The combat hero introduced today, named Zhou Degao, attended his commendation meeting with Mr. Peng and Leader Jin, who personally read out his commendation order, and Leader Jin personally presented the medal.
This treatment is rare among the combat heroes of the volunteer army.
Born in 1923 in Changshou County, Sichuan, Zhou Degao was initially captured by the Nationalist army, then liberated, became a soldier of our army, and successively participated in the battles of Liaoshen, Pingjin and the liberation of Hainan Island, and was promoted from a soldier to deputy squad leader.
In November 1950, Zhou Degao entered the Korean War with his troops, and soon after, he encountered a vicious battle: the Battle of Yulongpu. This battle also made Zhou Degao a famous combat hero of the volunteer army.
At that time, the task of Zhou Degao's company was to violently penetrate, directly attack the enemy's command post, and take down the enemy's command center. Zhou Degao was appointed as the leader of the sharp knife team and led 3 fighters with the goal of taking the 320 highlands.
This high ground is not high, only more than 30 meters, but the role is extraordinary, the U.S. military is known as the "world ace army" of the Second Division command post, located here, but also set up a dense fire network, trenches in all directions, all kinds of heavy firearms are ready.
Because the defense was well arranged, the U.S. army thought it was foolproof, and it let down its vigilance at night. But they never expected that the sharp knife team of 4 volunteers had already touched it, and Zhou De mastered the knife and fell, first killing the Sleeping American sentry.
At this time, the enemy's wah-w At this time, the enemy had woken up, Andegao simply did not stop, a shuttle of bullets passed, resulting in the AMERICAN army, and then led two fighters to quickly run to the enemy command post.
They threw grenades while running, shot while running, and shouted as they ran, and the US army thought that a large force of our army was coming, and they were frightened and scurried around. Zhou Degao quickly broke into the command post, at this time, the people in the command post had already escaped, only two people remained, Zhou Degao a shuttle bullet passed, and the two American devils were suddenly killed.
Although the command post was empty, but it would resume its command function at any time, Zhou Degao let the two warriors stay here, and he went alone to pursue the fleeing enemy.
When chasing out more than 500 meters, Zhou Degao found the enemy, was scattered and hid in three houses, and began to fight back against him.
Zhou Degao was not afraid, first aimed at the house on the far right, a grenade opened the way, quickly rolled under the wall of the house with smoke and dust, touched the firing port, pulled the grenade, stuffed it in, only to hear a bang, the house and the devils were all blown away.
Zhou Degao quietly approached the second house, the enemy inside was still shooting outwards, at this time, he stuck to the wall, came to the firing port with the gun, aimed at the firing port and suddenly inserted the gun into it, shooting wildly, and the house soon stopped moving.
At this time, the enemy in the third house, seeing that he was alone, shouted and ran out of the room to surround him.
At this time, Zhou Degao's bullets were all gone, he decided to fight to the death, took out a dagger and prepared to rush to the enemy group, just at this time, our reinforcements rushed up, Zhou Degao and his comrades-in-arms, killed the last enemy.
In this way, the Yulongpu regional command post of the US Second Division, known as the "World Ace Army," was completely wiped out, 65 people were captured alive, and more than 80 people were annihilated. Zhou Degao single-handedly destroyed the US military command post, killing and wounding more than 30 US troops.
The significance of this battle was extraordinary, taking the Yulongpu area, clearing the way for large troops to cross the Cheongcheon River, and helping our army win the first battle.
After the war, Mr. Peng and Leader Jin personally participated in the celebration meeting, and Mr. Peng also praised Zhou Degao's heroic performance, and personally announced his meritorious service and awarded the honorary titles of "Lone Hero" and "Second-Class Hero", and Leader Jin also awarded him the Silver International Medal.
After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Zhou Degao was also honorably demobilized, and the organization originally arranged for him to serve as a small cadre, but in order to take care of his sick wife, he took the initiative to ask to return to his hometown and became an ordinary farmer.
In the days that followed, Zhou Degao never told everyone his story, and the medals were also locked in a drawer by him, and in the most difficult times, he preferred to go out and pick up the rags rather than open his mouth to the local government.
It was not until his old age that his son really couldn't look at it anymore, so he took out his medals and honorary certificates and found the relevant departments, which eased his later life.
History Inn Author: Desert Sand