The Red Army veterinarian was incognitoyear, ** sent someone to ask back.
In 1959, Yang Gui, the magistrate of Linxian County, Henan Province, received a surprising notice: some staff from ** were about to arrive, and they needed to be properly received.
Hearing this news, Yang Gui was very confused, because Linxian County is an inconspicuous small city, the location is remote and backward, and it is not even the most outstanding in the province, why send people here?
When the ** staff arrived, Yang Gui learned that they were following ***'s order to find a veteran named Gu Guishan and invite him to participate"The 10th anniversary of the National Day"。
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is not surprising that many veterans chose to return to their hometowns incognito to live a semi-secluded life in order not to receive additional preferential treatment. But after hearing Gu Guishan's true identity, Yang Gui couldn't sit still anymore.
This "unknown" Gu Guishan is not only the regiment commander during the Red Army, but also a close comrade-in-arms. You must know that most of the regiment commanders during the Red Army have now become generals.
There is a general-level figure in the small Lin County, and the county magistrate himself knows nothing!
Yang Gui was puzzled by the other party's statement, and he was not sure if the other party had found the wrong person. Although Lin County is not large, there is no Red Army commander among the few veterans he knows.
However, the ** staff insisted that Gu Guishan was here and asked Yang Gui to find him. With less than a month left before the National Day ceremony, Yang Gui realized the arduousness of the task, and he immediately summoned all the cadres of the county party committee and asked them to search from house to house, even digging three feet into the ground to find the old Red Army.
After a few days of hard work, they found the Gu Guishan they were looking for in Xiayuan Village, Linxian County. Surprisingly, he was not a Red Army commander, but a veterinarian in the village, a job he held for eight years.
In just a few days, many dramatic changes have taken place in Gu Guishan, first he was named and searched, and then his identity as the head of the Red Army was revealed ......This information sheds light on the extraordinary life of this veteran.
Who is Gu Guishan? What kind of ups and downs did he experience in the first half of his life?
Gu Guishan was born in Lu'an County, Anhui Province in 1907, and his family has been farming for generations. In 1928, at the age of 21, he joined the Communist Party of China and devoted himself to the revolutionary cause.
At that time, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke down, the party's work went underground, and a large number of party members died in this storm, but Gu Guishan always adhered to the party's belief and successfully completed the mission entrusted by the party.
He performed well, and the following year he was invited to join the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and began his military career. Previously, he had never been exposed to firearms, but he quickly adapted to the new environment with a conscientious and responsible attitude, and followed the Red Army troops to fight in the north and south.
Gu Guishan was fearless on the battlefield and rushed to the forefront in every battle. His outstanding performance attracted the attention of his superiors, who first promoted him to squad leader, and then to platoon commander and company commander.
After the fifth anti-encirclement campaign in 1934, at the age of 27, he was appointed commander of the 15th Red Regiment, one of the main forces of the Red Army. How important is his position as the head of the regiment?
Take several generals of the same period as an example: the founding lieutenant general Yang Xiushan only joined the party in 1934, the founding lieutenant general Rao Shoukun only became the battalion commander in this year, and the lieutenant general Zhang Dazhi was just an ordinary soldier ......Although General Wang Ping, who was the same age, was at the same level as Gu Guishan, he served as the director of the political department of the neighboring 16th Regiment.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration for county magistrate Yang Gui to believe that Gu Guishan has the potential to be a general.
Gu Guishan is a military general with rich qualifications and rich combat experience. From 1928 to 1937, he fought more than 400 battles, an average of one battle a week.
In the process, he was injured nine times and made numerous meritorious contributions. Although he came from a peasant background and had no education, this was not a problem, since most of the Red Army generals grew up from "mud legs".
If Gu Guishan has a chance to be promoted normally, he is expected to become a lieutenant general. However, the turning point of fate came in the Battle of Pingxingguan in 1937, which was the first large-scale ambush of the Japanese army by the Eighth Route Army since the Anti-Japanese War.
In this battle, the commander of our army ** against the 5th Division of Seishiro Itagaki known as the "Steel Army". During the battle, Gu Guishan's troops held their positions, and after two days of fierce fighting, they successfully repelled many enemy attacks.
However, when the Japanese army was unable to attack, they fired ** poison gas bombs at our positions, and unfortunately, Gu Guishan's eyes were burned by poison gas. Despite being taken to the hospital** in time to save his eyesight, the battle had a serious impact on his eyesight and he could no longer continue in his front-line command position.
In desperation, Gu Guishan withdrew from the combat unit and was appointed as the director of the 115th Division Health Center, engaged in rear work. From the former commander of the army to the current director of the health center, it is surprising how much his position has changed.
However, for this new mission, Gu Guishan still maintains a high sense of responsibility and meticulously performs his duties.
Gu Guishan sees fame and fortune very thoroughly, and this attitude is widely known in the army. Once, a superior offered to introduce him to a partner, thinking that he was not young now and should consider starting a family.
The superiors said that if Gu Guishan agreed, they could introduce him to women in the health team or art troupe, and even the leaders could come forward to help. However, Gu Guishan politely declined this kindness.
He said: "Chief, it's not that I dislike others, I'm just a rough person who doesn't have much education, and I also have injuries and illnesses. If I marry someone else, won't I let her suffer with me? ”
Despite his repeated resignations, his marriage never progressed. Gu Guishan later got married, and this object was not introduced by others. Once, when he was out running errands, he happened to meet a wandering mother and daughter.
Looking at the poor old lady, he thought of his mother, who was struggling with his life, and his heart was full of sympathy. So, he inquired about their situation and helped them return to the army and settle them down.
The old lady was deeply grateful for Gu Guishan's behavior, and after learning that he was not married, she offered to let her daughter Wang Haixiu marry him. At the beginning, Gu Guishan hesitated about this, after all, this was somewhat of a situation of taking advantage of others.
However, Wang Haixiu also agreed, and considering the chaotic situation at that time, they had no identity, and if they continued to wander, they would undoubtedly kill themselves.
In addition, Wang Haixiu also met Gu Guishan's mate selection criteria, so Gu Guishan finally accepted this proposal and married Wang Haixiu.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Gu Guishan held positions in the Ministry of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, and the local government, and because he did not participate in military operations for 12 years, he was ultimately not awarded the rank of military.
Although he had many friends in the army, some of them have now become officers or generals, and even one who was his orderly and has now risen to the rank of head of the military district.
If he wants to, he can enjoy very good treatment and status as long as he opens his mouth, but he still keeps a low profile. He never asked for a pension for a disabled serviceman, and after a few years he retired and returned to his hometown, living a reclusive life.
Gu Guishan's hometown was devastated in the war, and his relatives had long since lost contact, so he chose his wife Wang Haixiu's hometown of Linxian as his residence in his later years.
In Linxian County, he never revealed his past to others, and when the village registered him, he only said that he raised horses for the chief of the army in the army, was a horse groom, had never fought a war, and was not considered a hero.
Therefore, it was only natural that he later became the village veterinarian, responsible for treating the villagers' livestock.
Despite the hard work, Gu Guishan enjoyed it. His conscientious attitude and superb medical skills are loved by the local villagers. In addition to treating the livestock, he is also busy in his small vegetable garden, in front of the house, behind the house, in the yard and outside the yard every day, just like an ordinary old farmer.
Therefore, in the last 8 years, no one has ever cared about his past. This made the staff who were ordered to look for him very troubled, because they knew that he was Gu Guishan, the head of the Red 15th Regiment mentioned on the eve of the National Day in 1959, and he was invited to participate in this event.
It took the staff several weeks to find clues about Gu Guishan by looking through the vast personnel files, and learned that he had been transferred to the local Ministry of Agriculture.
However, when the person in charge of the celebration found the local Ministry of Agriculture, he needed to search for it again, only to know that Gu Guishan had been transferred to the Provincial Department of Commerce. After a series of twists and turns, people finally learned that Gu Guishan had retired and returned to his hometown of Linxian County, Henan Province, which led to the beginning of the scene.
You are the pride of Linxian County, and you can't let the old hero be wronged. A few days later, Gu Guishan came to Beijing and saw his long-lost *** Seeing this old comrade-in-arms, ** was very happy, held his hand, and asked him about his current situation.
When I knew that Gu Guishan was a veterinarian in my hometown, I couldn't help but feel a little sorry, after all, Gu Guishan's talent was unmatched, and such a young and promising person should have played a greater role in the army.
In the era of peace, Gu Guishan felt powerless and insisted that his post should be reserved for young people and comrades with a higher level of education. His remarks were highly appreciated by the best and praised him as a good comrade with selfless dedication.
Gu Guishan's seeking truth from facts and being down-to-earth helped the Red Army units burst out with amazing combat effectiveness and finally marched to victory. News of his attendance at the founding ceremony reached his hometown, making him an overnight local celebrity.
The city provided the veterans' job indicators, but Gu Guishan politely declined.
When he returned to the village, he folded the tunic neatly, changed into the coarse cloth clothes of the past, and began to cultivate, no different from before. Although his residence is simple, Gu Guishan's mentality has always been very good.
His family was harmonious, his children were filial, and he had never experienced a major illness or disaster in his life. The old man's old age was very happy, not only was he respected by the neighbors and villagers, but the city and county would send people to visit him every year, and he lived without worrying about food and clothing.
In 1986, Gu Guishan passed away, bidding farewell to the country he deeply loved at the age of 79. Before he died, he left two last words to his children: the first was that "no inscriptions should be erected on the grave, and the funeral should be simple", and the second was that "all children should not make any requests to the organization".
For their father's two words, Gu Guishan's children all agreed with tears. Finally, on a warm afternoon, several relatives and friends, and more than a dozen neighbors buried Gu Guishan on a barren slope near the village, ending his life.
The glory lies in the plain, and the arduousness lies in the long", Gu Guishan's life may be the truest portrayal of this sentence.