The child walked through the Long March, and when he asked if he could prove it, he replied: **
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Did you know? There was a nine-year-old child who had completed the Long March! This news was shared on Weibo by netizens in July 2021 and attracted widespread attention. This child, named "9-year-old Long March", makes people marvel at his perseverance and courage, and at the same time reminds us of that arduous history.
It is precisely because of these 9-year-old people who participated in the Long March that we had the opportunity to play when we were 9 years old. This comment makes us cherish our lives even more.
However, who is this real, yet unbelievable, story about? How did he join the Long March at the age of 9? What happened during the Long March?
Let's uncover this mysterious Xiang Xuan. Although the name may not be known, his deeds are closely related to the ** general.
* One of the founding fathers of our country, his career in the Red Army began with two kitchen knives and a flat pole. His family, especially his sister He Mangu, gave full support to his decision to join the Red Army.
So, is there any relationship between Xiang Xuan and **? Yes, Xiang Xuan's mother is **'s sister He Mangu.
In 1926, Xiang Xuan was born in Sangzhi, Hunan. Hunan was one of the most oppressed regions at the time. Not only ** threw themselves into the ranks of the Red Army, **'s relatives also took an active part in the resistance.
On the road of pursuing ideals, difficulties and setbacks are inevitable. In 1928, He Mangu was betrayed by traitors, arrested by the enemy, and imprisoned with Xiang Xuan and three other children.
During his imprisonment, his sister He Ying worked hard to save the mother and son. Especially for the imprisoned He Mangu, as the sister of the Red Army general, He Ying knows the difficulty of rescue.
In desperation, He Ying could only bribe the prison guards with a lot of money and successfully redeemed her three children. However, He Mangu was tortured in prison, his hands and feet were **, and he was nailed to the shelf.
Under the harsh torture, He Mangu died heroically. The He family paid the price for the revolution, but they were not afraid to die. Although He Ying did not have children of his own, he regarded Xiang Xuan as his own and treated him like his own son.
In addition to his busy work, He Ying will also teach Xiang Xuan to shoot a gun, but in order to prevent him from getting into trouble, he usually hides the gun and only takes it out when he practices target shooting.
He Ying cultivated Xiang Xuan with her heart, and under her teaching, Xiao Xiang Xuan learned to shoot a gun at the age of 3. Talking about his sister's sacrifice, He Ying did not shy away from it, and Xiang Xuan set an ambition in his heart to avenge his mother.
5 years later, the original traitor was caught, and Xiang Xuan personally executed this person on the way to avenge his mother. After completing the great cause of revenge, Xiang Xuan continued to follow He Ying and joined the guerrillas.
In May 1933, He Ying spent the night in a place in Hefeng County, and although he was well hidden, he was betrayed by a traitor. During their stay, they were attacked by the enemy.
In the busy farming season, there are few people around He Ying. The enemy had already prepared, and He Ying was unfortunately hit in the right leg by shrapnel, and then hit by shrapnel in the chest and abdomen.
Faced with a critical situation, He Ying knew that he could not escape, so he decided to cover Xiang Xuan so that he could survive. Before dying, He Ying handed over her pistol and some life-saving money to Xiang Xuan, and asked him to go to his uncle** to continue to fight the enemy and find the traitor.
Grief and confusion are intertwined, and Xiang Xuan only remembers looking for his uncle** in his heart. He endured his pain and ran in the direction of the mountain with hope. In the end, the young Xiang Xuan found his uncle** in the endless search and lived with him.
Xiang Xuan's life was not easy, but he still persevered. Under the leadership of **, Xiang Xuan started his life in the army. That year, He Ying died, and Xiang Xuan was only 7 years old.
He conveyed the news of his aunt's sacrifice to his uncle, and immediately sent someone back to execute the traitor. Xiang Xuan recuperated in the ** army and left scars. After recovering from his injuries, Xiang Xuan joined the ranks of ** and became the youngest Red Army in the army.
However, the path to pursuing a career is full of hardships. In 1935, our army embarked on the journey of the Long March, and Xiang Xuan also joined it. The environment on the Long March was harsh and the conditions were difficult, but Xiang Xuan did not give up.
He persevered and eventually achieved his ideals. This is a piece of real history recorded in "The Long March, Unheard Stories".
Nine-year-old Xiang Xuan showed tenacity and perseverance beyond his years in the Long March team. Despite his young age, he does not ask for special treatment because of this. He left the mule capable of humpling for other people in need, and hurried on his feet, and although he fell to the ground many times due to exhaustion, he persevered.
The military uniform that Xiang Xuan's adults had prepared for him was too big for him to move, but he didn't complain about it. On the Long March, he formed a group of "red imps" in the communication class with a group of children with similar backgrounds, and experienced difficulties and challenges with them.
Although the children did not object, the adults in the army could not bear to see the children suffer. Xiang Xuan and his friends grew up during the Long March, and we deeply admired their tenacity and perseverance.
They have proved with their actions that age is not a limit, as long as there is faith and perseverance, they can overcome all difficulties.
At the height of their lives and the scarcity of food, the soldiers had to rely on grass roots and bark to feed their hunger. While these are wild, we can't be sure if they're poisonous or not.
In order to ensure safety, the soldiers of the vanguard team will always try a small piece of grass first, and after making sure that there is no problem, they will leave most of the rest to children who are the same age as Xiang Xuan.
Xiang Xuan and his friends silently accepted this special care, and always thought about how to repay this kindness with their own actions.
Xiang Xuan took advantage of his age, went into the masses, and inspired people with his singing, attracting many people to join the ranks of the Red Army. In 1936, the Red Second Front Army was successfully formed under the leadership of **, and at this time, Xiang Xuan had been honed to become the deputy squad leader of the communications class, only 10 years old.
However, after arriving in northern Shaanxi, ** found that although Xiang Xuan was 10 years old, he had not received an education, which made him deeply worried. Convinced that the child could not be delayed, he decided to take action to provide Xiang Xuan with an educational opportunity.
Xiang Xuan: The Long March letter that was "tested" by the Children's Group.
We are all children of the same age, and the road of the Long March is full of hardships and hardships, how can a small child bear it? "Xiang Xuan could only explain again and again:"I joined the Long March at the age of ten, and I was a member of the Red Army. "However, his explanation did not quell the doubts.
Soon, the sound of the children's quarrels attracted the attention of ***. He was curious about the topic of the children's quarrels, and when he got closer, he found several children arguing together.
Listening to Xiang Xuan's words to defend himself, ** felt that his words didn't look like he was lying. However, the child in front of him was too young to say that he had participated in the Long March.
So, ** asked Xiang Xuan to find a witness to prove his identity.
Xiang Xuan looked around, but he didn't find anyone familiar, and he felt very troubled in his heart. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of his uncle**. However, his uncle had previously told him that he could not reveal his identity at will.
However, if he does not prove himself, then the letter cannot be delivered. After weighing the pros and cons, he resolutely said the name of **.
As soon as he heard Xiang Xuan's name, he asked about his relationship with **. After learning about Xiang Xuan's life experience, ** felt more warmth to the orphan of this martyr. "I know your mother, He Mangu, she is a hero! ”
Hearing his mother's name being praised like this, Xiang Xuan's eyes couldn't help but redden.
This vignette is widely circulated in northern Shaanxi because there is a young hero who participated in the Long March at the age of 9. Xiang Xuan studied and worked in northern Shaanxi, and gradually became a young backbone in the army.
During the Battle of the Hundred Regiments in 1940, he relied on the tenacity of the signal corps and the lonely courage as a descendant of martyrs to travel a hundred miles alone and successfully opened up the connection between the troops.
Xiang Xuan was given the opportunity to study at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in 1944, but he chose to become an artillery soldier in response to the growing tensions of the civil war situation. After further training, he went to the front and used the knowledge he learned to assist our army in combat.
He was convinced: "Don't be afraid of death in war, the more you are afraid of death, the more you must die." "Xiang Xuan was most seriously wounded in the Battle of Libei in 1948. In this battle, he was the company commander of the engineer company, leading his comrades to keep an eye on the enemy's fortifications.
In view of the lack of equipment of our army, he proposed the strategy of bombarding the enemy's pillboxes with modified earthen artillery and striking by means of excavation.
In a hail of bullets, we successfully destroyed the enemy's communication system, which greatly assisted our army in annihilating the enemy in this battle. Although this battle was extremely dangerous, Xiang Xuan fought valiantly, hitting his right eye and almost becoming blind.
Since then, he has been running around the major battlefields until the founding of New China, with more than 20 scars on his body. Now that the war is over and Xiang Xuan has avenged his mother, he is faced with a choice: should he stay in the army and continue to serve his country, or leave the army to find a new way out?
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiang Xuan did not give up army construction because of his own pain. He entered the army and continued to train talents for our army. During his tenure as an instructor in the artillery company of the military academy, he devoted his knowledge to the new generation of soldiers.
At that time, China's national strength was not high, and Xiang Xuan did not dare to relax his vigilance at all for the rare peace. His training was harsh and ruthless, and he was extremely demanding of his fighters. Once, when the Ministry of Defense counted the military age of soldiers, the staff questioned Xiang Xuan's military age.
They could not believe that a 7-year-old child had joined the Red Army. Later, Xiang Xuan learned about this and reported the situation to the organization. After investigation, it was decided that Xiang Xuan's military age would be counted from May 6, 1933.
This day is of great significance to the history of the war and to Xiang Xuan himself. On that day, he took the gun given to him by He Ying and participated in the battle, when he was only 7 years old and was the youngest Red Army soldier in China.
In 1955, at the award ceremony, Xiang Xuan was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, and soon rose to the rank of colonel. Despite the fact that these ranks are not high, none of these honors are important to him.
His wish since childhood was to defeat his enemies, and now that his wish has been fulfilled, these honorary things are less important. In 1960, in accordance with the requirements of the organization, he was sent to work in the Chengdu Military Region.
Since 1978, he has successively served as the deputy chief of the Ordnance Section of the Logistics Department of the Chengdu Military Region, and the deputy director of the People's Armed Forces Department of Xicheng District, until his retirement in 1982, enjoying the treatment of a full teacher.
Xiang Xuan has been enjoying his old age since his retirement, his son and grandson have all started a family, and his old age is very happy. In 2022, Xiang Xuan will be 96 years old, and although he was injured when he was young, the old man is still in good health and is currently recuperating in the General Hospital of the Western Military Region.
Even if he takes a back seat, Xiang Xuan's heart is still worried about the prosperity of the country and the growth of the army. Whenever there is a major commemorative event in the country, or the army has an important achievement display, we can always see Xiang Xuan's figure, and his story and contribution have always attracted people's attention and praise.
We learned from the interview that the old man Xiang Xuan often recalls the difficult past, the deep nostalgia for his comrades-in-arms, and the deep longing for his biological and adoptive mother. He often said: "Fewer and fewer people know about what happened at that time, and I want to talk to you about .......""Xiang Xuan's life was full of ups and downs, he came from the suffering, watching his relatives leave him one by one; But he was fortunate that he survived the smoke of the war and witnessed the growth of the republic.
His life was full of love, and he felt care from all sides, both in the ranks of the Red Army and in the new era. And we are not lucky to live in a new era?
Although we have not experienced their suffering, all kinds of books and videos tell us the history of that suffering. The history of all kinds of bloodshed and sacrifice is telling us that the current happiness is not easy to come by, and all kinds of patriotic bases are conveying that we must pass on the spirit of struggle.
Heaven and earth are heroic, and the autumn is still awe-inspiring. We should pay tribute to heroes like Xiang Xuan, not only because they are worthy, but also because we are grateful. We will take over the baton from the old man Xiang Xuan and start our own new journey.