Time back to 1941, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had entered a stalemate stage, in addition to the Nationalist army dragging the main force of the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, the guerrilla warfare of our army in the battlefield behind the enemy lines also once made the Japanese army overwhelmed.
Although the central cities in North China were already occupied by the Japanese army, our army still dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army by taking advantage of its mobility, so that North China would not fall completely, and our army even set up a base area within the enemy, making it a bayonet inserted in the ribs of the Japanese army.
Naturally, the Japanese army invading China would not sit still, especially after suffering losses after the Hundred Regiments Battle, and even more wanted to take revenge with one arrow, so it quickly gathered the troops of the North China side and carried out a large-scale sweep of the enemy's base areas in North China.
At that time, ge Zhenlin's Base Area of Langya Mountain in Yi County, Hebei Province, was also a key target of the Japanese army, and the Japanese Army unexpectedly gathered more than 3,000 people to strike at our army in the Base Area of Langya Mountain in an attempt to annihilate the regime in the Base Area of Wolfa Mountain at one time.
In the face of the suppression of the Japanese army, Ge Zhenlin's unit was forced to start a strategic transfer because there was only one company and the strength of the masses was very different, and the most important thing in the transfer was to protect the life and safety of the main force and the masses. It was completely impossible to do this without taking cover, so the large troops at that time decided to leave six squads to block the enemy and cover the withdrawal of the large troops.
At that time, the sixth class Ge Zhenlin was still the deputy squad leader, he and the squad leader Ma Baoyu, the warrior Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, Hu Fu and other four people undertook the duty of cover, their nature was actually similar to Xie Jinyuan's eight hundred warriors in the Battle of Songhu, they were all covering the withdrawal of the main force, but the probability of surviving was very low, no different from the death squad.
In order to better drag the Japanese army, Ge Zhenlin and five other people led the Japanese army to the Wolf's Tooth Mountain while fighting, where the terrain was very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the soldiers were convinced that they could help the large troops to win more time.
In fact, under the calm command of the squad leader Ma Baoyu, Ge Zhenlin's five men repelled the Japanese offensive many times - after all, although the soldiers were small, their weapons and armaments were still very sufficient, and the use of terrain advantages to cooperate with each other to drag the Japanese army was difficult, but it was definitely not impossible to complete the task.
But when they are about to complete the task, a very difficult problem is placed in front of them, where to retreat? It was certainly not possible to go to the large troops, so it exposed the position of the large troops, and the merits were lost, so the five soldiers chose to continue to walk on the cliff, and they did not want the Japanese army to find the specific direction of the large troops until they died.
Ge Zhenlin and the others fought and retreated, and after all the bullets were gone, they began to use stones, they knew they would die, but they were still unwilling to give in, and they were bound to kill one more enemy before they were willing.
When the task was fully completed, they were already standing at the top of Wolf's Tooth Mountain, and they were getting closer and closer to death, but they were all smiling, and then one by one they walked to the edge of the cliff and jumped down, without the slightest hesitation in their eyes.
After jumping off the cliff, although three of the five people died heroically, including even the squad leader Ma Baoyu, the deputy squad leader Ge Zhenlin and the warrior Song Xueyi survived. The two of them were undoubtedly very lucky, they were hung by branches when they jumped off the cliff, although they both fell into serious injuries, but fortunately they were rescued in time, which was a life recovered.
Originally, after making great contributions, he should have a good rest and accept the reward, but Ge Zhenlin, one of the survivors of the Five Heroes, immediately returned to his troops after being wounded, and he was present in the later Battles of Zhangjiakou and Taiyuan, and even after the end of the civil war, he also participated in the suppression of bandits and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and made many meritorious contributions.
Because of his military achievements, he later held some important positions in the Logistics Department of the Hunan Provincial Military Sub-district. Only at this time, he was already injured in six places all over his body. Without the war, the country entered the construction stage, and Ge Zhenlin also threw himself into the work and continued to shine for the country.
In 1966, ge Zhenlin retired at the age of 49, but he still read the country, as an old cadre who served the country and the people, his home was extremely simple, and his dress was very simple, and his favorite clothes were his military uniform, even if he had washed his white hair, he still did not leave his body, not only because he was patriotic, but also because of simplicity.
The most common sentence that Ge Lao said in his later years was: "The country is not rich, we must economize and support the construction of the motherland." It is precisely because of this that during the illness and hospitalization in his later years, due to the cold weather in winter, the doctors were afraid of Ge Lao's cold and turned on the heating, but as soon as the doctor left, Ge Lao immediately closed it, because he was reluctant to use electricity.
Ge Lao had 4 sons in his lifetime, but he never took the initiative to talk about his heroic deeds, which made his sons not know for a long time that his father was originally an anti-Japanese hero, until he was in elementary school.
As for the reason, in addition to the low profile, there is also a reason that Ge Lao does not want to let his son become arrogant after knowing that he is a hero, so as to continuously accept the relief of the state. Even if the state sometimes raises its hand to rescue, Ge Lao feels that it should not be, which is a waste of national resources. Later, due to the poor efficiency of the factory, the third son was laid off and lost his job, and Ge Lao never thought of using his identity to find a job for his son.
In Hengyang, Ge Lao's family lived a plain life, although it was hard, but life was still passable, but then something happened that made Ge Lao's heart break through - the third of Ge Lao's four sons, and also Ge Lao's favorite son, he took the wrong path and actually got into drugs.
And the drug addiction is very large, even because there is no money, he started the idea of Ge Lao's "Red Flag Medal", he took advantage of Ge Lao's lack of attention, stole the medal out, replaced it with heroin, for his own "relief".
When Elder Ge learned of this, he was very distressed, and he came to the public security bureau on crutches in spite of his old age, and asked the public security bureau not to look at his own face, strengthen the compulsory drug rehabilitation of his son through labor, seek truth from facts, and deal with it as he should.
Although he loves his son, he loves the country even more, and he must not let his son go out again to endanger society, and must let him accept the harshest discipline, even if his son will hate him.
In March 2005, Ge Lao quietly passed away, the state held a very solemn memorial service for this old hero who had served the country and the people all his life, on the day of the memorial service, there were already hundreds of thousands of netizens on the Internet, which was not yet developed at that time, to mourn the old hero, from which we can also see its position in people's hearts.