The Battle of Shangganling in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1952 was familiar to Chinese, and Huang Jiguang, who threw his body at the enemy's bunker and blocked the muzzle of his gun in the Battle of Shangganling, was also well known. After Huang Jiguang's heroic deeds of fighting sacrifice for the country and the nation were passed back to China, the state hyped up and commended him, and the mother of this young heroic soul also attracted people's attention, but Huang Jiguang's mother, Deng Fangzhi, not only did not cry after learning the news of her son's sacrifice on the battlefield, but kept smiling. Afterwards, Deng Fangzhi explained the reason why she did not cry, which was touching, and this video will talk about the touching deeds of Ganling hero Huang Jiguang and hero mother Deng Fangzhi.
Huang Jiguang was born in 1931, when Japan began to invade China, his father Huang Dezhong was a poor peasant in Zhongjiang County, Sichuan Province, because the family lacked clothes and food, Huang Dezhong had to borrow grain from the landlord's family to support his family, but his father could not take the grain to return to the landlord, so he could only go to the landlord's home to work as a coolie to pay off debts. The physical work day and night caused him to fall ill, and the landlord's family chased after him and arrested Huang Dezhong on the hospital bed. Her mother, Deng Fangzhi, was forced to be helpless and sold the 3 acres of land where the family had just grown wheat seedlings to raise a ransom to save her father. It was just that his father was already ill, and he was taken away by the landlord and starved and frozen, and when Huang Jiguang was just eleven years old, he died of illness because he had no money.
After his father's death, Huang Jiguang's family's life was even more difficult, and he was unable to raise several children by his mother alone. The young Huang Jiguang could only continue his father's old ways and do hard work in the home of the black-hearted landlord. However, the landlord did not understand the fact that Huang Jiguang was young and weak, and not only let him do heavy work, but also found an excuse to deduct Huang Jiguang's wages. Huang Jiguang, who worked in the landlord's house for half a year, did not get a penny, and was always bullied by others, Huang Jiguang left the landlord's home, and by going up the mountain to cut firewood and make incense, he finally earned some meager income for the family and was able to maintain the family's life.
Fortunately, Huang Jiguang's hometown was liberated in November 1949, and Huang Jiguang's family was also given the landlord's grain and land, and the days were getting more and more hopeful. Soon after the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Zhongjiang County began to recruit volunteers in March 1951, Huang Jiguang was rated as a model militia during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression for finding guns hidden by the pseudo-BaoChang, and when he learned that the state was recruiting new recruits, he was the first to run to the conscription site to register.
Huang Jiguang went home and told his mother Deng Fangzhi about this idea, the child has the heart to repay the country, although Deng Fangzhi is distressed, after all, he still did not stop it. It was just that Huang Jiguang did not meet the criteria for conscription because he was not tall during the conscription physical examination and was not approved to join the army. After Huang Jiguang learned the reason, he bravely ran to the recruitment office and loudly said to the person in charge of recruitment that although he was not tall, he would definitely not be behind others in killing the enemy on the battlefield. The head of the recruitment was very appreciative of Huang Jiguang's attitude and hired him out of the box, and Huang Jiguang happily went home to tell his mother the news and waited with joy to go to the battlefield with his comrades-in-arms.
The anti-AMERICAN volunteer army needed to enter North Korea from the northeast, and Huang Jiguang was in Zhongjiang, Sichuan, taking a train to Deyang to change trains, arriving in Baoji, Shaanxi, and then setting off for Dandong. Huang Jiguang and other recruits carried packed luggage and sat on the stuffy can train, in order not to be detected by people who had the heart to find out that the train was a volunteer soldier, even the goods or livestock marked outside the carriage. Even if they couldn't breathe during the ten-day journey, Huang Jiguang and these recruits were still extremely excited.
After arriving in Dandong, the recruits conducted a month of simple training, not only to learn the necessary knowledge on the battlefield, but also to learn the internal affairs regulations, practice the formation of the queue, and strive to transform into a qualified warrior from all aspects of the form.
In July 1951, Huang Jiguang joined the Communist Youth League, and soon after submitted an application and a petition to the instructor. Because if he wanted to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the soldiers needed to write their own letters of request for war, and Huang Jiguang, who was poor at home, had not been to school since he was a child, and naturally could not read. Everyone in the recruit company knew that this short man from Sichuan, Huang Jiguang, was bent on going to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and the comrades who recognized the letter helped Huang Jiguang write a letter of invitation. Huang Jiguang also asked his comrade-in-arms Li Jide from Shandong every day for advice on how to read and let Li Jide teach him pinyin, and the two of them bought a bottle of blue ink, which Huang Jiguang usually put in his satchel. Once, after learning pinyin, Huang Jiguang did not tighten the ink lid, and the satchel was dyed blue.
Before rushing to the battlefield, the troops gave each soldier a yellow cloth army coat, a towel, an enamel jar and a shovel, and the volunteer soldiers each carried 10 kilograms of fried noodles, singing the "Volunteer Army Battle Song" with great vigor and vigor, and entered Korea from the Yalu River Bridge together.
After arriving in Sinuiju, North Korea, Huang Jiguang was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of the 135th Regiment of the 45th Division of the 15th Army, and conducted live-fire training with other recruits for the first time. After several shots, Huang Jiguang, who was quite talented, was able to hit a good result of 30 rings with three or eight large covers, and Li Jide played 29 rings, and the two of them no longer used three or eight large covers like other fighters, but were assigned to Soviet-style submachine guns.
In the winter of 1951, U.S. aircraft blew up north Korean transportation routes, and Huang Jiguang's unit was ordered to use manpower to transport supplies to the front. In order not to be discovered by the enemy in the snow, all the soldiers wore cotton clothes, carried 50 pounds of rice, and each received a raw egg as rice. It was only at that time that the outdoor temperature was as low as minus 39 degrees, and the soldiers stepped on the thick ice and snow for more than 70 miles to deliver food to the front line, and the raw eggs used to fill the hunger were frozen into ice lumps as early as halfway through, and after transporting the rice, many soldiers' feet and fingers were frozen.
A year after joining the army, Huang Jiguang was still not arranged to fight on the front line, and his heart was extremely anxious. At this time, he was transferred to the battalion headquarters to work as a correspondent for the chief of staff, and Huang Jiguang told the leader that he wanted to fight on the battlefield. The leader patiently enlightened this young warrior, although you have not yet directly gone to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but you are still contributing to the war, each soldier has his own responsibility and mission, not only the soldier who kills the enemy is the real warrior. Huang Jiguang, who was persuaded, could only put aside the anxiety in his heart for the time being and strive to do a good job in his current work.
Soon, Huang Jiguang was given the opportunity to visit the front line in person. In June 1952, Huang Jiguang's 135th Regiment went to the front, and the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion was located on the 597.9 high ground in Shangganling. Huang Jiguang was very excited when he knew that he had the opportunity to fight, but this battle was not officially launched until October 14, but it was the highest firepower density recorded in the history of human warfare.
The United Nations army placed more than 40 aircraft, more than 300 artillery pieces and 27 tanks in this small position in Shangganling, and the intensive fire attack made the volunteers face extremely severe war tests. After the battle began, some volunteer soldiers found that in order to cut off the connection between the front line and the rear of our army, the enemy sent 10 tanks to the foot of the mountain every morning to carry out a fierce bombardment. As a result, the volunteer convoy could not come up at all, and the supply on the front line was cut off.
In order to break the enemy's blockade and solve the crisis of food shortages, Wang Musheng, a platoon leader of the 2nd Battalion, volunteered to ambush the enemy tanks on the only way to pass at night, climbed to the place where the last tank shell was fired, and threw the grenade through the muzzle. This behemoth-like tank exploded from the inside and was abandoned in place. The enemy in the first 9 tanks was blown up by this explosion, and they abandoned the tanks and fled. What everyone did not expect was that Wang Musheng actually escaped in the exploded tank and returned to the position at night.
Wang Musheng's life also brought great inspiration and inspiration to the volunteer army, and the 2nd Battalion sent people to blow up the remaining 9 tanks of the enemy, slightly weakening the enemy's firepower. However, after the loss of tanks, the U.S. army launched an even more fierce attack, and aircraft and artillery bombarded the positions at any cost. The volunteers suffered heavy casualties and were eventually stripped of control of their positions in the afternoon.
After taking the position, the enemy immediately erected a stone bunker at the top of the hill and dug a ditch under the bunker to transport bullets. The location of the bunkers was also very tricky, except for the open ground in front, there were high cliffs on both sides, and there was no other way for the volunteers to take down the fire point of the bunkers except to attack from the front.
Huang Jiguang's 2nd Battalion simply did not have a rocket launcher and a high-destructive shell that could blow up the bunker, and could only charge from the front with machine guns. It was just that the enemy was hidden behind the bunkers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and several charges of the volunteer army were suppressed by the enemy to death, and the soldiers of the charge were also sacrificed.
Faced with the enemy's impregnable defensive position, the commander of the 15th Army ordered the troops absolutely not to abandon their positions and retreat, and Huang Jiguang, as a guard, came to the position with the chief of staff at night to discuss the plan to retake the position. Huang Jiguang, the company commander and the correspondent of the instructor formed a new demolition team, holding grenades and crawling inch by inch in the direction of the bunker under the cover of the machine guns of their comrades.
Like the other two, Huang Jiguang held a grenade in his left hand and dragged his body forward on his right elbow, carrying not only a gun but also the satchel that had been stained blue by ink. When they were still tens of meters away from the enemy's bunker, the three were discovered by the enemy, and the dense bullets swept the ground around them, while the other two members of the demolition team were quickly hit by bullets and stopped in place. The task fell on Huang Jiguang alone, who continued to crawl forward and was hit by a bullet when he was only a dozen meters away from the bunker. The comrades in the rear thought that he had also died, and was about to send a second demolition team, Huang Jiguang moved again, and in the instant of throwing the grenade, the whole person also pounced on the bunker. The grenade only blew up part of the bunker, but Huang Jiguang blocked the enemy's machine gun muzzle with his chest.
At the same time, the soldiers in the rear rushed out of the fortifications when the charge horn sounded, launched a fierce attack on the silent bunkers, and finally regained their positions after annihilating most of the enemy. The volunteer soldiers carried Huang Jiguang's body from the position, and his entire upper body had been densely packed with bullet holes, and his body was soaked in blood. Huang Jiguang, who was only 21 years old, became a martyr, and he was not even married, not even a single photo was left.
After the Battle of Shangganling, Huang Jiguang was posthumously awarded the title of Second Class Hero, and in April 1953, he was posthumously awarded the Title of Grand Hero. After the news of Huang Jiguang's sacrifice came home, her mother, Deng Fangzhi, was grief-stricken, but she quickly regained her mood and wrote a letter to the People's Volunteer Army, in which she said that she knew that her beloved son had died on the Korean front when she rushed to the market, and although the pain was like cutting off a piece of flesh, she understood that her son had sacrificed for the country and that he had fulfilled his responsibilities.
In 1953, Deng Fangzhi was invited to attend the National Women's Congress, and Chairman Mao noticed her after the meeting and asked the staff around her: "Is that the mother of the combat hero Huang Jiguang?" After receiving a positive reply, the chairman said softly: "Invite Mother Huang to the house as a guest." ”
When they arrived at Chairman Mao's residence, Chairman Mao was already waiting at the door, and after seeing Deng Fangzhi, he went forward to shake hands with her, saying that Mother Huang had educated the country and the people on a good son. The 61-year-old Deng Fangzhi was very excited in the face of the chairman, and she had some mixed feelings, but she always smiled and replied, "The chairman is well educated and cultivated." Subsequently, the chairman also inquired about Deng Fangzhi's family situation with concern and instructed the staff to pay more attention to the hero's mother.
As the hero's mother, Deng Fangzhi received visits from Chairman Mao in 1955 and 1960, which is the only unique treatment for the families of all combat heroes. What is surprising is that Deng Fangzhi maintained a smile throughout the three times when she met the chairman, and did not show the slightest sadness.
Many people questioned this, and some people couldn't help but ask Deng Fangzhi, who smiled and replied, "My son died on the battlefield, how can I not be sad?" But if I cry to see the chairman and let his old man also think of his sacrificed son, won't he also feel sad in his heart? He has so many national affairs to manage in a day, I can't recall his sadness, so keep smiling. It's just that the tears are flowing into the heart! ”
Deng Fangzhi sent his youngest son Huang Jishu to the battlefield in the third year of Huang Jiguang's sacrifice, and later sent all his grandchildren to the army. The birth of a hero must have the soil of heroes behind it, and the fearlessness of Deng Fangzhi and Huang Jiguang is the symbol of the endless life of the Chinese nation.