"If you are afraid of danger, you will not be a police officer. If you are afraid of death, you will not be a drug control."
Heroic anti-drug police Zhang Congshun, Zhang Ziquan, father and son, are heroes, fulfilling their mission with their lives
Our reporter Wang Changshan and Yan Yong
"Leave me alone, save other seriously injured comrades first!" In 1994, Zhang Congshun went forward bravely on the front line of drug control and fell under the grenade of a drug dealer.
"If you are afraid of danger, you will not work as a police officer. If you are afraid of death, you will not engage in drug control." At the end of 2020, his son Zhang Ziquan had a sudden illness due to overwork during a special investigation and bid farewell to his beloved public security cause.
Zhang Congshun, the second-level hero of the national public security system, and his son Zhang Ziquan have successively fulfilled their promise to serve the country and the people with their lives.
"One family and two loyal soldiers, heroes, father and son soldiers" "They are guarding us, but we can only know who they are at such a moment" "Now, Ziquan has also given his life for us"... Lincang City, Yunnan The deeds of the heroic policeman father and son of the Public Security Bureau are moving and have become an eternal monument in people's hearts.
Flag of the Fathers
"Crack, creak..." When it was past zero, it was so dark that you could not see your fingers. On the suspension bridge, there was a rush of footsteps from far to near.
"Come!" Zhang Congshun, director of the Junong Police Station of the Zhenkang County Public Security Bureau in Lincang City, who was waiting for the arrest of drug dealers, became alert and prepared to bring his comrades on the attack.
On the afternoon of August 31, 1994, Zhang Congshun received a report: An overseas drug dealer was passing by with a grenade on his body.
Zhang Congshun rushed to the ambush location with the police.
"We were lying quietly in the grass, enduring mosquito bites, and our bodies were very itchy." Zhang Congshun's former comrade-in-arms and current leader of the Zhenkang County Public Security Bureau Supervision Brigade, Lu Yujun, participated in the roundup for the first time that day. Responsible for vigilance.
The sound of footsteps rang in his ears, the drug dealer entered the ambush circle, and Lu Yujun's heart also touched his throat.
It's too late to say, then soon!
Zhang Congshun and his comrades jumped up and knocked the drug dealer to the ground.
Just as he was about to cuff the hands of the drug dealer, someone suddenly shouted, "It smells like gunpowder!"
"Boom!" With a loud noise, the police fell to the ground, injured in varying degrees.
Zhang Congshun's left calf was bloody and bloody.
He ignored himself, supported his body with his arms and moved to the side of the road, instructing everyone to rescue the seriously injured.
"Leave me alone, save other seriously injured comrades first." Zhang Congshun's words were deeply imprinted in Lu Yujun's mind.
After the reinforcements arrived, Zhang Congshun endured the pain twice and sent his injured comrades into the car.
After the wounded were sent away, Zhang Congshun's face became paler and his breathing was weak.
On the way to the county hospital, his hands became colder and colder, and eventually he died due to excessive blood loss.
"In this operation, 2 comrades died and 3 comrades were injured to varying degrees. 19 kilograms of drugs and a grenade were seized." Lu Yujun said.
Zhang Congshun was born in 1949.
In 1969, he enlisted as he wished and joined the Communist Party of China the following year.
"I am a revolutionary fighter, and I must sprinkle my blood where the party and the people need it most!" He always remembered this sentence in the party application form and practiced it with all his strength.
In 1975, the demobilized Zhang Congshun voluntarily asked for hard work in the frontier; in 1982, the Zhenkang County Public Security Bureau selected a police officer. He resigned from the post of director of the supply and marketing agency and applied for transfer to the public security team; in 1983, the bureau wanted to establish a border police station.
"I am familiar with the situation there, so let me go." He volunteered.
When it was first formed, the police station had only 3 policemen.
To solve the problem of language barriers, Zhang Congshun led colleagues and the masses to make friends and learn ethnic languages.
They traversed the mountains, ate and slept, and traveled to more than 70 villages in the township.
In the early 1990s, the county planned to transfer Zhang Congshun to work in the bureau, but he refused.
In the impression of colleague Huang Yong (currently the deputy head of the Anti-drug Detachment of Lincang Public Security Bureau), the director Zhang Congshun always took a notebook with him. He wrote down everybody's difficulties, disputes, and opinions from the masses.
When encountering difficulties, he would help people, sometimes even the money for food on the road was gone.
"Gradually, people love to run to us no matter how big or small things are. We can quickly know where there are disputes and strangers come to the village." Huang Yong said.
When the suspect was arrested, the suspect’s wife had just had an operation and was living a difficult life, so he helped to apply for a subsidy from the civil affairs department; villager Li Shaoming injured his waist and lay down for half a month, unable to collect rice. He was very anxious. Work for 3 days...
As long as the masses make a call, he rushes to the scene as soon as possible.
In May 1992, a report was made in a remote cottage, and Zhang Congshun and his colleagues rode three-wheeled motorcycles on the road overnight.
The heavy rain poured out and the road was interrupted. He said: “If you arrive one minute early, the informant will feel at ease one minute earlier.” Immediately, the motorcycle was disassembled, overcame the collapsed section, and then reassembled to continue on the road, just to ensure timely detection of the case.
His nephew participated in gambling and he handled it in accordance with the law; relatives and friends stole property and he was punished in accordance with the law... There are countless cases of traveling long distances, investigating and solving cases, and recovering stolen property by relying on both feet.
When dealing with a case of a family evil force connected inside and outside the country, Zhang Congshun was threatened to retaliate.
He said: "I work for the country and the people. Since I put on this police uniform, I will never be afraid of you!" After half a year of rectification, the local social security environment has improved significantly. He is affectionately called "Shanxiang" by the villagers. Patron Saint".
Junnong Township is one of the main channels for cross-border drug trafficking.
In the face of the poisonous demon, Zhang Congshun and his colleagues did not flinch.
In April 1990, Zhang Congshun received reports from the public that two drug dealers passed through the local area.
He put down his bowls and chopsticks, holding a flashlight, and walking more than ten kilometers to chase the block.
At that time, a drug dealer was holding a dagger in an attempt to flee. He rushed to subdue him. Another drug dealer was arrested on the spot by his comrades and seized 1,400 grams of refined drugs.
"Dad, is it worth it to work so hard for a cow?"
"The People's Police is to serve the people, and when you find the cattle, you will find hope in life for them."
In order to recover the stolen cattle from the villagers, Zhang Congshun traveled in the mountains for several days. When he got home, he was covered with mud and blisters on his feet.
This scene is deeply in the mind of the second son, Zhang Zibing.
He said that his father was always busy. Sometimes he was eating when he heard someone call him, so he put down his bowl and chopsticks and left.
After his death, the office drawer still contained 831 yuan of unreimbursed receipts.
"The property my father left us is three wooden beds, an old wardrobe and a bunch of unreimbursed invoices." Zhang Zibing said.
Whenever he has time, Zhang Congshun will take his children to the border.
He pointed to the boundary monument and said: "Look, the word'China' is our country. When we live here, we must protect China's land." At that time, the children didn't really understand the feelings of family and country, but The word "China" is deeply imprinted in my heart.
At the same time, the mighty image of the father in the police uniform standing next to the boundary monument, like a monument, is engraved in the minds of the children.
On September 1, 1994, the sad news of Zhang Congshun's sacrifice came.
Peng Taizhen, his wife, who was working in the field, ran all the way to the scene and took a last look at her husband.
Later, when asked about the career choices of the three sons in the future, Peng Taizhen said that Lao Zhang sacrificed for the country and he liked being a police officer too much, so let his sons continue to do it.
She endured great grief and thrifty and thrifty brought the three brothers to grow up.
"We want to be a good person as you ask." On the Ching Ming Festival in 2020, Peng Taizhen led the three Zhang family brothers to visit his father's grave. They were dressed in police uniforms and saluted in front of the tombstone.
Blood-stained monument
"Kang Dang!"
Zhang Ziquan, the fourth-level sergeant of the Narcotics Detachment of the Lincang Public Security Bureau, fell to the ground, his face pale and his breathing was weak.
In the middle of the night on December 3, 2020, the police of the task force who had been fighting for many days were studying the arrest plan.
Seeing Zhang Ziquan who suddenly fell down, everyone was stunned.
In the ambulance, colleagues took his hand and kept calling his name.
The doctor said that Zhang Ziquan's body was severely overdrawn, his brain was hypoxic and ischemic for a long time, and his heart was too tired to beat...
On the evening of December 15, Zhang Ziquan left this world.
"We waited for 12 days, but still didn't wait for him to wake up, he was too tired!" comrade Tang Haifeng choked and said.
On November 4, 2020, Zhang Ziquan invited Zhan to participate in the investigation of a major border epidemic-related project.
Prior to this, Lincang police found a suspicious foreign woman in a commercial vehicle approaching the border during a public investigation, and was later diagnosed as an asymptomatic infected person with new coronary pneumonia.
Upon investigation, the police unearthed a cross-border criminal gang headed by Tian.
This woman has lived with Tian for many days and has also been to many places in Mengding Town, Gengma County.
If the case is not solved as soon as possible, the consequences will be disastrous.
Police at the city and county levels mobilized police to form a task force.
Zhang Ziquan and others rushed to Mengding Town overnight on November 8 to interrogate the main criminal suspect and obtain information on the upstream and downstream of the criminal gang.
The outdoor temperature is more than 30 degrees Celsius. To prevent cross-infection, the interrogation room cannot open windows or turn on the air conditioner. Zhang Ziquan and his colleagues wear goggles, protective clothing and diapers, and have to work seven or eight hours a day.
Colleague Yang Xin said that when he came out, the clothes could be wringed out of water, and his body seemed to be steamed.
Just as the key cases of the criminal gang surfaced one by one, Zhang Ziquan's body lit up with a "red light."
On the evening of November 22, after the interrogation ended, Zhang Ziquan turned pale and sweated. His colleagues advised him to rest for a few days.
"This case has always been with me, and I'll talk about it when it's over." He didn't stop to rest.
On December 3, Zhang Ziquan and his colleagues traveled to Xiaoxian County, Anhui where the eight persons involved in the case were hiding.
He is like a tightly wound clockwork, thinking about the case, without thinking about the body.
Returning to the hotel that night, Zhang Ziquan considered that there were still two people involved in the case missing, so he decided to continue to sort out clues until he fell to the ground.
How many times he was in trouble, he could retreat, but this time, he left.
In 1994, Zhang Ziquan, who was only 10 years old, clenched his fists in tears at his father's memorial service.
Since then, "being a man like a father" has become his life pursuit.
In 2003, Zhang Ziquan was admitted to Yunnan Police Officer Academy; in 2007, he graduated as a police officer.
In February 2011, Zhang Ziquan said to Zhang Zibing: "Second brother, I have applied to be transferred to the anti-drug team. Don't tell mom!" Zhang Zibing was surprised and asked why.
Zhang Ziquan said: "Father fell on the anti-drug battlefield. Being an anti-drug police was my childhood wish." In September 2011, Zhang Ziquan joined the Communist Party of China.
He wrote in the party application form: “I want to take over my father’s unfinished business and dedicate everything I have to the party.”
He traveled a lot and worked overtime; in the fight against the epidemic, he pressed the red handprint to join the anti-epidemic and drug vanguard; to fight poverty, he applied to remote and difficult villages; when the unit evaluated the first, he gave the honor to his comrades... Understand, Zhang Ziquan said: "I am a descendant of a hero, and I must never shame my father!"
Villager Ma Rui has a poor family and cannot marry a daughter-in-law in her 40s.
Zhang Ziquan, who lives in the village, often goes to work at his home, and Ma Rui is unwilling to demolish the dilapidated house for reconstruction because he is worried that he cannot repay the loan.
Persuaded by Zhang Ziquan, Ma Rui changed his mind. With the help of the village team, he built a new house, planted tea and sugar cane, got rid of poverty, took off his hat, and married a wife; villager Li Li’s husband is serving his sentence. She brought her children and mother-in-law, and her life was difficult.
Zhang Ziquan visited more than 20 times in a row. He paid for his children to solve school enrollment problems. He ran around to help their family apply for subsistence allowances, apply for loans, and find a suitable breeding industry. Finally, Li Li also found a way to become rich and built a new house... …
In the special struggle against gangsters, Zhang Ziquan traveled to 37 villages, 58 villager groups, visited more than 1,000 people, and participated in cracking more than 90 gangster cases.
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Like his father, Zhang Ziquan was brave and fearless on the road to drug control.
Since joining the work, he has often disguised investigations, undercover by drug dealers, and sometimes risked dealing with criminals.
"Emergency mission, quickly return to the team." One day in April 2017, Zhang Ziquan and his colleagues arrived at the border secretly under the order to search for a drug processing factory guarded by armed men.
They searched for more than 10 days in the damp and hot climate and endless virgin forests. They couldn't make a fire to cook. When they were hungry, they ate dry food, and when they were thirsty, they drank stream water.
At night, beasts howl will be heard, and there are poisonous snakes crawling by him from time to time.
One night, they suddenly noticed a faint light not far away.
When he was about to approach, the opponent shot randomly, and the bullet flew by.
The task force quickly carried out arrests based on the investigations.
Subsequently, Zhang Ziquan took his comrades around the factory.
At this moment, a car suddenly rushed out of the factory. Zhang Ziquan fired a warning shot and fired several shots to stop the car. Then he rushed up and held the drug dealer tightly.
The police followed closely and found a loaded pistol from the drug dealer.
In the end, the police successfully smashed the drug manufacturing and trafficking den and seized drugs, drug preparations and handguns.
Afterwards, faced with the question of whether he was afraid or not, Zhang Ziquan said that he would not be a police officer if he was afraid of danger, and he would not do drug control if he was afraid of death!
After taking the baton from his father and devoting himself to the anti-drug cause, Zhang Ziquan used his life to fight drug dealers, seized 27.7 tons of drugs with his comrades, participated in the cracking of 46 drug-making cases and seized more than 1,100 tons of drug-making materials.
He said to his comrades: "Drug control is very dangerous, but I like this job very much!"
"I feel like I just want to be a policeman. This job is quite sacred and I must do it well." Zhang Ziquan said in an interview before his death that he must not hesitate to do anti-drug work.
Shining brilliance
"In the honor room of the detachment, there is a wall of heroes with pictures of sacrificing comrades." Huang Yong said, the anti-drug detachment of the Lincang Public Security Bureau was the first professional anti-drug team in the country. Famous comrades fell one after another, and more than a hundred comrades were injured.
On December 18, 2020, when Zhang Ziquan's urn was sent home, his wife Li Lianchao was already waiting at the airport. When she saw the gloomy black and white photo, she rushed up, holding the urn and kept touching it.
After Zhang Ziquan died, some netizens left a message: I saw a documentary about his father's deeds some time ago and interviewed him with mosaics.
I didn't expect to see Zhen Rong in this way.
They are guarding us, but we can only know them at such a moment.
After seeing the cute face of Zhang Ziquan's 5-year-old daughter, a colleague recalled the scene of seeing Zhang Ziquan for the first time.
He posted a circle of friends: Ziquan, from now on you don't have to cover your face anymore.
At the farewell ceremony, the masks worn by many people were soaked with tears.
Zhang Zibing said: "My nephew is still young, so she just asked, why is there a big picture of my father? We told her that he was on a business trip."
How should I tell my mother the news of Zhang Ziquan's sacrifice?
Twenty-six years later, her mother, Peng Taizhen, has not yet recovered from the grief of her husband’s sacrifice. This time, can she withstand the blow?
After hesitating again and again, Zhang Zibing still told the truth.
At that time, the mother turned pale and said to herself: "Ziquan, just like your father, something happened."
Two generations of anti-drug police, father and son are heroes.
Behind this, Peng Taizhen paid too much.
After Zhang Congshun's sacrifice, colleagues visited Peng Taizhen many times, and she always endured her grief without asking or talking about difficulties.
Although her life was poor, Peng Taizhen never expressed grievances in front of her children. She took pains to raise her three sons and sent them to the police.
The eldest Zhang Zicheng stayed in his hometown of Zhenkang County, and worked in the most basic level Fengwei Police Station for more than 20 years; the second child Zhang Zibing became a traffic policeman and stayed in the streets and lanes in the wind and rain; the third child Zhang Ziquan followed his father's footsteps and applied for it. He was transferred to the anti-drug detachment and traveled more than 300 days a year.
"Especially Ziquan, we called him'Little Treasure' and watched him grow up since he was a child. Since becoming an anti-drug police officer, he has become more mature and stable, with the shadow of his father back then." Huang Yong said.
"My father-in-law died, why are you still willing to let their three brothers be the police, aren't you afraid?"
"Lao Zhang told me that without the police, where is the peace? Without the peace, where is the home? If Lao Zhang hasn't finished it, let them continue."
This is a conversation between Zhang Ziquan's wife Li Lianchao and her mother-in-law Peng Taizhen.
In 2012, Li Lianchao and Zhang Ziquan met.
At that time, Zhang Ziquan was a poverty alleviation team member stationed in the village, and his office was next door to her home.
Li Lianchao often saw him sweating profusely in the field, talking to the people about policies and talking about dry tongue... His sincerity moved the villagers, and also touched Li Lianchao's heart.
Slowly, Li Lianchao realized that Zhang Ziquan was the son of Zhang Congshun, the anti-drug hero. The eldest and second brothers were also policemen. Li Lianchao was proud to be a member of this police house.
But I didn't expect that after the marriage, the family gathered less and separated more. In 8 years, the time spent with Ziquan was only a handful.
He can't accompany him every time his baby is checked; when his daughter is born, he is carrying out the arrest mission; when he is reunited during the Spring Festival, he goes to other places to handle cases... Li Lianchao said that her husband often misses important moments in the lives of mother and daughter, but he never misses the supremacy in his heart Career.
The anti-drug police is special, with bullets, incognito, life and death is a true portrayal of this profession, known as the "dancer on the tip of a knife."
In the anti-drug detachment, you can't even find a complete family portrait of the detachment. This is because there are people fighting on the front line at all times.
"I'm most afraid of hearing the sentence'I'm going on a business trip'." Li Lianchao said that Zhang Ziquan has almost always been on a business trip since his marriage. In order not to affect his work, she generally does not take the initiative to contact him, and can only wait for him to report in her anxiety. Safe information.
She once persuaded him, could he change his position?
However, Zhang Ziquan said, "Drugs have harmed countless families, and my father has given his life for drug control. It is my life's pursuit to take over his father's mission."
When he got married, Zhang Ziquan bought a 70-square-meter house in Lincang with a loan.
As long as he is free, he will go home early to accompany his wife and children.
On one wall of their living room, there are photos of a family of three.
Seeing Zhang Ziquan and her daughter playing on the sofa, Li Lianchao felt that there was nothing happier than this.
"We haven't eaten yet, we're still waiting for someone. It's been dark here for a long time."
"You have to eat on time and take care of yourself."
This is the last WeChat sent by the couple to each other.
Li Lianchao told reporters that Zhang Ziquan had promised her and her daughter to take them to travel together when they came back from a business trip.
For this reason, he also specially issued an ID card for his daughter, and wanted to take her to go skiing in the north by plane.
"Dad, you have been on a business trip for a long time this time. When do you want to come back?" The 5-year-old daughter thought that her father was on a business trip and took the phone to send him a voice.
This year's Ching Ming Festival, Peng Taizhen once again took the children to visit the grave.
In front of Zhang Ziquan's tombstone, the old man's hand touching the portrait kept trembling.
Peng Taizhen said: "Ziquan is my beloved son and the son of the police. I am heartbroken when he is gone, but if he chooses again, I will still support him as a policeman!"
"The father-in-law and Ziquan were sacrificed for the country. They are the honor of our whole family." Li Lianchao said, there are many policemen who have shed blood and sacrificed like Ziquan, and there are also many policemen who have lost their husbands like themselves. There are also many children, and it is because of their dedication and sacrifice that it is exchanged for the peace and reunion of thousands of families.
(Villagers Ma Rui and Li Li are pseudonyms)