On September 25, 1950, at the National Conference of Representatives of Combat Heroes, with the music of "Dongfang Hong" sounding, after shaking hands with Chairman Mao Zedong cordially, Guo Junqing, as a heroic model representative, was invited to the rostrum and sat down. The reason why she can enjoy such a special honor is because she once dressed as a man and mixed with male soldiers and fought bravely to kill the enemy.
After this commendation meeting, "Guo Junqing" began to be called "Modern Mulan" by the world, and her heroic deeds began to be praised throughout the country. After the release of the movie "Youth in the War" based on her, her story was even more popular throughout the country.
"Great on the back, often sacrificial!" This sentence is most appropriately applied to Guo Junqing, a national special female combat hero. Compared with the suffering endured by ordinary soldiers on the battlefield, Guo Junqing also had to bear a lot of pain to conceal his gender.
Guo Junqing
Guo Junqing is a northeasterner, her face is quite masculine, her voice is also naturally thicker, and she shaved her head like other soldiers when she joined the army. Therefore, it is difficult to see from her appearance that she is a woman.
But the appearance can not be seen, the voice can not be heard, if you want to get along with the warriors day and night, it is not easy to hide the female identity.
Guo Junqing initially boldly joined the Eighth Route Army under the pseudonym of "Guo Fu", purely to avenge his father. Her father was killed by the landlord, and after his father was killed, she always dressed as a man and went to the landlord's house to work and support the family. In 1945, 14-year-old Guo Junqing met the Eighth Route Army for the first time. Knowing that this team advocated an agrarian revolution, that is, overthrowing the landlords and dividing the land, and letting the people turn themselves into masters, she made up her mind to join this team to avenge her father.
However, because the team did not recruit female soldiers at that time and her age did not meet the recruitment standards, she had to conceal her gender to participate in the recruitment. However, the conditions for conscription at that time were very strict, because Guo Junqing was thin, her face was sallow and her age was too young, and the troops said that they would not ask for her. In order to successfully become a soldier and avenge her father, she followed the troops all the way, and the leaders of the troops saw that her perseverance was very good, so they made an exception and took her into the army.
After arriving in the army, Guo Junqing learned that the soldiers in the army often had to sleep in the "Chase Shop", which means that many soldiers slept together. Because of the limited conditions of the troops, they often even bathed together. These can stump Guo Junqing.
In order not to be perceived as a woman rather than a man, she tried not to let anyone touch her every time she slept. To avoid being touched, she slept with her clothes and facing the wall every time she slept. When she went to take a bath, she always ran to wash alone after everyone had washed, and after everyone had washed, she pretended to shout: "Is there anyone to go to the bath together?" At that point, everyone has been washed, and naturally no one has answered.
Guo Junqing and Mr. Peng and so on
In addition to these, Guo Junqing also strives to pretend to be "out of place" in order not to let people notice, so naturally to prevent others from getting too close to her. If the soldiers of the army joked with her, she would pretend to be angry and "scare them away", and after a long time, although everyone thought she was weird, they could not detect the reason.
In the army", the most difficult thing about "women dressing as men" is how to live the female physiological period, the army wants to march and fight, Guo Junqing and the soldiers are naturally in a state of extreme tension for a long time, so that Guo Junqing himself can not understand his physiological period.
In may 1948, during the Battle of Pingquan, just as Guo Junqing and the soldiers rushed to the commanding heights, she suddenly felt a sharp abdominal pain, followed by beads of sweat rolling down her face, and a large piece of blood was printed on her pants.
The soldiers around Guo Junqing were frightened when they saw it, and they all thought that Guo Junqing was injured, in fact, Guo Junqing only came to the menstrual period to reveal female characteristics, because of the problem of dysmenorrhea, she could not hold back and sat paralyzed on the ground. At this time, they were fighting, and she also shouldered an important mission: to plant the red flag on the second mountain beam to avenge the deputy squad leader who died in the battle.
At the critical moment, she continued to cheer herself up while trying to stand up. On that day, she endured severe pain, braved artillery fire, and planted the red flag on the hilltop position under the cover of our army's machine guns.
Guo Junqing's film "Youth in the Fire"
After the victory, the surviving warriors quickly gathered around her to examine her wounds, which frightened her, and she said in a hurry: "It is the enemy's blood that splashed on me, look at you anxious!" The warriors looked at her with a look of pain and doubt, "You look like you're injured!" In order to dispel the doubts of the warriors, she had to stand up and jump a few times in pain.
It wasn't until many years later, when her femininity was revealed, that the warriors knew that on that day, she had endured the great pain of her menstrual period to complete the battle.
An important reason why Guo Junqing's female identity has not been detected is that on the battlefield, she often charges ahead. A warrior who is so unafraid of death, who would doubt her gender!
On the other hand, Guo Junqing is also extremely unwilling to lose, in the army, as long as it is a man's work, she will do it all. Carrying guns, cannons, riding horses, etc., she did a great job, and in order to make herself more like a man, she also learned to smoke.
After spending a long time with male warriors, through deliberate imitation, her movements and personality have become more and more masculine.
But imitating it again, Guo Junqing is also a woman after all, and in the five years that she hid her gender in the army, not no one doubted his true gender.
Once, xiao Li, who had asked her to take a bath with her several times, saw that she refused to be together, and he couldn't hold his breath, and he said angrily: "You sneak around every time you take a bath, is there something hiding from us, I have to pull you together today." After saying that, the warrior Xiao Li also hugged her directly from behind and threatened to rip her clothes off. The frightened Guo Junqing cried and struggled, and the soldiers rushed up to break the siege.
After this time, some people doubted Guo Junqing's true gender.
An 18-year-old soldier named Tao Zhenguo found through observation that if you look closely, Guo Junqing is somewhat like a woman, and coupled with Her violent reaction at the time of Xiao Li's incident, he suspects that she is indeed a woman.
Therefore, when he saw Guo Junqing alone, he couldn't help but ask: "Are you a woman?" Guo Junqing immediately narrowed his eyes and said, "No! Of course, Tao Zhenguo would not stop there, he continued to ask, "Then why don't you let us check our bodies?" Guo Junqing listened and said angrily, "What are you checking me for?" After saying that, she walked away in a huff.
After this, Tao Zhenguo was not good enough to ask anything more.
Guo Junqing is a woman after all, and she has the characteristics of being a woman rigorous and meticulous, which makes her role in the army very unusual. On the way south, the broadcaster shouted slogans under the scorching sun and was tired, and she took the horn for the first time; when she saw that the soldier was weak on the marching road, she always tried to help them; after arriving at the camp, when she saw that the comrades were tired, she could think of boiling water and scalding their feet; the soldiers' clothes were broken, and she sewed them up three times; it was cold in the middle of the night, and when she saw that the charcoal fire was always extinguished in the middle of the night, she would get up every night to add charcoal, and when she saw her comrades-in-arms being beaten, she would cover everyone with quilts...
The first on the left is Guo Junqing
In the battle, Guo Junqing also made meritorious contributions again and again with her courage and carefulness, and in the later Liaoshen Campaign, she was promoted to deputy instructor of the machine gun company by virtue of her battle achievements.
After serving as an instructor, she repeatedly engaged in hand-to-hand combat, seized several major positions, defended the important defensive line of the revolution, and made important contributions to the overall victory of the New China Liberation War.
In addition to the battle, Guo Junqing, who is good at literature and art, can sing a lot of songs and local dramas, often uses his talents to inspire morale and encourage everyone's emotions. Women are originally gentler than men, and every time she leads everyone to sing, she can make everyone's body and mind get excellent comfort.
One year, on the first day of the Chinese New Year, Guo Junqing was still organizing everyone to twist the song in the army, and on that day, she wore a wig and a cheongsam, and twisted her waist while singing, and her bold performance made the soldiers lean forward and backward. The amused warriors looked at it and said, "Guo Fu plays a woman, and he really looks a bit like a woman!" ”
In fact, when playing a woman that time, Guo Junqing herself pinched a handful of sweat for herself, and she knew that if she did not grasp the measure well, she was very likely to let everyone see that she was a woman. Because when she performs, she is particularly exaggerated, so no one sees that she is a real woman, only that "she is playing a woman".
If it were not for the subsequent illness, Guo Junqing's female identity might have been hidden, originally, she herself planned to do the same. She planned to wait until the war was over, when she sneaked away and then went home to be her mother's good daughter.
But man is not as good as heaven after all! After liberation, Guo Junqing fell seriously ill. Only she knew: she was suffering from gynecology. If she had had other diseases, she would have been cured a long time ago, but she had this disease that could not be spoken of, because once she said it, her female identity would also be exposed. In that case, she would have to leave the barracks she was in early.
After 5 years of fighting with her comrades in the army, she and the soldiers had a deep affection, and she kept thinking: she had to accompany them until the last moment.
Guo Junqing's contract with gynecological diseases is inevitable, think about how hard the life of the troops is: long-term wind and food, sleeping, climbing ice and snow, once, she had to flow through the deep ditch full of filth with the soldiers...
After getting sick, Guo Junqing has been enduring, and she can't secretly prescribe medicine. Because of her long-term illness and lack of medical treatment, her condition became worse and worse every day.
In May 1950, Guo Junqing, who was getting sicker and sicker, passed out, and the soldiers hurriedly and panickedly called her a doctor. When the experienced doctor was about to treat her, Guo Junqing, who was awake, jumped up from the bed like a spring and instinctively covered himself. The attentive doctor judged based on the illness described by her comrades and her reaction: it was not simple.
After observation, the doctor found that Guo Junqing was lying flat on his throat and his thighs were lightly hairy, so he suspected Guo Junqing's gender. The doctor quickly reported his concerns to the organization.
That day, after the doctor left, Guo Junqing also played drums in her heart, and she felt that she was doomed this time. In fact, she has always been afraid of being exposed to her daughter's identity, not only because she does not want to leave her comrades-in-arms, but also because she feels that her behavior is deceiving the organization.
That day, Guo Junqing, who was ill, thought a lot, she thought about her miserable childhood, how she was trained from a yellow haired girl to a soldier and instructor of the People's Liberation Army, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt guilty in her heart. So, after a night of crying, she finally opened her heart to the organization and confessed the truth that she was a woman.
In fact, with Guo Junqing's condition at that time, if she did not treat her in time, only death awaited her.
After confessing the truth about her daughter's identity, the doctor had to perform surgery on her to remove her uterus. In the year of surgery, Guo Junqing was only 19 years old.
After being discharged from the hospital, Guo Junqing changed into the skirt of a female warrior and appeared in front of her comrades-in-arms, and from this time on, she no longer used the pseudonym of "Guo Fu" and began to use her real name "Guo Junqing".
The news that Guo Junqing dressed as a man and rode on the battlefield and bravely killed the enemy caused a sensation in the Fourth Field Army she was in. For a moment, all the warriors of Shino knew the news.
Some people say that "Guo Junqing is a modern Mulan", but others say that "her behavior is a deception of the organization". After the news reached the ears of He Jinnian, then the second deputy commander of the Fifteenth Corps of the Fourth Field Army, he promptly concluded for her:
"Guo Junqing is a hero of the towel, a contemporary 'Mulan', and the pride of our army."
A few months later, Guo Junqing, who became the "Pride of the Four Wilds," was invited to Beijing to attend the National Congress of Combat Heroes. Attending the meeting were all combat heroes from all units of the People's Liberation Army. Guo Junqing was naturally very happy to be named a combat hero, and what made her even happier was that Zhao Xingyuan, a four-wild warrior she had been silently liking in her heart, was also invited to participate.
Guo Junqing took a group photo with the commended comrades-in-arms
Zhao Xingyuan is a heroic and fearless hero, he is five years older than Guo Junqing. On weekdays, he often took the initiative to help his comrade-in-arms Guo Junqing. Zhao Xingyuan was wounded nine times, and in the revolutionary war, he made countless miracles.
After Zhao Xingyuan learned that Guo Junqing was a woman, his heart also giggled a little, but after he thought about it, he felt: This seems to be nothing, and women can also be brothers. Little did he know that he wanted to be a brother to her, and she had already liked him.
After Guo Junqing's gender secret was announced, she still often came to chat with Zhao Xingyuan. When she was alone with him, she also began to show the tenderness of the girl's instinct, and she still liked to lean next to Zhao Xingyuan and laugh with him. When Guo Junqing saw that he did not reject her like this, he had the courage to make a tentative confession one night, she said: "People say that we are going to get married? ”
Zhao Xingyuan listened, and when he sank his face, he said, "I don't know, the two of us are too prominent and inappropriate." After saying that, he quickly looked away.
In fact, not only did Zhao Xingyuan feel that Guo Junqing was "inappropriate" to be his wife, but other warriors in Siye also thought so. Guo Junqing did not know, she recovered her daughter behind, many people are saying:
"Find a good wife, not Guo Junqing." If you want a good comrade-in-arms, look for Guo Junqing. ”
The implication of this sentence is that Guo Junqing is suitable for being a brother, not a wife. This is also because after more than five years of spending time with the male soldiers in the barracks, she still looks like a man even when she wears women's clothes.
After hearing Zhao Xingyuan's euphemistic refusal, Guo Junqing did not fully react, she really thought that he felt that "both of them are too prominent." Therefore, she insisted on changing watches with Zhao Xingyuan. Zhao Xingyuan saw that she had taken away her Swiss watch and said hurriedly: "Xiao Guo, I am going to North Korea, I am a commander, I must grasp the time, you return the watch to me." ”
The reason why Zhao Xingyuan was anxious to get the Swiss watch back was not because she was reluctant to do so, but because she was afraid that she would think more about it. He wondered if she would make it clear if she took the watch as a promise.
At this point, Guo Junqing finally understood: he really did not want to be good with himself. At that moment, the sad Guo Junqing angrily said "give", and then threw his watch on the ground. Even if the Swiss watch did not leave, Guo Junqing took a look at the Swiss watch and walked away crying...
Zhao Xingyuan
After being rejected by Zhao Xingyuan, Guo Junqing was sad for many days, and she also heard the words that circulated that "Guo Junqing can't be a good wife". The pain of lost love made her feel inferior, and she began to realize that she really couldn't be a "good wife" because she no longer had a womb (not a complete woman).
When the story of Guo Junqing and Zhao Xingyuan was spread, another comrade-in-arms who was also in Siye had been silently watching them, this person was an old eighth road from a miner, who was Guo Junqing's old platoon leader. Since Guo Junqing entered the army, he has been paying attention to her growth.
Unfortunately, Guo Junqing only regarded him as a brother. So, when the old platoon leader confessed to her, she refused him without hesitation. When she rejected him, she told the old platoon leader what she was saying, and she said:
"I can't be a good wife, so how can I drag down a good comrade?"
After the old platoon leader listened, he also told Guo Junqing what he was saying, and he said:
"Xiao Guo, it doesn't matter if you can't have children, how many good comrades-in-arms have died on the battlefield, and they haven't even looked at the five-star red flag." I'm the one who loves you and no children can go and adopt one. ”
The old platoon leader's heartfelt words touched Guo Junqing, but because at this time her heart was full of inferiority, so she did not want to talk about feelings, so she still rejected him. After that, the rejected old platoon leader wrote her numerous letters, but she did not reply.
20 years later, the old platoon leader who had long lost the news of Guo Junqing was still looking for her, and after many twists and turns, he finally found Guo Junqing, who had changed his name and surname, in Shandong.
Originally, Guo Junqing, who adhered to the principle of "in the war years, we should go to the battlefield for training; in the peace years, we should go to the grassroots to make contributions", resolutely changed to local work in the early 50s. She worked in the Central Handicraft Administration, the Shandong Licheng County Handicraft Administration, and in 1962, she also served as the director of Qingdao First Garment Factory.
Unfortunately, in the face of such an obsessive old platoon leader, she once again chose to escape. When the two of them went for a walk together, she ran away on the pretext of going to the toilet. The reason why Guo Junqing avoided the old platoon leader was not because she didn't like him, in fact, she had already been touched by the old platoon leader's affection, but she did not dare to be with him, because she firmly believed that if she could not be a "good wife", she would only affect him.
Since then, Guo Junqing has completely closed the door of her emotions, and she has only been bent on raising her adopted daughter. Her adopted daughter's name is Guo Lihua, which means "for the welfare of China" as the name suggests.
Guo Lihua became Guo Junqing's only reliance later, and for the rest of her life, she has been dependent on her daughter for the rest of her life.
Guo Junqing took a group photo with his mother, adopted daughter and brother
It is a pity that after the ancient Mulan took off her battle robe, she married zhao Junsheng, a man she liked, as she wished, and lived a loving life.
But modern Mulan has never been married! And the reason behind her unmarried marriage is related to her dressing as a man and galloping on the battlefield!
In the early morning of September 23, 1983, Guo Junqing unfortunately died in Changzhou due to cerebral hemorrhage, and she died at the age of 53.
When she left, the entire legacy of the only female special combat hero who had contributed to the country in her life was an old suitcase, an old quilt, a blanket and 80 yuan.
After her death, people saw a passage she said to future generations in her manuscript "What to Leave behind" to future generations:
"What should we leave behind for future generations? Leave righteousness behind. If there is no righteousness, it will kick out the country and the beautiful situation we have created..."
It is a pity that Guo Junqing has not been able to become a "good wife" of any man, but he is definitely worthy of being a "good son" of New China!