At the beginning of November 1951, when the county ** staff visited Song Xueyi's house, they were stunned by everything in front of them. They can't believe that the heroes who once made great contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are now living in such poverty.
Song Xueyi's home is in tatters, and the traces of rain leaks on the roof are still clearly visible. Although it was already winter, Song Xueyi and his wife were still wearing thin cotton jackets and shabby single pants, and even the upper of Song Xueyi's cotton shoes had a big eye-catching hole exposed.
Faced with such a difficult life, the staff of the county ** asked him why he did not apply for assistance from the organization. However, Song Xueyi just smiled and said the unpretentious words shyly.
Although everyone is familiar with the heroic deeds of Song Xueyi and Ge Zhenlin who jumped off a cliff when they ran out of ammunition and food, few people know how they survived and what their ending was.
Song Xueyi: The identity of the hero was ignored, and it was only known that he was the old Eighth Road Song Xueyi was in a coma in the border hospital for five days, and finally woke up one day in late September 1941.
He opened his eyes and saw strips of white gauze and paramedics walking before his eyes. He remembered himself in the smoke of the chessboard, but everything around him was very different from what he remembered.
When he tried to sit up, the sharp pain in his lower back almost caused him to pass out again, ** told him that his lower back was badly injured and that he couldn't move. While changing the gauze, he was told that he and the other person had lost consciousness and were seriously injured when they arrived.
However, despite the fact that he is a hero, the people around him only know him as the old eight-way.
Song Xueyi lay down quietly again, but even the slightest movement could tear the wound on his waist and abdomen, and the pain was so strong that he gasped. His head was already covered with cold sweat, he covered his head tightly, and tried to piece together the scattered memory fragments in his mind, combined with the narration of **, a complete memory picture gradually became clear......"Brothers, you can't be a prisoner at any time! ”
Standing in front of the cliff of the chessboard, Ma Baoyu, who was covered in blood, solemnly announced to everyone. "That's right, you can't be a prisoner! Even if a person dies, the gun can't be left for the little devil! ”
Deputy squad leader Ge Zhenlin followed, and under his mobilization, Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai smashed the rifles in their hands and threw them off the cliff.
Looking at the enemy approaching step by step at the foot of the mountain, squad leader Ma Baoyu quickly took out his pen, sat on the ground, put the notebook he carried with him on his lap, and hurriedly wrote a few lines.
After finishing writing, Ma Baoyu gathered Song Xueyi and others to him, and said to them with tears in his eyes: "Friends! Now Zhenlin and I have prepared a letter of introduction for you to join the party, and we approve you to join the party on the front line! ”
After saying that, he slowly turned around, put the notebook back in his pocket again, and then walked to the edge of the cliff and shouted out the majestic slogan: "Down with the Japanese invaders!"
Long live the Communist Party of China! Then, without hesitation, he jumped into the abyss. Then, Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai also followed the footsteps of the squad leader and jumped off the cliff firmly.
Song Xueyi woke up from the pain and found himself hanging from a big tree under the cliff. The pain in his lower back was unbearable, and he couldn't exert all his strength. Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice, and when he turned his head, a familiar figure appeared in the faint moonlight.
Zhenlin! Ge Zhenlin! You're alive! He excitedly shouted Ge Zhenlin's name. Ge Zhenlin, who was climbing under the cliff, also discovered him, and with his help, Song Xueyi got rid of the entanglement of the branches.
Two seriously injured people, enduring severe pain, helped each other to climb to the top of the cliff. When they climbed to the top of the cliff, the Japanese and puppet armies had already withdrawn, and Song Xueyi, with the support of Ge Zhenlin, slowly walked towards the direction of the large army.
The night passed, and they only walked 5 miles of mountain road. At this moment, they met the scouts of the Eighth Route Army who were on a reconnaissance mission. The scouts found that they were badly wounded, so they took them to the regimental headquarters with their backs.
The head of the regiment, Qiu Wei, placed them in a cave and handed them over to the care of the local people. When everything was arranged, the regiment headquarters sent the two of them to the border hospital for emergency treatment.
After several months of recuperation, Song and Ge have recovered from their injuries. Soon after, the military sub-district held a grand commendation meeting, and the commander highly praised them and awarded them the medal of "brave and tenacious" anti-Japanese heroes.
In 1942, the two gradually emerged in the army and were sent to "Kang Da" for further study. However, Song Xueyi was overinjured due to a back injury, and once he was overworked, he would **.
Therefore, at the beginning of 1943, the organization specially approved him to leave the school and was sent to Hebei to serve as the captain of a county brigade.
Three years later, Song Xueyi returned to his hometown in Hebei with his wife and children. After returning to his hometown, he devoted himself to agricultural production and devoted most of his energy to productive labor. He never mentioned his exploits to the villagers, but simply replied that his injuries were left when the Eighth Route Army fought against the devils.
In the years after returning to his hometown, the villagers of Beikong Village only knew that Song Xueyi was the old Eighth Road who had participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, they could never have imagined that this ordinary farmer, who worked with them every day, was one of the famous "Five Heroes of Langya Mountain".
It was not until November 1951 that the staff of Qinyang County ** came to him, and his heroic deeds were made public.
Eight years later, Song Xueyi was fortunate to get an invitation from *** and met with ***. Since then, his deeds have been widely spread throughout China. In the summer of 1971, this anti-Japanese hero who went down in the annals of revolutionary history was ill**, and finally due to illness, he hurriedly finished his life at the age of 53.
In the fifties of the last century, Song Xueyi was appointed as the secretary of the party branch of Beikong Village, and during his 20-year tenure, he did many good things for the local people with a conscientious work attitude.
When the news of his death broke, many people came to his farewell ceremony. Also rescued that year was Ge Zhenlin. Although Song Xueyi left us in the early 70s of the last century, what is Ge Zhenlin's life course?
Ge Zhenlin: From studying at the "Kang Da" to participating in the Liberation War, and finally serving as the deputy director of the logistics department of the military district guard regiment, his military career was full of challenges and glory. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ge Zhenlin, as the company commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, followed the troops to participate in the Liberation War, fought in the south and the north, and finally won the victory.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was arranged to Hunan to serve as the deputy director of the logistics department of the military region guard regiment, but the outbreak of the Korean War forced him to fight in Korea with the People's Volunteers again to defend the territory of the motherland.
His career has witnessed the transformation of Chinese history, and he has interpreted the loyalty and courage of soldiers with practical actions.
After the end of the Korean War, Ge Zhenlin returned to his homeland, where he held various positions in Hunan, including deputy captain of the Public Security Brigade, commander of the first battalion of the 16th Independent Regiment, and deputy director of the logistics department of the Hengyang Military Division.
During his long military career, he fought valiantly, was wounded six times, and was rated as a second-class A disability. As a young man, with his excellent physical fitness, he was able to endure the pain of these injuries.
However, as he grew older, the pain of the injury became more and more intense, seriously affecting his work status. In consideration of his actual situation, the organization specially approved his dismissal and recuperation in August 1966, and gave him the treatment of a cadre at the level of a full division.
In Ge Zhenlin's memory, the friendship with the deputy squad leader Song Xueyi was like smoke, lingering in his heart. In the days of the army, Song Xueyi always liked to carry a cigarette bag and pot in his pocket and smoke two puffs anytime and anywhere.
Even in the tense ambush battle, he had to take out his cotton clothes to cover his head and forcibly pass the addiction to smoking. Seeing Song Xueyi's satisfied appearance, Ge Zhenlin couldn't help but be greedy, so he begged him for cigarettes.
Every time, Song Xueyi would carefully take out a pinch of tobacco leaves from his pocket and use a match to personally light it for the deputy squad leader. Although these are all in the past, and Song Xueyi has passed away, every time he recalls these past events, the corners of Ge Zhenlin's mouth will unconsciously rise, and the affectionate kindness will never go away like smoke.
After his retirement, Ge Zhenlin devoted himself to primary and secondary schools in Hengyang City and became a local off-campus counselor. His spare time was spent teaching revolutionary stories to students and spreading communist ideas.
His influence gradually expanded, and he was invited by organs, schools, mines, and military units from more than 10 provinces, including Beijing, Hebei, Hubei, Henan, Hunan, and Guangxi, to give reports and speeches.
In more than 30 years, he has given hundreds of presentations and attracted more than 300,000 listeners. His reports and talks always touched the heartstrings of the children and made them feel the tenacity, fearlessness and selflessness of their revolutionary forefathers.
He was determined to plant an unquenchable spiritual flame in the hearts of his children for the rest of his life.
Ge Zhenlin is not as majestic as in the commemorative sculpture, in fact, his figure is thin and dark. A group of ** reporters once came to his house for interviews, and by asking the surrounding neighbors, they found an interesting habit, that is, no matter how he walked to **, he would wear a military hat.
Is there anything special about this hat? Why does he always wear it? After an in-depth interview, the words of the old man Ge Zhenlin solved the mystery. It turned out that after jumping off a cliff to escape, although he survived, he broke a bone in the back of his head.
* Later, due to the missing skull, even though the wound had healed, a sunken "dimple" remained. Whenever the cold hits, this "little nest" will have a dull pain.
So Ge Zhenlin always wears a military hat when he goes out, in order to prevent the cold from invading, which leads to old diseases**.
After the interview, Ge Zhenlin warmly invited the reporters to have dinner at home. At dinner time, the wife of the old man Ge Zhenlin put the dishes on the table one after another, and what was surprising was that the old man, who had enjoyed the retirement treatment of a full teacher, entertained everyone with simple dishes.
On the table were only a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, a plate of green onion tofu, a plate of green vegetables, a plate of steamed bun rolls, and a few bowls of rice. The old man Ge Zhenlin drank the millet porridge in the bowl, slowly nibbled on the steamed buns with his dentures, looked at the reporters, and said contentedly: "A simple life is enough for me ......”