My father died on the battlefield 35 years ago, but the love from my father's troops was not "absent"

35 years ago, 1 month before Rodin was born, her father Luo Jun died in the battlefield and was posthumously honored with first class merit. Rodin is the only child left by the 10 martyrs who died in that war in his father's old army, and many comrades of the Luo Army have always been worried about her——

The martyr's father is gone, and the care is not "absent"

Luo Jun took a photo before his death.

January 17, Chengdu, Sichuan, cold wind.

On this day, Rodin, who works at a university in Chengdu, received a text message on his mobile phone, prompting the bank card to enter 5600 yuan. After learning the source of this money, Rodin's heart surged with an indescribable warmth.

Rodin was the daughter of a martyr. Her father, Luo Jun, was a first-class meritorious soldier in the 181st Regiment of the 61st Division of the 21st Group Army of the Former Lanzhou Military Region, who was killed in a border battle in the 1980s. Rodin was the only child left by the 10 martyrs of the regiment who died in that war.

The money transferred to Rodin were several of her father Luo Jun's former comrades-in-arms. Just a few days ago, these veterans were invited to a college in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, to give a patriotic report about their combat experiences. One of the veterans, Li Taizhong, introduced the deeds of Luo Jun on the battlefield.

In December 1985, the 181st Regiment went from its garrison to the front line, and after four months of combat training, was given a defensive combat mission in a certain area. The whole regiment held on to 22 positions, resisted a total of 322 enemy attacks in 1 year, and held the position at the cost of 10 people. After the war, the whole regiment was awarded the collective second-class merit, and 12 first-class merit units and 79 first-class meritorious officers emerged, and Luo Jun was one of them.

On the morning of May 8, 1986, Luo Jun, a soldier of the First Artillery Company, was struck by 1 shell shrapnel of the enemy while cooking at the position. His sacrifice was sudden, leaving no rhetoric, no heroic feats. However, when the regimental political office was sorting out luo jun's life deeds, it found that this ordinary soldier was "not ordinary."

Luo Jun had 3 chances to survive, but he gave it to his comrades-in-arms and chose to live to death.

The first time was at the station of the 181st Regiment. After receiving the order to join the war, the unit decided to postpone the demobilization of soldiers who had completed their service and exceeded their service in that year, but each company still had 2 to 3 demobilization quotas for veterans whose families were particularly difficult and who were unable to participate in the war due to illness. Luo Jun, a native of Cangxi County, Sichuan Province, had been in the army for 5 years at the time, was a veteran who had served for 2 years, plus he was married, his wife was pregnant, and he was the only son, so the party branch of the First Artillery Company identified Luo Jun as a demobilized target.

However, after Luo Jun heard the news that the company had demobilized itself, he immediately found the company cadres and resolutely stated his attitude.

"I am a Communist, and the Party branch often teaches us Communists to charge ahead and retreat to the rear, and now that the troops are going to fight, you have let me, a Communist, retreat to the front." I strongly disagree! ”

Company Commander Wang Guowu said to Luo Jun: "You were demobilized because your family situation is the most special, and you are an only child, which belongs to the priority demobilization target determined by the regiment." ”

"I can solve the family's difficulties, you just need to promise me to go to the front!"

Under the "soft and hard bubble" of the Luo Army, the company commander and the instructor had no choice but to agree to the Luo Army's request to participate in the war, and gave the demobilization quota that originally belonged to the Luo Army to another soldier who was suffering from illness.

The second time was to go to the front line to participate in combat training. In order to implement the requirements of the regiment to take care of the only child, the party branch of the company decided to let the Luo Army, which operated the 82 recoilless gun, operate the 82 mortar instead. But Luo Jun did not do it again. The 82 recoilless gun is a direct-aim gun, and when fighting, it is necessary to be accompanied by an infantry company to push to the forefront of the operation, which is highly dangerous. The 82 mortar is a curved artillery, usually deployed in relatively safe gun positions. The reason why Luo Jun was reluctant to adjust was that after joining the army, he had been learning to operate the 82 recoilless gun, and now he was going to go to the position to "change" to learn mortars, and it was too late.

The company cadre could not do Luo Jun's work, so he had to give up the decision to adjust him.

The third time was on the battlefield. The 181st Regiment was given the task of defensive operations, and the first company of infantry assigned to the Luo Army's squad was deployed on a position in front of the main peak, which was one of the four positions in the defensive front of the 181st Regiment, only two or three hundred meters away from the enemy position.

After the troops took up their positions, they all cooked their own meals in squads, and the usual practice was that the soldiers took turns cooking. But Luo Jun did not agree with such an arrangement, and he said to the squad leader: "There are many new recruits in our squad, and they have only been enlisted for a few months, so don't embarrass them." I used to work as a cook, and I was the only one who cooked the meals in our class during the war. ”

The whole class was very touched when they learned about it. People who have fought on the front line know that cooking is actually very dangerous, one is that the fire is easy to expose the target, the other is that the living fortifications are not as strong as the combat fortifications and hidden fortifications, and some cooking places have no fortifications, so they hang a plastic sheet to cover the rain.

On the morning of 8 May, two scouts from the division's reconnaissance company came to this position to observe the enemy's situation. For safety, they went to the front without breakfast. After Luo Jun learned of the situation, he went outside the cat's ear hole to make breakfast for them. Suddenly, a shell of the enemy on the opposite side hit, and the shell hit the stone cliff behind the kerosene furnace and exploded, and Luo Jun, who was injured in many places on his body, fell down in response.

Luo Jun's body was pulled to the regiment's martyrs' washing station, and Zhao Guan, the regimental political department responsible for the martyrs' washing and elimination work, put on a new military uniform for him. Before the cremation, large shrapnel from Luo Jun's body was pulled out. After cremation, the careful Zhao officer picked out 72 pieces of shrapnel from Luo Jun's ashes, which were later preserved in the regimental history museum of the 181st Regiment.

"If Luo Jun obeys the organization and decides to demobilize and return to his hometown, he will live a happy and happy life with his wife and children." If the Luo army obeyed the organization and decided to adjust to the mortar platoon, he would not have died, because the mortar platoon had no casualties in the 1-year battle time. If Luo Jun had taken turns cooking with his comrades like other squads after taking up his position, he might not have died on May 8. As a 5-year veteran, Luo Jun knows where it's safe and where it's dangerous. However, he still gave up his safety to his comrades-in-arms and kept the danger to himself. This reflects the vanguard and exemplary role of a Communist Party member, and embodies the heroic character of a revolutionary soldier who is loyal, fearless, and willing to dedicate! Speaking of this, Li Taizhong on the podium couldn't help but wipe the corners of his eyes.

One month after Luo Jun's death, his daughter Rodin was born. Later, his wife returned to her mother's house with the child. Due to the inconvenience of communications that year, Luo Jun's old troops repeatedly searched for Luo Jun's wife without success, and it was not until Rodin was in college that the old troops got in touch with them. Since then, every Spring Festival, the old troops will send people to Rodin's home to comfort and help solve some difficulties, and rodin's life has also appeared many fathers who care for her.

In 2013, Rodin held a wedding ceremony in Guangyuan, Sichuan. After learning the news, an old leader of the old unit of the Luo Army asked his comrades-in-arms who went to the wedding to send a gift to Rodin to congratulate him, and also wrote a congratulatory message to read at the wedding. At that time, the director of the Political Office of the 181st Regiment went to Guangyuan to attend the wedding and delivered a speech at the wedding.

That day was an important moment in Rodin's life, but her father Luo Jun was "absent". However, more than 20 comrades-in-arms who had fought together with Luo Jun in the front line came from all over the country to participate in the wedding of their common "daughter". Watching Rodin take a new step in his life, these fathers were happy for her.

"There are very few pictures of my father in the family, but in the accounts of my mother and these uncles, my father is no stranger to me." Rodin said that when she was a child, she seemed to be able to see her father whenever she saw the soldiers on TV. Today, she and her mother often go to the Red Army Crossing Martyrs' Cemetery in Cangxi, Sichuan To visit her father. There, she could feel her father very close to her.

After the report meeting, several of Luo Jun's old comrades-in-arms transferred a sum of money to Rodin as a pressure money for The "grandfathers" to give Rodin's children.

"The descendants of the martyrs live well and live happily, and only those of us who have survived the battlefield will feel relieved and at ease." Li Taizhong said.

Source: People's Liberation Army Daily