In February 1947, the Liaoji Provincial Military District decided to send the Shenbei Detachment to cooperate with the Baoyi Brigade in besieging Kailu. At that time, the siege of Kailu was divided into two stages, the first stage took nearly ten days to remove the enemy strongholds outside Kailu City, compress the remnants of the enemy into Kailu City, and by February 25, more than 6,000 enemy troops gathered in Kailu City. Of these 6,000 people, except for a battalion of the 16th Regiment of the New 6th Division of the Kuomintang 71st Army, which still has some combat effectiveness, most of them are local miscellaneous troops such as Zhang Nianzu and Li Shouxin. They have been hit many times by our army and have long since become birds of prey. The second phase began on February 25, and the various attacking forces strategically completed the encirclement of the city of Kailu in accordance with the deployment of the provincial military district, preparing to launch a general attack on the enemy inside the city.
On the evening of February 26, under the leadership of detachment leader Liu Shichang and political commissar Ma Qinggong, the Shenbei detachment accurately arrived at the attack assembly site at the eight immortal barrels southwest of Kailu City, according to the scheduled time. Located south of Kailu City, the Eight Immortals Tube is a larger village and town from the military map. However, in those years of chaos and chaos, due to the burning and looting of bandits, the people in the village walked and fled, and there were actually few families. At that time, the cold wind whistled in the unobstructed wilderness, blowing so that the warriors could not open their eyes. The warriors' dog-skin hats had long since formed a thick white frost. After a day of rapid marching, the commanders and fighters of the Shenbei detachment who arrived at the Eight Immortals Barrel were hungry and thirsty. Unable to find anything to eat, the warriors had to rely on broken house frames and crouch under the roots of the wall to nibble on dry food. The brown rice noodle flatbread was frozen as hard as a stone. Take a bite, leaving only a few white marks on the cake, so you have to slowly soak it with saliva, melt a little and eat a little.
However, the morale of the soldiers was very strong. When the platoon was lined up for pre-war mobilization, Wu Guoxing, a company commander, stood in front of the line and faced the soldiers of the whole company and said passionately: "Seven steps forward without fear of death!" As soon as his voice fell, a company of warriors took seven steps forward in unison, rows of shiny bayonets shining in the moonlight. At this time, Commander Wu almost shouted: "Comrades, the opportunity to avenge the martyrs who died has arrived." The head facing north sacrifices the good man, and the head facing south dies of the breed! ”
During the battle, a vicious bullet hit the abdomen of a company commander, Wu Guoxing. With a "Oops" sound, Commander Wu fell head north in a pool of blood, and the stretcher team carried down the injured and sacrificed comrades. Wu Guoxing lay on the stretcher with a sallow face and covered the bloody wound with his hand. The commander of the Liu Shichang detachment leaned down to check on his injuries, and found that his injuries were very serious, his intestines were flowing out, and his heart was very uncomfortable, at this time, Wu Company Commander opened his eyes with difficulty, and said in a very weak voice: "Detachment leader, I fell head to the north..."