Author: Mo Guyan
During the Pacific War, the United States and Japan fought a major intelligence war and deciphered each other's telegram codes, which was overwhelming. The U.S. military came up with a surprise trick and recruited 29 Indian Navajo into the army to act as interpreters. The password they developed is extremely difficult for the Japanese to crack, and in an emergency, they can use ming language to communicate directly, and even if the Japanese army hears it, it cannot be understood.
The "Wind Whisperer" is not a patent of the US military, in fact, our army also has it, and the history is even earlier. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the New Fourth Army consciously used some Wenzhou soldiers as signal soldiers. The Wenzhou dialect with different sounds is very complex, and is recognized as one of the most difficult dialects in China to understand, and the use of Wenzhou dialect in battlefield emergencies often leaves the Japanese troops in the monitor dazed.
Decades later, this method of using dialects to convey battle information reappeared on the Laoshan front, and the use of this tactic was the famous "Six Companies of Hard Bones".
In the summer of 1984, the 1st Army of the Nanjing Military Region was ordered to go to Laoshan, and the local people were saying everywhere that "He Long's troops are coming." After a short period of adaptive training, the 1st Army unit entered the position in December to take over the defense of Lao Shan.
The No. 138 Heights (i.e., Xiaojianshan) and its adjacent No. 3 Nameless Highlands fire points, which were heavily guarded by the Vietnamese army, were densely packed with firepower, posing a great threat to our army, and the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Division, had to seize the task of "pulling nails."
In view of the complex terrain of Xiaojianshan Mountain, dense bunkers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the regiment decided to adopt the tactics of "small groups and multiple roads, secret exploration, elite surprise attack, and surprise victory" to sneak attack Xiaojianshan, with 6 companies and 1 platoon as the mainstay, plus a platoon of 4 companies, forming 4 commando teams, responsible for capturing the negative No. 4 height; 6 companies and 3 platoons were responsible for capturing the main peak of the No. 138 highland. The other detachments of the company were responsible for fire support and follow-up reinforcements.
Among the four commandos, the task of the first commando team was the most arduous, and the officers and men of the whole company asked to participate one after another, and finally selected 16 warriors to form a commando team, namely: Lin Zuwu, Wang Jian, Qin Deben, Qin Zhirong, Liu Lianghua, Chen Gang, Wang Jianxin, Lei Fengming, Zhu Yong, Tian Peizhi, Xun Weimin, Jin Derong, Zhang Xiaosong, Li Dailin, Chen Guoping, and Wei Yuehui.
Group photo of 16 Warriors before the expedition
This is what later became known throughout the country as the 16 Warriors of the Little Jianshan Mountain. However, before the battle, the team was supplemented by two more hygienists, Ouyang Lin and the warrior Qiu Xunhua, so it should be 18 warriors to be exact.
Zhu Xi, who has a strong personality, is the 29th company commander of the 6th Company, bold and meticulous, and full of wisdom. He led the squad, platoon commanders, and combat backbones to reconnoiter many times, analyzed the enemy's situation, and decided to seize these high groundes one by one with different tactics. The battle plan was approved by the superiors.
Zhu Xicai
The units of the 1st Army were stationed in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai areas, and many officers and men spoke with a southern accent. Zhu Xicai had the opportunity to temporarily set up a Shanghainese communications detachment before the war, which was specifically responsible for battlefield information communication. Wang Jian, one of the 18 Warriors, is a Shanghainese who served as a messenger in the commando team.
Wang Jian had won the Shanghai Changning District Youth Swimming Championship before joining the army, and the reason why he resolutely signed up for the army was because the heroic deeds of Huang Jiguang and Qiu Shaoyun had already left a mark on his heart. His father, an electrician, fell into a severe concussion during a high-altitude job, and his brother had a high fever and became mildly demented when he was a child, and the whole family was crammed into a small room of less than 20 square meters. When his loved ones needed him most, he embarked on a battlefield where blood and fire intertwined.
Wang Jian (left) writes a family letter on the front
In the early morning of March 8, the battle of the 6th Company to attack Xiaojianshan officially began. The rear artillery unit carried out a one-minute fire attack on the enemy at Xiaojianshan according to the plan. 18 Warriors burst into the enemy position and engaged in a short melee with the enemy.
During the fierce battle, Wang Jian used the Shanghai dialect that the enemy could not understand to deliver battle information in a timely manner, which was both fast and confidential. While charging towards the main peak, he was hit in the leg by shrapnel, and the arterial blood vessel ruptured and the blood flowed like a flood. After a simple bandage, Wang Jian continued to fight, dragging a trail of blood to the top of the peak, and killing 7 enemy with tenacious perseverance. After losing too much blood, he gradually lost his strength, and after reporting the victory news to his superiors in a gradually faint voice, he was hit by an enemy gun grenade, died heroically, and posthumously remembered the second class merit after the war.
Wang Jian
In the 13-hour fierce battle, more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition fell from the Xiaojianshan position, 6 companies repelled the Vietnamese army 8 counterattacks in a row, annihilated 199 enemy personnel, captured 6 light and heavy machine guns, 10 bazookas, 11 submachine guns, 2 radios, and 2 artillery pieces, achieving major results.
In this battle, 6 companies lost a total of 7 people, including Lin Zuwu, the commando leader of the 18 warriors of Xiaojianshan Mountain, Wang Jian, a signal soldier, Jin Derong, a bazooka player, Qin Deben, a soldier, and Ouyang Lin, a hygienist, as well as Xie Guanyou, deputy instructor of the attack on No. 3 Unnamed Heights, and Xie Xiaofu, deputy squad leader.
Ten martyrs of the Six Companies Old Mountain Battle
In the more than 160 days of defensive operations on Laoshan Mountain, the "Six Companies of Hard Bones" seized 2 high grounds of the enemy, did not lose an inch of position, annihilated 352 enemy soldiers, captured 1 enemy, and repelled 9 attacks of the enemy's platoon to the battalion scale. A total of 46 people in the whole company were seriously injured, ten people died gloriously, 7 people made first-class merit, 16 people made second-class merit, and 29 people made third-class merit, once again playing the style of the ace company.
After the war, the 6th Company was awarded the honorary title of "Heroic Hard Sixth Company" by the headquarters. They were one of the few heroic companies in the whole army who had been awarded honorary titles at the highest level more than twice.
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