In 1936, in a ravine in Hubei Province, an old lady was collecting medicinal herbs in the forest, and she looked around cautiously with a bamboo basket on her back, fearing that she would be shot by the Kuomintang. Suddenly, she noticed something unusual in the grass, so she raised the knife in her hand and cautiously probed it.
I saw a figure flash, it turned out to be a Red Army soldier. The warrior was covered in blood and almost unconscious, but he was still crying for help. The old lady threw away the idea of collecting medicine and immediately carried the soldier home to rescue her. Liang Congxue, the commander of the 245th Regiment of the Red 28th Army, was seriously wounded on the way to Huanggang.
In August 1936, he was ordered to lead his troops across the Dabie Mountains to Huanggang, but was tightly sealed by the Kuomintang. Although the Kuomintang forces on Dabie Mountain were weak, they were still discovered by the enemy on the way through. Before Liang could arrange an ambush for his troops, he was attacked by the enemy.
He urgently ordered the commissar to lead a large force in search of the enemy's weak points in order to break through the encirclement, while he himself led several skilled marksmanship. Although the enemy's gunfire came and went, Liang Congxue judged that the number of enemy troops was not large, because the gunfire almost always came from a fixed direction.
Therefore, he ordered the large forces to retreat in the direction of sparse gunfire. Liang Congxue led several soldiers to find a hidden position and face the approaching enemy army**. As the enemy gradually fell, the enemy troops began to flee from the wind, and the commissar found a retreat route.
Liang Congxue motioned for his soldiers to retreat, but at that moment, he was hit in the left chest by a bullet, and the pain hit him, blood gushed out, and he fell to the ground. His comrades-in-arms urgently bandaged his wounds, and Liang Congxue was sweating profusely in pain, but he soberly instructed his comrades-in-arms to leave so as not to be caught up by the enemy.
His comrades-in-arms were reluctant to leave him, so they dragged him into the grass and covered him with fallen leaves, leaving him to save him. Lying in the grass, Liang Congxue listened to his comrades-in-arms gradually leaving, and also heard the footsteps of the Kuomintang gradually moving away, not approaching him.
Although he escaped the Kuomintang's search, Liang Congxue's limbs gradually became paralyzed due to excessive blood loss, and his consciousness began to blur. He knew that he would never wake up once he fainted, so he tried to stay awake, hoping that a nearby villager would come into the mountain to rescue him.
However, he also understood that there had just been a battle in the ravine, and the nearby villagers would not approach easily. However, fate favored the well-wished, and one night later, Liang Congxue heard footsteps not far away in a drowsiness, and an old female voice shouted.
Struggling with difficulty, Liang tried his best to get the countryman's attention. The old lady was always vigilant and had extraordinary insight when she was collecting medicine in the mountains and forests, and she could detect the swing of the grass in the distance at a glance.
Immediately guarding against possible lurking danger, she drew her knife and approached vigilantly. Picking through the grass, she was surprised to find a dying Red Army soldier, scarred and soaked in blood.
The old lady quickly took out the trauma medicine she carried with her, and carried out simple hemostasis and medicine for Liang Congxue without delay. Despite her advanced age, her long life of collecting medicine in the mountains and forests has trained her extraordinary physique. She took off the basket, put Liang Congxue on her back, and staggered home.
After arriving at home, the eldest lady quickly put Liang Congxue on her son's bed. At this time, Liang Congxue had fallen into a coma, and the wound infection caused a high fever.
The old lady has rich experience in dealing with the wounded, and there are often people who are injured in the mountains because they forget to bring self-defense**, but it is the first time to deal with bullet wounds, and it is inevitable that she will feel uneasy. She first cut off Liang Congxue's blood-soaked military shirt, washed his upper body with water, and then began to examine the wound.
On a humid and sweltering August summer, Liang Congxue's injuries worsened, and even rotted and smelly, breeding maggots. The old lady frowned and used tweezers to pick out the maggots one by one, but there were so many of them that it took a lot of time to clean them one by one.
So, she burned the scissors red, and faced the confused Liang Congxue and said: "You have to bear with it, I have to cut off the rotten flesh to allow the wound to heal." Liang Congxue nodded slightly, and then the old lady began to cut off the rotten meat, which was not relieved by anesthetic, and the pain was unbearable.
The old lady cut it several times in a row, and finally cleaned up the rotten meat, and then filled the wound with a loofah to remove the remaining maggots. During this period, Liang Congxue was in unbearable pain and almost fainted, but he gritted his teeth and persevered.
After cleaning the wound, she took out the remaining plant ash at home, sifted out the fine powder, and sprinkled it on the wound to stop the bleeding, which was considered to be treated. In the following days, the eldest mother took care of Liang Congxue carefully.
After getting out of the ghost gate, Liang Congxue said to the eldest mother gratefully: "Auntie, thank you so much, if it weren't for you, I would have died on the mountain!" The eldest lady waved her hand indifferently and said, "This is nothing, I am also repaying you."
If it weren't for the Red Army helping my mother's family recapture the landlord's land, the elders and juniors of my mother's family would have starved to death! After his injuries healed, Liang Congxue managed to go to Huanggang with the help of his mother to join the army and continue the revolution, but he never forgot the life-saving grace of his mother.
After the liberation, Liang Congxue specially took the elderly lady to the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. He watched the eldest lady staring at the five-star red flag with tears in her eyes, and her heart was full of emotion.
Until the death of the eldest mother, Liang Congxue would send food and daily necessities every year to honor the elderly, and personally accompany him when he was free, so that the eldest mother could spend a peaceful and stable old age.