This hundred-year-old veteran's name is Liu Yingqi, he is a native of Henan Mall, in 1930 only 19-year-old Liu Yingqi joined the Red Guards under the introduction of a worker, due to long-term malnutrition, Liu Yingqi at that time was less than a rifle high.
Liu Yingqi also participated in the fourth anti-"encirclement and suppression" in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region, during which his foot was seriously damaged, and the troops arranged for him to return to his hometown to recuperate, but he insisted on following the troops, and finally followed the troops to start the Long March.
According to Liu Yingqi's recollection, during the Long March, he was arranged to be a member of the reception team, the unit that walked at the back of the Red Army, responsible for taking care of all the soldiers who missed orders, and at that time he took in a total of more than 300 soldiers, mainly hungry.
Because the troops in front of them ate everything they could eat, they could only eat grass roots when they walked behind, but sometimes they couldn't even find grass roots, so they had no choice but to eat cow dung, because yak dung was all grass.
He said that especially when crossing the meadow, many warriors were so hungry that they did not get up when they fell into the swamp, and he still remembers that one warrior fell into the swamp, and he took the hand of the warrior, but he was hungry and did not have the strength to pull up.
Fortunately, a passing director of the regiment's political department pulled them up with a horse, and later walked out of the grassland together, Liu Yingqi said that there were too many stories on the Long March, and they could not finish telling them for a few days and nights.
During the anti-Japanese period, Liu Yingqi served as the political commissar of the 129th Regiment of the 28th Division, and on October 11, 1940, the Japanese automobile transport team came from Liao County, and he was responsible for ambushing the Japanese convoy at that time.
When the enemy's vehicle entered the ambush circle, Liu Yingqi commanded the front and rear to trap and knock out the enemy's vehicle, and no enemy escaped.
In the War of Liberation, Liu Yingqi became the political commissar of the division, also served as the secretary of the county party committee, participated in the Central Plains breakthrough, can be said to be immortal in a hundred battles, after the establishment of New China, he also joined the Volunteer Army, became the director of the political department of the logistics department.
It can be said that he experienced the period of the Red Army, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and then the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. On April 7, 2014, Liu Yingqi passed away in Yangzhou at the age of 104.