In 1950, the Chinese Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River with great strength and vigor, and fought a miracle battle in the history of world wars with inferior weapons. This battle not only fought peace for more than half a century, but also made the People's Liberation Army the king of light infantry in human history.
Cold guns and cold guns annihilate the enemy movement
Today, I will take you to understand the cold gun hero in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, who killed 214 enemies with 436 bullets in 32 days.
Zhang Taofang, who created the highest record of the Chinese Volunteer Army killing the enemy coldly on the Korean battlefield, was known as "Volunteer Sharpshooter", "Cold Gun Hero" and "Shangganling Sniper".
Zhang Taofang was born in 1931 in Xinghua, Jiangsu Province. In 1951, at the age of 20, Zhang Taofang joined the People's Liberation Army, and after joining the army, Zhang Taofang only received two months of shooting training before going to the Korean battlefield.
At that time, the Korean battlefield was in a confrontation stage because the two sides had experienced the previous 5 battles, and they had suffered serious losses, and they did not dare to rush into a large-scale attack.
At that time, the United Nations army only used tanks and artillery aircraft to bomb, and there was no offensive trend, and the volunteer army carried out tunnel warfare to avoid enemy artillery fire and counterattack in a small area, and neither side dared to launch a large-scale campaign. Moreover, at that time, the US army had begun peace talks with the volunteer army, in order to avoid casualties, the volunteer army would build a perfect first-line tunnel defense system, and also gave many troops an order not to take the initiative to attack and cause trouble.
"Don't shoot at random" is a discipline.
At that time, the United Nations army saw that the volunteer army had no intention of attacking, and many people directly ignored the volunteer position, basked in the sun in front of the position, played cards, bathed, and even brought some Korean girls dressed in red and green to the position, dancing and singing, flirting. The volunteers were a little moved, and they called for artillery fire and heavy machine guns.
This kind of clamoring action of the enemy made our army units intolerable, so our army changed its strategy and began cold gun tactics, so it was called "the enemy bowed his head" and was no longer so arrogant. At this time, a wave of enthusiasm was set off in the volunteer army."
Also called "zero knock brown candy".
At that time, every time the volunteer soldiers hit an enemy, the other side fell to the ground for fifteen minutes, and two fighters had to be used as witnesses to count as a battle record, killing more than 5 meritorious deeds and killing more than 15 sniper models.
For a time, countless cold gun heroes appeared.
At that time, the cold gun and cold artillery sniper operation carried out by the Volunteer Army was not the same as the sniper war in World War II.
There was no sniper in the Volunteer Army, there was no sophisticated sniper rifle, and sniper teams were created using ordinary rifles
(Soviet-made Mosin-Nagant M1944 rifle). Because this type of gun produced 17 million units in World War II, it was the main rifle in the Soviet Union at that time, and the performance and accuracy were much better than other rifles, so this gun became the first choice of the volunteer army at that time.
"Empty Target King" becomes "Sharpshooter"
Although Zhang Taofang was a hunter when she was a child, she was not familiar with this Soviet-made Mosin-Nagant rifle when she first entered the Korean War, and she did not have time to test the gun, so in the target training, she appeared three times off target, got three burnt cakes, and was scolded by the company commander.
After that, he began to practice repeatedly with a gun every day, looking for the feeling of sniping, in order to practice arm strength, Zhang Taofang also made two self-made sandbags, he carried out the same practice every day, and finally found the sniper skills and officially went to the sniper position to fight. However, Zhang Taofang's first cold gun record was still miserable.
In January 1951, his unit switched him to position 7 at the forefront, and Zhang Taofang began his first sortie.
According to his later recollections: "
The firing pad was less than 100 meters away from the enemy, and the American soldiers on the opposite position could clearly see whether the eyes were blue or yellow
。 However, at such a close distance, he fired more than a dozen shots and did not hit, but instead exposed his firing position, so he had to quickly withdraw.
Returning empty-handed, he was very frustrated, and later he humbly listened to the guidance of the veteran, and it turned out that he did not calculate the advance amount.
Since then, he began to study the geological landform, and learned from the veterans the method of measuring the distance with his thumb, and after a long period of research and exploration, he mastered the sniper skills and knew that the shooting angle needed to be adjusted according to the terrain.
Zhang Taofang, who mastered the skill, like opening a lock, killed and wounded 71 enemies in just about 20 days.
Becoming the number one sniper in the company, this achievement was featured in the "Line of Fire" of the 24th Army.
From a completely inexperienced recruit egg, in such a short period of time has such an achievement
Pi Dingjun, who was the commander of the 24th Army at the time, did not believe it after seeing it, so he specially sent a staff officer to inspect it.
He also brought a pair of shoes, and before leaving, the general instructed the staff officers to be sure to see Zhang Taofang snipe three enemies before they could reward him with shoes. Sniping at 3 enemies, this is already a small meaning for Zhang Taofang, who quickly completed the task and got the reward.
After that, in order to improve the sniper skills of the soldiers, the regiment asked Zhang Taofang to exchange experiences from team to team. For a time, he set off a wave of learning from Zhang Taofang in the army, and at the same time he also taught countless gun god "apprentices". Like what:
54 days to kill the enemy 471 people typical of eight companies and nine squads. In the sixth company, 9 "hundred snipers" Zhang Taofang's comrade-in-arms Lü Changqing killed 178 enemy people, and another soldier of the same class, Huang Xinghai, also killed more than 100 enemies.
Later, Zhang Taofang put the shells that hit the enemy in the boots that the commander gave him, a total of 211, and the commander said after learning about this
"You are the 214th Regiment, how did you fight 211 enemies and then fight 3 more",
So he returned to his position and hit the last 3 enemies. In 1953, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army awarded him the honorary title of "Sniper Hero of the Second Class" for Zhang Taofangrong, and the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of Korea awarded him the "National Flag Medal of the First Class".
In the second year after the end of the Korean War, Zhang Taofang also participated in the volunteer army fighter pilot, and was successfully selected as the first generation of pilots in New China. Later, the rifle used by Zhang Taofang was also stored in the military museum of the Chinese People's Revolution for posterity.