Chapter 18: Unforgettable Heroes

Usually it feels like heroes are far away from us, but today, heroes are all around us. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There is a person named Wang Shao in the training team, everyone may not know him, but everyone should be familiar with Li Xiangqun. This was the flood hero of the year...... Ah, I don't know this person either, so I'll start from the beginning.

Li Xiangqun, who was born in 1978, was a soldier of the Ninth Company of the Tashan Garrison Hero Regiment before his death. Although his family has millions of assets, in order to pursue lofty ideals in life, Li Xiangqun resolutely chose the path of joining the army, and grew from an ordinary young man to a qualified soldier, an outstanding soldier, and a glorious member of the Communist Party of China. In the 1998 Yangtze River basin flood fighting and rescue battle, Li Xiangqun took the initiative to sign up for the army's rescue commando, he fought tenaciously with illness, fainted on the embankment four times, was sent to the hospital to rescue and woke up, and then pulled out the infusion needle to fight on the embankment, and finally died heroically due to overwork. In order to protect the interests of the country and the people, the heroic soldier Li Xiangqun disregarded life and death, and with his short life of 20 years and short military age of 22 months, he composed a magnificent hymn to life, and was known as a "heroic soldier in the new era".

In this magnificent flood fighting epic, countless heroes have emerged, such as Gao Jiancheng, Li Changzhi, and so on. Our nation is sometimes too easy to forget history and treat heroes too easily. Li Xiangqun, the hero of the 98 flood fight, we should not forget that the spirit of the 98 flood fight, we should keep it in mind: all of us are united, united as one, not afraid of difficulties, tenacious struggle, perseverance, and dare to win. It is the unique spiritual map of our Chinese land, and it is also the bloodline that our Chinese children must continue.

Li Xiangqun's squad leader is Wang Shao, he is not tall, but he is spiritual, and his Mandarin has a southern accent. He is one of our fellow students and we are very proud of him. During an ideological and political education class, Instructor Li of the squadron asked him to tell the story of Li Xiangqun, and he gladly accepted it.

"In the winter of 1996, the regimental honor room welcomed a group of recruits in brand-new military uniforms. Facing the long scroll of the history of the heroic troops, and the slightly yellowed photos of the heroes, the eyes of a new soldier flashed with envy. Staring at the leaderboard, he said, 'I'll go up too!' The recruit battalion commander was stunned: 'What's your name?' ''Li Xiangqun. ''Where did you enlist in the army?'' ''Hainan Special Economic Zone! Li Xiangqun's tone showed pride. 'Like a soldier in the Special Zone, do a good job!' The battalion commander's approval was accompanied by encouragement. That night, Li Xiangqun set himself the following goals: queue, shoot, and drop bombs...... All five training sessions achieved excellent results. The real blueprint is far from being drawn on a notebook. Half a month later, Li Xiangqun failed three of the five subjects, ranking second to last in the recruit company. Lying on the big banyan tree, Li Xiangqun, whose heart was higher than the sky, wiped away tears. Platoon commander Zhou Jianwen slapped him on the shoulder: "If you feel that you are still a soldier, you will practice like me tomorrow!" 'The 5km armed cross-country with a weight of 20 kg is one of the most strenuous aspects of physical training. Zhou Jianwen asked Li Xiangqun to follow him closely. Running and running, Li Xiangqun's pace gradually slowed down, and he suddenly collapsed to the ground, panting and saying, "I really can't stand it, let's take a break." ''That's the limit in sports, stand up, push through, go beyond it!'' The platoon commander picked up Li Xiangqun and ordered: "Take my clothes and keep running." Li Xiangqun finally finished the 5-kilometer run. In two months of recruit training, he achieved excellent results. A year later, his name really made it to the regiment's military training pacesetter. ”

"Sharpening is not limited to the training ground. The army encouraged soldiers not to smoke, drink, or go to the hair salon. Li Xiangqun, who used to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day, solemnly announced soon after joining the army: In the future, anyone who sees Private Li Xiangqun smoking cigarettes will be fined one month's allowance. This time, Li Xiangqun really felt the difficulty of tempering his will: whenever he was addicted to smoking, he was restless, and even put his finger on his nose with a faint smell of smoke to sniff. I said bitterly, 'There's a process of quitting smoking, so let's take a sip if it's too much to bear.' Li Xiangqun shook his head: "How can you say that the things that have been set will change." He painted the pattern of quitting smoking on the index finger of his right hand with red paint, and when he became addicted to smoking, he raised his hand and saw the pattern of quitting smoking, and he didn't even sniff his fingers. After a month, Li Xiangqun just quit smoking. Life is a choice. 'Choose a good goal to pave the way, take every step of life', constantly set a benchmark for yourself, and surpass yourself step by step in the arduous grinding, which is Li Xiangqun's choice. In fact, giving up the opportunity to make money in business and the comfortable living conditions at home to join the army, Li Xiangqun is also rushing for this kind of transcendence in life. ”

"'Li Xiangqun prints business cards!' The news spread quickly and reached the ears of company commander Chen Haiwu. Company Commander Chen wondered: Li Xiangqun used to be a small boss, and it is not strange that he has a business card, but now he is a soldier, and the army clearly stipulates that he is not allowed to print business cards, is he? Li Xiangqun had no choice but to take out a few business card boxes from the company commander who had repeatedly inquired about them. When he opened it, Chen Haiwu was taken aback: on the stacks of pieces of paper the size of business cards, what was densely copied were training principles, military knowledge, legal provisions, literary common sense, and aphorisms...... The strong cultural atmosphere of studying science in the military camp has influenced Li Xiangqun, and it has also made him deeply feel the contrast between his own cultural literacy and the mission he will undertake. He wrote in his diary: "The 21st century is a high-tech era, and everyone must prepare for the new century." Less than two years after joining the army, Li Xiangqun wrote down more than 50,000 words of reading notes. On the eve of going to the Yangtze River to fight the flood, the Southwest Military and Local Dual-Use Talent Training Center sent him a certificate of completion of a single subject in law and a certificate of outstanding students; During the 20 months in the barracks, Li Xiangqun achieved the maximum value of his life step by step: he was twice rated as the top training officer of the whole regiment, twice as an outstanding soldier, and once as a third-class meritorious service...... Eight days after becoming a party member, he was posthumously awarded the 'Flood Fighting Warrior' and posthumously recorded a first-class meritorious service on the embankment. ”

Tracing the path of this hero of the same age, squad leader Wang said: "His life is like climbing a mountain, going up step by step, and every step is so deep and solid. As a new generation that grew up with reform and opening up, Li Xiangqun, like many young people in the Special Administrative Region, has an open personality and likes to express his views when encountering problems. When he first joined the army, he couldn't figure out the rules of the army, such as not being allowed to have long hair and not being allowed to enter local song and dance halls for entertainment, and questioned the company cadres in public. One of the squad leaders was transferred, and he even put forward a proposal for a democratic election of the squad leader. With regard to a young man with a distinctive personality like Li Xiangqun, the troops did not adopt simple and blunt coercion and preaching, but used the method of moisturizing things and silently guiding them step by step. During an intensity training break, instructor Hu Chunlin said: "Whoever performs a show, it's easy and relaxed." "Look at me!" Li Xiangqun jumped into the circle where everyone was sitting, improvised the grenade in his hand as a "microphone," and asked his comrades-in-arms to use the submachine gun as a "guitar," and sang while dancing: "What ......is the difference between us soldiers?" The comrades-in-arms leaned forward and back, and bursts of laughter broke out on the training ground. The instructor applauded and said, "What's the difference between a soldier?" There was strict discipline and strict rules, because we wore green uniforms. This incident shook Li Xiangqun a lot. He gradually realized a truth: the army is the army, and only by integrating an open personality into iron discipline can he become a real modern soldier. accidentally touched an orange from the crowd during the training, and he pressed down the only two yuan on his body on the stone under the tree, worried that it would not be enough, and left the address; When his comrade-in-arms was bullied and was ready to go home and solve it with his fists, he persuaded his comrades-in-arms not to be rash and helped draft a lawsuit to resolve the dispute using the law. One day at noon, the company accumulated fat. Li Xiangqun was in the same group as the new soldier Wen Baotian, pulling cow dung in the grass along the road. The scorching sun was in the sky and the smell was stinking, Wen Baotian covered his nose and said, "It's dirty, just go to the villager's house and buy a load of errands." Li Xiangqun wiped the sweat on his face and said: "The company's regulations are to pick up, not buy, and besides, dung can be bought, where can I buy the spirit of hard work?" You go under the tree to get some wind, and I'll pick it up. In the continuous smelting of the melting pot of the military camp, Li Xiangqun, who is branded with the distinctive characteristics of the times, has become more rational in his thoughts and actions. Fashionable clothing is particularly sought-after in Guilin, where tourists flock to it, and Li Xiangqun, who owns two garment factories at home, is very good at fashion, and often talks about it when chatting. Seeing that he was talking, his comrades-in-arms asked curiously: You are so experienced, don't you want to help your family sell some clothes? Li Xiangqun smiled: "I thought about it, but soldiers are strictly forbidden to do business, and I can't violate discipline." In the past two years, several friends in the past business have asked him to contact customers at the army station many times and make a wish for profit sharing. However, Li Xiangqun repeatedly lectured them on the discipline of the troops, but he did not help them. It is precisely the discipline with iron in his chest that Li Xiangqun will never violate the rules even in a special period when he can be accommodating. After defeating the fifth flood peak of the Yangtze River, the regiment arranged for the Ninth Company, which had been fighting for 4 days and 4 nights, to rest on the spot.

"Once, I took the whole class to Nanping Town to clean up, and there happened to be a hair salon in the section where Li Xiangqun was in charge. Seeing that the People's Liberation Army was helping them do good deeds, and the enthusiastic boss insisted on washing his hair for free, Li Xiangqun waved his hand. The boss seemed to see his thoughts and persuaded: There is a special period for flood fighting and rescue. Although he didn't bother to take a shower for several days, and his scalp was itchy, the discipline of the army did not allow him to violate it in the slightest. He declined the boss's kindness and swept up again. Squad leader Wang talked about his soldiers' eyebrows and danced, extremely proud. Everyone also quenched their thirst when they heard it, and everyone respected the hero more, it turns out that the hero is also an ordinary person, as long as we have a heart, we can all become people like Li Xiangqun.

I will not forget the hero Li Xiangqun, because I fought with him back then, and fought with thousands of good soldiers like Li Xiangqun on the front line of flood fighting......