On a sunny day in September 1953, a staff member of the Henan Guest House was looking through the latest People's Daily in the sun, and an unusual search notice on the page of the day caught his attention, "Looking for a hero who resisted US aggression and aided Korea..."
As the notice says,
The warrior, born in 1924, named Reberson, was originally
Squad Leader, 9th Company, 234th Regiment, 78th Division, 26th Army, Volunteer Army,
He made outstanding contributions in the Neutrality of the Fourth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
After being wounded, his whereabouts were unknown until the end of the war, and the organization searched for this person.
He hurried to the leader's office and showed the newspaper to the leader. After reading it, the leader fell silent, frowned, and half-let out a puff of smoke:
"Do you think this is Old Ray?"
Sure enough, after everyone read this search notice, all that came to mind was the old Ray who came to the guest house to work as a cleaner in his early thirties...
No one knows where Old Ray came from, because since he started working in the guest house in 1952, he has been silent and reticent, and colleagues jokingly call him a stuffy gourd. It is rare to be willing to be a cleaner at a young age, and the introducer has also specifically instructed Old Lei that he is not in good health and cannot do too heavy work, which adds some mysterious veil to Old Lei's identity.
The leader found Old Ray and asked if the person on the notice was him, and Old Ray was silent for a while and nodded silently. Although the leader had expected it earlier, he did not expect that Lei Baosen would be so frank. With The Consent of Lei Baosen, He quickly reported this amazing news to the local government.
After a series of verifications, Lei Baosen's identity was confirmed, and Commander Li Wenyao, who had been looking for him hard, saw him, and he was so excited that he burst into tears and choked speechlessly.
He was immediately awarded the honor of a first-class hero
。 Everyone had long thought that Rebausen had died in the brutal war, but after the war, there was no news of his body being found. Commander Li Wenyao was not dead-hearted, and an inexplicable intuition told him that Lei Baosen might not be dead!
It turned out that Lei Baosen and his comrades-in-arms were forced to go up the Seven Peaks Mountain by the US troops who had returned from the counterattack, and although our fighters struggled to resist, they were still unable to break through the siege, and the US military's ordnance was very sophisticated, and our side was outnumbered, plus it had not been supplied for many days, and it had already reached its limit. But even so, our soldiers still stuck to the front line to the last moment, watching the comrades around them fall one by one,
Lei Baosen was not willing to be captured by the enemy, so he jumped from the Seven Peaks Mountain with the determination to die.
This jump, life and death are uncertain, and even the organization has held a memorial service for him
。 Even the heavens could not bear to take back a hot-blooded life like this, in the few days after he jumped,
The dying Reberson was discovered by the North Korean masses who happened to pass by and handed over to our field hospital, which allowed Reberson to pick up a life from the death line.
Rebalsen's early childhood was very difficult
Embarking on the revolutionary road is even more unexpected. Shortly after Ray Baosen was born,
The landowner of the village bullied the strong and the weak, and bullied his aunt, and Lei Baosen's father beat the landowner to death in a fit of rage
He could only flee with his family.
The life of wandering in the countryside was not good, and the two sisters were helplessly sold to the landowner as child brides.
Years of hard work caused his parents to fall ill and die one after another. At a young age, Lei Baosen did not understand how the world worked, but he had already seen the suffering of the world. Alone, he could only apprentice in various shops.
Fortunately, he is willing to endure hardships, work hard, and can still get a job to maintain food and clothing.
Is this your life? Was he born to live only to live at the bottom forever? Many doubts and unwillingness gradually emerged in Lei Baosen's heart. He was at the best age in his life, and it was impossible to bow to fate like this. He remembered his father, who had been carrying water for the rich family for many years, but in the end he could not compensate for smashing a water tank and ended up depressed. What an irony, this cannibalistic society.
Parents and siblings are all forced into poverty, forced by oppression, and fragmented.
But even if Rebausen has surpassed most of the same class of people, with the consciousness of advanced ideas,
But the road ahead is long, and there is no precedent that can show him the way.
Just when he was crashing like a headless fly, as if it were a divine arrangement, a shoe shop owner who often patronized the hotel saw that Lei Baosen had different ideas and ambitions from other apprentices, admired him very much, and began to take the opportunity to come to the restaurant to eat with him, constantly telling him some advanced ideas that Lei Baosen had never heard.
Rebalsen had been thinking chaotically
"Shoe Owner"
Under his guidance, Lei Baosen began to know that there was an organization called the Communist Party, which was for the happiness of poor peasants like him. In the case of a high degree of consistency with the beliefs of the Party,
Rebson successfully became an underground Communist Correspondent.
Unfortunately, later Lei Baosen's identity was exposed, and for safety, he had to take the recommendation letter from the shoe store owner to Join the army in Shandong. From then on, he began his career of contributing to the country.
After entering the army, Lei Baosen was incorporated into the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 234th Regiment of the 78th Division of the 26th Army, in which he served as a machine gunner. The palm of the machine gun holds the main firepower on the battlefield, so it is necessary to require the machine gunner to have the quality of not being afraid of hardships and dangers, and Lei Baosen has persevered by relying on his strong willpower, and has made outstanding contributions in each battle.
He participated in the Battle of Crossing the River and the Battle of Huaihai with his troops.
In the Battle of Xiaoluzhuang, he was still calm and self-sustaining despite being seriously injured, pulling the trigger to kill the enemy, and made a third-class merit, and with such a prominent record, Lei Baosen was specially approved to join the party. Lei Baosen has long been an excellent warrior who has been in the battlefield for a long time, but this is far from his highlight moment. The miracle created by Lei Baosen must also start from the fact that he went to the Korean battlefield with his editors in the future.
The Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began
The 26th Army of Lei Baosen was reorganized into the 26th Army of the Volunteer Army, and after receiving orders from his superiors, he entered the DPRK overnight. In the face of the US troops with sufficient materials and advanced ordnance, our volunteer army has tried its best again and again, and in the eyes of the US military, all our measures are nothing more than hitting the stone with an egg that is not measured, but they did not expect that this seemingly fragile and vulnerable "egg" could actually break through their layers of defense.
Although our army fought the first, second, and third battles against the U.S. army, although each time it was fruitful, it still lost in material and ammunition strength, and it would always be killed back by the U.S. army. Therefore, we made a major decision to launch the fourth campaign, and the 26th Army of the Volunteer Army was also ordered to participate in the second defensive deployment of the fourth campaign.
On March 24, 1951, Lei Baosen led a squad of nine people to hold the high ground where the Seven Peaks Mountain must pass. Both sides of the highland are cliffs, very steep, and Lei Baosen and his comrades are stuck to this cliff road. Defending this cliff road blocked the way forward for the American army.
Lei Baosen and his teammates patiently lurked for three days, did not see the figure of the US army, the comrades had some doubts, but Lei Baosen firmly believed that the time had not come, and sure enough, the figure of the US army appeared in their sight on the fourth day. The US side also knew the importance of this high ground, and sent a team of 100 people to fire, and the TANK tanks drove all the way, and seeing that there was no one on this cliff road, it was even more imposing.
I did not think that Lei Baosen had already ambushed on both sides with his comrades-in-arms, and when the US troops reached the ambush circle, they rushed out to strafe the US troops.
The U.S. army was caught off guard, but the U.S. army quickly reacted and began to counterattack Reborsen and others, and Rebausen and a squad of fighters were not willing to show weakness, braving a rain of bullets and bullets to try to approach the enemy tanks, because the closer they were to the tanks, the more they were the dead ends of the tanks. Relying on a clever set of tactics, Ray Baosen and his comrades not only dodged the attack of artillery fire, but also took the opportunity to blow up all 11 tanks with anti-tank grenades.
This defensive battle created a miracle of winning more with less, and Lei Baosen and his comrades were intact, but they suffered some skin wounds.
However, the joy of victory did not last long, the speed of supply of the US army exceeded our imagination, when the tank troops were completely destroyed in the highlands, the US army immediately dispatched more firepower to break through the Defense Line of Reborsen. Even if Lei Baosen has superb combat skills, under such a disparity in strong attack, even if Lei Baosen and his comrades resist hard, they cannot turn the situation around in the end, and can only retain their proud dignity and jump off the cliff in indignation.
This jump is the beginning of the uncertainty of life and death, and the loss of contact with the troops. Hearing the news of Lei Baosen's fall off a cliff, the troops were deeply saddened and held a funeral for Lei Baosen and a class he led to commemorate their heroic deeds.
Everyone thought that Lei Baosen still fell to the bottom of the cliff and was crushed to pieces, with such a huge grief, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea also began to come to an end, and when the bones of the deceased were carried in the follow-up, Lei Baosen's unit did not find his body in any way. Since then, the idea of whether Lei Baosen is still alive has been deeply rooted in Li Yaowen's heart.
Later, after recovering, Lei Baosen returned to the embrace of the motherland, looking at the disabled body that fell after being seriously injured, Lei Baosen hesitated, he could not continue to serve the motherland on the battlefield, did he still rely on the deeds he had done, rely on the organization to raise? Since his childhood was poor, Lei Baosen struggled with his parents all the way, and after the death of his parents, he struggled in this world alone as a teenager.
The cruel society has made him train a tenacious will like a weed, and even if his body is not as good as before, there is no absolute dilemma in this world. The Communist Party had saved his poor boy from fire and water, and now he was unwilling to be a burden to anyone, and even if the state was willing to help him, he would rather leave this help to those who needed it more than himself before he had to.
With this feeling in mind, he chose to remain silent and came to the Henan Guest House to work as a cleaner. If they were not recognized and could no longer be concealed, these glorious pasts might be permanently sealed in his heart.
Even Lei Baosen's children learned of their father's glorious deeds after this search notice, and under such influence, his three children became soldiers. And Lei Baosen no longer continues to work as a cleaner, but gives full play to his own strengths, devotes himself to the propaganda work of national defense education, and uses his personal experience to infect more young people with lofty ideals, so that more young people know how to cherish the current peace and love our great motherland.
Ray Was unlucky, he lost his body in the war. But he was extremely lucky, he still stubbornly survived, and returned to the embrace of the party. Like countless heroes who have dedicated themselves to the country, Lei Baosen has done their best, paid for their youth, and even sacrificed their lives to defend the dignity of the motherland, so that every Chinese can stand proudly in the world.
The prosperity has been built, is it only a lonely exit for the hero? No, the party and the people have never forgotten these ancestors who threw their heads and spilled their blood. Rebausen may never have imagined that after all these years, his superiors and his organization still did not give up looking for his figure. Even if he was really unfortunate enough to die, he would have to see his corpse before he was willing to die.
No matter how long, no matter how far away, no matter how little hope, we never forget to follow in the footsteps of a hero, to find his traces. In addition to a happy life, the only thing we can repay these heroes is never to forget.