1998 Battle of the Great River, touching stories about the Battle of the Great River in 1998

In the unforgettable flood fighting and rescue in the summer of 1998, in order to protect the interests of the country and the people, the heroic soldier Li Xiangqun disregarded life and death, and composed a magnificent hymn to life with his short life of 20 years and short military age of 22 months, and was known as the "heroic soldier of the new era".

Li Xiangqun, who was born in 1978, was a soldier of the Ninth Company of the Tashan Garrison Hero Regiment of the Guangzhou Military Region 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 express their deep remembrance of the martyrs, 30,000 people in the disaster area spontaneously rushed to attend the memorial service of the martyrs, and erected monuments in the places where the martyrs fought against the flood during their lifetimes. **The Military Commission awarded Li Xiangqun the honorary title of "Heroic Soldier in the New Era". Huang Xiaowen, the commander of the fourth company of a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army, was running in the mud with a sack, and suddenly felt a pain in the soles of his feet.

Seeing this, the regiment commander immediately sent someone to find the military doctor accompanying the team. Huang Xiaowen said loudly: "It's too late!

As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and pulled out the iron nail violently, and a stream of blood gushed out. Huang Xiaowen immediately tore off a lock of cloth from his body, tied his feet firmly three times and two times, and without saying a word, he turned around and picked up the sack on the ground and climbed up the embankment again. In those dozens of unforgettable days and nights, how many such touching deeds are there!

The heroes who emerged from the Battle of the Great River are:

1. Li Xiangqun (1978-1998) was a heroic soldier in the new era. Qiongshan City, Hainan Province, People's Chinese People's Liberation Army, 41st Group Army, 121st Division, 361st Regiment 9th Company Soldier. He joined the army in December 1996.

Communist Party member and bravely sacrificed his life in the great struggle against floods and rescue in 1998.

2. Gao Jiancheng (1965-1998) was a political instructor of an anti-aircraft artillery regiment company of the Air Force and a hero of flood fighting. In his 14-year military career, he studied hard, worked hard, had a good style and noble character, and was awarded by the army 3 times, and was rated as an outstanding party member and an outstanding party branch secretary 6 times. In the summer of 1998, the Yangtze River basin suffered a flood disaster rarely seen in history, and sacrificed to save the people.

In this defense battle, too many heroes emerged, and I will not list them, but only use them to comfort the heroes and soldiers who died.