Author: Yang Zhengbang (Iron Eighth Division)
As the 97th Army Day of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is approaching, I can't help but think of three late veterans I know who have joined the army for the second time. Their fearless spirit of "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and preferring to go to the tigers"; They gave up their small family and took care of everyone's feelings for their family and country, which rippled in my mind from time to time!
In the spring of 1979, in the south of the mainland, the Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack began. In the north of the continent, the Soviet Union deployed millions of troops on the Sino-Soviet border. The mainland's homeland security is under serious threat. If you have to struggle, there will be sacrifices, and the front battlefield in the south will be attritional, and soldiers need to be replenished.
The war is urgent, and the country has to implement a wartime call-up, which is the country's wartime national defense mobilization order! The three veterans were not afraid of danger, and they actively responded to the call of the motherland, and it was incumbent on them to sign up and return to the team to participate in the battle to defend the motherland. They are:
▲ Yang Guangming's military uniform photo.
Yang Guangming, a Miao ethnic group, from Xiaobao Village, Wanchao Town, Kaili City, Guizhou Province, joined the army in 1969, served in the 37th Regiment of the Eighth Division of the Railway Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, served as a health officer in the health team and the 9th Company of the 2nd Battalion, and participated in the construction of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway and the Xiangyu Railway in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province and Wanyuan County, Sichuan Province, respectively.
After being discharged from the army in 1973, he was recommended to study at the Qiandongnan Prefecture Health School, and after graduation, he was assigned to work at the Kaili County Health and Epidemic Prevention Station. In the spring of 1979, when the Sino-Vietnamese border counterattack began, the country called on veterans who had taken off their military uniforms to return to the army, take up arms, and participate in the battle to defend the motherland. He actively responded to the call of the motherland and signed up for the war without hesitation.
If it is said that participating in the war is to distribute work, Yang Guangming is already a staff member of the Kaili County Health and Epidemic Prevention Station, and there is no need to risk his life, but he doesn't think so. He put the interests of the country first, and he believed that if the country's national defense and security were not guaranteed, the people would not be able to live and work in peace and contentment, and our work would be threatened.
Therefore, our veterans must unconditionally respond to the call of the country, take up arms, and defend the motherland when the country needs it. This is the feeling of a veteran's homeland!
Yang Guangming and I were comrades-in-arms who enlisted in the same year, and we were in the same recruit company and were assigned to the medical team together. He and I are relatives of the same Yang clan. When he enlisted in the army for the second time in the spring of 1979, I had just been admitted to the teaching team and was teaching at Lushan Middle School.
One day at noon, Pan Qiying, a student from the first (1) class of high school, said to me, "Mr. Yang, Yang Guangming from Wanchao Xiaobao asked me to tell you that he is going back to the army to fight. He told you to go to his house tonight for a farewell dinner. ”
I said, "I just came to Lushan, and it is 20 miles from Wanchao here, and I am not familiar with the road here, so I may not be able to go." ”
Pan Qiying said, "Yang Guangming is my cousin, and he told you to go no matter what." ”
I said, "I don't know the way, I can't really go." ”
"He asked me to take you."
"That's not going to work either. I have an early reading class tomorrow morning. ”
"Teacher, after dinner at Yang Guangming's house, we will go back to my house. Wake up early tomorrow to go to school so you can catch up with your morning reading. This is how my classmates and I often go to school for early reading. ”
"You're not going to lie to me, are you?"
"How dare a student lie to the teacher! I dare to assure Chairman Mao! (This was a phrase used in those days to express determination and sincerity.) ）”
When she said that, I agreed. After school in the afternoon, I went to Wanchao with Pan Qiying to see off Yang Guangming's comrades-in-arms. We walked along the ancient post road from Lushan to Wanchao, passed through the Datu Brigade of Wuliqiao Commune, and crossed the mill base card, a place where soldiers must fight for "one husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open".
Then, go down the slow stone stairs, pass through the Xinpu Brigade of Luomian Commune and the Dashan Brigade of Wanchao Commune, and come to the home of Yang Guangming's comrades-in-arms in Zhangmu Shuzhai of Wanchao Datianba.
In order to send Yang Guangming's comrades-in-arms back to the army, his elder brother Yang Guangxiang beheaded a big fat pig and entertained relatives, friends and villagers who came to see him off. The county armed forces department held a grand farewell ceremony for them. After the armistice, Yang Guangming's comrades-in-arms returned to their jobs.
▲ Yang Tongyuan's casual photo.
Yang Tongyuan, a Miao ethnic group, from Xiaobao Village, Wanchao Town, Kaili City, Guizhou Province, enlisted in the army in 1970, served in Unit 80506 of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Jianshui County, Yunnan Province, and was discharged in 1975. In the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack, he was called up to participate in the Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack. After the armistice, he returned to his hometown to work as a farmer.
Yang Tongyuan and Yang Guangming are uncles and nephews of the same clan, and they are related to me. When the motherland was in need, their uncles and nephews both went to the battlefield without hesitation, and used their actions to show the veterans' fearless spirit and strong sense of nation.
▲ Jin Mingxian's military uniform photo.
Jin Mingxian, a native of Liuji Village, Lushan Town, Kaili City, Guizhou Province, joined the army in 1969 and served in the automobile company of the 37th Regiment of the Eighth Division of the Railway Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, serving as a supply officer for the company, and participated in the construction of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, the Xiangyu Railway and the Shatong Railway in Yuanmou County of Yunnan Province, Wanyuan County of Sichuan Province and Weichang County of Hebei Province.
In the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack, he was called up to participate in the Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattack. After the armistice. Returned to his hometown to farm.
Jin Ming and I were alumni of Kaili No. 1 High School, we enlisted in the same year and served in the same army, he retired later than me, and served in the army longer than me.
In 1979, when I was drafted for war, I was teaching at Lushan Middle School. At that time, his lover Yang Fengbi was working as a barefoot doctor in Wuliqiao Commune, and the family lived in Hongshuitang. One day, I met him in the market town of Lushan. He told me that he had been approved to return to the army to fight.
I said, "Your lover is dragging a few dolls, does she agree with you going?" ”
He said, "Where can there be a home without a country?!" The call of the motherland is my will. My lover is in the commune, and she often participates in the study, and she has this awareness. Now the country is in trouble, and she knows it. Her ideological work, I've got through. ”
Without the support of his lover, it would be absolutely impossible for Jin Mingxian's comrades-in-arms to return to the army to participate in the war. From this incident, it is not difficult for us to see that both their husband and wife have a lofty ideological realm and full of family and country feelings.
▲In 1974, Jin Mingxian (back) and Yang Wei (front left) and Lu Anjun (front right) took a photo in Hebei Wai.
All three retired veterans have passed away. However, in order to defend the motherland, their dedication to the battlefield, they gave up their small family, took care of everyone, and went to the battlefield without hesitation will forever remain in people's memory. With their actions, they have demonstrated to the people the lofty ideological realm and strong national consciousness of retired servicemen. They are the loveliest and most respectable people, and their names will never be forgotten!
Salute to the retired veterans who enlisted in the army for the second time across the country!
May the late retired veterans who enlisted in the army for the second time rest in peace!
(Some pictures are from the Internet, thanks to the original author)
July 27, 2024
Editor: Mao Mi "White Waves"