Lao Qin wrote a few years ago, "Among the founding generals, who is the "Xu Da" in Chairman Mao's heart?" Not Peng Dehuai, but Xu Guangda", which mentions that the founding general Xu Guangda was named by Chairman Mao in April 1950 as the commander and political commissar of the armored corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
When General Xu Guangda took office, he conscientiously and conscientiously carried out all aspects of the work of forming armored troops, made tremendous achievements in the theory of armored corps construction, made outstanding contributions to national defense and army modernization, and was known as the "father of China's armored troops."
Needless to say, Chairman Mao was very satisfied with Xu Guangda's work performance.
In addition, Xu Guangda's father-in-law, Zou Xilu, was Chairman Mao's teacher and Xu Guangda's teacher, that is, Xu Guangda and Chairman Mao can be called brothers, and the personal relationship between them is very good, and there is often correspondence.
In September 1965, Xu Guangda solemnly reported to Chairman Mao a material about the heroic deeds of Wang Jie, the commander of the engineer company of the 2nd Tank Division.
After reading this material, Chairman Mao was greatly moved.
Based on two sentences written by Wang Jie in his diary, he wrote an inscription in his own handwriting: "I am in favor of such a slogan, which is called one is not afraid of suffering, and the other is not afraid of death." ”
Since then, the whole party, the whole army, and the people of the whole country have set off an upsurge of learning from Wang Jie, and Wang Jie has become a great communist fighter with the same name as Lei Feng, and is well known to the broad masses of the people.
However, many people do not know that when Wang Jiegang was sacrificed, he suffered some criticism and was almost denied in the evaluation of martyrs.
What's going on here?
Wang Jie was born in October 1942 in Huaqu Village, a suburb of Jinxiang County, Shandong Province.
In August 1961, he enlisted in the Chinese People's Liberation Army and became a soldier in the first company of engineers of a certain armored corps of the Jinan Military Region.
Wang Jie's performance in the army was outstanding, and he was successively named "Five Good Soldiers" in 1962, 1963 and 1964, twice awarded the third class meritorious service, and received many awards, and was a "model regiment member" and a "first-class explosives technical expert" in the army.
In June 1965, Wang Jie, a squad leader of the engineering company, went to Camp in Zhanglou Commune, Pi County (now Pizhou City) to help train the militia mine squad of the commune.
It is reasonable to say that Wang Jie is a "first-class blasting technology expert", and he is familiar with the explanation and use of landmines, and there is no problem.
However, on 14 July, while training the militia for a live explosion of "tripping anti-infantry application mines", the accident occurred.
At that time, Wang Jie led 12 militiamen to lay mines at an intersection. In order to see the specific operating procedures, the 12 militiamen gathered in a circle and put their heads together to watch Wang Jie's operation.
Wang Jie followed the steps, explaining the essentials of the operation while practicing.
The sky is so blue, the sun is so gentle, the years are quiet, and the mountains and rivers are charming.
However, no one thought that danger would come unexpectedly.
Although Wang Jie's operation was so standardized, there was a problem with the quality of the pulling fire tube — the detonator and the explosive package had just been buried, and white smoke had risen.
Everyone was stunned, the six gods were masterless, helpless, unable to move.
In order to protect the safety of the militia, Wang Jie pounced on it with all his might and covered the minefield with his own body.
In this way, after a loud noise, he was blown to pieces, and the other 11 of the 12 militiamen, except for Luo Hanrui's leg, were safe and sound.
Luo Hanrui's leg was gone because he happened to be standing behind Wang Jie, and when the mine exploded, the shock wave passed between Wang Jie's legs and blew his right leg away.
After the accident, the experts who went to the scene to investigate said that Wang Jie, as a "first-class blasting technology expert", with his skills and techniques, he only needed to lean back to the sky and fall to the ground, he could dodge the 45-degree angle with the greatest explosion lethality, and there would certainly be no danger to his life.
However, in that moment of crisis, he considered that the militia would not evade, and in order to protect the militia, he pounced on the explosive package without hesitation...
Wang Jie's life was frozen at the age of twenty-three.
There is no doubt that he is a hero in capital letters.
However, just when Liu Deyi, director of the division's political department, was preparing to report Wang Jie as a martyr, someone raised a question: Why did the explosive package explode? Wasn't it caused by Wang Jie's operation error?
This question is really difficult to explain.
The division headquarters set up an investigation team to investigate this issue.
The investigation team went so far as to characterize the incident as "a liability accident caused by a violation of operational regulations."
It is not difficult to see that according to this conclusion, Wang Jie can not only not be rated as a martyr, nor can he be rated as a hero, but should even be held accountable.
The masses of the Zhanglou Commune could not accept such a conclusion.
On the day Wang Jie was buried, about 1,500 men, women and children from Zhanglou Commune braved the rain to send Wang Jie off, and many people cried silently.
As the saying goes, "the gold monument and silver monument are not as good as the reputation of the masses."
Liu Deyi was deeply shocked by the scene in front of him.
He carefully studied the 23 diaries left by Wang Jie.
These 23 diaries truly record the growth trajectory of Wang Jie's thoughts, and everywhere there are sentences such as "to be a Lei Feng-style person with communist morality and wholehearted service to the people."
Among them, written in the diary on May 1, 1965, there are words such as "We must not be afraid of suffering, and we must not be afraid of death, and be a fearless person."
Liu Deyi saw it with tears in his eyes, and he asked the division party committee to circulate these diaries, and later sent these diaries to the Jinan Armored Corps Party Committee.
All members of the Standing Committee of the Armored Corps Standing Committee unanimously held that Wang Jie was a qualified communist fighter.
Under the organization of the Jinan Armored Corps Party Committee, a higher-level expert group was established.
The expert group conducted an in-depth analysis of every detail of the explosion and conducted more than 30 tests using the same explosive materials used by Wang Jie.
In the end, it was found that there was a problem with the quality of the pulling fire pipe used by Wang Jie.
In this way, Wang Jie was recognized as a revolutionary martyr.
On September 16, 1965, the Jinan Military Region held a solemn memorial meeting for Wang Jie, and Xu Guangda solemnly dedicated himself to the lian: "Serve the people wholeheartedly without selfishness, and are not afraid of the true character of the true people's heroes in the face of danger."
Xu Guangda then sent Materials on Wang Jie's heroic deeds.
Chairman Mao's personal inscription set off a climax of studying Wang Jie's spirit throughout the country, and major newspapers published more than 1,300 articles studying Wang Jie that year.
Wang Jie became a hero known to women and children and recorded in the annals of history.