Statue of the battle hero Ren Changlun
Jiaodong Online October 4 news (correspondent Zhang Daqi) On October 3, the statue of the battle hero Ren Changlun was placed in his hometown of Changlunzhuang Village, Longkou City, Shandong Province, with a height of 3 meters and cast by more than 600 kilograms of bronze.
Ren Changlun (1921-1944), a native of Sunhuzhuang, Huang County, Shandong Province (present-day Changlunzhuang, Longkou City), was a member of the Communist Party of China. He died in July 1944 when he was a deputy platoon commander of 3 platoons, 1st Battalion, 14th Regiment, 14th Regiment, 5th Brigade, Jiaodong Military Region, Eighth Route Army. From the first battle, Ren Changlun revealed his heroic nature. In the first few months of enlistment, due to the lack of weapons in our army, Ren Changlun did not receive a gun. In January 1941, our army and the Japanese army launched a fierce battle in the south of the city in Ye County (present-day Laizhou City). Ren Changlun was responsible for delivering ammunition to the position, and when he transported the last box of ammunition to the position, the comrades had run out of bullets and were engaged in a white-knife battle with the enemy. He saw that a comrade-in-arms was physically weak, immediately put down the ammunition box, and violently hugged the enemy from behind, and the comrade-in-arms took advantage of the situation to stab the enemy in the shoulder. He took the opportunity to take the enemy's large cover gun and stabbed it back, resulting in the enemy. After the battle, the battalion headquarters issued the gun to Ren Changlun.
After enlisting in the army for more than 4 years, Ren Changlun has participated in more than 120 battles, been injured 9 times, and hung 11 colors on his body. Every time he was wounded, he was slightly injured and could not get out of the line of fire, and he was seriously injured without suffering, and he insisted on fighting to the end. In 1941, he honorably joined the Communist Party of China. On November 17, 1944, during the Battle of Shabao in Haiyang, when he disappeared five Japanese ghosts, Ren Changlun was unfortunately shot in the head and died heroically, at the age of 23. The Type 38 rifle he seized from the Japanese army with a chai knife is still on display at the Museum of the Chinese Revolution. On September 14, 2009, he was named one of the 100 heroic models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China. On September 1, 2014, it was included in the first batch of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
A standing statue, a spiritual monument. Wang Zhongjin, secretary of the party branch of Changlunzhuang Village, said: "A person cannot do without faith, a city cannot be without a soul, we commemorate martyrs and honor heroes, it is precisely to continue the spirit of heroes, condense the energy of rejuvenation, and use the spirit of heroes to inspire us to build beautiful villages." Many Longkou citizens and Young Pioneers also came to the site of the installation of the statue of Ren Changlun and presented flower baskets and flowers to the hero. Luan Shiju, a citizen of Longkou, said: Today, when the shadow of the sword and light has long dimmed, how can we make people not forget history and let the deeds of the martyrs not be annihilated by the dust and smoke of history? Today, a monument to education and inspiration for future generations has been erected in the hometown of the martyrs, and everyone who enjoys the bloody sacrifices of the revolutionary martyrs in exchange for today's happy life should drink water and think of the source, be grateful for the times, and cherish and build our country well.