The fire does not extinguish the phoenix, international heroes Huang and Qiu. The enemy dared to use his body as a shield, and the defenders were willing to use blood as oil. Sacrifice me to be a true hero, inspiring people to compete for the top. Who is the only one who dies? Xuan Ang was fierce and fierce.
The above poem is from one of the three inscriptions guo Moruo invited to compose for the martyrs in 1962, when the Huang Jiguang Memorial Hall was being prepared.
In the past hundred years, the land of China, which has undergone thousands of years of vicissitudes and changes, has ushered in its own transformation process in the wind and rain.
The length and cost of this metamorphosis are beyond doubt, and the people who slept forever in those years, the land soaked in blood, the veterans who fought and survived with the thirst of their departed comrades for a better future, the Monument to the People's Heroes standing on Tiananmen Square, and the memorial hall that silently stayed in the hometown of every shaohua who did not live up to Shaohua, all of this confirms the history that cannot be erased.
The deepest feelings and memories of these deceased heroes are the comrades who entrusted their lives to each other and supported each other in the most difficult and dangerous trenches, as well as the heroes' parents and relatives. Huang Jiguang, one of the heroes who died for the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and her mother, Deng Fangzhi, was received by the chairman three times, but she never shed tears in front of the chairman.
The light that comes in poverty
In 1931, China was in a dilemma of internal and external troubles, lagging behind the Land of the Western World at that time, and countless people were suffering from poverty and war. People who are shrouded in darkness have always believed that behind the oppressive clouds, a light that will eventually split and illuminate the world is brewing.
Also in this year, In a poor peasant family in Zhongjiang County, Sichuan Province, Deng Fangzhi, who was 40 years old, gave birth to a son in a confrontation with the ghost god.
Like all poor peasants at that time, Deng Fangzhi's family was worried about food and clothing every day. In order to support his family, Huang Jiguang's father, Huang Dezhong, had no choice but to borrow money from the landlord's family in the village, and then was forced to work as a coolie for the landlord's family to pay off the debt. After years of overwork, when Huang Jiguang was 11 years old, his father fell ill and died at home because he had no money for medical treatment.
After his father left, Huang Jiguang couldn't bear to watch his mother work day after day, so he concealed his mother from working as a helper in the landlord's home where his father had worked hard before his death. The landlord did not care about Huang Jiguang's actual age, and all kinds of heavy work directly pressed on this child's body.
However, the salary earned by working hard for half a year was eventually destroyed by slipping and falling while carrying water, and the landlord asked Huang Jiguang to compensate for the broken bucket, and Huang Jiguang could not afford to take the salary mortgage. After enduring humiliation and not being able to earn money to support his family, Huang Jiguang left the landlord's house to earn money by cutting firewood and grass to sell and make incense, and he wanted to use his own strength to support his mother and brother.
Heaven is not beautiful, but at this moment when it is already besieged by poverty and disease, a great drought will fall. In order to survive, Huang Jiguang's family had to rely on grain to survive, but the drought made the farmland grain harvestless, and many people were already in a difficult situation to protect themselves. They walked from house to house for a long time before they borrowed a few rotten sweet potatoes.
Deng Fangzhi boiled sweet potatoes into soup, although she was very hungry but not willing to drink, she served sweet potato soup to Huang Jiguang, and the sensible Huang Jiguang was distressed by his mother, so he lied that he had drunk it.
The old Man's Son's Deng Fangzhi was not too doting, but strict requirements for this belated son. She named her son Jiguang, hoping that he would survive hardships, live with dignity and contribute to the liberation of the toiling masses. Huang Jiguang did not live up to his mother's expectations, and at the age of 18, he joined the militia and began hard training.
Defeat the enemy and dare to use his body as a shield
On June 25, 1950, the Korean Civil War broke out. Ignoring repeated warnings from the Chinese government, the United States brazenly crossed the 38th Parallel and burned the flames of war to the yalu River. In order to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people on the northeast border and the safety of our country as a whole, and at the request of the DPRK party and government, in October, the volunteer army resolutely responded to the "War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, defend the family and defend the country." The call was to enter the Korean battlefield under the leadership of Peng Dehuai.
In October 1952, the volunteer army and the enemy launched the most tragic tug-of-war on two high grounds on the front of The Ganling in the Korean Wusheng Mountain area, the Five Holy Mountains at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters were extremely geographically advantageous, and if the volunteers held, they could stabilize the front line at the "38th Line", but if captured by the enemy, it meant that the enemy would open a gap in the middle of the volunteer defense line, endangering the entire Korean war situation.
It is a modern war waged under conditions of extreme disparity in power between the two belligerents. In the Battle of Shangganling, the enemy poured more than 1.9 million shells on the two highland positions of the Volunteer Army of about 3.7 square kilometers, dispatched more than 3,000 aircraft sorties, and dropped more than 5,000 bombs. Our army fought against it through close combat, night combat, and tunnel warfare.
Qin Jiwei, commander of the 15th Army, once said: "In the tunnel struggle, our soldiers have overcome hardships and hardships unimaginable to ordinary people with unswerving faith and the excellent qualities of revolutionary soldiers. In this arduous battle, 21-year-old Huang Jiguang personally practiced this sentence.
On the night of October 19, Huang Jiguang's 2nd Battalion of the 135th Regiment of the 15th Army was ordered to seize the 597.9 heights on the west side of Shangganling, and after three consecutive positions were blocked, the troops were trapped in the zero point position, and wanted to take the high ground, urgently needing to destroy the intensive point of American fire in the front.
Approaching Fo Xiao, if you do not take the high ground again, you will miss the entire fighter, at this time, Huang Jiguang took the initiative to ask for battle, and led two fighters to blast the enemy bunker.
Huang Jiguang led two other fighters, Wu Sanyang and Xiao Dengliang, to creep forward towards the front fire point, and in the process of advancing, they were frantically strafed by enemy machine guns. When marching to thirty or forty meters away from the fire point, Wu Sanyang was killed, Xiao Dengliang was seriously wounded, and Huang Jiguang's left arm was also pierced by bullets, but he still endured the pain and continued to crawl forward.
As he approached the US military fire point, Huang Jiguang tried his best to drop several grenade shells in a row, but still failed to completely destroy the fire point. The roaring sound of guns and bullets was incessant, and Huang Jiguang opened his arms and used his body to block the machine guns of the US army, using his young life to exchange the hope of victory for the rear counterattack troops.
Inspired by Huang Jiguang's heroic dedication, the comrades successfully defeated the enemy and recaptured their positions. After the war, Huang Jiguang was posthumously awarded the title of Special Combat Hero for his meritorious service, and was awarded the title of "Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" and the Order of the National Flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Gold Star Medal of the First Class of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The chairman did not shed a tear
In April, before Huang Jiguang's death, he wrote a family letter to his mother during the break in the battle. In the letter, he asked his mother not to be worried, but to believe that under the leadership of the Communist Party, the happy days were still ahead, and now he was fighting gloriously for the needs of the people of the motherland and the happy days of the whole family in the motherland.
Knowing the news that her son Huang Jiguang was forever sleeping on Korean soil, how could her mother, Deng Fangzhi, not weep with heartache, this is her son, with her son who has supported each other through more than ten years of poverty. But in three meetings with Chairman Mao in 1953, 1955 and 1960, the mother was smiling and never shed tears in front of Chairman Mao.
In the face of her son's sacrifice, as a mother, with a deep affection that blood is thicker than water, sentimentality is inevitable. Why did Deng Fangzhi never show sad emotions in front of the chairman?
Later, someone asked Deng Fangzhi, and her answer was very simple but also very painful, she said, afraid that the chairman would be sad. She knew that Chairman Mao's son, Mao Anying, had also died on the Korean battlefield, and if she wept bitterly in front of the chairman, wouldn't she have made the chairman equally sad? Their sons were all killed in the Korean War, they were all martyrs, and they shared the pain of losing their sons.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, tens of thousands of martyrs of the Volunteer Army stayed on that land, and they guarded their homeland with their lives.
After Huang Jiguang's death, Deng Fangzhi also sent her other son, Huang Jishu, to the front line of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In addition, she herself was actively involved in the cause of socialist revolution and socialist construction, not only as a heroic mother, but also as a hero herself.
brief summary:
Heroes like Huang Jiguang who are strong for the motherland without fear of sacrificing are worthy of our admiration, and like Huang Jiguang's mother Deng Fangzhi, the heroic mothers who have worked hard to cultivate children who are willing to fight for the cause of the motherland for life and then secretly endure the pain of missing in countless years are also worthy of our respect and love. In order for us to live in times of peace, they have tightened their hearts and fought with blood.
Perhaps their belief in their faith and the willpower inspired by it are unimaginable, but neither is a reason to maliciously distort history or denigrate heroes.
In the face of some phenomena such as distorting history and belittling heroes that have appeared from time to time in recent years, each of us should keep a sober mind, use our own eyes to verify, and pursue red memories by consulting classic materials, searching for heroes' hometowns, etc., inheriting red genes, continuing red blood, and jointly building a socialist modern power.
This prosperous world, may they live up to their expectations.