In the spring of 1947, Beisha, the commander of the 58th Regiment of the Third Military Subdistrict of the Taiyue Military Region, was given a task: to escort a cadre across the Yellow River north, first to Pinglu and then to Jincheng.
The trip was undoubtedly an extremely arduous task to cross the enemy-occupied areas, cross the Blockade Line of the Longhai Railway, and fly over the Natural Dangers of the Yellow River, and with many old comrades and female comrades in the ranks.
The most difficult situation occurred when the troops fought on the banks of the Yellow River on the fifth day of the first lunar month.
At dawn, Beisha walked with the guards to the beach of the Yellow River, and vaguely saw Jiang Shoupeng, director of the Political Training Office on the other side of the river, directing soldiers to push two Japanese town iron boats and two wooden boats into the river. If it goes well, you can cross the river in two hours.
Guard Wang Hefu suddenly shouted, "Commander, you see there are so many ice cubes flowing in the river!" ”
Beisha was taken aback: "Oops! He looked down, and sure enough, in the raging current, there were huge ice cubes drifting, colliding with each other, more terrifying than the churning waves.
Reef risk can be opened, ice risk ferry is difficult. How to fight with the flow ice of the Yellow River? Veterans encounter new problems. Beisha secretly cried bitterly in his heart: Will God put the lives of hundreds of us in a desperate place?
I saw two town iron boats pushed into the water on the north bank of the river, pushed downstream by ice blocks along the water. The remaining two wooden boats are even more impossible to cross.
Jiang Shoupeng was organizing people to use the fiber rope to pull the boat hard to a far upstream place, using the gap between the ice cubes to paddle left and right.
However, there are many boats and ice dangers, and there are not many people crossing at one time. Li San pointed out the sailors, exerted his full body skills, and only crossed three times in one afternoon. Everyone hates that the ice of the Yellow River is an accomplice of the enemy.
Just as the so-called misfortune is not alone, the back mountain suddenly heard a dense gunshot!
Subsequently, a company of correspondents came to report that a large number of enemies had come to sneak attack, and a company commander, Guo Zhongxing, and Liu Suilang, the instructor, each led a part of their men to block the enemy on the white mountainside, and had repelled the enemy's two attacks.
Beisha asked the messenger to immediately inform Guo Zhongxing that the troops could not finish the day, and asked him to persist until dark and evacuate the wounded first. Subsequently, Beisha personally led the third and fifth companies to reinforce the first company.
The enemy who came to sneak in was three regiments of regular troops, who first bombarded with intensive artillery fire and then charged with infantry.
In the face of a huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves, our army cannot fight hard. When the enemy bombarded the hill with artillery fire, they withdrew to the back of the hill to evacuate and hide; when the enemy infantry rushed up, the soldiers quickly returned to their original positions, carried out a rapid fire attack with dense grenades and machine guns, covered the charge of the squad, and then quickly returned to the original position to hide.
In this way, the enemy and us repeatedly fought on each hill, and the battle was extremely fierce. Every time the enemy took a hill, he had to pay great casualties, and the momentum of their repeated attacks gradually weakened.
However, there are fewer and fewer people in our army who can fight, and some people are continuously wounded and have to withdraw from the battle.
The enemy also saw this and wanted to occupy the banks of the Yellow River before sunset. For this reason, the enemy commander forced the soldiers to launch a group charge with a gun, approaching step by step, and the battle entered a white-hot situation.
Near dusk, our army has only the last hill left, and if it is captured by the enemy, not only the soldiers who insist on fighting on the top of the hill will have no hope of surviving, but even the cadres they escort may be pursued and fall into the hands of the enemy.
It can be said that Beisha and the troops he led have fallen into a desperate situation, and the situation is extremely critical!
Just then, a shot fired by a soldier changed the situation dramatically.
Staff Officer Li Genbao had been following the company into battle, and when the enemy charged at the fiercest, he stood up and raised his gun to aim at the enemy commander who was standing to supervise the battle.
The enemy commander also saw Li Genbao, and quickly raised his gun to aim, and the two shot at each other at the same time through a small hollow. The gunshots sounded at the same time, mixed together as if there were only one gunshot.
As the gunshots rang out, the two fell down at the same time. Li Genbao died heroically, but what he may not have imagined before he fired that shot was that it was the shot before his sacrifice that changed the situation of this battle and made the troops who had fallen into a desperate situation desperate.
The attacking enemy saw that his overseer officer had been killed, and suddenly became a headless fly, and there was chaos in the enemy position.
When the officers and men of our army saw that Li Genbao, who was with him day and night and charging ahead, was killed, they were furious, jumped out of the trenches one by one, roared angrily to "avenge Li Genbao," and bravely pounced on the enemy's position, frightening those enemy soldiers who had no one to supervise the battle and fleeing backwards.
When Beisha learned the news of Li Genbao's heroic sacrifice, he was devastated: "Good brother! I and everyone will inherit your legacy, vowing to hold the last position and send the cadres and wounded across the river! ”
The fighting spirit aroused by the sacrifice of Li Genbao by the soldiers of our army made the enemy extremely frightened, and later he only knew how to retreat and did not dare to attack again.
As it grew dark, the enemy knew that the follow-up forces would not be able to pick up, the artillery could not see the target clearly, and the infantry did not dare to charge again.
When Beisha saw nightfall, he let the light wounded help the seriously wounded down the mountain, leaving only him and six warriors on the entire mountain to continue to monitor the enemy's movements.
Subsequently, a vigilant soldier sent by Beisha quietly touched the vicinity of the enemy's position to inspect and found that the enemy had already run out. It is estimated that they were afraid that our army would use the dark night to touch their old camp, so they took the initiative to retreat.
Beisha immediately led the warriors back to the river beach, led the troops across the Yellow River, and finally completed the task of escorting the dry troops.
Many years later, Beisha, who was already a founding colonel, still had a hard time forgetting this desperate experience, and even more so on for the staff officer Li Genbao who changed the situation on the battlefield with one shot. He once wrote a poem to remember this past:
Forced to cross the three gates of the dangerous shoals, through the Longhai Zhi stubborn. Bears ears break the net and fish get water, and the cattle will be afraid of the enemy. Fei Xue sent off the light riding dance, escorting the cadres to cut the pass again. The Yellow River ice blocked the pursuit of the troops, and the Jedi won the victory.