Chen Dagui’s heroic deeds

On the eve of the Spring Festival, after learning about the heroic feats of Chen Dagui and his wife, a military lyricist composed a song "Farewell to You" with tears in his eyes, which was quickly sung in Bashan, Shushui, and inside and outside the military camp——

"A bouquet of white flowers saw you off, and I saw your figure again in my tearful eyes. Your short life was like a rainbow. You dedicated your youth to the people and wrote your loyalty with your life..."

Donate your life to go there. National calamity, death is as sudden as returning home! Chen Dagui, a 26-year-old Qiang platoon leader of a certain brigade of the Second Artillery Corps, and Yang Huan, a 27-year-old Tibetan teacher, the "Qiang-Tibetan Couple", performed a swan song of love in the face of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, winning people's respect.

In October 2008, the Party Central Committee, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission posthumously awarded Chen Dagui the honorary title of "National Earthquake Relief Model."

The Pain of a Hero’s Passing

On May 12, 2008, Chen Dagui and Yang Huan, who were on vacation in their hometown of Chenshan Village, Leigu Town, Beichuan County, Sichuan Province, hired someone to renovate their house and prepared to press it. It is local custom to hold a make-up wedding banquet.

It was an ordinary wedding, but Dagui and Yang Huan had been looking forward to it for more than two years——

In March 2007, Dagui’s wedding leave report had just been approved, and the recruits were professional Theoretical training and practical operation training began. Yang Huan encouraged him on the other end of the phone: "Work is important, I'm not in a hurry."

In July of the same year, Yang Huan was on summer vacation, but Dagui had to go to a weapons manufacturer to perform equipment unpacking inspection and testing tasks. .

In August, after Dagui returned to the army, he led a team to participate in a missile launch mission somewhere in the northwest. Yang Huan, who was waiting hard at home, finally received a call: "I'm really sorry..." "Don't you often say that the eagle always flies high and far?" Yang Huanhuan exhorted Dagui, "Complete the task. Let’s talk about it later.”

Dagui’s tasks come one after another. On September 29, 2007, Yang Huan came to the army happily and prepared to marry Dagui on National Day. That night, Dagui received another notice: Go to Beijing early on the 30th to compile and review scientific research materials. As a result, Yang Huan traveled more than 30 hours from 2,000 kilometers away to the army, stayed for less than a day, and left helplessly...

Finally, in January 2008, Yang Huan was not afraid of the ice and snow barriers. , traveled thousands of miles to participate in the collective wedding held by the army.

They originally planned to hold a make-up wedding banquet in their hometown on May 15, 2008. However, no one expected that at 14:28 on May 12, the mountain made a loud rumble and the earth began to shake violently.

"There's an earthquake! Run!" Hearing the sound like the roar of thousands of troops and looking at the tragic scene of landslides and ground cracks, the villagers panicked.

Dagui was calm in the face of danger. He quickly looked around and found that there was no landslide in the southwest mountain. He immediately waved his hand and shouted to everyone: "Quick, run over there!"

< p>After running for more than 10 meters, a ditch about 1.2 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep blocked everyone's escape route. This ditch, which is not usually an obstacle, turned into a life-and-death line for the villagers when the ground shook. Chen Dagui stood next to the ditch. He first grabbed the clothes of Gui Zhengguo, the nearest villager to him, and pushed and pulled him to the other side of the ditch.

At this moment, Chen Dagui’s family is still crowded behind the crowd. Yang Huan supported her grandma and pulled another elderly villager to run forward with difficulty. The mother-in-law who was with her cried: "Dagui, Dagui! Quick, quick!"

Time is life. Chen Dagui ignored his family and pushed the villagers around him to the opposite side of the ditch one by one. Many rescued villagers ran and shouted: "Quick! Dagui, run too!"

Right here For a moment, the rapidly sliding mountain made a strange rumbling sound, and a huge mudslide rushed over. Chen Dagui's family of 5 and 4 other villagers were swallowed up, Yang Huan was swallowed up, Chen Dagui was swallowed up...

Over the years, the quality of personality and integrity can be tested; The accumulation of life quality bursts out. Chen Dagui led the army for three years, using "life bursts" again and again to create a shining and dazzling image of a contemporary revolutionary soldier -

In the spring of 2006, a forest fire broke out at the army station, and Chen Dagui was ordered to lead the officers and soldiers Rush to the fire scene. Liu Qinghua, a soldier from the second squad, was trapped in the fire. He rushed left and right, unable to break out. Finally, he suffocated due to lack of oxygen and fainted in the sea of ????fire.

At the critical moment, Chen Dagui took out a kettle, wet his camouflage uniform, rushed into the fire scene, and carried Xiao Liu to a safe area...

In early 2008, a large-scale rain, snow and freezing disaster occurred in southern my country. Dagui took the initiative to volunteer and led the fifth squad leader Ruan Guanyun and soldier Gao Xinwei to rush to the training ground to clear the snow. The greenhouse suddenly collapsed, and Gao Xinwei was standing at the bottom of the shed. Dagui rushed forward and pushed Gao Xinwei back hard... Gao Xinwei was unscathed, but Dagui couldn't dodge. The fallen steel bar hit his calf, and he was bleeding...

2008 In April, the camp organized position camouflage. A dump truck filled with sand and gravel was reversing at high speed, and Dagui found a soldier arranging a camouflage net behind the vehicle. Seeing that they were about to collide, Dagui shouted: "Get out of the way!" He rushed forward and pushed the soldier aside. However, his right arm was hit hard by the cart, causing damage to his right shoulder and humeral joint. Dislocation...

"Appear wherever there is danger, so that you can be worthy of the title of Communist Party member!" On May 20, 2006, in the education to maintain the advanced nature of Communist Party members, Chen Dagui solemnly wrote this sentence on the title page of his study notebook. For two years, he has been fulfilling this solemn promise.

After the devastating Wenchuan earthquake, from the moment Chen Dagui and Yang Huan were swallowed while rescuing people, people began to look for heroes in the heartbreaking pain. The rescued persons, strangers, local party organizations, army officers and soldiers, trekked marathon through this heartbreaking land.

Gui Chengbang, a villager in Chenshan Village who is over 40 years old, still has fallen nails and scars on her hands - they were left by her digging through mud and rocks with her hands in search of heroes. Yang Qi, Chen Dagui’s fellow countryman and comrade-in-arms, said that the heroic spirit will not die, and his heroic spirit has been left in the distant Qiangshan watchtowers and the mysterious missile positions...

The path traveled by the hero

< p>Beichuan County is a heroic city that made huge sacrifices for the Chinese revolution. In the summer of 1935, more than 3,000 Qiang and Tibetan people risked their lives to break through the Mianjiang Gorge in order to send the Fourth Red Army forward westward. In 1953, it was designated as an "old revolutionary base area" by the state.

Dagui and Yang Huan have lived in this fiery land since childhood. Dagui's family is poor. When he was 9 years old, his uncle Chen Fuqing, who taught at Beichuan Middle School, adopted him as an adopted son and took him to the county town to study. From Beichuan County to Leigu Town and then to Chenshan Village, it is more than 20 miles of mountain road. Dagui always takes half the car and walks half the way, saving the fare to buy some food to honor her grandma and parents.

Listening to the story of the Red Army's westward march, bathing in the spring breeze of reform and opening up, and feeling the warmth of the party's ethnic policies, Dagui, an outstanding young Qiang man, understood how hard-won a happy life is at a very young age. . After entering high school, he served as secretary of the class branch and deputy director of the learning department of the school student union. He won the first Beichuan County Magistrate Scholarship and was named an outstanding student leader at the county level. In his senior year of high school, Beichuan Middle School recruited student party members for the first time, and Dagui became one of the first three students to join the party out of more than 1,400 students in the school.

People who love each other are always somewhat similar. Yang Huan was born in Guixi Township, Beichuan County, a small mountain village where Qiang, Tibetan, Han and other ethnic groups are mixed. There are many stories circulating there about the Red Army moving to fight in the Qiang Mountains.

Speaking of Yang Huan, Liu Guangju, a former primary school teacher, repeatedly praised: "When Yang Huan was in primary school, she was rated as an outstanding young pioneer every year; for three years in junior high school, her academic performance was among the top three in her grade. . She is excellent in both character and academics, and is the first Tibetan girl in the village to go to high school with government funding.”

In the 2001 college entrance examination, both Dagui and Yang Huan enjoyed the bonus points policy for ethnic minorities and passed smoothly. Admitted to university - Dagui was admitted to the Second Artillery Engineering College and became the first military college student in Chenshan Village; Yang Huan was admitted to Xihua Normal University and became the first college student in Weigou Village.

Dagui's father held his son's military school admission notice in his hand, and his face was filled with tears: "My dear, in the past only children from the chieftain's family could afford to go to college!"

In the military academy, Dagui studied science and culture knowledge eagerly, and most of the 44 subjects he took during college were excellent or above. As an organizational member of the party branch of the cadet team, he sincerely cares about the growth and progress of his comrades, and uses the party's innovative theory to guide party activists to "be a party member before joining the party." On the eve of graduation, 8 out of 10 classmates in Chen Dagui's class joined the party.

Yang Huan, who comes from a poor family, also cherishes hard-won learning opportunities.

At the entrance symposium, Yang Huan said affectionately: "It was the party's ethnic policy that gave me the opportunity to go to college. I will definitely live up to the party's training and the expectations of my relatives!" On the eve of graduation, the school held a teacher skills competition, and she won a first prize. Prizes. "Yang Huan lives up to her name. Wherever she goes, she brings joy!" Once, the school organized a fund-raising event for poor rural children. As a young volunteer, Yang Huan missed it due to work. After learning about it, she took the initiative to find a fundraiser. The organizer of the event insisted on making up...

Interpreting the "love code" of Dagui and Yang Huan, their good friend Wang Fang cried and said 16 words: diligent, studious, caring, Be willing to contribute and pursue progress.

The love left behind by heroes

This is a "Blood Donation Certificate". Name: Chen Dagui, number: 0070068J.

In the records of Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, we found the time when Dagui donated blood: October 13, 2002. In fact, Dagui donated blood more than once. He has type O blood, and he is always permeated with clarity, frankness, and enthusiasm. He is always full of love for his hometown, relatives, comrades, and even people he has never met.

After joining the army, Dagui has been thinking about the future of Chenshan Village. Starting from his salary, he gives 100 yuan in tuition and miscellaneous fees to each of the six children from poor families in the village every year.

During a visit to the family in 2006, Dagui learned that villager Chen Yanqing could not afford fertilizer and was anxious. He immediately sent 200 yuan and organized several young and strong men to help the Chen family dig a Aqueduct.

At the Chen Dagui Martyr Memorial Hall, 37 honorary certificates, 1 blood donation certificate, 17 remittance orders, and rows of political theory study notes written with painstaking efforts attracted people to stop.

*** Dagui and Yang Huan, who walked out of the Bashan Qiang Village together, were full of longing for a better tomorrow for their hometown. They have the same wish: to make Qiangshan beautiful and their hometown rich -

After going to college, the two often exchanged their learning experiences in letters and phone calls. With the continuous understanding and deepening of theories and ethnic policies, the two agreed that after graduating from university, they would use what they have learned to contribute ideas and suggestions for the construction of their hometown. Every time Dagui visits relatives, he brings back some information on scientific farming, planting and breeding, and getting rich through science and technology. In the past, transportation was inconvenient, and medicinal materials could only be transported on shoulders and backs to towns more than 10 kilometers away for sale. Dagui mobilized village cadres and villagers again and again and made up his mind to invest in road construction. At the end of 2006, the highway was finally opened. In the second year, Chenshan Village’s per capita income quadrupled.

Looking at the smiles on the faces of the people in Chenshan Village, Yang Huan was also happy.

Yang Huan is born with a "warm heart". When I was in college, I would go to the Nanchong Social Welfare Institute to visit the elderly and orphans on weekends. Once, she learned that a disabled retired veteran in the welfare home had thoughts of committing suicide. She often used her spare time and weekends to buy fruits and visit the old man, chat with him and enjoy daily life, which strengthened the old man's courage to overcome the disease.

During the SARS epidemic in 2003, two female classmates in the department were quarantined by the school for not going out on vacation. She took the initiative to deliver water and meals to them, and wore a mask to the ward to chat with them. , this move moved all the teachers and students of the school...

In June 2006, Dagui's mother was seriously ill and hospitalized, and her family members were not around. Upon learning of this situation, Yang Huan, who had applied to work as a clerk in an education group in Shanghai, resolutely quit his job and rushed back to Beichuan to take care of the elderly.

On July 21, 2008, a heavy letter was sent from the Beichuan Qiang Village. The villagers jointly wrote to the leaders of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission to praise the Qiang and Tibetan couple Dagui and Yang Huan for their efforts in uniting the ethnic group in their hometown. The achievements made by Fuqiang. Below the letter are 9 bright red handprints...

Truth interpreted by heroes

Under the night sky, the moonlight was hazy and the candles were dotted with tears. The four big characters "Comrade Returns" fluttered in the wind, as if complaining or weeping.

The news that Dagui and Yang Huan were killed reached the army. That night, all the comrades in the battalion lit 512 candles and formed a heart-shaped pattern to keep vigil for them all night long.

To this day, the soldiers have kept everything about Dagui, as if he has never left the company: in the position test operation room, Dagui’s fighting position is still the first; in the cabinet, he His clothes are still hanging there neatly; his dishes and chopsticks are still placed there on the dining table...

The Central News Unit’s press team went to the army to interview, and Dagui’s comrades rushed to tell the story of his life. ——

Operator Yang Yang said that in February 2007, Dagui led the soldiers to a transfer station to pick up their equipment and ordered one less lunch. After Dagui saw it, he quickly closed the lunch box he had opened and quietly handed it to Yang Yang: "The soldier's share is indispensable!"

Recruit Ge Haidong said that in the winter of 2008, recruits were training and camping at night. At that time, Chen Dagui, who was the leader of the new training platoon, brought hot water to the new soldiers to soak their feet every night, helped the soldiers pick up blisters and clean their wounds. The day before the training ended, Xiaoge discovered that the platoon leader also had blisters on his feet, some of which had been broken for a long time.

Comrades Huang Xing and Ronglu said that they were transferred from their brothers' units to Dagui's platoon. What they were most worried about at the time was treating them as "outsiders." After Dagui knew that they wanted to apply for the military academy, he found review materials for them and often used evenings to help them make up lessons. At that time, Xiao Luo was admitted to the Engineering College and Xiao Huang was admitted to the Military Academy.

The then battalion commander Si Junjiang said that during the year-end summary in 2007, he randomly selected Chen Dagui at the cadre report meeting: "Can you please tell me the basic situation of the entire platoon of soldiers?" Dagui asked the entire platoon. Each soldier's interests, hobbies, personality traits, family situation, ideological and psychological changes are very detailed, and the names of the 21 ethnic minority officers and soldiers in the battalion are also known...

After the Wenchuan earthquake, soldier Hui Jianming He was on vacation at home. When he saw the news on TV that Beichuan was the hardest-hit area, his heart skipped a beat - the platoon leader was on vacation in Beichuan! He called Chen Dagui's phone number over and over again, but couldn't get through. Xiaohui clearly remembers that in 2007, when he was training new recruits deep in the mountains, he received a call from Chen Dagui who was on a mission in the northwest. "Jianming, I've applied for this year's hardship subsidy for you." The year before last, his family suffered a drought, and the platoon leader said he would apply for him. Unexpectedly, half a year later, he still thinks about it. Hui Jianming later learned that this subsidy was granted by the platoon leader whose family was also in a difficult situation.

In April 2008, Dagui and Hui Jianming visited relatives at the same time. Xiaohui's home is far away in Yunnan. Her mother was seriously injured in an accident and she couldn't return home. It was Dagui who helped him take leave. Seeing that he didn't have a suitcase, Dagui took out his new suitcase. "Platoon leader, this is not possible. You have to go home soon, and you also need to use the box..." Hui Jianming knew that this was the prize for the platoon leader's meritorious service, but he was reluctant to use it. Unable to resist the platoon leader's insistence, Hui Jianming set out on the road with his new suitcase...

The smile is still there, and the voice is still there. Comrades in the company made FLASH animations online to restore Dagui's heroic feats; comrade Xie Mingzhang in the platoon recalled his daily stories and could not hold back the pen of a 30,000-word article; Song Zewei, a college soldier who graduated from an art academy, gave him Portraits were drawn one after another...

The soul forged by heroes

In January 2009, it was a cold winter in the Gobi Desert, and the vast wilderness was everywhere.

"Ignition——" With the earth-shaking loud noise, two new missiles carrying thunder and lightning pierced the sky, and the flames drew two bright rainbows between the sky and the earth...

Dagui will never be able to see this magnificent scene again! Shi Xiangyang, chief of staff of the brigade, said emotionally: "These two missiles were tested by Dagui himself!"

Looking through Dagui's seven-year military resume, the "six firsts" are particularly eye-catching: in Among the graduating students of the same batch, he was the first to be evaluated as a "first-level technical expert", the first to be the test commander, the first to be awarded third-class merit, the first to achieve "100 operations without errors"..." He All I can think about is combat training." Battalion Commander Hu Zuyong summed up Dagui's characteristics without thinking.

On the eve of graduating from China's Strategic Missile Institute, Chen Dagui took the initiative to apply for a new missile brigade known as the "Excalibur First Brigade". Zhang Junchuan, captain of the cadet team, knew that it was an elite division led by "Missile Commander" Yang Yegong. It had won first-class collective merit and was awarded three times by the Central Military Commission. "Dagui applied to go there because he wanted to be a real soldier!"

The missile major is profound and complicated. After arriving in the army, Chen Dagui used his spare time to read through more than 20 professional textbooks and took down 6 study notes. , a training log of more than 50,000 words.

After one year in the army, Dagui has mastered the operational skills of more than 10 different positions. He participated in the brigade technical expert level assessment and was rated as excellent in theoretical defense, fault diagnosis and repair, and operational command. As a "first-level technical expert in the testing profession", he became the commander of test operations and won the "first prize" among the 37 cadres of the brigade who graduated from college students at the same time.

In the Gobi Desert in July, the sun is scorching like fire. The countdown to the live launch of a new type of missile has begun. During the final comprehensive test of the missile weapon system, Chen Dagui found that the test parameters were abnormal for a brief 2 seconds: "Stop!" As the on-site commander, he immediately stopped the operation.

Tested again, and the abnormality disappeared without a trace. Someone advised Chen Dagui: It may have been caused by an operational error. You must be responsible for delaying the launch!

Chen Dagui looked through the operation records carefully and found no errors. "There must be something wrong." Suddenly, he remembered that an expert had mentioned the compatibility of weapon models and test software a few days ago. He immediately entered several sets of inspection data and pressed Enter: "Found it!" Test The software indeed has design flaws. If it is not ruled out, it may cause serious consequences. Chen Dagui immediately picked up the phone and reported the situation to his superiors.

Experts rushed over immediately. After inspection, they found that the test software was an old version and immediately upgraded the software. Afterwards, an expert gave a thumbs up in front of the brigade leaders: "You, the platoon leader, dare to take on big responsibilities, that's amazing!"

From July 2005 to April 2008, Dagui served in the two In more than a year, he has participated in 8 major training exercises, and dozens of combat missiles tested under his command have a 100% launch success rate; 3 new missile test procedures of more than 80,000 words written by him were approved by the The Second Artillery Corps has designated it as a training material...

Dagui and Yang Huan are still alive. Their roots have been deeply rooted in the missile positions; their spirits are rising in the flames of the missiles...

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