introduction
(Yan Wenbin)
"Give me a gun, and I'll be able to go to war and lead you to fight the devils."
Inside the villa, the family was happily eating and talking to each other, when suddenly the old man slapped his hand on the table and said such a sentence. The atmosphere was suddenly quiet, and just when everyone was puzzled, reports of frequent incidents caused by the Japanese right wing came from the television, and everyone suddenly realized.
The gray-haired old man stared at the TV with anger on his face, and the eldest sister hurriedly turned down his voice: "Watch TV quietly in the future, don't let the old man hear the word 'Japan'!" The old man's name was Yan Wenbin, and he was awarded the rank of major general in 1964.
Although the name sounds polite, he was an anti-Japanese fighter decades ago.
From his life, he made great achievements, participated in the death squad five times, and fought bayonets face-to-face with the enemy more than ten times, and he never feared.
Every time he mobilized before the war, his thunderous roar would shock people's bodies:
"If you are afraid to die, give me an egg!"
"Prince Yan will not accept me"
Yan Wenbin was born in a poor peasant family in Jiangxi, and when he was 6 years old, his hometown was plagued, and only he survived in a family of 11. At a young age, he tasted all kinds of suffering, and when he was 14 years old, the Red Army went to the village to recruit soldiers, and Yan Wenbin heard that this was a poor man's own team, so he did not hesitate to put down the pig whip and join the army.
According to Yan Wenbin' recollection:
"I didn't wear pants before I was 13, and when I was 14 I wrapped a circle around my waist with a cloth and went out to be a soldier."
The day after joining the army, Yan Wenbin went to the battlefield, the troops gave him a worn-out small pony gun, he had never played with a gun, he closed one eye and fired the first shot of his life, but almost hit the company commander who was commanding the operation on the side.
The company commander was furious and raised his stick to smoke him, but was stopped by the commissar. As soon as the submachine gun was fired, Yan Wenbin rushed down the hill first, captured three rifles and a large bag of clothes, and the ambush battle was also a complete victory. After the battle, the whole company checked the weapons, and the company commander walked up to Yan Wenbin and picked up his gun to examine it carefully.
(Yan Wenbin when he was young)
After some inspection, the company commander found that the "top hook" in the gun was missing, and insisted that it was stolen by Yan Wenbin, and he immediately ordered Yan Wenbin to be tied up:
"Destroy weapons, shoot them on the spot!"
The cold muzzle of the gun was aimed at Yan Wenbin's head, and just when he thought he was going to die unjustly, the political commissar flew in and drank him:
"Stop! No shots allowed! ”
He took Yan Wenbin in his arms:
"This child is from a peasant background, he only joined the army yesterday, the gun has not yet been touched, he went to the battlefield today, and bravely captured three guns and a large bag of military uniforms, how can it be possible to destroy weapons?"
The company commander was demoted, and Yan Wenbin joined the party in just one year because of his bravery in battle, and also became a platoon leader.
In 1934, our army surrounded the headquarters of the enemy Xiang Army Zhang Zhenhan, but because the enemy desperately resisted, our army was unable to attack it for a long time. The battalion commander was anxious, and he immediately formed an assault platoon and ordered Yan Wenbin to be the squad leader of the assault platoon. At the command of the battalion commander, 42 cadres did not hesitate to rush into the enemy camp.
Yan Wenbin rushed up with a large knife while throwing grenades, and he crossed the trench, and a knife penetrated the chests of two enemies, and blood splashed his face. Suddenly, a grenade landed at Yan Wenbin's feet, and before he could react, he had black eyes and passed out.
"Dig it up, bury it!" I don't know how long later, Yan Wenbin heard a burst of talking in confusion, he felt that his body was dragged into a large pit, and then, a shovel and a shovel of dirt came to his face. Yan Wenbin's consciousness gradually cleared, and he opened his eyes suddenly: "Don't bury me!" ”
Yan Wenbin sat up violently, and everyone was frightened and retreated, yan Wenbin spat out a mouthful of dirt in his mouth:
"I'm not dead yet, you're burying the living!"
The crowd was amazed and delighted:
"Oh my God, you're still alive!"
Yan Wenbin joked, "It seems that Prince Yan doesn't want my life yet!" The crowd was ecstatic and hurriedly carried Yan Wenbin to the doctor.
After returning to the position, Yan Wenbin realized that there was still a piece of shrapnel embedded in the door of his head, and there was no doctor at that time, so he had to call the health personnel in the field to do it. The hygienist did not dare to move, and Yan Wenbin angrily rebuked:
"If you want to pull it, pull it quickly!"
The health worker riveted out, snorted, the shrapnel was pulled out, and blood splashed his face.
During the Long March, due to the Kuomintang's encirclement and blockade of our army, which led to heavy losses on our side, in one battle, our army was surrounded, and the superior decided to set up a death squad to break through the team. Yan Wenbin volunteered to be the captain of the death squad, and the chief asked:
"The task of the death squad is to kill a bloody road for the main force, which may be sacrificed at any time, are you not afraid of death?"
"I have this life to pick up, to live one more day is a blessing, even if I die in the battle, I have no complaints, and I am the only one left in my family, even if I sacrifice, I have nothing to worry about." 」
The chief patted Yan Wenbin's shoulder and paused:
"It's a man, who said you don't have a family, the troops are your home, and the soldiers are your family!"
The chief's words made Yan Wenbin's blood boil, and he led dozens of daredevils to bear the brunt of it, breaking through the enemy's defense line again and again. As a fierce general, Yan Wenbin's injuries were completely commonplace, and in October 1935, in an encounter with the Kuomintang, Yan Wenbin was shot in the thigh, and he fell to the ground unable to retreat.
Seeing that the enemy rushed up, he simply lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, and a burst of footsteps came, and Yan Wenbin did not dare to come out. A couple of guys kicked him viciously:
"Stab him and see if he's dead?"
Another voice said:
"Forget it, he's dead, what are you going to stab him for?"
At the end of the conversation, several people collapsed from Yan Wenbin's body, and Yan Wenbin escaped from death again.
A wounded leg goes on a long march
After the battle, Yan Wenbin was taken to the Red Army's temporary hospital to recuperate, and in order to get rid of the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang, the Red Second and Sixth Armies decided to withdraw from the Xiang'echuanqian base area and continue the Long March. Yan Wenbin was too badly wounded to follow the strategic transfer of the troops, so he was placed in his hometown to recuperate.
On the night of the withdrawal of the troops, a group of bandits ransacked the entire village, and many red army wounded were brutally killed. The bandit's large knife was placed on Yan Wenbin's neck, and he gave the bandit a piece of silver and three pieces of guangyang issued to him by the organization, plus the compatriots begged for it, so as to save this small life.
The next day, Yan Wenbin came to the village with a cane and a limp, he had already regarded the troops as his home since he was a lonely child, looking at the continuous flow of troops, Yan Wenbin had a feeling of separation. He secretly decided:
He must follow the troops, move one step at a time, live one more day to count one day, even if he can't walk and die on the Long March.
The battalion commander advised him to stay and recuperate, but Yan Wenbin had already made up his mind, and he wanted to follow the large army and his relatives. In this way, Yan Wenbin slowly moved forward with a large army of crutches, and his comrades-in-arms scrambled to carry him and carry him forward, but he categorically refused.
The troops marched fast, Yan Wenbin followed the troops with difficulty, and the people in the team took pity on him, and many people advised him:
"Forget it old watch! Don't follow anymore! ”
But Yan Wenbin did not give up, and even when others were resting, he persevered and continued to rush forward, afraid that the next day he would fall farther and drag the troops back.
After walking for more than a month, one day Yan Wenbin suddenly felt that the wound on his leg was painful and itchy, very uncomfortable, he opened the wound and looked at it, a patch of white flowers maggots were crawling around on his rotten wound, shocking!
Yan Wenbin thought that his life would soon be over, but even if he still had to breathe, he would unswervingly follow the troops forward.
He asked the troops for some salt and gauze, boiled the salt water every day with an iron teapot, and used the gauze dipped in salt water to clean the wound, and strangely, the wound actually got better day by day. Later, Yan Wenbin learned from an expert that it was fortunate that maggots had eaten the rotten flesh, otherwise his life would be in danger.
As the saying goes: if you don't die, you will have a blessing, and this statement can be regarded as a verification in Yan Wenbin. I don't know how long he walked, Yan Wenbin no longer needed crutches, and he also successfully caught up with his troops. The teammates were surprised and delighted:
"The bones are really hard, the fate is really big, in the end it is catching up with the team!"
Later, the Red Army climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed meadows, and the soldiers not only had to face the pursuit of the enemy, but also had to endure the harsh natural environment, suffer from cold and starvation, and the degree of hardship was indescribable.
After the company was merged, Yan Wenbin served as the company commander and later became the deputy instructor, and along the way, the company he led was only 22 soldiers. The soldiers who ate wild vegetable roots every day were already hungry and their eyes were black, and as a cadre, he often gave his food to the team members.
Later, knowing that he could not do it, he gave his gun to the two soldiers who were supporting him:
"Let's go first, my stomach hurts, rest and then go!"
The two warriors could not see Yan Wenbin's meaning, and cried and said:
"No, you have to die together!"
Yan Wenbin scolded:
"Nonsense, you are the seeds of the revolution, you can reach a hundred people in the future, you must go out alive."
Yan Wenbin forced the two people away, looking at the figure of the two walking away, Yan Wenbin finally relaxed his heart and passed out. "Old watch, get up and go wow!" In the confusion, two people picked up Yan Wenbin, and Yan Wenbin had no strength and could not even stand steadily.
(Right Yan Wenbin)
One of the chiefs jumped off his horse and took out the only bowl of fried noodles left on the horse's back: "Eat it!" Looking at this bowl of golden fried noodles, Yan Wenbin's tears dripped down:
"No, no, no, sir, I ate what you ate!" "They are all class brothers, and life and death should be together."
With tears in his eyes, Yan Wenbin ate this bowl of life-saving fried noodles.
Yan Wenbin rushed to the front line of the revolution all his life, drilling all the way out in the rain of bullets and bullets, and there were more than a dozen large and small wounds on his body, and he was seriously injured several times but survived. What impressed Yan Wenbin the most was a wound on his arm, when the enemy's grenade exploded around him, and the shrapnel burrowed into his right arm in an instant, breaking his bones and tendons, and his whole hand was swollen like a bun.
Yan Wenbin once recalled:
"Fuck, there was no anesthetic at the time, it hurt to death!"
The hygienist tied him to a tree and cut the flesh with a knife before prying out the shrapnel and saving the arm.
Daredevil's "Fierce Fly"
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yan Wenbin, with his brilliant achievements, had successively served as instructors, company commanders, and battalion commanders of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.
In 1939, when he attacked Pingcheng Mountain, Yan Wenbin served as the captain of the death squad, he tied grenades around his waist and held a large knife in his hand, leading a hundred team members into the city at night, killing all the way to the west of the city, enough to eliminate more than 200 Japanese troops.
However, the follow-up troops failed to keep up in time, and after the Japanese army counterattacked madly, the death squad was trapped in the city and fought hard all night, and only more than twenty people were left in the death squad. In the early morning, Yan Wenbin gave an order:
"Occupy the commanding heights"
Leading the team members to rush to the city wall, the Japanese army strafed, Yan Wenbin immediately lay down on the ground, the Japanese army rushed up, completely ignoring Yan Wenbin lying on the ground.
Yan Wenbin jumped up, raised a large knife and killed a Zhongzuo, on the city wall he covered his teammates to escape, the team members escaped one by one, while Yan Wenbin was hit squarely by a bullet from the enemy, fell into the trench, passed out, and pressed under a pile of corpses.
The Japanese army first cleaned up the battlefield inside the city, and before they could check the dead bodies outside the city, Yan Wenbin stayed under a pile of corpses for a day, and when it was dark, he secretly crawled into a sorghum field for a night. The next day, yan Wenbin was found in plainclothes of the underground party, and he did not dare to declare his identity to him, so he could only let them take him away.
It wasn't until they took them to the direction of the troops' territory that Yan Wenbin revealed his identity, and plainclothes would smile heartily, saying that they already knew. In this battle, Yan Wenbin fought very badly, until the founding of New China, until there was no war, he still remembered it, often thinking about those comrades who sacrificed.
Over the past few decades, Yan Wenbin has participated in countless battles of all sizes, including the Battle of Pingxingguan, the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the Battle of Crossing the River, the Battle of Pingjin and other famous battles.
During the Liberation War, he successively served as deputy regimental commander, regimental commander, and division chief of staff.
(Battle of Pingjin)
In the Battle of Pingjin, one division and two regiments of the enemy army were compressed in one building, and Yan Wenbin, who was the commander of the regiment, led his troops to conquer many times but failed to penetrate, and he asked the military headquarters for help. General Liu Zhen personally sent a deputy division commander to lead a regiment of troops to support, and ordered Yan Wenbin to take full command of the battle.
Yan Wenbin was surprised, he was just a regimental commander, and it didn't seem appropriate for him to command the division commander, so he immediately contacted General Liu Zhen:
"I'm a regimental commander, and the deputy commander of the commanding division seems to be unable to say anything!" "What's not to say, your level is there, I said you can do it, you can't take down this battle military law!"
The deputy division commander said:
"The commander must have his reasons for arranging this arrangement, so you can rest assured that you will command it!"
Yan Wenbin no longer hesitated and immediately issued a combat order. In this battle, the enemy army was completely destroyed, and under the leadership of Yan Wenbin, our army won a complete victory, and soon Yan Wenbin was also promoted to chief of staff.
(Yan Wenbin and his family)
On October 1, 1949, after the founding of New China, Yan Wenbin, who was then the chief of staff of the 15th Division, was preparing to swing the division south, and received a notice from the military department to appoint him as the deputy commander of the 115th Division.
When filling out the file, the birth day column made Yan Wenbin difficult, and he remembered his birthday when he was lonely at a young age.
Suddenly, Yan Wenbin made a clever move:
Chief, my birthday is today, the same birthday as New China! ”
Chief Yile: "Good you Yan Wenbin, but you really can choose a date, National Day has become your birthday, good!" We celebrated your birthday together that night! Yan Wenbin also smirked.
A lifetime of iron bones, love and hatred do not forget the original
Shortly after the founding of New China, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, and Yan Wenbin once again threw himself into the battlefield as a pioneer. In a certain battle, Yan Wenbin was supervising the battle, and suddenly felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, and when he touched his chest, he found that he did not know when he was injured. A piece of shrapnel is inserted into the chest cavity and stuck inside the rib slit.
After two operations, the doctor took out the shrapnel, and Yan Wenbin sighed:
"It's really a sin to cut a knife, and it's worse than being injured!"
After returning from the Korean battlefield, Yan Wenbin was promoted to deputy commander.
(Later Yan Wenbin)
In 1955, Yan Wenbin was not awarded a title due to a 10-day difference in tenure, and was not promoted to the rank of major general until 1964.
Considering Yan Wenbin's outstanding merits, the organization had said that special care could be taken care of, but he refused:
"Obey the organizational arrangement."
He must not forget those comrades who died on the battlefield:
"I climb snowy mountains, cross meadows, and suffer and bleed not for the stars on my clothes."
Yan Wenbin has been an iron skeleton and a high wind and bright festival, and he has fought a fierce battle all his life but has never been afraid of life and death, because what he cares about is not his name, but the responsibility to the party and the people on his shoulders.
He has experienced the suffering of the Chinese people, witnessed the hard-won success of new China, witnessed the atrocities committed by the invaders against China, and felt the hardships of tens of millions of soldiers fighting the battlefield to defend their homeland.
After retirement, he often repeats a sentence:
"It's so miserable... I can't forget this vendetta..."
The old general must not forget the death of his comrades-in-arms, let alone the pain that is carved into his bones. In his later years, a group of Japanese people wanted to visit the Japanese villa where Yan Wenbin lived, and they had been the original owners of the villa, and the guards immediately refused:
"No, we hate the Japanese the most!"
Everyone felt that the guards did not understand politeness, after all, the war had passed, the two countries had already established diplomatic relations, and they should be left with some affection. Yan Wenbin praised the guards:
"I think it is right, we should love and hate clearly, and we must not forget our roots!"
The patriotic feelings of the veteran generals have deeply shocked many juniors, and the soldiers were born to serve the country!
In his later years, Yan Wenbin fell ill, and during his hospitalization, he often called out to his old comrades-in-arms, and he pulled the nursing staff to succeed, affectionately calling some names that he knew in his heart. The children listened to Yan Wenbin tell his story on the battlefield over and over again, and their hearts were full of emotions.
In 2014, Yan Wenbin died at the age of 99.
Looking at general Yan's head, arms, chest, and legs, there were more than a dozen scars all over his body, and the figure of tenacious struggle on the battlefield seemed to resurface in front of his eyes:
"The Red Second Front fought bitterly... Poor conditions and poor equipment, can only fight with the enemy with flesh and blood. "I am a person who can bear hardships and is not afraid of suffering!"