"Down! Down!"
At 11 o'clock in the morning on August 15, 1962, PLA soldier Qiao Anshan was reversing under the command of squad leader Lei Feng. In order to complete the task on time, Lei Feng did not even eat breakfast and worked hungry all morning .
However, due to the continuous heavy rain, the ground was very slippery, and the tires could easily slip if not careful. Seeing this, Qiao Anshan also worked hard and listened carefully to the squad leader's instructions.
Lei Feng
"Turn the wheel, turn - turn -" , after some twists and turns, he finally drove the car to the destination smoothly. Qiao Anshan breathed a sigh of relief, but when he turned his head, he saw that the squad leader Lei Feng had fallen into a pool of blood. .
At 12:05 am on August 15, 1962, Lei Feng died due to ineffective rescue efforts. In 1966, fellow soldier Qiao Anshan retired and remained anonymous for nearly 30 years.
30 years, he has tried his best to hide his relationship with Lei Feng, and refused to participate in any form of Lei Feng spirit report.
Whenever someone asked him about the real cause of Lei Feng's death, he would either be perfunctory or keep silent. Even the relevant news reports only had a simple sentence "Comrade Lei Feng died in the line of duty" .
This also makes people more and more curious, what is the real cause of Lei Feng’s death? Why does Qiao Anshan try so hard to hide his relationship with Lei Feng? What is his current situation after leaving Lei Feng?
Accident restoration
In 1962, Shi Baoguang, a cadre of the Political Department, and Zhang Jun, a secretary of the Propaganda Department, came to the hospital. Lei Feng, who died, was lying on the hospital bed. His face was clean, except for a few pieces of gauze wrapped around his left cheek, like He was sleeping peacefully with only minor injuries.
The soldiers gathered around Lei Feng's bedside and sobbed softly. They put on Lei Feng's military cap and a brand-new military uniform.
Looking at the squad leader's remains, the soldiers couldn't believe it. The squad leader who had smiled and told them about Mao's election last night had just passed away.
On the morning of August 15, 1962, , due to the heavy rain for many days, the ground was muddy. Transportation company soldier Qiao Anshan and squad leader Lei Feng received the task of delivering food to the station.
The two of them did not dare to delay for a moment, especially Lei Feng, who hurried on the road without even eating breakfast. It was raining lightly all the way. Lei Feng held the steering wheel and stared at the path ahead, not daring to relax for a moment.
The car moved forward slowly along the narrow dirt road. It took the two of them a whole morning to deliver a truckload of cotton-padded clothes to the station.
After returning to the transport company, the company commander asked Lei Feng and the others to go to eat quickly, but Lei Feng felt very distressed when he saw the green military vehicle splattered with yellow mud. You must know that Lei Feng cherishes his car as much as his life. On weekdays, he will wipe it with a rag if he sees any stain on the car.
Besides, there were other tasks in the afternoon, and it might be too late to rinse it by then, so the two decided to rinse the transport truck first before eating.
The faucet is not far away from the Jiulian Cooking Class, but to get there, the car must pass through a narrow passage.
Moreover, there is a dirt road covered with clothes-drying poles in front of the Ninth Company Barracks, and a clothes-drying pole erected at the entrance must be bypassed, so the driver's skills are very much tested.
Later Qiao Anshan recalled: "Brother Lei Feng knew that I had little experience, so he specially asked me to drive and he would provide guidance."
When he arrived at the clothes drying pole, Lei Feng got out of the car and checked the terrain himself. He found that he had to pass this road. , and you have to turn a right angle first, which makes it difficult for even an experienced driver to drive in.
So Lei Feng deliberately stood in front of the left side of the car, only two meters away from the clothes drying pole at the intersection, and directed the car to reverse.
"Enter - enter - wheel -". Lei Feng stood in front of the car and directed Qiao Anshan to drive seriously. After the front wheels and compartment of the car passed the clothes drying pole, Lei Feng looked at the angle and saw that he could almost pass.
So he gave Qiao Anshan in the cab a "can pass" gesture. After Qiao Anshan saw the instructions, he immediately drove the transport truck through the narrow road. But at this moment, an accident happened.
Qiao Anshan choked up every time he said this. He said : "I heard a 'click' and thought I had hit something. I turned around suddenly and saw Brother Lei Feng lying in a pool of blood. The clothes drying pole was also covered with blood. "
A little soldier was still shouting: "The squad leader fainted, the squad leader fainted!" Qiao Anshan braked quickly and came to the squad leader's side, only to see that Lei Feng had lost consciousness. , blood flowed down the wound on the left forehead.
Qiao Anshan still remembers this experience: "The elder brother was breathing heavily there, and there was blood everywhere."
Lei Feng was rushed to Fushun Mineral Bureau Western Workers Hospital for rescue, and the hospital When the leaders heard that Lei Feng was injured, they hurriedly opened a first aid room for him. Everyone hoped that this good soldier who sacrificed himself for others could survive.
But at this moment, Lei Feng's body temperature rose rapidly due to heavy bleeding. The dean hurriedly ordered the soldiers to buy popsicles to cool down, and also gave Lei Feng emergency artificial respiration. After some twists and turns, Lei Feng's vital signs were temporarily stable. Come down.
The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, and even Qiao Anshan wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
But the dean knew that he only gave Lei Feng a little time to rescue him. If he wanted to be truly out of danger, he had to perform a craniotomy immediately. However, the facilities in the Staff Hospital were too crude and there was no condition for an operation.
In the end, the dean waved his hand: "Go to the 202 Hospital of the Shenyang Military Region immediately and invite Director Duan over!" Director Duan is a brain surgery expert in the Shenyang Military Region. If he can come, Lei Feng will be saved.
Chairman Mao's good soldier
Seeing this, the company commander Cao Yude also volunteered. In order to arrive as soon as possible, the regiment headquarters also sent its only American jeep and the best driver in the company, but the weather failed. But it didn't happen.
Along the way, in order to rush for time, the driver increased the accelerator to the maximum. When passing an intersection, he did not have time to brake and hit a large truck on the side.
The driver of the large truck was very angry and pulled the driver's collar and insisted on making him pay. The soldiers hurriedly got out of the car to apologize to the driver, but the driver still refused and insisted on asking the troop leaders to come forward.
But when he thought that Lei Feng had already stepped into the gate of hell, the company commander Cao Yude became a little anxious. He ignored the explanation and pushed the truck driver aside, and then the group was able to get on the road.
However, not long after driving, it encountered another problem. The jeep just hit a large truck at the fastest speed, causing serious damage to itself. Not long after driving, the car's engine died.
Cao Yude immediately applied for another car from the regiment headquarters. At this time, everyone was in a very anxious mood. You must know that for Lei Feng, who was in danger, every second was very precious.
Cao Yude finally got into the second car and started again, but something went wrong again.
When passing a narrow road, a car kept blocking in front of Cao Yude and driving very slowly. At this moment, Cao Yude was anxious. He honked the horn several times to urge the driver, but who knew that the other party heard the horn? Instead, it gets slower and slower.
Without thinking much, Cao Yude took out his gun and blew out the tires of the vehicle blocking the road with two shots, forcing the driver to stop on the side of the road.
finally got to the hospital to pick up Director Duan, but when they arrived it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and Comrade Lei Feng stopped breathing forever at 12:05 noon.
The soldiers were crowded in the small ward, saying their final goodbyes to Lei Feng. Seeing this, Cao Yude, who had always been resolute, couldn't help crying.
The soldiers returned Lei Feng’s body to the company, arranged his bedding, and put his favorite pen in Lei Feng’s jacket pocket. After doing all this, the soldiers followed him one by one. Lei Feng said goodbye.
Especially the soldiers in Lei Feng's class, they had already burst into tears. Soldier Xiao Han felt very uncomfortable when he remembered that the squad leader had spent half the night sewing torn trousers for himself.
In their eyes, although Squad Leader Lei Feng is not very old, he cares about them very much, just like his own brother.
On August 16, 1962, Lei Feng began to enter the coffin. The coffin was made by Huang Huasong. It was large and heavy. The coffin wall was thirty centimeters thick. It was donated by a government cadre.
was originally prepared for the elderly at home, but after hearing Lei Feng's deeds, he was moved by Lei Feng's helpful spirit, so he voluntarily donated the coffin.
When the coffin was placed, Shi Baoguang, the director of the Political Department, personally held Lei Feng's head and gently placed Lei Feng in the coffin together with other soldiers. They also spread a layer of white cotton under Lei Feng's body, just like Lei Feng himself. Same, noble and pure.
Many soldiers also gave up their sleeping time and volunteered to guard Lei Feng's soul all night with their guns.
People along the way heard that it was Comrade Lei Feng and voluntarily joined the procession to see him off. Lei Feng wrote in his diary before his death: "I must work hard to see Chairman Mao as soon as possible!"
Although Lei Feng did not meet Chairman Mao in the end, Chairman Mao wrote in person after hearing about Lei Feng's deeds. There are seven big characters: "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng."
used this to express his affirmation, and it could be regarded as fulfilling one of Lei Feng's dreams.
After Lei Feng's death, it also attracted the attention of many people and triggered vigorous activities to imitate Lei Feng. The leaders of the Political Department felt that the situation was serious, so they sent Shi Baoguang, an officer of the Political Department, and Zhang Jun, an officer of the Propaganda Section, to the Transportation Company to investigate the situation.
The Days After Leaving Lei Feng
Shi Baoguang and Zhang Jun first listened to the reports from the regiment and company, recorded the information, and went to the scene of the accident to investigate. They also asked Qiao Anshan, a soldier from Lei Feng's squad, to drive a car and reconstruct what happened.
They discovered that the wooden pole that took Lei Feng's life was only 6 centimeters. How did such a thin wooden pole become a murder weapon?
Through investigation, we learned that the upper part of the thin wooden pole was smooth and was broken from the lower part, and there were no traces of manual cutting. This means that the wooden pole was obviously broken accidentally and not deliberately.
Moreover, there was black rubber powder stuck on the wooden pole, which happened to match the scratches on the rear tires of the wheels. Besides the wheels, there were no traces of collision on the car body. This way, it can be ruled out that Qiao Anshan's mistake in operating the pole and hitting the wooden pole caused Lei Feng's death. Possibility of death.
Therefore, Shi Baoguang’s investigation concluded that the passage was too narrow and the soil on the ground was loose due to continuous heavy rains, which caused the ground to be uneven, causing a slight inclination when vehicles drove in.
Moreover, the rear tire of the car happened to be in driver Qiao Anshan's blind spot. From the surface, it did not scratch the railing, but the raised ground did cause the rear tire to squeeze into the root of the clothes drying pole.
After the clothes drying rod broke, under the pull of the iron wire, it bounced towards Lei Feng at a very fast speed, and just hit his left temple, which caused intracranial hemorrhage and led to Lei Feng's death.
Although it was indeed the tire that pressed against the wooden pole that caused it to break, this was not Qiao Anshan's intention, but an accident.
And it was not Comrade Lei Feng's command error, because if you didn't squat down and study carefully, you couldn't see the root of the wooden pole buried in the soil surface, so this was indeed an accident.
Therefore, Shi Baoguang wrote "died in duty, accident" on the investigation results.
company commander Cao Yude was also scheduled to be demoted for rashly shooting and beating people. However, the superiors considered Cao Yude's eagerness to save people, so they canceled the punishment of Cao Yude's demotion.
The reason why Qiao Anshan deliberately concealed his relationship with Lei Feng was because he always felt sorry for Lei Feng. He always felt that it was his mistake that led to Lei Feng's death.
But Lei Feng's spirit has always influenced him. Over the years, he has persisted in doing good deeds and learning from Lei Feng.
It wasn’t until 1995, when a report in the China Youth Daily told the story of Lei Feng and Qiao Anshan that people knew that this unknown veteran who did good deeds was Lei Feng’s “younger brother” and his closest relative. .
Thirty-three years have passed, and Qiao Anshan has figured it out. He no longer deliberately conceals his relationship with Lei Feng.
Instead, he chose to attend Lei Feng’s spirit speech all over the world. He wanted to tell Lei Feng’s story to everyone, and he wanted to spread Lei Feng’s spirit to all parts of the motherland.
Since 1997, Qiao Anshan has never stopped. He attended various lectures, actively participated in interviews with various media, and told all the unknown stories about Lei Feng.
He often said: "My eldest brother is not a big shot, and he has never done anything earth-shattering. What he has done is very ordinary things, but it is his persistence that has touched countless people."
It is reported that now eight Ten-year-old Qiao Anshan is still active on the front line of promoting Lei Feng. He has participated in more than ,000 lectures on Lei Feng's spirit, and has also served as an off-campus counselor in more than 160 schools.
Lei Feng is like a nail, an unknown nail, which will always be rooted in people's hearts, inspiring people to become nails like him one after another.
