Xie Jin's "Garland Under the Mountain" directed by Xie Jin in the 1980s was a peak in Chinese military films. This film depicts the self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam that broke out in the late 1970s, and tells in a plain way about the joys and sorrows in the lives of officers and men of our army and the parting of life and death on the battlefield.
The film's moving and true emotions infect the audience and make it an eternal classic. The reason why the film and its original novel are named "Wreaths Under the Mountain" is also to dedicate themselves to the people's army of the victorious class division and to the people's heroes who have buried their bones elsewhere.
There is a soldier nicknamed "Little Beijing" in the movie, although he is in the grass-roots infantry company, he has the dream of becoming a marshal, and can even recite the Western military masterpiece "On War". Unfortunately, this dream was destined to fail to be realized, because "Little Beijing" missed the fighter plane by firing two duds in a single battle, and finally unfortunately was shot and killed, and the viewers were not ashamed; later, people learned that "Little Beijing" was the only son of Commander Lei.
It can be said that without the sacrifice and dedication of these people, our country would not be as strong as it is today, and I would not have had a good life today. Today, let us look back at the long river of history, celebrate the great victory, and remember the Shomen Tiger Zi who dedicated himself to the battlefield like "Little Beijing" and countless people's heroes who were born ordinary but are immortal.
First, the tension of "Little Beijing"
The "Little Beijing" in "Wreath Under the Mountain" is actually the son of the general, and his prototype is Zhang Li, whose father is Zhang Zhixin, commander of the 160th Division of the 54th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Zhang Zhixin joined the revolution in 1945, and because of his bravery in battle, he won hundreds of battles and was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a general, he was upright, selfless, and popular in the army.
Zhang Li is the only son of Zhang Zhixin, zhang Zhixin was only the only son in his 30s, but Zhang Li has never been spoiled and bullied. Under the influence of his father, Zhang Li also joined the army. Zhang Zhixin once told his son many times: In the army, you can't run amok because your father is a general, and you must train hard to serve the country.
Zhang Li remembered his father's teachings, and after enlisting in the army, he trained hard, studied hard, and achieved excellent results. When the counterattack against Vietnam broke out, Zhang Li became the deputy squad leader of the scouts. When he heard about Vietnam's ungrateful and shameful act of provoking war, Zhang Li was furious and expressed his desire to go to the front line to destroy the enemy. Zhang Li's father was upset when he heard that his son had applied to go to the Battlefield of Vietnam, after all, he had only one child in his life.
Zhang Zhixin even thought of using his connections and his position to stop his son, but as an old revolutionary, he knew better than anyone that if he did not let his son go to the front, he would not only be ashamed of the oath of a Communist Party member, but also live up to his son's wish to join the army and serve the country. His father's teachings were deeply rooted in Zhang Li's heart, and during the war, he ate and lived with others, never making a difference. The more dangerous the task, the braver he was to compete. Due to the heroic performance of the tension, he soon became the combat backbone of the troops, and his superiors could always rest assured that the most dangerous tasks would be entrusted to him.
On February 27, 1979, the superior ordered the soldiers of the reconnaissance squad to perform a highly dangerous reconnaissance mission, and Zhang Li, as the backbone, took the initiative to express his willingness to carry out this task. The mission went well at first, but near the 267 heights, there was a firefight with the Vietnamese army, Zhang Li was unfortunately shot in the chest, the blood flowed, because it was in the rear of the enemy army, The tension was too badly injured to transfer the treatment, and finally he let others go first, he left the broken back, and said to the squad leader: "Tell my father Zhang Zhixin, his son did not lose his face." Please him and his mother not to feel sorry for me and take care of themselves. ”
At this time, the comrades-in-arms who lived day and night knew that Zhang Li was Zhang Zhixin's son. When political commissar Li Zhaogui heard the bad news, his expression was immediately filled with sadness. For the pain of the loss of his son in his old comrade-in-arms, he felt empathy and asked the people around him in pain, "Lao Zhang's son is dead, how should I tell him?" After a while, Li decided to write a letter to Zhang Zhixin, conveying Zhang Li's sacrifice and his last words to Zhang Zhixin, who really could not tell the news to his old comrades-in-arms. Zhang Father's white-haired people send black-haired people pain, not to mention more.
At that time, the army was still fighting, and there was no room for moving the body, so Zhang Li and other martyrs were cremated and buried on the spot. Until his son was buried, Zhang Zhixin did not see his son for the last time. After the battle, the troops withdrew from their positions in Vietnam, and in 1983, Zhang Zhixin retired due to a serious illness, and he could not even walk on his own. Although the Zhang couple had been planning to visit their son's grave, they did not make the trip in the end. On February 26, 2013, Zhang Zhixin died of illness in Yantai at the age of 86. When he died, he still had a picture of his son in his underwear pocket.
Second, death does not bend the Ningjiang River
Qu Ningjiang, a soldier of the 4th Company of the 363rd Regiment of the 121st Division, was also a high-ranking cadre, and his father was Qu Kui, a division-level cadre who had participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and was then the deputy chief of staff of the 41st Army.
Qu Ningjiang's parents were both soldiers, and under the influence of the family environment, he read a series of revolutionary books such as "Red Rock" and "How Steel is Made" since he was a child, and he made a wish in his heart to join the army and serve the country. At the age of 19, Qu Ningjiang enlisted in the army and fulfilled his dream since childhood. After joining the army, Qu Ningjiang worked hard to exercise various military skills and completed the gorgeous transformation from a white-faced student to a sharpshooter and a tactical pacesetter.
In 1978, at the beginning of the war against Vietnam, Qu Jiangning wrote an application to join the war: "Qu Jiangning voluntarily applied to join the war and defend the motherland. On the battlefield, I will never desert, and no matter how fierce the enemy's firepower, I will fight to the death. ”
However, because he did not meet the conditions for participating in the war, his superiors rejected Qu Jiangning's application. Since then, he has applied for the front several times, but all of them have been rejected. Qu Jiangning had to ask his father for help, and his father was very supportive, even using his position as chief of staff to send his son to the front. In the end, as a result of unremitting efforts, Qu Ningjiang finally came to the Battlefield of Vietnam as he wished, and this perseverance and perseverance accompanied him until the last moment, when he fulfilled his promise to the country and the people with his life.
Shortly after entering the war, Qu Ningjiang's 4th company was ambushed by the enemy, and during the battle, Qu Ningjiang was unfortunately shot, but because he had always insisted on exercising his physical fitness, coupled with amazing perseverance, he struggled to support and continue to shoot back at the enemy. Unfortunately, due to the disparity between the many people, Qu Ningjiang finally died in battle, only 20 years old.
According to the recollections of those present at the time, Qu Ningjiang was severed one leg and a long arm before his sacrifice, but he still stood firm, covering the comrades behind him to stand out from the siege, until he was shot through the chest by the enemy's bullets, and finally he was gloriously sacrificed. After the war, Qu Ningjiang was posthumously awarded the first class for his bravery in battle.
It is said that Qu Kui once saw his son in the distance in the telescope, and the guards around him wanted to hand over Qu Ningjiang to him, but they were stopped by Qu Kui, who could not imagine that this was the last time he saw his son; it was normal to live and die on the battlefield, but it was inevitable to sigh when he thought of his father's love for his son. According to Qu Kui's family recollection, after Qu Ningjiang's sacrifice for many years, he also took his son's clothes and muttered to himself: "Son, you are good, in the face of the enemy, even if you die, you must stand, you are a real man!" Dad is proud of you! ”
Third, the three fronts in the war against Vietnam
In fact, in the war against Vietnam, there are "three fronts", that is, "the command post is in the front, the commander is in the front, and the children of high-ranking cadres are in the front." On the front line, it is natural to shed blood and sacrifice, so the prototype of "Little Beijing" is not only Zhang Li, but even a father and son brother on the battlefield, and two brothers sacrificed one after another.
In addition to the above two, Cao Hui, son of Cao Conglian, commander of the 446th Regiment of the 149th Division of the 50th Army, was shot in the head during the Battle of Sabah; Zhou Wei, son of Zhou Kaiyuan, political commissar of the 121st Division of the 41st Army, died during interspersed operations; Zhen Ping, son of Zhen Wenlin, deputy political commissar of the 55th Army; Zhao Jiechang, son of Zhao Zixiong, deputy commander of the 40th Division of the 14th Army, was killed; Zhao Youlin, son of Zhao Likuan, political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Guangzhou Military Region; and Luo Yuening, son of Luo Rong, deputy chief of staff of the Guangzhou Military Region, was sacrificed. This series of names is the most true portrayal of revolutionary soldiers dedicating their youth, their lives, and their descendants to the revolution.
The fact that the commander is in the front is not a lie. General Wu Zhong, who was then appointed deputy commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, was the youngest general of our army in 1955, and also the commander of China's first mechanized division; in the 1970s, he was the commander of the Beijing Garrison District, who had long served as the commander of the Gongwei Beijing Division.
Xu Shiyou, the supreme commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, and Yang Dezhi, two veteran generals of the Kunming Military Region, also visited the front line many times to keep abreast of the latest battle situation.
The fact that the fathers and sons of revolutionary soldiers and brothers joined forces together is even more breathtaking. The brothers Geng Jun and Geng Xiaokang were brothers in battle, and their father was Geng Jinfu, who had been the deputy chief of staff of the 150th Division of the 50th Army. Before going to the battlefield, the two brothers wrote a suicide note, saying that in the battle, it was better to be crushed than to be completed.
In the Battle of Gaoping, the company of the two brothers was surrounded by the enemy, and after running out of ammunition, the two died heroically. Liu Bin, then commander of the Baoshan Sub-Military Region, and his two sons, Liu Guang and Liu Ming, all participated in the war against Vietnam, the elder brother Liu Guang participated in the 1979 war against Vietnam, and then participated in the ten-year round battle, and unfortunately died of lightning on the battlefield; the younger brother Liu Ming died in the artillery battle with the Vietnamese army due to the enemy's artillery fire.
IV. Conclusion
In 1950, when Mao Anying was killed in Korea, someone asked Mao Zedong why mao Anying was sent to Korea, and Mao replied: "Who made him Mao Zedong's son", "I decided to send troops to aid Korea, as the leader of a country, I have a son, if I don't send him, whose son will I send?" ”
The revolutionary ancestors not only practiced the vow of lifelong revolution, but also passed on the blood of the revolution to future generations, so that the next generation of heroes and sons and daughters would be born on the land of Shenzhou. Who has no parents? Who doesn't recite kindness? Every young warrior who sacrificed originally had many choices and a long path in life, but they abandoned their comfortable lives and resolutely came to the battlefield of war to shed blood and sacrifice, sacrificing their precious lives. Tiger fathers have no dogs, heroes from ancient times came out of youth, they did take over the banner of their fathers and dedicate themselves to the country and the people.
At the end of the movie "Garland Under the Mountain", the mother of Liang Sanxi, the head of the company, said: China can prosper
Li Baishiyun: "Sacrificing one's body to go to the country is difficult, and seeing death as a sudden return"; Lu Youshiyun "lies in a frozen isolated village without mourning for himself, and Shang Si is the national war"; During the war against Vietnam, a representative of a new recruit once said in his speech: "I don't know who you are, but I know who you are for."
Chinese people love peace, but they also never shy away from war, in order to defend the country, Chinese people are not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, it is this national spirit passed down from generation to generation that gives us the courage and determination to face all difficulties and challenges, so that the Chinese nation can live endlessly and prosper. Today, we remember the heroes and martyrs who died in the self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, whether from fame or from the grass, their blood did not flow in vain, and the motherland they defended at the cost of their lives is even better and thriving today.