In the early morning of October 20, 1952, at the No. 0 position of The 597.9 Heights of Shangganling, Huang Jiguang, who was only 21 years old, jumped forward and pounced on the enemy's bunker, blocking the firing hole of the US army with his chest, opening a passage for his comrades to recover position 0, and Huang Jiguang died heroically. However, only 20 minutes after the recapture of Position 0, the U.S. army began a crazy counterattack, and the position changed hands again. The two sides fiercely tugged for several days, which made the body of the martyr Huang Jiguang unable to be contained. It was not until four days later, when The hygienist Wang Qingzhen rushed to the position at the risk of his life in the gap between battles, that the hero's body was transported down.
Born in 1936, Wang Qingzhen joined the army in Guizhou at the age of 14 and became a hygienist. The following year, she crossed the Yalu River with her troops and embarked on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. After crossing the river, Wang Qingzhen's eyes saw a world like hell: the town had become a scorched earth, full of burning houses and broken walls, and from time to time people cried out at the corpses lying on the side of the road. All this deeply shocked Wang Qingzhen, who secretly swore that she would never let such a scene appear in China.
At the beginning of the war, the material conditions of the volunteers were extremely difficult, and the same was true of the health teams, with no medicines, no bandages, no cotton pads, and almost nothing that was not lacking. Wang Qingzhen thought of his comrades-in-arms still fighting bloody battles on the front line, and when he thought of the miserable scenes he saw along the way, he forgot all the difficulties. Without medicine, she and her comrades went to the enemy's corpse to pick up the first aid kit; without bandages, they went to pick up the enemy's parachute and came back to tear it into a bandage; without cotton wool, they cut out the cotton in their cotton clothes and boiled it in boiling water to disinfect it as a cotton pad.
[Wang Qingzhen was just 15 years old when she participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea]
In October 1952, Wang Qingzhen participated in the Battle of Shangganling with his troops. Under the blow of the American Van Vleet ammunition, the battle was extremely fierce. Wang Qingzhen was responsible for the care of more than 20 wounded in 3 tunnels. A soldier named Cao Zhonglin was burned by a US military incendiary bomb, and he could not even open his mouth, let alone feed medicine. Wang Qingzhen chewed the medicine and took it in his mouth along with water, and fed it to Cao Zhonglin mouth-to-mouth. Although Cao Zhonglin could not speak and could not open his eyes, there were tears in his eyes. A soldier was injured in the abdomen and was unable to urinate, and at the end of the day, he was sweating profusely but did not say a word, and Wang Qingzhen found out and forced his mouth to help him suck out the urine.
These tough men on the battlefield did not frown at the bloody sacrifice, but now they were crying like a tearful person, saying to Wang Qingzhen: "You are closer than my sister." As for helping the wounded wash their clothes and pants, it was even more common, at this time Wang Qingzhen was still a 15-year-old girl with a pigtail, and the wounded in the tunnel affectionately called her "sister".
On October 20, the news of Huang Jiguang's sacrifice reached Wang Qingzhen's ears, and she was deeply shocked by the hero's deeds, but she heard that because of the battle, the hero's body was still not converged in time on the position, so she and several comrades wanted to rush to the position to snatch Huang Jiguang's body down. Due to the fierce fighting, several attempts were unsuccessful, and two comrades were wounded.
It was not until the early morning of October 25 that Wang Qingzhen and nurse officers Yizhi, Zhang Xiangzhen, and He Chengjuan rushed to position 0 under the cover of a soldier. Huang Jiguang's body was still lying on the bunker, one hand was still clutching the sandbag on the bunker, because the body was already stiff, several people took a lot of effort to break his hand and put the body down. Ignoring the fact that the enemy had discovered it, several people lifted the body and ran, running to a pine forest next to the shelter tunnel in one breath, and finally could not run, before putting the body down.
【Remains of Martyr Huang Jiguang】
Only then did Wang Qingzhen have time to carefully examine the hero's body, only to see his hands held high, like a stone statue, his front chest was scorched black with gunpowder, it was covered with bullet holes, the muscles in his back were torn apart by bullets, his spine was broken by bullets, and the blood in his whole body had dried up. The flashlight in Huang Jiguang's satchel was broken, there were more than a dozen bullet holes in the kettle, due to the cold weather, the blood-soaked military uniform had been stuck to the body and could not take it off, Wang Qingzhen soaked the blood coat with warm water, and then cut it off piece by piece with scissors, and finally wiped the blood on the hero's face.
When changing Huang Jiguang's new military uniform, he encountered trouble again. Because his raised arms were already stiff, how could he put them down. Wang Qingzhen asked the male comrades to boil water with a small gasoline barrel, and then used a hot towel to warm huang Jiguang, several hygienists took turns to apply heat compresses for three days, Huang Jiguang's body slowly softened down, Wang Qingzhen slowly twisted his body, changed the hero into a brand new volunteer uniform, and loaded it into a coffin shipped from the motherland.
[The prototype of the hygienist Wang Lan in "Shangganling" is Wang Qingzhen]
It can be said that without Wang Qingzhen and his comrades-in-arms desperately rescuing, Huang Jiguang's body is likely to be unconquered and may be destroyed in the next battle. Huang Jiguang's heroic deeds inspire everyone, and Wang Qingzhen's care and thoughtfulness also touch every injured person. In 1954, when the writer Lin Shan was creating the script "Shangganling", he was deeply moved after reading all the materials of Wang Qingzhen, so he wrote at the back of the script: "Add the deeds of the hygienist Wang Qingzhen into the script to create an image of a hygienist", which is the hygienist Wang Lan that people see in the movie "Shangganling".
Four days after Huang Jiguang's death, the hygienist Wang Lan snatched back his body and spent three days changing him into a new military uniform
Health worker Wang Qingzhen snatched back Huang Jiguang's body, and after the writer heard about it, he added her image to "Shangganling"