In 1996, in the public security bureau of Laiwu District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, there was such a scene, a white-haired old man followed two policemen into the conference room. Subsequently, a policeman warmly welcomed the old man to sit down and poured him a cup of hot water.
The police patiently explained: "Old man, not long ago, the state has issued a notice to collect civilian guns and strengthen social order, so it is legal for us to collect your guns, besides, how old are you, it is estimated that you have long been retired, how can you still hold guns?" ”
The old man pondered for a while and said, "I understand what you are saying, but I still can't give you the gun, because my two guns were given to me by Su Yu and Liao Rongbiao, the two founding generals, and I can't give them to you casually." ”
Hearing this, the two policemen were directly stunned.
Who is this old man with a gun? What was the experience of the gun in his hand? Where do those two guns go in the end?
A young man joined the army and gave a gun for meritorious service
The old man's name was Teng Xiyuan, and his story was told from 1925.
In 1925, Teng Xiyuan was born in a small village in Jinan City, Shandong Province, and due to his family's poverty, Teng Xiyuan lived a life without a meal since he was a child.
In order to allow the family to eat enough and reduce the burden on the family, Teng Xiyuan's two brothers had just reached adulthood and left their hometown and joined the army. But even without the eldest brother and the second brother, the family's food is still not enough to eat, and Teng Xiyuan's parents have also died in the famine years, as the third eldest in the family, Teng Xiyuan took the initiative to take the responsibility of raising two younger brothers.
Dragging his emaciated body, he went door to door begging for leftovers, hoping that some well-meaning person would be able to feed the three of them, but even when he had such an opportunity, God did not give him a handout. Teng Xiyuan's fifth brother starved to death on his back, and his fourth brother was also dying.
Teng Xiyuan's older brother
However, just when Teng Xiyuan fell into despair, an anti-Japanese armed force, which the villagers called "the Bodhisattva Army that saved the suffering and saved the suffering", appeared in front of him, and with a glimmer of hope, Teng Xiyuan rushed to the recruitment office of the "Bodhisattva Army", hoping to exchange his army for food for his brother.
Facing the tall recruiting office staff, Teng Xiyuan took the initiative to ask, "Hello, are we here in the Bodhisattva Army?" ”
The staff member looked at Teng Xiyuan and said kindly, "Little brother, we are the Eighth Route Army, not the Bodhisattva Army, and the Bodhisattva Army is just a nickname given to us by the common people." ”
Recruitment Office
Teng Xiyuan then said, "It's okay, as long as it's you, I don't care what your name is, I want to join you, as long as I can feed me and my brother." ”
The staff member said with a puzzled face: "Little brother, how old are you?" You are so young, it is certainly not appropriate, besides, joining us is going to fight, and fighting a war will kill people. ”
Teng Xiyuan replied, "I'm thirteen years old, not small, but I haven't eaten enough now, so you look at me as relatively young, but I can do a lot of things, and I'm not afraid of death, as long as I can let my brother and I eat enough." ”
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Seeing that the staff of the recruitment office still wanted to reject him, Teng Xiyuan was anxious, and he pleaded: "Please, big brother, I know that your troops are all good people, let me join the army, my brother has not eaten for three days, I can't get any more food, and both of our brothers will die." ”
Looking at the skinny TengXiyuan brothers, the staff sighed and said: "Little brother, we really can't take you here, the main force has a high combat intensity, in your current situation, going to the battlefield is completely sending you to death, but don't worry, I can recommend you to the county brigade, they will be better there, more suitable for a small comrade like you." ”
Hearing this, Teng Xiyuan, who had no hope, saw a little vitality again, and he said happily: "Thank you, sir, thank you, you are the great benefactor of our brothers." He said that he was about to kneel on the ground and prostrate his head, but he was stopped by the staff of the recruitment office.
County Brigade
Since then, Teng Xiyuan has officially become a member of the Laidong County Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and after joining the army, Teng Xiyuan has been training assiduously, hoping to repay the party and the government with perfect actual combat results.
Three years passed in the blink of an eye, Teng Xiyuan soon grew from a weak child to a communist revolutionary fighter, relying on his thin body and familiar route, Teng Xiyuan took the initiative to take up the work of a scout in the army, and completed several reconnaissance tasks in succession.
Because the strength of the Japanese army is too strong, the county brigade can only launch guerrilla operations, fight while running, and constantly eliminate the enemy in the movement. However, in the course of a battle, Teng Xiyuan and two other comrades accidentally found a scattered Japanese soldier, and after a brief discussion, the three of them planned to kill the little devil.
Kill enemies with daggers
Teng Xiyuan was responsible for attracting the enemy on the front, while the other two comrades were responsible for sneaking up on the Japanese from behind. When the Japanese army saw the figure of Teng Xiyuan, they immediately raised their guns to shoot, and Teng Xiyuan also used his flexible body to dodge around, and the two comrades sneaked up behind the Japanese army, and then violently hugged the body of the Japanese soldier.
Teng Xiyuan trotted over from a distance, took the dagger distributed to him by the county brigade, and stabbed into the body of the Japanese army one after another until the other party stopped breathing. Afterwards, Teng Xiyuan's three men took the captured guns and ammunition and received strong praise from the cadres of the county brigade.
In the same year, the Laidong County Brigade was reorganized and included in the ranks of the regular army, and Teng Xiyuan also became a regular soldier.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
In 1940, under the influence of the Hundred Regiments War, in order to cope with the guerrilla tactics of the Chinese Communist Party, the Japanese army adopted the "armor protection system", set up no man's land, carried out the inhumane "Three Lights Policy", and launched a large-scale sweeping operation against the anti-Japanese base areas controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
As a member of the anti-Japanese base area, Teng Xiyuan also threw himself into a brutal anti-sweeping operation, and in one battle, Teng Xiyuan, like many fighters, quickly ran out of bullets, and everyone could only take a large knife and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
When facing a small devil with a bayonet, Teng Xiyuan twisted the opponent's attack, and then approached closely, using the large knife directly to the enemy's neck, after seeing the scene of blood flowing out, Teng Xiyuan couldn't help but breathe heavily.
Spelling bayonets
However, just when Teng Xiyuan let down his vigilance, a saber stabbed from the side, Teng Xiyuan was unable to dodge at all, in this critical situation, Teng Xiyuan took the initiative to meet him, let the enemy's knife pierce his body, and then he endured severe pain and slashed at the head of the little devil with a large knife.
But what TengXiyuan never expected was that the Japanese soldier he killed was not an ordinary person, but a commanding officer of the Japanese army, relying on the merits of neutrality in this battle. Teng Xiyuan received a meeting from Liao Rongbiao, then commander of the First Military Subdistrict of the Luzhong Military Region.
As soon as the two of them met, Liao Rongbiao took the initiative to speak: "You little boy, just transferred to the regular army, you have made such a great contribution." ”
Liao Rongbiao
Teng Xiyuan touched his head in embarrassment and replied, "This is all I should do, and I have no credit." ”
Looking at the silly Teng Xiyuan, Liao Rongbiao continued: "Your boy typically got cheap and sold well, I heard that you were awarded the honor of first-class merit in battle, what reward do you want?" ”
Teng Xiyuan responded: "Report Commander, I don't have anything to want, as a soldier, killing the enemy and serving the country is what I should do." ”
pistol
Liao Rongbiao nodded after listening to it, and said: "You are right, but our troops will be rewarded for meritorious service, and if they have it, they will be punished, this time you have made a first-class merit, I will reward you with a box gun, how about it?" ”
In the face of the chief's reward, Teng Xiyuan smiled and said, "I will definitely work harder and use this pistol to kill more enemies." At this point, Teng Xiyuan obtained the first pistol in his life, and relied on this pistol to make great achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
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Lonely heroes, disarmed hundreds
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Teng Xiyuan was sent to the artillery unit as a company commander and once again threw himself into the battlefield of the front line. In the course of a night patrol, Teng Xiyuan accidentally found that there were signs of ignition in the ravine not far away, and Teng Xiyuan and his comrades sneaked past and saw a large number of Kuomintang troops.
Teng Xiyuan believed that this enemy was likely to come to sneak attack the artillery position, and at this time, it would definitely be too late to go back and pass on the information. So Teng Xiyuan and his comrades gathered four or five grenades and two pistols, and took advantage of the night to prepare to attack the enemy.
Four or five grenades rang out in succession, and Teng Xiyuan fired several shots, standing on a high hillside, shouting, "Don't move, you are already surrounded." ”
Throw grenades
At this time, a Kuomintang officer shouted: "Don't be afraid, he is alone, kill him." As soon as the words fell, the teammates hiding in the shadows shot the Kuomintang officer.
And Teng Xiyuan also said loudly: "Hmm, if you move again, you will be killed, we have hundreds of PLA soldiers hidden here, if you don't believe it, you will try to move?" ”
At the same time, the explosion of the grenade also reached the troops, the artillery battalion and the infantry battalion were urgently assembled, and when the troops arrived here, they saw a surprising scene, Teng Xiyuan and a comrade-in-arms joined hands to surrender more than 300 Kuomintang troops.
Su Yu
Afterwards, a commendation meeting was held in the organization, and Teng Xiyuan and his comrades-in-arms were awarded the honor of first-class merit, and General Su Yu, who was the commander of the Central China Field Army, also participated in the meeting.
After the founding of New China, Teng Xiyuan served in the south with the troops, and as a result, one morning, the soldiers of the whole army were sent to the train and went all the way north to the northeast region. After more than a year of training, Teng Xiyuan was sent to the Korean region to fight with the United Nations army, and it was not until many years later that Teng Xiyuan learned that this war was called the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In the cold ice and snow, Teng Xiyuan and his comrades wore single clothes to fight the enemy, and even sometimes, when they woke up, hundreds of soldiers were frozen alive on the battlefield. But none of this hit Teng Xiyuan himself, who was still convinced that China would win the final victory and that he could survive.
Korean
In 1953, in a blockade operation with the United Nations Army, the enemy launched an attack on our army with tanks, and Teng Xiyuan took the initiative to stand up, he rushed to the enemy with dozens of pounds of explosives packs, and successfully blew up the enemy's tanks with explosive packs, but he himself was unconscious because of the shock wave generated by the explosion.
During Teng Xiyuan's visit to the field hospital to recuperate, China and the DPRK signed an armistice agreement with the United Nations forces, and Teng Xiyuan also withdrew to China as a casualty.
A year later, Teng Xiyuan officially retired from the army, and after the unanimous decision of the head of the unit, he gave two pistols as souvenirs to Teng Xiyuan and issued him with a certificate of gun ownership.
The local police also verified the deeds of the old man and gave special treatment to the two pistols, so that he could continue to hold the two pistols of great commemorative significance.
Veterans don't die, they just wither. No matter how many years, no matter how vicissitudes, no matter how old, tengxiyuan old man still strictly demands himself by the standards of a soldier, under the calm face, can not hide the glory on the old man's chest, recall the past glory years, do not forget the original heart, keep in mind the mission, is the greatest loyalty of this group of veterans to the motherland.