In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in the 1950s, countless models of meritorious service emerged in the volunteer army units, composing one heroic battle song after another that made people's blood boil. In fact, in addition to those heroes who are famous in history and household names, there are also a large number of ordinary soldiers, some of whom may not have made great achievements in the Korean battlefield, but also left wonderful and moving stories there in their own ways.
Before his death, Fu Zhengrong, a volunteer soldier from Xiangyin, Hunan Province, repeatedly told people about a strange incident he encountered during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
On November 23, 1950, the 78th Division of the 26th Army of Fu Zhengrong's Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River and entered Korea.
It was snowing heavily and unusually cold, and the troops were quietly marching between the snow-covered mountains and mountains, and every step was extremely difficult.
19-year-old Fu Zhengrong is not tall, his body is relatively thin, and it is indeed very difficult to march in such a bad weather, carrying heavy weapons and backpacks.
At noon on the 25th, when the troops were passing through a relatively open area, the roar of aircraft suddenly came from the air. In order to avoid being bombed by enemy aircraft, the commander ordered the whole division to immediately rush into a nearby wood and take cover.
Fortunately, the officers and men of the whole division moved extremely quickly, and when the enemy plane flew to the sky overhead, they had all entered the woods and made camouflage.
The enemy planes were very cunning, circling in circles in the air, refusing to leave for a long time.
Considering the large open area in front of the division, if the enemy kills a "return rifle", it is very likely to cause major damage to the whole division, and in addition, the troops have been marching continuously for more than ten hours, and the soldiers are very tired, so he ordered the troops to rest on the spot.
Fu Zhengrong had been in the army for less than three months and was still a new recruit, and this kind of high-intensity marching in extreme weather was indeed unbearable for him. As soon as the order to rest came, Fu Zhengrong's originally tense nerves immediately relaxed, and he did not even untie his backpack, so he fell asleep against the tree next to him.
Before Fu Zhengrong went to sleep, he did not realize a problem, that is, he was the last in the whole company to enter a hidden state, and he was hurriedly hiding behind a tree, a little farther away from the entire large army.
When he woke up from his slumber, he found that the troops had already left, and he was the only one left in the whole woods!
This made Fu Zhengrong's scalp tingle with anxiety, and he deeply regretted that he had just slept so deadly that he didn't even have the consciousness of all the troops leaving, and he didn't know how long he had slept.
He quickly calmed down and decided to smoothly move forward with the footprints of his comrades-in-arms, trying to catch up with the large troops as soon as possible.
In this way, he crossed the open field alone and walked for several hours, but still did not catch up with the troops.
When it was almost dark, Fu Zhengrong entered a forest again, and the trees in the forest were towering in the sky, and the darkness was vast, which looked a little eerie.
The lonely Fu Zhengrong was bent on chasing the troops, but he couldn't manage so much, and he rushed in with a hard scalp.
As he walked, he suddenly heard a strange sound, much like the continuous roar of the engine when the car was stuck in the mud.
Fu Zhengrong's first reaction was that the comrades-in-arms found that I had fallen behind, and when they arrived at the station, they sent a car to pick me up. Ecstatic, he walked briskly following the sound of the "engine."
But as he approached, he realized that it was not an "engine" sound at all, but the roar of some kind of animal below the ground, a low and urgent roar that sounded angry and helpless.
Through the reflection of the snow, Fu Zhengrong could see clearly that there was a two-meter square black hole on the ground more than ten meters away, and the sound came from inside the cave.
Fu Zhengrong deduced that there was a good chance that a beast was trapped in the cave, and it was urgently calling for help.
Driven by curiosity, he slowly walked towards the mouth of the cave, and as soon as he poked his head above the mouth, he was frightened by a roar of anger and retreated.
He calmed down a bit, slowly looked closer, and suddenly found that there was a tiger cub in the cave, which looked like it had just been born, and it was estimated to be less than two feet long.
"The roar of the little tiger cub is so mighty and intimidating, it is really worthy of being the king of the hundred beasts!" Fu Zhengrong secretly admired in his heart.
He observed that the hole should have been dug by the hunter, about a mile deep, but there was no trap at the bottom of the hole. Although the tiger can run and jump, the cub still can't take such a deep hole. It can be seen that after it fell into the hole, it desperately tried to get out of the trap, and scratched a lot of deep claw marks at the bottom of the hole.
Seeing this tiger cub trapped at the bottom of the cave, Fu Zhengrong, who was single, instinctively developed compassion and decided to rescue it from the hole.
He ran around and looked around, and finally found a slender trunk that had been crushed by the heavy snow, and with great effort, he finally moved the tree to the mouth of the cave and put it down along the edge of the cave.
Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhengrong had just put the tree down, but suddenly there was a roar behind him, which was far more powerful than the cry of the tiger cub, and it actually shook the woods, and a lot of snow in the treetops was shaken down, and the flutter fell down, frightening Fu Zhengrong.
When he looked back, he saw that more than ten meters behind him, there was an adult tiger with angry eyes, opening its blood basin mouth, revealing a mouth full of white Sensen's teeth!
The tiger crouched on the ground, posing a posture that could attack at any time, making Fu Zhengrong feel as if he had been shocked by electricity, trembling all over his body, his legs were weak, and he wanted to run but could not move his steps.
At the moment when the tiger was about to pounce, the tiger cub, who was originally trapped at the bottom of the hole, suddenly jumped up and ran to the adult tiger with a cheerful cry.
Obviously, it was precisely because of the tree that Fu Zhengrong moved over, so that the tiger cub climbed up along the tree, successfully escaped from the trap, and returned to the side of the tigress.
After seeing the tiger cub, the tigress quickly "changed her face", changed her previous anger and became warm, and kept licking the tiger cub with her tongue.
The tiger cub kept pushing its head close to the tigress, and at the same time made a particularly cheerful and slightly delicate cry, as if to blame the mother for going out alone to forage, but threw itself alone in the nest, causing it to accidentally fall into the trap dug by the hunter when it came out to look for its mother.
Fu Zhengrong saw that the two tigers were busy telling each other "don't be sincere", and he was terrified, so he quietly looked for a way to leave.
To his delight, the tigress did not chase after him, but let him leave.
About a mile away, Fu Zhengrong was secretly happy that he was close to the tiger but miraculously withdrew, but he did not expect a strange sound suddenly coming from behind him.
When he looked back, he couldn't help but be shocked, it turned out that the tigress had chased after him!
Interestingly, the tigress seemed to have something in her mouth, and it rushed past Fu Zhengrong, suddenly stopped, looked back at Fu Zhengrong and let go, and the object in her mouth fell to the ground. Then the tigress barked again, but the voice did not sound threatening, but like greeting a friend, she turned and ran away.
Fu Zhengrong took a closer look, and what the tigress had thrown in front of her was actually an animal's leg. What kind of animal it was, Fu Zhengrong didn't know, but the tigress's approach made him unbelievable- did the tigress know that I saved her cubs and gave me a little of the prey she had just caught as a 'gift'?
He picked up that leg and smiled and said, "It is better to be respectful than to obey, although I can't eat raw meat, but I can't not accept this 'gift', so let's carry it on my back and continue to chase after the big troops!" ”
Fortunately, a few hours later, Fu Zhengrong walked to a road, encountered the car of the brother troops transporting supplies, and finally returned to his company in the car. Only then did he realize that the "gift" he had brought back was a deer leg.
When he told his comrades about this adventure, everyone was amazed and expressed disbelief. But the deer legs he brought back were clearly torn off by extremely strong force, which was enough to prove that what Fu Zhengrong said was not false.
In the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Fu Zhengrong did not have many opportunities to participate in the battle, and only made a third-class merit, but this experience of rescuing a tiger cub and being rewarded by a tigress with a deer leg was extremely legendary, and he still relished it until his old age.
Note: The real thing described in this article was widely circulated in Xiangyin County, Hunan Province, but because this strange event occurred outside the battlefield, it was not widely reported.