During the arduous 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our army defeated the well-equipped Japanese aggressors with backward weapons and equipment, which is inseparable from our army's spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and arduous struggle and not fearing death. However, no matter how strong our army is, the gap in weapons and equipment cannot be ignored, especially the lack of weapons, ammunition and training grounds, which makes it more difficult for our army to fight against the brutal Japanese army, and at the same time better reflects our army's indomitable indomitable efforts. According to statistics, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, an average of 660 bullets were needed to hit a Japanese army. This is only a hit, not a kill, it can be said that it is very difficult to create an effective kill, which is why a "sharpshooter" is even more precious.
Wei Laiguo, who was born in Rongcheng, Shandong, is such a sharpshooter who chooses one out of a hundred. Wei Laiguo was born in November 1925 to a very poor family. Because the father had asthma and could not do a lot of physical labor, he had no choice but to sell his daughter, who was less than 14 years old, to others as child brides. In his memory, his childhood was to be ragged and collecting firewood in the grass in the mountains. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, because his uncle became the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese puppet army often came to their homes to smash and rob, which made Wei Laiguo, who was only 14 years old at the time, full of hatred. Finally, at the age of 16, with full of enthusiasm and class hatred, he took the initiative to join the Eighth Route Army.
When Wei Laiguo, who had just joined the Eighth Route Army, was pursuing and killing an enemy, he could not even shoot two shots at a distance of forty meters, and watched the enemy run away. Only then did he understand that neither a gun nor a bullet was useful without excellent technology. Since then, Wei Laiguo has been fierce and painstakingly practicing shooting. Kung Fu pays off, and after 3 months of harsh training and training in the East China Sea Teaching Brigade, he has been transformed. In the later battle with the puppet army, Wei Laiguo was a blockbuster, and with a platoon of fighters, he crushed 5 companies of the enemy in just over 20 days, and 40 days later, 12 companies of the enemy army suffered heavy losses.
The battle in April 1947 was the Battle of the Gods of Wei Laiguo. Wei Laiguo, who had just finished a battle, led the company to Mengyin County in 9 days and recaptured Tiantai Mountain, which had been occupied by the enemy. When the enemy reinforcements arrived and the second attack began, Wei Laiguo alone killed 58 enemies, and under the accurate shooting of the whole company, they repelled 4 enemy attacks. However, in the process of changing the defense and resting, the company that changed the defense actually lost its position. In order to regain the position, he led the angry company fighters to attack again and successfully occupied the position. This time, they fought for 7 days and 7 nights, and in these two battles, he killed 92 enemies with a total of 132 rounds of ammunition.
Whenever people praise Wei Laiguo as a natural "sharpshooter", Wei Laiguo will shake his head and say that where there is a natural gun god, no matter how good the technology is, it is jointly created by the diligent study and hard work of the shooting range and the courage on the battlefield. In his later years, Wei Laiguo liked to watch anti-Japanese film and television dramas and recall the glorious years of the past. But whenever he saw those plots that did not conform to reality and weakened the Japanese army too much, he couldn't help but scold, if the devils were really so stupid, why did we have to work so hard for 14 years in the first place.