"Comrades, for the sake of New China, move forward!" This is the last cry of the national hero and revolutionary martyr Dong Cunrui, when he held an explosive bag and leaned against the enemy's fortress...
The enemy's bunker collapsed, leaving a ruined rubble, and Dong Cunrui was also swallowed up by the explosion, leaving only a broken and old standard shoe.
Every Chinese person knows the story of Dong Cunrui's heroic and fearless bombing of the bunker, but not everyone knows a series of equally touching events that occurred in the Dong family after Dong Cunrui's death, and they don't know that Dong Cunrui's wife's actions are moving.
Fewer people will know that the bloodline of the Dong family has long been passed down to this day, and Dong Cunrui's nephew also fell on the front line of fighting the epidemic for the country and the people in 2020.
Today, we want to join you in turning the pages of history, reliving the heroic deeds of the martyr Dong Cunrui, and learning more about the story of the Dong family.
Smash the fearless feat of the enemy Dong Cunrui with gunpowder
In 1948, on the eve of the liberation of all of China, in May of that year, PLA soldiers fought against Kuomintang troops in Longhuacheng, Hebei Province.
At that time, the Kuomintang army was already in a defensive posture of gathering and reheaving, and as long as the Kuomintang troops were uprooted in key garrison points in various places, it would be tantamount to announcing the final victory of the communist revolution.
Longhuacheng Middle School was one of many major strongholds, and the Kuomintang troops took advantage of the terrain and preconceived to compress a large amount of heavy ammunition into their positions, making it almost impossible for the PLA soldiers to move an inch.
However, at the time of the dilemma, a 19-year-old young hero, his name is Dong Cunrui, led the team to blow up nine important fire arrangements of the enemy army in succession, directly pulling the balance of victory to his side.
However, the Kuomintang's firepower arrangement still exceeded the expectations before the war, and a dark fortress that suddenly appeared, like a steel knife piercing our army's abdomen, Dong Cunrui stepped forward again and leaned into the dark fortress with an explosive package...
With a violent bang, the bunker was shattered, no longer threatening, and the 19-year-old Dong Cunrui also unfortunately died, and then, the news of Dong Cunrui's death spread back to his hometown, and when he learned the bad news, Dong Cunrui's mother fainted directly.
And Dong Cunrui's father said "... My son is heroic, my son is good...", but his cheeks were already full of tears, the old father was nearly half a hundred years old at that time, although he was still middle-aged, but the years of hunger and poverty had long ago destroyed him.
If it weren't for Dong Cunrui's wife, after Lu Changling had been busy at home, the Dong family might have collapsed long ago.
Dong Cunrui's wife Lu Changling is a model of responsibility
In 1944, Dong Cunrui's parents decided to set a family affair for their son, so that 15-year-old Dong Cunrui and 18-year-old Lu Changling became husband and wife.
Love in that era may be so wonderful, even if there is no deep emotional foundation, but they can do their best for each other, Lu Changling is the same.
After learning of Dong Cunrui's death, Lu Changling buried her grief, she had a poor in-laws, and a 4-year-old younger brother Dong Cunjin who needed to be taken care of, a 22-year-old female baby, so she shouldered the burden of the family while bearing the grief.
In Dong Cunrui's enlistment in the army, he went in a hurry and did not have children with his wife, and in the old thinking of society at that time, raising offspring was the top priority.
But after Dong Cunrui's sacrifice, Dong Cunrui's parents took the initiative to mention to Lu Changling that she could marry someone else, and the old two were kind-hearted, and they didn't want to rely on their daughter-in-law to take care of the rest of their lives, even if they were inseparable from Lu Changling's support in life.
And Lu Changling is the same, she bluntly rejected the words of her father-in-law and mother-in-law, and even said a little angrily that she would never leave the Dong family, abandon the old two and her younger brother, and she was still persistent in guarding Dong Cunruian for three years.
In the past three years, Lu Changling has not slackened in the slightest, and still runs the family decently, while the parents of the Dong family are moved and relieved, they also keep doing the ideological work of "remarrying" for their daughter-in-law.
The old couple repeatedly failed to persuade, and finally invited the political commissar leaders stationed in the locality, and under the good persuasion and temptation of the political commissar leaders, Lu Changling finally relaxed.
However, after Lu Changling remarried, he still regarded the Dong family as half of his husband's family, always thinking about the Dong family, and often moving around to help.
The stories of other members of the Dong family
As the families of martyrs, Dong Cunrui's family naturally received considerable attention from the party and government, and the leaders of local counties and towns took action before the central authorities formally adopted assistance measures.
A large plaque of "glorious century" was first sent to the door of the Dong family, and in 1949, when New China was founded, the family members of the Dong family were also treated favorably.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Dong Cunrui's father followed the central contingent to the second-line battlefield on the Korean Peninsula and came into contact with the officers and men of the volunteer army as a member of the condolence group.
In China, Dong Quanzhong also came to Beijing many times, was invited by the party organization to attend the national celebration ceremony, and also received an audience and condolences from the chairman.
There are also Dong Cunrui's younger siblings, Dong Cunjin and Dong Cunmei, after the liberation of the whole country, both of them devoted themselves to production work, worked conscientiously, upheld the spirit of their brother Dong Cunrui for the country and the people, and have been active in the grassroots frontline.
Her sister Dong Cunmei also has a son named Ai Dong, who is a post-70s generation who entered the Beijing Public Security Bureau in 96 to engage in police work.
In 14 years in office, three third-class merits, and many awards, he is the most popular local people's policeman, and the reason for his popularity is not because he has the identity of Dong Cunrui's nephew, but because he is really doing practical things for the people.
But sadly and regrettably, at the beginning of 2020, the first year of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, Ai Dong, who was not afraid of the risk of infection and actively participated in the fight against the epidemic, but due to physical exhaustion and other reasons, he suddenly fell ill and left us permanently.
epilogue
Following Dong Cunrui, Ai Dong became the second person who fell on the road of national cause and shed the blood of the Dong family, and Dong Cunrui's spirit and sacrifice, Ai Dong's dedication and dedication, will also be firmly remembered by us.
The idea and spirit of serving the country, the nation, and everyone will certainly always be passed down among the masses, and each of us should be inspired to become a citizen of the Chinese nation who is not afraid of hard work and willing to contribute to the collective.