On August 20, 1944, under the day and night attack of the 20th Army of the Expeditionary Force, the Japanese army trapped in Tengchong gradually fell out.
On the same day, the southward attacking expeditionary force entered the city.
Siege scene of the Battle of Tengchong
The Pre-2nd Division was the first to enter the city, but the Japanese troops inside the city were still dying and struggling, and they carried out a final counterattack with the help of houses and laneways.
The brutal street fighting unfolded immediately, the battle was extremely fierce, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force, between the broken walls and ruins, braved the rain of bullets and bullets, and every step forward had to pay an extremely tragic price.
After the war, in the summary of the battle of the 20th Army, the situation at that time was described as follows:
"Siege battles, size must be contested, fierce battles everywhere, hand-to-hand combat between our enemies, mountains and rivers are dizzying, the sound of rivers and rivers is like thunder and lightning, corpses fill the streets and alleys, and blood fills the city walls."
At this time, Gu Baoyu, deputy commander of the Pre-2nd Division, who was personally present at the front-line battlefield, received an order from the headquarters of the 20th Group Army and immediately rushed to the Huzhu Temple (where the headquarters of the 20th Group Army was stationed) to discuss military information.
Gu Baoyu
Subsequently, Gu Baoyu took the guards around him and hurried towards the Huzhu Temple in the north of the city.
As the crowd passed a dirt road not far west of the city, there was a sudden burst of gunfire.
"Snap!" A bullet flew past Gu Baoyu's head, knocking down a guard beside him.
"There are enemies!" Several guards immediately pulled Gu Baoyu under a mound.
A guard had just reached out and wanted to check the enemy situation nearby, but he was hit in the head by the enemy and immediately pounced on the mound.
"There are snipers." Gu Baoyu calmly analyzed that not far in front of this dirt road, there was a dense jungle, and the enemy was definitely hiding in the forest, but where was it hiding?
We must hurry up and find a way to find his place.
Then the crowd used guns to pick hats, clothes, etc., to lure the other party to shoot again, and then everyone found out the other party's hiding place by observing the location of the fire.
However, the enemy on the other side was obviously a very cunning fox, and he was completely unmoved by the camouflage of Gu Baoyu and others, just quietly waiting for the next sniper opportunity.
What to do? You can't always go to the headquarters to meet because you are blocked by the other side.
Gu Baoyu then set his sights on the little guard beside him, Li Huasheng, a teenage little guy who had already experienced several big battles before following him, and it was precisely because he was very clever on the battlefield that he finally chose him to his side.
Li Huasheng in his later years
"Li Huasheng!" Gu Baoyu shouted in a low voice.
"Deputy Division Commander!" Li Huasheng rushed to Gu Baoyu.
"You, get on my horse, rush over, be careful, don't get hit by the other side." Gu Baoyu ordered that letting Li Huasheng risk leading out the enemy's position was a dangerous move and a way to do it.
"Yes!" At that time, Li Huasheng was full of ghosts, and he was accustomed to seeing life and death on the battlefield, and he did not have much fear of death, so when the deputy division commander asked him to go up, he carried out the order without hesitation.
Subsequently, Li Huasheng took an arrow step, rushed to the mount of the deputy division commander, turned over on his horse, and raised his horse and whipped, in one fell swoop, and before the enemy on the other side had time to react, Li Huasheng had already begun to hold the horse's neck and rushed over on his horse.
"Snap!" The opposite side finally reacted and fired a quick shot.
The shot did not hit.
"Snap!" "Snap!" "Snap!" Subsequently, the opposite side began to shoot continuously, one shot was more urgent than the other, but the accuracy was getting worse and worse, and it seemed more and more hasty.
At this time, Li Huasheng bowed his body, slammed forward with a hard scalp, and the bullets whizzed past his ears, but none of them hit him, which made Li Huasheng shout lucky.
Recreate the scene of that year
When Li Huasheng was risking his life and death to charge, Gu Baoyu and others had already discovered the sniper's hiding place, and then, under Gu Baoyu's command, a row of bullets and several grenades poured over, and after the violent explosion, everything returned to calm.
As everyone continued to hurry, Gu Baoyu's guards couldn't help but sigh, "You boy, your life is really big." ”
In an interview with reporters in his later years, Li Huasheng also sighed that the bullet was wiped on the side of my scalp, but it could not hit me.
Li Huasheng
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, 100,000 expeditionary troops generously went out to promote their power on the frontier and outside the territory, and Li Huasheng was only one of them, and his story, although little known, made people read it and could not help but boil with blood.
At that time, there must have been countless warriors like Li Huasheng, although they were like a speck of dust in the long river of history, but in those years of flames and wolf smoke, they used their most humble bodies to save the precarious country and save the suffering and brilliant nation.
A tribute to Li Huasheng, a tribute to the warriors who, like dust, although little known, silently guarded this mountain and river.
Part of the sacrificial warrior cemetery of the Battle of Tengchong
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