With the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China finally ended the situation of foreign aggression since the First Opium War, and with the victory of the War of Liberation, China changed the feudal social system for thousands of years and let the people be the masters of their own affairs, but even after the founding of New China in 1949, we still did not get international recognition, let alone the respect of the rest of the world's powers.
It can be said that the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea completely changed China's position and weight in the hearts of the rest of the world, it is this war, we have won respect, but the losses of the volunteers in this war are also very heavy, for example, the Battle of Chosin Lake is the most tragic battle, when the volunteer army ambushed in the ice and snow for three days and three nights, so that it became the "Ice Sculpture Company", the survivors of the Ice Sculpture Company are not many, he is one of them, when he received the battle order on the fourth day, he could not stand up. After amputating his limbs at the end of the war, he became the "Paul of China" by virtue of his spirit of self-improvement.
Zhou Quandi's military experience
One of the survivors of the ice sculpture company today is named Zhou Quandi, a native of southern Sichuan County, born in 1934, when China was in the midst of a deep sea, the Japanese tasted the sweetness of September 18, and carried out a brutal invasion in China.
After the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement campaign, the Communist Party had no choice but to carry out the Long March, and it was not until after the Zunyi Conference in 1935 that Mao Zedong once again grasped the supreme command of the Red Army, thus leading the Red Army out of the predicament, and after the end of the Long March, the Red Army developed rapidly.
At the time when Zhou Quandi was a little governor, the two parties had united to resist Japan in unison, at this time the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out in an all-round way, and with the concerted efforts of everyone, the Japanese tried to taste defeat, and the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army won a great victory at Pingxingguan and defeated the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army.
Only two years after the Kuomintang and the Communists united to resist Japan, Chiang Kai-shek began to be suspicious and took a series of actions against the Communist Party, and the Anhui Incident became the best embodiment of Chiang Kai-shek's ambitions; after the Anhui Incident, the New Fourth Army suffered heavy losses, and Chiang Kai-shek, for his own interests, also charged Ye Ting, the commander of the New Fourth Army, with the crime of the Anhui Southern Incident, Ye Ting, so Ye Ting was sent to a military court by Chiang Kai-shek and put under house arrest from then on, until 1946, when Zhou Enlai and others used Ma Fa Wu to replace Ye Ting.
At the time of Ye Ting's regaining his freedom, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was officially over (Japan announced its surrender on August 15, 1945), but unfortunately Ye Ting was secretly calculated by Chiang Kai-shek on April 8, 1946, so that the plane fell and unfortunately died, and in June of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Kuomintang troops to launch an attack on the Liberated Areas, and Mao Zedong finally decided to completely tear his face with Chiang Kai-shek after careful consideration, and the Liberation War broke out.
After three years of struggle, the People's Liberation Army finally won the victory, just when the Liberation War was about to be won, zhou Quandi, who was only 15 years old, was captured by the Kuomintang army and supplemented into the Kuomintang army, but the Kuomintang at that time was already a grasshopper after the autumn, and their own people knew this very well.
Soon after, Zhou Quandi's Kuomintang troops formally revolted and incorporated into the People's Liberation Army, and Zhou Quandi was incorporated into the 26th Army of the People's Liberation Army. On October 1, 1949, New China was formally established, and since then, the people have stood up Chinese, and the people have achieved mastery, but the Western powers and the rest of the world's major powers at that time were unwilling to recognize the status of New China, and they did not have due respect for New China.
Participated in the Battle of Chosin Lake
The reason why the world powers did not respect New China, mainly because at that time China had just experienced nearly a hundred years of humiliation, many countries did not pay attention to China at all, Mao Zedong had been waiting for a long time at the founding ceremony, and no country had a telegram to recognize the status of New China, which made Mao Zedong very distressed, and at the same time made him understand that if we wanted the world to see China, we had to do something.
In 1950, when the Korean War was in full swing, the United States suddenly broke its promise and sent MacArthur Inchon to land openly support South Korea against North Korea.
After Kim Il-sung was defeated and retreated, he made a request for Chinese support; after Reading it, Mao Zedong comprehensively considered the international situation at that time and the actual situation of New China, and finally made up his mind to "resist the United States and aid Korea and defend the country." On October 15 of the same year, the volunteer army, under the leadership of Peng Dehuai, began to rush to Korea and crossed the Yalu River to the Korean battlefield.
On October 25, Zhou Quandi's Sanye 26th Army also received orders to defend the frontier in the northeast, because the departure was relatively hurried at that time, plus the 26th Army was originally dominated by southern fighters, and the weather in the south was not cold, so when everyone set out, they did not even have a decent cotton coat, so they rushed to the battlefield. At first, everyone thought that it was really to go to the northeast to guard the frontier, and it was not until after entering the DPRK for more than 30 miles that everyone understood that the original real task was: to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
At the end of December 1950, Zhou Quandi's 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, 231st Regiment, 77th Division, 26th Army, was ordered to enter Huangcaoling to block the First Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps.
As mentioned earlier, before entering Korea, the 26th Army did not know its real combat mission, plus they all belonged to the southern warriors, did not experience cold weather, did not understand what it would feel like in the ice and snow, before setting out, the troops only issued each person with a large felt hat and a thin cotton coat, after arriving in North Korea, the weather was extremely cold, it was still the extremely cold weather in North Korea once in fifty years, the temperature reached a minimum of more than minus 40 degrees, and the volunteers were frozen. But still rely on tenacious willpower to resist the cold.
Originally, the environment was so harsh, at that time, the Ninth Corps (under the jurisdiction of the 20th Army, the 26th Army and the 27th Army) also had to fight against the two ace units of the US Marine First Division and the 7th Division, the pressure was even greater, and it was difficult to win this battle, but the volunteers were never afraid of fear, and they had only one goal in mind, that is, to defeat the American army.
In order to complete the task, Zhou Quandi went to the ambush site early, wore thin cotton clothes, relied on three ice potatoes every day and the snow water around them for food, ambushed at the ambush site for three days and three nights, during these three days and three nights, Zhou Quandi all lay motionless in the snow, in order to prevent the exposure of the target, all of them resolutely obeyed the order and voluntarily lay in the snow. No one will stand up before the task is completed.
Time passed minute by minute, the US troops finally came to the ambush site, a command, the second company to stand up and start fighting, but at this time, Zhou Quandi found that many of the soldiers around them had been frozen to death, turned into ice sculptures, so later people called the second company "ice sculpture company".
Looking at the soldiers who had already sacrificed, Zhou Quandi wanted to stand up and bravely kill the enemy, but at the moment when he was about to stand up, he found that his limbs had long since stopped listening to the call, and he could not stand up, but could only watch his comrades rush forward and fight fiercely with the enemy.
The battle was over, the volunteer army won the victory at a heavy price, the ice sculpture company became a miracle in the history of the war, Zhou Quandi, with the help of everyone, sent to the rear hospital for treatment, because his limbs had been severely frostbitten, he could only amputate, zhou Quandi, who was only 16 years old, lost his limbs.
Self-reliant Zhou Quandi
Losing his limbs at a young age, coupled with watching his comrades-in-arms die, Zhou Quandi's heart has always been unable to accept such a reality, in the infinite sadness and self-blame, he even thought of seeking short-sightedness, but under the enlightenment of his comrades-in-arms and others, in the end, Zhou Quandi slowly perked up.
In 1953, under the arrangement of the organization, Zhou Quandi went to the Sichuan Provincial Revolutionary Disabled Soldiers' Recuperation Home for recuperation, during which time Zhou Quandi underwent great changes. Because of the loss of limbs, so at that time to write letters and other things, Zhou Quandi needed to find someone to ghostwrite, write to relatives and friends is fine, if you write to your girlfriend, looking for someone to ghostwrite is always something inappropriate, so Zhou Quandi decided to learn to write by himself.
Under his insistence, Zhou Quandi only took a year and a half to practice a good hand of pen characters, after the pen character training, he continued to learn brush characters, and achieved very good results, his tenacious perseverance and self-improvement spirit, infected countless Chinese people, so everyone praised him as "China's Paul".
In the face of many praises, Zhou Quandi said calmly:
My second life was given by the party, the blood flowing on my body was the blood of medical personnel, without their wholehearted care, I could not live to this day; to live, is to do what I can for the party and the people; to live, is to laugh at life, and constantly temper myself; to live is to be happy, to have a family, to have children, compared to those comrades-in-arms who have sacrificed gloriously, I am very satisfied.
epilogue
Nowadays, the elderly Brother Zhou Quandi is spending his old age in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and he has always been grumpy about the Battle of Changjin Lake, and when others ask him what regrets he has, he will always say with tears in his eyes: "I did not stand up at that time, did not complete the task, did not win glory for the motherland, did not win glory for the people" In his heart, he failed to stand up and kill the enemy, which is the biggest regret of his life, but in the hearts of the people of the whole country, Zhou Quandi and those ancestors who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea are well-deserved heroes. Is an example we should always learn from!
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