The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was a war to establish a nation after the founding of New China, and the victory in this war was won with the blood and tears of 300,000 soldiers. In order to defend their families and defend their country, many combat heroes have left their lives in foreign countries, and the heroic deeds of many of them have been circulated in our country. People are most familiar with it
Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, Yang Gensi
et al.
Speaking of Huang Jiguang, it is really a household name, even children have learned from textbooks that he sacrificed himself to block the muzzle of the gun, and knows that he is a great hero who sacrificed for the country.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Huang Jiguang's spirit of sacrifice infected a large number of people, and many heroes like him in the volunteer army emerged haojie, although their popularity was not as high as Huang Jiguang, but their names are also worth remembering.
In China's modern history, in fact, the first person to sacrifice himself to block the muzzle of the gun is not Huang Jiguang, according to incomplete statistics,
In the history of our army, there are at least 14 martyrs who have blocked the holes of guns
At present, in the records, the first person who blocked the eye was a name
Xu Jiabiao
Of the warriors, his deeds were a whole before Huang Jiguang
Seven years
。
- "Xu Jiabiao."
There were multiple gunshot wounds all over his body, his hands were cut off, his legs were incapacitated, and his blood was bleeding, but he still tried his last strength to pounce on the muzzle of the machine gun..."
Xu Jiabiao, born in 1926, grew up in a poor peasant family in Guanyun County, Jiangsu Province, and joined the New Fourth Army at the age of 17. Because of his bravery in battle and his fear of sacrifice, he joined the Communist Party of China in 1945, became a glorious party member, and was later promoted to the rank of 5th squad leader.
On August 15, 1945, the Japanese government announced its surrender.
However, the 8,000 Japanese puppet troops, who were still stationed in Huaiyin and Huai'an at that time, refused to surrender to our army.
Therefore, after the meeting, the New Fourth Army decided to launch the Battle of Lianghuai, and the main force was the Third Division where Xu Jiabiao's troops were located.
This battle is a "hard bone"
It is difficult to bite with the naked eye, but this is the first tough battle encountered by Xu Jiabiao's special task force after its establishment, and everyone is rubbing their fists to give the Japanese army a good look.
On the afternoon of September 6, our army took the lead in launching a battle to attack Huaiyin City. The regimental leadership determined that the seven companies and eight companies of the three battalions were assault companies and shouldered
Break through the attack from the south gate
tasks.
The four gates of Huaiyin City are all urn gates,
The walls are seven or eight meters high
There are battlements for concealed shooting, a gun tower every few hundred meters around the city wall, and a moat outside the city wall, which is about 40 meters wide and has a water depth of two or three meters.
The enemy army has a very good "geographical advantage", and in this contrast, the New Fourth Army Special Mission regiment with only one US bomb is very shabby.
However, this only killer skill is also very ineffective, just after Xu Jiabiao, the leader of the sharp knife squad, led the soldiers to risk their lives in the enemy's artillery fire and used a cart to send the bomb to the south gate to be lit, the crowd found that it was a dud.
Can't explode!
But the brother troops of the other three gates had already begun to attack, and the arrows had to be fired on the string, and the regiment immediately decided to attack the city
Ladder strong attack
Xu Jiabiao was the first to climb the ladder, he held a grenade in his left hand, a rifle and a bullet bag on his back, and quickly climbed to the upper edge of the city wall.
Xu Jiabiao immediately threw 3 grenades at the puppet army in the city, and while the puppet army was panicking because of the explosion, he planted the red flag on the head of the city under the cover of smoke.
Because Xu Jiabiao and others had already climbed the city wall, in order to avoid accidental injury, the large troops temporarily stopped suppressing the enemy's fire.
But the puppet army took advantage of this time to re-blockade the landing point at the head of the city with machine gun fire and bayonets.
Prevent the New Fourth Army from entering the city.
The fierce battle with the enemy army was very fierce, Xu Jiabiao had fewer enemies and more enemies, first suffered a head injury, and then was shot in the chest and legs together, when he could not move,
An enemy defender rushed out and stabbed him in the hands...
Because his hands were cut off, Xu Jiabiao was in pain until he fainted, his comrades were killed one after another, the number of sacrifices in the special service regiment continued to rise, and the battle situation became more and more unfavorable to our army...
Xu Jiabiao slowly woke up and turned around, and what came into his eyes was the corpses of comrades-in-arms on the ground. He looked closely and finally found out
The enemy strafed our army in a bunker on the right side behind the city walls
There were many plants growing around this bunker, which was very hidden and difficult to find, and blocked the bridge over the moat, making it impossible for the siege follow-up troops to pass.
Now that it has been discovered, it is certainly not possible to sit idly by. However, when it comes to attacking the Dark Castle, Xu Jiabiao can't do it: he is currently
There were multiple gunshot wounds all over his body, his legs were incapacitated, his blood was bleeding profusely, his hands were cut off...
Xu Jiabiao did not give up, as long as he still had a breath, he would do something to stop the enemy. He endured the pain,
With both knees and broken arms, he moved hard towards the bunker little by little.
5 meters, 3 meters, 1 meter... Not much distance, but Xu Jiabiao took a long time to arrive, looking at the muzzle of the gun on the dark castle, Xu Jiabiao used the last bit of strength to pounce on it.
Using his body to block the enemy's machine gun holes, he bought precious time for his comrades...
Xu Jiabiao's sacrifice successfully covered the assault team's landing in the city, after which Huaiyin was conquered and the pseudo-28th Division was completely annihilated, but Xu Jiabiao and his comrades could not see...
After the battle, others found it while helping to sort out the remains of the martyrs
Xu Jiabiao's body was pierced with countless bullets, bones and internal organs, and he was the first soldier in the history of our army's war to block the hole of the gun with his body.
This year, he was just 19 years old.
Now that many people have slowly lost their feelings about this heroic deed, what is the concept of using the flesh to block the muzzle of the gun?
Huang Jiguang's comrade-in-arms Wan Fulai said in an interview before his death:
“...... When he opened the clothes behind (Huang Jiguang), he exploded a large opening, and his fist could be put in. Huang Jiguang completed the blasting mission with his last breath and last drop of blood..."
Wang Qingzhen, a hygienist of the 45th Division of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army at that time, described it this way: "Huang Jiguang was wearing a hat at that time, and his face was a little clay and a little black.
When I lifted it down, I found that the blood was all dried up and stained on the clothes. The front (of the body) was a gun hole, and the back spine was pierced.
After carrying him to the ditch to dispose of the body, the male comrade wet him with warm water before slowly removing the cloth wrapped around the muzzle of the gun and changing into clean clothes. ”
Such heroic and heroic acts were numerous in the volunteer army at that time, and many people in the "United Nations Army" at that time could not understand Chinese such desperate behavior, and even spread out that our country gave to the soldiers of the volunteer army
"Take medicine"
ridiculous remarks. They can't understand the patriotic feelings of Chinese, they can't understand the culture of our homeland accumulated over five thousand years, and they don't know that some things grow in the bones and blood of Chinese can make us burst out with strength beyond ordinary people.
At that time, the feats of Huang Jiguang were circulating between China and North Korea, and under the influence of Huang Jiguang's spirit,
A large number of warriors who sacrificed their lives for righteousness emerged.
Xu Jiapeng is a young man from Jixi County, Anhui Province, who was very active when the land reform was implemented in 1950.
Participating in the grievance meeting, fighting the landlord bully, is the most active member of the village
。 During this year he also joined the militia and was always active in fulfilling the tasks entrusted to him by the organization. When it was his turn on duty, he always came early and left late, no matter the wind and rain or snow night, he always stuck to his post.
——Xu Jiapeng:
"Whenever I am needed, I am like Comrade Huang Jiguang, sacrificing myself for the sake of the Korean people and the people of the motherland!"
One day in March, xu Jiapeng's village learned that the counter-revolutionary Cheng Huasheng had absconded to Shuhong in Ningguo County, and Xu Jiapeng immediately took the initiative to ask for arrest. So late one night, Xu Jiapeng and Cheng Anzhi and 5 other people, braving heavy rain, crossed the mountains and mountains for more than 40 miles, and finally arrived at their destination before dawn and captured Cheng Watson.
In May 1951, Xu Jiapeng, who had just turned 20, joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
He served as a soldier in the guard unit of the Southern Anhui Military Region. In July of the following year, he followed the volunteer army into the Korean War, and with the determination to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions to defending his family and defend the country, he crossed the Yalu River and rushed to the forefront of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
After entering North Korea,
Xu Jiapeng's unit began a continuous march of more than 20 days.
Along the way, the US planes bombed wildly, and Xu Jiapeng, as a new recruit, looked very hard in the face of a strong smell of gunpowder, a strong sound of bombing, and a long journey of full armament.
After a few days of rapid marching, Xu Jiapeng's feet were blistered with blood, and the squad leader asked him if he could persist? He replied:
"Hardship is glory, overcoming difficulties is victory, if the marching task cannot be completed, how can we complete the future combat tasks?!"
It was already November, and winters in North Korea were even colder than in China. In order to practice assassination, Xu Jiapeng often took off his cotton clothes at night to practice hard, and many people were still frozen and shivering when they were wrapped in coats, but he practiced sweatily.
Throwing grenades, Xu Jiapeng's initial throwing rate was also low, so he climbed up while his comrades were still asleep and practiced bombing over and over again in the cold wind and snow.
Because I work hard to learn everything,
Xu Jiapeng's military technology improved rapidly,
In the examination, he not only dropped the bomb far away but also had good hit accuracy.
In December 1952, Xu Jiapeng's unit sailed from the Eastern Front to the Central Front. Finally having the opportunity to kill the enemy and make a contribution, Xu Jiapeng was secretly excited in his heart. At the front, the task of their company was to build a city and carry wood. Xu Jiapeng actively works and bears hardships and stands hard work. On a rainy night when transporting wood, the road was slippery and difficult to walk, and Xu Jiapeng accidentally slipped and sprained his foot while passing through the enemy artillery blockade area.
Xu Jiapeng did not care at that time, and as a result, the injury began to be red, swollen and painful the next day, and the platoon leader added it to let him rest for treatment. But he himself was reluctant and said:
"People are slightly injured and can't get out of the line of fire, and I'm not bleeding, so why can't I insist on it?"
Perhaps many people feel that these things are too small in the war, and they are really not worth mentioning compared to those famous deeds. Let's be the author's selfish intention to commemorate every shining point of these "loveliest people".
Before Xu Jiapeng took on the last combat mission, he wrote in a letter of determination submitted to the company commander and the regiment branch:
"Whenever I am needed, I am like Comrade Huang Jiguang, sacrificing myself for the sake of the Korean people and the people of the motherland."
After that, he also said to his comrades-in-arms: "I will accept the test of this battle, and I will definitely destroy the enemy bravely like Huang Jiguang!" ”
On July 6, 1953, north Korea annihilated the US Seventh Division
Shiyandong North Mountain Counterattack Battle
Here we go.
Xu Jiapeng's assault platoon was tasked with inserting itself into the main peak as quickly as possible to open the way for the follow-up troops.
It was also pouring rain in the sky, and after a fierce shelling, the volunteers launched an attack.
The assault platoon quickly advanced towards the enemy's main peak, breaking through the enemy's three barbed wire fences in a row along the way. Seeing that they were about to reach the main peak, the machine guns in the enemy bunker directly above suddenly and frantically strafed at them.
This attack of enemy fire suppressed the assault platoon, forcing the attacking forces to continue advancing. Assault platoon fighter Sun Lunqiu was ordered to go forward and blast, but just after taking a few steps, he was shot and fell.
The enemy's machine guns were firing wildly, and if he was not solved, the enemy would take the opportunity to counterattack, and the attacking troops of the volunteer army would suffer great sacrifices.
Lying on the hillside 20 meters away from the bunker, Xu Jiapeng immediately realized that the situation was critical, and without waiting for the platoon leader's order, he directly rushed forward to grab the explosive package in Sun Lunqiu's hand, and rushed towards the bunker in the rain of bullets and bullets.
Xu Jiapeng carefully advanced, it was quite smooth, it was a few steps away from the dark castle, and the comrades behind him all pinched a handful of sweat for him.
Then an empty bomb suddenly hit,
In an instant, Xu Jiapeng's legs were injured,
Xu Jiapeng fell head-on the hillside.
No, it's all here, and you can't fall.
Xu Jiapeng suppressed the pain with amazing perseverance, crawled to the bunker with both hands, put down the explosive package, and pulled the fuse.
But the explosive pack had been soaked with rain for too long and was so soaked that it couldn't explode. Xu Jiapeng could not care less about chagrin, and immediately began to observe the area around the dark fort, trying to rush into the dark fort to take the machine gun over, but this was a dark fort protruding from the cover ditch and could not enter.
Enemy machine guns continued to strafe, the troops could not attack, and it was clearly too late to take another package of explosives.
In order to quickly seize the main peak and destroy the enemy, Xu Jiapeng did not hesitate and suddenly pounced on the enemy's shooting hole.
Only to see his hands burst into flames, firmly grasping the enemy's machine gun rack, and blocking the enemy's machine gun muzzle with his own flesh and blood.
The enemy's fire point was finally extinguished.
The volunteer troops in the rear immediately seized the opportunity to cross the bunker, rushed to the main peak of the North Mountain, occupied the favorable terrain, repelled the enemy, and won a complete victory in this counterattack.
After the war, the troops annihilated more than 3,500 enemy troops and captured a large number of booty, but the heroic volunteer soldier Xu Jiapeng sacrificed his young and precious life and could never come back.
After the war, the leading organs of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army posthumously remembered Xu Jiapengte and other meritorious services and awarded him
"Level 1 Combat Hero"
He was posthumously recognized as a member of the Communist Party of China and a "model member of the Communist Youth League".
The Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK also conferred on Xu Jiapeng the title of "Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", as well as the "Gold Star Medal" and the "National Flag Medal of the First Class".
The People's Government of Jixi County named his hometown "Jiapeng Township" and erected the "Xu Jiapeng Martyrs Monument" to commemorate it.
Coincidentally, in July of this year, in addition to Xu Jiapeng, there was another warrior who also ended his life at the gunpoint of the enemy, his name was Li Jiafa, who was not yet 20 years old when he died.
Li Jiafa, like Xu Jiapeng, was a native of Anhui and a soldier of the 1st Company of the 595th Regiment of the 199th Division of the 67th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army.
In the final battle of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea --
Battle of Jincheng
In the middle, Li Jiafa's 1st company served as the main task of attacking The Rock Mountain.
——Lee Ka Fa:
The "iron-legged communicators" on the battlefield eventually disappeared under the enemy's machine guns...
On the night of July 12, 1953, the 1st Company was advancing through the enemy's artillery blockade area towards the 116th Heights of ShanYan Mountain. By the next night,
The summer counter-offensive was fought on the entire frontal battlefield 20 kilometers wide on the Jincheng front.
The soldiers of the 1st Company climbed over the continuous mountain ridge, and as the volunteer artillery fire extended, they rushed all the way to the foot of the mountain bag and approached the top of the mountain along the fish ridge-shaped beam.
On the way up the mountain, he inevitably encountered the enemy's barbed wire, and Li Jiafa immediately requested the blasting mission from the platoon commander.
Li Jiafa took the bomb and said to the squad leader:
"Burst the smoke together, you go up."
After saying that, he headed for the barbed wire on the opposite side. Most of the mines previously planted by the enemy on the mountain were blown away by the artillery fire of the volunteers, but Li Jiafa did not dare to be careless and carefully climbed up the mine nest.
Not long after, the comrades-in-arms heard a roar, saw the explosion smoke rising, knew that Li Jiafa had succeeded, and the troops quickly crossed the second barbed wire fence with the thick smoke, and rushed up the ridge of the mountainside in one breath.
Suddenly, a hidden bunker on the mountainside began to shoot at them with machine guns, and the soldiers of the 1st Company were immediately crushed under the ridge. The platoon leader was seriously injured, and the squad leader took the place of the conductor and shouted, "Who went up and blew him up?" ”
Li Jiafa stepped forward again: "I'll go!" ”
Before he was a messenger, he shuttled freely through enemy fire, striding like a fly, so-called
"Iron Leg Communicator"
This distance is naturally not a problem.
Li Jia hair with two grenades tied with explosives, carefully got up from the ridge, avoided the frontal fire of the machine guns, and quickly detoured to the side of the enemy bunker.
At about the same position, Li Jiafa pulled out the pull ring and threw a grenade at the guard fort on the right side of the enemy's bunker, only to hear a "bang", and the guard fort was blown over. But then a stray bullet also pierced his left foot, and Li Jiafa was seriously injured and finally passed out.
Because the guard fort was bombed, the heavy machine guns in the enemy bunker were even more frantic.
The 1st Company charged several times, but was forcibly suppressed by enemy fire.
Li Jiafa was awakened by the deafening sound of gunfire, and he endured the pain and crawled toward the enemy's bunker. When I climbed closer,
He struggled to throw a second grenade at the bunker, blowing up a man on his back.
Li Jiafa shouted at his comrades-in-arms: "Comrades, rush! The soldiers of the 1st Company quickly rushed up with the shouts of Li Jiafa. Who knew that a bunker appeared at the top of the mountain, the same heavy machine guns, or the suppression of our army's firepower,
But Li Jiafa did not have a third grenade.
The thousands of troops of the volunteer army below are waiting for 1 company to take the main peak, and the battle situation cannot be delayed for a second. Li Jiafa thought of this,
Immediately quickly rolled to the bunker where the gun was fired, stood up with his hands on the bunker, opened his arms, and pounced on the machine gun eye with all his strength, blocking the hole in the bunker with his chest.
Li Jiafa's heroic dedication to the obstructed troops cleared the obstacles to the advance, and the volunteer army was able to successfully capture the position of ShanYan Mountain, and a red flag was raised on The Shangyan Mountain.
In September 1953, the leading organ of the Chinese Volunteer Army posthumously recognized Li Jiafa as an act
"Huang Jiguang-style hero"
3. Posthumously commemorate the meritorious servicemen, posthumously award the title of first-class combat hero, and posthumously recognize them as members of the Communist Party of China.
After that, the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK posthumously awarded Lee Ka-fa as a hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, awarded him the "Gold Star Medal" and the "National Flag Medal of the First Class", and the people of the Saoyan Mountain area of the DPRK directly named a street near the place where Lee Jia-fa was sacrificed as "Jiafa Street".
In February 1956, in order to commemorate the martyr Li Jiafa,
Nanling County renamed Quantang Township, the martyr's hometown, Jiafa Township (later Jiafa Township), and built the Li Jiafa Martyrs Monument in Mashanzui, a western suburb of the county seat.
A volunteer veteran once wrote a poem to his comrades-in-arms, in which it was said:
You keep an arm
He left an ear
I left one foot behind
There are also many broken limbs
We were buried together
Condensed into a special me...
Who am I
I am me, not me
I am the guardian of the motherland
I am the protector of the people
My body belongs to me
My life belongs to the people and to the motherland!
Huang Jiguang's spirit inspired future generations, but there were too many warriors who did not leave their names, they fed their guns with their bodies, and did not even leave a whole corpse. The only thing we can do is to remember their heroic deeds, spread their spirit, not let them be forgotten by future generations, and let the heroes shine forever in the long river of history because they are commemorated.