In September 1950, the National Congress of Combat Heroes was held in Beijing!
A total of 350 delegates attended the meeting, including 307 combat heroes and work models of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and 43 representatives of militia heroes.
During the meeting, a strong man with a height of more than one meter and nine meters and an iron tower attracted the attention of Chairman Mao.
Chairman Mao graciously shook his hand, smiled and said, "I know you, you are very powerful!" ”
So, who is this strong man, and why can he get such a high evaluation from Chairman Mao?
It turned out that this person was the combat hero who ranked first in the list of heroes in North China during the War of Resistance Against Japan - "Lü Junsheng".
In his revolutionary career of more than 10 years, he has made great contributions twice, 8 first-class merits, and won the title of hero many times, so he is also known as "Living Lü bu".
In this article, let's talk about the legendary deeds of the famous anti-Japanese hero Lu Junsheng. If you are also interested in history, you may wish to calm down and read it, maybe there will be a different harvest!
Lü Junsheng was born in 1907 to a poor peasant family in Qingyu, Xingtai, Hebei Province.
At the age of 13, due to the compulsion of life, Lu Junsheng had to leave his hometown to apprentice in Wu'an County to nail shoes, and later he was hired to buy sheepskins and work as a long-term worker, and his life was once difficult.
However, years of hard work not only did not change the status quo of his life, but he was oppressed by landlords and capitalists everywhere.
In the long run, Lu Junsheng gradually developed a revolutionary idea in his heart. Coupled with the fact that at that time, the Japanese invaded the land of China, and the Chinese suffered a lot, which further prompted him to lean closer to the revolutionary road!
Finally, his chance came!
Figure | Lu Junsheng
In November 1937, after the fall of Taiyuan, in order to independently adhere to the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in North China, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army of our country followed the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and adopted a posture of encirclement toward the central cities and communication routes occupied by the Japanese army, as well as dividing up troops to mobilize the masses and create base areas.
Among them, the 129th Division and the 334th Brigade of the 115th Division, led by Liu Bocheng, created the "Jinji-Hebei Yu Anti-Japanese Democratic Base Area" based on the two mountains of Taihang and Taiyue.
After the Eighth Route Army marched east into dabie Mountain, Lü Junsheng resolutely joined the anti-Japanese army and joined Marshal Liu Bocheng's 129th Division.
After joining the Eighth Route Army, Lü Junsheng was able to bear hardships and stand hard work, dared to fight and dare to fight, and soon grew from a peasant to an excellent revolutionary fighter, and won unanimous praise from his comrades-in-arms in the army.
What really made Lu Junsheng a "star in the army" was his brilliant record of killing 27 Japanese soldiers in one battle!
People familiar with the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression know that in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese Kou's bayonet fighting technique was very strong, and this was mainly due to their strict daily training.
Since the Meiji period, the Japanese army has been very superstitious about the so-called "white soldier war"; in short, it is a single-soldier hand-to-hand combat.
Using the gun skills of ancient Japanese samurai, they invented a unique "sword sword", which is also known as "spelling".
According to the requirements, every soldier in the Japanese army must learn and master this technique in daily training.
However, it is heinous that in order to sharpen the "courage" of soldiers, the Japanese army actually used a large number of Chinese soldiers and civilians as their "living targets" to train their so-called killing skills.
At that time, this cruel act was also called "raw test", which literally meant: to use a living person for stabbing training!
Under such inhumane training, the vast majority of soldiers in the Japanese army have become a devil who "kills without blinking"!
However, what the Japanese don't know is that on individual combat, on fighting swords, guns and swords, Chinese but their ancestors!
In 1933, in the Battle of Xifengkou of the Great Wall, the 29th Army's large knife team slashed and killed hundreds of Japanese troops in one fell swoop, which made the enemy army feel frightened.
In addition to the Twenty-ninth Army's big knife team, in our Chinese army at that time, martial arts were everywhere, and everyone was a hero and good man who dared to fight and was not afraid of life and death.
Although the Japanese army's fighting is fierce, our army is not vegetarian, for example, the protagonist of our article, Lu Junsheng, is a typical example.
In July 1938, the Battle of Xiajin, Shandong, was the battle of Fame of Lü Junsheng's entire army.
In this battle, Lü Junsheng shouted the slogan of "carrying forward the glorious traditions of the Red Army", took the lead in rushing into the enemy group, and launched a fierce white-knife battle with the Japanese Kou.
Because Lü Junsheng was tall, and he was born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, his strength was infinite, and he trained hard in peacetime and cultivated a good skill, so he was like a god of war on the battlefield, wielding a bayonet to slash left and right, killing Rikou on horseback.
However, the soldiers of our Eighth Route Army will not be as barbaric as the Japanese Kou, they rely on their hatred and hard training for the Japanese Kou, and their ability to fight is becoming more and more sophisticated, and they are not inferior to the Japanese army in the middle and late stages of the War of Resistance.
In addition, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our Eighth Route Army was also good at drawing lessons from the fight with the Japanese army, and summed up the tactic of "fighting one more" to form an advantage in the local area.
Although there are many soldiers in the Chinese army who are highly skilled in martial arts and skilled in fighting, in general, they are still slightly inferior to the Japanese army, especially in the early stage of the War of Resistance.
Because during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the composition of the Chinese army was relatively complex, and most of them had not undergone formal training, so in terms of overall stabbing techniques, our army was still slightly inferior to the Japanese army.
This is actually not an exaggeration, because cold weapon fighting is not like the current martial arts film, and the fancy continuous battle has not been won or lost for dozens of hundreds of rounds, and more often it is a fatal move.
Especially on the battlefield, the so-called "high martial arts" does not mean that they can fly over the wall and lingbo micro-steps, but that they are flexible in combat and strong in body, and can quickly end the enemy. Lu Junsheng is such a person!
During the battle, the strong Lü Junsheng wielded a bayonet and stabbed at rikou, and rikou couldn't stop it if he wanted to, so he often had to die in vain!
In a battle, Lü Junsheng stabbed 27 Japanese soldiers to death with one shot in succession, and was wounded in 3 places on his body.
Because of his outstanding military achievements, he was also rated as a first-class combat hero, famous for the entire eastward column, and was also called "Anti-Japanese Lü Bu" and "Living Lü Bu" by his comrades-in-arms.
In another battle that followed, Lü Junsheng slashed and killed 17 Japanese puppet troops in succession, and for a time he was famous in Shandong.
In December 1938, Lü Junsheng was ordered to study at the 129th Division's camp school, and after graduation, he became the commander of the communications company of the Youth Corps of the Ji'nan Military Region.
In the frequent battles that followed, Lü Junsheng was a pioneer soldier, dared to fight, dared to fight, was brave and fearless, killed and injured more than 60 Japanese puppet troops by one person, and successively made great meritorious service twice and first-class merit twice, and was praised as the "constant victory warrior" of the whole army.
Under the leadership of Lü Junsheng, the soldiers of the company performed well on the battlefield, and even when they encountered a surprise attack from an enemy army that was several times more than themselves, they were often able to win the final victory of the battle with fewer enemies and more enemies.
But don't think that our "living Lü Bu" and his warriors are just brave and unscrupulous men, Lü Junsheng is actually a resourceful person.
For example, in the famous "Battle of the Hundred Regiments", they achieved very brilliant results!
In 1940, Lü Junsheng participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments with his troops, and in the battle against Gaoyi County, he was ordered to lead the officers and men of the company to take on the task of frontal attack.
During the battle, he took the lead in commanding the sappers to blow up the enemy's perimeter fortifications, and then at the critical moment when the troops advanced to block the attack, he braved the rain of bullets and bullets to rush to the enemy's bunkers and snatched the enemy's machine guns that were spitting out tongues of fire from the shooting holes, creating very favorable conditions for the troops to break through the defense line.
In addition, in the following "Battle of Yanjiazhuang", Lü Junsheng led the warriors to skillfully deploy and annihilated 108 enemies in one fell swoop, while only one of his own was slightly wounded.
So you see, if Lü Junsheng and the officers and men of his company were just reckless men of five big and three thick, would they be able to achieve such brilliant results? The answer, of course, is no.
After the war, due to the outstanding achievements of Lü Junsheng and his company, the 129th Division headquarters specially sent a congratulatory telegram, awarding Lü Junsheng the title of "Heroic Company Commander", and his company was also awarded the glorious title of "Heroic Company".
It is worth mentioning that in addition to these nicknames such as "Living Lü Bu" and "Anti-Japanese Lü Bu", Lü Junsheng also has a rather comedic nickname - "Owl"!
The reason why his comrades-in-arms called Lü Junsheng an "owl" was because he often led his fighters to fight night raids, and any target he targeted, whether simple or difficult, would be flat all night long, just like a sharp owl.
Despite the long years of hard revolutionary struggle, Lu Junsheng has maintained a positive and optimistic attitude throughout.
This is not to say that he, who is accustomed to life and death, has no feeling the cruelty of war, but that he knows that the revolutionary struggle is arduous and protracted, and if he wants to persist forever, he must maintain an optimistic and positive attitude.
Of course, he also always firmly believed that the Chinese revolution would definitely win victory!
In his revolutionary career of more than 10 years, although Lu Junsheng has made countless outstanding achievements, he has not shown off to anyone and has always maintained a heart of indifference to fame and fortune.
Moreover, in his usual work, he never considers personal gains and losses, and the tasks assigned by his superiors are always completed with quality and quantity, without complaint.
On the march, he often helped weak comrades, and it was so common for a person to carry several people's clothes, so much so that he was also called "Hercules" by the soldiers.
In actual battles, he always took the lead, did not fear sacrifice, took the initiative to take on the most difficult tasks, and he often told the soldiers: "As a warrior, you must be ready to sacrifice your life at any time." ”
Another time, he took people out to investigate the enemy's situation, only to be found by the puppet army and besieged in a village, in order to protect the safety of the lives and property of the masses, he disregarded his personal life and death, rushed out of the village alone to divert the enemy target, risking his life, covering the safety of his comrades-in-arms and the masses.
This spirit of giving up the small self and achieving the big self is undoubtedly worth learning from each and every one of us.
However, due to his long-term position in the front-line combat position, Lü Junsheng was too wounded and had to leave the large army to recuperate, and then worked in the local armed engineering team.
During his work in the martial arts team, Lü Junsheng often led the team members out of nowhere, disguised into the city, and attacked the Japanese puppet army in the city, which made the Japanese puppet army fearful.
In order to capture Lü Junsheng, the enemy even offered a reward of 10,000 pieces of ocean to buy his head. But this not only did not make Lu Junsheng afraid, but made him more and more excited, thinking: I am a farmer, and I still have such a high value!
Once, Lü Junsheng led several members of the armed forces out on a mission, only to be found by a large number of enemy troops and surrounded by a small village.
Although the enemy army was numerous, Lü Junsheng was not afraid at all, he responded heavily, calmly commanded, led the martial arts team members to use the terrain, skillfully maneuvered with the enemy, and finally not only successfully jumped out of the enemy's encirclement, but also annihilated more than a dozen enemies in battle.
It is worth mentioning that after jumping out of the enemy's encirclement, Lu Junsheng felt that he was still unfinished, and decided to take advantage of the enemy's dispatch to surround his old nest and empty, just to take advantage of the void to enter and kill the enemy a "back to the horse gun".
As Lü Junsheng predicted, the enemy stronghold was not only empty, but also lax in defense, and Lü Junsheng even took down this stronghold with his soldiers in one fell swoop, and also captured several machine guns and a mortar.
During the Liberation War, Lü Junsheng successively served in the Mechanical Department of the Ji'nan Military Region, the Supplementary Regiment of the Military Region, and the Independent Battalion of the Military Region.
Although his military exploits are well-known throughout the army, he has never been proud of his achievements and has maintained the fine style of revolutionary soldiers from beginning to end.
In September 1950, Lü Junsheng was invited to the National Congress of Combat Heroes, at which he was not only awarded the glorious title of "National Combat Hero", but also praised by Chairman Mao, which is the scene at the beginning of our article.
Later, due to physical reasons, Lu Junsheng retired from the army and returned to his hometown!
After returning to his hometown, Lü Junsheng hid his meritorious name forever, and he never told others about his merits and names, and many people only knew that he was a veteran of the War of Resistance.
After returning to his hometown, Lu Junsheng continued to shine in his hometown, actively participated in rural construction, and also served as a member of the party branch of the station brigade, making many contributions to the construction and development of his hometown.
On November 22, 1970, Lü Junsheng officially completed his legendary life at the age of 63, and his ashes were placed in the North China Martyrs Cemetery in Shijiazhuang.
You see, this is the hero of our republic! On the battlefield, they are invincible, they are not afraid of life and death, and they make the enemy feel frightened; in their work, they work hard and complain, they are diligent and earnest, and they never consider personal gains and losses; in life, they are indifferent to fame and fortune, simple and unpretentious, and silently serve the people.
Or the same sentence: "Where there are good years, it is just someone who carries the weight for us!" ”
At the end of the article, let us pay the highest respect to the famous anti-Japanese hero Lu Junsheng and the old hero!