper money for you for many years, thinking that you have sacrificed!" Yan Ligen, who heard this, was also very surprised. He was obviously standing in front of the old regimental commander, why did he say that I had sacrificed? So inexplicable, is it the old regimental commander who is confused?. Lei Yuewei's wife walked over to Yan Ligen with a shocked face. He touched his hand in fear. After determining that it is a big living person, the couple relaxes. Yan Ligen, who was very confused, only knew after the old regiment leader's explanation. It turned out that he had been regarded as a martyr before. Made a crown tomb in Guangxi. He was "buried" with other comrades-in-arms in the Martyrs' Cemetery in Nanning. Yan Ligen was led by the old regiment leader to the martyrs' cemetery here. Sure enough, he found his own tombstone.
It is clearly engraved with his name "Yan Ligen Martyrs Immortal". The photo above is a little unclear due to oxidation. Yan Ligen took a closer look, and sure enough, it was himself. He himself wondered, what the hell was going on? Later, it was found out by the relevant local departments. It turned out that after Yan Ligen was injured, he was transferred from Guangxi to Hunan. The troops lost contact with him. Nor did I expect him to be hospitalized for so long. After the end of the Sino-Vietnamese War, he was still not contacted. There were no people who found him in his hometown either. So at that time his comrades thought he had died. He helped him declare the martyrdom to his superiors. Since his remains have not been found at that time. The comrades-in-arms made him a crown tomb and tearfully chiseled a tombstone. Mr. and Mrs. Lei Yuewei visit them at the Nanning Martyrs' Cemetery every year during the Qingming Dynasty. Sweep the graves of comrades who have sacrificed. Such a "tombstone oolong" incident has finally revealed the truth. Yan Ligen's deeds have also been reported by major media. It has attracted the attention of the state. The tombstone of the martyrs' cemetery is enough to prove that Yan Ligen was wounded in battle. Instead of being injured in the line of duty, the old regimental commander Lei Yuewei also came forward to prove it. Yan Ligen also drew a satisfactory end to the correction of the disability certificate more than thirty years ago. More than thirty years have passed, and finally a gratifying ending has been achieved. The soldiers who fought for the country once defended the lives of the country and the people with their lives and blood. Such heroes deserve to be remembered. Well, this video ends here. What do you officials want to say about this? Welcome to leave a comment in the comment area to discuss. I'm Green Ant Geg, follow me, and we'll see you next time.