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Chapter 27 26. Shi Guangzhu - The Eternal Monument of the Grace of the Earth

Shi Guangzhu, male, Han nationality, from Malong County, Yunnan Province, a member of the Communist Party of China. Born in 1963, joined the army in 1982, former deputy political commissar of Unit 77283 of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Shi Guangzhu has won first-class merit once, second-class merit twice, and third-class merit twice. In 1884, he was awarded the honorary title of "First Class Battle Hero" by the Central Military Commission. In 1990, he was awarded the title of "National Self-improvement Model". In 2006, he was selected as one of the "National Top Ten Outstanding Persons".

Shi Guangzhu was originally a squad leader of a certain unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.In the battle at Laoshanba Point, when the acting platoon leader was seriously injured, he was ordered to command the second platoon to charge towards Height 57.At the same time, he also commanded the remaining comrades in the third row to fight together.When the enemy's firepower suppressed them, he decisively ordered everyone to disperse and hide, and climbed to a fallen tree in a low profile, and silenced the enemy's machine gun with a rocket.Then, commanding the machine gun to suppress another firepower point of the enemy, the whole platoon rushed forward and occupied Height No. 57. Shi Guangzhu was injured in his left calf.

After Shi Guangzhu was injured, he continued to lead the team to Height 50. He adjusted the battle deployment and led the soldiers to fight fiercely with the enemy.Suddenly, a shell exploded above Shi Guangzhu's head, and the scattered shrapnel hit his left arm and left eye. The powerful air wave lifted him three meters away, and he fell into a coma immediately.The comrades immediately came to bandage him.A few minutes later, he woke up from the coma, gritted his teeth, stood up and immediately organized another counterattack.Inspired by him, the comrades bravely rushed to Height 50.Shi Guangzhu and Li Jinping, the deputy company commander, ordered the firepower to suppress the enemy on the hill. The fourth squadron and the fifth squadron alternated to cover the advance. During the advance, the enemy threw a row of grenades. Shi Guangzhu was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the throat and left knee, and was injured three times.But he ignored it completely, ordered machine guns to cover, and Li Jinping continued to move forward.When he was two or three meters away from the enemy's frontier trench, Li Jinping stepped on a thunderbolt, his calf was blown off, and Shi Guangzhu beside him was seriously injured. The eyeball exploded, he stuffed his left eyeball into the eye socket, and continued to fight.Later, he fell into a pit on impact.

In this battle, all Shi Guangzhu's comrades in arms died!He was the only one left who was blinded by the bombing. He couldn't see the situation around him. He didn't know that his comrades had left him. He continued to fight with the grenade in the dark, and then he was shot three more times.When the reinforcements arrived, he was already in a coma. After being rescued, he miraculously stood up and counted the names of all the brothers in the platoon until he found that no one agreed to him. He knew everything... Picking up the gun beside him, he only said one sentence: "Brothers, I will avenge you!" After speaking, he walked towards the direction of the gunfire!

Shi Guangzhu, who was blind and seriously injured in many places, survived from the hands of the god of death. After leaving the battlefield, he did not stop, but used his disabled body to constantly surpass himself on the commanding heights of life.He relied on tenacious perseverance to overcome difficulties and learned Braille. In 1986, he entered the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Shenzhen University to study Chinese Language and Literature, and completed his undergraduate major with honors, becoming the first blind person in my country to obtain a bachelor's degree.

In peaceful times, Shi Guangzhu insisted on literary creation, inspired people with excellent works, published more than 500 poems and prose in various domestic and foreign publications, and won 17 national literary awards.The collection of poems "My Love" won the 3rd Lu Xun Literature Award of Guangdong Province, "The Black River Casting Back to You" won the Shenzhen Dapeng Literature Award, the National Press and Publication Administration's Literary Progress Book Award, and the 2nd Yunnan Province Literature and Art Literature Award Category first prize.Many works have been translated and widely disseminated by Russia, France, Britain and other countries. He is known as China's "Paul Korchagin".For many years, Shi Guangzhu insisted on participating in social welfare activities while engaging in creation while dragging his disabled body.He traveled more than 100,000 kilometers, gave lectures all over the country, and traveled all over the motherland. He inspired and inspired generations of young people, helped countless disabled people rekindle hope in life, promoted the construction of a harmonious socialist society, and established a harmonious society in a peaceful environment. The glorious image of a soldier.He was absorbed as a member of the Chinese Writers Association and elected as the vice president of the Writers Association of the China Disabled Persons' Federation. In 2000, Shi Guangzhu was the only selected hero of the new China in the selection of people who had an outstanding influence on the ideology and culture of the Chinese nation for thousands of years held by relevant state departments.

At the 1985 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Shi Guangzhu sang the song "Little Grass" written by himself and once again entered the hearts of Chinese people: "There is no fragrance of flowers, no height of trees, I am a little grass that no one knows. Never lonely, never troubled, you see my partners are all over the world..."
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