What kind of power can make people forget life and death, forget fear, forget pain, pounce on the muzzle of the machine gun that is firing at the click, and not flinch? Only faith! Where does faith come from? Only from the hatred of the enemy and the love of comrades-in-arms!
When it comes to sacrificing oneself to block the gun hole, everyone's first reaction is Huang Jiguang. In fact, Huang Jiguang was not the first hero of our army to block the hole of the gun.
Let's first revisit the familiar heroic deeds of Huang Jiguang.
Huang Jiguang
It was the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1952, and that famous battle was called --
Battle of Shangganling
。 It was in this battle that the two sides threw in the most intensive troops and firepower since the beginning of the war, and the small Shangganling position was almost turned upside down by artillery fire, and finally the volunteers repelled the powerful American troops, forcing the Americans to sign the armistice agreement.
Huang Jiguang was sacrificed in this battle.
Huang Jiguang's team was tasked with taking a certain high ground, and the biggest obstacle was a bunker, a machine gun rattled, and the stormtroopers fell to the ground.
Huang Jiguang fell more than ten meters away from the dark fort, and after falling to the ground, he slowly climbed towards the dark fort with a roaring bullet, and when he reached the front, he jumped forward and lay on the enemy's machine gun muzzle. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the warriors quickly attacked, eliminated the enemy in the bunker, and took the high ground.
The comrades-in-arms found that Huang Jiguang climbed to more than ten meters of the dark fort, all the way to the blood.
When Huang Jiguang's body was transported to the rear, the hero had been sacrificed for two or three days, and the stiff body still maintained a posture of holding his arms high.
This poses a problem for several female hygienists in charge of the burial. The female hygienist could not put Huang Jiguang's arm down, and the grief and anxiety turned into tears.
Later, several people tried to find a way to boil water with a small oil bucket, dip a towel in hot water, and apply Huang Jiguang's skin to soften it.
Afraid of burning his skin, the female hygienists first tried it on their own skin, and then immediately applied it to Huang Jiguang's body, so little by little, it took three days before Huang Jiguang's arm returned to normal position.
The hygienist took off his bullet-filled uniform and changed him into a brand-new volunteer uniform before he was buried and sent back to his homeland.
Huang Jiguang's heroic deeds of sacrificing himself to block the gun hole then spread throughout the country.
Huang Jiguang was just 21 years old when he died.
Huang Jiguang, like many warriors at that time, was born into a poor peasant and grew up in an extremely poor and oppressed family. Huang Jiguang's father was oppressed by the landlord and died of illness and hatred. Since he was a child, Huang Jiguang has carried long-term work for landlords, cut grass and herded cattle, and has been bullied to the fullest, and his heart is full of hatred.
It was the Communist Party that gave him a new life, beat up the landlords and local tycoons, and divided up the fields and livestock. Huang Jiguang and those equally young warriors knew that carrying a gun to fight was to defend the country and fight for themselves, which is why there was such a feat beyond imagination.
Seven years ago, the same feat had already taken place on the battlefield, the hero's name was Xu Jiabiao, who was younger than Huang Jiguang when he died, only 19 years old.
Portrait of Xu Jiabiao
Xu Jiabiao has a similar family background to Huang Jiguang and is also from a poor peasant background. His father was captured by the Japanese to repair the artillery tower and was brutally killed.
Xu Jiabiao fled the wilderness with his family, joined the New Fourth Army in the winter of 1943, and was incorporated into the third battalion of the Third Division's special service regiment, seven companies and five squads.
The hatred in his heart made him especially able to endure hardships in training after joining the army, daring to rush and fight in battle, and soon became the leader of the fifth squad.
On September 6, 1945, Xu Jiabiao came to Huaiyin City with his troops.
Huaiyin is the throat of connecting northern Jiangsu and huainan and running through the north-south canal, and is an important city that the Japanese puppet army has been occupying for a long time during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
After Japan surrendered, the Japanese army had all withdrawn to Nanjing. But commander of the 28th Division of the Puppet Army
Pan Ganchen
He was a die-hard man who still held huaiyin and refused to surrender.
Huaiyin City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the four gates are all urn gates.
The city walls are eight meters high and have battlements on top of them for covert shooting. The walls are circumnavigated, and there was a turret every few hundred meters. Outside the city walls there is a moat 40 meters wide and two or three meters deep.
The battle was fought by the Chief of Staff of the Third Division
Hong Xuezhi
To direct. The Special Forces Regiment was responsible for the South Gate Breakthrough Offensive, and the Director of the Political Office of the Special Forces Corps
Jiang Runguan
Personally mobilized to say —
- This is the first battle after Japan's surrender, the first time our regiment cooperated with Huaihai to fight a battle with the troops, and the first offensive battle after the establishment of our regiment.
After Jiang Runguan finished speaking, he also toasted the assault squad. The mood of the soldiers was very high, determined to fight the battle, and everyone was ready for heroic sacrifice, leaving the detailed address of their families and giving them to the company, and the party members paid their last dues.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, after the explosion of the city gate was unsuccessful, the troops launched a strong attack.
Under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortar fire, the assault squad quickly passed the moat gate bridge, approached the city wall, and quickly put a ladder on the city wall.
Xu Jiabiao was the leader of the assault squad, he grabbed the cloud ladder in one hand, held the gun in the other, and with the fiery red battle flag on his back, rushed to the front and quickly climbed to the head of the city.
The enemy was condescending, inflicting heavy casualties on the siege fighters.
When Xu Jiabiao was about to reach the head of the city, there was a rumbling under his feet, and the cloud ladder was broken.
Xu Jiabiao reacted quickly, hugged the battlements, climbed up to the head of the city, and planted the red flag on the head of the city.
Unexpectedly, an enemy came with a saber and slashed at Xu Jiabiao's hands holding the red flag, forcing Xu Jiabiao to cut off his hands at the same wrist.
Xu Jiabiao passed out on the edge of the battlements.
After a moment of coma, the sudden sound of machine guns in a dark bunker next to him woke Xu Jiabiao.
Xu Jiabiao slowly opened his eyes, and the sound of machine guns rattling in his ears, he turned his head and saw the machine gun muzzle with a tongue of fire not far away.
With his arms propped up, there was a sharp pain, and when he saw the broken wrist, the wound was covered in blood. I wanted to raise my legs to stand up, only to find that my legs were also broken, and I didn't listen to the call.
Xu Jiabiao gritted his teeth, supported it with two forearms, slowly climbed over, struggled to pounce, clamped the machine gun barrel tightly with his arms, and blocked the machine gun muzzle with his own body.
The commandos took the opportunity to quickly rush to the head of the city, rushed to the city, and took Huaiyin.
Siege force of the New Fourth Army
Xu Jiabiao was only 19 years old when he blocked the eye. Then, when the body was sorted out, it was found that the martyr's body had been shot with countless guns, and the bones and internal organs were all broken.
Although Xu Jiabiao made the feat of sacrificing himself to block the gun hole, he was not a reckless person, and the story of him seizing the enemy's machine gun with his bare hands before he died was a strange story for a while.
It was April 26, 1945, and the Battle of Funing, Jiangsu Province, which fought against Shi Yousan, began. Xu Jiabiao and the soldiers of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Companies were ordered to ambush on both sides of the highway and prepare to cooperate with friendly forces to block and annihilate the enemy fleeing south.
The division headquarters decided to concentrate on the first unit of the Huaihai District, as well as the Eighth Brigade and the Special Service Regiment, to annihilate the enemy in the middle of Dongkan to Funing County, and never let the enemy sneak into Funing County.
It was a cloudy day, and it was dark at night, and I couldn't see my five fingers.
Under the pursuit, the enemy had collapsed and fled along the road to Funing.
These routs scrambled, running all over the mountains on the road and on both sides, some of them lost their backpacks, some of them carried their guns upside down, and some of them used their guns as crutches and walked on crutches. The party was chaotic.
Xu Jiabiao and the soldiers were on the side of the road, and the enemy thought that they were also deserters, but they did not pay any attention.
At this time, an enemy carried a machine gun and walked past Xu Jiabiao. Xu Jiabiao stepped up with an arrow and snatched the enemy's machine gun.
Only to hear the enemy say—huh? How did you......
Before he could finish speaking, Xu Jiabiao took over the words - change it!
The enemy thought that his own people were carrying guns with him, so he didn't say anything more, and at this time, Xu Jiabiao was also squeezed out several meters away by the enemy's fleeing team.
The company commander, fearing his comrades and being wrapped up by the enemy's ranks, immediately ordered the comrades to hold hands and let Xu Jiabiao take the enemy's machine guns again.
Xu Jiabiao used the same method to seize two more machine guns. Each time the other party just cares about the sound of a hmm, it is squeezed out by their people far away.
After the battle order was issued, these three machine guns played a large role. Xu Jiabiao also joined the party after this war.
Therefore, for Xu Jiabiao, who has a lively brain, sacrificing himself to block the gun hole is not a momentary impulse, but a decisive battle.
After Xu Jiabiao's sacrifice, the Party Committee of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army awarded him the title of "Hero of Huaiyin Battle", and named the south gate of Huaiyin City "Jiabiaomen", and the fifth class of the Seventh Company where he was located was named "Jiabiao Class".
In addition, when talking about Xu Jiabiao, he said that he was "
A Matrovian hero
"Because at that time, Huang Jiguang's deeds had not yet come out, otherwise it should be"
Huang Jiguang-style hero
"That's it.
What about this "Matlosov-style hero"?
A Native of the Soviet Union, Matrosov lost both of his parents at an early age, lived in a dismal social life, and attended welfare homes. It was not until he joined the Red Army that he began to understand his mission.
Matrosov joined the Red Army in 1942 and went to the front in November 1942, fighting against Germany in the 56th Guards Infantry Division.
Portrait of Matlosov
On February 23, 1943, during the battle to capture the village of Chernoshki, the Germans' two forts, with fierce firepower, blocked the way for the Red Army to attack.
Matrosov and three of his comrades were ordered to destroy the two forts.
Several men carried grenades and crawled forward while observing the terrain.
Under the cover of mounds and tree trunks, Matrosov and his comrades slowly approached the German fortress. On the way, one person was shot and killed.
When they reached the right distance, they threw out a wave of grenades, and one of the German forts went dumb.
On the way to another fortress, two other comrades were also killed, leaving only Matrosov.
Using the terrain, Matrosov approached the German firing point, threw the last two grenades with great force, and with a loud bang, the German machine guns were dumb.
The Red Army charged, but suddenly the fortress began to rattling and firing bullets. Red Army soldiers were shot and fell to the ground.
Matlosov, who had just wanted to retreat, was very anxious when he saw such a situation, and there was no grenade in his hand.
Watching his comrades fall one by one, Matlosov gritted his teeth, pounced, blocked the perforation with his own body, and sacrificed heroically. The Red Army was able to advance smoothly this time.
At that time, Matrosov, like Xu Jiabiao, was just 19 years old.
It can be said that Matrosov was the first warrior to use his body to block the enemy's gun hole. Matrosov was also awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The 254th Infantry Regiment, which Matrosov had served, was named after him and put Matrosov on the roster of the regiment's 1st Company forever.
The Chinese revolution was deeply influenced by the Soviet revolution, and the deeds of Soviet heroes will certainly be praised in the troops of the Communist Party of China, so after Xu Jiabiao's sacrifice, he was praised as a "Matlosov"-style hero.
However, because new China had not yet been established at that time, the scope and intensity of the propaganda of the heroic figures were difficult to compare with the propaganda of Huang Jiguang after the founding of the People's Republic of China, so Xu Jiabiao's deeds were not widely known, nor did he become an iconic hero like Huang Jiguang.
However, no matter what, like Matrosov, Xu Jiabiao, Huang Jiguang, no matter who is the first, whether it is the Soviet Union or China, such a person is willing to use their flesh and blood to block the enemy's gun hole and sacrifice their young lives for the sake of revolution and victory, and they all deserve our respect and commemoration!
Two 19 years old, one 21 years old, what a wonderful year! And in the revolutionary war, how many martyrs sacrificed their lives to death at a young age!
The victory of the revolution was not easy to come by, and today's peace is not easy to come by,
Salute to all the martyrs who gave their lives for revolution and peace!