Source: Changsha Evening News
Changsha Evening News all-media reporter Li Tieqiao
The village of Modao mountain has no color, and the hero here has a good name. In a remote ordinary farmhouse in Fengchong Town, Liuyang City, there lives a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Rao Dikuan, who is 88 years old. Not long ago, the reporter came to Xinnanqiao Village, Fengchong Town, about 20 kilometers away from Liuyang City, to interview Elder Rao, who was in good spirits, and said to reporters: "I am a comrade-in-arms with Luo Shengjiao, and we have been in Korea for 3 years. Luo Shengjiao is a hero, and I will learn from him all my life! "
The most "forgetful" - his military merits in the Korean battlefield
On the same day, the reporter was accompanied by the person in charge of the Liuyang Veterans Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion Association and came to the home of Rao Dikuan's elderly. Zeng Xiangjia, a native of Xinnanqiao Village, told reporters that Rao Lao fought bravely on the Korean battlefield, was wounded three times, and was awarded the third class merit. In 1957, he transferred from the army to work in the Liuyang County Public Security Bureau, where he served as the chief of the investigation unit of the county public security bureau. In 1962, he voluntarily left his post and returned to his hometown to work as a farmer, and has lived in the village for nearly 60 years.
Elder Rao Dikuan displayed the commemorative medal he received for the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Changsha Evening News all-media reporter Li Tieqiao photographed
The reporter saw that the house of the elderly Rao Dikuan was a somewhat dilapidated ordinary brick and tile house, and he lived with his wife, the 79-year-old Cao Ruiwen. His wife was already full of gray hair, and the reporter was still busy when he arrived. Rao Lao can only sit in a wheelchair due to bone hyperplasia in his legs, but his thinking is clear and his memory is still good.
Hearing that the reporter was coming, the old man asked his family to take out from the cabinet some honorary certificates they had obtained, including a "Long Live Peace" badge presented by the Chinese people's condolence group to the DPRK in October 1953, a hundred-yuan note of the "Central Bank of North Korea" obtained after the third class meritorious service in the DPRK, the certificate of completion of the sergeant teaching battalion of the 141st Infantry Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army issued in February 1955, and the Liuyang County People's Armed Forces Department in 1973, which recorded that he had "established the third class meritorious service once in the army and issued a production subsidy of 276 yuan." ", as well as the Chinese People's Volunteer Army to fight abroad for the 70th anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Rao Dikuan was given a "Long Live Peace" medal. Changsha Evening News all-media reporter Li Tieqiao photographed
Zeng Xiangjia introduced that after Rao Lao returned to his hometown, he has always been very low-key, not proud of his achievements, and never mentioned to his family and villagers that he had made meritorious contributions on the Korean battlefield in those years, and it can be said that he was very forgetful and forgetful of his honor. Elder Rao joined the party in the village, served as the chief of public security of the brigade (village), the commander of the militia battalion, and participated in the construction of railways and the construction of barrages. "Rao Lao has always maintained the true color of a soldier in his lifetime. If he had been a cadre in the county, he would not have suffered these hardships. Zeng Xiangjia said.
The most unforgettable - comrade-in-arms Luo Sheng taught North Korea to save people and sacrifice
What makes elder Rao Dikuan most unforgettable is the friendship he and Luo Shengjiao formed during the 3 years of fighting in North Korea.
Elder Rao introduced to reporters that he was born in June 1933, participated in the Chinese Volunteer Army's entry into the Korean War in 1951, and was incorporated into the 419th Regiment, 141st Division, 419th Division, 419th Regiment, 2 platoons, 2 squads. Luo Shengjiao also happened to be in this class. In a foreign country and a battlefield of life and death, the two small fellows in Hunan have become good friends without saying a word. Luo Shengjiao, a native of Xinhua County, Hunan Province, was born in 1931, two years older than Rao Dikuan, and worked as a clerk in the army. Once, Rao Dikuan and Luo Shengjiao chatted between battles, saying that if one of the two was killed, the living one would have to write a letter to the other's hometown and send relics. Rao Dikuan said to Luo Shengjiao, "You have to keep a life, and when you return to China, you will ask for a good wife, and I will come back to you to eat wine." ”
Rao Dikuan obtained the "Central Bank of North Korea" hundred-dollar banknote after his meritorious service in the Korean battlefield. Changsha Evening News all-media reporter Li Tieqiao photographed
Although reluctant to mention Luo Shengjiao's sacrifice, Rao recalled to reporters January 2, 1952, a day he could never forget in his life. In the early morning of the same day, in order to rescue The North Korean teenager Choe Ying, who had fallen from the ice into the frozen river, after hearing the shouts of the nearby Luo Sheng Sect, immediately rushed to the scene of the accident, grabbed his hat and threw it on the ground, took off his cotton clothes and pants while running, and jumped into the cold and bone-chilling river to save people. Luo Shengjiao had experienced several ups and downs in the cold ice cave, and his physical strength was exhausted. He used his last strength to push the teenager Cui Ying out of the water, but he was exhausted and could no longer surface, and finally gave up his life at the age of 21.
The Liuyang County People's Armed Forces Department issued a certificate to Rao Dikuan and recorded that he had "1 meritorious service of the third class" (the year of birth should be 1933). Changsha Evening News all-media reporter Li Tieqiao photographed
On that day, when Luo Shengjiao dived to save people, Rao Dikuan was out of the morning exercise. Knowing that Luo Shengjiao sank into the water to save people, Rao Dikuan and his comrades immediately rushed to rescue him. Rao Dikuan took a shovel to beat the ice, cut a hole, and joined forces with his comrades to save The Luo Sheng Sect, but the hero had closed his eyes forever. Rao Dikuan wept several times for the sacrifice of his good comrades-in-arms.
Elder Rao said that whenever he thought that his good comrade-in-arms Luo Shengjiao had died in North Korea, he was very sad. He also remembered that before Luo Shengjiao's sacrifice, he had signed a notebook for himself as a souvenir, but unfortunately the notebook could not be found now. "Alas, this is a pity indeed!" Elder Rao Dikuan sighed because of this.
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