At the beginning of 1952, when the Korean Peninsula was frozen for thousands of miles and the climate was very harsh, the Korean War entered a very difficult phase of stalemate. The 141st Division of the 47th Volunteer Army had just finished a victorious battle, and the troops were ordered to withdraw to Chengchuan County and its vicinity for recuperation.
During the period of rest of the troops, division commander Ye Jianmin went down to the grass-roots level to carry out "squatting points," and during the "squatting points," Ye Jianmin also frequently returned to the division headquarters to handle some affairs. On January 3, when Ye Jianmin returned to the division headquarters by car, he found that many ordinary North Koreans were surrounded by the division's mouth, and their facial expressions were both excited and sad.
Ye Jianmin
Ye Jianmin realized that something must have happened, so he immediately sent his staff officer to inquire. After the staff officer returned, he reported that there was a volunteer soldier named Luo Shengjiao in the division's reconnaissance company who had unfortunately died to save a Korean teenager named Cui Ying. The local people rushed over, first, to express their gratitude to the volunteers, and second, to request that the body of Comrade Luo Shengjiao be handed over to them, so that they could be buried in the place where he was sacrificed in accordance with the solemn funeral of the Korean nation, so that the villagers would always remember him.
The staff officer also said that there was a 55-year-old Yuanshan female eldest lady in the village, who was touched by the spirit of Luo Shengjiao's self-sacrifice and saving people, and voluntarily sacrificed a cemetery she had prepared for herself to bury the remains of Luo Shengjiao; Cui Ying's family also strongly demanded that the life-saving benefactor be buried at the head of the village, so that his family would remember him for generations.
After Ye Jianmin listened, his eyes couldn't help but get wet, but he also had doubts: How could I not know that such a great thing had happened to the troops?
So Ye Jianmin summoned the chief of the propaganda section and the chief of the direct engineering section and asked them, "Do you know about Luo Shengjiao's sacrifice to save the Korean teenager Cui Ying?" ”
The head of the direct engineering section said, "I know, Luo Shengjiao fell into the glacier and drowned. We have already sent a notice of his drowning accident to all regiments: the division's reconnaissance company, due to lax administration, there was a non-combat attrition accident, and Luo Shengjiao drowned..."
Luo Shengjiao
It turned out that in the Korean battlefield, if it were not for the soldiers who died in front-line battles, they would be treated as non-combat attrition accidents.
Ye Jianmin was very angry after listening to the report, because according to the north Korean people, this incident was by no means a simple drowning accident, and he sternly said to the two section chiefs: "What is it, it needs to be carefully investigated and verified to be determined!" ”
At this time, the chief of the direct engineering section told the truth, because the work of the organs during this time was complicated, and they really did not seriously investigate, but simply based on the telephone report of the company to characterize the matter. Ye Jianmin became even more angry: "Cadres of our organs must not only listen to and read reports, but must conduct in-depth actual investigations and studies and put correct conclusions after investigations." Tomorrow I'll take you back to investigate!" ”
The next day, Ye Jianmin personally led two section chiefs to the scene of Luo Shengjiao's rescue of people for on-site inspection. Cui Ying's mother heard that the master of the Luo Sheng Sect had come, and immediately rushed over with Cui Ying, and the mother and son tearfully told the details of Luo Sheng Sect's rescue of Cui Ying.
In 1931, Luo Shengjiao was born into a poor peasant family in Xinhua County, Hunan Province, the eldest son of the family, and a younger brother and two younger sisters. Although the family is very poor, but the father Luo Dikai has been thrifty for Luo Shengjiao to study, Luo Shengjiao's study has been very good, in 1946, he was admitted to the Hunan Provincial Ninth Normal School with excellent results, and after graduation, he was sent to the Hunan Provincial Ninth Normal School without examination.
In the autumn of 1949, when the 18-year-old Luo Shengjiao learned that the Xiangxi Military and Political Cadre School in Yuanling was enrolling students, he immediately signed up with a pure heart for new China. Soon after, Luo Shengjiao was arranged to study at the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army. On July 1, 1950, on the day of celebrating the 29th anniversary of the birth of the Party, Luo Shengjiao gloriously joined the Chinese New Democratic Youth League. On this day, he solemnly swore an oath: to fight for the realization of the great ideal of communism all his life!
After graduating from the clerical training class, Luo Shengjiao was assigned to the reconnaissance company under the 141st Division of the 47th Army, after which he followed the troops to participate in the struggle against bandits in western Hunan Province. In April 1951, Luo Shengjiao followed the troops into the Korean War.
After Luo Shengjiao entered the DPRK, he repeatedly asked to go to the front line to fight, but due to the special position of his post, the instructors always did not agree to him going to the front line, but left him in the company headquarters to sort out the materials. Although Luo Shengjiao was a little disappointed, he still insisted on doing his job well, and he also actively participated in the work of combat service and rescue of the wounded, which was unanimously praised by his comrades-in-arms.
One day, the men of the company went to the front line on a mission, leaving only Luo Shengjiao on duty at the company headquarters. Suddenly he heard the bombing sound of aircraft dropping bombs, and he immediately rushed to the village bombed by the enemy, and vaguely saw that in a bombed house, a child was carrying an old lady, because his back was not moving, he was stumbling, and he did not know what to do.
At this critical juncture, Luo Shengjiao rushed in, he went through the smoke, found the old lady and the child, and then picked up the big lady and pulled the child outside the house. In the end, the old man and the child were saved, but Luo Shengjiao's clothes were burned, and the old lady touched Luo Shengjiao's clothes and was moved to tears.
During his time in Korea, Luo Shengjiao also wrote many poems, including a touching short poem that reads:
When I was hit by the aggressor's bullet,
I hope you don't stop in front of my corpse,
Should continue to move forward bravely,
Avenge the tens of millions of Korean people and comrades who have sacrificed!
Poetry written by Rosante
In early 1952, after the troops retreated to the rear to rest, Luo Shengjiao was not idle, and he often took time to practice military skills. After the morning exercise on January 2, Luo Shengjiao went alone to the glacier on the edge of the village to practice bomb throwing. By then the temperature had reached minus 20°C and the river had completely frozen.
After Luo Shengjiao came to the glacier, he found 4 North Korean teenagers happily skating on the glacier, and after they saw Luo Shengjiao, they happily greeted him.
Luo Shengjiao was just about to practice bomb throwing when he heard a "click", followed by a scream. He looked back and saw that one teenager had fallen into an ice cave in the river, and the other 3 teenagers were crying in fear.
Luo Shengjiao didn't have time to think about it at all, he undressed and ran towards the ice cave, and soon he took off only a white single coat, and then jumped into the ice cave.
Luo Shengjiao first probed underwater twice, did not find Cui Ying, although he was very watery, but in the cold of minus 20 ° C, the flesh could not withstand the toss, he came out of the water for a breath, and bravely entered the water to grope, and finally found Cui Ying. Luo Shengjiao immediately lifted Cui Ying to the surface of the water, but because the ice surface on the edge of the ice cave was too thin to withstand Cui Ying's weight, Cui Ying fell into the water again.
Then Luo Shengjiao lifted Cui Ying out of the water twice in a row, but because the ice surface was broken, Cui Ying fell into the water again. At this time, Luo Shengjiao was exhausted, his hands and feet were cramping cold, and if he gave up rescuing Cui Ying, he could completely struggle to get ashore and save his life. But he did not do this, but once again did his best, using his head to push Cui Ying out of the water.
At this time, the barber of the company, Song Zhiyun, dragged a telephone pole to rush over, and Xiao Cui Ying hugged the telephone pole and was dragged to the ice. But when Song Zhiyun returned to prepare to save the Luo Sheng Sect again, he found that the exhausted Luo Sheng Sect had been washed under the thick ice by the current... Luo Shengjiao was not yet 21 years old when he died.
After Ye Jianmin listened to Cui Ying's mother's story, he was very moved, and he personally came to the ice scene to check the situation. Ye Jianmin found that the ice cave was not completely frozen, and from the analysis of the size of the ice cave, Cui Ying was completely able to slide down from such a small ice cave mouth and drill out again. However, the exhausted Luo Shengjiao was tall and almost frozen in the ice water, and without the help of his comrades on the shore, it would be difficult for him to break through the ice and jump up. Ye Jianmin could finally conclude that Luo Shengjiao had died heroically because of the rescue of Cui Ying, which was fundamentally different from ordinary drowning accidents.
After Ye Jianmin returned to the division headquarters, he told the political commissar Peng Qingyun about this matter. That night, the division party committee held a meeting to study the sacrifice of Luo Shengjiao and made three decisions:
1. The sacrifice of Luo Shengjiao, like the heroes on the battlefield, is the feat of our volunteer army in resisting the United States and aiding Korea, defending the homeland, fighting against US imperialist aggression, and fulfilling its obligations of internationalism;
2. The whole division held a solemn memorial meeting to commend the heroic deeds of the Luo Sheng sect, and the division sent people to attend the funeral ceremony held by the Korean people for comrade Luo Shengjiao;
3. Cancel the accident notification and set off an upsurge of learning the deeds of Luo Shengjiao throughout the division.
On January 4, Shili held a solemn memorial service for Luo Shengjiao. Then the local people came to pick up Luo Shengjiao for burial, the cemetery was on the prominent hillside of the village, the tomb had been dug, and the remains of the Luo Shengjiao martyrs were wrapped in a holy white cloth, which looked very peaceful. On the stone slab in front of the grave, a bowl of white rice, a bowl of white rice wine, a bowl of white tofu, two burning white candles, and a column of white smoke were placed.
Cui Yingchang knelt in front of Luo Shengjiao's tomb and said in a silent voice, "Comrade Luo! I will never forget your saving grace, I will inherit your legacy, join the People's Army, and rush to the front line to fight the US imperialists! ”
Cui Ying (middle)
After Luo Shengjiao was buried, the Division's Political Department organized special personnel to sort out his deeds and materials, and prepared to ask for credit from his superiors for him. At first, the company commander of Luo Shengjiao did not know enough about his sacrifice, and was afraid that his superiors would not approve it, so he only asked for a third-class merit to be posthumously recorded for him. The division thought that the third-class merit was too low, and after studying it, the division party committee decided to ask the volunteer army headquarters for Luo Sheng's first-class merit.
At that time, the Chinese army, which had just completed five battles, was extremely tired, and coupled with the dissatisfaction of the water and soil, there were some slight contradictions with the Korean military and civilians. After Luo Sheng taught Yong to save North Korea's children who fell into the water, it allowed Beijing to seize the opportunity to repair the feelings between the military and civilians of the two countries. In the end, Mao Zedong decided to enlarge the deeds of Luo Shengjiao as a political event representing Sino-DPRK friendship, and vigorously carried out propaganda.
In early February 1952, a long-form newsletter article describing Luo Shengjiao, "Immortal Internationalist Warriors," was published in major newspapers and periodicals such as The People's Daily, and caused strong repercussions at home and abroad. Soon after, the headquarters of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army issued an order to posthumously commemorate the special merits of the martyr Luo Shengjiao and award him the honorary title of "Model of Loving the People of the First Class".
Kim Il Sung was also very touched when he heard about the deeds of The Luo Sheng Sect, and he personally visited the cemetery of the Luo Sheng Sect and wrote an inscription for the monument to the Luo Sheng Sect martyrs: "The internationalist spirit of the Luo Sheng Sect martyrs will always coexist with the Korean people." In June 1953, the Standing Committee of the Supreme Assembly of the Korean People issued an order awarding The Order of the National Flag of the First Class and the Medal of Honor for Soldiers of the First Class to Rasang-jiao. This is the highest honor bestowed by the Korean people on the soldiers of the Volunteer Army.
In July 1953, Luo Shengjiao's father, Luo Dikai, accompanied a Chinese government condolence delegation headed by He Long on a visit to Korea and was cordially received by Kim Il Sung. Kim Il Sung said to Luo Dikai in Chinese: "You are the father of the volunteer army and a Chinese friend welcomed by the Korean people, thank you for having a good son, thank you for such a father!" ”
The next day, Kim Il Sung accompanied Luo Di kai to the tomb of the Luo Sheng Sect to make a sacrifice. After the sacrifice was completed, Luo Dikai was invited to Cui Ying's home as a guest, Cui Ying was already waiting at the entrance of the village, after he saw Luo Dikai, he immediately ran to the front, shouting while running: "Daddy, Daddy, my Chinese dad!" ”
Luo Dikai also greeted him: "Cui Ying, Cui Ying, my child!" ”
Cui Ying threw herself into Luo Dikai's arms, and Luo Dikai stroked the head of this Korean son, and the tears could not help but blur her eyes, as if it was her son Luo Shengjiao in her arms...
17 years later, Luo Dikai went to North Korea again with the Sino-DPRK friendship delegation and met Cui Ying again. At this time, Choe Ying was already a school-level officer in the Korean People's Army, and he took his Chinese father to his home and let his 4 children be called Luo Dikai "Grandpa". Luo Dikai was very happy, and the three generations of grandchildren also took a group photo together.
Cui Ying and his wife wanted to give their youngest child to Luo Dikai as a grandson, and Luo Dikai happily accepted, and he gave the little grandson a Chinese name called "Luo Jihong" to show the grand cause of inheriting the Chinese and Korean people.
Today, although Luo Shengjiao has been sacrificed for 70 years, as a hero with the same name as Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang and others, he has inspired and educated generations of new people of the republic, and the name of this internationalist fighter has long been engraved on the monument of history!
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