On the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the volunteer soldiers had three fears: one was afraid of being hungry, the second was afraid of running out of ammunition, and the third was afraid that they would not be able to send them down if they were injured. In particular, the third article is the heart disease of many volunteer soldiers. Shao Jie, a cadre of a certain regiment who once participated in the battle of Pingli, recorded his experience of returning to China for medical treatment after being injured, from which it can be seen that the conditions of the volunteer army at that time were really too difficult.
Minor wounds could not be brought into the line of fire, and the wounded of the volunteers were bandaged on the spot
Located 65 kilometers east of Seoul, the Battle of Pingli was a Waterloo in the history of the Volunteer Army. After paying a huge price, he still failed to achieve his stated goals and had to take the initiative to withdraw from the battle. Shao Jie was wounded in this battle.
In the Liberation War, Shao Jie was also wounded many times, and at that time, the wounded were basically sent to the homes of the people to recuperate, but not here. There are no basic people in the local area, the medical conditions of the field ambulance station are also very poor, and due to the indiscriminate bombardment of the US army, the medicine is not one in the front. The wounded of the U.S. military, on the other hand, were transported by car, helicopter and even plane, and it took up to 16 hours to be transported from the front to a hospital in Tokyo.
U.S. military aircraft transported the wounded to the rear
Shao Jie was slightly injured in the battle, and originally wanted to apply some medicine to continue the fight, but when the hygienist examined, he found that he was infected with the disease that was widely circulating at that time, typhus. The Ministry of Health of the 119th Division immediately isolated him, and if the disease was not treated in time, there would be serious sequelae, and the health conditions on the front line could not be treated, and he could only be sent back to China.
Among the wounded who were sent down the line of fire by the division headquarters, some of the less serious ones, a total of more than 50 people, squeezed into a truck, and sent to the rear. The driver, Xiao Li, was a young man who was only eighteen or nineteen years old, and in order to prevent enemy air raids, the truck did not dare to turn on the lights and flashlight forward. After surviving until dawn, the roar of enemy aircraft sounded overhead.
The U.S. military did not spare any moving volunteer targets
Xiao Li quickly stopped the car to the side of the road and shouted: Everyone get off the car quickly and go up the mountain to air defense. The wounded helped each other get out of the car and ran into the woods on the side of the road to hide, and Xiao Li drove away with a cigarette. Everyone waited nervously in the woods.
Unexpectedly, I waited for a whole day, more than 50 people had no weapons or food, one by one, they were hungry and dizzy, and they were worried about encountering the enemy's search for the mountains. Finally, when it was dark, the car horn sounded at the bottom of the mountain, followed by Xiao Li's shout: Everyone go down the mountain. It turned out that for air defense, Xiao Li drove his car into a prearranged cave, running more than a hundred kilometers back and forth, and when he left, he did not have time to explain to everyone.
Relying on its air superiority, the US military carried out indiscriminate bombardment of volunteer convoys
The truck had slowed down again for less than two hours, and Shao Jie leaned out of the canopy to take a look, and it turned out that the traffic had blocked the road to the north. Looking back, the traffic that followed behind me was also out of sight. At this time, if there is an enemy plane coming, the real consequences are really unimaginable. Shao Jie patted the cab and asked Xiao Li to quickly think of a way.
Xiao Li jumped out of the cab and ran straight forward, and when he came back, he was already sweating. He got into the cab and drove the car straight from the road into the ridge, slamming all the way up onto a railroad. It turned out that he saw a railway intersecting with a highway, and he could only spell his luck. The truck sped along the tracks, fell into the sleepers from time to time, and bounced up violently, like a lonely boat in a huge wave, and many people in the carriage were hit with blue noses and swollen faces.
Lightly wounded U.S. troops can also fly to the rear
The truck finally rushed onto the road, a train sped by, and in February, everyone's clothes were soaked with sweat. I thought I could breathe a sigh of relief, but I didn't expect that it hadn't been long before I was in danger on the road. A mountain road was blown up by enemy planes in half, and outside the partial road was a bottomless cliff, and there was no possibility of going around it.
Everyone could only get out of the car and show Xiao Li the way with a flashlight. Some of the injured who could move found some stones to pad the road to prevent landslides, and the truck moved over little by little, and the road of more than ten meters walked for more than an hour. After the front was on the main road, all the flares were airdropped by US planes, and the enemy planes, in line with the idea of "having dates without dates to hit two shots," swooped down from time to time to strafe indiscriminately.
Wounded of the Volunteer Army
With his superb driving skills and maneuvering with the enemy, Xiao Li finally sent many of the wounded to the wounded transfer station in Sui'an. Here, Shao Jie and they boarded the train with more wounded and sick people. But the train is not much better than the car, still drilling holes during the day and coming out at night. By the time they reached the small town of Ji'an (present-day Ji'an) on the Yalu River, it was March 3.
They walked for a full 16 days, a few hundred kilometers away, which was a world away from the 16 hours that the U.S. military had taken the wounded to Tokyo. Such poor rescue conditions have caused 34,893 volunteer soldiers to die of injuries or illness, which is really sad. It was under such conditions that the soldiers of the Volunteer Army, relying on their rudimentary weapons in their hands, finally won the victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.