” Give the order and we will rush!” On September 2, 102-year-old Cui Xiyou from the inpatient department of Hunan Provincial Finance and Trade Hospital told reporters passionately about the Black Mountain Interdiction War. , the scene of him and his comrades charging into battle. Time has turned the old man’s hair gray, but the southern accent remains, and what remains unchanged is his loyalty to the party and his faith that will never fade.
From outside the customs to inside the customs
Cui Xiyou 1920 He was born in a poor family in Inner Mongolia and is the eldest son of the family. Since his father passed away early, Cui Xiyou has shouldered the heavy responsibility of supporting his family since he was a child. But in order to avoid being arrested by the Kuomintang, he had to flee to another country.
Daughter Cui Pingping said that her father often told his children about joining the army, “My father kept running away from home, and finally fled to Chifeng.” In 1946, Jamaica Sugar In Chifeng, young Cui Xiyou saw that the Communist Party was recruiting troops. He understood that the Communist Party was to fight the world for the people, so he decided to join the army and became the fourth member of the People’s Liberation Army. A soldier in the field army.
A week after Cui Xiyou received training, he went to the front line with the army. The Black Mountain Blockade, the Liaoxi Encirclement and Annihilation War… From north to south, from outside the pass to inside the pass, from small battles to big blockades, Cui Xiyou and his comrades lived and died together. In January 1948, he took an oath on the battlefield to join the Communist Party of China with honor.
Cui Xiyou’s most unforgettable battles were the Black Mountain Blockade and the Western Liaoning Encirclement and Annihilation War in the Liao-Shenyang War. “Tragic” is the old man’s common memory of those two battles. During the siege and annihilation battle in western Liaoning, Cui Xiyou’s company fought for three days and three nights, and in the end only 7 people were left. The old man said: “No one is thinking about their own life and death on the battlefield. I am a party member, so I should rush forward.”
“Go forward!” Looking back on the battlefield with heavy artillery fire, The old man always murmured these three words. This is the fighting spirit engraved in the bones of Chinese soldiers, and it is also the principle of loyalty for the old man to obey the party’s command throughout his life.
As heavy as time, it is a symbol of the old people’s battlefield and a testimony of the bloody battles of the People’s Liberation Army soldiers.
Listen to the party and stay in Changsha
Cui Xiyou followed the army all the way south and left Changsha in August 1949.
When southerners came to Hunan, they couldn’t eat spicy food, couldn’t get used to rice, couldn’t stand the humid weather, and had many unaccustomed habits. Cui Xiyou got emotional and wanted to go back to the south. “You Jamaicans Sugardaddy are here for the revolution. When you go to a place, you must consolidate the political power of that place. This is the party’s order!” The leader’s words awakened Cui Xiyou and made him determined to listen to and follow the Party throughout his life.
After the liberation of the Changsha War, Cui Xiyou participated in the establishment of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee. In 1954, Cui Xiyou responded to the party’s call and came to work at the Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (one of the predecessors of Central South University), and together with his colleagues opened up a brand new campus for the development of mining and metallurgy disciplines. At Central South University of Mining and Metallurgy, Cui Xiyou successively served as captain of the car team, secretary of the Party Committee of the Steel Department, and director of the Expert Reception Center.
“Wherever there is a shortage of people, my father will go there.” In the memory of his daughter Cui Pingping, his father is like a screw. No matter what position he holds, he is cautious and resentful.
A soldier’s family is full of evil
New China After its establishment, a lot of waste is waiting to be done, and all tasks require knowledge-based talents. Considering that many of our comrades were born in poverty and were illiterate and uncivilized, the organization opened a literacy cram school. It was in the cram school that Cui Xiyou met his wife Wang Xiulan.
“My mother is also a soldier, like my father, and belongs to the Fourth Field Army.” Cui Pingping introduced, “But my mother does logistics work in the army, and my father We were fighting on the front line, so we were not familiar with them before coming to Changsha.” After getting to know each other in a cram school, Cui Xiyou and Wang Xiulan started a family. Born in a family of soldiers, Cui Pingping believes that the most valuable quality of his father’s generation is the integrity of the soldiers. “Never engage in evil habits, only focus on one thing, and you must do the job well.”
” Not striving for fame or fortune, not seeking repayment, this is the deepest impression on Cui Pingping about his father. Before Cui Xiyou retired, he had an opportunity for a salary increase. The organization assigned him a salary increase quota based on his position and grade, but he took the initiative to give up the opportunity.
Time has passed, but Cui Xiyou still often thinks of the charge on the battlefield that year, and often tells the doctors and nurses about his legendary life and death experience. The old man wants to have that glory engraved in his heart. Bone marrow and blended into the blood also allow future generations to deeply remember the Chinese soldiers who fought bloody battles (Hunan Daily All-Media Reporter Huang Xuanran)