Author: Big Young Man
Pictured: In the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, veteran General Zhang Yuhua was the first to pass through the rostrum in a veteran phalanx vehicle and saluted with his right hand, which had been pierced by a bullet from the Japanese army, touching countless people.
Veterans don't die, they just wither. In the early hours of this morning, 101-year-old veteran general Zhang Yuhua safely completed his legendary life. From the anti-Japanese battlefield to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the veteran general participated in the battle more than 100 times, was wounded 3 times, and a bullet is still in the body.
Before his death, Elder Zhang left a last word: do not say goodbye to the body, do not accept gifts, and donate organs. As early as more than 10 years ago, he explained in the "Message on My Aftermath": "If there is any surplus of relics and relics, the principle of disposal, all public ones will be returned in full, and those that need compensation will be resolutely handled in accordance with the provisions of the system; those that belong to the loan, whether public or private, will be returned to the original owner... He also exhorted: My descendants must always follow the Communist Party, otherwise they are not worthy to be my descendants. ”
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There is no country broken and the family is dead, which son Lang goes to the battlefield. The first time he engaged the Japanese army, Zhang Yuhua, who was born as a primary school teacher, showed heroism and fearlessness.
In February 1938, the Japanese army occupied Yantai and Muping and established a puppet regime in Muping City. Li Qi, secretary of the Cpc Jiaodong Special Committee, took advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and quickly captured Muping City. When the Japanese army learned that the siege team had withdrawn to the Thunder Temple, they came by car with more than a hundred people.
At that time, the main force of our army had been transferred with prisoners, and only more than 20 cadres and soldiers were left in the Temple of Thunder. First the Japanese planes hovered over the temple, then the Japanese cars drove to the temple, more than 50 Marines armed with heavy machine guns surrounded the temple, and the Japanese planes kept circling in the air. Zhang Yuhua, an instructor with a double gun, was angry, and raised his hand to shoot 5 shots at the plane. I heard that the plane crashed near Yantai, and the Japanese dragged the crash back with an ox cart.
Pictured: Zhang Yuhua was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955 and promoted to major general in 1964. Speaking of the comrades-in-arms who fought side by side in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Yuhua's heart was suddenly heavy, "Compared with them, we veterans are only a drop in the ocean, insignificant, without their sacrifice, we would not be where we are today."
Later, referring to this matter, Zhang Yuhua, who was injured in the finger during this battle, said modestly: "Whether I shot down this plane or not, I am still uncertain!" "But a gun can shoot down an airplane. The old general said that the plane at that time was canvas, with a few steel pipes in it, flying at a height of no more than 1,000 meters and at a very slow speed, and from any direction it could penetrate the fuselage with a rifle.
From March to May 1938, Zhang Yuhua led his troops to repel the enemy's attack four times in a row, and the Japanese army even used naval, land and air forces to attack our army: 600 army troops attacked from the ground, about 100 navies shelled our army from ships, and 4 enemy aircraft swooped down and strafed our army. During the battle, a bullet passed through Zhang Yuhua's thigh, and after the battle, he was hospitalized for a month.
In 1940, Sun Zu fought. Zhang Yuhua's third battalion, which served as an instructor, served as a blockade task at Jiuzifeng, repelling 9 enemy charges and achieving the record of killing and wounding more than 300 Japanese puppet troops. Commander Xu personally ordered the award of 9 machine guns and more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition to the three battalions. During the battle, a bullet entered the abdomen from the right armpit and was carried back from the pile of dead people by his comrades, and this bullet still remains in the body of General Zhang Yuhua.
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By fighting Japan, he was promoted from instructor to political commissar of the 118th Division, and Zhang Yuhua participated in the Battle of Hainan Island.
Due to the shadow of the defeat of the Sanye attack on Kinmen in October 1949 and the defeat in the attack on Dengbu Island in November, coupled with the fact that the Four Wilds fought from Changbai Mountain to Hainan Island at that time, New China had been established, other troops were demobilized, cadres went to the localities to become township chiefs and town mayors, go back to get married, have children, and live a life, this unit is still fighting, it is likely to be sacrificed at dawn, and the last group to fall is likely to be them.
Han Xianchu, commander of the 40th Army to which Zhang Yuhua belonged, "insisted on going his own way": he did not convey the instructions for postponing the operation in the army according to the requirements of his superiors, demanded that the troops still complete their combat preparations by the end of March as originally scheduled, and reported to the Central Military Commission on their operational needs: "We have our opinion, it is better to buy landing craft, and strive to buy 100 ships, and possibly 200 ships, with an average of 200,000 Hong Kong dollars per ship, a total of 40 million Hong Kong dollars."
Pictured: Liberation of Hainan Island. If Hainan Island could not be taken before the outbreak of the Korean War, the US military would most likely cut off the Qiongzhou Strait.
Chairman Mao demanded that the hainan island operations should be taught lessons, and the command group of the first group of troops landing on the island must go up. The 40th Army decided that the 118th Division would organize a reinforcement regiment to smuggle the crossing. Liu Zhenhua, director of the Political Department of the 118th Division, followed Han Xianchu to the island in the first wave.
In the face of extremely likely sacrifices, division commander Deng Yue and political commissar Zhang Yuhua repeatedly encouraged everyone to overcome their strong fear of crossing the sea and fighting. The division created the first pioneer battalion and the first reinforcement regiment to land on the island and hit enemy ships with wooden boats. On May 1, the entire territory of Hainan Island was liberated. On June 25, the Korean War broke out and the Seventh Fleet cut off the strait.
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From Changbai Mountain to Hainan Island, and then from the liberation of Hainan Island to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Zhang Yuhua experienced a hail of bullets and bullets at the post of political commissar of the 118th Division.
Zhang Yuhua clearly remembers that day, "On the evening of October 19, 1950, my 118th Division set out from the camp and embarked on a journey into Korea. At this time, the jeep that General Manager Peng was riding in surpassed the vanguard troops of our division on the Yalu River and went abroad with great speed. ”
Pictured: The volunteer army crosses the Yalu River with great vigor. Before the large troops went out in public, the 40th Army had secretly entered the front line of battle.
For the sake of secrecy, the radio stations are all turned off, and they all march according to the advance orders, and they are stationed wherever they go on any day. After 5 nights of marching, the 118th Division arrived at the mouth of the Great Yudong Ditch and received the task: "The 40th Army is the vanguard unit, and it must take the lead." The first battle abroad must be fought beautifully and play a mighty game! ”
On the morning of the 25th, a reinforced battalion of the South Korean army entered the Liangshuidong area, and the ambush troops immediately launched an attack, slammed and charged, hit the enemy dizzy, completely annihilated it in only two hours, killed and wounded 486 enemy prisoners, captured 12 artillery pieces, 38 cars, 163 guns of various kinds (ting), and captured the US adviser Reilleth. Later, the Party Central Committee decided to designate the day of the battle in Liangshuidong as the anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Although this day is not the date of the volunteer army going abroad, it is the first battle of the Chinese volunteer army to go abroad.
Zhang Yuhua led his troops to participate in the first to fifth campaigns of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and made the enemy feel frightened by the "four fierce tactics" of fierce attack, fierce charging, fierce pursuit, and fierce insertion. The 118th Division created the first application of interspersed tactics, annihilating 2798 enemy and capturing 267 American troops, becoming the largest number of enemy prisoners. After that, Shiji vigorously promoted the interspersed tactics, and only then did he have the classic Matsukusho Peak infantry interspersed combat.
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