What is the special status of a 96-year-old man? Armed with a double gun for more than 70 years, the government gave him the privilege of being alone
The old man was slightly thin, but full of spirit, and looking at the old man's clothes, he seemed to be an ordinary retired old man.
However, the old man was not ordinary, he had all kinds of medals in his home, and he had two big treasures, that is, two box guns.
Three or eight big covers in the hand
However, as early as 1996, the mainland issued a ban on guns, not to mention three or eight large cover box guns, that is, ordinary shotguns can no longer be privately owned, what is the gun in the old man's home?
The old man, now 96 years old, has been at home with two military pistols for more than 70 years.
Not only that, but the neighbors also knew that the old man had a pistol, but no one was afraid, and no one took the initiative to report to the government.
We should know that reporting illegal possession of firearms is protected and rewarded by the state. In addition, after the promulgation of the "Gun Management Measures", the relevant staff also went to the homes of the elderly and found the two pistols in the homes of the elderly.
Surprisingly, the staff not only did not take away the gun, but also took care of the elderly. So, who is this old man? What is his special status? What made him hold a gun for so many years?
The legendary life of a hundred-year-old veteran
The old man with two guns is Teng Xiyuan, a hundred-year-old legendary veteran!
Teng Xiyuan participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation and the Korean War. He was born and died for the revolution and was wounded many times.
The 75-year-old veteran party member, veteran soldier Wang, the revolutionary story behind him is thrilling.
The story of personally experiencing the massacre of the devils and inspiring the motherland to repay the motherland also begins when he participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In October 1925, Teng Xiyuan was born into a poor peasant family in Beishanyang Village, Kouzi Town, Laiwu County, Shandong Province (now part of Kouzhen Street, Laiwu District, Jinan City).
His family had five brothers and life was very difficult. In those turbulent times, poor peasants could not guarantee even their most basic survival. When Teng Xiyuan was a child, his parents died in natural and man-made disasters. He could only grow up under the care of two brothers, but the situation at home could not support so many people.
Teng Xiyuan's eldest brother took the initiative to leave home to join the army to make a living, and every once in a while, he would take a leave of absence to go home, bring some food for his four younger brothers, and tell them about his experience in the army. Soon, Teng Xiyuan's second brother also went out to participate in the revolution. Due to the frequent wars, the brothers were unable to return home in time to visit.
Therefore, Teng Xiyuan and his two brothers were left at home, life was more difficult, in order to fill the stomach of the two brothers, young Teng Xiyuan begged around for several years to make a living, begging in the war years was not easy, the youngest brother starved to death in the wandering, becoming an eternal pain in Teng Xiyuan's heart.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese army began to invade China in an all-round way. Soon, Laiwu, Shandong, was also occupied by the Japanese invaders.
When Teng Xiyuan was begging along the road, he witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese invaders killing chinese compatriots, and he decided to join the army to kill the enemy and defend the country like two brothers.
After the establishment of the Anti-Japanese National United Front, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and rushed to the anti-Japanese front.
By 1938, there were many anti-Japanese armed forces led by our party in Shandong, and the Laidong County Brigade in Teng Xiyuan's hometown was one of them. Therefore, Teng Xiyuan took the initiative to join the Communist Laidong County Brigade at the age of 13.
At first, Liu Zizheng, the political commissar of the county team, felt that this 13-year-old little devil was too young to want him, but Teng Xiyuan said firmly: "I am not afraid of death, I am full of confidence in the Communist Party and the revolution, please accept me!" ”
Seeing Teng Xiyuan's firm belief, Liu Zizheng agreed to his request.
Teng Xiyuan has never eaten a full meal since he was a child, severely malnourished, dark and thin, and everyone lovingly calls this half-grown child "TengHezi".
At first, his comrades always let him stay in the safe rear and do some miscellaneous work, until the Japanese invaders suddenly swept through North China, and Teng Xiyuan became famous in the war.
The 15-year-old hand-bladed devil became famous in one battle
In the spring of 1940, the Japanese army and puppet traitors in north China suddenly carried out a frenzied sweep of the Base Area of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, and one of the teams went straight to beishanyang Village, where Teng Xiyuan was located.
At that time, Teng Xiyuan was on a mission here with several soldiers of the county brigade, and due to the emergence of traitors, two soldiers of the county brigade were unfortunately captured by the enemy, and the safety situation of Teng Xiyuan and other members of the team was not optimistic.
At this time, the enemy had surrounded the village, but Teng Xiyuan was very calm, because he had lived here for many years and was very familiar with the terrain of the village.
He led the remaining members of the team, and before the enemy had entered the village, they prepared to retreat from the path behind the village, and on the way, Teng Xiyuan suddenly found a small group of Japanese troops slaughtering the villagers, forcing the communists to find out the whereabouts of the communists.
Teng Xiyuan, who was only 15 years old, was full of blood and fanggang, and he discussed with the team members and decided to kill the Japanese squad
。 Teng Xiyuan drew the dagger he was carrying, hid in the shadows, and when a Japanese soldier fell alone, he jumped from the thatched roof to the Japanese like lightning, pinned him to the ground, and raised the dagger back to stab the Japanese army, killing him in an instant. In just a few seconds, he had a Japanese soldier by hand. It can be said that there is courage and strategy!
The boy who killed the enemy flag bearer
In the summer of 1940, the Japanese army saw that the sweep they had organized before had not achieved much success, so they concentrated their main forces in a hurry and carried out a large-scale attack on the anti-Japanese base area in central Shandong.
In the Yangjiaheng area, an encounter was fought with a detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, and Teng Xiyuan's county brigade also participated in the battle.
The battle began in a white-hot phase. Although the Japanese army had a large number of troops and an absolute superiority in weapons and equipment, our army fought them to the death with its tenacious will, and the battle situation was extremely tense.
Teng Xiyuan, who had been charging at the front line position, saw the enemy's flag bearer at a glance, and he had heard his brother tell him since he was a child that if the military flag fell, the morale would be chaotic. So, he took up his gun and aimed it, and killed the Japanese standard-bearer with one shot, making the charging Japanese troops suddenly overwhelmed!
But the enemy soon rushed up again, and the two sides began a fierce white-knife battle, and after a long fight, Teng Xiyuan's gun ran out of bullets, so he rushed out of the bunker and took a bayonet to fight the enemy hand-to-hand. At this time, two enemies surrounded him one after the other, and Teng Xi was far from being able to dodge, and a Japanese bayonet stabbed him in the armpit, and the blood immediately seeped into his clothes.
The enemy thought that Teng Xiyuan would fall to the ground in pain if he was stabbed, but he forcibly pulled out his bloody bayonet, and then grabbed the bayonet with his bare hands and slashed it hard into the neck of the Japanese army, killing him with one knife.
In that encounter, Teng Xiyuan killed 6 Japanese soldiers, and he had just turned 15 years old at this time, and he was still a half-grown child!
After the battle, he was awarded the First Class Merit. At that time, Liao Rongbiao also received him and praised him
"This baby soldier is really a fierce general!" ”
Not only that, Liao Rongbiao also personally rewarded him with a box pistol.
Three-eight big cover accompanied him for half a lifetime
In the ensuing War of Resistance Against Japan, he used this gun to kill many Japanese troops and became a famous anti-Japanese hero in the Revolutionary Base Area of Shandong.
Shortly after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek openly launched a civil war in spite of the domestic people's call for peace.
In 1947, after the failure of the all-out offensive, the Kuomintang troops launched a major offensive against the two liberated areas of northern Shaanxi and Shandong.
However, with the victory of the Battle of MengLianggu under the command of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, several successive attacks of the Kuomintang ended in failure in several subsequent battles.
In July of that year, in order to contain the enemy, it indirectly supported operations in other regions.
Su Yu prepared to use four columns of the East China Field Army to surround and annihilate the Nationalist Eleventh Division entrenched in the Southern Malaysia area, causing huge losses to the enemy.
At this time, Teng Xiyuan had been promoted to artillery company commander by virtue of his outstanding achievements, and in order to effectively use artillery fire to attack the enemy, Teng Xiyuan asked his subordinates to be responsible for the guards near the front line and understand the enemy's situation in order to accurately locate the location of the artillery strike.
Witty "Teng Kuroko"
One day, he suddenly found that more than 200 Nationalist soldiers were walking towards a well-equipped ravine.
At this time, the main force of our army was still half an hour away from here, and Teng Xiyuan felt that he could not let go of the enemy.
But at this time there was only one soldier in charge of the guard at his side, all weapons were only three grenades, a rifle and a pistol, and years of combat experience had given Teng Xiyuan the character to remain calm in the face of danger in any situation.
His mind was thinking fast, and he quickly came up with an idea.
It turned out that he remembered the Peking Opera he had heard when he was a child, Zhuge Liang's empty city plan, and the bold Teng Xiyuan decided to try it!
When the army team reached the valley, it was late, and when the light was unclear and the surrounding vegetation was dense, Teng Xiyuan jumped out at once.
He immediately threw a grenade at the Nationalist troops below and shouted to the enemy below: "You are surrounded by us, lay down your weapons, we Chinese the People's Liberation Army to treat prisoners preferentially!" ”
He said and fired a shot into the sky.
Because of the lateness of the hour, the enemy did not know how many PLA soldiers were on the slopes of the hills on both sides of the strait, and they thought that they had been ambushed by our army, and they wanted to retreat in a hurry.
Seeing that the enemy was about to run, Teng Xi was unable to pursue with a weak force, and he was in a hurry, but at this time he heard the familiar sound of the charge trumpet. It turned out that when Teng Xiyuan dropped the grenade, my main force heard the sound and quickly rushed to it, and Teng Xiyuan's encirclement made the enemy miss the first opportunity to evacuate.
Finally, under the fierce attack of our army, more than 200 Kuomintang troops were successfully eliminated. Teng Xiyuan was once again commended for his outstanding performance.
Since then, Teng Xiyuan has followed the troops to participate in hundreds of large and small battles, such as the Battle of Huaihai and the Battle of Crossing the River.
Until the founding of New China, his military career was not over. With the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he once again ran to a new battlefield.
A famous explosive hero of the whole army in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
In October 1950, Chairman Mao of the CPC Central Committee made a decision to resist us aggression and aid Korea and defend the family and the country. Tens of thousands of Chinese volunteers rushed to the Korean battlefield, and Teng Xiyuan was one of them.
In December of the same year, Teng Xiyuan followed his troops north from Fujian, took a train all the way to Dandong, and then crossed the Yalu River into North Korea.
The scene when he first arrived in North Korea is still fresh in his memory, according to Teng Xiyuan's recollection,
"The troops just crossed the Yalu River and engaged the enemy, the US imperialists have air forces in the air, motorized infantry on the ground, and the Chinese army has only two legs, millet plus rifles."
At that time, the conditions were very difficult, it is difficult for us to imagine now, we can only look up the truth through film and television dramas, and related books.
After Teng Xiyuan entered Korea, he spent almost most of his time on the road, and in order to raid strategic targets, our army often carried out long-distance, long-term, uninterrupted marches, coupled with the cold weather, we suffered heavy losses.
After the end of the Fifth War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the situation reached a relatively balanced situation, and the two sides fought and talked.
The war has entered a stalemate, and the "United Nations forces" have not given up, and they continue to attack our army to increase their bargaining chips.
In March 1953, four months before the signing of the armistice, the enemy suddenly attacked the Mapingli area near our 38th line.
In order to deal with the ferocious enemy, our army formulated a series of interspersed combat plans, and the operation began immediately.
On the march, an enemy tank blocked the only way for our army to advance, and if we could not cross the area, our efforts would be in vain.
At that time, during the rapid march, our army had no heavy weapons at all, and the only explosive pack could not destroy the enemy's tank by throwing it, and we could only blow it up by rushing to the tank with the explosive pack and hanging the explosive pack on it.
At the critical moment, Teng Xiyuan volunteered to carry out this arduous task, but he did not blindly rush, but thought of a clever trick. The resourceful Teng Xiyuan found that there was a small ditch next to the tank, which could be used to avoid the enemy's sight.
So he took advantage of the night and the terrain to quietly drill into the ditch from one side.
However, when he was creeping forward with an explosive package on his back and approached the tank, he found that the enemy in the watchtower on the tank could see the situation in the ditch with a telescope.
Teng Xiyuan knew in his heart that he might not be able to go back this time, but he was not afraid, on the contrary, he picked up the explosive bag and rushed to the tank. Perhaps the enemy did not expect him to dare to stand up from the ditch, and for a moment he was overwhelmed and did not shoot.
Teng Xiyuan immediately seized on this precious few seconds, ignited the lead, and quickly successfully hung the explosive package on the tank. The tank was successfully destroyed with a bang, and the mission was successfully completed!
In this battle, everyone knows this famous explosive hero of the whole army!
Retired veteran king
In his 15-year military career, Teng Xiyuan was injured five times, twice with first-class merit and three times with third-class merit. In 1953, after the end of the Korean War, Teng Xiyuan was demobilized and returned to laiwu's hometown.
After taking off his military uniform, he hid his reputation and served at the grassroots level. He used to work in laiwu's bus company and other departments, but no matter where he went, he did practical things for the people.
After retirement, the elderly Teng Xiyuan is not idle, he has always been concerned about the development of the motherland.
Whenever he saw on television reports about the wars he had fought in the past, the old man remembered his fallen comrades.
For decades, Teng Xiyuan never took the initiative to talk to others about his achievements, whenever others asked him, he always talked about the heroic performance of his comrades-in-arms, and whenever the night was quiet, the old man always wiped and touched the two guns awarded to him by the organization.
Neighbors nearby knew that the skinny black man had two guns at home, but they didn't know where they came from.
When the reporter asked the elderly Teng Xiyuan why he was holding a gun, the old man took the initiative to show the reporter the gun license and gun holding instructions specially issued to him by the 6206 unit of the People's Liberation Army in 1982.
Today, these two pistols are no longer weapons, but the old man's commemoration of the past years.
In 2015, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the old man also specially sent the gun to the Laiwu Battle Memorial Hall, so that everyone could see these two outstanding pistols!
now
Teng Xiyuan
He is 96 years old, but he is still in good physical condition.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the old man sent his blessings at home: "I wish the great Communist Party of China eternal youth!" ”
As for the two pistols, of course, they are still preserved in the old man's home of Teng Xiyuan, which is the old man's military merit badge and a witness of the times!