In May 1953, when it was already dark, the smoke of gunfire filled the surrounding area like a dark cloud, making it difficult to recognize the direction, and a PLA correspondent was walking on the battlefield one foot deep and one foot shallow. From time to time overhead, enemy planes hovered over their heads, and the sound waves that roared by made people shudder.
Enemy planes often carried countless shells, and whenever they released flares that illuminated the sky like daylight, they would frantically drop bombs down.
Every time I encounter such an enemy plane, I am passing by the god of death. However, in order to ensure the smooth flow of communication, the correspondent had to take advantage of the darkness to check the communication wires of the 187th Division.
In the two years of the Korean War of Resistance, he has become accustomed to such a life, and it is not once or twice to check the wires in the dark. Now that the war has come to an end, the US military has begun to negotiate an armistice with China and the DPRK under pressure. However, during the tripartite negotiations, the US military will still send aircraft to bomb the battlefield from time to time.
Creeping slowly closer to the communication wire, he did not want a few more enemy planes to fly in the sky and threw a few shells in the direction where the correspondent was.
With a bang, the correspondent was overturned by the impact of the shell and fainted in an instant.
This correspondent is called Li Jinghu, who is the "chief of the communications section" in "Who is the Most Lovely Person," who participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and also made a third-class meritorious service.
Who is the cutest person
Everything about Li Jinghu has to start from 1924:
He was born in Wangfu Village, Gaoyang County, Hebei Province, in a family of 5 brothers and sisters, and the family lived on two looms.
In Li Jinghu's memory, there are few times when he has eaten enough, and his parents are often worried about eating. Although the family lived in poverty, his parents still insisted on sending Li Jinghu to the village to study.
All along, illiterate parents believe in "everything is inferior, only the reading is high", even if the family is difficult, they spare no effort to send Li Jinghu to study.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and soon after, the hometown experienced turmoil, and the family's life became even poorer, and they had to flee to other places. In the process of fleeing the wilderness, they made a living begging. At that time, everyone was very poor, only the landlord's family would have surplus grain, and it was impossible to feed so many children by begging for things.
In order to keep the family alive, Li Jinghu's parents made a difficult decision to sell Li Jinghu's sister in exchange for two buckets of grain.
In those war-torn times, poverty overwhelmed them, all sanity was reduced to nothingness in the face of hunger, and in the villages, many families survived by selling their children and daughters.
After that period of time, Li Jinghu's family returned to normal life, but unfortunately the good times were not long, and the hard-won life was scattered with the artillery fire of the Japanese army.
In December 1937, the Hebei Anti-Japanese Guerrillas were stationed in Bozhuang Village, but they did not think that because someone had informed them, the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas were secretly attacked by devils with traitors.
Before the guerrillas could react, they were touched by the devils, and in order to escape, they fought hard and finally broke through some of the fighters, but unfortunately the innocent villagers were besieged by the Japanese.
Faced with the unarmed villagers, the Japanese Kou did not relent and carried out a brutal massacre. A variety of vicious means have slaughtered the villagers.
In one day, the Japanese army killed more than 180 people, and only about twenty guerrilla fighters were really killed in the battle, and the rest were all innocent villagers, and even the villager Dong Jingtai's entire family did not survive.
Dr. Zhuang Massacre
When the news of the Boerzhuang massacre reached Li Jinghu's ears, he was indignant and decided to become a soldier. For him, being a soldier is not forced to be helpless, nor is it for the sake of glory and wealth, but to want
Use your own strength to protect your hometown and motherland
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In January 1938, at the age of 14, he resolutely joined the Eighth Route Army and became an ordinary correspondent of the Jizhong Military Region.
As a correspondent, Li Jinghu has been following the troops in the Jizhong region to carry out guerrilla anti-war work, responsible for conveying the orders of his superiors to his subordinates, and in addition to maintaining the safety of the line, he will also run between various revolutionary teams.
Correspondents are much safer than other jobs, at least without having to come into direct contact with the enemy. But war is a disaster for everyone.
In the years of war and chaos, only a few lucky people were able to completely demarcate the boundaries with the war, and even if he was only a small correspondent, Li Jinghu still faced the enemy's encounters several times.
It was during the Great Purge of 1942, and the Japanese chose to launch the May Day Sweep in order to destroy the Jizhong Military District, which they called the Military Station.
The Japanese puppet army gathered a total of more than 50,000 people, from the air and the ground to pursue and intercept the Eighth Route Army in all directions, and even dispatched hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, just to completely eliminate the Eighth Route Army active in Hebei. In the face of all-round blockade, our army could only be reduced to pieces, and the soldiers escaped from the encirclement in several ways, and this sweep not only sacrificed many revolutionary comrades, but also many soldiers and troops lost contact.
It was during this sweep that Li Jinghu was captured by the Japanese puppet army, and Li Jinghu, who was only 18 years old at the time, did not panic, but claimed to be a farmer living in the Central Hebei region.
Looking at Li Jinghu in front of him, the puppet army wanted to let him go, but found that Li Jinghu's hands were not rough, not like the hands of peasants, and he realized that the deceived puppet army was furious and hit Li Jinghu with the butt of his gun, and even searched for a diary on him that recorded the food account.
The Great Sweep
The puppet army that caught Li Jinghu saw that he was serious and decided to hand him over to the liaison officer in his hometown. After returning to his hometown, Li Jinghu was exchanged for two hundred yuan by the village chief.
After coming out of the puppet army barracks, Li Jinghu embarked on a journey to find the revolutionary contingent, and in the process of the great sweep, the troops were actually scattered, and he only wanted to return to the revolutionary base area of the Jizhong Military Region as soon as possible and find the head of the unit.
Soon after, Li Jinghu got in touch with the revolutionary contingent.
On May 23, 1942, the Japanese puppet army carried out a second sweep, and Li Jinghu, who had returned to the army, met the Japanese puppet army again. In order to break out of the encirclement of the Japanese puppet army, Li Jinghu led his fighters to break through in different directions, but to no avail, after several breakthroughs, they were still in the encirclement of the Japanese puppet army.
In the end, Li Jinghu and two fighters broke through to the east again, and during the breakthrough, they were discovered by the Japanese army, and the fighters immediately turned around and went west, and Li Jinghu broke through according to the original route.
The Japanese puppet army pursued Li Jinghu relentlessly, and in order to get rid of the pursuit, Li Jinghu hid in the toilet of a family.
Hiding in the shadows, Li Jinghu held his breath, holding a grenade in his hand, and once discovered by the Japanese army, he died with them.
As the minutes and seconds passed, the Figure of the Japanese was getting closer and closer, but I did not expect that the Japanese troops on the edge of the toilet suddenly changed direction and did not search again.
Li Jinghu, who escaped the disaster, his heartbeat was always difficult to calm down, this was the closest he had been to death since he entered the war.
After this sweep, the Japanese army occupied all the counties and larger villages in the Jizhong region, divided the Jizhong region into more than two hundred pieces, and guarded them with heavy troops, and the originally rich Jizhong base area became a hell on earth with scorched earth in an instant.
The revolutionary fighters lost more than 16,000 men, the masses were killed and arrested more than 50,000 people, even the sub-district commander Chang Deshan was unfortunately killed in battle, and many senior commanders died heroically.
In this anti-sweeping war, the Jizhong Military Region sacrificed a huge amount, the battle situation was unprecedentedly fierce, and the remaining 20,000 main forces could only be transferred to the northwestern Jin region.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li Jinghu participated in the War of Liberation with the troops, and during the War of Liberation he was still a correspondent, and his main job was to maintain normal communications during the course of the battle.
Stills from the Liberation War
This seemingly simple task was not easy, and whenever the communication line was broken by artillery fire, he always had to grope to connect the line.
For the whole division, they are the central nervous system, and the people at the division headquarters are the brains, responsible for giving the order, then they are responsible for transmitting the order completely and clearly to every corner of the unit.
As an old revolutionary, Comrade Li Jinghu participated in many wars, including the Battle of Pingjin and the Battle of Taiyuan. In these battles, Li Jinghu's performance was remarkable, and the task was successfully completed every time.
On February 15, 1951, Li Jinghu followed the 187th Division of the 63rd Army into Korea, and after entering Korea, they encountered a dangerous battle, that is, the Tieyuan Blockade Battle.
It was the fifth battle launched by the Volunteers, and due to logistical deficiencies, the Volunteers chose to shrink the front line on the Korean battlefield and withdraw their troops. However, in the process of retreat, logistics, terrain, weather and other factors affected, resulting in chaotic retreat. Taking advantage of the situation to push the front line forward, seizing the loopholes of the volunteer army and trying to break through the volunteer army in one fell swoop, the 63rd Army was ordered to block the United Nations army in Tieyuan for 15 days.
In order to stop the pace of the Un Army, the 63rd Army carefully designed tactics, scattered the troops, coordinated operations at multiple points, and ambushed at the mountain pass, and Li Jinghu's main task was to ensure the communication security of the 187th Division of the 63rd Army.
As the commander of the communications company, Li Jinghu understood how arduous the task was; it was a front about 25 kilometers wide and about 20 kilometers deep; in this front, there were many and miscellaneous communications equipment, and the lines would be destroyed from time to time, and it would be very difficult to ensure the smooth flow of communications.
To maintain the unity of the troops, multi-point coordinated operations, communication equipment is indispensable, and timely understanding of the battlefield situation is the most important link in the battle for commanders.
In order to successfully complete this mission, Li Jinghu took the soldiers of the communication company to wait on the battlefield communication line day and night to fight against the United Nations troops, and once there was a problem with the line, the soldiers of the communication company would immediately rush up to repair the line.
Li Jinghu and the soldiers of the communication company persisted in the battle for seven days and seven nights on the battlefield, and finally kept the communication of the 187th Division open. The Tieyuan Blockade Battle lasted for a total of 13 days and was finally successful, and this battle gave other volunteer troops time to organize a counterattack, and finally completely reversed the decline of the volunteer army on the Korean battlefield.
Iron Plains Blockade Battle
During this battle, Comrade Li Jinghu was awarded the Third Class Meritorious Service Medal for maintaining correspondence.
And in his notes also recorded the tragic situation of the 187th Division in this battle:
The old man's daughter Li Wenxin once told reporters that in her father's notebook there was a record of the Tieyuan Blockade Battle. She told reporters: "The war that persisted for 7 days and 7 nights was to obtain the third class meritorious medal on that occasion. ”
In 1952, when the war correspondent Wei Wei arrived on the Korean battlefield, Li Jinghu, then 28 years old, was ordered to take Wei Wei through the enemy's artillery blockade area and into our army's position. The cobweb-like traffic trench in front of him shocked Wei Wei, and the curious Wei Wei asked Li Jinghu how the traffic trench was built, and Li Jinghu replied without hesitation, this was done with the hands of the soldiers.
Wei Wei then wrote down who was the most lovely person to praise the greatness of the people's warriors.
Li Jinghu was also one of these ordinary warriors, and he also swallowed the wind and snow in North Korea, defending his homeland with his flesh and blood. They embarked on the Korean battlefield with only one of the simplest wishes, the hope that the mountains and rivers would be unharmed.
A soldier who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea once said: "I eat snow here precisely because the people of our motherland do not eat snow." "But if I squat in an air raid shelter there, the people of the motherland can not squat in an air raid shelter."
From beginning to end, they only firmly guarded the motherland, and Li Jinghu also struggled on the Korean battlefield with such a simple wish.
Until May 1953, on the eve of the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Li Jinghu was forced to withdraw from the Korean battlefield due to injuries.
In a blink of an eye, Lee Kyung-ho had been fighting in Korea for two years, and during those two years, he connected the various communication lines again and again, and even summed up a set of rules in the process of connecting the communication lines.
As an experienced correspondent, on this day, Li Jinghu worked as usual, and he wanted to rest, but when he saw that his comrade-in-arms Wang Zhixin had just returned for a while, he received another task to go out and connect the line.
Li Jinghu immediately pressed Wang Zhixin, who was preparing to go out, asked him to eat well, and took over the task himself and turned around to go out to set up the wire. Wang Zhixin, who went out before dawn, naturally agreed with Li Jinghu's idea.
However, Li Jinghu did not expect that it was this substitution that made him injured by the enemy and forced to end his military career early.
North Korean air raid shelters
At that time, the US military bombarded the Korean battlefield, and the soldiers did not think of returning alive when they went out, and people could only stay in the air raid shelter all day. Apart from these brave warriors, no one is exposed to the battlefield at all.
Therefore, the U.S. military does not care about three seven twenty-one, as long as it takes off from its own camp, it will bomb around the surroundings, for them, the whole of Korea is a criminal battlefield. Soon after Li Jinghu walked out of the air raid shelter, he was bombed by enemy planes, and he was stunned on the spot.
Covered in blood, when he was rescued by his comrades, he was lucky to breathe a sigh of relief, and due to Li Jinghu's serious injuries, he was sent back to China for treatment in July.
Li Jinghu, who was treated in the hospital, returned to the army after recovering, but the injury caused him a huge impact, and he had a disability in both hands and feet, and there was no way to serve in the army.
Even if he had been awarded the rank of major in 1955, it would not change his fate of being forced into retirement.
He could only choose to retire and transfer to the local area at the regimental level.
In 1958, after filling in the "Report Form for The Application for Discharge from Active Duty of Officers" and "injuring his right hand and right foot once each, and he was disabled", Li Jinghu completely launched his military career.
When he moved to the battlefield, he had been working diligently, often silent like a mountain, and only occasionally when he talked about the battlefield did he have a smile on his face.
In the memory of the second daughter Li Wenxin, the father was always silent like a mountain,
"It can be said that he is a person living in his own world"
This is the second daughter's full recollection of Li Jinghu.
Even if Li Jinghu was uncomfortable, he would never tell them about several children, but silently suffered alone. These children, can only judge from the father's face and actions whether today's father is uncomfortable.
As a regiment-level cadre, his monthly salary is not in the minority, but he has always been diligent and thrifty, as children, even a popsicle is rare to buy, they do not know where their father's money has gone.
Every time I asked about this, the father would say it, and over time, the children rarely asked their father. It wasn't until later that their father fell ill and their comrades called to greet them that they learned that their father had taken the money to help his comrades..
Such an old man who has feelings and righteousness for his comrades-in-arms is serious and silent in the impression of most people, and it is difficult for colleagues or family members to enter his heart.
Photos of Li Jinghu youth and old age
When his legs and feet were still good, he often walked alone. Later, as the pain became more and more serious, he had difficulty even moving.
Until 2001, Li Jinghu, who had an unbearable headache, went to the hospital for examination accompanied by his children, but he did not expect that the doctor could not draw conclusions, but hurriedly asked them, whether Li Jinghu had been on the battlefield.
After expert consultation, they finally determined that the culprit that caused Li Jinghu's unbearable headache was a bullet left in his head.
I wanted to open my skull to take out the bullet, but considering that Li Jinghu was as old as 71 years old, the risk of surgery was too great, and the operation was finally terminated, and the bullet was accompanied by Li Jinghu until his death.
In 2013, Li Jinghu, who was originally inconvenient with his legs and feet, often fell and became confused, even his own children often did not recognize. The old man in his eighties is more taciturn than before, and when he sits quietly at home alone, he often recalls the past events that were once in the battlefield.
In order to make their father happy, the children often played military songs from the battlefield to their fathers, and whenever the familiar melody sounded, the nearly 90-year-old could always naturally hum the general song. He missed the battlefield once upon a time, and he was a close comrade-in-arms.
In 2020, Li Jinghu, a veteran who died at the age of 95, died, and before his death, the old man could still hum the melody of the battle song, and the veteran who fought in the rain of bullets and bullets in the first half of his life finally died of illness in Beijing.
Li Wenxin specially informed the funeral home staff that the old man's head had shrapnel, asking him to pay attention to the shrapnel, but he did not expect that the old man's body was not only a bullet in the head, but a warhead in the head and waist.
Li Wenxin flipped through Li Jinghu's notes
Looking at the two warheads that had turned black in front of her, Li Wenxin burst into tears, and it was not until this moment that she understood what kind of pain her father had suffered. During the reporter's interview, she couldn't help but confide in the reporter:
"Heartache for him, we know too little about my father and too little"
Guilty, Li Wenxin couldn't help but learn about her father's past, who had never told her anything about the battlefield before, but now, she couldn't help but want to understand her father's life as a veteran.
The two suddenly appeared warheads brought her and her father closer to reality. The years of conquest were real in my father's life.
Even the father's body is silently telling all this, and the father, who has a bullet on his head, always has a headache and will saliva from his mouth when it is serious. The bullet on his waist caused him to always lean forward, and the blow injuries caused him to be inconvenient to his legs and feet, and his right hand was always unable to exert force.
These are his testimonies in the battlefield, and she is eager to learn about her father's life, and the bullet that has accompanied him for 47 years is really curious.
After Li Wenxin went through the old man's notes, he finally concluded that it was possible that after being injured by the shell and being hit by the enemy's rifle, the bullet head left in the body appeared. After so many years in the army, Li Jinghu was recorded as injured only on that occasion.
Li Wenxin recalled to reporters:
Listening to my second aunt, in May 1953, my father was injured in the battle of Namsan in Pyeongsan, North Korea, and when she returned to China for treatment in July, she visited the hospital, at that time my father still had blood and white things in his ears, and the doctor thought it was a concussion blown by a bomb, because there was no bleeding in the back of the head, I did not expect that the bullet had hit it. ”
After Li Jinghu's death, Li Wenxin donated the warheads taken from the old man's body to the Gaoyang County Cultural Relics Protection Institute, and these special medals with revolutionary marks were treasured as revolutionary cultural relics.
Li Jinghu's body was cremated out of the warhead
Li Jinghu's life was a life of struggle for the revolution, and it was also the epitome of every veteran under the haze of war, even if they were obscure, even if They were wrapped in corpses, they were still willing to fight for the noble revolutionary cause.
When Li Wenxin was interviewed by reporters, the reporter once asked Li Wenxin a question
Reporter: Why is it that their generation can believe in what they believe, no matter how the times change, I firmly believe, what do you think they rely on?
Li Wenxin: Firm conviction, because they came from that era, their personal experience is to follow the party, follow Chairman Mao, so that we have a happy life later.
It is this firm belief that supports their unremitting struggle. It is precisely such lofty ideals that can support them to move forward fearlessly in the rain of bullets and bullets, and it is precisely this selfless dedication that can have the happy life of our new generation.