0408 We are not afraid of death, we are afraid of being forgotten

Yang Genkui said to Fan Jianguo: "I want to donate these three badges to your museum in the exhibition hall of the Battle of Songhu." ”

On December 4, 2010, it was drizzling outside the museum, and inside the museum, Yang Genkui told Fan Jianguo about some of his experiences.

After escaping back to his hometown in Baiguochang, Jintang, Sichuan Province, Yang Genkui was soon engaged.

But in that war-torn era, it was difficult to make a living by striking iron.

So Yang Genkui found Chengdu and was admitted to the 24th Squadron of the Chengdu Officer Brigade.

Later, Yang Genkui met Sun Yuanliang, the former commander of the 88th Division and the commander of the 16th Corps at the time, in Fengjie.

Yang Genkui was appointed as the lieutenant colonel of the 127th Division and the head of the reconnaissance team, and later was appointed as the deputy commander of the 223rd Division of the 124th Army.

When Yang Genkui was appointed as the deputy commander of the 223rd Division of the 124th Army, it was already December 1949.

When Yang Genkui arrived in Xinfan and was about to take office, Wu Junren, the commander of the 124th Army, did not approve of it.

In desperation, Yang Genkui, who had eaten the closed door, returned to his hometown in Baiguochang in disgrace, and it didn't take long to hear that the 124th Army had revolted.

After returning to his hometown, Yang Genkui changed to his old name and continued to make a living by striking iron.

Life is tight, but you can barely make ends meet.

The people of the same village only knew that he had served as a soldier in the Kuomintang army, but as for his officers and 'eight hundred brave men

No one knows.

Despite this, in the later Four Qing Movement, Yang Genkui was classified as a five-class molecule.

When he was impacted, Yang Genkui brought his treasured 'Xie Jinyuan Medal' to the police station to prove that although he was a member of the National Army, he was a soldier of the Anti-Japanese War and had never fought a civil war.

But as everyone knows, Yang Genkui's move has brought him a greater disaster.

The 'Xie Jinyuan Medal' was confiscated on the spot, and Yang Genkui himself was immediately detained.

When the great turmoil in the 70s came, Yang Genkui was not spared.

Together with the local old chiefs and landlords, he became an old athlete who often performed kneeling on rubble and high benches in public.

Yang Genkui recalled the nightmare days during the turmoil that were the same as those in the Japanese prisoner of war camp, and said to Fan Jianguo: "The most painful thing at that time was that they asked you whether you would take the fast train or the slow train. To take a fast train is to let you lie on the ground, pull your legs and run forward, and your back will grind on the potholed ground, grinding blood; Sitting on a slow train means pulling and walking slowly. It's cruel! ”

After that, Yang Genkui understood that just exposing his identity as a Kuomintang soldier would have to accept such inhuman torture and punishment, and once his identity as an officer was exposed, not to mention the deputy commander of the 223rd Division, even if his identity as a company platoon commander was exposed, he would fall into a place of no return, and there would be no place to be buried.

That's it, Yang Genkui gritted his teeth, a strong man who hid his heroic stories and heroic identities in the past, and silently endured inhuman torture again and again.

Fan Jianguo carefully recalled Yang Genkui's narration and said: "What frightens the old man the most is such an incident......"

During the turmoil, the secretary of Yang Genkui's brigade didn't know where to get an old photo of Yang Genkui.

In the photo, Yang Genkui is wearing the uniform of a lieutenant platoon commander of the National Revolutionary Army, with two pistols pinned to his waist.

Faced with this photo, Yang Genkui, who was in a desperate situation, insisted that the young man in the photo was not himself.

Fortunately, Yang Genkui had been incognito for many years at that time, and the people of the brigade had never been able to find the record in the archives of the National * Army, and the years of hardship made Yang Genkui too old, and finally let him escape more cruel persecution.

Wang Liang listened carefully, this was a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War that he had never known.

Wang Liang can understand the pain that Yang Genkui suffered in that era, because Wang Liang has also experienced and suffered blows.

Wang Liang can understand what kind of fear Yang Genkui would be when he heard the name 'Yang Genkui' when he served in the national * army during that difficult and long time.

It was only after the turmoil passed, and after the people of the whole nation completely woke up from that nightmare, that Yang Genkui dared to confide in the past that had been hidden in the depths of his heart.

It was also at that time that Yang Genkui's wife and children learned that her husband and father were one of the 800 heroes in the defense of the Sixing Warehouse that year.

Shocking, incredible.

He finally didn't have to be incognito anymore.

He finally didn't have to worry about it anymore.

He can finally appear in front of everyone and tell his story.

Fan Jianguo could not forget that when the 90-year-old man told him about his experience, his dentures would loosen from time to time, and the old man told himself apologetically while straightening up: "This denture was fitted in Chengdu six or seven years ago, and it is not easy to use, so I am reluctant to match it, and I have never bought a new one." ”

The old man said again: "And my eye, the right eye is almost invisible, this is smoked by the tear gas used by the Japanese army when guarding the Sixing warehouse, and I have cataracts when I am old." ”

"My greatest wish is to recover the Xie Jinyuan commemorative medal that was confiscated that year."

After hearing this, Wang Liang was already with tears in his eyes: "We are not afraid of death, we are afraid of being forgotten." Veterans are slowly withering, and the glory of a generation of anti-Japanese war veterans will never wither. ”

Fan Jianguo introduced other handprints to everyone: "This handprint belongs to the old man Zhang Langxuan. He was a veteran of the Sichuan Army and participated in the Battle of Tengxian County in 1938. The old man was lucky to survive, but for more than 60 years, the old man did not say a word about his past deeds, and even his family did not know about it. ”

"When I learned about this, I made up my mind to have the veteran's handprint printed. Unexpectedly, on the eve of the completion of this square, the old man passed away suddenly, and in order to fulfill the old man's wish before his death, he imprinted a stiff handprint in the morgue......"

Fan Jianguo continued: "This is the handprint of Huang Shiwei, a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War who killed a Japanese lieutenant general. During the Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi in 1942, on the night of May 27, Huang Shiwei, a soldier of the Independent Engineer Regiment, was ordered to set up an ambush with his comrades on the route of the advance of the Japanese Lieutenant General Sakai Naoji's Division, and selected a mine. In the early morning of May 28, when Naoji Sakai led his troops to a three-way intersection, with a loud bang, shrapnel and sand rose into the air, and the air wave threw Sakai to the ground, seriously injured, and soon died. ”

At that time, Mr. Huang did not know that he was killed by the Japanese Lieutenant General Sakai Naoji, and it was not until 1985 when he participated in the compilation of "The Personal Experience of the Anti-Japanese War of the Sichuan Army" that he learned about his achievements from the reminiscences of one of the authors. The old gentleman smiled bitterly and said that if he had known back then, he would definitely have been rewarded. ”

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