He was originally just an ordinary member of the Chinese Volunteer Army who went to Fight in Korea, when the Battle of Shangganling broke out, he was still a new soldier, only 20 years old, that was his first time on the battlefield, after quickly adapting to the state of the battlefield, he successfully defended two positions alone, resisted the enemy's attack 41 times, and finally annihilated more than 280 enemy troops, creating the highest record for the individual single-day annihilation of the enemy by the volunteer army.
With outstanding military merits, he was finally awarded the highest award in North Korea, "Hero of the Republic", the Gold Star Medal, the National Flag Medal of the First Class, and had so many honors, but he said that he was just an ordinary volunteer army, and all the credit should be attributed to the martyrs who sacrificed.
Hu Xiudao, who participated in the battle for the first time
Born in October 1931, Hu Xiudao was a native of Jintang County, Sichuan Province, and his upbringing is little known, in June 1951, when the 19-year-old Hu Xiudao joined the Chinese Volunteer Army and went to Fight in Korea, he was a complete recruit, and after joining the Volunteer Army, he was organized into the 5th Company of the 91st Regiment of the 31st Division of the 12th Army of the Volunteer Army as an ordinary soldier.
After Hu Xiudao joined the volunteer army, he has never participated in the war, for the war of real guns and bullets, in fact, he does not have any concept, but in that kind of rapidly changing battlefield, the growth rate of new recruits is often amazing, usually the way the volunteer army trains new soldiers to adapt to the battlefield is relatively simple, with a word of advice to summarize is "one look at two dozen three belts", the specific meaning is that the first step is to let the new soldiers watch the veterans fight, the second step is that the veterans command the new soldiers to fight, The third step is for the veteran to fight with the new recruit, and as long as these three steps are completed, a new recruit basically becomes a veteran.
Before we actually go to the battlefield, we may think that this kind of training method is still relatively easy to learn, but when you actually go to the battlefield, you will find that even if you are an extraordinary combat hero like Hu Xiudao, in the initial stage, it is inevitable that you will be a little overwhelmed.
On November 5, 1952, under the leadership of van Vliet and Syngman Rhee, commanders of the U.S. Eighth Army, the United Nations launched the fiercest attack in the Battle of Shangganling, when they attacked the 597.9 heights on the left side of Shangganling, and the main reason why the Unism attacked this highland at any cost was that this highland also had another name called "Jenny. Russell Hill".
Jenny. Russell was a hollywood actress who was very popular in the fifties of the last century, very beautiful, Americans are more superstitious, they think that there is a call for beautiful women, young soldiers must be able to attack this high ground with a single blow, but in fact, Americans overestimate the appeal of this beautiful woman.
The volunteer army had already built 12 positions on the 597.9 high ground to garrison the high ground and block the enemy, and Hu Xiudao, who participated in the actual battle for the first time, and Li Feng, the squad leader and coach, and Teng Tusheng, the new soldier, were responsible for holding position 3. Soon the enemy launched a fierce attack on position No. 3, and Hu Xiudao needed to officially enter the war after Li Feng's "one look, two strikes, three belts".
Hu Xiudao clutched the explosive canister, but his hands unconsciously sweated a lot, watching the enemy getting closer and closer.
After the squad leader Li Feng gave an order, Hu Xiudao began to frantically throw grenades, grenades, etc. into the enemy group, he did not care about thinking about anything at all, and only knew how to throw ammunition madly, until the squad leader grabbed his wrist and told him that the enemy had been repelled, Hu Xiudao eased up and stopped the movement in his hand
Later, when recalling, Hu Xiudao also said that he had always regretted that he had wasted too much precious ammunition at that time, after all, at that time, ammunition was scarce and more precious than life, and if he wasted one more grenade, he might sacrifice a lot of fighters.
Single-handedly annihilated more than 280 enemy troops in a single day
After the first actual battle, Hu Xiudao quickly adapted to the real battlefield, when the enemy launched a second attack, Hu Xiudao was able to treat it calmly, under the command of the squad leader, Hu Xiudao first concentrated his firepower on both sides of the scattered enemy troops, let them concentrate in the middle, and then threw grenades at the enemy group, so that he could play the greatest role with the least ammunition.
After the squad leader's re-command, Hu Xiudao was also considered to be out of the division, and after seeing that Hu Xiudao and Teng Tusheng could fight normally, the squad leader Li Feng was transferred to the No. 9 position to support, leaving only Hu Xiudao and Teng Tusheng, two soldiers who had just been converted from recruits to veterans, to hold the No. 3 position.
The two men had mastered the method and cooperated well, repelling several platoons of enemy attacks again and again in a short period of time, and also annihilating many enemies, and just when the enemy was repulsed and the two were about to stop for a little breath, an urgent battle report came from the command post, telling them to go to position 10 for support.
The two did not have time to think about anything, they quickly broke through the enemy's defense line and rushed to position 10, after they went to position 10, they found that there was only one seriously wounded soldier left here to hold the position, looking at this soldier who was already scarred and still holding the position, Hu Xiudao was deeply infected, and then looked at the No. 0 position where Huang Jiguang sacrificed a few days ago, Hu Xiudao was even more enthusiastic, and vowed to make the enemy pay back his blood debt.
With the cooperation of Hu Xiudao and Teng Tusheng, they repelled wave after wave of enemy attacks, and at the time of the fierce war, Hu Xiudao saw platoon leader Guo Sandan creeping over to support them, but the platoon leader was hit by enemy shells the moment he approached the position, and before he was sacrificed, the platoon leader left a sentence for Hu Xiudao: "Death must also hold the position."
At this moment, with the anger of avenging the platoon commanders and soldiers, he launched a fierce battle against the enemy, but unfortunately, Teng Tusheng was unfortunately injured in the battle, and he still tried to use the ammunition on his head to take to Hu Xiudao when his hands were already injured, which made Hu Xiudao very moved, but in the end Teng Tusheng could only turn to the rear because he was seriously injured.
After Teng Tusheng left, there was only one person left on the No. 10 position, Hu Xiudao, who was exhausted, and in the case of extreme weakness, he planned to take advantage of the fact that the enemy did not attack to stop and eat something, but just when he was ready to eat, the enemy launched another attack, Hu Xiudao did not have time to think about anything, and immediately threw a grenade in the direction of the enemy, blowing up the enemy's soul.
Just when Hu Xiudao was having a good time fighting, several comrades-in-arms came to support Position No. 10 and told him that the company commander told him to quickly return to Position No. 3, so Hu Xiudao immediately returned to Position No. 3 to continue fighting, and when the war was extremely fierce, Hu Xiudao shuttled back and forth between Position 3 and Position No. 10.
It was by relying on this perseverance to support Hu Xiudao, he once again repelled the enemy's attack more than a dozen times under the condition of a single person, until dusk, the enemy attacked again, Hu Xiudao had already thrown out the last grenade on his body, in the case of no way, Hu Xiudao could only grab the automatic gun, jumped on the position and fought the enemy to the death, with Hu Xiudao's shout, the comrades in the surrounding positions all sounded a killing sound that resounded through the clouds, and everyone decided to fight the enemy to the death.
At the crucial moment when everyone and the enemy were fighting to the death, the large troops came to support them, and with the support of the large troops and the persistence of everyone, the volunteer army finally won a complete victory in this battle, and the enemy was lost and lost.
Hu Xiudao, who has received many honors
In this campaign, Hu Xiudao repelled 41 enemy attacks in one day, and single-handedly annihilated more than 280 enemies, creating the highest Chinese record for a volunteer soldier to annihilate the enemy in a single day on the battlefield.
Not only that, the North Korean government also awarded Hu Xiudao the title of "Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", and issued him with a first-class National Flag Medal and a Gold Star Medal, inviting him to attend the 1953 National Conference of Representatives of Fighting Heroes of the DPRK. It should be known that during the entire period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, there were only 12 volunteers who were awarded the title of hero of the Republic by the DPRK, and except for Peng Dehuai, the rest were frontline fighters and grass-roots commanders and fighters.
In the Battle of Shangganling alone, four people were awarded this title, namely Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, Sun Zhanyuan, and Hu Xiudao, but unfortunately, of the four, only Hu Xiudao eventually survived, and the other three heroes remained on the Korean battlefield forever.
epilogue
In the face of many honors, Hu Xiudao not only did not have pride, but also said: "I am just an ordinary volunteer army, but I have received so many honors, in fact, those heroes who sacrificed on the battlefield are the real heroes, we must learn from the spirit of the heroes, build and defend the country well, in order to comfort the spirit of the heroes in heaven"!
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