Chinese often said that Yijin returned to his hometown, but a founding lieutenant general returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, and he was greeted only by his crippled brother, and the other relatives of the general had long since died, and there was no bustle of "returning to his hometown", on the contrary, it was infinite sorrow and regret.
In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he led the 39th Army in a fierce battle with the US army and fired the first shot of fighting with the US army.
Wu Xinquan was a general who had experienced hundreds of battles, but his early experience was very unfortunate, he was a native of Pingjiang County, Hunan, born in a poor peasant family, in 1926, at the age of 14, Wu Xinquan joined the local agricultural cooperative, vigorously participated in revolutionary activities.
Unexpectedly, the Great Revolution failed, and one night in June 1930, the local militia group went to Wu Xinquan's home to take revenge, and wanted to arrest Wu Xinquan, who had participated in the peasant cooperative, and before the enemy entered the house, he ran out over the wall and joined the Red Army, becoming a soldier of the Red Third Army led by Mr. Peng.
2 months, the Red Third Army attacked Changsha, the troops rested in Pingjiang County, Wu Xinquan's father immediately rushed to the army after learning the news, found Wu Xinquan, who was already a soldier of the Red Army, his father was very supportive of him to join the Red Army, but he was reluctant and finally left reluctantly.
Wu Xinquan experienced the agrarian revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation in the army, and when he returned to his hometown again, it was 19 years later, that is, in the winter of 1949, when the soldiers of the Red Army had become the political commissar of the 39th Army of the People's Liberation Army.
Shortly after liberation at that time, Wu Xinquan, who had not returned to his hometown to visit his parents for only 20 years, was homesick, so he took a leave of absence to return to his hometown to visit his relatives, and was approved by the organization, and he and his wife Yu Huiru returned to their hometown with their second daughter, as well as guards and more than a dozen soldiers, in two American-style cars.
Because shortly after liberation, there were still some bandits and spies who wreaked havoc on New China, Wu Xinquan had to bring more than a dozen fighters with him when he returned to his hometown, and he also brought 800 kilograms of grain and 200 kilograms of salt, as well as quilts and some clothes, taking into account the hardships of the people in his hometown.
The group set off from Hankou, Hubei Province, and drove all the way to the downstairs house of Changshou Street in Pingjiang County, which is Wu Xinquan's hometown, so returning to his hometown is almost like a dream for Wu Xinquan, who has been away from home for 19 years and has experienced guns and bullets and nine deaths.
Wu Xinquan fantasized in his mind about the joy of the reunion of father and son countless times, and when he got home, Wu Xinquan knocked on the door, and the only person who walked out of the door to greet him was his crippled brother Wu Ganquan, it turned out that Wu Xinquan's father had died a long time ago, and Wu Xinquan was shocked and did not want to believe that this was the truth.
His brother told him that after his father went to see him in the Red Army team 19 years ago, he was arrested by the enemy when he returned home, and many Red Army family members were also arrested, and the enemy tortured his father severely, driving his father crazy, and then his father ate a porcelain piece and cut his stomach and died.
Wu Xinquan was very sad, ran to the grave of his parents, in front of the grave he wept bitterly, Mrs. Yu Huiru, this is the first time she saw her husband cry so sad, and then Wu Xinquan with full of grief and indignation, went to the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, tilted a anger to the US army, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955.