Introduction: On October 1, 1949, New China was officially founded, which was a day of national celebration, and many founding fathers participated in the founding ceremony in the Tiananmen Tower. A month later, in a small river village in Hubei Province, a soldier in military uniform was in search of his mother for his comrade-in-arms, who had died, so he came for him and wanted to take his mother to Beijing.
The comrade's mother was named Shi Shunxiang, and although many years had passed and she did not know whether she could find the comrade's mother, the soldier in military uniform still inquired from side to side in the village. Finally, under the guidance of the villagers, he came to a dilapidated house.
After a few names, the house trembled and stepped out of an old man with white hair. The old man's face was now full of vicissitudes, and after inquiring about the other party's name and situation, he confirmed that the old man was the person he was looking for, and the soldier in military uniform put his mind at ease.
He said that he had come specifically to look for her on the orders of his superiors and wanted to take her to Beijing. And his superior, that is, the son of the old man Shi Shunxiang. When the old man heard this, he couldn't help but cry, and the other villagers in the village were also very curious, because seventeen years ago, the old man's son, Xu Shenji, had already died because of the war.
First, the old man's son Xu Shenji
Xu Shenji was born in a small village in Hubei Province, and the family's economic situation was not very good, but with the efforts of his mother, he was sent to study. In the past, when Chairman Mao started the night school, Xu Shenji also studied in the night school, and at that time he had a deep revolutionary enthusiasm in his heart.
There were many peasant children studying here in the night school, and xu Shenji learned many new trends of thought here, and a raging revolutionary fire was ignited in his heart. Then, in the course of the revolutionary movement that arose, he naturally became one of them and held important positions in revolutionary activities.
Second, Xu Shenji's anti-war activities
Because of Xu Shenji's revolutionary enthusiasm, he charged forward in the revolutionary ranks, heroically killed the enemy, and soon served as a platoon leader in the Red Fourth Army, and later promoted to regimental commander. Because of his heroic performance, he followed the general Xu Xiangqian in a war of resistance against Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army. After defeating Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces in several encirclement and suppression wars, Xu Shenji's prestige in the army gradually grew.
Because xu Shenji was very capable, he was often sent to participate in the anti-war in various regions, during which time he rarely returned home to visit his relatives. Xu Shenji's mother is also very aware of the great righteousness, he knows that the motherland is in danger, and it is necessary for aspiring young people like Xu Shenji to contribute in the War of Resistance.
So even if she has something to give up on her son, even if he knows that what he is doing is very dangerous, she is very supportive. Later, in an anti-encirclement and suppression war, due to the leader's left-leaning mistake, the officers and men of our army suffered heavy casualties, and Xu Shenji was in this team at that time.
After this, because of the lack of information about Xu Shenji for a long time, once the Red Fourth Army organized fighters to return to their hometown to visit their relatives, and one of the young soldiers told Shi Shunxiang that Xu Shenji had died in the encirclement and suppression war, which made Shi Shunxiang extremely sad.
In fact, Xu Shenji did not sacrifice, but it was too difficult to pass on information in that era. Although some letters were sent home, none of them were delivered to their families. When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, Xu Shenji had a new anti-Japanese task, served as a brigade commander of the New Fourth Army, and made great achievements in the neutrality of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Xu Shenji took his mother into Beijing
It was not until after the founding of New China that Xu Shenji temporarily settled in Beijing, when he had not been in contact with his family for seventeen years. What if he was made a founding general? For more than a decade, he lost his family, he did not know whether his family was still alive, he missed his family, he missed his mother.
So he wrote a letter asking his guards to go to his hometown to find his mother, hoping that in this way he would be able to meet his family, although there was little hope. This is where a warrior in military uniform searches for an old man named Shi Shunxiang in a small village. Finally, the emperor did not pay off, and General Xu Shenji was reunited with his mother more than ten years later.
Conclusion: It can be said that Xu Shenji is lucky, because he can still survive and make contributions to the motherland after facing the war-torn battlefield. After many years, he was able to reunite with his mother. But it should also be said that Xu Shenji is unfortunate, because of the turmoil of the times and the continuous artillery fire, he has been separated from his relatives for more than ten years.
It is precisely because of Shi Shunxiang's mother, who has a profound understanding of righteousness, and a mother who is waiting for her children, that there is a founding general like Xu Shenji, and it is precisely with the dedication of such a small family that the establishment of new China and the development of new China can be achieved. They are admirable, and it is the sacrifice and dedication of the great revolutionary predecessors that have defended the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.