preface
"Clear love, only for China."
These simple and thick eight words were written on his helmet one by one by the little soldier under the age of 19, and he practiced his firm belief with his life and blood.
At this time, more than three years have passed since the Sino-Indian border conflict in the Galwan Valley on June 15, 2020...
"Child Soldier" escort battalion commander
After the end of this conflict provoked by the Indian military, no one can forget the shock of witnessing that scene at that time -
Chen Hongjun, the battalion commander who rushed to the front with party members and cadres and died gloriously in the conflict, had a young soldier lying on his stomach.
He opened his arms and maintained the posture of guarding the battalion commander, and when everyone separated the two, he found that this soldier was Chen Xiangrong, who was not yet 19 years old and was ridiculed by the veterans as a "baby soldier".
Everyone couldn't help but cry, and Chen Xiangrong, who was still young, was the soldier who was most cared for by battalion commander Chen Hongjun in his daily life.
But now, both of them have lost their lives.
Chen Xiangrong's uncle was the first person in the family to learn of this bad news, but he didn't know how to tell Chen Xiangrong's mother and sister the news...
Because Chen Xiangrong's father died of cancer when he was 13 years old, leaving their mother and son to rely on each other.
And now, another heavy blow has come, and the uncle does not know if this troubled small family can still withstand it.
He could only suppress his grief and made up a reason why his nephew was injured at the border and needed family escort to urge the mother and daughter who worked outside the home to go home as soon as possible.
The first to rush back was her sister Chen Qiaochi, who was working as a trainee lawyer, and when her uncle told her the truth, Chen Qiaochi only felt that the world was spinning and more unacceptable than when her father died of illness.
Before she could fully react, she saw her mother rushing to the scene with a worried face, perhaps the faces of Chen Qiaochi and her uncle were too ugly, or perhaps it was the kinship of mother and son, and when she saw the sad look of the two, this mother who was frosty due to overwork fainted and fell heavily to the ground.
Chen Qiaochi also suddenly burst out a hoarse cry at this time, and all the scenes in his mind were the past voice and smile of his brother who grew up with him——
Self-reliant little boy
Chen Xiangrong, a native of Pingnan County, Ningde City, Fujian Province, comes from an ordinary and even poor family.
In order to make a living, the Chen family's parents spent their early years in Hainan growing mangoes for a living, and they could not care about their young children. And his sister Chen Qiaochu is six years older than him, and the two who have been left-behind children since they were children have always been raised by their grandmother.
It is said that the children of the poor have long been in charge, and although the Chen Xiangrong sisters and brothers miss their parents, they are also very considerate of their difficulties.
So since the two went to school, they have never let their family worry about it, and they have not indulged themselves and did not attach importance to learning because of their grandmother's old age and lack of energy.
On the contrary, the more this is the case at home, the harder the two children study. The two agreed that when they grew up, they would free their parents from hard work and enjoy life.
But all these expectations were completely wiped out when Chen Xiangrong was 13 years old - his father was actually diagnosed with lymphoma!
The most poignant thing is that it was a bumper harvest of mangoes, and my mother was too busy to pull away, so she could only entrust her father to the family and be taken care of by the siblings.
That year, Chen Qiaochi was in her third year of high school, and Chen Xiangrong, who had just entered junior high school, took most of the responsibility of taking care of her father on her tender shoulders in order to squeeze out more study time for her sister.
In order to treat his father, the family almost emptied his savings, and Chen's father, who was tormented by illness, would be unable to sleep every day because of pain in his right leg.
At this time, Chen Xiangrong would move a small bench and sit in front of his father's hospital bed, massaging him to relieve the pain.
But the disease eventually took Father Chen's life, and after he left, Grandma and Mother instantly aged ten years.
In order to let the two get out of the grief of losing their loved ones as soon as possible, the little boy buried all the sadness in his heart, made the family laugh every day like a little sun, and seemed to have become the spiritual pillar of everyone.
When he was about to graduate from high school, the country's recruitment information was issued. Chen Xiangrong was very excited to tell his sister about his dream of joining the army: "I want to go to the frontiers, the frontline, and the most difficult places to protect the motherland."
Chen Qiaozhi knew that his younger brother had this goal since he was a child, and he was very supportive of it, but he felt sorry for the difficult conditions in those places and was afraid that he would not be able to stand it.
But Chen Xiangrong is very confident in himself and has made sufficient preparations. He ran around the county road every day in the period before the physical examination, and he lost a lot of weight in Shengsheng.
Chen Xiangrong, who passed the physical examination and had excellent results in intensive training, was assigned to the Sino-Indian border and officially became a glorious border fighter.
After receiving the first enlistment allowance of 4,100 yuan, Chen Xiangrong immediately divided it into three parts, 2,000 yuan to his mother who worked outside, and the other 2,000 yuan to his sister and grandmother, leaving only 100 yuan for himself.
When the family had to give him the money back, Chen Xiangrong said seriously: "I have become a real man, and it is proper to support the family."
Dear Mom
And in the second year after he came to the border, Indian soldiers repeatedly tried to cross the border and set up camp on Chinese territory, and our soldiers naturally would not let him succeed!
Chen Xiangrong also recorded things about the conflict in his diary——
Although the number of Indian troops is much larger than ours each time, in the face of their gravel attack, everyone in the army has never flinched, and each time they can be driven out and successfully defend the border of the motherland.
After repeated representations between the two sides, on June 6, 2020, the border troops of China and India held a high-level meeting, and the Indian side promised not to cross the border again.
But no one expected that the Indian military would backtrack so quickly, and cross the border again in less than ten days, and it was in this conflict that Chen Xiangrong and four other martyrs were killed, and regiment commander Qi Fabao was seriously injured.
Although more than three years have passed now, the pain of life and death is still engraved in the hearts of the heroes' families.
When the comrades-in-arms were sorting out Chen Xiangrong's relics, they found two "family letters" with only the beginning: there were only five words at the beginning - "dear mother"...
Today, the unfulfilled beliefs and responsibilities of the heroes seem to be passed on to the living with the death of their loved ones, making them eager to continue it-
Chen Qiaochu, the sister of Chen Xiangrong, a martyr and first-class meritorious minister, gave up her job as a full-time lawyer in a law firm in order to complete her brother's unfinished business, returned to her hometown to write and work as a soldier, and applied for a civilian position in the army.
In the first year, because of the grief of losing loved ones and the chores at home, I delayed too much energy, and my grades were not satisfactory.
But Chen Qiaochi did not give up, and continued to prepare for the exam while working in the labor dispatch position arranged by the government, and was finally admitted with excellent results.
Today, Chen Qiaochu wears "peacock blue" and officially becomes a member of the civilian phalanx of the Chinese army.
With the help of the government, their mother ended her life as a migrant worker and returned to her hometown of Pingnan County to work for a state-owned company.
The heroic soldiers of the People's Liberation Army have guarded the frontiers of the motherland with their flesh and blood, and our government and society will do everything in our power to make the families of martyrs better off.
In April this year, Chen Qiaochu's life entered a new stage - she got married.
Before marriage, she sent each of her brother's former comrades a copy of the candy, and then told them to remember to put one of them on the bed where Chen Xiangrong used to sleep.
For the Chen family, most of the time, they felt that Chen Xiangrong had never left, and was still standing guard on the frontier of the motherland as before.
May the new generation of young people be like the hero Chen Xiangrong, with clear and pure love for the motherland!
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