In the Spring Festival of 1998, an old man in Heilongjiang was seriously ill and hospitalized, and after examination, he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and the family was very worried after learning about it, and immediately arranged for the old man to be hospitalized. However, after nearly a month of treatment, the hospital came with bad news: the elderly were very seriously ill and had to be transferred to the hospital for treatment, fast, delayed for a long time, and were likely to endanger their lives.
Receiving the doctor's notice, a large family of people gathered together to worry, before in order to treat the old man, the family's savings were almost used up, and now they have to transfer to a more advanced hospital, they can not afford the expensive hospitalization costs and treatment costs. A few children are just honest laid-off workers, and pooling money has become the biggest problem!
Therefore, the family began to look around for help, and with the help of his father's unit, he was transferred to the Beijing Armed Police Hospital, but after a period of treatment, it still did not improve. The sky-high cost of treatment makes them feel powerless, they should borrow it, they should say it, in just a few months, they have been in debt, and now it is time to pay the fee, it is simply a rush to death.
When he was at a loss, the old man's family suddenly remembered that he had been a soldier when he was young and could find a leader to help. So they kept finding the 47th Army, the unit where the old man had been, and after seeing the leader of the 47th Army, they told him the truth of the matter. When the leader heard his father's name, tears flashed in his eyes and he choked up and said, "We have been looking for him for more than forty years..."
Zhang Guofu, a cattle herder, captured the Kuomintang lieutenant general alive
Who is he? The old man's name is called
Zhang Guofu
(Later renamed Zhang Guofu, the article unified with Zhang Guofu), born in December 1931 in Jilin Province, his arrival added a lot of joy to the family, the family was very happy, named him "Guofu", hoping that this child can become a warrior like a tiger, fighting for the prosperity of the country, so he also gave him a milk name "Zhang Huzi".
Pictured| Special Combat Hero Zhang Guofu
At that time, the northeast region was not very peaceful, because of the long-term war, his family was very poor, and his parents broke their hearts in order to maintain this family, and they wanted to work 24 hours a day, but also just wanted to give their children a good living environment. But the reality is often cruel, even if they work hard and work hard, it is difficult to improve the life of the family for a while.
Zhang Guofu did not want to see his parents work so hard, so he ignored the obstruction of his family and went to a rich family as a long-term worker, when he was young, he did not know what he was about to face, and he was very happy at the thought of helping his parents share their troubles. After working officially, he finally understood why he was not supported, why his father felt guilty, and why his mother shed tears.
His job is simple, that is, to work non-stop. Every day before dawn, it is zhang Guofu's working hours, during which it is necessary to carry water, herd cattle, move things, clean, work endlessly, the treatment is completely out of proportion to labor, can only eat a little meal every day, often can not fill the stomach, and even have to work until the early morning to sleep.
Picture | old photo of a cowherd
This kind of life is like a year, and he has wanted to give up several times, but he is supported by the reluctance to accept defeat: he must be able to! As the hard days passed, his mentality had been flattened, and at this time, the landlord's young daughter and Zhang Guofu met, the two were similar in age, and they could talk very well, at first he still had some inferiority, and slowly let go.
Since he met her, Zhang Guofu's life was relatively better, he didn't do as much work as before, he could eat enough, he thought that the rest of his life was like this, but the ensuing thing completely broke his illusions and dragged him to the painful reality, it turned out that there was a big situation in his family.
At that time, there was a bully in their village, who after meeting Zhang Guofu's sister, had ill intentions towards her, often teased her not to say anything, and finally directly used the family forces to forcibly possess her sister. Her sister is also not a soft persimmon who is a bully, and she resists with a strong personality, and finally escapes. After his sister left, the bully had nowhere to go in his heart, so he pointed the spearhead at Zhang Guofu's father.
The bully casually charged his father with a false accusation and imprisoned him for more than a year, during which Time Zhang Guofu asked for help more than once, but everyone refused for various reasons. A person who saw him so stubborn reminded him that no one would fight against the bully, and his father could only admit it this time, and the man's words deeply struck Zhang Guofu's heart.
It is also said that as ordinary people, if they want to fight with a bully with a strong wrist, it is simply nonsense, where will they be the opponent of the bully? Who will be on the side of their people? Will he live like this in the future? Zhang Guofu asked himself over and over again,
He knows that blindly forbearance will only make himself a loser, and he doesn't want this!
The picture | old photo of the People's Liberation Army
In 1946, Zhang Guofu joined the 47th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, when he was only 15 years old, in the ranks of younger soldiers, although weak and thin, but in training, he worked harder than anyone, even during rest time. In this way, half a year passed, and he successfully tore off the label of weakness and became a real warrior.
He was also specially approved to go to the battlefield, and although he was not very old at the time, he was not timid on the battlefield at all, and he was very bold. After he went to the battlefield, everyone's impression of him also changed, this boy fought too fiercely, it was almost like a change of person,
Soon he made a great contribution on the battlefield
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In May 1947, Zhang Guofu ushered in the battle of fame, when the Chinese People's Liberation Army launched a summer offensive against the Northeast Nationalist forces, this was the first time he encountered such a large-scale battle, but he was not afraid, but he was still vaguely expecting something in his heart, and the blood in his body began to boil, and he could not wait to go to the front line to kill the enemy.
Zhang Guofu's unit was responsible for attacking the north of Jilin Province
Jiang Mi Feng
The terrain of Jiangmi Peak is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and both sides of the enemy know the importance of Jiangmi Peak.
Figure | our army engaged the enemy
Therefore, the enemy's defensive deployment is very tight, and our army has repeatedly engaged the enemy, but has not been able to successfully take the high ground, but has also lost two battalion commanders, and the number of casualties is still increasing. If this continues, how long can the troops hold out? Zhang Guofu watched the soldiers fall one by one, and his heart was very unhappy, and he took the initiative to ask the company commander for battle.
Now that Zhang Guofu was only 16 years old, the company commander looked at him and said, "You can't, how old are you, and you're still a recruit, you can't go, it's too dangerous there!" Zhang Guofu's eyes were firm, and he replied sonorously and forcefully: "Company commander, it doesn't matter, I run fast, there must be no problem, just let me go!" In the end, the company commander agreed.
In order to ensure Zhang Guofu's safety, the comrades covered him with firepower, he knew that the thief captured the king first, he ran to the enemy headquarters as fast as he could, took out all the grenades on his body, broke in, perhaps the war outside was too fierce, the enemy commander did not find him at the first time, Zhang Guofu took advantage of this and shouted:
Preferential treatment of prisoners, surrender and do not kill!
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To put it mildly, the enemy commander was actually frightened and stupid by the 16-year-old Zhang Guofu, and really thought that his side was defeated, in order to save his life, he immediately put down the gun in his hand, raised his hands and surrendered. Obviously, this move was unexpected, Zhang Guofu immediately put away the shocked look, the enemy army had no command, like a headless fly, it quickly became a mess, is this not a good time to attack?
Our army troops took advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate all the Kuomintang defenders stationed at Jiangmifeng, and this battle was finally able to win, Zhang Guofu was definitely a first-class hero, if he had not broken into the enemy camp alone and captured the commander, the war might not have ended so quickly. However, when our army counted the prisoners, we found that there was a Kuomintang lieutenant general named Zhao Baizhao.
After this battle, Zhang Guofu was recorded by the troops for a great feat, and his deeds on the battlefield were also put on the newspaper, and the "Mengjin Bao" specially wrote an article praising him, and the title of the article was very eye-catching -
"16-year-old cattle herding baby Zhang Guofu captures Kuomintang lieutenant general Zhao Baizhao alive"
。 In this way, Zhang Guofu, who was only 16 years old, became a household name for a time, and everyone knew his heroic deeds.
On the battlefield, he made another miracle and advanced the Liaoshen Campaign
The war continued, Zhang Guofu did not lose himself because of his fame, he was still the hardest soldier in the army, and soon after, he created a combat miracle. At that time, Zhang Guofu's unit was ordered to rest and rest temporarily in the compound near the Songhua River, but no one expected that the enemy's sense of smell was so sensitive that it found the traces of our army and surrounded the compound.
Pictured | old photograph of a machine gun
Machine guns were also set up, and there were only two results in this situation, either the breakthrough was successful or they stayed here. At the critical juncture, Zhang Guofu secretly climbed over the wall and lurked not far from the enemy, seeing the opportunity to throw a grenade at the enemy.
The enemy in front of us could not pose a substantial threat to our army at all, and the comrades-in-arms immediately rushed out of the compound and launched an attack on the enemy, and after a while, the enemy was defeated by our army's troops, and successfully smashed the enemy's plan to annihilate our army. This victory is still inseparable from Zhang Guofu's wisdom, so he has been recorded once again.
Soon after, Zhang Guofu was approved by the organization to join the Communist Party of China, and as a member of the Communist Party, he seemed to have been greatly encouraged, and he became more courageous on the battlefield, and every time he fought with the enemy, he could accurately find the enemy's pain points, so he also made a lot of battle achievements, and successively served as the squad leader, platoon leader, deputy company commander and other positions of the unit, and the progress of the rise was very rapid. At that time, Zhang Guofu could be regarded as one of the fastest promoted People's Liberation Army in the army, but his highlight moments were far more than these two times.
On September 12, 1948, the Liaoshen Campaign was officially launched, and Chairman Mao issued an order to all the PLA troops on the northeast border:
This decisive battle cannot make Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army go out of the northeast!
At that time, in order to implement the policy of the Beining Line, Lao Jiang concentrated all the main Kuomintang forces in Shenyang in Jinzhou.
In this way, if the Kuomintang army in Jinzhou and the North China army cooperate well, they can continue to move forward and retake the northeast; if there is an accident, they will not have any losses in the back road of the interior. Chiang Kai-shek deployed the plan without leaks, and it seemed that he had already won the victory, but in fact, from the very beginning, this plan was detected by the central leadership of our army, so the chairman issued such an order.
Figure | Northeast Field Army in the Liaoshen Campaign
On October 14, the Northeast Field Army launched a general offensive against Jinzhou, the war was very fierce, after 31 hours of fierce fighting, our army annihilated more than 100,000 enemy people, and captured Fan Hanjie, deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Northeast "Suppression General", the liberation of Jinzhou prompted a part of the Kuomintang defenders in Changchun to revolt, and the remaining defenders could only surrender their weapons in front of the hard fists.
After this battle, the northeast Kuomintang army's retreat route to Guannei was completely cut off, and Chiang Kai-shek was furious when he learned of this, but he still wanted to make contact between inside and outside the customs, so he ordered concessions
Liao Yaoxiang
Led the westward march to retake Jinzhou. It has been learned that the Westward Advance Corps contains five corps and twelve divisions totaling more than 100,000 people, and as soon as the central authorities received the news, they immediately sent troops to intercept the enemy.
The leaders of the Northeast Field Army decided to adopt the strategic principle of "luring the enemy to go deeper" and about to launch a vicious battle in the areas of Montenegro and Dahushan. On October 26, Zhang Guofu's unit learned through intelligence that the headquarters of the Westward Advance Corps was near them. So the point is, where is the exact location of the enemy command? What about the enemy's defense system? How many people are stationed in the enemy command? All this is unknown, our army must think in the long run, and the pre-war preparations must be in place.
Subsequently, our army sent a reconnaissance team to investigate the situation and found that the enemy had placed intensive firepower in the Hujia shack. According to the analysis of the commander of the unit, the Hu family shack is likely to be the headquarters of the enemy, and if the headquarters is taken first, no matter how many enemies there are, the leaderless dragons will not be able to turn over any big waves, so our side immediately launched an attack on the enemy.
Obviously, the Kuomintang troops are not fuel-saving lamps, they resist with fierce artillery fire, the attack is intense and fierce, our army has made dozens of charges, paid a heavy casualty price, and only advanced a distance of tens of meters, which is undoubtedly not a good sign, we must find a way to make the enemy suffer a little, and at the moment of a thousand guns, Zhang Guofu rushed to the front again.
He took many grenades and explosive canisters in his hand and threw them in the direction of the enemy, at this time, the comrades around him fell one by one, he was still struggling to support, at this time he had a plan, pretended to be hit by the enemy, lying next to the sacrificial comrades, waiting for the next charge of the horn, his current position can already see the enemy command post, the next action must be rapid.
After a while, the sound of the charge's horn sounded, and when the enemy was attracted by the sound of the horn, Zhang Guofu moved, and he immediately threw a grenade at the enemy's command post, and the moment the grenade exploded, the enemy fled in fright. Even now, Zhang Guofu rushed into the command post with a blaster in his hand, giving the enemy no chance to react.
He shouted, ".
Lay down your weapons and order your troops to lay down their weapons, or I will perish with you. Don't think about the trick, you know I'm not kidding!
Commander Liao Yaoxiang looked at the firm gaze that burst out of his eyes, his heart sank, he knew that he had encountered a hard stubble, and when he wanted to say something, Zhang Guofu's teammates also rushed in.
The set of words prepared by Liao Yaoxiang seemed to be useless, and knowing that the general trend was gone, he consciously ordered the troops to stop fighting. The battle of the Hu family shack ended in victory, and Zhang Guofu played a key role, although it was a local battle, it destroyed Liao Yaoxiang's headquarters in one fell swoop, thus promoting the entire battle and greatly accelerating the progress of the Liaoshen Campaign.
All of this Zhang Guofu did was clearly seen by the head of the unit with a telescope, and the chief was very satisfied with him, and said to the staff officers around him: "Don't look at this boy who looks reckless, in fact, he is very smart, his ability is great!" ”
Figure | the masses of the people celebrating the liberation of Northeast China
On October 29, the Northeast Field Army took advantage of the victory to pursue the eastward march, successively liberating Xinmin, Fushun, Liaoyang, Anshan and other outlying strongholds in Shenyang, until November 2, Shenyang was officially liberated, more than 130,000 defenders were annihilated in one fell swoop, and then they liberated Yingkou on the same day, after 52 days of Liaoshen Campaign finally won victory, the whole territory of northeast China was also declared liberated.
After this, Zhang Guofu, who was known as the "little hero" in the army, followed the Northeast Field Army into the customs and successively participated in a series of battles such as the Battle of Pingjin and the Battle of Crossing the River.
Chairman Mao set up a family banquet to entertain him, and the Korean battlefield continued to fight
In September 1950, the first national congress of combat heroes was successfully held in Beijing, and among the 4 million SOLDIERs of the People's Liberation Army, only 307 combat heroes were selected, of which only 78 were special combat heroes, and the young Zhang Guofu was among them, and he was still the youngest among the special combat heroes.
At this meeting, Chairman Mao specially pulled him out of the crowd, and after shaking hands with him cordially, he let him stand with Premier Zhou, at this time Zhang Guofu was so nervous that his palms were sweating, and he did not dare to look at the chairman, after all, he was still a 19-year-old child! The chairman, sensing his emotions, quipped: "
Zhang Huzi is so able to fight, it turns out that he is about the same height as the prime minister!
After the meeting, Chairman Mao specially set up a banquet at home and invited Zhang Guofu, Guo Junqing, and four other special combat heroes.
Pictured| Zhang Guofu (second from left) poses with other battle heroes
After this experience, Zhang Guofu became more determined to defend his family and defend the country and make new contributions, and after the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he followed the 47th Army into the Korean War. In April 1951, at the negotiating table between China and the United States, the United States refused to negotiate an armistice, and even brazenly clamored that all things that could not be resolved at the negotiating table should be resolved on the battlefield.
The US military is afraid that it has not forgotten that who fought and fled before, and can only rely on the pretext of armistice negotiations to rest its troops, and now what confidence do they have to make wild remarks? Since you like to dress up, then our army will fight until you are honest!
Subsequently, the "United Nations Army" led by the United States launched the autumn offensive, and Zhang Guofu led the whole company to hold the 345.6 nameless heights and fought hard for seven days and eight nights. At that time, the conditions were extremely harsh, and there was nothing to eat around, so what did the soldiers eat? They could only eat belts and cotton wool that had been boiled in boiling water until the end of the war.
In the end, the enemy withdrew, almost all the soldiers of the whole company were sacrificed, and when Zhang Guofu, who was lucky to survive, was found, his whole body was blurred with blood and flesh, there were many injuries on his body, and even his right leg had been fractured.
All companies were sacrificed, but our positions were not lost!
"The warriors present could not help but cry bitterly, yes, they paid the price of their lives to hold this place.
Pictured| Zhang Guofu
In this battle, Zhang Guofu was too badly injured and could only be sent back to China for treatment, and it was not until a few months later that he recovered and was discharged from the hospital. In this case, he will definitely be bright in the future, but with countless glorious blessings, he has made a surprising decision, he gave up his great future and chose to be demobilized and returned home.
Anonymous as a worker, yin and yang mistakes were found by the organization
After returning to his hometown, the county leader originally arranged for him to work in the county party committee, but Zhang Guofu refused, and when asked why, he said plainly:
I joined the army to fight, not to be able to become an official, but to let the people live a good life. Now that the whole country has been liberated and the people live and work in peace and contentment, I just want to be an ordinary people, for me, this is enough!
Later, as he said, Zhang Guofu returned to the countryside, became an ordinary citizen, married a local girl, and lived a simple and simple life. Moreover, in order to hide his battle achievements, he never talked to others about being a soldier, and no one except his family knew that he was a special combat hero.
For the sake of safety, he also changed his name to Zhang Guofu and went to work as a worker in a gunpowder factory, which was more than twenty years, and because of the reason for his name change, the organization looked for him for many years without results.
During this period, his wife gave birth to five children for him and formed a big family, which can support a large family, so he has to pick up coal cores after work in the gunpowder factory in exchange for a meager income.
Pictured | elderly Zhang Guofu
Life is hard and difficult, Zhang Guofu has never complained, until the Spring Festival of 1998, he was found to be hospitalized for lung cancer, his family sought the help of his former leader in desperation, his identity was exposed, and even alarmed the central government, the central government immediately transferred him to the 301 Hospital for treatment, arranged experts for treatment, but because the condition is too serious, experts are helpless, can only take a conservative treatment plan to continue his life.
On July 11, 1998, Zhang Guofu still left, and his last words before leaving touched countless people, saying to his children: "
The party fee in my pocket, you pay it for me!