One day in November 1952, inside the Acheng County Hospital in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, a soldier with thick eyebrows and big eyes was lying on the hospital bed, fidgeting, looking anxious, he was Wan Fulai, the company commander of the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 135th Regiment of the 15th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, who was stunned by a shell during the battle for the position in Shangganling on October 30, and when he woke up, he unexpectedly found himself lying in the hospital, at this time, a month had passed since that battle. But I still haven't contacted my unit, so how can I not be anxious?
When Wan Fulai was anxiously inquiring about his troops every day, on this day, an officer surnamed Wang in the same ward took a newspaper and told Wan Fulai: "You see, there is another hero on our front line, and in order to win the battle, he blocked the enemy's machine gun eyes. ”
Huang Jiguanglian
"What? Who is he? Wan Fulai, who was lying on the hospital bed, sat up and asked. The patient told him: "His name is Huang Jiguang, on October 20, 1952, in order to clear the enemy's bunker, the cover troops seized the 597.9 highland position, and did not hesitate to block the enemy's machine gun firing hole with his body, heroic sacrifice, and was awarded the second class combat hero." ”
The illiterate Wan Fulai listened to Wang Guannian's report, did not feel like staying there, and murmured in his mouth: "How can it be the second level?" How is it only level two? The newspaper wrote too simple, did not really understand the situation at that time, Huang Jiguang was my soldier, the day he died, I was by his side, his deeds are more touching than this, also more heroic, much more tragic, he actually sacrificed for me..."
1. Why did you participate in the Korean War?
Huang Jiguang, born on January 8, 1931, Indyang County, Deyang City, Sichuan Province, Fa Cai Ya village people, the village is called Fa Cai Ya, Huang Jiguang family can not get rich, but like most of the peasants at that time, the family is extremely poor, it can be said that Huang Jiguang also experienced a very unfortunate childhood and adolescence, in their home stored a vegetable oil IOU can be seen, at that time their family's kind of embarrassment and hardship, poor is really not enough: "Huang Dezhong, the borrower, because of the poor population in the family dragged down the difficulties of life, The two sides have agreed on interest, and the principal profit paid in March next year totals one and a half quintals of clear vegetable oil, with a net weight of 150 kilograms; if the returnee is paid in August in autumn, the total amount of the profit is three quintals of clear vegetable oil, and the net weight is 300 kilograms; if it is not repaid when it is due, it is willing to bet three acres of ancestral mountain soil under Li Jicheng's name, never regret it, and there is no basis for making an offer. ”
There is no doubt, in the second year, Huang Jiguang's father Huang Dezhong lost this ancestral three acres of land, Huang Dezhong's family life was even more unbearable, he himself was devastated, fell ill in bed, sick and hated, and died soon after, that year, Huang Jiguang was only 11 years old, had to go to the landlord's house to do long work, cut grass and herd cattle, in order to be able to maintain his own survival, and the landlord he served was the family who took their land, and later, someone asked Zhong Fajiu, a soldier who joined the army from Zhongjiang with Huang Jiguang. When he went to the Korean War, he was still very excited when he was nearly 90 years old: "The Communist Party has divided the land for my family, how can I not defend all this!" ”
In the winter of 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army entered Sichuan Province, Huang Jiguang's Zhongjiang County was also liberated, all this changed, Huang Jiguang's family was redistributed to the land, the landlords could no longer show off their might, the village had organized a peasant association, and Huang Jiguang, who had been humiliated by the landlords, could finally get rid of their oppression, so he actively moved closer to the organization and became the first member of the peasant association, he served as the leader of the children's regiment, and became the militia in the village, participated in the struggle against banditry and hegemony, and led the militia to capture the fleeing landlords alive He found guns and ammunition hidden by the false chief of security and was rated as a model militiaman.
However, just as the cause of domestic liberation was in full swing and the demise of the Kuomintang reactionaries was nearing completion, unexpected changes took place on the Korean Peninsula in northern China, first the civil war broke out, followed by the outbreak of a civil war, followed by the "United Nations Army" led by the United States, a total of 16 countries, under the leadership of Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in Japan, who carried out the Inchon landing, and then quickly pounced on the Yalu River.
In the Chinese government, the U.S. government and U.S. President Harry W. Bush have repeatedly sent letters to the S. Truman issued a warning, the US army and the South Korean puppet army is still dismissive, fiercely advancing toward the Yalu River, the Chinese government ordered the Northeast Border Defense Army to form a Chinese volunteer army on the spot, cross the Yalu River, and pounce on the US troops, which are known as the world's first military power, and the great War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out.
In March 1951, when the information of the conscription of the Chinese Volunteer Army in Zhongjiang County reached Huang Jiguang's ears, he did not hesitate and immediately went to the recruitment point and became the first person in the village to sign up, but Huang Jiguang was rejected, on the grounds that he was too short to meet the conscription requirements, no way, they were all poor and malnourished.
After being rejected, Huang Jiguang did not give up, he constantly went to the comrades who recruited soldiers, told them about his experience, and why he wanted to be a soldier, after several times of soft and hard bubbles, finally, a battalion commander comrade responsible for recruitment was moved, he said that this child we want. Since then, Huang Jiguang has become a soldier of the Chinese Volunteer Army, and was incorporated into the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion, 135th Regiment, 45th Division of the 15th Army, and became a signal soldier.
2, if you leave me alone, I will do the same.
In July 1951, a group of recruits from the country were added to the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 135th Regiment, the company commander Wan Fulai took a small soldier named Li Jide and several others to welcome the recruits into the garrison, 16-year-old Li Jide was the smallest soldier of the company at that time, less than a month as a soldier, at the beginning also because of the age relationship was rejected by the head of the conscription, but also after several twists and turns to join the volunteer army, now, as a veteran to pick up the new soldiers, the heart is naturally excited, casually take a new soldier's backpack, Dragged him into the company headquarters - a mantle dug out on the hillside, this recruit he took over was Huang Jiguang, in Li Jide's eyes, this recruit egg is not tall, age looks about the same age as himself, the skin color is a little dark, thin and small, but the body is very strong, is the typical Sichuan appearance, in fact, at this time Huang Jiguang is 5 or 6 years older than him, and it is precisely because Huang Jiguang is the recruit he took, so the two will often be together later, they sleep in a big bunk, head to head, what to say , talk about everything.
Old Man Li Jide
In the future exchanges, because of his older age, Huang Jiguang always cared for him like a big brother, and when he ate, he would often give the dishes in his bowl to Li Jide, saying that he was big and ate a lot.
Although Huang Jiguang, who had just entered the army, did not study, but his head was melon, what things would be taught as soon as he taught, coupled with outstanding physical fitness, hard training, never tired, suddenly let the company commander Wan Fulai like it, huang Jiguang was regarded as "a good piece of steel", so a paper transfer order, transferred him to his side as his own correspondent.
Company Commander Wan Fu Lai
For this post, Huang Jiguang, who had just arrived on the Korean battlefield, was very dissatisfied, and his fellow countrymen Wu Sanyang and Xiao Dengliang, who had joined the army with him, had already killed many enemies on the battlefield, which was really enviable, and he couldn't figure out how he could not let himself go to the front line to kill the enemy, but he was sent to the logistics, seeing that there were many bomb craters everywhere along the way, a scorched earth, and the air emitted a strong smell of gunpowder, and his heart was more and more full of hatred and anger against the invaders, and he was eager to join the battle at once and destroy the enemy more. He expressed this desire in a letter he sent to his mother: "... Determined to serve the people in battle, do not make meritorious contributions to the battlefield! ......”
A deputy instructor of the 6th Company saw his thoughts and said to him: "You look at my watch, there are many small parts such as clockworks, gears, and small screws, without the same, this watch cannot be used, our battlefield is this watch, and each of us is its part, the division of labor is different, but it is indispensable!" In fact, in the grass-roots companies, those selected by the company commanders as messengers were the best of the fighters, just like the guards of the chiefs, who often had to risk their lives even more, because they not only had to ensure the safety of the chiefs, but also, in the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea at that time, because radios, telephones, and other means of communication could not be guaranteed to be smooth at any time, a large number of combat orders also had to be personally conveyed by correspondents through the rain of bullets and bullets to the forward positions, and at this time they were often nine deaths.
Huang Jiguang was completely persuaded at this moment, understood the importance of logistical work, threw himself wholeheartedly into it, and did all kinds of work very well, and soon, because Huang Jiguang successfully completed the task many times, he was awarded the third class merit, and then he joined the Chinese New Democratic Youth League, and not long after, in October 1952, Huang Jiguang was again favored by Zhang Guangsheng, chief of staff of the 2nd Battalion, and was transferred to the battalion headquarters as chief of staff and signalist.
At this time, the front position of the Five Holy Mountains was already full of rumors, the commander of the "United Nations Army" Matthew Bunker Ridgway was dismissed from his post and returned to China, the new commander of the "United Nations Army" Mark Wayne Clarke had just taken office, eager to show himself with a victory, coupled with the fact that the United Nations General Assembly was convened and the UNITED General Election, the United States was full of contradictions in the United States, the people's anti-war sentiment was high, in order to reverse the unfavorable situation and get rid of the predicament, US President Truman also threatened to "let the guns speak in order to reverse the unfavorable situation and get rid of the predicament, but also to put pressure on the Chinese and North Korean troops in the armistice negotiations Unilaterally suspended the armistice negotiations and began to move troops nervously, according to intelligence, the Five Holy Mountains position was the target of its preparation for breakthrough. Attempting to capture the two highlands of Shangganling 597.9 and 537.7, and then capturing the Five Holy Mountains, changing the defensive posture, and creating conditions for the subsequent attack on the area north of Pingkang, the determination of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army was: tit-for-tat confrontation, every inch of land must be fought, and the enemy should be returned from "letting guns and cannons speak" to "letting people talk".
On that day, a film team of the 45th Division came to the grass-roots company to offer condolences, and the film played a Soviet movie called "Ordinary Soldier", which depicted the story of the Soviet Red Army soldier Matlosov who used his body to block the bullets fired from the bunker by the enemy in order to win the battle during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union.
After watching the movie, Li Jide and Huang Jiguang did not speak for a long time, and on the way back to the camp headquarters, Huang Jiguang told Li Jide: "I said that this Soviet man is a real hero, he is too brave, he saved so many comrades-in-arms with the death of one person, and fought a big victory, if you leave me alone, I will do the same!" ”
3. Believe me, I want to defend my motherland and destroy more enemies.
In the early morning of October 14, 1952, under the planning of James Alwald VanVleet, commander of the US Eighth Army, the US army suddenly launched a fierce attack on our Position in Shangganling, and the so-called "Jinhua Offensive" began, which was the fiercest attack of the "United Nations Army" on the main defense line of our volunteer army in a year, hundreds of cannons poured more than 300,000 shells and more than 500 heavy bombs on our positions, countless bright and flickering ballistic tracks, completely illuminating the dawn night sky, and the shells roared sharply. Under the cover of tanks, aircraft, and artillery, the US 7th Division, the Pseudo-2nd Division, the Pseudo-9th Division, the Ethiopian Battalion, and the Colombian Battalion launched a large-scale attack on our Shangganling Heights in 6 routes.
The 15th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army painstakingly built a surface fortification for more than 4 months, and before noon, it was already gone, the vegetation of the mountain was blown bare, the rock statue of the mountain was stripped of a layer of skin, rubble and shrapnel were mixed together, piled up more than a foot thick, in just one day, the 45th Division of the 15th Army, which was responsible for the defense of the two highlands in Shangganling, sacrificed more than five hundred people.
However, the heroic volunteer soldiers of the 15th Army, who did not give in to any land, tit-for-tat, did not flinch, charged, counter-charged, assaulted, counter-assaulted, fought until the 18th, The enemy finally occupied all the ground positions on the two high ground areas of 597.9 and 537.7 for the first time, and the few remaining volunteer tactics were forced to retreat into the tunnels; at this moment, the dozen or so companies of the 45th Division were basically exhausted, and in the hands of division commander Cui Jiangong, it was impossible to form a whole battalion, and when the chief of the operations section reported to the 15th Army, he cried while crying: There are only 16 people left in the first, third, and ninth companies of the 133rd Regiment, 30 people left in the first battalion of the 134th Regiment, 19 people left in the fourth company of the second battalion, no soldiers in the fifth company, and no soldiers in the seventh company. Eight in a row of 11 people...
Qin Jiwei, commander of the 15th Army, ignored him and directly asked the division commander Cui Jiangong to answer the phone, he said: "Don't tell me about the loss, the 15th Army shed blood and does not shed tears, lost the Five Holy Mountains, you are not good to come back to see me!" Cui Jiangong roared and said, "Please rest assured, there is one company left, I will go to be the company commander, I will fight the remaining squad, I will be the squad leader, as long as I Cui Jiangong is still there, Shangganling will still be Chinese people's volunteer army!" ”
On the night of October 19, 1952, Cui Jiangong gathered the last 6 companies and began to assemble secretly, he issued a death order, all cadres were sent to the forward positions to directly participate in the battle, and never returned without retaking the positions, that night, Zhang Guangsheng, chief of staff of the second battalion of the 135th Regiment, took his correspondent Huang Jiguang to Huang Jiguang's old company 6 Company, before leaving that day, Huang Jiguang left two things, the first was a letter written to him by his mother Deng Fangzhi in Sichuan, the letter eagerly asked: "Jiguang, Have you made a contribution to the forefront of North Korea? And the second thing is an application to join the party, Huang Jiguang can't write, it is written by people, very simple words: "Company commander, instructor, believe me, I want to defend my motherland, destroy more enemies, I apply to join the Chinese Communist Party in battle." Applicant: Huang Jiguang. ”
In the night, the counterattack of the 45th Division began, flares, tracer shells, explosive fire, the night was torn apart at once, the position was like a piece of daylight, in the telescope, the battalion commander Zhang Guangsheng clearly saw that less than a few hundred meters away, our soldiers were fearlessly charging forward, some were hit, one fell on the head, someone was seriously wounded, still crawling forward...
The 6th Company of the 134th Regiment, the Divisional Reconnaissance Company and the Engineer Company, which participated in the counterattack, attacked fiercely, and the two battalions of the South Korean puppet army stationed at this 537.7 height soon collapsed, and the two companies attacked the defenses of the two battalions, which was a classic, but the 8th Company of the 134th Regiment and the 6th Company of the 135th Regiment attacked from two directions, and they were encountered by the 7th Division of the US Army, which was far more fierce than the South Korean puppet army.
Fighting until the early morning, the 8th Company successfully broke through the blockade area where the US artillery was dense, and all the way to the bloody fire, unstoppable, Recaptured the highest point of the 597.9 heights, however, the 6th Company was not so lucky, from the beginning it entered the enemy's bullet rain coverage, after capturing 3 enemy positions in succession, when it reached the last Position 0, the 6th Company encountered a more difficult hard stubble, the enemy used sandbags to pile up three machine gun bunkers, and at the same time spewed out tongues of fire, and the dense rain of bullets slammed the 6th Company to the ground and could not lift its head, and at this time, including Huang Jiguang, the 6th Company only had 16 people left.
Chief of Staff Zhang Guangsheng connected the telephone of the division headquarters through a walkie-talkie and reported the situation on the battlefield to the division commander Cui Jiangong, who gave a loud order: "The 8th Company has already attacked the main peak position, and you must destroy position 0 at all costs, and you must not relax, otherwise, at dawn, the enemy will use this as a basis to counterattack me, and you will be attacked by the enemy on your stomach and back." ”
The 6 companies, which did not have any way back, decided to organize 9 fighters again to form 3 demolition teams and carry out forced blasting of three bunkers, the first group rushed up and fell, the second group followed, the third group ... The 9 warriors were all sacrificed in the blink of an eye, the three bunkers were like an unfathomable black hole, devouring the lives of every volunteer soldier, close at hand, but far from reach, Wan Fulai jumped up in anger, gritted his teeth, clenched his fists and smashed the sand around him, but helplessly, he turned his head sharply and said: "Battalion commander, I personally went up, not to blow them up!" Feng Yuqing, the instructor of the 6th Company, asked for battle at the same time.
Before Zhang Guangsheng could speak, Huang Jiguang, who was hiding behind the trench, crawled over and said to the chief of staff, "Chief of Staff, let me go up!" At this time, Xiao Dengliang, a messenger of the Sixth Company, and Wu Sanyang, a soldier, also climbed to Huang Jiguang's side and said together: "Let's go up!" ”
Zhang Guangsheng looked at these three Sichuan soldiers who had joined the same group, at this time, their eyes were full of enthusiasm and expectation, there was no way out, the sixth company was left with these people, Zhang Guangsheng turned his head to look at wan Fulai, the commander of the 6th company, nodded, Wan Fulai wanted to say something, but did not say it, he thought about it for a moment, and said to these three soldiers: "I now appoint Huang Jiguang as the leader of the 6th squad of the 6th Company, Xiao Dengliang and Wu Sanyang are assigned to the 6th squad to carry out this demolition mission, and I hope that you will come back safely!" ”
The 6th squad was the sharp knife squad of the 6th Company, known as the "6th Squad of Great Merit", which was beaten up many times, but the company commander also stubbornly retained the number of the 6th Squad many times, constantly reorganized the 6th Squad, and launched wave after wave of charge.
4, look, he's still alive!
Huang Jiguang, Xiao Dengliang, and Wu Sanyang jumped out from the hidden place at the same time, the machine guns inside the enemy bunker formed a firing range with almost no loopholes, the bullets were airtight, but the three fighters who were very good in military quality cooperated with tacit understanding, alternately covered forward, with the "boom" and "boom" two loud noises, Huang Jiguang and Xiao Dengliang almost at the same time, in an instant, blew up the bunkers on both sides, just when the two took a deep breath, suddenly, Wu Sanyang, who was responsible for the cover, was unfortunately killed by the machine gun of another bunker. There was no way, and there was no time to grieve, Xiao Dengliang immediately picked up a machine gun beside him and fired ferociously at the bunker, attracting enemy fire and covering Huang Jiguang to continue to blast the last bunker.
Before Huang Jiguang could climb forward a few more steps, Xiao Dengliang was again hit by the enemy's bullets, at this time, Feng Yuqing, the instructor of the 6th Company who had been watching nervously, did not make any thoughts, quickly climbed out of the trench, took the machine gun in the hands of another sacrificed machine gunner, and continued to cover Huang Jiguang.
Huang Jiguang saw the opportunity, slammed forward two steps, unexpectedly, a bullet hit him a toe, planted on the ground, he painfully touched his body, full of blood, looked up at the enemy bunker above is still fiercely calling, he clutched the dirt, step by step, slowly and hard to crawl forward again, finally, close to the bunker, Huang Jiguang raised his right hand, struggled to throw out the last grenade, a loud noise, the enemy's machine gun suddenly stopped, however, before Huang Jiguang smiled, The enemy's machine gun sound changed a firing hole, and the bullets once again fanned outward and fired wildly.
At this moment, looking at Huang Jiguang, who was lying motionless on the ground in front of him, Zhang Guangsheng, Wan Fulai, and Feng Yuqing knew that when it was time for them to go into battle, they were ready to explode, and when they were about to climb out of the trench, they suddenly heard Wan Fulai shouting excitedly: "Look, Huang Jiguang is still alive!" "Only to see that under the illumination of flares and explosive fire, a figure lying on the ground next to the bunker suddenly moved, and then slowly squirmed forward.
His figure suddenly appeared in the sunken craters and raised strange rocks, Wan Fulai and others anxiously waited for the explosion of the grenades, the supporting fighters were all ready to charge, but they did not know that at this moment, Huang Jiguang, there was no grenade in his hand, only to see that Huang Jiguang had been dragging his seriously injured body, crawling resolutely and slowly towards the bunker, and finally climbed to the shooting dead end on the side of the bunker, people saw that he struggled to support his upper body, turned his head around, and faced his comrades down the slope. Opening his mouth seemed to shout something, no one heard this sentence clearly, but Feng Yuqing suddenly woke up, he turned his head to Zhang Guangsheng and Wan Fulai behind him and shouted: "No, Huang Jiguang wants to block the gun hole with his body!" ”
Before he could finish his words, he saw that Huang Jiguang had exhausted the last shred of strength he still had and completed the feat of the mighty mountains and rivers, and he opened his arms, like a roc spreading his wings, and pounced on the eye of the machine gun that was spewing tongues of fire, not wide in the chest, dead blocked on the firing hole, the enemy's fierce and violent machine gun shooting suddenly turned into a muffled sound, at this moment, Wan Fulai and the others flew out of the bunker, rushed forward, and hit all the bullets into the bunker.
At that moment, Huang Jiguang was still lying tightly on the bunker, his hands were dead on the sack, the enemy's bullet hole pierced his chest and abdomen, the blood and flesh were blurred, and the clothes and dirt were glued together, the back muscles were hit by bullets, leaving a bowl-sized hole, the spine was exposed, the legs had been broken, there were seven serious injuries on the body, still maintaining a standing posture, and there was a long blood mark behind him...
In April 1953, the headquarters of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army posthumously awarded Huang Jiguang the title of "Special Combat Hero" based on information provided by company commander Wan Fulai, and his company was later renamed "Huang Jiguang Company".
From April 15 to April 23, 1953, the Second National Congress of Chinese Women was held in Beijing, and when Chairman Mao Zedong heard that Deng Fangzhi, the mother of the fighting hero Huang Jiguang, was attending the congress as a national women's representative, he specially invited her to Zhongnanhai as a guest. Then he added, "You have lost a son, and I have lost a son, and they are all martyrs, and they have sacrificed for the country and sacrificed gloriously." ”
It is precisely because of these heroes that our nation is always full of hope and full of vitality! Let's always remember them!