However, in the 1950s, the name "Hong Xiutong" was well-known and well-known. More than a month after she was born in 1936, her mother was forced to carry her to a big banyan tree in Lianhe Village, hoping that a kind-hearted family would adopt her.

Preface

Who is Hong Xiutong? There are very few people who know about it today. However, in the 1950s, the name "Hong Xiutong" was well-known and well-known.

Hong Xiutong became the deputy township chief at the age of 16

Hong Xiutong's hometown is Cendou Village, Nan'an County, Fujian Province. More than a month after she was born in 1936, her mother was forced to carry her to a big banyan tree in Lianhe Village, Lianhe Village, hoping that a kind-hearted family would adopt her. Finally, she was taken away by an old lady from Xiaolidao .

Speaking of "Xiaoli Island", this name is very interesting.材, is a general term for mountaineering trails. However, there is no mountain on Xiaoli Island, so why is it named "玉"?

Someone explained this: In ancient times, when you went to Kinmen, you had to go through big and small trunks. The ancients then described the two islands as the first and second steps to reach the North Taiwu of Kinmen. In short, this "天" reflects the close relationship between the two islands and Kinmen, and their special status in Xiamen and Kinmen transportation routes.

In the words of Hong Xiutong:

"Big, Small Kinmen If Taiwan controls Xiamen's throat sword, then the Big and Small Kinmen Island is the short blade that Xiamen reaches the waist and abdomen of Kinmen. Nature's arrangement is so fair. While Kinmen causes trouble to Xiamen, it also needs to let it taste the trouble caused by the Big and Small Kinmen."

has a small kinmen area of ​​only 0.6 square kilometers. The land is pitifully small, and the sweet potatoes collected are only enough to eat for 4 months. The poor rely on sweet potato paste, sweet potato leaves, and sea vegetables to maintain a half-hungry and half-full life. Since the age of 6, Hong Xiutong has been working barefoot and picking up kelp in the sea. At the age of 9, she has become the main labor force in the family. The training of life has developed her stubborn and cheerful personality. Girls of similar age call her "head".

Late at night on October 11, 1949, after gunfire was loud on the island, the "KMT army" who ransacked Xiaoli Island and fled in panic. The next day, a People's Liberation Army wearing red five-pointed star military caps appeared on the island. "The People's Liberation Army is a team of poor people and does not oppress the people!" The islanders enthusiastically invited the soldiers to live at home, and Hong Xiutong's home lived in a shift.

As soon as the soldiers settled down, they put down their backpacks and guns, carried water and swept the floor, and cleaned the house in a blink of an eye. Hong Xiutong remembers that the squad leader’s surname is Chen, and he is very kind. He patiently taught her to read and read, tell Liu Hulan’s story, and teaches her to publicize the masses “Three Disciplines and Eight Requirements for ”.

In this way, Hong Xiutong became a household activist on Xiaoli Island. In January 1951, Hong Xiutong joined the Communist Youth League and was appointed as the township security clerk and deputy director of the Women's Congress. In 1952, at the age of 16, she was promoted to the deputy head of Xiaoli Township.

Hong Xiutong was awarded the "Public Security Model" and was awarded a pistol

. Hong Xiutong, who became the deputy township chief, was even more motivated and sacrificed her life to defend her hometown. In the middle of the night that day, Xiao Lidao stretched out his hand and couldn't see his five fingers. Hong Xiutong rushed home from the township government and accidentally saw a light coming from a room on the upper floor of the township primary school.

"Which teacher is so late and is still preparing lessons?" Hong Xiutong looked closely and found that the lights were coming out of the room of teacher Li Jincheng. This made her wonder. On daily life, Li Jincheng looked so naive, but he didn’t look like a teacher. Why did he still "work hard" at night?

Hong Xiutong will never forget that Li Jincheng mysteriously disappeared without a trace when Xiaoli Island was approaching liberation. He appeared on the island again two years later. What is even more suspicious is that some people report that he often sows discord among teachers.

Hong Xiutong quickly reported the situation to the district leaders and accepted the task of reconnaissance of Li Jincheng's major suspected enemy special forces. Next, she sent the "inside line" to approach Li Jincheng to grasp the internal situation; while she sent militia to secretly monitor her residence, finally causing the Kuomintang spy who sneaked back to Xiaoli Island as an "Overseas Chinese" to show his true form and fall into the French Open.

Another gloomy evening, although the wind and waves on the sea were not big, they were shrouded in gray mist. On the way home from the township government, Hong Xiutong accidentally saw a strange look from the sea. She quickly asked her sister to call the militia.The militia who arrived at

looked in the direction of Hong Xiutong's finger and found two "black dots" floating on the sea. Because there was fog, I couldn't see clearly what it was, so the militia captain decided to take a boat to take a look. When approaching the "black dot", I saw the "black dot" running away quickly. After being caught, they admitted that they were spies who attempted to sneak in through the sea while the cloudy sky!

Due to Hong Xiutong's outstanding performance, Nan'an County awarded her the honorable title of "Model of Public Security" and rewarded her with a pistol. From then on, whether it was a strong morning with heavy rain or a dark night with dark clouds, people on Xiaoli Island could see a young girl with a pistol on her waist.

Hong Xiutong uses "floating" and "floating" to successfully send 6 million propaganda materials to Kinmen

One day in 1952, Shao Rongzhen, the liaison department of Fuzhou Military Region, brought a batch of propaganda materials to Hong Xiutong to convey the task assigned by the military region to Hong Xiutong: deliver this batch of propaganda materials to Kinmen Island ! Hong Xiutong was stunned for a moment and thought, how can I give it to me?

Hong Xiutong held an emergency meeting and asked colleagues to discuss what methods are feasible. Some say they put them in bottles, while others say they use kites. Hong Xiutong gathered his thoughts and finally made a decision: "Just do what everyone said, one from the sea and the other goes into the air. You can hurry up and prepare separately, and just make a fuss on 'floating' and 'floating'!"

"floating", the tools are varied, such as wine bottles and glass bottles, and all the utensils that can float on the water have been donated by the islanders. Then roll the flyer into rolls, stuff it in, and seal it with wax. At night, he sailed a boat to go out to sea quietly, and without knowing that he stopped on the sea several hundred meters away from Kinmen and threw the bottles down. The next morning, the tide pushed these silent bombs onto the beach of Kinmen Island.

Once, Hong Xiutong made a big wooden sign with a huge slogan with two people in each word towering on it, "Put down your weapons and deal with them in a wide range!" Taking advantage of the night, he used a boat to drag the big wooden raft to a distance of only 1,500 meters from the Kinmen. The next day, the enemy saw a huge slogan and stood under his nose, and fired fired in anger. It can be seen how powerful the "Little Card Propaganda Bullet Against the Enemy" is.

"floating" mainly relies on kites. Among the kite groups, the largest kite is the "eagle head" that is more than one person tall. It can carry hundreds of promotional materials. In order to allow it to scatter accurately, Hong Xiutong tied a piece of mosquito coil on the rope tied to the promotional materials, calculated the length of the mosquito coil and ignited it. When the kite flew over Kinmen Island, the mosquito coil also burned to the end, just burning the rope, and the promotional materials fell like snowflakes.

According to incomplete statistics, Hong Xiutong and his team distributed a total of 6 million propaganda materials, which effectively played the role of propaganda and dismantling the enemy.

Architecture Battle of Kinmen, Hong Xiutong organized militia to dig artillery positions and carry shells

At the turn of summer and autumn in 1958, the People's Liberation Army launched a large-scale artillery battle with the main artillery battles and coordinated by the navy and air force.

According to records: Before the

artillery attack, five artillery divisions were drawn from the Guangzhou, Nanjing, Lanzhou and Beijing Military Regions, plus the Fuzhou Military Region Artillery Division, a total of 649 artillery and 14 coastal artillery companies were deployed on the coastline from Weitou in the north and to Zhenhaijiao in the south. Our Air Force's 5 divisions, 500 aircraft and 92 various ships of various Navy ships secretly entered Fujian, , Wenzhou, , Shantou and other airports and ports. Xiaoli Island has entered 2 artillery battalions and more than 30 cannons.

At this time, Hong Xiutong, who was only 23 years old, served as the head of the village closest to the enemy's formation and the fiercest battle.

On the afternoon of August 21, an instructor of the island troops stationed in the island found Hong Xiutong who was leading the militia to transport wood and said:

"The artillery secretly went to the island tonight, and all combat preparations must be completed at noon on the 23rd. Please organize the militia to dig artillery positions and carry shells. People who are not suitable for staying in the island must immediately transfer to the mainland."

received this important task of urgent time, and Hong Xiutong felt a heavy responsibility. At this time, the artillery positions were not surveyed, fortifications were not constructed, there was no highway on the island, and only a small wharf.Hong Xiutong was anxious and quickly convened an emergency meeting for cadres, militia, etc. to assign tasks to them.

At 5:30 pm on August 23, thousands of shells were shot at Kinmen and Kinmen, and Kinmen immediately turned into a sea of ​​fire. More than 600 Kuomintang officers and soldiers were killed and injured, and the enemy artillery positions were severely damaged.

This artillery battle was an unprecedentedly fierce battle, and Xiaoli Island was particularly tragic. The enemy had long hated Xiaoli Island to death and wanted to destroy the artillery positions and villages on the island. So, Hong Xiutong looked at the positions under her jurisdiction and saw more shells falling than they had been fired.

In a moment, the ground buildings on the front and back forts of Xiaoli Island were all bombed, and the island turned into a scorched earth.

As the battle becomes more and more intense, the task of militia carrying shells is becoming more and more arduous. Every time the clock points to 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the bomb ship will break down in the shallow sea area. Hong Xiutong leads the militia to the waist-deep sea. At that time, although Hong Xiutong was young and energetic, she was carrying an 80-pound shell box and rushed over with a wave. She couldn't stand firmly. Especially she also suffers from arthritis, and she will blow the sea breeze when she touches the water, which is the offense.

This day, 1 o'clock in the evening. After a fierce artillery battle, the military and civilians of Xiaoli Island have fallen asleep. Hong Xiutong, who had just returned home from a meeting in the village, fell asleep in a drowsy way when she was feeding the child. After a while, the militia on duty came to report: "Captain Hong, the bomb ship was hit by the reef and broke a big hole. The sea water was constantly pouring in!"

Hong Xiutong quickly ordered and summoned the militia to the assembly site. Then, she put her son in her arms on the bed and hurriedly disappeared on the dark mountain road. After arriving at the place, nearly a hundred men, women, young and old gathered at the meeting place. It turned out that the islanders heard that they were helping the People's Liberation Army rescue shells, and they arrived without invitation and could not stop them.

Hong Xiutong couldn't help but feel moved in her heart. She stood on a small high slope and said loudly: "Famous people, militia comrades! The soldiers are not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice in the battle. We should not be afraid of wind, rain, waves and cold, and rescue the shells from a lot! Do you think it's okay?" The soldiers and civilians under

shouted: "Okay, even if they fight for this life, they must rescue the shells!"

At this time, the waves made a loud noise, and the bomb loading ship more than ten meters away from the beach was gradually sinking. The situation was extremely urgent, Hong Xiutong shouted: "Everyone be careful, come into the sea with me!" He was the first to rush into the sea.

Later, she recalled:

"At that time, what I thought in my heart was that I was a cadre, and I must not take a step back when the revolution needed it the most!"

Hong Xiutong turned sadness into strength and guided the militia to shoot the unfired shell

Hong Xiutong thought. Although war will certainly kill people, especially the fortifications on Xiaoli Island are simple and open-air, and the repairs are hasty, making casualties even more inevitable. On the first day of the artillery battle, the second artillery position of the garrison 7th Company of the garrison was shot. Only one person survived, and he was still a seriously injured person. When Hong Xiutong and the others carried shells to the position, they happened to see this tragic scene. At that time, the cannon was broken, with one cannon foot and a shell in the cannon chamber was not fired.

Hong Xiutong suppressed the grief and immediately sent a stretcher team to carry the wounded and sacrificed comrades off the position, and then commanded the militia to load stones with sandbags, press them on the damaged right gun foot, fix the gun, condense the hatred on the unloaded shell, and hit the enemy gun position! In the artillery battle, in addition to actively participating in the war, the militia on Xiaoli Island transported 36,000 boxes of shells, more than 80,000 sleepers, and more than 1.9 million square stones to the artillery positions in the artillery fire company, effectively supporting the victory of the artillery battle.

At this time, the Militia on Xiaoli Island was famous and became famous all over the country. In the 1950s, Beijing Film Studio took the Xiaoli militia battalion as the prototype to shoot the movie "Hero Island".

Hong Xiutong was received by Chairman Mao

In May 1960, the National Militia Work Conference was held in Beijing. At that time, 6 representatives from Dali and Xiaoli Island were sent to participate. Hong Xiutong was arranged to take a seat on the rostrum and made a speech at the conference.

After she finished speaking, Premier Zhou took the initiative to come over and shake hands with her, saying, "You have done a good job and you have made great contributions to the motherland!" When the meeting was about to end, Hong Xiutong met Zhu De, Peng Dehuai and other marshals again. At the closing ceremony, she received a reward - a new type of semi-automatic rifle .

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961, Hong Xiutong was selected as the National March 8 Red Flag Bearer , and went to Beijing to receive awards on behalf of the 38 Red Flag Bearer units and individuals in Fujian Province. During the meeting, Kim Il-sung visited China. Hong Xiu Chong was invited to attend Kim Il-sung's thank-you banquet on behalf of all the March 8th Red Flag Bearers.

When she walked into the banquet hall with the State Vice President Soong Ching Ling and the All-China Women's Federation Chairman Cai Chang, Premier Zhou gave a special introduction to Kim Il-sung.

964, at the Third National People's Congress, Hong Xiutong was elected as a member of the presidium of the Congress. When the leaders of the Party and the state walked onto the rostrum, the delegates stepped forward to shake hands with Chairman Mao, Liu Shaoqi and Premier Zhou. When

shook hands, Chairman Mao asked her with a smile: "Are you from Guangdong?" Hong Xiutong said: "I am from Xiaoli Island, Fujian Front, and the island closest to Kinmen." Chairman Mao said with a smile: "You are quite famous!"

Hong Xiutong said: "On behalf of the military and civilians of Xiaoli Island, I wish the Chairman good health." Chairman Mao said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, okay, I will also say hello to the military and civilians of the front line."

The next day, major newspapers across the country published large photos of her shaking hands with Chairman Mao. Over the past few decades, Hong Xiutong has entered Beijing six times and was elected as a provincial people's congress representative and a national people's congress representative. Her deeds were once titled "Female Village Chief" and were included in the sixth grade Chinese textbook of primary school.

Hong Xiutong and her lover made a "three rules" when they were in love

Hong Xiutong served as deputy township chief in 1951 until she was forced to leave Xiao Li in 1969, and she had never received a penny of the state's salary, nor did she receive special food, drink, and gifts. The source of life mainly depends on the gaps in war, and after work, the income from agricultural and sideline production is engaged in the production of agricultural and sideline industries.

She has taken root on Xiaoli Island with her ideals and beliefs. When I was in love with my lover, I made a "three rules":

. If Kinmen and Taiwan do not return, I will not leave Xiaoli Island;

2. As long as the motherland and people need it, I will obey without hesitation and dedicate everything to the revolution;

3. Xiaoli Island is my battlefield. We will carry out competitions. You are a hero and I am a model.

The couple has been together for decades and their relationship has always been very good. Because of their common ideal of struggle, even if they are separated and suffer, they are not separated. The two of them lived a very happy life in their later years. Although their people were no longer on Xiaoli Island, their hearts were always worried about the place where they fought together.