Since the founding of New China, the international situation has not been peaceful, and many Western countries have been hostile to us and tried to strangle us in the cradle, among which the famous battle is the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the importance of this war is self-evident.
New China had just been founded, the country was in ruins waiting to be rebuilt, but at this time the Americans burned the flames of war to the Yalu River, although the volunteer army was backward in weapons and equipment, it still stepped onto the road of defending the homeland and defending the country, we made great sacrifices and finally won the victory, among which many singable and weeping deeds occurred, and it was they who threw their heads and spilled their blood to have today's peaceful and prosperous world, and only now have they lived and worked in peace and contentment.
We are familiar with Huang Jiguang Qiu Shaoyun and others, in fact, there are many unknown heroes, the protagonist of the next story Li Guanglu is one of them, many people do not know, he is a special meritorious hero, outstanding in the Korean battlefield. But then after the end of the Korean War, he retired from the army, returned home to work as a farmer, and lived a life of obscurity, never saying to anyone that he was a special meritorious person until after his death.
In the summer of 2011, the weather was very hot, in a rural village in Santai County, Sichuan Province, destined to be a sad day, an old man lying on the bed dying, children are gathered around, can't help crying, even if everyone has long expected this ending, but the heart still can't stop sadness, many people lose their voices and cry, the old man looks at his children and grandchildren with loving eyes, everyone in the house does not speak, extra quiet, the old man knows that his limit is coming, thinking that he can go to see his old comrades-in-arms, Slowly closing his eyes, the moment the old man closed his eyes, the family could no longer hold back their tears, and the people in the house cried loudly.
Everyone knows that the old man's life is very simple, a lifetime of frugality, did not leave a family property for the children, the children followed the old man's will, held a simple funeral, the old man bid farewell to his life, the children cried in front of the old man's grave, went home to sort out the old man's relics, found a humble box, the daughter can be said to be impressed by this box, when she was a child, because of greedy curiosity inadvertently opened the box, the old man also beat her, this box is the old man's most precious thing, No one can touch it, the family knows such a box, but no one has opened it to see, since the old man has died, then open it to see, or help the father to pass on this thing.
The children slowly opened the box, and there were no valuables like gold and silver, but a yellowed certificate and several medals, although after decades, the award certificate can still be seen clearly, and it reads' Chinese Minist Volunteer Army Special Meritorious Service Award', the children are very confused, because the old man has never said what kind of special meritorious service he is, everyone knows that the old man has been a soldier, but it is not clear what great merit the old man has made, but this award does not look like a fake, the children in order to find out the truth, with the award to the local government, the local government was also surprised after seeing it, they did not know that there are special meritorious people in the local war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, so far they have not seen it, so they reported to the leaders and began to investigate the peace of life in the future 。
The government department immediately called the local People's Armed Forces Department and asked for help to check Li Guanglu's personal file, and it didn't take long to get a reply, telling the government that the award certificate was awarded to Li Guanglu, the old man is a great hero of the people, the old man Your true identity has also surfaced, it turns out that the old man is really a special meritorious man, who has made outstanding achievements in the Korean battlefield and is a people's hero.
On the same day, government workers and people from the People's Armed Forces Rushed to the old man's home, laid a wreath to the old man, and told the old man's children that the old man was a special meritorious man before he was born, and he had made outstanding achievements on the battlefield, and you must arrange the old man's affairs properly, and it cost the government to bear it.
The story of Li Guanglu, but also from his birth, the old man was born in 1921, in a poor family in Santai, Sichuan, from a small family of poverty, but also suffered from the exploitation of the landlord, from a young age to help the family to do farm work, cutting firewood, wait until a little older, he will give the landlord cattle, do physical work, only in this way to reduce the burden on the family, although Li Guanglu is able to bear hardships, but the landlord still deducts his wages, saying that he is a child laborer, but he is doing adult work, even if Li Guanglu is so hard-working and hard-working, The family is still often hungry, when they were young, they were exploited by the landlords, and when they grew up, the society was turbulent, the warlords were fighting, their family struggled to survive in this chaotic world, such a day did not know when it was a head, Li Guanglu thought in his heart that he would be like his father, a farmer all his life, sunrise and daily income, in this chaotic world to be able to eat enough is their only wish, although it is very simple, but in that era, filling the stomach has become a luxury.
After Li Guanglu became an adult, the Kuomintang came to the village to arrest Zhuang Ding, saw the young and strong Li Guanglu, and without hesitation, he took him away, Li Guanglu became a member of the Kuomintang army, but because Li Guanglu was a new recruit, the Kuomintang army was hierarchical, there were often scenes of veterans beating up new recruits, and veterans often took out new recruits, so Li Guanglu was not beaten less, he did not have much sense of belonging to the Kuomintang army, and he only wanted to leave here.
Day by day passed here, he never had the opportunity to leave here, his heart was very unwilling, but there was no way to start the Battle of Echuan later, before Li Guanglu had been training in the Kuomintang army, he had not yet stepped into the battlefield, this time it was in the real sense of the battlefield, after arriving at the battlefield, Li Guanglu did not shoot a bullet at the Communist army, Li Guanglu thought that the opportunity had come, he and several comrades-in-arms took advantage of the transfer of the kuomintang troops, they surrendered to the People's Liberation Army without hesitation. In the People's Liberation Army, cadres and soldiers eat and live together, there is no personality hierarchy, cadres sincerely give soldiers a warm greeting, which makes Li Guanglu very moved, he is determined to fight for the founding of New China, to fight for the people of the world, he knows that the Communist Party can help the people to seek happiness.
Under such encouragement, Li Guanglu fought exceptionally bravely, made many military achievements in the War of Liberation, and made Li Guanglu a deputy squad leader, but what made Li Guanglu a special meritorious person was the later War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea; a year after the founding of New China, the Korean War broke out, and soon after Li Guanglu joined the People's Liberation Army, his unit was sent to Korea, because most of the roads and railways in Korea were destroyed at that time, the number of cars in the army was limited, the troops could only walk past, and everyone was carrying heavy burdens and marching in a hurry. At that time, Li Guanglu and countless volunteers had the same thoughts in their hearts, that is, to protect every inch of land under their feet, because there are their own relatives, we must not let the enemy cross over, after the volunteer army entered the DPRK, together with the Korean military and people, to resist the United Nations army led by the United States, because the volunteer army's weapons and equipment are not as good as the US army, many times we have paid heavy casualties, the volunteer army and the US army have fought five battles, and finally the United States has lost confidence in this war under the heroic resistance of the volunteer army, and gradually changed from offensive to defensive. The U.S. military hopes to negotiate with the Chinese and North Korean governments, but the situation on the battlefield is rapidly changing, and it is still full of smoke.
In the third campaign, the American army was in disarray, unable to organize an effective defense, fled in the direction of Seoul, and handed over the position to its ally Britain, so the British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion was transferred to block the advance of our army.
First of all, the tank, in fact, as early as the First World War was invented, it was invented by the British, the British invented after the application of this huge monster to the battlefield, in the Battle of the Somme River so that the German defense line instantly collapsed, many countries saw the major power of the tank on the battlefield, are paying close attention to research, many countries in the West have built their own tanks, the army's mechanization level immediately improved, in fact, the process of making tanks is not complicated, but the country needs to have your strong and complete industrial system, But at that time, New China had just been founded, everything was in ruins, the war and chaos of Changqin made our country devastated, many people could not eat enough, let alone build tanks, many of our soldiers on the front line had never seen tanks, our army only had a small number of tanks at that time, and on the Korean battlefield it was still tanks provided by the Soviet Union or captured Kuomintang tanks.
The Tank Battalion of the British Army saw that the offensive of the Volunteer Army was getting fiercer and fiercer, and saw the ally United States holding its head, and then turned around and fled, and Peng Dehuai, who was then the commander-in-chief of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, looked in his eyes and felt that this was an unmissable fighter, at this time, if you cut off the retreat route of the British army, you can attack the flank of the US army, which is a matter of two birds with one stone, and then issued an order, taking advantage of the victory to pursue, Li Guanglu's regiment was ordered to ambush in the middle, must completely annihilate the British army, after receiving the order, They quickly began to act.
The volunteer army took the small road to reach the predetermined position in advance, just waiting for the British army to come, this tank unit is not simple, the British 29th Brigade Russia, at the beginning was the main force participating in the Normandy landings, equipped with tanks are the world's most advanced, powerful, the volunteer army is not afraid of tanks, but know in their hearts, if they do not eliminate this tank force, it is difficult for them to achieve victory.
Half an hour later, not far away came the roar of tank engines, the sound from far and near, Li Guanglu first found, this huge tank corps, eight tanks in front of the road, there are more than twenty tanks behind, according to the deployment, wait until the open tanks reach the ambush area, they detonated the explosives, then several tanks were destroyed, and then the tanks behind fired at the volunteer army in all directions, when the mines had been detonated, our army had no anti-tank weapons, watching the comrades fall one by one, they were very angry and painful, You can only take the machine gun and keep shooting at the tank, but to the thick steel plate of the tank, the machine gun seems to be tickling the tank.
The enemy immediately drove several spitfire tanks, this tank volunteer army is also the first time to see, the range of the fire reached several hundred meters, forming a fan-shaped fire dragon, burned many comrades, one of the blasting comrades approached the spitfire tank, set the explosive package on fire and threw it on it, but because the fuze was too long, the explosive package exploded behind the tank, and the comrade was also killed in the fire.
Li Guanglu looked in the eyes, and then did not hesitate to pick up the explosives package, the fuse was shortened by three centimeters, which means that the time to escape was only three seconds, under the cover of his comrades-in-arms, Li Guanglu held the explosives package close to a spitfire tank, lit the explosive package and ran, with a loud noise, a spitfire tank was overturned to the ground, a powerful shock wave blew Li Guanglu to more than ten meters away, it was precisely in this way that he dodged the enemy machine gun strafing, spit blood when he climbed up, and found that there were tanks spitting fire. Then he took out the explosives package and the grenade and destroyed a spitfire tank in the same way, the loud noise stunned Li Guanglu, he was covered in blood when he got up, he had no explosives at this time, the enemy tank was lying in the middle, he immediately ran to the command post to find the explosives, the health center saw him, insisted on giving him an explosion wound, and when he was bandaging, a tank rushed in, Li Guanglu picked up the grenade and rushed towards the tank, at this moment he had forgotten the danger, When running to the side of the tank facing a tank the size of a house, Li Guanglu was worried that his grenade could not blow up the tank, he could only gamble, without hesitation jumped on the tank, at this time the tank after a long period of fire, the steel plate was hot, Li Guanglu did not hesitate, opened the lid above the tank to throw the grenade down, the enemy's bullets flew over his head, it can be said that at this moment he rubbed with the god of death, with a loud noise, the tank was immediately destroyed, and Li Guanglu was also on fire. Rolling in the snow to extinguish the fire.
Li Guanglu's unit completely annihilated the British tank battalion in that battle, and the soldiers immediately launched a charge, and later the battle was reported to the Central Military Commission, and the whole army commended them, while Li Guanglu blew up three spitfire tanks, was recorded once for special merit, and awarded the title of people's meritorious service. But after the old man retired from the army, he did not disclose his identity, but hid the medal in the box, leaving that period of time in the depths of his memory.