On October 14, 1952, the Battle of Shangganling began. On this day, Huang Jiguang, a correspondent of the Second Battalion of the 135th Regiment of the 45th Division of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army, received a letter from his mother in Zhongjiang County, Sichuan Province. My mother said in the letter: "The family is divided into fields and land, the life is prosperous, there is no lack of anything, there is a lack of your meritorious report." "
Holding his mother's letter, Huang Jiguang felt extremely ashamed -- the nature of the correspondent's work determined that he could not charge into the battlefield like other comrades-in-arms and kill the enemy more. However, he secretly encouraged himself: we must strive to kill the enemy and make meritorious achievements! He secretly wrote a letter of determination: "Resolutely complete all the tasks entrusted by the superiors, strive to be a hero and strive to join the party."
First, capture the high ground and be intercepted by enemy fire
At 17:30 on October 19, after firing two battalions of the "Katyusha" rocket artillery of the Volunteer Army at the same time, followed by 103 mountain guns, field artillery and howitzers, seven assault companies counterattacked the enemy-occupied heights 597.9 and 539.7 respectively.
Huang Jiguang's second battalion was responsible for capturing Highland 597.9. According to the plan, the sixth company set out from the 454.4 heights and seized positions 6, 5, 4 and 0 from north to south; Eight companies captured Positions No. 1 and No. 3, and the two companies joined forces at the main summit. The Sixth Company initially proceeded smoothly, and within half an hour of launching the attack, it captured three enemy positions at the cost of five casualties, annihilated more than 100 enemy positions, and attacked halfway up the hill of Position 0, only 50 meters away from Position 0.
At this moment, the group fire point of the enemy's position 0 was revived, and the enemy's three bunkers formed an inverted triangle of dense firepower network, and 3 heavy machine guns and 4 light machine guns screamed silently, and the heads of the six soldiers could not be lifted.
Position 0 is surrounded by cliffs on both sides, and the only thing that can be passed is a ridge less than 10 meters wide leading to Position 4, which is close to the main peak, and can condescend to block Positions 4, 5, and 6, and also block the large tunnel entrance of the Volunteer Army's Position No. 1, preventing the soldiers in the tunnel from merging inside and outside.
Second, the explosion is fruitless, take the initiative to ask for help
After zhang Guangsheng, chief of staff of the battalion, learned of the news, he led the communicator Huang Jiguang forward to a place only more than 200 meters away from position 0 to direct the operation. He decisively ordered Wan Fulai, commander of the Sixth Company, to "Organize an explosive group and blow up the enemy's fire point!" At this time, there were only 16 people left in the assault force of the sixth company, including 9 combatants, and the company commander Wan Fulai quickly organized 9 fighters to divide into three groups and take turns to blast.
The first group went up, and without climbing a few steps, they all died.
Another group went up and fell again 30 meters from the enemy's fire point.
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All three groups were sacrificed, and Zhang Guangsheng angrily stared at the enemy's fire point and shouted, "Tune the recoilless cannon to kill it!" The walkie-talkie called in a recoilless gun, and 3 shells accurately exploded on the enemy bunker, but the enemy bunker was strong, the shells were helpless, and the enemy machine guns roared more fiercely
Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, the commander and division commander of the Eighth Company had already taken the No. 1 and No. 3 positions, and the commander of the division called and ordered the Sixth Company to take the position before dawn. Company Commander Wan Fulai and Instructor Feng Yuqing asked the battalion chief of staff: "Chief of Staff, let's go up!"
"No, you're the commander!" Zhang Guangsheng pressed the shoulders of the two and said solemnly.
At this time, Huang Jiguang, who had been lying next to the battalion chief of staff, said: "Chief of Staff, I can clearly see the enemy's fire points, let me go and blast it!"
Without waiting for the chief of staff to agree, Huang Jiguang quickly took out the letter of determination that had been written in his pocket and his mother's letter, handed it to the chief of staff, and said: "My mother wrote to ask me how many ghosts I killed?" What has been done? I haven't written back yet! Chief, let me go!"
Third, in order to win, sacrifice yourself to block the enemy's gun hole
Touched by Huang Jiguang's sincere attitude and firm determination, the chief of staff stared at the young Man from Sichuan, whom he liked very much and was not out of his childishness, and nodded.
Company commander Wan Fulai immediately designated Huang Jiguang as the sixth squad leader of the sixth company and led the company's communicators Xiao Dengliang and Wu Sanyang on a blasting mission.
Huang Jiguang pointed to the Five Holy Mountains and said solemnly: "Please tell the head of the motherland condolence group and listen to our good news." Turning around and taking two soldiers, he rushed toward the enemy position.
The three men crawled forward, machine gun bullets flying overhead and around them. At first, the enemy did not find them, and the three of them quickly advanced to a place only more than 20 meters away from the enemy fire point. Suddenly all the enemy's machine gun fire came at them, Wu Sanyang was shot and killed, and Xiao Dengliang was also seriously wounded. At the same time, the grenades thrown by Huang Jiguang's three men exploded, and the two bunkers in front of the enemy were blown down, but the machine guns in the enemy's main fort were still roaring. Wu Sanyang and Huang Jiguang are fellow villagers, and Huang Jiguang saw that his fellow villagers had sacrificed, and he couldn't help but cry in his eyes. He endured the grief and crawled to the injured Xiao Dengliang and said, "You are lying here, waiting for someone to carry you down." With that, he grabbed the grenade and crawled forward. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my left arm, and when I touched it with my hand, I found that my left arm had been pierced through two holes. He endured severe pain and continued to climb forward.
The enemy's fire point is getting closer and closer, 10 meters ... Huang Jiguang suddenly stood up and was about to throw the grenade in his hand. However, almost at the same time as he stood up, a barrage of enemy bullets hit him in the chest, and Huang Jiguang fell down and passed out
When Huang Jiguang woke up, the east was already white, and the sky was about to light up. A great sense of mission and responsibility that he had never felt before made him struggle to prop up his upper body, grab the grenade, and throw it at the enemy fire point. With a loud bang, the enemy's machine guns went dumb. The commandos charged, but a moment later the enemy machine guns rang out again.
Huang Jiguang looked up and saw that the bunker had only blown up half of it, and there was a machine gun strafing. At this time, Huang Jiguang no longer had any weapons around him. What to do? He looked up at the sky that was getting brighter and couldn't wait any longer. Without hesitation, Huang Jiguang jumped up from the ground and shouted, "Comrades rush!" Throwing himself at the enemy's machine gun, he grabbed the barrel with both hands, and with his injured chest, he blocked the eye of the enemy's gun that was spewing tongues of fire, and the sound of the enemy's machine gun changed from the crisp sound of "quacking" to the dull sound of "beeping".
Suddenly, the enemy was stunned! The comrades-in-arms were also shocked! Who has ever seen such a magnificent scene of mountains and rivers?
The comrades-in-arms did not wait for the company commander to give the order to "rush", and they rushed up like arrows off the string. In a roar of "revenge for Huang Jiguang", it took only ten minutes to completely annihilate more than 120 enemy defenders and retake the position.
Fourth, posthumous commendations, heroic names last forever
After the battle, Qin Jiwei, commander of the Fifteenth Army, personally received the heroic model. He shouted loudly, "Are the people from Huang Jiguang's company coming?"
No one answered, and the commander repeated it again.
"Report to the commander," said zhang Jifa, the heroic model of the brother company, in a heavy voice, "huang Jiguang's company only has one wounded deputy company commander left, or I dragged him down the position, I think any wounded person can stay, but he can not stay." "
"Why?"
"I want to leave a seedling for the Hero Company."
The commander was silent for a moment and said, "Comrades, as long as we are alive, we must always remember that the glory of our Fifteenth Army belongs to the martyrs, and the glory always belongs to them!"
The deeds of Huang Jiguang and his company spread throughout the army.
Huang Jiguang's name has become a banner, and people have memorized him. The people gave him a lofty honor, and Peng Dehuai, commander of the Volunteer Army, issued an order to posthumously commemorate Huang Jiguang's special merits once and award him the title of "special hero". The Shima Township where he was born was also renamed Jiguang Township.