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Anthem of a Hero of Great Victory-Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers’ Fighting Abroad to Resist US Aid Korea

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　　Guangming Daily reporter Hu Xiaojun

　　On the Oilfield Cultural Square in Youtian Town, Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province, stands a large sculpture: under the banner waving in the wind, soldiers and civilians stand side by side, staring ahead.

On the base of the sculpture, the bright red characters "Forever follow the party" are particularly eye-catching.

　　Here is the hometown of Luo Chunsheng, a martyr who resisted US aggression and aid Korea.

　　Youtian Town is an old revolutionary base area and one of the first areas in Ji'an where a rural party branch was established.

During the Second Civil Revolutionary War, Youtian Town was the Yanfu Revolutionary Base, and revolutionary events such as the "Yanfu Riot" were recorded in party history.

In February 1930, the former committee of the Fourth Red Army, the two special committees of the West Jiangxi and the South of Jiangxi and the Red Army 5th and 6th Military Commission issued military deployment and operations orders for the establishment of the Jiangxi Soviet, requiring the mobilization of 1.5 million people in southwestern Jiangxi to cooperate with the Red Army's main attack on Ji'an.

　　In March 1930, Luo Chunsheng, a 14-year-old boy from Pantian Village, Oilfield Township, joined the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants and became a "red little ghost" of the independent regiment of the 3rd Division of the Red Army Jiangxi Independence. Since then, he has embarked on a bloody struggle for national liberation. The journey of fire.

　　In December 1931, Luo Chunsheng joined the Communist Youth League of China and transferred to the Communist Party of China in December of the following year. He served as a correspondent, squad leader, platoon leader, security bureau officer, and special commissioner of the fifth regiment of the Red Second Division. The "encirclement and suppression" struggle and the Long March.

　　In March 1937, Luo Chunsheng entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study.

After graduation, he successively served as deputy commander, commander of the 1st battalion of Guanzhong Independent Regiment, and deputy commander of the 3rd Independent Regiment of the Left-behind Corps of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. He was responsible for protecting the safety of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao in the Guanzhong Division.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Luo Chunsheng marched into the northeast with the troops and successively served as the commander of the guard regiment of the Liaodong Military Region, the commander of the 5th regiment of the Independent 2nd Division, the chief of staff of the Tonghua Army Division, and the deputy commander of the 1st Independent Division of the Liaodong Military Region.

　　On October 19, 1950, Luo Chunsheng, then commander of the 120th Division of the 40th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers, was ordered to lead his troops into the Korean war.

In the Onjing battle, he commanded the troops and took on the arduous task of cutting off the enemy's retreat. He obtained brilliant results. In the continuous battle, he attacked the US army with swift action of slamming siege.

Later, he commanded his troops from north to south and went through five battles to chase down the enemy to the south bank of the Han River.

　　In August 1951, Luo Chunsheng was transferred to the 118th Division.

Zhang Yuhua, the political commissar of the 118th Division at the time, once commented: "He is characterized by resolute execution of orders in battles, decisive handling of situations, no matter what difficult tasks he undertakes, never complaining. In every battle, he always takes the initiative to ask for tasks and actively moves forward. Simply, without delay."

　　In May 1952, Luo Chunsheng led the 118th Division to return to the 38th line, taking over the defense of the 192nd Division of the 64th Army.

On May 15th, Luo Chunsheng was attacked by an enemy plane when he was handing over defense with the 192nd Division at Xinsidong on the front line of Lianchuan.

The government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea awarded him the second class national flag medal.

　　On December 23, 1952, Luo Chunsheng was buried in the cemetery of martyrs in Shenyang to resist the US Aid Korea.

　　"During the bloody years, the heroic sons and daughters who threw their heads and shed blood for the liberation of the Chinese people and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation have left us a precious spiritual wealth. Today we are at a new historical starting point. It is even more important to bring this revolutionary spirit into play, and to play a pioneering and exemplary role of party members in poverty alleviation, new rural construction, and rural revitalization.” said Liu Zhimou, Party Secretary of Youtian Town, Ji’an County.

　　"Guangming Daily" (October 02, 2020 Edition 02)