As the saying goes: "Fight the tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers", during the War of Resistance Against Japan, many people rushed to the battlefield, just to be able to live a peaceful life as soon as possible.
Among these people, some families died on the battlefield, and some were forced to be separated from their families and could not see each other.
The founding general Yan Fu was like this, after participating in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to protect the safety of his family, he lost contact with his family for more than ten years.
In the past ten years, his family thought that he had already died on the battlefield, and by chance his son Yan Bangyi learned that Yan Fu was still alive, so he started a long road to find his father.
In the process of searching for his father, he was first arrested by the Kuomintang, then rebelled on the battlefield and joined the People's Liberation Army, and later went to North Korea to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and it was on this battlefield that he met his long-lost father.
In the process of delivering the shells, he saw a person who looked like his father, and when he asked, he realized that it was the division commander - he trembled and took out a photo of his father from his pocket, yes, he was his father who had "sacrificed" for 19 years.
Yan Fu was originally born in a landlord family, and he was a wealthy son, and it was precisely because of his wealthy family that he received a good education since he was a child.
Under the new education, he was exposed to new ideas, had his own independent thoughts and consciousness, and was not contaminated with the bad habits of rich children.
Through his own efforts, he was admitted to Peking University, during which he studied hard, united his classmates, and his excellent social interaction immediately made him adapt to the new environment.
During his college years, he studied progressive ideas, and even quietly participated in various activities, and finally joined the Chinese Communist Party in his junior year and became an underground worker.
During this period, he also participated in the famous 129 Movement and became a true revolutionary.
In his subsequent work, he was in order to cover his comrades three times.
Under the torture of the enemy, he did not flinch, every time he was holding the mentality of death and dealing with the enemy, in the face of the enemy's forced confession, he strictly kept the secret and did not say a word, but fortunately he was lucky, and he was able to escape safely every time.
Because he was one of the few intellectuals in the ranks, he was always sent to participate in many tasks with a high level of education, and in 1937, he was also selected to study at the Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.
After finishing his studies in Yan'an, he went to the front line non-stop, from an ordinary soldier to the section chief, and then to the chief of staff.
In one battle, he and his comrades were scattered by the enemy, but in the face of such a dilemma, he took the initiative to step forward, contact the others who were scattered, and lead them to break through the enemy's encirclement.
In this battle, he was praised by his superiors and affirmed by his comrades-in-arms.
When everyone is panicking, he can always calmly come up with a way to solve the dilemma in front of him, as if as long as he is around, everyone can not worry about the problem not being solved.
After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he was sent to the Soviet-Chinese campaign, where he fought day and night, and was in the smoke of war every day.
In the Soviet-Chinese campaign, Yan Fu also led the soldiers to fight a beautiful siege battle, in the battle of Taixing City, he disregarded his personal safety, led a team of soldiers to break through a city gate to seek a breakthrough for the battle.
In the war, the first battle is very important, if successful, it can greatly boost the morale of the army, and the siege battle of Yan Fuda is a crucial battle in the Soviet-Chinese campaign.
This battle was even praised by Su Yu, and later Comrade Su Yu also talked about the importance of this war in his memoirs, and Yan Fu also became famous in the army.
But Yan Fu, who was at ease on the battlefield, never cared about his physical condition, he had a very serious tuberculosis, and once he had an attack, the people around him advised him to go back to the rear to rest, but he insisted on staying on the front line, lying on a stretcher and continuing to command the battle.
It was not until the end of the Liberation War that Yan Fu returned to the rear hospital to ** his own illness, and stayed in the hospital for a month, his illness was finally fine, and he was just discharged from the hospital and led the troops to fight in the Korean battlefield in person.
Since Yan Fu participated in the revolution, he has been captured several times, and he almost became the enemy's sword, and he lived this kind of life every day licking blood from the knife.
In order not to affect the safety of his family, Yan Fu did not return home for many years, and his family even thought that he had died on the battlefield a long time ago.
When he left home, his son Yan Bangyi was only three years old, and although his parents were old, fortunately, the conditions at home were good, so he could only give up his small family to take care of everyone.
It's just that what Yan Fu didn't know was that not long after he left home, his mother died, and the situation in the family became worse day by day.
Later, his son Yan Bangyi could only choose to drop out of school because of the deterioration of family conditions, and after leaving school, he didn't know what to do.
For his children, Yan Fu has never fulfilled his father's responsibilities, but Yan Bangyi does not complain about this, he knew when he was a child that his father went to participate in the War of Resistance against Japan, and his father was a big hero in his mind.
With the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he was looking forward to his father coming home every day, but he waited left and right, and never waited for his father to return, so they naturally thought that Yan Fu had died on the battlefield, and they were sad about it.
As he grew older, Yan Bangyi became more and more disgusted with war, it was the war that left him without his father's company since he was a child, and it was the war that separated many families, so he also sprouted some ideas in his heart that he didn't know about.
He thought that there would be no more wars after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, but Chiang Kai-shek tore up the contract and provoked the war.
As a result, the war that had finally stopped was ignited again, and the peaceful days of hope were suddenly gone, which made the young Yan Bangyi fall into a haze.
At this time, the news came that changed his current predicament, and his second uncle told him that his father had not died, was still alive, and was a member of the Communist Party.
This news made Yan Bangyi's heart reignite new hope, and he silently made a decision in his heart, he was going to find his father.
In 1946, 16-year-old Yan Bangyi embarked on a journey to find his father according to the news given by his uncle.
However, for this father he hasn't seen for more than ten years, Yan Bangyi can only look for it with a **.
However, over the years, his father has never returned home, and every time he misses his father, he can only pick up the photo in his hand and look at it again and again, so that now the appearance on his father's photo has been completely engraved in his heart.
Yan Bangyi's road to find his father was not as smooth as he imagined, as soon as he arrived in Chengdu, he encountered the Kuomintang army arresting strong men.
Since then, he has been fighting everywhere with the Kuomintang army, although he is in the ** camp, Yan Bangyi does not agree with what they do, not to mention that he originally hoped that the war would end as soon as possible, and he has never been interested in this kind of war in which his own people fight his own people.
With the advancement of the Liberation War, ** has lost its initial glory, but has been defeated and retreated, and Yan Bangyi, who is in the ** camp, is increasingly dissatisfied with them.
Finally, in 1949, Yan Bangyi mobilized his comrades in the Battle of Chengdu and launched an uprising, after which he also became a PLA soldier.
Because Yan Bangyi has studied for several years and has a certain level of education, he has become a cultural teacher in the army, and the young man who went out to find his father has now grown a lot.
With the end of the Liberation War, although Yan Bangyi joined the People's Liberation Army, he never forgot to look for his father, whenever he had time, he would take out his father's photo to see, and he would also ask the veterans who had fought everywhere about his father's whereabouts.
At this time, his father was suffering from tuberculosis in the hospital in the rear for many years, so it was difficult for him to find it.
In 1950, his father was sent to the Korean battlefield, and in 1951, Yan Bangyi's unit also received an order to go to the Korean battlefield to support, and Yan Bangyi also followed to the Korean battlefield as a member of it.
What he didn't know at this time was that his father had already stepped into the Korean battlefield before him, and he would meet his long-lost father on this battlefield.
In the Battle of Shangganling, Yan Fu was the commander of the Seventh Artillery Division, and his command was the key to the success or failure of the entire campaign.
Because he went deep into the front line and often risked his life to observe the enemy situation and terrain at the forward positions, no one in the Seventh Division where he belonged did not know him, and even secretly admired their division commander.
Half a month later, Yan Bangyi's unit finally arrived at the Korean battlefield, and when they saw that the local houses were destroyed, they began to build houses and fortifications, nervously preparing for the next battle.
In this process, they did not have construction tools, so they had to use the most primitive construction method, with a shed made of trees and a thatched cover.
The hay-made beds became a daily resting place for the warriors, and although the conditions were difficult, they did not complain.
With the beginning of the Battle of Shangganling, countless soldiers died on the battlefield, and Yan Bangyi's troops soon participated in the war.
As a cultural instructor, Yan Bangyi became one of them, but in addition to the work of the cultural instructor, he was also responsible for the transfer of the wounded and the transportation of artillery shells.
In the midst of the artillery fire, he transported the wounded from the front line to the rear, and then went to the artillery area to deliver shells to the artillerymen.
He had to go back and forth in the flames of war many times a day, and on several occasions he was almost hit by a shell.
Yan Fu and Yan Bangyi, father and son, shuttled through the battlefield every day, and the routes they went to were sometimes repeated, Yan Bangyi was responsible for the task of delivering shells to the artillerymen, and Yan Fu had to go to the front line every day to communicate with the artillerymen about the combat fortifications and methods.
Finally, one time, Yan Bangyi passed by his father in the process of delivering cannonballs, he was busy delivering cannonballs, and when he came back to his senses, his father had already gone away.
Yan Bangyi grabbed a soldier and asked the person just now, and the soldier told him that it was their division commander.
At the end of the day, Yan Bangyi took out a photo of his father while resting, and he was sure that the person he saw during the day was his father.
He was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night, it turned out that he and his father were fighting on the same battlefield, and in the next battle, Yan Bangyi seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, and he didn't feel tired for a long time after working.
In this way, Yan Bangyi has been looking for his father for many years, and now he is fighting on the same battlefield as himself, and he feels that the reunion between him and his father is like a dream.
In this battle, Yan Fu's artillery division completed the task brilliantly, and even Comrade *** said that the victory of the Shangganling Battle - the accuracy of artillery attack and shooting was the key element of victory, and called it a miracle.
And the creator of this miracle is Yan Fu, who has become a well-deserved artillery general of our army through scientific command.
After returning to China to resist US aggression and aid Korea, Yan Fu was transferred several times and devoted himself to China's socialist construction, becoming a person with outstanding meritorious service.
Unlike Yan Fu, Yan Bangyi chose an ordinary job after returning to China and became an ordinary person.
In this regard, Yan Bangyi said that his father was the founder of the country, but his contribution was not as much as his father's, and he could not lie on his father's merits and enjoy his achievements.
This is the same as his father Yan Fu, regardless of personal gains and losses, Yan Fu also returned home after returning from the battlefield, and his requirements for his children were not connived at because he had not seen him for so many years.
Although he was an intellectual, he never looked down on the workers and peasant cadres, and he was meticulous in his work, winning praise from many people.
His son Yan Bangyi is also working in his ordinary position, which can be described as conscientious.
Yan Fu's life took into account the overall situation, he was a person who truly dedicated himself to the party and the people, and his son Yan Bangyi was also as conscientious as him, although he was not as meritorious as his father Yan Fu, but he also made his own contributions.
In the war, there were many fathers and sons like them, and they all firmly walked on the path they chose and became a person who dedicated themselves to the country.
In the war-torn years, they went to the battlefield desperately, and after the end of the war, they silently dedicated themselves to their posts, and their spirit deserves to be remembered forever.
Whether it is the smoke of war or peacetime, the inheritance of this red spirit is indispensable, and we should learn from them no matter what kind of position we are in.
Chinese Writers Network. Father and son soldiers to resist US aggression and aid Korea. Luo Dagan, October 19, 2020.
Edited by the editorial department of Spark Liaoyuan. List of Generals and Commanders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army VolPeople's Liberation Army Press, 2006
Across. Comrade Yan Fu, a famous artillery general. Author: Zhou Keyu.