One day in 1953, a large bus stopped, and out of it came a man in military uniform, who stood where he was and did not immediately move forward. He looked around, his mood suddenly improved, and then he continued to walk forward.
At this time, there happened to be an old man driving the ox cart on the way home, he sat in front of the ox cart, his eyebrows were furrowed, and his head was bowed as if he was thinking about something...
Soon after, he looked up and saw the man in the uniform, his pace very fast, as if he was in a hurry, so the old man threw up the whip in his hand and pumped it twice on the cow's body, and the cow's pace became compact.
Finally stopped when he was closer to the man.
"Chief, where are you going?" I can take you a little bit all the way. "The old man said." Thank you so much. Wang Fuzhi said gratefully.
Curiosity led to it, so the old man chatted with him.
"Where did you come from?" Where to go? The old man asked.
"Coming back from the Korean battlefield..."
Listening to him say this, the old master also talked about his son who joined the army in his early years, and sighed in his heart and said: "I once had a son, who joined the Red Army in northern Shaanxi and walked for so many years, and now I don't know whether he is dead or alive, and now he is almost the same age as you!" ”
Wang Fuzhi thought in his heart, he was also in the army in northern Shaanxi, maybe he could know it? So I continued to chat with Uncle.
"My son was only 12 years old when he joined the army..." The old man did not finish speaking, and halfway through his speech, he was silent for a while and did not speak again.
Wang Fuzhi listened to his heart and giggled a little, very similar to his own experience, thinking that there could not be such a clever thing, he had a lot of questions in his heart, but looking at the old man's solemn face, in order not to make the old man sad, so he did not continue to ask.
After driving for a while, the old man walked to a dilapidated house and said, "I have arrived home, chief, where are you?" ”
"I've arrived too, sir." Wang Fuzhi said.
The old man was shocked and asked, "What is your name?" ”
"My name is Wang Fuzhi..."
At this moment, the old man almost did not faint, this is not his 12-year-old son who joined the army, he did not believe that this in front of him was his son, he burst into tears, excitedly shouted: "My son!"
It turned out that this old man who carried his way was his father. Wang Fuzhi was also very excited to support his father, looking at this white-haired, old father, he was both distressed and sad, and the two hugged each other tightly.
Wang Fuzhi left his hometown to join the army for 18 years, and fought on the battlefield for so many years, it is no longer what he used to be, and now things are not human, and even his biological father has not been able to recognize it.
First, young people join the army
Who is Wang Fuzhi?
On September 24, 1923, Wang Fuzhi was born in Fujia Xinzhuang, Sanyanquanlou, Zizhou County, Shaanxi Province. When he was 5 years old, his mother died and he has been living with his father ever since.
But the family is surrounded by walls, the days are getting poorer and poorer, and his father has no way, and finally he can only leave his hometown to join his distant relatives, and his distant relative is a landlord, and Wang Fuzhi naturally became a shepherd baby.
After growing up a little, he began to take turns to work in some rich peasant families, living in the eyes of rich people all day, naturally he would be a little edified, and his father also felt that he could not let his children understand anything, so he decided to let him learn something.
So it took some effort to support the relationship, coupled with the usual frugality, wang Fuzhi was sent to a private school to learn cultural knowledge. Although he only attended private school for three months at that time, this was also his cultural enlightenment, which laid a good foundation for the formation of his later worldview.
At that time, the reason why he could only read for three months was not that his family did not let him read, his father was actually quite ideologically conscious, and wanted his children to receive more education, but how could Wang Fuzhi's family conditions be too poor, even living was a problem, where was there extra money for him to continue to study?
So in the end, he dropped out of school and continued to cultivate land for others.
He is also bold, he often goes to work in some wild beasts, and this kind of life that has to maintain a "high-pressure" level of life in order to make a living also makes him far stronger than his peers, and people are more sensible.
In 1935, the Red Army led by Liu Zhidan was active in his hometown.
At that time, Wang Fuzhi saw for the first time such a people-friendly army as the Red Army, and he saw that the Red Army troops were not only strictly disciplined, but also often slept with the common people, worked for the people, carried water, and swept the yard.
In fact, from this time on, the psychology of "being a Member of the Red Army" and becoming a member of it had already germinated in Wang Fuzhi's heart.
So one day, he came to Liu Zhidan's unit and said to the Red Army, which was recruiting soldiers: "I want to be a Red Army, and I will follow your team. ”
The recruited Red Army looked up and down at the teenager with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "How old are you?" ”
"How big do you see me?" He asked rhetorically.
"Sixteen or seventeen?"
"Well, almost!" Wang Fuzhi said vainly that in fact, he was only 12 years old.
Although he was only 12 years old, his height was already more than 1 meter 6, so the recruiters did not bother too much with him and finally agreed to his request.
In this way, Wang Fuzhi became a small Red Army at the age of twelve and entered the "Young Communist Battalion" of the Twenty-sixth Army.
However, although he had joined the Red Army, he was not a real "Red Army" at this time.
After all, the living conditions of the Red Army are very difficult, not to mention the weapons and equipment, even the Red Army soldiers who are the main force sometimes do not have a good gun, And Wang Fuzhi, a red devil, not to mention no weapons, can only charge with a shuttle dart, and he does not even have a formal military uniform.
However, in the Battle of Laoshan in 1935, Wang Fuzhi seized the enemy's gun with his bare hands and has since possessed the first gun after joining the army.
At that time, Liu Zhidan and Xu Haidong discussed and formulated a plan for besieging the city and providing assistance. Their plan was that at Laoshan, the 75th Division was in the east, the 78th Division and the 81st Division were in the west, and the two divisions formed a state of pinch attack, waiting for the rabbits, waiting for the enemy to take the initiative to enter the door, and then encircling and suppressing.
Wang Fuzhi's Shaogong battalion was full of baby soldiers, a group of children, but there were also more than 200 people, who were responsible for attacking a high ground. The battalion commander gave them a brief explanation of the mission: there were three ladders in the battalion, one ladder for frontal attack, and the other two for roundabout flank attack.
According to the battalion commander's strategic countermeasures, they rushed to the bottom of a high ground, heard the enemy above speak northeastern dialect, and shouted at the baby soldiers below: "A group of small knots at the bottom, no climate." ”
But they are very wrong, just as the so-called newborn calves are not afraid of death, children have a characteristic, they do not know what death is, they have nothing to fear.
Listening to the enemy's shouts, these little red devils could not be convinced, so the fighting spirit was even more intense, and the bullets flew over their heads, and they did not flinch in the slightest.
At this time, the enemy looked at the baby soldiers who rushed up, and they were a little caught off guard.
At that time, Wang Fuzhi took the gun and ran straight to an enemy who raised his gun, put a dart against the neck of the man, and then snatched the gun from the enemy's hand, and while having the first gun since joining the army, he also fought the most beautiful battle since joining the army.
After the Battle of Laoshan, Wang Fuzhi left the Shaogong Battalion and was transferred to the 223rd Regiment of the 75th Division, where he worked as a correspondent in the third battalion, and then was sent to the surveying and mapping training class of the Corps Headquarters to learn surveying and mapping, at this time he also had the honor of being Huang Kecheng's combat staff officer.
Although Wang Fuzhi had a very low starting point, after experiencing the baptism of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, he also benefited from combat experience and merit, and grew from the previous red devil to a high-ranking officer who was alone.
Second, on the Korean battlefield, the "god of death" rubbed the edge
One day in the late summer of 1952, during the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wang Fu was then acting division commander and commanded the 115th Division of the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army led by the operations to achieve a major victory in the Korean War, and Liu Ming, a reporter for the People's Daily, was arranged to do some in-depth interviews with him.
At that time, the command post of the 115th Division of the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army was located in a narrow and long tunnel, and after finding Wang Fu, the reporter began to discuss how to revise a press release.
After the discussion was completed, Wang Fuzhi asked reporter Liu Ming to come to his seat to write, and he immediately returned to the depths of the tunnel, lighting candles while continuing to study the work at hand with Su Shengshi, chief of the operations section, and Chen Zhimao, a staff officer.
At this moment, there was a sudden "boom" of a loud noise, breaking the previous silence, and several consecutive bombardments made the scene suddenly fall into chaos. Wang Fuzhi felt a huge energy invisibly push him down, he didn't know what was happening, but he quickly lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he found that one of his legs had been pressed tightly by the wood and the surrounding stones, and he tried to pull out his leg hard, but he couldn't move at all.
His body was very weak, and he had no strength, he used a weak voice, trying to shout at others, but except for hearing the answers of Su Shengshi and Chen Zhimao, none of the others were spared, including the reporter Liu Ming, who came to interview, he never thought that on this day, his life would stop here.
It was pitch black all around, and I couldn't see my five fingers, and I couldn't see anything.
But Wang Fuzhi can't just sit still, after all, compromise has never been his style.
So he insisted on communicating with the two living comrades-in-arms and encouraged them to save themselves, so that they kept ripping the wood and stones pressed on their bodies and legs with their hands. After a few hours, the two comrades escaped and began to help rescue Wang Fuzhi.
Wang Fuzhi and Chen Zhimao's legs were both smashed by the object, and Su Shengshi's injuries were not light, breaking three ribs. All three people were seriously injured, and if they wanted to survive at this time, they had to make some contact with the outside world.
Although there is no telephone, but they have seen the big scene, they still maintain the sanity they should have, and do not panic in the slightest, they knock on all the things around them that can make a sound, such as washbasins, wooden barrels...
But there was still no echo. But they still encouraged each other and never gave up.
Rescue does not know when it will arrive, and the most important thing they need to do at this time is to maintain physical strength at all times, after all, as long as they are alive, there is hope. In this case, water is the most important thing, because water can live, and this is not the time to consider dignity, so they store urine in case of emergency.
Time passes minute by minute, and for them, these few days are like years. Unable to wait for the sound of rescue, the air in the black hole was getting thinner and thinner, they were not afraid of sacrifice, the only thing that disappointed was that such a sacrifice was too unforerous!
On the other hand, after learning the news, the troops attached great importance to it, deputy commander Wu Xinquan and others personally commanded the rescue at the first time, the bombardment continued continuously, the scene was chaotic, and the soldiers also risked their lives and risked their lives in the rescue!
Peng Dehuai, the commander at the time, personally called and said, "Do everything possible to rescue Comrade Wang Fuzhi." Military Commander Wu Xinquan also stepped up his efforts to rescue and constantly urged: "No matter what method is used, we must rescue Comrade Wang Fuzhi!" ”
More than 30 hours of rescue, still no news!
After such a long time, in such a harsh environment, in fact, everyone knows in their hearts that the hope of survival is very small, but they are still constantly rescuing.
Looking at this fruitless rescue, the military commander Wu Xinquan finally had to stop, and he forcibly suppressed tears to send a report to the headquarters that "Wang Fuzhi and others sacrificed", and marked the word "sacrifice" on the back of Wang Fuzhi's roster of volunteers!
However, Commander Peng Dehuai said: "To live you must see the corpse, when you die, you must see people, and if you sacrifice, you must also find the body and send it back to China for burial!" ”
And just when everyone was immersed in the grief of the sacrifice of Wang Fuzhi and others, the deputy company commander of an engineer company suddenly found that several flies flew out of a stone crevice.
Flies can live inside, and people can naturally live!
So the commander liu Xinquan held a glimmer of hope and decided to continue the search and rescue and make a final effort.
Kung Fu pays off! Finally, the search and rescue team found signs of life, and as the three men felt nearly suffocated, they heard the loud sound of the excavator. Perhaps the sound of the excavator is too noisy in the eyes of ordinary people, but for Wang Fuzhi at this time, it is particularly crisp and pleasant.
Wang Fuzhi did not expect that it was these flies that saved his life. So he also sighed later: "If two flies fly out of the hole, I will be finished." Since then, Wang Fuzhi has also regarded the flies that everyone hates as a "life-saving benefactor" and will no longer harm!
After Wang Fuzhi was rescued, he underwent initial treatment, and then returned to China for further treatment.
Third, after the war, the residual heat is still exerted
There is a saying that goes: "If you don't die, you will be blessed!" ”
On the Korean battlefield, he achieved outstanding results and was promoted to the commander of the main division of the Volunteer Army. In May 1953, as the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea came to an end, Wang Fuzhi was able to return to China.
It has been 18 years since I fought on the battlefield and participated in countless battles.
After escaping death, he missed his father very much, after all, he had no mother since he was a child, his father was his only relative, without his father's help, there would be no his present, so he decided to take a vacation back to his hometown to visit his elderly father.
This brings us to the story of the first two fathers and sons meeting.
However, after the father and son met, after taking a vacation, he quickly returned to the army.
After the war was completely over, Wang Fuzhi successively served as chief of staff, deputy commander and chief of staff, and also served as commander of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region and deputy commander of the Urumqi Military Region. In 1964, he was also promoted to the rank of major general for meritorious service.
The army led by him also has a high reputation abroad, and some foreign military experts call his army "China's ace army."
In 1968, Wang Fuzhi was transferred to the General Staff as the head of the Operations Department.
During his time in the Operations Department of the General Staff, Wang Fuzhi often met with Premier Zhou Enlai as a minister, and was also favored by Premier Zhou, who not only affectionately called him "Fuzhi", but also often arranged some very confidential tasks for him, which showed the importance attached to him.
As of December 27, 2020, there were only 6 founding generals left in the country, and Major General Wang Fuzhi was one of them, and he was the youngest one.