China sent volunteers to the Korean battlefield to defend against foreign invasion, and this unprecedented and large-scale war not only demonstrated China's national prestige, but also the battle for the founding of the new China. In this war, all the volunteer soldiers showed admirable courage and sacrifice, and finally won the victory. **'s son Mao Anying is one of them, and he died on the battlefield in Korea. However, what few people know is that Mao Anying was not buried alone, he was buried with a volunteer martyr Gao Ruixin, and the reason for this is touching.
Gao Ruixin, born in 1927, is an excellent staff officer. During the Anti-Japanese War, he aspired to join the Eighth Route Army, but was too young to do so. He had to study diligently, and eventually entered the Kang Zhi Middle School, and later transferred to Yan'an to study, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1944. During the War of Liberation, Gao Ruixin became a staff officer by his side, and he was conscientious and appreciated and reused. After the end of the Liberation War, Gao Ruixin also started a family.
However, Western countries do not want to see China develop steadily, and they have extended the war to neighboring North Korea. In November 1950, Gao Ruixin received orders to go to North Korea to fight in the war, when his wife Li Cuiying was pregnant with Rokjia and was about to give birth. Despite this, for the sake of the motherland and the people of the whole country, Gao Ruixin resolutely left his wife and went to North Korea without hesitation, and this went to be goodbye.
On November 25, 1950, the Volunteer Army Headquarters was raided by American fighters, and hundreds of napalm bombs fell to the ground like rain, causing more than 1,000 degrees of fire that instantly engulfed the entire headquarters. After the plane left, people quickly launched a fire rescue, but it was too late, and when Mao Anying and Gao Ruixin were found, they had been dead for a long time. Because the U.S. military used gasoline bombs, the two were burned beyond recognition when they were killed.
At that time, the technology was not yet developed, and it was impossible to confirm the identities of the two, and the two were originally close friends, so everyone decided to bury them together after discussion. After Gao Ruixin was martyred, ** felt deeply guilty in his heart. He reported the news of Mao Anying's martyrdom, but he did not let his subordinates inform Gao Ruixin's family. ** Knowing Gao Ruixin's situation, he left his pregnant wife to join the war, and now his wife is about to give birth, if she tells Gao Ruixin about her death, she will be unbearable.
Therefore, after careful consideration, ** chose to conceal Gao Ruixin's death, and did not inform Gao Ruixin until her wife gave birth to a daughter. Knowing that her husband was martyred, Li Cuiying was grief-stricken, but she didn't expect her husband's parting to be an eternal secret. After grief, Li Cuiying decided to raise her daughter alone**. At that time, it had just been liberated, and New China was facing a lot of ruins, and it was extremely difficult to raise children alone. Soon after, Li Cuiying married Gao Ruixin's comrade-in-arms Yang Shouxin.
In order to get her daughter out of grief, Li Cuiying changed her daughter's name to Yang Yankun and hid from her the fact that her father was Gao Ruixin. After learning the truth, 47-year-old Yang Yankun went to pay respects to his biological father, and then returned to his hometown to visit other relatives. Seeing his niece Yang Yankun, Gao Ruixin's younger brother Gao Zigang couldn't help but burst into tears. Subsequently, he handed over the No. 001 martyr certificate issued by ** to her, and also fulfilled a wish.