Speaking of the founding generals who were monks, everyone knows Xu Shiyou and Qian Jun, in fact, in that era of soldiers and horses, many people in our army also became monks, such as Zhang Yiren, a famous combat hero today.
Zhang Yiren was born in 1916 in Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, and his father died when he was 3 years old, and his mother took him around begging alone before slowly raising him.
Later, in the process of begging, a landlord took in the two of them, Zhang Yiren herded sheep for the landlord every day, and his mother did housework for the landlord, living in an old cowshed in the landlord's house, barely able to make ends meet.
One day, Zhang Yiren was herding sheep when a wealthy family named Wu Changjiang approached him and said that if he could help his family cultivate, he would be given two acres of land in the future. This is a good thing that the pie fell from the sky, Zhang Yiren agreed on the spot, and went to Wu Changjiang's house the next day.
No, as soon as he arrived at the Wu family's courtyard, four or five soldiers arrested him and took him away.
It turned out that bing Ding went to Wu Changjiang's house to arrest Zhuang Ding and wanted to take his son away, and when Wu Changjiang saw that Zhang Yiren was thick and honest, he thought of the crooked idea of letting Zhang Yiren replace his son as a soldier, and in the end, Zhang Yiren was deceived and became a soldier in the Kuomintang ranks.
The Kuomintang troops were all captured soldiers, did not know who to fight the war, had no combat effectiveness in the war against Japan, and Zhang Yiren was unwilling to give his life to the Kuomintang, but only wanted to go home, and he was taken prisoner in a battle.
Later, he found a puppet army, opened up relations, and was sent to Shanghai as a laborer. When the laborers were assigned to a physical examination, Zhang Yiren thought of a way to let the physical examination not pass, the Japanese businessman did not want to raise idle people, Zhang Yiren was fortunately released, living on the streets of Shanghai, begging for food to live.
One day, he heard that there was a temple in Pudong, and the abbot there was also a Hubei native, who was kind and charitable, so he decided to try his luck. Fortunately, the abbot saw that he was a fellow villager in Hubei, and really left him behind, first doing some chores in the temple, and then the abbot saw that he was more honest and willing to do it, so he accepted him as an apprentice, a Daoist friend of the Fa, and became a formal monk in the temple.
However, Zhang Yiren only made a living here, and did not want to be a monk sincerely, because he did not concentrate on studying the scriptures, and was often punished by his master to kneel. One day, Zhang Yiren was punished to kneel again, just as Zhang Ying, deputy commander of the 6th Squadron of the 1st Detachment of the Songhu Detachment of the New Fourth Army, passed by here, begged for water to drink, and saw him kneeling there, he asked him why he was kneeling and talked with him.
(Photo: Zhang Ying)
Zhang Yiren told Zhang Ying about his experience, Zhang Ying heard that he had been a soldier, and now the New Fourth Army was short of soldiers, so he invited him to join the New Fourth Army. Zhang Yiren did not understand the New Fourth Army, and he was still a little hesitant. Zhang Ying took an opportunity to take him to the army to have a look, Zhang Yiren saw that the new four soldiers were equal, everyone was very friendly, and even someone brought him tea and poured water, and immediately decided to stay. In this way, Zhang Yiren became a soldier of the New Fourth Army.
After systematic education, Zhang Yiren completed his rebirth, just like a changed person. In the first battle against Japan, he single-handedly killed 4 Japanese devils and 1 puppet army, covered the safe retreat of the troops, was praised by the leaders, and became a famous combat hero of the Songhu detachment.
Later, during the Liberation War, Zhang Yiren joined the party and successively became a squad leader and a platoon leader, like the famous Meng Lianggu Campaign, the liberation of Shanghai and other battles, he has his figure, and has made countless contributions.
In 1950, Zhang Yiren, who was already a company commander, entered the Korean War with his troops.
After the Battle of Chosin Lake, our army captured a large number of rocket launchers from the US army, and the superiors asked for the formation of a rocket launcher company, and this task was entrusted to Zhang Yiren.
Because of the shortage of soldiers at that time, his superiors reluctantly put together 108 people for him, of which 59 were recruits, and the rest were all miscellaneous personnel who had been reorganized from the directly subordinate units of the military division. Still, he optimistically organized his troops to start from scratch and train little by little.
In the summer of 1951, our army launched an attack on the mouth of the cave, and the superior asked Zhang Yiren's bazooka company to attack, targeting the tanks and armored vehicles of the US 24th Division. It was in this battle that Zhang Yiren and his bazooka company played a mighty blow, and 5 bazooka players, under his command, used grenades and bazookas to cooperate with each other and killed 5 US tanks and 17 armored vehicles in one fell swoop.
Half a day later, they participated in mountain offensive and defensive battles, using rocket launchers to destroy 12 US bunkers in one fell swoop. Zhang Yiren said happily: "My 108 generals are all heroes!" ”
After the war, the bazooka lian was awarded the first class of collective merit, and Zhang Yiren was also rated as a first-class model worker (equivalent to a first-class combat hero), and participated in the National Heroic Model Conference as a representative, and was cordially received by the chairman and President Zhu.